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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 2, 2009 18:37:39 GMT -5
Raging Rodents....Biker Mice From Mars? Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers? Angry Beavers?
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Post by The Raven on Jul 2, 2009 20:09:31 GMT -5
Makes more sense than my guesses. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 2, 2009 20:15:21 GMT -5
Makes more sense than my guesses. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Watch it turn out to be none of our guesses.
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Post by The Raven on Jul 2, 2009 20:22:27 GMT -5
Makes more sense than my guesses. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) Watch it turn out to be none of our guesses. I would be really surprised if it wasn't Angry Beavers. That one fits too well not to be it.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 7, 2009 22:03:18 GMT -5
And the countdown continues!! 35. Rick Moranis in Gravedale High - 5 pointsGravedale High is an animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and NBC Productions. The series premiered in the fall of 1990 on NBC and lasted thirteen episodes, under the title of Rick Moranis in Gravedale High. The show was developed as an animated vehicle for Rick Moranis, who had star appearances in the Ghostbusters movies and the popular film Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, and would later appear in the 1994 live-action film adaptation of another Hanna-Barbera series, The Flintstones (released by NBC's now-corporate sibling Universal Studios). The show revolves around the misadventures of human teacher Max Schneider, who has unwittingly taken a job at Gravedale High, a school for monsters built inside an old cemetery. Schneider, the only human in the school, presides over a group of ghoulish teenagers that are latest-generation versions of classic movie monsters. Schneider's class consists of vampire Vinnie Stoker (a Fonziesque version of Dracula who is able to go out in broad daylight; the name is an homage to Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), Frankentyke (reminiscent of both Frankenstein's Monster and Bart Simpson), nerdy werewolf Reggie Moonshroud, J. P. Ghastly the III (whose classification is unidentified but whose voice and mannerisms resemble Peter Lorre), lagoon creature and surfer dude Gill Waterman, mummy Cleofatra (an obese version of Cleopatra), Sid (who is based on the Invisible Man), zombie Southern belle Blanche, and the snake-headed Valley girl Duzer (a parody of Medusa). Other recurring students include centaur Alpha-Mae Centauri, human fly Busby, Elephant Boy (a literally elephant-like parody of John Merrick), hunchback Iggy (resembling the stereotypical "Igor" type of mad scientist assistant), mutant Moorehead, gargoyle Nardo, dog-boy Rover, cyclops Seymour, pig-girl Suey, and unidentified students resembling the monsters from Brain from the Planet Arous, The Crawling Eye, The Blob, and other films. The bespectacled Mr. Schneider has his hands full with his new students, but he has Gravedale’s spooky staff to help out, who initially do not trust Schneider due to his human status but develop a camaraderie with him as the overall story arc develops. These include Headmistress Crone, Coach Cadaver, history teacher Mr. Tutner, and others. Source: Wikipedia Opening. I've never seen this show before. It kinda reminds me of the one movie "Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School," except for the whole talking dogs.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 7, 2009 22:12:36 GMT -5
34. The Ren & Stimpy Show - 5 pointsThe Ren and Stimpy Show is an American/Canadian animated television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi.[1] The series concerns the adventures of the eponymous characters: Ren Höek, a psychotic "asthma-hound" chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a dimwitted Manx cat. They wander around having nonsensical adventures in a style reminiscent of the Golden Age of American animation, especially the 1940s cartoons by Bob Clampett and Tex Avery. The Ren and Stimpy Show premiered on Nickelodeon on Sunday, August 11, 1991 and aired new episodes on the channel from 1991 to 1996. The Ren and Stimpy Show had a reputation for indecent humor. The controversy was mainly a result of imagery and cartoon violence. Episode names included “Stimpy’s First Fart.” In 1992, Nickelodeon dismissed Kricfalusi and production moved from Kricfalusi's Spümcø studios to Games Animation, where it stayed until its cancellation in 1997. Reruns are broadcast currently by Nicktoons Network and also, as of June 1, 2009, MTV2. Source: Wikipedia Sorry, guys. Couldn't find the intro. But here's the "Happy Happy, Joy Joy" song, which is probably one of the best parts of the show. This show was WEIRD. But weird in a funny way. There were times I laughed, times I was confused, and times where I wanted to throw up. But, that's what the Ren & Stimpy show was all about. Oh yeah, and "STIMPY, YOU IIIDIOT!!!!!!!"
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 7, 2009 22:18:19 GMT -5
33. Angry Beavers - 5 pointsThe Angry Beavers is a Nickelodeon American animated television series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two beaver brothers who have left their parents and home to become bachelors in the forest. Their many adventures spark them to release their ugly sides very often, drawing in the name Angry Beavers. The show premiered in 1997 after the 1997 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and was canceled in November 11, 2001 (with a handful of unaired episodes remaining). It was created by Mitch Schauer. Characters * Daggett Doofus Beaver: Daggett (usually shortened to "Dagg") is the younger twin brother of Norbert (by four minutes). He is crazy and hyper. He says an assortment of strange phrases and likes to call people names. His trademark phrase is "That was nuts!" He also known for adding 'Eh' and also "dot dot dot" at the end of sentences (which Invader Zim did as well in the episode Door to Door, in homage to Daggett). Dag also says "SPOOT!" when upset. He is generally considered the less intelligent of the two beavers. He has dark brown fur, a red nose, and is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz. * Norbert Foster Beaver: Norbert (usually shortened to "Norb") is Dag's laid-back older twin brother (by four minutes). He has many hobbies (including playing the French Horn in a Baroque chamber ensemble) and frequently (and intentionally) mispronounces words for humorous effect. He comes across as the smarter of the two, more down-to-earth, and sarcastic than his brother, Daggett. His trademark phrase is "Biiiiig hug!" (often accompanied by hugging Dag). He has yellowish-tan fur, a purple nose, and is voiced by Nick Bakay. * Stump: Stump is a tree stump that Norb met. He introduced Stump to the other creatures of the forest in the episode, Guess Who's Stumping to Dinner. Stump often moves on his own while he is off-screen; in Brothers...To The End? he is seen drinking punch with the others, which was the first time he actually moved on screen. * Barry Bear: Daggett and Norbert's funk-loving friend, introduced in the episode Enter The Daggett; based on Barry White. He is a famous singer, whom Norb and Dag try to exploit. Barry Bear has a fear of clowns which has been shown numerous times. He is voiced by actor John Garry who also provided the narration for the pilot episode of Invader Zim and the voice of the host of "Mysterious Mysteries", a show-within-a-show seen on Invader Zim. * Treeflower: Treeflower is the love of Norbert's life, whom he met at a hippie concert in Bummer of Love. Once a hippie beaver, she successfully works in versatile jobs, e.g. as elevator-music composer (Tree of Hearts) and firefighter (A Little Dad'll Do You). She was voiced by Cynthia Mann. * Bing: Bing is an annoying lizard who hangs around Norb and Dag, introduced in episode The Bing That Wouldn't Leave. Bing talks extremely fast and often employs