Viva Piñata (2006)
Viva Piñata is a Canadian-American animated television series seen around the world. It is based upon the Xbox 360 video game of the same name. It is produced by an American company, 4Kids Productions and a Canadian company Bardel Entertainment, a children's animation company in Canada. It aired to high ratings as part of the 4Kids TV programming block and later moved to The CW4Kids before being removed from the schedule on October 25, 2008. It is aired on YTV in Canada, Nicktoons Network and CITV in the UK, TV Tokyo in Japan and on Nickelodeon in Australia. Viva Pinata was executive produced by Lloyd Goldfine at 4Kids in New York and Paul Griffin at Bardel in Vancouver. The stories are edited by Mike deSeve, leading a team that includes the award-winning Daria head-writer Anne Bernstein and Courage the Cowardly Dog story editor David Steven Cohen.
- Matthew Drdek
- Norman J. Grossfeld
- Lloyd Goldfine
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Episode 1 - A Terrible Tribute
Release Date: 2007-11-17Hudson is placed on a show called "This Here's Your Life", where he is met by different Piñatas from his past.
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Episode 2 - Pester the Piñata
Release Date: 2007-11-24Professor Pester's plan to gain candy goes awry, resulting in him getting amnesia and thinking that he is a baby Piñata, with Fergy as his mother.
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Episode 3 - Fudge Match
Release Date: 2007-12-01When an impressive Fudgehog named Flex comes to town, Fergy becomes jealous of him and races him to prove himself to his friends.
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Episode 4 - Hudson's Holiday
Release Date: 2008-09-13After Hudson gets a twitch from stress due to being overworked, he is forced on vacation on a deserted island.
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Episode 5 - Hudson Tells All
Release Date: 2008-09-20Hudson's angry rant against several Sweetooth workers gets recorded onto his talking doll by accident, offending the other Piñatas.
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Episode 6 - Langston's Jameleon Cousins
Release Date: 2008-09-27Langston's three Jameleon cousins come to visit and pull pranks on Langston, befriending Fergy in the process.
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Episode 7 - The Fudgetive
Release Date: 2008-10-04Fergy's plan goes awry when he tricks the Piñatas into believing he has been kidnapped by Professor Pester, who is currently on vacation.
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Episode 8 - She Stomps At Night
Release Date: 2008-10-11Professor Pester's plan to seize candy involves luring a sleepwalking Ella to his lair, and Fergy and Paulie must do what they can to stop it.
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Episode 9 - Les The Jet Setter
Release Date: 2006-11-04Fergy swallows Les's jetpack to hide it, and he uses it to avoid going to parties.
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Episode 10 - Slayin' em at the Sands
Release Date: 2008-10-18Pester captures Paulie's cousins and performs a comedy routine to make them laugh until they lose their candy.
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Episode 11 - Crimes of Passion Fruit
Release Date: 2008-06-08Fergy goes to the Big Boss of Piñata Central, finding that he is actually a bowl of fruit, and smashes him with a stapler.
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Episode 12 - The Antlers are Blowin' in the Wind
Release Date: 2007-12-08Paulie and Fergy work with their new friend Machi Moojoo to escape from going to parties.
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Episode 13 - Sumo Tsunami
Release Date: 2009-06-27Fergy becomes a sumo wrestler so he can gorge himself with food.
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Episode 14 - Recipe for Disaster
Release Date: 2008-04-27Fergy and Paulie enter a cooking contest, facing Shirley Shellybean and Professor Pester for a lifetime supply of candy.
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Episode 15 - Mr. Unbustable
Release Date: 2008-05-18Fergy works out at the gym so that he may become unbreakable at parties; however, his plan backfires when this turns him into a spectacle.
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Episode 16 - Too Many Fergys
Release Date: 2008-05-25Fergy travels through a time portal, resulting in meeting himself from the previous day.
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Episode 17 - Party Parasite
Release Date: 2008-06-22Hudson learns from Dr. Quackberry that he has a parasite that is eating up all of his candy.
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Episode 18 - Hibernation Nation
Release Date: 2008-06-29Franklin invites his friends to a hibernation party in the mountains.
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Episode 19 - The Old Pinatas Home
Release Date: 2008-09-07Fergy and his friends visit Fergy's uncle at a retirement home and decide that they need to spruce it up.
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Episode 20 - Shirley Shells Out
Release Date: 2008-09-14Shirley is entered into a race, during which she is given a potion to her by Professor Pester that turns her into a Sour.
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Episode 21 - The Transparent Trap
Release Date: 2009-01-11The Great Bonboon convinces Fergy that he has turned invisible after drinking his special tonic.
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Episode 22 - To Catch A Pester
Release Date: 2009-01-18The Piñatas decide to lock up Professor Pester in their new jail, but wind up waiting on him hand and foot as a result.
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Episode 23 - My Sweet Swanana
Release Date: 2007-09-08Fergy and Paulie set up Rory Rashberry on a date with Svetlana Swanana in hopes that Rory will move out of Paulie's house.
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Episode 24 - Ella Forgets To Forget
Release Date: 2007-09-15Fergy sets up a service in which Piñatas can unload their secrets on Ella, since she always forgets what she is told; however, she begins to remember them.
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Episode 25 - Motivational Beak
Release Date: 2007-09-22Langston enlists a drill sergeant to whip Fergy and Paulie into shape and force them to go to parties.
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Episode 26 - Bringing Up Cluckle
Release Date: 2007-09-29Hudson begins a big brother program and finds himself taking care of a mother Cluckle's three children, one of them being a Dragonache.
