History WesternAnimation / TheCrumpets

Two seasons of the series aired from 2013 to 2014 for a total of 52 episodes. The show then returned in 2015, but underwent a major {{Retool}} in the process. Between seasons, [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm audience feedback]] for the first two had revealed to the executives that the show's tween and teen characters were the most more popular with viewers than. As a result, the series was rebranded as ''Teen Crumpets'' and changed the focus to the older Crumpet children (particularly Pfff and Caprice), as well as Cassandra, while adding two new characters in Pfff's Gothic, poetry-loving friend Marylin and bumbling outcast Larry. The show's adult characters were also pushed into the background alongside all the younger Crumpet children. Ironically, many of the infamous WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids elements of the first two seasons were softened for ''Teen Crumpets''. This new version of ''The Crumpets'' ran for an additional two seasons and 52 episodes, wrapping up in 2017. However, the series (still as ''Teen Crumpets'') returned one more time in March 2021 in the form of a 26-minute special about International Women's Day.

Two seasons of the series aired from 2013 to 2014 for a total of 52 episodes. The show then returned in 2015, but underwent a major {{Retool}} in the process. Between seasons, [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm audience feedback]] for the first two had revealed to the executives that the show's tween and teen characters were the most more popular with viewers than. As a result, the series was rebranded as ''Teen Crumpets'' and changed the focus from Li'l One to the older Crumpet children (particularly Pfff and Caprice), as well as Cassandra and Cordless. Ironically, many of the infamous WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids elements of the first two seasons were softened for ''Teen Crumpets''. This new version of ''The Crumpets'' ran for an additional two seasons and 52 episodes, wrapping up in 2017. However, the series (still as ''Teen Crumpets'') returned one more time in March 2021 in the form of a 26-minute special about International Women's Day.

''The Crumpets'' is a UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash-animated series from France that debuted on Canal+ Family on December 21, 2013. Based on the ''Petit Dernier'' children's PictureBooks written by Didier Lévy and illustrated by Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions, the show follows the lives of the eponymous family, composed of inventor Ma Crumpet, gardener Pa Crumpet, gambling matriarch Granny, and Ma and Pa's '''''142''''' children.

Central to the series' focus is the youngest of the Crumpet children, the nappy-clad baby known only as Li'l One. As the runt of such a massive litter, Li'l One is always competing with his numerous brothers and sisters for the affections of Ma Crumpet. In most episodes, he attempts a variety of schemes in an effort to get the attention of his mother, usually with the help of Granny. However, things are always complicated by the quirky personalities of his many siblings, as well as the fact Ma and Pa absolutely adore each other and love spending time together. Among Li'l One's siblings, the most prominent are the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the airheaded philosopher Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy-cat Ohoh, and the lion-costumed King. Other characters include the Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=] and her beautiful daughter Cassandra, as well as Pa's rich, fleecing brother and sister-in-law Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried and their nerdy adopted son Cordless.

Although the series is for children and based on a book for very young children, possessing the cutesy and colorful artstyle one might expect from such, the show is notorious for having large amounts of DemographicallyInappropriateHumor, FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, and other other eyebrow-raising material that would be deemed unacceptable were it not for the ValuesDissonance between French and American kids' TV (it ''did'' air on the same channel as ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''). While this has unsurprisingly hampered the show's distribution in North American markets, ''The Crumpets'' has still managed to appear across international markets, thanks to distribution on the part of Mediatoon.

Two seasons of the series aired from 2013 to 2014 for a total of 52 episodes. The show then returned in 2015, but underwent a major {{Retool}} in the process. Between seasons, [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm audience feedback]] for the first two had revealed to the executives that the show's tween and teen characters were the most more popular with viewers than. As a result, the series was rebranded as ''Teen Crumpets'' and changed the focus from Li'l One and Granny to the older Crumpet children (particularly Pfff and Caprice), as well as Cassandra and Cordless, while also adding two new characters named Marylin and Larry. Ironically, many of the infamous WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids elements of the first two seasons were softened for ''Teen Crumpets''. This new version of ''The Crumpets'' ran for an additional two seasons and 52 episodes, wrapping up in 2017. However, the series (still as ''Teen Crumpets'') returned one more time in March 2021 in the form of a 26-minute special about International Women's Day.

