Jim Henson's Pajanimals is an original series created by Sprout, The Jim Henson Company, 4KIDS, and Sixteen South. It is a show about a group of puppets who sing songs about bedtime. The show started out as a short-form series shown during The Good Night Show, and it was later turned into a long-form show.
Plot
- "Meet The Pajanimals - CowBella, Apollo, Sweetpea Sue, and Squacky - four friends who snuggle together every night to sing sweet night time songs to their preschool friends at home." (link)
History on Sprout
The show premiered as a short-form series on November 2nd, 2008. There were ten short music videos produced for the series, each was three minutes long and they would often air during The Good Night Show. The characters appeared in a PSA for The Great Sprout Tuck-In with Nina the same year, which premiered on November 24th.[2]
- "Pajanimals premiere on Sprout! These cuddly sleepy-time friends will air every evening at 7:00pm and 8:45pm ET during The Good Night Show." (link)
On October 10th, 2011, a full-time series with 52 11-minute episodes premiered on Sprout and aired at 8:01PM, replacing Angelina Ballerina, 11:01, and 2:01AM ET. Afterwards, a sneak peek preview of the sixth season of The Good Night Show, which premiered less than a month later, aired.
The show got its own special block, "Pajanimals Pajama Party," which aired on several occasions in 2012, 2013, and 2014 from 6AM to 9AM ET.
The series proved popular enough to survive the tenth anniversary rebranding in 2015, though it was pulled on January 8th, 2017.
The show also got an app, "Pajanimals Playtime," and a few DVD releases.
To promote the long-form series, Sprout held a "Dreamin' with the Pajanimals" on Facebook contest to win a trip to Hollywood. The grand prize winners were Tanya and her family from Jeannette, Pennsylvania.
The series also aired during NBC Kids at 10:30AM ET.
Games
- Adventure Game
- Apollo's Rocket Blastoff
- Dream Carriage
- Heart Catcher
- Jiggle Jumble Jump
- Pajamarama Bounce
- Sweet Pea Sue's Balloon Ride
Notes
- After the full-length series premiered, the original shorts were removed from Sprout because Cowbella had an Italian accent in the shorts, and was given a new American accent in the series.
- Before the interstitials aired on Sprout (usually on The Good Night Show), instead of a Nina and Star segment, a Sproutorama bumper would play, with a kid's voice saying "And now, visit with the Pajanimals, here on the Good Night Show on Sprout!"
- When the full-length show aired in later years, a background with the moon and stars on the sides of the screen was seen.
- Each night after The Good Night Show from 2011 to 2015, Sprout played "La La Lullaby" over clips of characters sleeping, which were also used in Sprout's Snooze-a-Thon. When the interstitial segments aired, "La La Lullaby" previously played before the final Good Night Show segment. At the end, a female announcer would say "Say sweet dreams with the Pajanimals and all your Sprout friends, every night on The Good Night Show, only on Sprout."
- Several episodes of the half-hour series have had the NBC Kids block's educational/informative screenbug left intact in airings on mainline Sprout. The same applies to Sesame Street and Barney & Friends.
- After the show premiered, five 10-minute segments featuring professional, practical sleep advice from pediatric sleep specialists, family therapists and coauthors of The Sleepeasy Solution, Jill Spivack, LCSW and Jennifer Waldburger, LCSW were available on Sprout On Demand.
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