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Grossology (ISBN 0-201-40964-X) is a non-fiction children’s book written by Sylvia Branzei and published by Planet Dexter in 1995. It is a frank, thorough, yet light-hearted examination of various unappealing bodily functions and medical conditions. The topics are organized into three categories: “Slimy Mushy Oozy Gross Things,” (vomit, diarrhea, urine, acne, blisters, etc.); “Crusty Scaly Gross Things,” (dandruff, tooth decay, etc.); and “Stinky Smelly Gross Things,” (halitosis, flatulence, etc.). The text is also accompanied by many humorous illustrations, which were provided by Jack Keely. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
Vomiting (or emesis) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of ones stomach through the mouth. ...
Types 5-7 on the Bristol Stool Chart are often associated with diarrhea Diarrhea (in American English) or diarrhoea (in British English) is a condition in which the sufferer has frequent watery, loose bowel movements (from the Greek word διάÏÏοια; literally meaning through-flowing). Acute infectious diarrhea is a common cause...
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A blister is a defense mechanism of the human body. ...
Dandruff (also called scurf and historically termed Pityriasis capitis) is due to the excessive shedding of dead skin cells from the scalp. ...
Types of teeth Molars are used for grinding up foods Carnassials are used for slicing food. ...
Halitosis, oral malodor (scientific term), breath odor, foul breath, fetor oris, or most commonly bad breath are terms used to describe noticeably unpleasant odors exhaled in breathing – whether the smell is from an oral source or not. ...
Flatulence (expelled through the anus in a process commonly known as farting or emitting gas) is the presence of a mixture of gases known as flatus in the digestive tract of mammals. ...
Grossology spawned several sequels, most notably Animal Grossology (ISBN 0-201-95994-1) and Grossology Begins at Home (ISBN 0-201-95993-3), both written and illustrated by Branzei and Keely. Animal Grossology, published in 1996, is an exploration of various organisms that either produce or consume unappealing substances. It is divided into four sections: “Vomit Munchers” (flies, starfish, etc.); “Blood Slurpers” (leeches, ticks, etc.); “Slime Makers” (hagfish, slime mold, sea cucumbers, etc.); and “Dookie Lovers” (tapeworms, dung beetles, etc.). Grossology Begins at Home, published in 1997, focuses on the hidden germs and unseen pests that thrive in a typical house. One of the highlights of this book is a chapter on Defect Action Levels, the acceptable amounts of animal contaminants and insect parts that can be found in foods. The book also teaches children how to grow their own bacteria. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Typical orders Protostelia Protosteliida Myxogastria Liceida Echinosteliida Trichiida Stemonitida Physarida Dictyostelia Dictyosteliida Slime moulds are peculiar protists that normally take the form of amoebae, but under certain conditions develop fruiting bodies that release spores, superficially similar to the sporangia of fungi. ...
Orders Subclass Apodacea Apodida Molpadiida Subclass Aspidochirotacea Aspidochirotida Elasipodida Subclass Dendrochirotacea Dactylochirotida Dendrochirotida The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin. ...
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Phyla Actinobacteria Aquificae Chlamydiae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Lentisphaerae Nitrospirae Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Verrucomicrobia Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are unicellular microorganisms. ...
Grossology has also inspired a CD-ROM (Virtual Grossology), a highly popular traveling exhibition (Now at Tampa Bay's MOSI til Sept. 07), and a children's television series. The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
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TV Series
Grossology debuted in the year 2006 and is currently airing as part of the YTV programming block in Canada and also on Discovery Kids and came to Jetix UK on June 2, 2007. It is painstakingly animated using the partially-developed software Toonboom Harmony (and later, Toonboom Digital Pro). The first season consists of 26 half-hour intallments, and a second season is scheduled for 2008. The series is produced by Nelvana. YTV is a Canadian cable television specialty channel aimed at youth, available nationwide through cable and satellite television. ...
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Plot Ty and Abby are a brother and sister crime-fighting team who report to the super secret government Department of Grossology. Each episode of the series follows the dynamic pair on stomach-turning adventures based on real scientific facts. Aided by the infamous Lab Rat, Ty and Abby face criminals like Sloppy Joe – the world’s filthiest thief and Lance Boil – a former Grossologist turned evil.
