Rubble & Crew
Rubble & Crew is a Canadian computer-animated children's television series and a spin-off of Spin Master's PAW Patrol brand. It is produced by Spin Master Entertainment,[2] with animation provided by Jam Filled Toronto. Corus Entertainment also receives a production credit on the series.
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Based on | PAW Patrol by Keith Chapman |
Developed by | Bradley Zweig |
Directed by | Dianna Basso |
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Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
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Running time | 22–23 minutes |
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Original network | Treehouse TV StackTV[1] |
Original release | January 29, 2023 – present |
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Unlike the original series, which airs on TVOntario in Canada, Rubble & Crew airs on Treehouse TV and StackTV. Both services are owned by the spin-off's co-producer, Corus Entertainment.[3] In the United States, it airs on Nickelodeon. The series' first episode was released on the official Rubble & Crew YouTube channel on January 9, 2023.[4]
Plot
Builder Cove is the neighboring town of Adventure Bay. While attending his family reunion in Adventure Bay, Rubble is called to Builder Cove to help in its construction projects. After building a bridge to Builder Cove, Rubble suggests that his family moves to Builder Cove where they establish a construction company called Rubble & Crew that operates out of the Barkyard in order to help maintain his duties to the PAW Patrol. Rubble & Crew would help expand Builder Cove by expanding buildings and making new buildings for it's different proprietors while contending with a rival construction worker named Speed Meister. When the job is done, Rubble & Crew perform the "Wiggle and Wag" dance. They also have their personal song called "We're a Pup Family".
Characters
Rubble & Crew
- Rubble (voiced by Luxton Handspiker) is an English Bulldog and a member of the PAW Patrol who becomes the founder and the leader of Rubble & Crew. He drives around in a bulldozer and an excavator. Handspiker replaces Lucien Duncan-Reid from the original series.
- Grandpa Gravel (voiced by Martin Roach) is a Serrano Bulldog and the grandfather of Rubble. He drives around in a food truck where he makes some kibble for his family.
- Auntie Crane (voiced by Sabrina Jalees) is a Continental Bulldog, the aunt of Rubble, the daughter of Gravel, and the mother of Motor. She operates the supply warehouse in the Barkyard and drives around in a forklift.
- Mix (voiced by Shazdeh Kapadia) is an English Bulldog and the cousin of Rubble who handles mixing things that are associated with construction like concrete, paint, cement, and glue. She drives around in a cement truck that can be customized with paint, cement, and bubbly soap.
- Charger (voiced by Alessandro Pugiotto) is a French Bulldog and the cousin of Rubble who handles the digging for construction projects. He sports a prosthetic left back leg and drives around in a crane. Charger tends to get the "Zoom Zoom Zoomies" when filled with excitement causing everyone to give him room for it.
- Wheeler (voiced by Liam McKenna) is a Swiss Hound and the cousin of Rubble who is a clean freak and handles everything involving nuts and bolts. He drives around in a dump truck that he uses to carry dug-up dirt and different construction supplies with retractable street sweeper parts for cleaning jobs. Wheeler is the only member who is not a bulldog.
- Motor (voiced by Alberta Bolan) is a Ca de Bou who is the daughter of Crane, the granddaughter of Gravel, and the youngest cousin of Rubble who operates handles the smashing needed for the construction projects. She can also speak in the third person and drives around in a vehicle that is a hybrid of a wrecking ball crane and a road roller.
Supporting characters
- Mayor Greatway (voiced by Leslie Adlam) is the mayor of Builder Cove with a daredevil-like personality. She is the sister of Mayor Goodway who owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
- Mr. Ducky Doo is Mayor Greatway's pet duck who also has a daredevil-like personality. When Mayor Greatway is riding her motorcycle, Mr. Ducky Doo rides in the sidecar.
- Speed Meister (voiced by Cory Doran) is a construction worker who becomes the rival of Rubble & Crew. He works fast with disastrous results.
- Mr. McTurtle (voiced by Cory Doran) is Speed Meister's pet turtle who mostly quotes "Yep-a-roozie". Speed Meister would sometimes carry him due to being slow.