Central to the series' focus is the youngest of the Crumpet children, the nappy-clad baby known only as Li'l One. As the runt of such a massive litter, Li'l One is always competing with his numerous brothers and sisters for the affections of Ma Crumpet. In most episodes, he attempts a variety of schemes in an effort to get the attention of his mother, usually with the help of Granny. However, things are always complicated by the quirky personalities of his many siblings, as well as the fact Ma and Pa absolutely adore each other and love spending time together. Among Li'l One's siblings, the most prominent are the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy-cat Ohoh, and the lion-costumed King. Other characters include the Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=] and her beautiful daughter Cassandra (who has a crush of Pfff), as well as Pa's rich, fleecing brother and sister-in-law Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried and their nerdy adopted son Cordless.

''The Crumpets'' (''Les Crumpets'') is a French comedy [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] animated series that debuted in December 2013 about a huge family of white, pink-nosed people, based on the ''Petit Dernier'' preschool PictureBooks by Didier Lévy and Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions.

The first 52 episodes for this obscure show which originally aired in 2013-2014 closely highlight several family members, with the actual central characters being the youngest child Li'l One and the family's gambling matriarch Granny. Ma is an inventor and Pa is a gardener, and they adore each other. Their other children include the tall and sleepy Pfff, the gothic bipolar Caprice, the physically strong Triceps, the head-losing thinker Ditzy, the eccentric artist Fynartz, the mischievous twins Bother and Blister, the scaredy cat Ohoh, and the lion costumed King. The Crumpets' irritable neighbor is Ms. [=McBrisk=], who lives with her beautiful daughter Cassandra. Pa's rich fleecing brother and sister-in-law are Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried, whose adopted nerd son is Cordless.

In December 2015 and December 2017/January 2018, a total of 52 more episodes that are internationally known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted. The show was renewed for these episodes because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the original seasons summarized that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. This {{Retool}} shifted the teenagers and new musical numbers (mainly rock ones) to the spotlight and reduced focus on most preteens (including Li'l-One) and adults. In April 2018, ''Teen Crumpets'' won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy. A jury prize award was also earned by ''Teen Crumpets'' in a Georgian animation festival in October 2018. A 26 minute special about International Women's Day premiered in March 2021.

The original 52 episodes can be viewed on [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B08H8S2F7W Amazon Prime]] in the UK. The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.facebook.com/CrumpetsTheSerie/videos/119377025099469 "The Mix-Up"]]) are officially available for free on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a presumably different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable on the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

Despite the adaptation source being aimed for preschoolers, its colorful visuals, adorable characters, and being broadcast as children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal harm, and rare gruesome violence. Many of these elements were softened in ''Teen Crumpets''.

* MadeInChina: In "Pong! The Menace", Li'l-One exclaims the trope name once he's fascinated with the electronic tablet he finds on TV. [[spoiler:After Pong rewards him the tablet for exchanging the Kun Yun Yun diamond, its display scrambles as Li'l-One tries it on, and Caprice remarks "made in China".]]

''The Crumpets'' (''Les Crumpets'') is a French comedy [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] animated series debuted in December 2013 about a huge family of white, pink-nosed people, based on the ''Petit Dernier'' preschool PictureBooks by Didier Lévy and Frédéric Benaglia, and produced by 4.21 Productions.

Despite the adaptation source being aimed for preschoolers, its colorful visuals, adorable characters, and being broadcast as children's programming, the show contains a hefty amount of inappropriate material to kids such as sexual themes, suicidal behavior, animal harm, and rare gruesome violence. Many of these elements were softened in season three before they're somewhat elevated back for season four.

