Troop - The Monster Hunters
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Troop - The Monster Hunters |
| Original title | The Troop |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2009-2011 |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Episodes | 40 in 2 seasons |
| genre | Comedy , action |
| idea |
Max Burnett Greg Coolidge Chris Morgan |
| music | Reg Powell |
| First broadcast | September 12, 2009 (USA) on Nickelodeon |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 18, 2009 on Nick |
| occupation | |
Troop - Die Monsterjäger (Original title: The Troop ) is an American television series , which is produced by Nickelodeon . The first episode premiered on December 18, 2009 on Nick . The regular broadcast followed from January 9, 2010.
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Jake Collins, Hayley Steele, and Felix Garcia are normal teenagers who go to high school. The special thing about them is that they are specialists in fighting monsters. Together with Mr. Stockley they form The Troop . They are not only equipped with the latest weapons and technologies, they also experience extraordinary and exciting adventures and manage to master school despite their stressful everyday life.
Characters
main characters
- Jake Collins
Jake is the newest member of the group, who has to learn in the first episode that monsters exist. He's a good artist as he draws his own comics and is obsessed with comic books. Hayley is not at all enthusiastic about Jake at first, believing that he is just causing difficulties and being a slacker who does not take his job seriously. He thinks of Hayley that she is very bossy. Still, he has a bit of a crush on Hayley, even if he doesn't admit it and doesn't want to show Hayley his true feelings. But at the end of the second season he confesses his love to Hayley and the two become a couple.
- Hayley Steele
Hayley is a popular and friendly girl. She is a cheerleader , plays lacrosse , has danced ballet since she was little, and has numerous other after -school activities. She wants to go to Yale after high school . She is very stubborn and never wants to hunt monsters on the weekend because she has to relax there. She and Jake are good friends, but there are several indications that she has a little crush on Jake. As a result, No Love on Valentine's Day , he gives her to understand that he will never be her boyfriend. But at the end of the second season, Hayley learns that Jake is in love with her and the two become a couple.
- Felix Garcia
Felix is the school nerd. He sees himself as James Bond from The Troop . He is a genius and is well prepared for all monsters. He has no friends except Hayley and Jake. In the episode Speed he had a crush on Eris and they almost kissed, but she had to go back to her dimension. In the second season he leaves The Troop to go to the International Troop.
- Mr. Stockley
Mr. Stockley is the head of the ultra-high-tech troop headquarters hidden below the school. He keeps Jake, Hayley, Felix and Kurby up to date on all current monster activity and makes sure they have the latest in monster fighting technology. However, he panics when he sees a monster. To this day nobody knows Mr. Stockley's first name.
- Cadence Nash
Cadence joins the team in season two. She's a bad girl who causes problems. Also, Cadence is half a monster, just like her brother Chino. She is a Plasma Chrasher and has to eat a lot to meet her needs as a monster. At first, Hayley is the only one who knows Cadence's secret, and she promises Cadence that she won't tell Jake. However, as a result , she and Jake have family ties and in the process he learns that she is a monster. He then sends her and her brother back to the monster world. In the episode On the Other Side , she is released from the monster world.
- Kirby Bancroft-Cadworth III
Kirby will stand by the team in the second season. Before joining the Lakewood Troop, he was part of the Tulsa Troop. He is the son of rich parents.
supporting cast
- Phoebe Collins
Phoebe is Jake's little sister.
- Laurel
She is in For the Love of the Forest and The Monsters I Called Jake's Girlfriend. She's a monster too, but a good monster just like Eris.
- Eris Fairie
She is a monster who appears in the episode No Love on Valentine's Day . She has her eye on Felix. She should return in the second season.
- Lance Donovan
Lance was a former team member who had to give up due to his age. He still wants to catch the monster Behemoth to win the highest troop honor. Even if he can no longer see the monsters, Jake and his team depend on him because he has useful information about the monsters. He appears in the episode Tentacle Face .
