Get Blake!

Get Blake!
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Genre	Comedy Science fiction
Created by	Antoine Guilbaud
Written by	Derek Dressler Eric Rivera Patrick Andrew O'Connor Dave Lewman Cindy Morrow
Directed by	Daniel Klein Pascal Jardin
Voices of	Robbie Daymond Spike Spencer Kevin Glickman John Fisher Danny Katiana Faruq Tauheed Katie Leigh
Theme music composer	Jean-Philippe Verdin
Opening theme	"Get Blake! Theme", performed by Robbie Daymond
Ending theme	"Get Blake! Theme" (instrumental)
Composer(s)	Norbert Gilbert
Country of origin	France United States
Original language(s)	English French
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Antoine Guilbaud Kaz Vincent Chalvon-Demersay David Michel Eryk Casemiro
Producer(s)	Derek Dressler David Michel Vincent Chalvon-Demersay
Editor(s)	Derek Dressler
Running time	11 minutes
Production company(s)	Marathon Media
Distributor	Zodiak Kids
Release
Original network	Gulli & Nickelodeon (France) Nicktoons (U.S.)
First shown in	United Kingdom Ireland
Original release	March 2, 2015 – present
External links
Production website

Get Blake! (formerly Blake and the Aliens) is a French/American children's animated television series. The series is produced by the French animation company Marathon Media for Gulli and the global Nickelodeon network.^[1][2] The show first premiered on March 2, 2015 on Nicktoons in the United Kingdom and Ireland.^[3] It premiered on Nickelodeon in France on April 13 and debut on Gulli in late 2015.^[4]

Get Blake! was created by Antoine Guilbaud, an animator from France currently based in Los Angeles. Guilbaud's previous experiences in animation have included writing and storyboarding on hit series such as Rocko's Modern Life, Camp Lazlo and Phineas & Ferb. Acclaimed independent cartoonist Kaz, who had previously collaborated with Guilbaud on the latter two shows, was brought on board as co-executive producer.

Plot

The series tracks the exploits of Blake Myers, an adventurous boy who is destined to one day become a space ranger who protects humanity from alien squirrels called "Squaliens". The Squaliens, however, are sent back in time to prevent Blake from fulfilling this destiny.^[2]

Characters

• Blake Myers (Robbie Daymond) - Blake is 13 years old and is destined to be a space ranger as an adult. He is skilled at parkour which helps in escaping the Squaliens.
• Mitch de la Cruz (Spike Spencer) - Blake's best friend who cherishes nothing more than their friendship and gets jealous whenever Blake's attention is diverted to someone else.
• Maxus (John T. Fisher) - The bossiest and shortest of the Squalien trio, Jerome's brother and the General's nephew.
• Jerome (Danny Katiana) - The dimwit of the Squalien trio who is Maxus' brother and the General's nephew.
• Leonard (Kevin Glickman) - The genius and self-appointed leader of the Squalien trio. He is always the one who invents the gadgets necessary for their missions.
• Squalien General (Kevin Glickman) - The Squaliens' commander who sent Leonard, Jerome and Maxus from the future to apprehend Blake. As Maxus and Jerome's uncle, he mostly takes their side and doubts Leonard.
• Zorka (?) - The resident contractor and also Roy's guardian.
• Skye Gunderson (Katie Leigh) - Blake's neighbor as well as his love interest. She also volunteers as a dental nurse helping her father.
• Roy Cronk (Faruq Tauheed) - An elderly man whose nerves Blake and Mitch often get on.
• Dale Myers (Derek Dressler) - Blake's Dad, and co-owner of the family travel business, "Let's Travel!".
• Darla Myers (Tarah Consoli) - Blake's Mom, and co-owner of "Let's Travel!".
• Rodrigo de la Cruz () - Mitch's father who is also a skilled scientist/inventor.
• Carmen de la Cruz (Yeni Álvarez) - Mitch's mother who organizes the town's block parties.
• Dr. Björn Gunderson () - Skye's father who is the resident dentist and like her he also has gap teeth.
• Isabelle Gunderson () - Skye's mother.
• Sunshine Gunderson () - Skye's baby sister.
• Fast Eddy - The neighborhood dog.

