Big City Greens: Shortsgiving

**Big City Greens: Shortsgiving** is an animated crossover special based on *Big City Greens*, also featuring characters from *Amphibia*, *The Owl House*, and *Phineas and Ferb*. It premiered on November 21, 2020 at 8pm.

The special is also available on YouTube.

## Synopsis

This special is basically a "compilation", which features several other shorts from the past such as *Broken Karaoke*, *Random Rings* and the *Big City Greens Theme Song Takeover*. Shorts from other Disney shows, *Amphibia*, *The Owl House* and *Phineas and Ferb*, are also featured. The shorts are framed by scenes of Cricket and Tilly presenting them to the audience in the Greens' backyard on Thanksgiving.

## Credits

### Animation studios

* Disney Television Animation (Random Rings, Broken Karaoke)
* Liquid Animation (Shortsgiving)
* Rough Draft Korea (Theme Song Takeover, Chibi Tiny Tales)
* Saerom Animation (Teen Girl in a Frog World)
* Sugarcube (Owl Pellets)

### Voice cast

* Dee Bradley Baker
* Chris Houghton as Cricket Green
* Marieve Herington as Tilly Green
* Bob Joles as Bill Green
* Artemis Pebdani as Alice Green
* Alex Hirsch (King and Hooty from *The Owl House*)
* Sarah-Nicole Robles (Luz Noceda from *The Owl House*)
* Brenda Song (Anne Boonchuy from *Amphibia*)
* Justin Felbinger (Sprig Plantar from *Amphibia*)
* Bill Farmer (Hopediah "Hop-Pop" Plantar from *Amphibia*)
* Amanda Leighton (Polly Plantar from *Amphibia*)
* Dan Povenmire (Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from *Phineas and Ferb*)
* Vincent Martella (Chibi Phineas from the *Phineas and Ferb* Chibi Tiny Tale)
* Ashley Tisdale (Chibi Candace from the *Phineas and Ferb* Chibi Tiny Tale)

### Story

* Sabrina Alberghetti
* Drew Applegate
* Scotland Barnes
* Trey Boungiorno
* Tyler Chen
* Emmy Cicierega
* Mikki Crisostomo
* Cheyenne Curtis
* Amy Hudkins
* Amelia Lorenz
* Zach Marcus
* Kyle Menke
* Michael Morris
* Anna O'Brian
* Molly Knox Ostertag
* Daniel Siegel

### Location Design

* Eric Gonzales
* Steven Sugar
* Matthew Thiebes

### Background Paint

* Eric Gonzales
* Angela Li
* Wendy Park
* Jacob Streilein
* Philip Vose

## Transcript

*Click **here** to read the transcript for **Big City Greens: Shortsgiving**.*

## Gallery

*Click **here** to view the gallery for **Big City Greens: Shortsgiving**.*

## Shorts featured (in order of appearance)

1. *Chibi Tiny Tales*: *Amphibia*: "Quicksand"
2. *Chibi Tiny Tales*: *Phineas and Ferb*: "Rollercoaster"
3. *Theme Song Takeover*: *Amphibia*: "8-bit Theme Song Takeover"
4. *Theme Song Takeover*: "Gramma Theme Song Takeover"
5. *Random Rings*: "Cricket and Tilly Call Dr. Doofenshmirtz"
6. *Random Rings*: "Dr. Doofenshmirtz Calls Gramma"
7. *Random Rings*: "Cricket Calls a Pet Store"
8. *Random Rings*: "Cricket Pranks Raven"
9. *Amphibia*: *Teen Girl in a Frog World*: "Hop Popcorn"
10. *Broken Karaoke*: "Queen of Nice"
11. *Broken Karaoke*: "Stuck at Home"
12. *The Owl House*: *Owl Pellets*: "Art Lessons with Luz"
13. *The Owl House*: *Owl Pellets*: "Paint Scare!"
14. *Chibi Tiny Tales*: "Turkey Tussle"

## Trivia

* This is the second Thanksgiving special after "Big Deal".
* The majority of the short is basically non-canon as there's no way the four animated shows could exist in the same universe.
* This is the first short to be a crossover, not counting the Broken Karaoke short Doof Sings Deck the Halls.
* In the introduction to *Stuck at Home*, Tilly mentions the Greens are still stuck at home, implying this was recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic.
	+ Then again, the special could be considered non-canon.
* Cricket uses his imagination to present the final short, like how he "retreated into [his] imagination" in "Dolled Up".
* A running gag is Gramma slamming on the projector with her sword. Due to slamming it so many times, the projector is broken and Cricket has to imagine the final short.
* In the introduction to *Queen of Nice* when Tilly flips her head back, she is wearing her earrings which she received after getting her ears pierced in "Tilly Style".
* Ironically, it was Cricket's fault for breaking the projector since he was the last one to slam on it with Gramma's sword.
* This is the second time Cricket got grounded, the first time being "Space Chicken", but this time he accepts his punishment.
* It's revealed Bill found out Cricket prank called Raven-Symone.
	+ Coincidentally, Raven herself is the voice of Maria Media.
* The Random Rings segments were changed in that the caller feedback was removed.
* The credits play only text.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/DisneyTVANews/status/1327785526032797698