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Season 2

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Season 2 is the second season of Big City Greens. It premiered on November 16, 2019[1] after an eight month hiatus with the episodes "Cricket's Kapowie/Car Trouble", and ended on April 3, 2021 with "Cousin Jilly/Gloria's Café".

Overview

In comparison to the first season, this season features more "themed" episodes, including a musical Christmas special and a CGI-themed game episode ("Green Christmas" and "Level Up" respectively), and more episodes focusing on specific topics like swindling and swearing ("Flimflammed" and "Bleeped" respectively). Season 2 is also the first season to move toward a "binge-watching" premiere method; rather than release episodes over several weeks into production, the crew would produce episodes in groups of ten, and have them premiere all at once while they work on the following batch. This would result in the series entering hiatuses lasting 2-6 months or longer; as a result, it's the first season to end two years after it premiered instead of the year after.

In addition to themed episodes, the season is the first to focus on other characters outside of the Green family; the first notable instance of this is "Spaghetti Theory", an episode revolving around the many minor faces of Big City. A few characters who appeared in the previous season appear in this season, including new characters like Gwendolyn Zapp and Mayor Hansock.[2]

Season 2 is also the point which officially sets Chip Whistler up as the main antagonist of the show, in which the Greens help Chip get the position of CEO of Wholesome Foods and take over for his retiring father ("Reckoning Ball"). However, they soon realize he tricked them into accepting his apology so that he can run them out of town with all the power he has ("Friend Con"). At the end of the second half, Chip takes over Big Coffee and plots an expansion plan which will be right where the Greens' house currently stands, and the family must defeat him once and for all ("Chipwrecked" and "Chipocalypse Now").

Like the first season, this season comprises 30 half-hours with 58 episode segments, 56 11-minute episodes and two full half-hour episodes ("Green Christmas" and "Chipocalypse Now"). Season 2 also marks the start of Disney Channel's new "binge-watching" method of episode airing, in which instead of releasing 2-4 new episodes a month after production, the crew now has to write, record, and animate a total of 8-10 episodes and release them all at once. Because of this, the seasons are now divided into three halves, with episodes 1-10 making up the first part, episodes 11-20 making up the second part, and episodes 21-30 making up the last part.

In addition to the new method, starting this season as with all late-2021 animated Disney productions, during Disney Channel airings, the end credits are now "marginalized" and appear on the bottom third of the screen during the last 30 seconds of the show. Also, an ad break is added right after the theme song to compensate with this and to make more time for commercials.

This season was released to Disney+ on May 21, 2021. This was also the final season released in its entirety before shifting to groups ("batches") of episodes from Season 3 onward.

Production

On May 18, 2018, the series was renewed for a second season ahead of its season 1 premiere. [3]

Production on Season 2 began on August 1, 2019.

Shane Houghton announced that this season would have an additional 30 half hour episodes, similar to the first season[4], bringing over 60 episodes from both of the series' seasons, with 116 11 minute segments, and 4 half-hour episodes in total.

Season 2 featured more of the same content as the first season, with more high-profile guest stars, more shorts, promos, and new original content releasing throughout its run. [5] On April 26, 2019, the show was featured during the Fan Fest 2019, with the creators showing storyboard animations of upcoming episodes, including a beach-themed episode ("Shark Objects"), which was mentioned to premiere sometime in the fall of that year. Tilly's voice actor, Marieve Herington, mentioned in an interview that Season 2 will get more "wackier and wackier", mentioning an episode where Tilly and Bill creates a video to be uploaded on a video sharing service ("Bad Influencer"). She also mentioned the series will have a night talk TV show, which would pan out to be Miss Tilly's Fun Time TV Minute, based on the Miss Tilly's Fun Time TV Hour segment in "Dream Weaver". [6] However, despite her description, the season had a few "dark" episodes as well.

On August 24th, during D23 2019, Shane added that a musical Christmas special, containing 6 songs associated with the theme, would come out. The episode would turn out to be "Green Christmas". Another musical special, "Okay Karaoke", would premiere on February 7, 2021; alongside it was the release of the official album Big City Greens: Don't Think, Just Sing!. The season also features a video game-themed episode with CG animation ("Level Up").

Guest stars for season two include:

  • NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns
  • Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2)
  • Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley)
  • Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye)
  • Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)
  • Jameela Jamil (The Good Place)
  • Lucy Lawless (Xena the Warrior Princess)
  • Jim O'Heir (Parks and Recreation)
  • Ed Begley Jr. (Arrested Development)
  • Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live)
  • Candace Kozak (Disney Channel's Just Roll With It)
  • Jason Maybaum (Disney Channel's Raven's Home)
  • YouTube sensation SungWon Cho

"Cheap Show" in particular features Tom Hanks (Toy Story) playing himself, in the first instance of a high-profile celebrity being casted as a guest star on the show.

Halfway into production, the show went on hiatus for four months, mainly due to the coronavirus (colloquially COVID-19) pandemic. This forced most of the staff to work on the production of Season 2 restrictively at home, with the voice actors recording the rest of their dialogue from their bedroom closets. All vocal production was finished on July 8, 2020.[7] It is noted that "Chipocalypse Now" storyboarding was done from home.

Season 2 resumed on January 16, 2021 with "Chipocalypse Now", a half-hour special which completely dives away from the show's usual formula.[8] After The Room, the season went on a small hituas to let DuckTales (2017) finish airing their final episode and resumed back with Bleeped. The season finished on April 3, 2021 with "Cousin Jilly" and "Gloria's Café".

