Episode
The Backyardigans: A Giant Problem
Overview
Queen Uniqua sends wizards, Tyrone and Pablo, out to get rid of Tasha, the giant. Tasha is new to the kingdom and is just looking for fun and new friends, but Queen Uniqua would rather take a nap. Before long, Tyrone and Pablo use a magic spell and manage to accidently turn everyone into giants.
Details
- Series
- The Backyardigans
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2008-01-17
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
A Giant Problem is Episode 21 in Season 2 of The Backyardigans. It aired on 2008-01-17. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 20: Catch That Butterfly
Professor Pablo is bound and determined to find the rarest specimen, the gilded butterfly. While he is out searching for it, he believes he stumbles upon it, and hires rugged stagecoach drivers Tyrone and Uniqua to help hunt in down in the Old West.
Episode 22: Newsflash
Tasha, Uniqua and Austin work for W-I-O-WA News (The Corniest Station in the Nation), which is a news station that usually ends up reporting on corn. Tyrone and Pablo are corn farmers who are so happy with their crop, that they keep sending in reports just to get on the air, but unfortunately it isn't considered newsworthy. They decide to make up some stories about aliens visiting their cornfields so that the news team will come out to investigate further and put their corn crops on their air.
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Episode 19: Tale of the Mighty Knights (2)
Knights Uniqua and Tyrone lose track of their charge, the king's special egg, and scour the countryside hoping to recover the precious item. Along the way they run into a goblin and a fairy, who don't exactly lend a hand in the search, but insist on tagging along. Audioslave writes and performs the new original song "I'm Not An Egg Anymore."
Episode 18: Tale of the Mighty Knights (1)
Uniqua and Tyrone are royal knights who are protecting King Pablo's egg. Grabbing Goblin Austin in Goblin Land and the Fairy Tasha want the egg for themselves. They follow King Pablo's egg to Dragon Mountain to retrieve it.
Episode 17: Best Clowns in Town
Pablo, Uniqua, and Austin are clowns who desperately want to be in the circus. Excitedly auditioning for the ringmaster, Tyrone, they miss the train that's moving his circus to the next town.
Episode 16: International Super Spy (2)
Episode 15: International Super Spy (1)
Miss T (Tasha), who is the head of the International Super Spy agency, orders Agent Secret (Pablo) to stop the villainous Lady in Pink (Uniqua) from stealing three top-secret containers. With the help of his undercover contact Austin, Agent Secret travels around the world to a exotic locations in London, Switzerland, Miami and the Caribbean to collect the three containers before the Lady in Pink and her evil henchman Tyrone, get a chance to steal them.
Episode 14: Into the Deep
Pablo and Tyrone are deep sea explorers who are looking for a mermaid to take pictures of. They find two, Tasha and Uniqua, who think they are being invaded and are going to be captured.
Episode 13: Sinbad Sails Alone
Sinbad (Tyrone) is sailing to find the end of the rainbow. Pablo, a young, inexperienced sailor (and a huge fan of Sinbad), sneaks aboard to help him. When Sinbad discovers this, he is upset, as he has always sailed alone and doesn't feel he need any help. Indeed, at first, Pablo seems like only a bother, causing the loss of ship's supplies, forcing them to take detours where they must play games to earn new supplies. Pablo, however, refuses to be daunted and searches for a way that he can help his idol.
Episode 12: Save The Day
Tasha is a fisherlady who has a knack for navigating into dangerous areas of the ocean. Pablo, Tyrone and Uniqua are part of a rescue squad, determined to save her. Tasha, on the other hand, is determined to catch a whopper and tries to rebuff their efforts to help.
Episode 11: Cops and Robots
Tasha and Pablo are a couple of bad robots who are out to destroy all of the worlds good robots and reprogram them to become bad.
Episode 10: Movers of Arabia
Movers Uniqua and Pablo are hired by the new Sultan of Arabia, to safely move his magical treasures from a cave in the desert to his new royal palace. Can they complete the job without using all of the genie's three wishes?