Pinecone & Pony
{{Short description|Children's animated television series}}
{{update|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox television
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| genre = Children’s animation adventure
| creator =
| based_on = {{Based on|The Princess and the Pony|Kate Beaton}}
| developer = Stephanie Kaliner
| editor = Taneka Stotts
| writer =
| director = Wayne-Michael Lee
| creative_director =
| starring =
| voices = {{Plainlist|
- Maria Nash
- Alicia Richardson
- Andy Hull
- Rachel House
- Thom Allison
- Chase W. Dillon
- Viola Abley
}}
| theme_music_composer = Greg Alsop
| composer = {{plainlist|
- Caleb Chan
- Brian Chan}}
| opentheme = "Warrior"
| endtheme =
| runtime =
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
- Stephanie Kaliner
- Christina Piovesan
- Kate Beaton
- Mackenzie Lush
}}
| producer =
| company = DreamWorks Animation Television
First Generation Films
Atomic Cartoons
| language = English
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 16 (31 segments)
| list_episodes =
| country = United States
Canada
| network = Apple TV+
| first_aired = {{Start date|2022|4|8}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2023|2|3}}
}}
Pinecone & Pony is a children's animated television series produced by DreamWorks Animation and First Generation Films for Apple TV+. The series is loosely based on the children's book The Princess and the Pony by Kate Beaton.{{Cite web|url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/streaming/trailer-kate-beatons-pinecone-pony-charges-to-apple-tv/|title=Trailer: Kate Beaton's 'Pinecone & Pony' Charges to Apple TV+|first=Mercedes|last=Milligan|date=March 17, 2022}} The first season was released on April 8, 2022,{{Cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/news/apple-tv-releases-pinecone-pony-trailer|title=Apple TV+ Releases 'Pinecone & Pony' Trailer|website=Animation World Network}}{{Cite web|url=https://collider.com/pinecone-and-pony-trailer-animated-series-apple-tv-plus/|title='Pinecone & Pony' Trailer Reveals a Family-Friendly Medieval Adventure|date=March 17, 2022|website=Collider}} and the second season was released on February 3, 2023.{{cite web|last=Shanfeld|first=Ethan|title=Apple TV+ Sets 'Frog and Toad' Series, Announces Spring Kids and Family Slate (EXCLUSIVE)|url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/frog-and-toad-series-apple-tv-1235501043/|website=Variety|date=January 25, 2023|access-date=January 25, 2023}}
Premise
The series follows the adventures of Pinecone and her pony as they face trolls, giants, dragons and a dangerous rope bridge atop a valley.
Cast and characters
- Maria Nash as Pinecone
- Chase W. Dillon as Hawthorn
- Rachel House as Gladys
- Alicia Richardson as Queen Kimya
- Andy Hull as Arlo/Whomp
- Thom Allison as Greymoon
- Viola Abley as Annabelle
- Vienna Jackson as Oatcake
- River Novin as Peregrine
- Shiloh Obasi as Rhino
- Beatrice Schneider as Fauna
- Ser Anzoategui as Wren
- Emma Hunter as Magpie
- Scott Thompson as Thistle
- Karen Robinson as Magnolia
- Michela Mohamud as Beetle
- Jonathan Langdon as Rowan
- Grace Lynn Kung as June
- Julius Cho as Doraji
- Samiyah Crowfoot as Celestia
- John Michael Banovich as Nova
Episodes
=Series overview=
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= Season 1 (2022) =
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|Title_1 = The Pwettiest Pony
|Title_2 = Try This Club on for Size
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|WrittenBy_2 = Lakna Edilima
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|Title_1 = Lance or Not
|Title_2 = Treat Your Creature
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Jocelyn Geddie
|WrittenBy_2 = Evany Rosen
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|Title_1 = O Prickly, Where Art Thou?
|Title_2 = Big Trouble in Lil Labyrinth
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Jocelyn Geddie
|WrittenBy_2 = Taneka Stotts
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|Title_1 = This Calls for Courage
|Title_2 = The Straight and Arrow
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Taneka Scotts
|WrittenBy_2 = Stephanie Kaliner
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|Title_1 = It's a Pony Thing
|Title_2 = Hawthorn the Adventurer
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Lienne Sawatsky
|WrittenBy_2 = Pilot Viruet
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|Title_1 = In Plain Sight
|Title_2 = Belt or Bust
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Pilot Viruet
|WrittenBy_2 = Lakna Edilima
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|Title_1 = You're On!
|Title_2 = The Pony Express
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Kate Beaton
|WrittenBy_2 = Jocelyn Geddie
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|Title_1 = What Would Freda Do?
|Title_2 = A Token of Toughness
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|WrittenBy_1 = Evany Rosen
|WrittenBy_2 = Gigi D.G.
