Growing Up Creepie was an animated television series made in the USA by
Mike Young ProductionsMike Young Productions LLC is an animation studio that produces children's TV series. It is named after co-founder and partner Mike Young, and is part of the Moonscoop Group...
and produced by
Discovery KidsDiscovery Kids is an American website owned by Discovery Communications, Inc. created for children. Until October 10, 2010, it was an American digital cable specialty channel, owned by Discovery Communications with television programming for education of children. It was launched in October 1996...
. In other countries the series was simply titled
Creepie.
Premise
As told in the opening introduction and in the episode "Creepie Crawling", Creepie was a
waifA waif is a living creature removed, by hardship, loss or other helpless circumstance, from his original surroundings...
left on the doorstep of the Dweezwold Mansion, which is home to a family of various insects. The family took her in and raised her as one of their own. She must now adjust to a life surrounded by a society of insectophobic humans as she attends Middlington Middle School and keeps her home life secret in order to protect both herself and her family. However, she is not an insect herself; she was raised by bugs and insects. The show ran from September 9, 2006 to June 21, 2008.
Music
The theme song "Creepie Kids" and other songs featured throughout the first series are performed by Samantha Lombardi. They were written by Lombardi,
Clarence JeyClarence Jey is an Australian record producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter of Sri Lankan origin now established in the United States...
/ Mike Puskas, and produced by Clarence Jey / Mike Puskas. "Creepie Kids" was released on Lombardi's album,
Full Stop, in 2007.
The instrumental score heard throughout the show was composed by
Guy Michelmore-Education:Michelmore was educated at the independent St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey.-News presenter:Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV's About Anglia before joining the BBC programme Newsroom South East in 1993. Guy left the programme to be replaced by Tim Ewart from ITN. His mother...
, who was nominated for an
AnnieThe Annie Awards have been presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972...
for his music for the series.
DVD release
A DVD of
Growing Up Creepie was released for Region 1 on August 28, 2007. The single disc volume is titled
Creepie's Creatures Volume 1 and features seven episodes, mainly from the second season. Bonus features includes
Creepie's Buggin' Trivia Game and an episode of
Corwin Unleashed entitled "Creepy Creatures."
Season 1 (2006-2007)
| # | Title | Airdate |
| 1 |
The Tell-Tale Poem / Creepie Meets Tarantula Boy |
September 9, 2006 |
mother's dayMother's Day is a celebration honoring mothers and celebrating motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, yet most commonly in March, April, or May...
poem causes concern at school. Creepie falls for Tarantula Boy, who is half human and half spiderSpiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
, when she visits a carnivalCarnaval is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnaval typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party...
.>
2 |
The Scared Twitch Project / Frogenstein |
September 16, 2006 |
frogFrogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...
to life and it goes around Middlington drinking electricityElectricity is a general term encompassing a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena, such as lightning, static electricity, and the flow of electrical current in an electrical wire...
.>
3 |
Bug It On / The Case of the Mysterious Moth |
September 23, 2006 |
dragonflyA dragonfly is a winged insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera . It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body...
sabbotages the cheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
team and Creepie must lead them to a "buggy" comeback. Creepie attends her first sleepoverA sleepover, also known as a pajama party or a slumber party, is a party most commonly held by children or teenagers, where a guest or guests are invited to stay overnight at the home of a friend, sometimes to celebrate birthdays or other special events...
where a game makes a REAL ghost mothA moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
appear.>
4 |
Attack of the Wasp Zombies / Legend of the Locker |
October 14, 2006 |
WaspThe term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their...
, it's Creepie and Gnat to the rescue - karaokeis a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...
-style! Creepie unlocks the legend of Gina Redshoes who haunts the school's athletic equipment locker.>
5 |
Bite Nite / Night of Fright |
October 28, 2006 |
Blood DriveBlood Drive may refer to:*Blood donation at a special event where donors come to give blood*Blood Drive , the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the television series The Office...
at a mysterious hospitalA hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
. Chris-Alice's HalloweenHallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
Party turns out to be a let down when only Creepie shows up. But Carla and Melanie get a big fright when they accidentally stumble into Dweezwold Mansion.>
6 |
Roach'e Motel / Little Greenhouse of Horrors |
November 4, 2006 |
motelA motor hotel, or motel for short, is a hotel designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles...
until Creepie negotiates with the motel's owner. Creepie and Budge free Gnat and Pauly from a giant bug-eating Venus FlytrapThe Venus Flytrap , Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces...
.>
7 |
Field of Screams / Mom Under Glass |
November 25, 2006 |
burying beetleBurying beetles or sexton beetles are the best-known members of the family Silphidae . Burying beetles are true to their name. Most of these beetles are black with red markings on the elytra . They bury the carcasses of small vertebrates such as birds and rodents as a food source for their larvae...
on the school football field before the big game. But the beetle turns out to be something other than an innocent bug. When Creepie forgets her lunch on a field trip to the Natural History Museum, Caroleena falls into the hands of an evil entomologist.>
8 |
Goth To Have Better Friends / Wax Attacks |
January 13, 2007 |
| 9 |
Headless Roach Man / Invasion of the Locusts |
January 20, 2007 |
roachCockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitations...
for Budge. Creepie's locustLocusts are the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae. These are species that can breed rapidly under suitable conditions and subsequently become gregarious and migratory...
relatives invade Middlington which annoys her. But, she stands by them when George Hollyruller tries to exterminate them.>
10 |
Creepie's Living Doll / Operation Monarch Liberation |
January 27, 2007 |
MexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
that turns out to be possessed. Creepie frees butterfliesA butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
from the Monarch Sanctuary, causing massive chaos.>
11 |
Bait and Switch / Shutterbug |
April 2, 2007 |
fishingFishing is the activity of trying to catch wild fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping....
