The Secret Saturdays
TV Show • 2008 • Action
ReportThe Secret Saturdays is an American animated television series created by Canadian cartoonist Jay Stephens for Cartoon Network. It debuted on October 3, 2008, in the United States. The series follows the adventures of the Saturdays, a family of cryptozoologists that work to keep the truth about cryptids from getting out, in order to protect both the human race and the creatures themselves. The Saturdays travel the world searching for cryptids to study and battling twisted villains like the megalomaniac V.V. Argost. The series is influenced by the style of '60s-era Hanna-Barbera action series, and is combined with Jay Stephens' own personal interest in cryptozoology. The show finished its run on January 30, 2010 and is currently in reruns airing on Boomerang as of December 5, 2011. The Saturdays are also set to appear in Ben 10: Omniverse.
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Are animals abused?
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E16
**SPOILERS FOR EPISODE**
Also in S1 E16, Lau, electric producing catfish-like cryptid are being used as batteries against their will. It's implied it hurts them.
Also in S1 E16, Lau, electric producing catfish-like cryptid are being used as batteries against their will. It's implied it hurts them.
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While it can be inferred that certain characters might be mistreated, it's nothing completely exact in show, and more up to your own depiction.
Francis is yelled at by Epsilon and the relationship seems complex in S2 E7, but it's mostly up to headcanon and personal depiction than actually shown in-series.
Zak Monday's can be inferred and is implicated (By regular Zak's own treatment by Drew Monday), however again, nothing completely revealed in show, but more implicated by things shown.
Francis is yelled at by Epsilon and the relationship seems complex in S2 E7, but it's mostly up to headcanon and personal depiction than actually shown in-series.
Zak Monday's can be inferred and is implicated (By regular Zak's own treatment by Drew Monday), however again, nothing completely revealed in show, but more implicated by things shown.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Doc is blind in one eye from being scratched but all that's shown is a scar. It happens on screen but it isn't actually shown happening or while he's injured.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does a kid die?
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E9
Yes. Oh my god Yes. I'm not sure who said "No", but it's explicitly untrue and this happens in the episode "And Your Enemies Closer" and it's genuinely the most haunting death in the series, and very on-screen, even if they don't say outright. "Oh God he's dead!!!" It is incredibly obvious he has died.
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Are there spiders?
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Same thing on the bug comment, the main Villain is repeatedly depicted using Insects against the Main Characters, which includes spiders in certain episodes. I think the only major depiction is in S1 E22 of actual spiders.
However, Argost's minion, Munya, has been combined genetically with cryptid spider dna, and splits extra limbs out of his back and claws, as well as spider webbing coming out of his mouth.
However, Argost's minion, Munya, has been combined genetically with cryptid spider dna, and splits extra limbs out of his back and claws, as well as spider webbing coming out of his mouth.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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S1
E11
Zak also uses the P-slur (P*scho) in Black Monday.
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Are there bugs?
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Throughout the whole show, bugs are heavily depicted, (sometimes even in the hundreds/and just generally lots of them.) Because the main villain utilizes them as weapons/tools and is regularly throwing dangerous cryptid bugs at the main characters, which includes a centipede like insect.
In a seperate episode, S1 E12, there are large Millipede like Crypids who are protectors of a tree, as well as in S2 E8, Giant Worm cryptids.
In a seperate episode, S1 E12, there are large Millipede like Crypids who are protectors of a tree, as well as in S2 E8, Giant Worm cryptids.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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S1
E18
Ultimately, it is not "canon", but Doc's reaction to being inside a place where he previously lost countless friends and then convinced and manipulated he has lost his family the same way, reads very much that he has PTSD & Trauma from the initial event.
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Is someone buried alive?
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E8
In Life in the Underground, Zak and his friends are almost buried alive and nearly suffocate. They seem very afraid of dying in the moment and it's a very stressful situation.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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In S1 E11 "Black Monday" & E13 "Paris is Melting", when the Saturdays face off with their alternate reality doubles from a parallel dimension, reality gets unstable and warped around them, and especially starts to fall apart worse near the end of Black Monday. Paris is Melting also has a bit of this, but it doesn't get nearly as bad as Black Monday does.
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Does someone drown?
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Not to death, but very close.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does a parent die?
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Drew and Doyle's parents die.
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Does a baby cry?
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S2
E3
In "The Thousand Eyes of Ahuizotl", Ahuizotl is a creature known for luring people away via the sound of a baby crying, and does this multiple times in the episode.
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Are there snakes?
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Some of the later major villains in the series are Nagas, who are humanoid with snake halves & features. In the first episode, Kalmykian Snakes are talked about, but you can't see them very well in the photo that's shown.
In S1 E20 though, a group of characters have a bunch of snakes drop on them and attack them, which includes being repeatedly bitten. They make their escape pretty fast but it is a Lot of Snakes.
In S1 E20 though, a group of characters have a bunch of snakes drop on them and attack them, which includes being repeatedly bitten. They make their escape pretty fast but it is a Lot of Snakes.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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There are scenes where people fall but don't die.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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In several episodes, they go underwater for varying reasons, but it's more specifically kept to certain episodes than overall. This includes: Episodes 4 "The King of Kumari Kandam", 7 "Van Rook's Apprentice", 14 , 16 "Something in the Water", 22 "The Atlas Pin", & 24 "Where Lies the Engulfer" (All Season 1 episodes.)
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Are there ghosts?
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S1
E15
There aren't any ghosts in the episode, more using the concept about them existing as the major plot.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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In S1 E15, Zak and his brothers jump over the backs of Crocs/Gators who try to snap at them.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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In S1 E17, Zak's older brother is kidnapped by the main villain. in S2 E9, Zak is kidnapped, I believe it constitutes as kidnapping considering there is manipulation involved in the process of him choosing to go.
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