Ants in Your Pants

Ants in Your Pants
Genre	Music video
Created by	Kathilee Porter
Developed by	Treehouse TV
Written by	Kathilee Porter, Bryan Levy Young, Kim Sparks, Rachel Bartels
Creative director(s)	Kathilee Porter
Starring	Douglas John, Judy & David, John Lithgow
Theme music composer	Douglas John
Opening theme	Ants in Your Pants
Ending theme	Ants in Your Pants (Instrumental)
Composer(s)	Douglas John
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	107
Production
Executive producer(s)	Susan Ross
Producer(s)	Kathilee Porter
Location(s)	Toronto, Ontario
Cinematography	Shawn Kelly, Andrew Baxter
Editor(s)	Marc Dupont
Running time	27 minutes
Production company(s)	YTV Productions Treehouse TV
Release
Original network	Treehouse TV
Picture format	4:3
Original release	November 1, 1997 (1997-11-01) – 2004 (2004) (Reruns until February 27, 2008) 2017 (reboot series)
Chronology
Related shows	Treetown

Ants in Your Pants Is a Canadian children's music video television program made and aired by Treehouse TV that aired from 1997 to 2004 (Reruns were going on until 2008). A revival of the series is set for a 2017 launch.

Plot

The series was created and produced by Kathilee Porter.

The TV show begins with its intro, which consists mostly of CGI animations with the "Ants In Your Pants" theme, the song was written by children's music artist Douglas John.

The host, a puppet monkey in corduroy overalls, named Lickety Split, then takes over. He lives in a large tree with his mother (who is not seen, only heard or mentioned), and usually explains what he has been doing lately, and a music video is shown. Usually, there are three music videos, all separated by a Lickety Split segment. After the last music video was played, an image of scattered leaves is shown before the next Lickety Split segment.

In the second segment, the Pesky Ants, named Janesaw, Woodchip and Dusty, are introduced. They are three ants who frequently cause trouble for him, but can also be helpful and kind on rare occasions.

In the third season, "Kiddin' Around" and "Stretch and Wiggle!" are presented. "Kiddin' Around" features a CGI video camera showing kids doing fun activities or singing songs. "Stretch and Wiggle!" (hosted by Shelley Hamilton and Corey Michaels) shows exercises. The last segment before the end of the show is 10 minutes long and is titled "Lickety's Tree Fort!" and features a guest star, such as Bob McGrath, Al Simmons, Jack Grunsky, and John Lithgow.

Cast

• Marty Stelnick as Lickety Split
• Jason Hopley, Ben Deustch, Colin Penman as Janesaw, Woodchip, and Dusty

Soundtrack

Popularity

Ants in Your Pants was an entirely new concept in children's television. Although many children's programs (both at the time and in the present) were very musically based, this was the first known to feature music "videos". As a result, the show became popular with Canadian children and was widely praised by adults. Its soundtrack was a Juno nominee in 2000 for Best Children's Album. A number of music videos from the program began appearing on YouTube in 2007, with the highest-viewed videos including "Tomato Hat" (which featured a young Justin Hines) and "Do Your Socks Get Soggy" by Douglas John,^[1] which both peak at more than 100,000 views as of January 2017. Other highly-viewed videos include the Joe Scruggs songs "This Little Piggy",^[2] at 234,326 views, and "Bahamas Pajamas",^[3] at 136,850 views.
On December 13, 2015, episodes of the program have been uploaded to YouTube by GToonsAnimation. Within 50 days, it has already made over 20,000 views and growing.

References

External links

• Wayback Machine Archive on TreehouseTV.com
• Douglas John Page archived by the Wayback Machine