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Season 4 is the fourth season of Big City Greens. It, alongside with a musical movie, were announced ahead of the third season premiere.[1] It premiered on September 23, 2023[2] with "Truck Stopped"/"Jingled", and is expected to premiere new episodes through the rest of 2024, 2025, and possibly 2026.
Overview
Like all other seasons except for the third, Season 4 will consist of 30 half-hour episodes (twelve of which have been released), with an amplified take on what the previous season(s) had; still including music, guest stars, and special episodes. Episodes are once again released in groups, consisting of about 4-6 premieres every few months like the third season, instead of groups of ten like the second.
On August 24, 2023, it was announced that Season 4 would air in September of 2023, along with the first two episode titles. A key poster was also concurrently released, foreshadowing many things and episodes through many magnets and objects on a refrigerator.
In an interview two days before the movie's premiere, Chris and Shane mentioned there are still "lots of episodes" to premiere, including the 100th episode "One Hundred". The overarching arc involving Chip returning for revenge will continue with a number of "tentpole" episodes, concluding with the special "Chip's Revenge".[3]
Production
On January 21, 2022, the series was renewed for a fourth season ahead of the official season 3 premiere. Along with that, a musical spin-off was ordered and premiered on Disney Channel on June 6, and Disney+ the next day.[1]
Partway through the season, production was paused in order to finish production on Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation. There was a six-month hiatus from October to April during said production gap. The show went on hiatus again after the ninth episode for another six months between April and October for the movie, to make room for the premieres of Zombies: The Re-Animated Series (which aired a sneak peek after the movie and premiered June 27, with new episodes taking up the show's usual timeslot), Primos (which premiered July 25; the following month), and the Season 2 premiere of Hamster and Gretel in September, with a sing-along version of the movie airing the same month.
Season Overview
Season | Episodes | Production Codes | Start date | End date | Average viewers (millions) | |
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Full | Segments | |||||
4 | 30 | TBA | 401-TBA | September 23, 2023 (Disney Channel, Disney XD) | TBA (Disney Channel) TBA (Disney XD) |
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Episodes
Title | No. in season | No. overall | Airdate | Story by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Directed by | Production code | Views |
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1. Truck Stopped/Jingled | 1 & 2 | 153 & 154 | September 23, 2023 | Carson Montgomery / Laura Eichhorn | Carson Montgomery, Raj Brueggemann, Sam King / Laura Eichhorn, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Raj Brueggemann, Sam King / Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Nick Sumida | 401 | 148,000 |
Tilly and Cricket wrestle with indecision at a truck stop between Big City and the country. / Tilly wants to become a Big City jingle writer and rise through the ranks. | |||||||||
2. Stand-Up Bill/Green Trial | 3 & 4 | 155 & 156 | September 30, 2023 | Nate Federman / Mary Bronaugh | Nate Federman, Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla / Mary Bronaugh, Jen Begeman, Amber Vucinich | Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla / Jen Begeman, Amber Vucinich | Kiana Khansmith | 402 | 179,000 |
Bill discovers his favorite comedian, Fred the Farmer, may not be who he claims to be. Meanwhile, Cricket goes up against an insult comedian. / When Cricket is accused of a crime he didn't commit, Tilly is the only one who is willing to defend him and must convince the rest of the family of his innocence. | |||||||||
3. Bad Dad/Junk Junkie | 5 & 6 | 157 & 158 | October 7, 2023 | Nate Federman / Laura Eichhorn | Nate Federman, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan / Laura Eichhorn, Raj Brueggemann, Sam King | Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan / Raj Brueggemann, Sam King | Nick Sumida | 403 | 217,000 |
Cricket and Tilly get to know their grandpa while Nancy scrambles to find him a job. / Desperate to ensure his family's future security, Bill becomes a hoarder. | |||||||||
4. Handshaken/Coffee Mates | 7 & 8 | 159 & 160 | October 14, 2023 | Carson Montgomery / Mary Bronaugh | Carson Montgomery, Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla / Mary Bronaugh, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Eric Brown, Stevie Borboll / Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Kiana Khansmith / Nick Sumida | 404 | 151,000 |
