Recap / Cupcake & Dino: General Services

This is the Recap page for Cupcake & Dino: General Services a Brazilian-Canadian cartoon from Netflix and Teletoon by the creator of Oswaldo and Ollie's Pack. The show follows the adventures of the eponymous brothers, an anthropomorphic cupcake and a talking dinosaur, as they run their own freelance business doing odd jobs for the people of their city.

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Proof-of-concept Tralier & Season 1

1. Cupcake and Dinosaur: General Services: A proof-of-concept tralier of the series made in 2012. 5 years before the series was greenlit.
2. The Manly Men's Man Club / Mi Casa, Robo Casa: Cupcake becomes obsessed with joining the manliest and most exclusive gentleman's club in Big City after being mocked for his lack of masculinity. / Cupcake and Dino take on a housesitting gig for a self-sufficient AI-powered house and teach it the meaning of friendship.
3. Cupcake Days / My Brother, My Headband: Cupcake and Dino's friend and teen mayor of Big City, Mayor Vicky, tasks the duo with tracking a stolen statue meant for the city's upcoming Cupcake Day. / Dino experiences an identity crisis when he loses his headband.
4. Mozoko / The Pizza Man Always Rings 6000 Times: Cupcake and Dino volunteer at their Grandma Steak's retirement home, where Dino gets really into the tenants' favorite card game. / Cupcake and Dino are hired as pizza boys for their favorite pizzeria and must make every delivery on time to save it from going broke.
5. Goody Family 101 / The Manygoose: Cupcake and Dino's Uncle Chance asks them to help him prepare his grocery's parade float for the annual Big City Small Business Parade. / Cupcake and Dino befriend the legendary Manygoose, but it doesn't want them to tell anyone that it's real.
6. Everybody Loves Kattycorn / Know Your Nemesis: When Cupcake falls ill, Dino hires a temp named Kattycorn, whom Cupcake is convinced is plotting to replace him. / Uncle Chance is furious to discover that Cupcake and Dino have taken on a gig for his archnemesis Sneaky Stan.
7. Talent Show Biz / Retrieval Boys: Cupcake and Dino take up a gig as talent agents for Mayor Vicky when she enters a talent show to display her singing skills. / Cupcake and Dino take a gig at the library to track overdue books, and now must find the most overdue of them all.
8. Cupcake's Big Surprise / Growing Pains: It's Cupcake's birthday, but since Cupcake is never surprised by any of Dino's attempts to throw him a surprise party, Dino must find a way to truly surprise him. / Cupcake and Dino get a gig taking care of Mayor Vicky's pet caterpillar, which soon grows into a rebellious teenage butterfly.
9. Inventory Day / Cupsy: Cupcake and Dino are hired by Uncle Chance for the tedious job of checking his grocery's inventory, but the two are more interested in finishing the job than doing it well. / Cupcake becomes popular with the arthouse circuit after being spotted for his hedge trimming skills.
10. My Two Dinos / Believe in the Paperboys: When Dino sheds his skin, Cupcake uses the empty husk to make himself a fake body so he can participate in a dune buggy race. / Cupcake and Dino become paperboys, but soon discover their newspaper's outrageous stories are all true.
11. My Life in Radio (Stinks!) / Internet vs. Everybody: Cupcake and Dino get a gig as radio hosts and use their airtime to share dirty secrets about others. / When Big City's Internet literally disappears, Mayor Vicky hires Cupcake and Dino to track her down.
12. All That Snazz / Live, Love, Lemonade: Cupcake becomes the leader of a dance troupe, but his lack of coordination might prove to be a problem. / Cupcake and Dino are hired as babysitters and train the girl they're looking after in the art of running a lemonade stand... a little too well, perhaps.
13. Cupcake, Dino, & the Treasure of Tikiluki / Hu's the Boss: Cupcake and Dino meet their favorite action movie star and try to help him make his life more exciting. / Uncle Chance leaves Hugo in charge of the grocery for the day, but Cupcake and Dino aren't super big on the idea.
14. Christmas Is Canceled / Ice Station Dino: Cupcake and Dino must help Mayor Vicky save Christmas when nobody gets their holiday presents, but first, Cupcake must overcome his fear of Santa Claus. / Cupcake and Dino build a snow fort and end up getting caught in a war against their rival Peetree Gluck III.

Season 2

1. Cupcake & Dino Go Hollywood / Barbershop Duet: Cupcake and Dino get gigs as extras for a movie set, but instead end up getting catapulted into stardom. / Cupcake and Dino get a gig as barbers, but the problem is that Dino isn't very good with scissors.
2. Skull Peninsula / We Are the Pile: Cupcake and Dino pick up a gig cleaning up garbage on a beach, but quickly find themselves in a whirlwind adventure with pirates instead. / Cupcake becomes obsessed with collecting junk, but his collection soon acquires a life of its own.
3. Snail Score / Be Your Best Boo: Cupcake and Dino set up an account on a business app, but end up becoming obsessed with getting good reviews. / Halloween comes to Big City and Dino becomes obsessed with learning how to scare people.
4. Kindergarten Cup / Uncle Chance: General Servicer: Cupcake and Dino get a gig as kindergarten teachers and soon end up competing with Peetree to see who their students like more. / Uncle Chance joins Cupcake and Dino's general service business, but his by-the-book ways do not work with the duo's style.
5. Ultimate Dino / Slumber Sisters: Dino is recruited onto Officer Bee's discus throwing team to compete against Peetree's. / Cupcake and Dino are hired to arrange a sleepover, but when they are expelled soon after, the pair desperately try to join back in the on the fun.
6. Little Mister Big City Pageant / Follow the Leader: Cupcake and Dino are hired to set up a child pageant, but Cupcake decides to disguise himself as a baby to win the prize. / Cupcake and Dino are hired to mow an overgrown lawn, where they discover a tribe of lawn gnomes that make Dino their leader.
7. Gavin Moonboom & Princie Baba / Cupcake & Dino Are on the Lam: Cupcake and Dino discover that their favorite idols have broken up and try to reunite them. / Cupcake and Dino believe they are wanted criminals after ruining an old photo of Uncle Chance.
8. Rest Now, Dino / Cupcake & Dino Are Catsitters!: Dino uses his day off to help other people with things, but ends up being too exhausted to work when he and Cupcake take on their next gig. / Cupcake and Dino get a gig taking care of Officer Bee's pet cat, but Dino ends up getting fleas from it.
9. Cupcake & Dino Top the Charts / Switched at Birth: Cupcake and Dino become popular musicians, but their newfound fame quickly goes to their heads. / When Dino discovers that he is in fact older than Cupcake, he tries to be the more mature of the two.
10. Big City: The Documentary / Best Friend Matchmakers: Cupcake and Dino try to help Mayor Vicky win a film festival award by helping her make a documentary about Big City. / Cupcake and Dino create a friendship app to help people find their new best friend.
11. Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling! / Keepin' It Real: Cupcake and Dino are discovered by a wrestling agent, but Dino soon finds pro wrestling really isn't his thing. / Cupcake and Dino get a gig as real estate agents, but find themselves having to twist their words to their customers to succeed.
12. Old School Pool Rules / The Night Shift: Cupcake and Dino get a gig as lifeguards for the local swimming pool, but find their authority challenged by a gang of pool delinquents. / Cupcake and Dino encounter doppelgangers of themselves working the grocery night shift who start trying to steal their lives.
13. Fortune Teller Dino / Pal House: Dino becomes convinced his is a fortune teller after acquiring a toy that seems to predict the future. / Cupcake, Dino, and their friends star on a reality show where they all have to live together for one month.