Urban Vermin

Urban Vermin
Garbage Liberation Front (GLF)- the team of vermins fighting for liberation of their block.
Created by	Diana Arruda, Tim Thompson
Developed by	Decode Entertainment YTV Bell Fund
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	26 x 22 minutes
Production
Executive producer(s)	Beth Stevenson Anne Loi
Producer(s)	Kym Hyde
Running time	22 minutes
Release
Original network	YTV (Canada) Animania (U.S.) Gloob (Brazil) Jetix (Russia) Jetix Europe (Europe)
Original release	2007 – August 30, 2008, on YTV
External links
Website

Urban Vermin is a Canadian animated television series produced by YTV and Decode Entertainment Inc. As of January 2, 2012, reruns continue to air on YTV in Canada.

Urban Vermin is a story about two raccoon brothers that were once best friends until Ken decided to assemble an army of rats to help him seize control of all the garbage on their block. Then Abe decides to strike his evil brother and assembles his own team of resistance fighters to help him free the block from Ken's reign. Abe's team are called GLF (Garbage Liberation Front) while Ken's army are called simply TRA (The Rat Army).

Abe is a male raccoon, the leader of the GLF, and one of the main protagonists. Abe wears a light green shirt, dark green camouflage pants, and a green hat with a pair of goggles. Adventurous. Brave. A huge fan of Manchego cheese. He possesses boundless energy, a mind for keen strategy, tons of fortitude, and an endless supply of goodwill towards all verminkind. His trademarks are his trusty antenna staff, his trusty tape measure, his unexplainable fear of ladybugs, and his die-hard belief in truth, justice and the vermin way. He doesn't always practice what he preaches, but he'll usually admit to making a mistake. He loves pulling pranks on Ken. He loves molten chocolate cake. He hates his birthday (because he shares one with his younger brother, Ken.). He gets excited about secret planning tables, secret missions, and secret banana peels. He runs a tight ship, has dangerously smelly feet, and he is one raccoon you always want on your side. Abe is the leader of the GLF. They operate out of a master control center hidden deep inside a backyard tree. It's a grimy job, but someone has do to it. There's enough garbage in these alleys to share if Ken doesn't succeed in hoarding it all. A fierce rivalry with Abe's brother Ken has always existed and always kept them at odds. There was even a time when Abe was the rebellious teen and Ken the goody goody mama's boy. But that was a long time ago. This is now. Abe's the good guy. Ken's the control freak evil dictator who rules the Block with an iron paw.

Coco is a female flying squirrel, the mechanic of the GLF, and another main protagonist. Prior to the series, Coco worked for Ken, but switched to Abe's side to use her genius for good instead. She graduated top of her class at Vermin High Rocket Scientist School. Her thesis project was inventing a time machine that could take you half a second into the past. It was brilliant but useless. She worked at a comic shop and developed an obsession with science fiction. Around this time she also found an abandoned shed full of spare parts and started inventing amazing, brilliantly useful things. Like time machines that can take you half a second into the future. Ken received some intel about an overlooked science geek genius named Coco. He offered Coco a delicious contract (literally—a lifetime supply of the best day-old French fries in town.). She moved into the ice cream truck and took it from there. Within a year she could see the error of her ways; every citizen in the Block was utterly miserable. Now she works for Abe. She shares a clubhouse with three smelly boys. Like any other team, they compliment each other. But they can also get under each other's fur. And Coco's stubbornness in pretty legendary. She is aware that Nigel has a crush on her, but she denies liking him back. She took ten years of accordion lessons which is revealed in "Raiders of the Lost Kazoo".