6teen

6teen
Genre	Animated sitcom Dramedy
Created by	Jennifer Pertsch Tom McGillis
Written by	Jennifer Pertsch Tom McGillis Sean Cullen George Westerholm
Directed by	Jennifer Pertsch Tom McGillis
Voices of	Christian Potenza Brooke D'Orsay Stacey DePass Megan Fahlenbock Jess Gibbons Terry McGurrin Jamie Watson Darren Frost Emilie-Claire Barlow Stephanie Anne Mills Lauren Lipson
Composer(s)	Don Breithaupt Anthony Vanderburgh
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	93 (95 half-hours) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Scott Dyer Doug Murphy Tom McGillis Jennifer Pertsch
Producer(s)	Jaelyn Galbraith Tom McGillis
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Nelvana (seasons 1–3) Fresh TV (season 4)
Release
Original network	Cartoon Network Nickelodeon Teletoon
Picture format	480i (4:3 SDTV)
Original release	November 7, 2004 (2004-11-07) – February 11, 2010 (2010-02-11)
Chronology
Related shows	Total DramaRama
External links
Nelvana production website
Fresh TV production website

6teen is a Canadian animated sitcom originally produced by Nelvana, with the final season produced by Fresh TV. It premiered on November 7, 2004 on Teletoon. In the United States, the series first premiered on Nickelodeon on December 18, 2005, and was removed from the schedule on May 13, 2006. The show later relaunched on Cartoon Network in 2008.^[1]

With the first 78 episodes^[2] and both 45-minute-long specials produced by Nelvana,^[3][4] 6teen ended with a total of four seasons^[5] of 95 22-minute-long episodes (including two one-hour specials).^[6] The series finale aired on February 11, 2010 and included an acoustic version of the theme song by Brian Melo. DVD and iTunes releases have been made in both Canada and the United States, and the entire series is available on the streaming service Tubi TV. A special reunion voting PSA titled "Vote, Dude!" was released on September 12, 2018,^[7] with the original cast reprising their respective roles.

Plot

6teen is an animated [sitcom] for children, pre-teens, and teenagers. The plots take place almost entirely in a gigantic shopping mall. The series follows the cast of six sixteen-year-old friends in everyday lives, including their first part-time jobs.

6teen is focused on the common problems related to teenagers. The main characters are: Jude, Jen, Nikki, Jonesy, Caitlin, and Wyatt. They deal with first crushes, first jobs, first bank accounts, and a sweet taste of freedom. Nikki finds herself stuck working at The Khaki Barn, a store where she would not shop herself, while Jen has found her dream job at a sports shop, but makes some mistakes. As a running gag, Jonesy manages to get fired from a new store in every episode. Wyatt falls hopelessly in love with his older co-worker. Jude works at the hockey rink as a Zamboni driver. Caitlin endures the daily humiliation of working at the lowest store in the mall's hierarchy of cool – The Big Squeeze, a lemonade stand shaped like a giant lemon, where she's required to wear a hat shaped like a lemon as a part of her uniform.

Production

6teen is created and directed through the use of a 2D digital software package known as Harmony, which was developed by the Toon Boom Animation studio in Montreal, Quebec.^[8] Because this software ensures smoother animation and eliminates the need for black trace lines, the program can be fashioned entirely on computer without the use of paper.

6teen (the original working title for the series being The Mall) is scripted by a team of writers which includes series creators and directors Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch, along with Sean Cullen (The Sean Cullen Show), and George Westerholm (This Hour Has 22 Minutes). On the subject of their work, McGillis concludes:

The show's principal characters were designed by Peter Avanzino. Original music is composed by Don Breithaupt and Anthony Vanderburgh. There are seven main cast members who voice 6teen. Brooke D'Orsay performs the voice of Caitlin, while Stacey DePass performs the voice of Nikki, Megan Fahlenbock voices Jen, Jess Gibbons voices Wyatt, Christian Potenza voices Jude, and Terry McGurrin voices Jonesy. Jamie Watson provides the voices of Coach Halder and Ron the Rent-a-Cop.

Characters

From L-R Jen, Caitlin, Jude, Wyatt, Nikki, and Jonesy.

Episodes

Reception

Throughout the show's run, 6teen has received critical acclaim. In the winter/spring of 2005, the program ranked among Teletoons' Top 10 for children ages ten years old and up in both English and French markets.^[10] It was also the only Canadian production to be nominated for a Pulcinella Award in 2005 under "TV Series for All Audiences".^[10] Furthermore, on June 2, 2007, 6teen received an award from the Alliance for Children and Television for being the best of children's television to fall under the age group of nine to fourteen years old that year.^[11] Carole Bonneau, vice-president in charge of Teletoon's programming, has remarked about 6teen:

In Canada, the show garners about 2.5 million viewers each episode. In the USA, 6teen's ratings were around 1.8 million viewers each episode, and ratings held there and then even increased, making it one of Cartoon Network's top shows (October 2008 – September 2009). The highest rating 6teen received on Cartoon Network was 3.7 million viewers, on Thursday, June 11, 2009, immediately after the season premiere of Total Drama Action. As time went on (starting in October 2009), 6teen began a slow drop in ratings. The 6teen series finale, which aired on June 21, 2010, received a total of 1.6 million viewers, which is lower than previous 6teen episodes.

In 2009, the show won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Original Song (Main Title and Promo) for its theme song, "6teen",^[12] which was performed by Phil Naro.

DVD releases

Title	Country
6teen: Deck the Mall
6teen: Dude of the Living Dead
6teen: Employee Of The Month
6teen: Idol Time at the Mall
6teen: One Quiet Day
6teen: Season 1, Volume 1
6teen: Season 2, Volume 1
6teen: Season 2, Volume 2
6teen: Season 3, Volume 1
6teen: Snow Job
6teen: Special Yearbook Edition
6teen: Stupid Over Cupid
6teen: Take This Job and Squeeze It
6teen: The Complete First Season
6teen: The Sushi Connection

References

External links

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