Soup (TV series)

Soup
Created by Jamie Canard
Country of origin New Zealand
No. of episodes 30
Production
Running time 3 minutes
Release
Original release 2002 – 2002

Soup is a children's claymation-style animated television series made in New Zealand which aired on TVNZ in 2002. It was created by Jamie Canard and ran for three series of 10 episodes each within the What Now children's TV programme. Each episode was around five minutes long and portrayed the life of fictional creatures living in a swamp. The style of the series was inspired by The Trap Door, with a variety of creatures ranging from hideous rampaging monsters to small scuttling things, typically with big eyes on top of their heads.

Characters

The only regularly appearing talking creatures are Roger, Bronwyn, Flip and Policeslug Nigel. Roland appears in several episodes, but talks in an unintelligible language.

Creatures

Talking creatures:

The swamp is also inhabited by a variety of non-talking creatures, some of which are named:

Flora

The following is a list of named plants and fungi in the swamp:

Original episodes

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

Season 1's ten episodes were available for sale for a short time on a single VHS video through Whitcoulls in New Zealand.

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