Three Delivery

{{Blockquote|Years ago, an evil young apprentice named Kong Li unleashed the power of a magical cookbook, scattering its dangerous recipes throughout Chinatown. Thanks to an ancient spell, a force field was placed around the city, keeping the magic in. For many years, the rest of the world was protected, but now Kong Li has returned to find the powerful recipes. If he succeeds, their evil power will be released and the world will be in grave danger.

Luckily, three teenage heroes, skilled in kung-fu, have been trained to stop him. When orphans Sue, Sid and Tobey were recruited by Nana to make deliveries for Wu's Garden Chinese restaurant, they saw it as a way to move out of the orphanage and have a chance to ride cool bikes. Little did they know then, that they would be locked in a battle against evil for the fate of the world. On top of everyday teenage problems, the heroes must track down every last magic recipe – and shut down Kong Li for good.|Three Delivery Official Website|Defunct}}

• Sue Yee (Stephanie Sheh): a tough girl dedicated to her friends and family. Despite some sibling rivalry, she and her older brother Sid will do anything to protect each other. Sue won't admit it, but she has a crush on Barney.
• Sid Yee (Johnny Yong Bosch): a cool and composed boy with a razor sharp wit and an interest in music. He is Sue's older brother and takes his duties as one of Chinatown's protectors seriously.
• Tobey Li (Robby Duncan Sharpe): a boy with a big heart and stomach and a bigger sense of humour, in spite of his dark past. Despite his constant joking around, he loves being a superhero and will protect his friends no matter what.
• Nana (Nancy Wu): a kind but tough old lady who is the guardian of the magic cookbook and the most formidable defence against Kong Li; she's an expert in both magic and martial arts. She takes in Sue, Sid, and Tobey and trains them to defend Chinatown against Kong Li. Her real name is Mei Wa and she's Mr. Wu's mother, and Barney's grandmother.
• Mr. Calvin Wu (Michael Alston Baley): the proud and boastful owner of Wu's Garden Restaurant, where Sue, Sid, and Tobey are employed as delivery people. While he yells at his employees often for slacking off and subjects them to trying his new and unusual recipes, Mr. Wu actually has a good heart.
• Barney Wu (David Chen): Calvin's son who has his head in the clouds and his hands in a dirty sink so often that he doesn't notice Tobey, Sid, and Sue have been protecting Chinatown. Like his father, he has strange ideas, but a good heart.
• Kong Li (Lex Woutas): a former martial arts student who became a cruel and ambitious magician who will stop at nothing to obtain the magic cookbook. For now, he remains trapped within the barrier around Chinatown.
• Eugene (Jamie McGonnigal): Sue, Sid and Tobey's science nerd classmate and friend.
• Eunice (Annice Moriarty): A spoiled rich girl who may be rude and stuck-up at times but is nonetheless kind-hearted. She once mispronounced the name of Wu's Garden in one episode ("Shape Shifter"), calling it "Wonk's Garden". She also mentions her rich dad a couple of times. She only appeared in 2 episodes.

Animation Collective partnered with FatKat to guarantee more fluid, traditional-style 2D animation not usually found in Flash shows. The backgrounds are also painted in Flash. Schwarz was drawn to the premise, saying that he used to live near Manhattan's Chinatown himself and that this show would reflect some of his personal experiences.{{Cite web |last=Liu |first=Ed |date=2008-04-19 |title=NYCC 2008: Nicktoons's "Three Delivery" - Like "The O.C." In Chinatown. With Dragons |url=http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/23151/nycc-2008-nicktoonss-three-delivery---like-the-o.c.-in-chinatown.-with-dragons |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808155005/http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/23151/nycc-2008-nicktoonss-three-delivery---like-the-o.c.-in-chinatown.-with-dragons |archive-date=2011-08-08 |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=ToonZone}} Art director and former director Alan Foreman designed the visual style of the show, which he compares to a living graphic novel. He also performs the vocals for the theme song and contributes to the score, with his New York-based, indie-rock band Ten Minute Turns.{{Cite web |title=Three Delivery |url=http://www.threedelivery.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080901042310/http://www.threedelivery.com/ |archive-date=2008-09-01}}

Promotion for the show began with the studio making 11 two-minute original adventures for mobile phones in 2007, which also gave the studio an exercise in working with the new characters in preparation for the series. Three of them first aired on May 2, 2008 on Nicktoons Network during the premiere of Speed Racer: The Next Generation during commercials. Some of the clips are named "A Silver Tongue is fine, but Silence is Golden", "Two Heads Are Not Always Better than One", and "Out of Sight? You're Out of your Mind!", after each of the fortune cookie fortunes that appear at the beginning of every short. The last eight were to be broadcast in 2009.

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| Title = A Silver Tongue is fine, but Silence is Golden

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|05|02}}

| ProdCode = 001

| ShortSummary = Tobey uses a fortune to make Sue unable to talk.

