I Spy

***I Spy*** is an animated stop motion series that first aired on HBO Family on December 14, 2002. It is based on the children's book series created by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick and published by Scholastic. The series aired until July 2011 on Jam.

## Plot

The episode starts off with Spyler and CeCe trying to find something to do. When they find something, they discover that they need other items. Duck arrives and gives Spyler and CeCe four (or sometimes three) items to find, which she says in a riddle. Spyler and CeCe then start finding for the items. After each item is found they sing their "Whoop! We Found It!" song. Duck appears again and tells them what they have found and what they need to find in riddle. Spyler also calls for Wheeler to take their items home. After all the items are found, Spyler and CeCe do their activity/task. They always find a use for every item.

Each episode also has a super challenge, announced after the episode’s title, involving finding a certain number of a specific object throughout the episode, such as four wingnuts or six triangular blocks.

## Characters

* **Spyler** (voiced by Tara Jayne) – One of the main characters of the series. Spyler has a tennis ball head, red pipe cleaners for hair, an eraser body, green button feet, and yellow limbs with also green gloves. He likes to hang around with his sidekick pet, CeCe.

* **CeCe** (voiced by Ellen Le) – CeCe is Spyler's best friend and pet dog. She is completely designed out of orange building blocks, with yellow and green spots on her body. CeCe likes to make jokes with Spyler.

* **Duck** (voiced by Cindy Creekmore) – Duck is Spyler and Cece's friend. She is a rubber duck on wheels who gives out things to find for Spyler and CeCe.

* **Wheeler** (voiced by Big Al) – Wheeler is a big red dump truck. He is called upon every so often to bring items Spyler and CeCe can use for their activity back home.

* **Domino General** (voiced by Big Al) – Domino General is the leader of the dominoes who has a white mustache in the front of his face. He talks half indistinctly.

* **Mumble Monster** (voiced by Big Al) – Mumble Monster is a monster that has yellow fuzzy and wears purple, yellow and blue striped socks. He speaks in a mumble voice, hence the title of his name.

* **Silly Knights** - The knights are people who wear armor and have shields, who live in a sand castle on the beach. In every episode that features them, each one of them argues over who is better than the rest of them or who is right, like who is the tallest, who is the best singer, etc.

* **Polka and Dot** - Polka and Dot are ladybug twin sisters. When Spyler and CeCe come by, they ask Polka and Dot if they can borrow a missing item after they find it. Polka and Dot say they cannot "borrow" the item, but they can "have" it.

* **Clankenspy** - Clankenspy is a robot made with a tin-can body, a light bulb head, and a red button on the center of him. He was invented by Spyler and CeCe in "Runaway Robot" to help them clean up a mess they made at the beginning of the episode. He is described as "strong and fast and nice."

## Trivia

* Despite being a Jam show, it wouldn't air on the block yet until sometime in early 2003.
* After this show, HBO Family wouldn't get an original show made for the network (not counting *El Perro y El Gato*) until *Esme & Roy* in 2018.
* This show, along with *Dear America* started airing on the Qubo network in May 2013 when it started airing Scholastic-distributed shows.
	+ The aforementioned shows are also on Hulu in the "Scholastic" library. The former show is no longer on there as of 2017, while the latter two are still on.
* Unlike most other HBO Family shows, this show has published books (considering that it was based on them) featuring the main Spyler and CeCe characters, and DVDs.
* In July 2011, the show along with *Harold and the Purple Crayon* were both removed from Jam.
* While Spyler was a new character to be created specifically for the series, CeCe was based off a character author Walter Wick originally thought of while writing the original books decades before her debut in the show.
* There is a noticeable decline in production quality in the second season. The image quality is darker and muddier, Spyler’s model is changed to a different one, and there is constant reuse of footage from earlier episodes.