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The Tiny Chef Show is an American live-action/animated television series created by Rachel Larsen, Ozlem 'Ozi' Akturk and Adam Reid that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 9, 2022.
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| Genre | Comedy |
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| Opening theme | "Follow Your Nose" by Matt Hutchinson |
| Composer | Jared Faber |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 32 |
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| Network | Nickelodeon |
| Release | September 9, 2022 – present |
The Tiny Chef Show follows the chef as he whips up "weshipees" for tiny dishes from his tree-stump home, along with a robot named Olly, a snail named Henry and a caterpillar named Ruby.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [1][2] | Written by | Original air date [1][2] | Prod. code [1] | U.S. viewers (millions) | ||||
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| 1 | 1 | "Pancakes" | Alec Schwimmer | September 9, 2022 | 104 | 0.17[3] | ||||
| "S'Mores" | Jordan Gershowitz | |||||||||
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"Pancakes": Tiny Chef makes pancakes, but loses his confidence when he breaks his lucky pancake-flipping spatula and is unsure what to do. Guest star: Kristen Bell "S'Mores": With some help from his friends, Tiny Chef whips up something new for a campout. To do a campout, Tiny Chef must overcome his fear of the dark. Guest star: Tabitha Brown | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Pizza" | Rachel Larsen and Adam Reid | September 16, 2022 | 101 | 0.23[4] | ||||
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"Pizza": Tiny Chef makes pizza and learns friendship is more important than toppings after Ruby eats the basil that was to be used for the pizza. Guest star: Kristen Bell "Bread": Tiny Chef bakes bread, but forgets to watch his rising dough and needs to think fast when the dough grows too big. Guest star: Keith L. Williams | ||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Popcorn" | Sarah Nerboso | September 23, 2022 | 102 | 0.19[5] | ||||
| "Banana Toast" | Jim Nolan | |||||||||
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"Popcorn": Tiny Chef hosts movie night for friends and turns the tree stump into a popcorn machine to pop enough for everyone even with delivery girl friend Dana being in attendance. Guest star: Ca'Ron Coleman "Banana Toast": Tiny Chef makes banana toast. After squishing his perfect banana, has to create a new dish from the ruined banana. Guest star: Tabitha Brown | ||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Freeze Pops" | Jordan Gershowitz | September 30, 2022 | 103 | 0.22[6] | ||||
| "Lemonade" | Laura Kleinbaum | |||||||||
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"Freeze Pops": Tiny Chef makes freeze pops. Due to them taking long to freeze up, Tiny Chef turns down the freezer's temperature enough to trap them in a block of ice. Guest star: Josh Gad "Lemonade": Tiny Chef is making tiny lemonade. This becomes hard as Ruby keeps eating the red ingredients. Guest star: RZA | ||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Cranberry Cookies" | Sarah Jenkins | October 7, 2022 | 105 | 0.24[7] | ||||
| "Snap Pea Stir-Fry" | Teresa Lee | |||||||||
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"Cranberry Cookies": Tiny Chef and Olly find that a ladybug has moved into the neighborhood. In order to welcome it, they work to make cranberry cookies. Guest star: That Girl Lay Lay "Snap Pea Stir Fry": Tiny Chef wants to make snap pea stir-fry until he injures his arm. When Olly, Ruby, and Henry want to help out, Tiny Chef insists that he can do it on his own which proves to be difficult for him. Guest stars: Sky Brown and Ocean Brown | ||||||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Apple Pie Crumble" | Sara Karimipour | October 14, 2022 | 106 | N/A | ||||
| "Guacamole" | Rebecca Delgado | |||||||||
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"Apple Pie Crumble": Tiny Chef and Olly make an apple pie for a local baking contest. When the top crust gets ruined during the trip there, Tiny Chef will have to turn it into another food before the baking contest starts. Guest star: Josh Dela Cruz as Josh "Guacamole": Tiny Chef makes guacamole with his new tool. Though Olly wants to have a turn with it. Guest star: Josh Gad | ||||||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Ants on a Log" | Ta'riq Fisher | October 21, 2022 | 107 | 0.20[8] | ||||