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = Two Heads Are Not Always Better than One

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|05|02}}

| ProdCode = 002

| ShortSummary = Sid uses a fortune cookie to make a copy of himself to clean Wu's Garden's kitchen so he can go to the movies with Sue and Tobey.

| LineColor = #000

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Out of Sight? You're Out of your Mind

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|05|02}}

| ProdCode = 003

| ShortSummary = There is an invisible man harassing Sue and Tobey while they eat. It turns out to be Sid.

| LineColor = #000

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = There is Nothing to make the Spirit Soar like the Passing of the Wind

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|05|09}}

| ProdCode = 004

| ShortSummary = Tobey uses one of Nana's cookies to fly in the wind, but it turns out he flies by breaking wind.

| LineColor = #000

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = Beware of Talking Animals

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|05|16}}

| ProdCode = 005

| ShortSummary = Tobey turns into a cat to try to get the dirt on Sue, but backfires when she swoons over Barney a little too much.

| LineColor = #000

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = To Know Me, Walk a Mile in My Shoes. But Keep Your Hands Out of My Soup.

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|05|23}}

| ProdCode = 006

| ShortSummary = Barney is cooking up some Hot & Sour soup for lunch by following his recipe, but Tobey decides to prank Barney by switching in a couple of “Ultra-Spicy” ingredients, but it backfires when Barney doesn’t react, and Tobey ends up getting a “HOT” taste of his own medicine.

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Season one began on June 27, 2008 on Nicktoons Network and ended on June 28, 2009.

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| EpisodeNumber = 1

| Title = I Feel the Earth Move

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo, Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|06|27}}

| ProdCode = 101

| ShortSummary = When mysterious earthquakes threaten the streets of Chinatown, Sue, Sid, and Tobey discover that they are connected to an old well downtown. When their mentor Nana learns that the evil sorcerer Kong Li is attempting to awaken an ancient dragon sleeping under Chinatown with the "Di Xia Spicy Noodle Recipe," it takes some ingenuity and bravery to stop Kong Li from breaking the barrier around Chinatown and escaping.

Recipe Obtained: The Di Xia Spicy Noodle Recipe

Guest Star: Evelyn Lanto from Kappa Mikey (Mitsuki) as Exercise Instructor

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = Bottomless Soup

| WrittenBy = Sean Boyland, Bennett Madison

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|07|04}}

| ProdCode = 102

| ShortSummary = Sue, Sid, and Tobey must discover the source of the soup flooding Chinatown.

Recipe Obtained: The Bottomless Soup of General Yang Recipe

Absent: Kong Li

Guest Star: Stephen Moverly from Kappa Mikey (Ozu) as General Yang

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Great Balls of Fire

| WrittenBy = Leila Strachan

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|07|11}}

| ProdCode = 103

| ShortSummary = A kid named Eugene, who idolized Sue, Sid and Tobey, draws comics using ink he makes himself, but his creations somehow come to life and set the town on fire.

Recipe Obtained: The Crocus Ink Recipe

Absent: Kong Li

Guest Star: Jamie McGonnigal from Pokémon and Viva Piñata as Eugene

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = Let Them Eat Cookies

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|07|25}}

| ProdCode = 104

| ShortSummary = Tobey is turned into a flying monkey when he opens a magic fortune cookie.

Recipe Obtained: The Fu Fortune Cookie Recipe

Absent: Kong Li

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = The Other Garden

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|08|01}}

| ProdCode = 105

| ShortSummary = Tired of always training to defeat Kong Li and never getting to do normal teen activities, Sid wishes he, Sue and Tobey had never met Nana... and witnesses a parallel universe that results.

Recipe Obtained: Weiren Hundred Wishes Broth

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Shape Shifter

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|08|08}}

| ProdCode = 106

| ShortSummary = Kong Li sends a shape shifter to track down a collection of antiques.

Recipe Obtained: The Mokupow Recipe

Guest Star: Kether Donohue (Annice Moriarty) from Kappa Mikey and Dinosaur King (Lily) and (Zoe) as Eunice

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 7

| Title = The Tutor

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|08|15}}

| ProdCode = 107

| ShortSummary = Sue wants to learn magic so badly, because she believes Kong Li can't be defeated with kung fu alone. While on a delivery, her customer is a magic master. She decides to train from him, but he might be using her for a recipe.

Recipe Obtained: The Crab Rangoon Recipe

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 8

| Title = Happy Birthday to Sid

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|08|22}}

| ProdCode = 108

| ShortSummary = Kong Li mixes a potion into the ingredients of a cake, which turns Nana and Mr. Wu into children on Sid's birthday, and tricks little Nana into thinking the siblings are her enemy.

Recipe Obtained: 'unknown'

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 9

| Title = Terracotta Warriors

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|08|29}}

| ProdCode = 109

| ShortSummary = The siblings practice team building in an art museum, when they discover the terracotta warrior statues are coming to life.

