Pinky Malinky
American animated television series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pinky Malinky is an animated television series created and produced by Netflix. It is based on Chris Garbutt's animated short of the same name produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe (now Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe), which was released in 2009. It marks the first collaboration between Nickelodeon and Netflix as well as the first Nicktoon to be produced exclusively for Netflix. The series chronicles the adventures of Pinky Malinky (voiced by Lucas Grabeel), a 12-year-old middle school student who also happens to be an anthropomorphic hot dog and his efforts to climb up the social ladder with his two human friends Babs Buttman (Diamond White) and JJ Jameson (Nathan Kress).
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Genre | Surreal comedy |
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Composer | Dave Newby |
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Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 60 |
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Producer | Louis J. Cuck |
Running time | 12 minutes |
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Network | Netflix |
Release | January 1 (2019-01-01) ā July 17, 2019 (2019-07-17) |
The series premiered on January 1, 2019. It was renewed for a second season ahead of the series premiere.[1][2] Season 2 was released on April 22, 2019, and the third and final season was released on July 17, 2019.[3]
Pinky Malinky was nominated for Best Animation Editing for the 2020 Daytime Emmy Awards on May 21, 2020.[4] In 2023 Grabeel reprised his role as Pinky in the Netflix interactive special We Lost Our Human which is also by Garbutt and Asbjoern. In this interactive, Pinky calls himself Panky Malanky and classifies himself as a meatball.