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Tuttle Twins
Genre
Created byDaniel Harmon
Based onTuttle Twins
by Connor Boyack and Elijah Stanfield
ShowrunnerDaniel Harmon
Written byJonny Vance
Voices ofJonny Vance
Sara Johnson
William Lucas
Blake Brust
Theme music composerSam McCartney
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes37
Production
Executive producerConnor Boyack
ProducersJordyn Curley
Josh Stofferahn
Production companiesAngel Studios
Harmon Brothers
Original release
ReleaseJune 30, 2021 (2021-06-30) –
present

Tuttle Twins is an American animated series produced by Angel Studios, based on the libertarian book series of the same name by Connor Boyack. First released on June 30, 2021, the series follows twin siblings Ethan and Emily Tuttle, who travel through space and time with their grandmother Gabby to meet historical figures and learn lessons about topics related to economic freedom.

Premise

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The series involves Cuban-American twin siblings Ethan Tuttle and Emily Tuttle and their grandmother Gabby. In most episodes, Gabby uses a modified mobility scooter to take her grandchildren Ethan and Emily, a raccoon named Derek, and (in Season 3) a robot named Ro-Burt on adventures (often through time) in which they meet famous individuals, historical figures, or other characters and learn lessons in order to fill Gabby's fuel container with a liquid substance called "knowledge juice" so they can return home.

Characters

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Main

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  • Ethan Tuttle (voiced by Jonny Vance) is Emily's twin brother and Gabby's grandson.
  • Emily Tuttle (voiced by Alex Hall) is Ethan's twin sister and Gabby's granddaughter.
  • Gabby (voiced by William Lucas) is Ethan and Emily's grandmother. She is a first-generation Cuban-American. Her full name is Gabriella Villanueva De Los Santos Ron Pablo Jones.
  • Derek (voiced by Alex Elkin) is a raccoon who accompanies Ethan, Emily and Gabby on their time-traveling adventures.
  • Roburt (voiced by Christopher Pinesworth) is a robot that makes his first appearance in "The College Conundrum".

Recurring

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  • Copernicus (voiced by Blake Brust)
  • Karinne (voiced by Natalie Madsen)
  • Mr. Tuttle (voiced by Corey Landis) is Ethan and Emily's father.
  • Mrs. Tuttle (voiced by Rachel Strauss-Muniz) is Ethan and Emily's mother.

Production

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See also: Libertas Institute (Utah) § Tuttle Twins

The Libertas Institute publishes a series of libertarian children's books titled the Tuttle Twins, which is written by its president Connor Boyack.[1][2][3][4]

Angel Studios raised $4.6 million in equity crowdfunding to produce an animated series based on the Tuttle Twins books.[1][5][6][7] The series is produced in association with Harmon Brothers.

Episodes

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SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
112June 30, 2021 (2021-06-30)November 1, 2022 (2022-11-01)
211March 7, 2023 (2023-03-07)December 5, 2023 (2023-12-05)
310May 6, 2024 (2024-05-06)March 5, 2025 (2025-03-05)

Specials

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SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
Dark Dumpster Derek Returns!1November 15, 2023 (2023-11-15)
Money Management Mayhem1December 12, 2023 (2023-12-12)
Cabrini1March 8, 2024 (2024-03-08)
Homestead1December 10, 2024 (2024-12-10)

Season 1 (2021–22)

