Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends

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Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Noggin and Nick Jr.. Each episode follows the everyday adventures of a family of bugs, who have made their home in what is called the Hollow Tree, led by the gentle, kind-hearted Miss Spider. The show gives young viewers a bug's-eye-view of a whimsical, woodsy wonderland.

The show touches on social and emotional themes that children will recognize from their own lives. The overarching theme is about the importance of getting along with others--our family, our friends, and members of our community. It is meant to serve as a model for children about how to go out into the world and learn to live with others.

Our gifts, they are many: We hop, fly and crawl. But kindness is the finest of all! - Miss Spider

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[edit] Characters

  • Shimmer — A pink jewel beetle voiced by Rebecca Brenner. She is one of the adoptive children of Miss Spider and Holley.
  • Dragon — A purple dragonfly voiced by Mitchell Eisner. An adoptive child of Miss Spider and Holley. Dragon was flying with his family and fell into the river. A waterbug rescued Dragon and introduced him to Holley and Miss Spider. From that day, Dragon becomes a part of Squirt's family.
  • Bounce — A blue bedbug voiced by Julie Lemieux. An adoptive child of Miss Spider and Holley. He is a two-legged, high energy bug. Bounce lost his way when we wandered from home. Bounce and Dragon are best bug buddies.
  • Spinner — A yellow spider voiced by Austin Di Iulio (and Cameron Ansell credited for 1 episode). Sporting very large eye glasses, he looks almost exactly like his father, Holley. He is a smart and wise bug often looked to for advice. While he is not great at basketberry, he has a wonderful talent for the bugpipes.
  • Snowdrop — A yellow spider voiced by Alexandra Lai. She is the twin of Pansy. Her distinguishing feature is a green bow on a strand of hair on her head. Has a beautiful singing voice.
  • Pansy — A yellow spider voiced by Aaryn Doyle. She is the twin of Snowdrop. Her distinguishing feature is a pink bow on a strand of hair on her head. Sings well, but not as naturally as Snowdrop.
  • Wiggle — A blue spider voiced by Marc McMulkin. Tends to be the worrier of the group and quite emotional.
  • Beetrice — The queen bee voiced by Catherine Gallant.
  • Honey — Daughter of Beetrice and princess of the hive.
  • Stinky — A stinkbug voiced by Scott McCord. Lives in the Dribbly Dell. Adopted father of Grace.
  • Whiffy — Stinky's sister. Lives in a different forest and visits every now and then, is now living with her brother to be a mother to Grace.
  • Grace — An orange-shelled Asian lady beetle, who was supposed to meet her parents in Sunny Patch. They never returned for her and she was adopted by Stinky and his sister Whiffy.
  • Spiderus — A white spider voiced by the late Tony Jay. He is married to Spindella. Spiderus is somewhat sulky and overly touchy, as the innocent and (most of the time) harmless antics of the children can send him into a fit of rage. However, he does show a glimpse of chivalry and kindness every now and then, especially now that he's a father himself.
  • Spindella — A red spider voiced by Kristina Nicoll. Married to Spiderus. In a sense, Spindella is a foil to Spiderus; she is much warmer and appreciative of the kids. Spindella revealed that she was pregnant at the end of the special episode "Be Good to Bugs... and Frogs." It was thought that this storyline might not been through to completion due to death of Tony Jay during the show's production. However, the spiderlings were hatched in the episode "Lulla-Bug; Most Perfect Parent."
  • Mandrake — Son of Spiderus and Spindella. Looks like a small, pudgy version of Spiderus and speaks with an english accent.
  • Belladonna — A pink spider; daughter of Spiderus and Spindella, twin sister of (Poison) Ivy.
  • Poison Ivy — Twin sister of Belladonna, generally just called Ivy.
  • Mr. Mantis — A green praying mantis voiced by Wayne Robson. Mr. Mantis is the Sunny Patch schoolteacher, providing wise instruction to Miss Spider's kids, as well the other youngsters of the Patch.
  • Betty Beetle — A green beetle voiced by Patricia Gage. Adopted Miss Spider when she was a spiderling. Grandmother to the young bugs.
  • Ned and Ted — A pair of ant brothers. Ned speaks with a Cockney accent and has a tuft of hair between his antennae and Ted speaks with a New York accent. Both have only two interests: food and getting more of it.
  • Sawyer — a female carpenter ant who is an aphid rancher and is responsible for clearing out mushrooms whenever they start to overgrow Sunny Patch.
  • Lil Sis — an earwig voiced by Tajja Isen. Eunice's daughter.

