Mr. Young

Mr. Young
Genre	Teen situation comedy
Created by	Dan Signer
Starring	Brendan Meyer, Matreya Fedor, Gig Morton, Kurt Ostlund, Milo Shandel, Emily Tennant
Opening theme	“Who You Calling Kid?”, performed by Hot Hot Heat
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	75 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dan Signer, Michael Shepard, Tim Gamble Co-Executive Producer: Howard Nemetz
Production locations	Vancouver, British Columbia (taping location)
Editors	Daria Ellerman, Warren Hickman
Camera setup	Videotape; Multi-camera
Running time	22-23 minutes (approximately)
Production companies	Thunderbird Films Gravy Boat Productions
Original release
Network	YTV
Release	March 1, 2011 – present

“Mr. Young” is a Canadian comedy series that premiered on March 1, 2011 on YTV. The series is 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), and stars Brendan Meyer, Matreya Fedor and Gig Morton as attendants of Finnegan High School. Further main cast includes Kurt Ostlund, Emily Tennant, and Milo Shandel.

Premise

“Mr. Young” centers on child prodigy Adam Young (Brendan Meyer), who graduated from university at the age of 14. He decides to come back to high school to live the high school experience, only he becomes the science teacher at the school. He reunites with childhood best friend Derby (Gig Morton) and encounters the school bully, Slab (Kurt Ostlund), and a student in his class whom he has a crush on, named Echo (Matreya Fedor). However because he is 14, his students have little respect for him, and he often gets into trouble with the principal.

Production

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

The series began taping on Thursday, September 30, 2010 and production of Season 1 was completed on Friday, April 15, 2011. Through their Facebook page, YTV announced on March 31, 2011 that Mr. Young was the No. 1 show on their network. On April 29, 2011 the series was renewed for a second season. Filming of Season 2 began in early July 2011 and continued through to January 2012.

Season 1

The series began taping in Thursday, September 30, 2010 and production of Season 1 was completed on Friday, April 15, 2011. Most of the episodes of Mr. Young on Season 1, is about Adam Young trying to impress Echo with the help of Derby in episodes such as Mr. Ballerina, Mr. Big Brother and Mr. Meteor. There are some romantic moments with Adam and Echo, shown in Mr. Picture Day, Mr. Detention and Mr. DNA. Students such as Derby and Slab (Kurt Ostlund) sometimes make Adam leave or try to make him appreciate them in episodes like Mr. Elderman and Mr. Space. Principal Tater (Milo Shandel) also gets pranked, like in Mr. DNA and Mr. Impossible. Adam and Ivy (Emily Tennant) don't really get along in the first episode. Mr. Space is the first 1 hour long special of Mr. Young. Mr. Mummy aired in the U.S along with the Disney XD show Kickin' It before it aired in Canada.

Season 2

On April 29, 2011 the series was renewed for a second season. Filming of Season 2 began in early July 2011 and continued until January 2012. Corus Entertainment’s YTV announced today that Mr. Young has been picked up for another season. Thunderbird Films will commence production of 26 new episodes in July, bringing the total number of episodes to 52. The live-action series premiered on March 1 and has quickly become one of the network’s top rated series. Filmed in front of a live studio audience in Burnaby, British Columbia, Mr. Young stars Brendan Meyer as Adam Young, a whiz-kid-turned-teen genius who hit the books hard enough to get into university at the age of 9. Now, at the age of 14, he’s headed back to high school – as a teacher. Being the same age as his students, Adam finds himself trapped between two worlds – coping with his co-workers, who happen to be twice his age, while teaching his best friend, the girl he has a crush on, and the class bully. With one foot in the lunch room and the other foot in the staff room, it’s Mr. Young’s social life that’s being put to the test.

Season 3

In April 2012 YTV and Disney XD renewed Mr. Young for a third season. Production of Mr. Young season 3 began on May 10, 2012 and ended on October 26, 2012.

Special episodes

Title	Ratings	Air date
"Mr. Space"	6.3	November 29, 2011
"Mr. Summer Vacation"	7.0	March 12, 2012

Cast/Characters

Principal cast

• Brendan Meyer as Adam Young Adam is a 14 year old boy who is a genius. He is teaching science class at Finnegan High School. He wants to relive his life in high school because he graduated early and couldn't go to high school. But for him the life in high school is very hard. (other teachers, students, principals, & etc) He is also in love with one of his students Echo in almost every episode you see Derby is trying to help Adam get Echo. Adam and Echo kissed in the 90 minute special (after a lot of work that makes him go back to or refer to previous episodes, such as Mr. Elephant, Mr. Magic and Mr. Dance), Mr. First Impression.

