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StuGo is a Disney Channel animated series created by Ryan Gillis (a former director on Pickle and Peanut), with Sunil Hall (co-creator of The Mighty Ones) serving as an executive producer. It is the 100th series produced by Disney Television Animation and the third to be co-produced by Titmouse, following Motorcity and Kiff. It officially premiered on Disney Channel on January 11, 2025.

The series follows six middle schoolers — Pliny, Merian, Chip, Larry, Sara and Francis — who are tricked into attending a fake academic summer camp by Mad Scientist Dr. Lullah. Now, they're stuck for three months on Lullah's wild tropical island lair, with mind-reading manatees, giant fighting fungi, and fashion-forward mutants. Less academia than they'd hoped for, but a lot more adventure.

Previews: Trailer, Sneak Peek

In June 2025, Ryan Gillis claimed that it was possible◊ for the show to get a second season if its viewership numbers on Disney+ do well.

Alas it didn't happen and on December 2025, Ryan confirmed the show was cancelled after one season, ending at 40 episodes.

StuGo includes examples of the following:

• Acquired Situational Narcissism: In "Noodle It (A Little Bit)", Pliny teaches Larry how to catch catfish with his bare hands and, after he proves to be really good at it, he develops a massive ego over it.
• Actor Allusion: Peanut from "Alpha Beta Chip" is voiced by Johnny Pemberton. He's better known for voicing a different Peanut.
• After the End: Parodied with the kids' beloved book series Elephant Triumvirate, which is set 10,000 years after "The Great Forgettening" when everyone forgot how to breathe — except the elephants, who then evolve into the dominant species on the planet.
• Amusing Injuries: Respectively, in "Legitimate Summer Camp" and "Noodle It (A Little Bit)", Larry's left arm has been the subject to this thanks to when the teleporter stretched it out and when it got red and sore from noodling everything.
• Androcles' Lion: Parodied. In "Dog Eat Dog", Larry befriends a butterfly that he wanted to eat. The butterfly later one-shots a shark mutant during the high wire contest.
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: In "Chunk Beastknuckles", Nils arrives at the island to hunt its toughest, strongest creature — the apex predator. Chip is upset that Nils doesn't consider him tough enough to be apex predator and demands — whines, really — that he hunt him.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: One shot in the trailer shows Pliny having grown large enough to face an equally giant pterodactyl. This is from the episode "Diorama Drama", as a result of a Reality-Changing Miniature.
• Awesome McCoolname: Chip Manhands. Certainly cooler than his original name, Drewnipper Hedgemaze.
• Bad "Bad Acting": In "Disaster Play", Merian studies acting from a book with a dirty cover that reads “How to Act”. Its advice is to make eye contact, show one's teeth and scream as loud as you can. The others are reluctant to let her act in their play for the Mutants, but when things go wrong, she stands up and starts “acting”. It is then that Pliny cleans up the book's cover and reveals its full title: How Not to Act in Front of a Chimp (And Stay Alive!) And as luck would have it, there's a chimp Mutant in the audience, and it is enraged at Merian's performance…
• Bait-and-Switch: In "Dog Eat Dog", Lullah appears to be fighting a crab monster with a giant laser. It turns out they’re actually playing tic-tac-toe, with the crab punching the Os with its claws and Lullah carving the Xs with the laser.
• Batman Gambit: In "The Nannytee", the titular Nannytee has the kids build a cannon to fire at Dr. Lullah. Lullah uses her new jet ski to block the cannon… exactly what the Nannytee wanted, so it could take it for itself. This gets Lampshaded by Chip at the end.
• Behemoth Battle: In "Diorama Drama", a Pteranodon enters Dr. Lullah's Reality-Changing Miniature, resulting in a kaiju-sized version of it appearing just outside the island. Pliny gets onto the miniature to fight it off, meaning that a giant version of her is also fighting the giant Pteranodon.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: In "Infinity Braid", Mr. Okay casually mentions it's his birthday just before Sara goes back in time and erases the timeline he's currently in.
• Black Bead Eyes: All the major human characters except Sara and Merian have this type of eye style usually. While not as large as the two mentioned girls, eye whites were seen temporarily from Pliny and Chip during "Dog Eat Dog".
