Snowsnaps

Snowsnaps (French: Les Mini-Tuques, "The Mini Toques") is a Canadian CGI–animated television series. It is a preschool-aimed spinoff of the 2015 film Snowtime! (La Guerre des Tuques 3D), itself an animated remake of the 1984 live-action The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des Tuques) movie.[1] Produced by Carpediem Film & TV in collaboration with the animation studio Singing Frog and broadcaster Corus Entertainment, the series premiered September 1, 2018 in Canada each on Télétoon, Disney La Chaîne and Treehouse TV.[2]

Snowsnaps
Genre	Preschool Adventure Comedy
Created by	Marie-Claude Beauchamp
Based on	The Dog Who Stopped the War by Roger Cantin Danyèle Patenaude
Developed by	Paul Risacher
Written by	Élise Cartier Michael Leo Donovan Michael F. Hamill Lisa Hunter Marie-France Landry Maxime Landry Penelope Laurence Patricia Lavoie Gerard Lewis Dominic Webber Allen Markuze Louis-Martin Pepperall Paul Risacher Robert Yates (editor)
Directed by	Main: Benoit Godbout Co-Direction: Zabelle Cote
Voices of	English: Ella Rose Coderre Kimia Esfahani Brandon Lising Satine Scarlett Montaz French: Claudia-Laurie Corbeil Catherine Brunet Valérie Gagné Marguerite D'Amours
Opening theme	Snowsnaps Theme Song
Ending theme	Snowsnaps Theme Song (Extended)
Composer(s)	Daniel Scott
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English French
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Marie-Claude Beauchamp
Producer(s)	Marie-Claude Beauchamp Sophie Roy
Editor(s)	MAIN: Robert Yates ASSISTANT: Jacob Lacasse
Running time	5 minutes or 11 minutes, 6 seconds
Production company(s)	Carpediem Film & TV Singing Frog Studio Corus Entertainment Technicolor Creative Services Montreal
Distributor	Pink Parrot Media
Release
Original network	Télétoon / Treehouse TV
Picture format	1080p (16:9 HDTV)
First shown in	Canada
Original release	September 1 - November 25, 2018
Chronology
Related shows	Snowtime!
External links
Production website

Plot

For Violet, Tomas, Sami and Kiki, every aspect of life is all about fun and games! There is nothing they like more than playing outside, especially in the snow on a winter's day. Come play outside! Yippee!

Characters

Main

• Kiki - a six-year-old girl with black hair that is shown to be athletic, and possibly, from the looks of things in The Fantabulous 4, a ninja.
• Sami - a six-year-old boy with yellow hair that notably keeps broccoli in one of his pockets.
• Tomas - a six-year-old with brown skin and black hair that seems to be afraid of heights.
• Violet - a six-year-old with yellow-orange hair that usually likes to do ballet.

Inanimate, supporting and minor

• Terry the Penguin - Tomas's toy penguin. Sami notably, in Dunk Master, accidentally lost him on the basketball hoop when it was time for Tomas to throw the snowball.
• The special toy - A blue doll that walks. He is the property that Sami wants to keep according to the I Spy Sami! episode.
• Buttercup, Princess, Glitter and Debby - Inanimate toy floaty ring horses which are green, purple, cyan and yellow. They appear in some episodes after appearing in Snoweo Rodeo.
• Granny Gnome' - a gnome with a white scarf.
• The basketball' - a basketball with eyes who is rarely seen in any episode other than "When Toys Attack".

Cast

Adapted from the ending credits.

• Satine Scarlett Montaz / Marguerite D'Amours as Violet
• Kimia Esfahani / Catherine Brunet as Sami
• Ella Rose Coderre / Claudia-Laurie Corbeil as Kiki
• Brandon Lising / Valérie Gagné as Tomas
• Voice director(s): Richard M. Dumont / Johanne Garneau, Julie Burroughs

Production

A preschool-oriented spinoff of Snowtime! was announced to be in development in November 2015.[3] Snowsnaps was officially unveiled during the 2016 Cartoon Forum in Toulouse, France as the first-ever Canadian submission.[4] The series is distributed as either 26 eleven-minute episodes or 52 five-minute shorts.[5]

For the musical "Shortsnaps" segments, the production crew held open auditions for bilingual singers across Canada in July 2017.[1]

Episodes

Series overview

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	26		September 1, 2018 (2018-09-01)	November 25, 2018 (2018-11-25)

Season 1 (2018)

• So far, this is the only season right now. It has not been confirmed yet that the show will be renewed for a second season.

