JoJo's Circus is a stop-motion animated television series created by Jim Jinkins, David Campbell, Lisa Jinkins, and Eric Weiner and produced by the Canada-based Cuppa Coffee Studios and Cartoon Pizza. The series was written by Douglas Wood, who previously worked for Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs as a creative executive. The series' songs were composed by Jeffrey Zahn and Jim Latham, with lyrics done by Judy Rothman.[1] The theme song was performed by BECKY.
The series ran on Disney Channel as part of the Playhouse Disney block from September 28, 2003 to February 14, 2007 with reruns until 2008.
The series that takes place in a fantasy Circus Town, a self-sufficient city whose cultural center is the "Big Top" tent. The story centers on JoJo Tickle, a silly, active 6-year-old female clown, and Goliath, JoJo's pet lion. She and Goliath learned at the Little Big Top Circus School, where all young soon-to-be circus performers learn under their teacher Mrs. Kersplatski. Alongside her friends, JoJo discovers and learns while dealing with challenging situations.
JoJo's Circus depends on repetition in its structure. Each segment always begins with JoJo searching for Goliath, who is always hiding. JoJo then is introduced with the situation that will occupy the theme of the show. A song, usually about the resolution of the situation, is then performed by JoJo.
At the conclusion of each episode, a supporting character asks, "What did you learn today, JoJo?", and before she can reply, JoJo is taken away for the last segment, the "spotlight moment". JoJo is then placed on a makeshift stage with various cameramen, lighting grips, and producers running about, while the "Spotlight Moment" song plays, asking what she's learned, is sung and JoJo taps her foot along (in some episodes she also taps her hand on her leg). Subsequently, JoJo says what she has learned in the course of the episode.
The show's voice directors are Kent Meridith (United States) and Debra Toffan (Canada).
The show emphasizes simple, everyday lessons such as playing with others, detecting the sequence, personal hygiene, responsibility, and safety. Also, foremost is the show's emphasis on exercise: JoJo often asks for audience participation (such as clapping, jumping, and stretching) for the viewers. The series is animated in claymation, which is a serious departure to Jinkin's past animated works.
Characters JoJo and her pet lion, Goliath, returned in a yoga-style exercise learning series/interstitial called Feeling Good with JoJo.
JoJo Tickle has finally attended her first day at the Little Big Top Clown School alongside her pet lion Goliath. At Clown School, they both meet their new teacher, Mrs. Kersplatski, and introduce her to her new classroom. But before she left, she told JoJo not to press the orange clown nose button of a UFO shape robotic machine and left. As curiosity gives in, JoJo pressed the orange clown nose button and hilarity ensures as the strange machine runs amok and starts to throw cream pies all over the room.
JoJo and her friends go on a field trip to the farm, but hilarity ensues, when JoJo accidentally left the barn doors open and the animals are out of their pens running amok.
Dinky wants to play hide and seek, but JoJo and Skeebo rather play other games that are too hard for Dinky to play.
A box of confetti goes missing and JoJo and her friends must locate the missing confetti before her parents' performance, and discovers that the mice used the confetti to use for their circus posters.
JoJo goes to the Clown Shoe Store to purchase a new pair of Clown Shoes, after outgrowing her old shoes.
JoJo learns how to make cotton candy from Cotton Andy the Cotton Candy master, but she forgets one of the steps on how to stop the machine and blankets Circus Town with cotton candy.
Jumberto the Jackrabbit mistakenly made Skeebo's hat disappear, so JoJo and Goliath have to help him find it, before a big performance.
It's Play All Day Day at JoJo's house, but JoJo's father is suffering from a bad case of the Sneaky Sneezies, and has to stay home from work and rest, but JoJo's friends have a hard time trying to keep quiet.
JoJo accidentally breaks a bass drum before a performance, and JoJo, Goliath and Skeebo tries to fix the bass drum, before the Frogini's performance.
JoJo must replace her father's squirting flower, after his old one loses its spray, and learns how to pick one, after witnessing Bal Boa's Trance Dance, without getting soaked.
