History WesternAnimation / MissSpidersSunnyPatchFriends

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 [[MamaBear Miss Spider]] and her musician husband [[MellowFellow Holley]], as well as their eight children, composed of five spiderlings named [[BrattyHalfPint Squirt]],[[CuteBookworm Spinner]],[[GenkiGirl Pansy]],[[TheBabyofTheBunch Snowdrop]], and [[NervousWreck Wiggle]], and three adopted "buglets" -- a dragonfly named [[{{Jerkass}} Dragon]], a jewel beetle named [[DeadpanSnarker Shimmer]] and a bedbug named [[{{Keet}} 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."

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 [[MamaBear Miss Spider]] and her musician husband Holley, as well as their eight children, composed of five spiderlings named [[BrattyHalfPint Squirt]],[[CuteBookworm Spinner]],[[GenkiGirl Pansy]],[[TheBabyofTheBunch Snowdrop]], and [[NervousWreck 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."

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."

* CarnivoreConfusion: This is a big one. Miss Spider and her entire family are all vegetarians, either by design or choice. Spiderus often threatens to eat other bugs when he is grumpy or annoyed, though it is unknown if he has actually ever done so. Additionally, an entire special was devoted to a frog named Felix who ate only berries and other plants because he found the taste of bugs awful.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: the hair bows used by the twins.

** Holly is also more cowardly in the pilot movie than he is in the tv series.

* [[FloralThemeNaming Floral Theme]][[ThemeTwinNaming Twin Naming]]: Pansy and Snowdrop.

* StockAudioClip: Examples include Holly's "Well, you know...", before stating a fact to the kids, and the pillbug's gasping sound.

* Yandere: Spiderus's unrequited love for Flora in the Pilot shows shades of this, the most evident being that he was willing to '''''kill her husband Holley''''' in order to finally have a chance with her.

* InterspeciesAdoption: Bounce, Dragon and Shimmer are respectively a bedbug, dragonfly and jewel beetle adopted by a family of spiders. In "Little Ladybug Lost," Stinky the stinkbug and his sister Whiffy adopt a ladybug named Grace.

* ItsOkayToCry: This is the lesson taught in the episode "Cry Buggie", where Dragon convinces Squirt that "big bugs don't cry", causing Squirt to hold in her tears when she gets hurt and has to stay home from a sports game she was supposed to be playing in. Eventually, Miss Spider finds her watching the game from far away and tells her that even big bugs cry sometimes when they need to, likening it to how clouds produce rain when they can't hold any more water.

** And then there's Mr. Mantis. RealLife praying mantises are famous for their strictly carnivorous diet, and they will eat almost anything, including spiders.[[note]]If you think about it, a praying mantis could make for a great OverarchingVillain towards Spiderus.[[/note]] ''This'' mantis, however, completely throws all of that out the window in favor of a CoolOldGuy art teacher. What ''he'' eats is anyone's guess.

* MurderTheHypotenus: In the Pilot Spiderus actually tried to '''''kill''''' Holley so that he can finally have Flora for himself. Thankfully he gets better.

The series began with the PilotMovie ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids'' that aired on Teletoon on March 31, 2003, with the TV series arriving in September 7, 2004. The show ran for 3 seasons and 44 episodes, with Season 3 making a ChannelHop to Treehouse TV. You can find them all on Youtube, thanks to Nelvana and its Treehouse Direct channel. [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUIixndCOJ8xcSkdMLxt8VdnxKJt2hDAV See them all here!]]

* Yandere: Spiderus's unrequited love for Flora in the Pilot shows shades of this, the most evident being that [[MurderTheHypotenus he was willing to '''''kill her husband Holley''''' in order to finally have a chance with her.]]

* MurderTheHypotenus: In the Pilot Spiderus actually tried to '''''kill''''' Holley [[Yandere so that he can finally have Flora for himself.]] He thankfully gets better after Flora explains to him that even though she'll never love him back, that doesn't mean they can't still be good friends.

* MurderTheHypotenus: In the Pilot Spiderus actually tried to '''''kill''''' Holley [[Yandere so that he can finally have Flora for himself.]] [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy He thankfully gets better after Flora explains to him that even though she'll never love him back, that doesn't mean they can't still be good friends.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Spiderus was this towards Holly in the Pilot, since he was also in love with Flora and was jealous that she chose Holly over him.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot movie ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids'', Miss Spider is regularly referred to by her first name of Flora by those who aren't her children. In the television series, she is always "Miss Spider." Also, Dragon's eyes are a much darker blue.

''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'' (2003-2009) is a Canadian [[AllCGICartoon computer-animated series]] aimed at preschool audiences and based on a popular series of books by American children's author David Kirk. The show was developed by Creator/{{Nelvana}} for Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/TreehouseTV, which both aired it in Canada. In the United States, the series originally aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} during its Nick Jr. block; from 2008 to 2009, several unaired episodes were burned off to the sister channel Creator/{{Noggin}}.

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 and learn various life lessons, with the most important being the one Miss Spider and Holley always remind them: "Be Good to Bugs."

* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: Pretty much every episode credits Kay Wilson Stallings, formerly SVP of Preschool at Creator/NickJr [[note]] as Kay Wilson for some reason[[/note]]. Also, Nick Jr's logo shows up on most title card.

* InformedSpecies: You really just have to take the show's word for it that Bounce is a bedbug. He only has two legs and basically looks like a giant blueberry of head on top of them with two antenna. An actual bedbug is a normal brownish insect with six legs.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Bounce is the only bug whose teeth are perpetually visible, while Spiderus and his family have a human like face

* SaveTheVillain: In the pilot movie ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids'', Spiderus tries to smoosh Holley and ends up takign a nasty fall for it. Miss Spider immediately declares that they have to help him.