Monster Buster Club

Monster Buster Club
Genre	Action, Comedy, Adventures
Format	Animated series
Created by	Vincent Chalvon-Demersay David Michel
Developed by	Marathon Media Group Jetix Europe (co-produced) Mystery Animation Image Entertainment Corporation
Voices of	(English version) Sonja Ball Anna Cummer Ian Corlett (also in Hero:108) Rick Jones Matt Hill (also in Ed, Edd n Eddy) Andrea Libman (also in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic) Tabitha St. Germain (also in Captain Flamingo) Sam Vincent (also in RollBots, and Cosmic Quantum Ray) Michael Yarmush
Country of origin	United States, Canada
Language(s)	French English
Production
Running time	approximate 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Jetix Europe Jetix UK Disney Channel Jetix, Disney XD YTV Jetix, Disney Channel Q 11 Philippines
Picture format	720i (HDTV) and 480i
Original airing	June 2, 2008 (Jetix Europe) May 3, 2008-March 2009 (Disney Channel Asia) June 9, 2008 (Jetix) September 13, 2010-November 23, 2010 (Q 11 Philippines)
External links
Website

Monster Buster Club is a television series by Marathon Production and Image Entertainment Corporation. The show debuted on June 2, 2008 on Jetix in Europe, June 9, 2008 in the United States and in Asia on May 3, 2008. This show is about three twelve-year-olds, helped by an alien girl named Cathy, who are all charged with saving their town from alien invasions. With her grandfather, they reform a secret organization that was founded centuries ago called the Monster Buster Club, often abbreviated to MBC. The goal of the MBC is to locate alien criminals seeking refuge in Single Town, capture them, and send them to galactic authorities.

Setting

The show takes place in a small calm town named Single Town. Single Town is two hundred years old and was founded by a man named Addison Single (who was really an alien disguised as a human). Unbeknownst to its human inhabitants, Single Town is actually a meeting place for aliens from different parts of the galaxy.

Main characters

• Cathy Smith (Voiced by Andrea Libman) - Cathy appears to be a bubbly, 12-year-old girl in the earth, equivalent to 700 Rapzodian years, because she's an alien from the planet Rapzodia. She came to Earth with her grandfather, Mr. Smith, to start the Monster Buster Club (MBC). She is constantly surprised at how different Earth is from Rapzodia. She has many alien abilities, like the ability to stretch, slight telekinesis, and others. She is the most optimistic of the MBC. Her suit color is pink. In her human form, she has blond hair and blue eyes. Her Rapzodian form is shown to be a humanoid, white alien with scattered pink spots, with four tentacles for arms, and four tentacles for legs, as well as tentacles on her head, (like hair), and a long, furry-looking tail^[1] Compared to humans, Rhapsodians are extremely long-lived.^[2]

• Chris (Christopher^[3]) (Voiced by Sam Vincent) - Chris is the 12-year-old tech-guy of the group. He has indigo blue hair and dark blue eyes. He is very smart, with a knack for gadgets. He'll often stay back in the clubhouse and supply intelligence reports while the rest of the group is out on a mission. His suit color is blue.

• Sam (Samantha) (Voiced by Anna Cummer) - Samantha, known by her friends as Sam, is the level-head member of the group with an often serious disposition. She has dark hair tied in buns and hazel eyes. While officially the MBC has no leader, she'll often be the member to construct battle strategies and procedures for the group. She, at times, can be bossy. While she possesses great natural leadership skills, she'll often put MBC first instead of having fun. Her suit color is yellow.

• Danny (Daniel Jackson^[4]) (Voiced by Matt Hill) - Danny is 12 year old boy and a nice guy at heart. He's good at sports, He has brown hair, green eyes and a scar over his left eyebrow. He can get a little overconfident at times. He has a crush on his schoolmate, Wendy. He has a erratic sense of humor and enjoys cracking jokes even in the most dangerous situations. He has his own self-proclaimed nickname: "The Danny" and refers to himself as such whenever he's performing a task. His suit color is red.