| "Quesadillas" | Sarah Nerboso | |||||||||
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"Ants on a Log": Tiny Chef is planning a picnic for Olly, Henry, and Ruby. As he prepares to prepare the food for the picnic, it ends up disappearing causing Tiny Chef to find out what happened to it. Guest star: Liza Koshy "Quesadillas": As Tiny Chef prepares to make quesadillas, he reaches an obstacle in the form of a salsa jar that won't open. When his friends take a shot at it, they are unable to open it causing them to come up with a solution to get it opened. Guest star: Bethany Rivera | ||||||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Mac and Cheese" | Rebecca Delgado | October 28, 2022 | 108 | 0.23[9] | ||||
| "Potato Stew" | Sarah Nerboso | |||||||||
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"Mac and Cheese": On a rainy day, Tiny Chef decides to make macaroni and cheese. While preparing it, Tiny Chef suffers a set back that involves having to deal with a leaky roof and the use of different items to catch the water drops that come through. Guest star: Josh Dela Cruz as Josh "Potato Stew": In this pirate-themed episode, Tiny Chef prepares a pirate-themed potato stew. He goes through the garden to look for the right component in order to improve the potato stew when cooking it. Guest star: Malia Dawkins | ||||||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [1][10] | Written by | Original air date [1][10] | Prod. code [1][11] | U.S. viewers (millions) | ||||
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| 9 | 1 | "Fwendsgiving" | Rachel Larsen | November 20, 2023 | 999 | 0.14[11] | ||||
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"Fwendsgiving": On Friendsgiving, it is snowing outside. Tiny Chef gets a call from Olly, Bonzo, and Spoon of the Stump Band that they will be delayed as Tiny Chef works to carry on without them. Soon, Tiny Chef gets worried that he might be celebrating Friendsgiving and his pumpkin feast on his own even when he hears on the radio that all flights have been cancelled. Guest star: Jackie Tohn "Home Movie Night": Tiny Chef holds his first home video showcase with Olly, Bonzo, Ruby, and Henry, and the Stump Band where they watch the different memories shown on their show like Ruby and Henry's moments, Bonzo's moments, Tiny Chef's most embarrassing moments, and Tiny Chef's presentation on turkeys. Tiny Chef wants to save the Golden Clip for last despite everyone else wanting to watch it next. | ||||||||||
| 10 | 2 | "Tiny Chef's Marvelous Mish Mesh Special" | Leah Gotcsik | December 4, 2023 | 201 | 0.13[11] | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly host their Christmas Mish Mesh Special where they celebrate everyone's Christmas traditions of Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa, and Tiny Chef makes his special Christmas cookies while picking out a marvelous outfit to wear. Tiny Chef also has arranged for Santa Claus to call them during their Mish Mesh special where he wrote a letter to him which wasn't picked up. Once a stamp was put on the letter, Tiny Chef resumes his call from Santa Claus as different people keep calling. When the letter for Santa Claus isn't picked up, Tiny Chef feels down as Olly works to get him into feeling good. Guest stars: Kristen Bell, Mayim Bialik, Santa J. Claus as Santa Claus, Young Dylan, April Moore, Jacob Moore, Justin Moore, Liam Moore, Kira Kosarin | ||||||||||
| 11 | 3 | "Donuts" | Leah Gotcsik | April 8, 2024 | 202A | 0.11[11] | ||||
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Today is Olly's birthday. Tiny Chef plans to make her a birthday surprise in the form of donuts. To keep from waking Olly, Tiny Chef works to make the donuts as quietly as he can with help from Henry, Ruby, Bonzo, and the local insects. Guest star: Jordan Chiles | ||||||||||
| 12 | 4 | "Rainbow Salad" | Lucas Mills | April 9, 2024 | 202B | N/A | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly prepare to babysit Jessica the Ladybug's many kids. They make a rainbow salad from colorful fruit from their garden as Olly suggests they play with Henry and Ruby. However, things start to go awry when the kids cause a mess. Guest star: Aneeshwar Kunchala | ||||||||||