** When Pfff plays an electric guitar at the ending of "L'ADN à Pa", the speakers' loud noise force out the hiding twins, who bounce in the room like pinballs.
* PottyEmergency: In "Gambled Gables", Caprice has one while working for one of the KGC fast food drive thrus. Her Aunt Harried points that the employment contract grants a two minute break every ''64 hours''.
** In "Force et honneur", Marylin, who feels empathy to Caprice, Pfff and Triceps despite of a clash over the abandoned van, becomes worried that they're suffering from the heat under Cordless' microwave weapon. He delivers them plenty of water bottles whom the Crumpets immediately consume. The water bottles turn out to be an annoyance against the three Crumpets as they spawn an urge to use the bathroom.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Seasons 1 and 2 generally fall on the cynicism side. It features characters, some evil, greedy and/or insecure, who (briefly) ruin the family or other people. There's also suicide attempts, an EvilUncle and Aunt with powerful businesses (who nonetheless usually fail in their schemes), and most animals dying or getting hurt. Although there are episodes that happily end for the titular family, the protagonists Li'l One and Granny (and Caprice and Cassie) may either be unlucky or confront a hellish situation. In season 3, the show went LighterAndSofter and more episodes have idealistic endings, yet a lot of cynicism is reserved for Caprice, who frequently receives the ButtMonkey treatment. [[spoiler:Its season finale ending, compared to the rest of the season, is very bleak for Caprice and Cassie.]] Season 4 TBA.

* WorldOfJerkass: Many characters are obnoxious jerks, and some others are like this for a while.

* GirlsAreReallyScaredOfHorrorMovies: In "Hairifying", the females in the family aren't allowed to watch the cult horror movie ''[[ShowWithinAShow Werezombies and Chainsaws]]'' with the males. Ironically, in the course of the episode some females end up having long body hair like werewolves through Ma's faulty wax machine, and virtually all females would turn into zombies.

* CartoonCreature: The "human" race in the show are primarily differentiated from real humans by their squeaky pink or blue noses (also shared with certain creatures in the show), a philtrum line from nose to mouth, and pale skin (darker skin also exists). To the face, it's a bit reminiscent to certain mammals such as rabbits, otters, or weasels. The episode "Hairifying" shows that they naturally have as much hair as humans do. Their three-toed feet, more unusually, are either sloped and stubby (Li'l-One, King, Ma, and "Acne Dents Happen" Pa) or like that of real humans (most other characters, and [[OffModel perhaps erroneously]] to "Prehistoric Crumpets" Pa). Most characters don't have visible ear structures, but others like Bother, Ohoh, and King have transparent swirl-like ears; when viewing the former two's paper toy templates they appear to be stylized human ears.

* FlashbackCut: In "Save Granny", Pa compares his situation of Granny throwing flower pots at him to the humiliation in his childhood when Granny took his socks after losing a game of {{TabletopGame/Battleship}} and him having to wear flamingo pink dancer tights to school.

* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In "Marilyn Blues", Caprice and Pfff try to forget Marylin after they found the possibility online he became a {{Disco}} singer far away. They keep encountering his apparent disco song in their house and their neighbor's.
** In "Nu comme Hervé", when the gang are panicking and fleeing from finding suspiciously naked people in the Crumpet house, they come across a billboard of a seemingly naked man (albeit with his bottom part being painted) and TV programming depicting additional clothing-less individuals.

* HalfwayPlotSwitch: The original plot of "Quotient H" is about most of the teenagers taking Cordless' IQ test while Marylin strongly protests it and sings in a lengthy musical sequence. Once the teens learn of their IQ test results, Larry is given a perfect score, drawing Marylin's attention into treating him as a divine boy who inspires lyrics he can write. Cassie, who receives the lowest IQ score despite being intelligent, gets rejected by her friends because they comprehend the test's results as the truth. She is also the protagonist for the episode's second-half.

* SwappedRoles: In "Quasi Cassie", Caprice and Cassie switch their identities and reside at each others' homes, because Caprice wants to draw peacefully and Cassie wants to sing in a place that permits loud noise. Caprice would realize that living in Cassie's shoes (and literally wearing them, too) means eating small FancyDinner servings, doing tons of chores and having less free time to draw. Even though Cassie (who can imitate her friend's trademark walk) cleans her friend's bedroom and finds bedtime noisy at the Crumpets' house, she would enjoy living there and oppose Caprice's later argument to return to their old lives. The Crumpet family even notice that "Caprice" is more kind and helpful to her siblings than before.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There's ''141'' of L'il-One's siblings. A significant step up from 50 siblings in the ''Petit Dernier'' book.

