Greenwood Forest

Greenwood Forest: Adventures with Fyp and Friends, more commonly known as simply Greenwood Forest is a Kuboian children's animated television series created by Eric Graters and Harlow Maynard, and produced by Kuboian studio Kubokartoonz. Centred around the adventures of the son of the titular forest's mayor, it is Kubokartoonz' first television series.

The show premiered in 1993 on Bumper's Block, and spawned a total of three series and 28 episodes, with new episodes running until 1995. The show was ran on television for over fifteen years, with reruns being shown on KT until 2008.

Premise
Taking place in the titular area, a village located in a bright and colourful forest, the show mostly focuses on Fyp, the high-profile son of Greenwood Forest's mayor. Fyp enjoys exploring the forest and finding fun things to do in it, but is also willing to give his time to help his father look after it. Among the people Fyp lives with is his twin sister Billie, his house's manservant Butler and his pet Spider.

Episodes of Greenwood Forest normally involve Billie and Fyp coming across a part of the area they have never seen before and trying to learn about it, or acting as the voice of reason and straightening out one of their friends if they misbehave. Children the group regularly hang out with include Whitney, Fyp's best friend who has a one-sided crush on him, Sky, a bookworm who is interested in magic, and Rosie and Peter, a niece and uncle duo who are jealous of Billie and Fyp and try to talk them into doing silly things.

Greenwood Forest is centred mostly around being adventurous and looking out for others and the environment, but the show also occasionally deals with social issues, such as peer pressure, vandalism and bullying.

Cast

 * Ashley Maverick - Billie, Edwina, Spider
 * Bruno Leon Vidal - Butler, Edward, additional voices
 * Charlie Karma - Rosie
 * Emily Merletta - Peter, Sky, Whitney
 * Jack Carole - Fyp
 * Marty Rockfield - additional voices

Critical reception
A review from the The A.V. Club gave the show a positive review calling the show "children's edutainment at its finest", and noted it had aged better than other children's shows from the 1990s.

Controversy
Since the show's inception, a few eyebrows have been raised over the relationship between Fyp's father, Edward, and Butler. Although Butler is supposedly just a servant employed by Edward, he is seen with Edward and his children (Billie and Fyp) frequently outside of the house, and spends a lot of time with them. Because of this, some have questioned if Edward and Butler are actually a gay couple. Show creator Eric Graters has stated that Edward and Butler were created without that in mind. However, Bruno Leon Vidal has admitted that he originally conceived Butler as gay when recording his dialogue for the character.

Home media
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, several VHS tapes consisting of around four or five episodes (in their original format) were released in Europe.

A DVD consisting of all twenty eight episodes was released worldwide in 2003.

Kuboia

 * Vision One (1993-2008)
 * Bumper's Block (1993-1997)
 * Nick Jr. Kuboia (1996-2005)
 * KT (1998-2008)
 * Kiddioka (2018-present)

Arab world

 * Spacetoon (2000-2011)

Australia

 * ABC for Kids (1994-2001)
 * KidsCo (2009-2013)

Brazil

 * Rede Horizonte (1994-1998)
 * Discovery Kids (2001-2006)
 * RH Kids (2004-2006)
 * PBS Kids (2007-2014)

Canada

 * CTV (1994-1996)
 * Teletoon (1998-2002)
 * Teletoon Retro (2007-2010)

Central and Eastern Europe

 * Minimax (1999-2007)
 * KidsCo (2007-2013)

Circlia

 * Setora TV (2000-2010)

El Kadsre

 * Banushen Television (1994-2002)
 * ETVKPS (2011-2017)

France

 * M6 (1995-2001)
 * France 5 (2002-2011)

Germany

 * Super RTL (1995-2008)

Indonesia

 * Spacetoon (2005-2011)

Italy

 * Italia 1 (1995-2002)
 * K2 (2004-2010)

Jetania

 * JT1 (1993-2001)

Netherlands

 * Kindernet (1995-2003)
 * NED 3 (2003-2011)

Philippines

 * RPN (1994-2003)

Scandinavia

 * Disney Channel (2003-2006)

Ukraine

 * Spacetoon (2009-2011)

United Kingdom

 * BBC One/BBC Two (1994-2004)
 * CBBC (1994-2001)
 * CBeebies (2002-2004)
 * Tiny Pop (2004-2008)

United States

 * Disney Channel (1994-1996)
 * PBS Kids (2000-2005)
 * PBS Kids Sprout (2005-2010)