Growing up Creepie

### Written by

Laurie Israel, Carin Greenberg, Bryan Thompson, Anthony Gaud, Chris Woods, Rachel Ruderman, Rowan Cutler, Ann Bradt Conrad, Pamela Hickey, Dennys McCoy, Rick Demott, Roger Eschbacher, Peggy Sarlin, Eric Trueheart, M.J. Offen, Corey Powell, Douglas Booth, Don Gillies, Heather Mitchell, Ken Pontac, Sharon Schatz Rosenthal, Erin Fox, M.A. Larson, Kati Rocky, Peggy Ann Bradt Vanderzee, Matt Wayne

### Directed by

Guy Vasilovich, Andy Luckey, Sung Lin Gun

### Producer

Carin Greenberg, Andy Luckey... consulting producer, Paul Cummins ... executive producer, Bill Schultz ... executive producer, Liz Young... executive producer, Mike Young... executive producer, Marie Cecchino-Brand... line producer / producer, Sara Helman... associate producer: Discovery Kids / associate producer / producer, Phil DiBartolo... producerJim Rapsas... executive producer: Discovery Kids / executive producer, Melinda Toporoff... executive producer: Discovery Kids / executive producer, Josh Fisher ... producer, Siobhán Ní Ghadhra ... producer: Telegael / producer: Ireland, Rebecca Agbe-Davies ... associate producer: Discovery Kids, Elizabeth Koshy... executive producer: Animation Dimension, Anand Pandey... online producer, Lin Li Lim... producer

## Cast

Athena Karkanis... Creepie

Richard Yearwood... Budge

Stevie Vallance... Gnat

Julie Lemieux... Caroleena

Leah Renee... Chris-Alice

Dwayne Hill... Vincent 'Vinnie' Creecher

Stephanie Anne Mills... Carla

David Berni... Pauly Creecher

Juan Chioran... Dr. Pappas

Scott McCord... George Hollyruller

John McGrath... Barnacle

Dan Petronijevic... Tarantula Boy

Shannon Duff... Mosquito

Jeffrey Knight... Homer

Patrick McKenna... Farmer Flannery

Katie Griffin... Additional Voices (uncredited)

Tracey Moore... Additional Voices (uncredited)

Rob Tinkler... Additional Voices (uncredited)

## Trivia

* One of the main topics to be discussed in the series is how people treat people from different cultures and lifestyles badly, this was done through Creepie who must adapt to a life surrounded by a society of entomophobic humans, being part of from a different culture.
* To design the mansion where Creepie and his family live, the team of creative directors will take several references from old hanna-barbera series such as Scooby-Doo and The Archie's in which the settings had tetric details.
* Trevor Wall, director of the series, wanted to make an animated adaptation of the literary work The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka; Although Nickelodeon and Mike Young Productions executives made certain changes to the story by turning the main character into a girl who instead of becoming a bug, was raised by them.
* As it is a series where mainly insects are treated, the creative production of the show did not want to fall into the classic cliché where a pest exterminator was the main antagonist of the series, that is why it was decided that the main antagonist was the Dr. Lance Pierce, an entomologist, an insect expert who would be planning to capture the creepie's mother, which is a species of mantis from Madagascar.
* Although it was decided not to completely adapt "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, In episode 18 there is a reference to this work because the "Headless Cockroach Man" is a tribute to the invertebrate in which the protagonist of the book becomes.
* each episode mixes plots with scientific facts and fantasy however at the end of each episode Creepie breaks the fourth wall to explain to the audience true scientific issues about the insect, invertebrate or fact that were covered in the chapter.
* The sports mascot of the Middlington Middle School is a bullfrog, a predator of many insects, this refers to how creepie is treated by the Middlington studios
* One of the recurring jokes in the series is that Creepie's mother threatens her children with eating them if they misbehave. This is a reference to the royal mantises whose diet involves cannibalism.

## Episodes

Main article: Growing up Creepie Episodes list

## External links

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870039/

https://growingupcreepie.fandom.com/wiki/Growing\_Up\_Creepie\_Wiki