[edit] Episode guide

[edit] Season 1

1 - I'll Fly Away / All Pupa'ed Out First broadcast: 9/7/2004

  • Dragon wants leave Sunny Patch to join the Flying Aces, who are dragonflies like he is. He feels like he would belong better with them.
  • Squirt and Shimmer find a baby caterpillar in the meadow. They ask Miss Spider and Holley if they can take care of her, but get more work than they bargained for.

2 - Country Bug-Kin / A Star Fell On Sunny Patch First broadcast: 9/8/2004

  • An orphaned cockroach named Sweetie is blown by the wind into Sunny Patch. She is taken in by the Spider family until it is safe to go home. Squirt is taken with her and tries to impress her by taking her on a midnight stroll. He worries when he thinks nothing will interest her.
  • The bugs, along with Uncle Gus, go out stargazing. They learn about constellations, shooting stars, and wishing stars. Squirt makes many wishes on a star, and Uncle Gus jokes that he wished the star out of the sky. When he, and some of the other bugs, find what looks like a wishing star, Squirt worries that what Gus said was true. They try to return the star to the sky.

3 - A Little Slow / Stalking the Beanstalk First broadcast: 9/9/2004

  • Miss Spider takes the bugs on a nature walk for Bug Scouts. Squirt takes along his friend, Shelley the snail. But the others get annoyed at having to walk slow to keep pace with Shelley. The other bugs race ahead while Miss Spider and Squirt discover the things you don't always notice when passing by too fast. When the other bugs get lost, they are found by Miss Spider, Squirt, and Shelley. They worry over how they will get home when Shelley shows them how he leaves a trail of slime wherever he goes. They follow the trail to get home.

4 - Bedtime Story / Fly Away Friends First broadcast: 9/10/2004

5 - The Marin Rose / A Sticky Situation First broadcast: 9/13/2004

6 - Ant-tuition / Sing It Sister First broadcast: 9/14/2004

  • It's time for harvesting in Sunny Patch. All the bugs are are working to put away the food storage for the winter. Squirt loses control of a cart that rolls out of control toward Ned and Ted's ant hole. When the ants come out, Squirt explains they're harvesting. Ned and Ted convince Squirt that winter's far off and that nobody should need to harvest for a while. They throw a Summer Will Never End party. Miss Spider's crew collect all they need, but Ned and Ted are surprised at the end of the night when snow begins to fall.
  • The bugs see the Dribbly Dell Singers. Pansy hears that they are doing tryouts and starts practicing. The other bugs try to be nice, but they see it's not her natural talent. When Snowdrop's beautiful singing is overheard, she's asked to give Pansy advice. Pansy realizes that she sounds better singing with her twin. Pansy has some trouble at her audition, so Snowdrop sings with her. Snowdrop is accepted instead. On the night of the show, Pansy refuses to go. But she and Snowdrop arrange for them to sing together to everyone's surprise.

7 - Something's Stinky in Sunny Patch / The Listening Walk First broadcast: 9/15/2004

  • Opened in a Private I syle mystery, Stinky investigates the case of the bark thief of Mr. Mantis' house. Spiderus accuses Shimmer of eating the bark, and spreads the rumor. Shimmer realizes how much gossip hurts her feelings. It is figured out that it was the bark beetles, who eat and lay their eggs in bark. They apologize for not realizing they were eating someone's house.
  • Wiggle is scared of nighttime noises. Miss Spider takes him on a listening walk, like her mother took her one when she was a young bug. They are joined by Squirt and Dragon on their walk, followed by Bounce a little later. One by one, the bugs identify the nighttime noises and realize it's really the nocturnal bugs who are active at night.

8 - Wiggle's Squiggles / Basketberry Blues First broadcast: 9/16/2004

  • The bugs learn at school how to collect "colors" from the meadow to paint. Mr. Mantis instructs them to paint the daisy he has placed them in front of. Wiggle is excited to show his painting off, but after first viewing Shimmer's painting which looked like a perfect recreation, he gets discouraged. Then he refuses to show everyone until he can paint a better one. After a few mishaps, he shows them his original painting which everyone loves. He learns that he has his own creativeness that he can be proud of.
  • The bugs are trying out for basketberry, Sunny Patch's version of basketball. Dragon is a very talented basketberry player, and Spinner usually just keeps score. One day Spinner plays with them, which he isn't very good. Miss Spider convinces Dragon that he should help coach Spinner to build his confidence. He resorts to trickery, so Spinner thinks he's improving. When Spinner discovers the trick, he is upset and refuses to try out. With some convincing and apologizing he tries out, realizing that he can still have fun playing.