circular logic. Victor Wilson provided Bing's hyperactive voice. It is not confirmed what kind of lizard Bing is; however, he is seen changing colors like a chameleon and losing his tail like a gecko. * Truckee: Truckee is a trucker shrew who thinks only about trucks and shrews, introduced in the episode Tree of Hearts. Truckee hates Daggett and the feeling is mutual. In addition, he briefly dated Treeflower, causing animosity between him and Norbert. * Wolffe D. Wolf * Racoon * Oxnard Montalvo: He is Norb and Dag's favorite B-movie actor, introduced in the episode Up All Night. Norb and Dag often watch black and white horror movies (these are very seriously drawn, contrary to the regular style of the show), which are an obvious homage to 1950's horror movies. Named after two streets in Los Angeles, Montalvo resembles B-movie stars like John Agar and Peter Graves (who guest stars in the Halloween special, The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up!). * Toluca Lake: She is another B-movie actor, introduced in Up All Night, who often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress. The name plays on the eponymous California city Toluca Lake, and is also a reference to 1940s actress Veronica Lake. * El Grapadura: The beavers' (especially Daggett's) favorite vale tudo/lucha libre wrestler, introduced in Kandid Kreatures. His name is Spanish for "The Stapler." Daggett has an autographed copy of his board game, "El Grapadura and Ladders" (an obvious reference to Snakes and Ladders). * Scientist #1 and Pete: A pair of scientists introduced in the episode Stinky Toe. They call the beavers "pointy weasels" and try to use them for very strange experiments. Scientist No. 1 (voiced by Edward Winter) has a distinctive cleft chin and always wears sunglasses; he is just as arrogant as he is incapable. Since Season three, he has a name plate with a "1" on his coat, although his real name may likely be Todd based on his dialogue in a later episode where he mentions about wanting to name the world Todd. It is revealed in one episode that he never even went to college. Pete greatly resembles Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, and speaks in an unintelligible mutter that only Scientist No. 1 seems to understand. At one point, they wore green coats, making them environmentalists. * Bill Licking: Presenter of TV shows and prototype of a touting salesman. He wears an impressive black wig. He was introduced in the episode Born to Be Beavers. Licking has often been known to manipulate Daggett and Norbert into being filmed for fraudulent documentaries. In his final appearance he is devoured alive by a bear, who then belches up his impressive wig. * Stacy and Chelsea: The twin younger sisters of Norbert and Daggett, their birth led to their eviction from their family's home. They were first identified in the episode If You In-Sisters, though before their official introduction they are shortly shown in Born to Be Beavers as newborns without their names or even their genders identified. Chelsea bears a resemblance to and acts much like Daggett in her hyperactivity and speech patterns, while Stacy apparently takes after Norbert in appearance and personality. They are much more familiar and united than their brothers. They are named after and voiced by creator Mitch Schauer's daughters. * "Mum" and "Dad": They are the parents of Norb and Dag. The mother's name was never revealed, but the father's name was said to be "Leonard" in the episode If You In-Sisters. Mrs. Beaver has the same fur color as Dag (although her color was the same as Norb's in Born to Be Beavers), but her intelligence level is similar to Norb. Source: Wikipedia Well, once again, I couldn't find the damn opening, but I found the theme song. I swear Youtube sucks sometimes. Anywho, this was another fun show. I didn't like it at first, but then, it grew on me, maybe because of all the spaziness that went on.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 7, 2009 22:23:48 GMT -5
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 - 6 pointsThe Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is a television series based on the video game Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired on NBC, from September 8, 1990 through December 1, 1990. The cartoon shows Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad fighting against Bowser Koopa and his Koopalings, whose names differed from their original names in the video game. On the show, the Koopalings were called: * Cheatsy Koopa (Larry)- a diminutive Koopa, yet a pure schemer to his core * Bigmouth Koopa (Morton)- had a tendency to constantly yammer on and on about any and all situations * Kootie Pie Koopa (Wendy)- the only female, and a spoiled brat * Hop Koopa (Iggy)- the youngest of the twins, loved getting into trouble * Bully Koopa (Roy)- sported a constant pair of sunglasses, and was basically the bully of the group per his name * Hip Koopa (Lemmy)- the second twin, basically prone to mischief like Hop * Kooky Von Koopa (Ludwig von Koopa)- Apparently the eldest of the kids, and had somewhat of a mad scientist persona, and reveled in creating inventions to bring disdain to the Mushroom Kingdom as well as the Marios No official explanation was ever given to the name change. While its reason is disputed among fans, most agree that the likely explanation is that DiC, the company that made the show, did not have access to their real names during production of the show as they were using the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3 as reference. In the game, the Koopa Kids were not originally named (usually being called simply as "koopa kid" or "little koopa") until it was brought over into the US for English localization, shortly before The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 went on air. Given the vast amounts of time it takes to animate a cartoon, it would be very difficult to make the cartoon in such a short time, needing more than a year. To accommodate this, the made-up names were added in place, each fitting their personality or a play in sound. When viewing the cartoon, it appears that DiC was never informed of the add-on. Oddly enough, names from the American version of the game were inserted ("Kooky von Koopa" or referring to King Koopa as "Bowser"), which may have been a last minute attempt to make the cartoon feel more like the US version of the game. DiC likely retained the show names to avoid confusion among viewers and to avoid the large amount of expenses of to re-animate the whole show to accommodate this. Like the previous Mario cartoon series, the animation was done by Sei Young Animation Co. Ltd, however this show was co-produced by Reteitalia S.P.A., hence the slight differences in character design. Since the show was based on Super Mario Bros. 3, the enemies and power-ups were also seen in the show. In addition to being more faithful to the Mario gameplay, the series was given an established sense of continuity, something that the previous series lacked. The show was also known for having many of its episodes set in "the real world", with "actual" human beings appearing from time to time. Episodes took place in locations such as London, Paris, Venice, New York City, Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and even Washington, D.C. One memorable episode entitled "7 Continents for 7 Koopas" was about the seven Koopa Kids invading each of the seven continents. This cartoon was originally shown in the hour-long Captain N and The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 programming block along with the second season of Captain N: The Game Master. All further airings of the series separated it from Captain N. Source: Wikipedia Opening Man, I loved this show too. It was a fun little show about the Mario Bros. and their continuing battle against Koopa and his kids. Also, once again, Princess Toadstool (Peach) was HOT.
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Post by thelesserevil on Jul 7, 2009 22:25:50 GMT -5
The Mario cartoon sucked, but...in some weird way, I kind of had to watch it, it's bad yet good?
