Zoo Tales

Zoo Tales is an American computer-animated animated television series that had aired on Nickelodeon. It stars the Dreamtoons animal characters living together in Central Park Zoo. The new characters created to the series include Gronchy, Joey's short-tempered cousin, Marlene the otter and a zookeeper named Alice, who is Goldy Locks' aunt and guardian in the series. The series was executive produced by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, who were the creators of Disney Channel's Kim Possible.

The pilot episode, "Joey and Wallabee in: Gone in a Flash", aired as part of "Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend" on November 29, 2008, and Zoo Tales became a regular series on March 28, 2009. The series premiere drew 6.1 million viewers, setting a new record as the most-watched premiere on Nickelodeon.

Although the series occasionally alludes to the 2005 film Madagascar: A Dreamtoons Movie due to the characters living at Central Park Zoo, Zoo Tales does not takes continuity within it. Tom McGrath, the co-creator of the series and co-director of the film, has said that the series takes place "not specifically before or after Madagascar: A Dreamtoons Movie, I just wanted the Dreamtoons gang back at the zoo. I think of it as taking place in another universe".

At the end of 2010, the show was the number two animated program on television among kids age 2–11 and in basic cable total viewers. In December 2014, DiMaggio, the voice actor of Rico, stated that the show has ended production.

Episodes

See List of Zoo Tales episodes

Trivia

• This is the first Dreamtoons TV series to be CGI instead of the traditional 2D animation from other Dreamtoons TV shows.
• The scene from "King Julien and Mort in: Mort Unbound" where Mort beats up Gronchy, Burt, Slimmy, the two gorillas, and Wolfen and the scene from "The Penguins in: A Christmas Caper" where Skipper allows Rico to blow up Nana's apartment became into internet memes in the early 2020s.