Totally Spies!
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| Totally Spies! | |
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 Spies, From Left to Right: Clover, Alex, Sam | |
| Created by | Vincent Chalvon-Demersay David Michel |
| Starring | Andrea Baker Jennifer Hale Katie Griffin Adrian Truss Katie Leigh Jess Harnell |
| Country of origin | USA France |
| No. of episodes | 104 |
| Production | |
| Running time | approx. 0:22 Minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | See Broadcasting |
| Release | November 3, 2001 – Still in Production |
Totally Spies! is a French animated television series produced by French company Marathon and formerly Saban Entertainment.
Overview
Totally Spies stars three teenaged superspies from Beverly Hills: Sam, Clover, and Alex. They fight international crime with special gadgets supplied by their boss, Jerry, who is the founder and leader of the secret World Organization of Human Protection (WOOHP) agency (it has been incorrectly claimed that the girls work for the CIA.) They must balance their missions with their day-to-day lives, worrying about tests, boys, and their school rival, Mandy - something of a prima donna. Totally Spies is sometimes described as "American" (despite being produced in Europe) due to its strong shojo influence and use of well-known visual gags and cues, as well as its Southern California setting. Thematically, it is reminiscent of the 1970s TV show Charlie's Angels, with Jerry serving as a kind of amalgamation of "Bosley" and "Charlie." Unlike Charlie, however, Jerry is not afraid to reveal himself to his agents. The show displays a retro aesthetic that pays homage to 60s design/fashion, especially "flower power" and the like, as well as the 1980s anime/manga "Dirty Pair". (The suits and jetpacks used by the Dirty Pair in episode 8 of the original tv series are a particularly telling hint at Totally Spies' reference to the show.)
Unlike most shows, the heroes are fairly popular at school. They also change clothes whereas most animated characters do not.
Criticisms
Many, however, consider the show to lack any outstanding qualities. Critics claim that the plotlines of Totally Spies are contrived, and that the characters lack depth. For example, nearly every time the girls are caught and about to be eliminated, the enemies leave suddenly, and often without reason (in a deus ex machina). The spies then easily make their exit with a few gadgets, which are almost always disguised as makeup or some kind of accessory - even though these disguises seem to be pointless, as the show has rarely, if ever, had a situation requiring the gadgets to be disguised. The spies' prerogative of keeping their identities a secret is often contradicted since multiple episodes have shown the three in their spy outfit in public, and in some cases even televised. In addition, many characters could be considered stereotypes, given the materialistic, vain heroes and the frequently one-dimensional caricatural villains, often anti-consumerists, environmentalists, or just unpopular people.
For these reasons, the series has often been deemed extremely bourgeois-idealistic in its philosophical nature. Especcialy by leftists and marxists, the series is often seen as pure Americanist and pro-capitalist propaganda, or even indoctrination. The highly materialist spies clearly promote shopping, being popular and other values that make up modern day capitalist ideoligy. Further, WOOHP clearly resembles a USA run state organisation, making the USA the one who saves the world from one-dimentional villans (usually with terrorist caracteristics to them).
Several critics of the show have also pointed out the overuse of "mind control" storylines; however, this seems to be a running gag, as it's nearly always Sam who ends up being controlled.
Certain critics are also former fans of the series itself back from its earlier days, who were convinced the show had "jumped the shark" when the series added "Undercover" and introduced new characters and changed voice actors, some defendants however note that the show's retooling gave the series an identity it had been lacking in the first two seasons.
The theme of secret agents also leading normal school lives has also drawn comparisons from some with the Disney series Kim Possible amongst internet message boards.
Despite these criticisms of the series, it has proven popular enough to continue through several seasons.
Characters
Main characters
- NOTE: Some say Clover and Alex's last names are Ewing and Vasquez. However, the show's creator says this is not true and is only a rumor. Likewise, in the episode "Do You Believe In Magic?" Sam introduces herself as "Samantha Simpson" when she enters the Magician's castle, but it is unconfirmed if this is her actual last name.
The three spies are the protagonists of the show, and are therefore the most developed characters (with their own running jokes).
Sam
Samantha (Sam for short) is considered to be the smartest member of the trio of girls. She has long red hair and green eyes, and her spy suit is green. She comes up with the plans to solve the mysteries, is an experienced spy, and has made many of the "world's enemies" pay for their doings with her smarts and ability to fight combat sports. Unfortunately, she tends to be brainwashed on a fairly regular basis. Like Clover and Alex, Sam is stereotypically feminine and shopping-crazy.