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 7, 2009 22:26:22 GMT -5
Okay, it looks like I was right about the Angry Beavers one after all.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 7, 2009 22:31:55 GMT -5
31. Scooby Doo, Where Are You? - 6 pointsScooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m. EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced (seventeen in 1969-70 and eight more in 1970-71). Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program which would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most notable of which was the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from The Archie Show). However, the basic concept—four teenagers (Freddie, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a large goofy Great Dane dog (Scooby-Doo) solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season Scooby episodes, while Ruby, Spears, Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second-season episodes. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows: 1. The Mystery, Inc. gang turn up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function – a dance, a rock festival, etc., when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for any of a variety of reasons (overheating, flat tire, etc.), in the immediate vicinity of a large, mostly-vacated property (ski lodge, hotel, factory, mansion etc). 2. Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering from a "monster" problem (ghosts, Frankenstein, Yeti, etc.). The kids volunteer to investigate the case. 3. The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat, including dog treats referred to as "Scooby Snacks" which are a favorite of both the dog and the teenage boy. 4. Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it. 5. The trap may or may not work (more often than not, Scooby-Doo falls into the trap and they accidentally catch the monster another way); invariably, the ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked. The person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who is using the disguise to cover up something akin to a real-estate scam (involving an attempt to buy the property at significantly reduced price – due to the "haunting" or "monster" depressing the market value of the property). 6. After giving the parting shot of "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids" (sometimes adding "...and your dog!"), the offender is then taken away to jail, and the gang is allowed to continue on their way to their destination. The mystery also followed one of three plots: 1. The kids don't meet the villain beforehand (e.g. 'Hastle in the Castle' and 'Bedlam In The Bigtop') 2. the only person the kids do meet is the villain (e.g. 'What A Night For A Knight' and 'A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts') 3. the kids meet several people one of whom is the villain (e.g. Don't Fool With A Phantom and Scooby's Night With A Frozen Fright) Source: Wikipedia Season 2 opening Out of all the Scooby series, this one is probably my favorite. It was the original, and you can't beat the original. It was simple, it was goofy, it was fun. It didn't involve a whole lot of craziness, like the later series would evolve into (13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo?). In fact, I think this series is the one that stands time the best, even if it did last only 2 series.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 7, 2009 22:34:02 GMT -5
Alright, the clues for the next 5:
They're the modern stone-age family
Game Over
One is a genius, the other's insane
Yep.............Yep............Yep............Mmmhmm
Toons going to college, or something of that sort
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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man on Jul 7, 2009 22:36:43 GMT -5
1 is Flintstones and 3 is Pinky & The Brain. Not sure about the others, though I think the second might be Reboot.
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Post by thelesserevil on Jul 7, 2009 22:37:44 GMT -5
Scooby Doo is awesome, I really need to get the DVD's
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Post by The Raven on Jul 8, 2009 13:26:50 GMT -5
King of the Hill is that second to last one.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 8, 2009 22:03:05 GMT -5
And the countdown continues! 30. The Flintstones - 7 pointsThe Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions (H-B), The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. This show played like a prehistoric Honeymooners and its popularity rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern-day concerns in the Stone Age setting. The first prime-time animated series geared for adults, the show originally aired from 1960 to 1966 on the ABC network. The show is set in the town of Bedrock [in some of the earlier episodes, it was also referred to as "Rockville"] in the Stone Age era. The show is an allegory to American society of the mid-20th century; in the Flintstones' fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long extinct animals co-exist with barefoot cavemen, who use technology very similar to that of the mid-20th century, although made entirely from pre-industrial materials and largely powered through the use of various animals. The characters drive cars made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by foot. One source of the show's humor was the ways animals were used for technology. For example, when the characters took photographs with an instant camera, the inside of the camera box would be shown to contain a bird carving the picture on a stone tablet with its bill. In a running gag, the animals powering such technology would, breaking the fourth wall, look directly into the camera at the audience, shrug, and remark, "It's a living," or some similar phrase. Other commonly seen gadgets in the series included: * a baby woolly mammoth being used as a vacuum cleaner * an adult woolly mammoth would act as a shower by spraying water with its trunk * lifts being raised and lowered by ropes around brontosaurs' necks * "automatic" windows are powered by monkeys that dwell on the outside windowsill * birds configured as "car horns" and activated by pulling on their tails * an electric razor is depicted as a clam shell housing a honey-bee vibrating it as the edges are rubbed against the character's face. Travel to "Hollyrock," a parody of Hollywood, California, usually involved an "airplane" flight—the "plane" in this case often shown as a giant pterodactyl. (Other familiar place names are similarly contorted: San Antonio becomes Sand-and-Stony-o; the country to the south of Bedrock's land is called Mexirock; and so forth.) The Stone Age setting allowed for gags and puns involving rocks; the names of the various characters being "rock" puns. These included celebrities of the 1960s such as: * "Gary Granite" (Cary Grant) * "Stony Curtis" (Tony Curtis) * "Ed Sulleyrock/Sulleystone" (Ed Sullivan) * "Rock Quarry/Hudstone" (Rock Hudson) * "Ann-Margrock" (Ann-Margret) * "Alvin Brickrock" (Alfred Hitchcock) * "Perry Masonary/Masonite" (Perry Mason) * "Bronto Burger" (Hamilton Burger, Mason's courtroom adversary) * "Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders" (Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones) * "Hollyrock Bowl" (Hollywood Bowl) * "Candlestone Park" (Candlestick Park) * "The Olymprocks" (The Olympics) * "Jimmy Darrock" (James Darren) * "Clark Gravel" (Clark Gable) * "The Cartrocks" (The Cartwrights) * Samantha and Darrin - One time neighbors of the Flintstones (Samantha and Darrin of Bewitched) The Flintstones live at 323 Cobblestone Lane in Bedrock. (However, in the season 2 episode, "The X-Ray Story," their address is given as "25 Stone Cave Road." Also, in the season 1 episode, "No Help Wanted" their address is shown as "201 Cobblestone Lane". An additional address of 342 Gravelpit Terrace is given, repeatedly, in episode 151, "The Masquerade Party", which aired in season 6.) The Flintstones * Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone - The main character of the show. * Wilma Pebbles Slaghoople (née Pebble, later Slaghoople) - (Fred's wife.) * Pebbles Flintstone The Flintstones' infant daughter. * Dino - The Flintstones' pet dinosaur, who barks like a dog. * Baby Puss - The Flintstones' pet saber toothed cat. * Pearl Pebbles-Pebbles Slaghoople - Wilma's mother. * Tex Hardrock - Fred's uncle on his mother's side. * Jemina Hardrock - Fred's uncle's sister * Eddy Alfaro- Fred's Butler * Zeke Flintstone - Fred's uncle that owned Sandstone Cemente, a pun on the California town, San Clemente, that was the site of Richard Nixon's "Western White House." * Ed Flintstone (Fred's Father) * Edna Hardrock (Fred's Mother) The Rubbles * Barney Rubble - Fred's best friend and next door neighbor * Betty Rubble (née Elizabeth Jean McBricker) - Barney's wife. * Bamm-Bamm Rubble - the Rubbles' abnormally strong adopted son. * Hoppy - The Rubbles' pet Hopparoo (a kangaroo/dinosaur combination creature) Other characters * Mr. Slate - Fred Flintstone's hot tempered boss at the stone quarry. * Arnold - the paper boy. A running gag is Fred being outsmarted by Arnold * Joe Rockhead - a friend of Fred's. * Sam Slagheap - the Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. * The Great Gazoo - an alien exiled to Earth who helps Fred and Barney, often against their will. * The Gruesomes - the Flintstone's strange next-door neighbors (inspired by the then-popular monster sitcoms The Addams Family and The Munsters) * Uncle Giggles - Fred's eccentric uncle who lived on nightmare hill. {A spoof of House on Haunted Hill{!} Source: Wikipedia 1st Opening theme 2nd Opening theme, different opening though You know, I never really did get into the Flintstones. Maybe it was due to the fact that it was aimed at an older audience. Which is odd, because I LOVED the films that were made later on after the show ended. But looking back, it wasn't a bad show. It probably set a lot of standards for cartoons later on.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 8, 2009 22:10:08 GMT -5
29. ReBoot - 7 pointsReBoot is a Canadian CGI-animated action-adventure television series that originally aired from 1994 to 2001. It was produced by Vancouver-based production company Mainframe Entertainment, and created by Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell and John Grace, with the visuals designed by Brendan McCarthy after an initial attempt by Ian Gibson. It is the first full-length, completely computer-animated TV series. The setting is in the inner world of a computer system known by its inhabitants as Mainframe. It was deliberately chosen due to technological constraints at the time, as the fictional computer world allowed for blocky looking models and mechanical animation.[1] Mainframe is divided into six sectors (moving clockwise): Baudway, Kits, Floating Point Park, Beverly Hills, Wall Street, and Ghetty Prime. The names of Mainframe's sectors are homages to famous neighbourhoods, mostly in New York City or Los Angeles. However, the Kits sector is named for Kitsilano, a neighbourhood in Vancouver, Mainframe Entertainment's home city. Also, Ghetty Prime is a reference to Frank Herbert's Dune, as Giedi Prime is the home world of House Harkonnen, the villainous family in the first book of the series. Mainframe is populated almost entirely by binomes, little creatures that represent either 1s or 0s, as well as a handful of Sprites who are primarily humanoid creatures of more complex design and are the main characters of the series. The first season of ReBoot was highly episodic, with each installment being a self-contained episode. Most of the episodes established characters, locations, and story elements, such as the gigantic "Game Cubes". When "The User" loads a game, a Game Cube drops on a random location in Mainframe, sealing it off from the rest of the system and turning it into a "gamescape". Bob frequently enters the games, "Reboots" to become a game character, and fights the User's character to save the sector. If the User wins a game, the sector the Cube fell in is destroyed, and the Sprites and binomes who were caught within are turned into energy-draining, worm-like parasites called Nulls. The second season featured an extended story arc that began with the season's fifth episode, "Painted Windows". The arc revealed that Hexadecimal and Megabyte are siblings, and that Megabyte referred to his pet Null, Nibbles, as "father". It also introduced an external threat to Mainframe, "the Web". A creature from the Web entered Mainframe from Hexadecimal's looking glass (which was shattered by Mike), bonding with her. Mainframe's nulls covered her to form a monster known as "Nullzilla". The protectors of Mainframe defeated Nullzilla and neutralized Hexadecimal. The Web Creature located Megabyte, took him over and forced him to merge with Hexadecimal, forming a destructive super-virus called Gigabyte. Gigabyte was eventually neutralized as well, but the Web Creature escaped into the bowels of Mainframe, where it began stealing energy to stay alive. Mouse, a mercenary and old friend of Bob's, helped to find the Web Creature, but was almost destroyed by a bomb set by the person she was working for, Turbo. Bob took the bomb a safe distance away so that nobody would be harmed. The explosion created a Tear which the Web Creature used to create a portal to the Web. The protectors of Mainframe had to team up with Megabyte and Hexadecimal to close the portal, but when they defeated the Web creatures that had entered the system, Megabyte betrayed the alliance, crushing Bob's keytool, Glitch, and sending him into the Web portal before closing it. For the show's third season, there was a marked improvement in model and animation quality due to the advancement of Mainframe Entertainment's software capabilities during the time between seasons. Subtle details, such as eyelashes and shadow, as well as generally more lifelike sprite characters, were among several visual improvements compared to previous ReBoot episodes. In addition, the show shifted their target audience to children aged 12 and older, resulting in a darker and more mature storyline. After severing ties with ABC following the second season, the show actually reached a greater number of households through syndication. The season started with Enzo, freshly upgraded into a Guardian candidate by Bob during the Web incursion, defending Mainframe from Megabyte and Hexadecimal with Dot and AndrAIa at his side. When Enzo entered a game he could not win, he, AndrAIa and Frisket changed their icons to game sprite mode and rode the game out of Mainframe. The accelerated game time matured Enzo and AndrAIa far faster than the denizens of Mainframe. The following episodes follow adult versions of Enzo and AndrAIa as they travel from system to system in search of Mainframe. The older Enzo adopts the name "Matrix," (previously his and Dot's surname) carrying the aptly named weapon "Gun" and Bob's damaged Glitch. The time spent in games and away from Mainframe has hardened both Matrix and AndrAIa; Matrix has developed a pathological hatred of Megabyte, and has grown into an overly muscled, shoot-first-ask-question-later hero, while AndrAIa has turned into a calm and level-headed warrior. Matrix and AndrAIa are also shown to have developed a romantic relationship by this time. As the season progresses, Matrix and AndrAIa are reunited with Bob and the crew of the Saucy Mare and returned to Mainframe. Upon return, the heroes fought a final battle for control of Mainframe. Hexadecimal and Megabyte were defeated in confrontations with Bob and Matrix, respectively, but not before Megabyte's handiwork caused the system to crash. All final problems in Mainframe were dealt with by The User restarting the system, setting everything right and restoring everything as it was again for our heroes, with one major exception: younger and older Enzo now exist simultaneously, as Matrix's icon was still set to "Game Sprite" mode. Because of this mishap, he wasn't recognized by the system when it