In June 2023, the series was renewed for a second season.
Synopsis
Set in Table Town, an urbanized mountainous island co-habitated by animals and magical creatures, the series centers on the adventures of Kiff, a young optimistic and happy-go lucky squirrel whose best intentions often lead to complete chaos, and her best friend Barry, a sweet and mellow bunny as they take the island by storm with their endless adventures and zest for life with lessons about the importance of acceptance, friendship, selflessness, self-worth, responsibility, sincerity, notoriety, and maturity along the way.[2][4]
Characters
Main
Kiff Chatterley (voiced by Kimiko Glenn[5]) is a young and optimistic squirrel who is the protagonist of the series. She tends to sometimes be reckless but is thankfully never afraid of being responsible and standing up for what she believes in. Her internet alias is 'Kifftastic4' over on Table Toob. In "Nicknames", it's revealed that "Kiff" is just her nickname, though her real name is currently unknown. Her design closely resembles an American red squirrel.
Barrington "Barry" Augustus Buns III (voiced by H. Michael Croner[5]) is a sweet and mellow rabbit who is Kiff's best friend and sidekick.
Recurring
Kiff's family
Martin Chatterley (voiced by James Monroe Iglehart[6]) is Kiff's absent-minded father who loves popcorn and orange juice. His internet alias is 'SmartyPrance116' over on Table Toob. He secretly wanted to be an ice-skater during his youth. "No Dad Ideas" reveals that he works as a less-than-successful inventor.
Beryl Chatterley (voiced by Lauren Ash[7]) is Kiff's mother, and Martin's wife, who works as a college professor.
Uncle Pat (voiced by Andy Merrill) is Kiff's paternal uncle who lives in a condo, and rides a motorcyle.
Barry's family
Mary Buns (voiced by Rachel House[8]) is Barry's warm and kind mother. She speaks with a New Zealand accent.
Harry Buns (known professionally as DJ 11:30) (voiced by Josh Johnson[9]) is Barry's somewhat cynical older teenage brother and an aspiring DJ.
Terri Buns (known professionally as Terri Two-Bowls) (voiced by Nichole Sakura[10]) is Barry's older sister and Harry's younger sister, who is a social media influencer and has a job as a pizza deliverywoman.
Kristophe Buns is Barry's one-eared baby brother, who is usually seen with Farley, a toy robot that once belonged to Harry. He is the youngest in the Buns family.
The Fox family
Candle Fox (voiced by Vella Lovell) is a popular and rich female fox in Kiff and Barry's class, Roy's daughter, and Kiff's frenemy. In "Two Truths and a Bunny", Candle is revealed to be the leader of her own group called the "Abras" (a pun on candelabra). Her parents are also divorced, as revealed in "Fresh Outta Grandmas".
Roy Fox (voiced by Eric Bauza) is Candle's father who is the president of Foxhole Productions, as well as a TV producer for reality TV shows such as "Table Town Has Talent", "Table Town's Cringiest Wannabes", "The 5 Jerks", and "Dancing on the Tables".
Table Town Middle School staff
Principal Secretary (voiced by Nic Smal) is a South African-accented secretary bird who is the principal at Kiff and Barry's school. He aspired to be a principal ever since he was in high school. He, Glarbin Gloobin, Sweepy Steve, and Ms. Moufflé have their own group called "The Table Town Riddler's Society".
Helen (voiced by Lucy Heavens) is an eccentric, selfish and egotistical 712-year-old witch who is Kiff and Barry's drama teacher.
Miss Deer Teacher (voiced by Deedee Magno Hall) is a 33-year-old deer who is Kiff and Barry's teacher. She used to be a stand-up comedian before she became a teacher. She still unironically plays with dolls and stuffed animals whenever she's at home.
Mr. Ri-Peppa (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a somewhat unprincipled skunk and teacher. When not teaching a class, he serves as an announcer in sporting events held at the school.
Miss Tulane (voiced by Lucy Heavens) is a German-accented unicorn who is the school's art teacher. She wears white boots and a pink scarf.
Sweepy Steve (voiced by Kent Osborne) performs janitorial duties at Table Town Middle School. At the beginning of each episode, he is pasting an advertisement on the same bill board as the episode title. He is a member of "The Table Town Riddler's Society" and has been shown to have a love for musical theater. In "Life on the Inside", he is seen running detention. He is prone to suddenly falling asleep under sun beams. He is always seen accompanied by a broom.
Secretary Prince (voiced by Eugene Cordero) is a satyr who works as the secretary to Principal Secretary.
Table Town Middle School students
Gareth and Darryn (both voiced by Tom Kenny) are Kiff and Barry's dassie (hyrax) and giraffe classmates.
Trevor Angstrom (voiced by Tom Kenny) is a hedgehog in Kiff and Barry's class, who is sometimes portrayed as an antagonist in certain episodes. He becomes friends with Candle in "Friendship in the Time of Cheese Caves".
