''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 DreamWorks Animation Television, 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 A ...

. It premiered June 29, 2018 on

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...

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 Kelly J. McCreary (born September 29, 1981) is an American actress, best known for her role on the ABC drama series ''Grey's Anatomy'' as Dr. Maggie Pierce, the half-sister of series protagonist Meredith Grey. She joined the series as a guest at ...

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 Utkarsh Ambudkar ( ; born December 8, 1983), also known by his stage name UTK the INC, is an American actor, rapper, and singer. He is known for his film roles including '' Pitch Perfect'' (2012), '' Game Over, Man!'' (2018), ''Blindspotting'' (2 ...

as Fredo *

Roger Craig Smith Roger Craig Smith (born 11 August 1975) is an American voice actor. He is well known for his video game voice roles as Chris Redfield in the ''Resident Evil'' series (2009–2017), Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the ''Assassin's Creed'' series ...

as Pinkeye / Bobby the Elder * Jamaal Hepburn as Gerald *

Cree Summer Cree Summer Francks (born July 7, 1969) is a American-Canadian actress and singer. She has worked extensively in animation, voicing long-running characters such as Susie Carmichael in '' Rugrats'' and Elmyra Duff in ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' and ...

as Zoe *

Chelsea Peretti Chelsea Vanessa Peretti (born February 20, 1978) is an American comedian, actress, television writer, singer, and songwriter. She is best known for portraying Gina Linetti in the comedy series ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' and writing for '' Parks and ...

as Maria * Nat Faxon as Stu *

Jack Quaid Jack Henry Quaid (born April 24, 1992) is an American actor. He made his acting debut with a minor role in the dystopian film ''The Hunger Games'' (2012) before his breakout role as vigilante Hughie Campbell in the Amazon Prime Video superhero ser ...

as Richie Rich *

Bobby Moynihan Bobby Moynihan (born January 31, 1977) is an American actor, comedian and writer who was a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2008 until 2017. He also voiced Louie Duck on Disney's ''DuckTales'' from 2017 to 2021, Panda in ''We Bare B ...

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* Anna Camp as Chevron *

Dee Bradley Baker Dee Bradley Baker (born August 31, 1962) is an American voice actor. Much of Baker's work features vocalizations of animals and monsters. Baker's roles include animated series such as '' Avatar: The Last Airbender'', '' Codename: Kids Next Door'' ...

as Raccoons * Chris Diamantopoulos as Additional voices * Joey McIntyre, Nick Lachey, 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 Glendale, California 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 Casper the Friendly Ghost, 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 New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre,

Boyz II Men Boyz II Men (pronounced ''boys to men''), also known as B2M, is an American vocal harmony group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for emotional ballads and a cappella harmonies. They are currently a trio composed of baritone Nathan ...

's Shawn Stockman,

NSYNC NSYNC (, ; also stylized as *NSYNC or 'N Sync) was an American boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. Their 'N Sync (album), self-titled debut album was successfully rele ...

's Joey Fatone and 98 Degrees' 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

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, Amazon Prime and Google Play. It also set broadcast on Family CHRGD in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...

and

Télétoon+ Télétoon+ (formerly Télétoon, stylized téléTOON+) is a French pay television channel operated by Canal+ Group, Canal+, focusing its programming on animation (and live-action in evening since the Canal+ acquisition) for children ages 7 to 1 ...

in France.

Reception

The series was received positively. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media 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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