rebooted, so it created a replacement of his younger self. After the end of the third season, two TV movies were produced in 2001: Daemon Rising, which addressed the problem the Guardians were facing in season three, and My Two Bobs, which brings back Megabyte in a cliffhanger ending. The two movies, broken up into eight episodes in its U.S. run on Cartoon Network's Toonami, revealed much of Mainframe's history, including the formation of Lost Angles, Bob's arrival in the system, and the origin of Megabyte and Hexadecimal. Initial plans for the fourth season included 12 episodes broken into three films, followed by a 13th musical-special episode, although the final five were never produced, prompting the series to end with a cliff-hanger. The main characters included: * Bob – Guardian #452, acts as the guardian of Mainframe. * Dot Matrix – the COMMAND.COM of Mainframe, who also owns a local diner and many other "businesses" (as seen at the end of one episode in the first season). * Enzo Matrix – Dot's younger brother who idolized Bob as a hero, later grows up to become the renegade simply known as Matrix. * Frisket – A dog that belongs to Enzo. * Phong – Mainframe's system administrator, serves as a mentor and adviser to its inhabitants and works with Bob in defense of the system. * AndrAIa – A game sprite and friend (and later girlfriend) of Enzo introduced in season two. The "AI" in her name refers to "Artificial Intelligence." * Megabyte – A "command and conquer, and infectious" computer virus, and the series' main villain. He is the opposite of Hexadecimal, and is an "Order Virus." Once came from the virus known as Killabyte. When merging with his sister Hexadecimal, they form an even more powerful virus called (as one might guess) Gigabyte. Has an English accent. * Hexadecimal – Megabyte's twin sister (came from the same viral strand: Killabyte), a "chaotic" computer virus, whose face is represented by a series of masks, each portraying a different emotion. She is the opposite of Megabyte, and is a "Chaos Virus." An English accent prevails here too, in the style of a particularly flirtatious (if not, at times, deranged) Honor Blackman. * Mouse – A freelance Hacker who originally was mentioned briefly, then worked for Megabyte in a one-shot early in the season, but then later switched sides and joined Dot and Enzo to defend Mainframe when Bob was trapped in "The Web." Speaks with a southern U.S. accent, and uses the word 'sugah' a lot as a term of endearment. * Hack & Slash – The two most commonly seen Henchmen in Megabyte's employ. Neither of them is very good at problem solving. During the 3rd season they switch sides and join the "command.com" of mainframe. Source: Wikipedia Opening I remember seeing this when it first showed up on ABC's Saturday Morning Lineup. It was an interesting show, but my interest was more into Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 8, 2009 22:18:33 GMT -5
28. Pinky and the Brain - 7 pointsPinky and Brain are genetically enhanced laboratory mice who reside in a cage in the Acme Labs research facility. In each episode, Brain devises a new plan for the two mice (led by Brain) to take over the world, which ultimately ends in failure. In common with many other Animaniacs shorts, many episodes are in some way a parody of something else, usually a film or novel. The cartoon's tagline is: Pinky: "Gee Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world." Most of the Pinky and the Brain episodes occur in the present time at Acme Labs, located in some large American metropolitan city near a bridge, presumably Los Angeles to tie in with Animaniacs and the Warner Brothers studio lot. However, several episodes took place in historical times, with Pinky and the Brain under the laboratory care of some scientifically-minded person, including Merlin, H.G. Wells and Ivan Pavlov. The bulk of every episode involves one of Brain's plans for world domination with Pinky's assistance, and the ultimate failure of that plan. One centers on his rival Snowball's plan to take over the world using Microsponge. Another episode features Brain's single day where he tries to do anything but take over the world: in the end, a group of people vote that he should take over the world on the one day he does not want to. There is very little continuity between episodes outside of the common fixtures of the mice, though some plans for world domination from early episodes are subsequently referred to in later seasons (for example, Brain's "human suit" used in "Win Big" reappears when Brain faces Snowball in "Snowball". Both Pinky and the Brain, white mice kept as part of Acme Labs' experimentation, have undergone significant genetic alteration; as per the show's title lyrics, "their genes have been spliced" which gives the two mice amplified intelligence over that of a typical mouse, the ability to talk to humans, and anthropomorphism. "Project B.R.A.I.N." suggests that the gene splicing occurred on September 9, 1995, coincident to the first full episode of Pinky and the Brain. The episode "Brainwashed" states that the gene splicing was done by Dr. Mordough, along with Snowball the hamster and Precious the cat, using the Acme "Gene Splicer and Bagel Warmer". Although Pinky and the Brain plan to conquer the world, they do not show much antagonism; in a Christmas special Pinky even wrote to Santa that Brain had the world's best interests at heart. Source: Wikipedia Opening. Sorry, it cuts out like 20 seconds near the end. I really liked this show. It was a fun, interesting, new show. A spinoff, but new nonetheless. Although I feel they could've did without putting them with Elmyra after this. Nonetheless, a good show. And I kinda wished they would've did at least ONE episode that Brain's plan actually works.
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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 8, 2009 22:28:50 GMT -5
27. King of the Hill - 7 pointsKing of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, for FOX. It centers on the Hills, a small-town Methodist family in Texas. It attempts to retain a realistic approach, seeking humor in the conventional or mundane aspects of everyday life. Judge and Daniels conceived the series after a run with Judge's Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, and the series debuted on the Fox Network on January 12, 1997, becoming a hit early on. The series' popularity has also led to syndication around the world, including every night on Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim. The show has risen to become one of FOX's longest-running series, and the second longest-running American animated series, behind The Simpsons. In 2007, it was named by Time magazine as one of the top 100 greatest television shows of all time. The title theme was written and performed by The Refreshments. King of the Hill has won two Emmy Awards and has been nominated for seven since its inception. In early 1995, after the successful run of Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, Mike Judge co-created King of the Hill with former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. Judge was a former resident of Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas considered the basis for the setting of the series, the fictional Arlen. Mike Judge conceived the idea for the show, drew the main characters, and wrote a pilot script. Fox, as was its usual practice, teamed the cartoonist with an experienced prime-time TV writer. Greg Daniels rewrote the pilot script and created several important characters that did not appear in Judge's first draft (including Luanne and Cotton), as well as some characterization ideas (e.g., making Dale Gribble a conspiracy theorist). After its debut, the series became a huge success for Fox and was named one of the best television series by various publications, including Entertainment Weekly, Time and TV Guide For the 1997-1998 season, the series became one of FOX's highest rated programs and outperformed The Simpsons in ratings. During the fifth and sixth seasons, Mike