Reggie (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a nerdy, but loyal raccoon in Kiff and Barry's class. In "Fresh Outta Grandmas", he is revealed to have two moms who both have two moms who are both divorced. He aspires to be a video game programmer, as revealed in "Weird Delivery". He is also a member of a secret society which congregates in a cave, alongside Glarbin, Liz K., and a gerbil, as shown in "Harry's Maturity Crisis".
Billiam (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a young male Billy goat, who is best friends with Candle.
Patty (voiced by Sophie Kim) is a young female light yellow parakeet in Kiff and Barry's class.
Renée du Bedat (voiced by Mary Mack) is a female warthog in Kiff and Barry's class.
Other recurring characters
Miss Moufflé (voiced by Aparna Nancherla) is a giraffe-librarian who runs the local library in Table Town. She tends to have a monstrous temper whenever she hears somebody claim that she's a 'villain' or ask her questions that personally offend her such as "Maybe you could take the shushing down a few notches.". She, Principal Secretary, Glarbin Gloobin, and Sweepy Steve have their own group called "The Table Town Riddler's Society".
Pawva (voiced by Katie Crown) is a mink who is the town's barista.
Trollie (voiced by Rhys Darby) is a troll who lives under the town's bridge. He speaks with a New Zealand accent.
Glarbin Gloobin (voiced by Steve Little) is a frog who runs city hall and Table Town's lost and found. He values doing a lot of paperwork before applying an action. He, Principal Secretary, and Miss Mouffle have their own group called "The Table Town Riddler's Society.
The Pone (voiced by Eugene Cordero) is an alpaca, who lives next door to the Chatterleys.
Gordon (voiced by H. Michael Croner) is a little mouse who offers free samples to grocery shoppers. He used to be an ageist rodent, refusing to serve children. However, his perspective on children changed when he was struck by Helen's spell, originally intended for a chipmunk. Despite his small stature, Gordon is quite strong; he once single-handedly carried a delinquent hare, twice his size, who was trying to eat all his samples. Besides offering free samples, Gordon is also a cashier.
Kim Popularé (voiced by Vella Lovell) is a lemur who is Candle's friend. She used to study at Tuft Pierre, a private school mostly attended by affluent and insolent pupils, before transferring to Table Town Middle School. She, at first, spoke with a Swedish accent, and went by the pseudonym Kennedy. But after Barry beats her in a game of identifying facts and lies, she disclosed her true name, and began speaking in an American accent.
Mav (voiced by Kent Osborne) is a sheep in a black jacket, and one of a few students sent to the detention room for delinquency. Kiff met him when she was sent to detention for standing in class trying to keep her classmates in their seats. When Kiff helps him and the other delinquents escape, they reform and become committed to their schooling.
Beverly (voiced by Lauren Ash) is an Irish-accented mallard who left Table Town after disappointing her neighbors with her home decorations that did not conform to the Halfway There Day tradition. She returned after Centaur Claus corrected the citizens on what the holiday is really about. She is fond of elegance, and is skilled in volley ball.
"Thirst to Be the First": Kiff is ready to be the first person to use the school's new water fountain, but a bad case of "droop-tail" ends up ruining her plans. She sets up various schemes to get past her dad and in school, and it almost works - but she ends up falling asleep and misses out. However, Barry creates a photo of a basketball painted with Kiff's face on it drinking the fountain, satisfying Kiff.
"The Fourth Bath": Kiff is excited to sleep over at Barry's house until she finds out that the Buns share bath water, and that she will take the fourth bath. Not wanting to bathe in used water, Kiff decides to call "switchies" with the Buns siblings in order to go first but inadvertently causes them to quarrel with each other. Feeling guilty, Kiff apologizes to everyone for her actions, and to make it up to them, she takes the last bath, which goes over surprisingly well.
"Pool Party": The entire class is invited to Candle Fox's pool party, but Barry reveals to Kiff that he can't swim. Kiff asks Helen, a witch at her school, to cast a spell on Barry to help him swim, to which she agrees on the condition that the former helps her meet Candle's dad, Roy, in hopes to get on a TV show. Kiff tries to prevent this from happening when she realizes that Roy's plans are to get the witch on a show making fun of her, which results in Helen revoking the spell. Kiff saves Barry from falling in the water and drowning but simultaneously trashes the place and they get banned for a year. Helen then thanks Kiff for saving her reputation and Kiff promises to help Barry learn how to swim during their one-year ban from Candle's pool.
"Road Trip": The Chatterleys and Barry go on a road trip, much to Kiff's dismay, who is not a fan of Martin's tedious rules and rituals. During this, Kiff and Barry tease the leader of a bike gang and are pursued by the group. Kiff and Barry confess to Beryl and Martin about it and they try their best to get away. It's later revealed that the bike gang was really a group of auto mechanics, who were trying to help fix the Chatterlys' car. It also turns out that the road trip was really a test drive for the real one.
