The show's cast.
While walking through a toy store the day before today,
I overheard a crayon box with many things to say.
I overheard a crayon box with many things to say.
— Bubby in the intro
The Crayon Box is a puppet and animated series based on a poem by Shane DeRolf, it was produced by The Chiodo Brothers, better known for making Killer Klowns from Outer Space and Sunbow Entertainment.
The show followed a bunch of Living Toys living in a toy store. At the beginning of each episode, the crayons in the titular box would introduce the story of the episode, and the moral at the end.
The show also featured a number of animated segments as well, including songs or animated segments of stories told in the episode.
The show ran on YTV in Canada from 1997 to 1998, and in syndication alongside Bananas in Pyjamas in the United States.
The Crayon Box contains examples of:
- Animate Inanimate Object: The crayons.
- Beary Friendly: Bubby the teddy bear's a pretty friendly fellow.
- Black Bead Eyes: Most of the cast seems to have these.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: Dotty and Lump, respectively.
- Living Toys: The inhabitants of the store are a bunch of living toys.
- Meaningful Name: Dotty is a cat with a connect-the-dot-style series of dots around her.
- Piggy Banks is a Piggy Bank.
- Medium Blending: Sometimes, during the stories being told, the format would change from live-action puppets to 2D animation.
- Piggy Bank: Piggy Banks is a living piggy bank, with a slot for coins in his back.
- Shout-Out: In "Three Little Piggies", the pigs are named Lester, Chester, and Sylvester. However, Sylvester changes his name to Bob because Sylvester's a name for a cat.