After being mocked for his handshake, Cricket trains for a Western-style handshake duel. / Gloria combines her work life and social life by hiring her friends as employees, while Tilly thinks she's getting old. | |||||||||
5. Iced/Chipped Off | 9 & 10 | 161 & 162 | October 21, 2023 | Laura Eichhorn / Julia Layton, Lacey Dyer | Laura Eichhorn, Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp / Julia Layton, Lacey Dyer, Raj Brueggemann, Sam King | Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp / Raj Brueggemann, Sam King | Kiana Khansmith / Nick Sumida | 405 | 233,000 |
Gramma butts heads with Nick when he crashes her special family hockey outing. / Thought to have died, Chip Whistler recounts what happened to him since the Elkins Street battle and how he almost had a normal life. | |||||||||
6. Internetted/Guiding Gregly | 11 & 12 | 163 & 164 | April 6, 2024 | Nate Federman | Nate Federman, Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla / Nate Federman, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla / Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Kiana Khansmith / Nick Sumida | 406 | 122,000 |
Tilly goes down an internet rabbit hole to figure out what happened to her favorite ice cream treat. / Cricket tries to teach Gregly how to make friends. | |||||||||
7. Family Tree/Unguarded | 13 & 14 | 165 & 166 | April 13, 2024 | Nate Federman / Laura Eichhorn | Nate Federman, Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp / Laura Eichhorn, Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla | Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp / Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla | Kiana Khansmith | 407 | 259,000 |
When Bill wakes the family up early to get to Big City early, Tilly stays in a tree. / When Remy tells Vasquez he no longer needs his protection, Vasquez speaks with a therapist. | |||||||||
8. Concrete Jungle/Starter Pack | 15 & 16 | 167 & 168 | April 20, 2024 | Carson Montgomery | Carson Montgomery, Raj Brueggemann, Sam King / Carson Montgomery, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Raj Brueggemann, Sam King / Gabi Rodea Carl Edward Mongan | Nick Sumida | 408 | 147,000 |
A nature documentary portrays Big City as a wild ecosystem. / Avid collector Remy struggles to cope after Cricket finds the rarest of all trading cards. | |||||||||
9. Dollar Sense/True Cawing | 17 & 18 | 169 & 170 | April 27, 2024 | Carson Montgomery / Vanita Borwankar | Carson Montgomery, Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp / Vanita Borwankar, Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp | Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp | Raj Brueggemann / Kiana Khansmith | 409 | 177,000 |
To prove to his parents that he is money-wise, Remy starts his own business. / Feeling neglected by his family, Bill befriends a murder of crows. | |||||||||
10. Fortune Feller/No Escape | 19 & 20 | 171 & 172 | October 5, 2024 | Carson Montgomery / Lacey Dyer & Julia Layton | Carson Montgomery, Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla / Lacey Dyer & Julia Layton, Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla | Eric Brown, Stevie Borbolla | Kiana Khansmith | 411 | 106,000 |
Cricket tries to avoid a fortune teller's ominous prediction that he will get a stinky slap. / In an inescapable escape room, Cricket must decide between family and freedom. | |||||||||
11. Turkey Trouble/Hard Bargain | 21 & 22 | 173 & 174 | November 16, 2024 | Laura Eichhorn / Nate Federman | Laura Eichhorn, Raj Brueggemann, Sam King / Nate Federman, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Raj Brueggeman, Sam King / Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan | Nick Sumida | 412 | 79,000 |
Bill begrudgingly joins Cricket to cover up a (turkey) crime on Thanksgiving. / The Greens get into crazy hijinks in a Smalton antique shop. | |||||||||
12. Dream Tree/Blue Greens | 23 & 24 | 175 & 176 | December 7, 2024 | Nate Federman / Lacey Dyer & Julia Layton | Nate Federman, Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan / Lacey Dyer, Julia Layton, Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp | Gabi Rodea, Carl Edward Mongan / Jen Begeman, Lydia Estepp | Nick Sumida / Kiana Khansmith | ||
Bill and Cricket follow clues from Cricket's dream to search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree. / Tilly catches ennui, so Cricket tries to cheer her up. | |||||||||
13. Hullabaloo'd/Jaded | 25 & 26 | 177 & 178 | March 15, 2025 | ||||||
14. Dog Proof/Cricket Control | 27 & 28 | 179 & 180 | March 22, 2025 | 410 | |||||
15. April Fool/Good Grief | 29 & 30 | 181 & 182 | March 29, 2025 | ||||||
16. Evil Family/Greens Underground | 31 & 32 | 183 & 184 | April 5, 2025 | ||||||
Trivia
- This season makes Big City Greens the 13th Disney Channel Original Series to make it to a fourth season after That's So Raven, Kim Possible, Hannah Montana, Phineas and Ferb, Wizards of Waverly Place, Good Luck Charlie, Austin & Ally, Jessie, Liv and Maddie, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Bunk'd, and Raven's Home.
