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Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh

Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh is an American animated television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television that continues the story of the 2015 feature film Home, following the alien Boov Oh and the human teenager Tip Tucci as they live together on Earth. It premiered on Netflix on July 29, 2016 and ran for four seasons until July 20, 2018.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original run	July 29, 2016 to July 20, 2018, on Netflix¹
Format	4 seasons, 52 episodes of about 23 minutes, each episode made of two roughly ten-minute shorts¹^•²
Creators	Ryan Crego and Thurop Van Orman; directed by Ryan Crego³^•¹
Main cast	Rachel Crow as Tip Tucci, Mark Whitten as Oh, Ana Ortiz as Lucy Tucci, Ron Funches as Sharzod¹
Animation	2D animation, unlike the 3D-animated 2015 film²
Music	Original songs performed by Rachel Crow; series music by Alex Geringas⁴^•¹
Rating	TV-Y7; Common Sense Media rates it appropriate for age 6 and up³^•⁵

Spoilers

Premise

The series picks up where the 2015 film Home left off. Oh, the misfit Boov who helped save both his planet and Earth, moves in with Tip and her human family and learns what it means to be part of one. In the setting of the show, the Boov planet sits very near Earth, so the two populations travel between them and mingle, and the stories come from the combined human and alien culture the characters navigate.⁵^•⁶ The first episode opens with Oh realizing he does not want to be the supreme leader of the Boov but would rather be part of Tip's family.²

Each episode consists of two shorts of about ten minutes each. Episode titles pair the two shorts, as in the premiere "Booving In / Sant-Oh", in which Oh moves in with the Tucci family and then stirs up trouble by acting like Santa Claus.²^•⁷

Production

Ryan Crego, a storyboard artist who began at DreamWorks Animation in 2004 with credits on Puss in Boots, Kung Fu Panda 2, and multiple Shrek projects, and Thurop Van Orman, known for The Misadventures of Flapjack and Adventure Time, developed the series after both had directed and produced Sanjay and Craig for Nickelodeon. DreamWorks executive Peter Gal brought them to DreamWorks TV, where they developed the show as a buddy comedy with "weird little aliens and space travel".⁸

Development overlapped with the film: Crego worked on the series for about two and a half years, and the television team spent the feature's final year of production collaborating with the film's director and producers and pitching ideas and jokes for the movie.⁸ The team had access to the film's artwork and exploration material, but Crego identified Adam Rex's book The True Meaning of Smekday, the source of the whole franchise, as a key influence, since the series needed to open up the world beyond what the film showed.⁸

The film was made in 3D computer animation, while the series uses 2D animation.² Production companies were DreamWorks Animation Television and Titmouse, Inc.¹

Cast and music

Rachel Crow, described by DreamWorks as a teen singing sensation, voices Tip, and Mark Whitten voices Oh; the cast also includes Ana Ortiz as Lucy Tucci, Matt Jones as Kyle, Nolan North as Smek and Donny, Ron Funches as Sharzod, and Ryan Crego himself as the cat Pig.¹ The show is music-heavy: it includes original songs highlighting Crow's singing, a Season 1 songs release, and a Home for the Holidays original soundtrack.⁴^•⁹ Alex Geringas composed the series music.¹

Reception and availability

The series carries a TV-Y7 rating. Common Sense Media's review, based on child development research, rates it suitable for ages 6 and up, noting physical humor without injuries, no sexual content or bad language, and strong themes about family being something made rather than born, along with messages about relating to people (or aliens) who are different from oneself.⁵ On IMDb the series holds a rating of 6.3/10 from 762 users.¹⁰

The first season was available to Netflix members in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, the U.K., Ireland, the Nordics, Benelux, France, Australia, and New Zealand.⁹ The series was removed from Netflix in April 2024,¹ and as of recent checks it is not available on subscription streaming services, though it can be purchased digitally on Amazon Video and the Apple TV Store starting at $14.99 per season.⁶

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026