• Black Comedy:
  • "Finders Kelpers" has this with the Kelp Folk reveal (With the flashback scene showing the Kelp Folk being flung around). Francis in particular was popping bubbles on them, which the flashback shows was her outright crushing their heads.
  • What happens to that poor raccoon in "Night Mutants" who the kids think is a transformed Larry and takes to Dr. Lullah to be fixed.
• Body Horror: This show has a surprising amount of them not just limited to Dr. Lullah's animal abominations but with the kids as well:
  • Larry in "Legitimate Summer Camp" who gets his arm stretched by a portal.
  • Sara in "Moon Moon" who after ripping off a piece of her space suit causes herself to shrivel up from the vacuum of space.
  • Merian's allergic reaction in "Mailbog"
  • Chip's arms in "Alpha Betta Chip" that were swapped with Peanut's fins who due to the latter's smaller fish heart couldn't pump enough blood to the long arms resulting in what Chip describes as “dead hotdogs”.
  • Chip uses Dr. Lullah's gene splicing machine to turn himself into the toughest creature in the whole island. The resulting mishmash has the arms of a gorilla, the nose of a snake (and since snakes actually smell with their tongues, he has one on each nostril) and the head of a horse as a tongue.
  • In "Unquenchable Thurst", Pliny discovers a live 19th-Century explorer preserved in a bog, which has left his body shriveled up and his skin gray and leathery, looking like a piece of living beef jerky.
  • Merian proves in "Infinity Braid", that even simple adjustments don’t always make oneself more attractive. Here she’s prepared herself for a group portrait by tying her hair vertically in the back. Should be no problem, except for the fact Merian pulled her hair so far out that she tightened the skin around her face, making it look more gaunt and uncomfortable.
  • Prof. Rostrum from "S.T.U.G.O." wears a diving suit, which hides the fact that his head is grafted onto a live octopus.
• Brick Joke:
  • In "Truck Everlasting", the kids are looking for Chip's lost thumbtack with the ship's magnet crane, which is how they find Lullah's old 4X4 truck. At the end, Lullah takes Mr. Okay for a ride in the truck, when it suddenly loses control and flips over… because it hit the thumbtack.
  • In "Deep Trent", Merian meets a woman with a similiar name, Mariana. Then Pliny ponders how funny it would be if she met a woman named "Pleeno". Later, Mariana calls Merian "Pleeno", thinking that's her name, much to Merian's annoyance.
• Broken Record: The theme song's lyrics are "StuGo!" sung ten times.
• Coincidental Accidental Disguise:
  • In "Night Mutants", Larry is escaping the Night Mutants and, through a series of accidents, gets a raccoon-like appearance. Meanwhile, the kids thought a raccoon left in Larry's place was Larry transformed into a raccoon and had been trying to change him back. So, when Larry returns, the others think they've succeeded.
  • In "Unquenchable Thurst", Chip gets a bird call wedged in his throat, and after getting covered in sticky bird spit, gets covered in leaves, starfish on his feet, and a trumpet-like flower on his face. This leads to him being mistaken as an exotic species of bird by an old explorer, who then tries to eat him.
• Continuity Nod: In "Phishin' Chip", at one point in Chip's mission he runs into Sara, Sarah and Future Sara, but mistakes them for clones.
• Crashing the Coronation: In "Plantcis", Pliny goads Francis into taking care of her mimosa while she and Merian are rescuing Chip from his latest bout of dumbassery. Thanks to a monitor that was intended to inform her of the plant's needs, Francis learns that the mimosa is sentient and is in fact a prince… of plants. Pliny accidentally removed him from the greenhouse which served as his kingdom, and he needs Francis' help to return there before his evil usurper is officially crowned king… of the plants.
• Deface of the Moon:
  • In "Legitimate Summer Camp", Dr. Lullah uses a laser to draw her face on the moon. She is not happy with the results.
    Dr. Lullah: Ugh, should have done a practice sketch or something.