- Omar (voiced by Deven Mack) is an inhabitant of Builder Cove.
- Juniper (voiced by Josette Jorge) is a crossing guard who is the wife of Omar.
- Lucas (voiced by Housten Daghighi) is the son of Omar and Juniper.
- Lily (voiced by Mikayla SwamiNathan) is the daughter of Omar and the younger sister of Lucas.
- Shopkeeper Shelley (voiced by Jonathan Langdon) is the proprietor of a bike shop in Builder Cove. His bike shop was expanded by Rubble & Crew so that he can sell more bicycles.
- Camila (voiced by Paloma Nunez) is a truck driver.
- Café Carl (voiced by Jonathan Tan) is an ice cream vendor who becomes the proprietor of an ice cream shop that Rubble & Crew build for him. He is also shown to have become a proprietor of other businesses in Builder Cove like a cheese restaurant and a popcorn café.
- Grocer Gabriel (voiced by Andy Toth) is the proprietor of a grocery store who tends to sing some of his exclamations.
- Sierra Sparkle (voiced by Michela Luci) is a pop singer and the daughter of Grocer Gabriel who lives with her mom in a few towns over.
- Park Ranger Rose (voiced by Ophira Calof)
- River (voiced by Cihang Ma)
- Farmer Zoe (voiced by Krystal Meadows) is a farmer.
Returning characters
- Ryder (voiced by Kai Harris) is the leader of the PAW Patrol who meets up with Rubble and met his family at a family reunion. He debuted in "The Crew Builds a Bridge".
- Mayor Goodway (voiced by Kim Roberts) is Adventure Bay's mayor and the sister of Mayor Greatway who calls Ryder as she needs her sister to enlist Rubble and his family. She debuted in "The Crew Builds a Bridge".
Episodes
No. | Title [5][6] | Directed by | Written by | U.S. air date [5][6] | Canadian air date | Prod. code [5] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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1 | "The Crew Builds a Bridge" | Dianna Basso | Bradley Zweig | January 29, 2023 (sneak peek) February 3, 2023 (official)[lower-alpha 1] | February 4, 2023 (StackTV & Treehouse) | 101 | 0.23[7] |
Ryder visits Rubble at his family reunion outside of Adventure Bay as they demonstrate their building skills to Ryder by building a gazebo. Mayor Goodway hooks Rubble up with her sister Mayor Greatway who needs a big construction work for Builder Cove. This project involves building a bridge that will lead the drivers into Builder Cove so that they can settle there as Rubble and his family have their first encounter with a construction worker named Speed Meister. | |||||||
2 | "The Crew Builds a Big Bike Shop" "The Crew Builds a Super Tub" | Dianna Basso | Eva Konstantopoulos Drew Champion & Jacob Moffat | February 10, 2023[lower-alpha 2] | February 11, 2023 | 102 | 0.20[8] |
"The Crew Builds a Big Bike Shop": Today is the first ever Builder Cove Bike Day event. As Shopkeeper Shelly orders a resupply of big kid bikes for some of the kids, he asks Rubble & Crew to expand his bike shop. Speed Meister plans to do the job with building supplies stolen from Rubble & Crew which goes horribly awry when he gets trapped. Now Rubble & Crew must rescue Speed Meister and build the expansion to the bike shop the right way. "The Crew Builds a Super Tub": Rubble & Crew plan for the family photo. After Motor comes in contact with mud, Rubble & Crew plans to give her a bath as Motor refuses and considering it no fun. Rubble must lead his cousins into finding a construction solution so that Motor can enjoy taking a bath. They work on building an awesome super tub that would please Motor before their relatives come to their family photo. | |||||||
3 | "The Crew Builds an Ice Cream Shop" "The Crew Fixes a Squeak" | Dianna Basso | Kellie R. Griffin Evan Sinclair | February 17, 2023 | February 18, 2023 | 103 | 0.28[9] |
