Grossology (TV series)

This article is about the animated TV series. For the book series, see Grossology (books).

Grossology (also known as Glurp Attack in Québec) is a Canadian animated action-adventure television series produced by Nelvana and based loosely on the non-fictional children's book series of the same name by Sylvia Branzei.

Grossology
Genre	Action Adventure Comedy Science fantasy
Created by	Sylvia Branzei
Developed by	Simon Racioppa & Richard Elliott
Voices of	Krystal Meadows Michael Cohen M. Christian Heywood Paul O'Sullivan
Composer	Paul Intson
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52
Production
Executive producers	Scott Dyer Doug Murphy Michael Yanover Sandra Itkoff
Producer	Micheal Decsi
Running time	24 minutes
Production companies	Nelvana Limited Flypaper Press
Release
Original network	YTV
Original release	September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29) – October 24, 2009 (2009-10-24)
Chronology
Related	Spliced

The show first premiered on YTV in Canada on September 29, 2006. The original run ended on October 24, 2009.

Premise

Ty and Abby are a teenage brother-and-sister crime-fighting team who report to the Bureau of Grossology, a secret government agency whose job is to investigate gross criminals, their gross crimes, and/or various gross phenomena.^[1] Each episode of the series follows the pair on adventures based on real scientific facts. Aided by their friend Lab Rat (a tech specialist and a lab researcher), their boss The Director, and their police liaison, The Detective, Ty and Abby work to keep the city safe, all while keeping their identities hidden.

Characters

Main

• Tyler "Ty" Archer (voiced by Michael Cohen): Ty is Abby's younger brother and a hard kid to face. He is very intelligent, possessing a cool, active and analytical mind that takes everything in. He sees himself as a scientist and takes his job as a grossologist very seriously. His goal is to be remembered among the very best within the scientific community. He even owns a chemistry set and does analyses on things he finds (e.g. Hairball's hairballs). He and Lab Rat share many common interests. On the field, Ty pilots the GRS-1 and is great at strategic maneuvers. His quick thinking has saved the day many times. In fact, he is hinted to be the most intelligent of the team, being smarter than Abby and even than Lab Rat. He has a crush on Naomi, who eventually becomes his girlfriend later in the series.
• Abigail "Abby" Archer (voiced by Krystal Meadows): Abby is a Kim Possible-eqsue girl who unravels mysteries so disgusting that no adult will touch them. She is very confident, adventurous, sharp and loves everything gross and slimy. She likes to test her limits to see if there is something that can make even her, the Queen of Squeam, turn green. So far, nothing has come close, although she closely resisted gagging on a few occasions. The only exception was when she unknowingly drank contaminated water and threw up. Despite all of this, she is terribly afraid of leeches. She gets covered in slop the most, and being dirty has yet to affect her really long trademark ponytail. On the field, she is a competent fighter. She holds a severe grudge against not only villains like Lance Boil but also her school rival Paige. Unlike her younger brother Ty, she is athletic and participates in school sports like volleyball. Abby depends on her instincts and feelings at times, which occasionally clouds her judgment. She shares ownership of her beloved pet kitten, Hairball, with Ty.
• Paul "Lab Rat" Squirfenherder (voiced by M. Christian Heywood): Lab Rat, a former student of the school and a former delinquent who now is the older colleague of Ty and Abby, working as Bureau of Grossology's tech support assistant He is a lab worker who make different sorts of gadgets and search for various scientific informations into the computer in order to aid Ty and Abby on their missions. Lab Rat suffers from agoraphobia, which prevents him from leaving the Gag Lab unless absolutely necessary, but instead spent his time doing lab work. This is what earned him the nickname "Lab Rat," which he prefers to his real name. He has a pet rat named Hermes, who he treats as his best friend. He also has poor personal hygiene, Abby often jokes that he stinks due to the fact that bathing is not one of his favorite activities.
• The Director (voiced by Paul O'Sullivan): The Director is the head of the Bureau of Grossology and gives the Grossologists their repulsive assignments, often in a state of panic. He is incredibly squeamish and terrified by the slightest hint of anything gross. In spite of this, he is known to arrogantly enter the scene after the crime is solved and take all the credit, claiming that Abby and Ty's success is because of his "great leadership skills". Abby and Ty see right through his farce and make sure his ego is kept in check, which isn't hard to do since the crime scenes often unnerve the Director anyway. He has on one known occasion gone into the field by himself to search for his missing agents.^[2]

