''The Likeaballs'' is a cartoon created by Jim Quick that airs on

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and

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. It began production in 2006. It was produced by

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Themes

The show is about a group of ball-shaped round hounds whose home planet was destroyed. They take part in football matches. They compete against their deadly rivals The Dislikeaballs.

Characters

All characters names are

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s on words ending in "-able", e.g.

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is Inflataball etc. The only exceptions being Pam & Dan, spoofs of

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sports reporters. Kickaball Inviciball Fashionaball Laughaball Stretchaball Adoraball Reversaball Disguisaball Knowledgeaball Manageaball Collectaball Believeaball Washaball Transportaball Forgetaball Inflateaball Count horriball Distructaball Disagreeaball Stealaball Combustaball Disposeaball Miseraball Uncontrolaball Diflateaball

Episode titles

All episode titles are

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s or

verbs A verb () is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual descrip ...

, e.g. "

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", ''Lucky'' or " Game" etc. Only 26 episodes were made. 1. Grannits 2. Prisoner 3. Bugbots 4. Giant 5. Slimey 6. Tiddly 7. Ballbasket 8. System 9. Snowy 10. Training 11. Shield 12. Lucky 13. Monopod 14. Guilty 15. Bears 16. Cows 17. Sick 18. Lost 19. Smelly 20. Hat 21. Trophy 22. Manners 23. Scary 24. Truth 25. Robot 26. Television

External links

* British children's animated sports television series BBC children's television shows 2006 British television series debuts 2000s British animated television series 2000s British children's television series Television series by Cosgrove Hall Films {{UK-kids-tv-prog-stub