Sam is also generally considered the second-best fighter, specializing in kicking techniques and using the gadgets in her battles, unlike the other two, who mainly rely on hand-to-hand combat.
Jennifer Hale voiced both Sam and Mandy.
Sam resembles Diana Rigg´s 1960s characterization of Emma Peel, as well as Kim Possible, the protagonist of her own self-titled cartoon series, although her characteristics are somewhat reminiscent of Kim's friend, Ron Stoppable.
Mind Control
There have been a few episodes where Sam has found herself working for the antagonists. Although the other girls have done so as well, Sam seems to be the most common victim. Episodes featuring this device often involve Sam getting kidnapped after being found out by the villains of the episode, and then being subjected to mind control and brainwashing techniques, forcing her to serve their cause or to attempt to destroy the rest of the spies. Sam is generally known as the Diane Szalinski of the series; she is the smart one who always gets mind-controlled. The following episodes provide some examples:
- Spy Gladiators, after being captured on a sinister survival reality TV show, Sam has a mind-control collar placed on her neck and is then dressed in gladiator armor. Under the control of a satellite, she nearly drops Alex from a cliff.
- In Child's Play, Sam is hit by a mind control beam from a "Barkaroo" toy, which causes her to act like a stereotypical child, even to the point where she refuses to do anything unless "Simon says".
- In W.O.W., she is brainwashed into joining a group of female warriors (most likely inspired by Amazons) and ends up fighting Clover and Alex.
- In Malled, a mind-control patch is placed on her head, turning her into an anti-consumerist terrorist (ironic because the Spies are always portrayed as rabid consumerists).
- In Dental? More Like Mental, she is transformed, by a form of laughing gas capable of mind control and a machine that can physically alter mouths and teeth, into an insane dental assistant with enlarged teeth capable of blinding people.
- In Computer Creep Much, a computer virus is transferred to her by the infected Jerry through the compowder, causing her to act almost as a parody of the Borg ("Resistance is futile").
- In Power Yoga Much, she is turned into a martial arts expert to destroy a competing yoga school.
Clover
Clover's speech and vocal intonations are typical of a valley girl, and she is deeply concerned with fashion; even when on a mission, she will often fret about her appearance. She has medium length blonde hair, blue eyes, and is rather ditzy, but lovable. Her spy suit is a bright red color.
Clover is also the most romantically active of the three girls. Her interest for wearing fashionable clothes can sometimes be matched only by her interest in boys.
While Sam frequently ends up being brainwashed by the villain of the day, Clover is often subjected to various bodily transformations, such as being turned into a cat-girl or gaining a hundred pounds in an hour.
Clover is the most skilled of the three in battle. She is always the first in a fight and wins a fair number of them, She specializes in hand to hand combat, preferring to rely on her hands and feet rather than gadgets.
In later episodes, it is made evident that Clover's social life is beginning to interfere with her work as a spy - in one episode, she is talking on her cell phone while Sam and Alex are chasing a villain and as a result the villain was able to escape.
Physical Transformations
Like Sam, Clover is constantly the victim of transformations forced by the villains of the series. However, where Sam undergoes mental changes (mind control), Clover often ends up being changed physically, for example:
- Being "modelized" causing her legs to be replaced with much larger "stout, powerful" ones (Model Citizens)
- Being shrunk to the size of a doll (while gaining strength through the effects of compression) (Shrinking).
- Being slowly changed into a human-feline hybrid by a serum containing feline DNA (Wild Style).
- Becoming comically obese after being addicted to Passion Patties.
- Being turned into a freakishly muscular super-athlete by performance-enhancing "bugs" (It's How You Play the Game).
- Having her hair artificially grown to be used in wigs, the chemicals used causing her to become weak and lethargic (Evil Hair Salon).
- Becoming a circus freak (an elephant-human hybrid) (Freaky Circus Much?).
- Becoming 50 feet tall due to a growth ray (Attack of the 50-Foot-Tall Mandy).
- Being turned into a child, along with the others (I Hate the 80s).
Andrea Baker voices Clover.
Alex
Alexandra, usually referred to as Alex, is the youngest member of the group. She is brown-skinned and dark-haired and wears her hair short. Her spy suit is bright yellow.
