An RTÉJr and CBeebies co-production, Pablo, produced by Paper Owl Films, sees the smart, funny and creative Pablo draw imaginary animal friends which come to life to help him handle situations which make him feel anxious, such as going for a haircut or to the supermarket. Pablo is on the autism spectrum.
To cope with the challenges he faces, Pablo enters into an animated art world, the world of his imagination where he is able to explore things that confuse him. With the help of his animal friends, Pablo is free to work through things and figure them out, having lots of fun along the way.
Every episode of Pablo is grounded in the real-life experiences of autistic children, with autistic young writers and contributors helping to bring ideas and perspectives to life in an honest and humorous way.
Pablo will air on RTEjr and CBeebies in October.
Pablo is a cross-border production with Kavaleer animating the series from its Dublin studios.
Pablo, Episode 1 of 52, RTÉ Jr, October 2nd at 9am
Big Coat, Small Coat
When Pablo’s Mum says his coat is getting too small, Pablo is horrified. He draws himself small so his
old coat will still fit, but what he really needs is a new one.
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PABLO Series 1
1. Big Coat, Small Coat
When Pablo’s Mum says his coat is getting too small, Pablo is horrified. He draws himself small so his
old coat will still fit, but what he really needs is a new one.
2. The Fiona
When Pablo meets Mum’s friend Fiona, all he notices about her is one bright shiny button. He tells
the Book Animals it’s a Fiona, but they’ve all seen something different.
3. The Wildman
Pablo doesn’t want a haircut, so he draws a picture and enters the Art World. But Tang draws a huge
scribble of hair all over Pablo and warns him about becoming The Wildman.
4. The Party Present
Nervous about a noisy birthday party, Pablo runs back to the car. In the Art World his friends join
him and help him realise that a party is just when friends get together.
5. Squeak, Squeak, Squeak
One day Pablo hears a strange sound and discovers his Mum has some squeaky new shoes. He wants
to know what they’re trying to say. Are the shoes crying or laughing?
6. Paint the Music
Pablo sees colours coming from the radio! He uses his crayons like a conductor and draws colourful
music, but Draff insists that music is for your ears, not your eyes!
7. Goodnight Blues
It’s bedtime, but Pablo keeps turning the light back on. Wren worries that when you go to sleep you
disappear. Mouse doesn’t think this is true, but Pablo agrees with Wren.
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8. Chasing the Breeze
Pablo loves feeling the breeze as he swings on the swing. When it’s someone else’s turn, Pablo
enters the Art World and draws a bigger swing before drawing an aeroplane.
9. Flapping Away
Pablo likes flapping. Wren says flying is even better and draws wings on Pablo, but he flaps so much
that he flies away and the Book Animals have to track him down.
10. Talked Out
Pablo doesn’t want to talk, but Draff finds it difficult not to. Slowly together Pablo and his friends
find ways of playing without words, through movement and their senses.
11. Mr Whizzy
Pablo gets very excited by Mum’s mechanical hand whisk. He draws Mr. Whizzy and he and Tang get
even more excited, as he whizzes up everything and makes a huge mess!
12. The Noise Dragon
When Pablo is woken by banging and scraping, he draws a cave to hide in, afraid of the noise
dragon. His friends hide with him and help draw a castle for better protection.
13. Into the Fluff!
Pablo is fascinated by the tiny strands of colour he can see a piece of lint. In the Art World he and his
friends follow the strands, going deeper and deeper into the fluff.
14. The Lost Smell
After having a bath, Pablo is upset that his smell is gone. He enlists the help of Bubble Bottle and his
friends to track down his smell and follow it down the drain.
15. One Mum’s Rubbish
Pablo likes plastic ice cream spoons even more than ice cream. He keeps them and makes them his
friends, but Draff says he can’t keep and make friends with everything!
16. Scaredy Cat
Pablo is scared by a print on the wall of a café. He draws a very confusing world in response and
decides it’s okay to be a scaredy cat. Everybody is scared of something.
17. Feeling Scribbly
Pablo is very uncomfortable and doesn’t know what’s wrong. He draws himself as a scribble and his
friends have to figure out who he is and why he’s feeling so scribbly.
18. Mirror Boy
Pablo is fascinated with the boy in the mirror. He draws his new friend and introduces him to the Art
World, but being friends with a reflection has its own limitations.
19. Pick Us, Pablo!
Pablo can’t decide which shoes to wear, concerned that the others will feel sad. His friends try to
help find a solution, such as wearing shoes on his hands and his head.
20. The Taste of Triangles
When Pablo’s Granny makes his lunch, she cuts his sandwiches into squares. But Pablo only eats
triangles. The Book Animals try to help Pablo find his real lunch.
21. Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!
Pablo and the Book Animals are repeating jingles and playing with words, treating them as sounds
that don’t mean anything, which Mouse and Draff find very confusing.
22. The Super Place
Mouse finds the noisy colours of the supermarket overwhelming. Pablo and his friends try to help,
putting her in the trolley and letting her look at the lovely quiet list.
23. The Sparkles
Pablo is splashing in a puddle, making little spots of light dance about on the surface. Everyone loves
the Sparkles and it soon becomes a game of trying to catch them.
