Movies and TV shows like The Backyardigans
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The Backyardigans (2004)
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet five lively animal friends who love to sing, dance and use their imaginations to embark on outrageous adventures to magical places.
Style:
feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, exciting
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
animal life, friendship, mischievous children, young heroes, heroic mission, rescue, escapades, unlikely partners, parallel world, imagination, heroes, youth, friends, orphan, family relations, parents and children, family life, rivalry, good versus evil, partners, anthropomorphism, animals, dancing, insect, penguins ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, semi serious and exciting films and TV series with plots about friends, escapades, friendship, youth, heroes, danger and young heroes mostly in Animation, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Backyardigans: Dragon Tales (1999), Go, Diego, Go! (2005), Wonder Pets! (2006), Happily N'Ever After 2 (2009), Blue's Clues (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Dragon Tales is an American-Canadian animated pre-school children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. The story focuses on the adventures of ...
Style:
anime, exciting, semi serious, humorous, sweet
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
dragon, wizards and magicians, family relations, friends, imaginary kingdom, siblings relations, friendship, parallel world, heroes, best friends, supernatural ability, young heroes ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 74 min.
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When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on Christmas. But everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, comes to the rescue with his lovable friends: Hermey the elf, Yukon Cornelius the ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
christmas, disorder, friends, escapades, misfit, obnoxious boss, imaginary kingdom, contests and competitions, partners, friendship, toys, reindeer ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Nick Jr. in the United States, on Treehouse TV in Canada, and on Discovery Kids in Brazil. Each episode follows the ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
animal life, family relations, escapades, supportive parent, insect, youth, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, friends, forest, beetle ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 25 min.
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Go, Diego, Go! is a children's television series created by Chris Gifferd and Valerie Walsh, and is a spin-off of Dora the Explorer. The show premiered on September 6, 2005 and ended on September 16, 2011 on Nickelodeon. It also aired as part ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, educational
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
mischievous children, animal life, adventurer, human animal relationship, young heroes, friendship, best friends, escapades, youth, disorder, rescue, discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Wonder Pets! is an American animated children's television series. It debuted on March 3, 2006, on the Nick Jr. block of the Nickelodeon cable television network and Noggin on the same day. It won an Emmy Award in 2008 for Outstanding ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot:
guinea pig, animal life, young heroes, save the day, adventurer, disorder, partners, pets, escapades, friends, anthropomorphism, teamwork ...
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100%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Fairy tales collide when Mambo and Munk tip the scales of good and evil once again.
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, not serious, exciting, parody
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, young heroes, friendship, on the run, heroes, youth, hopes, rescue, love and romance, escapades, daring rescue ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Blue's Clues is an American children's television show that premiered on September 8, 1996 on the cable television network Nickelodeon, and ran for ten years, until August 6, 2006. Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler and Traci Paige ...
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humorous, feel good, semi serious, educational, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
toys, friendship, goofy hero, notebook, riddles and clues, dog, breaking the fourth wall, buddies, discovery, surrealism, personal development, puppetry ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
While trying to obtain "Tree Sweets", Littlefoot into the tree and knocks down all the blossoms, attracting the Tinysauruses. They devour the plants and disappear. But Littlefoot isn't blamed for the disappearance, instead he ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, 2d animation
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschoolers
Plot:
dinosaur, friendship, heroes, parallel world, heroic mission, mischievous children, unlikely partners, escapades, rescue, good versus evil, prehistoric animal, family relations ...
Time:
prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 11 min.
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A young African-American girl aspires to be a doctor like her mom.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers
Plot:
doctor, animal life, friendship, imagination, friends, youth, clinic, doctors and patients, little girl, kindness, female doctor, help ...
Time:
2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
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Looking for adventure? Then come along as Justin and his imaginary pals Olive and Squidgy star in the biggest stories of all time. Justin’s imagination catapults him into larger-than-life adventures all around the world!
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humorous, semi serious, exciting, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
friendship, adventurer, child, imaginary character, young heroes, friends, escapades, youth, children, problem solving, teamwork, child protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
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A group of pound dogs make it their mission to place puppies with their perfect person and have lots of adventures along the way.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
puppy, dog, pets, escapades, rescue, disorder, friends, partners, hidden identity, anthropomorphism, animal shelter, hiding place ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 23 min.
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A group of six rescue dogs, led by a tech-savvy boy named Ryder, has adventures in "PAW Patrol." The heroic pups, who believe "no job is too big, no pup is too small," work together to protect the community. Among the members of ...
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colourful, multicultural, entertaining, talky, funny ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers
Plot:
rescue team, rescue, friendship, friends, heroes, pets, partners, young heroes, save the day, teamwork, puppy, mission ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 11 min.
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The Octonauts is a British children's television series, produced by Silvergate Media for the BBC channel Cbeebies. The series is animated in Ireland by Brown Bag Films but uses British voice actors. The TV series is based on American-Canadian ...
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semi serious, humorous, clever, 3d animation, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
partners, heroes, escapades, save the day, animal life, ocean, rescue, adventurer, friend, sea creature, technology, anthropomorphic animal ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Clifford overhears Mr. Bleakman say that feeding him must cost a lot of money. A carnival act called "Larry's Amazing Animals" has just been in town, and the animals in the show told Clifford about an animal contest with a prize of a ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
cartoon dog, animal life, odd couple, friendship, rescue, buddies, mischievous children, best friends, pets, fish out of water, dog, heroes ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
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Fanboy & Chum Chum is an American CGI animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on Fanboy, an animated short created by Robles for Nickelodeon and Frederator Studios, which was broadcast August 14, 2008 on ...
