The planet itself is set up like a life-sized orrery, with moons that don't so much orbit as stick out on long poles from a rotating ring at its equator. Also some of the devices on the Planet of Technology.The gadgets in Bing and Bong's home and built into the sofa.Circling Birdies: Bong sees a halo of stars after falling off a see-saw in "Pivotal Points".Camping Episode: In "Night Light Sleep Tight", Bing and Bong go camping on the Planet of Self it goes pretty well, apart from Bong being frightened by strange noises in the night.Bioluminescence Is Cool: In "Night Light Sleep Tight", Bing and Bong stay overnight on the Planet of Self, and learn that the Locals glow in the dark.That might be explained by the sofa having some kind of artificial atmosphere, but then there's the inhabited asteroid they always pass in the opening sequence. Batman Can Breathe in Space: Bing and Bong don't seem to have any trouble breathing as they zoom through the interplanetary void.Balloon Belly: In the silent movie in "Flocker Flicker". Bag of Holding: Bing carries a satchel from which he produces a variety of useful items, many of which are larger than the satchel itself.Backing into Danger: The version where two people back into each other happens while Bing and Bong are playing hide-and-seek in "That's What Friends Are For".In the opening sequence, Bing and Bong's flight always takes them past a trio of Flockers living on an asteroid not much larger than they are.Implied by the title, but it never really comes up except in "Gone With the Wind", where Bing and Bong, finding the path to their goal blocked, solve the problem by going all the way around the planet and approaching it from the far side.He might have got a better result if he wore shoes. Agony of the Feet: In "Magnificent Seven", Bing tries to stop a door closing by sticking his foot in the narrowing gap.Bong's age is never alluded to in the episode. Ageless Birthday Episode: In "Birthday Build-Up", while celebrating his birthday on the Planet of Self, Bong becomes anxious to wait to open a big present Bing has in store for him.For the Noggin airings, a didactic narrator was added. The series aired on CITV in the UK and Noggin in the US. Two types of inhabitant occur on each planet, with each planet having its own particular variations: tall, birdlike creatures, referred to in the supporting material as "Flockers", and small, spheroidal creatures, referred to in the supporting material as "Locals".īing and Bong, and the various characters they meet in their travels, are Speaking Simlish the only intelligible words in each episode are in the Expository Theme Tune. The six planets are: the Planet of Light & Color, where their adventures embody lessons about optical phenomena the Planet of Nature, lessons about climate and weather the Planet of Self, lessons about self-care and caring for others the Planet of Sound, lessons about sound and music the Planet of Stuff, lessons about mathematics and geometry and the Planet of Technology, lessons about machines. (The sofa is fitted with seatbelts, a steering wheel and headlights, and a tow cable that stretches back to an anchor point on their home planet.) At the end of each episode, they get back on the sofa and are towed home, where they brush their teeth note Well, Bong does Bing has No Mouth. Tiny Planets is a computer-animated TV series featuring the adventures of two white fuzzy aliens, Bing (the taller, bipedal, more thoughtful one) and Bong (the smaller, hexapedal, more childlike one).Įach five-minute episode begins with Bing and Bong getting onto their sofa, which is then launched by an elaborate Clockpunk-ish catapult into space towards one of six neighboring planets.
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