Judge and Greg Daniels became less involved with the show. They eventually focused on the show again, though Greg Daniels steadily became more involved with other projects. The series' tenth season was largely composed of episodes that did not air the previous season due to frequent sporting event preemptions. During the tenth season, in 2005, the show was scheduled to be cancelled; however, it managed to attract high ratings and was renewed. Fox renewed the series for seasons eleven and twelve, making it the second longest-running animated television series after The Simpsons. The thirteenth season episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do" became the first episode of the series to be produced in widescreen high-definition when it aired on February 8, 2009. FOX's major reason for cancelling the show is to make room for the Family Guy spin-off series The Cleveland Show, which will be King of the Hill's ultimate replacement. Hopes to keep the show afloat surfaced as sources indicated that ABC, on which Judge's new animated comedy The Goode Family will air, was interested in securing the rights to the show, but in January 2009 ABC president Steve McPherson said he had "no plans to pick up the animated comedy". On April 30, 2009 it was announced that Fox ordered at least two more episodes to give the show a proper finale. The show's 14th season will air sometime in the 2009-2010 season. King of the Hill is set in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas in 1998. In a 1995 interview prior to the show's debut, Judge described the setting as "a town like Humble." In a more recent interview, Judge has cited Richardson, Texas, a Dallas suburb, as the specific inspiration for Arlen. Despite the fictitious locale, the show strives to portray the region accurately, going so far as to have annual research trips to Texas for the writing staff. Time magazine praised the authentic portrayal as the "most acutely observed, realistic sitcom about regional American life bar none". Arlen includes settings such as Rainey Street, where the Hills reside, and Strickland Propane, the business where Hank works. Also included are parodies of well-known businesses, such as Mega-Lo Mart (a parody of big-box stores), Luly's (a parody of Luby's), and Bazooms (a parody of Hooters). Most of the children in the show are enrolled at Tom Landry Middle School (named after the iconic former Dallas Cowboys coach). Early in the series, the school is referred to as being in the Heimlich County School District (according to markings on the school buses), though in later seasons this is changed to Arlen Independent School District. The school's mascot is a longhorn steer (named after the University of Texas Longhorns). The local country club is the Nine Rivers Country Club. * Hank Hill (voiced by Mike Judge) - Hank proudly sells "propane and propane accessories" as the assistant manager at Strickland Propane. He resembles — in both voice and appearance — the Tom Anderson character from Beavis and Butthead, a character also voiced by Judge. Hank is generally a well-meaning father, but is often frustrated and confused by modern trends and the antics of his friends and family members. Hank suffers from a narrow urethra, which made Bobby's conception difficult. He is uncomfortable with intimacy and discussing sex and it is made clear he tries very hard in many ways to prove his masculinity and tends to be somewhat homophobic, though not in a mean-spirited way. Despite all this, he has a healthy relationship with his family. He hopes for his son Bobby not to fall for any of the modern trends and hopes to raise him the way he wants. He also tries to put up with his wife's conceitedness. When someone wrongs him, he often responds with the phrase "I'm going to kick your ass!" Dale Gribble is by far the most frequent recipient of this threat. In addition to propane, Hank enjoys car repair and yard work, and is shown in some episodes doing his neighbor's yard work or surreptitiously creating more for himself to do. Hank's trademark wail of distress in times of discomfort and his phrase "I tell you what (which he pronounces "h what") " are running gags on the series. * Margaret 'Peggy' Platter Hill (voiced by Kathy Najimy) - Hank's wife. Peggy was born in Montana and raised on her family's cattle farm. Peggy is now a substitute teacher in Arlen, Texas. She specializes in teaching Spanish, but will jump at the chance to sub for any subject that becomes available. Peggy's knowledge and pronunciation of the language is lacking, and she refers to it phonetically with her Texas drawl as "es-pan-ole". Peggy is also a freelance newspaper columnist, notary public, a Boggle champion, and she starts a career in real estate. Although well-meaning and open-minded, she is bossy and a bit of a blowhard, often unintentionally displaying her naïveté and ignorance without realizing it; she considers herself far more knowledgeable, clever, and attractive than she actually is; for example, she claims that her IQ is 170, but once revealed this was an "educated guess" made by herself, and in a number of episodes, this gets her into trouble. Peggy is self-conscious about her larger than normal (size 16 1/2) feet. Peggy frequently speaks the phrases "Oh, yeah!" when she exerts effort into a task and "Oh, Peggy!" a self-compliment after she says something that she finds to be especially clever. * Robert 'Bobby' "Butch" Jeffrey Hill (voiced by Pamela Adlon) - Hank and Peggy's husky 13-year-old son. He wants to be a famous prop comic and move to New York when he is older. Bobby displays little interest in gender roles and dislikes playing football. Hank's discomfort with Bobby's sensibilities is a regular narrative element in the series. "That boy ain't right." * Dale Gribble (voiced by Johnny Hardwick) - Dale is the Hills' chain-smoking neighbor who is also an insect exterminator, conspiracy theorist, and borderline maniac. Dale is also his gun club's president and a licensed bounty hunter. Though boastful, he is a coward who recoils in the face of violence. He often uses the stolen identity of "Rusty Shackleford"; an old classmate whom Dale thought died in the third grade. Dale remains completely oblivious to the fact that his wife, Nancy, has cheated on him with John Redcorn for 14 years and his son Joseph is not actually his biological son. Everyone else knows but chooses not to tell him because of his total obliviousness, the loving, trusting relationship he has with Joseph and Nancy, and the fact that Dale is more of a father to Joseph than John Redcorn is. Hank considers Dale a close friend, but he often becomes very annoyed with his schemes and conspiracies. * William "Bill" Fontaine Delatour Dauterive (voiced by Stephen Root) - Bill is the Hills' overweight, divorced, clinically depressed, involuntarily celibate neighbor. Bill had a tough childhood with an abusive father who often locked Bill in a rabbit hutch, which Bill recalls in later years, saying, "I deserved it." He was formerly a rugged and attractive star defensive lineman on Arlen High's football team, nicknamed the "Billdozer". When on the goal line, Bill would take Hank's place at running back and push his way forward for a touchdown. Bill once had a bright future in the Army, but ended up ruining his life after marrying Lenore, whom he found passed out in his lap after a Molly Hatchet concert. Bill is often attracted to people who abuse him; after suffering under his father and Lenore, Bill feels no self-worth. He obsesses about his ex-wife, and his loneliness and suicidal tendencies are a running gag on the series. He is a sergeant barber in the United States Army. He frequently tries to flirt with and woo Peggy, and even steals, tapes together, and plays Boggle with Peggy's body cast after she gets it taken off following a skydiving accident. His last name is often phonetically mispronounced by characters who do not know him. Despite coming across as a loser, however, Bill has enjoyed several romantic successes (or near-successes), including