True: Tricky Treat Day

Netflix Jr cut a four-minute snack. It has nearly 40 million views.

True: Tricky Treat Day arrived on Netflix on 20 September 2019 as a 23-minute Halloween special. TV-Y. Title 81035117. The plot is a hungry Yeti who sneaks a forbidden treat and fills the Rainbow Kingdom with Howling Greenies. latestnetflix.com's view is that Three weeks later Netflix Jr posted Don't Eat the Tricky Treats, a 4-minute 7-second cut of the same scare.That clip now sits near 40 million views. The preschool series never needed a scandal. It needed a YouTube snack parents could replay in October.,,,

Holiday product, not a leftover episode.

Guru Studio had already sold Netflix on a 2019 dump of seasonal specials, shorts, and a 44-minute movie. Animation Magazine's October 2018 pickup story quoted president Frank Falcone cheering the streamer's marketing team and pointing at Walmart toys and Party City costumes. Tricky Treat Day was the Halloween slot. Animation Magazine later listed it ahead of TRUE: Grabbleapple Harvest on 1 November and the 45-minute TRUE: Winter Wishes on 26 November. Wikipedia parks the same titles with Happy Hearts Day, Wuzzle Wegg Day, Rainbow Rescue, and Friendship Day. TVDB logs Tricky Treat Day as a 20 September special, not a numbered episode.,,,

The grown-up names on the call sheet still look like a stunt. Guru in Toronto. Home Plate Entertainment. Miami art duo FriendsWithYou. Pharrell Williams's I Am Other. Mary Bredin, then Guru's EVP of content, told Animation World Network after the season-three pickup that Netflix had been a wonderful partner and the audience was still growing. Former Netflix kids director Dominique Bazay called the show the gold standard for preschool look and feel. Guru's own project page now brags about more than a billion YouTube views, five billion social impressions, and 50-plus licensing deals.,

The voices are Canadian. Michela Luci is eight-year-old True. Jamie Watson is Bartleby the cat. Eric Peterson is the Rainbow King. Netflix also lists Anna Claire Bartlam, Nicolas Aqui, Cory Doran, Julie Lemieux, and Derek McGrath. Wikipedia adds a July 2017 Grove at Farmers Market sneak peek with Falcone, Bill Schultz, Pharrell, FriendsWithYou, Kelly Rowland, Christina Milian, and Tyga in the room, more than two years before this Halloween drop. The special is the franchise doing what preschool brands do in Q4. Put a Yeti in a candy gag, clip it for Netflix Jr, and keep the plush in the cart.,,