| 13 | 5 | "Turon" | Brittany Rochford | April 10, 2024 | 203A | N/A | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly get a fruit delivery. As the fruit is too big, they have to figure out what it is and harvest it's inside for the appropriate dish. This causes them to become fruit detectives and exit their stump another way where they find the fruit is big and work to further identify it so that they can make a dish from it. Guest star: Ceci Balagot | ||||||||||
| 14 | 6 | "Matzo Ball Soup" | Michael Kaufman | April 11, 2024 | 203B | 0.09[11] | ||||
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Henry has come down with the "sneezles". To help Henry feel better, Tiny Chef and Olly make matzo ball soup. Then Ruby gets the "sneezles" causing Tiny Chef and Olly to tend to her. Afterwards, a setback in making the matzo ball soup occurs when Tiny Chef comes down with the "sneezles" causing Olly to carry on making matzo ball soup without him. Note: This is the first time where a "Dish with Chef" segment did not have a famous person on it. In this case, Olly got a call from Tiny Chef checking in on her. | ||||||||||
| 15 | 7 | "Peanut Butter & Jelly" | Cynthia Furey | April 15, 2024 | 204A | 0.10[11] | ||||
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The Stump Band are going on their snack break following a dance performance by Tiny Chef, Olly, Henry, and Ruby. Tiny Chef opts to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches avoid the Stump Band eating crackers from their van while Henry and Ruby cover the stump band by performance. Tiny Chef and Olly work to finish them before the Stump Band's snack break is done. Guest star: Lance Bass | ||||||||||
| 16 | 8 | "Potato Skins" "Potato Jackets" | Rachel Larsen | April 16, 2024 | 204B | 0.07[11] | ||||
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Today is Potato Day as the potato king Henry is going to be choosing his potato as Potato Day is Henry's favorite holiday. He chooses the russet potato. When it comes to Olly finding out about Henry's favorite potato dish, Henry doesn't remember as Tiny Chef struggles to remember what it is as he makes different potato dishes to see if one of them is the one that Henry likes. Guest star: Wolfgang Schaeffer | ||||||||||
| 17 | 9 | "Granola Bars" | Marty Johnson | April 17, 2024 | 205A | 0.11[11] | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly make granola bars. As they can't decide which flavor is the beast, they compete in a contest in a cook-off. With Morton the Butterfly as the judge, Tiny Chef and Ruby make peanut butter and cranberry granola bar while Olly and Henry make maple syrup and blueberry granola bars. The final ingredient they must add by the announcer's suggestion is pecans. | ||||||||||
| 18 | 10 | "Nachos" | Annabeth Bondor-Stone & Connor White | April 18, 2024 | 205B | 0.09[11] | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly go through the ideas to make the stump more fun. After fulfilling Ruby and Henry's ideas, they take Bonzo's idea to make nachos with a lot of beans. Winning "What's in My Bag?" for guessing beans correctly, Bonzo wins a boat full of beans and the opportunity to cook with Tiny Chef for the day. When it comes to the cooking of the nachos, Bonzo is very excited for wanting to use of the beans much to the dismay of Tiny Chef and Olly. Guest star: Cooper Barnes | ||||||||||
| 19 | 11 | "Fruit Chews" | Moujan Zolfaghari | April 22, 2024 | 206A | 0.13[11] | ||||
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The Stump's Annual Snail Race is occurring and Henry is partaking on it. Because Ruby ate the snacks for Henry, Tiny Chef and Olly work on making an energy snack for Henry in the form of fruit chews. With Olly keeping an eye on the race, Tiny Chef puts together the fruit chew recipe. Though Tiny Chef has a setback when the fruit chews take too long to set and that they won't be done setting in time as the announcer recaps the last time when the Chill-O-Matic was used. Guest star: Ryan Blaney | ||||||||||