Despite being an athlete and fitness junkie, Alex is fairly uncoordinated, being the most clumsy and accident-prone of the girls; many episodes state that she is a bad driver. She reacts on instinct, which many times leads the group into more trouble than necessary when dealing with villains. Nevertheless, as part of the group, she helps give villains what they have coming, usually jail or other punishment.
For one episode in Season two of the series (Episode #45), Alex left the group for a short period, but she later reconsidered her decision and rejoined her friends.
Alex is considered the weakest in battle. She uses her own skills, such as dodging impossibly and jumping at incredibly high heights, but due to her clumsy nature, she constantly screws them up.
Her star sign is Sagittarius, but in Aliens from season one, she was portrayed as a Virgo.
Alex is voiced by Katie Leigh in Season 1 and 2, and by Katie Griffin in Season 3 and 4.
Alex is a fad dieter one of the diets she tried was vegan she also tried the 'rabbit diet' in which she ate only carrots.
Bad Luck
Like Sam and Clover, Alex also has a running joke within the series: her clumsiness and bad luck.
- In "Stark Raving Mad", she is jinxed after breaking a mirror, and believes the events of the episode to be caused by her bad luck. This is "cancelled out" when Sam and Clover push her through a ladder, causing them to be jinxed.
- In "Alex Quits", she eventually becomes tired of her bad luck/clumsiness and, wrongly accusing Britney of being her replacement, temporarily leaves WOOHP.
- In "The O.P." she is turned into a perfect teenager by a microchip placement in her arm.
- In "Alex gets schooled" she goes off to boarding school in England and is turned into a half-person half-dolphin creature.
- She is constantly breaking her Com-powder/X-Powder.
Jerry Lewis
Jerry James Lewis is the founder and administrator of WOOHP, the World Organization Of Human Protection. An middle-aged, very serious British gentleman, he is responsible for briefing the girls on their missions, as well as for providing them with their gadgets at the start of each episode.
Although he has a mostly hands-off role, Jerry has participated in a couple of the girl's missions. Despite his thin and nonathletic appearance, he has in fact demonstrated highly impressive combat and piloting skills on par with (and perhaps slightly better than) those displayed by the girls themselves.
His mother was introduced in "Mommies Dearest": a rather overprotective, stereotypical British mother, she is unaware of Jerry's job at WOOHP (he has told her, as a cover-up, that he is in the guest house business), and finds his erratic behaviour around her (caused by his WOOHP job), such as "talking into wallets" and going onto the roof (to talk to the girls) as a reason to wrap him up in cotton wool.
Despite being the leader of the world's premiere spy organization, the security surrounding Jerry is surprisingly lax, and he has been subverted on multiple occasions. In many episodes he has been kidnapped, replaced by an imposter, or brainwashed. Once, a villain even shrunk down to microscopic size and entered his brain to control him.
In Season 3, Jerry is paired up with GLADIS, an Artificial Intelligence computer system that runs WOOHP headquarters and produces the spy's gadgets for them. Jerry still gives them their mission briefings, however.
Jerry has been somewhat cursed in his personal life in that all the people he relates to keep turning out to be supervillains. His best friend in college, his wife, GLADIS, and even his own twin brother have all been revealed as villains attempting to kill Jerry or destroy WOOHP.
In the 80's, he was a member of a band known as "Double Digits".
Jerry is voiced by Jess Harnell in Season 1 and 2, and by Adrian Truss in Season 3.
Supporting characters
Mandy
Mandy is Sam, Alex, and Clover's rival at school. She is pretty, popular, stylish, arrogant, and downright mean (being of the popular girl stereotype). She also has an incredibly high and squeaky voice with a nasally laugh. She usually dresses in purple outfits.
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David
David is a desirable guy in whom all three of the girls (as well as their nemesis Mandy) are romantically interested. He was introduced in the episode "It's How You Play The Game". He loves the arts: guitar playing, poetry, painting, et cetera. He also has a love of nature and history and hates rejection.
He works at the Groovy Smoothie Shack and he seems to be the jumping off point for many of Clover, Alex, and Sam's personal predicaments while they try to get him to notice them. This seems to befall Clover the most as she and Mandy compete for David's affections. David is blissfully oblivious to the girls' attempts to garner his attention and leaves the girls' stunned with his smile as he leaves to go help at a soup kitchen or fulfill another duty or claims that they are just friends.