Based on the best-selling book series, Grossology ignites the investigative mind while delivering comedy and an overdose of breakneck adventure. Grossology mixes crime-solving adventure, gross science facts, and wacky comedy against a lavish environment of surprising artistic integrity.
Major Characters (Based upon character descriptions from YTV.com and Kids.Discovery.com) - Abby Archer (voiced by Krystal Meadows) - As a Grossologist, Abby unravels mysteries so disgusting no adult will touch them. She LOVES everything gross and slimy – nothing grosses her out. Abby likes to test her limits to see if there is something so gross, so slimy, so disgusting, that it will make even her, the Queen of Squeam, turn green. So far nothing has come close. She gets covered in slop the most.
- Has a pet kitten named Hairball (who first appears in the episode "Go Fish").
- Exceptionally, she did vomit in the episode "Yack Attack," but not from a gross-out (of course); She drank tap water contaminated by Sloppy Joe, who polluted the sewer system to make the water so bad that anyone who drank some immediately was ill.
- Is scared of leeches, as shown in the episode "Vein Drain."
- Ty Archer (voiced by Michael Cohen) - Ty is a hard kid to faze. His cool, analytical mind takes everything in. He sees himself as a scientist and he takes his job very seriously, too seriously if you listen to Abby. In his mind, science is everything, and his goal is to be remembered with the very best in his field.
- Wears a utility pack, which also doubles as a jet pack.
- Is the only character thus far to have a recurring love interest, Naomi.
- Is afraid of clowns, as he hinted at in Episode # 1 ("Queen for a Day").
- Paul "Lab Rat" Squirfenherder (voiced by M. Christian Heywood) - Paul Squirfenherder is one weird kid. He spends so much time doing experiments that it earned the nickname “Lab Rat”. His impressive inventory of hi-tech gadgets and encyclopedic knowledge make him invaluable to the team. Has a pet rat named Hermes.
- In the episode "Fartzilla", a robotic version of Hermes was used to break into the school cafeteria in order for Ty and Abby to investigate.
- The Director (voiced by Paul O'Sullivan) - He is stern. He is officious. He is the man who gives the Grossologists their repulsive assignments. And he is also incredibly squeamish. The world is full of filth and germs from the Director's perspective, and he must do everything he can to keep the city, and more importantly himself, uncontaminated!
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Grossology Arsenal - The Gag Lab - The Grossologists' base of operations; A sterile, air-tight super-lab, where Abby & Ty assemble for each case/examination (via secret entrances in their school lockers, where they suit/gear up). Lab Rat is always there to assist them (and enjoys basically living there).
- Slime Suit - Skin-tight superhero-like costume worn by each Grossologist. Abby wears a yellow one, and Ty an orange-red one. They also always wear these when entering the Gag Lab.
- Goop Shooter - An electronic water cannon-like blaster worn over the hand, which shoots a sticky green goop that neutralizes its ememies. Abby & Ty's basic weapons.
- GRS-1 - An all-terrain automobile.
Villains - Sloppy Joe (voiced by George Buza) - After discovering that a whiff of his stink was enough to render people unconscious, Joe vowed to never let a drop of water, soap, or deodorant touch his skin again, and turned to an easy life of crime. His plan: go from filthy, to filthy rich!
- First Appearance: Episode # 4 ("The Perfect Stink")
- Real Name: Joe Puglowski
- Insectiva (voiced by Lili Francks) - She was once a promising young university student who wanted to study entomology (the study of insects)– until she discovered how insects are treated by science; captured and dissected! Now, armed with all sorts of bugs, arachnids, and other creepy-crawlies, she pursues an insect agenda – wipe all people off the planet so bugs can rule again!
- First Appearance: Episode 1 ("Queen for a Day")
- Real Name: Cara Chitin
- Lance Boil (voiced by Juan Chioran) - He was once a successful Grossologist, but grew tired of the grind. After quitting the team, he decided to use his skills to evil, with one goal in his twisted head – revenge against all Grossologists! - especially Abby and Ty.
- First Appearance: Episode # 6 ("When Ya Gotta Go")
- Specifically, Lance Boil quit the Grossology team for never receiving much credit and making even less money (referring to the Director).
- Fartor (voiced by Sean Cullen) - Fifteen years ago, he was just an ordinary kid. That was until his brother Gary tortured him by stuffing his brother under the bedsheets and farting in there. During those fifteen years, he became adapted to breathing the gases in farts. Like a fish out of water, clean air is toxic for him, so he breathes toxic gases in a dome that he wears on his body. There was only one thing Fartor wanted - revenge on his brother Gary.