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	American air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
1	"Dunk Master" "Snoweo Rodeo"	Benoit Godbout	Louis Martin Pepperall and Marie-France Landry Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	September 1, 2018 (2018-09-01)	TBA	TBA	N/A
When Terry the toy penguin gets stuck in the hoop, the rescue mission turns into a basketball duel where Kiki whips the others to show off her dunking skills. After top cowboy Sami loses every event at his own snow rodeo, he still manages to save the day.
2	"1-2-3 Cupcake!" "The Haunted Forest"	Benoit Godbout	Maxime Landry and Marie-France Landry Lisa Hunter and Marie-France Landry	September 2, 2018 (2018-09-02)	TBA	TBA	N/A
A crazy freeze race with funny rules will determine who will be getting Violet's most incredibly appetizing cupcake. The girls don't believe Tomas that the forest is haunted until they see a mysterious pinecone creature and they go investigate.
3	"When Toys Attack" "Snow Ballet"	Benoit Godbout	Penelope Laurence Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	September 8, 2018 (2018-09-08)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Sami is freaked out by toys seemingly following him around town. Meanwhile, Tomas is having trouble with his dialogue for show and tell. Violet's brilliantly choreographed snow ballet needs a snow prince whether Tomas wants to be in the ballet or not. Meanwhile, Sami tries to steal Tomas's pot of pinecones to swap it with broccoli.
4	"Winter Games" "Cold Tows"	Benoit Godbout	Paul Risacher Louis Martin Pepperall	September 9, 2018 (2018-09-09)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Violet's groceries soon go missing, and it's up to the bobsleigh team to retrieve them. Sami pretends to be too cold so he can get his friends to pull him home.
5	"What's Your Treasure?" "The Monster"	Benoit Godbout	Patricia Lavoie and Marie-France Landry Gerard Lewis and Marie-France Landry	September 15, 2018 (2018-09-15)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Violet playing pirate inspires a mutiny when Tomas and Sami decide to leave Kiki's game of "Dodge the Snowball" to join Violet's pirate crew. When a frozen apple in their ice fort is found half eaten, the gang investigates.
6	"Fantabulous Four" "Snow Bowling"	Benoit Godbout	Michael F. Hamill Dominic Webber and Marie-France Landry	September 16, 2018 (2018-09-16)	TBA	TBA	N/A
The Snaps play super heroes on a daring super mission to rescue Terry the Penguin from the Dark Owl. When Kiki tries to show the others how to bowl in the snow, the attempts of the others all have surprising twists, turns and bounces.
7	"The Greatest Game Ever!" "The Shootout"	Benoit Godbout	Michael F. Hamill Élise Cartier and Marie-France Landry	September 22, 2018 (2018-09-22)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Inspired by a lost video game, the kids imagine, create, and play a real-life adventure game. Kiki and Violet's competitive hockey shootout gets an extra fruity snow splash as Sami introduces his juice-filled snowballsicles to the game.
8	"Race Cars" "AbracaTomas!"	Benoit Godbout	Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber Michael Leo Donovan	September 23, 2018 (2018-09-23)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Formula One meets a formula for disaster when Tomas inadvertently gets knocked into the downhill race of the century. Terry the toy penguin has disappeared, and only a special magic trick can bring him back.
9	"Hiccup" "Superhero of the Hill"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Allen Markuze Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	September 29, 2018 (2018-09-29)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Kiki is stuck with a pesky case of the hiccups. While she still has the hiccups, the gang tries to find a cure for Kiki's hiccups. When a battle for "Super Hero of the Hill" turns into an all-star superheroes wrestling match, Tomas is compelled to overcome his fear of falling.
10	"The Maze" "Hats Off!"	Benoit Godbout	Michael F. Hamill Paul Risacher	September 30, 2018 (2018-09-30)	TBA	TBA	N/A
The kids build, shape, and mould a snow-made labyrinthine masterpiece: a maze, in which they then lose themselves in. Tomas' crooked throws are just the ticket to set free Violet and Sami from jail.
11	"Ice Dragon" "Kids vs. Aliens"	Benoit Godbout	Marie-France Landry Lisa Hunter	October 6, 2018 (2018-10-06)	TBA	TBA	N/A
The gang play a game of knights, but a large icicle hanging off the barn causes a battle. Sami tries to contact aliens and become famous.
12	"Winter Beach" "Winter Blast"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Louis Martin Pepperall Michael Leo Donovan and Marie-France Landry	October 7, 2018 (2018-10-07)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Tomas' friends create a winter beach for him after finding out why he is sad. A game of hide-and-seek gets out of control on a windy day.
13	"Pinched Pic-nic" "The Snow Battawawa"	Benoit Godbout	Michael F. Hamill Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	October 13, 2018 (2018-10-13)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Tomas searches for some missing treats. A team of filmmakers hunt for the Battawawa monster, while also using Violet's camera. However, they find out the Battawawa monster is just Terry.
14	"Lava, Lava Everywhere..." "Knighthood"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Michael F. Hamill Allen Markuze	October 14, 2018 (2018-10-14)	TBA	TBA	N/A
It's a spectacular race when the schoolyard suddenly turns into a lava pool made out of the junk from the Snaps' fort, and the kids race to be the first to reach the school door! Queen Violet wants to make Kiki, Sami and Tomas knights, but before they can, they must prove to her that they can work together.
