The Magic Fingerfellows

The Magic Fingerfellows is an American children's television series that airs on The Kiddie Channel. The series focuses around three children who must race against time to keep Bugaboo City running smoothly. In some episodes, they meet Lidderbean, a kindergarten girl who helps them on their missions.

The Magic Fingerfellows was created by Dorling Kindersley and premiered on Kiddie in January 2021. Each season has 10 episodes. It makes use of comedic devices such as slapstick comedy, as per Kiddie's many previous shows. The show's aim is to educate children about problem-solving skills in conjunction with basic concepts, science observations, and environmental wellness, as well as teach kids small ways to make big impacts.

Although it is a children's comedy series, The Magic Fingerfellows often deals with serious and important topics such as philosophy, cyberbullying, political intolerance, and human conditions. It also encourages reading and relationships with family and friends by explaining that people have different personalities and interests.

The show has also featured the work of various professional artists from time to time, including Jasmine Guy, Tony Hawk, Malaine Newman, and even Piper Thibodeau. The series also relies heavily on parodies of iconic characters from many different franchises. These often appear as citizens of the city, friends, recurring minors, or even those in need.

Plot
The series is a satirical depiction of Kiddie's imagination, epitomized by three students-in-training from Sunnyshimmer Elementary School. Their names are Righty-Tighty, Lefty-Loosy, and Whistle-Tristle. The show is set in the fictional world of Bugaboo City and parodies a wide variety of popular culture, society, television, franchises and more.

The students are typically assigned cases by their teacher, Ms. Noodlenoddy, and travel with a system of interconnected portal doors to get to their destinations. They deduce the solution to the problem or how to detain the perpetrator by using basic literacy principles that are typically the focus of the episode. Along the way, the trio explores all around the town and meet a variety of eccentric characters who often put a whimsical spin on things.

For their missions, they receive a magical brown journal (known only as "The Enchantopedia") from Ms. Noodlenoddy. By reading the book, they learn many different facts and subjects about the city.

Sometimes, they cannot solve the problem alone and must go back to their school's classroom or they can use "Magic Monitors", which are sentient screens that come in many disguises and can display information to help the kids see connections and better solve their case.

Occasionally, the students also enlist help from the "Fairly Fingerfellows", who are emergency fairies that help out however they can, or they will use their high-tech treehouse as a secret base of operations.

Bugaboo City consists of various quirky places, with each one having a theme such as candy, toys, games, and more. The students travel to many of these locations in order to protect them, and each one has a unique parody character they interact with. Together, the young heroes turn everyday experiences into fantastical adventures with valuable lessons learned.

Characters

 * Ms. Noodlenoddy (voiced by Gentille Winderwood) is a magic school teacher who is portrayed as a bossy and neat person with no patience for foolishness, even from her students. She tends to be very strict and no-nonsense, and is deeply methodical and analytical when teaching her class. She doesn't tolerate laziness and will ask them to leave if she feels they aren't dedicated. However, she does have a softer side and genuinely wants her students to find enjoyment in the problems they solve, and tries to instill this even as she tutors them.
 * Righty-Tighty (voiced by Braddock Schroeder) is the ringleader who loves to keep things neat and organized in order to figure things out. He is impatient, logical, serious, bossy, prim and proper. When he’s got a problem to solve, Righty-Tighty just wants to get his hands on it and figure it out. He is a bottom-liner, and usually speaks his mind. It is also shown he can be quite protective of his friends at times.
 * Lefty-Loosy (voiced by Gallego Slovencina) is the wildest of the group, and as Bugaboo City’s coolest kid, he is into skateboards and the hip-hop scene. He is loud, crude and a risk taker in the craziest kind of ways. He is not fond of rules and this is where his friends come in to help supervise him. However, he can be very good at thinking through problems.
 * Whistle-Tristle (voiced by Maxillane Charrest and Julie Lemieux) is well-intentioned but often serves as a comic relief character. She is often excited to jump into tasks or cases. Because of this, she also has a tendency to react to situations quickly and without forethought.
 * Lidderbean Lenderson (voiced by Dallaire Wippenberg) is the youngest of the group. Her creative ideas sometimes come in handy on missions.