Villains

• Insectiva (voiced by Lili Francks): She was once a promising young university student who wanted to study entomology (the study of insects) until she discovered how insects are treated by science: captured and dissected. Now, armed with all sorts of bugs, she pursues an insect agenda, to wipe all people off the planet so bugs can rule again. She, like many insects, can't get past windows, therefore she is continuously running into them. She began a romantic relationship with Sloppy Joe in the Valentine's Day episode "Pucker Up". She also has a twin sister, Arachnidia, who is also her rival.
  • Real Name: Cara Chitin
  • First Appearance: Episode 1 ("Queen for a Day")
  • Cara Chitin's last name is based on chitin, what insects' exoskeletons are made of.
• The Slim Slime Man (voiced by Neil Crone): A bitter old sewer worker, who abnormally fused with a living slime mold while working in the sewers one day, becoming a strange giant slime creature with a ghoulish skull-like head seen inside. As he gets more powerful, he aims to cover the surface world with living slime molds.
  • Real Name: Slim
  • First Appearance: Episode 2 ("The Slim Slime Man")
• Fartor (voiced by Sean Cullen): Fifteen years ago, he was just an ordinary kid, until his older brother Gary tortured him by stuffing him under the bedsheets and farting in there. During those fifteen years, his lungs adapted to the gases in farts. Like a fish out of water, clean air is poison to him, so he breathes toxic gases in a dome that he wears on his body. There was only one thing Fartor wanted... revenge on his brother.
  • Real Name: Larry
  • First Appearance: Episode 3 ("Fartzilla")
• Sloppy Joe (voiced by George Buza): After discovering that a whiff of his stink was enough to render people unconscious, Joe vowed to never let a drop of water, soap, or deodorant touch his skin again, and turned to an easy life of crime. His plan: go from filthy to filthy rich. He uses his extremely filthy body as his weapon. When clean he is shown to be an albino. Insectiva is his girlfriend as of the Valentine's Day episode "Pucker Up".
  • First Appearance: Episode 4 ("The Perfect Stink")
  • Real Name: Joseph Puglowski
• The Scab Fairy (voiced by Jessica Holmes): A crazed former beauty queen who was traumatized over a small cut to her shoulder, ending her career. Not seen since then, she used her exceptional degree in dermatology and mythology to create a high-tech dragonfly-winged suit made of scabs and takes the identity of the Scab Fairy, based on a Tooth Fairy-like myth figure that collects scabs (rather than teeth). She is armed with a high-tech wand that removes scabs from people's wounds and inflicts them on others. Her ultimate obsession is to inflict scabs on anyone pretty, as revenge for the loss of her old beauty queen career.
  • Real Name: Helena Globin
  • First Appearance: Episode 5 ("The Scab Fairy")
  • Helena Globin's name is a pun on the word hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells.
• Lance Boil (voiced by Juan Chioran): He was once a successful Grossologist; however, he envied The Director's authority. Boil tried to pull a coup, using a "prototype shrink-ray." Ty had tinkered with the weapon though, and Lance ended up blasting himself and shrinking in a somewhat lopsided manner (small body; large, misshapen, pus-filled head). Although horrified at first, Lance comes to be very proud of his boil. Banished from the team, he decided to use his skills for evil, with one goal in his twisted head: revenge against all Grossologists, especially Abby and Ty. He is also the person responsible for mentoring Abby and Ty, helping hone their fighting and investigation skills, and tutoring them personally in Grossology, human and animal anatomy, biology, and chemistry to become the Grossologists they are today.
  • Real Name: Lance Boil
  • First Appearance: Episode 6 ("When Ya Gotta Go")
  • His name references the medical term "lancing a boil".
• Hagfish: Giant, mutated hagfish that can breathe air and move on land. They are former bottom dwellers that were farmed and gene spliced with conger eel DNA, making them larger and hungrier. They eat fish and soon threaten the town's whole food stocks, leaving a trail of slime wherever they go. The lead hagfish has a tag on it and like all fish, they are also afraid of cats.
  • First Appearance: Episode 8 ("Go Fish")
• Keith Van Kobbler (voiced by Pat Mastroianni): A popular and undefeated young basketball player, and Abby's former idol. Calls himself "VK" for short, and always refers to himself in the third person. He endorsed the "KVK-1" brand super-sneakers, which have been a runaway success, but after a short while, all wearers (including VK's opposing players, up-and-coming basketball players) suffer a severe case of athlete's foot. After examining the KVK-1 sneakers in the case, Ty and Lab Rat suspect VK himself to be the culprit, while Abby has difficulty accepting their suspicion. As it turns out, VK is indeed the culprit, with a twisted method behind his fame; he single-handedly manufactured the KVK-1 sneakers for mass consumption, and spiked them with fungus (while wearing a non-spiked "Deluxe Edition" pair for himself, of course), so that everyone will have athlete's foot, and most of all, eliminate the competition, so that he will be the only basketball player in the world. His weapon is a high-tech "Wrecking Ball" basketball.
  • First Appearance: Episode 9 ("It's Gotta Be the Shoes")
• Mr. Fowler (voiced by Derek McGrath): He is the custodian at Ringworm Junior High School. He is small, timid, shy, afraid of Paige, and wears oversized glasses. Always hums the song "4 and 20 Black Birds Baked In a Pie." He grew tired of cleaning up the excess pigeon poop around the school, so he built a giant mechanical owl suit, with which he captures pigeons and plots to put them in a pie to bake them.
  • First Appearance: Episode 10 ("Owl Most Foul")