  • In "Moon Moon", NASA has erased Lullah's face from the moon, so she gets even by sending a robot to paint the entire moon black. Unfortunately, the robot rebelled and is now drawing a butt instead, to quite literally moon Dr. Lullah. Sara is sent to the moon to stop the robot, but she ends up befriending it instead. In the end, the butt is reworked as a heart.
• Did Not Think This Through: "Finders Kelpers" The kids were only planning to let the Kelp take back the stuff that Dr. Lullah stole from them, not realizing the Kelp were going to take the whole laboratory, which in turn forced the kids to accept Dr. Lullah as their houseguest (who treats them as makeshift furniture) until the Kelp finally leave.
• Elongating Arm Gag: In "Legitimate Summer Camp", Larry is playing around with a teleporter found in the jungle and ends up with his left arm stretched out and limp for the rest of the episode.
• Even Evil Has Standards: As maniacal as she is, it never occurs to Dr. Lullah to just kill off the kids. She even gives them a place to sleep and provides food deliveries, although she draws the line at preventing those deliveries from being stolen by her mutants.
• Exact Words: In "Francis Wants to Be Alone", when Merian asks Francis why she's leaving her party, she says she just wants to be alone. Later, Francis elaborates that she just likes to be alone sometimes.
• Eye Scream: In "The Nannytee", Merian accidentally glues her eyes shut. The others are too distracted to help her.
• Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables: "Goat Racket" involves the kids discovering beans mutated by Dr. Lullah's toxic runoff that have glamorous and unique appearances, sparking a collection craze.
• Farm Episode: In "Leg Farm", after Merian's workaholic tendencies get on Dr. Lullah's nerves, she is banished to the leg farm, where Mr. Okay grows all the legs that get grafted onto the mutants. Mr. Okay hopes that she'll learn to relax, but Merian is incapable of relaxing and instead overhauls the farm to make everything more efficient, which results in a giant leg rampaging across the island.
• Festering Fungus: "Breakfast at Chippany's" has the introduction of Mycelium, a cave dwelling species of mushroom that is very delicious but also wishes to envelop and digest whoever it meets.
• Five-Token Band: The Stu Go kids have three white kids, one black kid and two Asians but there are two males (one white and other one Asian) and four females (two white girls, one Asian and one black girl).
• Foreshadowing: There are several hints that Sara has an identical twin named Sarah before The Reveal:
  • In the intro, she can be seen dancing in front of a mirror.
  • In “Goat Racket”, when Sara is talking while facing the mirror in her room as she realizes she needs to make things right with Larry, only her reflection is moving; she is standing perfectly still. Also, there are two toothbrushes hanging at the right side of the mirror.
  • In "Sister Swim", when Tara used echolocation during the hiding game, there appeared to be a second Sara far in the background.
  • In "Disaster Play", Sara denied Merian the job of being her understudy, insisting that "Sara is Sara's understudy."
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: In "Night Mutants", Dr. Lullah's mind-restoring device has Sara's twin sister Sarah listed in the options.
• Gender-Blender Name: Pliny and Francis are girls with masculine names.
• Giant Enemy Crab:
  • One of the creatures the kids face in the pilot is a giant crab large enough to use a ship’s hull for a shell.
  • Another giant crab is playing tic-tac-toe with Dr. Lullah in "Dog Eat Dog".
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Merian was raised alongside a dolphin named Tara as part of an experiment by their parents to see if humans and dolphins could learn each other's languages. The experiment actually worked, and thus Tara can speak English while Merian can speak dolphin, but Tara was the one who became famous, while Merian just faded into obscurity, and she's been bitter about it for years.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • In "Breakfast at Chippany's", Rianne the warthog girl harbors a crush on human boy Chip, as she kisses him on the lips in thanks after saving her life. Chip can only waddle away and babble in confusion, so it is unclear whether or not the crush is mutual.
  • In "PANTelevision" Rianne has a cooking show where she makes burger patties and ice cream sundaes shaped like Chip, and sends him a greeting on the air. Chip reacts with smug satisfaction.
  • By the time of "Shapesister", Sara explicitly refers to her as Chip's 'pig gf' on a note in her hideout.
• Island of Mystery: The island the series is set on has been Dr. Lullah's petri dish for an unknown amount of time and, beyond her lab, is populated by her experiments. There are also some native lifeforms that seem completely unrelated to Dr. Lullah's actions that she occasionally studies.
