System Crash

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System Crash
Created by	Josh Morris
Starring	See below
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	45
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	YTV
Release	March 14, 1999 (1999-03-14) – December 9, 2001 (2001-12-09)

System Crash is a Canadian youth sketch comedy television series, which aired on YTV from March 14, 1999, to December 9, 2001. ^[1]

The series centred on a group of students in a junior high school media club, telling the events of their fictional school, Lambton Junior High, in the past week. ^[2] Each episode usually had a theme, e.g. parents.

Recurring segments

• Fly on the Wall - Uses hidden cameras to show what happens when no one is looking (e.g. why girls go to the bathroom in pairs and what do they do once they're in there?)
• Burnbaum Helps - Burnbaum helping people. However, it always ends badly for the person that asks for help. It was replaced with Battleford Helps when Burnbaum left the show.
• Canadian Council for Concerned Kids - Zoe's informative 'public service announcement' styled segment, providing important messages to adults on the way they should treat and interact with their children.
• Garage Band - During the first season (1999), several of the episodes ended with a Garage Band segment. It featured members of the Canadian band Serial Joe playing humorous songs with the principal cast.
• Lambton News - Talks about current events. Hosted by Carla Waller in the first season and Emily Pereira afterwards.
• Sports Update - An update on sports at the school. Hosted by Wedgie Goldstein in the first season and Noogie Monoham (Zach Pettiford) afterwards.
• Lambton Legends - Looking back at various legendary athletes and other famous Lambton alumni.
• Lambton Home Shopping - Beau Peterson sells useless products and inventions to the students of Lambton via a Home Shopping Network styled-show.
• Movie Spoofs - Movies of all kinds were constantly spoofed - Examples include Gladiator , Cast Away , Star Wars , The Maltese Falcon , The Incredible Hulk , The Matrix , E.T. , Jaws , etc.
• Kyle's Notes - Kyle Cooper giving unreliable lectures and his notes. This was used during the first season and ended when Ryan Field left the show.

Cast

Season 1

• Nathaniel Siegler as Nathan Burnbaum
• Haleigh Sheehan as Zoe McLaughlan-Fernandez
• Kendra FitzRandolph as Bridget Hendrickson
• Tony Del Rio as William 'Tek' Gibson
• Ryan Field as Kyle Copper
• Alithea Watters as Carla Waller
• Shamba Amani as Mr. Cooper

Season 2

• Nathaniel Siegler as Nathan Burnbaum
• Haleigh Sheehan as Zoe McLaughlan-Fernandez
• Kendra FitzRandolph as Bridget Hendrickson
• Tony Del Rio as William 'Tek' Gibson
• Owen Rotharmel as Beau Peterson

Season 3

• Nathaniel Siegler as Nathan Burnbaum
• Haleigh Sheehan as Zoe McLaughlan-Fernandez
• Kendra FitzRandolph as Bridget Hendrickson
• Owen Rotharmel as Beau Peterson
• Rajiv Surendra as Chuck Singh
• Jordan Dawe ^[3]

Season 4

• Haleigh Sheehan as Zoe McLaughlan-Fernandez
• Owen Rotharmel as Beau Peterson
• Connor Lynch as Bobby Battleford
• Esmeralda Smith-Romero as Samantha Briggs
• Nathan Stephenson as James Alexander

References

1. Greenaway, Kathryn (March 13, 1999). "Teenage angst gets its own TV show: System Crash succeeds by showing teens their own world". Montreal Gazette . p. 39. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
2. Grant McIntyre, "From crass to Crash Kids' television writer/producer has done it all". The Globe and Mail , March 20, 1999.
3. Gordon Kennedy, "Young actor lands spot on YTV program". Sudbury Star , June 30, 2000.

External links

• System Crash at IMDb