"The Crew Builds an Ice Cream Shop": On a windy day, Rubble & Crew meet with Café Carl who states that he has a new ice cream flavor that he is going to unveil to everyone. Due to Café Carl operating out of his stand, Rubble leads his cousin in building Café Carl an ice cream shop complete with a giant ice cream cone on top. They must work to put together the ice cream shop while dealing with the strong winds. "The Crew Fixes a Squeak": Rubble & Crew is contacted by Mayor Greatway who needs to practice a big speech revolving around a big surprise. Unfortunately, there is a squeak in Town Hall as Rubble and Charger head there to investigate. They trace the squeak to behind a wall and find a little mouse inside it. Once they get it out, Rubble and Charger find two more mice in different parts of Town Hall as they work to get them out before the big speech. | |||||||
4 | "The Crew Builds a Playground" "The Crew Fixes a Roof" | Dianna Basso | Hugh Duffy Robin J. Stein | February 24, 2023 | February 25, 2023 | 104 | 0.28[10] |
"The Crew Builds a Playground": After fixing Grocer Gabriel's fence using the same parts with a different style, Rubble & Crew find a crowd that Auntie Crane and Motor are part of at the park. They find Speed Meister building a playground in the usual manner. Seeing how it is unsafe, Rubble & Crew due a safety check, Motor plays the merry-go-round and she wrecks the playground until Rubble and his cousins save her. After a disastrous opening, Rubble & Crew salvage the playground parts and make it the most awesome playground ever as Speed Meister plans to sabotage it. "The Crew Fixes a Roof": Rubble & Crew have put together equipment for Mayor Greatway's Chili Cookaroo. Mayor Greatway's chili is described to be a good-tasting chili by Café Carl and Grocer Gabriel. As Mayor Greatway works on making a chili for the Chili Cookaroo, the roof ends up cracking causing her to call in Rubble & Crew. Rubble, Mix, Wheeler, and Charger go up to the roof and find that a bald eagle named Wingsy has built a nest on her roof where she has laid three eggs. While Wheeler and Charger work to relocate Wingsy's nest, Rubble and Mix work to fix the roof before the Chili Cookaroo begins. | |||||||
5 | "The Crew Builds a Car Wash" "The Crew Plans Grandpa Day" | Dianna Basso | Dan Danko Scott Gray | March 10, 2023 | March 18, 2023 | 105 | 0.20[11] |
"The Crew Builds a Car Wash": Mayor Greatway is planning on competing in Grocer Gabriel's first road race. Another competitor for this race is Speed Meister who sabotages Mayor Greatway's chances by getting mud on her motorcycle. Rubble & Crew works on building a car wash to clean Mayor Greatway's motorcycle. When Speed Meister sabotages the soap tank with mud and cement causing Rubble & Crew to work on upgrading it to have the strength to wash off the mud and cement. "The Crew Plans Grandpa Day": During a windy day, Rubble & Crew plan Grandpa Day for Grandpa Gravel. As they plan to do different activities, each member gets called away one by one to help Grocer Gabriel when the wind wrecks the entrance of his grocery story when the Zesty Besty Cheddar goes on sale where Café Carl is among those in line to get the Zesty Besty Cheddar. Each one does their duty in fixing Grocer Gabriel's grocery store. | |||||||
6 | "The Crew Builds a Skate Park" "The Crew Builds a Tunnel" | Dianna Brasso | Christopher J. Gentile Eva Konstantopoulos | March 31, 2023 | April 1, 2023 | 106 | 0.18[12] |
"The Crew Builds a Skate Park": Mix leads the family in building a skateboard from the scraps they collected from the construction sites. Once that was done, Auntie Crane shows up and reveals that she is a skateboarding champion with Grandpa Gravel explaining this history. Rubble, Mix, Charger, and Wheeler build a surprise skate park for Auntie Crane as Grandpa Gravel and Motor work to keep her busy. They suffer a setback with the quick-drying cement when a duck family rescue ruins the skate park design. "The Crew Builds a Tunnel": Rubble learns that Charger is a fan of Sierra Sparkle who is going to have a concert in Builder Cove. In addition, Rubble & Crew learn that Grocer Gabriel is the father of Sierra Sparkle where she lives in a few towns over. He gets a call from Sierra who states that a falling giant boulder has blocked the road. Rubble & Crew head out to find a way to move the boulder. After each attempt to move the giant boulder fails even when Motor is called in and accidentally causes a landslide, Rubble & Crew work to build a tunnel by going through the rocks. | |||||||
