''Camp Lakebottom'' is a Canadian animated television series produced by
9 Story Media Group that premiered on
Teletoon
Cartoon Network (formerly Teletoon) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts animated series aimed at children and teenagers. It was launched on October 17 ...
in Canada on July 4, 2013 and on
Disney XD
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in the U.S. on July 13, 2013. The show airs on
Disney Channels worldwide (except Portugal, where it instead airs on
Biggs
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Arts and entertainment
* Biggs (TV channel), a Portuguese television channel formerly for kids, teens and youth and now for teens and youth.
* Biggs Darklighter, a character in ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope''
* Biggs, a re ...
and
RTP2
RTP2 (''RTP dois'') is a Portuguese free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is the company's second television channel, and is known for broadcasting cultural ...
, and
Southeast Asia
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), as well as
ABC in Australia.
In April 2014, Teletoon had renewed the show for a second season of another 26 episodes, which aired from 2015 until 2016. A third season started airing on July 3, 2017. The show aired its final episode on July 24, 2017.
Plot
Three 12-year-old kids: McGee, Gretchen, and Squirt are sent to the wrong summer camp bus and have all sorts of adventures in a camp called Camp Lakebottom, while trying to protect the camp from McGee's nemesis Jordan Buttsquat at Camp Sunny Smiles.
Characters
* McGee (voiced by
Scott McCord
Scott McCord is a Canadian actor. He has performed on film, television, animation and on stage. He is a member of ''The Actors Studio''. On television he has appeared in series regular, recurring and guest starring roles.
Career
He plays the m ...
) is a 12-year-old daredevil, mastermind and accident-prone thrill seeker whose curiosity often leads him to act before he thinks. He has an utter inability to recognize impending danger, combined with a habit of ignoring the counselors' warnings, and as a result constantly gets himself and his friends into trouble, but it is his eager mind which always gets them back out as well. This has led him to developing the catchphrase "Should've thought that through". Out of all of the campers he is the most intrigued and tolerant of Camp Lakebottom, being fascinated by all of its potential sources of fun and adventure. He is a self-proclaimed master of pranks, as revealed in "Pranks for Nothing", but his pranks are actually quite lame. His nemesis is Buttsquat.
* Gretchen (voiced by
Melissa Altro
Melissa Altro is a Canadian voice actress and voiceover coach from Montreal, Quebec.
Early life
Altro was born in Montreal, Quebec to Irene Altro (née Stern), who died in 2019.
She is an alumna of St. George's School of Montreal and McGill ...
) is one of McGee's best friends. She is a girl who is described as being anything but "sugary sweet"; she is sardonic and indifferent about everything as well as a
tomboy
A tomboy is a girl or young woman who generally expresses masculine traits. Such traits may include wearing androgynous or unfeminine clothing and engaging in activities and behaviors traditionally associated with boys or men.
Origins
The w ...
. Her lack of enthusiasm is made up with her sharp, critical tongue. With a black belt in karate, and an intolerance toward wrongdoing, Gretchen is not a girl to mess with. Her nemesis is Suzi. However underneath the tough exterior she has a huge heart, and secretly wishes she could be like any normal girl (though she would not ever reveal this). Her catchphrases are "Ya think?!" (usually said to McGee when a plan has gone wrong and he points out the obvious) and "Drop that Squirt!" (usually said anytime someone captures Squirt). She is revealed to have a severe phobia of chipmunks in "Cheeks of Dread". Her father calls her "Gretchikins" and her mother calls her "Gretchywetchy". Gretchen is nicknamed "The Gretch" and her parents have the surname Gritcherson.
* Squirt (voiced by Darren Frost) is one of McGee's best friends. A dimwitted simpleton in his own right, he is always cheerful, and a friend to all living things, even if they're trying to kill him. He has befriended just about every monster ever to set foot in Camp Lakebottom. While his omnibenevolence sometimes comes in handy in dealing with the monsters that constantly appear, his extreme lack of intelligence often makes him susceptible to control from many villains, the most prominent example being "Mindsuckers From the Depths" where an evil, giant leech attaches to his head and mind-controls him. In "Late Afternoon of the Living Gitch", it's revealed he has worn the same pair of underwear all his life.
* Sawyer (voiced by Cliff Saunders) is a lovable
Zombie
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, with a mixed-purpose tool taking the place of his left hand, which is frequently a chainsaw. He is one of the camp's counselors, and the one who usually accompanies the kids on their adventures. As a zombie, his head and limbs constantly fall off, but can be reattached. He has distanced himself from the stereotype that zombies are brainless monsters who hunger for brains and has revealed that he has a heart (quite literally as he takes it out of his chest), he has vowed to look after the human campers, and often acts as a grandfatherly figure to them. He serves as the camp's handyman, and has constructed bizarre inventions over the course of the series, including a
Frankenstein's Monster
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in "Frankenfixer". In "Zombie Dearest" Sawyer is revealed to have a zombie mother who acts like a stereotypical brain eating zombie, who Sawyer abandoned out of defiance to her habits.
