History WesternAnimation / TheCrumpets

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Very loosely based on the ''Petit Dernier'' and ''Petite Pousse'' children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, headed by adoring lovebirds Ma and Pa Crumpet, who are an inventor and stay-at-home gardener respectively. Also living in the Crumpet household are Pa's crabby 112-year-old, gambling-addicted mother Granny, the family dog T-Bone, and Ma and Pa's '''''[[MassiveNumberedSiblings 142]]''''' [[MassiveNumberedSiblings children]].

Two seasons of the series aired from 2013 to 2014 for a total of 52 episodes. The show then returned in 2015, but underwent a major {{Retool}} that further distanced itself from the original books. Between seasons, [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm audience feedback]] for the first two had revealed to the executives that the show's teen characters were the most popular with viewers. As a result, the series was rebranded as ''Teen Crumpets'' and changed the focus to the older Crumpet children (particularly Pfff and Caprice), as well as Cassandra, while adding two new characters in Pfff's Gothic, poetry-loving friend Marylin and bumbling outcast Larry. The show's adult characters were also pushed into the background alongside all the younger Crumpet children. Ironically, many of the infamous WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids elements of the first two seasons were softened for ''Teen Crumpets''. This new version of ''The Crumpets'' ran for an additional two seasons and 52 episodes, wrapping up in 2017. However, the series (still as ''Teen Crumpets'') returned one more time in March 2021 in the form of a 26-minute special about International Women's Day.

* AllClothUnravels: In "No Pffuture", Pfff unintentionally catches a thread of his red guitar rug with his foot and unravels it as he walks around his house and the [=McBrisks=]'.

* ArtShift: The art style for a character shifts to a black and white, minimal, and geometric design when they get zapped, though in "Ransoming Dad" [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the colors stay intact]].

* BeachEpisode: Pool variant: "Dried Water" takes place during a global shortage of water. The Crumpet kids swim in their flooded house, which is storing the water stashed by Hurry and Harried.

* BigRedButton: Granny presses one in the house's hidden security room so that the house transforms into a robot in "Pong! The Menace!".

* BookEnds: At the beginning and ending of "My Family's Full of Losers", [[spoiler:Li'l One looks at his parents together in their bed and whines, calling it "horrible". First, through their bedroom door's keyhole, and last, through a scope when he's on the moon.]]

* CanonForeigner: With the exceptions of Ma and Pa Crumpet, Li'l One, and Granny, all the characters in the cartoon were absent from the original ''Petit Dernier'' books and entirely created for the series.
* CampingEpisode: "Li'l One All Alone" has all the Crumpets except Li'l One and Granny camping in the forest. Their shelter is an inflatable replica of the house.

* ConcertClimax: A concert with the stage being [[spoiler:the roof of the [=McBrisk=] house lodged between the halves of the Crumpet house]], with Pfff playing the guitar and Cassandra singing, occurs at the ending of the SeriesFauxnale "Sound The Alarm". [[spoiler:Caprice initially sings but gets pulled down by Cassie from the roof to the interior of the [=McBrisk=] house with Ms. [=McBrisk=], because Caprice betrayed Cassie by lying to Pfff that she wrote Cassandra's poem and rehearsed it so she can entice Marylin, rather than having the poem going only for Pfff.]]

* ContinuityNod: In "My Family's Full of Losers", a commercial for the radioactive acne cream featuring Cordless is broadcast in one of the game show's breaks. Another commercial promotes Hurry and Harried's [[ScamReligion Paymeism]].

* CoolCar: Ma and Pa's eccentric red car.

* CurbStompBattle: In "The Terrible Teens", a teenage-minded Pa picks a fight with his brutally powerful daughter Triceps. Guess who screams in pain right at the start.

