she is five years old, she can barely speak or walk. According to Dorothy, she "puts all her energy into growing". She is also shown to be very strong, smart and manipulative, as she manages to get away with using the twins as piggy back rides, or in her case "ponies". She outwits the twins after they try to tell on her and prove her mischief, but she was exposed by the end of the episode. Marsha and Tandy: Dorothy's so-called friends. Marsha is voiced by Ellen Kennedy and Tandy is voiced by Iris Quinn. They are often seen arguing or insulting each other and often take delight in Dorothy's domestic misfortunes (i.e. Wayne and/or Lucien embarrassing her, behaving in an unsanitary manner, etc.). Production and development On April 1, 1999, the series was announced to be planned as a co-production with Sunbow Entertainment and Cartoon Network Europe during the development of their first co-production Fat Dog Mendoza. In July of that year, the production of the series was announced. In October 2000, Sony Wonder's TV arm was acquired by German company TV-Loonland AG, putting The Cramp Twins under the control of Loonland. On March 6, 2001, TV-Loonland AG pre-sold the British terrestrial rights to the series to the BBC. In September 2001, the series was pre-sold in Germany to KI.KA. By Late 2001, the series pre-sold to TF1 in France., and TV-Loonland subsidiary Salsa Distribution pre-sold the series in Latin America to Fox Kids. In October 2002, it was announced that the series would be renewed for a second season, and that the animation production would be taken over from Sunbow Entertainment to Telemagination, a British animation company that TV-Loonland owned. By then, it was also announced that the series had been picked up in over 50 countries worldwide. Broadcast The Cramp Twins premiered in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2001 on Cartoon Network and on BBC One during the CBBC programming block, later airing on the CBBC channel itself in February 2002. The show achieved high popularity with children in the UK, pulling in 1.5 million viewers a week on CBBC and becoming the top-rated weekend series on Cartoon Network during its initial broadcast. Although the series ended, reruns continued to air on CBBC and Cartoon Network for a few years afterwards, with Cartoon Network airing the show well into the mid-2010s at night, in order to