| 20 | 12 | "Opera Cake" | Mia Resella | April 23, 2024 | 206B | 0.13[11] | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly find that Ruby is doing some singing as she wants to share it with the world. As Ruby works to do an opera song with Spoon, Olly works on a stage, and Tiny Chef works to make opera cake. Of course various noisy setbacks occur during the baking of the opera cake when it come to Olly making the stage outside with noisy construction and Ruby working on mastering an opera song that has a high C in it. Guest star: Victory Brinker | ||||||||||
| 21 | 13 | "Ice Cream" | Adam Reid | April 24, 2024 | 207A | 0.16[11] | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly sell their homemade vanilla ice cream to Henry and the Stump Band. Unfortunately, Bonzo shows up wanting ice cream only for Olly to tell Tiny Chef that they are out of homemade vanilla bean ice cream. To remedy this, Tiny Chef makes homemade vanilla bean ice cream with help from an ice cream maker named Old Cranky which they have a hard time operating. Guest star: Like Nastya | ||||||||||
| 22 | 14 | "Pasta & Sauce" | Gloria Shen | April 25, 2024 | 207B | 0.14[11] | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly have made pasta noodles. Now they must choose the sauce by rolling the Wheel of Sauces. It lands on Chef Brody Bambino's slow-cooked very difficult super-secret tomato sauce. They watch the videotape of Chef Bambino who advises them to make it to perfection as the videotape self-destructs. Upon opening the safe on top of the associated VHS, Tiny Chef and Olly access the recipe for the slow-cooked very difficult super-secret tomato sauce as they work to master it with the secret ingredient in the form of a strawberry and that the final stage is not listed. Note: This is the second time where a "Dish with Chef" segment did not have a famous person on it. In this case, Tiny Chef gets a call from Brody Bambino (portrayed by Matt Hutchinson) who gives him a tiny clue about what Tiny Chef hasn't done with the sauce yet. | ||||||||||
| 23 | 15 | "Chips & Dip" | Unknown | June 10, 2024 | 208A | N/A | ||||
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After a nightmare of an onion appearing during his snow cone gig, Tiny Chef receives the Potato Chip of the Month in the mail. The dip chosen to go with it as onion dip. Though Tiny Chef has an issue with chopping onions as they always make him cry. Tiny Chef chops the onion quick which makes him cry causing Olly to chill it for some minutes. As Tiny Chef is not ready to do another attempt at chopping, he and Olly work on the rest of the ingredients for the onion dip as he works to avoid chopping the onion. Guest star: Rob Gronkowski | ||||||||||
| 24 | 16 | "Bee's Knees Tea" | Unknown | June 11, 2024 | 208B | N/A | ||||
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Tiny Chef and Olly inform the viewers that the queen bee is coming to the stump and have plans to host a tea party. To go with the tea party, Tiny Chef and Olly make bee's knees tea which is a blend of chamomile, lavender blossoms, and lemongrass. When the queen bee and her subjects arrive, Olly does note that it is hot outside as Tiny Chef and Olly work to make the bee's knees tea. Though the heat causes a problem for some of the guests. Guest star: Liam Charles | ||||||||||
| 25 | 17 | "Dino Cake" | Unknown | June 12, 2024 | 209A | N/A | ||||
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Olly makes a video to show her Dinosaur Club her Triceratops model Sally. As her Dinosaur Club is coming to the stump, Tiny Chef and Olly plan to make chocolate Dino Cake. As Olly forgot to pick up the dinosaur name-tags at the store, Tiny Chef is asked to watch Sally as he has Henry, Ruby, and the Stump Band do something special as he makes a Super Sally-saurus Dino Cake as Tiny Chef gets carried away. Guest star: George Johnston IV | ||||||||||
| 26 | 18 | "Dumplings" | Unknown | June 13, 2024 | 209B | N/A | ||||
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Tiny Chef has spent years learning how to make dumplings in order to become a dumpling maestro. After lots of practice, he has become one. Tiny Chef shows what he has learned to the viewers by making dumplings. During the cooking, Olly managed to perfect one of the dumplings easily. When Tiny Chef does the advanced flower fold, Olly manages to perfect that as well. Tiny Chef soon loses his confidence. Guest star: Ming Tsai | ||||||||||
| 27 | 19 | "Avocado Sushi" | Unknown | June 17, 2024 | 210A | N/A | ||||
