Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, sometimes shortened to Sunny Patch, is a CGI-animated children's television series produced by Nelvana, AbsoluteDigital Pictures, and Callaway Arts& Entertainment. It was based on the children's books by David Kirk.
Plot[]
The series features is set in tranquil Sunny Patch, a miniature forest town in the woods built out of common forest items and inhabited by talking insects, arachnids, and other creepy-crawlies. The focus of the show is the Spider family, made up of a "fruit spider" named Miss Spider and her musician husband Holley, as well as their eight children, composed of five spiderlings named Squirt, Spinner, Pansy, Snowdrop, and Wiggle, and three adopted "buglets" — a dragonfly named Dragon, a jewel beetle named Shimmer and a bedbug named Bounce. The young bugs have adventures around Sunny Patch, frequently interacting with the other arthropod denizens of their community while also learning various life lessons, with the most important being the one Miss Spider and Holley always remind them: "Be Good to Bugs."
History on Noggin[]
The show premiered on Noggin in 2004, around the time it started airing on Nickelodeon. It survived the Nick Jr. rebranding in 2009 and continued to air on and off until 2014.