24. The Aroma
There is an unusual smell in the house that Pablo finds very distracting. In the Art World the Aroma
becomes a swirling character that makes it hard to think or speak at all.
25. Slippy Mouth
Pablo is struggling to understand his Mum. Her voice sounds disjointed and garbled. Draff thinks it
sounds like Slippy Mouth, a very naughty creature who jumbles words up.
26. Purple Bird
Pablo and his Mum are getting ready to go to a wedding, but when Pablo discovers a big purple
creature with feathers on top of her head he wonders where his Mum has gone.
27. Crisps Everywhere!
Pablo opens a packet of crisps too fast and his crisps go everywhere. Pablo and his friends go to the
top of a mountain, the bottom of the sea and the moon to get them back.
28. Missing Music
Pablo hears a song on the radio and wants to hear it again, but he can’t make it come out anymore.
The Book Animals try to help him find a way to get it back again.
29. Tummy Talk
Pablo is making funny noises. Noa thinks he might have swallowed something like a telephone or a
radio. They realise it’s his tummy, but nobody knows what it’s trying to say.
30. The Big Book of Animals
Pablo can’t find his Big Book of Animals. He needs to make sure that it is still exactly the same. This is
where the Book Animals come from, so they want to find it too.
31. Captain Pinecone
Pablo has two pinecones for tapping, which turn out to be explorers! They lead the Book Animals on
a journey to discover sounds and textures and Llama makes an aural map.
32. Night Noises
Pablo’s Mum has friends round for dinner, but the noises are making it hard for Pablo to sleep. He
wants to get away or cover the noises up, but Tang just wants to party.
33. Feeling Floaty
Pablo thinks he’ll float away if he puts down his pinecones. Draff disagrees, but when Pablo puts
them down, he floats up into the sky and his friends have to rescue him.
34. Word Search
When Pablo can’t find the words to tell Granny what he wants for breakfast his friends have to help
him get them to come back again and turn into the things he needs to say.
35. Back and Forth
Pablo doesn’t want to wait for a blancmange to set. He wants to eat it now. He draws a controller
like the iPad to speed up the time, but that creates problems of its own
36. The Wrong Crayons
Pablo’s old crayons are running out, but his new ones are the wrong shade, design and smell. The
Book Animals are worried. Without them, Pablo won’t be able to draw any more.
37. Facts and Mistakes
Pablo makes a mistake in his drawing and colours in his shorts the wrong colour, so he decides not
to draw himself at all. But his friends in the Art World want to find him.
38. When Foods Collide
Pablo goes to a café with his Mum and gets an egg and spaghetti hoops, but his food is upset. The
spaghetti hoops keep touching the egg cat and it doesn’t like that at all!
39. Surprise!
When Pablo gets a birthday present after his birthday, it is very confusing. He doesn’t want to open
it, because he doesn’t know what’s inside and doesn’t like surprises.
40. Scab Billy
Pablo discovers a scab on his knee and is upset. He’s never seen that before and doesn’t know why
it’s stuck to him. But he soon learns that Scab Billy is there for a reason.
41. Everything Pineapple
Pablo sees a picture of a pineapple he gets the taste in his mouth and it won’t go away. Soon
everything and everyone in the Art World looks and tastes like pineapple too!
42. Journey to the Centre of the Telly
Pablo wants to know what is happening to the characters on his favourite TV program after the TV is
turned off. Luckily Noa has an idea about how they can find out!
43. The Duvetsaurus
Pablo finds an itchy label in his t-shirt and decides not to get dressed. He makes himself into a
duvetsaurus, so he can be like his Book Animal friends and not wear clothes.
44. Happiness
Pablo has a funny tickly feeling inside and doesn’t know what to make of it. He draws himself into
the Art World where his friends discover he’s full of happy sparkles.
45. Around the Houses
When the bus that Pablo and his Mum are waiting for is late, Draff gets anxious. He knows every bus
route and details of the timetable and he likes things to be on schedule.
46. The Lift
Pablo is worried about the lift at the department store, but with the help of his friends in the Art
World he learns what the buttons are for and how to get safely out again.
47. How Are You?
When the Fiona asks Pablo how he is, Pablo doesn’t know the answer. He explores the question with
his friends in the Art World and they all try to figure out what it means.
48. The Smell Gobbler
When Mum leaves a can of air freshener on the counter, it’s up to Pablo and his friends to stop The
Smell Gobbler eating all the smells in the house, including the nice ones!
49. The Book Spider
Pablo loves the Book Animals, but when he gets a new book with a spider in it, Pablo thinks the
spider looks scary. But it turns out the spider is a bit frightened as well.
50. Zip It!
Pablo is fascinated with the way the zipper on his coat closes up and opens again. With his friends in
the Art World Pablo explores the magic of opening and closing things.
51. Face Feelings
Pablo is surprised to learn that his face is saying things to people he doesn’t know about. He has no
idea what his face is doing, until the Book Animals help him find out.
52. Water Boy
Pablo loves watching the rain. Some of his in the Art World friends don’t. Draff and Mouse hate
getting wet, but Pablo loves the rain so much that he actually turns into it!