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 of the same year. As of September 2023, it is currently the 2nd longest running animated Disney Channel Original Series (right behind Phineas and Ferb).
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.
In mid-Season 3, the Greens leave Big City and return to their old hometown, Smalton, after Bill re-purchases their old house, and try to get adjusted to their former life.
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 Alice Green
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
- Billy West as Nick Mulligan
- Nicole Byer as Andromeda
- Lamar Woods as Weezie
- Monica Ray as Kiki Kitashima (season 1-3)
- Stephanie Sheh as Kiki Kitashima (season 3-present)
- 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
- Cheri Oteri as Gwendolyn Zapp
- Jenna Ortega as Gabriella Espinosa (season 1-3)
- Nikki Castillo as Gabriella Espinosa (season 3-present)
- Tim Robinson as Gregly
- John Early as Alexander and Terry
- Maurice LaMarche as Alucard Grigorian
- Betsy Sodaro as Community Sue
- Raven-Symoné as Maria Media
- Brooke Dillman as Patti
- Harvey Guillén as Hector
- Ali Stroker as Sunday
- Rylee Alazraqui as Lupita
Guests[]
- Jim Rash as Waiter
- Busta Rhymes as Fish
- Griffin McElroy as Pepper Merchant
- Jon Hamm as Louis
- Wallace Shawn as Jyle
- Fozzie Bear (Eric Jacobson) as Dr. Enamel
- Alex Hirsch as Wyatt
- Thomas Middleditch as Donny Tinselton
- Jonathan Van Ness as Hair Stylist
- Christopher Lloyd as Santa Claus
- Ed Begley Jr. as Mr. Whistler
- Tim Blake Nelson as Ernest Green
- Jameela Jamil as Phoenix
- Alfred Molina as Cogburn
- Jim O'Heir as Other Bill Green
- Melissa Fumero as Canteloupe Sinclair
- Adam McArthur as Ashton
- Tom Hanks as Himself
- Lucy Lawless as Mimi O'Malley
- Sandy Martin as Gertie
- Linda Hamilton as Librarian
- Mary Holland as Chairwoman
- Andy Richter as Mayor Hansock
- David Wain as Ronald Featherman
- Booboo Stewart as Kevin
- Macy Gray as Kara Karaoke
- Joe Manganiello as Viper Fang
- David Harbour as Rick
- Rob Riggle as Community Dan
- Riki Lindhome as Gina
- Lennon Parham as Janice
- Ken Marino as Dirk
- Patton Oswalt as Mr. Fluffenfold
- Tom Gammill as Mr. Perkins
- Rosie Perez as Ms. Torres
- Wiz Khalifa as Frilled Lizard
- Tony Cavalero as Wayne
- Sydney Park as Tina
- Alfonso Ribeiro as Mr. Extras
- Danny DeVito as Merv Stampington
- Amy Sedaris as Bonnie Spark
- Michael Bolton as Rick Razzle
- Jenny Yokobori as Serenity Spruce
- Justin McElroy as Truckee's Mascot
- Trevor Wallace as Emcee
- Patricia "Ms. Pat" Williams as Jessica Burns
- Peter Blomquist as Joshua
- Brad Marchand as Mikey LeBeouf
- Tim Meadows as Chet Handsomeman
- Dean Norris as Zamboni Tony
- Tom Green as Matt
- June Diane Raphael as Babe
Episodes[]
- Main article: Big City Greens episode list
Gallery[]
Videos[]
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.
- All of the episode titles are approximately one to two words long.
- 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]
- This was the third animated Disney Channel Original Series to have been Co-Created (following Kim Possible & Phineas and Ferb).
- This is the latest animated Disney series to feature a male protagonist, as most series after featured female protagonists.
- While the show is meant to be episodic, it slowly evolves into a continuity-driven show with newer seasons, and has a handful of story arcs. Season 3B briefly shifts the show to a serialized format showing the Greens moving back to the country.
- So far, the show has had two double-length episodes every season except the third, which had three (one for the premiere, one marking the midseason, and one for the finale).
- One episode of each season except the first had an episode focusing exclusively on the animals.
- Season 3 is the only season that is shorter than 30 episodes and has no major villain.
- Season 2 shifts the series to a slightly darker tone that focused on the Greens trying to protect their farm from Chip Whistler.
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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