Loveblock

**Wyatt Olinger's Loveblock**(or just simply **Loveblock**) is an animated series created by Wyatt Olinger, it premiered on October 19, 2020 and ended on September 9, 2021. It is the sixth original animated series on the YouTube Channel.

## Synopsis

*Loveblock* revolves around the life of Jerry Johnson. A shy and intelligent kid who is good friends with three friendly girls named Lillian, Charlotte, and Melanie, all three of which he has massive crushes on. But can't pick between the three of them. Jerry also has to protect the trio from a villainous kid named Wiley Simpson who also has "crushes" on them. Wyatt himself appears in this series as the narrator.

## Cast

### Main

* **Jerry Johnson** - The main protagonist of the series. He is a shy redhead boy who has trouble remembering most people he encounters. His friends consist of Lillian, Charlotte, Melanie, and Leon. He deeply admires the former three but can't decide which one he wants to be his girlfriend. Jerry has also been shown to have inventing and artistic abilites. In the third episode he modified his alarm clock to pour a glass of water on his head to wake him up. He is voiced by Wyatt Olinger.
* **Lillian Doyle** - An Irish overly-affectionate and sometimes ditzy redhead girl and one of Jerry's three crushes. Her signature color is yellow. She acts as a leader figure to Charlotte and Melanie. Lillian is the most loyal to Jerry, she is Jerry's favorite according to herself, whether this is true is unknown.
* **Melanie Gonzales-** A sweet and kind girl and one of Jerry's three crushes. Her signature color is orange. She is Hispanic, and the most tomboyish, childlike and best-friend-type of the three girls. Melanie also has a talent for singing and preforms in the park on Sundays. She is also bilingual, capable of speaking both English and Spanish.
* **Charlotte Watkins** - An Asian-Australian mysterious girl and one of Jerry's three crushes. Her signature color is blue. Unlike Lillian and Melanie, Charlotte never speaks and usually communicates through head nods and waves. But Jerry, Lillian, and Melanie can understand her despite her muteness. Charlotte wears a blue hat that looks very similar to the one worn by Wyatt. Charlotte is also shown to be very protective of Jerry, as she pinched Wiley for bullying him. Her being Australian is never revealed until the 15th episode. She finally breaks her silence in Episode 23.

### Recurring

* **Leon** - An African-American boy and a close friend of Jerry, he was introduced in the fifth episode. Leon is the only one who knows about Jerry's crushes on Lillian, Charlotte, and Melanie.
* **Wiley Simpson*-*** A sloppy-looking boy with a pink eye and the series' antagonist. He is a shady and rude boy who, like Jerry, has crushes on the three girls, but unlike Jerry, his crushes on them are fake, as Wiley only sees Lillian, Melanie, and Charlotte as his future lackeys. He absolutely loathes Jerry. His last name is Simpson for rather blatant reasons.
* **Kristina -** A very bratty and manipulative girl who serves as the town's diva. She is said to be very popular and snotty, and is rude towards nearly everybody, including Jerry.
* **Rodger -** A shy boy who debuts in episode 10, he was initially thought to have stalked Lillian, Charlotte, and Melanie, but was later revealed to be trying to get information on the trio for a news article on them. He has a nasally voice.
* **Annie -** An Asian girl, she has a cheerful and loving personality, she once got a choir to sing Happy Birthday to Jerry, but the choir was unable to due to the song being copyrighted.
* **Jessica -** A redhead girl who is Jerry's female counterpart, she has a crush on three boys named Leo, Marvin, and Charlie.
* **Leo -** One of Jessica's crushes and Lillian's male counterpart, he lives in a cul-de-sac that Lillian often visits.
* **Marvin -** One of Jessica's crushes and Melanie's male counterpart, he wears bright orange overalls and has a friendly personality similar to Melanie.
* **Charlie -** One of Jessica's crushes and Charlotte's male counterpart, like Charlotte, he also never speaks a word.
* **Vega -** A mysterious blonde girl who only appears in the final few episodes, she is shown to have a crush on Jerry and eventually became his girlfriend.

## Development

When it comes to early development for a series "Loveblock" is practically a goldmine.

The earliest known ideas for "Loveblock" came around in either March or April of 2020. Wyatt Olinger wanted to create a series which had three female leads. Olinger initially considered naming the girls "Hop" "Skip" and "Jump", but it sounded too ridiculous. A few moments later, Wyatt drew the three girls dressed in orange, pink, and green but disliked the designs, so he revised the designs dressed in yellow, blue, and orange and liked the other ones better. Olinger settled on the names "Lillian" "Charlotte" and "Melanie".

Sometime afterward Olinger added Jerry to the cast to act as a close friend to the trio and have secret crushes on all three. Olinger then made himself a character to serve as a narrator.

Eventually, Olinger made Melanie Hispanic to add some racial diversity to the show, and Loveblock officially premiered on October 19, 2020 to replace A Literal Anime, another series Wyatt Olinger worked on. In which Loveblock took some inspiration from.

## Trivia

* Lillian, Charlotte, and Melanie's signature colors- yellow, blue, and orange, are Wyatt Olinger's three favorite colors.
* Loveblock has many things in common with A Literal Anime:
	+ Both are series Wyatt Olinger has created for YouTube
	+ Both premiered in October
	+ Both series ended in September of the next year.
	+ Both use pink speech bubbles
	+ Both leads of each series have an obvious crush, but unlike Jerry, who has three crushes, Sweetie only had one.
	+ Both villains also seem infatuated with the same people as the lead character.
	+ Both have a visible narrator.
* The theme song to Loveblock is Kevin MacLeod's "Furious Freak"

## Why Loveblock is called "Loveblock"

The show's title comes from a phrase called "Love Triangle" which is a situation in a movie or TV show where a character is caught in between two lovers. And since the show is about one boy and three girls that said boy admires deeply. Wyatt Olinger considered titling the series "The Love Square" since a square is a four-sided shape and there's four characters. However, there was one problem- "The Love Square" was already the name of a novel by Laura Jane Williams. So Olinger had to change the name. He settled on "Loveblock" since a block is also a square.

Loveblock was not named after the wine.