15	"Off to School We Go!" "Gone to the Dogs"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Maxime Landry Penelope Laurence	October 20, 2018 (2018-10-20)	TBA	TBA	N/A
A hopscotch game is taken to new heights as Sami brings along his latest invention - a trampoline-snowboard, that an impatient Kiki just can't get enough of! Violet and Tomas challenge Kiki and Sami to a dogsled race, but with Sami obsessed with playing a dog and with Kiki willing to do just about anything to win, the race doesn't turn out at all like they planned.
16	"Sticky Snaps" "The Weathervane Game"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber Louis Martin Pepperall	October 21, 2018 (2018-10-21)	TBA	TBA	N/A
A cool new restaurant runs into a very sticky situation when it gets an extremely picky client: Terry. After wrongly thinking that Violet had invented a new game where they have to follow a trail of clues that she has left everywhere, Sami, Kiki and Tomas get lost!
17	"The Tightrope" "Moon Mission"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Paul Risacher Patricia Lavoie	October 27, 2018 (2018-10-27)	TBA	TBA	N/A
When Sami, Kiki and Tomas take over Violet's circus game, it does not take too long for the others to figure out that Sami imposes himself to be a silly tyrant ringmaster the others try to override. Kiki wants her friends to join her teeter-totter contest, but the others have a moon mission. But little did Kiki know that to get the others to her teeter-totter contest she would have to become part of their moon mission!
18	"Snapshot Hill" "Hanging Around"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	October 28, 2018 (2018-10-28)	TBA	TBA	N/A
The gang play a pirate game on a sled and Tomas takes pictures. However, when Tomas loses his camera on a sudden slip down a wild sled run in a pirate game, it leads to a full re-enactment of the crime with pirates in tow. When the kids lose a flying disk in the big old haunted tree, they find out that they might be taking on more than they can handle.
19	"Sami's Pet" "Tall Tale"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Marie-France Landry Michael Leo Donovan	November 3, 2018 (2018-11-03)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Sami brings his special pet in a box, and all breaks loose when Violet sets it free by accident while the gang play a game of Snag the Flag. When Tomas and Sami compete to be the tallest, the girls help them build gigantic towers with wobbly foundations, sending them off into a fall that takes them to unforeseen places.
20	"Surprise!" "It's a Bird?"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Penelope Laurence Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	November 4, 2018 (2018-11-04)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Tomas is sad, and Violet doesn't want to hang out with him on his birthday, until he realises she's been planning a big birthday surprise. Sami is taken on a dangerous ride when an incredible piece of art made by Tomas really takes off!
21	"Hot Chocolate Party" "Cut and Run"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Marie-France Landry Allen Markuze	November 10, 2018 (2018-11-10)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Violet's hot chocolate party turns Mad Hatter when Sami decides to bring his own life-size cup to the party and loses control as he slides into action inside it. Tomas is unable to play until he gets his haircut. So Kiki, Violet and Sami try to help Tomas get over his fear of the barbershop...but nothing goes as planned.
22	"Snow Golf" "The Gumball Jamboree"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Lisa Hunter Patricia Lavoie	November 11, 2018 (2018-11-11)	TBA	TBA	N/A
When Sami is counting on his newly-found luck to beat Kiki at golf, he realizes that sports are more about skills, unless you have the right lucky charm. It's a race against time! Following Violet's jamboree gumball arrow leads the gang to quirky challenges, and it ends off with a surprising ending.
23	"Dino Snaps" "Tag Backs"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber	November 17, 2018 (2018-11-17)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Discovering rare dinosaur fossils becomes not that much fun when both Sami's and Kiki's competitiveness gets in the way. Violet gets very frustrated and angry when Kiki and Sami get caught in an endless "tag back" loop!
24	"Hockey Knights" "Tic Tac Trouble"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Maxime Landry Michael F. Hamill	November 18, 2018 (2018-11-18)	TBA	TBA	N/A
When Kiki is cast as the princess-who-rests in a knightly game, she urges her knights to get the magic hockey stick out of the ice block to break Granny Gnome's evil spell. When Kiki takes a regular game of Tic Tac Toe to make it into a life-sized extreme challenge version of it, she doesn't realise she's really done it hard.
25	"The Great Pick-Up" "Off Tracks!"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Gerard Lewis & Dominic Webber Louis Martin Pepperall	November 24, 2018 (2018-11-24)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Violet turns her chores into a fun high scoring game for her friends until Sami shows up with his annoying whoopee cushion. The best train appears off the train tracks when the kids make one of their own.
26	"I Spy Sami!" "Toothless"	Benoit Godbout and Zabelle Côté	Robert Yates Allen Markuze	November 25, 2018 (2018-11-25)	TBA	TBA	N/A
Sami acts strange after discovering a very special, walking mechanical toy in a hollow tree, in which he wants to keep for himself. With this, it starts sending the others into a spy mission to uncover Sami's mysterious secret! When Sami loses his first tooth and keeps losing it over and over again, he sends his friends on a wild tooth hunt to find it.