Arnold
Arnold is a classmate of the girls, and is apparently the leader of the school's geeks. He is a perpetuation of the stereotype that intelligent people who may seem geeky are not cool. Arnold is smart but socially inept, and just a bit unpleasant. In some episodes, he acts as a sycophant and minion of Mandy's, yet in other episodes he gets teased by her. He mostly acts as an obstacle to the girls and their goals.
In one episode Arnold accidentally acquired a magic ring that allowed him to steal the "coolness" from other people, becoming a "cool guy" himself. (Drawing further criticism, because this suggests that "cool" is inherent to a person's being, or encoded in their DNA.) The power quickly got to his head, and he turned into a supervillain intent on draining the coolness from everyone else in Beverly Hills. After putting up a close fight, he was eventually defeated by the girls (with some assistance from a villainous magician who also wanted the ring). Like Mandy, his memory was erased by WOOHP and he was back at school the next day as though nothing had happened, with a few residual memories he wrote off as part of a dream. He has also managed to defeat Clover and Mandy in contests for and Head Cheerleader.
Britney
Britney is the newest recruit to the team and was introduced in the episode "Alex Quits". Her hairstyle is something of a mixture of the 3 main girls' hairstyles, having Sam's length, Clover's bangs, and Alex's hair color (though slightly lighter). She appears to be of Asian descent, with purple eyes and sporting a baby blue spy suit.
Villains
For the first three seasons, the villains featured in the series were generally one-shot characters used for a single episode. Most of them intend to oppose the world because they have suffered some major disappointment (such as being constantly rejected by men) or trauma. Only a few villains ever made a second appearance, which always focused around them attempting to get revenge on the girls for foiling their original scheme.
In Season four, the show gave the Spies an actual arch-nemesis in the form of Terry Lewis, Jerry's evil twin brother. Terence was supposed to be the show's final villain, being the main antagonist of the three-part episode "Evil Promotion Much?", originally intended as the series finale. When the show was renewed for a 4th season, Terence was brought back and given a major role as the main enemy of the girls. He forms a Legion of Doom-style organization called LAMOS, comprised of the show's recurring villains, in order to battle the spies.
Below is a list of the series' few recurring villains, most of which become members of LAMOS in Season 4.
Terence Lewis
Terry Lewis (normally referred to as Terence) is Jerry's twin brother. He had surgery to alter his appearance so as not to resemble his twin. In the three-Part Season 3 finale Evil Promotion Much?, the spies were selected for promotion to the next level due to their stunning success, and were sent to Terence for the training they would require to become Super Spies. At first, Terence appeared to be an easy-going, relaxed administrator.
However, the spies discovered that Terence was secretly Jerry's twin brother as well as the mastermind behind an elaborate plot to eliminate Jerry so that he could seize control of WOOHP's secret army of killer robots and take over the world. Terence's prime motive was an intense lifelong hatred of his twin brother stemming from an incident in fourth grade where he and Jerry were giving each other the answers until they were found out. Terence ultimately tried to kill his own brother Jerry in cold blood, but was defeated by the spies.
Terence returned in Season 4, where he became the girls' arch-nemesis and the main villain of the series. Terence formed the organization LAMOS (League Aiming to Menace and Overthrow the Spies), a collection of recurring villains from the show's previous seasons, in an attempt to defeat the girls, take control of WOOHP, and conquer the world.
In Season 4, Terence is much more maniacal than he was in the Season 3 season finale, and has even replaced his original white business suit with an outlandish Napoleonic military uniform (complete with monocle).
Tim Scam
With the exception of Terence, Tim Scam is the show's most frequently recurring villain, having appeared in a total of four episodes. Scam is also the only villain to have appeared in every single season of the series. A former agent of WOOHP, Scam was fired from WOOHP due to illegal use of whoop technology, and he has since sought revenge against the organization.
He first appeared in the show's second episode The New Jerry, in which he kidnapped Jerry and replaced him as director of WOOHP (masquerading as "Mac Smit", "Tim Scam" spelled backwards) in order to use WOOHP's resources for his own ambitions. However, the spies figured out his real intentions and put a stop to his plans and rescued Jerry. Since then, he has been a perpetual thorn in WOOHP's side, always coming back with some new plan to destroy WOOHP or the girls. In Mommies Dearest, Scam attempted to get revenge on the Spies by kidnapping their mothers and brainwashing them into lethal assassins bent on killing the girls. In Morphing is Sooo 1987, Scam attempts to infiltrate and destroy WHOOP using "liquid-metal" robots capable of mimicking the appearance of others.