Shorts

Several shorts premiered during Season 2's run, including the "Broken Karaoke" short-form series, where Big City Greens characters (later expanding to most of Disney Television Animation series) sing parodies of songs from Disney Channel movies. The first such short to be released is "Queen of Nice", a parody of "Queen of Mean" from Descendants 3. The Random Rings shorts, first showcased at D23 2019, premiered with "Cricket Calls a Karate School" and would extend to other Disney Channel animated series.[9]

In addition, the Lip Switch short series, depicting movies released under Disney with the lips of a Big City Greens character, premiered during Season 2's end-of-year break with the DCOM Z-O-M-B-I-E-S being the first movie to be depicted. Over the Thanksgiving and Christmas period, the series got the Chibi Tiny Tales treatment.

Other shorts which premiered include Big City Greens: Road Trip and Big City Greens: Shortsgiving, the latter premiering November 2020; this short isn't considered to be part of any season, but DisneyNOW labels it as episode 31.

Season Overview

Episodes


US/International Airdates

  • United States: November 16th, 2019 [10]
  • Europe: 2019-2020
  • Latin America: December 8, 2019
  • Australia/New Zealand: 2019-2020
  • Canada: November 17, 2019
  • United Kingdom: December 2019
  • Asia/Southeast Asia: December 6, 2019 (Sneak preview); May 11, 2020 (Official)
  • Latin America: December 8, 2019 (Sneak preview); February 3, 2020 (Official)
  • Spain: February 3, 2020
  • France: March 16, 2020
  • Japan: May 9, 2020
  • India: 2020
  • Middle East/North Africa: 2020
  • Africa: 2019

Trivia

  • This is the first season of many things:
    • The first season with no episode premieres in the March which followed the season premiere.
      • However, in 2021, new episodes are planned throughout March due to the second half of February being taken up by a marathon and DuckTales' final episode.
    • The first season to premiere in the fall.
    • The first season to end two years after it premiered.
    • The first season to feature Gregly.
    • The first season to have Chip as the main antagonist, following his threat to Cricket in "Coffee Quest".
    • For the first time, two episodes this season focuses on a villain and ends on a huge cliffhanger. ("Reckoning Ball", "Chipwrecked")
    • The first season to have Gloria promoted to a main role.
    • The first season to take on a slightly darker tone than the previous.
    • The first season to not have its episodes in a different order on Disney+ than the original broadcast order.
  • The season took a four month hiatus from February to July 2020 due to COVID-19.
    • This was also part of Disney Channel's new binge-watching strategy where the crew has to finish producing about 10 episodes instead of one to three at a time, and release them all at once.
    • During said hiatus, in May, Disney Channel broadcast marathons of all aired episodes every night in May, along with new Random Rings shorts and the premiere of the new short series, Miss Tilly's Fun Time TV Minute.
    • Due to this hiatus, this season is currently the longest to air (2019 to 2021 - one year and 4 months).
  • Starting with this season, during Disney Channel airings, the series' end credits are now marginalized to the bottom third of the screen during the last thirty seconds of an episode, and there is an ad break right after the theme song.
    • This change carried on to all Disney animated series since mid-to-late 2019.
    • This practice was also seen on Nickelodeon shows since the mid-2010s.
  • This is the first season to not have previews of later episodes for Disney Channel FanFest (having gotten cancelled due to COVID-19).
  • The theme song changes as of "'Rent Control" to reflect Big Coffee is now vacant and Gloria now living with the Greens.
  • Chip Whistler, Andromeda, Rashida Remington, Russell Remington and Gabriella Espinosa do not appear on the poster.
  • This is the only season storyboard artist Faryn Pearl worked on, she would later leave the show and went on to co-direct Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken.
  • This season has a special Thanksgiving short titled "Shortsgiving".
  • On the poster, the Wholesome Foods logo is placed directly over Big Coffee, foreshadowing Chip's takeover of Elkins Street.
  • No clips from "Chipwrecked" were shown throughout the September episodes promo, possibly to avoid any spoilers and to build up hype for the dark nature of the episode.
  • This is the last season of a few things:
    • This is the second and final season to show Big Coffee as a business.
    • The final season to not show the country in the present.
    • This is the second and final season to release all episodes on Disney+ following the season finale. Beginning with Season 3, Disney+ now releases episodes in groups as the season progresses.
      • When the season was first released, the final ten episodes were erroneously at the top of the list; this was later fixed.
  • This season features an instance of strong continuity, specifically Chip becoming CEO thanks to the Greens thinking he changed, Cricket getting a girlfriend, Big Coffee getting shut down, Chip getting banned from Big City, and Gloria moving in with the Greens.
    • As a result, this season is considered to be more serious than the previous.
  • Coincidentally, the season started and ended at the Big Coffee building.
  • After it was released on Disney+, the episodes were initially in the wrong order; this was later fixed the following day.[11]
  • This is currently the only season where Remy does not appear in neither the premiere nor the finale.

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References

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1179070579585908736
  2. ↑ https://d23.com/bright-lights-big-city-greens-everything-you-need-to-know-about-season-two/
  3. ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/disney-channel-renews-animated-series-big-city-greens-premiere-1112765
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1070367111862571009?s=21
  5. ↑ https://twitter.com/chrischoughton/status/1173242255018057728
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOdPllC-00
  7. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CCZYAKkJLY7/
  8. ↑ https://twitter.com/DisneyTVANews/status/1340121593792634881?s=20
  9. ↑ https://thefutoncritic.com/news/2019/10/01/season-two-of-disney-channels-big-city-greens-premieres-saturday-nov-16-999503/20191001disney01/
  10. ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/disney-channel-renews-animated-series-big-city-greens-premiere-1112765
  11. ↑ https://twitter.com/shanehoughton/status/1395876793895190531?s=21
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