Nick Jr Cartoons:
As Told by Ginger
Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom
Danny Phantom
Dora the Explorer
El Tigre
Grossology
Growing Up Creepie
Go Diego, Go
Hey Arnold!
Kappa Mikey
Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
Rocket Power
Rugrats
Tak and the Power of Juju
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
The Mighty B!
The Wild Thornberrys

NICK JR CARTOONS

A list of your favorite Nick Jr Cartoons and some information about them.

Nick Jr is an American cable television channel. This channel was known as "Noggin" until September, 2009. "Noggin" was re-launched with the new name of Nick Jr at the same time.

Nick Jr Cartoons is aimed at 2-5 year olds, and features a mix of originally-produced programming, and series previously and concurrently aired on Nickelodeon's Nick Jr block.

Here is a list of Nick Jr cartoons available on the channel.

Hey Arnold!

Arnold, part of the Nick Jr cartoons, is a fictional character and the titular protagonist in the Nickelodeon animated television series Hey Arnold!. His head is shaped like an American football, thus earning him the nickname "Football-Head", by Helga.

Arnold is a dreamer and an idealist who always tries to see the best in people and to do the right thing. Whenever he sees someone in trouble, Arnold goes out of his way to help them out, even if it is not sensible to do so. Arnold often acts as the stable center to those around him, whether he is around his "family" in his grandparents' boarding house The Sunset Arms, or around his friends at his school, P.S. 118.Arnold's adventurous parents, anthropologist Miles and biologist/physician Stella, were doing missions in the jungle of San Lorenzo when they disappeared.

Arnold's most catalytic relationship is with his classmate Helga Pataki. Unbeknownst to Arnold, Helga is secretly in love with him, though to keep these feelings secret she verbally abuses Arnold so he will never come to that conclusion. As such, Arnold has a more or less, tolerant feeling towards Helga. He states throughout the series that even though she acts bad she really is a good person.

Arnold's best friend is Gerald Johansen, whose relationship dates as far back as pre-school. The pair have a distinct handshake consisting of putting two thumbs-up fists together and wiggling the thumbs back and forth.

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, also known as just Jimmy Neutron, is an American animated television series, that showed as Nick Jr cartoons.

This Nick Jr cartoon series is about James Isaac "Jimmy" Neutron. He is an 11-year-old American boy with an awe-inspiring IQ and a love for science. Usually, his inventions cause more harm than benefit for the city of Retroville, but that never stops him from trying. Most of the time, he's busy saving the city from his own experiments gone wrong. He is best friends with Carl and Sheen. His middle name comes from Isaac Newton, the famous physicist.

Jimmy's trusty robotic dog is Goddard the Robo-Dog. Considering he's made of sprockets, circuits and widgets, Goddard makes one great man's best friend. Plus, unlike real-life dogs, Goddard can transform into a whole array of useful tools, vehicles and other gadgets for Jimmy. Goddard's still has a few kinks to work out, but otherwise, this digital dog is the perfect mechanical canine companion.

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Carlton "Carl" Wheezer is Jimmy's shy, asthmatic right-hand man. Carl is allergic to lots of things, including cats, turtles, and even lasers, yet he still helps Jimmy with his experiments.

Ramon Martin "Sheen" Estevez is Jimmy's hyperactive but heroic friend. He is obsessed with Ultra Lord, a popular superhero action figure. Sheen sometimes fails to grasp the reality of things and is very random at times. He lives with his father.

Cynthia "Cindy" Vortex is Jimmy's sassy, independent, intellectual rival. She has a dog named "Humphrey" who she says is the best dog in Retroville. Her best friend is Libby Folfax. Liberty "Libby" Folfax is Cindy's best friend. She loves funk & hip-hop and electronic gadgets. Unlike Jimmy's friends, Libby does well in school, though she isn't at the level of Jimmy or Cindy in terms of intellect.

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Hubert Beaumont "Hugh" Neutron is Jimmy's dad. He is very obsessed with ducks and loves pie. He tries to spend as much time with Jimmy as possible and is very intrigued by his inventions. He is really goofy but loves his family, including his wife Judy who he often calls "Sugar Booger". Hugh works at Mallard Motors as a car salesman.

Judith "Judy" Neutron is Jimmy's mom. She is loving and is the stereotypical 50's housewife. Her style is also typical and her hair is in a distinctive cut. She loves her family, and gives Jimmy advice about his life and his adventures.

The Mighty B!

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The Mighty B! is an American animated television series, shown on Nick Jr cartoons.

This Nick Jr cartoons show is set in San Francisco, California and is about the adventures of Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious and optimistic 9¾ year old Honeybee scout who wears her uniform every day. She believes she will become a superhero called The Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge.