9 - What a Tangled Web / Cry Buggie First broadcast: 9/17/2004

  • Squirt accidentally leaves all of his leftover webs all over Sunny Patch and instead of cleaning it up he goes off to play. So Miss. Spider is stuck cleaning up after him. But when Roxie the sky queen gets injured from a web, Squirt realizes what he must do and he helps his mom clean all the webs.
  • On the day before the Soccerberry tournament, the kids have a practice game. When Wiggle loses, he bursts into tears. Dragon explains to Squirt that Wiggle's a "Cry Buggie" and that older bugs never cry. Squirt takes these words to heart and doesn't even cry when he hurts one of his legs and can't play in the tournament. Squirt keeps all of his bad feelings bottled up inside him, until his parents tell him all bugs need to cry sometimes, even older bugs. Squirt then bawls his eyes out and he starts to feel a lot better. After the tournament is canceled due to rain, Dragon starts to cry, but is too embarrassed to adimit it, so Squirt tells Dragon the same thing his mom and dad told him, that it's okay to cry.

10 - A Scarey Scarey Tale / A Bug-A-Boo Day Play First broadcast: 10/25/2004

11 - Hum Bug / Dashing Through the Snow First broadcast: 12/10/2004

12 - Happy Heartwood Day / Ground House Rules First broadcast: 2/14/2005

13 - Family Circus / Eight Is Not Enough First broadcast: 3/14/2005

14 - Taste-Bugs; Top O'Big Tree First broadcast: 3/15/2005

15 - No-See-Um Is Believin'! / A Little Bug Music First broadcast: 3/16/2005

16 - The Bug Flu / A Time Telling Tale First broadcast: 3/17/2005

17 - Bug Your Mom Day / Cloudy Day in Sunny Patch First broadcast: 5/2/2005

18 - Froggy Day in Sunny Patch Special - First broadcast: 6/20/2005

19 - The Big Green Bug Special - First broadcast: 7/21/2005

[edit] Season 2

20 - Captain Sunny Patch / Captain Sunny Patch Flies Again First broadcast: 3/13/2006

21 - Family Tree / Jitterbug First broadcast: 3/14/2006

22 - Big Bad Bug Sitter / Thinking Stone First broadcast: 3/15/2006

23 - Seeing Straight / Stumped! First broadcast: 3/16/2006

24 - Eight Legs Up / Spider Mom First broadcast: 3/20/2006

25 - Snuggle Bugs / Best Bug Buddies First broadcast: 3/21/2006

26 - Fungus Among Us / Ground Bound First broadcast: 3/22/2006

27 - Pitch and Itch / Bounce Back First broadcast: 3/23/2006

28 - Be Good to Bugs...and Frogs Special - First broadcast: 6/27/2006

29 - The Prince, The Princess and the Bee TV Movie - First broadcast: 7/24/2006

30 - Giddy-Up Bugs / Snake Charmer First broadcast: 9/16/2006

31 - Eclipse / Hide and Sleuth First broadcast: 9/17/2006

32 - Good Deed Seeds / Shelly and the Brain First broadcast: 10/8/2006

33 - Night and Day / Cob Fog First broadcast: 10/22/2006

34 - Lulla-Bug / The Most Perfect Parent First broadcast: 11/19/2006

  • Snowdrop wants to help take care of Spiderus and Spindella's spiderlings, but they haven't hatched yet. So when Snowdrop drops in on Spiderus singing a lullaby to the eggs, she remembers the tune from when she was a hatchling. Hidden, she sings with him, and Spiderus mistakes it for the voice of one of his little ones. He tries to show everyone how he heard the voice of one of his babies, then Snowdrop reveals how she accidentally fooled him. When they start singing the lullaby again together, the spiders start to hatch.
  • Spiderus is in charge of taking care of the spiderlings by himself. He also thinks he can get some household chores out of the way at the same time. Squirt and Shimmer come to offer help, but he thinks he has it all under control. Though, he delegates jobs to the bugs anyway. He begins thinking each spiderling isn't getting enough attention or that he's doing things wrong. He seeks advice from the other parents in Sunny Patch. Later he realizes that he doesn't have to do everything just so. Loving them is enough.