• Literal Metaphor: In "Breakfast at Chippany's", Chip vows to cook a meal for the group that will knock their socks off. It turns out he meant it literally, even weaponizing it against a parasitic fungus who has captured them.
• Mad Scientist: Dr. Lullah is a reclusive and self-described “eccentric” scientist that has developed futuristic technology and engineered genetic miracles. She's also pretty indifferent about being responsible for any of it past satisfying her whims.
• Meaningful Name:
  • The show's title of StuGo is actually a shorthand for “Student Government” (all the kids were presidents of clubs at their schools). Considering this is a series where a group of middle schoolers are more-or-less running around wildly on an island… however, it turns out in the first season finale that it's also the acronym for the '''S'''ecret '''T'''echnologically '''U'''nconventional '''G'''enius '''O'''rganization, which Dr. Lullah is part of.
  • "Merian" is an anagram of "Marine". Merian's parents are cetologists.
  • Pliny's name is believed to be a reference to Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus).
• Meaningful Rename:
  • “Chip Manhands” is the result of Drewnipper Hedgemaze giving up his identity of a nerd. But it isn't entirely sure if that really was his actual name to begin with since Sara and Merian reacted with bafflement when they heard it.
  • He changes it again to "Chunk Beastknuckles" in the episode of the same name, after using Dr. Lullah's gene splicer to transform himself into an “apex predator”. After shedding that form, he changes it again to "Chip Flowerbaby Gentlefingers", admitting that he'll probably change it again to Manhands.
• Mellow Fellow: Francis has such a mild-mannered personality that it can disturb others and borders on The Stoic. Her getting upset is usually demonstrated by her tone becoming much more stern instead of casual.
• Miles Gloriosus: Chip is always bragging about how he's the strongest and toughest of the group, but when action is called for, he's always making excuses.
• Mistaken for Transformed: In "Night Mutants", Larry hangs out with night Mutants, while a raccoon wearing his shorts takes his place at the camp. The others can see that it's a raccoon, but are so used to the strange things that happen on the island that they assume it's Larry having somehow turned into a raccoon. They take it to Dr. Lullah to change him back to normal, which includes implanting Larry's memories, training him to walk on two legs, and shaving him down. After Larry escapes the night mutants (and sustaining injuries that make him look like a raccoon), he and the raccoon trade places again, and the kids assume he's simply changed back.
• My Brain Is Big: The Nannytee is a manatee that has been given superintelligence, as evidenced by its swollen cranium.
• Narrator All Along: The narrator in "Legitimate Summer Camp" is revealed to be a fish mutant who had been following the kids all along.
• Not Supposed to Be a Punishment: In "Leg Farm", after Merian angers Dr. Lullah by trying to tidy up her lab, the latter orders Mr. Okay to take her to “the farm”. The whole way there, Merian pleads not to be taken to the farm, promising that she'll behave if Mr. Okay just gives her another chance. Mr. Okay reveals that the farm isn't some form of punishment, it's just… a farm, albeit one that grows clone legs for the mutants. He figured that spending some time out there would help her relax and keep her out of Dr. Lullah's hair.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Appropriately enough Chip, in "Alpha Betta Chip", is a prepubescent boy who's not as physically capable as he likes to claim he is, but against the community of betta fish mutants on the island his human hands might as well be invincible in their slap fights.
• Not So Above It All: Merian usually comes off as one of the more mature kids, but in "Breakfast at Chippany's", several weeks of subsisting on Dr. Lullah's gruel causes her to become almost as eccentric as Francis, including carving creepy wooden dolls and putting on multiple layers of the same clothes.
• Of Corpse He's Alive: In "Pea-Brained Mutant Crystal Nuptials" the mutants accidentally knock out Dr. Lullah just as she's about to host a dinner for emissaries from a race of underground sentient crystals. One of the mutants, Bombo, uses a machine to puppeteer the unconscious Lullah as they try to manage the dinner themselves.
• Oh, No... Not Again!:
  • In "The Nannytee", Dr. Lullah is only mildly annoyed when she discovers that the Nannytee is aiming a makeshift cannon at her headquarters.