As of the first episode, she has 4,584 badges to go. Her loyal younger brother, Benjamin "Ben", aspires to be her sidekick. Happy, a stray dog with a torn ear, is Bessie's pet and best friend. Bessie and Ben lives with their single mother, Hilary, who owns and operates a coffee shop called Hilary's Café. Bessie has an "imaginary friend" called Finger, which is her left hand's index finger with a smiley face on it.

Many recurring characters appear alongside the Higgenbottom family, including the Honeybee scouts. Penny is Bessie's clumsy, dim-witted, obese best friend, who loves taffy. Although she and Bessie are best friends, Penny also shows loyalty to Portia and Gwen. Portia is a bratty, and snobby Honeybee scout, whose mother is the troop leader. Along with the business-minded Gwen. Portia is often opposing Bessie or tries to humiliate her. Bessie is also friends with Rocky Rhodes, an older, "cool" skater who works part-time at Hilary's Café.

Kappa Mikey

Kappa Mikey is an American animated Nick Jr cartoons series. It centers around Mikey Simon, a 19-year-old actor who just graduated from high school and is from Cleveland, Ohio. He embarks to Japan after winning a scratch-off card contest to star in the country's formerly popular live-action series, LilyMu, which is presented as an "anime". In doing this, he rockets the show back to the top of the ratings, and becomes Japan's biggest star in anime history.

Segments of LilyMu are seen at the beginning and end of each Nick Jr cartoon episode, but the show focuses primarily on the actors' and producers' lives off-set and Mikey's adjustments to the new world he has entered. The humor comes from the fact that because Mikey is an American, he actually stands out visually from the other cast members, similar to the mix of styles in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

While most characters on the show are drawn in an anime-inspired style such as using thin outlines, big, detailed eyes, small mouths, and all ten fingers, Mikey and all other American characters is drawn in a retro-inspired American cartoon manner where using thicker outlines, single black dot pupil eyes, a larger mouth, and only eight fingers.

The humor is delivered in a rapid pace, and also consists of light satire, incongruity, slapstick, character quirks, and a fair amount of gross-out humor.

As Told by Ginger

As Told by Ginger or simply Ginger is an American animated Nick Jr cartoons series.

This Nick Jr cartoons series focuses mainly on the life of junior high school student Ginger Foutley. She, along with her friends, Darren Patterson, Dodie Bishop and Macie Lightfoot, all try to rise from the position of school geeks as they solve many conflicts that come their way. Luckily for Ginger, the most popular girl in school, Courtney Gripling, has taken a liking to her and often includes her in her social plans. She is intrigued by her 'gingerisms', as Courtney calls them.

However, Miranda Killgallen, Courtney's right hand woman, makes sure that she is not bumped down from her position thanks to Ginger. At home, Ginger records her lively adventures in her diary. Her little brother Carl, is often scheming with Robert-Joseph ("Hoodsey") Bishop in his own side plots, and her mother, Lois, is always there for advice Ginger is always open to listen to.

The series takes place in the fictional town of Sheltered Shrubs, located in Connecticut. It is very rare for a children's program, especially an animated one, to be set in a specific area of the country. Sheltered Shrubs is actually based on the real town of Larchmont, New York. Other towns noted in the series are Protected Pines, a gated community in which Courtney lives, Brittle Branches, where Ginger's father resides, and Heathered Hills, the town of Ginger's summer camp crush, Sasha.

Rocket Power

Rocket Power involves the daily situations of a group of best friends named Otto, Reggie, Twister, and The Squid as they live in the fictional town of Ocean Shores, California, a beach front city based on Oceanside, California. The characters often take part in a variety of sports and activities including surfing, rollerblading, snowboarding, skateboarding, street hockey, and street luge.

The main characters of this Nick Jr cartoons, include Oswald "Otto" Rocket who is an obsessive-compulsive and greatly successful, courageous athlete whose cocky attitude and short-sighted judgment often got him into trouble. He is Twister's best friend and is the most well rounded character in extreme sports, and also the leader and chief idea-starter of the group. Regina "Reggie" Rocket is Otto's older sister by two years.

Reggie is an aspiring publisher who, while no less competitive and skillful as an "athlete," happens to be of calmer disposition and greater maturity. Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez is Otto's best friend and a "daredevil" on wheels and aspiring "videographer." He hates to be called by his real name. He is often seen being teased by his big brother Lars.

Twister's reputation of being the most unintelligent member of the group is one of his flaws. Twister is best at street luge, skateboarding and rollerblading.

Samuel "Squid" Dullard is a Hutchinson, Kansas native, who while not as athletically gifted as the others, has found a niche as the brains and conscience of the group—and also as a "rock-solid" goalie when they play hockey. Sam's reputation of being the smartest member of the group is, at times, one of his flaws. Sam's mom is over-protective, and she has forced Sam to skip the 5th grade. Sam was originally the least athletic character, but eventually developed an expert level of surfing and decent abilities in other sports.