• Kid Rot (voiced by Travis Ferris): After a science experiment mishap while trying to find a cure for foods going bad or rotting, young boy Chester gains a "rotting touch," which causes all organic materials (except for human DNA) to rot with a single touch (eventually evolving into projecting rotting energy blasts and massive bursts of rotting energy), and also gives off a horrible smell. He becomes a new student at Ringworm Junior High School, and causes chaos upon his arrival, with a concerned Abby and Ty trying to cure him (Abby initially had feelings for him, much to Ty's suspicion). But Chester's rotting powers come with a terrible price, as a parasite living inside of him takes over his body and mind, giving him a mutated appearance and a twisted personality, and christens himself "Kid Rot", becoming a formidable and diabolical foe for the Grossology team. Worse, he has a psychotic infatuation for Abby (who ultimately hates him, at least his prevalent Kid Rot persona), and will stop at nothing to win her heart, even going as far as to rot the entire world! His rotting powers used to be an excellent fertilizer (in a way making his science experiment a success), but the second time they met, his powers have evolved to where they just kill whatever they touch. The last time we saw Kid Rot, he was engulfed in rot he had created. Abby and Ty gave up looking for him but as the episode is about to end we see a hand (presumably Kid Rot's) sticking out from the rot and as a leaf lands on it, it's grabbed by the hand.
  • Real Name: Chester
  • First Appearance: Episode 13 ("Kid Rot")
• Patrick (voiced by Julie Lemieux)
  • First Appearance: Episode 17 ("Survival of the Grossest")
• Dr. Cornelius Colon (voiced by Peter Keleghan): A mad proctologist, who plots to engulf the world in a gigantic colon, starting with Ringworm Junior High School (on the last day before its Summer vacation), to take revenge on people for unsympathetically making fun of him for his unfortunate surname. He also has giant tapeworms as his henchmen.
  • First Appearance: Episode 18 ("School's Grossed Out for Summer")
• Far-Ty: Ty as a temporary villain. Feeling he's not needed after Abby showed him up several times, Ty, trying to overcompensate for himself behind her back, was captured by Fartor, who was in the midst of planning yet another full-scale fart attack on the world. He exposes Ty to the same deadly gases that transformed him, using a special process to speed up the transformation. Now, Ty, as Far-Ty, becomes Fartor's greatest asset in carrying out his dastardly plan. And just as Fartor plotted revenge on his older brother Gary, Far-Ty carried out a twisted revenge on his older sister Abby. Thankfully, Ty is cured of this transformation.
  • Real Name: Ty Archer
  • First Appearance: Episode 20 ("Silent But Deadly, Part 1")
• Frankenbooger: A giant monster made of nose mucus stolen by Sloppy Joe (using a suction gun), who simply wanted to make a "boogerman" with said mucus (much like a snowman). Abby and Ty confront Sloppy Joe, and in the process, inadvertently cause an electrical accident that brings the "boogerman" to life. The monster sucks mucus out of people's noses, and the more he consumes, the larger he gets. Its only weakness is dirt particles (just like any mucus), which cause him to not only dry up, but decrease in size.
  • First Appearance: Episode 24 ("Frankenbooger")
• Darko Crevasse (voiced by Julian Richings): A gothic caped villain whose eyesight is accustomed to darkness, and therefore must wear dark glasses. He summons a huge flock of bats to drop guano on anyone who opposes him. As he cannot stand light, his ultimate plan is to plunge the city into eternal darkness. In the Halloween episode "Night of the Living Roadkill", Paige commented that he was Goth, much to his annoyance.
  • First Appearance: Episode 23 ("Lights Out")
• Sarah Senia (voiced by Jayne Eastwood): A lady whose DNA structure was crossed with that of plants. Has leaves and tendrils around her body. Plotted to use giant carnivorous plants to attack the city, and ultimately, the world.
  • First Appearance: Episode 25 ("A New Leaf")
• Arachnidia (voiced by Maria Vacratsis): Insectiva's twin sister. Unlike Insectiva, she loves arachnids, as her name suggests. She and Insectiva have a bitter rivalry, and both pit their own respective arthropods against each other, with catastrophic results. She is the gothic version of Insectiva and her hairstyle is a big double-knob ponytail with the tip shaped like a scorpion stinger .
  • First Appearance: Episode 27 ("Sinister Rivalry")
• Frederick Follicle (voiced by Stephen Ouimette): A hair dresser who doesn't like to change styles. After getting kicked out of a job, he went underground doing biological experiments, and an accident ended up transforming every follicle of hair on his body into super-powered living hair.
  • First Appearance: Episode 31 ("Hairless Whispers")
• Roger Pink-Eye (voiced by Lyon Smith): A kid with a pink eye. He is curious about Ty and Abby's extra-curricular activities, and thus sets off to find the truth about his classmates' secret identities, using various attempts to do so, but all of them end in failure. In the second season trilogy (Pinkeye and The Brain, Pinkeye's Revenge Part 1, Pinkeye's Revenge Part 2), he teams up with Lance Boil (after successfully capturing him) to find out Ty and Abby's secret. He eventually becomes a Grossologist, but he is fired/quits after his plan backfires with Lance betraying him. He then loses his memories of the events.
  • First Appearance: Episode 33 ("Mold Monster")
• Basso Profondo (voiced by Ben Campbell): A disgraced opera star, who was once part of the Three Baritones. He's back for revenge, but this time he's singing a whole new tune; in other words, he's now a burping star.
  • First Appearance: Episode 39 ("Ain't Over Till the Fat Man Sings")
• Gary Gumdrop (voiced by Adrian Truss): People call him the ultimate candy man, but he's just a crazy man with a big sweet tooth and a lot of rotten teeth. His plan is to make super tooth-rotting candy, pretending that they'll take care of your teeth, and distribute them to everyone, so he won't be the only one with a rotten mouth and a large craving for candy.
  • First Appearance: Episode 40 ("Candy Isn't Dandy")
• Gundy McGoober (voiced by Bruce Pirrie): Tired of campers bringing their new electronic devices with them, Gundy uses mutated worms to scare away people from his lake.
  • First Appearance: Episode 42 ("Squirm")
• Evil Clone Abby (voiced by Krystal Meadows): She is the creation of Roger Pink-Eye and Lance Boil, used as part of a scheme to get Abby fired so that they can take over the Bureau of Grossology. She is made from a combination of human DNA and rat DNA. She attacked the city with an army of rats, and later infiltrated the Gag Lab and fired Ty and Lab Rat.
  • First Appearance: Episode 46 ("Pink-Eye's Revenge (Part I)")
• Slitherbuddies: Genetically modified reptiles that start out cuddly but grow to be monstrous and vicious.
  • First Appearance: Episode 48 ("Fang's A Lot")