** In "Force et honneur", Marylin, who feels empathy to Caprice, Pfff and Triceps despite of a clash over the abandoned van, becomes worried that they're suffering from the heat under Cordless' microwave weapon. He delivers them plenty of water bottles whom the Crumpets immediately consume. The water bottles turn about to be an annoyance against the three Crumpets as they spawn an urge to use the bathroom.

* BigRedButton: Granny presses one in the house's hidden security room so that the house transforms into a robot in "Pong! The Menace!".

* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: The English dub of the original 52 episodes has all characters speaking with these and British vocabulary, while some credited voice actors are American and one each is Australian and Canadian. The dub of ''Teen Crumpets'' according to the one viewable episode on the C21Media website has the characters speak in American accents, likely due to recasting.

* DescentIntoAddiction: The primary conflict in "Addicted". Pa gives his mother a greenhouse gas remedy to cure her worsening gambling and onion crisp addiction. Granny refrains from consuming it, sells the gas to Ms. [=McBrisk=], lies to her family that she took it, demands more and sells them to the neighbor, and preserves her gambling addiction. Not only [=McBrisk=] became addicted to this temporary cure for her allergies, [[spoiler:the Crumpet children also jump on Granny's bandwagon and develop addictions to the gas vials. They destroy the machine producing the substance, act like zombies to their parents, and seize [=McBrisk=]'s gas supply. After that, the children immediately get over their addictions.]]

* DramaticDrop: Pa drops a tray after hearing Ma appreciating the masculine traits of a man in a magazine in "Man Up!"

* FantasticNuke: The explosions obliterating [[spoiler:the Crumpet house]] at the end of "Acne Dents Happen" and "Li'l Wonder".

* MadeInChina: In "Pong! The Menace", Li'l-One exclaims the trope name once he's fascinated with the electronic tablet he finds on TV. [[spoiler:After Pong rewards him a tablet for exchanging the Kun Yun Yun diamond, its display scrambles as Li'l-One tries it, and Caprice remarks "made in China".]]

* MementoMacguffin: The Kun Yun Yun, a pink diamond with a worm sealed inside, in "Pong! The Menace!". Granny stole it from Pong as a consequence of his relationship with another woman, and it reminds her of their working romantic relationship. In the present, Pong and his gang hold the Crumpets for ransom for possibly storing his lost diamond. Before revealing that truth, she lied to her family that she gambled it away in Monte Carlo in 1969. Under the command of his mother, Pa sculpts a clay replica of the diamond and reluctantly inserts Pfff's worm via a straw to the replica so Pong can get fooled in reposessing the diamond. [[spoiler:The replica doesn't hold up due to the worm eating it from inside, and the real diamond is delivered to Pong at the end]].

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Renato in "Croco-Deal" is the beloved pet of Grownboy who has to be babysitted by Granny due to Grownboy's ultimatum between Renato and his best friend Steve. [[spoiler:After Renato jumps to Ma's tummy hatch, she presumably kills him and is later seen wearing his crocodile skin and body parts.]]

* OedipusComplex: Li'l One's grudge against Pa over Ma's love is the primary conflict in the show's first two seasons. The baby often tries to oust him and perhaps the siblings as well in his bids to have Ma only love him. His Oedipus Complex may also be mild to the point he seeks competition with Pa or tease him, like trying to possess body hair like Pa in "Amnesia". Li'l One even mentions a scheme to be a "good father" in the household and wishes marrying Ma in "The Terrible Teens".

* RainDance: Parodied in "Belief Relief", as Pa and Caprice does a Native American-like ceremonial pow wow while trying to rejuvenate the leeks.

* RedShirt: Many sparrows will fall to bad luck, especially by injury or death. In season 3, this doesn't happen anymore as the show has gotten LighterAndSofter.

** In "A Grave Affair", this also happens when Pa is shocked that his mother his dead (despite that she is in a sleeping state).

