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| Genre | Surreal comedy |
| Created by | Chris Garbutt Rikke Asbjoern |
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| Voices of | Lucas Grabeel Nathan Kress Diamond White Danny Jacobs Retta |
| Theme music composer | Dave Newby Chris Garbutt |
| Composer(s) | Dave Newby |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 60 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Louis J. Cuck |
| Running time | 12 minutes 23 minutes (special episode) |
| Production company(s) | Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
| Distributor | Netflix Streaming Services ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks |
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| Original network | Netflix |
| Original release | January 1 – July 17, 2019 |
Pinky Malinky is an American animated streaming television series, created by Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern for Nickelodeon and Netflix, based on Garbutt's animated short of the same name produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe, which was released in 2009. It marks the first collaboration between Nickelodeon and Netflix as well as the first Nicktoon to be produced exclusively for Netflix. The series chronicles the adventures of Pinky Malinky (voiced by Lucas Grabeel), a 12-year-old middle school student who also happens to be an anthropomorphic hot dog and his efforts to climb up the social ladder with his two human friends Babs Byuteman (Diamond White) and JJ Jameson (Nathan Kress).
The series premiered on January 1, 2019 and was renewed for a second season ahead of the series premiere. Season 2 was released on April 22, 2019, and the third and final season was released on July 17, 2019. The series was canceled following Season 3.
Pinky Malinky was nominated for “Best Animation Editing” for the 2020 Daytime Emmy Awards on May 21, 2020.
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Production
In 2015, the series was greenlit by Nickelodeon for a pickup of 20 episodes. The series was originally set to premiere on Nickelodeon in 2016, but has gone through many delays. On June 21, 2018, it was announced that Pinky Malinky would be released exclusively on Netflix, and that the show was renewed for a second season. The company's See What's Next Twitter account announced an August 17 release date, but the series failed to premiere on that date. On September 16, 2018, Chris Garbutt posted on Instagram that there was a slight delay in the release date, and that it was Netflix's responsibility on when to release it.
Season 1 was eventually released on January 1, 2019. A 99-second short focusing on the titular character's New Year's resolutions was released ahead of the series premiere.
Voice cast
- Lucas Grabeel as Pinky Malinky
- Nathan Kress as JJ Jameson
- Diamond White as Babs Byuteman
- Danny Jacobs as Mr. Malinky
- Retta as Mrs. Malinky
- Lauren Tom as Bus Driver/Tina
- Robbie Daymond as Channing/Perry
- Grey Griffin as Suzie/Dizzy/Zeek/Byron
- Vargus Mason as Bob Byuteman
- Colleen Smith as Principal Pfunne
- Angela Malhotra as Aminder
- Jason Alexander as Mayor Hop
- Scott Kramer as Nurse Sally
- Dee Bradley Baker as Peter
- Ben Schwartz as Coach Freebird
- Flula Borg as Byonk
- Carlos Alazraqui as Large Biker Guy
- Fred Tatasciore as Jimmy
- Josh Engel as Mr. Sweetie
- Zehra Fazal as Aisha
- Eric Bauza as Flynn
- Kimberly Brooks as Carl/Sophie
- Stephanie Sheh as Jessie
- Carl Weathers as The Apologizer
- Amy Sedaris as Helga Hilltop
Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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| Pilot | March 14, 2009 | |||
| 1 | 28 | January 1, 2019 | ||
| 2 | 17 | 16 | April 22, 2019 | |
| 1 | June 10, 2019 | |||
| 3 | 15 | July 17, 2019 | ||
Pilot (2009)
| No. | Title | Written by | Storyboarded and Directed by | Original release date |
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| 0 | "Pinky Malinky" | Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern | Chris Garbutt | March 14, 2009 |
| Wanting to inspire his town to dream big, Pinky promises to make it snow in order to become the school mascot. Note: This is a double-length half-hour episode. | ||||
Season 1 (2019)
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | "Snack" | Neil Graf | Jen Bardekoff, Nick Arciaga, and Neil Graf | Nick Arciaga | January 1, 2019 |
| When the citizens of Sackenhack riot after their favorite snack food is discontinued, Pinky, Babs and JJ attempt to reverse engineer the recipe to save the town. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Pet" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas, Rikke Asbjoern, and Maha Tabikh | Maha Tabikh | January 1, 2019 |
