Noonbory and the Super Seven

Noonbory and the Super Seven
English title screen
Genre	Children's CGI animated cartoon
Directed by	Laura Shepherd
Starring	Kevin Aichele (as Wangury) Brent Hirose(as Noonbory) Margaux Miller Markian Tarasuik Steed Crandell (as Bakerbory)
Opening theme	"Noonbory and the Super Seven" (Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc)
Ending theme	"Noonbory and the Super Seven" (Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc - instrumental)
Country of origin	Canada South Korea
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	Approx. 28 minutes
Production company(s)	Knowledge Network CTV Two Alberta BBC Kids SCN Daewon Media Cookie Jar Entertainment
Broadcast
Original channel	Knowledge/BBC Kids (Canada) WUCW/CBS (Cookie Jar Kids Network/Cookie Jar TV) (U.S.) EBS (South Korea) Tiny Pop (UK)
Picture format	ATSC
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	September 19, 2009 – December 12, 2009

Noonbory and the Super Seven (눈보리 in Korean; which roughly translates to "Nunbori" in English) is an Canadian-South Korean animated television series produced by Daewon Media, and Cookie Jar Entertainment for Nickelodeon.

Summary

The pilot episode aired on KEWLopolis on CBS on August 15, 2009. It premiered on Cookie Jar TV on CBS on September 19, 2009. The first "o" on the "Noonbory and the Super 7" title is edited to look like Noonbory's face - suggesting that he is the leader of the "Super Bory" pack. This show has a narrator that enhances the educational aspect of the show - similar to the Curious George and Madeline cartoons. All episodes of this show are rated TV-Y and C. Despite the superhero nature of this show, any violence shown is completely slapstick and is not considered to be fantasy violence approaching the level of TV-Y7 (C8) rated television shows. Educational concepts taught in the show includes basic science components, teamwork, social skills, and memory.

On December 16th 2011, Nickelodeon's sister channel, Nick Jr. will start broadcasting Noonbory and the Super 7.

Each of the "super" seven heroes (male and female) are based on the five physical senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing) in addition to the two mental senses (nonsense and common sense). Noonbory (the main character) is considered to have the ability for common sense. The settings include the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, and autumn) that make up the Technicolor world of Toobalooba. All the characters that are on the same side as the protagonists have the suffix -bory in their name while all the villains have the suffix -gury in their name. Instead of saying the word "everybody," people in the cartoon use the made-up word "everybory" instead (while occasionally saying "everybory and everygury.")

The cast of villains include Wangury and his band of Bullygury pirates (Mungury and Taegury), a lonely girl named Rosygury and an abominable snowman named Coldygury that can throw snowballs from his hat when he is angry at "somebory" or "somegury." Other characters including in the television show are the Beebees, Bakerbory, Doctorbory, Farmerbory, Babysitterbory, and the singing flowers. The finale of the first season aired on CBS during the weekend of December 12–13, 2009. The Borys and Gurys celebrate Christmas in "Kiki's Gift" and "Santa's Cave." It ended on September 11, 2010.

Show concepts

Borys and Gurys

• Everything has a black-and-white mentality to it; there is no neutral group (Bory or Gury) to counteract the lawful good nature of the Bory people or the chaotic evil of the Gury people.
  • Any character with a suffix of "Bory" is a good guy while anyone with a suffix of "Gury" is a bad guy. While this sounds simple and childish, that is how things are dealt with in Toobalooba.
  • A "Bory" can never become a "Gury" by doing an especially heinous deed (to counteract his good nature) and a "Gury" can never become a "Bory" by doing an exceptionally good deed (to counteract his evil nature).
• Although rarely seen, Borys and Gurys can co-exist with each other when the need arrives.
  • Doctorbory comes to give Coldygury some orders to rest when he was infected with Singeritis. The "disease" was spread from Coldgury to Pongdybory and to Wangury before being contained.
  • In a previous episode, the Ghostygurys have also helped Noonbory and his friends defeat the plans of Wangury and his henchmen.
  • Rosygury has enlisted the help of Kikibory by pretending to be a Bory in distress. Using Kikibory, she has managed to steal valuables that belong to various members of the Bory tribe.
• However, Wangury never seeks of help of any Bory because he wants to conquer Toobalooba. He even makes enemies of the other Gurys (on a temporary basis) when they become nice to the Borys.
  • For example, Wangury steals Coldygury's sled when he wants to have a sled race with the Borys. At first, Coldgury was furious at the Borys for not having his sled and attacked them with snowballs. Wangury turned out to be the culprit near the end of the episode.
• Mamby is the only "Bory" that cannot speak, but can whistle and transform into just about anything, such as a parachute. This character has the additional ability to stretch its body far.

Abilities

• Taste - Having this super ability allows Totobory to taste things without actually consuming it. This is good for when Totobury has to compare some food-related item to another.
• Hearing - This super ability permits Jettybory to hear things from far away.
• Sight - Lunabory can see things from farther away than anyone else.
• Nonsense - Lukybory has a hard time making sense of things; he has a younger sister named Kikibory who has a supersonic scream.
• Common sense - Noonbory uses this sense to figure out the most logical thing to do next. He is the only Bory with an older relative seen in the show.
• Smell - Pongdybory has the ability to smell things even though it occasionally followed by a powerful sneeze.
• Touch - Cozybory has the ability to feel things using the sense of touch.

