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When Sheep and Bear open Cat's box of "O's," one rolls away, sending them on a madcap chase to catch it before Cat wakes up.

Tiny ant is tired of being the smallest Word Friend in Word World. When Ant adds "GI" to his name, Ant becomes a "giant" and soon learns that being small isn't so bad after all.

Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket Frog needs big, uppercase letters. But when Frog gets stranded on the moon with the Little Piggies, Frog learns that lowercase letters are just as useful as uppercase ones.

Pig baked a pie while waiting for Bear, then, it goes missing and awry. Detective Sheep is ready to help her WordFriends follow the letter clues and solve the mystery of the disappearing pie.

Everyone is afraid of him and won't even give him a chance to prove Shark's friend, but Duck, who doesn't know that the letters S and H together make the 'sh' sound. Therefore, he doesn't know who Shark is. When Duck introduces his new WordFriend to the gang, Duck learns a lesson about the 'sh' sound, while everyone else learns that acceptance is an important part of friendship.

When Pig promises to make a pie for everyone in WordWorld, Pig learns a hard lesson about keeping promises and sharing. Fortunately, Pig also learns about the letter S and how it can turn "pie" into "pies".

Dog, Pig and Frog are taking him on his first camping trip. While Pig and Frog are supposed to be the brave camping experts, it is Dog who overcomes his fear and finds the lost letters to their tent in the dark forest.

Bug can't sleep, his favorite neighbor Frog can't sleep until Bug knows Frog has to be "snug as a bug in a...", but he can't remember the rest of the rhyme. Frog and Bug head off on a nighttime hunt of words that rhyme with "bug"—and wake up half their WordFriends in the process.

Duck attends his first sleep-over party, Duck feels nervous about not sleeping in his nest. After a long night of fun games his friends calm his anxiety by building him a soft, fluffy nest.

It's the day of the Word World Concert and no one is more excited than Dog, but he feels sad and can't play an instrument. With the help of Bear, but Dog has discovered that anyone can make music.

Ant is having a band showcase on his radio show. While Bug, Fly and Bee have some really good music, they need a lot of help with their lyrics. Frog teaches the Bug Band all about rhyming and they eventually give a fantastic performance.

One hot summer day, WordFriends are using water to stay cool. However, all the letter Ws vanished because they can't have "water" without the letter W. Therefore, Sheep encounters lead the gang to hunt who's causing the W drought.
Music video: "Take the Stage"

Duck asks Frog to read his favorite book on Ant's radio station, because Ant can't read it himself. When Frog's tongue gets tangled in knots, Duck realizes that Duck doesn't know how to read to be able to look at pictures and tell a great story.

Frog and the Bug Band are headed to the beach, but not everything goes as Frog had planned. Frog loses the letters "PL" from his plane and must search through the jungle to find them. After some crazy jungle adventure, Frog realizes that fun doesn't always have to be planned.

It's Pig's birthday and his nephews, the Three Little Pigs, are making him a secret present. Although, Pig promises not to peek, his curiosity about his present gets the better of him, it wreaks havoc all over WordWorld. Then, he teaches Pig to be patient.

While playing in the sand on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle. Last night, Shark was sleeping until the castle disappeared. They try to hunt down the castle thief, they learn about tides and waves from a singing Crab.

Sheep becomes first superhero by saving the heroism with the letter "S". Duck is eager to be her trusty sidekick, but Sheep responds that "superheroes don't need help". Sheep learns that everyone needs help sometimes when she gets stuck on top of Pig's barn and it's up to Duck to save her.

When Sheep and Duck think that Dog has a secret, they decide to play spy to figure out the mystery. As they secretly watch Dog, they discover Dog to guess a secret and want to build a word with the "oo" sound.

Pig and Frog are trying to out-do each other their competition results in a big race to Mystery Island. While each WordFriend builds himself several words to thwart his competitor along the way, Pig and Frog both finally come to realize that the only way they'll succeed is to work together.

Frog looks through his telescope, he notices that Kangaroo's mail train is headed to a broken track. He reconciles Bear and rides her tiny new tricycle to get him to fix the track. Dog, Duck, and Ant and all his cousins climb on board to lend a hand in a nick-of-time.

It is Monkey's birthday, Frog has a toothache, he entrusts Duck and Bug to take his present: a banana, to Monkey's birthday party with him. In their enthusiasm to get to the party, Duck and Bug accidentally break the banana into letters and they find it hard to rebuild a word. Fortunately, Elephant knows a thing or two about big words, he teaches them to build the banana back, based on the three syllables in the word.

WordFriends plays baseball but Robot has never played before it takes time for some practice, Robot learns the game and turns into a slugging machine.

All the bugs host an Insect Air Show, they take off to the sky to show off their flying skills, without Ant. With the help of his best friend, Pig, he finds the right word to give him the lift.

When Duck accidentally breaks the L off Frog's lamp, he decides not to tell Frog. With the help of Bug and Dog, things spiral out of control, soon Duck changes his channel to break a lamp, a lever and connects into Frog's log. Duck learns that everyone makes mistakes and admitting them sooner rather than later can make a big difference.

The WordFriends get their share of scares the night before Halloween, when Pig sleepwalks and everyone thinks Pig dressed up as a ghost.

