Dawn of the Croods
| Dawn of the Croods | |
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| Genre | Comedy Adventure |
| Based on | Characters created by John Cleese, Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders |
| Voices of | |
| Theme music composer | John Van Tongeren |
| Composers | Gabriel Mann Rebecca Kneubuhl |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Brendan Hay[1] |
| Running time | 23 minutes[2] |
| Production company | DreamWorks Animation Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | Netflix |
| Release | December 24, 2015 – present |
Dawn of the Croods is an American 2D-animated web television series that is produced by DreamWorks Animation. The series is based on the 2013 animated film The Croods, taking place before the events of the film.[3] It premiered on December 24, 2015, on Netflix.[4] Sam Riegel voice directs this series. Season 2 premiered on August 26, 2016.
Plot
The adventures of the series take place before the film, with Eep having new friends, and the rest of the Croods facing new enemy creatures, such as bearowls.
Cast
- Dan Milano as Grug,[1][5] Bud, Womp
- Cree Summer as Ugga, Pat,[1] Clip, Pup Howler
- Stephanie Lemelin as Eep[1][5]
- A.J. Locascio as Thunk,[5] Baitsy, Steve
- Grey Griffin as Sandy, Lerk[5]
- Laraine Newman as Gran, One-Eyed Amber,[6] Mosh, Pram
Additional voices
- Dee Bradley Baker as Bulk, Squawk, Bearowl, Creatures, Moler Bear, Mow, Earl, Old Man Root, Yelp
- Dominic Catrambone as Sulk, Cave Teen, Bag, Fan, Albatroceros
- Jim Cummings as Little Mantrap
- Ana Gasteyer as Meep[6]
- Thomas Lennon as Crud, Munk
- Chris Parnell as Snoot[6]
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | "A Gran Day Out" | Chuckles Austen & Erik Wiese | Brendan Hay | December 24, 2015 | |
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Grug comes to grips when Ugga takes in her mother Gran who has an ongoing feud with Grug while Eep tries to fit in with a popular crowd, but is embarrassed by her family and Gran. | |||||
| 2 | "School of Hard Rocks" | Chong Lee | Caitlin Meares | December 24, 2015 | |
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The mean-spirited new teacher at Eep's school pairs her with an oddball student named Lerk while Grug tries to homeschool Thunk to make him a hunter. | |||||
| 3 | "Wet Hot Ahhh! Valley Summer / Grug Vs. The Moon" | Part I: Stephanie Arnett & Chong Lee Part II: Alex Almaguer & Joshua Taback | Part I: Caitlin Meares Part II: Dan Milano | December 24, 2015 | |
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Wet Hot Ahhh! Valley Summer: A dare contest makes Eep and Thunk do something crazy at the Watering Hole, and Ugga must overcome her fear of water to save them. Grug Vs. The Moon: Grug tries to fight the moon, but his efforts are in vain. | |||||
| 4 | "This Mean Warts" | Alex Almaguer | Matthew Beans | December 24, 2015 | |
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The snobbish new neighbors of the Croods called the Boors get on their bad side, but the parents must put their feud aside when their offspring go missing | |||||
| 5 | "The First Picture Show" | Alex Almaguer | Matthew Beans | December 24, 2015 | |
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Thunk unleashes his story ideas through shadow puppets, but the attention he receives is all but what he wanted. | |||||
| 6 | "Caved & Confused" | Alex Almaguer & Stephanie Arnett | Tom Sheppard | December 24, 2015 | |
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Against her parents wishes, Eep throws a party while Grug and Ugga have a night out together. Things don't turn out like she wanted. | |||||
| 7 | "The Eep-Over / Thunkytown" | Part I: Stephanie Arnett & Chong Lee Part II: Alex Almaguer | Part I: Caitlin Meares Part II: Laura Beck | December 24, 2015 | |
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The Eep-Over: Eep has her first slumber party in a cave and her worrying family inadvertently make it a frightening night. Thunkytown: Because of Thunk's dislike for a certain meal, he leads a pack of Bearowls to the Croods cave and when the Boor's cave is overtaken by an Albatrocerous, the 2 rival clans are forced to share a cave while Eep and Thunk try to reverse the situation. | |||||
| 8 | "Mom Genes" | Stephanie Arnett & Chong Lee | Dan Milano | December 24, 2015 | |
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Ugga's pacifist nature is renounced when she becomes a wild hunter with very dangerous results. | |||||
| 9 | "Garden of Eaten" | Chong Lee | Kyle Mack | December 24, 2015 | |
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Eep takes a liking to vegetables and rallies her family to give them a try which puts Grug in a crazy pickle when eating a forbidden fruit at the Garden of Eaten. | |||||
