The Adventures of Puss in Boots

The Adventures of Puss in Boots
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Genre	Comedy Action Adventure Animation
Starring	Eric Bauza Jayma Mays Joshua Rush
Theme music composer	Shawn Patterson
Composer(s)	Shawn Patterson
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Doug Langdale
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	DreamWorks Animation Television
Release
Original network	Netflix
Original release	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16) – present (present)
External links
Website

The Adventures of Puss in Boots is an American computer-animated television series. It stars the character Puss in Boots from the DreamWorks Animation Shrek franchise. The first season debuted on January 16, 2015 on Netflix, when the first five episodes were released, with further episodes released in May and September 2015. A second season was released on December 11, 2015.

Plot

The series sees Puss in Boots fight off an endless legion of invaders to protect the previously hidden city of San Lorenzo, after his actions unintentionally broke the spell that protected its legendary mystic treasure from the outside world and must also find a way to restore the protection spell that will cloak the town once more.

Characters

Main

• Puss in Boots (voiced by Eric Bauza) – The titular character.
• Dulcinea (voiced by Jayma Mays) – A female cat who is Puss's love interest. Mays describes her as sweet and naive, very innocent and sheltered.
• Artephius (voiced by Paul Rugg) – An elderly alchemist who acts as a mad scientist.
• Señora Zapata (voiced by Carla Jimenez) – The administrator of the town's orphanage. She is suspicious of Puss's activities.
• Mayor Temoroso (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) – A big guy who likes to keep a low profile by hiding inside barrels.
• Pajuna (voiced by Laraine Newman) – Pajuna is a Highland cow who is the owner of the local cantina.
• Vina (voiced by Grey Griffin) – An older orphan who makes up facts and sometimes steps into Puss's personal space.
• Toby (voiced by Joshua Rush) – An orphan. He is a pig who idolizes Puss.
• Kid Pickles (voiced by Candi Milo) – A "Runyon-esque" 11-year-old who likes pickles.
• Esme (voiced by Ariebella Makana) – A 5-year-old girl who is described as adorable.
• Cleevil (voiced by Candi Milo) – A street-smart goblin in her early teens.
• Sphinx (voiced by Grey DeLisle) – A hairless, winged cat who acts a little like a valley girl and a hipster. She protects the City Of San Lorenzo.

Recurring

• El Moco (voiced by Danny Trejo) – A bandit king who is often foiled in the episodes.
• The Duchess (voiced by Maria Bamford) – One of the recurring villains in the series. She steals the souls of magicians and sorcerers to use their powers- denying observations that she has no magic of her own- and was involved with Artephius; she also had a previous fight with Puss, in which the latter had cut off her foot.
• Jack Sprat (voiced by John Leguizamo) – One of Puss's oldest friends who often gets Puss in trouble with his schemes.
• Goodsword (voiced by John Rhys-Davies) – An enchanted sword who falls from the sky stuck into a stone, then chooses Dulcinea to be the town's hero.

Episodes

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally released
			First released	Last released
	1	15	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)	September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
	2	11	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)

Season 1 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"Hidden"	Luther McLaurin & Lane Lueras	Doug Langdale	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)
Puss is in a town when he encounters Dulcinea who is being harassed by thieves. After rescuing her, he helps her buy some silk, but gets concerned that she might be attacked on her way home, so he follows her to the desert and through a hidden portal to the legendary town of San Lorenzo. There he meets the town's residents who have been living in secrecy for many years. Dulcinea shows Puss their town's treasure room, but when Puss steals a coin from the vault, he inadvertently breaks the spell that has cloaked the town, and must defend it from the oncoming thugs. Afterwards, he agrees to stay around to protect the town.
2	2	"Sphinx"	Lane Lueras	Doug Langdale	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)
Puss accidentally gives the orphans a magic substance that will ultimately make them explode. The only cure is guarded by a Sphinx who challenges Puss with riddles – and contrary to his own belief, Puss is not good at riddles.
3	3	"Brothers"	Lane Lueras	Greg White	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)
Puss is Toby's new best friend, and it's driving Puss crazy. When Toby is kidnapped by his ninja brothers, Puss realizes how much he misses the big oaf. Unfortunately, the brothers use Toby to steal a powerful gauntlet from the treasure house, which they plan to use for "mad evil, bro."
4	4	"Duchess"	David Mucci Fassett	Jesse Porter	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)
The Duchess seeks Artephius' soul for her spell collection and it's up to Puss to protect him. It turns out that The Duchess and Artephius have a complicated relationship.
5	5	"Adventure"	Luther McLaurin	Ben Acker & Ben Blacker	January 16, 2015 (2015-01-16)
Puss misses the old days adventuring with his buddy Jack Sprat. Fearful he will leave San Lorenzo, Dulcinea concocts a super special adventure surprise with the orphans. But Jack Sprat shows up with the promise of a damsel in distress....who turns out to be a super scary monster.
6	6	"Fountains"	Douglas Lovelace	Doug Langdale	May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08)
When Puss's old master, White Glove, comes to town Puss is shocked to hear that he is retiring. So in order to prevent this Puss, Artephius, and Dulcinea go in search of the fountain of youth which is guarded by a firebreathing Sphinx.
7	7	"Bravery"	David Mucci Fassett	Greg White	May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08)
The mayor, Temoroso, constantly wakes Puss with his paranoid fears. In an attempt to make the mayor braver Puss and Dulcinea hire bandits to pretend that the mayor defeats them. Feeling brave the mayor becomes a wandering hero while Puss is made mayor. Only the mayor angers the bandits and they attack the town leading to a bizarre fight with a barrel.
8	8	"Golem"	Luther McLaurin	Jesse Porter	May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08)
Long ago, Puss angered an evil wizard, who then created a golem to hunt Puss down. When the golem finally tracks Puss to San Lorenzo, Puss must discover a way to get the golem to stop chasing him and obey new orders. Things get out of hand, however, when the orphans start giving the golem their own commands.
9	9	"Boots"	Roy Burdine	Tad Stones	May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08)
When Jack Sprat comes back to town, he tricks Puss into letting him into the treasure room so he can steal the 7 League boots which grant the wearer incredible speed. Only problem is the boots unleash a demon called the Devil Wind that Puss and Jack must defeat together.
10	10	"Sword"	David Mucci Fassett	Ben Acker & Ben Blacker	May 8, 2015 (2015-05-08)
Dulcinea becomes enchanted with heroic powers when she pulls a magical sword from a stone, and Puss must help her learn how to control her strength.
11	11	"Mouse"	Roy Burdine	Candie Kelty Langdale	September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
Fartholomew Fishflinger, an evil wizard Artephius turned into a mouse, comes to San Lorezo to seek his revenge and to become a human again by stealing the souls of the people.
12	12	"Goblin"	Douglas Lovelace	Jesse Porter	September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
A tomboyish Goblin comes to the San Lorenzo orphanage and befriends nearly the all the orphans and Puss, but is soon revealed to be an ally of the Duchess.
13	13	"Star"	Roy Burdine	Julia Yorks	September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
Dulcinea befriends a magical wishing star (voiced by Jack McBrayer) and begins using wishes to assist her friends, only to received unexpected results.
14	14	"Pigs"	Mucci Fassett	Greg White	September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
When Brandt, one of Toby's ninja brothers, becomes convinced that the rest are under the spell of a wizard, he goes to Puss for assistance.
15	15	"Luck"	Mucci Fassett	Ben Acker & Ben Blacker	September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
A Goblin bewitches Puss with bad luck (subsequently turning him into a black cat), subsequently causing him to be expelled from San Lorenzeo and he befriends 3 LARP-esque black cats who try to convince him to turn to a life of crime.

