Biz Kids (stylized as biz KID$) is an American educational television series that teaches financial education and entrepreneurship to kids and teenagers. It uses sketch comedy, musical guests, guest and special guest appearances, and young actors to explain basic economic concepts. Its motto is: "Where kids teach kids about money and business." Biz Kids has been described as comparable to KING-TV's Almost Live!,^[who?] and is similar in format to CBC Television's Street Cents.

Biz Kids was created by the producers of Bill Nye the Science Guy, the Emmy Award winning science show from the 1990s.^[1] Comedy sketches, spoofs of mostly old TV shows and movies, commercial parodies, and silly antics are performed by a cast of Seattle teenage actors.

The Biz Kids cast is made up largely of teenage actors from the Seattle area. Writer John Keister also has small recurring roles.^{[citation needed]}

Biz Kids is about a group of high school teenagers and one middle school preteen teaches kids about money and others and they also been friends since childhood (preschool to high school).^{[citation needed]}

The original cast members were Lauren Dupree, Kaelon Horst, Bob Jones, Maia Lee, Alexander Oki, Amanda Powers, Miriam Schwartz, Austin Siedentopf, Devon Stark, Christina Taylor, and Elizabeth Wright.^[2]

• All My Investments, a parody of the soap opera on ABC, All My Children. Featured in two episodes "Saving and Investing for Your Future" and "Bulls, Bears and Financial Markets".
• The No-Sale Zone, a parody of the television series The Twilight Zone. Featured in an episode "Sell, Sell, Sell (The Science of Sales)".
• Mr. Squeezya Card, a commercial parody of the Visa card. Featured in an episode "Using Your Credit-Crazy or Compelling?".
• As the Economy Turns and As the Budget Turns, both parodies of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. Featured in two episodes.
• The Adventures of Compulsive and Compare Kid, Amanda and Miriam as two teenage girls named Compulsive and Compare Kid to look at the newest phone ever. Featured in an episode "How to Be a Smart Consumer".
• Banks of Our Lives, a parody of the soap opera on NBC, Days of Our Lives. Featured in an episode "Take it to the Bank!".
• Gus Greenback: Gumshoe Detective, a 16-year-old teenage detective named Gus Greenback (Austin Siedentopf) has all the money clues to his friends, a pretty popular rich girl named Darla Dollar (Miriam Schwartz) and his assistant Sergeant Sawbuck (Lauren DuPree) solving some entrepreneur files during the mid to late 1940s and early 1950s in Seattle.
• Tooth Fairy Tales, it follows a fairy named Tooth Fairy (Austin Siedentopf), who gives money to the fairy's friends in their beds and waved the wand with magical dust, so they put them to sleep.
• Film, television spoofs, and other comedy sketches are featured in some episodes.