- Augustus "Gus"
Gus is the antagonist of the series and the Troops' greatest enemy. Like Felix, he was a nerd. He has a crush on Hayley for being the first to accept him for who he was and sees Jake as a rival. He is attacked in the episode The Master of the Doulos by an extremely dangerous monster who seeks a human as a master and serves him from now on. This gives Gus a lot of prestige and power to usurp. The Troop can free the monster from Gus, but Gus has become suspicious. In the episode Augustus Maximus he returns and wants to take control of the most powerful monsters on the planet and use them for his own evil plans. The Troop can defeat him and he is taken to a mental hospital. In the season finale of the first season he tells that he built a device to attract the monsters. With it he opens a portal and disappears. It is unknown what happened to him.
- Cuddy
He's Jake's best friend.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Stefan Ludwig by the synchronous company Berliner Synchron AG .
| role | actor | Main role | Supporting role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Collins | Nick Purcell | 1.01-2.14 | Ricardo Richter | |
| Hayley Steele | Gage Golightly | 1.01-2.14 | Marie-Luise Schramm | |
| Mr. Stockley | John Marshall Jones | 1.01-2.14 | Ingo Albrecht | |
| Felix Garcia | David Del Rio | 1.01-1.26 | 2.01-2.14 | Jesco Wirthgen |
| Cadence Nash | Malese Jow | 2.01-2.14 | Anne Helm | |
| Kirby Bancroft-Cadworth III | Matt Shively | 2.03-2.14 | Leonhard Mahlich | |
| Gus | Chad Krowchuk | 1.07-1.26 | Dirk Stollberg | |
| Eris Fairie |
Victoria Justice Daniella Monet |
1.17 2.08 |
Tanya Kahana | |
| Cuddy | Dejan Loyola | 1.01–1.03 | Filipe Pirl | |
| Phoebe Collins | Matreya Fedor | 1.01-1.20 | ||
| Lance Donovan | Jean-Luc Bilodeau | 1.09 | ||
| Laurel | Jessica Parker Kennedy | 1.01, 1.26 | ||
| Chinos | Steven Love | 2.05 | ||
| Mazie | Ashley Argota | 2.10 | ||
| Alicia | Jocelyn Ott | 1.23, 1.24 | Catherine of Daake | |
| Omar | 1.21 | Bjorn Henschel |
Production & broadcast
In 2008, the pilot was filmed and was described as " Men in Black in a high school".
On September 12, 2009, Nickelodeon showed a special preview , which was shown after the start of the third season of iCarly , which reached 3.5 million viewers. The official series premiere took place a week later on September 18, 2009.
In March 2010, Nickelodeon announced that the series would have a second season. On October 15, 2010 it was announced that Malese Jow and Matt Shively would join the main cast. In January 2011, David Del Rio announced that he would no longer be part of the main cast of the second season.
The last episode ran on May 8, 2013 in the US after the broadcast of the last seven episodes of the second season was interrupted in August 2011.
Episodes
| Season | Number of episodes | First broadcast USA Nickelodeon |
German-language first broadcast Nickelodeon |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | Season premiere | Season finale | ||
| 1 | 26th | September 12, 2009 | August 21, 2010 | December 18, 2009 | July 28, 2011 |
| 2 | 14th | June 25, 2011 | May 8, 2013 | November 21, 2011 | December 8, 2011 |
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Welcome to the jungle | Welcome to the jungle | Sep 18 2009 | Dec 18, 2009 |
| 2 | 2 | The worm and the washing machine | Do The Worm | Sep 12 2009 | Jan. 16, 2010 |
| 3 | 3 | For the love of the forest | Forest Grump | Sep 18 2009 | Jan. 23, 2010 |
| 4th | 4th | In the monster's stomach | There Is No "I" in Monster Hunter | Sep 18 2009 | Jan. 9, 2010 |
| 5 | 5 | The monster in love | The great punkin | Oct 23, 2009 | Apr 3, 2010 |