JoJo, her friends, and Mr. Tickle make a large banana split for Mrs. Kersplatski as a "Teacher's Day" surprise, alongside making a big mess in the process.
Bingo Bongo, the world's greatest circus clown who travels around the world via hot air balloon, accidentally drops a tennis racket while searching for her map, and when JoJo and her friends see it, they have no idea what it is and try to figure out what it is.
JoJo and Goliath attempt to learn some emergency practice skills, from Chief Funnyshoes.
JoJo and Skeebo, while helping Peaches hang up circus posters for her, they accidentally hang the posters backward and use their finger painting skills to create new ones.
JoJo learns an old family tradition called "Mirroring" from her grandparents, and teams up with Goliath to do the routine for class.
JoJo and Skeebo have a short snit before the Clown Family Relay Race to see who would win, but learn that winning isn't everything.
Hogan the hamster escapes from his cage, and JoJo and Tater uses the exercises that they learned in class, to rescue him.
A fly interrupts Mr. Tickle's concert, but JoJo helps out by allowing the fly to co-conduct the orchestra with her father.
Goliath loses his voice before a big performance starring him, so JoJo and her friends fill in for him.
Skeebo wants a puppy for a pet, but his parents want Skeebo to practice by taking care a toy duck named Quacky-Wacky, before he can get a real pet.
While at the big top, JoJo notices rather odd behavior among the circus performers. Everyone seems to be giggling and acting kooky, rather than working on their acts. When JoJo begins laughing like crazy too, it's a good thing that she's just caught up with Dr. Seltzer.
Jumberto Jackrabbit ask JoJo, Goliath, and Skeebo to babysit his nephews Jig, Jag, and Jug, while he goes to town to fix a magic wand that is not working properly, but when the triplets wake up, chaos ensues, and the threesome tries to get them back in the basket, before Jumberto returns.
JoJo pretends to be a superhero like Super Duper Girl, and she then helps Dinky find his lost toy duck.
JoJo and her parents babysit her youngest cousin Charlie, but it can be very hard for them.
JoJo holds her first ever sleepover at her house, but Bal Boa feels a bit homesick and is afraid of showing his stuffed animal (Stuffy Wuff) during the sleep-over, but is surprised that everyone brought theirs to the sleep-over.
After Mr. Tickle's cannon breaks down and missing the Circus Train, JoJo and Mr. Muscles began an exercise program for him to get him physically fit.
Babalulu the owner of the local ice cream parlor now has a job selling pretzels at the Big Top, but she never know how to twist pretzels, so JoJo and her friends help out doing crazy twisted forms for Babalulu's pretzels.
JoJo and her father try to make a special breakfast for Peaches for Sweet Peaches Day (a holiday like Mother's Day) but it goes wrong.
While at the park practicing funny clown walks, JoJo and her friends discover a depressed Cotton Andy, after his cotton candy-making machine Whoopsabell breaks down and tries to cheer him up exhibiting the funny clown walks that they learned in class.
JoJo and her friends meet Tater's new youngest sister, Small Fry, for the first time but Tater gets jealous when Small Fry gets all the attention but learns that being an older brother is very important.
The Froginis take care of JoJo and Goliath for the night while the Tickles celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Kersplatski has a special surprise for her class --- tomorrow is their 100th day of school! She has some big, fancy blocks for 100 and explains some helpful tips to count up that high. She then asks each member of the class to bring in one hundred things the next day. JoJo wants to bring in 100 really big things, but all of her ideas seem to come up short.
JoJo, Goliath, and her father take Charlie to Uncle Flippy's Funny Farm for a visit, but chaos ensues when Charlie wanders off and discovers a whole new way to tour the farm.
Goliath hurts himself while playing Follow the Leader by stepping on a splinter and JoJo and her mother take him to see Dr. Longtall the veterinarian, but Goliath felt a bit nervous, but JoJo discovers that others are also nervous as well and discover that laughter could stop their nervousness.
Goliath gets a mane-cut for the Big Whoop-De-Do celebration, but has a very hard time selecting the perfect mane-cut for him.