Reception
The Magic Fingerfellows has received generally positive reviews from television critics and parents of young children. One person wrote, "Funny, clever, and sooo creative!", while another person writes about "simple literacy ideas that are usually explained well, and woven throughout the stories in a fun and interesting way".

Many of the show's humor often includes cultural references that cover a wide spectrum of society so that children from all generations can enjoy the show. Such references, for example, come from movies, television, music, literature, science, and history. The animators also regularly add jokes or sight gags into the show's background via incongruous bits of text in signs, newspapers, billboards, and elsewhere.

Brand extension
After the show concluded in December 2021, an educational subscription-based service called The Magic Fingerfellows: Check for Understanding was released in early 2022. This is a collection of high-quality instructional resources that help children learn and grow by accessing grade-level materials which teaches them through stories with many of the show's characters. Using best practice designs, these tools provide rigorously motivational reading and mathematic instructions that provide a keystone in learning for the preschool child.

The show's books also continue as well.

Voice cast

 * Gentille Winderwood as Miss Noodlenoddy
 * Braddock Schroeder as Righty-Tighty
 * Gallego Slovencina as Lefty-Loosy
 * Maxillane Charrest and Julie Lemieux as Whistle-Tristle
 * Dallaire Wippenberg as Lidderbean Lenderson

Recurring voice actors include Delliney Lessive, Lindred Fischer, Chaister Garrincha, Tree Adams, Heloise Berthellier, Toulouse Franceppo, Dorling Kindersley, Chinook Cosgrove, Pattisade Dannesh, Lexington Locklear, and more.

Throughout its run, celebrities who have guest starred on The Magic Fingerfellows include Adam West, Jay Leno, Norm Macdonald, Mary Hart, Chris Kirkpatrick, Alec Baldwin, Ben Stein, Jackie Mason, Jason Bateman, Laraine Newman, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Clarke Duncan, Brendan Fraser, Patrick Warburton, Julie Chen, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tom Arnold, Dana Carvey, and Scott Hamilton.

Season 1

 * 1) Wishful Thinking/Embark on the Journey
 * 2) Navigating Through School/Thinking Thoughts
 * 3) Funstruction Workers/Speaking Conversation
 * 4) Partible Delartibles/Bang the Table
 * 5) Which Came First?/Try Something New
 * 6) Sticky Life/Lettering on the Cheap
 * 7) Friends Together/Whizzing in the Void
 * 8) Love Everything, Be Attached To Nothing/The Purpose Fairies
 * 9) Glitter Galore!/Brightness on the Case
 * 10) Reading the Tracks/Better Living Through Design

Season 2

 * 1) Food for Thought/Rocket to the Moon
 * 2) Cupcake Calamity/The Little Things
 * 3) Love at First Flight/Celestial Grace
 * 4) Rebel Without a Wand/Music to My Ears
 * 5) The Love Agency/Figure Things Out
 * 6) What Could Possibly Go Wrong?/The Fast and the Curious
 * 7) Clarizzle Caillergan and the Chocolate Factory/The Legend of Sparkle Sprites
 * 8) Following the Stars/What’s It Like to Be Famous?
 * 9) Unlock with Keys/Look What I Can Do!
 * 10) The Magic Party Bus/Designed Creatively

Season 3

 * 1) Stop Goes the Weasel/The Candybread Man
 * 2) The Clubhouse Connection/Apples and Pears
 * 3) Declaring Independence/Statue Liberation
 * 4) The Art Studio/Lucky Charming
 * 5) My Pridefulness/The Bugaboo Street Journal
 * 6) Everything's Coming Up Pellosie/Getting Organized
 * 7) Cuckoo Around the Clock/Somethin' Rainbow
 * 8) My Little Bunnies/Bears Take Care
 * 9) Do You Believe in Donkeys?/Thanking the Clouds
 * 10) Dilladots Confidential/Sleepless in Bugaboo City

Season 4

 * 1) Cheese and Crackers/Butterbread's Restaurant
 * 2) Fellaciously Felicitated/Hand-Me-Downer
 * 3) Pollinating Pollen/Let's Go Fly a Kite
 * 4) The Giving Tree/Work of Heart
 * 5) Whoopsie, Miss Canoopsy!/Travelling Tripsters
 * 6) Racing to the Finish Line/Do Princesses Dream of Magic Bunnies?
 * 7) Design and Invent/Cellphone Emergency
 * 8) Nursery Rhyming/The Magical Moondust
 * 9) The Magic Show/Never Forget To Remember
 * 10) Fun With Puzzles/Brain Freeze!

