Monster Buster Club

Monster Buster Club
Genre	Action Adventure Comic science fiction Police procedural Science fantasy Monster of the week
Created by	Vincent Chalvon-Demersay David Michel
Developed by	Marathon Media Jetix Europe
Written by	John Derevlany (Eps. 1-26) Al Schwartz (Eps. 27-52)
Directed by	Jean-Louis Vandestoc Michael Donovan (voice) John Stocker (voice)
Voices of	Sonja Ball Anna Cummer Ian James Corlett Matt Hill Rick Jones Andrea Libman Kelly Sheridan Tabitha St. Germain Sam Vincent Michael Yarmush
Theme music composer	David Vadant Noam Kaniel
Composers	Jeff Fisher Paul-Etienne Cote
Country of origin	France Canada
Original languages	French English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Vincent Chalvon-Demersay Sylain Viau Co-Executive Producer: Charles Henri Moarbes
Producers	Sylvain Viau David Michel Vincent Chalvon-Demersay
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Marathon Media Image Entertainment Corporation
Distributor	Marathon Media
Release
Original network	TF1 Jetix
Original release	June 2, 2008 (2008-06-02) – November 14, 2009 (2009-11-14)
External links
Website

Monster Buster Club is a children's monster of the week science fiction computer-animation television series co-produced by the French-based company Marathon Media, Canadian animation studio Image Entertainment Corporation and Jetix Europe. The show debuted on June 2, 2008, on Jetix in Europe, June 9, 2008, in the United States and in Asia on May 3, 2008. It premiered on YTV in Canada. It was shortly featured on the Disney Channel. 52 episodes were produced.^[1]

Premise[]

This show is about three 12 year old pre-teens and an alien pre-teen girl, who are all charged with saving their town from alien invasions. They reform a secret organization that was founded centuries ago called the Monster Buster Club, often abbreviated to MBC. The goal of the MBC is to locate alien criminals seeking refuge in Single Town, capture them, and send them to galactic authorities.

Setting[]

The show takes place in a small calm town named Single Town. Single Town is two hundred years old and was founded by a man named Addison Single (who was really an alien disguised as a human). Unbeknownst to its human inhabitants, Single Town is actually a meeting place for aliens from different parts of the galaxy.

Episodes[]

Characters[]

Main[]

• Catherine "Cathy" Orion Smith^[2] (voiced by Andrea Libman) – Cathy appears to be a bubbly, 12-year-old girl on Earth, but she is actually a 250-year-old^[3] (or 700 Rhapsodian year-old teenager) alien from the planet Rhapsodia. She came to Earth with her grandfather, Mr. Smith, to start the Monster Buster Club (MBC). She is constantly surprised at how different Earth is from Rhapsodia. She has many alien abilities, like the ability to stretch, slight telekinesis, and others. She is the most optimistic of the MBC. Her suit color is pink. In her human form, she has blond hair and blue eyes. Her Rhapsodian form is shown to be a humanoid, white alien with scattered pink spots, with four tentacles for arms, and two tentacles for legs, as well as tentacles on her head, (like hair), and a long, furry-looking tail^{[nb 1]} Compared to humans, Rhapsodians are extremely long-lived.^[4]
• Christopher "Chris" Edison-Lang^[3] (voiced by Michael Yarmush) – Chris is the 12-year-old tech-guy of the group. He has indigo blue hair and dark blue eyes. He is very smart, with a knack for gadgets. He'll often stay back in the clubhouse and supply intelligence reports while the rest of the group is out on a mission. His suit color is blue.
• Daniel "Danny" Jackson^[5] (voiced by Matt Hill) is a 12-year-old boy and a nice guy at heart. He's good at sports, has brown hair, green eyes and a scar over his left eyebrow. He can get a little overconfident at times. He has an adamant crush on his schoolmate, Wendy. He has an erratic sense of humor and enjoys cracking jokes even in the most dangerous situations. He has his own self-proclaimed nickname: "The Danny" and refers to himself as such whenever he's performing a task. His suit color is red.
• Samantha "Sam" O'Hara^[3] (voiced by Anna Cummer) – Samantha, known by her friends as Sam, a 12-year-old girl and is the level-head member of the group with an often serious disposition. She has dark hair tied in buns and hazel eyes. While officially the MBC has no leader, she'll often be the member to construct battle strategies and procedures for the group. She, at times, can be bossy. While she possesses great natural leadership skills, she'll often put MBC first instead of having fun. She sometimes is the shoot first and ask questions later type. Her suit color is yellow.
• John Edison-Lang (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) – John is Chris' 10-year-old little brother. He sometimes takes over for Chris at the clubhouse when Chris is on a mission or busy. He really wants to be in the MBC but he is too young.
• Mr. Hugo Smith (voiced by Rick Jones) – Mr. Smith is Cathy's aloof grandfather and came with her to Earth. Like Cathy, he is a Rhapsodian, but rarely displays any supernatural powers and his alien form has the appearance of a mollusk. He'll sometimes aid the MBC from the clubhouse, but often he won't be involved in their missions at all. Mr. Smith loves working in his garden and playing cards with his plants.

Other students[]

• Wendy (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) – Danny's crush, 13-year-old who is the snobby, popular valley girl at the school which the MBC attend. She is known for gossiping and tries anything to get a good scoop. (This is shown in the episode "Bubbleheads" when she follows Cathy to Mark's house because she thinks Cathy's working on another story.)
• Jeremy Flablotnick^[6] (voiced by Sam Vincent) A 12-year-old kid who is best friends with Chris. In "Flower King", he fell in love with Cathy and wanted to give her a flower, which was actually Petalia. Though, Cathy does not appear to return Jeremy's interest
• Mark (voiced by Ian James Corlett) A 13-year-old whom the richest boy in town and Danny's nemesis. He often calls him, "Danny-Wanny" since "Mindreader"
• Lyna (voiced by Kelly Sheridan) The Princess Of Borialis She can sing In "Statue Of Limitations" And "Battle Of The Bands"

Faculty[]

• Mr. Fusster (voiced by Ian James Corlett) – The MBC's science teacher who thinks aliens don't exist. This upsets extraterrestrial Cathy and she often argues with him on the subject, which gets her in trouble.^{[nb 2]} Later events, though, show that he may know more about aliens than he lets on, and may even be one.
• Principal Rollins (voiced by Sonja Ball) – The gang's principal who thinks the students are soldiers and often uses terms like "Company halt!" and "About face!". She sometimes gets in the way of the MBC's missions.^{[nb 3]} She has shown in various episodes an affection for Mr. Smith. It is also suggested she used to be a spy, and believes Cathy is one too.

Others[]

• Matisse, Wendy's dog.
• Mr. Beatty runs the Happy Mart.

Broadcast[]

Besides Jetix internationally, the series has also been broadcast on several other networks.

• In the United Kingdom, as well as Jetix, the series was aired on the GMTV-owned (Which Disney held a 25% stake in at the time) Toonattik strand, which itself aired on ITV1 and the CITV channel.
• In the Arab World, the show was aired on MBC 3 and Al Jazeera Children's Channel (JCC)/Jeem TV, who aired other Jetix programming.
• In Israel, the show was aired on Arutz HaYeladim.
• In the rest of Asia (including the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Greater China), the show was aired on Disney Channel, who aired other Jetix programming.
• In the Philippines, the show was aired on Q (now known as GTV).

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official Site
• Marathon Brings Monster to MIPCOM from animationmagazine.net
• Disney XD Official site
• Monster Buster Club at The Big Cartoon DataBase