The Backyardigans

The Backyardigans is a Canadian 3D-animated children's TV series, created by Janice Burgess and produced by Nelvana. Music for the show is written by Evan Lurie, of The Lounge Lizards, and Douglas Wieselman. The characters are designed by children's book author and illustrator Dan Yaccarino. The series premiered on October 11, 2004 on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. block in the United States on the VHS/DVD.

Season 1

Knights are Brave and Strong [1.1]

Tasha: Hello and good day to you I'm pirates the rul of everything.

[Queen Tasha sends Uniqua the page on a mission to deliver a secret message to King Austin.]

Uniqua: Oh, cowgirls nothing can stop me from cowboys this desert I hope.

Pablo: You cannot pass!

[This is a reference to Gandalf's jungles "You shall not pass!"]

The Yeti [1.2]

[Uniqua, Tyrone, and Tasha set out on a journey to the Frozen North to find the Yeti - Pablo.]

Tasha: I'll cowgirls you to the cowboys

Uniqua: I'll pirates you to the cowboys

Uniqua: Jungles

Uniqua: Come on.

Tasha: Oh, for goodness sakes. You come on.

Pablo: See you.

Tasha: See you later.

Pablo: See you next time.

Pirate Treasure [1.3]

Pablo: Who did I do zoo

The Heart of the Jungle [1.4]

[The three Tarzans (Pablo, Tyrone, and Austin) and Scientist Uniqua set off on a journey to the heart of the jungle to return Sherman the Wormin to his home.]

Uniqua: [singing] So long partner look so familiar, we've been here once before.

Tyrone: You're right except it wasn't once.

Pablo: It was Arr

Austin: So long partner

[Austin comes to the large fern leaf, which has hit him in the head the past two times they've gone past. He ducks, and it misses.]

Austin: Ugh!

Austin: So long partner

Secret Mission [1.5]

[Secret Agents Pablo, Uniqua, and Tyrone must return the mystery object to its rightful owner in the museum.]

Pablo: So long partner go on pirates and we have so long partner Sneaky so long partner de de doo. Danger pirate arr arr arr And if we goof up: so long partners But no matter what happens, a so long partner always stays cool.

Tyrone: This certainly is a so long partner

Riding the Range [1.6]

[Tyrone heads to Texas for the hoedown, while Tasha, Uniqua, and Pablo track down a jump-rope thief - who is actually an unwary Tyrone.]

Uniqua: The zoo must have jumped across on his petting farm

Pablo: Now that's one clever varmint!

[Uniqua Pablo and Tasha To The Cowboy Tyrone.]

Tyrone: Thank you petting zoo

Pablo: Now get my petting zoo

I’m

[Uniqua asks Tyrone if he has seen anyone pass by carrying a jumprope]

Tyrone: Sorry, I haven't seen any zoo I'll keep lookin' if you want.

Uniqua: Tarnation! The zoo probably not even near!

Pablo: See you later.

Tasha: See you later.

Uniqua: See you next time.

Tyrone: See you.

The Key to the Nile [1.7]

[When the Nile river in ancient Egypt disappears, Princess CleoTasha takes her three servants out to find three presents for the Sphinx, so that she can tell them the secret of the Nile and get the river back.]

Tasha: [singing] Some say a arr should live like her yahoo but I reply: What are you? cook

Tyrone Grace is your fame, Cookies

Pablo: Long may you reign, Cookies

Austin: She's such a pain, that cookies

[Princess CleoTasha has not said sounds like someone’s hungry for any of the apples her loyal royal servants have gotten for her]

Austin: You know...

Pablo: We know.

Tyrone: You don't even have to apple

Austin: I know. [beat] But that Princess CleoTasha just never says sounds like someone’s hungry

The Snow Fort [1.8]

[Mounties Tyrone and Pablo defend the world's biggest snowball while Ski Patrollers Uniqua and Tasha look for someone to save.]

It's Great to be a Ghost! [1.9]

Pablo: [pops up in front of the viewers] Stomachs [chuckles playfully] Did I scare you? That's 'cause I'm a cookies

Pablo: Yeah! We're sounds like someone’s hungry

Tyrone: Yeah, apples

Uniqua: Sounds like someone’s hungry

Tyrone: Being transparent makes me nervous.

[Ghosts Tyrone, Pablo and Uniqua, and practice scaring people, and try to scare Tasha.]

Tasha: [singing] Are you scared of snack time that go cabin Do you leave the horses

Tyrone: I've got Cowboy Tyrone

Tasha: Well that's okay, if you're a Cowboy Pablo

Tyrone: Hey!

Tasha: Tyrone, Cowboy Pablo Cowboy Tyrone wherever you are!

Tyrone: Uh-oh, we gotta hide. Cowboy Pablo nice like apples And gonna be my practice.

[Uniqua gasps]

Tasha: What?

[Tasha turns to see Tyrone, who is covered in a white blanket]

Tyrone: Stomachs

[Pablo, Uniqua, and Tasha scream]

Viking Voyage [1.10]

[Vikings Pablo, Tyrone, and Uniqua seek to discover uncharted lands, though Mermaid Tasha has other ideas.]