Season 5

 * 1) Bears Unlocking Magic/The Telling Tale Hearts
 * 2) Seriously Cereal/The Anywhere Teacher
 * 3) Smart and Smarter/The Twinkling Trees
 * 4) Little Bo Sheep/Back in Business
 * 5) Cheerful Bush Pals/Who's Calling?
 * 6) Time of the Hats/Crafting Alliance
 * 7) Listen Up!/Arrows on Target
 * 8) Sunny With a Chance of Bunnies/Innovating Humanity
 * 9) Didgeridoodles!/I Can't Believe It's Not Magic!
 * 10) Henry and the Rainbow Crayon/Slides and Ladders

Season 6

 * 1) Everybody Makes a Choice/The Secret Magic of Pets
 * 2) Inside Your Emotions/Totally Transparent
 * 3) The Awesome Land of Baseball/A Good Case of Stripes
 * 4) Lawful Order/The Promise of a Revolution
 * 5) Miss Noodlenoddy's Sunny Patch Students/The Wonderful Kind of Day
 * 6) Skip the Tutorial/Imagination Dragonations
 * 7) Penguin Cuisine/Unlimited Elements
 * 8) Bunny Grahams/Relationship Counselling
 * 9) Nothing to Be Afraid Of/The Big Talker
 * 10) Americation and Britalicious/Where the Jungle Beasts Are

Season 7

 * 1) Massey's Day Parade/Cactus Makes Perfect
 * 2) The Bunny Place/Lookout Friends
 * 3) Sugared and Spiced/Oscar's Frolicking Funfest
 * 4) Prankster Jokes/The Crystal Glasskeeper
 * 5) The Young and the Powerless/The Bold and the Plentiful
 * 6) Alphabetical Soup/Meet the Fingerfellows!
 * 7) Go Quicker, Pippa Longsticker!/Dwelling of the Ancient Guardians
 * 8) Bugaboo After Dark/History in the Making
 * 9) Technical Difficulties/False and the Bugaboo Kingdom
 * 10) Red Head Redemption/Group Forthouse

Season 8

 * 1) Pinning Interested/Bugaboo's Got Talent!
 * 2) Flight of the Firefly/Telling Stories
 * 3) Confessions of Economy/Dispelling the Darkness
 * 4) The More You Grow/Begging for Attention
 * 5) The Magical Day/Glocken Around the Spiel
 * 6) Special Moments/Dancing Disaster
 * 7) Diary of the Wimpy Friends/Spread Those Wings and Fly
 * 8) Senior Achievement/Little Rainbow Riding Hood
 * 9) Trooper Takedown/Stealing the Spotlight
 * 10) Flower to the People/Rhyme and Season

Season 9

 * 1) Craigley's List/Brave and Strong
 * 2) Tube For You!/Animal Crackers
 * 3) To Catch a Flockingbird/The Trending Report
 * 4) Deconstructing Cherwell/What Would You Do?
 * 5) Write Your Way Out/Explorations of Style
 * 6) Berries and Cherries/Treasure Your Chest
 * 7) The Cowbell Prize/Block, Shaper, Lizards!
 * 8) Packing the Peanuts/Magic for Idiots
 * 9) Bustling With Activity/How to Be a Threadhead
 * 10) Everything is Possible/Needles in the Haystack

Season 10

 * 1) Learning Spread/We Don't Talk About Bellow
 * 2) Where's Walter?/The Blurfs
 * 3) El Chapejo Cabadores/Sworged in Fire
 * 4) The Big Picture/Full Steam Ahead!
 * 5) Flex and the City/We Bare Bunnies
 * 6) Star Battles/North Park
 * 7) Let's Clean Up!/The Golden Opportunity
 * 8) Around Bugaboo City in 80 Days/Wonderful Woman
 * 9) Truthful Consequences/Sea Fish Crooks and Helipad Hooks
 * 10) Better Together/Choose Your Own Ending

Specials

 * 1) Save the Day
 * 2) Twinkle Like a Star Day
 * 3) The Compellidays
 * 4) Starlight Night