7 | "The Crew Builds a Beaver Home" "The Crew Fixes a Road" | Dianna Brasso | Nahreen Tazri Drew Champion & Jacob Moffat | April 24, 2023 | April 29, 2023 | 107 | 0.12[13] |
"The Crew Builds a Beaver Home": Rubble & Crew put together a dance floor for the family dance party. Once it is complete, the power goes out all over Builder Cove. That's because the utility poles have been stolen and Rubble & Crew discover that a beaver that they named Crunchy is responsible where he is trying to build a house from them. Mix pitches an idea to build a beaver home for Crunchy from material from the Bark Yard. "The Crew Fixes a Road": As Mayor Greatway rides her sidecar motorcycle, she comes across Rubble, Mix, and Grandpa Gravel helping Juniper repair her stop sign. After seeing Shopkeeper Shelly and Camilla helping out in Builder Cove, Mix supports Mayor Greatway's idea to start a special parade for helpers. Displeased that he wasn't invited because of his bad building skills not being any help, Speed Meister plans to help the community in his own sneaky way by damaging the road so that he can repair it only for his concrete mixture to cause a sinkhole. It's up to Rubble & Crew to rescue Speed Meister and fix the road the right way. | |||||||
8 | "The Crew Builds a Popcorn Café" "The Crew Fixes a Slippery Mess" | Dianna Basso | Ta'riq Fisher Scott Gray | May 12, 2023 | May 13, 2023 | 108 | 0.15[14] |
"The Crew Build a Popcorn Café": During a hot day, Rubble & Crew are called in by Café Carl to help build a popcorn café with every popcorn flavor. Mix pitches an idea to build it in the shape of a popcorn box. They find that Café Carl had procured a large pot with all the kernels in town. While Café Carl goes to invite everyone in town, Rubble, Mix, Charger, and Wheeler build the popcorn café as the heat starts popping all the kernels in the pot which causes a mess around Builder Cove. They must work to build the roof and clean up the popcorn. "The Crew Fixes a Slippery Mess": While working on the Mega Mixer, an oil can spills during Wheeler's part of the job as Grandpa Gravel has Charger bring some sand to put over the spilled oil. Rubble & Crew are called in by Mayor Greatway who is preparing for Mayor Picture Day. To show off Mayor Greatway's daredevil personality, Rubble & Crew plan to build two giant ramps for Mayor Picture Day. Once that is done, Mayor Greatway accidentally drives over the drying paint causing Mix to make soap to clean up the ramp. Due to Wingsy pressing all the buttons, it causes a soapy mess that causes everyone to slip. Now Rubble & Crew must clean up the soap and rebuild the ramp. | |||||||
9 | "The Crew Builds a Drive-In Movie Theater" "The Crew Finds a Rainbow Treasure" | TBA | TBA | May 19, 2023 | May 20, 2023 | 109 | TBD |
10 | "The Crew Builds a Pig Barn" "The Crew Builds a Giant Runway" | TBA | TBA | May 26, 2023 | May 27, 2023 | 110 | TBD |
11 | "The Crew Fixes Camila's Truck" "The Crew Builds a Toy Shop" | TBA | TBA | June 2, 2023 | June 3, 2023 | 111 | TBD |
Production
A TV series was ordered after the success of PAW Patrol: The Movie and would focus on one of the main pups from the series. On March 24, 2022, it was announced that the spin-off series will focus on Rubble.[15]
Notes
- In the United States, a sneak peek of "The Crew Builds a Bridge" aired on December 25, 2022, during the NFL Nickmas Games halftime. The episode made an early premiere after a rerun of Minions on January 29, 2023, and its official premiere took place on February 3.
- "The Crew Builds a Big Bike Shop" was first released on the Rubble & Crew YouTube channel on January 9, 2023.
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