Funnybones is a Welsh-British children's animated television comedy series, which originally aired on S4C in Wales, and on BBC One with BBC Two showing repeats elsewhere in the United Kingdom from 29 September to 15 December 1992. It was based on the eponymous series of nine storybooks, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, which were illustrated by André Amstutz, and focused on the adventures of a pair of skeletons who were the eponymous Funnybones, in the book of the same name, which was released in 1980. The characters in the series are Big Funnybone (whose catchphrase was "good idea"), Little Funnybone (the brains of the group), Dog, Funnybone (whose catchphrase was "Woof") and Cat (whose catchphrase was "Meow"). Each of the show's episodes was five minutes in length.
Cast[]
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All characters
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Griff Rhys Jones |
International versions[]
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Finnish | unknown | Yle TV2 (formerly) |
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French | Les Bizardos | Télévision de Radio-Canada (formerly) |
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Hebrew | העצמות המצחיקות | Israeli Educational Television (formerly) |
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Irish | Smior agus Smiortán | RTÉ1 (formerly) RTÉ2 (formerly) |
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Portuguese (Brazil) | Esqueletão, Esqueletinho e Esquelecão | TV Cultura (formerly)[1] |
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Portuguese (Portugal) | Os Esqueletos | RTP2 (formerly) |
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Spanish | ¡Que risa de huesos! | Cablín (formerly) Canal Once (formerly) |
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Welsh | Sgerbyde | S4C (formerly) |