Pupstruction | |
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Created by | Travis Braun |
Voices of | Yonas Kibreab Carson Minniear Scarlett Kate Ferguson Mica Zeltzer Grey Griffin Yvette Nicole Brown Bobby Moynihan Kari Wahlgren Eric Bauza Alessandra Perez |
Theme music composer | Rob Cantor |
Opening theme | "Pupstruction Theme" by the cast |
Ending theme | "Pupstruction Theme" (instrumental) |
Composers | Greg Nicolett Rob Cantor |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Travis Braun Victor Cook Chris Prynoski Shannon Prynoski Ben Kalina |
Running time | 22 minutes (2 11-minute segments) |
Production company | Titmouse, Inc. |
Original release | |
Network | Disney Junior |
Release | June 14, 2023 – present |
Pupstruction is an American animated television series created by Travis Braun that premiered on Disney Junior on June 14, 2023. [1] [2] It is produced by animation studio Titmouse, Inc. [3] [4] The series centers on the crew of a dog construction company. [5] [6] On January 13, 2023, five months prior to premiering, it was renewed for a second season. [7] [8] In February 2024, ahead of the second season premiere, the series was renewed for a third season. [9]
The Pupstruction crew are a group of dogs who fulfill construction projects around the city of Petsburg, [10] sometimes at the request of Mayor Gillmore. They would tend to different construction projects while contending with their foil the Lickety Split construction company led by Bobby Boots.
In addition to different dog-related puns like "Woofles" (a dog version of waffles) and "Pawnut" (a dog version of peanut), most episodes have a musical number where the Pupstruction's common songs are "We Got a Job to Do" and "It's Time to Build".
No. | Title [22] [23] | Storyboard directed by | Written by | Original air date [22] [23] | Prod. code [22] [23] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |||||
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1 | "Built to Build" | Josh Greer | Travis Braun | June 14, 2023 | 101 | N/A | |||||
"Pup DE-struction" | David M. Rodriguez | ||||||||||
"Built to Build": On Phinny's first day on the Pupstruction crew, the crew has to build a bridge across a river so children can go to school. Phinny doubts himself at first, but he is reminded by a Ferris Wheel made out of woofles that he made earlier that morning. That gives him an idea to move the old Ferris Wheel in Petsburg to the area where the bridge should've gone instead of building a bridge. The idea is so successful that Phinny is appointed the captain of Pupstruction the next day. "Pup DE-struction": Mayor Gilmore asks the Pupstruction crew to build a skateboarding park for the children. When the crew goes over to the construction site that Lloyd sent them to, they see that a giant boulder is in the way. Roxy volunteers to destroy it. However, all her attempts to destroy the boulder fail. After none of the other crew members can move the boulder, Roxy realizes that Phinny was right when he told her earlier that demolition isn't always the answer to a problem with construction. The crew then decides to turn the boulder into part of the skateboarding park. | |||||||||||
2 | "Hush Puppies" | David M. Rodriguez | Niki Lytton | June 14, 2023 | 102 | N/A | |||||
"Beach Day Build-Off" | Josh Greer | Robyn Brown | |||||||||
"Hush Puppies": Pupstruction needs to build a new house for the Wagner family after Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have quadruplets. When they try to do construction where the Wagners' house used to be, the Wagners' next door neighbor, a chinchilla rapper named Chilla Chill, tells the crew to build quietly as he is trying to get some sleep before his concert later that evening. The Pupstruction crew tries to build without any loud noises, to no avail. When Harry brings pawnut (peanut) butter sandwiches to the crew, he suggests they build the house far away from the construction site; however, this fails too, but then Phinny, inspired by the pillow fort the Wagners made, decides to build a pillow fort around Chilla Chill's house so that he won't hear their noises. After they finish their house, Chilla Chill used the noises of construction as inspiration to write a new song and lets Pupstruction be in his show. "Beach Day Build-Off": Pupstruction is at the beach, and Phinny is building sandcastles. Meanwhile, Bobby Boots looks at them. He decided to have a sandcastle building contest with Pupstruction, with Mayor Gilmore as the judge. Pupstruction's castle ends up looking better than Lickety-Split's castle, so Bobby decides to sabotage Pupstruction by using a device that makes waves to make a wave that destroys Pupstruction's castle. Thinking that he will instantly win because Pupstruction wouldn't have a castle to show Mayor Gilmore, he forgets to turn off the wave making device, making another wave that threatens to destroy his own castle. Pupstruction builds a splash shield for them, and both teams are declared winners much to the surprise of Bobby. | |||||||||||
3 | "Bailey's Birthday Coaster" | Josh Greer | James Eason-Garcia | June 15, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 103 | N/A | |||||
