Ants in Your Pants

Ants in Your Pants
Genre	Children's Music video
Created by	Kathilee Porter
Developed by	Treehouse TV
Written by	Kathilee Porter, Bryan Levy Young, Kim Sparks, Rachel Bartels
Creative director(s)	Kathilee Porter
Presented by	Shelley Hamilton Corey Michaels Douglas John
Voices of	Marty Stelnick Jason Hopley Ben Deustch Colin Penman
Theme music composer	Douglas John
Opening theme	"Ants in Your Pants Theme Song"
Ending theme	"Ants in Your Pants Theme Song (Instrumental)"
Composer(s)	Douglas John
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	107
Production
Executive producer(s)	Susan Ross
Producer(s)	Kathilee Porter
Production location(s)	Toronto, Ontario
Cinematography	Shawn Kelly, Andrew Baxter
Editor(s)	Marc Dupont
Running time	27 minutes
Production company(s)	YTV Productions
Release
Original network	Treehouse TV
Picture format	4:3
Original release	November 1, 1997 (1997-11-01) – 2004 (2004)

Ants in Your Pants is a Canadian children's music video television program made and aired by Treehouse TV that aired from November 1, 1997 to 2004. The series was created and produced by Kathilee Porter.

Plot

The show's intro consists mostly of CGI animations with the "Ants In Your Pants" theme, written by children's music artist Douglas John.

The host, a puppet monkey in corduroy overalls, named Lickety Split, then takes over. He lives in a tree with his mother (who is not seen, only heard or mentioned). He usually explains what he has been doing lately. A music video is shown. Usually, there are three music videos, separated by Lickety segments. After the last music video is played, an image of scattered leaves is shown before the next Lickety segment.

In the second segment, the Pesky Ants, named Janesaw, Woodchip and Dusty, are introduced. They frequently cause trouble for Lickety, but can also be helpful and kind on rare occasions.

In the third season, "Kiddin' Around" and "Stretch and Wiggle" are presented. "Kiddin' Around" features a CGI video camera showing kids doing fun activities or singing songs. "Stretch and Wiggle" (hosted by Shelley Hamilton and Corey Michaels, and sometimes Douglas John) shows exercises. The last segment before the end of the show is titled "Lickety's Tree Fort" and features a guest star. Guest stars include Bob McGrath, Al Simmons, Jack Grunsky and Jackie Richardson.

Cast

• Marty Stelnick as Lickety Split
• Jason Hopley, Ben Deustch, Colin Penman as Janesaw, Woodchip, and Dusty

Soundtrack

Popularity

Ants in Your Pants was an entirely new concept in children's television. Although many children's programs (both then and now) were very musically based, this was the first known to feature music videos. As a result, the show became popular with Canadian children and was widely praised by adults. Its soundtrack was a Juno nominee in 2000 for Best Children's Album. A number of music videos from the program began appearing on YouTube in 2007, with the highest-viewed including "Tomato Hat" by a young Justin Hines and "Do Your Socks Get Soggy" by Douglas John,^[1] which each had more than 100,000 views as of January 2017. Other highly viewed videos include the Joe Scruggs songs "This Little Piggy",^[2] and "Bahamas Pajamas".^[3]

References

External links

• Wayback Machine Archive on TreehouseTV.com
• Douglas John Page archived by the Wayback Machine