- This is the 4th Disney Channel animated series to make it to a fourth season after Kim Possible, Phineas and Ferb, and Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
- This was also the first Disney animated series altogether to reach its fourth season since Star vs. the Forces of Evil ended in 2019.
- This season will take the series over 100 half-hour episodes.
- However, the series' 100th episode segment was "Pool's Gold".
- This season will return to Big City due to the Greens deciding to move back in with Gramma while Nancy becomes the sole resident of their country house.
- After being absent throughout Season 3, Chip Whistler returns this season as the main antagonist.
- The theme song reverts back to as it was for Season 3A, with only one change; the Greens being able to move between the country and the city.
- Two if the addition of Nick between "Green Trial" and "Bad Dad" is counted.
- This season makes Big City Greens the second longest-running animated Disney Channel series, coming behind Phineas and Ferb and after Kim Possible.
- The various elements seen on the poster foreshadow specific events in the season:
- The Smalton watertower ("Handshaken")
- Business card for Mama Roni's Pizza (Tilly coming up with the Mama Roni's jingle in "Jingled")
- Magnet of Mr. Truckee ("Truck Stopped")
- Magnet of a green Croblin ("Internetted")
- Magnet of Mr. Burger Clown (Remy buying all the BcRibs in "Dollar Sense")
- Bottlecap of Splish soda, holding up a coupon for Nutri-Chow
- Magnet of the Galaxu emblem ("Starter Pack")
- Magnet for the Gloria + Green Cafe ("Coffee Mates")
- Photo of Nancy in the country with Nick ("Bad Dad")
- Magnet of a silver hockey stick and puck ("Iced")
- Magnet for Patti's diner (likely "Truck Stopped" or "Handshaken")
- Business card for Frank's (Nancy trying to get Nick a job at Frank's in "Bad Dad")
- Magnet of the Silverway Bridge
- Photo of Remy and Vasquez, with the latter looking away ("Unguarded")
- Magnet of Wholesome Foods (the reveal that Chip is still alive and hiding out in Big City; "Chipped Off" and/or likely "No Escape")
- A clip of "Dream Tree" is used in one of Disney Channel's 2024 Fa-la-la-lidays promotions; the scene of Bill saying "it's more beautiful than I imagined!" when he sees what he thinks is the family's perfect Christmas tree. However, in the promotion, Bill says "Oh, holy night", although this audio is from a different point in the episode, when he and Cricket are being chased by a moose.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://deadline.com/2022/01/big-city-green-movie-disney-fourth-season-disney-channel-1234917171/
- ↑ https://www.gamesradar.com/big-city-greens-season-4-release-date-key-art-disney/
- ↑ https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/06/the-houghton-bros-give-us-the-scoop-on-big-city-greens-the-movie-spacecation/