Sparkle Friends

Sparkle Friends is a New Zealand animated series and segment produced by Mukpuddy Animation for New Zealand's long running children's show, What Now. The series stars the What Now presenters as children and a creature named Gun-gi, who vomits gunge, something that features heavily in What Now.

Sparkle Friends
Created byMukpuddy Animation
Voices ofCharlie Panapa
Serena Cooper-Rongonui
Richard Mills
Tāmati Coffey
Tumehe Rongonui
Jeremy Dillon
Jason Gunn
Country of originNew Zealand
Production
Running time2-3 minutes
Release
Original networkTV2
Original release7 May 2006 (2006-05-07) –
25 July 2011 (2011-07-25)

Cast
  • Serena Cooper-Rongonui as herself
  • Richard Mills as himself
  • Tāmati Coffey as himself
  • Tumehe Rongonui as himself
  • Jeremy Dillon as Gun-gi and other miscellaneous characters
  • Jason Gunn as Camilla and other miscellaneous characters
  • Gem Knight as Princess Gem from Gungetonia
  • Jarrod Wright as Roadblock
  • Richard Simpson as Chafe Duffield
  • Jocelyn Dell Christian as Pashmina, the Toothfairy, the Valley Girls, and Lush
  • Ryan Cooper as various miscellaneous characters

Episode list

Series 1 (2006)

Series 1 ran from 7 May to 2 July 2006.

Number
in series 		Number
in season 		Title Original air date Ref
11"Got Gunge?"7 May 2006 (2006-May-07)[1]
22"Snap!"14 May 2006 (2006-May-14)[2]
33"In the Deep End"21 May 2006 (2006-May-21)[3]
44"Teething Trouble"28 May 2006 (2006-May-28)[4]
55"It's All Downhill"4 June 2006 (2006-June-04)[5]
66"High Score"11 June 2006 (2006-June-11)[6]
77"Sparkletron"18 June 2006 (2006-June-18)[7]
88"Survival of the Cutest"25 June 2006 (2006-June-25)TBA
99"The Sparkle Show"25 June 2006 (2006-June-25)[8]
1010"What Becomes Of The Broken Gungi?"2 July 2006 (2006-July-02)[9]

Series 2 (2007)

Series 2 ran from 9 May to 9 July 2007.

11. Return of the Gun-gi.

12. Yabba Dabba Don't!

13. Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Gunge

14. Kentucky Fried Charlie

15. Invasion of the Richie Snatchers

15. Beauty and the Yeast

17. Are We There Yeti?

18. Rock'em Sock'em.

19. Insert Coin Here.

20. Send Out the Clowns

Series 3 (2008)

Series 3 ran from 15 July to 2 October 2008.

  1. "Son of a Gun-gi / Camilla at Large"
  2. "Almost Famous / Short Fuse"
  3. "Super Tu / Mo' Charlie Mo' Problems"
  4. "How Now Sea Cow / Summer Knights"
  5. "The Case of the Muddy Footprints / The Gungiest Place on Earth"

Series 4 (2009-10)

Series 4 ran from 17 November 2009 to 15 March 2010.

  1. "Super Tu 2"
  2. "Roadblock (Special)"
  3. "Spooky Sunday / Rainbow Connection"
  4. "The Girl Next Door / My Tu Front Teeth"
  5. "Sprinkle Kids / Attack of the 50ft Toby"

Series 5 (2010-11)

Series 5 ran from 8 November 2010 to 25 July 2011.

1. Sparkle Friends Next Level Part I

2. Sparkle Friends Next Level Part II

3. The Finale!

References
  1. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Episode 1". 9 May 2006.
  2. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Episode 2!!". 22 May 2006.
  3. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep3!!". 9 June 2006.
  4. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep4". 2 June 2006.
  5. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends EP5!!". 20 June 2006.
  6. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Episode 6". 29 June 2006.
  7. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep7: Sparkletron". 13 July 2006.
  8. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep9: Sparkle Show". 27 July 2006.
  9. "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep10: What Becomes of the Broken Gungi". 15 August 2006.
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