Khan's mother, former Texas governor Ann Richards, and the young widows of two of his dead cousins. Named after executive producer and writer Jim Dauterive. * Luanne Platter Kleinschmidt (voiced by Brittany Murphy) - The Hill's college-age niece, daughter of Peggy's scheming brother Hoyt. She moves in with the Hills after her mother Leanne stabs Hoyt with a fork during a drunken fight and tips over their trailer. Hank initially makes frequent attempts to encourage her to move out on her own, but later begins to accept her as a member of the family. She is a student at the beauty academy and later at Arlen Community College. She is often portrayed as an airhead, but is shown to be an expert mechanic in the first two seasons and is good at logic puzzles (though in later seasons her low level of intelligence seemed to have retconned this.) Luanne is promiscuous, but she settles down after attending a church-sponsored "second virginity" program and starts a Bible study class. In the 10th season finale, Luanne revealed that she was pregnant with the child of Lucky, whom she married in the 11th season finale. In the 13th Season, she has a baby girl named Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt (which she almost named Lasagna because Luanne was high on epidurals during the pregnancy). * Jeff Boomhauer (voiced by Mike Judge) - Boomhauer is a slim, young-looking womanizer whose mutterings are nearly incomprehensible to the audience but easily understood by his friends. A running joke is when his friends fail to understand him for some reason other than his incoherence. His speech is usually heavily littered with the phrases, "Dang", "Dang ol'" and "I'll tell you what". Boomhauer is a classic-car aficionado, and, despite his incoherent ramblings and womanizing, often displays himself to be more intelligent and philosophical than his three friends. In episode 18 of season 13, the Canadian woman who trades houses with him for the summer calls him Jeff, finally revealing his first name. He occasionally displays hints of chivalry, such as when he allowed Luanne to sleep on his couch when she had a falling out with Hank and made no attempt to take advantage of her, or when he broke up an old flame's engagement to his unfaithful brother. Boomhauer once fell in love with a woman who would jog by his house every morning. Bill first showed interest in her, so in order to meet her, he dug several holes in the street, hoping she would trip and need assistance, which Bill would administer. However, Bill falls victim to his own trap and it is Boomhauer who comes to the rescue, when the woman tripped and fell. Boomhauer goes on to propose to this woman, even offering her his grandmother's wedding ring, which is rejected. In the end, Boomhauer learns a lesson about treating women after suffering rejection. * Cotton Hill (1925-2007) (voiced by Toby Huss) - Hank's father, Cotton was a deranged, politically incorrect misogynist with a hair-trigger temper. His shins were blown off in World War II by a "Japan man's machine gun" and his feet were reattached to his knees, resulting in a short height and stilted gait. Despite his disability, he eventually reached the rank of Colonel in the State Militia, and is addressed as such by his friends. After divorcing Hank's mother, he marries a much younger, dimwitted, busty blonde candy striper named Didi who gives birth to his son and later divorces him. He calls Peggy "Hank's Wife" and makes frequent references to his (perhaps dubious) wartime heroism, including his killing of "fiddy [fifty] men". Cotton spent most of his free time playing checkers and hatching absurd schemes (such as rowing to Cuba and killing Fidel Castro) with his war buddies at the VFW. However, by the middle of the series, all of his war buddies had died. Cotton himself died, not once but twice, in episode #218, "Death Picks Cotton", after suffering an allergic to reaction to shrimp during a tirade at a Japanese restaurant. In the episode "Chasing Bobby," Peggy stated that Hank's greatest fear was his father dying without telling him how much he loved him, which is exactly what happened. His dying wish of destroying Hank's new shed was carried about by Dale after Cotton's death. * Didi Hill (voiced by Ashley Gardner) - Didi is Cotton's second wife and a candy striper. She has breast implants and suffers from postpartum depression following the birth of Cotton's third son "G.H.". She is generally depicted as docile and unintelligent, although she has a degree in optometry. Didi speaks in a monotone voice and was once a student in Hank Hill's kindergarten class (in her first appearance, she asks Hank if he still likes finger painting). She was absent when Cotton died. In the episode "Daletech," Cotton indicates that she was going to spend many months with her parents and without him. She makes an appearance one year later in the episode "Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key" and reveals that she is getting married to a wealthy professional wrestler. * G. H. Hill - G.H. is Cotton's and Didi's infant son, and Hank's younger half-brother. G.H. is an abbreviation for "Good Hank," implying that the original Hank was unsatisfactory to his father. Hank feels envious of the new Hank being his father's favorite, and he does not consider him his brother, who most strongly resembles his son Bobby. G.H was also nowhere to be seen at the time of his father's death. * Junichiro (voiced by David Carradine) - Junichiro is Hank's elder half-Japanese half-brother who has lived in Japan all his life. Hank and Junichiro have the same father, due to Cotton's affair with a Japanese nurse during his war days, and share many similarities in appearance and mannerisms (this in spite of the fact that Hank actually shares more of his mother's features) one of these is that when he is shocked, like Hank, he yells "BWAH!". Like Hank, Junichiro also has a narrow urethra and is an assistant manager at the company for which he works, making robots and robot accessories. He is initially uncomfortable with the idea of meeting either Cotton or Hank, and his comments send Cotton on a rampage through Japan; but with Hank's help the family reconciles before Hank returns to the U.S. Since Junichiro was raised Japanese, he does not have cultural problems talking about the sexual issues Hank does like his narrow urethra. In "Lucky's Wedding Suit," he made a cameo at Luanne and Lucky's wedding. * Tilly Hill (voiced by Tammy Wynette in 1997-1998, Beth Grant in 1999, and K Callan in 2000-) - Tilly is Cotton's first wife and Hank's mother. She divorced Cotton after suffering years of verbal abuse. A kind woman who collects miniatures, Tilly lives in Arizona with her Jewish boyfriend Gary (voiced by Carl Reiner); Hank was initially unhappy with her dating Gary and went blind when he walked in on them making love, but later expressed his approval of her new man when Gary threatened to kick Cotton's ass if he insulted Tilly in his presence. Hank has trouble emotionally connecting with Tilly, but is a loving son who defends his mother in spite of Cotton's insults. Tilly has facial features virtually identical to Hank, indicating his mother is the source of his looks and general physical appearance. K Callan assumed the role after Wynette's death. * Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt (voiced by Tom Petty) - Elroy is Luanne's dimwitted, itinerant, but generally benign redneck husband. He lives on the remainder of the $53,000 "settlement monies" he received after "slipping in a puddle of pee-pee at the Costco," and is the father of Luanne's child. Peggy tried very hard to break him and Luanne apart, but after Luanne's pregnancy was revealed, she and Hank reconciled the two, giving them a shotgun wedding. He is also a former guitarist for John Redcorn's band, Big Mountain Fudgecake, and occasionally plays gigs in biker bars. His favorite band is Brownsville Station. Surprisingly, he has moments of insight that prove he isn't quite as stupid as he appears, which may stem from his being