''Monster Buster Club'' is a science fiction computer-animation television series co-produced by the French-based company

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, Canadian animation studio

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and

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. 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. It premiered on YTV in Canada. It was shortly featured on the

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. Fifty-two episodes were produced.

Premise

This show is about three human pre-teens and their alien pre-teen friend, who are all charged with saving their town from alien invasions. They reform a secret organization that was founded centuries ago, the "Monster Buster Club," often abbreviated to MBC. The goal of the MBC is to locate alien criminals hiding in Single Town, capture them, and send them to galactic authorities.

Setting

The show takes place in a small, sleepy town named Single Town. Single Town is two hundred years old and was founded by a man named "Addison Single", who's actually an evil alien in disguise. Unbeknownst to its human inhabitants, Single Town is actually a meeting place for aliens from different parts of the galaxy.

Episodes

Characters

Main

*Cathy Smith (voiced by

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) – Cathy appears to be a bubbly, 12-year-old girl on Earth, but she is actually a 250-year-old (or 700 Rhapsodian year-old teenager) alien from the planet Rhapsodia. 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 Rhapsodia. She has many alien abilities, like the ability to stretch, slight telekinesis, and others. She is the most optimus of the MBC. Her suit color is pink. In her human form, she has blond hair and blue eyes. Her Rhapsodian form is shown to be a humanoid, white alien with scattered pink spots, with four tentacles for arms, and two tentacles for legs, as well as tentacles on her head, (like hair), and a long, furry-looking tailIn one episode, Cathy mentions that her alien form has tentacles, and later on her full alien form is revealed. Compared to humans, Rhapsodians are extremely long-lived. *Chris (voiced by Samuel 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. *Danny Jackson (voiced by

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) is a 12-year-old boy and a nice guy at heart. He's good at sports, has brown hair, green eyes and a scar over his left eyebrow. He can get a little overconfident at times. He has an adamant crush on his schoolmate, Wendy. He has an 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. *Sam (voiced by

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) – Samantha, known by her friends as Sam, a 12-year-old girl and is the most level-headed of the group with an often serious disposition. She has dark hair tied in buns and hazel eyes. Officially the MBC has no official leader,she'll often be the member to construct battle strategies and procedures for the group. She, at times, can be bossy. She possess natural leadership. She'll often put MBC first instead of having fun. She sometimes is the shoot first and ask questions later type. Her suit color is yellow. *John (voiced by

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) – John is Chris' 10-year-old 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 is too young. *Mr. Hugo Smith (voiced by Rick Jones) – 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 students

*Wendy (voiced by

) – Danny's crush, 13-year-old who is the snobby, popular valley girl at the school which the MBC attend. 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.) *Jeremy Flablotnick (voiced by Samuel Vincent) A 12-year-old kid who is best friends with Chris. In "Flower King", he fell in love with Cathy and wanted to give her a flower, which was actually Petalia. Though, Cathy does not appear to return Jeremy's interest *Mark (voiced by

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) A 13-year-old whom the richest boy in town and Danny's nemesis. He often calls him, "Danny-Wanny" since "Mindreader"

Faculty

*Mr. Fusster (voiced by

) – The MBC's science teacher who thinks aliens don't exist. This upsets extraterrestrial Cathy and she often argues with him on the subject, which 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 Later events, though, show that he may know more about aliens than he lets on, and may even be one. *Principal Rollins (voiced by Sonja Ball) – 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.

Others

*Matisse, Wendy's dog. *Mr. Beatty runs the Happy Mart.

Broadcast

Besides Jetix internationally, the series has also been broadcast on several other networks. *In the United Kingdom, as well as Jetix, the series was aired on the

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-owned (Which

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held a 25% stake in at the time)

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strand, which itself aired on

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and the

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. *In the Arab World, the show was aired on

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and Al Jazeera Children's Channel (JCC)/Jeem TV, who aired other Jetix programming. *In Israel, the show was aired on

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. *In the rest of Asia (including the

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and

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), the show was aired on

, who aired other Jetix programming. *In the Philippines, the show was aired on Q (now known as GTV). *In Indonesia, the show was aired on RTV. *In Hong Kong, the show was aired on the country's English speaking television network

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. *In Singapore, the show as aired on the subscription video on demand service

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(now known as meWATCH). *In Malaysia, the show was aired on TV3 as part of their Bananana! programming block. *In Ireland, the show was aired on

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as part of the long running children's strand

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Notes

References

External links

Official Site

Marathon Brings Monster to MIPCOM from animationmagazine.net

Disney XD Official site
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