• Matreya Fedor as Echo Zizzleswift a student at Finnegan High School. She is in Adam's science class. Echo also cares deeply about the environment and other people. She is thoughtful, socially aware, a tad bit gullible, and secretly likes all things to do with science-fiction. Adam has a crush on her, but she seems completely unaware to this. She is on and off as good friends and sometimes enemies with Adam, Ivy, Derby and Slab. Though, in Mr. Double Date, she realizes that Adam likes her and that she likes him too. They kissed in the 90 minute special, Mr. First Impression. Her last name was announced in "Mr. College". She has a pet hamster named Mr. Tickleschmootz who later mated with Slab's hamster Slab Jr.

• Gig Morton as Derby a dimwitted student at Finnegan High School. He has a crush on Ivy, Adam's sister, but is always rejected and ignored by her . He also has a tendency to wear and provide costumes and hosts a radio show named "Drive Time with Derby". Derby is Adam's best friend and also his student, a line that Derby’s more than happy to blur; almost every time Adam teaches, he falls asleep as with much of the other students. Derby is a class clown and is skilled in pranking, also being known as the "Gagmeister General", who Principal Tater doesn't know is, even after Derby admitted to being him. His last name is von Derbotsford. In the 90-minute special, Mr. First Impression, he sings a song named "Derby Style", a parody of Gangnam Style.

• Kurt Ostlund as Jordan 'Slab' Slabinski, the doltish bully of Finnegan High School. Though his behavior is aggressive, "Slab" likes doing ballet, looking at the stars, and friendship. Though he tends to pull pranks on people, and bullies nerds specificially, he says he does it to conceal his feelings. Even though he bullies Derby often by putting him in trash cans, he occasionally helps him out. Although he is a bully he does have feelings for other people such as Brap, a person raised by elephants, but changed by Ivy. He also has a fear of milk. He has two gerbils, two guinea pigs and a hamster who mated with Echo's hamster Mr. Tickleschmootz, all named Slab Jr. In Mr Memory he starts dating Ivy.

• Emily Tennant as Ivy Young, Adam's rude elder sister. She tends to be rude to a lot of people, sometimes even the teachers. She loves shopping and bossing Adam around. Though deep down she truly does care about Adam and other people and will help them out. She used to have a crush on Hutch Anderson But in Mr Memory she starts dating Slab. Ivy is a stereotypical blonde and is attractive to the male students. She also is a reporter for the school newspaper, along with Echo.

• Milo Shandel as Principal Tater, the principal of Finnegan High School who often checks up on Mr. Young and his class. He is suspicous frequently can be quite ditsy, scoring in the 15th percentile of the Stanford-Binet IQ Test. He is also afraid of cinnamon, after an incident during his childhood, and refers to his mother as "mommy". He is also disrepected by many students.

Recurring cast

• Raugi Yu as Dang, is the school's janitor. He usually appears out of nowhere when people mention his name, as well as being able to do actions with himself, such as playing beach volleyball. He is very skilled at martial arts and is also shown to have a passion for leaf monkeys, Halloween, and says the word "demon" for things like robots, calling them "steel demons". Occasionally he wears a giant purple cowboy hat with feathers, which he calls his "Fancy Hat". He lives at Finnegan High and almost never wants to leave because leaf monkeys do not live there, who would steal his fancy hat. Dang has a twin brother named Ding that he disliked because Ding married a duck named Shirley. Dang forgave his brother who was Echo disguised as Dang (Dang could not tell the difference between Echo in disguise and his brother) because he saw Slab's mother and exclaimed, "There are worse things to marry than duck!".

• Paula Shaw as Ms. Byrne, an elderly, clueless history teacher who is in charge of the science club and school newspaper. She has bad memory, often shown to forget things that she saw or heard a few seconds ago. She always teaches the same thing every class: The War of 1812, always starting off as "Who has heard of the War of 1812?" before all the students raise up their hands. It has also been suggested in several episodes that she is extremely old, though she disagrees. Notable examples include "Mr. Younger Man" where she claims to have seen Haley's Comet 6 times already, "Mr. Discovery," where she is shown being alive in the prehistoric ages, and in "Mr. Servant" where she is seen to have been "Miss Constantinople."Mr Summer Vacation" showed her complaining about it being to hot for her, causing Adam to ask if it was global warming and Ms. Byrne saying " No, before there was a sun!" She also uses ancient tools like using a 4000 year abacus for a computer. It is revealed that her mother is still alive and even her grandma. It is also shown that she has many elderly grandchildren.