Shortsnaps segment

For the musical Shortsnaps segment, the production crew had held open auditions for bilingual singers across Canada in July 2017.

• Lyrics, music, and songs by Eloi Painchaud and Jorane.
• Songs sung by Cool Kids

These are the songs used throughout episodes of the show. There seem to be six of them. They are repeated throughout reruns on Treehouse TV. They are directed by Claude Precourt, Robert Yates and Vanessa Isabelle and choreographed by Louis-Martin Charest.

• Change the World
• Snow Angels
• Get Up and Dance
• The Band
• Up the Hill
• The Parade

International broadcast

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The show originally aired from September 1 to November 25, 2018. The show was moved to two new time slots when it is aired in reruns on Treehouse TV, which is weekday mornings at 8:40 AM and Friday afternoons at 3:02 PM. The show will also be broadcast later internationally.

• Canada
  • Treehouse TV (September 1, 2018 – present)
  • Disney Junior sur La Chaîne Disney (September 1, 2018 – present)
  • Télétoon (September 1, 2018 – August 2019)

• United States
• United Kingdom and Ireland
• Australia
• Croatia
• France
  • Piwi+ (December 1, 2018 – present)
• Latin America
• Brazil
• Netherlands
• Belgium
• Philippines
• Scandivania
• Turkey
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• South Africa
• Indonesia
• Japan
• China
• Taiwan
• South Korea
• Hong Kong
• Middle East
• Singapore
• Serbia
• Ukraine
• Israel
• Cyprus
• Iceland
• Greece
• Italy
• Hungary
• Thailand
• Northern Cyprus
• Germany
  • KiKa (December 25, 2018 – present)
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Spain
• Portugal
• India

References

1. Bulman, Justin (July 12, 2017). "'Snowsnaps: The Band Contest' aims to audition youngsters for TV series". Global News. Corus Entertainment. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
2. "Télétoon sets premieres for Chop Chop Ninja, Snow Snaps". ToonBarn.com. August 31, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
3. Bélanger, Cédric (November 10, 2015). "La suite de La guerre des tuques 3D bientôt en chantier". Le Journal de Montréal. Quebecor Media. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
4. Dickson, Jeremy (June 8, 2016). "Cartoon Forum broadens international scope". KidScreen. Brunico Communications. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
5. "Snow Snaps". Corus Entertainment. Retrieved September 1, 2018.

External links

• Les Mini-Tuques at Disney La Chaîne