Characters

Noonbory

Noonbury is a 10 year old and is the leader of the Superbory pack. He uses a helicopter device (wind bike) to fly across vast distances in addition to using a shield that can stop things in its track. Noonbory usually says "let's make super sense of this" before they sensitize, or sometimes after they sensitize. "Hurry Scurry" is another catch phrase of Noonbory. There's a little yellow Bory (Mamby) who is Noonbory's sidekick. Mamby can transform into anything, like a parachute or a mattress. Noonbory wears headgear in the shape of Mamby.

Cozybory

Cozybory is a 9 year old who is usually painting pictures or doing other feminine things while not out with the "Super Bory" team. She wears a pink dress and likes to touch things.

Lunabory

is a 8 year old superbory and is one of the Super 7. Her supersense is the ability of sight as she can see far distances with her supersenses usually when the sitiuation calls for it like when they need to find the gury that is usually causing trouble for the episode. She usually says " Seeing is believing" as her catchphrase when she uses her powers. One time she used her powers to help win a game, but in the end she learned her lesson of cheating.

Jettybory

is a 9 year old Superbory. She is a member of the super seven and has the supersense of hearing and can hear from great distances.

Lukybory

is the seventh unofficial member of the Super 7, however he represents uncommon sense he tends to make the sitiuation unitentionally worse as he is the only other memember who doesn't have a supersense other than Noonbory. Sometimes he provides the answer to the sitiuation. Ironically Lukybory doesn't have any powers, but his little sister Kikibory has the ability to emit super sound.

Kikibory

Kikibory is the little sister of Lukybory. She has the ability to emit supersound waves from her mouth, but once abused it.

Totobory

He is one of the Super 7. His supersense taste he can taste things without actually eating the food, he also has these leaf like petals on his head that act like tentacles that can allow him pick these that either far away or too high.

Pongybory

He is one of the Super 7. As such, He has the supersense of smell making able to smell things from far away when he uses this power two pink snout like markings on his face glow and he is able to smell things that are far away.

Hanubi

Noonbory's grandfather Hanubi can perform all sorts of magical acts from disappearing to teleportation to switching peoples minds in different bodies. Sometimes, though he can be distracted. In one episode, he used a spell that made everything smaller and multiplied by six. He accidentally made six little Wangurys because he said "Too late to look, need a magical fix, make this smaller and do it times six." Hanubi is very old and wise. He carries a magic stick (staff) from a very old tree and looks like an older version of Noonbory with a mustache.

Bakerbory

Bakerbory loves making bread and pies for all the Borys in Toobalooba. However, his food is always being stolen by Wangury and his henchmen. He lives at his bakery and loves entertaining the Super Borys.

Babysitterbory

She is often given the task of taking care of the Kidborys. Once in a while, a Super Bory accepts the offer to temporarily babysit the Kidborys but ends up losing them. However, Babysitterbory is always grateful for the Super Borys once all of Babysitterbory's children have been rescued.

Builderborys

The Builderborys are a group a borys who build things for other borys throughout village. There craftmenship ranges around carpnetry such as building swings, toys, ect. They always were there hard hats when on the job to be safe when they are building. Usually they are frequently in distressed some episodes.

Doctorbory

Doctorbory has been known not only to treat Borys but Gurys as well. She is the only Bory to be treated with respect by Wangury. For illnesses like Singeritis, Doctorbory always gives out a sweet treat.

Coldygury

He can only live in Winter where it is always cold. He speaks in sentences using the style of an illeist and is often the first to help a Bory. Always targeted by Wangury, Coldygury has a defense mechanism of throwing snowballs at anyone when he gets angry. If taken too close to Spring (where the Borys live), Coldygury starts to melt and become smaller until he vanishes completely.

Ghostgurys

Living in the haunted forest, all the Ghostgurys want to have some peace and quiet with anybody to disturb their rest. They have been known to scare Wangury in addition to Noonbory's gang.

Wangury

He is the evil pirate mastermind who wants to take over Toobalooba and spread general havoc. Hated among even the other Gurys, Wangury is the most chaotic evil in Noonbory's world - spreading mischief and "super silly villainy" without respect for common sense. Wangury lives in a pirate ship but is never seen sailing it.

Rosygury

She is a young female Gury that lives near the Bory Village. She likes her roses and attacks any Bory who threatens her rose garden with vines. Unlike Coldygury, Rosygury uses complete sentences and have been know to get Borys to betray their kind by stealing valuable objects for her.

Dozegury

He is a dragon gury that is also evil. He is able to turn invisible, can transform things into other things, and, like other dragons, breath smoke out of his nose. It is unknown if he breathes fire. He also can be seen carring his trademark umbrella.

External links

• Noonbory and the Super Seven at the Internet Movie Database
• Toon Barn
• Common Sense Media
• The Cookie Jar Company