''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' (also known as ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series'') is an

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developed by Mark Evestaff and Alex Galatis for

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and YTV. It is produced by DHX Media and

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in association with Corus. Based on the

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and the

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of the same name, ''Cloudy'' is the first television series to be produced by Sony Pictures Animation and was animated using

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. The series officially premiered in the United States on March 6, 2017, on Cartoon Network, with a sneak peek airing on February 20, 2017. After an unsuccessful run, the show moved to Boomerang's SVOD service, where it debuted on January 11, 2018. In Canada, the series was originally planned to air on

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, but instead premiered on YTV on April 6, 2017. On February 2, 2018, DHX Media announced the series has been picked up for a second season. The entire first season is available on

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in the United Kingdom and in the United States. On January 24, 2020, the show was removed on Boomerang's streaming service app.

Plot

The series is a

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, featuring the high school years of Flint Lockwood, the eccentric young scientist in the films. In his adventures, he is joined by Sam Sparks, a new girl in town and the school's "wannabe" reporter, along with Flint's dad Tim, Steve the Monkey, Manny as the head of the school's audiovisual club (among other professions), Earl as a school gym teacher, Brent still riding on his fame as from the sardine commercial, and Mayor Shelbourne, who serves as the school principal, and who wins every Mayoral election on the pro-sardine platform. The show clarifies that when Flint and Sam met in their adulthood in the first film, it was not their first meeting. They first met and became friends in high school. In the first episode, Flint says that if Sam ever has to move away from Swallow Falls, he will invent a memory eraser, as she had moved around frequently and did not want the memory of another lost friendship to sadden her.

Episodes

Cast

* Mark Edwards as: ** Flint Lockwood; an inventor. ** Steve; Flint's pet

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who communicates using a Speak and Spell monkey thought translator Flint invented. *

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as Sam Sparks; a weather intern from

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and a reporter. *

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as "Baby" Brent McHale; an infamous celebrity mascot of Baby Brent's Sardines. *

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as: ** Tim Lockwood; Flint's widowed father. ** Mayor Susan Shelbourne; the gluttonous and egotistical mayor of Swallow Falls. ** Old Rick; an elderly citizen in Swallow Falls. *

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as: ** Gil; Mayor Shelbourne's neglected son ** Manny; Sam's Guatemalan cameraman and a former doctor, pilot, and comedian. *

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as Earl Devereaux; the town's athletic cop and Cal's dad.

Production

Sony Pictures Animation and Canadian family entertainment company DHX Media signed to co-produce the series in 2014, starting with twenty-six 22-minute episodes (fifty-two 11-minute segments). DHX Media handles the global television and non-U.S. home entertainment distribution, along with worldwide merchandising rights, while Sony distributes home entertainment in the United States.

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handles international distribution via

Broadcast

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premiered ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' on May 12, 2017 with a broadcast of the first 4 episodes, for next Friday continue with recurring releases (double episode), meanwhile

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premiered the series on May 18, 2017 premiering a new episode every Thursday.

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will premiere ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' on September 2, 2017. In the

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and

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, the series was first broadcast on

on August 28, 2017 starting with the episode "Who You Callin’ Garbage!" (S1EP5). In

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, the series started broadcast on

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from September 2017; in the same period it started on

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. In

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, the series will premiere on

. The series began broadcasting on

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in Germany on 6 November 2017. New episodes began premiering on

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's SVOD service in the United States in January 2018. Older episodes of the series are also available on Boomerang. On February 2, 2018, DHX Media announced the series has been picked up for a second season. On November 30, 2018, the show was made available for streaming on

in the

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. In August 2019,

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acquired the U.S. broadcast rights to the series, beginning with Season 2.

Home media

Region 1: * ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Swallow-een Falls Spooktacular!'' (October 10, 2017) * ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Lobster Claus is Coming to Town'' (October 31, 2017)

Reception

Critical response

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rated the show a three out of five stars stating "''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' doesn't attempt to lead directly into the movies and in fact presents a major inconsistency for the later stories by introducing Sam to Flint during their teen years. Of course this is only a concern for those who have seen the chronologically later stories first; new viewers without a history with these characters won't have a problem and likely will want to follow up with the movies at some point. A big plus to the show? Even though the science often isn't realistic, the hero and heroine make nerdiness seem pretty cool."

Accolades

References

External links

Official website
at

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