prototype. Story The series takes place on the planet Karbon/Krud, though the UK dub does include references to locations on Earth. Episode 6; Planet Karbon/The Black Planet reveals that Karbon/Krud was originally a dark, colorless rock inhabited by a single race of insects; the Yuks/Kruds. The Yuks/Kruds survived the planet's hostile environment by burrowing deep into it for coal. At one point, a Prism shaped meteor hit the planet and nourished the site on which it landed with color and energy, resulting in a flower-filled paradise. A few of the Yuks/Kruds colonized the area and evolved colors of their own, renaming themselves Joyces/Verigreens. They venerated the Prism and built a high altar upon it. The Yuks/Kruds who chose to stick to their original lives continued mining for coal till they gradually exhausted their supplies. The animosity between the two insect civilizations began when a violent Yuk/Krud known as King Bakrako/Katheter the First came up with the solution of using the Joyce's/Verigreen's flower stalks as substitute fuel sources. Gradually, all memory of the two civilizations once being the same people was lost, and ever since they have been enemies. Episode list VHS/DVDs Known cast French version Christian Alers Daniel Lafourcade Pierre Baton Jacques Brunnet Alexandre Gillet Raphaelle Moutier Jean-Claude Sachot Lucienne Troka NA version David Gasman Karen Strassman Christian Erickson Bela Grushka Edouard Marcus Paul Bandey UK version Teddy Kempner Caroline Bliss Andy Secombe Neil McCaul External links 1990s French animated television series 1994 French television series debuts 1995 French television series endings Channel 4 original programming French computer-animated television series French children's animated comedy television series French children's animated fantasy television series French children's animated musical television series YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming English-language television shows Animated television series about insects Canal+ original programming