Pupstruction

Pupstruction is an American animated television series created by Travis Braun that premiered on Disney Junior on June 14, 2023.[1][2] It is produced by animation studio Titmouse, Inc.[3][4] The series centers on the crew of a dog construction company.[5][6] On January 13, 2023, it was renewed for a second season.[7][8]

Pupstruction
Created byTravis Braun
Voices ofYonas Kibreab
Carson Minniear
Scarlett Kate Ferguson
Mica Zeltzer
Grey Griffin
Bobby Moynihan
Kari Wahlgren
Eric Bauza
Alessandra Perez
Theme music composerRob Cantor
Opening theme"Pupstruction Theme"
Ending theme"Pupstruction Theme" (instrumental)
ComposersGreg Nicolett
Rob Cantor
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes15
Production
Running time22 minutes (2 11-minute segments)
Production companyTitmouse, Inc.
Release
Original networkDisney Junior
Original releaseJune 14, 2023 (2023-06-14) –
present (present)

Premise

The Pupstruction crew are a group of dogs who fulfill construction projects around the city of Petsburg,[9] sometimes at the request of Mayor Gillmore. They would tend to different construction projects while contending with their rival construction company Lickety Split led by Bobby Boots.

Characters

Main
  • Phinny (voiced by Yonas Kibreab[10]) is a Welsh Corgi who is the captain and architect of the Pupstruction crew. His vehicle is a crane. His catchphrase is "Let's crank it up."
  • Tank (voiced by Carson Minniear[11]) is a St. Bernard who supplies the materials for construction. His vehicle is a cement mixer. His catchphrase is "Ready to haul."
  • Roxy (voiced by Scarlett Kate Ferguson[12]) is a Rottweiler with walking wheels in place of her back legs who enjoys demolition. Her vehicle is a wrecking ball and front loader hybrid. Her catchphrase is "Let's crush this!"
  • Luna (voiced by Mica Zeltzer[13]) is an Old English Sheepdog who does the digging operations. Her vehicle is a backhoe. Her catchphrase is "I dig it!"

Recurring
  • Maya (voiced by Grey Griffin[14]) is a dalmatian who is the mother of Phinny and Bailey and boss of the Pupstruction crew. She is bilingual as she speaks English and Spanish. Her vehicle is a helicopter.
  • Bobby Boots (voiced by Bobby Moynihan[15]) is a cat who is the leader and manager of the Lickety Split construction team. He desperately wants his team to be great and admired, but his rushing style of doing things, hence the name Lickety Split, is often a recipe for disaster.
    • Scratch and Sniff (voiced by Kari Wahlgren[16] and Eric Bauza[17] respectively) are Bobby's workers and henchmen. They would at times come up with suggestions on how to do a better job, but Bobby would always ignore them. Unlike their leader, they would celebrate a successful build by Pupstruction.
  • Harry (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a Welsh Corgi who's the father of Phinny and Bailey. He's a chef who loves cooking food for his family and the Pupstruction Crew. His vehicle is a food truck. He loves his son, but can be very overprotective at times, to the point of worrying too much.
  • Bailey (voiced by Alessandra Perez[18]) is a dalmatian who is Phinny's baby sister, whose age has not been determined, even though she celebrates her birthday in "Bailey's Birthday". She seems to enjoy construction just like her older brother and mother, but sometimes also enjoys demolition just like Roxy (granted that Roxy taught her how fun demolition is).
  • Mayor Gilmore (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown[19]) is a fish who is the Mayor of Petsburg and resides in a fishbowl. Her favorite color is purple.
    • Lloyd (voiced by Eric Bauza[20]) is a gerbil who is Mayor Gilmore's assistant and helps to carry around Mayor Gilmore's fishbowl. He sometimes sends Pupstruction the locations of their builds.
  • Grandma Dee (voiced by Olga Merediz) is a dalmatian who is Phinny and Bailey's maternal grandmother, and the founder of Pupstruction. Her vehicle is a weathered pink dump truck.

Episodes
No.TitleStoryboard directed byWritten byOriginal air date [21]Prod.
code [22]		U.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Built to Build"Josh GreerTravis BraunJune 14, 2023 (2023-06-14)101N/A
"Pup DE-struction"David M. Rodriguez

"Built to Build": On Phinny's first day on the Pupstruction crew, the crew has to build a bridge across a river so children can go to school. Phinny doubts himself at first, but he is reminded by a Ferris Wheel made out of woofles (waffles) that he made earlier that morning. That gives him an idea to move the old Ferris Wheel in Petsburg to the area where the bridge should've gone instead of building a bridge. The idea is so successful that Phinny is appointed the captain of Pupstruction the next day.

