Papa Louie and Pals

Papa Louie and Pals is an American Animated live action/animated television show produced by Studio Upstairs in co-operation with Flipline Studios and Hartbreak Films. The series is based off the Papa games by Tony Solary and Matt Neff, and is the first show based around the game.

The show is a mix between live action and animation, with the live-action parts taking place at the end of each episode with Randy Peterson hosting the segments.

Premise
Season 1's animated segments take place on 16 Different days. Papa Louie picks 2 different employees to run his different franchises, but little does the employees know that Louie's tricks are all part of the fun (more or less) as they have to work at one of the restaurants to get exactly what they want. Usually, things never go as plan as running a restaurant is quite hard in reality.

At the end of each episode, there's a live action segment starring Papa Louie as he teaches every kid (and adult). Delicious recipes that they too can make at home as part of Papa's TV. (Where Roy is the Cameraman).

Season 2's animated segments take place during the events of Papa's Freezeria Deluxe. Where a dangerous storm on the S.S Louie causes all the characters to live on the Island for quite some time. At the end of the season, Papa Louie is found by the authorities and Louie himself announces the Volcano Gala fundraiser. Which is success, for the final episode, everybody heads home thanks to underwater Taxis.

Also in Season 2, the live-action segments were dropped completely.

Production
On November 18th 2016, Tony Solary and Matt Neff announced that they struck a deal with Studio Upstairs for media rights, including rights for an upcoming TV show. Later on June 23rd 2017, concept art for the show was accidentally leaked on twitter by Vera Peterson, eventually, she apologised and the concept art post was deleted 2 days later.

Not much was said about the project until mid-2018 when Upstairs announced that the show would air on Netflix. However, a few months after the announcement, Tony Solary claimed that this was no longer the case as Netflix wasn't interested. Solary then announced that the show would premier on YouTube on the "Upstairs Downstairs" channel.

In 2019, it was announced that the project was delayed due to "personal reasons". The show was then delayed again until 2021 thanks to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Production eventually resumed starting from March 2021, with Neff announcing that the show would premier next year. Eventually in March 2022, it was announced that the events of Cluckeria and Mocharia will be included in the show. With the first teaser dropping that month.

Eventually, the show Premiered on YouTube on July 16th 2022, Attracting 50 million viewers or so in its first month.

Cast
See: List of Papa Louie and Pals Characters

Broadcast
The show first premiered on the Upstairs Downstairs Youtube channel on July 16th 2022, the show aired one week later on FamilyGo, and landed on Netflix on the 29th July 2022. The show eventually aired in the UK on Pop, and Pop Max in August, ABC ME in Australia starting from September, and YTV starting in October in Canada.