"Doggone Tired" | David M. Rodriguez | Daka Hermon | |||||||||
"Bailey's Birthday Coaster": It's Bailey's birthday and Phinny wants to build her a gift. Getting inspired by the fact that Bailey loves riding on his back, Phinny decides to build Bailey a roller coaster. He shows the coaster to her, but seeing Bailey dissatisfied, he tries to improve it, but Bailey's satisfaction does not change. After a while, Phinny makes the roller coaster in such a way that Bailey is too young to ride it. After Bailey takes another ride on Phinny's back, he realizes that all she wanted was to ride on his back. Pupstruction then moves their roller coaster to the pier of Petsburg. "Doggone Tired": While Pupstruction is having dinner with Harry, Sofia Boneitelli, the most famous chef in Petsburg, visits Pup HQ, and tells Pupstruction that she accidentally invited everyone to the grand opening of her new restaurant, Bone Appetito, even though it hasn't been built yet. Boneitelli lets Tank hold onto her recipe book, which Tank stays up all night reading so he can decide what he wants to order from the restaurant. Since he didn't get any sleep, he is really tired, and because he doesn't think that it's a big problem, this leads him to cause problems for the Pupstruction crew. Tank eventually ends up ruining the recipe book by dropping it into wet cement. Luckily, he remembers the recipes in the book really well, and he is able to help save the restaurant. | |||||||||||
4 | "Fast and Furriest" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | June 16, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 104 | N/A | |||||
"Luna Digs Deep" | David M. Rodriguez | Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez | |||||||||
"Fast and Furriest": After fixing up their truck, Pupstruction decides to take it for a test drive, during which they come across Lickety-Split who built a faulty treadmill for Rusty Whiskers, an exercise loving hamster. When the treadmill breaks, he ends up trapped in a runaway hamster ball, which Pupstruction repeatedly tries and fails to catch. Eventually, they decide to turn the hamster wheel into a car instead. "Luna Digs Deep": Luna loves digging so much that she ends up digging during construction jobs where it's not necessary. She eventually loses all confidence in digging just when Mayor Gilmore calls the crew, complaining about a boulder on some train tracks, which obliges Pupstruction to build a tunnel under it. | |||||||||||
5 | "Bailey and the Doggy Doctor" | Josh Greer | James Eason-Garcia | June 23, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 105 | N/A | |||||
"Dog for a Day" | David M. Rodriguez | Niki Lytton | |||||||||
"Bailey and the Doggy Doctor": While Pupstruction is building the office for Dr. Barkley, Bailey is pretending to do construction until she gets a splinter from one of her wooden blocks; however, she is scared of having the splinter being taken out, so she tries to prevent Pupstruction from building Dr. Barkley's office, but Pupstruction decides to lessen Bailey's fears by adding a slide and ball pit to the roof of the doctor's office. Soon, Dr. Barkley eases Bailey by singing a song about how her doctor's tools are as important as Pupstruction's tools. "Dog for a Day": Bobby is still jealous of Pupstruction's success. When Pupstruction gets a request from Mayor Gilmore to build a water park, Bobby decides to pretend to be a dog and sneak into their headquarters so he could steal their plans and build the water park instead. | |||||||||||
6 | "Adventures in Bulldozing" | David M. Rodriguez | James Eason-Garcia | June 30, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 106 | N/A | |||||
"Safe and Hound" | Josh Greer | Denisse De La Cruz | |||||||||
"Adventures in Bulldozing:" Harry and Maya are going out to dinner by themselves, leaving Pupstruction to babysit Bailey. Roxy, wondering if babies like to smash things, decides to teach Bailey how fun demolition is; however, this soon blows up in her face as Bailey begins smashing everything and eventually goes into town to go on a smashing spree. This eventually leads to a part of the wall of the toy store breaking. Roxy soon fixes this problem by teaching Bailey that building after destroying is fun, and the crew turn the smashed part of the wall into a window display. "Safe and Hound:" Phinny hurts his paw when he accidentally drops Roxy's hammer on it, leading Harry to become concerned. While the Pupstruction crew is building a condo for a family of rabbits, Harry becomes Pupstruction's "safety inspector" and goes overboard on helping the pups be safer, doing things like replacing Luna's shovels with mixing spoons, making Roxy wear oven mitts to protect her hands, and making Tank use icing instead of cement. Eventually, this leads to the condo collapsing. When Maya arrives to survey the damage, she helps Harry realize that he might have gotten carried away with helping his son, and in turn, the crew, be safe, but Maya soon sings a song reminding Harry what being a crew is for. | |||||||||||
7 | "Home Stinky Home" | David M. Rodriguez | Becky Friedman | July 7, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 107 | N/A | |||||
