Lucas the Spider
| Lucas the Spider | |
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| Lucas the Spider character | |
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| Created by | Joshua Slice |
| Voiced by | Lucas Slice |
Lucas the Spider is an animated character created by animator Joshua Slice, named after and voiced by his nephew. Lucas is based on a jumping spider (possibly of the genus Phidippus) and has starred in multiple short YouTube videos between 2017 and 2019. The first Lucas the Spider video was uploaded on November 5, 2017.[1][2] Lucas was met with a highly positive reception for his gentle and warm-hearted nature.[3][4]
Fresh TV acquired the rights to Lucas the Spider and started producing more YouTube shorts with the plan to create a long form series using the character.[5]
In 2018, a plushie of Lucas the Spider was released for sale online.
In December 2018, Lucas the Spider appeared in YouTube Rewind 2018.
2020 saw no new YouTube episodes. In various replies within posts to comments on his Instagram, Slice has stated that they "haven’t posted any new content for a while because the team is hard at work on the TV show!".[6] A short upload on YouTube on July 29, 2021 announced upcoming episodes on the Cartoonito programming block on Cartoon Network. This was followed by more short cartoons and excerpts from television episodes.
The television series premiered on September 18, 2021.[7]
Episodes[]
YouTube shorts[]
YouTube episodes are between nineteen and eighty-five seconds in length.
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| No. | Title | YouTube premiere date |
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| 1 | Episode One | November 6, 2017 |
| 2 | It's Cold Outside! | December 1, 2017 |
| 3 | Playtime | December 24, 2017 |
| 4 | Captured | January 20, 2018 |
| 5 | Musical Spider | February 10, 2018 |
| 6 | Polar Bear | March 4, 2018 |
| 7 | Encore! | March 30, 2018 |
| 8 | Giant Spider | May 19, 2018 |
| 9 | Naptime | June 19, 2018 |
| 10 | One Man Band | August 31, 2018 |
| 11 | Spinning Webs | September 21, 2018 |
| 12 | Scary Stories | October 12, 2018 |
| 13 | New Friend | November 10, 2018 |
| 14 | Don't Eat Me! | December 20, 2018 |
| 15 | I'm Starving! | February 14, 2019 |
| 16 | What Is This? | April 20, 2019 |
| 17 | Where Did It Go? | June 3, 2019 |
| 18 | It Slipped | July 6, 2019 |
| 19 | It's Hot | August 2, 2019 |
| 20 | Anybody Home? | August 30, 2019 |
| 21 | The Sky is Falling | October 4, 2019 |
| 22 | The Imposter | October 25, 2019 |
| 23 | Jumping Spider | November 28, 2019 |
| 24 | Drawn Together | December 20, 2019 |
Following these, three compilation shorts were posted:
- All the Songs (March 5, 2021)
- Boop (April 16, 2021)
- How to be a Friend Like Lucas (May 21, 2021)
In February 2020, it was announced that a Lucas the Spider TV series has secured a global distribution deal with Cartoon Network and Boomerang. It is shown on Cartoon Network's Cartoonito block.[8] A 'first look' cartoon titled "Fun with Findley" was uploaded on YouTube on July 29, 2021. In the following months, this was followed by more new shorts (initially introducing supporting characters from the TV series) and excerpts from the TV show.
