Why the Frown, Brown?

I Like You a Latte

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Brown works behind the counter of a neighbourhood cafe, grinding beans, steaming milk and practising the pictures he draws in the foam. Moon tastes each attempt at the bar while Cony sits at a table with her laptop, and Sally turns up briefly with a spell book and a glowing wand. Brown keeps refining the design until he pours a cup showing a bear and a rabbit inside a heart. He carries it over to Cony, who reacts with her eyes closed and her face flushed, and the episode closes back at the counter with Moon smiling over a small cup.

Passion of Edward

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Edward, a small green character in a pink cap, takes on a picnic bundle far bigger than he is and hauls it across town to the park. He pushes it past shop fronts, waits at a pedestrian crossing, gets knocked over near a passing car and struggles up a long flight of stone steps. He reaches Brown, Choco, Moon and Sally at the blanket just as a downpour hits and blows the food and umbrellas into the air. The sun returns with a rainbow, the friends gather round Edward and share what is left, and the episode closes on a wall of framed photos.

Spicy Noodles

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Brown and Cony walk through their town and past the pond, and Cony gets an idea for a bowl of spicy noodles. At the noodle shop the friends, including Moon, Sally, Jessica and a panda diner, work through bowl after bowl of fiery red noodles while the cook makes each round hotter. Brown eats his portion without a flicker until the heat finally escapes in one enormous burst of fire that cracks the pavement outside. The episode ends with Cony and Brown standing on the broken street, talking it over before heading off again.

James the Party Animal

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James counts down the days to his birthday on a wall calendar while posting selfies and telling everyone he meets around town. When the day arrives, his friends seem to be busy elsewhere, and he ends up walking the empty streets and then sitting alone in the café with a cupcake and one candle. Brown, Cony, Choco, Moon and Sally have been preparing behind his back, and they appear with a cake and sparklers. The episode closes with the whole group around a table in the lit café at night.

Silent But Deadly

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Brown, Cony, Sally, James, Moon and Jessica are sharing a meal in a city apartment at night when Jessica opens a can of strong-smelling green food. The smell turns into a visible green cloud that drifts through the room, and the friends hold their noses, open the window and aim the table fan at it, without success. As the cloud takes over the whole apartment the group sinks to the floor one by one, while Brown and Cony turn up with cloths on their heads and thermometers in their mouths. The episode closes on the friends lying in the haze as the picture fades to green.

Spaghetti from the Other Side

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Cony invites Brown, Choco, Moon and Sally to her home for dinner and serves an enormous plate of spaghetti. From the first forkful the food turns out to be fiercely spicy, and the friends sweat, wail and tumble off their chairs while Cony keeps bringing out fresh servings. A karaoke break by the sofa interrupts the meal before everyone returns to the table for more. In the final scene Cony finally tastes her own cooking and drops to the kitchen floor with her glowing self floating above her.

Brown I Shrunk the Friends

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Brown, Cony, Sally and Choco are sharing a meal at a café counter when a bottle releases a pink mist and shrinks all four to doll size. The rest of the episode follows them across the counter and floor of the closed café, dodging a broom, a foot and a hand belonging to the owner who never notices them. They eventually reach a green bottle, pour it into a saucer and return to normal size. The episode closes with the owner, back on his feet after being tangled in rope, pointing angrily at a broken chair while the four stand in front of him.

Elevator

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Brown, Cony, Sally and Moon squeeze into a crowded office elevator carrying a large delivery box. The car overloads, the alarm sounds and it jams between floors, leaving the four to bang on the doors, ration the snacks in the box and sit through the lights going out. Time drags on until the doors finally slide open on the first floor and they stumble out. In the closing moment, fresh passengers step in eating burgers and drinking soda while the starving four look on.

Dodgeball

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Brown runs his café while Cony, Sally, James and the rest of the friends drift in, and a red ball soon sets the group off to the park. There they mark out a field with cones, split into two teams and play a dodgeball match with an older man in a striped shirt as referee. Players are struck out one by one, and Cony ends up facing Brown, with pink hearts flooding the screen before she fires the ball at him. Brown is knocked flat and stays on the grass while the rest of the group stands at the line laughing.

Close Encounters of the First Kind

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A small spaceship lands near a town and a green visitor steps out to explore. It copies a flower and a row of mailboxes, then takes on Cony's appearance and wanders into the café where Brown is working, which leaves Brown staring at two identical Conys. The visitor returns to its ship, replays its recordings of the flower, the mailboxes and Brown and Cony crossing the street, and flies away. Brown and Cony end the episode outside the café sharing a drink.

