Environmental activists Mom and Pop Tofu, concerned that their family is suffocating from urban routine, decide to move to a farmhouse in the town of Beauvillage and embrace a more natural way of life, much to the horror of their pre-teen children, Chichi and Lola.

They would rather watch TV and go shopping than amuse themselves with Grandma Buba's animals: Cracker the Rooster, Curly the Sheep, and Suzie the Goat.

Chichi (Aaron Grunfeld) Lola (Brigid Tierney) Mom (Maria Bircher) Pop (Marcel Jeannin) Buba (Sonja Ball) April (Jesse Vinet) William "Billy" Hubbub (Daniel Brochu) Titus Hubbub (Harry Standjofski) Elizabeth "Beth" Hubbub (Pauline Little) Phillip "Phil" (Jason Szwimer) Lillian "Lily" (Kayla Grunfeld) Cherie (Sarah Allen) Nicolas "Nick" Susan "Suzie", Cottontail "Curly", Cracker Beatrice (Cary Lawrence) Kris (Michael Yarmush) The Tofus was co-produced by SIP Animation and CinéGroupe.

The show's development was first revealed in April 2002 under the name of Tofu Family, when Saban International Paris (before their renaming to SIP Animation in October) announced that they had pre-sold the series to ITV in the United Kingdom to air on their CITV programming strand, while France 3 was attached as well.

It has been called "a modern gloss on the classic family sitcom [that] aptly skewers the granola-munching righteousness of the eco-hippie archetype,"[8] and has been commended for its use of ecology as a unique background theme.