"Pup DE-struction": Mayor Gilmore asks the Pupstruction crew to build a skateboarding park for the children. When the crew goes over to the construction site that Lloyd sent them to, they see that a giant boulder is in the way. Roxy volunteers to destroy it. However, all her attempts to destroy the boulder fail. After none of the other crew members can move the boulder, Roxy realizes that Phinny was right when he told her earlier that demolition isn't always the answer to a problem with construction. The crew then decides to turn the boulder into part of the skateboarding park.
2"Hush Puppies"David M. RodriguezNiki LyttonJune 14, 2023 (2023-06-14)102N/A
"Beach Day Build-Off"Josh GreerRobyn Brown

"Hush Puppies": Pupstruction needs to build a new house for the Wagner family after Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have quadruplets. When they try to do construction where the Wagners' house used to be, the Wagners' next door neighbor, a chinchilla rapper named Chilla Chill, tells the crew to build quietly as he is trying to get some sleep before his concert later that evening. The Pupstruction crew tries to build without any loud noises, to no avail. When Harry brings pawnut (peanut) butter sandwiches to the crew, he suggests they build the house far away from the construction site; however, this fails too, but then Phinny, inspired by the pillow fort the Wagners made, decides to build a pillow fort around Chilla Chill's house so that he won't hear their noises. After they finish their house, Chilla Chill used the noises of construction as inspiration to write a new song and lets Pupstruction be in his show.

"Beach Day Build-Off": Pupstruction is at the beach, and Phinny is building sandcastles. Meanwhile, Bobby Boots looks at them. He decided to have a sandcastle building contest with Pupstruction, with Mayor Gilmore as the judge. Pupstruction's castle ends up looking better than Lickety-Split's castle, so Bobby decides to sabotage Pupstruction by using a device that makes waves to make a wave that destroys Pupstruction's castle. Thinking that he will instantly win because Pupstruction wouldn't have a castle to show Mayor Gilmore, he forgets to turn off the wave making device, making another wave that threatens to destroy his own castle. Pupstruction builds a splash shield for them, and both teams are declared winners.
3"Bailey's Birthday Coaster"Josh GreerJames Eason-GarciaJune 15, 2023 (2023-06-15)[lower-alpha 1]103N/A
"Doggone Tired"David M. RodriguezDaka Hermon

"Bailey's Birthday Coaster": It's Bailey's birthday and Phinny wants to build her a gift. Getting inspired by the fact that Bailey loves riding on his back, Phinny decides to build Bailey a roller coaster. He shows the coaster to her, but seeing Bailey dissatisfied, he tries to improve it, but Bailey's satisfaction does not change. After a while, Phinny makes the roller coaster in such a way that Bailey is too young to ride it. After Bailey takes another ride on Phinny's back, he realizes that all she wanted was to ride on his back. Pupstruction then moves their roller coaster to the pier of Petsburg.

"Doggone Tired": While Pupstruction is having dinner with Harry, Sofia Boneitelli, the most famous chef in Petsburg, visits Pup HQ, and tells Pupstruction that she accidentally invited everyone to the grand opening of her new restaurant, Bone Appetito, even though it hasn't been built yet. Boneitelli lets Tank hold onto her recipe book, which Tank stays up all night reading so he can decide what he wants to order from the restaurant. Since he didn't get any sleep, he is really tired, and because he doesn't think that it's a big problem, this leads him to cause problems for the Pupstruction crew. Tank eventually ends up ruining the recipe book by dropping it into wet cement. Luckily, he remembers the recipes in the book really well, and he is able to help save the restaurant.
4"Fast and Furriest"Josh GreerNiki LyttonJune 16, 2023 (2023-06-16)[lower-alpha 1]104N/A
"Luna Digs Deep"David M. RodriguezNick "Rocket" Rodriguez

"Fast and Furriest": After fixing up their truck, Pupstruction decides to take it for a test drive, during which they come across Lickety-Split, who built a faulty treadmill for Rusty Whiskers, an exercise loving hamster. When the treadmill breaks, he ends up trapped in a runaway hamster ball, which Pupstruction repeatedly tries and fails to catch. Eventually, they decide to turn the hamster wheel into a car instead.

"Luna Digs Deep": Luna loves digging so much that she ends up digging during construction jobs where it's not necessary. She eventually loses all confidence in digging just when Mayor Gilmore calls the crew, complaining about a boulder on some train tracks, which obliges Pupstruction to build a tunnel under it.
5"Bailey and the Doggy Doctor"Josh GreerJames Eason-GarciaJune 23, 2023 (2023-06-23)[lower-alpha 1]105N/A
"Dog for a Day"David M. RodriguezNiki Lytton

"Bailey and the Doggy Doctor": While Pupstruction is building the office for Dr. Barkley, Bailey is pretending to do construction until she gets a splinter from one of her wooden blocks; however, she is scared of having the splinter being taken out, so she tries to prevent Pupstruction from building Dr. Barkley's office, but Pupstruction decides to lessen Bailey's fears by adding a slide and ball pit to the roof of the doctor's office. Soon, Dr. Barkley eases Bailey by singing a song about how her doctor's tools are as important as Pupstruction's tools.