Tim Scam is highly intelligent; he originally developed a heat-ray capable of evaporating the Earth's oceans while working for WOOHP, and most recently has created a substance that can mimic other people's appearances called Scamlar. He will likely remain a persistent nuisance to Jerry and the spies.
Unlike the show's other villains, who are usually "themed" bad guys whose personalities typically center around a single bizarre personality disorder or childhood trauma, Scam comes across as completely sane (albeit sociopathic). Also, unlike the other villains, whose plans generally involve indulging in their twisted obsessions (which often involves brainwashing people), Scam just wants to kill for killing's sake (his first scheme involved destroying the world by dehydrating the oceans).
Dr. Gilee
A more classical "James Bond"-style supervillain, Gilee is a scientific mastermind who decided that mankind was too evil and destructive to survive, and thus planned to eliminate humanity by freezing the planet while he and his henchmen remained safe in Gilee's remote mountain fortress. He was defeated by the girls in The Iceman Cometh. He appears to have an interest in Clover as he chose her as his Queen.
In Ski Trip, Gilee escaped from prison and began stalking the girls on their school skiing trip. Blaming Clover for his defeat, he concocted a diabolical plan to get revenge by kidnapping Clover and forcing her to play a game of chess against him. Unfortunately for him, Gilee mistook Mandy for Clover.
Based on his appearance and motives, Gilee appears to be a parody of the Batman supervillain Ra's Al Ghul.
Sebastian
Sebastian was the villain in A Thing for Musicians, the first episode of the show. He returns in A Thing for Musicians and Stark Raving Mad. An elderly, musically-themed villain, Sebastian was once a famous guitar player, but a bizarre accident severely injured the left side of his body and destroyed his left hand, leaving him bitter and unable to play the guitar. He has a metal prosthesis for a left hand, and a Flock of Seagulls haircut to conceal the left side of his face (based on his hairstyle and musically-themed crimes, he may be a parody of Mike Score and the band).
In A Thing for Musicians, Sebastian is introduced as the manager for fledgling rock star Ricky. Sebastian planned to play hypnotic music during Ricky's music concert in order to hypnotize the crowd into attacking the world's governments. However, the spies confronted Sebastian at the concert and foiled his plans, forcing him to attempt an escape in his personal helicopter. The spies turned Sebastian's own trick against him by targeting the helicopter with a wind tunnel hair dryer pusing the helicopter into the transmiter playing the hypnotic music, enabling the capture of Sebastian.
In Stark Raving Mad, Sebastian returned intending to get revenge on the girls by sabotaging local raves with hypnotic music that made people go crazy and start riots. Sebastian used his raves to destroy the spies' places of interest such as the skating store, the museum, and the Beverly mall. After telling the girls his plan he attempted to destroy Beverly High, but was foiled once again.
Marco Lumiere
The villain of the two-part Season 1 finale A Spy is Born, Lumiere is an eccentric Hollywood director outcast from the mainstream film community for his bizarre methods. In revenge, he concocted a scheme to kidnap the biggest Hollywood stars and take them to his private island, filled with various killer robots and deathtraps. There, the actors would star in Lumiere's own personal action movie where all the dangers and deaths would be real.
Unfortunately for the spies, Lumiere also ended up kidnapping Alex, who was impersonating one of the targeted Hollywood stars. The spies made their way to Lumiere's private island, and together with Alex managed to rescue the stars and defeat Lumiere.
Lumiere escapes from prison in 0067, where he then manipulates Jerry into eliminating all of Hollywood's producers. He plan is thwarted by the Spies and Jerry.
Lumiere bears a remarkable resemblance to Oliver Stone's younger, disheveled 1980's appearance. This is probably deliberate, as most of the other Hollywood stars seen in the episode are obviously parodies of real life celebrities.
Geraldine Husk
Geraldine Husk is the founder and administrator of S.P.I. (Super Protection International), a rival spy agency to WOOHP. In S.P.I., S.P.I. agents continually managed to capture various international criminals before the girls managed to, bringing positive publicity to S.P.I. and making WOOHP appear ineffective. The world governments eventually disbanded WOOHP and replaced it with S.P.I. Investigating S.P.I. further, the girls discovered that the "international criminals" S.P.I. had been capturing were in fact employees of S.P.I., and that all the criminal incidents had been set up by Geraldine in order to build up S.P.I. and embarrass WOOHP. Geraldine started S.P.I. to get revenge on WOOHP; when she was a teenager, she had applied to WOOHP for a position as a spy, but her application was rejected. The girls managed to defeat their S.P.I. counterparts and expose Geraldine as a fraud.
