Let's Get Lunar!
Lunar Jim is a Canadian Stop Motion Preschool Show that premiered on Kids CBC on January 2nd, 2006. It was produced by the Halifax Film Corporation (now a part of WildBrain) and ran for 46 episodes, with the final premiering in October of 2007.The series takes place on the moon, in a sector known as Moonaluna, and focuses on the escapades of Jim, a young astronaut, and his crew, consisting of robot dog Rover, mechanic Ripple, farmer Eco, and robot T.E.D.
Tropes:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Jim is prone to use alliteration in his exclamations, including but not limited to "Strong as steel!", "Great galaxies!", "magnetic mayhem", and more.
- Aerith and Bob: We have Jim and T.E.D (pronounced as just "Ted") alongside Rover, Ripple, and Eco.
- Alliterative Title: The episodes "Meteor Mystery" and "Pest Problem".
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Discussed in "Pest Problem"; Jim compares mixing up compost to mixing up a cake. T.E.D takes this literally and thinks Jim genuinely thinks cake is like garbage.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Among the humans, Jim is blonde, Ripple is brunette, and Eco is redheaded.
- Charlie Brown Baldness: Jim's only hair is a blonde cowlick.
- Color-Coded Characters: The accents on the humans' spacesuits; Jim has blue, Ripple has red, and Eco has green.
- Distressed Dude: In "That Sinking Feeling", Jim gets stuck in a lunar dust pool, which is too sticky to escape from. He and Rover use the nearby satellite to flash a signal to Mission Control.
- Inopportune Voice Cracking: In "Meteor Mystery", while trying to get through to Ripple to explain that she's too close to a magnetic meteory, Jim's voice cracks as he urgently shouts her name.
- Medium Blending: While the series is mainly stop-motion, some elements, such as scene transitions, use CGI.
- "Metaphor" Is My Middle Name: In "Meteor Mystery", T.E.D claims that danger is his middle name. When Rover barks a protest, T.E.D responds that Percy is his other middle name.
- Redhead In Green: Eco, the redheaded astronaut, has a green-and-white spacesuit. Fittingly, he's also the "green" member in terms of having a Green Thumb.
- Robot Dog: Rover, Jim's primary companion, is a robotic dog, who comes with a scanner.
- Two Guys and a Girl: The main human trio consists of two male members, Jim and Eco, and one female member, Ripple.