"Dog for a Day": Bobby is still jealous of Pupstruction, so when Pupstruction gets a request from Mayor Gilmore to build a water park, Bobby decides to pretend to be a dog and sneak into their headquarters so he could steal their plans and build the water park instead.
6"Adventures in Bulldozing"David M. RodriguezJames Eason-GarciaJune 30, 2023 (2023-06-30)[lower-alpha 1]106N/A
"Safe and Hound"Josh GreerDenisse De La Cruz

"Adventures in Bulldozing:" Harry and Maya are going out to dinner by themselves, leaving Pupstruction to babysit Bailey. Roxy, wondering if babies like to smash things, decides to teach Bailey how fun demolition is; however, this soon blows up in her face as Bailey begins smashing everything and eventually goes into town to go on a smashing spree. This eventually leads to a part of the wall of the toy store breaking. Roxy soon fixes this problem by teaching Bailey that building after destroying is fun, and the crew turn the smashed part of the wall into a window display.

"Safe and Hound:" Phinny hurts his paw when he accidentally drops Roxy's hammer on it, leading Harry to become concerned. While the Pupstruction crew is building a condo for a family of rabbits, Harry becomes Pupstruction's "safety inspector" and goes overboard on helping the pups be safer, doing things like replacing Luna's shovels with mixing spoons, making Roxy wear oven mitts to protect her hands, and making Tank use icing instead of cement. Eventually, this leads to the condo collapsing, and when Maya arrives to survey the damage, she helps Harry realize that he might have gotten carried away with helping his son, and in turn, the crew, be safe, but Maya soon sings a song reminding Harry what being a crew is for.
7"Home Stinky Home"David M. RodriguezBecky FriedmanJuly 7, 2023 (2023-07-07)[lower-alpha 1]107N/A
"Dump Truck Dilemma"Josh GreerRoxy Simons
8"Builders to Bakers"Josh GreerNiki LyttonJuly 14, 2023 (2023-07-14)[lower-alpha 1]108N/A
"Fire Truck Frenzy"David M. RodriguezStory by : Jenava Mie
Teleplay by : Travis Braun
9"Robo Cat"David M. RodriguezJenava MieJuly 21, 2023 (2023-07-21)109N/A
"Underwater Pups"Josh GreerTodd Garfield
10"The Wishbone Comet"Josh GreerStory by : James Eason-Garcia
Teleplay by : David Radcliff		July 28, 2023 (2023-07-28)111N/A
"The Never-Ending Treehouse"David M. RodriguezNiki Lytton
11"Professor Frazzle"Josh GreerJames Eason-GarciaAugust 4, 2023 (2023-08-04)112N/A
"A Crabby Neighbor"David M. RodriguezBecky Friedman
12"Luna's Bad Hair Day"Josh GreerDenisse De La CruzAugust 18, 2023 (2023-08-18)114N/A
"Happy Maya's Day"David M. RodriguezSam Bissonnette
13"Amusement Park-ing"Josh GreerNiki LyttonSeptember 22, 2023 (2023-09-22)115N/A
"Dino-Dog Dig"David M. RodriguezJames Eason-Garcia
14"Happy Howl-oween"Josh GreerStory by : Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez
Teleplay by : Scott Gray		September 27, 2023 (2023-09-27)[lower-alpha 2]110TBD
"The House of Howls"David M. RodriguezBrandon Violette
15"The Mayor Mover"Josh GreerScott GrayOctober 13, 2023 (2023-10-13)116TBD
"Bobby's Balloon Blunder"David M. RodriguezStory by : Niki Lytton
Teleplay by : Ellie Guzman

Release

Pupstruction premiered on Disney Junior and Disney Channel on June 14, 2023.[23][24] It was later released on the Disney+ streaming service.[25][26]

Reception

Victoria Davis of Animation World Network said, "The show's overall tone is humorous and fun, but the messages Braun and his team hope to relay to kids are very serious, especially considering the show is speaking to a generation where kids have access to almost every toy and electronic mechanism under the sun that could keep them distracted for long periods of time. And yet, kids still want to play with the wrapping paper more than the toy wrapped inside. Pupstruction nurtures that "imaginative play" part of being a kid that could be lost in today's society if we're not careful."[27] Ashley Moulton of Common Sense Media gave Pupstruction a grade of four out of five stars, complimented the depiction of educational value, stating that the show highlights teamwork and perseverance, and praised the presence of positive messages and role models, citing helpfulness, writing, "Pupstruction is a sweet, appealing preschool series that's appropriate for the youngest viewers."[28]

Notes
  1. These episodes were first released on Disney+ on June 14, 2023.
  2. This episode was released on Disney+ and DisneyNow the same day before its televised premiere.

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  11. "Voice Of Tank – Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  12. "Voice Of Roxy – Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  13. "Voice Of Luna – Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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  17. "Voice Of Snitch – Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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  19. "Voice Of Mayor Gilmore – Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  20. "Voice Of Lloyd – Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. Check marks indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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