"Brunch DJ": After Kiff and Barry witness the latter's brother, Harry, escaping from school, Principal Secretary tasks the two with finding him. Later, it is discovered that Harry has been working at a café as a DJ. Not wanting to get Harry in trouble for playing hooky, Kiff explains the importance of school with a song when the Principal arrives at the café and tries to expel Harry. When it turns out that having no education would impede Harry from fulfilling his dream, everyone turns against Secretary, so he lets Harry go back to school.
"Career Day": Kiff and Barry take a summer job, working at the city hall, even though Barry would rather work as a garbage man. The job is not what they expected, as it's required to fill out lots of paperwork, so Kiff and Barry decide to skip the forms by shredding them and go straight to helping people. This becomes an issue when their boss, Glarbin Gloobin, wants them to file the forms they "filled out". Kiff and Barry trick him into believing that all the paperwork was stolen, but he finds out about the ruse when the paper shredder explodes. But before Glarbin can fire them, the townsfolk inform him of how Kiff and Barry helped them. Then, Glarbin's former employees ask for their jobs back and Kiff and Barry start working as garbage men.
"The Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse": After finding a pigeon figure at a yard sale, Kiff finds out that there are four more figures to complete the set. After she and Barry collect all five, though, they end up coming to life as "The Five Pigeons of the Acapellapocalypse" and cause havoc around Table Town. The only way to stop them is to separate them, so Kiff and Barry recruit Helen to do so. After being separated, however, the pigeons become very lonely, so Kiff gives Roy Fox (whose shows' ratings had taken a dive) the idea to use them in a reality show, "The Five Jerks", focusing on their lives completely locked up in a mansion on a far-away island together.
"Leave a Little Juice": After Barry had finished all of Martin's OJ, which is the latter's favorite drink, Beryl asks Kiff to tell Barry not to do that anymore. However, Kiff cannot bring herself to do that, not wanting to hurt Barry's feelings, so she avoids saying anything about it. This becomes a problem when Barry keeps dropping his glasses of OJ and wasting the drink. Eventually, the whole carton is emptied and Kiff convinces Martin that it wouldn't be right to hurt Barry's feelings. It's then Beryl who asks Barry not to drink all the OJ, to which Barry nonchalantly agrees, much to Kiff and Martin's surprise. Kiff realizes that Barry actually likes it when people tell him the truth. Later, the Chatterlys' neighbor, the Pone, arrives to give the family a carton of OJ (as a repayment for Barry trying to give him some earlier), which Martin turns down just because he dislikes the Pone.
"Big Barry on Campus": After noticing an error with her school ID, Helen sends a "computer gremlin" into the Principal's computer to fix it. However, it accidentally causes Barry's name to be mixed in with the high schoolers file, making Principal Secretary think he belongs there. Kiff is despondent over this, so she goes to high school with Barry. However, the two grow to hate high school and try to prove to the Principal that they don't belong there. Just when Secretary is about to send Kiff and Barry to different schools, the computer gremlin is discovered and Helen uses a spell to reboot the computer, sending Kiff and Barry back to Miss Dear Teacher's class where they belong.
"Club Book": Kiff finds it unfair that you have to be quiet at the library, so she gains legal ownership of the library to allow people to be loud. However, Kiff quickly discovers the disadvantages of a loud library, especially when a party is thrown in the building. She recruits the former librarian, Miss Moufflé (who now works as a soufflé baker), to turn the loud library quiet again. After the two enter the library through a secret passageway, Kiff puts on quiet music to get everyone to shush and Miss Moufflé closes the loud library for good. Afterward, Miss Mouflé fixes up a room for loud readers to be as loud as they want.
"Kiff's Mix": While playing at Trevor's house, Kiff, Barry, and Trevor create an amazing cereal mix by combining many different kind together. However, when the three to make it again, they forget which kinds of cereal they used. Kiff calls the science lab to get the cereal's milk analyzed so they'll remember the ingredients they used. The scientist at the lab finds that the cereal contains one unknown ingredient, later revealed to be Barry's tears, which are triggered by commercials on TV. However, Trevor lets making the cereal go to his head, revealing to the other two his plans to form a corporation with them, which Kiff doesn't want. However, when everybody finds out about the secret ingredient, they get disgusted and leave. At Kiff's house, Trevor apologizes for his actions as he, Kiff, and Barry eat Kiff's Mix and cry at a commercial.
"Kiff's on a Plane": Beryl's old college friends, Meryl, Deryl, and Cheryl, visit her. Wanting to appear grown up to Beryl and her friends, Kiff decides to go to pilot school to prove that she's just as cool as them. Barry soon arrives to find Kiff and gets enrolled too. After lots of practice, Kiff invites Beryl and her friends to her junior pilot test. At the test (which is much simpler than was wished for), Kiff appears to be doing well, but she gets distracted by a fantasy and is hit by a volleyball, suffering a humiliating fail. Kiff then reveals the true reason why she had joined pilot school and leaves the school with her mom and friends on good terms.
