Big City Greens (originally titled Country Club) is a 2018 Disney animated television series on Disney Channel. The series is created by Chris and Shane Houghton, who originally worked on Nickelodeon's Harvey Beaks. The series received an early preview on June 8, 2018 on DisneyNOW and YouTube, and officially premiered on the Disney Channel on June 18, 2018
Overview
The series focuses on Cricket Green, a mischievous and optimistic country boy who moves to the big city (simply called Big City) with his family. Cricket’s curiosity and enthusiasm leads his wildly out of place family onto epic journeys and into the hearts of his new neighbors. Emmy Award-winning director Rob Renzetti (creator of Nickelodeon's My Life as a Teenage Robot and supervising producer for Gravity Falls) serves as executive producer and the Houghton brothers serve as co-executive producers.[1]
The intro was first shown at San Diego Comic Con on July 21, 2017.
Cast
Main
- Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
- Marieve Herington as Tilly Green
- Bob Joles as Bill Green
- Artemis Pebdani as Gramma Alice
Recurring
- Zeno Robinson as Remy Remington
- Anna Akana as Gloria Sato
- Luke Lowe as Benny
- Andy Daly as Officer Keys
- Wendi McLendon-Covey as Nancy Green
- Nicole Byer as Andromeda
- Lamar Woods as Weezie
- Monica Ray as Kiki Kitashima
- Danny Trejo as Vasquez
- Paul Scheer as Chip Whistler
- Colton Dunn as Brett Eze and Russell Remington
- Lorraine Toussaint as Rashida Remington
- Shane Houghton as Various
- Tim Robinson as Gregly
Episodes
- Main article: Big City Greens episode list
Gallery
Videos
Big City Greens Main Title Comic-Con 2017 Disney XD
Big City Greens Main Title
Disney Channel Summer 2018 - Disney Channel GO Fan Fest
Meet the Greens Big City Greens Disney Channel
Big City Greens This Season On Comic-Con 2018 Exclusive Disney Channel
Sneak Peek of Cricket's Future! Big City Greens Disney Channel
Trivia
- Big City Greens materialized following the failure of the Houghton Brothers attempt to pitch an animated series based on their comic book Reed Gunther to Amazon. They attempted to pitch it at Disney where it too was not picked up. Disney offered that they pitch another show which was Welcome to Simpleton. When that failed, they came up with Country Club which would transition into becoming Big City Greens.
- Among the creative influences for the show, Chris Houghton has mentioned Calvin and Hobbes, Life With Louie, The Simpsons, Family Matters, Tom Sawyer, Malcom in the Middle and numerous others.[2]
- Cricket is the only character who has appeared in every episode of the series.
- Cricket and Tilly, however, do not appear in all the shorts.
- Tilly was completely absent from "Date Night", whereas she technically does not appear in "Time Crisis" as her imaginary future counterpart appears instead.
- The episode title cards appear on items seen throughout the show.
- According to the creators, the series is mostly set on weekends, weeknights and vacations such as summer break, which explains why Cricket, Tilly and their friends their age have not been seen attending school yet. [citation needed]
- The show is animated traditionally through pencil, ink and paper, as opposed to other contemporary shows that animate via digital ink.[3]
- A punk rock group going by the name Big City Sue-zers, created a mini album titled Earworm that features music based on the show. Chris Houghton provided artwork for the album and vocal samples as Cricket along with Marieve Herington as Tilly.[4]
References
- ↑ Milligan, Mercedes (March 4, 2016). "Disney XD Announces ‘Billy Dilly’ and ‘Country Club’". Animation Magazine. Retrieved on April 30, 2016.
- ↑ "Tumblr Influence Post". Tumblr (June 13, 2022).
- ↑ "Twitter Shane Houghton Post". Twitter (November 14, 2019).
- ↑ "Tumblr Earworm". Tumbler (May 30, 2022).
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