* FictionalVideoGame: Granny's 8-bit games on her laptop.
** ''Maxi Monsters Wars'', an action side-scrolling platformer in the ''Teen Crumpets'' episode "Insectator".
** The MMORPG played by Cordless and his female friend in "Game lover".
* FlashbackCut: In "Save Granny", Pa compares his situation of Granny throwing flowerpots at him to the humiliation in his childhood when Granny took his socks after losing a game of {{TabletopGame/Battleship}} and him having to wear flamingo pink dancer tights to school.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Granny is about to babysit Renato in "Croco-Deal", [[spoiler:she dreams of cutting and selling or processing parts of the crocodile into clothing and accessories so she can get rich. Ma would skin Renato into the clothes she wears at the episode's ending.]]

* InstantWebHit: In "[=CrumStep=]", the video of the dance concert that Caprice shares online becomes viral, and the episode's second half deals with L'il-One's and Granny's new fame and the show business Caprice has to manage and host. The siblings adore the famous duo so much, they have to be separated from them, and they clamor even the filthiest objects the duo interacted.

* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: "Inside Li'l One's Brain" chronicles Pa's trip to his youngest son's brain so he can search and fix the culprit behind his refusal to potty train. Not to mention [[spoiler:Cassie accidentally warps to T-Bone's brain instead of Pfff's, where she would destroy his obsession with the weather girl]].
** "Quotient H" has a variant that is an abstract form of remembering. When Cassie looks at her mirror while panicking that her friends and mother have perceived her as stupid, her reflection becomes a LivingShadow and transports her to her brain's interior (which is dark unlike the brains in the other episode). Cassie stumbles upon a keyhole in her brain that reveals the answer to her worries, [[spoiler:Cordless' flawed IQ test that she and most of her friends had participated]].
* LoveTriangle: In "The Courting Of Ms. [=McBrisk=]", Cassandra has an attachment with Marylin even though her friend Caprice deeply admires him. Upon Caprice's discovery of the secret relationship, the two girls fight once and resume in the [[MudWrestling mud outside]]. It's resolved at the ending as Cassie, who holds on the ladder of Cradley Booper's helicopter, allows a fainted Caprice to replace her for Marylin.

* MediumBlending: The wallpaper in King's bedroom uses a "real-world" photo of a jungle.

* MisplacedWildlife: Lampshaded in "Disassister" as once [[spoiler:the plane-piloting King rescues Grownboy's animals from being transported to a lab, he desires having the pink penguins move to Africa. However, the plane would crash just outside the Crumpet house]].

* MosquitoMiscreants: In the beginning of "Octosquito", a swarm of mosquitoes enter the house just as Pa conducts a choir rehearsal with his children. After he slaps himself of the mosquito, his kids slap themselves too.

* NightmareSequence: In "Sticks Stink", when L'il-One sleeps on King's bed, he dreams of an African landscape hit by falling bombs, followed by skeletal ghosts that look like King rising up in a red sky.

* ShoutOut: One of L'il-One's plushes is undoubtedly an {{Toys/Uglydolls}} character.

** "50 nuances de Cassie" has Larry wearing a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse ears hat, holding a {{Franchise/Superman}} portrait, and wearing a [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Pikachu]] ears hat and red cheeks.

* AIIsACrapshoot: In "Cheep Shot", the intruder identification component of Ma's greenhouse defense system detects Pa because his crouch position looks like a cooked poultry (the system might as well detect any kind ''and'' form of bird), although it doesn't shoot him. [[spoiler:He returns to the greenhouse one night and the system identifies him as an intruder, leading to his stranding and surrender. The other family members become trapped with Pa once they enter the Gatling gun's perimeter. When Steve, who is searching for Grownboy, arrives to the family in the greenhouse, the system identifies him as a flamingo and tries to shoot him. At the ending, a wounded bird flies in front of the Crumpets and it appears the family is doomed.]]

* BearTrap: In "Croco-Deal", L'il-One puts one in Renato's mouth and goes in it so he can divert Ma's attention to himself. When Granny tries to kill Renato, she inadvertently frees the crocodile. The bear trap catches Granny's head, who keeps it on by the next day.

* BigNo: At the very end of "Cheep Shot", this is shouted by [[spoiler:the family stranded in the greenhouse, when a wounded bird arrives in front of them and the garden defense system is about to shoot them.]]