Episodes

No.	Title	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date	U.S. air date
1	"Get Shrunk!"	Dani Vetere	Christophe Ollivier-Noborio	March 2, 2015	TBA 2016
The Squaliens shrink Blake and Mitch.
2	"Get Inked!"	Paul Grinberg	Daniel Klein	March 3, 2015	TBA 2016
Leonard invents a device which switches bodies. When Blake and Mitch visit an aquarium, Blake ends up getting his body switched with an octopus while Mitch's is switched with a penguin. Both boys have to go after the creatures in their bodies, with the boys in the new bodies.
3	"Get Pizza!"	Derek Dressler	Olivier Poirette	March 4, 2015	May 4, 2016
Blake's Mom makes her own pizza which goes viral, earning income for Blake and Mitch. Even the Squaliens eventually get addicted to the pizza, but likewise Blake's Mom becomes addicted to making pizza.
4	"Get Prehistoric!"	Eric Rivera	Sandrine Sekulak	March 5, 2015	May 4, 2016
While searching for a birthday present for Skye, the Squaliens leave a bicycle for Blake which ends up transporting him and Mitch to the stone age.
5	"Get Old!"	May Chan	Christophe Ollivier-Noborio	March 6, 2015	April 27, 2016
The Squaliens turn Blake and Mitch into senior citizens so that Blake won't be fit to go into space.
6	"Get Frozen!"	Derek Dressler	Joan Gouviac	March 9, 2015	April 27, 2016
Leonard paralyses Blake with a freeze ray, which Jerome accidentally paralyses Leonard with. The two are then mistaken for statues and left at a lawn. Mitch has to team up with the dimwitted Jerome to save them both.
7	"Get Amnesia!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Pascal Ropars	March 10, 2015	May 11, 2016
Blake and Leonard lose their memory and are convinced they're best friends.
8	"Get Fishin'!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Daniel Klein	March 11, 2015	May 11, 2016
Blake must master playing a wooden fish for a battle-of-the-bands performance with Skye.
9	"Get Dogged!"	Cindy Morrow	Joan Gouviac	March 12, 2015	April 20, 2016
The Squaliens disguise as a dog which becomes Blake's new best friend.
10	"Get Commercial!"	Eric Rivera	Yves Bigerel	March 13, 2015	April 20, 2016
The Squaliens disguise themselves to ruin a new commercial Blake films to replace one from his childhood.
11	"Get Well!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Pascal Ropars	March 16, 2015	November 6, 2016
Mitch, Jerome and Maxus contract an illness which gives them hallucinations, leaving Blake and Leonard to face each other alone.
12	"Get Boots!"	Eric Rivera	Jean Gouviac	March 17, 2015	November 20, 2016
Both Blake and the Squalien General yearn for the same pair of indestructible boots. Since the General commands the Squaliens to get the boots for him before getting Blake, the trio must resist fighting Blake until then.
13	"Get Invisible!"	Sindy Spackman	Christophe Ollivier-Noborio	March 18, 2015	TBA 2016
Blake gets back at the Squaliens after he uses an invisibility ring they lose.
14	"Get Hairy!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Pascal Ropars	March 19, 2015	May 18, 2016
After Blake and Mitch use Mitch's dad's hair grown solution to watch a movie, they have hair growing all over their bodies.
15	"Get Elected!"	Eric Rivera	Daniel Klein	March 20, 2015	TBA 2016
Roy holds an election against Mitch's mom so that he can ruin Blake's life. Leonard also attempts to brainwash Roy to increase his chance of getting elected.
16	"Get Toothy!"	Dave Lewman	Joan Gouviac	March 23, 2015	TBA 2016
Dr. Gunderson entrusts Blake to perform for kids as his mascot, Mr. Toothy, while he searches for a missing chameleon with the other Gundersons.
17	"Get Squirrels!"	Reid Harrison	Pascal Ropars	March 24, 2015	May 18, 2016
Leonard brainwashes Earth squirrels to do his bidding in getting Blake.
18	"Get Terrestrial!"	Eric Rivera	Daniel Klein	March 25, 2015	TBA 2016
The Squaliens abduct a baby halo-wearing alien to help them get Blake, but it ends up with him and he and Mitch end up raising it.
19	"Get Peaceful!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Christophe Ollivier-Noborio	March 26, 2015	TBA 2016
Leonard turns Blake into a hippie so he won't defeat the squaliens in the future.
20	"Get Hurtin'!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Joan Gouviac	March 27, 2015	TBA 2016