Supporting

• Harvey & Petunia Archer (voiced by Richard Binsley and Karen Hines, respectively): Abby and Ty's father and mother, respectively. Both are shown to be gullible, and as such, are completely unaware of their children's secret jobs as Grossologists. Harvey manages the city's water treatment plant while Petunia teaches entomology. Petunia has a fear of heights as shown in the episode "Squirmed".
• The Detective (voiced by Danny Wells): A gruff, burly police detective, who occasionally works with Abby and Ty on cases, and is the only outsider who knows their secret. He bears more than a strong resemblance to Detective Dick Gumshoe from the Phoenix Wright series of games.
• Mr. Scheffer (voiced by Chad DeRohgth): An often nervous and uptight teacher at Ringworm Junior High School. He has been noted to teach science (Silent But Deadly: Part 1) and direct plays (When Ya Gotta Go).
• Paige Logan (voiced by Melissa Altro): A popular but very snobbish girl at Ringworm Junior High, and Abby's bitter rival. However, as seen in "New Recruits", she was once actually nice to her. Her father is very rich, and her favorite color is pink. She has been noted several times throughout the second season to have a crush on a blond boy named Rudy.
• Naomi (voiced by Lauren Collins): A shy and gentle girl at Ringworm Junior High, and Ty's love interest. She takes ballet. She also has three incredibly jockish brothers, as seen in the episode "When Allergies Attack" when Ty went on a family picnic with her. It was also noticed in the previously mentioned episode that she has a long list of allergies.
• Emily (voiced by Leah Pinsent): A gothic nurse who is an expert on leeches.

Production

• Back when the series was in development in 2004, the planned series was somewhat different. Background designer Brad Graham was originally slated to do the character designs and backgrounds. The character designs looked completely different, and had more of a conventional "abstract" look like most modern kids' cartoons, but many of Graham's elements remained in the final version. The more diverse Grossology team lineup consisted of Abby and Ty (who were still the main characters, only Abby had pigtails rather than the long trademark ponytail), Nigel Stodding (a British kid fashioned like 1960s secret agent Harry Palmer), Lab Rat (who was an overweight Caucasian boy, but still had Hermes, who looked somewhat identical to the final version), and a weirder assortment of kids including Pink Eye (a beatnik boy; the basis for the villain Roger Pink-Eye), Creepy Crawly (a goth girl with spiders, who may have been the basis for the adult villainess Insectiva.), Sloppy Joe (a dirty spud-shaped kid, who ultimately became an adult villain for the series) and Colin Polyp (A bulb-headed kid who may have evolved into the adult villain Dr. Cornelius Colon in the final series). Abby and Ty still went to Ringworm Junior High School (which looked like a more classic-style school than the more modern one in the series), and the Gag Lab was originally a more complex underground secret base called the Grossotorium. Abby and Ty did not wear Slime Suits at this point.^[3]
• According to M. Christian Heywood, the voice of Lab Rat, upon discovering the original Lab Rat design, his initial audition for the character was a modified impression of Otacon from Metal Gear Solid.^[4] However, the director insisted for him to try the audition more close to his natural voice albeit with some Chris Tucker influence; in which he complied. Although the directors' initially wanted a genuine child actor to play the character, the actor was fired from the project and not only did Heywood won the role but the characters' final design was re-worked and modeled after Heywood himself.^[5][6]

Episodes

• Airdates are from original Canadian broadcasts on YTV.

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	26		September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29)	July 28, 2007 (2007-07-28)
2	26		September 6, 2008 (2008-09-06)	October 24, 2009 (2009-10-24)