| 10 | "Night of the Living Croods / A Spoonful of Soo-Gar" | Part I: Joshua Taback Part II: Chong Lee | Part I: Matthew Beans Part II: Laura Beck | December 24, 2015 | |
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Night of the Living Croods: Grug's proposal to take the world's first nap takes a scary twist on his neighbors. A Spoonful of Soo-Gar: A sugar rush overtakes the Croods when the get a craving for honey from a beehive. | |||||
| 11 | "Friday Night Liyotes" | Brian Hatfield | Caitlin Meares | December 24, 2015 | |
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Grug and Eep get competitive when playing a volleyball-like game that Grug's team always win (mostly because they play against non-competing Liyotes). | |||||
| 12 | "The Crood Who Knew Too Much / Scent of a Thunk" | Part I: Alex Almaguer Part II: Brian Hatfield & Chong Lee | Part I: Eric Acosta Part II: Dave Polsky | December 24, 2015 | |
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The Crood Who Knew Too Much: After getting a giant head from a Spiderant bite, everybody is convinced that Grug is now completely intelligent and he uses this to outstrip Snoot's role as Ahhh! Valley's Problem Solver. Scent of a Thunk: After making a spectacle of himself, Thunk is forced to change his ways. | |||||
| 13 | "Unsolved MysterEep" | Steve Evangelatos & Deborah Winslow | Matthew Beans | December 24, 2015 | |
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Stuff is missing and when people believe the silly idea that the stuff went missing on its own, Eep dismisses this and is convinced that a thief is in their midst. | |||||
Season 2 (2016)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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| 14 | "Gran the Unfriendly Ghost / Bad Sandy" | Part I: Brian Hatfield & Chong Lee Part II: Alex Almaguer | Part I: Caitlin Meares Part II: Mike Yank | August 26, 2016 | |
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Fed up with being ignored, Gran fakes her own death and haunts her family, but the Croods are anything but intimidated at this./The Croods have to control Sandy's primitive behavior or she will be thrown out of Ahhh! Valley. | |||||
| 15 | "It Crushes / Rebel Without a Paws" | Part I: Alex Almaguer Part II: Crystal Chesney-Thompson | Part I: Matthew Beans Part II: Rachel Vine | August 26, 2016 | |
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Eep falls for a handsome new teenager at her school./Thunk befriends a group of Liyotes, but the Croods try to convince him that they only want food. | |||||
| 16 | "Grug vs. Math / Footloss" | Part I: Alex Almaguer Part II: Crystal Chesney-Thompson | Part I: Dave Polsky (story) Matthew Beans, Caitlin Meares, Mike Yank Part II: Brendan Hay | August 26, 2016 | |
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Grug struggles to do 'math', which is now a method of hunting, with Sqwak's help./When the adults forbid dancing, the teenagers decide to have a secret underground dance place. | |||||
| 17 | "The Good Surprise / Night Mare on Eep Street" | Part I: Brian Hatfield Part II: Crystal Chesney-Thompson | Part I: Matthew Beans Part II: Brendan Hay | August 26, 2016 | |
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When Ugga gets cranky, Eep and Thunk decide to surprise her to cure her of her bad mood./Eep goes through hallucinations to capture a 'Night Mare' in order to look good in front of her class. | |||||
| 18 | "What Screams May Come / Grunt Anything" | Part I: Crystal Chesney-Thompson Part II: Brian Hatfield | Part I: Mike Yank Part II: Nate Federman | August 26, 2016 | |
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When Eep makes the scream-leading team, Meep Boor, the new head coach, begins badly influencing her./When Meep kicks Snoot out for his cowardliness, he bunks with the Croods, who are less than thrilled at having him. | |||||
| 19 | "There Will Be Eggs / I Think Were Alone Meow" | Part I: Alex Almaguer Part II: Brian Hatfield | Part I: Mike Yank Part II: Caitlin Meares | August 26, 2016 | |
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Eep and Thunk discover an underground treasure of golden eggs and greed begins to overtake them./Gran befriends a pack of Crabby-Tabbies (cat-crab mix creatures) who wish to be crabby to all while Grug and Ugga take desperate measures to get into Snoot's party. | |||||
| 20 | "FrEepy Friday" | Alex Almaguer & Crystal Chesney-Thompson | Rachel Vine | August 26, 2015 | |
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When Eep is literately grounded for causing mischief, she bets Grug that he can't take the teen life, so the ever prideful Grug sets out to prove her wrong, but he ends up in danger. | |||||