JoJo and her father help Skeebo and his father assemble a robotic clown for their new act, but when both Mr. Tickle and Fire Chief Seltzer fail to read the instructions, JoJo, Goliath, Skeebo, and Harpo help them out.
When Chico the mouse loses some of the items he needs for the Mouse Circus, after Fire Chief Seltzer mistakenly vacuumed up the items. JoJo, Goliath, and their friends find clever ways to use ordinary objects to replace the things Chico needs.
JoJo looks after the class pet, a clown crab named Cha-Cha, for the night and teaches Cha-Cha about nose-honking, but forgets to put the lid on his cage and must find him before going back to school.
JoJo, Goliath, and her friends are ready to ride the Octopus at the annual Circus Town Carnival, but Goliath and Dinky couldn't go the ride because they're too small, but both Goliath and Dinky found a ride they could go on.
JoJo, Trina, and Skeebo play a game of "Monkey See, Monkey Do" after the monkeys who are part of Mr. Tickle's new act escape from the Big Top and run loose into Trina's house causing chaotic mayhem in the process.
Note: This was the only time the Monkeys took JoJo to the Spotlight instead of The Fire Clowns.
JoJo and her classmates celebrate a new holiday that the Frogini Brothers brought over from the "Old Country" and learn about the traditions of Happy Hoppy Day.
A musical family band, the Cricketeers are coming to the Big Top for a concert but Hector gets separated from his wife, Gracie (whom Goliath had a crush on), and his son, Cody, so JoJo and her friends help out in finding them by making cricket chirps.
JoJo accidentally breaks a toy calliope that she was going to give to Maya for her birthday, but decides to perform "The Circus Song" on a real calliope for her birthday.
Terrific the Tiger Tamer arrives in Circus Town to judge a pet show (only open for dogs and cats) and JoJo helps Skeebo and Trina to train their pets.
JoJo and her friends make a batch of clownberry juice for the annual fundraiser for the school, but as they rushed to make the next batch, they forgot to add the clownberries.
It's the annual Hoedown at Uncle Flippy's Funny Farm and JoJo learns about square dancing and helps fill in for Uncle Flippy after he lost his voice during the Hoedown.
Skeebo brings his cousin Alex (who is hearing-impaired) to school for a mind-reading act who uses sign language as part of the act and teaches JoJo and her friends how to uses sign language.
JoJo accidentally loses her father's prize trophy golf ball during a game of Silly Putt-Putt.
After her kite was accidentally torn, JoJo received her father a special kite that needs laughter to fly.
It's a snow day in Circus Town, but Dinky has the sniffles and couldn't come out and play in the snow, so JoJo and her friends help build a "snowclown" for him and bring it to his house.
JoJo created a pair of Really Silly Bunny Ears for the annual Springtime Celebration pageant at the Little Big Top Circus School, but discovers that the other students are wearing regular plain store bought Bunny Ears for the pageant instead of making their own. JoJo later asks Jumberto Jackrabbit for help and learns that everyone can be different.
JoJo and the Spudinskis appear on the television program "Circus Town Makeover" hosted by Jumping Jack as guests where JoJo discussed how one day, the Spudinskis were stuck on the couch and the entire town tried to get them off the couch and how Jumping Jack came and help the Spudinskis to exercise and eat healthier and having them do a brand new act on television.
JoJo learns how to make a valentine for a friend who is far away.
Feeling Good with JoJo is a series of five-minute shorts[2] that were a spin-off of JoJo's Circus. The series was about JoJo Tickle and her pet lion Goliath. In each episode JoJo and Goliath went on an adventure around the circus, and teach the viewers yoga lessons for the TV viewers. Sometimes one of the show's characters were involved. JoJo's main goal was to help each character in every episode, with a yoga stretching lesson. At the beginning of the series, JoJo would stand in front of the stage, spin around and magically have her hair tied up in a bun while wearing a yellow shirt with a clown on it. The shorts run from February 24, 2006 to May 16, 2008, spanning 2 seasons with a total of 20 episodes.
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