Cony the Babysitter

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Cony rides the city bus home with a small robot pet that has a glowing screen for a face. Back in her apartment the robot keeps darting off, and Cony chases it around the sofa and across the rug until she is worn out and finally sits still long enough for it to settle beside her. Afterwards she meets Brown at the neighbourhood café and tells him about her afternoon, leaning against him until she cheers up. The episode closes at Brown's door, where a robot pet wrapped with a yellow ribbon is handed over, and then on a night view of a lit apartment window.

Manic Moon Day

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Moon walks through town with his phone and starts snapping pictures of Sally whenever something goes wrong for her, laughing each time. Sally, furious, gathers materials at a workshop and takes a small doll from Moon's shelf, then sets off a chain of pranks that leave him tripped, splashed and covered in mud. He turns up at the café upset, where Brown and Choco listen to his story. The episode closes with the whole group in the café, Moon back on his chair with his phone and Sally beside him holding the doll.

Little Bouquet of Horrors

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Brown finds a small white flower growing beside a path, digs it up and carries it across town to Cony as a present. Once inside her home the plant starts moving on its own, grows long vines and a snapping mouth, and chases both friends through the living room, knocking over furniture and grabbing them. Brown eventually gets the plant under control and it settles into an ordinary blooming flower. The episode ends with Cony and Brown sitting on the couch with bowls of popcorn, the flower quietly beside them.

Brown and Swole

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Brown watches Cony jog past his door and decides he wants to run with her, but he cannot keep up and ends up flat on the ground by the river. Moon steps in as his coach and drives him through days of training, weights on the grass, boxing rounds, sprints through town, a plate of fish and vegetables instead of the sofa. The pushing wears Moon out first, and he ends up panting on a park bench while Brown keeps going. Brown finally jogs alongside Cony through town, then drops face-down on the pavement, exhausted.

Freeze Frame

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Brown works behind the counter of the café he shares with his friends while Boss experiments with a glowing liquid in a back room full of flasks and tubing. Sally the duck gets hold of the small glass vial, and a shower of golden sparkles ends up clinging to Brown's fur. He tries to wipe it off, heads out through the town and eventually lands in the river, meeting Cony along the way. The episode closes back at the café, with the sparkles gone and Sally sitting alone in an armchair by the window.

Full Moon

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Sally the duck is handed a star-tipped wand, a glowing spellbook and a sealed certificate by a witch in a wide black hat, and sets out to practise magic on Halloween night. She studies the book by candlelight and on a rooftop while Brown, Cony, Pangyo and the rest decorate the shop street and get ready for a costume party. Her spells keep backfiring into clouds of orange smoke, and when the full moon rises some of her friends turn into fanged, glowing-eyed versions of themselves and the party scatters. The night settles again, the group ends up back together on the street, and Sally proudly holds up her certificate.

Three's a Crowd

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Witch Switch

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Sally brews something over a flame in a dim room full of books and beakers and carries it away in a lidded cup. A beam of light passes between her and Cony, after which Cony behaves nothing like herself, crawling in the hallway, wandering through a shop and causing a series of mishaps around Brown's cafe. Brown watches the strange behaviour with growing confusion while cups, bread rolls and chairs end up in disarray. Things settle back down and Cony sits with Brown over tea, until Sally aims the same trick at another customer at the counter and the screen flares white.

Game Night

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Brown and Cony haul gear up to a rooftop terrace and string up lights for an evening of games, but the phone they were counting on runs out of battery just as the sun sets. Night falls and Brown sits alone under the lights until Cony arrives with a piece of chalk and starts drawing circles on the tiles. The drawings light up into a whole landscape of mountains, a boat, a dragon and a castle that the two run, sail and duel their way through. Sally turns up at the door at the end and joins them beside the finished drawings.

Keep Calm and Yoga On

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Jessica spots yoga on her laptop at the neighbourhood café and takes the idea to the park. Brown, Cony, Sally, Moon, Boss and James gather on the lawn, roll out mats and work through stretches and balancing poses, with a music speaker and a pose demonstration to guide them. Most attempts collapse into tumbles across the grass, and Brown and Cony end up floating in the pond. The session winds down and the episode closes back inside the café, where Leonard keeps moving on his own.

The Superstar and the Barista

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Choco spots a hooded star with sunglasses on her phone and sets out to get close to him, following him from the cafe where she and Brown work to a corner shop and a park. Along the way she fumbles the espresso machine and gets caught in a burst of steam, and a crowd of fans chases the star off the street. Back at the cafe the star's cap and hood come off, revealing an ordinary bear who signs an autograph. The episode closes with Brown pouring a cup and the group sitting together at the table.