Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids is a 2003 Canadian computer-animated television special produced by Nelvana. It serves as the pilot for the show Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends. It aired on Treehouse TV in Canada on March 31, 2003. The special was based on David Kirk's book series of the same name, as well as the Sunny Patch brand of toys that Kirk designed. The special features well-known celebrity voices including US actress Brooke Shields as the voice of Miss Spider, Rick Moranis as the voice of Holley, and Tony Jay as the voice of Spiderus Reeves. The characters were "CGI animated insects and arachnids in a relatively natural setting which has a similar plot with anthropomorphic qualities appropriate for a children's story", as described by the Nelvana executives. Plot Miss Flora Spider has been living happily with her new husband Holley, but becomes nervous when she hatches five eggs on the same day. She worries about becoming a mother, since her own mother abandoned her before she hatched. But her adoptive mother, Betty Beetle, tells her that she has nothing to worry about. When the eggs hatch out five new spiders, the family becomes overjoyed. Years pass and as the spider kids grow up, the family finds an egg and decorate it. Thinking its mother is looking for it, Squirt, one of the spiderlings, decides to return it. While going through the forest, he comes upon three kid orphans: Dragon the Dragonfly, Shimmer the Jewel Beetle, and Bounce the Bedbug who are bandits living in the forest. When the young spider explains that he is looking for the egg’s mother, Bounce reveals that they do not have parents either, although Dragon says that they are still looking for them. Shimmer decides that they should tag along and help Squirt.