In Super Agent Much?, Geraldine returned with a scheme to secretly modify Clover into a superspy. As a result of Geraldine's secret modifications, Clover slowly became much more competent and demonstrated nearly superhuman abilities, but also became more aggressive and sociopathic. Geraldine ultimately recruited the modified Clover into S.P.I., and ordered her to kill her friends. The girls managed to convince Clover to fight off the modifications, and Geraldine was foiled once again.
Geraldine Husk appears to be a parody of Emma Peel from the 1960's spy TV series The Avengers. Her hairstyle and outfit are nearly identical to Emma's, and "Husk" and "Peel" both are words that describe fruit rinds.
Helga Von Guggen
Helga Von Guggen is a rogue fashion designer and one of the show's more regular villains. She appeared in two episodes (Wild Style and Fashion Faux Pass) and has a bodyguard, Trode, to do her bidding.
In Wild Style, Trode met the spies while they were investigating the mass disappearances of cruise ships along with their crews and passengers. Unknown to them, Helga was the mastermind behind the abductions, and instructed Trode to infect one of the spies with her mutation serum throught the use of a dart, resulting in Clover being mutated into a cat-girl. At Helga's hideout, Helga revealed to the spies that she was using the serum to turn humans into animal-like creatures in order to produce instant-fitting pelt coats. Ultimately, Helga fell victim to her own mutation serum and transformed into a massive Chimera-like mutant monster, but was defeated and captured by the girls.
In Fashion Faux Pas, Helga returned with a scheme to use Mystique fashion clothes to strangle people to death. At her hideout, she told the spies her plan, and ordered Trode to keep an eye on them. In the end, she was turned in and captured again.
Willard
Willard, a mad scientist, is an extremely slow man. He talks slowly, he moves slowly, he lives his entire life slowly. After deciding that the rest of the world was too fast, Willard invented a ray that slows down time, and in Alex Quits attempted to use the ray to slow the rest of the world down so that everyone else would be slow like him. He managed to capture the spies (including new recruit Britney) with his slow ray, but was ultimately defeated by Alex and Britney.
In Escape from WOOHP Island, the spies discover that Willard is the mastermind behind an escape attempt from WOOHP's maximum security prison island. Leading a band of other global enemies, Willard shot down Britney's plane, forcing her to crash on the island. He intended to use a robotic duplicate of Britney to kill the spies when they arrived to rescue their colleague, then escape in the spies' plane. However, the spies accidentally unmasked the duplicate, forcing Willard to reveal himself and attack them directly. During the fight, Willard showed that, despite his slowness, he actually knows some very fast martial arts. However, he was ultimately defeated by the real Britney, who arrived just in time to rescue the spies.
Running Jokes
There are several minor running gags on the series, the most well-known is when the girls are in some type of "emergency" (normally concers over boys etc) and suddenly get "sucked" through a hidden tube to WOOHP.
The main ones are the constant fates of the spies (Sam becoming a victim of mind control, Clover becoming a victim of metamorphosis and Alex being clumsy), but there are more, including the "If the pilot's out here/dead/unconscious, then who's flying the plane/chopper?", which always immediately results in the plane or helicopter suddenly lurching downwards as if to crash-land. See each spies section for more details. Another concerns the UPWATI gadget; whenever the UPWATI is mentioned, one of the spies says "UP-whatty?".
Easter Eggs
Several easter eggs have been hidden throughout the show. One example would be in ep 33. Green With N.V., one of the scenes shows Alex, Clover & Sam next to a tall pillar that has a Totally Spies sign on it and a picture representing a disco version of the spies used as a promo on one of the TS websites.
Gadgets
Every mission WOOHP assigns the Spies involves several gadgets given to the spies by Jerry (or, in series 3 and later, GLADIS). (Missions not assigned by WOOHP usually use old gadgets kept by the girls in case of emergencies.)
WOOHP gadgets often have acronyms that spell out ironic or comical words (often accompanied by reactions from the spies) such as RASH and KURTT.