| While volunteering at the animal shelter with Babs and her dog, Pinky decides to get a pet of his own and ends up adopting a ferocious wildcat. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Tech" | Megan Nicole Dong | Jen Bardekoff and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky introduces his Mom to the wonders of technology but grows concerned when she starts putting her new tech before her family. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Spirit" | Megan Nicole Dong | Fred Belford and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | January 1, 2019 |
| It's School Spirit Week at Sackenhack Junior High and Pinky believes that head cheerleader Tina is low on spirit, unaware that her strange behavior is actually because of her crush on him. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Hater" | Megan Nicole Dong | Sheela Shrinivas and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky's daily Sackenhack posts receive their first hater, who Pinky, Babs and JJ try to convert into a liker. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Video" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Ethan Hegge | Ethan Hegge | January 1, 2019 |
| After Babs and JJ tell Pinky they think their newest video is "almost perfect", Pinky turns to his classmates for advice on how to turn it into a perfect video. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Duck" | Megan Nicole Dong | Jen Bardekoff and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | January 1, 2019 |
| King Sackenquack, the town's favorite duck passes away and to spare everyone's feelings Pinky tries to keep up the illusion that he is still alive. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Mannequin" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | January 1, 2019 |
| JJ dreams of being featured on his favorite fashion blog but his dream outfit doesn't fit so Pinky comes up with a plan to make him more like a store mannequin. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Secret" | Megan Nicole Dong | Sheela Shrinivas, Rikke Asbjoern, and Aminder Dhaliwal | Aminder Dhaliwal | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky becomes obsessed with a Korean drama but forces himself to binge watch it in secret when he finds out that Babs and JJ hate the show. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Scary" | Neil Graf | Fred Belford and Maha Tabikh | Maha Tabikh | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky and Babs try to help JJ overcome his fear of scary movies by scaring the "scared" out of him. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "Book" | Neil Graf | Jen Bardekoff, Neil Graf, and Mike Bertino | Neil Graf and Mike Bertino | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky accidentally takes a book from the library without checking it out and plans a break in to put it back without anyone noticing. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Team" | Tom Parkinson | Scott Kreamer, Matt Layzell, and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | January 1, 2019 |
| Hoping to lead them to their first ever win, Pinky joins the Sackenhack Junior High football team. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Game" | Megan Nicole Dong | Byron Dockins and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky and Babs try to make a role playing game more extreme when Pinky worries JJ's new jacket will make him too cool to continue playing with them. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Undercover" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Ethan Hegge | Ethan Hegge | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky creates a case for Bob to solve so that he can prove to his supervisor that he is a good security guard. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Fun" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas, Neil Graf, and Sarah Soh | Neil Graf, Sarah Soh, and Mike Bertino | January 1, 2019 |
| After learning that his fellow students dread being sent to the principal's office, Pinky tries to make strait-laced Principal Pfunne more fun. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Brother" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas, Neil Graf, and Sarah Soh | Neil Graf, Sarah Soh, and Mike Bertino | January 1, 2019 |
| When JJ accidentally calls Pinky's mom "Mom" during a sleepover, the two decide to take their friendship to the next level by becoming brothers. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "Sensei" | Megan Nicole Dong | Chris Garbutt and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky joins the school's taekwondo club where he vows to be the perfect student, a goal that is soon taken advantage of by Coach Freebird. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "Hangout" | Neil Graf | Fred Belford and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky, Babs and JJ search for a new place to hang out while their regular spot is fumigated for termites. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Sock" | Megan Nicole Dong | Fred Belford and Aminder Dhaliwal | Aminder Dhaliwal | January 1, 2019 |
