Tickety Toc is a cartoon series created in CGI computer graphics by The Foundation, Zodiak Media Group and FunnyFlux Entertainment through a co-production between the United States, England and South Korea. The series is aimed at an audience of preschool children. (0-6 years) and consists of 52 episodes, each lasting 11 minutes. It debuted on Nickelodeon on April 19, 2012 and is currently being broadcast on the channel in Italy Frisbee. Click here for timetables.
Tickety Toc characters
Inside a watch shop, there is a very particular cuckoo, where two toy children called Tommy and Tilly live, who at the stroke of a precise hour have to leave the clock to play the drum and the trumpet respectively. But what are these two children doing the rest of the time? The animated series tells, in fact, how time passes Tommy e Tilly in the toy country of Tickety Town and their adventures, which always risk not getting them to arrive in time at the stroke of the cuckoo time.
Through the dog-locomotive poofpoof who transports them from the clock to the village, Tommy and Tilly dedicate themselves to the initiatives and problems of the characters who populate it (all wooden toys), such as "Il sigr. Precisino" an inventor who always asks the two children for help to bring finish his works.
We then find the bunny Hupplalla always very enthusiastic about every initiative, but also a troublemaker, as he is very naive and careless. Hupplallà spends his days eating carrots and sleeping in his hammock, but is always ready to lend a hand to Mr. I specify
Cape
is a bat who runs a shop, where everyone uses it to buy pieces for their work. Cloak often falls asleep hanging from the ceiling, with his head down and when customers wake him he always falls to the floor.
Lopsiloos
is the snail that delivers the fruits and vegetables of the city of Tickety Town. Contrary to appearances, it is a super-fast snail carrying its basket for home deliveries.
tooteroo he is a curious and clumsy little owl, who always tries his hand at jobs beyond his abilities, always creating damage especially for himself, also because he is suffering from terrible bad luck. Tooteroo does not speak, but communicates with his expressions, his rolling glasses and his sympathy ..
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series captures young spectators, because in addition to transporting them to the imaginary world of toys, it also represents a race against time to find out if Tommy and Tilly will be able to arrive in time for cuckoo time, despite the difficulties to be solved.
Tickety Toc episodes
The deliveries of vegetables
- In this episode Tommy and Tilly see Rotolina the caterpillar carrying a cart with vegetables, to be delivered to the villagers, but the cart crashes down a slope and breaks a wheel. Tommy and Tilly decide so they decide to collect the vegetables and deliver them to the inhabitants, while Mr. Precisino repairs the cart. Tommy and Tilly make a lot of confusion in the deliveries, especially with regards to Mrs. Cow who has a very long list of vegetables. Will they be able to deliver everything in order before cuckoo time?
The time of the Battimatto - It's time to clap, a ball game similar to golf. Tommy and Tilly and some of the villagers form two teams: you have to throw the ball and overcome a series of obstacles along the way, before the cuckoo time. Tommy and Tilly's opposing lady cow is very strong. Tommy tries, but he is very poor, while his teammates like Coccodè and Precisino are very good. Tommy insists, but he's not really good at this game, unlike Tilly who manages to score points. In the end the two teams end in a draw and whoever scores the next point will win the battimatto match. Tommy will try, but this time he will not try to copy the style of the other players and will try to play according to his personal style.
The hour of bubbles - Which of Tommy and Tilly's bubbles will last the longest? The hupplala rabbit loves to pop them all as he considers himself a champion in the sport, which Tommy and Tilly don't like as they see their fun game vanish. The bunny promises not to burst them all, but the liquid is gone, so they go to the Mantellino bat shop to buy more. Unfortunately it is finished and here they discover that it is produced by the Mr. precise. He warns them that it only takes a few drops to make big bubbles, but Tommy and Tilly go overboard to continue their competition to see who can blow the biggest bubble and so they make a gigantic one. This bubble begins to roll around the village and capture its inhabitants such as Mantellino, Mrs. Cow, Coccodè and Mr. Precisino. It must be stopped before it traps all the inhabitants. Tommy and Tilly manage to stop the bubble, but it's time for the cuckoo and they won't have time to free them all. How to do? We need the Hupplalla bunny