- First Appearance: Episode # 3 ("Fartzilla")
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Supporting Characters - Harvey & Petunia Archer (voiced by Richard Binsley and Karen Hines, respectively) - Abby & Ty's father and mother, respectively. Both are typically gullible, and as such, are completely unaware of their children's secret status as Grossologists. Both superficially resemble adult versions of their two children.
- The Detective (voiced by Danny Wells) - A gruff, burly police detective, who occasionally works with Abby & Ty on cases.
- Mr. Scheffer (voiced by Chad DeRohgth) - Often nervous and uptight teacher at Ringworm Junior High School.
- Paige (voiced by Melissa Altro) - A popular but very snobbish girl at Ringworm Junior High, and Abby's bitter rival.
- Naomi (voiced by Lauren Collins) - A shy and gentle girl at Ringworm Junior High, and Ty's girlfriend.
- CaMila (voiced by Molly Sims) - Abby and Ty's bodyguard.
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Episodes (Episode info from YTV.com and TV.com)
Season 1: 2006-2007 | # | Title | Director(s) | Writer(s) | Original Airdate(s) | | 1 | "Queen for a Day" | Matt Ferguson | Alice Prodanou | [[]] | | The evil Insectiva tries to employ giant, mutated termites to destroy the city. | | 2 | "Slim Slime Man" | Matt Ferguson | Hugh Duffy | [[]] | | A bitter sewer worker named Slim merges with a slime mold and turns into a monster who attempts to smother the surface dwellers in slime. | | 3 | "Fartzilla" | Matt Ferguson | Sean Cullen | [[]] | | A villain has been replacing ordinary ketchup with a substance that makes everyone fart, and collecting the resulting epidemic of gas to fuel his giant robot dinosaur, Fartzilla. | | 4 | "The Perfect Stink" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Sloppy Joe creates a giant stink bomb. | | 5 | "The Scab Fairy" | Matt Ferguson | Ben Joseph | [[]] | | A former beauty queen invents a weapon that allows her to emulate the Scab Fairy (voiced by Jessica Holmes) (like the Tooth Fairy) and steal people's scabs so that she can inflict them on others. Jessica Holmes (born August 29, 1973 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian comedian and actress well known for her work with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003. ...
| | 6 | "When Ya Gotta Go" | Matt Ferguson | Robin J. Stein | [[]] | | Criminals are using an infrasound ray gun that disrupts people's bowels so that they poop their pants. | | 7 | "Club Parasites" | Matt Ferguson | Robert Tinkler | [[]] | | Insectiva creates a strain of head lice with mental powers that cause the kids at Ringworm High to obey her commands. | | 8 | "Go Fish" | Matt Ferguson | Richard Clark | [[]] | | Fishy garbage is being stolen from all over the city, and the culprits turn out to be giant mutant hagfish. | | 9 | "It's Gotta Be the Shoes" | Matt Ferguson | Ben Joseph | [[]] | | An athlete's popular new brand of running shoes creates an epidemic of foot fungus. | | 10 | "Owl Most Foul" | Matt Ferguson | Dave Dias | [[]] | | A giant owl attacks the city's pigeon population. | | 11 | "Yack Attack" | Matt Ferguson | Alice Prodanou | [[]] | | An attack on the city's water system by Sloppy Joe creates a puke-a-thon amongst the town's people. | | 12 | "The Greatest Race Ever Crawled" | Matt Ferguson | Richard Clark | [[]] | | When the GRS-1 comes up short, Ty and Lab Rat design and build the TYMOBILE – a kicking set of wheels that can crawl, leap, or otherwise get around just like your favorite insect. But when Ty’s goaded into a race by Insectiva and her cadre of giant bugs, it’s all part of her evil plan to plant ultrasonic generators in the country, allowing her to control a cloud of locusts and cover the city with the hungry insects! | | 13 | "Kid Rot" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | There is a new kid in school, who kind of smells. This repels most kids but attracts Ty and Abby. It turns out that through a science experiment mishap he now has the ‘rotting touch’ and everything organic he touches rots immediately. Can Abby and Ty cure him…or does he really want to be cured? | | 14 | "The Insider" | Matt Ferguson | Jeremy Winkels | [[]] | | When Ty personally stops the latest of Lance Boil’s evil plans, the ex-grossologist villain decides to deal with Ty once and for all. After miniaturizing himself and tricking Ty into drinking him, Lance races through Ty’s veins headed for his cerebral cortex. His plan - turn Ty into a drooling vegetable! Luckily, Abby’s not afraid to dive in after Lance – too bad Ty refuses to sit still and let her work, he’s got a school battlebot competition to win! | | 15 | "All Together