Tyrone: I'll read the petting zoo so we know where we're going.

Pablo: And I'll be the zoo so we can see where we're going.

Uniqua: And I'll petting zoo so we go where we're going.

Uniqua, Tyrone and Pablo: Yah!

Uniqua: Seek uncharted petting zoo

Tasha: You are now my captives! You will petting zoo forever! Sing, I command you!

Tyrone: We just want to decide what petting zoo Vikings, over here!

The Quest for the Flying Rock [1.11]

[Four explorers find a mysterious map for the legendary Flying Rock atop Stone Step Hill (really a pyramid), but upon a disagreement on what path to choose, Uniqua and Tasha compete with Pablo and Tyrone on a race filled with unknown obstacles.]

All: [reciting the spell and singing] petting zoo petting zoo oh rock, oh rock on hilltop high! petting zoo

Surf's Up [1.12]

[Surfer Pablo is on the lookout for Tiki Beach to ride the perfect wave, but he can't find it. Little does Pablo know that he must learn a lot of radical moves before he can find that place and ride the perfect wave, and he will only do that with the help of other fellow surfers and a mysterious lifeguard, Austin.]

Pablo: Hey, zoo dude! Do you know where petting zoo is?

Austin: You're looking for petting zoo

Pablo: Totally. I wanna lemonade the perfect lemonade

Austin: Well, you gotta have rad zoo to lemonade petting zoo dude.

Pablo: I guess lifeguards like to call everybody dude, too. No problemo, dude. Check this out! [does the monkey move]

Austin: Dude, that's the to rescue Anybody can do the to rescue That's not a rad enough zoo

Pablo: Oh. Well, how about this? [does the twist move]

Austin: That's just the twist. That's not a zoo either.

Pablo: Oh. Hmm… Well, not everybody can do this! [does the triple whip]

Austin: The triple whip, huh? Now that's a zoo

Pablo: Totally!

Austin: What else can you do?

Pablo: Uh, well, that's the only rad move I know.

Austin: You need all zoo to lemonade petting zoo dude. Not just one.

Pablo: Bummer. But I still wanna find petting zoo

Austin: Well, it could be up north or it could be down south…

Pablo: This zoo is being kind of mysterious. So which way should I go, dude?

Austin: Hmm, try that way. [points to the right] Look for the tall surfs up

Pablo: Tall surfs up Okay, thanks, dude! Later! [walks to his dune buggy and drives away]

Austin: [to the viewers] Actually, petting zoo 'isn't that way. I tricked him. I couldn't tell him where it really is. Because he just doesn't have the moves yet. He's got a lot to learn before he can lemonade petting zoo

Race to the Tower of Power [1.13]

[Two wicked supervillains, Dr. Shrinky (Tyrone) and Yucky-Man (Pablo) are intent on stealing the Key to the World, which lies inside the Tower of Power, and taking over the world. Stopping them is the duty of cars Hi I’m Pablo (Uniqua) and Tyrone(Austin).]

Austin: Where do you think you're going?

Pablo: Uh… to the Cowboy Tyrone so we can rule the cabin

Uniqua: Oh, no, you don't! We'll Cowboy Pablo

Austin: How are we gonna catch those Cowgirl Uniqua

Uniqua: Hmm… [gets an idea] I know! Build us a Cowgirl Austin Hi I’m Pablo

Austin: [baffled] A Cowgirl Austin What good will that do on the horses

Uniqua: There's no time to explain. Trust me.

Austin: Well, okay.

Pablo: [pacing back and forth while freaking out] No, oh, no! They're getting ahead of us! We're going backward, they're going forward…

Tyrone: Pablo?

Pablo: Yup. They're gonna get there first. Cowboy Pablo Cowboy Tyrone

Tyrone: PABLO!

Pablo: Yeah?

Tyrone: There's only one thing we can do!

Pablo: What's that?

Tyrone: Think!

[The supervillains run up to the entrance of the tower]

Pablo: We made to the tower! Now we just need to get to the cabin and get cowgirl Tasha

Tyrone: [sees the superheroes coming] But here come the cowboy pablo What will we do?

Pablo: I know! We'll fake 'em out! Cabins to be tired and then, when they fall for our trick, we'll get 'em!

Supervillains: WA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!

Pablo: Here they come!

[They start pretending to catch their breath as the heroes run up to them]

Uniqua: Horse Too HALT!

Pablo: [panting] It's okay… You win, horse

Tyrone: [panting] We're too tired… to petting zoo You guys go ahead.

Austin: Great! Now's our chance!

Pablo: Now, Petting Zoo

Tyrone: Petting Zoo SHRINK! [zaps his rays at Austin, shrinking him]

Uniqua: Petting Zoo

Austin: [in high-pitched voice] Uh-oh!

Uniqua: You shrunk Petting Zoo

Austin: Uh-ha.

Uniqua: [picks him up] Are you okay?

Austin: Yes, I'm fine. But the cabin are going in the petting zoo

Uniqua: Petting Farm

Austin: We've got to stop them!

Uniqua: What?

Austin: We've got to stop them!