Other characters from this Nick Jr cartoons include Raymond "Raymundo roinks" Rocket, Tito Makani Jr, Lars Rodriguez, Eddie Valentine, Oliver Van Rossun, Officer Shirley, Trish and Sherry, Mackenzie Benders, Conroy Blanc, Merv and Violet Stimpleton, Bree "Breezy" Copely, Doug Dullard, Noelani Makani Rocket and Lt. Ryan.

El Tigre

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El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera is an animated series produced for Nickelodeon and Nick Jr Cartoons Network.

Set in the fictional crime-ridden Mexican city of Miracle City, El Tigre follows the adventures of Manny Rivera, a regular 13-year-old boy with superpowers trying to choose between being good or evil.

His father, a superhero known as White Pantera, wants Manny to grow up to be good and fight evil, but Manny's Grandpapi, a super villain known as Puma Loco, thinks Manny should go to the dark side.

El Tigre was created by a husband-and-wife team named Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua along with others who were employed to make the show. The couple made the project from experiences they had when they were younger. Manny Rivera is based on Jorge's young self.

Many things known of the show were based on actual events or parts in Jorge's life. His father was an architect (which was viewed as good) and his grandfather was a general in the military (which was viewed as evil). That idea was exaggerated to the idea of Super Heroes and Villains. The city Miracle City is based on Mexico City, where Jorge grew up.

Growing Up Creepie

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Growing Up Creepie is an animated television Nick Jr cartoons series made by Mike Young Productions and produced by Discovery Kids.

Creepie was an orphan left on the doorstep of the Dweezwold Mansion, which is home to a family of various insects. The family took her in and raised her as one of their own.

However, she must now adjust to a life surrounded by a society of insect phobic humans as she attends Middlington Middle School and keeps her home life secret in order to protect both herself and her family. Another great cartoon that shows on Nick Jr cartoons.

Tak And The Power Of Juju

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Tak and the Power of Juju is a television Nick Jr cartoons series that aired on Nickelodeon in 2007. This animation is based on the video game with the same name.

This Nick Jr cartoons series was produced by Nick Jennings and directed, among others, by Mark Risley, Jim Schumann, and Heiko Drengenberg. This Nick Jr cartoons series follows the daily lives and adventures of Tak, Jeera and the rest of the villagers.

Tak has the ability to summon a magic power, which the Jujus, magical creatures, bestowed upon him to serve as a link between his and their realms. Tak tends to be the smarter of the group, but has his mishaps when it comes to practicing his Juju power.

Jeera is Tak's fun loving best friend. She is the Chief's daughter and has an older sister named Zaria, who is next in line for the throne and never lets her younger sister forget it. Jeera is a tomboy and will often punch Tak as a sign of endearment.

Grossology

Grossology is a Canadian animated television Nick Jr cartoons series produced by Nelvana, and based loosely on the non-fictional children’s book series of the same name by Sylvia Branzei.

Ty and Abby are a brother and sister crime-fighting team who report to the secret government facility named Department of Grossology. Each episode of the Nick Jr cartoons series follows the pair on adventures based on real scientific facts. Aided by their friend Lab Rat (a human), Ty and Abby face many disgusting criminals.

The main characters of this Nick Jr cartoons are Abigail "Abby" Archer unravels mysteries so disgusting that no adult will touch them. She loves everything gross and slimy – nothing grosses her out. Abby likes to test her limits to see if there is something so gross, so slimy, so disgusting, that it will make even her, the Queen of Squeam, turn green. So far nothing has come close.

Ty Archer is Abby's little brother and a hard kid to face. His cool, analytical mind takes everything in. He sees himself as a scientist and he takes his job very seriously, too seriously if you listen to Abby. In his mind, science is everything, and his goal is to be remembered with the very best in his field.

Paul "Lab Rat" Squirfenherder is the Grossology Department's tech support, designing and building gadgets and vehicles to aid Grossologists on their missions, and he is also a friend of them. He spends so much time doing experiments that it earned him the nickname “Lab Rat”. His impressive inventory of hi-tech gadgets and encyclopedic knowledge make him invaluable to the team.

As villains in this Nick Jr cartoons series, there is Insectiva, The Slim Slime Man, Fartor, Sloppy Joe, The Scab Fairy, Lance Boil, Keith Van Kobbler, Mr. Fowler, Kid Rot, Dr. Cornelius Colon, Far-Ty - Ty as a temporary villain, Frankenbooger, Darko Crevasse, Sarah Senia, Arachnidia, Frederick Follicle, Roger Pink-Eye, Basso Profondo and Gary Gumdrop.

