System Crash (TV series) facts for kids

System Crash is a Canadian youth sketch comedy television show, which aired on YTV from 1999 to 2001.

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. 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

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)