"Farley": While babysitting Kristophe, Kiff accidentally makes a mess of Farley (Kristophe's doll). To fix the situation, Kiff pretends to be Farley while Barry enlists the help of Helen's sister, Agnes (a drycleaner) to wash the real doll. When Kristophe is about to pull a stunt with "Farley", Kiff pretends that Farley has come to life and the two spend a fun day together, while Barry tries to counsel Helen and Agnes over their sibling rivalry. In the end, Barry returns with the real Farley and Kiff comes to realize how Kristophe really is on the inside.
"Two for One Hot Dogs": After enjoying two for one hot dogs, Kiff and Barry notice a billboard that reads "It doesn't get any better than this" and misinterpret the message as saying that their best days are behind them. Despondent, the two move into a retirement home. Soon after, Kiff and Barry find the people at the retirement home throwing a party and realize that the message on the billboard was simply an ad that wasn't really true.
"Halfway There Day": Halfway through the year, Kiff prepares dinner for Halfway There Day (Table Town's take on Christmas), which is about giving 50% in preparation. Beryl tells Kiff the story of Beverly, a woman who prepared a big fancy dinner for Halfway There Day and was kicked out of the "dinner crawl". After Kiff encounters Beverly from the story, the latter sabotages the dinner, but Centaur Claus (a spoof of Santa Claus) scolds everyone for missing the true meaning of Halfway There Day, which is not about giving 50%, but just not being pressured to give 100%. Beverly is then let back in the dinner crawl.
"Be Still My Harp": While watching a movie, Barry gets stuck in a harp that causes people who hear the music to suddenly get stuck in their memories. When this happens to Kiff, she learns to look forward and escapes her memories. She then pulls Barry out of the harp forward instead of backward, which not only frees him, but snaps everyone out of their trances.
"Friendiversary": On the day of Kiff and Barry's "friendiversary", the two reminisce on when they first met. When Barry gives Kiff one more gift than she did him, Kiff sets out to find another gift for him, but can't seem to find a gift good enough for him. Meanwhile, Trevor tries to be Barry's new best friend. Thinking she's failed, Kiff runs away, but learns from a train robber that the best present is a hug. Barry tells Kiff that all he wanted was the feeling of giving her a gift and they decide to go on a tractor ride, even inviting Trevor to come along (though it appears he hasn't given up on stealing Barry from Kiff).
"Totally Table Town": After someone who posts a comment on "Table Toob" doubts Table Town's awesomeness, Kiff and her friends film a movie to prove him wrong. While filming the last scene, the gang gets attacked by the Ghost Wolf. After a long chase, it turns out that the Ghost Wolf was really giving their speaker back and herding them to safety. After Kiff posts the movie to the person who commented, it gets a positive reaction, with the commenter turning out to be Martin.
"Hat": After a hat that Barry brings to "Bring a Thing" proves popular (so much that everyone in the school tries to steal it), Kiff tries to keep it safe for Barry to show everyone at an event later. A strong wind causes a series of misadventures for Kiff on trying to retrieve it, including Helen, who wants the hat for herself. After accidentally shredding the hat, Kiff pretends to be the hat, but realizes that everyone actually likes Barry, not the hat.
"Lost and Found": While taking a walk, Kiff and Barry discover a journal. They try to find its owner before Glarbin, who is in charge of the Lost and found department, gains ownership of it at the end of the business day. While trying to find clues, Kiff and Barry end up having more and more of the journal's contents revealed, before it's revealed that it belongs to a unicorn named Slent. However, the poems become very popular and Slent gives the money he earned to Kiff and Barry to show his appreciation for them returning the journal.
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"Principal Dance Socks"
Sarah Lloyd
Adam Bohorquez, Thomas Hudson, Taylor Curry, Elena Manetta & James Sugrue
In order to prove that Table Town School is just as good as the fancy, rich, and prestigious Tuft Pierre School, Kiff and the gang compete Principal Secretary with Tuft Pierre's principal, Swan, in a dance-off. Since Secretary's dancing is less than perfect, Helen and the kids give him magic dance socks to make him appear much better (with Helen controlling Secretary's moves). After Secretary wins, the snobby big kids from Tuft Pierre School give the credit to Swan, who was on Roy Fox's "Dancing with the Tables", for winning. The kids decide to put Principal Secretary on the show to prove that he won. However, Helen is upset that she hasn't been given credit for controlling Principal Secretary's dancing and ends up sabotaging the show by lousing up his moves. Kiff and the gang then confess that they cheated and say that they are proud of their school, touching everyone's hearts to the point that Swan even decides to quit her job as Principal for Tuft Pierre School.
