Instruments & Instruments

Instruments & Instruments is an American animated television series created by Ralf Hat and Thatstuff for Kingson. The series revolves around two brothers: Tom and Dave Instruments and their various friends who reside in the insect civilization which parodies the average suburban town lifestyle. The series aired on the Kingson network from a span from 1996 to 2003.

Premise
The series takes its setting in an insect civilization named Bugville, located in a backyard of a house in North Carolina. Mimicking an average American suburban town, Bugville is filled with average town aspects including: schools, parks, malls, restaurants, and more.

The main characters of the show are two eight year-old dwarf tarantula brothers―Thomas and David Instruments, who live with their parents―Eloise and Kevin Instruments. In their neighborhood are their friends including: Bart and Ben Bug―two lazy bedbugs, Jenna and Sally Spinner―two orb weaver spiders, Sherry―an ignorant and terrifying daddy longlegs. Tom and Dave are curious individuals who mainly have adventures all throughout their neighborhood. They meet up with various other characters in and around their city, go to school, and endeavor on everyday exploits usually involving their own imaginations.

Main characters

 * Thomas Instruments:
 * David Instruments:

Secondary characters

 * Eloise Instruments:
 * Kevin Instruments:
 * The Bedbugs:
 * Jenna Orbweave:
 * Sally Orbweave:
 * Sherry Longlegs:

Recurring

 * Snaffy:
 * Wormy:
 * Doctor Jackie:
 * King Monarch:
 * Smelly:
 * Glowey:
 * Chloe, Zoey, and Joey:
 * Gary McGaringson:
 * Richard & Roland:
 * Henry:
 * The Alien Bunnies:
 * Manly Manny: A high testosterone superhuman from "Manly Manny & The Mansters of the Manlyverse", a Saturday morning cartoon in which the boys are regularly seen watching in various episodes. Manny heavily spoofs the heroic wasteland warrior stereotype, and is deeply ignorant in terms of personality.

Production
Instruments & Instruments was produced by the  Deadpan Productions  animation company, as the second television series to be produced by the company, after (creator) Ralf Hat's well-popular series,  The Misadventures of Gecko. Also, as a result from the shows wide fandom, cast and crew helped develop the rather highly popularized spinoff series  The Sherry Show. The series officially ended in 2003, with the one hour television movie,  ''Attack of the Molemen. ''

Broadcasting
The series aired on the Kingson network from a span from 1996 to 2003, while reruns currently air on weekends on  Kingson REAL  since 2017.