35 - Frog in the Moon / Moon Music and Sun Songs First broadcast: 12/3/2006

36 - Spring Unsprung / Bumbling Bees

37 - Snake Charmer / A Party For Pops

38 - Mr. Mocking-Bug / Odd Bug Fellows

39 - Bug Talk / The Befuddled Butterfly

40 - Master Mantis / Bug-Versity

41 - Lost and Sound / It's My Party FIRST AIRED: 5/14/2007

42 - Dam the Puddle / Flower Power FIRST AIRED: 5/16/2007

43 - Little LadyBug Lost / A Beetle-ful Family

44 - Bringing Up Shrubby / Stuck On You

[edit] Songs of Sunny Patch - Lyrics

[edit] Opening theme

Spiders are spinning away in the trees
Buggies are bouncing and hanging the breeze
Gliding through the sky, we're flying high
The fun we hatch in Sunny Patch
To the Hollow Tree, a family
On wings and strings, and floaty things
Coming home for hugs, be good to bugs

[edit] Have a Happy Hatch Day

Have a happy hatch day
We hope your dreams come true
Your hatch day is so special
Cause that's when we got you

Spiders will be swingin'
Beetles will be wingin'
Everybuggy singin'
Happy Hatch Day

Everybuggy's party
Is on the day they're hatched
So fly, or crawl, or skitter
There's fun in Sunny Patch

Spiders will be swingin'
Beetles will be wingin'
Everybuggy singin'
Happy Hatch Day Shimmer

[edit] Bugaboo

Welcome to our hulla baloo
With dancing ghosts and goblins who
Fly and float and play tricks on you
It's all in fun so don't boo hoo
Just have a happy Bugaboo

Oh ho what a frightening sight
We're dancing in the pale moon light
High above like shimmering kites
Come join us on this scary night
Just have a happy Bugaboo

[edit] Dribbly Dell Singers

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

La la la la la lady bugs
Buh buh buh buh buh butterflies
Doo doo doo doo doo doodlebugs
Buh buh buh buh buh butterflies
Doo doo doo doo doo doodlebugs
La la la la la lady bugs
Buh buh buh buh buh butterflies
Doo doo doo doo doo doodlebugs
We are the Dribbly Dell Singers

Mi mi mi mi mi millipedes
Buh buh buh buh buh butterflies
Bum bum bum bum bum bumblebees
We are the Dribbly Dell Singers

[edit] Bug Buddies

Bug buddies, bug buddies
We’re best bug buddies
Bug buddies, bug buddies
We’re best bug buddies

Some have wings
Some make strings
We can do all kinds of things
Racing bees, or tickling fleas
It’s more fun when done in threes

Bug buddies, bug buddies
We’re best bug buddies
Bug buddies, bug buddies
We’re best bug buddies

[edit] Slow Down

Slow down and watch a leaf
Floating to the ground
Slow down and give a listen
To the wind's enchanting sound
From dawn until the day's end
Slow down and see the Earth's wonders
From dawn until the day's end
Slow down and make a friend

[edit] Starfell Song

Quite a starry show tonight
Except for one little twinkly light
How could you tell when the moon's so bright?
I just know ...
One little star's got a long long way to go

How do you put a star back in the sky?
Is there a way that a spider can fly?
And why do great clouds sometimes cry?
Some things you never will know how or why
Some bugs will sing, some bugs are shy
Guess I'll just keep wishing while I try
To put that little star back in the sky

[edit] Minute Long Song

How do you know when a minute's done
If it's cloudy out and there is no sun
And you want to play but not too long
While you swing just sing the minute long song

It's a silly way of telling time
With a tick-tock tune and a buggy rhyme
You don't need a bell or buzz or gong
While you play just sing the minute long song

Our singing time is lots of fun
But now this song is almost done
And it's time to stop our sing-a-long
Cause we've come to the end of the minute long song

[edit] Ant-tuition

You know, I've got a hunch
First, let's do lunch
Got this feeling in my guts
Hey, where'd we hide those nuts?
It's a little bit fuzzy
My antennae's kinda buzzy
It's a vibe in the hill
Call it what you will!
Call it ant-tuition!
It's a feeling in your belly
Makes it jiggle like red jelly
Now don't you forget it!
You'll know when you get it!
It will come to fruition
Cause it's ant-tuition!
Ant-tuition!
100% guranteed ant's honor or your crumbs back!
Offer not available at all anthills. No purchase necessary
Ant-tuition! Oh, yeah!


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