Creepy Crawlers (TV series)

Premise

Characters

Goop-Mandos

• Chris Carter – Creator of the Magic Maker. The mysterious Magical Millennium Moment has thrown Chris into a world of magic, monsters and awesome battles, as he and his Goop-Mandos must fight Professor Googengrime and his creatures and try and take back the Magic Maker before Professor Googengrime takes over the world.
• Samantha "Sammy" Reynolds – A pretty and headstrong girl, Sammy is one of Chris' closest friends. Fit and courageous, she would occasionally save the day, but complain that villains would overlook her solely because she is a girl. During an episode when Chris was infected by Goop and began transforming into a human-bug hybrid, he and Sammy went to the school dance together. Chris' older brother Todd is apparently interested in her, which also aided the Goop-Mandos' plots on occasion.
• Volt Jolt – Created from a floating light bulb and based on a lightning bug, Volt Jolt is one of the three original Goop-Mandos, he always wore a pair of lightning shaped shades. He has electrical powers and can fire electricity to zap the Crime Grimes.
• T-3 – Short for Tick Trick Tick, T-3 was created from a pack of cards and based on a tick, T-3 is one of the original Goop-Mandos who is the largest of the group and is their strong man. He is able to fire card-like darts shaped like the different suits with amazing speed and accuracy. He also has a "little buddy" named T-Flea based on a flea that he kept with him. T-3 must also have had some trace of a "shell game" in his genetic code, for his shoulder pads resembled huge walnut shells, and T-Flea could usually be found hiding beneath them.
• Hocus Locust – Created from rope tricks and based on a locust, Hocus Locust is one of the original Goop-Mandos and is the jokester of the group, always having fun, and often lapsing into inane celebrity impersonations. He has rope coiled around his body which he can control to attack or use for many other purposes, he also is the only Goop-Mando to have four arms. After the Goop-Mandos get their upgrade his rope becomes nylon cords with sharp ends.
• Sting Ring – Created from inter-connecting rings and based on a wasp, Sting Ring was accidentally created when some rings fell into the Magic Maker. At first they mistook him for a Crime Grime but quickly realised he was one of them. He has the power to throw his rings with great power to knock out or cut up enemies. He also could give the group wings which allowed them to fly. After the Goop-Mandos' upgrade his rings are able to do many new things like exploding and many other things.
• Commantis – Created from kung fu/karate and samurai movie tapes and based on a mantis, Commantis was created when Spooky Goopy accidentally dropped his videotapes into the Magic Maker. Professor Googengrime tried to get him to join him, but after realizing he was evil, Commantis joined up with the Goop-Mandos. Commantis is noble like a samurai and carries two samurai swords on his back which he can use to slice up opponents and is able to throw his voice. After the Goop-Mandos' upgrade he is able to blend into his surroundings.
• T-4 – In the second season Googengrime accidentally created T-3's "little brother", T-4, in an attempt to reprogram T-3. The ploy backfired when T-3 fired a few card-darts into a hose connected to the Magic Maker, which turned into T-4. T-4 has four heads and is stronger than T-3, but not as smart.
• Fire Eyes – Created from chillies, peppers, hot sauce and various other hot stuff and based on a firefly. Fire Eyes was created to help combat an ice monster created by Professor Googengrime to freeze the city. He is able to shoot heat beams from his eyes, instantly melting stuff.

  Crime Grimes

• Professor Googengrime – A failed illusionist who after discovering the Magic Maker decides to try take over the world, he begins to create monsters to help but is constantly stopped by the Goop-Mandos. His first creation and constant companion is Spooky Goopy. His motto is "Make, bake, overtake!" The Professor's last name has been spelled two different ways, depending on the source: "Googengrime" according to elements referencing the TV Show, and "Guggengrime", an alternate spelling used by ToyMax in their product literature.
• Spooky Goopy – Professor Googengrime's right-hand monster, a green skeletal monster with handcuffs for hands. He is able to use his cuffs to capture monsters for Professor Googengrime and often serves as comic relief. He wears a talking Top Hat with which he is usually arguing.
• Shockaroach – A nasty, cockroach-based monster, Googengrime unleashed swarms of these ravenous pests on the city time and again, only to be thwarted time and again by The Creepy Crawlers Goop-Mandos.
• Squirminator – Based on a worm, a monstrous creation of Professor Googengrime that is powerful and deadly. His tail has a mace on the end of it and is able to knock the Goop-Mandos out cold, he is also able to utilize his army of squirmy worms which he carries with him at all times. Being grotesque and ugly, he is a challenge for the Goop-Mandos. A second one is created which has a drill on the end of its tail so he can get goop from the Earth's core; he is programmed to tunnel every time he hears the word dig.
• Rumble Bee – A grotesque, crazed bee the size of a small car.
• 2-Ugly – 2-Ugly is able to separate its head from its body, causing double trouble wherever it writhes. The original 2-Ugly went awry and tried to destroy Googengrime, but later the Professor created its brother 2-Ugly-2.
• * 2-Ugly 2 – 2-Ugly's brother who was more controllable.
• Bat out of Smell – A gigantic bat monster. It can incapacitate most anything with a noxious blast of its horrible "bat-breath".
• Spider Patrol – A brown-haired humanoid spider monster.
• FrankenFly – Powered by the same "Super Goop" that gave the heroic Goop-Mandos their new powers at the beginning of Season Two, the gargantuan rampaging FrankenFly combined components of a flat-headed, bolt-necked Frankenstein stereotype and an ordinary housefly. Oddly, FrankenFly did not fly.
• Skrull – A skull-headed machine monster built from metal components and animated with magic Goop, Googengrime's Skrull was not based on an insect, and did not come from the Magic Maker, like most other Crime Grimes. Was created as a replacement for Spooky but was destroyed by the Goop Mandoes.
• Sergeant Spidey – Googengrime's enforcer in a Summer Camp scam was Sergeant Spidey, a bright red militaristic arachnid Drill Sergeant that could spit capturing webs from his mouth.
• Bugzilla – Googengrime animated a Movie Museum wax figure of Bugzilla, a giant rampaging black mantis that can shoot lasers from its eyes, and loosed it on the city leaders for snubbing him for a magician's award.
• Ice Scream – A frosty monster that can freeze an entire city by screaming.

  Other Interested Parties

• Tom Lockjaw – The lead newscaster for Channel 27 News, the bombastic Tom Lockjaw was always on hand to report on the latest monster rampage perpetrated by Googengrime and His Crime Grimes.
• Colonel Ka-Boom – This decorated colonel with "Pentagon Special Services" was committed to capturing/wiping out the twin menaces of the Crime Grimes and The Goop-Mandos, which he saw as un-patriotic threats to American Freedom. Although his single-minded devotion to his mission often seemed to border on insanity, with a literal army of tanks, jeeps and anti-missile aircraft at his disposal, few people stuck around long enough to question his methods.
• Todd Carter – Chris's older brother.

  Cast

• Tony Pope – Professor Googengrime
• Cam Clarke – Commantis, Spooky Goopy, Todd Carter
• Steve Bulen –
• Johnny K. Lamb – T-3, 2-Ugly
• Melodee Lee – Samantha "Sammy" Reynolds
• Jan Rabson – Top Hat, Volt Jolt
• Reed Waxman – Chris Carter
• Tyrone Week – Sting Ring
• O.R. Yarbles –

  Crew

• Jamie Simone – Voice Director
• Joel Andryc - Producer/Story Editor
• Peter Kingston - Animation Director

  Origin and development

Episodes

Season One (1994–95)

Season Two (1995–96)