* ScamReligion: In "Belief Relief", Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried opens their "Paymeism" religion to the Crumpets, where [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin payments]] are exchanged for teachings, books, and "blessings" such as mobile phones and falsely cured leeks; the uncle proclaims to be divine, threatens that nonbelievers will perish, and wants [[NoQuestionsAsked "no crazy questions"]]. Due to Pa being the brother of "God", Uncle Hurry forces Pa to avoid marrying any "infidels", leaving him an option to divorce from the irreligious Ma.
* SeriesFauxnale: "Sound The Alarm". It concludes as if it's the show's GrandFinale (Pa mentioned a "happy ending"), yet it brings up the relationships between Caprice and Marylin, and Cassandra and Pfff, which retrospectively serves to open the events of ''Teen Crumpets''.

** In "Sound The Alarm", when Caprice calls the telephone service to cancel the delivery of her typo-ridden text messages to Marylin, she gets an automated message for two options relating to payment.

* SiblingRivalry: "Granny's Twin Sister" highlights two twin examples: between the titular characters, and Bother and Blister.

* BabysittingEpisode: The free ''Teen Crumpets'' episode has Caprice being forced to babysit her baby brother Li'l One before and during her party.

* BunnyEarsPicturePrank: There is a picture in "Gentil choléra" showing a young boy with glasses doing this to Cassie.

* DistantFinale: "Rendez-vous dans 15 ans" is set 15 years after the events of ''Teen Crumpets'' and is about the state of Caprice and Cassandra's friendship. It is the final episode, before the two-part Christmas episodes and the 2020 special, in numeric order.

* HistoryRepeats: In "50 nuances de Cassie", [[spoiler:when Cassie views the photo album she discovered while preparing to runaway from home, it's revealed she had partook the same rebellious lifestyles and wore their outfits, played an African drum, and broke up from her friends like her mother (as a teenager), the very woman she's afraid of becoming alike in the future. [=McBrisk=]'s friends were even lookalikes of Cassie's friends, and she had a boyfriend resembling Pfff. This convinces Cassie to quit being rebellious in a toxic manner and reunite with her friends.]]

* RampJump: In "Odeurs corp", during the runaway van scene, Cassie has to steer the van and make a jump over a ravine.

** In "Road Stories", Granny and Caprice embark on their world trip with a hippie van. Once they decide to fake their trip for a reality TV show, they utilize their van hidden in the woods as a secret base for their deceits.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: There's ''141'' of L'il-One's siblings.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Seasons 1 and 2 generally fall in the cynicism side. It features characters, some evil, greedy and/or insecure, who (briefly) ruin the family or other people. There's also suicide attempts, an EvilUncle and Aunt with powerful businesses (who nonetheless usually fail in their schemes), and most animals dying or getting hurt. Although there are episodes that happily end for the titular family, the protagonists Li'l One and Granny (and Caprice and Cassie) may either be unlucky or confront a hellish situation. In season 3, the show went LighterAndSofter and more episodes have idealistic endings, yet a lot of cynicism is reserved for Caprice, who might freak out at the ending for laughs. [[spoiler:Its season finale ending, compared to the rest of the season, is very bleak for Caprice and Cassie on the other hand.]] Season 4 TBA.

* RealityTV: The game show in "My Family's Full of Losers" parodies the genre, which is attacked by Ma and Ms. [=McBrisk=].
-->'''Ms. [=McBrisk=]:''' Reality TV!
-->'''Cassandra:''' But mummy!
-->'''Ms. [=McBrisk=]:''' [[MoralGuardians They promote anti-educational and anti-family values!]] I won't let the telly interfere in how I raise my child!

** "La photo de la honte" has a concert headed by the two-man pop duo Caprice adores, Pedro and Rodrigo Fennec. Pa brings them over to cheer up her daughter, who had broke down from Ma confiscating her phone. [[spoiler:Marylin and Pfff, who dislike the duo, are forced to go onstage and perform with them, thwarting their objective from getting affiliated with the duo in any way.]]

** "Love à faire": Ditzy's love on [[spoiler:Larry]] is raised up when [[spoiler:Marylin and Pfff convince Larry to break up from Triceps.]]

** In "Rat de marée", after the flood in the Crumpet house is over, Triceps blames Marylin's pet mouse for causing the near-fatal flood and sets up a court trial against Marylin and Caprice, who are left stranded on the failed elevator. The courtroom is a big room where the stalled elevator is visible.