"Two Truths and a Bunny": When Liz K. (one of the members of Candle's "Abra" group) gets droop-tail, Kiff and Barry both take their place in a slumber party in order to find out why Candle calls her group "Abra". At the sleepover, the group plays Two Truths and a Lie, which Barry isn't good at because of his inability to lie. Since Candle can't trust Kiff and Barry to keep the secret about why the group is called the "Abras", Barry seeks advice from his sister, Terri, on how to lie. However, the Abras don't find Barry's lies exciting enough, not even when he reveals that one of the group members, seemingly named "Kennedy", is actually named "Kim". Kiff and Barry later deduce that the group was named after the candelabra (since the first part of the word is Candle's name) before leaving.
"Nicknames": At a movie theater, Kiff and Barry realize that the ticket ripper, Nick Namé gives people at the theater nicknames because of their actions, and they decide that they want nicknames of their own. After Kiff tries (and fails) to earn the nickname, "Showtime", Beryl reveals that she already has a nickname (as "Kiff" is not her real name) and that everyone likes her, whether she has a nickname or not.
"The Sound of Helen": Helen "convinces" Principal Secretary to let her create a musical. While the class is excited at first, they are surprised to find that the play, entitled "The Sound of Helen", is all about her. When they protest to this, Helen accuses them of ruining her musical and quits as director. The class decides to use how Helen had worked to get the Principal to accept the production as the new plot and rename it "My Fair Helen", which receives praise from Helen and everyone else (except for Secretary).
"Weekly Grocery Shop": The Chatterlys go grocery shopping. Kiff decides to go to the free sample station, Beryl tries to collect 20 coupons to play a crane game, and Martin tries to remember which groceries to buy after he forgets the shopping list. Kiff's delight is spoiled when the new sample station worker, Gordon, only allows paying customers, not kids, to get free samples, so she, Barry, Reggie, and Candle try to trick him into giving them some. Meanwhile, after the last coupon falls into Helen's shopping cart, Beryl tries to get it without Helen noticing, and Martin gets the same groceries that another customer bought, only to find that all the groceries he bought are of a different brand that the Chatterlys normally get. When Beryl uses a fishing pole to sneak the last coupon out of Helen's cart, Helen notices and prepares to curse Beryl into mushroom form for bothering her, but accidentally curses Gordon into a child, who allows free samples for everyone. Afterwards, Kiff finally gets a free sample and Beryl wins a 50-year-old kazoo from the claw machine.
"Friendship in the Time of Cheese Caves": Candle and Trevor form a friendship, which is short-lived. On a field trip to the Cheese Caves, Candle enlists the help of Kiff to patch things up with her and Trevor. When Candle and Kiff get trapped in the caves, the former admits that their friendship was ruined when she sent a chunky text to him. Trevor eventually forgives Candle for the chunky text and they reconcile, while Kiff is furious to find that Candle and Trevor's friendship was formed when Candle made fun of her new shorts.
"Soup Opera": Kiff becomes interested in a soap opera. When she finds that Miss Deer Teacher has been unlucky in love, Kiff uses scenes from the soap opera to help her reconcile with a date. After watching a plot twist in the soap opera with the protagonist's boyfriend revealed to have used her to steal her identity, Kiff and Martin try to stop Miss Dear Teacher's date from doing the same, but it turns out that he was only helping her with taxes, and that Miss Deer Teacher feels that he's not the man she wants to marry. Kiff apologizes to Miss Dear Teacher for meddling in her personal life and she forgives her.
"Mall Leader": Upon finding out that she can get a free pretzel from bringing ten people to the mall, Kiff hypnotizes her classmates (excluding Barry) to follow her to the mall, but she quickly regrets this when everyone keeps following her around and won't let her eat her pretzel in peace. She gives the leading duties to Helen, who becomes a slave driver to Kiff's classmates. Realizing she has done wrong, Kiff learns the importance of selflessness, gives her pretzel to Helen, and encourages everyone to just follow themselves.
"Ghost Wolf's Art": Following on from the events of "Totally Table Town", Kiff is determined to learn more about Ghost Wolf, and she and Barry go to his home, where they learn that he has a passion for painting. Barry helps Ghost Wolf get inspiration by painting pictures of other people's personal lives. At the museum, the people are initially embarrassed and furious to find that Ghost Wolf turned their personal moments into entertainment, but when others empathize by revealing that they have the same embarrassing traits, the art becomes a hit.
"Fresh Outta Grandmas": After Kiff, Candle, and Reggie brag about their grandmothers, a competition begins on who can "collect" the most grandmas, with a piece of candy being collected for each grandma. When Kiff and Reggie are tied with the amount of grandmas they have, they set out to break the tie by collecting Lady Lorriane, who hates children; Kiff manages to win by calling the other grandmas who are Lady Lorraine's friends, and win the competition. But when the grandmas realize that the kids were spending time with them just for a game, the gang realizes that they've been selfish and return all the pieces of candy to the grandmas and apologize to them (excluding Lorraine). However, what Kiff and the gang didn't notice is that those grandmas were also being selfish by spending time with them just for a game.