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= Season 2 (2023) =
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|Title_1 = Hero Soup
|Title_2 = Sleepless at the Sleepover
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|Title_1 = The Harvest Spirit
|Title_2 = Speak From the Art
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|Title_1 = One Night Only
|Title_2 = Fountains of Youths
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Laurie Elliott
|WrittenBy_2 = Taneka Stotts
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|EpisodeNumber2 = 4
|Title_1 = Good Night, Bad Knight
|Title_2 = A Life of Adventure
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Taneka Stotts
|WrittenBy_2 = Gigi D.G.
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|EpisodeNumber = 13
|EpisodeNumber2 = 5
|Title_1 = Pinecone and Horse
|Title_2 = Once in a Violetmoon
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Corey Liu
|WrittenBy_2 = Tally Yong Knoli
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|EpisodeNumber = 14
|EpisodeNumber2 = 6
|Title_1 = Festival of Might
|Title_2 = Sage Advice
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Evany Rosen
|WrittenBy_2 = Corey Liu
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|Title_1 = Next in Line
|Title_2 = A Spell of Your Own
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
|WrittenBy_1 = Tally Yong Knoli
|WrittenBy_2 = Tristen Sutherland
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|EpisodeNumber2 = 8
|Title = The Sturdy Stone
|DirectedBy = Wayne-Michael Lee
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Production
Cartoonist Kate Beaton published the webcomic Hark! A Vagrant from 2008 to 2018 with a variety of characters, one of which was a fat, farting pony.{{cite web |last1=Robinson |first1=Tasha |title=Kate Beaton's Fat Pony now has its own animated series |url=https://www.polygon.com/22983022/pinecone-and-pony-trailer-kate-beaton-animated-series |publisher=Polygon |access-date=11 April 2022 |date=17 March 2022}} This pony later played a central role in Beaton's 2015 children's book The Princess and the Pony, about a warrior princess named Princess Pinecone who receives a pony as a birthday gift.{{cite news |last1=Cooke |first1=Stephen |title=Kate Beaton's artwork comes to life on Apple TV's Pinecone & Pony {{!}} SaltWire |url=https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/lifestyles/kate-beatons-artwork-comes-to-life-on-apple-tvs-pinecone-pony-100707500/ |access-date=11 April 2022 |work=Cape Breton Post |publisher=SaltWire Network |language=en}}
Beaton was approached several years later by First Generation Films, a production company out of Toronto, asking for the rights to the show to option it (in partnership with DreamWorks Animation) to different streaming services.{{cite interview |last=Beaton |first=Kate |subject-link=Kate Beaton |interviewer=Steve Sutherland |title=Kate Beaton's kids' book is being made into an animated series |work= Information Morning with Steve Sutherland |date=21 March 2022 |publisher=CBC Radio One Cape Breton |location= |url=https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-24-information-morning-cape-breton/clip/15901747-kate-beatons-kids-book-made-animated-series |access-date=11 April 2022}} The show was eventually picked up by Apple TV+ as the platform began to roll out children's programming.
Beaton is listed on the project as Executive Producer along with Christina Piovesan, Mackenzie Lush and showrunner Stephanie Kaliner. While Beaton worked on the show from her home in Mabou, Nova Scotia, animation was handled by Atomic Cartoons of Ottawa. The cast included Maria Nash as the title character, Alicia Richardson, Andy Hull, Rachel House, Thom Allison, Chase W. Dillon and Viola Abley.{{cite press release|title=Apple TV+ announces "Pinecone & Pony," new animated series for kids and families premiering Friday, April 8|date=March 17, 2022|publisher=Apple TV+|url=https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2022/03/apple-tv-announces-pinecone-and-pony-new-animated-series-for-kids-and-families-premiering-friday-april-8/|access-date=March 17, 2022}} Following the release of Season 1, Back Lot Music released a new song called "Warrior" written by Greg Alsop and performed by Tasha Peter.{{cite tweet|number=1512464771299389442|user=BackLotMusic|title=Based on Kate Beaton's children's picture book "The Princess and the Pony," Pinecone & Pony is an adventure led by…|date=8 April 2022}}
Accolades
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|tt18830366}}
{{DreamWorks Animation Television}}
{{Apple TV+}}
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