If you need a fun and action-packed cartoon, check out Totally Spies. This cartoon follows a trio of secret agents fighting villains and saving the world. When not on life-threatening missions, these operatives deal with the struggles of high school life. Totally Spies ran a course of six seasons across television channels, including ABC Family. It now makes its glorious return with a seventh season premiering on Cartoon Network.
Totally Spies, Charlie’s Angels For Kids
Totally Spies was going to be about a three-person girl band. David Michel and Vincent Chalvon-Demersay, the show’s creators, changed it into a spy cartoon. Japanese animation influenced it, which gave Totally Spies an entertaining visual. It joined the roster of similar shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Teen Titans. Michel and Chalvon-Demersay once mentioned the anime The Dirty Pair as a prominent inspiration.
The synopsis of Totally Spies is simple: teenage girls from Beverly Hills work as spies. The series, more precisely, follows three high school best friends named Sam, Alex, and Clover. They work as global secret agents for the World Organization Of Human Protection or WOOHP. The girls perform world-saving missions almost every other day, protecting humanity from eccentric supervillains. When not being spies, the girls are attending school or hanging out together. These excursions often lead to them butting heads with their bully, Mandy.
A Show With Much Appeal
Alongside the exciting missions and beautiful animation, Totally Spies contained other popular features. The show displayed common teenage girl themes like getting jobs and having crushes on boys. These details allowed the show to connect with its target audience demographic. The same goes for how Totally Spies showcased a fashion sense reflecting real-world trends. It also presented the girls as strong characters with a supportive friendship. The cartoon appealed to girls, but they weren’t the only ones to love it.
Totally Spies managed to catch the attention of boys during its six-season run. Male viewers loved the spy fantasy aspects, like the tech and mind-blowing gadgets. Naturally, they also adored the attractive female characters such as the star trio. They undoubtedly crushed on Sam, Alex, Clover, or all three. Totally Spies even possessed a sense of humor that appealed to everything. And naturally, the show’s male audience loved all the action in every episode.
Season 7 Coming to Cartoon Network
Totally Spies first debuted on ABC Family and stayed there for the duration of Season One. The show found a new home on Cartoon Network after the second season premiered. It quickly became popular, most likely due to joining the Miguzi afternoon block. Kids could come home after school and relax with a little Totally Spies. The series concluded after Season Five in 2010 but continued airing until 2012. Universal Kids picked up a sixth season and broadcast it in 2019.
After the show concluded in 2020, there was no word about it returning. Fans assumed it finally ended, but that changed on April 22. News on X announced that Season 7 would premiere in France on May 12. Naturally, the new installment included changes, such as new voice actors. Totally Spies now possessed a 2D and 3D fusion animation, though the anime aspects stayed. U.S. fans will witness these changes once it returns home to Cartoon Network in 2025.
Final Thoughts
Totally Spies is a phenomenal show that has something for everyone. It’s an animated global sensation that is sure to last for decades. Nothing short of total worldwide destruction can stop it from finally disappearing. And even if it does, it’ll live in the hearts of its die-hard fans. It’ll also be interesting to see how the Season 7 changes impact the fanbase. Until it debuts in 2025, older seasons are available on Amazon Prime Video.