Season 1 (2006–07)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Queen for a Day"	Matt Ferguson	Alice Prodanou	September 29, 2006 (2006-09-29)
Ty and Abby must foil Insectiva's plot to use giant, mutated termites to destroy the city. Meanwhile, Abby and Paige fight over who should decorate the gym for the dance. Villain(s): Insectiva
2	2	"The Slim Slime Man"	Matt Ferguson	Hugh Duffy	October 1, 2006 (2006-10-01)
A bitter sewer worker merges with a slime mold and turns into a monster who attempts to smother the surface dwellers in slime. Meanwhile, Ty tries to get more people to eat at the cafeteria. Villain(s): The Slim Slime Man
3	3	"Fartzilla"	Matt Ferguson	Sean Cullen	October 8, 2006 (2006-10-08)
The villain, Fartor wreaks havoc and seeks revenge on his cruel brother by causing a fart epidemic in order to fuel a giant robot called Fartzilla. Villain(s): Fartor
4	4	"The Perfect Stink"	Matt Ferguson	Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott	October 15, 2006 (2006-10-15)
Sloppy Joe, the world's dirtiest bad-guy, takes all the worst smells in the world and makes a giant stink bomb. Meanwhile Ty asks Naomi out on a date. Villain(s): Sloppy Joe
5	5	"The Scab Fairy" "This Scab's For You"	Matt Fergus	Ben Joseph	October 22, 2006 (2006-10-22)
A former beauty queen, calling herself the "Scab Fairy", invents a weapon that allows her to steal people's scabs so that she can inflict them on others. Villain(s): Scab Fairy
6	6	"When Ya Gotta Go"	Matt Ferguson	Robin J. Stein	October 29, 2006 (2006-10-29)
Lance Boil builds an infrasound ray gun that causes instant diarrhea, thereby severely hindering any police investigation. Villain(s): Lance Boil
7	7	"Club Parasites"	Matt Ferguson	Robert Tinkler	November 5, 2006 (2006-11-05)
Insectiva has created a strain of giant mind-controlling head lice that grow on all the kids' heads at Ringworm High, converting them to zombies. Villain(s): Insectiva
8	8	"Go Fish"	Matt Ferguson	Richard Clark	November 12, 2006 (2006-11-12)
Mutant hagfish attack the town. Ty and Abby follow their slimy trail of destruction. Meanwhile Ty and Abby get a pet kitten named Hairball. Villain(s): Hagfish
9	9	"It's Gotta Be the Shoes"	Matt Ferguson	Ben Joseph	November 19, 2006 (2006-11-19)
A crazed basketball player creates a plague-like Athlete's Foot epidemic using his new brand of popular running shoes. Villain(s): Keith Van Kobbler
10	10	"Owl Most Foul"	Matt Ferguson	Dave Dias	December 31, 2006 (2006-12-31)
A giant Owl terrorizes the people of town and especially its pigeons. Meanwhile, Lab Rat refuses to come out of the Gag Lab because of his fear of the outside world. Villain(s): Mr. Fowler
11	11	"Yack Attack"	Matt Ferguson	Alice Prodanou	January 14, 2007 (2007-01-14)
A mysterious plague of uncontrollable vomiting has struck the city, even affecting Abby...which may mean the end of her career as a Grossologist. Villain(s): Sloppy Joe
12	12	"The Greatest Race Ever Crawled"	Matt Ferguson	Richard Clark	January 21, 2007 (2007-01-21)
When the GRS-1 is damaged, Ty and Lab Rat design and build the TYMOBILE, a kicking set of wheels that can crawl, leap, or otherwise get around just like a Feline. Ty is then goaded into a race by Insectiva and her cadre of giant bugs, which is really just a cover for her deeper, evil plan. Villain(s): Insectiva
13	13	"Kid Rot"	Matt Ferguson	Robin J. Stein	January 28, 2007 (2007-01-28)
There is a new kid in school, who kind of smells. This repels most kids but attracts Ty and Abby. A science lab mishap has caused him to have a "rotting touch," and everything organic thing he touches rots instantly. Villain(s): Kid Rot
14	14	"The Insider"	Matt Ferguson	Jeremy Winkels	February 4, 2007 (2007-02-04)
In a plot similar to Fantastic Voyage, Lance Boil has perfected his shrink ray, and invaded Ty's body. Lance hopes to decrease Ty's I.Q. to zero, and heads for the brain. It's up to Abby to go in, and beat him singlehandedly. Villain(s): Lance Boil
15	15	"All Together Now"	Matt Ferguson	Ben Joseph	February 25, 2007 (2007-02-25)
Instectiva, Lance Boil and Sloppy Joe join forces to shut down the Bureau of Grossology by afflicting the members simultaneously with villain-sized doses of horseflies, halitosis and acne. Villain(s): Instectiva, Lance Boil and Sloppy Joe
16	16	"Oldie But A Goodie"	Matt Ferguson	Richard Clark	March 4, 2007 (2007-03-04)
When Abby defuses a mysterious device Lance Boil planted in the middle of town, she gets bathed in green pus that instantly starts her aging at many times the normal rate. Villain(s): Lance Boil
17	17	"Survival of the Grossest"	Matt Ferguson	Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott	March 18, 2007 (2007-03-18)
Competing in the school Science Fair, Ty's main rival is Patrick and his cool robot. Deciding to jazz up his fruit-fly project with a little mutagenic kickstart, things go wrong almost immediately. Villain(s): Mutant Fruit-Flies.
18	18	"School's Grossed Out For Summer"	Matt Ferguson	Ben Joseph	April 1, 2007 (2007-04-01)
Ty, Abby, Paige and Naomi are locked in the school by a mad proctologist, Dr. Cornelius Colon. He then captures Paige and Naomi, hoping to use them as "nutrients" for a giant intestine he developed. Villain(s): Dr. Cornelius Colon
19	19	"Vein Drain"	Matt Ferguson	John Mein	April 28, 2007 (2007-04-28)
When people start showing up with bite marks on their necks, Ty and Abby suspect vampires. But when they dig a little deeper, they discover that it's another kind of bloodsucker that's causing trouble – leeches! Worse, Abby is deathly afraid of these hungry invertebrates. Villain(s): Emily
20	20	"Silent But Deadly, Part 1"	Matt Ferguson	Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott	May 12, 2007 (2007-05-12)
Gassy super villain Fartor returns with a scheme to fart-up the entire planet! But with a plan this big he needs help, and he's got his sights set on Ty. Villain(s): Fartor and Far-Ty
21	21	"Silent But Deadly, Part 2"	Matt Ferguson	Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott	May 19, 2007 (2007-05-19)
Fartor and his new apprentice, Far-Ty join forces to drill into the planet core and turn the earth into one big gas planet. It is up to Abby to stop the gassy bad-guy and re-convert Ty back to an oxygen-breathing Grossologist. Villain(s): Fartor and Far-Ty
22	22	"The King of Rottingham Forest"	Matt Ferguson	Robin J. Stein	June 2, 2007 (2007-06-02)
Kid Rot returns and his powers are out of control. The forest is rotting, and Kid Rot is behind the destruction! Will Abby and Ty stop his rotting tide of evil before he destroys the planet? Villain(s): Kid Rot
23	23	"Lights Out"	Matt Ferguson	Jeremy Winkels	June 23, 2007 (2007-06-23)
A new nocturnal villain, Darko Crevasse, plunges the city into darkness with the help of his army of creatures of the night. Ty scrambles to shed some light on the problem before it's lights out for everyone. Villain(s): Darko Crevasse
24	24	"Boogerman" "FrankenBooger"	Matt Ferguson	Dave Dias	July 12, 2007 (2007-07-12)
Sloppy Joe, the world's filthiest villain, has created a monster made of stolen snot. It's up to Ty and Abby...with some surprising help from both The Director and Sloppy Joe himself...to stop Frankenbooger before its too late. Villain(s): Sloppy Joe and Frankenbooger
25	25	"A New Leaf"	Matt Ferguson	Simon Racioppa, Richard Elliott	July 21, 2007 (2007-07-21)
Abby learns what teamwork is all about when she's kidnapped and imprisoned in a hothouse full of giant, man-eating plants, and her only hope for survival is Insectiva! Villain(s): Insectiva and Sarah Senia
26	26	"Heave It or Leave It" "You Heave, You Leave"	Matt Ferguson	Robin J. Stein	July 28, 2007 (2007-07-28)
Abby and Ty are jazzed to be contestants on the hottest game show on the planet where their gross skills and iron stomachs could make them stars. Only trouble is, The Director forbids them to go on. However they disobey him and go on anyway only to discover the show is an elaborate trap set up by Lance Boil. Villain(s): Lance Boil