* BigShutUp: At the end of "My Family's Full of Losers", all the Crumpet children except Pfff say this to L'il-One [[spoiler:when they're on the moon and the latter is complaining at his parents staying in Earth]].

* ABloodyMess: Blister drops red paint to L'il-One during the horror movie showing in "Hairifying".

* BowledOver: In "My Family's Full of Losers", a group of pink penguins are the pins struck by T-Bone the ball in a commercial.

* CheesyMoon: In "My Family's Full of Losers', Ms. [=McBrisk=] hopes the moon-launched Crumpets will like TheManInTheMoon's green cheese.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: In "Murder Everywhere", [[spoiler:many of the Crumpets and Cordless hallucinate from eating the ashes of a dead hippie known as Rudy Swan because Ditzy had mistakenly poured them in a sugar container]].
** Also, in "Addicted", the drug addiction crisis among the Crumpet children and Ms. [=McBrisk=] caused by Granny secretly accumulating and selling the homemade greenhouse gas vials to [=McBrisk=].

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Ma's duplicating machine in "Taxidermama" malfunctions as a result of T-Bone stealing the power cord. It distorts its output rather than merely cloning them, such as cloning a nappy into piles of poop. She becomes increasingly hopeless as she can't figure out how to repair it.

* HandOrObjectUnderwear: L'il One does this by hand or object. He uses one of the floating "LIKE"s when he loses his nappy in "Going Viral".

* NewJobEpisode: Subverted in "No Pffuture" as Pfff is forced to find employment and ends up getting none.

* RealityTV: The game show in "My Family's Full of Losers" parodies the genre and contains interviews from the Crumpets. It is attacked by Ma and Ms. [=McBrisk=].

* RedSkyTakeWarning: The endings of "Cheep Shot" and "Hairifying" have a silhouette of the Crumpet house under a red sky due to [[spoiler:serious life-death threats to the family.]]

* SoundEffectBleep: Gets imitated by the Scene Transition heads for a CensoredForComedy effect.

* GreenAesop: In "Bulles de palme", when the Crumpet kids play with massive quantities of green bubblegum in the house, Marylin arrives at their home and gets shocked because it is made of palm oil, a resource that is harvested by destroying wild habitats. Subsequently, Caprice and Cassie learn the devastating effects of palm oil harvests on the internet. To educate her siblings on its ill effects to the environment, Caprice borrows Grownboy's pet giraffe and elephant and presents them as homeless wild animals that have to reside in the house.

* InterspeciesRomance: Marylin's pet mouse wants to kiss Caprice at sight, which makes her annoyed.

* JustOneMoreLevel: In "Insectator", both Pfff and Cassie become drawn to ''Maxi Monsters Wars''. They eventually think they're their respective playable characters living in the video game's world!

* ReusedCharacterDesign: The ''Teen Crumpets'' seasons did this for several minor characters, such as Marylin's parents in "Nom de code" sharing the same appearances as Rudy Swan the hippie and younger Granny in the photographs from "Murder Everywhere".

* SleepCute: In "Enfermés en forêt", Caprice and Cassie lean to their respective love interests while they sleep inside the tent. Caprice, who has wrapped Marylin in her arms, gets her sleep disrupted by Triceps slapping the mosquitoes over her.

* WayPastTheExpirationDate: In "On se correspond", Pa, who has been bringing up mementos from a past pen pal visit now that Marylin and Pfff's pen pals are en-route to the house, gives the two boys a two-decade old box of chocolates. After Pfff throws it to a trash can, Cordless and Larry went to the room being disguised as their pen pals by using only massive backpacks and facing away from other people. When the other teens arrive in the room, Cordless and Larry are found eating the chocolates. They feel nauseated and leave.

