Tip's Nursery

Tip's Nursery is a Kuboian preschool traditionally animated television series. The show was produced by Kubokartoonz, and was the studio's fifth animated series. The show centres around a black cat who helps her owner run a daycare centre.

The show's premise was created by Ashley Maverick, though a majority of the characters and plot elements were developed by Harlow Morrison. A series was aired in 1998 for Tiny Vision, whilst a second and third series aired in 1999 and 2002 respectively on KT.

Tip's Nursery has received mostly mixed reviews, with audiences generally praising the animation, voice acting and production, though some of the show's characters and morals have been criticised. Despite this, it proved popular throughout the 2000s, with a lot of merchandise based on the show being produced several years after it ended production.

Premise
Tip is a black cat who is owned by a middle-aged man called Declan Colonies. Declan runs a daycare centre for children after school, during weekends, and during the school holidays, with the children attending either due to their parents having to go to work, the children wanting to make new friends, or both.

The show focuses on Tip and Declan as they look after the children at the daycare. Though Tip and Declan appear in every episode, the children characters who appear in each episode change frequently, with some episodes having more than others. In addition to humans, several animals are featured in the show. Several of the cats and dogs, including Tip, are capable of speaking to each other and the humans, though some of them are incapable of speech.

According to Harlow Morrison, Tip's Nursery is centred around self-expression, with many of the show's characters having important character traits that make them unique.

Development
Tip's Nursery was created by Ashley Maverick in 1994, though did not spend much time developing the show due to being busy working on The New Adventures of The Sweet Treets and Magma Eye. Harlow Morrison therefore spent more time developing the show.

Development of the show began in late 1994. Due to Kubokartoonz receiving criticism due to the lack of diversity in their shows, Morrison decided that a large focus of Tip's Nursery would be about celebrating self-expression. At one point, the show was set in a school, and Tip would help the head teacher with running the school, though Morrison was unsure how well the idea would work, so he changed the setting to a daycare.

Due to being in development at the same time as Magma Eye, both it and Tip's Nursery share a lot of the same voice actors and writers, with the two also referencing each other regularly. Morrison also mentioned that the producers of the two shows would contact each other frequently - Morrison said that, for example, they could suggest an idea that did not work for one show that could work for another.

Production
The first series was produced from 1996 to 1997 and aired in 1998, whilst the second series was produced from early 1998 to early 1999, and aired in the latter portion of the latter year. Although the show was supposed to end after the second series, Morrison was requested to make a third series due to the show's popularity. The third series was produced in 2001 and aired in 2002. Shortly after the third series concluded, Morrison said the show had officially ended in order to focus on Kubokartoonz' other franchises, as well as Tangle Jam, which was in production at the time.