Chucklewood Critters: A New Generation

Chucklewood Critters: A New Generation is a direct-to-video film. The video takes place after the events of Growing Up and acts as the add-on conclusion of the Chucklewood Critters franchise. The film is narrated by Buttons and Rusty.

Summary
A new generation of Chucklewood Critters (including the respective children of Buttons, Rusty and Freddie) battles against demon versions of Zak Vaderman's Villains Club (deceased in Growing Up).

Plot
Buttons and Rusty welcome the viewers and tells then how they are doing. How many adventures they done. And they introduce their last adventure together, this time with their children.

A gang of three bad critters (Harvey Weasel, Ronald Wolf and Sid Raccoon) visit a unknown place, where they see the remains of the Zak Vaderman's Villains Club. They use a spell to bring the Villains Club back to life as demons (similar to Frankenstein). Zak mentions that the fight will decide the fate of all critters. The battle against them as humans may be over, but the battle against them as demons is just beginning. The demons scan Chucklewood, Crystal Bayou and Fort Caulderdale and see that all of their old enemies are married. Harvey decides to go to Chucklewood while Ronald goes to Crystal Bayou and Sid visits Fort Cauldrdale.

In Chucklewood, Rusty and Frisky's children explore the forest and look at the abandoned logging chute that Rusty and his best friend, Buttons used to ride on. The family tries the chute and played in the lake. One day, their children start school, which Burble serves as their teacher. They learn from him that Miss Love retired and was chosen from a field of twenty critters to serve as her replacement. Burble was selected due to his experience as a Danger Ranger. One day, the fox family's neighbor, Kitty and her teenage, adopted daughter, Natasha sunbathed and Natasha dreams on being a Danger Ranger one day. Suddenly, an explosion is heard and looking through Kitty's binoculars, a weasel named Harvey has blown a bridge near the school. That afternoon, while picking berries, Rusty and Frisky, receive an urgent telegram from Kitty stating about the weasel blowing the bridge. Ranger John stopped by the Fox family cave and head to the school to investigate.

In Crystal Bayou, Buttons and Bearbette's children meet Lester's nephew, Paul, who is patrolling the bayou since Lester moved to a nursing home. Together, they played the Creeper Leaper and do the Bayou Critters Romp. Then (in a flashback sequence), Buttons and Bearbette tell their children a brief story of how his grandmother visited his old neighborhood one day. During dinner, Paul tries to remember the recipe for jambalaya so he and the Bear family decides to search for the recipe in Lester's old home. Just then, Ronald sneaks into to the home and asks their children to help out but they then get captured. On the border of the bayou, Sully and his son Sully Jr., who were vacationing heard a serious sound of loud steps. They see Ronald carrying the children in a covered up box. Ronald then calls Harvey and tells him the plans are ready. Ronald then puts them on a plane towards Fort Caulderdale which unfortunately heads for a place unknown!

In Fort Calderdale, Freddie and Sophia's children takes a walk on the boardwalk and play on the beach. Later, Freddie takes the children on a ride on Leappinwolf. Courtney wanted to ride it, but the cab can only fit two people. So, Zeke and Lawrence ride with Freddie while Sophia takes Courtney shopping for clothes. Days later, the children go to school, where Chris and Martin Wildcatt serve as guests. After their first day of school, the children get snatched in the tails by Sid Raccoon, who plans on torturing them to make clothes out of raccoon fur. On the beach, Freddie and Sophia blow stomachs at each other until they get a phone call by Martin that their children have been captured by an unknown mean raccoon. Freddie and Sophia follow the Wildcatts into an old, abandoned campsite, where they see raccoon tracks and a ransom note. "Harvey and Ronald: I got the three raccoons, look for me in the valley soon and follow my tracks. Mr. V will begin the battle. - Sid." In Silver Creek Valley, Turner sees footprints of Gourmad and Zak, he then looks at them and says "Aren't they dead!?"