| After losing one of his socks, Pinky decides to start wearing all of his clothes at once so that he will never lose any piece of clothing again. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Count" | Tom Parkinson | Jen Bardekoff, Chris Garbutt, and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | January 1, 2019 |
| Inspired by an app that counts steps, Pinky, Babs and JJ decide to count other things in their lives as well, leading to a fierce competition between the three friends. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Voice" | Tom Parkinson | Sheela Shrinivas and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky tries to find the perfect voice with which to deliver an important oral report. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Phone" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | January 1, 2019 |
| After autocorrect causes him to send some rude messages to Babs, Pinky decides to become his own phone. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "Friend" | Megan Nicole Dong | Sheela Shrinivas and Aminder Dhaliwal | Aminder Dhaliwal | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky begins feeling jealous when Babs decides to reconnect with her old best friend, Jules. | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "Gym" | Tom Parkinson | Jen Bardekoff and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky falsely believes that his Mom is conditioning him to take over her gym/bakery business. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "List" | Megan Nicole Dong | Sheela Shrinivas and Aminder Dhaliwal | Aminder Dhaliwal | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky and JJ learn that Babs is moving and try to complete a list of things they've always wanted to do with her before she goes. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "Double" | Neil Graf | Jen Bardekoff, Rikke Asbjoern, and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | January 1, 2019 |
| Pinky tries to have an absence removed from his report card by attempting to live two days at the same time. | ||||||
| 27 | 27 | "Sight" | Neil Graf | Fred Belford and Aminder Dhaliwal | Aminder Dhaliwal | January 1, 2019 |
| A visit to the eye doctor leaves Babs temporarily blind, so Pinky agrees to act as her personal seeing eye hot dog. | ||||||
| 28 | 28 | "Grounded" | Neil Graf | Fred Belford and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | January 1, 2019 |
| After accidentally breaking one of his Mom's trophies, Pinky grounds himself and tries to make it impossible to have fun. | ||||||
Season 2 (2019)
| No. overall |
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date |
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| 29 | 1 | "Money" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky, Babs and JJ find a hundred dollar bill on the ground and try to make it last them the entire day. | ||||||
| 30 | 2 | "Babs" | Tom Parkinson and Megan Nicole Dong | Jen Bardekoff and Maha Tibikh | Maha Tibikh | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky's attempts to get to know Babs better go too far when he watches her secret video diary. | ||||||
| 31 | 3 | "Sarcasm" | Megan Nicole Dong | Sheela Shrinivas and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | April 22, 2019 |
| Sincere Pinky learns how to be sarcastic but soon finds himself unable to switch it off. | ||||||
| 32 | 4 | "Song" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas, Matt Layzell and Mike Bertino | Mike Bertino | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky, Babs and JJ try to track down the song that was playing on the radio while they shared a special moment of friendship. | ||||||
| 33 | 5 | "Brain" | Tom Parkinson | Sheela Shrinivas and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | April 22, 2019 |
| When he forgets the anniversary of the first video he ever made with Babs and JJ, Pinky tries to find a way to erase unwanted memories from his brain to make room for new ones. | ||||||
| 34 | 6 | "Trophy" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | April 22, 2019 |
| After seeing Babs upset when she fails a test, Pinky decides to hand out gold stars and medals to his fellow students to raise morale. | ||||||
| 35 | 7 | "Search" | Megan Dong | Sheela Shrinivas, Aminder Dhaliwal and Maha Tabikh | Aminder Dhaliwal and Maha Tabikh | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky searches his name on the internet and finds a page full of lies about him, so he sets out to actually accomplish everything the website says to turn them into truths. | ||||||
| 36 | 8 | "Haircut" | Neil Graf | Sheela Shrinivas, Rikke Asbjørn and Kristen Woo | Kristen Woo | April 22, 2019 |
| JJ is feeling self conscious about his new haircut, so Pinky and Babs plan to get even worse haircuts to distract from his. | ||||||
