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Littlest Pet Shop is a Canadian–American children's animated television series developed by Julie McNally-Cahill and Tim Cahill for Hasbro Studios. Based on the Littlest Pet Shop and Blythe toys owned by Hasbro, the show follows Blythe Baxter, a teenage girl who, after moving into an apartment in a metropolitan area, gains the ability to communicate with animals. Located below her apartment is the eponymous pet store where Blythe works and talks to a group of pets who regularly reside at a day care in the shop. Worried that a corrupt rival business will drive their shop out of business, the pets depend on Blythe to drive business into the store with her pet fashion designs.
The show debuted on Saturday, November 10, 2012, and ran for four seasons and 104 episodes. Littlest Pet Shop is produced by Hasbro Studios and DHX Media. Animated using Flash, completion of a single episode takes roughly one year, with several in production at once. The show was criticised for its embedded marketing, while reviewers have given praise to the writing and characters. Several crew members have additionally received accolades for their work on the show. The series finale aired on Saturday, June 4, 2016.
The series is a part of the company's franchise reboot, where Hasbro released a new line of Littlest Pet Shop toys designed to more closely resemble the characters on the show. A mobile game and comic book adaptation were also commissioned.
The series follows Blythe Baxter, a young girl living with her air pilot father, Roger. Forced to move out from her suburban hometown following her father's promotion, she moves into an apartment located in a crowded city. Their complex is located above the eponymous Littlest Pet Shop—a pet store that also serves as a day camp for numerous pets—where Blythe works as a fashion designer. Her adventure begins when she discovers that she alone can miraculously understand and talk to the pets that regularly stay at the shop, in addition to most other animals on the planet. As she and the pets spend time together, they find the pet shop jeopardized by a larger pet store managed by Fisher Biskit and his snooty twin daughters, Whittany and Brittany Biskit. To avoid being dispersed, the pets convince Blythe to remain an employee.
The pets who reside in the day camp of the store are Pepper, a wisecracking skunk passionate about comedy; Minka, a bouncy spider monkey with a flair for painting and visual arts; Penny Ling, a sensitive giant panda interested in rhythmic gymnastics; Russell, a hedgehog who is often the self-appointed leader of his animal bunkmates; Sunil, a mongoose and magician hopeful; Vinnie, a clumsy gecko obsessed with dancing; and Zoe, a diva-like dog with a talent for singing. Other human characters include Mrs. Twombly, owner of the shop and Blythe's boss, and Youngmee Song, Sue Patterson, and Jasper Jones, Blythe's schoolmates.
Cast[]
| Image | Character | USA-Can | Mex | Bra | Bel | Ita | Pol | Russ | Spa | Por | Kor | Isr |
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Blythe Baxter | Ashleigh Ball | Michal Reshef | |||||||||
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Russell Ferguson | Sam Vincent | Arturo Castañeda | Davide Garbolino | Denis Nekrasov | |||||||
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Vinnie | Kyle Rideout | Sergio GutiérrezCoto | Zbigniew Kozlowski | ||||||||
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Zoe Trent | Nicole Oliver | Olga Golovanova | Sandra deCastro | Shirly Lilu | |||||||
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Sunil Nevla | Peter New | Ernesto Lezama | Claudio Moneta | Alon Sharr | |||||||
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Pepper Mildred | Tabitha St.Germain | Rebeca Gómez | Ana Vieira | Hadar Shahaf | |||||||
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Minka Mark | Kira Tozer | Emanuela Pacotto | |||||||||
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Penny Ling | Jocelyn Loewen | Angélica Villa | Loretta Di Pisa | ||||||||
| Maggie Vera | ||||||||||||
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Ann Twombly | Kathleen Barr | Magda Giner | Fabienne Loriaux | Olga Golovanova |