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• Fairy Tale Money Tips, a sketch starring Snow White (Maia Lee), Cinderella (Amanda Powers), Aladdin's princess (Lauren DuPree) and other cast members played fairy tale characters who have money tips.
• Besties with Cash!, a sketch starring two best friends Stacey (Miriam Schwartz) and Jessica (Elizabeth Wright) who talks about fashion, beauty, money, schools, and other things with co-hosts Katie (Maia Lee), Stacey's younger sister, Debbie (Lauren DuPree), Jessica's older sister, Natalie (Christina Taylor), Darcy (Amanda Powers), and other cast members.
• Super Biz Kids, a fictional superhero team like the Avengers and Justice League who battles villains and fights crime that makes the city of Seattle their way. The team leader Princess Glitter (Lauren DuPree), her team, Thunder Boy (Alexander Oki) and Lightning Girl (Maia Lee), two teenage superhero siblings, Destroyer Dude (Kaelon Horst), Kung Fu Boy (Devon Stark), Flammo Dude (Austin Siedentopf), Plant Girl (Amanda Powers), Pixie Dust Girl (Christina Taylor), Wind Girl (Miriam Schwartz), and Snow Girl (Elizabeth Wright) with the villains Dr. Andy, the Queen of Hounds, The Banker, and other villains. Other superheroes and supervillains are included.
• Seattle Money Beat, a talk show from Seattle where three co-hosts Melissa (Lauren DuPree), Kelly (Maia Lee), and Brian (Kaelon Horst), where they talk about dollars, coins, and all of the stuff, similar to Northwest Afternoon, with their co-hosts Jack (Alexander Oki), Nicholas (Austin Siedentopf), Sarah (Amanda Powers), Gretchen (Christina Taylor) and other co-hosts.
• Money Saver Films, a parody of educational films from the 1950s to the 1990s because they teach about money and other things. Films as such as Cash: What a Payday!, The Right Time to Make Money, and others.
• The Charlie, Trisha, and Lori Radio Show, a sketch starring teenage radio personalities Charlie Crowne (Kaelon Horst), Trisha Clint (Lauren DuPree), and their co-host, Lori Wainwright (Maia Lee), talks through topics like beauty, clothing, and others.
• How to Survive a Payday, a parody of the NBC soap opera How to Survive a Marriage.
• Boyz4+Girlz6, a teen pop band similar to Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, All Saints and similar bands.
• The Lindsay Heinebart Show, a talk show sketch starring Lindsay Heinebart (Maia Lee), a parody of Cindi Rinehart, when she talks about money, fashion, makeup, accessories, electronics, and others, she has special guests.
• The What Keeps Me Booth, a sketch featuring everyone from the What Keeps Me Booth.
• Skiers Earn Interest, a sketch featuring a group of kid and teenage skiers skiing on Mount Rainier together and they learn about interest.
• The High Fiving Pretty Girls, a sketch features a group of excessively, young and old, popular, teenage girls with high self-esteem who "go out on the town" all over Seattle, with their friends.
• They Are The Kids, a parody of We Are the World.
• The Witches of Seattle, four teenage witches talking about money and other things, they also can cast spells like Powerful than a nerd, turn Claire into a bird!, Brilliant than a frog, turn Andy into a dog!, along with their monster friends.
• The Wrestledolphs!, a wrestling family with money and they are attacking them and whooping them, Papa and Mama Wrestledolph giving out money to their children with their referee.
• All My Investments: 60 Year Anniversary, the hostess looks back at All My Investments episodes from the past decades from the 1950s to 1990s.
• Better Eating Through Saving Money, Alex, Miriam and Maia playing three teenage siblings named Jerry, Nicolette, and Deborah, demonstrating their families and friends’ money recipes.
• Heritage Moments of Money, some many sketches have the heritage moments of money and others from past all the way to the present.
• Pop-culture references, from I Love Lucy and Gilligan's Island to Saved by the Bell to The Addams Family.
• Halloween Sketches, Biz Kids has so many Halloween sketches like:
• The Monster Biz Kids, Lauren is a witch who is casting spells, Austin is a werewolf, Kaelon is a vampire, Devon is a mummy, Maia is a teen zombie, Lizzie is Medusa, Amanda, Christina, and Miriam are teenage witchy sisters who are also casting spells, Alex is a teenage Frankenstein with a featured cast member as a teenage bride of Frankenstein, Claire is a ghoulish girl, and other cast members as monsters.
• Zom-Biz Kids, the hosts and extras of Biz Kids as zombies, while Pat Cashman and John Keister are being scared by a zombie couple.

The Curse of Mercer Street, The Haunted Studio, and other Halloween sketches.

• Christmas Sketches, Biz Kids has many Christmas sketches.
• Holiday Sketches, Biz Kids has every sketch from New Year's Eve to Christmas.
• Biz Kids Halloween Special Sketches, it has every sketch from the Biz Kids dressed up as monsters such as witches, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, zombies, mummies, gorgons, fly monsters, sea monsters, vampire girls, mad scientists, Frankenstein's monsters, grim reapers and more monsters to The Biz Kids Family, a parody of The Addams Family, to other Halloween sketches.
• Pop Star Sketches, Biz Kids have pop stars sketches from the Backstreet Boys, Madonna, Spice Girls to All Saints and other pop stars.

Biz Kids is produced in association with WXXI of Rochester, NY, and is distributed by American Public Television in the United States.^[3] It started airing on local PBS stations on January 6, 2008.^[4] Shortly after launching, the show achieved a reach of 118 million households, and by June 2008, the show was airing on 311 of 343 PBS stations.^[5] By early 2009, the show was broadcast on 334 PBS stations, accounting for 97% of public television channels in the United States.^[6] After six seasons, the show concluded on June 20, 2017. As of 2024, reruns continue to air on select PBS stations, and the series is also aired on commercial broadcast syndication.^{[citation needed]}

The show also aired in the United Kingdom on the Simply Money channel and also aired in Canada on the Knowledge Network.^{[citation needed]}

A free curriculum is available for download for use by teachers and parents to use in classrooms, afterschool programs and at home.^[7] Each episode has a specially designed curriculum with activities, reviews and tests, all of which comply with the National Endowment for Financial Education standards. Five core Biz Kids lesson plans are available in Spanish.