"Dump Truck Dilemma" | Josh Greer | Roxy Simons | |||||||||
8 | "Builders to Bakers" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | July 14, 2023 [lower-alpha 1] | 108 | N/A | |||||
"Fire Truck Frenzy" | David M. Rodriguez | Story by : Jenava Mie Teleplay by : Travis Braun | |||||||||
9 | "Robo Cat" | David M. Rodriguez | Jenava Mie | July 21, 2023 | 109 | N/A | |||||
"Underwater Pups" | Josh Greer | Todd Garfield | |||||||||
10 | "The Wishbone Comet" | Josh Greer | Story by : James Eason-Garcia Teleplay by : David Radcliff | July 28, 2023 | 111 | N/A | |||||
"The Never-Ending Treehouse" | David M. Rodriguez | Niki Lytton | |||||||||
11 | "Professor Frazzle" | Josh Greer | James Eason-Garcia | August 4, 2023 | 112 | N/A | |||||
"A Crabby Neighbor" | David M. Rodriguez | Becky Friedman | |||||||||
12 | "Luna's Bad Hair Day" | Josh Greer | Denisse De La Cruz | August 18, 2023 | 114 | N/A | |||||
"Happy Maya's Day" | David M. Rodriguez | Sam Bissonnette | |||||||||
13 | "Amusement Park-ing" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | September 22, 2023 | 115 | N/A | |||||
"Dino-Dog Dig" | David M. Rodriguez | James Eason-Garcia | |||||||||
14 | "Happy Howl-oween" | Josh Greer | Story by : Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez Teleplay by : Scott Gray | September 27, 2023 [lower-alpha 2] | 110 | N/A | |||||
"The House of Howls" | David M. Rodriguez | Brandon Violette | |||||||||
15 | "The Mayor Mover" | Josh Greer | Scott Gray | October 13, 2023 | 116 | N/A | |||||
"Bobby's Balloon Blunder" | David M. Rodriguez | Story by : Niki Lytton Teleplay by : Ellie Guzman | |||||||||
16 | "Itty Bitty Barn Build" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | November 3, 2023 | 117 | N/A | |||||
"A Colorful Job" | David M. Rodriguez | James Eason-Garcia | |||||||||
Note: On North American cable systems, "Itty" in "Itty Bitty Barn Build" is misspelled with an "S" instead of a "Y" as "Itts". | |||||||||||
17 | "Pupstruction Saves Christmas" | David M. Rodriguez | James-Eason-Garcia | November 27, 2023 | 119 | N/A | |||||
"Pups On Ice" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | |||||||||
18 | "The Sunniest Snow Day" | David M. Rodriguez | James Eason-Garcia | December 8, 2023 | 113 | N/A | |||||
"When Pups Fly" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | |||||||||
"The Sunniest Snow Day": During a hot day, Maya goes through different stuff. Inspired by a snow globe, Bailey wants to play in the snow. Because it's not the right season for it, Phinny leads the rest of Pupstruction to come up with a way so that Bailey can enjoy the snow. "When Pups Fly": A bunch of bird traffic has caused Petsburg's bird community to keep bumping into each other. Mayor Gillmore enlists Pupstruction to build a special tower that can help direct traffic with Lloyd's brother Floyd becoming an air traffic controller. Bobby watches from nearby to see if Pupstruction will fail in building a tower to handle the air traffic. | |||||||||||
19 | "Valentine's Day Dogs" | David M. Rodriguez | Denisse De La Cruz | January 12, 2024 | 122 | N/A | |||||
"The Petsburg Power-Out" | Josh Greer | James-Eason-Garcia | |||||||||
20 | "Pizza-struction" | Josh Greer | Scott Gray | February 2, 2024 | 118 | N/A | |||||
"Baby Builders" | David M. Rodriguez | Denisse De La Cruz | |||||||||
21 | "A Bright Idea" | Josh Greer | Roni Brown-Byrd | March 1, 2024 [lower-alpha 3] | 120 | N/A | |||||
"The Friendliest Frog" | David M. Rodriguez | Denisse De La Cruz | |||||||||
22 | "Pup Princess" | Josh Greer | Niki Lytton | April 5, 2024 | 121 | TBD | |||||
"Trash Truck Pups" | David M. Rodriguez | Roxana Altamirano | |||||||||
23 | "Pirate Party" | N/A | N/A | May 3, 2024 | 123 | TBD | |||||
"A Playful Playground" | N/A | N/A | |||||||||
24 | "Mayor Boots" | N/A | N/A | May 31, 2024 | 124 | TBD | |||||
"Good Clean Race" | N/A | N/A | |||||||||
Pupstruction premiered on Disney Junior and Disney Channel on June 14, 2023. [24] [25] It was later released on the Disney+ streaming service. [26] [27]
The series received positive reviews from critics. Victoria Davis of Animation World Network said, "The show's overall tone is humorous and fun, but the messages Braun and his team hope to relay to kids are very serious, especially considering the show is speaking to a generation where kids have access to almost every toy and electronic mechanism under the sun that could keep them distracted for long periods of time. And yet, kids still want to play with the wrapping paper more than the toy wrapped inside. Pupstruction nurtures that "imaginative play" part of being a kid that could be lost in today's society if we're not careful." [28] Ashley Moulton of Common Sense Media gave Pupstruction a grade of four out of five stars, complimented the depiction of educational value, stating that the show highlights teamwork and perseverance, and praised the presence of positive messages and role models, citing helpfulness, writing, "Pupstruction is a sweet, appealing preschool series that's appropriate for the youngest viewers." [29]
Pupstruction was nominated for Preschool Programming – Best New Series at the 2024 Kidscreen Awards. [30]
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