"Maybe-sitting": Wanting to join the Babysitting Society, Kiff visits the Bunses' house, where Harry and Terri are babysitting Kristophe, in order to learn about babysitting. To her dismay, Harry and Terri are only interested in reading magazines, so she tries to get them to be more attentive by pretending that Kristophe is missing, which actually happens right after Harry and Terri had realized Kiff's ruse. Not knowing where to find Kristophe (who is hiding in the closet under the stairs), Kiff forces a reluctant Barry to act as Kristophe while the members of the Babysitting Society to observe Kiff's babysitting, but is eventually forced to tell the truth and is disallowed from joining the club. Mary, however, is so impressed with how Kiff took care of Kristophe that she hires her as Kristophe's permanent babysitter.
"Everyday I'm Riddlin' Riddlin'": Kiff and Barry meet a troll named Trollie, who likes telling riddles, but is depressed, because he lives under a bridge where nobody passes, so the two take him the most used bridge in Table Town, where he makes up riddles that nobody can get the answer to. In order to get him to stop this, Kiff and Barry enlist the help of the Table Town Riddler's Society (consisting of Principal Secretary, Glarbin Gloobin, Ms. Moufflé, and Sweepy Steve) in giving Trollie a riddle that will stump him. When that doesn't work, Trollie resolves to build a second bridge so people can pass without having to guess a riddle.
"Life on the Inside": After Kiff is accused of breaking a school rule in an attempt to get her classmates to obey it, she is sent to detention along with Barry (after he unsuccessfully tried to stand up for her). Kiff and Barry team up with the other kids who got sent to detention and they eventually manage to break out. The students who got sent to detention then reform, impressing Principal Secretary.
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"Weird Delivery"
Kent Osborne
Allyson Gonzalez
July 1, 2023 (2023-07-01)
118
N/A
"No Dad Ideas"
Koby Agyeman
James Sugrue
"Weird Delivery": After spending time with Reggie at his house, Kiff and Barry leave to be taken home by Barry's sister. However, she has to make a pizza delivery to a man who made money off of catapults. When Kiff and Barry are forced to deliver the pizza themselves, Kiff accidentally offends the man, who sends the two sends them both flying off a giant catapult. As it turns out, Kiff and Barry's entire trip home was all part of a virtual reality system that Reggie has been developing.
"No Dad Ideas": Realizing Kiff does not know what his job is, Martin shows her all the ideas he has as an inventor but isn't confident enough to show them to the public. In order to boost Martin's confidence, she has Terri pretend to be the CEO of her own company, who likes Martin's unique ideas. It works until he realizes the truth about Terri and loses confidence, but Kiff encourages him to keep going. As he advertises his invention idea, the Double Trucker (which is a cap with two bills), everyone leaves except for two birds that he had been feeding, who buy his Double Trucker for a million nuts just so they can repurpose it as a snack holder.
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"Faculty Lounge"
Hannah Jost
Adam Bohorquez & Thomas Hudson
July 8, 2023 (2023-07-08)
119
N/A
"Personal Assistant"
Quinn Scott
Taylor Curry & Brian Muelhaupt
"Faculty Lounge": Kiff and Barry are curious about the teacher's faculty lounge, so with Barry's help, Kiff manages to get into the lounge but struggles to get out due to the presence of Mr. Ri-Peppa, who steals Miss Deer Teacher's sandwich. Eventually, she manages to fool everyone in the lounge by posing as Ms. Foodcake, a new staff member, but her integrity gets the better of her and exposes Mr. Ri-Peppa as the sandwich thief. As punishment, he is sent to collect frogs all over the playground. Meanwhile, the real Ms. Foodcake is still at the airport waiting to be picked up.
"Personal Assistant": Kiff is made Helen's personal assistant after taking a test, which she is not too thrilled about. She makes many attempts to get fired so that she can retake the test but to no avail. With Barry's advice, she decides to help Helen get the humanitarian award, which she ends up succeeding in as well. But despite this, Helen was revealed to have sabotaged the results of the test so she could have a personal assistant and steals the award after it was revoked from her. Barry tells Kiff that her success as a personal assistant just meant she was naturally good at it and can do more.
Kiff and Barry have their own movie night but Barry is too scared to watch horror movies. They are both invited by Trevor to his party which Candle and her invitees eventually join due to ordering real spiders instead of rubber ones. Kiff sneaks off from Trevor and Barry so she can take part. Barry feels alienated until finding some guests with a book he reads releasing a demonic being in the process.