Two seasons of the series aired from 2013 to 2014 for a total of 52 episodes. The show then returned in 2015, but underwent a major {{Retool}} in the process. Between seasons, [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm audience feedback]] for the first two had revealed to the executives that the show's teen characters were the most popular with viewers. As a result, the series was rebranded as ''Teen Crumpets'' and changed the focus to the older Crumpet children (particularly Pfff and Caprice), as well as Cassandra, while adding two new characters in Pfff's Gothic, poetry-loving friend Marylin and bumbling outcast Larry. The show's adult characters were also pushed into the background alongside all the younger Crumpet children. Ironically, many of the infamous WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids elements of the first two seasons were softened for ''Teen Crumpets''. This new version of ''The Crumpets'' ran for an additional two seasons and 52 episodes, wrapping up in 2017. However, the series (still as ''Teen Crumpets'') returned one more time in March 2021 in the form of a 26-minute special about International Women's Day.

Although the series is for children and based on a book for very young children, even possessing the cutesy and colorful artstyle one might expect from such, the show is notorious for having large amounts of DemographicallyInappropriateHumor, FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, and other other eyebrow-raising material that would be deemed unacceptable were it not for the ValuesDissonance between French and American kids' TV (it ''did'' air on the same channel as ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''). While this has unsurprisingly hampered the show's distribution in North American markets, ''The Crumpets'' has still managed to appear across international TV channels, thanks to distribution on the part of Mediatoon.

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Very loosely based on the ''Petit Dernier'' series of children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, headed by adoring lovebirds Ma and Pa Crumpet, who are an inventor and stay-at-home gardener respectively. Also living in the Crumpet household are Pa's crabby 112-year-old, gambling-addicted mother Granny, the family dog T-Bone, and Ma and Pa's '''''[[MassiveNumberedSiblings 142]]''''' [[MassiveNumberedSiblings children]].

* InNameOnly: ''The Crumpets'' has very little in common with the original ''Petit Dernier'' book and its sequel ''Petite Pousse'' that inspired it. Asides from the fact almost the entire cast of the cartoon is absent from the books (and even then, those who were in the books often have little in common with their cartoon counterparts), the two works are complete opposites in terms of tone - ''Petit Dernier'' is soft, fluffy, sweet fare perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, while ''The Crumpets'' is a manic, sadistic, and cynical piece loaded with dirty humor and unhinged plotlines.

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Based on the ''Petit Dernier'' series of children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, headed by adoring lovebirds Ma and Pa Crumpet, who are an inventor and stay-at-home gardener respectively. Also living in the Crumpet household are Pa's crabby 112-year-old, gambling-addicted mother Granny, the family dog T-Bone, and Ma and Pa's '''''[[MassiveNumberedSiblings 142]]''''' [[MassiveNumberedSiblings children]].

* AdaptedOut: Early art for the show includes the little girl called Petite Pousse who stars in one of the books. She is nowhere to be seen in the final show.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There's ''141'' of L'il-One's siblings. A significant step up from 50 siblings in the first ''Petit Dernier'' book.

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Based on the ''Petit Dernier'' and ''Petite Pousse'' children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, headed by adoring lovebirds Ma and Pa Crumpet, who are an inventor and stay-at-home gardener respectively. Also living in the Crumpet household are Pa's crabby 112-year-old, gambling-addicted mother Granny, the family dog T-Bone, and Ma and Pa's '''''[[MassiveNumberedSiblings 142]]''''' [[MassiveNumberedSiblings children]].

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Based on the ''Petit Dernier'' and ''Petit Pousse'' children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, headed by adoring lovebirds Ma and Pa Crumpet, who are an inventor and stay-at-home gardener respectively. Also living in the Crumpet household are Pa's crabby 112-year-old, gambling-addicted mother Granny, the family dog T-Bone, and Ma and Pa's '''''[[MassiveNumberedSiblings 142]]''''' [[MassiveNumberedSiblings children]].

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Based on the ''Petit Dernier'' children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, headed by adoring lovebirds Ma and Pa Crumpet, who are an inventor and stay-at-home gardener respectively. Also living in the Crumpet household are Pa's crabby 112-year-old, gambling-addicted mother Granny, the family dog T-Bone, and Ma and Pa's '''''[[MassiveNumberedSiblings 142]]''''' [[MassiveNumberedSiblings children]].