| 6th | 6th | Slumber party of horror | Pajama Game ... of Death | 25 Sep 2009 | Feb 6, 2010 |
| 7th | 7th | The unruly cube | Taming of the Cube | Oct 2, 2009 | Jan. 30, 2010 |
| 8th | 8th | The master of the doulos | No More Master Nice Guy | Oct 16, 2009 | Feb 13, 2010 |
| 9 | 9 | Tentacle face | Tentacle Face | Nov 13, 2009 | Feb 20, 2010 |
| 10 | 10 | Little Christmas monsters | The Good, The Bad and the Ickie Doll | Dec 12, 2009 | May 15, 2010 |
| 11 | 11 | A great day | Unpleasantville | Jan. 16, 2010 | 6th Mar 2010 |
| 12 | 12 | The Japan Troop | Lost in Translation | Nov 20, 2009 | Feb. 27, 2010 |
| 13 | 13 | Augustus Maximus | My Gus Is Back And You're In Trouble | Jan. 30, 2010 | 20 Mar 2010 |
| 14th | 14th | The Stockley Syndrome | The substitute | Jan. 9, 2010 | Apr 18, 2010 |
| 15th | 15th | The monster in me | I, monster | Feb 20, 2010 | July 13, 2011 |
| 16 | 16 | The vampire moth | A Moth to the Spotlight | 13 Mar 2010 | July 14, 2011 |
| 17th | 17th | No love on Valentine's Day | speed | Feb 6, 2010 | July 15, 2011 |
| 18th | 18th | The baby snark | Snarked Up | April 16, 2010 | July 18, 2011 |
| 19th | 19th | The wrath of the ghost monster | The Wrath of the Wraith | July 17, 2010 | July 19, 2011 |
| 20th | 20th | His name is Sam | Itty Bitty Baby Dragon | 23 Apr 2010 | July 20, 2011 |
| 21st | 21st | Under the spell of the Cylork | Hayley and Felix on the Side | July 24, 2010 | July 21, 2011 |
| 22nd | 22nd | Felix and the robot | Double Felix | July 31, 2010 | July 22, 2011 |
| 23 | 23 | Don't talk to Dr. Cranius! | Do Not Talk to Dr. Cranius | Aug 7, 2010 | July 25, 2011 |
| 24 | 24 | Batteries not included | Batteries Not Included | Aug 14, 2010 | July 26, 2011 |
| 25th | 25th | Help, Hampire! | Vampsters | 20 Mar 2010 | July 27, 2011 |
| 26th | 26th | The monsters that I called | Next stop: Lakewood | Aug 21, 2010 | July 28, 2011 |
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | The new | The triangle | June 25, 2011 | Nov 21, 2011 |
| 28 | 2 | At the table of the beautiful and popular | The Monster Within | July 2, 2011 | Nov 22, 2011 |
| 29 | 3 | Everything in the game | It's in the game | July 9, 2011 | Nov 24, 2011 |
| 30th | 4th | Mirror Mirror … | Mirrors | July 16, 2011 | Nov 29, 2011 |
| 31 | 5 | The snoop | A Sniff Too Far | Oct 30, 2012 | Nov 28, 2011 |
| 32 | 6th | Family ties | Oh brother | July 23, 2011 | Nov 30, 2011 |
| 33 | 7th | On the other hand | Through the Looking Glass | July 30, 2011 | Dec 1, 2011 |
| 34 | 8th | The copied Kirby | Start Me Up | Aug 6, 2011 | Dec 5, 2011 |
| 35 | 9 | Jealousy on Valentine's Day | The Eris Returns | Oct 30, 2012 | Dec 2, 2011 |
| 36 | 10 | A kiss in the fog | Road trip | May 7, 2013 | Dec 7, 2011 |
| 37 | 11 | The hammer | The Prisoner of Lakewood | Oct 29, 2012 | Nov 25, 2011 |
| 38 | 12 | The friends-only date | The Bird You Cannot Change | May 6, 2013 | Dec 6, 2011 |
| 39 | 13 | Frosty times | Ice Hassles | May 8, 2013 | Dec 8, 2011 |
| 40 | 14th | With umbrella, charm and dog | Doom Hound | Oct 29, 2012 | Nov 23, 2011 |
Web links
- Troop - The Monster Hunter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Viacom Brand Solutions: The Troop
Individual evidence
- ↑ Troop - The Monster Hunters. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on July 8, 2013 .
- ^ John Marshall Jones' audition information
- ↑ Nickelodeon assembles monster comedy "The Troop"
- ↑ Cable ratings: USC, VMAs, iCarly and True Blood finale ...
- ↑ Nickelodeon announces program for the 2010-2011 season . Nickelodeon. March 12, 2010. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ↑ EXCLUSIVE: Matt Shively and Malese Jow are Joining The Troop!