• Mr. Hugo Smith (Voiced by Ian Corlett) - Mr. Smith is Cathy's aloof grandfather and came with her to Earth. Like Cathy, he is a Rhapsodian, but rarely displays any supernatural powers and his alien form has the appearance of a mollusk. He'll sometimes aid the MBC from the clubhouse, but often he won't be involved in their missions at all. Mr. Smith loves working in his garden and playing cards with his plants.

Other characters

• John - John is Chris's little brother. He sometimes takes over for Chris at the clubhouse when Chris is on a mission or busy. He really wants to be in the MBC but he's too young as this is shown in the episode "Monster Beaters" where he joins another monster busting group because the MBC won't let him join.

• Wendy (Voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) - Danny's crush who is the snobby girl at the school which the MBC attend and often makes fun of them. She also uses Danny to do things for her, which is seen in "Dog Daze" where she asks him to watch her dog Matise. She is known for gossiping and tries anything to get a good scoop. (This is shown in the episode "Bubbleheads" when she follows Cathy to Mark's house because she thinks Cathy's working on another story.)

• Mark - Danny's main rival who often challenges him at different activities. Mark is also the richest kid in town. He likes to brag about it. He uses his money to beat Danny at things (shown in "Bubbleheads") or to become popular at school. Mark has a huge crush on Wendy as well.

• Jeremy Flablotnick - Chris' computer club pal who often bothers Cathy because he's in love with Cathy. (Jeremy sometimes gets in the way of the MBC's missions, this is shown in the episode "The Forget Me Stone".) Jeremy is clueless when he sees the MBC in their suits as shown in the episode "Gotta Dance" when he thinks he's on a hidden camera show.

• Elton Smith - Cathy's mind-reading cousin. He is wanted by the PincerBots for his mindreading powers. This is shown in the episode "Mindreader". His suit color is green.In "The End of Everything Part 2" he was the sub MBC member for Cathy.

• Ralph - One of Mark's friends who Mark often uses to bring him things and uses him to help get back at Danny. Ralph also has a crush on Wendy.

• Roy - Mark's other friend who he uses to bring him things^[5] and who he also uses to help get back at Danny (shown in the episode "Snack Time").

• Gilbert - An alien disguised as a nerd who hypnotized people including Sam to collect his comic book collections.^[6] He also caused trouble in episode "Laugh Attack" with a Ha Ha Honker.

• Mr. Fusster - The MBC's science teacher who thinks aliens don't exist. This upsets Cathy who knows that aliens exist and often argues with him. This gets her in trouble (shown in the episode "The Trouble with Troublemaking", when Cathy gets angry and pushes all his books off his desk getting her a detention). Recent events, though, show that he may know more about aliens than he lets on, and may even be one.

• Principal Rollins - The gang's principal who thinks the students are soldiers and often uses terms like "Company halt!" and "About face!". She sometimes gets in the way of the MBC's missions this is shown in the episode "Monster Beaters" when she forces every student to join a school club (leaving the MBC little time to investigate). She has shown in various episodes an affection for Mr. Smith. It is also suggested she used to be a spy, and believes Cathy is one too.

• Mr. Bernie - A car salesman in Single Town and Ralph's father. He often nickname himself "Bargain Bernie".

Alien enemies

• Addison Single - A huge morpher who wanted to claim the Single Town so that he wanted to create a place for aliens. He was busted by the Monster Buster Club two hundred years ago.^[7] Two hundred years later, he is awake by Chris after he discovers the purple crystal that seals him into stone. However, Cathy turns him back into stone after using pigeons because she knew he dislikes them.

• Herptilius - A mutated earth frog who strong and intelligent, but he has an obsession in eating Earth flies. He has a small group of less mutated frogs who assist him. In his first appearance, he returns to Earth to get revenge on a chef who nearly cooked him few years ago.

• Proskar - A very happy game loving alien. His weapons are laser staff, a tricked out scoreboard and a giant game board. He always follows the game rules and the bets he makes. He was undefeated until Danny beat him at Parchugal.

