Harvey Girls Forever!
| Harvey Girls Forever! | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Also known as | Harvey Street Kids (season 1) |
| Genre | Animation Comedy |
| Based on |
Harvey Comics by Alfred Harvey |
| Developed by | Emily Brundige |
| Voices of |
Lauren Lapkus Stephanie Lemelin Kelly McCreary |
| Theme music composer | Kay Hanley Michelle Lewis Dan Petty |
| Opening theme | "Run This Street" by Lauren Lapkus, Stephanie Lemelin, and Kelly McCreary |
| Composer | Jay Vincent |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (99 segments) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Brendan Hay |
| Producer | Aliki Theofilopoulos (supervising) |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production companies |
DreamWorks Animation Television DreamWorks Classics |
| Original release | |
| Network |
Netflix Disney Junior Cartoonito |
| Release | June 29, 2018 – January 10, 2020 |
Harvey Girls Forever! (originally titled Harvey Street Kids in its first season, then retroactively retitled) is an American animated comedy television series produced by Brendan Hay and Aliki Theofilopoulos for DreamWorks Animation Television, and is based on comic book characters from Harvey Comics. It premiered on June 29, 2018, on Netflix and concluded on January 10, 2020.
Premise
From long kickball games through the many flavors of ice cream to an impressive climbing tree, most days on Harvey Street feels like a weekend. Energetic Audrey, intelligent Dot and kindhearted Lotta are BFFs (short for Best Friends Forever) and the street's guardians. They try to keep Harvey Street great and start their wacky afternoon adventures.
Episodes
| Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally released | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 | 13 | June 29, 2018 | ||
| 2 | 24 | 13 | May 10, 2019 | ||
| 3 | 25 | 13 | November 12, 2019 | ||
| 4 | 24 | 13 | January 10, 2020 | ||
Voice cast
- Stephanie Lemelin as Audrey
- Lauren Lapkus as Lotta
- Kelly McCreary as Dot
- Grey Griffin as Lucretia / Frufru / The Harvey Street Bow (usually abbreviated as just "The Bow")
- Atticus Shaffer as Melvin
- Danny Pudi as Tiny
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Fredo
- Roger Craig Smith as Pinkeye / Bobby the Elder
- Jamaal Hepburn as Gerald
- Cree Summer as Zoe
- Chelsea Peretti as Maria
- Nat Faxon as Stu
- Jack Quaid as Richie Rich
- Bobby Moynihan as Casper
- Anna Camp as Chevron
- Dee Bradley Baker as Raccoons
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Additional voices
- Joey McIntyre, Nick Lachey, Joey Fatone, and Shawn Stockman as Crush4U
Production
Harvey Girls Forever! was dawned by artist Katie Rice in 2014 up until 2015. The show started production in Glendale, California in the following year in October. The second season was released on May 10, 2019, and was retitled Harvey Girls Forever! The third season premiered on November 12 the same year, introducing Richie Rich in the series. Jake Brennan did not reprise his role of Richie from the previous Richie Rich series. The fourth and final season introducing Casper the Friendly Ghost, premiered on January 10, 2020.
Music
Music and songs are a central feature of Harvey Girls Forever! with showrunners Brendan Hay and Aliki Theofilopoulos creating a fictional boy band named Crush4U made up of actual boy band members to be the subject of affection for character Lotta. Aliki said that Harvey Street boy band version consists of New Kids on the Block's Joey McIntyre, Boyz II Men's Shawn Stockman, NSYNC's Joey Fatone and 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey. Original songs were produced by composers Jay Vincent and Ryan Lofty. As part of the promotion for Harvey Girls Forever! season two the songs were made available for free download.
Merchandise
CustomInk is operating official Harvey Girls Forever! products.
Release
The series premiered on Netflix on June 29, 2018, and its first two seasons are available for purchase on VUDU, YouTube, Amazon Prime and Google Play. It was also broadcast on Family CHRGD in Canada and Télétoon+ in France.
Reception
The series was received positively. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media described the series as "lots of playground fun" and said that while there aren't "deep learning takeaways", the series is fun in a "playful, adult-free childhood experience way". Ashby also said that the personalities of the characters are exaggerated, but there is a "lot that's positive" in a series which captures the "joy of childhood".