"I Like to Move It!": Kiff and Barry are tasked with moving a piano by Helen in exchange for a horseshoe that can grant any two people a wish for their hearts' desire. Along the way, they meet people who get into arguments in which they eventually get into as well. When the two friends succeed, each tries to say their wish before the other. However, they soon realize they are fighting over something meaningless and decide to wish that they never moved the piano for Helen.
"Hive Got an Idea": Kiff and Barry are placed in charge of introducing a kid from the goat wall to their school. However, the goats use their hive mind to constantly check in on the kid against their word that they wouldn't. Kiff uses some aluminum to keep the hive from controlling him and disguises herself as a goat to keep them occupied. Eventually, he decides he will not return to the goat wall or to school and becomes an airplane designer since he is mature enough to do so.
"You Can't Handle the Tooth!": Kiff is told by her mother to brush her tooth, but she doesn't want to do it immediately and tries to get out of doing it. She eventually realizes that she makes good songs whenever she is doing boring things and sings a song about why she shouldn't have to brush her tooth every morning. Her mother is convinced and decides to have her do it in the evening, which was at that very moment.
"Blooper Quest": After watching the end-credits blooper reel for a movie she likes, Kiff is inspired to make her own bloopers, in which she is not successful. She ends up making an award winning film, but then finds herself messing up her speech at the awards ceremony. In the process, she learns that bloopers happen naturally and cannot be forced.
"When You Mow, You Mow": Kiff and everyone else see Reggie mow his lawn, so Kiff decides that she should be allowed to mow herself. However, all her attempts backfire until she discovers that the handle is adjustable.
"Harry's Maturity Crisis": Harry is sick of being treated like a little kid so he decides to run away and gets a job. Kiff and Barry decide to run away with him and they begin to frustrate Harry until he realizes that his mother does a lot for him and his siblings. He ultimately decides to return home.
"Silly Moods": Kiff and Barry have silly moods during a school field trip to the Table Town Museum and try to suppress them so they don't get thrown out. They eventually realize that their silly moods can disappear on their own.
"Chatterley vs. Chatterley": Kiff and her family have a family court with Judge Judgey, with her dad on trial for eating her mother's slice of pizza. While Kiff herself was the culprit, she tries to hide the truth, but at the expense of her dad getting a lifetime pizza ban. Prompted by this, she comes clean. It turns out to be a trick to get Kiff to be honest, and she is punished by having to make pizza for everyone.
"Hungee Squirrel": Kiff and her family go to a restaurant they like, and Kiff is memed for her facial expression when she eats. She doesn't want to be remembered for it, and when it seems to become history, the owners of the same restaurant build a new restaurant and reveal they tricked Kiff into signing a contract disguised as a kid's activity paper, allowing them to use her image and disallowing her to do so. In retaliation, she and her fans trick them into signing another contract under the restaurant to counter it, much to their dismay.
"The Foreverangees": Kiff and Barry accidentally set off a curse that results in everyone arguing and getting petrified. They end arguing themselves but manage to break the curse.
"Snow More Ketchup": A snowstorm has hit Table Town and when the storm worsens, Roy Fox allows everyone into his mansion until the storm subsides and makes fries for everyone. Unfortunately, everyone is out of ketchup and Candle reveals that her father keeps his own stash of ketchup, so Kiff and her friends go to find it. Barry struggles to contain himself and starts hallucinating. Eventually, they find the ketchup and fight Roy for it, resulting in the entire mansion getting flooded with ketchup.
"Kiff and Barry Go to Prom": Trevor tells Kiff and Barry about the high school prom involving two individuals that had a misunderstanding, so they infiltrate the area and discover the confusion. After Kiff and Barry get kicked out by Principal Secretary, they go to the boy who was heartbroken after Terri used him to increase her social media following. They explain to him that she wasn't dumping him but explaining that she couldn't text him. After that, Kiff goes back in and encourages everyone to be with who they wanted to be with.
"Kiff Is Good at Sports": Kiff is shown to be good at discus after she accidentally signs herself up along with Barry, thinking it was a discussion club. However, she ends up forgetting about the book report after spending so much time in sports. Despite this, she still receives an A due to her success in discus. She decides to help out the team one more time in exchange for receiving an F for not completing her book report.
"Mushroommates": Kiff and her dad weed the backyard, but they procrastinate to do the part behind their shed. As a result, it is overrun by an invasive species of mushrooms and they try to get rid of them but with no success. Kiff's mom finds out, but scientists want to study the mushrooms. They leave eagerly after Kiff welcomed them to stay.
"Principal Helen": Helen becomes principal after Principal Secretary takes a vacation. Kiff and Barry get suspicious about it and while it seemed Helen cared about the school, she was really trying to get cast as a principal in a movie and plans on selling the school to Roy Fox. Seeing this, Kiff and Barry try to get Principal Secretary to come back but is seemingly enjoying his vacation to the point of not wanting to leave. However, he does show up and is offered the role to star in the movie instead but refuses and is content with his job.
