What if Ezekiel Vincent Productions was founded in 1937?/Sanrio Animation was founded in 1939?/Kamp Nookling: Tom Nook's Under Years

Kamp Nookling: Tom Nook's Under Years is an American-Canadian educational stop-motion animated children's television series created by Ezekiel Vincent and Jim Jinkins. The series is based on the 1957 The Tanuki and the Dog short "Summer Kamping". it premiered on January 13, 2002 as a sneak peek on Joyhouse during the pre-teens and teenagers era, and on April 1, 2002 as a TV series during the preschool era as well on Ezekiel Junior that same day.

It features younger versions of the main characters from the original show. Tom Nook, Isabelle, Timmy, Tommy, TBA are campers; TBA is a camp counselor; TBA is a camp chef; and other campers who becomes Tom Nook's other friends.

Premise
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Characters and voice cast
The voice cast reprise their roles from Animal Crossing (1996).


 * Tom Nook (voiced by Jeff Bergman) -  A fun happy tanuki, and is "TBA." TBA
 * Isabelle (voiced by Grey DeLisle) - Tom Nook's best friend, TBA
 * Digby (voiced by TBA) - TBA
 * Reese (voiced by TBA) - TBA
 * Cyrus (voiced by TBA)- TBA
 * TBA (voiced by TBA) - TBA
 * TBA (voiced by TBA) - TBA
 * Nobby and Narlene (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui and Kate Higgins respectively)- TBA
 * TBA (voiced by TBA) - TBA
 * Nobby and Narlene (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui and Kate Higgins respectively)- TBA

Episodes
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Reception
Kamp Nookling was met with mostly positive reviews, TBA

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Production
They stated that he helped create the idea for Kamp Nookling: Tom Nook's Under Years. In October 1999, On their "second or third day" at Joyhouse, they "was asked to go to a meeting" and "asked a lot of questions." This made him realize that Tom Nook had "basically stayed the same" and inspired him and others together to come up with ideas for spin-off shows  and new characters. In June 2000, Kamp Nookling: Tom Nook's Under Years was greenlit and commenced production the same month.

For the 2001-02 Ezekiel Channel slate, it was confirmed that Tom Nook and his friends would have the same voice actors as the original series. Carlos Alazraqui and Kate Higgins will also voice two new characters: Nobby and Narlene, who are twin camp TBAs. On January 13, 2002, a six-minute sneak peek of "The TBA Kid" was shown.

Stop-motion
Most of the episodes are done by stop-motion thanks to one of the production companies that work on the show, Cuppa Coffee Animation.

2d animation segments
There are certain episodes that feature the 2d animation parts of some episodes, they are done by Aardman Animations, Film Roman, Nelvana, and Corus Entertainment (Animal Crossing (1996)'s production companies).

Trivia

 * The pilot will be it's last show for the pre-teens and teenagers era in 2002.