"Hello! I'm Matilda, and I'm gonna spend the summer with my grandfather, his pet fish, and all my brand new friends! But I have one really big problem: Everyday I wake up with a new magical power I can't choose or control! Welcome to Paper Port!"
— Matilda, telling the plot in the intro.
Paper Port is a Chilean Stop Motion animated series made by Zumbastico Studios. This show is notable for using papercraft for the animation.
The show is about Matilda, a girl who goes on vacation to stay with Captain Curlybeard, her grandfather, at the titular Paper Port. In it, she finds inside a piano a magic coconut that he once found during his pirate days. She accidentally breaks it and absorbs its powers. As a result, she now has a different power every day, and they mostly tend to be very absurd, such as stopping time by burping or changing the weather by sneezing.
This show provides examples of:
- A Birthday, Not a Break: Matilda's powers tend to be pretty useless in the first place, but she got the most useless of powers... right on her birthday, out of all days, when her arm turns into a tree branch (yes, that was her power for the day).
- Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin: Matilda gets her random powers by breaking the magic coconut.
- Bizarre Belching: One of the random daily powers exhibited by Matilda is the ability to stop time by burping.
- Bland-Name Product: It's common to see Converse-like shoes in cartoons, but few come as close to Converse as Charlie's shoes do - they even have the blue star on the ankle patch. The only difference between them and real Converse is that the text is missing from the ankle patches and that they're square to fit the show's art style.
- Blessed with Suck: Matilda's daily powers tend to be very stupid and mostly useless. Even Mortimer tries to make it very clear to Matilda when she just absorbed the coconut's energy, that they're not super powers, just powers.
- Captain Colorbeard: Curlybeard, despite referring to its texture, not color.
- Dub Name Change: In the English dub:
- Matilde > Matilda
- Carlos > Charlie
- Capitán Barbacrespa > Captain Curlybeard
- Ferni > Felicia
- Boldo > Bob
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Lollipop Kid, called like that for always carrying around a lollipop.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: In "A Paper Change", Matilda and Curlybeard swap bodies.
- "Groundhog Day" Loop: In the episode "Run, Matilda, Run!", the day restarts whenever Charlie gets eaten by a shark.
- Off to See the Wizard: One episode has Lollipop Kid transported to a parody of Oz.
- Phonýmon: One episode has Matilda and Charlie watching a parody called "Papemon" only for them to get zapped into the TV and into an episode of it.
- The Prankster: Matilda and Charlie love causing trouble around town whenever the former's powers allow them to.
- Really 700 Years Old: Captain Curlybeard is able to live healthily and full of energy at 120 years old thanks to the coconut.
- Secret-Keeper: Since Charlie was there when the coconut broke, he has to keep the secret of the coconut and Matilda's powers.
- Sentient Vehicle: In "Popular Mechanics", Matilda's power of the day brings Chief Astudillo's police car (which he had already named Elizabeth) to life.
- Superpower Silly Putty: Due to breaking the magic coconut and absorbing its power, every day Matilda wakes up with a new and different power.
- Talking Animal: Curlybeard's pet fish Mortimer, also thanks to the coconut.