Almost all missions involve the red, green and yellow suits, but these are sometimes overridden by other apparel (for example the UPWATI)
Most gadgets are pink, but in season 3 the colour purple mostly replaced pink as the primary colour for gadgets.
Compowder/X-Powder
The Compowder is the communications device used by the Spies when talking to Jerry, his associates or, rarely, other teens. It resembles a make-up kit, hence the name. In the third it is upgraded an x-powder which adds the ability to instantly change outfits, it is often used for disguises and to change the girls into their spy uniforms. It can also change the appearance of vehicles so it assumed it can change anything. Another new feature is that when the girls are talking to Jerry, he shows up a a hologram, insted of on the screen. Jerry, being a male, uses a communications device disguised as a wallet instead of a compowder. It is shown that in addition to its features used for spying it can also be used to play videos, listen to music, and be used as a pager and cell phone. It should be noted that Alex has broken her Compowder/X-Powder many times. The devices were updated at the beginning of season 3 hence the name and appearance change.
Jetpack Backpacks
These are used in many missions to ease transport from place to place. They often have a finite fuel resource, which makes them of limited use in chases. They also have turbo speed modes, which can be used, above all, to blast open doors. In Season three, they are upgraded, hence the change in appearance. The Newer version includes wings and look less cloth like when not in use.
U.P.W.A.T.I.
The U.P.W.A.T.I. (Underwater Power Walking Apparatus That's Inconspicuous) is a gadget used for walking/swimming underwater. As well as being featured in two episodes, it also has its own running joke ("Up-whatty?")
G.L.A.D.I.S.
G.L.A.D.I.S. (Gadget Lending And Distribution Interactive System) is Jerry's assistant. Jerry also created it/her using the neural patters of a criminal with the evil removed, which/who seems to have its own personality. It also went rouge in one episode when the evil neural patterns were activated by cranberry juice.
K.U.R.T.T.
The K.U.R.T.T.is a road vehicle capable of metamorphosing into any wheeled vehicle. It is at first disliked by the spies, as it is in incognito mode (a brown 70's-esque car), but they soon discover its abilities and put it in sports mode, racer mode and also, at the end, a limousine. The name could be a possible reference to the car, KITT, that Michael Knight drives in Knight Rider.
Laser Lipstick
A Laser disguised as a stick of lipstick. It is used a lot in the first two seasons but seems to have fallen out of use since. In Danny Phantom the same thing is used. A reference to spy gadgets in the bond movies or more modern gun in lipstick devices.
Laser Nailfile
A laser disguised as a nailfile. It seems to replace the Lipstick in the 3rd and 4th season.
Tornado In a Can of Hairspray
A can of hair Spray that causes a tornado when sprayed. Jereldine used a similar item called tornado in tub to eliminate the spies in one episode (she failed though)
Pogo Gogo Boots
They look identical to the spies standard footwear but with special capabilities. Just like the Just Sticky Enough Gloves they are fitted with suction pads allowing them to stand on ceilings or walk up walls
Just Sticky enough gloves
Gloves that allows the spies to stick to any surface. It is often remarked by the spies that the Gloves aren't stick enough as they often give out causing them to get caught by the villains.
Cat Fight Gloves
Gloves with retractable claws. Ideal for hand to hand combat. Can also be used in the scaling of walls.
Bungee Belts
Belt that launches its beltbuckle and the attached cable. The buckle seems to be able to stick to any surface. As it is a piece of standard equipment after its first appearance, it is the belt that the spies wear every time they go on a mission.
M-ray Contact Lenses (in aquamarine)
Contact lenses that allow the user to see through objects. Initially they only work on metal but later they seem to be able to be used to see outlines of people when looking at nonmetal objects. They are often kept in a case in the Com-powder/X-powder. Contrary their name, They are red, Not Blue-green.
Drill heel Boots
A pair of boots with a drill hidden in the heel, they are perfect for digging. When not in use they look identical to the spies standard footwear.