    “A doomsday cannon? Ugh. Why does every manatee I grant medium intelligence to try to kill me?”
  • In "Night Mutants", Larry sends a raccoon to impersonate him so that he can hang out with the night mutants, and the other kids think he's somehow been transformed into a raccoon and take “him” to Dr. Lullah to change him back. Dr. Lullah's annoyed reaction and the fact that she actually has equipment to revert a transformed human suggests that this would not be the first time a human has been turned into a raccoon on her island.
• Paper-Thin Disguise:
  • In "Goat Racket", Sara dresses up as a goat queen as part of a scam to get all the kid's mutant beans that they have been collecting. No one falls for it except for Larry who, it turns out, was in on the scam all along.
  • In "Moon Moon", Sara fools Van the robot into thinking she was also a robot by wearing a cardboard box with a face crudely drawn on it.
  • In "Night Mutants", Larry goes off to party with the Night Mutants, who leave a raccoon dressed in his shorts as a replacement. The only reason the other kids fall for it is because they think Larry has been turned into a raccoon and spend the rest of the episode trying to turn him back.
• Plot Allergy: "Mailbog" reveals that Merian is allergic to dog dander, as she starts breaking out when there's a giant dog mutant nearby, even though she has no issues around other dog mutant Mr. Okay.
• Proj-egg-tile: As Chunk Beastknuckles, Chip can rapid-fire eggs out the palms of his hands. The end of the episode reveals that these eggs are also fertilized, as they hatch into baby Chunk Beastknuckles.
• Reality-Changing Miniature: In "Diorama Drama", the kids find a diorama of the island in Dr. Lullah's lair, and discover that monster figurines placed in it come to life. What they don't realize at first is that anything that happens to the miniature happens to the actual island, including materializing life-size versions of the models.
• Riddle for the Ages: In “Big Ol’ Heads Egg Salad Venture”, three different future versions of Merian come back as giant heads after using a time machine Chip invented. Later, a future version of Chip arrives as a normal-sized head, prompting Merian to wonder if her head somehow becomes giant in the future, but due to Chip's strict rule against divulging too much information about the future he won't let the future Merians answer.
• Sand Worm: One creature on the island is the Stone Worm; it fits the size requirements but as the name implies it is actually made of rock.
• Scary Flashlight Face: In "Shapesister", the kids shine flashlights under their faces when telling their theories of what is hiding in the hull of the ship; Frances forgets to turn it on before talking, however.
• Serious Business: In "Noodle It (A Little Bit)", Pliny teaches Larry about noodling (i.e. fishing for catfish with your bare hands) and he becomes obsessed with trying to catch ever-larger prey with just his hands, until he tries to use noodling to attract a meteorite.
• Shout-Out:
  • In "Diorama Drama", Francis manages to get her eraser back from the mutants by appearing before them as a giant, disembodied head and demanding that they return the eraser in a deep, booming voice.
  • One episode is titled "Infinity Braid".
• Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: In-universe example as Dr Lullah is a tier 1 villain while Bomb-swapper is a tier 4 (previously a tier 5).
• Sink-or-Swim Mentor: Dr. Lullah's preferred method of instruction, when actually forced to instruct the children, is to throw her young charges into danger and see if they figure out how to survive on their own.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: In "Sister Swim", Merian reveals that she is the daughter of marine biologists specializing in dolphin linguistics who raised her alongside a dolphin as an adoptive sister so they could learn each other's languages. Because of this, Merian can speak fluent “dolphish” while her dolphin sister Tara can squeak English.
• Suddenly Ethnicity: Dr. Lullah is revealed to be from the country of Trinidad and Tobago as revealed in "Stench Mensch".
• Summer Campy: The show is set at a “summer camp” on a remote Caribbean isle.
• Super-Persistent Predator: In "Birdyguard", Larry has to protect a baby lizard he has named Elizardbeth from a crane that keeps attacking it, even trying to get inside the group's cabin. It even goes as far as taking Chip hostage so they can let it inside; and even as the kids build a seemingly impenetrable fortress to keep Elizardbeth safe, the bird just goes right through them. Subverted in that the bird didn't want to eat it but to play with it, as the two species appear to have a sort of friendship.