It's the night before Christmas, Frog needs a star to hang on his Christmas tree. Duck thinks this will be the perfect present for Frog, he tries to lasso one out of the sky for him. Just as might, Duck is unable to catch a star for Frog, and upsets himself to sleep. But while Frog sleeps, someone leaves him a wonderful present: the letters S-T-A-R.

When Sheep decides Bear wants to make a special Valentine song for her pal Bear, Bear has run into trouble finding just the right rhyme to finish her song. With the help of Fly, she discovers the perfect rhyme and makes Bear a Valentine song with a real heart.

When Duck accidentally crashes into Spider's web and breaks it apart into letters, Duck has to go about finding the letters to fix it. Duck calls Elephant for help, Duck learns that sometimes if you can sound out a word, you can figure out what letters you need to build it.

Ant and Dog build a hot-air balloon and Dog accidentally floats away in it. Ant elicits the help of his insect friends Bug, Bee, and Fly to rescue Dog and save the day.

Duck drinks a glass of lemonade fast enough, he accidentally gets the hiccups. When his WordFriends try to trick in the book to help him and get Duck's cure will work.

When Ant gets sick, Pig tries to take care of him by making his special Get-Well-Soon Soup. It has all the letters in the alphabet in it, so Pig can build any word that Ant needs to feel better. Pig just has to figure out what that word is.

While sky-writing in his jet, Duck accidentally makes a cloud dragon. Duck and the bugs set out to catch the dragon made from clouds and save WordWorld.

The first day of school for the youngest WordFriends, but Shark is afraid to go. With the help of his good friend, Duck, with some gentle encouragement from their teacher, Cat. Shark's fear turns to confidence, and by day's end Shark's at the head of the class.

Duck loses the letter B to his baseball bat just before the big game is supposed to start. Duck tries to build other words to hit the ball: mat, hat. But soon learns that you need the right letter with the right sound to build the right word and hit a homer.

It's Duck's turn at show and tell at school, and he wants to bring the thing he loves the best: his nest. But when the nest breaks apart into letters, Duck is able to retrieve them all in time.

When the bugs accidentally break Frog's brand new bed, they scramble to put it back together and make things right. They can't tell the letters "B" and "D" apart, but they figure out which letter is which – then rebuild Frog's bed before Frog returns home.

Bear is going to paint everyone's picture today, Duck wants to look "totally terrific" for his portrait. Frog and Sheep help him build a tie, top hat and tutu – because if you want to look totally terrific looking Duck and brought the letter T.

Dog and Duck want to throw a house party at Dog's house. But all they have is the letter H, and they don't know what to do with it. With the help of Sheep, they soon realize that "H" is a fabulous letter―with it they can make hotdogs, hats, hula-hoops and a great party indeed.

Frog is excited about Duck's return from a long vacation, and makes a "Welcome Home" banner to hang over Duck's nest. The dock connecting Frog's log to Duck's nest has broken, so Frog has to find another way across. Frog tries building a sock and a block to replace the dock, but it's not until Duck builds a rock that Frog can land on, halfway across the pond, that Frog's able to get across the water to Duck's nest.

Bear is excited about sledding on the first day of snow, but her plans change when she hurts her toe and is unable to ride her sled. It's up to her friends to come up with a solution that will let Bear stay in bed and go sledding at the same time.

Duck accidentally turns on Frog's new cake frosting machine. They must find the right "ing" word to prevent it from covering WordWorld in delicious frosting.

The WordFriends play a game of Hide and Seek where they have to hide behind WordThings that end in "ake". The bugs build a rake, Pig builds a cake, then Shark knows how to spot a good hiding place.

While tending to his garden, Frog accompanies in front of Sheep to be a pretend adventure to find the Really Red Ruby until he is carried away. Then they built a rock and soon pretends a ruby on his newfound discovery.
Music video: "Pig's Perfect Pizza"

Duck and Dog joins the team for Sheep and Frog in their ice skating show. Frog warns Duck and Dog to be careful as they practice, the enthusiastic duo gets carried away, and accidentally breaks the ice skating rink, making a mess with ink before they cleans up. Duck and Dog think up a good solution to rebuild an ice rink before the show begins.

Frog teaches Robot to get to the top of WordWorld's highest mountain and build a spaceship in time to play spaceship tag. By adding one word to another, both learn how to make a car, boat and bike go faster.

• Muppet Babies (1985–1988)
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1989)
• Beetlejuice / The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1990)
• Tiny Toon Adventures (1991)
• Rugrats (1992)
• Tiny Toon Adventures (1993)
• Rugrats (1994)
• Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? (1995)
• Animaniacs (1996–1997)
• Arthur (1998–1999)
• Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (2000)
• Arthur (2001)
• Madeline (2002)
• Rugrats (2003)
• Little Bill (2004)
• Peep and the Big Wide World (2005)
• Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (2006)
• Arthur (2007)
• Curious George (2008)
• WordWorld (2009)
• Curious George (2010)
• The Penguins of Madagascar (2011-2012)
• Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2013–2014)
• All Hail King Julien (2015)
• Niko and the Sword of Light (2016)
• Lost in Oz: Extended Adventure (2017)
• SpongeBob SquarePants (2018)
• The Loud House (2019)
• The Dragon Prince (2020)
• Hilda (2021)

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