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season		TitleOriginal release date
1"When Laws Give You Lemons"June 30, 2021
After Ethan and Emily get their lemonade stand taken by Karinne, Gabby uses her time-traveling wheelchair to take the twins to France in 1848 to meet Frédéric Bastiat and learn about natural rights and property rights. They then go to the Old West (specifically, the fictional town of Quiet Valley) where they have to stop two bandits from seizing cows. (which serves as the show's allegory for taxation, which is equated with theft)
2"War of the Worms"October 26, 2021
3"Pencils, Pirates & Ice Cream People"November 9, 2021
4"Of Business & Benjamins"November 23, 2021
5"Rising Tides & Dirty Deals"December 14, 2021
6"The Inflation Monster"December 21, 2021
Gabby takes the twins to meet Milton Friedman, who teaches them about inflation. He accompanies them to ancient Rome, where they learn about coin debasement, then to the Federal Reserve building in 1925, and then to Zimbabwe in 2008 to learn about the hyperinflation crisis the country had experienced at the time.
7"Cake, Pies, & Flat Earth Guys"March 1, 2022
8"Wonky Wages"April 5, 2022
Whilst Mr. Wonky (a parody of Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is giving a tour of his toy factory to Ethan and Emily's class on a field trip, a disgruntled employee angrily quits her job in front of them. With the remaining workers unable to come up with good ideas for future toys, Gabby takes the twins to Yankee Stadium in 1929 to meet Babe Ruth, who tells them about how he is paid more because of the value he brings to his team. Later, she takes the twins to her childhood home in Havana to show them how socialist policies have caused conditions in Cuba to decline.
9"Dumpsters & Disobedience"May 3, 2022
10"Roll for Power"September 6, 2022
11"Free Speech Freestyle"October 4, 2022
12"The Fight for the Future"November 1, 2022

Season 2 (2023)

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season		TitleOriginal release date
Part 1
1"Needs, Rights & Flamingo Fights"March 7, 2023
When students on a field trip attempt to force one student to share his food with them on the basis that food is a human right, Gabby takes the twins to East Dorset in 1668 to meet John Locke, who explains the difference between rights and needs.
2"Don't Trash Success"April 4, 2023
3"Bitcoin and the Beast"May 2, 2023

Whilst having a yard sale, the twins find themselves unable to decide whether to sell their Money Craft gaming system to Karinne for $100 or to Lyle for the same amount in bitcoin. To help them learn about bitcoin, Gabby takes them into the internet to meet Satoshi Nakamoto, who teaches them about how the quick and easy duplication of currency (wampum beads being an example mentioned) can result in devaluation, how cryptocurrencies are mined, and how blockchains work.

After Gabby and the twins leave the Crypto Corner, Gabby taps a pop-up that causes them to be transported into Money Craft, where the twins have to collect rubies to fill up their "wealth bars" in order to beat the game. However, Karinne decides to play and uses the Konami code to give herself unlimited rubies, causing the wealth bars of the twins and the non-player characters to get depleted. When Gabby introduces a literal bitcoin mine, Karinne tries and fails to duplicate her bitcoin. In the end, the twins sell the gaming system to Lyle.
4"Think Outside the Flocks"June 6, 2023
5"A T-Rex and Tangled Ideas"June 30, 2023
6"The Itsy Bitsy Victim Mentality"August 1, 2023
7"Mermaid Tails & Planning Fails"September 5, 2023
8"Spooky, Stinky Subsidies"October 3, 2023
9"Wrestling With Socialism"November 7, 2023
Minisode
–"Dark Dumpster Derek Returns!"November 15, 2023
In an episode sponsored by Goldback, Gabby interrupts the shooting of a movie featuring Derek in his Dark Dumpster Derek persona to chastise Emily for coming up with the line "gold is trash money" and takes her and Ethan into paintings to meet George Washington, who teaches them about the gold standard.
Part 2
10"The Education Jungle"November 21, 2023
11"Kidnappers & Capitalism"December 5, 2023
Derek is kidnapped by alien raccoons who take him back to their planet, but are followed by Gabby and the twins, who learn that Derek is actually one of the aliens and that he was predestined at birth to run against President Rabies. Another raccoon called the Oracle teaches the twins about crony capitalism and government transparency, and the twins go on a mission to infiltrate a meeting between President Rabies and corporate lobbyists. After Derek drinks knowledge juice, temporarily enhancing his intelligence in the process, he exposes President Rabies' corruption during a debate and has the Oracle run against Rabies instead.
Special
–"Money Management Mayhem: A Christmas Adventure"December 12, 2023
While shopping online for jackets, Ethan and Emily get into an argument over eachother's approach to spending. Gabby has them play a fictional board game called Generic-Manji (a parody of Jumanji) which results in the twins meeting a future version of Ethan who continued to spend impulsively and a future version of Emily who continued trying to keep her spending as low as possible. Derek rolls the dice repeatedly, causing the board to summon wild animals which force the twins to go upstairs, where they meet alternative future versions of the twins who teach them about financial planning and delayed gratification.