• Supreme Chef: Chip Manhands actually defeats a "Monster of the Week" due to how good his food is.
• Surprisingly Shared Secret: In "Lullah's Game", Sara mentions that she knows that Chip has a small bladder because she's read his journal. After Chip insists that nobody was supposed to know about that, Pliny tells him that they've all read his journal, it's just that most of them found it too boring to mention because all he writes about is his bladder.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the first episode, Dr. Lullah sold her scam as a "Legitimate Summer Camp".
• Thin-Line Animation: The characters are designed with simple, rounded shapes and stumpy proportions, complete with thin rough outlines to give them a hand-drawn look.
• Toxic Waste Can Do Anything: Goat Racket reveals that the Night Bushels is where Dr. Lullah dumps her toxic waste, and as such it created a… “Complex” Ecosystem in that area.
• Transferable Memory: "Night Mutants" revealed as such with Dr. Lullah having a copy of the kids (as well as herself and Mr. Okay) having back-up memories on hand in case of death.
• Trickster Mentor: Dr. Lullah shows signs of being one; for example, in "Dog Eat Dog", when the mutants steal the kids’ food, she suggests the kids fight the mutants to get their food back. Instead, they team up with the mutants to break into Lullah’s compound and take her reserve food, which was the outcome she hoped would happen.
• Tropical Island Adventure: The show's setting is a mad scientist's lair located on a tropical isle, with all sorts of mutant fauna and flora running amok.
• Turned Against Their Masters: There's a Running Gag that some of Dr. Lullah's creations eventually turn against her. When the Nannytee builds a cannon, she points out that all the other manatees she's given enhanced intelligence to keep trying to kill her. There's also Van, the robot she sent to paint the moon black; he ends up rebelling against her by painting a butt instead.
• Twin Maker: In the first episode the group comes across a set of portal doors that creates a duplicate of whatever passes through it. Larry sticks his hand through to see a copy of it made, but it sticks in place when he tries to retract his arm, stretching it out and making it noodly.
• Twin Switch: "Shapesister" reveals that Sara has an identical twin sister named Sarah, and they've been trading places back and forth all the time.
• Two Shorts: Each episode is made up of 2 11-minute segments.
• Uncertain Doom: At the end of "Primate Fear", Bakey Potatey supposedly dies after being rocketed into the volcano, unless one of his moon powers is immunity to lava.
• Unique Pilot Title Sequence: "Legitimate Summer Camp" opens with the group heading towards the island as a narrator sets up the show's premise.
• Unrealistic Black Hole: Dr. Lullah creates a coffee so black that it's essentially a liquid black hole, arbitrarily sucking in nearby matter. After stacking a bunch of cups of the stuff, it all suddenly collapses into a giant rift that makes the island disappear for several hours.
• Unstoppable Mailman: Francis in "Mailbog" volunteers to deliver a letter to the Forbidden Bog, which no one who has gone there has come out alive. She quotes a variation the United States Postal Service's credo (“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor black of night…”) upon taking this task, and indeed has to go through snow, rain, heat and darkness to get to the bog, as one by one the other kids back away. She finally makes it to the bog where the letter is accepted by a creature inside a mailbox. This apparently frees it, and leaves behind the letter, which just reads “Thank you.”
• Uplifted Animal: Dr. Lullah had been experimenting on the island's wildlife, resulting in sentient mutants who talk and walk on humanoid legs (with pants), but are not particularly smart. There's also the “nannytee”, a manatee given above-average intelligence meant to serve as a nanny for the kids but ends up devising an elaborate scheme to steal Lullah's new jet ski.
• Weak-Willed:
  • Most of the kids are weak-willed against Nannytee star-stickers awards except for Frances (who notes the other kids are getting sticker obsessed).
  • Merian exploits the group's weakness towards symbols of authority by wearing her President of the Portuguese Club sash to make herself the leader.
• What You Are in the Dark: In "Mailbog", Francis declines the diamonds that the bog creature attempts to pay her with because she was only doing her duty as a mail carrier, at which point they explode into toxic-looking gas, implying something bad might have happened to her if she accepted them.