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Episode 27 - Beauty and the Beasts
Release Date: 2007-09-30Hudson hosts the Miss Piñata beauty pageant, but after meeting all three contestants he hates, he asks Fergy, Franklin, and Paulie to enter disguised as females.
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Episode 28 - The Talented Mr. Hack
Release Date: 2007-10-06Hudson hires a hillbilly Horstachio named Hack to be his look-alike, but after feeling used, Hack imprisons Hudson and takes his place among the Piñatas.
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Episode 29 - De-Mock-Racy
Release Date: 2007-10-07The Big Boss decides to hold elections for Langston's position as "Commander Guy", and Hudson emerges as the frontrunner
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Episode 30 - Her Royal Forgetfulness
Release Date: 2007-10-13After learning that she is a queen, Fergy convinces Ella that he is her husband, the king, since royalty is exempt from going to parties. However, he soon begins to abuse his newfound power, So it's up to Hudson, Franklin, Paulie and Of Course, King Roario.
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Episode 31 - The Wrong Stuff
Release Date: 2007-10-14Langston announces that Hudson will be sent to the first ever party on the moon, but it turns out to be Professor Pester's space station. So Langston, and and the gang must get Hudson back from Professor Pester.
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Episode 32 - Pinatametermania
Release Date: 2007-10-20After a mix up at a movie theater, the Piñatas wind up with the wrong Piñatameters, resulting in each of them having the wrong job.
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Episode 33 - Heads and Tails
Release Date: 2007-10-21A faulty Piñata repair robot known as the Assemblata causes Hudson's head to be placed on Fergy's body, and he is placed in a Freakata show by a circus ringmaster.
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Episode 34 - Speechless
Release Date: 2007-10-27Tina loses her voice, allowing Teddington to pursue his terrible singing without her complaints.
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Episode 35 - Good Clop, Bad Clop
Release Date: 2007-10-28When Hudson becomes a police officer, he arrests every Piñata on the island, including himself.
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Episode 36 - Announce This
Release Date: 2007-11-03Hudson, Pierre, and Pecky compete for the position of commentator for the Party Animal Championships.
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Episode 37 - Ruffians On Strike
Release Date: 2007-11-04After leading the Ruffians in a strike against Professor Pester for his cruel behavior, Hudson finds himself wanting to send the Ruffians back to their master.
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Episode 38 - Zip It Good
Release Date: 2007-11-10Hudson takes a vow of silence after a crisis of self-indulgence.
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Episode 39 - Tabloid For Two
Release Date: 2007-11-11When rumors of celebrity rivals Hudson and Hayley Horstachio being an item are spread by their agents which upsets Beverly Badgesicle, the two are forced into a wedding despite hating each other.
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Episode 40 - All Spun Out
Release Date: 2007-11-17Professor Pester opens the spinning Red Hot nightclub in a scheme to draw in all of the Piñatas and make them lose their candy.
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Episode 41 - Arctic Invasion
Release Date: 2007-11-18A popular band named "The Pengums" takes Piñata Central by storm, prompting Hudson and Langston to work together to get rid of them.
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Episode 42 - Say Uncle Hoofy
Release Date: 2007-11-24Hudson and Fergy discover that Fergy's mother Francine and Hudson's uncle Hoofy are now married, and the two of them fight over who is the "favorite son."
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Episode 43 - A Match Made In Court
Release Date: 2007-11-25Hudson has been sent to Court by Beverly for avoiding her and Langston rewards her with an Attaining Order.
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Episode 44 - Hudson's Better Half
Release Date: 2007-12-01Hayley Horstachio and her all-female team face Hudson's all-male team in an obstacle course championship challenge, but a twist soon has them competing to lose rather than win.
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Episode 45 - Hudsonly Ever After
Release Date: 2007-12-02Finding himself unable to sleep, Hudson tells his dummy the story of Hansel and Gretel, but decides there isn't enough of himself in it.
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Episode 46 - Hudson Who-Stachio?
Release Date: 2007-12-08Hudson falls into a personal crisis after being ignored by kids at a party.
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Episode 47 - The Horstachio Who Never Was
Release Date: 2007-12-09Fearing Pester will kidnap Hudson, Langston gives Hudson a new identity. However, Hudson makes himself a third identity that the others might prefer to the original.
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Episode 48 - Fergy Drops Out
Release Date: 2007-12-15After Langston initiates a party reeducation course for the entire island, Fergy and Paulie flee to the desert, where they find a group of free spirit Chocstriches who reject parties. Since Fergy has never been to a party, they declare him their master.
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Episode 49 - Super Hero Hudson
Release Date: 2007-12-16Hudson gains superpowers after accidentally licking a meteorite that lands in his bathtub, and so he becomes Super Hud. However, after Super Hud becomes overbearing, Hudson's friends conspire with Professor Pester to get him to stop.
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Episode 50 - The Amazing Hudini
Release Date: 2007-12-22In order to revive his career, Hudson seeks to become a stunt performer, and goes to a retired impossiblist named Blaine Bunnycomb to learn the ropes.
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Episode 51 - Variations On A Theme Park
Release Date: 2007-12-23Rodney Raisant's attempts to build an amusement park named RodneyLand are repeatedly squashed by Hudson.
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Episode 52 - Masters Of Klutzfu
Release Date: 2007-12-29Fergy and Paulie decide to learn martial arts to fend off kids at parties. However, since finding that Petunia Pretztail's style, Petunia Fu, is exclusive to her, they develop their own martial art, Klutz Fu.