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Miss Spider - Kind, generous arachnid featured on
the 3-D animated educational series MISS SPIDER'S SUNNY PATCH FRIENDS/NIK/2004+.
Miss Spider lives in woodland area called Sunny Patch. She is a vegetarian
and adopts a number of homeless bugs to become part of her family whom she
teaches lessons of love and friendship.
The roster of Sunny Patch residents
included:
- Holley Spider, Miss Spider's guitar-playing husband who loves children
- Ted and Ned, the red ants
- Beetrice, the queen bee
- Spiderus, a white spider
- Squirt, a curious green buggie
- Shimmer, the pink beetle (her parents were eaten
by a garden snake)
- Bounce, a blue bedbug (Dragon is is best friend)
- Dragon, a
purple dragon who loves to fly with Shimmer (Dragon's parents were eaten by Hoot
the Owl)
- Wiggle, a little blue-colored spider who likes to explore with his
friends Squirt and Spinner
- Spinner, a geeky spider who wears glasses
- Pansy
and Snowdrop, the family's six-year-old twin girls (Pansy is the tomboy;
Snowdrop is a brainy inventor).
TRIVIA NOTE:
Based on the beloved children's books by David Kirk, the "Miss Spider" series
aired in the fall of 2004 on Nick Jr. at 10:00AM and on Saturdays on CBS at
12:30PM. It was produced by Nelvana and Callaway & Kirk Entertainment. A prequel
entitled Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids (with Bounce and Dragon) aired March 31,
2003.
In Kirk's first book, "Miss Spider's Tea Party" (1994), Miss Spider has trouble
making friends because the other bugs fear they will be eaten. In subsequent
stories, Miss Spider gets married, starts a family, buys a car and learns the
alphabet. The series gentle storylines, as one reviewer remarked "allows young
children to get in touch with their own 'inner bug' ". The idea for Miss Spider
came from Kirk's oldest daughter, Violet.
In 1995, Madonna read "Tea Party" at a nightclub event broadcast live on MTV. In
2002, Target retail store began offering a "Sunny Patch" clothing line for
children, as well as garden and home decor products, such as a spider sprinkler
and ladybug kneepads. A line of Mattel Inc.'s Fisher-Price toys soon followed.
MISS SPIDER'S SUNNY PATCH FRIENDS/NIK/2004+
Voice Credits
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Rebecca Baccnea |
as |
Shimmer |
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Scott Boden |
as |
Squirt |
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Kristin Davis |
as |
Miss Spider |
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Aaryn Doyle |
as |
Pansy |
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Mitchell Eisner |
as |
Dragon |
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Patricia Gage |
as |
Betty Beatle |
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Catherine Gallant |
as |
Beetrice |
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Emily Hampshire |
as |
Kaite |
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Tony Jay |
as |
Spiderus |
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Alexandra Lai |
as |
Snowdrop |
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Julie Lemieux |
as |
Bounce |
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Scott McCord |
as |
Stinky |
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Marc McHulkman |
as |
Wiggle |
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Kristina Nicole |
as |
Spinderella |
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Austin Obulio |
as |
Spinner |
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Peter Oldring |
as |
Gus |
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Ezra Perlman |
as |
Eddy |
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Robert Tinkler |
as |
Grub |
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Jonathan Wilson |
as |
Ned |
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Phillip Wiojams |
as |
Ted |
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