Multi-Function Charm Bracelets
Well, the name is self-explanatory. Features include mini dynamite sicks, drill, and lockpick. It's a pink bracelet used for multi reasons. E.G. In Futureshock! Clover uses the braclets to deactivate the Whoop security panel at the entrance.(Due to failure of access)
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Episodes
Season one - 2001-2002
1. A Thing for Musicians
2. Queen for A Day
3. The New Jerry
4. Get Away
5. Eraser
6. Model Citizens
7. The Fugitives
8. Abductions
9. Child's Play
10. Silicon Valley Girls
11. Spy Gladiators
12. Shrinking
13. Aliens
14. Man or Machine
15. Wild Style
16. Black Widows
17. Passion Patties
18. Stuck In the Middle-Ages With You
19. Evil Boyfriend
20. Game Girls
21. Iceman Cometh
22. Spies Vs. Spies
23. Do You Believe In Magic?
24. Soul Collector
25. A Spy is Born (Pt. I)
26. Malled
27. Vacation:The Getaway
Season two - 2003-2004
27. A Spy is Born (Pt. II)
28. I Want My Mummy
29. Evil Hair Salon
30. The Yuck Factor
31. It's How You Play the Game
32. Here Comes the Sun
33. Green with N.V.
34. Boy Bands Will Be Boys Banned
35. I, Dude
36. Mommies Dearest
37. Zooney World
38. First Brat
39. W.O.W.
40. Stark Raving Mad
41. Starstruck
42. S.P.I.
43. Animal World
44. Nature Nightmare
45. Alex Quits
46. Totally Switched
47. Ski Trip
48. The Elevator
49. Matchmaker
50. Brain Drain
51. Fashion Faux Pas
52. Toying Around
Season Three - UNDERCOVER - 2004-2005
53. Physics 101 Much?
54. Freaky Circus Much?
55. Computer Creep Much?
56. Space Much?
57. Morphing Is Sooo 1987
58. Evil Coffee Shop Much?
59. Forward to the Past
60. Planet of the Hunks
61. Super Nerd Much?
62. The Incredible Bulk
63. Dental? More Like Mental
64. Escape From WOOHP Island
65. Scam Camp Much?
66. Evil G.L.A.D.I.S. Much?
67. Super Agent Much?
68. Evil Airlines Much?
69. Creepy Crawly Much?
70. Truth Or Scare
71. Feng Shui Is Like So Passé
72. Evil Valentines Much?
73. Halloween--Though some sources state that it was known as "Halloween is Like, So Pagan" according to its production notes.
74. Power Yoga Much?
75. Head Shrinker Much?
76. Evil Promotion Much? Part 1
77. Evil Promotion Much? Part 2
78. Evil Promotion Much? Part 3
Season Four - 2006
79. The Dream Teens
80. Futureshock!
81. I Hate The 80s
82. The O.P
83. Evil Jerry
84. Alex Gets Schooled
85. Attack Of The 50 Foot Mandy
86. Deja Cruise
87. Arnold The Great
88. "0067"
89. Mime Your Own Business
90. Mani-Maniac Much?
91. Evil Bouquets Are Sooo Passe…
92. Evil Heiress Much?
93. Evil Ice Cream Man Much?
94. Sis-KaBOOM-Bah!
95. Beauty Is Skin Deep
96, 97. Like, So Totally Not Spies
98. The Suavest Spy
99. Spy Soccer
100. Spies On The Farm
101. Spies In Space
102. Totally Busted (part 1)
103. Totally Busted (part 2)
104. Totally Busted (part 3)
Season Five
Currently in production.
Broadcasting
In the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Latin America the series is being broadcasted on Jetix. In the United States it is shown on Cartoon Network. In parts of Asia it is shown on the Disney Channel like its sister production Martin Mystery. In Canada it is shown on Teletoon.
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Trivia
- As seen above, nearly every episode of Season 3 has the word "much" at the end of its title.
- The theme song is based on the Xenomania produced song "Here We Go" by Moonbaby, and was later featured on an album by the British pop group Girls Aloud.
- An untitled Totally Spies movie is planned for 2007.
- The favoured helicopter of the villains of Totally Spies seems to be the Mi-24 Russian attack helicopter, as it is featured in every episode involving a bad guy using a copter transport.
- The show takes place in 2005, as discovered in Futureshock.
- A few dolls of the series were made in 2005.
- In the episode "Super Agent Much?" people somewhat like Martin, Marvin, and Diana from the animated cartoon "Martin Mystery" appear as cameos.
- Many fans on message boards have questioned Alex's race, wondering if is she Hispanic or African-American or mixed with both
- The season 3 episode "Evil Gladis Much?", Clover takes a girls Yves Mont Blanc boots, but later in her season 4 cameos she has the boots back.