Ni Hao, Kai-Lan

Ni Hao, Kai-Lan (Hi, Kai-Lan) introduces its viewers to the Mandarin Chinese language, along with elements of Chinese culture and values, multiculturalism, and intergenerational families. This Nick Jr cartoons series uses cause and effect problem solving. This includes helping Hoho learn to be patient, helping Rintoo calm down because he's too mad, and helping Tolee to take responsibility for his actions.

Kai Lan is a six-year-old playful, adventurous 1st grader with a big heart. She speaks both English and Mandarin Chinese, and she is super excited to share her language, her culture and her playtime with her animal friends. Her favorite animal is a dinosaur and in her music group, she plays the tambourine.

Ye Ye (Mandarin word for "paternal grandfather") is Kai-Lan's grandfather. He was born in China and lovingly passes on his exciting traditions to his granddaughter. He provides Kai-Lan with gentle guidance, leading her to find her own answers, at her own pace. He can also play the tuba.

Rintoo is a smart, young competitive, impulsive and conceited four-year-old tiger and one of Kai-Lan's best friends who loves dragons and racing race cars. He even shares a special roaring handshake with Kai-Lan: "tiger-tiger roar!" He has a thirst for adventure and thrills and often pounces headlong into the action without giving it much thought. But underneath the bravado, he's a sweet caring tiger who looks out for his friends. In Kai-Lan's music group, he plays the xylophone. He is especially close to Tolee and Hoho. He usually says "Ooh! Ooh!" before he talks.

Tolee is a six-year-old boy koala that loves pandas and fruit, especially apples, bananas, and pineapples. He is intelligent and always thinks before he acts and sometimes worries too much, but he never lets that stop him from having a great time with his friends. Tolee also has a stuffed Panda he affectionately named Pandy, and Tolee loves Pandy so much he can't imagine being without him. He is the vocalist in Kai-Lan's music group.

At age 3, Hoho the monkey is the youngest of Kai-Lan's friends, so when he participates in activities, he often goes first. He's full of boundless energy and nothing makes him happier than being the center of attention. He can often be found jumping on his friends' heads or playing his turntables as the resident DJ in Kai-Lan's music group. Aside from his turntables and his friends, Hoho's favorite thing happens to be bananas.

Lulu is a six year-old pink rhino. She is always happy, enthusiastic, and caring. Lulu speaks fluently in both English and Mandarin Chinese. Lulu has a red balloon around her nose, which helps her fly up in the sky. She lives in a house that floats on a cloud. Her best friends are Kai-Lan and Tolee. Lulu loves to dance and plays the piano. Some of her favorite games include: playing house, having tea parties, and dressing up like a fairy.

At the start of almost every Nick Jr cartoons episode, Kai-Lan wakes up Mr. Sun so she can start her day. Mr. Sun rises and showers down smiling sun fuzzies to Kai-Lan and she gets tickled by them. He also knows how to play the French Horn.

In one corner of Kai-Lan's backyard is a teeming mini-metropolis of ants called Ant City. The ants serve very important roles in the community: they deliver mail, they build things, and they love to play with Kai-Lan and her friends. San San is their leader along with his two right-hand ants, Bubu and Fufu.

Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy

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Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy is an animated television Nick Jr cartoons series. Ricky Sprocket is the world's biggest child film star. He works for Wishworks studio and for Mr. Louie Fischburger, his boss.

Despite the fact that Ricky stars in some of his favorite movies, lives in a mansion, and sometimes performs brain surgeries for actor patients, otherwise he is a very normal kid who doesn't let celebrity fame go to his head. He likes to hang out with his friends and shares a rivalry with a spoiled female child star named Kitten Kaboodle. Still, Ricky has chores and homework he must do sometimes when he isn't battling animatronic props.

He's 10 and famous, adored, has everything a kid could want, but at heart, he's still a normal kid with normal kid problems. He loves hanging with his pals as much as he loves making movies. One minute he's on set battling aliens, the next he's doing his homework or taking out the garbage.

Bunny Sprocket is a down-to-earth, unsophisticated, no-nonsense mother. She is loving and devoted and only sees Ricky as a typical boy. She is more concerned with his homework and taking out the garbage than "showbiz shenanigans". She also used to be a trapeze artist in high school.

Leonard Sprocket is Ricky's Dad. He is a goofy guy, but he always means well. He's a dedicated father, but not very sophisticated. Despite his son's fame and fortune, he still works in a sausage factory and often imparts wisdom to his son with stories about sausages. He is also well meaning, but not that bright. In fact, he can be a bit of a buffoon, which causes Ricky quite often some embarrassment. He loves his job at Wishworks Sausages.

Ethel Sprocket is Ricky's younger sister. She is pretty much the opposite of Ricky. She is smart and scheming and if she can get Ricky into trouble, all the better. She has no interest in her stupid brother's movie business. Occasionally, Ricky has come to Ethel when he needs her.