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Tiny Chef picks out the perfect avocado. When converting for the avocado sushi, Tiny Chef puts it through the ripening. As Tiny Chef is starting to get too busy with the ripening, it puts a delay in using the other ingredients. This causes Olly to handle the ingredients as Tiny Chef works on the third stage of the ripening of the perfect avocado. Guest star: Tricia Fukuhara | ||||||||||
| 28 | 20 | "Poi" | Unknown | June 18, 2024 | 210B | N/A | ||||
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Having set up the stump to resemble Hawaii, Tiny Chef gets the idea to make poi from Auli'i Cravalho. The show starts before Tiny Chef can hear the remaining instructions for poi. Though they get some mixed comments on how to properly get the taro root softened for the poi. Tiny Chef and Olly work to get the taro root softened with comical results. Guest star: Auli'i Cravalho | ||||||||||
| 29 | 21 | "Ruby Stew" | Unknown | June 19, 2024 | 211A | N/A | ||||
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Today is Ruby Day which commemorates Ruby as they wear Ruby Day shirts. Tiny Chef and Olly work to make ruby tarts with strawberries. Though there are some setbacks like the Ruby Day shirts getting shrunk when Bonzo handled the laundry which they wear as hats, the strawberry in question getting flattened after rolling out of control on the ramp causing them to substitute it with a mango, and the Ruby Day cutter getting dropped on the ground enough to break it. Guest stars: Jenni "JWoww" Farley, Meilani Mathews | ||||||||||
| 30 | 22 | "Smoothies" | Unknown | June 20, 2024 | 211B | N/A | ||||
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After doing Stump Chore Day, Tiny Chef and Olly make strawberry mint smoothies outside while Henry does some cleaning inside. Unfortunately, they forgot to bring the ingredients outside and they can't get in the different entrances as Henry doesn't want any of them inside while he is doing some cleaning. Even after they find another way to get the ingredients for their smoothies, Tiny Chef and Olly must find another to make smoothies without the blender. Guest star: Coyote Peterson | ||||||||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) | ||||
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| TBA | 1 | "Tiny Chef's Spooky Stump Spectacular" | Unknown | October 21, 2024 | 301 | N/A | ||||
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When Tiny Chef accidentally summons a spirit who dislikes Halloween, things keep going wrong with the Stump's Halloween special; Chef and Olly must find a sweet way to settle that spirit before he ruins Halloween with his tricks. Guest star: Alan Cumming | ||||||||||
| TBA | 2 | "Fwendsgiving Feast" | TBA | November 11, 2024 | 302 | TBD | ||||
| "Blueberry Crumble" | ||||||||||
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Chef wants to make a special dish for every single friend coming to Fwendsgiving, but struggles to do it all in time./The gang checks to The Other Side of the Fence so Olly can pick the first blueberry of the season. Guest star: Amirah Kassem Guest star: | ||||||||||
On August 12, 2020, it was announced that Nickelodeon had ordered the series from Imagine Kids+Family, Tiny Chef Productions, and Nickelodeon Animation Studio.[12] On August 4, 2022, it was announced that Kristen Bell would be an executive producer, and that the show would premiere on September 9, 2022.[13]
On November 2, 2023, it was announced that Nickelodeon renewed the series for a 22-episode second season, which premiered on November 20, 2023.[14]
Diondra Brown from Common Sense Media gave the series four-out-of-five stars, saying that it "will likely inspire children to want to get in the kitchen and make yummy dishes, big or small."[15]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2023 | Annie Awards | Best Animated Television/Broadcast Production for Preschool Children | "Pancakes" | Won | [16][17] |
| Children's and Family Emmy Awards | Outstanding Preschool Animated Series | The Tiny Chef Show | Nominated | [18] | |
| Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Program | various | Nominated | |||
| Outstanding Directing for a Preschool Animated Program | Rachel Larsen and Chris Tichborne | Won | [19] |
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