Some Assembly Required (2014 TV series)

Some Assembly Required
Genre	Teen situation comedy
Created by	Dan Signer Howard Nemetz[1]
Starring	Kolton Stewart Charlie Storwick Harrison Houde Sydney Scotia Dylan Playfair Travis Turner
Theme music composer	Matthew Tishler and Andrew Ang
Opening theme	"Here We Go" performed by Kolton Stewart
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	57[2][3] (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Dan Signer Howard Nemetz Michael Shepard Tim Gamble
Location(s)	Burnaby, British Columbia (taping location)
Editor(s)	Daria Ellerman Warren Hickman
Camera setup	Videotape; Multi-camera
Running time	22–23 minutes (approximately)
Production company(s)	Thunderbird Films Gravy Boat Productions Remotely Funny
Distributor	Corus Entertainment, (worldwide) Thunderbird Films (United States, in conjunction with Corus) YTV
Release
Original network	YTV
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	January 6, 2014 – June 6, 2016
External links
Website

Some Assembly Required was a teen situation comedy series that aired on YTV in Canada and streams on Netflix worldwide. The series was shot in front of a live audience in Burnaby, British Columbia. The series was created by Dan Signer (The Suite Life on Deck, A.N.T. Farm, Mr. Young) & Howard Nemetz, and stars Kolton Stewart, Charlie Storwick, Harrison Houde, Sydney Scotia, Dylan Playfair, Travis Turner, and Ellie Harvie. The first season consists of 26 episodes, all of which were made available on Netflix on June 19, 2015. The series finale aired June 6, 2016.

Premise

Jarvis Raines (Kolton Stewart) is an average 14-year-old who becomes a boss overnight after he sues a toy company over a defective chemistry set that blows up his house. Jarvis' first act as CEO of Knickknack Toys is to recruit a diverse group of kids from his high school to help him run the company. Usually something backfires when they are trying to develop a new toy. Before the end credits there are usually advertisements showing Knickknack Toys' newest products, which are shown or often invented in said episode.

Episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	26	January 6, 2014	August 26, 2014
	2	18	January 5, 2015	February 1, 2016
	3	13	March 14, 2016	June 6, 2016

Cast and characters

• Kolton Stewart^[1] as Jarvis Raines is a fun-loving teenager who becomes the new owner of Knickknack Toys, after suing the company when a defective chemistry set he got for Christmas blows up his house. After time also discovering that he has a crush on Piper.
• Charlie Storwick^[1] as Piper Gray is a computer-savvy, sardonic 'hacker chick' who is hired by Jarvis as the chief technology officer and the vice president of the company. She has had a huge crush on Jarvis even before starting at Knickknack Toys, but if he were to find out about this, she would be very embarrassed.
• Harrison Houde^[1] as Bowie Sherman is Jarvis's nerdy best friend who he also hired. He gets ideas ranging from bad to even worse, even so he is still like everyone's lovable little brother. In episode 106 Jarvis puts him in charge of the joke and prank division.
• Sydney Scotia^[1] as Geneva Hayes is a beautiful yet dimwitted young girl who works as the receptionist and Jarvis's personal executive assistant. She is the prettiest girl in school. Jarvis, like many young boys, has a huge crush on her, until developing feelings for Piper. She has a few hidden talents like being able to solve a puzzle cube (like Rubik's Cube) faster than a robot.
• Dylan Playfair^[1] as Malcolm "Knox" Knoxford III is an amateur extreme sports daredevil who is not very smart. He is recruited as the product and safety tester and human crash test dummy. He likes a brand of clothing called "Epic Thunder."
• Travis Turner^[1] as Aster Vanderberg is creative, confident and the most fashionable guy in the whole school. He is the self-proclaimed King of Swag and the company's chief design officer. He is also the only one who knows about Piper's crush on Jarvis, and has promised not to tell anyone, because, as he says "he likes to keep his conversations interesting". Aster also has some twisted pleasure in always insulting and mocking Piper, to even the point when he called in sick, he asked Bowie to fill in for his "job" of making fun of her.
• Ellie Harvie^[1] as Candace Wheeler is the previous owner and CEO of Knickknack. She refused to give Jarvis a settlement after selling him a defective chemistry set, and the jury awarded him the company instead. She has high doubts that Jarvis can own a company, but she's always proved wrong in the end.
  • Mrs. Bubkes is actually former Knickknack owner Candace (Ellie Harvie) in disguise. She masquerades as Knickknack's janitor Mrs. Bubkes, an old woman from Meeskatania in Eastern Europe, in order to snoop on Jarvis in hopes of regaining control of the company. She frequently attempts to sabotage Jarvis' plans in secret, to no avail.
• Mmmboing a rubber bouncing ball that was created by Bowie in the pilot and hasn't stopped bouncing since, Mmmboing has become a running gag in the series appearing somewhere in almost every episode.

Production

The series was created and is executive produced by Dan Signer and Howard Nemetz. The series is filmed in front of a live studio audience at 5828 Byrne Road, in Burnaby, British Columbia.

The series was renewed for a second season in June 2014.^[4][5] A third season was announced in August 2015, for a planned airing in 2016.^[6] The third season was the final season of the series.

References

1. Diane Wild (August 29, 2013). "Some Assembly Required in production". TV, eh?.
2. "Some Assembly Required Episodes". Zap2it. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
3. "Some Assembly Required — Episode Guide". MSN. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
4. "Corus Announces a Robust Slate of New and Returning Original Productions for YTV and TELETOON with 18 Commissioned Shows" (Press release). Corus® Entertainment Inc. June 9, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
5. ""Some Assembly Required" renewed for a second season". The Permanent Rain Press. June 12, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
6. "YTV & Thunderbird announce a third season of Some Assembly Required" (Press release). Thunderbird. August 13, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2016.

External links

• Some Assembly Required – on Netflix
• Some Assembly Required – on YTV
• Some Assembly Required at the Internet Movie Database