| 37 | 9 | "Crutch" | Neil Graf | Fred Belford and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky uses a crutch to fake being injured in order to inspire his classmates. | ||||||
| 38 | 10 | "Smile" | Megan Dong | Jen Bardekoff and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky gets a job bagging groceries at the local supermarket where he makes it his mission to get Nurse Sally to smile. | ||||||
| 39 | 11 | "Cranky" | Tom Parkinson | Byron Dockins and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky wakes up on the wrong side of the bed and tries to get through the day by forcing himself to smile. | ||||||
| 40 | 12 | "Weeds" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | April 22, 2019 |
| Pinky's Dad asks him to help him in his garden but the two fundamentally disagree on how to handle the weeds when Pinky learns that plants are living things. | ||||||
| 41 | 13 | "Advanced" | Annisa Adjani and Kim Roberson | Chris Garbutt, Fred Belford, Josh Engel and Kristen Woo | Josh Engel and Kristen Woo | April 22, 2019 |
| JJ enlists Pinky and Babs' help in making sure he doesn't embarrass himself when he gets accepted into the school's advanced class. | ||||||
| 42 | 14 | "Bestie" | Tom Parkinson | Jen Bardekoff and Ethan Hegge | Ethan Hegge | April 22, 2019 |
| After learning that his Dad doesn't have a best friend, Pinky organizes a house party to match him up with four potential candidates. | ||||||
| 43 | 15 | "King" | Annisa Adjani | Sheela Shrinivas and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | April 22, 2019 |
| Inspired by his new favorite show, Pinky organizes a series of challenges to decide who will be crowned king of the Fall dance. | ||||||
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"Pinky" | Tom Parkinson and Megan Nicole Dong | Scott Kreamer, Chris Garbutt, Rikke Asbjoern, Josh Engel and Aminder Dhaliwal | Josh Engel and Aminder Dhaliwal | June 10, 2019 |
| Wanting to inspire his town to dream big again, Pinky promises to make it snow in order to become the school mascot. Note: This is a double-length half-hour episode. | ||||||
Season 3 (2019)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date |
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| 46 | 1 | "Change" | Tom Parkinson | Sheela Shrinivas and Maha Tabikh | Maha Tabikh | July 17, 2019 |
| Pinky’s unhappy when his favorite stop sign gets a high-tech replacement, so he sets out to save all of the things that he loves in Sackenhack. | ||||||
| 47 | 2 | "Outdoors" | Tom Parkinson | Byron Dockins and Maha Tabikh | Maha Tabikh | July 17, 2019 |
| Pinky's parents try to help him and Babs earn their outdoors badges. | ||||||
| 48 | 3 | "Spotlight" | Megan Nicole Dong | Fred Belford and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | July 17, 2019 |
| 49 | 4 | "Dog" | Tom Parkinson | Kris Benton and Maha Tabikh | Maha Tabikh | July 17, 2019 |
| When Bab's dog starts acting strange, she and Pinky try to take him to the vet. | ||||||
| 50 | 5 | "Birthday" | Neil Graf | Chris Garbutt and Jessie Wong | Jessie Wong | July 17, 2019 |
| When Bob has to guard the mall all night during his birthday, Pinky, Babs, and JJ try to bring the party to him. | ||||||
| 51 | 6 | "Individual" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Ethan Hegge | Ethan Hegge | July 17, 2019 |
| The school troublemaker confesses that he's bad at being bad, so Pinky tries to help him find out who he really is. | ||||||
| 52 | 7 | "Dinner" | Neil Graf | Rikke Asbjoern, Sheela Shrinivas and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | July 17, 2019 |
| 53 | 8 | "Clique" | Megan Nicole Dong | Jen Bardekoff and Aminder Dhaliwal | Aminder Dhaliwal | July 17, 2019 |
| 54 | 9 | "Fundraiser" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Nick Arciaga | Nick Arciaga | July 17, 2019 |
| Yet again, it's the eve of the fun run and Babs does not have a sponsor, so Pinky tries to help her get as many as she can. | ||||||
| 55 | 10 | "Man" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Ethan Hegge | Ethan Hegge | July 17, 2019 |
| 56 | 11 | "Wrestling" | Annisa Adjani | R. Chett Hoffman and Josh Engel | Josh Engel | July 17, 2019 |
| When their principal tries to turn their gym class into a boot camp, Pinky suggests that they try to learn tag team wrestling. | ||||||
| 57 | 12 | "Eraser" | Tom Parkinson | Fred Belford and Ethan Hegge | Ethan Hegge | July 17, 2019 |
| 58 | 13 | "Dreams" | Megan Nicole Dong | R. Chett Hoffman and Dodge Greenley | Dodge Greenley | July 17, 2019 |
| 59 | 14 | "Spark" | Megan Nicole Dong and Neil Graf | Byron Dockins, Annisa Adjani, Dodge Greenley and Natasha Helton | Annisa Adjani, Dodge Greenley and Natasha Helton | July 17, 2019 |
| 60 | 15 | "Wiener" | Neil Graf | Chris Garbutt and Jessie Wong | Jessie Wong | July 17, 2019 |
See also
In Spanish: Pinky Malinky para niños
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