Back in Chucklewood, Ranger John, Rusty, Frisky, Kitty and Natasha visited the Little Critter School to investigate the scene. The mouse family decides to help out as well. In his office, Burble shows the gang the videotape of recess and sees the fox children and another student vanishing from the playground. After recess, he searched all around the school, after countless minutes, he decided to send the students home for the rest of the day so that he can investigate. The gang arrives at the scene where the bridge exploded. They see fox and weasel prints near the bank of the bridge which leads into ravine into a cave. Using an old SONAR motion detector from Sully, Burble and Kitty's old friend, G.B. (Gabriela), they found one of Burble's classmates named Chuck in a river. Kitty and Natasha jump into the river and rescue him. Burble then lectures Chuck about wandering away from school during recess. Using his critter phone, he plays a clip of the Danger Rangers episode, Cave Save accompanied by the title song. Then, he called his folks to take him home. Meanwhile, Kitty picked up a ransom note: "I got the foxes. Meet me at G.G.'s place. - Harvey." After showing the ransom note to Rusty and Frisky, they learned that G.G. is the initials for Galton Gourmad (one of the villains they captured when Rusty and Frisky were young critters) and their children have been kidnapped by Harvey. They later received a phone call from the Bear and Raccoon families that their children have been captured as well and tells them about the ransom note. The gang travels to Fort Caulderdale to discuss what happened. Upon arrival, the Sully family tells the group about the box. Along with the audio evidence he recorded on his SAVO watch. Suddenly, to their surprise, they see demon versions of the villains they've encountered years ago.

In an abandoned place, Sid develops a fur cutting machine, which can remove the furs off of raccoons. He puts the raccoon children on a conveyer belt. Just as the knives begin to cut the raccoons, the machine is stopped by Burble. He notices that Sid is a friend of his old rival, Rusty Ringtail. Burble chews on Sid's tail and captures him in a box, arresting him. The raccoon children reunite with their folks. Just then, Freddie receives a phone call from the Wildcatts about the whereabouts of the children. Meanwhile, inside another abandoned place, the bear children are thinking about their folks when they see them. Ronald then prepares a secret honey which can places them in a deep, deep sleep. Buttons and Bearbette tell the gang they were looking for a recipe of jambalaya. The gang then hears groaning and went to the hideout where they see the bear children asleep. Buttons and Bearbette tried many ways to wake them up but to no avail. They summoned a wizard who is a nephew of Randal to quickly prepare an antidote but it is stopped by the Gourmad demon. The gang gets into a brawl with him with Sully Sr. picking him up and throwing him into the quicksand. The Deliah demon then captures Burble for ransom and prepares to rip his fur as a way to make jeans out of polar bear fur. Meanwhile, the mouse family's hut has been raided by the Zak and Zeke demons.

Adult Critters

 * Buttons - The adult protagonist who is the narrator.
 * Rusty - The adult co-protagonist who is the co-narrator.
 * Bearbette - Buttons' wife.
 * Frisky - Rusty's wife.
 * Freddie
 * Sophia
 * Skeeter
 * Karen
 * Turner - A turtle who lives in Silver Creek Valley.
 * Paul - Lester's nephew and patroller of Crystal Bayou
 * Sully Sr. - A sea lion, crowned king of Wahena and former Danger Ranger.
 * Kitty - (voiced by Grey Delisie) A pink cat and former Danger Ranger and certified lifeguard. She wears a yellow shirt with blue jeans. Her swimwear is a purple tankini.
 * Burble - (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) A polar bear and former Danger Ranger, who is the teacher of the Little Critter School. He wears a red polo shirt with tan dress shorts.
 * Chris and Martin Wildcatt - Two wildcats and guests of the preschool in Fort Caulderdale.
 * Charlotte Love (mentioned)
 * Lester Eli Gator (mentioned)
 * Squeeky (flashback sequence) - A blue mouse with a red nosed who only appeared in the Danger Rangers clip.
 * Gabriela - Mentioned

Young Critters

 * Buttons Jr. - The bear family's son.
 * Zach - The bear family's son.
 * Summer - The fox family's daughter.
 * Jon - The fox family's son.
 * Zeke - The raccoon family's son.
 * Courtney - The raccoon family's daughter.
 * Lawrence - The raccoon family's son.
 * Sully Jr. - Sully's son (Teen Critter)
 * Benny - Skeeter and Karen's son (Teen Critter)
 * Natasha - Kitty's adopted daughter (Teen Critter). She is a orange tabby cat who wears a brown shirt with blue overalls. Her swimwear is a dark purple maillot.
 * Mario - One of Burble's students.
 * Chuck - One of Burble's student which fell into the river while in a cave.