* {{Documentary}}: When Ma watches a tape called ''Heroic Females'' in "Croco-Deal", there's a narrative about a charging rhinoceros getting kicked by a mother giraffe. The same documentary returned for a few episodes.

** In "Nu comme Hervé", when Caprice accuses Marylin of wearing a leather coat made from animals, there is a diagram that resembles the one in a chalk board in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' song "See My Vest", but with the coat dripping blood (It's in the picture for the CruellaToAnimals trope).

* ToylessToylineCharacter: Although no toys based on the show were produced for sale, there are printable paper toy cutouts of some characters available, including Marylin and Larry for ''Teen Crumpets''. Unfortunately, it appears that L'il-One, Pa, Caprice, Pfff, Triceps, Ditzy, Fynartz, Cordless, and Uncle Hurry and Aunt Harried have none. The Kickstarter for the third season English dub, however, previewed a couple of cutout diagrams that would be given to backers, including those that never got released to the public.

* AdamAndEvePlot: In "Prehistoric Crumpets", the Crumpets and the [=McBrisks=] survive a meteor crash that wiped their homes. Due to the impact site's magnetic ray repelling the rescue efforts, the rest of the episode treats the cast as sole survivors of the incident, with the Crumpets splitting to pro-nature or pro-rebuilding camps led by Pa or Ma respectively. The [=McBrisks=] and Pfff hide in an underground shelter and the [=McBrisks=] propose reproduction to save the apparently endangered population. The episode even references the Biblical story as the Crumpets witness an instantly grown forest, Pa and Ditzy hold apples, and Pa calls the site a "Garden of Eden."

* BigRedButton: Granny presses one in the house's hidden security room so that [[spoiler:the house transforms to a robot]] in "Pong! The Menace!".

* PottyEmergency: In "Gambled Gables", Caprice has one while working for one of the KGC fast food drive thrus. Her Aunt Harried points that the employment contract grants a two minute break every ''64 hours''.

* SpaghettiKiss: In "Reuh", after Pfff became friends with Reuh, Caprice finds a clip on social media with the two boys sharing spaghetti pasta with Cassie.

* GreenAesop: In "Bulles de palme", when the Crumpet kids play with massive quantities of green bubblegum in the house, Marylin arrives and gets shocked because it is made of palm oil, a resource that is harvested by destroying wild habitats. Subsequently, Caprice and Cassie learn the devastating effects of palm oil harvests from the internet. Before Caprice educates her siblings, who are playing with palm oil, on its ill effects to environment, she borrows Grownboy's giraffe and elephant and presents them as homeless wild animals that have to reside in the house.

In December 2015 and December 2017/January 2018, a total of 52 more episodes that are internationally known as ''Teen Crumpets'' debuted. The show was renewed for these episodes because [[http://newsletters.worldscreen.com/tvkids/tvkidsweekly_4th_db.htm feedback]] for the original seasons summarized that the teens and tweens are the show's most popular characters. This {{Retool}} shifted the teenagers and new musical numbers (mainly rock ones) to the spotlight and reduced focus on most preteens (including Li'l-One) and adults. In April 2018, ''Teen Crumpets'' won the "12+" category award in that year's Cartoons On The Bay in Italy; the show's [[https://www.facebook.com/pff.crumpet behind-the-scenes Facebook profile]] hinted more episodes to come. A jury prize award was also earned by ''Teen Crumpets'' in a Georgian animation festival in October 2018. A 26 minute special about International Women's Day premiered in March 2021.

* WildTeenParty: In "The Mix-Up", Cassie prepares to throw sock party in her house, which her mother objects as the invitations were already sent. Ms. [=McBrisk=] and T-Bone's FreakyFridayFlip allows the party to proceed.

* ChristmasEpisode: The two-part episodes "Joyeux Noël..." and "... et bonne année !" in ''Teen Crumpets''. They're the final episodes in numeric order before the upcoming 2020 special.

* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In "Marilyn Blues", Caprice and Pfff try to forget Marylin after they found the possibility online he became a {{Disco}} singer far away. They keep listening to his apparent disco song in their house and their neighbor's.