Style:
exciting, not serious, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mischievous children, friends, friendship, goofy hero, disorder, escapades, youth, young heroes, rivalry, save the day, wizards and magicians, good versus evil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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TV series similar to Paw Patrol
Genre: Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
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The Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico; the lemurs King ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, feel good, light, relaxing ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animal life, friendship, bird, buddies, escapades, nothing goes right, plan gone awry, friends, disorder, anthropomorphism, uptight character, talking animals ...
Place:
madagascar, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
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Viva Piñata is a Canadian-American animated television series seen around the world. It is based upon the Xbox 360 video game of the same name. It is produced by an American company, 4Kids Productions and a Canadian company Bardel Entertainment, a ...
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feel good, humorous, surreal, semi serious, exciting
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
island, animal life, escapades, friends, young heroes, optimism, curses spells and rituals, private detective, rescue, parallel world, heroes, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India, Germany, USA, France
Duration: 22 min.
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For generations, Lassie the beautiful collie has been known and loved by viewers all over the world. Once again she enters the homes of millions of viewers as she talks for the first time in a TV adventure series for children aged 6 to 9.
Style:
realistic, feel good, exciting, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, heroes, rescue, pets, best friends, animal life, youth, escapades, parents and children, family relations, redhead, friends ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Austria, Japan, West Germany
Duration: 30 min.
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Maya the Bee is an anime television series produced by Zuiyo Enterprise in Japan. The series consisted of 52 episodes and was originally telecast across Japan from April 1975 to April 1976 on the TV Asahi network. Based on the classic ...
Style:
anime, humorous, feel good, semi serious, retro
Audience:
kids, preschoolers
Plot:
insect, brother sister relationship, forest, rebellion, heroes, young heroes, adventurer, youth, save the day, escapades, friendship, friends ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Kenai finds his childhood human friend Nita and the two embark on a journey to burn the amulet he gave to her before he was a bear, much to Koda's dismay.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
bear, beast, friendship, human becoming an animal, adventurer, forest, animal life, rescue, village, talking animals, good versus evil, village life ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age
Place:
alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Meet two funny bunny siblings, the energetic and mischievous Max, and the patient, smart and goal-oriented Ruby. The show models empowering messages by showing Max and Ruby playing together and resolving their differences respectfully and ...
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semi serious, feel good, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
best friends, animal life, young heroes, rabbit, brother sister relationship, animals, humour, animal protagonist, siblings relations, family relations, friends, cartoon rabbit ...
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100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
The Muppet Babies (Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzy and company) live in a large nursery watched over by Nanny. The babies have active imaginations, and often embark upon adventures into imaginary worlds.
Style:
anime, not serious, exciting, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
muppets, nanny, friends, disorder, pianist, childhood sweetheart, buddies, nothing goes right, best friends, mischievous children, escapades, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
The adventures of six fish-tailed kids- Molly, Gil, Oona, Deema, Nonny, and Goby.
Style:
sweet, entertaining, feel good, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers, preschoolers
Plot:
mermaid, friendship, friends, fish, sea voyage, creature, lifestyle, high school life, supernatural being, magical creature, sea creature, group of friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil is an Emmy Nominated animated television series created by animator Sandro Corsaro, about a young boy named Clarence "Kick" Buttowski, who aspires to become the world's greatest daredevil. It became ...
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exciting, humorous, not serious, suspenseful, captivating
Audience:
kids
Plot:
follow your dream, young heroes, desire for fame, brother brother relationship, male protagonist, heroes, disney, superhero, family relations, best friend, adventurer, little boy ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Funshine Bear travels to Joke-a-lot where the people there crown him king.
Style:
feel good, touching, not serious, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot:
mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, family life, escapades, heroes, youth, family relations, disorder, heroic mission, partners, friends ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, Taiwan, USA, Canada
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Hero: 108 is a British animated television series on Cartoon Network and the Cartoon Network international cable network, and Kabillion OnDemand channel in the United States. The series is created by Yang-Ming Tarng and is co-produced by Gamania, ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious, anime
Audience:
kids
Plot:
buddies, friendship, escapades, friends, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, good versus evil, youth, master villain, chaos and mayhem, young heroes, heroes ...
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33%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, often simply referred to as Timon & Pumbaa, is an animated comedy television series made by the Walt Disney Company. It centers on Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog from the Disney film franchise ...
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feel good, humorous, captivating, anime, colourful ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
jungle, disney, animal life, odd couple, friendship, friends, childhood, farce, talking animals, friends who live together, disorder, misfit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Sweden, Germany, Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Pippi is a little girl who lives in her house with her horse and her monkey, while her father is sailing the seas.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
friendship, village life, family relations, daughter, ocean, child in peril, imaginary kingdom, family life, heist, village, tv show, friends ...
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33%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Franklin is an Canadian educational animated television series, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Brenda Clark and Paulette Bourgeois. The television series was named after its main character, Franklin the Turtle. It was produced by PolyGram ...
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fairy tale, feel good, humorous, exciting, edutainment ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
young heroes, turtle, canadian, animal life, family relations, friends, friendship, parents and children, youth, best friends, heroes, escapades ...
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31%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a human named Megan in a world of magical ponies and their adventures together in Pony Land.
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, family outing
Plot:
friendship, pony, unicorn, imaginary kingdom, animal life, friends, escapades, young heroes, youth, heroes, supernatural ability, rainbow ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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