Season 2 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
16	1	"Dragon"	Douglas Lovelace	Greg White	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss attempts to slay a dragon, but changes his mind when the beast reveals its gentle nature and follows him back to San Lorenzo.
17	2	"Moles"	Roy Burdine	Doug Langdale	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss and Jack Sprat attempt to claim jewels underneath San Lorenzo while contending with humanoid moles and their king.
18	3	"Mermaid"	Ben Juwono	Greg White	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
To prove that he is a ladies man, Puss rescues a hideous mermaid that starts to follow him everywhere he goes, much to his dismay.
19	4	"Bees"	Roy Burdine	Candie Kelty Langdale	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss must face his fear of bees to stop a greedy piper who brought the bees to the village to begin with.
20	5	"Squad"	Douglas Lovelace	Jesse Porter	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss trains the orphan kids to be the towns next defense in his absence and they're put to the test when he's kidnapped by an old enemy.
21	6	"Spells"	Ben Juwono	Ben Acker & Ben Blacker	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss's attempts to have San Lorenzo protection spell restored cause him to accidentally bring Artiphius's owl macrame shop to life
22	7	"Scimitar"	Douglas Lovelace	Jesse Porter	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss reluctantly lets the evil sword Scimitar guide him to where he may find a magical rod, but the sword begins to corrupt Dulcinea.
23	8	"Stories"	Roy Burdine	Ben Acker & Ben Blacker	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
The orphans and Artiphius stall a thunder god from retrieving his thunder shard from the town treasure hall by telling him exaggerated stories of Puss's adventures.
24	9	"Sphere"	Douglas Lovelace	Jesse Porter	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
The Mole King's shiny orb is part of the San Lorenzo treasure house and Puss decides to trade it for another one if he can get the king and his ex-beau back together.
25	10	"Si"	Ben Juwono	Greg White	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
Puss must fight the Duchess to retrieve San Lorenzo's final treasure, a coin Puss took from the treasure house that caused the protection spell on San Lorenzo to be removed.
26	11	"No?"	Jim Hull	Doug Langdale	December 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
The wizard who made the protection spell on San Lorenzo banishes Puss for disabling the spell, but Dulcinea discovers that he is a fraud.

Production

The series was announced in March 2014 as part of an agreement between Netflix and DreamWorks Animation, under which the studio will develop more than 300 hours of exclusive programming for the service. A total of 78 episodes are in production for the series, and they are expected to be released in blocks from 2015 onward in a multi-year deal.

Critical reception

The New York Times gave the first episode a positive review stating that the show "is nicely drawn, and San Lorenzo is populated with some appealingly odd young residents, human and otherwise." Moreover, they praised the humour stating that it was "relatively sophisticated (you could write a psychological treatise on Dulcinea, who has modeled her life on a somewhat vacuous book of epigrams), but not so sophisticated that children will be left behind."

Awards and nominations

In 2015, the second episode of the series, "Sphinx", was nominated at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Comic book

In April 2016, Titan Comics released the first of a two-issue limited series of comic books as a tie-in to the TV show, under the same title of The Adventures of Puss in Boots.

External links

• Official website
• Official website at Netflix
• The Adventures of Puss in Boots at IMDb