PINY: Institute of New Yorknote is a Spanish animated children's Dramedy series created by Victor M. Lopez and Rubén Zarauza. As the title suggests, the series is based on the Pinypon toy franchise as it focuses on Michelle Fairchild, a humble 14-year-old who is interested in fashion and wants to become a top fashion designer. She gets offered one day an interview from the titular prestigious college PINY, and she gets accepted. She then befriends her roommates Tasha Robinson and Lilith Henderson, as they form the Indie Girls team. However, Michelle is also placed one room across from the spoiled leader of the Beautiful People, Julia Cooper, along with her loyal assistants Dory Skornik and Rita Finucci. The Indie Girls have adventures in the college while trying to work around Julia's plans to eliminate and humiliate them.
The show first premiered on Disney Channel in Spain on September 18, 2016, and also premiered on Pop in the United Kingdom in the year after.
This show contains examples of the following tropes:
- Did Not Think This Through: Julia, Rita and Dory attempted to win a dress-making contest by just buying a dress and entering it. It turns out the dress's designer was in the audience and recognized his design immediately, getting them disqualified.
- Expy Coexistence: In "American Mydol", Madame Forbes calls Austin Zimmer "the second coming of Justin Bieber."
- Eye Cam: Shown in Tasha's perspective while waking up in the beginning of "Fashion Backwards".
- I Am Not Weasel: Sometimes people mistake Michelle's pet lemur Armando for a monkey.
- Keep It Foreign: In one episode, Dory gets knocked in the head and randomly starts talking in a foreign language. In English, she speaks in Spanish. In the original Spanish, she was speaking French. In the French dub, she was speaking English, bringing it full circle.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Austin Zimmer is a parody of Justin Bieber.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: The soundtrack features a lot of royalty-free music.
- Sexual Karma: In a kid-friendly example, Julia gets Will in the series finale after her Heel–Face Turn.
- Uncatty Resemblance: The horses assigned to the kids very closely resemble them.
- Word Salad Title: With Pinypon (the name of the toyline) being removed, the English title becomes confusing.
