Looped (TV series)
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| Looped | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by |
Mark Thornton |
| Directed by |
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| Voices of |
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| Theme music composer | Asher Lenz Stephen Skratt |
| Opening theme | "You're in a Loop" (written and performed by Asher & Skratt) |
| Composers |
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| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (51 segments) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Steven DeNure Kirsten Newlands Mark Thornton Todd Kauffman |
| Producer | Robert Anderson |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | DHX Media |
| Original release | |
| Network | Teletoon |
| Release | March 2 – August 16, 2016 |
Looped is a Canadian animated television series created by Todd Kauffman and Mark Thornton who also did Grojband for Teletoon. It premiered in Canada on March 2, 2016. It also premiered on January 4, 2016 in Latin America on Cartoon Network and in the United Kingdom on CITV.[1]
Plot[edit]
The series revolves around the life and adventures of Luc and Theo, two boys from the town of Port Doover who attend Port Doover Middle School. Due to an accident in Theo's garage with an invention he created, the two boys are stuck in a time loop where every day is the same Monday, October 12. Since the events of that day are always the same, the two know exactly what will happen where and when. They use this knowledge as an opportunity to do whatever they want at school and around their town, usually causing problems when their actions cause errors and other unusual events to occur in the time loop.
Characters[edit]
Main[edit]
- Lucas "Luc" Maxwell (voiced by Mac Heywood in the pilot, Lyon Smith in the main series) – Theo's lazy and unintelligent best friend who uses the loop to indulge in endless mayhem with no regard for the consequences of his actions.
- Theodore "Theo" Merton Jr. (voiced by Bryn McAuley in the pilot, and Kevin Duhaney in the main series) – Luc's nerdy and responsible best friend who has great knowledge of the loop and plays the straight man to Luc. In the episode “Monster Stink” he reveals that the time loop has lasted three years.
Classmates[edit]
- Jesse (voiced by Scott Gorman) – The flatulent and short-tempered school bully. His fondness for picking on other children is contrasted with his proud vegetarianism and love of nature and animals.
- Gwyneth "Gwyn" Sanders (voiced by Denise Oliver) – A bespectacled, pink-haired girl who has strong romantic feelings for Luc but despises Theo and is unable to remember his name. Despite this, Luc is disgusted by her while Theo is infatuated with her.
- Sarah Doover (voiced by Alyson Court) – An extremely popular girl who never speaks and communicates entirely through texting on her cellphone. She only speaks in the series finale, where it is revealed that she was saving her voice for an upcoming talent show.
- Kelly and Kelli (voiced by Stephanie Lynn Robinson) (pronounced Kel-ee and Kel-iye) – Identical twin sisters who serve as Sarah's followers, issuing her commands and informing others of her moods, opinions, and actions.
- Kyle Bush (voiced by Adam Cawley) – An extremely handsome, compassionate, and popular boy in the school who is perfect and flawless in every way. Luc hates him for this, and is always trying to outdo him.
- Lester (voiced by Mark Edwards) – A nerd interested in video games and LARP. He is always stuffed inside his locker by Jesse, and then intentionally spends the entire day there to play video games.
- Amy (voiced by Stacey DePass) – A Goth girl who hides in the school basement.
Recurring[edit]
- Jerry Rivers (voiced by Sergio Di Zio)
Adults[edit]
- Principal Applecrab (voiced by Darren Frost) – The frail and bespectacled principal of Port Doover Elementary School. Luc and Theo often trick him into performing painful or humiliating actions at the school assembly for their amusement.
- Coach Lessard (voiced by Seán Cullen) – Luc and Theo's morbidly obese gym teacher who gets around on a golf cart. It is revealed in the episode "Badmerton to the Bone" that his left arm is bionic.
- Mr. LemonJello (voiced by Seán Cullen) – Luc and Theo's monotonous, apathetic science teacher.
- Theo Merton Sr. (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) – Theo's father. A former badminton champion who runs a sporting goods store.
- Claire (voiced by Athena Karkanis) – Luc's self-centered and incompetent teenage babysitter. As his parents are away on a three-day trip, she is Luc's guardian and has effectively replaced them due to the loop having started on the second day.