Humans

 * Ranger John "Johnny" Boyett - Chief Forest Ranger in Chucklewood
 * Robyn Boyett (née McCobb) - John's wife

Bad Critters

 * Harvey Weasel
 * Ronald Wolf
 * Sid Raccoon

Good Spirits

 * Gram Bear - Buttons' grandmother
 * Philbert - Freddie's father

Bad Spirits

 * Zak Vaderman
 * Delilah Denara
 * Galton Gourmad
 * Patty Parker

Trivia

 * Sully, Burble and Kitty are three former Danger Rangers who also appeared in The Landmark Thief.
 * Despite the Danger Rangers disbanded, they still have their SAVO watches though they can only function as a smart watch synched to their critter phone. Though the watches can no longer detect a "Danger Alert!"
 * Sully and Kitty donated their Danger Rangers uniform to charity after the group disbanded.
 * Kitty previously served as Miss Love's substitute teacher while Rusty's younger sister, Vixey was in school sometime before Summer and Jon were born. During the events of the film, she applied for the Little Critter School teaching job after Miss Love retired but the job ultimately went to Burble.
 * Burble still has his Workout Course and is installed in the backyard.
 * Inside the school:
 * Burble has a robotic vacuum named Fallbot (named after their old robot buddy), which cleans up the floor during recess.
 * Burble also has a pet turtle named Burt (named after their old friend), which the class feeds every day.
 * Viewer Viewer is renamed OVAS (SAVO spelled backward).
 * Burble carries the tradition of having monthly Swim Days at the school. When it's time for swim day, he sings a snippet of Learn To Swim.
 * Burble likes having his stomach pressed but only softly (unlike Sarah). Most of his classmates usually press it upon leaving the school for the day.

Rating
Rated PG for action violence and mild language.

Teaser
Buttons: Chucklewood Productions presents....!

Rusty: Hold it, Buttons. How many adventures we've done?

Buttons: Hmmm... at least 177.

Rusty: Well, this will be our final adventure.

...

Rusty: So come along with us on a quest to save our children.

Buttons: We will be your narrators for this final adventure.

Rusty: Doesn't it sound good for us to do this job?

Buttons: Yes. It's like passing the baton over from Jonesy.

Rusty: What should we call this?

Buttons: Chucklewood Critters: A New Generation.

Rusty: What should we rate it?

Buttons: I say PG. Because that's the highest rating for families.

Rusty: It contains some bloodless violence.

Buttons: No dirty words, no sexual content.

Rusty: The rules for a Chucklewood adventure.

[They both high-five]

...

Quotes
[Inside the cave, the SONAR beeps]

Burble: Oh my! I think I've detected someone.

Kitty: Where?

Burble: Follow me!

[The gang follows the SONAR to a river. They see one of Burble's classmates in a river.]

Student: HELP! HELP!

Rusty: Jon?

[Burble gets his binoculars and sees a weasel named Chuck. Kitty shines her flashlight at him.]

Burble: It's Chuck! One of my classmates.

Chuck: JON! SUMMER! MR. BURBLE! HELP!

Kitty: Hang on, Chuck!

[Kitty takes off her regular dress to reveal her tankini. Natasha takes off her shirt to reveal her maillot. They dive into the river and swim towards Chuck and rescue him. They then climb back to the gang.]

Chuck: Wow! You two saved my life.

Natasha: We thought you’re going to get swept away.

Kitty: That's what I call a Cave Save.

Burble: Remind you of someone, Kitty?

Kitty: Ah, yes.

Burble: Chuck!

Chuck: Yes, sir.

Burble: We got a serious talk! And when I mean serious! I mean SERIOUS!

[In the school backyard]

Burble: So, where were you!?

Chuck: Well, me, Summer and Jon went crossing a bridge and then we landed inside the cave and went exploring.

Kitty: Did you find something?

Natasha: Like fossils?

Chuck: Umm...no. And then we fell in the river, I saw Summer and Jon being swept away. And then I held on to this rock trying to yell for help.

Burble: Well, you did find trouble! During recess time, you need to remain in the playground so that I can see you at all times! You never leave the area at any time! [gets out his critter phone] Here, watch this.

[Clip ]

Burble: Does that make sense?

Chuck: Yes. I'm sorry.

Burble: Well, I'm going to call your folks so they can take you home.