- Not to be confused with the 2014 series Talking Tom and Friends.
Talking Friends was a short-lived 3D animated web series of shorts distributed by Disney Interactive. The series was announced in May 10, 2012 and consisted of 10 episodes of three minutes that released on YouTube from June 8 to August 31, 2012. In October 2024, the episodes were privated.
It is the earliest known series adaptation of the Talking Tom & Friends franchise.
History[]
On 25 May 2011, articles announced that Outfit7 were interested in the concept of expanding their app series into a short Saturday morning cartoon series, specifically mentioning Tom and Ben as characters who could appear within it.[1]
Disney announced on YouTube in May 10, 2012 an Outfit7 games based 3D animated series.
The first episode officially released on June 8, 2012 as a 3D animated web series which was distributed by Disney Multimedia on their YouTube account, and along with Tom and Ben, Ginger, Pierre, Angela, and Gina would also appear. The last episode aired on August 31, 2012 it was the first Talking Tom Show by Outfit7.
Description[]
This series is based on the Talking Friends series and features some of the characters from the apps, such as Tom, Ben, Ginger, Pierre, and Gina, who reside in a trailer in the desert. Angela and the Hand also appear as recurring characters.
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Recurring Characters[]
One-Time Characters[]
- Newserator 3000
- Giant Robot
- Large Armadillo
- News Presenter
Cast[]
- Michael Tauzin as Tom and Ginger
- Michael D. Cohen as Ben
- Susannah Hillard as Angela
Episode Guide[]
| Screenshot | Title | Release date | Episode number # | ||
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"Attack of the Tech!" | 8th June 2012 | #01 | ||
| Ben builds a robot designed to eat garbage. Unfortunately, it has a very broad idea of what garbage is. | |||||
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"Foolf" | 15th June 2012 | #02 | ||
| Bored with ordinary sports, Talking Friends Ben and Tom mix pieces of every game they can think of to make a brand new game. | |||||
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"Jet Pack Cat" | 22th June 2012 | #03 | ||
| Tom and Ben have their sights set for high flying adventure! Tom seeks fame as the world's first flying cat, until Ginger is eager to become jet-powered kitty number two. | |||||
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"Newserator" | 29th June 2012 | #04 | ||
| Tom gets Ben to build a news-making machine to make their news show more exciting. Why settle for the same old boring news when you can make your own?! Unfortunately for our Talking Friends, the Newserator 3000 wants to make them the lead story! | |||||
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"Rock the Catsbah" | 5th July 2012 | #05 | ||
| Pretty City Kitty Angela's car breaks down on the way to her recording session. Tom convinces Ben to build an instant recording studio to get her to stay. Will Angela stay and rock the Catsbah?! | |||||
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"Shake that Tail" | 3rd August 2012 | #06 | ||
| Angela comes back to shoot a music video with Tom for her adoring fans! | |||||
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"Multipli-Kitty" | 10th August 2012 | #07 | ||
| Ben's duplicating machine gives Tom an idea -- if one Tom is great, dozens of him will be awesome! Think a duplicating machine might make back-to-school prep a little easier? A dozen Toms might disagree. | |||||
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"Super Tom" | 17th August 2012 | #08 | ||
| Ben's ray gives Ginger super powers to play with, and all the others want them too. The trouble starts when a cute little armadillo is accidentally given powers too. | |||||
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"Angry Parrots" | 24th August 2012 | #09 | ||
| After playing a video game for 48 hours straight, Pierre can't see the difference between game and reality. The Friends dress up as zombies to let him rescue the Princess and finish the game. | |||||
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"Tom After Tom" | 31st August 2012 | #10 | ||
| Ben's time bending Musical Dimension Hopper takes the friends to the rockin' 80's, groovy 60's, bopping 50's, or the roaring 20's. Before you jump Back-To-School see if the Talking Friends make it back to the future! | |||||
Trailer[]
Trivia[]
- This series was originally going to be named "The Adventures of Talking Friends"[2].
- This is the first series not to be animated by Arx Anima. Instead, it would be animated by Karactaz.
- This is the only series to have Angela as a recurring character.
- Furthermore, this is the only series to have Gina as a main character.
- Unlike Gina's appearances in the apps, she is a squeaky toy in this series.
- According to Talking Friends Cartoons, Gina was portrayed as a squeaky toy because she was too occupied to attend the filming.
- For many years, it was assumed that Keith Ferguson had voiced Pierre. However, it was later confirmed that he did not voice Pierre, but instead it was "a young guy," who the producer did not seem to remember.
- Unlike Talking Tom and Friends, all of the characters except for Ben have higher pitched voices. This is because they were intended to be based exactly from the apps.
- The show's score is composed by Alfred Montejano.[3]