| No. | Title | YouTube premiere date |
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| 25 | Fun with Findley | July 29, 2021 |
| 26 | Arlo's Lullaby | August 13, 2021 |
| 27 | Extreme Bodhi | August 27, 2021 |
| 28 | Stand Up Dimples | September 12, 2021 |
| 29 | Marvelous Maizie | September 24, 2021 |
| 30 | Hey Avocado | October 8, 2021 |
| 31 | The Altogether Song | October 23, 2021 |
| 1 | Episode One[a] | November 5, 2021 |
Television series[]
| Lucas the Spider | |
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| Created by | Joshua Slice |
| Directed by | Paul Brown |
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| Theme music composer | Voodoo Highway Music |
| Composer | Voodoo Highway Music |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
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| Running time | 1-4 minutes |
| Production companies | Wexworks Media Fresh TV Inc. The Family Channel |
| Distributor | Cake Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | HBO Max Cartoonito |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Dolby Surround |
| Original release | September 18, 2021 – present |
| No. | Title [9][10] | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [10] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 1 | "Too Hot to Handle" | Paul Brown | Amanda McNeice | September 18, 2021[b] | 0.08[11] | |
| Findley can't resist some freshly baked cookies that are too hot to eat so Lucas and his friends do whatever it takes to keep him from burning his mouth. | ||||||
| 2 | "The Big Squeak" | Paul Brown | Bec Hill | September 18, 2021[12] [b] | N/A | |
| Avocado's new toy is driving everyone crasy with its noisy squeaker. Lucas tells everyone that he's going to speak to her and realizes Avocado loves everything about her squeaky toy apart from the actual squeak itself. | ||||||
| 3 | "Big Jumping Spider" | Paul Brown | Matt Baker | September 18, 2021[b] | 0.08[11] | |
| When Findley comments to Lucas that his jump isn't very long or high Lucas ramps things up, jumping higher and longer in ever increasing death defying jumps. Findley begins to regret his comment and wishes Lucas wouldn't jump so far. | ||||||
| 4 | "Ghost Camp" | Paul Brown | Kristen McGregor | September 25, 2021 | 0.06[13] | |
| Lucas and his friends are camping in the garden. Avocado tells them all a spooky story around the campfire. This makes Lucas really uneasy and he thinks there's a ghost in the garden. | ||||||
| 5 | "Boo!" | Paul Brown | Dave Ingham | September 25, 2021 | 0.06[13] | |
| Lucas discovers that it's best to ask a friend's permission before giving them a scare on Halloween. He adopts the guise of a ghost and the use of decorative masks and sneaky hiding places to give them all the jumps. | ||||||
| 6 | "Never Boop a Robot" | Paul Brown | Dave Ingham | September 25, 2021 | 0.06[13] | |
| When Lucas sees a robot on the shelf he boops it. This sets off the clockwork mechanism and now Lucas is pursued around the house by a B Movie robot. When Bodhi gets cornered, Lucas realises he's got to help his friend. | ||||||
| 7 | "Lonesome Lucas" | TBA | TBA | October 2, 2021 | 0.12[14] | |
| Lucas wakes up and it is still nighttime, so he tries to occupy himself until sunrise. The house takes on a different persona at night and it scares Lucas a little, and he feels alone because everyone else is still fast asleep. | ||||||
| 8 | "I Can't See You" | TBA | TBA | October 9, 2021[c] | N/A | |
| Being a chameleon, Bodhi is brilliant at hide and seek. When he celebrates in Lucas' face, Lucas decides to beat her once and for all. | ||||||
| 9 | "Don’t Eat Me" | TBA | TBA | October 16, 2021[c] | N/A | |
| When Findley sees a documentary about spiders being the natural predator of the fly, he decides that maybe Lucas isn't the friend he thought he was. The more Findley tries to get away from Lucas, the more Lucas thinks this is a great game. | ||||||
| 10 | "Sliding" | TBA | TBA | October 23, 2021 | N/A | |
| When Lucas and Findley discover an ice cube, they play by sliding on it. Findley is fine until Lucas challenges him to ride the ice cube in the sink. | ||||||
| 11 | "Spinning Webs" | TBA | TBA | October 30, 2021 | N/A | |
| After seeing the perfect web in the window of the house, Lucas questions his spider-hood when he realizes he can't spin one properly. | ||||||
| 12 | "I'm Taking You In" | TBA | TBA | November 6, 2021 | N/A | |
| When Arlo's mom goes out hunting for food, Lucas decides to look after Arlo for the night. | ||||||
| 13 | "Something Up There" | TBA | TBA | November 13, 2021 | N/A | |
| After hearing a horrible screech from the fireplace, Lucas is nominated by his friends to go up and find out what is causing the noise. | ||||||
| 14 | "Home Sweet Home" | TBA | TBA | November 20, 2021 | N/A | |