• Anna Galvin as Rachel Young, Ivy's and Adam's mother. She delivers meals to seniors and can sometimes be helpful. She can be dishonest (she claimed during the school carnival that there was a giant man-eating chicken in her booth, when in reality it was a tall man eating chicken named Tim) and sometimes does not care about Adam's feelings (once she sold his comic collection with his knowledge). She was schoolmates with Principal Tater once and was framed and suspended for putting glue in the mascot's costume which made Tater Bald. She was also once a cheerleader at Finnegan High.

• Brett Dier as Hutch Anderson. He is Ivy's crush and is on and off as Ivy's boyfriend (he has had other girlfriends). He is very gentleman-like and is a lifeguard and tried to save Adam (who was dressed like a mummy) because of his oath. He helped Ivy's mother take out the trash in one episode. He played Romeo in the school play Romeo and Juliet, but had to leave because Ivy put itching powder makeup on him to stop him from kissing Echo.

• Amit Josan as Fortran, a pointless nerd that Slab and Derby pick on. He has allergies and takes allergy medicine. He plays the violin as shown in the episode, "Mr. Tickleschmootz".

• Gordon Myren as Arthur (Automated Robotic Teenager Hippopotamus Umbrella Rainbow). Arthur is a robotic student created by Adam in the episode, "Mr. Roboto". Then, in "Mr. Roboto 2.0" he was replacing everyone with robots at Finngean High School. Then, in "Mr. and Mrs. Roboto" he revealed that he now has a robotic family.

International release and distribution

On September 7, 2011, Corus Entertainment's Nelvana Enterprises and Thunderbird Films announced that they had sold the live-action comedy series to Disney XD channels in the U.S. and around the world. Territories in addition to the U.S. include the U.K., Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The series is set to premiere in most territories this year. Nelvana Enterprises is the international distribution agent for Mr. Young, while Nelvana and Thunderbird are co-distributing the series in the United States.

On September 27, 2011, Nelvana Enterprises announced that it had also sold distribution rights to the series to the Latin American version of Cartoon Network, which premiered on April 30, 2012.

Country / Region	Channel	Series premiere	Title in country
Canada	YTV ABC Spark	March 1, 2011 March 24, 2012	Mr. Young
France	Canal J	Season 1 : August 30, 2011 Season 2 : September 1, 2013	M. Young
Israel	Arutz HaYeladim	September 18, 2011	מר יאנג
United States	Disney Channel	October 22, 2011 (2011-10-22) October 23, 2011 (2011-10-23)	Mr. Young
	Disney XD	September 26, 2011
Poland	Disney XD (Poland)	December 3, 2011	Mr. Young
United Kingdom	Disney XD (UK & Ireland) Disney Channel (UK & Ireland)	December 2011 (sneak peek) January 15, 2012 (premiere) September 2, 2013	Mr. Young
Italy	Disney XD (Italy) Disney Channel (Italy) Frisbee (TV channel)	January 16, 2012 February 7, 2012 October 31, 2012	Professor Young
Netherlands	Disney XD (Netherlands)	April 16, 2012	Mr. Young
Turkey	Disney XD (Turkey)	April 1, 2012	Sayın Genç
South Africa	Disney XD (South Africa)	April 16, 2012	Mr. Young
Chile	Cartoon Network Latin America	April 30, 2012	El Sr. Young
Colombia
Honduras
Peru
Mexico
Panama
Uruguay
Venezuela
Dominican Republic
Argentina	Cartoon Network (Argentina)	April 30, 2012	El Sr. Young
Brazil	Cartoon Network (Brazil)	April 30, 2012	Senhor Young
Spain	Disney XD and Disney Channel	2012	Sr. Young
Hungary			A fiatal tanár
Romania			Tanar professor
Czech Republic			Mladá učitelka
Greece			Ο κύριος. νέος
Ukraine			Містер. молодий
Bulgaria			Младият учител
Portugal	Disney Channel (Portugal)	January 7, 2013	Professor Young
Australia	Disney Channel (Australia)	Season 1 July 2, 2012 Season 2 (Cancelled)	Mr.Young
New Zealand
Pakistan	Disney Channel Middle East/Disney XD	2012	Mr. Young
Sri Lanka

Episodes

Main article: List of Mr. Young episodes

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	26		March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)	December 13, 2011 (2011-12-13)
2	26		January 12, 2012 (2012-01-12)	October 9, 2012 (2012-10-09)
3	28		October 16, 2012 (2012-10-16)	November 28, 2013 (2013-11-28)

External links

• official “Mr. Young”television series webpage at the official YTV channel website.
• official “Mr. Young” television series webpage at “Facebook” social network.
• Mr. Young at IMDb