"Dial B for Butt": Kiff and her mom receive a random call and initially intend to trace its origin, suspecting it came from Kiff's mom's professor. However, with the assistance of an agent, they discover it was actually Reggie, whom they apologize to, him revealing it was all just part of a game.
"Fun Uncle Pat": Uncle Pat comes for a visit, but Martin is not happy about it, and he starts taking up Kiff's room. As it turned out his girlfriend kicked him out of the apartment they shared together. Thanks to Kiff he got the job of assisting the captain and gets a sticker for his case.
"Kiff Escape!": Kiff and her friends want to go to an escape room, so while Helen goes shopping, she decides to transport them to one on her computer. They attempt to escape multiple times, at the risk of having their memories wiped. Eventually, thanks to Trevor, they succeed in getting out.
"Beach Day": The Chatterleys and Barry go to the beach and have their own adventures. Kiff wants to savor her French fries, but they get stolen by a little seagull girl. Beryl reencounters her old volleyball rival and tries to beat him in a game. Martin gets stuck buried in the sand and is unable to get out.
"Sun's Out Buns Out": Summer begins and Barry invites his friends to his pool, but Terri and her friends occupy it. She tells Barry she will allow him to use the pool if he learns how to swim or else he will have to serve them watermelon all summer. Barry's childhood fear of a pool monster gets in the way, but it turns out to be a result of a prank Terri once pulled on him. He learns how to swim and wins the right to play in the pool with his friends.
Shorts
How NOT To Draw
No.
Title
Original release date
1
"How NOT To Draw: Kiff"
April 22, 2023 (2023-04-22)[29] July 2, 2023 (2023-07-02) (Halfway There Day Version)[30]
Chibi Tiny Tales
No.
Title
Original release date
1
"Super Slide"
June 10, 2023 (2023-06-10)[31] July 2, 2023 (2023-07-02) (Halfway There Day Version)[32]
Bored with the park's mediocre water slide, Kiff pours mineral oil on herself to take sliding to the next level.
2
"Toilet Flood Pool Party"
June 17, 2023 (2023-06-17)[33] July 2, 2023 (2023-07-02) (Halfway There Day Version)[34]
When the Chatterlies' air conditioner breaks down, Kiff and Barry use the bathroom's toilet to create a swimming pool right inside the house, with disastrous results.
As part of a promotional campaign, Disney Channel began airing the Disney Theme Song Takeover wherein supporting characters from different shows performed the theme song to the series they were in.
Barry, Candle, Principal Secretary, and Helen ask to be in Kiff's theme song. However, they each mess up during the sequence and decide not to be in Kiff's theme song after all.
Production
Development
In 2017, creators Nic Smal and Lucy Heavens first met each-other when they were animators for Triggerfish Animation Studios, as the duo claimed that they 'spoke the same comedy language'.[40][41] Conception for the series began in December 2017,[41] and was eventually optioned by Disney five months later.[40][42] On June 17, 2021, during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, it was announced that Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal were developing the series, entitled Kiff.[2][4] According to the duo, the series is inspired by their experiences growing up in Cape Town,[2] while Heavens described it as a series "about a kid who lives with her parents and goes to school" whose comedy focuses on the world and characters featured.[1] Senior vice-president for Disney Channel's animation Meredith Roberts said, "Lucy and Nic are a brilliant creative team who produced a fresh and funny series with vibrant visuals that help bring the friendship between a squirrel and a bunny to life in a unique way".[2] The series is produced by Disney Television Animation and Titmouse, Inc., with Kent Osborne serving as co-producer and story editor,[2][1] and Winnie Chaffee producing.[5] It consists of 22-minute episodes, composed of two 11-minute segments.[2][4] Edward Mejia, a Disney executive, oversees the series.[43]
On June 13, 2023, Disney Television Animation announced that the series was renewed for a second season.[44]
Music
The series features one original musical number per episode.[2][4]
Animation
In addition to co-producing, Titmouse, Inc. also provides the animation for the series (with its overseas animation being provided by Yearim).[45][46]
Release
Kiff premiered simultaneously on Disney Channel and Disney XD on March 10, 2023, with the show's first six episodes releasing on Disney+ a day later.[3][47] In June 2022, it was announced that the first season of the series would have 30 22-minute episodes.[45]
Reception
Matthew Aguilar of ComicBook.com asserted, "Those who watch will soon find themselves transported to a delightful animated world full of hilarious scenarios that always find a way to also be relatable."[48] Joel Keller of Decider wrote, "Kiff is lots of surreal fun, with a warm friendship at its center. Most of all, parents will enjoy it for its smart humor almost as much as their kids will enjoy the colors, sounds, and pratfalls."[49] Ashley Moulton of Common Sense Media gave the series a grade of four out of five stars, praised the depiction of positive messages and role models, citing the presence of characters demonstrating kindness, and said, "Quirky buddy comedy celebrates kid friendships."[50]
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