| 21 | "Grug vs. Gurg / Unfair Fair" | Part I: Brian Hatfield Part II: Alex Almaguer | Part I: Laura Beck Part II: Matthew Beans | August 26, 2016 | |
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Grug meets a doppelganger of his named Gurg (voiced by Christian Slater) and he has Gurg pretend to be him so he won't do his chores, but Gurg decides to steal his family away./Eep and Thunk resort to cheating in an idea fair project. | |||||
| 22 | "Baby Face Off / The Pursuit of Wrinkliness" | Part I: Crystal Chesney-Thompson Part II: Brian Hatfield | Part I: Jason Reich Part II: Caitlin Meares | August 26, 2016 | |
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Sandy is framed by a new baby for misbehavior when Thunk looks after them./Gran decides to toughen Thunk up when she feels like he's too soft. | |||||
| 23 | "Croodtopia / Hands on a Hard Egg" | Part I: Brian Hatfield & Chong Lee Part II: Crystal Chesney-Thompson | Part I: Caitlin Meares Part II: Matthew Beans | August 26, 2016 | |
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The teenagers decide to make a 'rule-free' zone for them to have fun in./Eep participates in a contest to see who can lay their hands on a giant egg. | |||||
| 24 | "Disaster of Puppets / Love Will Eep Us Together" | Part I: Alex Almaguer Part II: Crystal Chesney-Thompson | Part I: Nate Federman Part II: Matthew Beans | August 26, 2016 | |
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Thunk becomes a ventriloquist, but he feels like the puppet is getting more credit than he is./Grug and Ugga forbid Eep from dating, so she compensates this by reuniting two lovesick buffalippos. | |||||
| 25 | "The Tide is Nigh / Rain Grain" | Part I: Alex Almaguer Part II: Alex Almaguer | Part I: Caitlin Meares Part II: Jason Reich | August 26, 2016 | |
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Eep becomes a death-guard at the watering hole and just when she sees that it's not what she expected, the watering hole dries up./Gran fools everybody into thinking she can control the weather while Thunk gets 'Cave Brain' while waiting for the rain to stop. | |||||
| 26 | "Dawn of the Broods Part 1 & Part 2" | Crystal Chesney-Thompson Brian Hatfield | Matthew Beans Brendan Hay Caitlin Meares Mike Yank | August 26, 2016 | |
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When Grug gets fed up with the hardships Ahhh! Valley brings, he takes his family on a vacation to the wilderness where they meet a seemingly nice family. | |||||
Production
Three episodes of the series are animated in Toon Boom Harmony by Vancouver's Bardel Entertainment.[7] The majority of the series is animated traditionally by NE4U and Emation.
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| 2016 | Annie Award[8] | Outstanding Achievement, Production Design in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production | Jonathan Pyun, Aaron Spurgeon, Baptiste Lucas, Margaret Wuller and Ethan Becker (for "Garden of Eaten") | Nominated |
| Outstanding Achievement, Voice Acting in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production | Grey Griffin (for Lerk) | Nominated | ||
| Laraine Newman (for Amber) | Nominated |
References
- ^ a b c d Wolfe, Jennifer (December 8, 2015). "DreamWorks Animation Unveils 'Dawn of the Croods' Trailer". Animation World Network. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ "Dawn of the Croods (Season 1, Episode 2)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ Beck, Jerry (December 23, 2015). "EXCLUSIVE CLIP: Dreamworks/Netflix Animated "Dawn Of The Croods"". Animation Scoop. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ Bacle, Ariana (November 24, 2015). "Nurse Jackie, Vampire Academy, and more coming to Netflix in December". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Cannini, Chuck (December 12, 2015). "Interview: Long Island Native Brendan Hay, Producer of Dawn of the Croods". Long Island Press. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ a b c Milligan, Mercedes (December 17, 2015). "Clips: 'Dawn of the Croods' Arrives Dec. 24". Animation Magazine. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ Amidi, Amid (December 8, 2015). "Trailer: 'Dawn of the Croods' Hand-Drawn Netflix Series". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 1, 2015). "Annie Awards Noms: 'Inside Out', 'Anomalisa', 'Shaun The Sheep', 'Good Dinosaur' & 'Peanuts ' Up For Best Feature". Deadline. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
External links
- Official website at Netflix
- Official website at DreamWorks TV
- Dawn of the Croods at IMDb