• (former) King Petalia the 13th - The former ruler of 17 planets and 24 moons, give or take an asteroid. He is a small plant. He is very ego-mental. He at first was still king and was defended from ClipperBots by the MBC. He later came back to Single Town pretending to be the target of two ClipperBots he hired. His true goal was to gain back his kinghood by draining Jeremy's life force through making him dance so with Jeremy's skills could become "the Dancing King".

• The three Octovores - Jenny is green. She is very rude and obsessed with her cheerleader alias. Grandma Octovore is purple and cackles a lot. She helped Jenny in her kidnapping party plot. She is Grandpa Octovore's wife. Grandpa Octovore is mahogany. He tried to free his wife Grandma Octovore from the MBC clubhouse. They were both defeated twice in a row.

• The Flying Dutchmen - A trio of alien Robotic rockers who brainwash people (even Danny) to steal stuff and having them build a weapon that could help them brainwash the whole planet. The song they play through the episode is called and lyricked "Drain Your Brain." Obviously named after how they brainwash people with the song. But, however they stopped by MBC after Cathy activate Giant ears muse of sound wave making lose their power, they were can by Chris.

• Nossida - The son of Adisson Single. He, unlike his father, is humanoid shaped. He is blue, wears a white, black,and yellow spacesuit, and has a set of large wings. (Danny called him Birdman). He is very powerful and his strength can only be bested by Cathy. He is very strategic and intelligent. He tricked Jeremy into being his pawn, using him to get Cathy wear a Forever Flower and set up a barrier around the Smith house, all by being Jeremy's "Crush Doctor" who gives him "love" advice for how to win Cathy's heart. He may be a figure in the alien black market because he had things like a Divertabox (to control ZeBorg's ship), A Gluszok cracker (to make Fuj go crazy), several ClipperBots (to attack the MBC and draw away suspicion from himself), a force-field generator (to keep the club away from Mr. Smith's backyard), Forever Flower which reverts aliens into their true forms, and a mini-rocket (to blast his Forever Flowers all over Single Town). He appears to dislike Cathy more than Sam, Danny,and Chris.

• Gluten - He is a blue sticky. His human form is a copy of the schools detention teacher who has the same name. The "real" Mr. Gluten is often on vacation, making it easy for Gluten to assume the identity. Gluten was first interested in capturing Cathy so he could sell her like an unpaid slave, but was stopped. He was later released from prison and he began to capture rare aliens for pay from an alien who wanted them for a private zoo. He wanted to capture a Rhapsodian for the zoo, but didn't try to capture Cathy because she had lost her powers. He did attempt to get Wendy (who had Cathy's powers at the time) and later Mr. Smith. Cathy busted Gluten herself after getting her powers back.

• Wedge - A lizard-like alien who tried to kill Stanley Caminski, one of the galaxy's most successful superstar manager. Wedge was attacking Stanley because he was his unsuccessful competitor whose stars aren't popular. He also appeared in an episode "Disappearing Act" when he was a magician named Reubar and brings his monkey assistant. He wants Single Town to disappear off the earth.

Episodes

Main article: List of Monster Buster Club episodes

References

1. ^ In one episode, Cathy mentions that her alien form has tentacles, and later on her full alien form is revealed.
2. ^ Monster Buster Club, American episode 29, season 2, New Recruits (28 February 2009).
3. ^ Monster Buster Club, American episode 12, season 1, Aliens On The Fast Track (4 August 2008)
4. ^ Monster Buster Club, American episode 20, season 1, A Matter Of Principals (20 October 2008)
5. ^ Monster Buster Club, Disney XD episode 26, season 2, Bubbleheads(14 February 2009).
6. ^ Monster Buster Club, Disney XD episode 12, season 1, Comic Book Heroes (21 July 2008).
7. ^ Monster Buster Club, American episode 15, season 1, Statue Of Limitation (8 September 2008).

External links

• Official Site
• Marathon Brings Monster to MIPCOM from animationmagazine.net
• Disney XD Official site
• Monster Buster Club at TV.com
• Monster Buster Club at the Big Cartoon DataBase