Happy Planet is a children's science fiction television series directed by Zhang Huimin, starring Li Rui, Niu Dongwen, Sun Siyang, Guan Tong, Ma Jiaqi, and Zhang Ziyang.
Happy Planet 1 aired on August 4, 2004; Happy Planet 2 aired on January 21, 2006; Happy Planet's Escape from the Planet aired on July 18, 2008; and Happy Planet 4 aired on February 6, 2010. The movie version, Happy Planet XXXVI, was released on June 30, 2018.
Synopsis:
The 10-year-old boy Ding Kai Le, everyone calls him "Le Le", he is introverted and timid, at school he is often bullied by a few naughty classmates in the class King Kong, Fatty, and Little Ninety-nine, Le Le can not afford to mess with them, so he has to swallow his anger.
Lele finds school boring and has never been interested in learning. Lele's mother, like most parents in China, is eager to see her son become a dragon, and in order to make Lele's survival ability stronger when he grows up, she always takes great pains to design the future for Lele according to her own wishes, and the depressed Lele can't persuade his mother to help him, and he doesn't know what to do.
Faced with the day-to-day life, school, family for Lele, just a necessity of life, "to be good, to be obedient, to learn ......" every day, Lele heard are similar words of wisdom. Lele wants to have his own space, and the Internet has become the best way to do that. Every day after school to return home, Lele the happiest thing is to write homework after secretly playing games online, in the online free space Lele can always find confidence, free to command thousands of horses, happy.
The three children of Happy Planet, the little inventor Polyhedron and his two assistants, Lotus Bun and Ice Lemon, were also working on a brand new subject - making a person happy, so Lele became their lucky boy. Lele's test shows a bravery index of 35, a smartness index of 85, and a love index of 90, but a happiness index of only 30, even as Lele's desire to be happy in his quest reaches as high as 300 percent!
Le fully meets the requirements of the Happy Planet help, the "Happy Planet" elders old boy grandfather gave Lele a pendant, that is a key to enter the Happy Planet at any time.
From then on, whenever Lele encounters difficulties, his first thought is the three good friends of the Happy Planet. Under the guidance of the "old boy grandpa", Polyhedrus, Lotus Bun and Ice Lemon use their own wisdom and one by one small invention to help Lele get through the difficulties.
In the first part of the grand finale, Lele has completely met the requirements of the indicators, Polyhedrus and their subject is gradually ending, the last unprovisioned examination, Lele completed the final test, meaning that Polyhedrus and their subject is successfully completed, also means that Lele can no longer come to the Happy Planet.
In the final scene, Lele waved goodbye to the Happy Planet, leaving only the pendant as a memento.