Lil' One

**Lil' One**  (French: P'tit Der), pronounced "little one", is the main protagonist of seasons one and two of *The Crumpets*. He is voiced by Joseph Pollock (seasons one and two) in English, and Théo Benhamour (seasons one and two), Victor Biavan (season three), and Wandrille Devisme (season four) in French.

Li'l One is a talking infant who is the youngest of Ma and Pa's 142 children and all of the Crumpet family. He is fond of his mother and likes to receive her love and access her tummy hatch. He considers Pa his nemesis and goes to numerous efforts to eradicate him.

He is based on Petit Dernier from the books. In *Teen Crumpets* (seasons three and four), he is not a main character anymore and his hatred of Pa seems to be diminished.

## Biography

Li'l One is a baby who talks and only wears a nappy. He aspires that his mother loves him and no one else should.

Being more physically capable than a real baby, Li'l One has teeth and is able to run. Although having more intelligence than a real baby, it doesn't mean he's short of curiousness. He doesn't have the ability to read. He frequently gets thrown by other people. It's not uncommon for him to lose his nappy.

Li'l One can be impatient and angry when things aren't favorable to him. He frequently shouts or cries, although he can shout at positive situations. He has a huge fear of new babies born to the family who replace him as the family's "little one."

Nobody is hated by Li'l One more than Pa. His dislike of Pa can come to the form of a perceived rivalry or simply being mean to him. This hatred can motivate Li'l One to kick Pa out the house or even defeat him with physical force. Otherwise, he also hopes to have his father dead.

His Granny, who oppositely is the oldest Crumpet member, is his best friend and partner for many of their deceitful ploys. Their relationship is no match to Granny's relations with Ma and Pa, who often found her a nuisance. Li'l One and Granny enjoy teaming together on nefarious missions such as earning money by staging Pa's kidnapping and ransoming the family. Granny's laptop provides plentiful entertainment for the two, including computer games and online poker. Their partnership though has met setbacks by such controversial subjects as which one of the two had conceived their "Crum-Step" music act or Granny's alleged pregnancy of a new baby. Whenever Granny is absent in the house, it might leave him downhearted.

When it comes to his siblings, he has mixed levels of respect and hostility towards them depending on the episode. He might think they pose a threat to his quest for Ma's love as much as Pa and he could try eliminating them too. His teenage sister Caprice has been a leading opponent to his lunacies, but she also gets unnecessarily cruel to him. Both of them have physically attacked each other, especially with Li'l One causing these incidents. There are episodes where he is neutral or kind to his siblings, although his befriending of them may support his heinous schemes. He usually doesn't like Bother and Blister because of their annoyances and mean pranks on him, although all three did team up in "Gambled Gables". He has a huge fear of new babies born to the family who replace him as the family's "little one."

He was born less than a year before the events of the *The Crumpets*. The second episode "Sticks Stink" includes his first birthday. He is almost four years old in the season four episode "Force et honneur", nonetheless.

In *Teen Crumpets*, he is only a main or supporting character in a few episodes. It appears he has a less negative relationship with Pa while he remains fond of Ma.

## Trivia

* In the French version of the 2011 pilot, he is voiced by Théo Benhamour.
	+ It's also his birthday in the pilot.
* In the Brazilian Portuguese dub, he is known as Pequeno.
* In the English dub credits, his name is spelled "L'Il One" from episodes 1 to 12, but it's spelled "LI'l One" from episodes 13 onward.
* He is significantly different from his book equivalent, Petit Dernier:
	+ In *Petit Dernier (book)*:
		- He has 23 older siblings.
		- He loves Pa along with Ma.
		- He becomes the only child who lives with Ma and Pa after the others grew up and leave the house.
		- He goes to school and has a girlfriend named Grande Copine, who is absent in the show.
		- He gets 27 younger siblings including Nouveau Petit Dernier (New Little One), who is also absent.
		- He departs home with his girlfriend in the ending.
* He observes Christmas, like his family.
* The pictures of Ma's pregnancy with him and the aftermath of his birth are found in "Lil Wrinkly One".
	+ According to that episode, he once washed dishes.
* Despite that Lil' One is the main character of seasons one and two, he does not appear in all episodes. There are indeed some episodes where he is downright absent.

## Appearances

* "**Ransoming Dad**"
* "**Sticks Stink**"
* "**Crum-Step**"
* "**Going Viral**"
* "**Croco-Deal**"
* "**The Courting of Ms. McBrisk**"
* "**Belief Relief**"
* "**Gambled Gables**"
* "**Save Granny**"
* "**Booty for Beauty**"
* "**Ghosts in the Attic**"
* "**The Terrible Teens**"
* "Acne Dents Happen"
* "**Taxidermama**"
* "**Lil Wrinkly One**"
* "**Octosquito**"
* "**Shake It Up**"
* "**Dried Water**"
* "**No Pffuture**"
* "**My Family's Full of Losers**"
* "Cheep Shot"
* "**Family Secrets**"
* "**Murder Everywhere"**
* "**Hairifying**"
* "Road Stories"
* "**Addicted**"
* "**Super Pfff**"
* "Granny's Twin Sister"
* "**Amnesia**"
* "**Family Be Gone!**"
* "**A Grave Affair**"
* "**Mum's Double**"
* "**Crumpity Pity**"
* "**Li'l Wonder**"
* "**Prehistoric Crumpets**"
* "**Pong! The Menace!**"
* "**Gentlemanly Modified Organism**"
* "Man Up!"
* "**Inside Li'l One's Brain**"
* "**Li'l One All Alone**"
* "**Supernawak**"
* "Girls on Holiday"
* "**Sound The Alarm**"
* "Auto-graff"
* "Le commère-âge"
* "**Baby Sister**"
* "Rat de marée"
* "Les sur-vivants"
* "**Cinématurité**"
* "Marilyn Blues"
* "L'impffossible choix"
* "La capuche mortelle"
* "Game lover"
* "Meilleure meilleure amie"

## References

1. ↑ "Lil Wrinkly One"
2. ↑ "Family Secrets"
3. ↑ "Crumpity Pity"
4. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=949138268452702&set=a.205758559457347&type=1&theater
5. ↑ "Taxidermama"