- Wilt Doover
Episodes[edit]
| No. | Title | Written by | Original air date | |
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| 1a | "Dodge This" | Craig Martin | March 2, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo are tired of being constantly defeated in dodgeball by Jesse and use the loop to outplay him. | ||||
| 1b | "Theo Fly" | Meghan Read | March 2, 2016 | |
| Theo accidentally swallows a fly and starts becoming one. | ||||
| 2a | "She's All Bot" | Meghan Read | March 2, 2016 | |
| Theo builds a robot version of Gwyn to help him and Luc keep track of events in the loop. | ||||
| 2b | "All Things Being Sequel" | Andrew Harrison | March 2, 2016 | |
| Tired of watching the same movie at the theater every Monday, Luc and Theo make their own sequel to show instead. | ||||
| 3a | "4 out of 5 Dentists Prefer the Loop" | Amy Cole | March 9, 2016 | |
| Luc gets braces, but when the loop resets, he is transformed into a robot by them. | ||||
| 3b | "Sickwich" | Kyle Hart | March 9, 2016 | |
| Luc brings an expired sandwich to school that causes a pandemic. | ||||
| 4a | "There's a New Principal in Town" | Shawn Kalb | March 16, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo decide to make Coach Lessard their school's principal, but the power ends up going to his head. | ||||
| 4b | "Getted Smart" | Andrew Harrison | March 16, 2016 | |
| Luc cheats on a standardized test and is mistaken for a genius by government agents. | ||||
| 5a | "Fart Busters" | Craig Martin | March 23, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo destroys Jesse's fart box, only to unleash an army of fart ghosts on the school. | ||||
| 5b | "Monster Stink" | Meghan Read | March 23, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo accidentally release the monster living inside of Theo's closet. | ||||
| 6a | "Applecrab-Dabra" | Story by : Shawn Kalb Teleplay by : Craig Martin | March 30, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo learn that Principal Applecrab wants to become a stage magician and try to help him achieve his dream. | ||||
| 6b | "Monday Circles" | Kyle Hart | March 30, 2016 | |
| Amy gets a hold of Theo's tablet and learns all about the existence of time loops. | ||||
| 7a | "The Replacements" | Meghan Read | April 6, 2016 | |
| Tired of having Sarah constantly steal their attention, Luc and Theo come up with a plan to get rid of Kelly and Kelli, but end up taking their place. | ||||
| 7b | "Luc at Me" | Craig Martin | April 6, 2016 | |
| Luc uses the loop to become a famous daredevil. | ||||
| 8a | "Loop It Forward" | Evan Thaler Hickey | April 13, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo use the loop to help improve other people's day. | ||||
| 8b | "Chick Magnet" | Josh Saltzman | April 13, 2016 | |
| Theo uses an invention to speed up the growth process of a chicken egg that Gwyn is incubating in science class. | ||||
| 9a | "The Gifted Class" | Ben Joseph | April 20, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo discover a secret club of geniuses, and Theo becomes determined to be accepted into their group. | ||||
| 9b | "Sooper Loopers" | Craig Martin | April 20, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo use their knowledge of the loop to become superheroes. | ||||
| 10a | "Birthday Cake Island" | Josh Saltzman | April 27, 2016 | |
| Luc is unhappy with the fact that his birthday will never come, so Theo takes him across time zones to celebrate his birthday on Birthday Cake Island. | ||||
| 10b | "Zap's Day Off" | Meghan Read | April 28, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo search for a famous dog who has disappeared. | ||||
| 11a | "Port Fear" | Evan Thaler Hickey | May 4, 2016 | |
| Theo comes down with a case of the hiccups that will not reset with the loop. | ||||
| 11b | "Jan-Itor-Nado" | Ben Joseph | May 4, 2016 | |
| Theo tries to get Luc to be more respectful towards Port Doover Elementary's janitor. | ||||
| 12a | "Baby Daddy" | Alice Prodanou | May 11, 2016 | |
| Luc accidentally turns Theo into a baby. | ||||
| 12b | "Wizard of Wacker Maze" | Meghan Read | May 11, 2016 | |
| Luc tries to beat Kyle's high score at a video game, but the loop causes the video game to come to life. | ||||
| 13a | "11 Minutes to Lame" | Alice Prodanou | May 18, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo become celebrities after they use their knowledge of the loop to create a music video. | ||||
| 13b | "Larping in the Loop" | Craig Martin | May 18, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo follow Lester to discover what he does after school. | ||||
| 14a | "Space Burrito" | Kyle Hart | May 25, 2016 | |
| After eating all the goulash sauce at his favorite burrito restaurant, Luc becomes the target of hostile aliens that desire the sauce for spaceship fuel. | ||||
| 14b | "Ronnie Trasco" | Josh Saltzman | May 25, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo encounter an undercover agent named Ronnie Trasco who wants them to help discover who has stolen Principal Applecrab's favorite doll. | ||||
| 15a | "Badmerton to the Bone" | Evan Thaler Hickey | June 1, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo learn that Theo's dad was a former badminton champion until he was defeated and forced into retirement by Coach Lessard. | ||||
| 15b | "Loop – There It Is" | Story by : Brad Birch Teleplay by : Craig Martin | June 1, 2016 | |