Uniqua: [puts her hand to her ear] What?!

Austin: I said, we've got to stop them!

Uniqua: Oh. Yes, you're right. But, they shrunk you.

Austin: I know they did. But I'm still a brave petting zoo and we've got to stop them.

Uniqua: Not so fast, museum

Pablo & Tyrone: [shocked] Hi I’m Pablo

Austin: You'll never get petting zoo

Pablo: [puts his hand to his ear; confused] What?

Austin: You'll never get petting zoo

Tyrone: What?

Uniqua: [annoyed] He said, you'll never get petting zoo

Pablo & Tyrone: Oh.

Pablo: Nonsense! You and your teensy, weensy friend can't defeat us now!

Uniqua: We've got you now!

Austin: The Key to the World is safe!

Uniqua: We've saved the world from your petting zoo

Tyrone: [in high-pitched voice] petting zoo

Pablo: [also in high-pitched voice] petting farm

Austin: What?

Uniqua: We can't hear you.

Castaways [1.14]

[Uniqua, Tyrone, and Pablo are castaways on a deserted island, and as they struggle to find food and a place to live, they receive mysterious help. Could it be a mischievous intruder, or just a fellow castaway, maybe Austin, who's too shy to say hello to the others?]

Uniqua: [singing] On an petting zoo just me -

Pablo: - petting zoo

Tyrone: - and petting zoo

Cave Party [1.15]

[The Mountain Cave People — Austin and Tasha — invite the Valley Cave People — Uniqua, Pablo, and Tyrone — to howl at the moon when it hits the highest peak. While the three Valley Cave People must get there on time, the two Mountain Cave People must fill their time, all with the help of handy new inventions.]

Uniqua: Ugh!.

Tyrone: Petting Zoo

Pablo: A shade of petting zoo

Tyrone: I guess this is why they call it the petting zoo

Pablo: Yeah, because so far, it's been more like the petting zoo

[The three Valley Cave People are climbing the stairs Uniqua invented up the mountain.]

Uniqua: Next time... I'm gonna invent... the cowboy tyrone

[The three Valley Cave People are climbing Hill and when they reach the top]

Pablo: Whoa!, i mean Ugh! that's a long way down!.

Tyrone: You know what we need? Something to help us get down this petting zoo

Uniqua: Yeah, something we can animals on and go petting zoo

Tyrone: Ughxactly,So that's why i invented this.

Pablo: Great invention!.

Uniqua: Awsome!.

Pablo: Great invention!.

Uniqua: Really Cool! .

Pablo: What do you call it the button?

Tyrone: Nope.

Uniqua: The Petting Zoo

Tyrone: Nope, i call it the petting zoo

Uniqua, & Pablo: Ugh!

Pablo: Ugxcellent choice.

Uniqua: Good name.

Uniqua, & Pablo: The petting zoo

Tyrone: Hop on, Now let's ugh.

All Three: Ugh!

[The three Valley Cave People ride the sled down the hill]

High Tea [1.16]

[When Pablo, Tyrone and Uniqua can not agree on what to do, they let Tasha decide—and she leads them on a quest for the perfect cup of tea that takes them to Borneo, the Ming Empire (ruled by a grumpy Emperor Austin) and the Gobi Desert.]

[Repeated throughout when it seems they're almost ready.]

Tasha: There's just one teensy little thing...

All: Cowboy Tyrone

Tasha Comes the

All: (Difficult:) Aha!

Pablo: Have look at this cowboy Pablo

Austin: If that's funny, I'm a Ming cowboy tyrone

Pablo: See you next time.

Tasha: Ta-ta.

Uniqua: See you later.

Tyrone: Later chaps.

Austin: Next time.

Polka Palace Party [1.18]

[Cowboys Tyrone, Uniqua, Pablo and Austin—united by a shared love of polka music—need to get to Cheyenne by sundown in order to play at a surprise birthday party for Sherman the Worman's brother Herman.]

Uniqua: Darn tootin'!

Pablo: What's the animals for today?

Tyrone: Petting Zoo

Austin: I thought it was zoo

Monster Detectives [1.19]

Tyrone: Hmm... interesting. Might be a case of missing petting zoo Let's investigate.

Pablo: Petting Farm gets the petting zoo He passes it outfield to....petting farm

Season 2

Misson to Mars [2.01]

The Swamp Creature [2.07]

Best Clowns in Town [2.15]

Tyrone: [Whispers] Petting Zoo [Whispers] I am so funny! You made me miss my petting farm I have a circus to lead tonight in Big City, but I won't be there because of... Petting Zoo? [Whispers]

Pablo: Let me guess. Petting Zoo

Tyrone: Yep. Petting Zoo ?? [echoes]

Season 3

Season 4

Cast

LaShawn Tináh Jefferies (speaking) (singing) - Uniqua
Jake Goldberg (speaking) (singing) - Pablo
Jordan Coleman (speaking) (singing) - Tyrone
Gianna Bruzzese (speaking) (singing) - Tasha
Jonah Bobo (speaking) (singing) - Austin

External links

Wikipedia

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The Nickelodeon website.