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[[File:missspider.jpg|frame|Welcome to Sunny Patch!]]
'''''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends''''' (2004-2008) is a CGI-animated series targeted towards preschool audiences that is seen on Nick Jr. (formerly Noggin) in the United States and Treehouse TV on Canada. The series began with the film ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids'', which was itself based on a popular series of books by David Kirk. It features the adventures of a spider Mom and Dad and their family of eight children-- five spiders and three adopted "buglets" -- a dragonfly named Dragon, a jewel beetle named Shimmer and a bedbug named Bounce. Miss Spider is described as being a "fruit spider" and she and her musician husband, Holley, try to teach their children to "Be Good to Bugs."▼
▲''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'' (2004-) is a CGI-animated series targeted towards preschool audiences that is seen on Nick Jr. (formerly Noggin) in the United States and Treehouse TV on Canada. The series began with the film ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids'', which was itself based on a popular series of books by David Kirk. It features the adventures of a spider Mom and Dad and their family of eight children-- five spiders and three adopted "buglets" -- a dragonfly named Dragon, a jewel beetle named Shimmer and a bedbug named Bounce. Miss Spider is described as being a "fruit spider" and she and her musician husband, Holley, try to teach their children to "Be Good to Bugs."
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* [[Catch Phrase]]: Be Good to Bugs
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: the hair bows used by the twins.
* [[Cranky Neighbor]]: Spiderus, though he mellowed greatly the longer the series continued. This may indicate that he is actually a [[Jerk
* [[A Day in
* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Pansy proves to be one of these in one episode... {{spoiler|Unless she duets with her twin Snowdrop, in which case, the two of them sound pretty good together.}}
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: "To the Hollow Tree, a family on wings and strings and floaty things / Coming home for hugs-- Be Good to Bugs!"
* [[Floral Theme Naming|Floral Theme]][[Theme Twin Naming|Twin Naming]]: Pansy and Snowdrop.
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* [[Halloween Episode]]: Though as is so often the case with shows like this, they called it something else-- Bug-a-Boo Day
* [[Happily Adopted]]: One of the major points of the series, stemming straight from the original books. Miss Spider herself was adopted and later adopted Bounce (a bedbug), Dragon (a dragonfly) and Shimmer (a jewel beetle.) A later episode features Stinky and Whiffy adopting Grace the ladybug.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Probably the most recognizable is Tony Jay, the voice of Spiderus. In the original film, Miss Spider was voiced by [[Brooke Shields]], but in the TV series, she was replaced by Kristin Davis. Most of the rest of the cast are known almost exclusively in animation, the most well known probably being the voice of Bounce, Julie Lemieux.
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: A number of different phrases are used as "bugspeak," including "mayfly-day," "honey-bug," "bugging out" and, wait for it... "hold your horseflies."
* [[I Am Who?]]: True of Dragon, Bounce and Shimmer, but particularly Shimmer. In ''The Prince, the Princess and the Bee'' she goes on a quest to discover if she is, perhaps, a long-lost jewel beetle princess.
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Miss Spider & Holley, Spiderus & Spindella
* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Subverted, hard, in "Cry Buggie," in which both Squirt and Dragon learn that "Big bugs do cry, when they need to."
* [[Name's the Same]]: Not every [[Harry Potter (
* [[Pilot Movie]]: The series originally began with a film, which covers Miss Spider and Holley's wedding, the birth of their spiderlings, and the adoption of Bounce, Dragon, and Shimmer.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: "Bug buddies, bug buddies, we're best bug buddies!"
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Surprisingly averted, at least to some degree. Snakes are considered a potential danger to avoid, but definitely are ''not'' considered evil. More than once it is stated that there are many different types of snakes, only some of which are harmful, and the characters simply avoid them all out of caution.
* [[Secret Identity]]: Squirt, who quite accidentally creates himself his own superhero outfit and becomes "Captain Sunny Patch"
* [[Shout
* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: Averted with Pansy and Snowdrop, though the whole thing is pretty weird. All of Miss Spider's children were hatched at the same time, so the only way in which these two are really twins is that they look alike. They wear different colored bows to distinguish themselves and have very different personalities and voices. Interestingly, in the original film, they wore purple and pink bows, but in the TV series, Snowdrop's was changed to green to provide greater distinction between them.
* [[The Stinger]]: In ''The Prince, the Princess and the Bee'', the ants Ned and Ted try to get Miss Spider to bring them home a sweet treat from Mushroom Glen, but aren't successful. The closing credits show them trying Stinky's awful cowpies, but deciding that they don't want them.
* [[Talking Animal]]: The entire cast. There are no human characters, or even characters with human-like physical features.
* [[That Cloud Looks Like...]]: Squirt and Shimmer do this when they're forced to be together on a tree stump in "Stumped!"
* [[Verbal Tic]]: "Anybuggy, everybuggy, somebuggy..."
* [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]: Featured in the story "Hum Bug," the title of which is a pun on Scrooge's oft-used phrase. This version focuses on Spiderus, who thinks that the idea that one must do a good deed for someone else or they won't be visited by the dream bug is "Hum Bug."
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