* SleepCute: In "Enfermés en forêt", Caprice and Cassie lean to their respective love interests while they sleep in the tent. Caprice, who is wrapping Marylin with her holds, gets her sleep disrupted by Triceps slapping her against the mosquitoes.

* SwappedRoles: In "Quasi Cassie", Caprice and Cassie switch their lives and reside at each others' homes, because Caprice wants to draw peacefully and Cassie wants to sing in a place that permits loud noise. Caprice would realize that living in Cassie's shoes (and literally wearing them, too) means eating small FancyDinner servings, doing tons of chores and having less free time to draw. Even though Cassie (who can imitate her friend's trademark walk) cleans her friend's bedroom and finds bedtime noisy at the Crumpets' house, she would enjoy living there and oppose Caprice's later argument to return to their old lives. The Crumpet family even notice that "Caprice" is more kind and helpful to her siblings than before.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Female characters are prone to slapstick jokes like males. This is noticeable with Caprice the ButtMonkey.

* ArtImitatesArt: A parody of the "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting can be spotted in the attic in "Auto-graff".

* HippieVan: In "Road Stories", Granny and Caprice embark on their world trip with a hippie van. Once they decide to fake their trip for a reality TV show, they utilize their van hidden in the woods as a secret base for their deceits.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Pink penguins exist, such as the ones Grownboy owns or the ones stolen from a zoo in "Road Stories".
** "Gentil choléra" has a black and white penguin who staffs the entrance of an open-air teahouse for pets and their owners. It becomes infatuated with Larry wearing a penguin costume.

* BowledOver: In "My Family's Full of Losers", a group of pink [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] are the pins struck by T-Bone the ball in a commercial.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: In "Murder Everywhere", [[spoiler:many of the Crumpets and Cordless hallucinate from eating the ashes of a dead hippie known as Rudy Swan]].

* HumanShield: In "Octosquito", Granny holds Li'l One as a shield from the ink of José the monster.

* InterruptedSuicide: In "Going Viral", Caprice tries to [[BuriedAlive bury herself alive]] in a dug plot with the help of T-Bone the dog. A fan-dispatched blimp that looks like her drops a hook-attached rope that she grabs and lifts with.

* OutOfGenreExperience: Seasons one and two are a family-centered BlackComedy with a tilt on cynicism and plenty of {{Slapstick}}. There are few scenes (including machine violence in episodes such as "Cheep Shot" and "Mum's Double") that [[UpToEleven elevates]] the show's action tones.

* FictionalVideoGame: Granny's 8-bit games in her laptop.

* UsefulNotes/BritishAccents: The English dub of the original 52 episodes has all characters speaking with these and British vocabulary, while some credited voice actors are American and one is Australian and Canadian each. The dub of ''Teen Crumpets'' according to the one viewable episode has the characters speak in American accents, likely due to recasting.

* ChekhovsGun: Ma's blender in "Mum's Double". [[spoiler:She splashes its liquid output at robot Ma in order to prove to the kids she's the real one.]]

* PacManFever: Granny's video games in her laptop look antiquated, although the avatars of her and Li'l-One don't have quite poor detail.

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The females who turn to zombies in "Hairifying" did so because they inhaled a green-colored gas.

* ToiletTrainingPlot: "Inside Li'l-One's Brain" is about Pa's quest to fix Li'l One's alleged "pee-pee gland" in his brain so he can outgrow wearing nappies.

* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: "Pong! The Menace!" has the mostly unseen rich and "very, very unforgiving" titular character and his gang in their limousines intimidating the Crumpets so they can retrieve a pink diamond allegedly stolen by Granny. Pong kidnaps Pfff to a [[MobileShrubbery movable bush]] and shaves all his hair at the top of his head, as well as restraining parts of his body and attaching a ransom note in Chinese.

* VoicesAreMental: In "The Mix-Up", Ms. [=McBrisk=] and T-Bone accidentally swap bodies from use of an ElectronicTelepathy machine. Their voices swap too, and this is between a human and a ''dog''.

