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• Kaeloo (Kaelou) (voiced by Emmanuel Garijo in French and Andy Chase (Pilot), Doug Rand (Season 1) in English) - the titular character and main protagonist. She is a cheerful and energetic but dangerously emotionally unstable tree frog who's always looking for games to play with her so-called "buddies". When pushed too far, Kaeloo enters an intense rage that transforms her into the hulking "Bad Kaeloo". Throughout the series, it is heavily implied that Kaeloo may have a crush on Mr. Cat, who also happens to have a crush on her. Kaeloo is gender-ambiguous in the French dub of the show; no one knowing her gender is a running gag. She is re-written to be female in most of the other dubs of the series; however, the Italian, Serbian and Hindi dubs, and the first 10 episodes in the English dub have her re-written as male, with the former three dubs editing out any suggestive scenes between her and Mr. Cat.
• Stumpy (Moignon) (voiced by Rémi Chapotot in French and Doug Rand (Pilot and Season 1)) - an extremely dim-witted red squirrel, fascinated by explosions, superpowers and anything remotely dangerous. He has little to no sense of reality and is often delusional. He is fascinated by adventure, explosions, superpowers, intergalactic wars and the like. Stumpy aspires to be like his idol, comic book hero Mr. Coolskin. He hates books without pictures, being made fun of, other people touching his things, and washing. Whenever he doesn't understand something (which is often), is afraid or otherwise agitated, he spouts gibberish as his neck spasms erratically.
• Quack Quack (Coin Coin) (voiced by Rémi Chapotot in French and Doug Rand in English) - a duck who spent most of his life as a lab animal, where he was subjected to all sorts of experiments. He is very intelligent, indestructible and addicted to yogurt. He can only say "quack", Whilst still in his egg, his parents were killed by a hunter. He was taken into a laboratory as a duckling and repeatedly experimented on. He was made indestructible, intelligent, extremely lucky and addicted to yogurt. He is afraid of three things: doctors, never finding his creator and expired yogurt.
• Mr. Cat (Monsieur Chat) (Hector) (voiced by Philippe Spiteri in French and Christian Erickson (Pilot), Mike Powers (Season 1) in English) - the main antagonist/anti-hero, a greedy bengal cat, who's an alcoholic and a cheater. Even though Mr. Cat is a horrible creature, Kaeloo seems to have feelings for him, who always wants to win, whatever the means and is even willing to cheat to do so. He especially enjoys torturing Quack Quack, which upsets Kaeloo and is the usual cause of her transformation into Bad Kaeloo. Despite (or perhaps because of) Kaeloo's transformations, he seems to have developed a crush on her; the feeling is reciprocated, and while they are not officially a couple, the other characters often talk about their feelings for each other and about them becoming a couple. As a result of this crush, he occasionally tries to make romantic advances towards her, which she rejects; in cases where Kaeloo makes advances on him, he also rejects her for unknown reasons. Despite all of the factors mentioned above, he is Kaeloo's closest friend and remains loyal to her even when others, including Stumpy and Quack Quack, turn against her. It is implied in several episodes that he had an extremely difficult past and had terrible relationships with his family, especially his brothers. Over the course of the series, however, he does become slightly nicer while still retaining his mean self.
• Bad Kaeloo (Bad Kaelou) (voiced by Emmanuel Garijo in French and Doug Rand (Season 1) in English) - whenever Kaeloo gets angry or frustrated enough, she transforms into this form, a hulking, brutish toad. While she has stated in an early episode that the transformations must be triggered by anger, she has been seen in several episodes deliberately taking this form to cheat at games that require a level of physical prowess or to intimidate others. The transformations seem to be accompanied by a profound drop in intellectual capacity and reasoning, later followed by remorse once she returns to her "normal" form. This implies that Bad Kaeloo's actions are usually beyond her conscious control. It is hinted at in one episode that this personality will become the dominant one later in her life, though another episode set in the future contradicted this.

Secondary

Later seasons of the show introduce new characters:

Series overview

Pilot (2007)

Kaeloo was originally a three-minute short film animation created in 2007, titled Kaelou: Red Light, Green Light, 1, 2, 3 (Kaelou: 1, 2, 3 Je Te Saigne!!!)^[2] and presented to the MIP TV in the same year. It is widely considered the pilot of the series.

Season 1 (2010)

All episodes are directed by Rémi Chapotot.

Season 2 (2012–13)

A second season was made and aired in France, but it has not yet been dubbed into English, the sole exception being the episode "What if We Played at Riding Ponies?".

Season 3 (2016-18)

The third season was released in France on December 18, 2016 on Télétoon+. It has not yet been dubbed in English.

Season 4 (2019-20)

The fourth season of the show premiered on December 25, 2019. It has not yet been dubbed in English.

Season 5 (2023)

The fifth season premiered on April 8, 2023. It has not yet been dubbed in English.^[4]

DVD release

Kaeloo: Hide and Hunt was released on Region 4 DVD by Beyond Home Entertainment on 1 December 2011.^[5] It contains the first 13 episodes of the English dub of Season 1.