Studio Lights & VHS Shadows
The show lives between a dying 80s horror boom and the plastic optimism of a 90s kids’ studio – all filtered through a beat-to-hell CRT.
The “present day” of the show lives on a cheap 1990s children’s television soundstage where The Crackodile & Friends Show is taped: bright colors, hot studio lights, painted smiles, and well-meaning lessons delivered with absolute sincerity.
Running beneath that surface is the past — a trail of 1980s horror gigs, failed productions, bad decisions, and worse relationships. These flashbacks pull us into bars, alleyways, unfinished sets, and half-forgotten films, revealing the life that shaped the person now standing in front of the kids. Every episode moves between what the kids see and what Wally remembers — sometimes colliding, sometimes bleeding through.
Core Characters
Wally Crackodile
Wally is a crocodile who once found fame in the bargain-bin horror circuit of the 1980s and never quite recovered from it.
In the mid-1990s, he hosts a brightly colored children’s television show where he earnestly attempts to teach kids simple life lessons — friendship, honesty, kindness, safety — with absolute confidence and deeply flawed judgment.
Off camera, Wally is still living with the consequences of his past. The show offers structure, visibility, and a chance at something resembling redemption — if he can survive it.
Wendy
Smart, grounded, and emotionally guarded, Wendy is a defining figure from Wally’s past.
She represents the version of his life that might have worked — if he had made different choices. Calm where Wally is chaotic, Wendy serves as a moral counterweight and emotional anchor, even when she’s no longer willing to be pulled into his orbit.
Grime
A swaggering, theatrical villain from Wally’s original horror-film era — part friend, part nemesis, part chaos.
Ambitious and dangerous, Grime is deeply tied to Wally’s past and has a talent for turning old wounds into new problems.
He does not belong to the children’s show. That’s exactly why he matters.
Squirrelly
Streetwise, big-hearted chaos engine.
Wally met Squirrelly while chasing acting work, and the two bonded through ambition, the industry, and years of terrible decisions. Squirrelly has a good heart and brutal instincts, often nudging Wally toward indulgence, shortcuts, and trouble.
Not a sidekick — the best/worst friend Wally could ever have.
Mr. Whiskers
Deadpan realist of the group — calm, steady, and rarely surprised.
In a world built on noise and performance, Mr. Whiskers is the one who simply exists: present, observant, and grounded. He doesn’t explain himself. He doesn’t need to.
Edwin
A relentlessly ambitious industry climber who has always been very good at surviving other people’s mistakes.
Edwin believes in upward momentum, image management, and being in the right room at the right time. His history with Wally is complicated, transactional, and unfinished — and the balance of power between them is still very much in motion.
Smeezy
A slick operator with “great ideas” that are always one emergency away from either genius or collapse.
Half producer, half con artist, Smeezy floats between both timelines as a hustler, a connector, and a complication — sometimes saving the day, sometimes making it worse.