Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (animated series)

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo
Also known as	Pirlimpimpim (English[1])
Genre	Animated series
Created by	Monteiro Lobato Adapter animated series: Rodrigo Castilho
Voices of	Isabella Guarnieri Larissa Manoela Vini Takahashi César Marchetti Patrícia Scalvi Gessy Fonseca
Opening theme	Sítio do Picapau Amarelo theme
Country of origin	Brazil
Original language(s)	Portuguese
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	78
Production
Executive producer(s)	Eliane Ferreira Reynaldo Marchesini Fernanda Senatori João Daniel Tikhomiroff
Production company(s)	Rede Globo Mixer
Distributor	Globo Internacional Cartoon Network
Release
Original network	Rede Globo Cartoon Network Brazil Boomerang Latin America
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original release	January 7, 2012 (2012-01-07) – September 26, 2016 (2016-09-26)
External links
Website

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (roughly Yellow Woodpecker Farm or Yellow Woodpecker Ranch) is an animated series loosely based on the eponymous series of books Sítio do Picapau Amarelo by Monteiro Lobato. It was first displayed on January 7, 2012, and is produced by Rede Globo and Mixer.^[2] Each episode of the series took five weeks to get ready and were all based on the book of Reinações Narizinho, published in 1931 by Monteiro Lobato.^[3]

Background

The animated series began to be produced in October 2010, by Mixer Productions in partnership with Rede Globo. The model sheet of the characters was created by designer Bruno Okada,^[3][4] that was chosen after a competition sponsored by Rede Globo. The animation is directed by Humberto Avelar. Each episode of the series took five weeks to complete.^[3]

The animation has replaced the violence portrayed in the books by Monteiro Lobato.^[5][6][7]

Mrs. Benta's Farm

Original design of the characters in the books, illustrated by Manoel Victor Filho.

In the farm lives an old widow, Dona Benta ("Mrs. Benta"), and her two grandchildren, a girl, Lúcia, referred only by her nickname Narizinho (roughly "Little Nose", because of her turned-up nose), and her cousin boy, Pedrinho ("Little Pete"); the servant and cook, a black woman named Nastácia ("Anastacia"), and two talking puppets, the rag doll Emília (animated by some of Doctor Snail's "Talking Pills" she somehow "ingested") and an aristocratic and learned puppet made of corncob Visconde de Sabugosa (roughly "Viscount of Corncob") ("sabugo" means corncob in Portuguese, "Sabugosa" is a parody of the Count de Sabugosa). Viscount always wears a top hat. The farm is home to various animals, including the fat pig Rabicó ("Short-Tail"), the intelligent donkey Conselheiro ("Advisor"), and a rhinoceros called Quindim (named after quindim, a Brazilian dessert), who fled from a circus and was kept hidden by the children.

While in the farm the children have a lot of adventures, with or without the participation of the old widow, get to know many strange creatures, like the noble fish Príncipe Escamado (roughly "Scaly Prince"), the seamstress spider Dona Aranha ("Miss Spider"), and the old snail Doutor Caramujo ("Doctor Snail"); and entities from the Brazilian folklore, like the witch alligator Cuca (an evil monster invoked by Brazilian mothers at night to convince their kids to go to bed), the Saci (an one-legged black elf), or Iara (some sort of river mermaid).

Main characters

The redesign of the characters in the animated series, created by designer Bruno Okada. Screenshot of the animated series.

• Emília (Emilia) - Lucia's anthropomorphic rag doll, a present she got from Nastácia. Emilia is able to talk through some of Doctor Snail's "Talking Pills".
• Lúcia "Narizinho" (Lucia "Little Nose") - An 8-year-old girl with the turned-up nose, Benta's granddaughter and Pedrinho's cousin. She is an orphan and lives in the farm with her grandmother.
• Pedrinho (Pete) - A 9-year-old boy, he is Benta's grandson and Lucia's cousin. He's a courageous (and usually infatuated) boy who's keen on adventures. He lives in a big city, and spends his holidays at Mrs. Benta's Farm.
• Visconde de Sabugosa (Viscount of Corncob) - A puppet made of corncob, with a high IQ, a love for sciences and tendency to be over-polite. His ability to talk is never fully explained.
• Dona Benta (Mrs. Benta) - The farm's owner and the most frequent 'storyteller'.
• Tia Nastácia (Aunt Anastacia) - Benta's housemaid and cook. She's a middle-aged black woman who knows a lot of folk tales and is quite superstitious.
• Tio Barnabé (Uncle Barnaby) - An old black man who knows a lot about folk superstitions. He works at Mrs. Benta's fram too.
• Rabicó (Short-Tail) - A gluttonous and lazy pig.
• Saci-Pererê - a one-legged trickster elf.
• Cuca - A witch in an alligator's body.

Voice cast

• Gessy Fonseca - Dona Benta
• Patrícia Scalvi - Tia Nastácia
• Larissa Manoela - Narizinho (Season 1)
• Luiza Telles Rosa - Narizinho (Season 2)
• Vini Takahashi - Pedrinho (Season 1)
• Pedro Volpato - Pedrinho (Season 2)
• Isabella Guarnieri - Emília
• César Marchetti - Visconde de Sabugosa / Tio Barnabé
• Hugo Picchi - Rabicó / Doutor Caramujo
• Alessandra Araújo - Cuca
• Fernanda Bock - Saci
• Daniel Figueira - Príncipe Escamado
• Zayra Zordan - Dona Aranha

Episodes

International broadcast

Country	TV Channel	Title	Premiere
Brazil	Rede Globo	Sítio do Pica-pau amarelo	January 7, 2012
	Cartoon Network		April 15, 2012
	Tooncast		November 4, 2013
Argentina	Tooncast Cartoon Network	El Rancho del Pájaro Amarillo	November 4, 2013
Paraguay
Venezuela
Uruguay
Panama
Mexico
Bolivia
Guatemala
El Salvador
Puerto Rico
Peru
Colombia
Honduras
Ecuador
Nicaragua
Chile
Costa Rica

Reception

The series featured a regular audience among the public, although many fans of the franchise have not enjoyed this compared to other adaptations due to its more childlike version nevertheless became one of the most watched cartoons on Cartoon Network.^[8] Moreover, the series was very successful in other countries of Latin America where it is displayed as El Rancho del Pájaro Amarillo through the branches of Cartoon Network and Tooncast including being awarded the "International Festival of Animation Chilemonos" in Chile as the Best Latin American Animated Series.^[9]

References

External links

• Official site
• Mundo do Sítio
• Official Monteiro Lobato's site
• Sítio do Picapau Amarelo (The Animated Series) on Cartoon Network's page