Season 2 (2008–09)

Although Season 2 never aired on Discovery Kids or its successor, Hub Network, in the United States, this season aired years later on Qubo. Most episodes can be found on YouTube. The last 2 episodes didn't air until 2017. "Pucker Up" and "Let Them Eat Fruitcake" both haven't aired in Canada yet, but they have aired in Australia.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
27	1	"Sinister Rivialry"^[citation needed]	Kevin Micallef	Richard Clark	September 6, 2008 (2008-09-06)
When downtown turns into the site of the bug-battle of the century (insects vs. arachnids), it's up to Ty and Abby to take down Insectiva and her hated twin sister, Arachnidia (after all, arachnids eat insects).
28	2	"Flushed Away"	Kevin Micallef	Matt Sheppo	September 7, 2008 (2008-09-07)
When alligators start showing up in people's toilets, doing your business becomes risky business. Meanwhile, inventor T.P. Skinner starts selling the Gator-Guard 5000, a gator-in-the-toilet trapping system, so Abby considers him a prime suspect...or is he?
29	3	"Vertigo A Go-Go"	Kevin Micallef	Robert Pincombe, Shelley Hoffmann	September 20, 2008 (2008-09-20)
Lance Boil has planted a nanodevice in Abby's ear, and those of many other students, causing serious vertigo, as well as complete control of their every move. Ty's refusal to clean his own ears has led to a buildup of ear wax, making him the only one immune to Boil's weapon.
30	4	"Sloppy Joe to Go"	Kevin Micallef	Robert Pincombe, Shelley Hoffmann	September 27, 2008 (2008-09-27)
Apparently renouncing his life of crime, Sloppy Joe has found an honest business venture, a fast food joint. But his overly-generous portions are actually part of a rather distasteful plot.
31	5	"Hairless Whispers"	Kevin Micallef	Jeremy Winkels	October 4, 2008 (2008-10-04)
Frederick Follicle, a disgruntled former hair stylist with super-powered body hair, launches a hair-removal laser satellite into space, and Abby is among his first victims.
32	6	"Stinko"	Kevin Micallef	Richard Clark	October 11, 2008 (2008-10-11)
There’s a heatwave on . . . and there can’t be anything worse in a heat wave than Sloppy Joe. How about Sloppy Joe, no water (thanks to Joe clogging the city reservoir drains with a giant load of his armpit hair) and no deodorant (thanks to Joe stealing all of it)? More? How about everyone slathering on Sloppy Joe B.O.-laced deodorant sticks thinking they're regular deodorant sticks? Even more? It’s up to germ & stink terrified Lab Rat to save the day! Okay, that’s worse!
33	7	"Mold Monster"	Kevin Micallef	Robert Pincombe, Shelley Hoffmann	November 1, 2008 (2008-11-01)
What's a little gross-crime in the name of the truth? Roger Pink-Eye steps up his attempts to solve the mystery behind Ty's and Abby's extra-curricular activities by creating a Mold Monster (by infesting cheese with black mold) to out our heroes as Grossologists! Will Ty and Abby get the double smackdown, defeated by a moldy monster and so long secret identity?
34	8	"When Allergies Attack"	Kevin Micallef	Matt Sheppo	November 8, 2008 (2008-11-08)
With Lance Boil's new super allergy-causing spray-gun wreaking havoc with Ty's love life and almost splitting up our dynamic duo (Lab Rat and Hermes that is, when Lab Rat develops an mysterious allergy to the little guy), it doesn't look like things could get worse. Until Boil decides to drop a giant Allergy Bomb on this year's Carnival crowd.
35	9	"Pussed Off"	Kevin Micallef	Jeremy Winkels	November 15, 2008 (2008-11-15)
When Ringworm High students mysteriously come down with a major case of pimple-itis (zits here, there and everywhere), Ty and Abby turn to an imprisoned Lance Boil for help solving the crime. Never short on plans of his own, Lance sends the Grossologists on a wild goose chase, giving him the perfect opportunity for a pus-villain team up. and a final old Fashioned confrontation at the school and both Ty and Abby are captured by Lance thanks to his inescapable loogie lasso, so it's up to Ty's best friend Andy to stop lance and save Ty and Abby from a pussy fate, and quickly!
36	10	"Ask the Dust Mites"	Kevin Micallef	Doug Molitor	November 22, 2008 (2008-11-22)
Lab Rat invents a shrink ray...but in the process accidentally creates giant dust mites, who fall to the control of Arachnidia. Attempting to correct his mistake, he only makes things worse by accidentally shrinking Paige.
37	11	"Turd Wars"	Kevin Micallef	Dan Pilditch	November 29, 2008 (2008-11-29)
An army of giant dung beetles has stolen all the manure from nearby farmland (with Sloppy Joe along for the ride), as part of Insectiva's evil plan. Meanwhile, Abby is forced to serve as the school's Hall Monitor, and help keep it clean...but Paige is determined to make her task impossible.
38	12	"Spa Insectiva"	Kevin Micallef	Dennise Fordham	January 21, 2009 (2009-01-21)