trip where she learns of Old Crabby, a giant crabTrue crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...
rumored to inhabit the lake. Creepie uses an old camera to discover a new hobbyA hobby is a regular activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure, typically done during one's leisure time.- Etymology :A hobby horse is a wooden or wickerwork toy made to be ridden just like a real horse...
and new ways to freak out her peers.>
12 |
Bad Karma Chameleon / Home is Where the Haunt Is |
April 7, 2007 |
chameleonChameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...
and must do everything in her power to protect her family. When Bunny Hollyruller tries to sell Dweezwold Mansion, Creepie must do everything in their power to sour the sale.>
13 |
Creepie Friday / The Final Curtain |
April 28, 2007 |
ghostIn traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...
s are haunting the stage where Creepie and her friends are performing a play.>
Season 2 (2007-2008)
| # |
Title |
Airdate |
| 14 |
Creepie and the Candy Factory / The Ice Bug Cometh |
May 26, 2007 |
candyCandy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added...
factory, Creepie goes behind the scenes and discovers Sweety's secret. After Creepie frees a frozen prehistoric bug from the museum, the icebug has trouble adjusting to the modern world.>
15 |
Are You Afraid of the Moths / Revenge of the Water Bug |
June 9, 2007 |
cleanlinessCleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt, and the process of achieving and maintaining that state.Cleanliness may be endowed with a moral quality, as indicated by the aphorism "cleanliness is next to godliness," and may be regarded as contributing to other ideals...
inspection, the bug seeks his watery revenge!>
16 |
Nightmare on Locust Lane / The Mummy's Curse |
October 13, 2007 |
pharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. The title originates in the term "pr-aa" which means "great house" and describes the royal palace...
, and only a dung beetleDung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on feces. All of these species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea; most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae. This beetle can also be referred to as the scarab beetle. As most species of...
knows the way out.>
17 |
Children of the Pumpkin Patch / Night of A Thousand Legs |
October 27, 2007 |
pumpkinA pumpkin is a gourd-like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae . It commonly refers to cultivars of any one of the species Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita moschata, and is native to North America...
picking turns dark when Creepie and her friends end up at an eerie farm where they're haunted by a mysterious scarecrowA scarecrow is, essentially, a decoy, though traditionally, a human figure dressed in old clothes and placed in fields by farmers to discourage birds such as crows or sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.-History:In Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan...
. On Creepie's first Halloween, her trick-or-treatingTrick-or-treating or "Guising", is a customary practice for children on Halloween in many countries. Children in costumes travel from house to house in order to ask for treats such as candy with the question "Trick or treat?"...
is interrupted by trying to find Aunt Rose who's on the loose!>
18 |
Lice Lice Baby / Scorpiophobia |
November 10, 2007 |
head liceThe head louse is an obligate ectoparasite of humans. Head lice are wingless insects spending their entire life on human scalp and feeding exclusively on human blood...
cousins visit her school, it's a race against time for Creepie to escape before Monserrate flushes her cousins down the drain! ScorpionScorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping claws and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger...
s take over the theater when Creepie and her friends go to see the big summer blockbuster.>
19 |
On Thin Ice / Toxic Mutant Millipede |
November 24, 2007 |
snowmanA snowman is an anthropomorphic snow sculpture. They are customarily built by children as part of a family project in celebration of winter. In some cases, participants in winter festivals will build large numbers of snowmen...
which seems to be following them around. Toxic Mutant Millipede: Creepie's knowledge of millipedeMillipedes are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment . Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one...
s gives her a strategic advantage when she and Budge get sucked into the virtual "Toxic Mutant Millipede" videogame.>
20 |
I Was a Teenage Wolfbug / Outta Sight Space Bowl Night |
December 8, 2007 |
bowlingBowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
night at the new Space Bowl Lanes.>
21 |
Rockabye Freakie / Creep of the Deep |
January 12, 2008 |
surfingSurfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...
contest, everyone but Creepie seems to be affected by the Curse of Black Water Beach, haunted by pirates who capsized there many years before.>
22 |
Going For Brogue / Yellow Jacket Racket |
January 26, 2008 |
bagpipersBagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...
going batty, Creepie agrees to learn the so-called "haunted" bagpipes. Gnat is getting bullied by some hornetHornets are the largest eusocial wasps; some species can reach up to in length. The true hornets make up the genus Vespa and are distinguished from other vespines by the width of the vertex , which is proportionally larger in Vespa and by the anteriorly rounded gasters .- Life cycle :In...
s in an alley, so Creepie tries to help him defend himself.>
23 |
The Return of Tarantula Boy / All The President's Pests |
February 9, 2008 |
| 24 |
Creep of the Crop / Creepie Cousin |
March 1, 2008 |
crop circleA crop circle is a sizable pattern created by the flattening of a crop such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rapeseed. Crop circles are also referred to as crop formations, because they are not always circular in shape. While the exact date crop circles began to appear is unknown, the documented...
s. Creepie is left to babysit Chris-Alice's naughty bug-hating cousin.>
25 |
Creepie Crawling / Fashion Victim |
April 12, 2008 |
makeoverA makeover is a term applied to changing one's appearance, sometimes through cosmetics. Makeovers can range from something as simple as a new haircut, to the use of cosmetic surgery, to the extreme of the implantation of dental veneers, eye-color-changing contact lenses, and the use of...
against her will and enters the Fashion Forward contest.>
26 |
Wanna Bee / The Haunting of Tiki Lagoon |
June 21, 2008 |
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