* Armand (voiced by Adrian Truss) is a
sasquatch
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*"A large, hairy, manlike ...
with a passion for the performing arts, and dreams of becoming an actor. He is another one of the camp's counselors. While he is usually very kind, easygoing, and quite difficult to anger, the rare instances in which he has, have proven to be dangerous to everyone's safety. The episode "Marshmallow Madness" reveals that he has a severe addiction to marshmallows; he will be driven into an unstoppable, hunger-filled rage if he is ever close to the delicacies.
* Rosebud (voiced by
Jonathan Wilson) is a short, bitter woman who resembles a serial killer with a German accent, who serves as the camp's cook and the last counselor. She takes pride in her cooking; however, her meals are not only inedible, but frequently threaten the lives of the campers. She is known to use whatever foul things she manages to find as ingredients in her meals. Squirt appears to be the only one who enjoys her cooking. She is the strictest counselor, and is least tolerant of McGee's antics, however underneath it all she means well. It was also revealed back in her younger years, Rosebud used to be an infamous monster hunter for S.M.A.C.K (Society of Monster Annihilation and Creature Kicking) but gave it up after her love for cooking when she met Sawyer and Armand when she was tasked for destroying all monsters in Lakebottom.
* Jordan Buttsquat (voiced by
Carter Hayden) is the spoiled-rich son of the owner of "Camp Sunny Smiles" (Lakebottom's rival camp) and McGee's nemesis. He serves as the main antagonist of the series, constantly going to Camp Lakebottom in attempt to wreck the rival camp, or to mock the Bottom Dwellers' poor living conditions by showing off some new, fancy, high-tech item available at his camp. However Buttsquat is severely lacking in the intellectual department and McGee is able to outsmart him every time, which will lead him to say the recurring catchphrase "I will have revenge". McGee has saved Buttsquat's life on the many occasions his nemesis has been threatened by all monsters, but he never shows gratitude afterwards.
* Suzi (voiced by
Bryn McAuley
Bryn McAuley is a Canadian actress. She is best known for playing Caillou on the Caillou, television series of the same name, Anne Shirley on ''Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series'', Gina Lash in ''Angela Anaconda'', Skye Blue in ''Carl²' ...
) is McGee's older sister, who is a pageant queen, and became queen of "Sunny Smiles" on her first day. She is Gretchen's nemesis, who has held a grudge against her ever since she beat Gretchen in a
beauty pageant
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contest. She has a crush on Buttsquat, and often accompanies him in his schemes to thwart Lakebottom. She always refers to McGee as "Baby Bruv", and while the two siblings sometimes bicker, they are usually shown to care for each other. Despite having less evil intent than Buttsquat, there are many occasions where she has posed as a far bigger threat and danger to everyone's safety, as she has a tendency to get entangled by one of the supernatural monsters or phenomena that have appeared. Examples of this include: "Stage Fright" where she uses
stage bad luck and inadvertently summons an evil spirit which possesses her and nearly destroys Lakebottom. Another example is "28 Suzis Later" where she is cloned by a mystical mud, causing the camp to be overrun by Suzi clones.
* Slimey is a gigantic octopus-like creature who lives in the lake, and is the most frequently-appeared recurring character in the series. While he horrified the campers on their first appearance by grabbing them and tossing them in the air, it's revealed he actually wants to play with them. He later becomes quite good friends with the campers, especially Squirt, and will often provide them with fun by tossing them into the air when they're swimming so that they can dive. He obeys any of the counselors, and will quite often aid the campers during their adventures involving the lake. Only his tentacles are shown, so it is unknown what his body looks like.
* Portnoy (voiced by David Berni) is one of the two Sunny Smilers (the other being Sasha) who got kicked out of Sunny Smiles for not having platinum cards.
* Sasha Smithiwicks (voiced by Laurie Elliott) is one of the two Sunny Smilers (the other being Portnoy) who got kicked out of Sunny Smiles for not having platinum cards.
Telecast and home media
The show first premiered on
Teletoon
Cartoon Network (formerly Teletoon) is a Canadian English-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel primarily broadcasts animated series aimed at children and teenagers. It was launched on October 17 ...
in Canada on July 4, 2013 and on
Disney XD
Disney XD is an American pay television television channel, channel owned by the Disney Branded Television and Disney Entertainment units of The Walt Disney Company. The channel is aimed primarily at older children ages six to eleven years old ...
in the U.S. on July 13, 2013 with new episodes until October 16, 2014, and repeats until June 7, 2015, but seasons 2 and 3 have never aired in the U.S. The show airs on
Disney Channels worldwide (except
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
, where it instead airs on
Biggs
Biggs may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Biggs (TV channel), a Portuguese television channel formerly for kids, teens and youth and now for teens and youth.
* Biggs Darklighter, a character in ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope''
* Biggs, a re ...
and
RTP2
RTP2 (''RTP dois'') is a Portuguese free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is the company's second television channel, and is known for broadcasting cultural ...
, and
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...
), as well as
ABC in Australia.
As of 2023, the show is streaming on
Tubi
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.
Episodes
References
External links
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