When an ultra-exclusive spa opens, everyone goes gaga for its new line of bug-based creams, gels, and oils, created by Insectiva. Petunia Archer is given a free demonstration, but Abby suspects a hidden motive.
39	13	"Ain't Over Till the Fat Man Sings"	Kevin Micallef	Brian Hartigan	January 22, 2009 (2009-01-22)
When a disgraced opera star returns to the stage, he's only singing one note: revenge! But his new opera stylings aren't music to anyone's ears, unless super-powerful and destructive burps are your thing.
40	14	"Candy Isn't Dandy"	Kevin Micallef	Terry Saltsman	February 6, 2009 (2009-02-06)
When Gary Gumdrop, the ultimate candy man, hits town with his new treat, Gary's Gooey Gobbles, Ty's in heaven. This candy's delicious and good for your teeth...or is it?
41	15	"Swamp Gas"	Kevin Micallef	Doug Molitor	February 13, 2009 (2009-02-13)
As floating balls of light cause power outages across town, everyone fears aliens are among us, except for the Grossologists, who are certain it is merely swamp gas. But when a giant one-eyed mechanical monster attacks them in the swamp, it might be time for a second opinion.
42	16	"Squirm"	Kevin Micallef	Matt Sheppo	February 20, 2009 (2009-02-20)
It's time for an Archer Family daughter/son and father/mother adventure while Ty and Abby take on extreme sports together with their friends Daphne, Chris, Emma, Zack and Dana, Petunia and Harvey take on a Motocross Championship
43	17	"Let Them Eat Fruitcake"	Kevin Micallef	Richard Clark	TBA
It's Christmas time, and everyone but Abby is feeling the Christmas spirit, especially Sloppy Joe. But while Abby is suspicious of Joe's good intentions, Lance Boil attempts to ruin Christmas with his pus-filled, bacteria-ridden fruitcakes.
44	18	"New Recruits"	Kevin Micallef	Richard Clark	February 27, 2009 (2009-02-27)
Ty complains of boredom, and considers resigning from the Bureau of Grossology, when yet another mission to foil Lance Boil is deemed "too easy." Shocked by this attitude, Abby relates how they had become Grossologists in the first place...and they find out that their latest "success" isn't what it seems.
45	19	"Pinkeye & The Brain"	Kevin Micallef	Jeremy Winkels	March 6, 2009 (2009-03-06)
Lance Boil's been kidnapped, and there is a long list of suspects! Could it be Insectiva? Sloppy Joe? No, it's Roger Pink-Eye! That's right, Roger's got Lance and he wants to know all of Abby's and Ty's Grossology secrets. And if the Grossologists don't find him fast, Lance just might spill the beans.
46	20	"Pinkeye's Revenge (Part I)"	Kevin Micallef	Jeremy Winkels	March 13, 2009 (2009-03-13)
Lance Boil and Roger Pink-Eye have teamed up, and they've got a plan. They're going to make Roger's dream come true; he's going to become a Grossologist. All it's going to take is an army of rats and an evil clone of Abby! Too bad Roger's not watching out for the Lance Boil double cross!
47	21	"Pinkeye's Revenge (Part II)"	Kevin Micallef	Dan Pilditch	March 23, 2009 (2009-03-23)
With Abby a prisoner, her evil clone working an inside job at the Bureau of Grossology, and Ty and Lab Rat off the team, Lance Boil looks unstoppable! Now there's only one person left who can stop him, Roger Pink-Eye!
48	22	"Fangs A Lot"	Kevin Micallef	Dennise Fordham	June 15, 2009 (2009-06-15)
When Professor Skinner's newest creation, Slitherbuddies (cute, genetically modified little snakes) hit the stores, everyone goes crazy for them. So crazy, in fact, that they ignore an emergency recall, until their slitherbuddies molt and become giant and deadly genetically modified mutant snakes. Then they can't get rid of them fast enough. Except for Abby, who just can't seem to let go of her deadly new pet!
49	23	"Hirsute Yourself"	Kevin Micallef	Steve Sullivan	June 26, 2009 (2009-06-26)
When a hairy epidemic hits, you know Frederick Follicle's back in town. But this time, he's not just controlling his own hair, he's controlling everyone else's!
50	24	"Pucker Up"	Kevin Micallef	Dennise Fordham	TBA
Insectiva and Sloppy Joe are out to ruin Valentine's Day and it's up to the Grossolgists to stop them!
51	25	"The Fart Side of the Moon"	Kevin Micallef	Matt Sheppo	May 13, 2009 (2009-05-13)
He's back and more explosive than ever, Fartor! And this time his flatulent plan is on an epic scale. He's planning to send the universe's gassiest meteor on a collision course with Earth. But before he turns our atmosphere into one big fart, he has to overcome Ty, Abby, and Lab Rat in space! Lab Rat in space?! This is possible after a new exact spacecraft clone of the Gag Lab is introduced. Will the Grossologists stop Fartor before earth becomes a gas planet literally?
52	26	"Night of the Living Roadkill"	Kevin Micallef	Brian Hartigan	October 24, 2009 (2009-10-24)
Darko Crevasse returns with an eye to ruin Halloween using an army of zombie roadkill animals!

