English subtitles for Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum

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Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum was a brazilian children's TV show broadcast created in 1994, stopping production in 1997. It continued to broadcast for many years more in Brazil and is beloved by many who grew up with it. It's composed of various segments featuring quirky characters that teach the audience about various knowledge areas, alongside each episode's main story.

Translated and subtitled by me using Subtitle Edit. It takes quite a long time to translate and subtitle just a single episode, so please be patient. I do plan on getting through the whole show, eventually.

Full series can be found on Libreflix.

Plot summary

Ripped straight from Wikipedia.

Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, who is a 3,000-year-old sorcerer and scientist, and his great-aunt Morgana, who is a 6,000-year-old witch. The three live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. Being a sorcerer's apprentice, Nino never got to go to school, in special due to his unusual age for a boy. His parents left him in the foster care of Victor and Morgana, as they needed to travel on an expedition to outer space, taking his two younger siblings with them. Although he has supernatural animal friends in the castle, Nino misses having friends that are like himself, so he decides to cast a spell he learned from his uncle Victor, which ends up bringing three children who had just left school to his castle's doorstep. Free of loneliness, Nino then receives daily visits from the trio, in addition to special visits from other friends, such as the pizza delivery man Bongo, the flamboyant TV reporter Penelope, the folk legend Caipora, and an alien called Etevaldo. Dr. Abobrinha (Dr. Zucchini, also referring to the Portuguese expression of speaking senseless) serves as the main villain of the series, who is a real estate speculator who wants to demolish the castle and erect a 100-story tall building in its place.

Episodes

All episode title translations subject to change.

1. Not bye! See you tomorrow!
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Translation notes
1. Pedro seems to speak more formally than his friends. Maybe to characterize him as more intelligent.
2. Zequinha is the dimminutive form of Zeca, used here as a term of endearment, like a nickname. Zeca itself, funnily enough, is already a nickname (usually for the name José).
3. He speaks in a heavy accent and gets the gender of words wrong, a common way to indicate a character is not a native portuguese speaker.
4. Celeste speaks with a snake-like lisp and is a mean girl. The "sweetie" here is sarcastic.
5. His name in portuguese, Perônio, refers to an old term in portuguese for the fibula. I changed the last vowel as his brother's name, Tibio, does that to the tibia.
6. Tap and Flap speak in rhymes. I promise I tried to make the subtitles rhyhme as well, but I am not gifted for poetry.
7. Cake-Poker is what the pointer finger is referred to in some brazilian children's games and songs. From pinky to thumb, we have Smaller Finger, His Neighbour, Father of All, Cake Poker and Flea Killer.
2. What's your planet of origin?
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Content warning
This episode has a brief segment with a very outdated and racist depiction of east asian people. Skip the music box segment to 24:55 if you wish to not see it, it's not important to the rest of the episode but I've included a short description of what you'll be skipping.
Description
Tango music plays as a woman wearing a red dress dances by herself. Samba starts playing and a man with a man with a tambourine comes in and takes her place, dancing as well. Stereotypical "Chinese" music starts playing and a person wearing a conical hat and other east asian looking clothing comes in and dances, taking the man's place. The three musical styles get mixed together, and the three characters dance in each other's styles.
Translation notes
1. The doorman interrupts his sentences with mechanical whirring.
2. "Plift, ploft, steel!" is meaningless, it just sounds funny and rhymes with "The door has opened!" in portuguese.
3. Male names and nouns usually end with -o in portuguese, while female names and nouns usually end with -a.
4. "One tiger, two tigers, three tigers" is a tongue twister in portuguese.
5. This poem relies on word play that I couldn't translare more accurately, so here are some notes: When the boy asks the echo where it hides, he ends his phrase with "esconde" ("hides"), and so the echo replies with "-onde" ("where"). When he asks for the echo to walk with him, he ends his phrase with "comigo" ("with me"), and so the echo replies with "-migo", which is the ending to the words "amigo" ("friend") and "inimigo" ("foe").
6. On the original he says "farinha de música" ("music flour"), as it's similar to "caixinha de música" ("music box").
3. My name is Caipora
4. Who's who here?
5. The city of my dreams
6. Slightly nauseated
7. Look at the birdie
8. Multiplying
9. No one likes me
10. Everything transforms
11. I promise
12. Space parties
13. Has anyone seen my shoes?
14. Lights, camera, action!
15. The sound of silence
16. It's cup, it's race, it's grace
17. Pineapple King
18. Whoops! Saci escaped!
19. Nino is turning green
20. Everything that enters, leaves
21. Nino changed
22. Jealous, me?
23. Doesn't make you fat and makes you grow
24. Big-eared magic
25. You snooze, you lose
26. Paint dirt
27. Leia, the space Jelly
28. I'm on TV
29. Imagination's wings
30. Wonderful bean
31. Who is Captain Whale?
32. There's someone strange here
33. What do I wear?
34. Bring up dust
35. Will you stop looking at me?
36. Happily ever after
37. Painted over dirt? It's clean!
38. Seek and you shall find
39. Always room for one more
40. In the mood
41. Boo hoo, wah wah
42. A very serious nanny
43. Cupid trickery
44. Coconut candy and doce de leite
45. Your majesty, the baby
46. Boys and girls
47. Backfired spell
48. The day the earth stopped
49. School goes to Nino
50. Rumours
51. Mania TV
52. Zula, the blue girl
53. Give me some money
54. Rá-Tim-Bum!
55. The Bonga-bonga drums
56. Home, sweet home
57. Pre-historical prints
58. Forbidden to enter with animals
59. Thunderstorm and Lightning
60. The Treasure of Wishes
61. Caipora bails out
62. In search of lost time
63. Eugene, the genius
64. Everyday can be Christmas
65. Eating
66. Those who sing put their sorrows away
67. Sneaked into a sailboat
68. Eternal smile
69. Beach
70. Comet
71. Beauty
72. A wave in the sea
73. Crocodile tears
74. Dream
75. Easter hunt
76. Pregnancy
77. Wings
78. Earth is spherical
79. Nino X Nino
80. Dictionary
81. Milk
82. T for Tibio, F for Fibulo
83. The Dresses Polka Dot
84. Seeing to believe
85. Family relations
86. The clown is what?
87. Extra, extra!
88. Et cetera
89. Moon/Sun
90. The Owner of the Castle
91. Special Episode: Sleep Time