Taffy (TV series)

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. In September 2019, a second season was renewed. 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 delayed indefinitely. Cyber Group Studios instead aired most of the second season on Disney Channel in most of Europe.

Plot
The series follows a stray, grey raccoon named Scraggs, who gets adopted by Mrs. Muchmore after thinking he is a cat named Taffy. Her main pet, a blue dobermann named Bentley, is determined to reveal Taffy's secret to Mrs. Muchmore which leads luxurious antics as both Bentley and Scraggs/Taffy attempt to outdo each other with the goal of both being to rid the property of the other one. Other characters include Mrs. Muchmore's butler, Forsythe, her lovestruck 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 and Forsythe's child genius nephew Alex, whose inventions tend to wind up occasionally being used by Scraggs/Taffy or Bentley against one another.

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 '50s and '90s. 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.

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

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.