Taffy is an animated television series co-created by Mike de Seve and Pierre Sissman. The series is produced by Cyber Group Studios, in co-production with Turner Broadcasting System Europe with the participation of France 4 for the first season and WarnerMedia and Gulli for the second season. The series airs on Boomerang all across Europe. The series is being renewed for a second season. On March 30, 2022, Cyber Group Studios and Gulli renewed the series for a third season.
In July 2022, the show (along with some others) was removed from all Boomerang international channels following the Warner Bros-Discovery purge for tax write-off purposes, thus the rest of the show being dealyed indefinetly. The second season continued airing on Disney Channel in most of Europe, where the series was re-acquired from WB.
Plot
The series follows a grey raccoon, Scraggs, who gets adopted by Mrs. Muchmore after thinking he is a cat named Taffy. Her main pet, a dobermann named Bentley, is determined to reveal Taffy's secret to Mrs. Muchmore lead a luxurious. Other characters include Mrs. Muchmore’s butler, Forsythe, her fitness trainer, Binikos, and friends – Addie, a little girl and Mrs. Muchmore's granddaughter, and Taffy’s raccoon friends from the dump, Mish and Mash. Several other secondary and background characters appear often in the show, like Mrs. Muchmore's friends, Mrs. Highcost and Mrs. Allperfect, who are also rich ladies.
Production
In July 2017, France Televisions partnered up with Boomerang to begin producing a Tom and Jerry-inspired slapstick cartoon, which would premiere in Fall 2018 with a total of 78 episodes. The show uses digital puppet animation, with stylized designs reminiscient of cartoons in the 90's and 50's. In September 2019, a second season was renewed, containing 78 7-minute segments, which was set to premiere in 2020 but was delayed to 2022 in multiple Boomerang channels.
Cast
French
Emmanuel Garijo as Scraggs, a.k.a. "Taffy" Xavier Fagnon as Bentley Fily Keita as Mrs. Muchmore ("Madam Millesous")
Additional voices: Marc Pérez Marie Zidi Magalie Rosenzweig
English
Billy Bob Thompson as Scraggs, a.k.a. "Taffy" Tyler Bunch as Bentley Serra Hirsch as Mrs. Muchmore Jeffrey Hylton as Forsythe Starr Busby as Binikos Maggie Politi as Mrs. Highcost Maria Bamford as Addie Lisa Ortiz as Mish Vega de Seve as Mash Natalie Hitzel as Mrs. Allperfect Barrett Leddy as Bradley
Additional voices: Dan Green as Ghost Bentley Marc Thompson as Ghost Taffy
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2019)
Season 2 (2022) These episodes were first shown in Boomerang Southeast Asia.
Broadcast
The series premiered on Boomerang Africa on 17 December 2018, and later aired on multiple Boomerang stations around the world in 2019, particularly in the UK, which started airing the show on January 7, 2019 and in the Middle East, where it aired in May 2019 on Boomerang MENA. It also came in India on January 24, 2022 on Cartoon Network and in Pakistan on February 19, 2022 on the latter. Series one is available on Amazon Prime, and the second series airs on CBBC and is available on BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom.
See also
The Tom and Jerry Show - Another Flash-animated slapstick cartoon that also aired on Boomerang, albeit by Renegade Animation