Telecast and home media

Premiering on the YTV network in Canada on September 29, 2006 with the final episode ended on October 24, 2009. the show was also aired on Discovery Kids/The Hub (now Discovery Family) in the U.S. on January 13, 2007 with repeats until June 2011. It also aired on Jetix on June 2, 2007, and Pop Max from September 15, 2008, in the United Kingdom, and on ABC in Australia in December 2007. The show aired with repeats on Qubo from 2016 through 2020.^{[citation needed]} The show was formerly aired on Nickelodeon Canada, and now with repeats air on Disney XD Canada. The show is now streaming on the premium Amazon Prime and Pluto TV.

The first official DVD release for this series was issued in Australia in July 2008. Two volumes are available so far:

• Grossology – Vol. 1: The Perfect Stink (Region 4 – Australia, PAL)
  • Released: 9 July 2008
  • Price: A$17.97
  • Label: Magna Pacific
  • Specs: Widescreen (16:9 Enhanced), Stereo (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Running Time: 132 minutes
  • Special Features: N/A
  • Episodes Included: "Queen For A Day", "The Slim Slime Man", "Fartzilla", "The Perfect Stink", "This Scab's for You", "When You Gotta Go"
• Grossology – Vol. 2: Yack Attack (Region 4 – Australia, PAL)
  • Released: 9 July 2008
  • Price: A$17.97
  • Label: Magna Pacific
  • Specs: Widescreen (16:9 Enhanced), Stereo (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Running Time: 110 minutes
  • Special Features: N/A
  • Episodes Included: "Club Parasites", "Go Fish", "Gotta Be The Shoes", "Owl Most Fowl", "Yack Attack",

In September 2008, they saw the first official DVD release in Canada. One volume is available so far:

• Grossology: The Perfect Stink (Region 1 – USA/Canada, NTSC)
  • Released: September 23, 2008
  • Price: CAN $15.99
  • ASIN: B001CQS7C4
  • Label: Phase 4 Films/Kaboom! Entertainment
  • Specs: Widescreen (16:9 Enhanced), Stereo (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Running Time: 90 minutes
  • Special Features: Bonus episode of Di-Gata Defenders
  • Episodes Included: "Queen For A Day", "The Slim Slime Man", "Fartzilla", "The Perfect Stink".

References

1. Ytv.com
2. Episode 13, "Kid Rot"
3. Bradford I. Graham. "The Grahams: Grossology Development". brad-graham.blogspot.com. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
4. Bondforged Deven Mack [@DevenOClock] (1 August 2019). "@MixxMasterMedia Sorta. I'd found..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
5. Bondforged Deven Mack [@DevenOClock] (17 February 2016). ""I almost didn't get my first voice..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
6. "Mac the Actor".

External links

• (WayBackMachine)
• Grossology at IMDb
• Original Grossology development art by Bradford I. Graham