Leonard synchronizes his nervous system with Blake so either can feel any pain the other has.
21	"Get Sleep!"	May Chan	Christophe Ollivier-Noborio	September 8, 2015	November 20, 2016
The Squaliens intend to put Blake in a deep sleep, but their sleep powder ends up on Roy. Blake and Mitch help the asleep Roy on his date while the Squaliens continue trying to put Blake to sleep.
22	"Get Surprised!"	Eric Rivera	Daniel Klein	September 10, 2015
On Blake's birthday, Leonard abducts him whilst gathering everyone else at a birthday party for him, but Mitch smells a rat.
23	"Get Wet!"	Patrick Andrew O'Connor	Anthony Pascal	September 11, 2015
24	"Get Sentient!"	Eric Rivera	Olivier Derynck	September 14, 2015
25	"Get Snatched!"	Chris Savino	Christophe Ollivier-Noborio	September 15, 2015
26	"Get Grounded!"	Eric Rivera	Anthony Pascal	September 16, 2015
27	"Get Blakes!"	May Chan	Miguel Rodrigues	September 17, 2015
28	"Get Trapped!"	David Lewman	Joan Gouviac	September 18, 2015
29	"Get Dreamin'!"	Eric Rivera	Olivier Derynck	September 21, 2015
30	"Get Reception!"	Derek Dressler	Ronan Le Brun	September 22, 2015
31	"Get Surrendered!"	Derek Dressler	Joan Gouviac	September 23, 2015	May 25, 2016
When the squalians are shock that future blake has won and he tell Maxus and Jermone to surrender his past self that they fail to get him.
32	"Get Late!"	Eric Rivera	Daniel Klein	September 24, 2015	May 25, 2016
33	"Get Morphed!"	TBA	TBA	September 25, 2015
After failing to get Blake, the General decided to replace his nephews with a squalian bot that can morph into anything.
34	"Get Tough!"	TBA	TBA	September 28, 2015	TBA
35	"Get Stuck!"	TBA	TBA	September 29, 2015
36	"Get Baking!"	TBA	TBA	September 30, 2015
37	"Get Treasure!"	TBA	TBA	October 1, 2015
38	"Get Weather!"	TBA	TBA	October 2, 2015
39	"Get Weasel!"	Eric Rivera	Kévin Audi-Grivetta	October 5, 2015
40	"Get Mommy!"	Derek Dressler	Fabien Brandily	October 6, 2015
41	"Get Cratered!"	Derek Dressler	Yves Bigerel	October 7, 2015
42	"Get Non-Existent!"	David Lewman	Richard Méril	October 8, 2015
43	"Get Racing!"	TBA	TBA	October 9, 2015
44	"Get Piratical!"	TBA	TBA	October 12, 2015
45	"Get Western!"	TBA	TBA	October 13, 2015
46	"Get Medieval!"	TBA	TBA	October 14, 2015
Blake and Mitch play jousting, only to be joined in by the Squaliens.
47	"Get Zombies!"	Brad Birch	Daniel Klein	October 26, 2015	November 6, 2016
Since Blake and Mitch have been struggling to win in a video game, Leonard intends to trap them in it, only to bring the zombies from the game to life.
48	"Get Spooked!"	Cindy Morrow	Pascal Ropars	October 27, 2015
Skye tells Blake and Mitch a ghost story that scares them and the Squaliens.
49	"Get Skye! (Part 1) / Get Skye! (Part 2)"	Derek Dressler	Pascal Ropars (Part 1) Joan Gouviac (Part 2)	TBA
The Squaliens forge a letter from Skye to lure Blake. They freeze Skye and hold her hostage after their plan fails, prompting Blake to go after them to rescue his valentine.
50	"Got Blake! (Part 1) / Got Blake! (Part 2)"	TBA	TBA

Broadcast

Get Blake! was originally going to premiere on Nickelodeon in the United States in April 2015, but instead began to air on Nicktoons on April 20, 2016.^[3][5] The series premiered on Nickelodeon in Africa on April 6 but later moved to Nicktoons in Africa from November 2 for new episodes and on Nickelodeon in Australia and New Zealand on May 17.^[6]

References

1. Roxborough, Scott (September 25, 2012). "France's Marathon Teams With Nickelodeon on 'Blake and the Aliens'". [THR.com]. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
2. "Get Blake!". Marathon Media. 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
3. "Zodiak Kids Announces Presales For Get Blake!". Zodiak Rights (Press release). February 25, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
4. Nickelodeon France (March 28, 2015). "Objectif Blake — Bande annonce — NICKELODEON". YouTube (in French). Retrieved September 26, 2015.
5. http://www.nickandmore.com/2016/03/31/breadwinners-premieres-move-to-nicktoons-get-blake-finally-premieres/
6. P, Charles (April 29, 2015). "Foxtel in May: 200+ new shows including Wayward Pines, Open Slather, Nashville and River Cottage Australia". The Green Room. Foxtel. Retrieved September 26, 2015.

External links

• Get Blake! at the Internet Movie Database