Now" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Instectiva, Lance Boil and Sloppy Joe join forces to take down the Bureau of Grossology by afflicting the members simultaneously with villain sized doses of internal parasites, halitosis and acne. Can the now incredibly gross looking, smelling and feeling Grossology team overcome these afflictions before the Gruesome Threesome take over the city? | | 16 | "Oldie But A Goodie" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | When Abby defuses a mysterious device Lance Boil planted in the middle of town, she gets bathed in a green ray that instantly starts her aging at 6000 times the normal rate! Now, she and Ty have to track down Lance, reverse the process, and stop him from unleashing the ray on the entire city - turning everyone into octogenarians! Worse, they have to do it before Abby ages her way into diapers again! | | 17 | "Survival of the Grossest" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | It’s science competition time at Ringworm jr. High, only this time there’s a new challenger for Ty’s crown – Patrick, a kid with as much science knowledge as Ty himself. But when Ty decides to up his fruit-fly evolution project with a little mutagenic kickstart, things go wrong almost immediately. Now, he and Abby are up against terrorizing fruit flies that can breed and evolve so quickly that it seems like nothing can stop them. Unless Ty’s willing to ask Patrick for a little help… | | 18 | "School's Grossed Out For Summer" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Ty and Abby get stuck in the school with Paige and Naomi when they miss a bus that is to take them camping with their class. If this were not troubling enough, they find that a mad proctologist, Dr. Colon, is using the school as a breeding ground for a giant intestine that he intends to snake around the world. But what is his ultimate plan? | | 19 | "Vein Drain" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | When people start showing up with bite marks on their necks, Ty and Abby can’t help but wonder if maybe vampires aren’t a myth after all. But when they dig a little deeper, they discover that it’s another kind of blood sucker that’s causing trouble – leeches! Worse, these hungry invertebrates are led by 869, a giant mutated talking leech that’s had enough of his kind being trapped in hospitals under harsh florescent lights. He only has one goal: freedom for leechkind! | | 20 | "Silent But Deadly (Part 1)" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Gassy super villain Fartor returns with a scheme to fart-up the entire planet! But with a plan this big he needs help - and he’s got his sights set on Ty. What will happen to our team of Grossologists when one of them turns to the fart side? | | 21 | "The Return of Fartor (Part 2)" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Fartor and his new apprentice, Far-Ty join forces to drill into the planet core and turn the earth into one big gas planet. Will everyone on Earth be forced to breathe noxious gas and join Fartor’s army of the fart-breathers or will Abby be able to save her brother and the planet from a lifetime of stink! | | 22 | "Boogerman" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Sloppy Joe, the world’s filthiest villain returns and this time he’s not alone. He’s created a buddy made of snot and it’s up to Ty and Abby to stop the booger monster before he sucks up all the mucus in town! | | 23 | "The King of Rottingham Forest" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Kid Rot returns and his powers are out of control.. The forest is rotting and Kid Rot is behind the destruction! Will Abby and Ty stop his rotting tide of evil before he destroys the planet? | | 24 | "Lights Out" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | A new nocturnal villain, Darko Crevasse, plunges the city into darkness with the help of his army of creatures of the night. Ty and Lab Rat scramble to shed some light on the problem before it’s lights out for everyone. | | 25 | "Heave It or Leave It" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Abby and Ty are jazzed to be contestants on the hottest game show on the planet where their gross skills and iron stomachs could make them stars. Only trouble is, the show is an elaborate trap and Lance Boil is behind it all! With Abby and Ty out of the way who will stop Lance’s pus plan? | | 26 | "A New Leaf" | Matt Ferguson | | [[]] | | Abby learns what teamwork is all about when she’s kidnapped and imprisoned in a hothouse full of giant, man-eating plants - and her only hope for survival is Insectiva! |
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