Recipe Obtained: The Qin La Chili Recipe

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| Title = The Jiangshi

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|10|31}}

| ProdCode = 110

| ShortSummary = Sid, Sue and Tobey each try to avoid delivering to the creepy house of Mr. Von Yang. Sue spots a child in the window, which they discover to be the soul of Von Yang's dead twin brother. Sid bumps into zombie-like monsters called the Jiangshi.

Recipe Obtained: The Hopsink Shrimp Recipe

Absent: Kong Li

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 11

| Title = Cocoon

| WrittenBy = Keith Staskiewicz

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|11|07}}

| ProdCode = 111

| ShortSummary = A silker uses a magic recipe to make silk grow, but it turns out that his worms grew, and they all turned into Cocoons. Afterwards, the worms' cocoons hatched and became giant moths.

Recipe Obtained: The Danshaku Soup Recipe

Absent: Kong Li

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 12

| Title = Night of the Nian

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|11|14}}

| ProdCode = 112

| ShortSummary = A dog food seller uses a magic recipe to make a lot of dog food, but it soon gets over used... and turns 10 of the neighborhood dogs into monstrous beasts called Nian.

Recipe Obtained: The Gocheok-dong Soup Recipe

Absent: Kong Li

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 13

| Title = Paint Problem

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|11|21}}

| ProdCode = 113

| ShortSummary = Sue gets stuck inside a house while trying to investigate the source of purple painted on it, and both magically disappear. Meanwhile, Mr. Wu is going on a date, but he messes it up.

Recipe Obtained: 'unknown'

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 14

| Title = Friday the 13th to the 4th Power

| WrittenBy = Zachary Scheer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|03|13}}

| ProdCode = 114

| ShortSummary = Sue, Sid, and Tobey relive the same Friday the 13th over and over.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 15

| Title = Bedtime for Baku

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|03|19}}

| ProdCode = 115

| ShortSummary = Kong Li uses a recipe to put Chinatown to sleep while he searches for the missing recipes.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 16

| Title = Cookbook Crooks

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|03|26}}

| ProdCode = 116

| ShortSummary = Thieves try to steal Nana's cookbook and attempt to cook some of the recipes without knowing what they're really for.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 17

| Title = Underworld Rising

| WrittenBy = Zachary Scheer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|04|02}}

| ProdCode = 117

| ShortSummary = A kid and his brother cook a recipe that summons boar soldiers who wish to make the kid their master.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 18

| Title = New Employee

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|04|09}}

| ProdCode = 118

| ShortSummary = The shape shifter previously seen in an episode of the same name applies for a job at Wu's Garden so he can locate the cookbook.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 19

| Title = Night of the Living Vegetables

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|04|16}}

| ProdCode = 119

| ShortSummary = A child adopts a strange pet: A living boc choy!

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 20

| Title = Fear Factor

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|05|07}}

| ProdCode = 120

| ShortSummary = Kong Li uses a recipe that makes people see their worst fears.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 21

| Title = Qiang Wall of Chinatown

| WrittenBy = Zachary Scheer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|05|14}}

| ProdCode = 121

| ShortSummary = Sue, Sid, and Tobey's history teacher makes a recipe that makes him power hungry and he orders everyone in China Town to build a wall.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 22

| Title = Super Sid

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|05|21}}

| ProdCode = 122

| ShortSummary = While trying to win a video game tournament, Sid hears of a recipe that makes you unstoppable, he cooks the recipe wrong and accidentally summons Chi-yu soldiers.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 23

| Title = Chinese New Year

| WrittenBy = Zack Scheer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|06|27}}

| ProdCode = 123

| ShortSummary = During the Chinese new year celebrations, Kong Li cooks a recipe that will bring every recipe back to him.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 24

| Title = Heat Wave

| WrittenBy = Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|06|27}}

| ProdCode = 124

| ShortSummary = Kong Li uses a heat wave recipe to get Nana to release the force field.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 25

| Title = Time Travel

| WrittenBy = Adeline Colangelo

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|06|28}}

| ProdCode = 125

| ShortSummary = When most of the monsters come back, Nana makes a recipe that allows Sue, Sid, and Tobey to travel through time.

| LineColor = #B30300

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 26

| Title = Origins

| WrittenBy = Zack Scheer, Adeline Colangelo & Kim Holmes

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|06|28}}

| ProdCode = 126

| ShortSummary = Kong Li reveals that he is Tobey's father

| LineColor = #B30300

}}

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Episode 1 garnered 571,063 viewers. Episode 2 garnered 593,000 viewers. By episode 3, it garnered over 1.5 million viewers.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} Three Delivery then became #2. It then dropped to #3 on Nicktoons Network ratings due to Avatar: The Last Airbender hitting #2 above Three Delivery. But it has garnered over 4.7 million viewers and has stayed at the top.

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