Season 3 (2024–25)

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No. in
season		TitleOriginal release date
Special
–"Cabrini: A Tuttle Twins Adventure"March 8, 2024
When the twins learn that they have to spend their Saturday running a soup kitchen at the family café, Gabby takes them to Five Points, Manhattan in 1895 to meet Frances Xavier Cabrini, who takes them into the sewers to help her rescue a child.
Part 1
1"The College Conundrum"May 7, 2024
After building a robot named Ro-Burt, Ethan and Emily have a conversation with their parents at the table about going to college, and Gabby takes the twins (along with Ro-Burt) to meet Mike Rowe (voiced by himself[8]) who teaches them that they do not have to go to college in order to be successful or get a high-paying job and that they have to develop special skills to set themselves apart from everyone else. After Gabby takes the twins back into the time continuum, they all end up in a world where everyone is a superhero and drinking the water gives them their own superpowers. Ethan gives a superheroine named Laserina a step-by-step guide on how to "earn [her] signal", leading her to get a welding job in which she builds a bridge, only to have it attacked by a villain named Skelecopter, who is defeated by Derek in his superhero persona.
2"Fighting for Fatherhood"June 4, 2024
3"Cracking Conspiracies"September 3, 2024
4"Evil Queens & Spying Screens"October 1, 2024
5"Bitcoin Bash & Corrupted Cash"October 17, 2024

In an episode sponsored by Swan Bitcoin, the twins go on a shopping spree. When the twins find out how much their grocery costs at the checkout, Emily makes a remark about how they could "fix the money problems" themselves if they could control it. In response, Gabby takes them back to the internet, bringing Ro-Burt along with them, but Karinne tags along with them as well. They land in Bitcoin Beach and meet an anthropomorphic bitcoin named Bitty, who sings a song about how "money is corrupted" when it is controlled and tells them about CBDCs.

In spite of Bitty's lectures, Karinne continues to dismiss bitcoin as a "pet rock", to which Gabby responds by transporting the group to Karinne's uncle Jamie's rock collection, where they introduce the concept of money to the sentient rocks, leading to disastrous results when Pebbles (one of the rocks) uses a pair of scissors to produce more money, opens a "Federal Rockserve", and uses the money to "buy the Irock War".
6"Soccer Fights & Religious Rights"December 3, 2024
Minisode
–"Homestead: A Tuttle Twins Adventure"December 10, 2024
When a thunderstorm causes the Tuttles to experience a power outage whilst attempting to stream the film Homestead, Gabby reluctantly plugs her wheelchair in for backup power, unwittingly causing her and the twins to get transported into the movie. They meet Jeff Eriksson, who teaches the twins about emergency preparedness.
Part 2
7"Close Encounters of the Judgy Kind"January 7, 2025
8"Meatball Smears & War Profiteers"February 4, 2025
9TBATBA
10TBAMarch 5, 2025

Reception

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Libertarian cartoons promise to turn your kids into little Ayn Rands". Bloomberg.com. 2022-07-27. Retrieved 2023-01-26.
  2. ^ "The Tuttle Twins and the Case of the Really Bad Libertarian Propaganda". Current Affairs. September 2020. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  3. ^ "Socialist-Critiquing Libertarian Children's Book Drives Massive Surge in Sales". Cato Institute. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  4. ^ "A Kids' Book Wants to Teach Your Children to Love Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged". Salon. 2017-11-29. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  5. ^ "The Tuttle Twins didn't take your tax dollars". The Libertas Institute. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  6. ^ "Lehi author teams up with Angel Studios to create Tuttle Twins animated show". Lehi Free Press. 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  7. ^ "Tuttle Twins Kids' Show Offers Alternative to Woke Hollywood". The Washington Times. 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  8. ^ Rowe, Mike (May 7, 2024). "Tuttle Twins 'The College Conundrum'". Mike Rowe. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
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