Harvey Beaks/Development

This page is about the behind-the-scenes development of the Nickelodeon animated series Harvey Beaks (formerly named Bad Seeds).

C.H. Greenblatt confirmed on his blog that he came up with the concept for Bad Seeds in 2009-2010 when his other series Chowder had been coming to an end. He has said that he had come up with different versions of the logo and the series had originally been called The Terrible Three. He stated:  ''"I enjoy making logos (I did the Chowder logo), so I thought I’d post some concepts and works in progress from my Nickelodeon pitch. The original title of the show was The Terrible Three but the network made me change it because they thought it sounded too young (like the “terrible twos”.) Eh, whatever. The show takes place in a forest and the three main kids are troublemakers, so I wanted to incorporate some of that personality. I got to bust out my ink and brushes! The pine cone was something I grabbed from my front yard and smashed up a bit, photographed, and then drew over. But I liked the leaf concept the best. I wasn’t totally satisfied with the first version, so after re-doing the lettering and re-arranging the layout, plus some simplification, I’m really happy with it now. It reads well both big and small. It doesn’t have the punky the feel that some of the others do, but it feels fun. I made a poster and it looks really nice with the background and the characters. There’s no real news about the pilot yet. It went into more focus group testing today. There are four other pilots it’s up against and it’ll be a another month perhaps before any decision is made. It’s been 45 months in development and I’m just looking forward to it being over, one way or the other."''

In January of 2015, Nickelodeon announced that Harvey Beaks will in Spring of 2015. In February, a teaser came out. Announcing the show for March 2015.