| Luc takes over the television show of school news reporter Jerry Rivers. | ||||
| 16a | "Bald Is Beautiful" | Andrew Harrison | June 8, 2016 | |
| Luc shaves his head to become bald, but the loop causes everyone else to start growing beards. | ||||
| 16b | "Nerdnesia" | Josh Saltzman | June 8, 2016 | |
| Theo invites Lester over for a game, but when the loop resets, Lester replaces Theo as one of the only two people unaffected by the loop. | ||||
| 17a | "Oiled Thunder" | Craig Martin | June 15, 2016 | |
| Theo befriends the school's auto shop kids. | ||||
| 17b | "Reverse Mermaid" | Kyle Hart | June 15, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo discover that their classmate Splash Hannah is secretly a reverse mermaid (upper body of a fish, lower body of a human). | ||||
| 18a | "Fallout Room Boy" | Evan Thaler Hickey | June 22, 2016 | |
| Luc discovers a fallout bunker from the 1950s in the school basement, where a boy named Mel has been living. | ||||
| 18b | "Rocket to Tomorrow" | Andrew Harrison | June 22, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo try to sneak aboard a rocket ship to go to space, but Claire steals their tickets. | ||||
| 19a | "Re-Vamp" | Craig Martin | June 29, 2016 | |
| Luc is bitten by a vampire, but the effects of the loop cause the vampire that bit him to become a human. | ||||
| 19b | "Release the Krakenfoot" | Story by : Brad Birch Teleplay by : Craig Martin | June 29, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo create a new mascot for Port Doover Elementary School's football team. | ||||
| 20a | "Ninjitsu for Beginners" | Josh Saltzman | July 5, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo become martial artists trained in two rival schools of combat. | ||||
| 20b | "A Kyle in His Shoes" | Brad Birch | July 5, 2016 | |
| Jealous of Kyle's popularity, Luc tries to prove that he can do everything Kyle does on his Monday routine. | ||||
| 21a | "Moby Piranha" | Evan Thaler Hickey | July 12, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo help Coach Lessard hunt down the school's pet piranha when it escapes and turns gigantic. | ||||
| 21b | "Loopy Loops" | Kyle Hart | July 12, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo visit the factory that creates their favorite cereal, Loopy Loops, and discover that its creator and town founder Wilt Doover is alive and cryogenically frozen in sugar crystal. | ||||
| 22a | "A Glitch in Time" | Meghan Read | July 19, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo encounter a time traveler from 1886 who is actually their ancestor. | ||||
| 22b | "Out of Time" | Craig Martin | July 19, 2016 | |
| A pair of time cops named McGal and Spritz come to Port Doover to arrest the creators of the time loop. | ||||
| 23a | "Plight at the Museum" | Evan Thaler Hickey | July 26, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo discover a time-controlling weapon on display at the museum and organize a heist to take it before the museum's owner can use it for evil. | ||||
| 23b | "The Exciting Conclusion" | Josh Saltzman | July 26, 2016 | |
| Theo gets Luc invested in a book, but Luc is unhappy that the concluding sequel will never be written. | ||||
| 24a | "Power Plant" | Andrew Harrison | August 2, 2016 | |
| Theo creates an electric flower that is mutated by the loop's reset into a monster that drains all the power in Port Doover. | ||||
| 24b | "Back in the Saddle" | Craig Martin | August 2, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo discover that McGal and Spritz have been fired as time police and help them get new jobs. | ||||
| 25a | "Glitch Girl" | Evan Thaler Hickey | August 9, 2016 | |
| Theo disguises himself as a girl to get close to Gwyn on her all-girls roller derby team. | ||||
| 25b | "A Fortuitous Future" | Meghan Read | August 9, 2016 | |
| Luc and Theo encounter a fortune teller who is confused as to why they are the only people in Port Doover whose futures she can read. | ||||
| 26 | "Balanced Breakfast" | Craig Martin | August 16, 2016 | |
| The loop starts going out of control, causing glitches to spontaneously appear all over the universe. Luc and Theo must find the original box of Loopy Loops cereal that created it in order to save the loop. | ||||
Broadcast and release[edit]
The series aired on Teletoon from March 2, 2016 to August 16, 2016. It aired on Pop and Pop Max in the UK and in Africa. The series is airing on Primo TV in the United States.[2] The show has previously aired reruns on Nickelodeon Canada & Disney XD Canada.
Looped has also been sold to Super RTL (Germany), Zoom (Israel), K2 (Italy), Gulli (France) and HBO Go (Poland).
Reception[edit]
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The series was well received. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media described the series as a "time warp buddy comedy" which "despite being a time loop series… never gets old." She also called it "lovely and meaningful entertainment for kids".[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Looped (CITV) - 2016-01-04-1630". Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ https://www.tvinsider.com/network/primo-tv/schedule/
- ^ Ashby, Emily (March 13, 2020). "Looped Review". Common Sense Media. Archived from the original on May 12, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2022.