| Lucas, Findley and Bodhi discover a gingerbread house and immediately devour it. | ||||||
| 15 | "Bye Bye Bee" | TBA | TBA | November 27, 2021 | N/A | |
| Lucas is shocked and saddened that Maizie has to hibernate for the winter, so he tries to stall her. | ||||||
| 16 | "Jeepers Peepers" | TBA | TBA | December 4, 2021 | N/A | |
| Weebiscuit is always beating Dimples when they have a stare off so Dimples enlists the help of Lucas to help her gain the concentration skills to beat him. Lucas sees the key to making her a champ, by thinking of the thing she loves the most. | ||||||
| 17 | "House is Breathing" | TBA | TBA | December 11, 2021 | TBD | |
| When Lucas discovers a heating vent blowing warm air into the living room, he convinces Bodhi that the house is actually breathing. They discover the house can make things hover with her breath, like a feather and a maple leaf. | ||||||
| 18 | "Boingo" | TBA | TBA | December 18, 2021 | TBD | |
| After Lucas was gifted by Bird for pulling her leg out of the chimney inside, Lucas, Findley and Bodhi become obsessed with a new toy called Boingo. | ||||||
| 19 | "Findley’s Bad Day" | TBA | TBA | December 25, 2021[d] | TBD | |
| During his bad day, Findley is convinced House is out to get him. | ||||||
| 20 | "You Rang" | TBA | TBA | January 9, 2022 | TBD | |
| 21 | "Do You Speak Dance" | TBA | TBA | January 16, 2022 | TBD | |
| 22 | "A New Spider in Town" | TBA | TBA | January 16, 2022 | TBD | |
| 23 | "Dollhouse Mates" | TBA | TBA | January 16, 2022 | TBD | |
| 24 | "Lucas We Have a Problem" | TBA | TBA | January 23, 2022 | TBD | |
| 25 | "Egg-Scuse Me" | TBA | TBA | January 23, 2022 | TBD | |
| 26 | "Pokey Dokey" | TBA | TBA | January 23, 2022 | TBD | |
| 27 | "Boot Castle" | TBA | TBA | January 30, 2022 | TBD | |
| 28 | "Avocado’s Long Time Out" | TBA | TBA | January 30, 2022 | TBD | |
| 29 | "Tanks Giving" | TBA | TBA | January 30, 2022 | TBD | |
Ratings[]
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | Avg. viewers (millions) | ||
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| Date | Viewers (millions) |
Date | Viewers (millions) | |||
| 1 | 6 | September 18, 2021 | 0.08[11] | TBA | TBD | 0.08 |
References[]
- ^ Beggs, Scott. "The Adorable Lucas The Spider Is Cold And Wants To Come Inside". Nerdist. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ Hadley, Glenn. "Lucas The Spider Movie: Fans Ask Disney Pixar For Film With Adorable Animated Arachnid, Viral YouTube Star". Inquisitr. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ McLean, Tom. "Fresh TV to Expand 'Lucas the Spider' Web Videos". Animation World Network. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ Rittmeyer, Brian. "YouTube sensation 'Lucas the Spider' challenges fears of arachnids". Tribune-Review. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (22 March 2018). "'Lucas the Spider' Snares Fresh TV in Its Adorable Web". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ^ "Joshua Slice on Instagram: "A few of my studio friends started an animation podcast and the latest episode (out today!) talks about my journey in creating Lucas the…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ^ "Cartoonito Pre-K Block Debuts Sept. 13 on HBO Max & Cartoon Network". 16 August 2021.
- ^ "Cake Q&A C21Kids Summer Special 2021". C21media. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
- ^ "Lucas the Spider". Zap2it. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
- ^ a b "Lucas the Spider". The Futon Critic. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
- ^ a b c "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Saturday 9.18.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED". Showbuzz Daily. Mitch Metcalf. September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
- ^ "Cartoonito Full Episodes Cartoon Network". Cartoon Network. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
- ^ a b c "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Saturday 9.25.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED". Showbuzz Daily. Mitch Metcalf. September 28, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021.
- ^ "SHOWBUZZDAILY's Saturday 10.2.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals". Showbuzz Daily. Mitch Metcalf. October 5, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
- ^ An 'anniversary original episode repost' with a new animated leader. Available for one day only.
- ^ a b c This episode was first released on the Cartoon Network app and video-on-demand services on September 13, 2021.
- ^ a b This episode was first released on the Cartoon Network app and video-on-demand services on October 2, 2021.
- ^ This episode was first released on the Cartoon Network app and video-on-demand services on December 18, 2021.
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