''Harvey Girls Forever!'' (originally titled ''Harvey Street Kids'' in its first season, then retroactively retitled) is an American animated comedy television series produced by Brendan Hay and Aliki Theofilopoulos for

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, and is based on comic book characters from

Harvey Comics Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics, Harvey Publications, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Hits, Harvey Illustrated Humor, and Harvey Picture Magazines) was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alf ...

. It premiered June 29, 2018 on

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and originally concluded on January 10, 2020.

Premise

From long kickball games through the many flavors of ice cream to an impressive climbing tree, most days on Harvey Street feels like a weekend. Energetic Audrey, intelligent Dot and kindhearted Lotta are BFFs (short for Best Friends Forever) and the street's guardians. They try to keep Harvey Street great and start their wacky afternoon adventures.

Episodes

Voice cast

* Stephanie Lemelin as Audrey * Lauren Lapkus as Lotta * Kelly McCreary as Dot * Grey Griffin as Lucretia / Frufru / The Harvey Street Bow (usually abbreviated as just "The Bow") * Atticus Shaffer as Melvin * Danny Pudi as Tiny * Utkarsh Ambudkar as Fredo * Roger Craig Smith as Pinkeye / Bobby the Elder * Jamaal Hepburn as Gerald *

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as Zoe * Chelsea Peretti as Maria * Nat Faxon as Stu * Jack Quaid as Richie Rich * Bobby Moynihan as Casper * Anna Camp as Chevron * Dee Bradley Baker as Raccoons * Chris Diamantopoulos as Additional voices * Joey McIntyre,

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, Joey Fatone, and Shawn Stockman as Crush4U

Production

''Harvey Girls Forever!'' was dawned by artist Katie Rice in 2014 up until 2015. The show started production in

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on October 9, 2016. The second season was released on May 10, 2019 and was retitled ''Harvey Girls Forever!'' The third season premiered on November 12, 2019 introducing Richie Rich in the series. Jake Brennan did not reprise his role of Richie from the previous Netflix Richie Rich series. The fourth and final season introducing

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, premiered on January 10, 2020.

Music

Music and songs are a central feature of ''Harvey Girls Forever!'' with showrunners Brendan Hay and Aliki Theofilopoulos creating a fictional boy band named Crush4U made up of actual boy band members to be the subject of affection for character Lotta. “We've gotten to work... with

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's Joey McIntyre,

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's Shawn Stockman, NSYNC's Joey Fatone and

98 Degrees 98 Degrees (stylized as 98°) is an American pop and R&B vocal group consisting of four vocalists: the group's founding member Jeff Timmons, brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, and Justin Jeffre. The group was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, C ...

' Nick Lachey in our Harvey Street world created boy band," said Aliki to comicbook.com. Original songs were produced by composers Jay Vincent and Ryan Lofty. As part of the promotion for ''Harvey Girls Forever!'' season two the songs were made available for free download.

Merchandise

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is operating official ''Harvey Girls Forever!'' products.

Release

The series premiered on

on June 29, 2018, and its first two seasons are available for purchase on VUDU,

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and

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. It also set broadcast on

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and Télétoon+ in France.

Reception

The series was received positively. Emily Ashby of

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described the series as "lots of playground fun" and said that while there aren't "deep learning takeaways," the series is fun in a "playful, adult-free childhood experience way." Ashby also said that the personalities of the characters are exaggerated, but there is a "lot that's positive" in a series which captures the "joy of childhood."

References

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