Kit Casey (left) and Sam Snow (right).
The Creature Cases is an American-British preschool computer animated television series created by Gabe Pulliam for Netflix. Produced by Silvergate Media, the series premiered on April 12, 2022, eventually releasing a holiday special which also acts as Chapter 2 on November 30, 2022; a third chapter was released on May 22, 2023.
The series focuses on Sam Snow, a snow leopard and Kit Casey, a yellow Kit fox, who both work together as agents employed by the Covert League of Animal Detective Experts (or C.L.A.D.E. for short).
Their Mission?
Travel around the world solving mysteries while using their expertise in problem-solving and animal facts to close the creature case!
Agents, here are some tropes!
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Pretty much every character has an outfit or at least an accessory of some sort.
- Alliterative Name: Sam Snow's name repeats the letter "S".
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: While the show generally uses a realistic color palette, a number of animals are occasionally giving more vibrant colors, which is more evident in animals such as snakes.
- Animals Not to Scale: The series is generally hit-or-miss when it comes to accurately scaling the animals to their real-world counterparts, with the main cast being a key example (a snow leopard and fox are far larger than a chicken in real life).
- Four-Legged Insect: Generally averted, with any insect generally portrayed as walking on two legs while sporting their middle legs as a second set of arms. The same goes for spiders, which are depicted with six walking legs while the frontmost pair are arms. Played straight in "The Frozen Stowaways", where the featured moths at the end are depicted with four limbs.
- Gasshole: The Stinkwells are prone to this.
- Naked People Are Funny: The Naked Mole Rats, though downplayed in that only Sam is uncomfortable with their hairless nature, and even then only for part of the episode.
- Picky Eater: Sam Snow is this in the show like in the episodes "The Missing Mole Rat Princess" and "The Case of the Crying Monkey".
- Verbal Tic: Peggy Scratch has a tendency to squawk like her species a couple of times during the briefing of the mission or after reading the episode title.
- World of Funny Animals: Almost no humans are anywhere to be seen, and the animals are anthropomorphized to various extents, though significant efforts are made to ensure that the animals bear the characteristics of their real-world counterparts.