* EtTuBrute: "Marilyn Blues" features betrayal as a theme. Caprice and Pfff feel betrayed and depressed from Marylin apparently abandoning them for his long-distance trip, especially once they had learn on the internet the possibility he ditched his goth rock hobby for a {{Disco}} career. After Larry was found to have good singing skills and the potential to replace Marylin, Marylin's bitter ex-friends conduct a goodbye ceremony where they dump his belongings to the water. [[spoiler:During the ceremony, Caprice finds his pet mouse and fails to have the twins capture it, instead she expects it to never return. Cassandra defends the mouse, which is drifting away on its floating bed, saying it did nothing wrong. Caprice assumes her friend is on Marylin's side, shattering the girls' friendship and Cassie runs away crying. Marylin finally returns and denies having another alias, yet Caprice and Pfff remain skeptical of his truth. He too cries and flees upon learning the disappearance of his mouse and declares he'll hate his ex-friends forever. Luckily, he finds Cassie saving his mouse from the water. The gang would discover Marylin going out with Cassie at a concert, leaving Caprice depressed again in spite of her past traitorous motive.]]

** Pfff's bedroom mentions parodies of real bands, such as a poster reading [[RageAgainstTheMachine "RAGE CRUMPET THE MACHINE"]].

* MementoMacguffin: The Kun Yun Yun, a pink diamond with a worm sealed inside, in "Pong! The Menace!". Granny stole it from Pong as a consequence of his relationship with another woman, and it reminds her of their working romantic relationship. Before revealing that truth, she lied to her family that she gambled it away in Monte Carlo in 1969. Under the command of his mother, Pa creates a replica of the diamond through sculpting clay and inserting Pfff's worm via a straw so Pong can get fooled in having the diamond back. [[spoiler:The replica doesn't hold up due to the worm eating it from inside, and the real diamond is successfully delivered to Pong at the end]].

The original 52 episodes can be viewed on [[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B08H8S2F7W Amazon Prime]] in the UK. The first twenty episodes dubbed in English (plus [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/35740477/the-crumpets-the-animated-series/?ref=kicktraq "The Mix-Up"]][[note]]The video is about two-thirds down in the link. It's not linked directly because it is an unlinked video intended to introduce a crowdsourcing project to potential backers.[[/note]] ) are officially available for free on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6DR5zFtL-TbGZmIdDsZkww YouTube]]. A trailer and an English dubbed episode (with a presumably different voice cast) of ''Teen Crumpets'' are viewable on the [[http://www.c21media.net/screenings/mediatoon/teen-crumpets/ C21Media website]].

A [[Characters/TheCrumpets character page]] is available. There is also [[https://the-crumpets.fandom.com/wiki/The_Crumpets_Wiki The Crumpets Wiki]].

* OuijaBoard: Caprice and Ditzy create a table one in "Ghost In The Attic" so that former can communicate spirits who's supposed to give her the path to love Marylin. Whatever name used is pronounced like "Weebee" instead of "Weegee" though.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: In "Hairifying", one zombie outbreak is initiated by a green substance given to Ohoh by Ms. [=McBrisk=] during an exorcist ritual. Females who inhale the substance turn into zombies who chant "Ohoh get, Ohoh get" and walk toward him. When L'il-One takes Ohoh across the house, it infects many females. Once everyone ends up in the greenhouse, Bother pumps a liquid to the ceiling sprinkler to produce a flood, leading to the electrocution that cures the females' zombie and long body hair statuses. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the showered liquid is a weed killer, causing nearly every strand of hair of those showered by it to come off. And not to mention [=McBrisk=] still being a zombie at the end.]]

* PacManFever: Granny's video games in her laptop look antiquated, although the avatars of her and Li'l-One don't have poor detail.

* SiblingRivalry: "Granny's Twin Sister" highlights two twin examples, between the titular characters, and Bother and Blister.

* WayPastTheExpirationDate: In "On se correspond", Pa, who has been bringing up mementos from a past pen pal visit now that Marylin and Pfff's pen pals are en-route to the house, gives the two boys a two decade old box of chocolates. After Pfff throws it to a trash can, Cordless and Larry went to the room being disguised as their pen pals by using only massive backpacks and facing away from other people. When the other teens arrive in the room, Cordless and Larry are found eating the chocolates. They feel nauseated and leave.