consistently drunk. Despite how he may come off, he loves Luanne very much, and is very involved with her family. He enjoys the "gentlemanly pursuits" of mudding, stickin', cat-fisting, stumping, and Truck Racing. * Gracie Margaret Kleinschmidt - Daughter of Lucky and Luanne. She was born in the season 13 episode "Lucky See, Monkey Do." Luanne originally wanted to name her Lasagna Kleinschmidt (stating that lasagna was their favorite food), but Peggy intervened and came up with a more appropriate name. * Leanne Platter (voiced by Pamela Adlon) - Leanne is Luanne's violent alcoholic mother, who was imprisoned for stabbing her husband in the back with a fork. Though she is often mentioned during the course of the series, she appears only in the episode "Leanne's Saga," visiting Luanne in Arlen after her release from prison. According to Hank, Peggy's brother Hoyt had planned to marry a pharmacist, but wound up marrying Leanne instead after she entertained at his bachelor party. She and Bill are soon engaged, though their relationship rapidly degenerates once she starts drinking again. Everyone, except initially Bill and Luanne, sees her as an un-ladylike, psychotic menace to society; once these two recognize the truth as well, Leanne steals Bill's truck and drives out of Arlen, presumably for good. * Hoyt Platter (voiced by Johnny Knoxville) - Hoyt is Luanne's father and Peggy's twin brother who ran from Arlen after Leanne stabbed him. It was later found out that he never worked on an oil rig, but was in jail for most of Luanne's life and the oil rig story was a cover so Luanne wouldn't know her father was a convict. He appears in only one episode, "Life: A Loser's Manual," in which he continues his larcenous ways to the point of bullying Lucky into confessing to a robbery Hoyt committed. Thanks to some crafty work by Hank and Peggy, Hoyt was nabbed for another crime, and convinced to take the rap for the robbery, and put back in jail presumably for life, with Luanne believing the false story that he "signed a lifetime contract to return to the oil rig." * Ladybird Hill - The Hills' 14-year-old purebred bloodhound. Her companionship temporarily relieved Hank's stress (and narrow urethra), allowing him to impregnate Peggy. She is named after the famous Texan and Democratic U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird Johnson. Hank is skeptical about breeding her until her thirteenth year, when he finally breaks down and attempts to stud her with one of Mr. Strickland's hounds. However, he then discovers that Ladybird has a narrow uterus -- a gag to coincide with Hank's narrow urethra. It is also suggested in Doggone Crazy that Ladybird had gone deaf. * Dusty Hill (voiced by Himself) - Dusty is Hank's cousin who received Cotton's Cadillac in the episode Hank Gets Dusted. He is a member of the rock band "ZZ Top." * Joseph John Gribble (voiced by Brittany Murphy as a prepubescent in 1997-2000, Breckin Meyer as a pubescent in 2000-) - born in ca. 1996, Joseph is Dale's 13-year-old son and one of Bobby's best friends. Despite Joseph's obvious Native American features, being strikingly similar in appearance to John Redcorn, and the fact that his middle name is "John," neither he nor Dale is aware that Redcorn is his biological father, the result of a 14-year affair. Dale refers to his Jamaican grandmother to explain Joseph's dark complexion. Redcorn's occasional awkward attempts to get closer to Joseph (against Nancy's wishes) lead Joseph to regard him as strange and creepy. Joseph is something of a pervert, objectifying almost all girls with the exception of Connie. In some episodes, he's had a small infatuation for Connie, particularly when she and Bobby are at odds. * Nancy Hicks Gribble (voiced by Ashley Gardner) - Nancy is Dale's wife and the weather girl turned reporter for a local television station. She had a 14-year affair with John Redcorn, which produced her son, Joseph, although she eventually broke off the affair and became a more faithful wife to Dale. She frequently addresses other characters as "sug" (phonetically "shʊg"), which is short for "sugar." * Bug Gribble (voiced by David Herman) - Dale's father, who was estranged from his son for many years for making a move on Nancy on the day of Dale and Nancy's wedding. Bug was actually gay and making a move on the Filipino catering boy, and kissed Nancy to cover for it, but was unable to tell Dale the truth afterward. When Dale and Nancy renew their wedding vows years later, she arranges to invite Bug, and Dale initially suspects his odd behavior and his "partner" as meaning that Bug is a government agent, but finally accepts the truth when shown that his dad works for a gay rodeo. Dale mentions that the name of his exterminating service "Dale's Dead-Bug" has a double meaning relating to his father. In an early season episode, Bug is shown to be the source of Dale's fear of ventriloquist dummies, due to a prank played at a birthday party. He made a cameo in "Lucky's Wedding Suit" as one of the attendees of Luanne and Lucky's wedding. Source: Wikipedia Opening theme This is another show that I didn't really get into. I didn't really like it that much, but I enjoyed some of the episodes. It's a shame that it's getting canceled, but it's probably for the better, as most shows that last over 10 seasons start to lose the thing that made them good *CoughSIMPSONSCough*. 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Post by Speed Racer on Jul 8, 2009 22:35:51 GMT -5
26. Tiny Toon Adventures - 8 pointsSteven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, usually referred to as Tiny Toon Adventures, is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. It began production as a result of Warner Bros. reinstating its animation studio in 1980 after a decade of dormancy. During the 1980s, the new studio only worked on revivals of the classic characters; meaning that Tiny Toon Adventures was the first of many original animated series from the studio. The cartoon was the first animated series produced by the collaboration of Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. Animation during the animation renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The cartoon premiered in first-run syndication on September 14, 1990. In 1991, the show was licensed exclusively to Fox Kids, and later to Kids WB. It ended production in late 1995. Tiny Toon Adventures is a cartoon set in the fictional city of Acme Acres, where most of the Tiny Toons and Looney Tunes characters live. The characters attended Acme Looniversity, a school whose faculty primarily consists of the mainstays of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat and Elmer Fudd. In the series, the university was founded to teach cartoon characters how to become funny. The school is not featured in every episode, as not all of its storylines are school-centric. The series centralizes on a group of young cartoon characters who attend a school called Acme Looniversity to be the next generation of Looney Tunes characters. Most of the Tiny Toons characters were designed to resemble younger versions of Warner Bros.' most popular Looney Tunes animal characters by exhibiting similar traits and looks. The two main characters are both rabbits: Buster Bunny, a blue male rabbit, and Babs Bunny, a pink female rabbit. Other major characters in the cast are generally animals as well. These include Plucky Duck, a green male duck; Hamton J. Pig, a pink male pig; Fifi La Fume, a purple-and-white female skunk; Shirley the Loon, a white female loon; Dizzy Devil, a purple Tasmanian devil; Furrball, a blue cat; Calamity Coyote, a bluish-gray coyote; and Gogo Dodo, a green dodo. Two human characters, Elmyra Duff and Montana Max, also have secondary roles in the series, and are students of Acme Looniversity as well. Supporting characters included Little Beeper, a red-orange roadrunner; Li'l Sneezer, a gray mouse with powerful sneezes; Sweetie Pie, a pink canary; Concord Condor, a purple condor; Byron Basset, a usually sleeping basset hound; Bookworm, a green worm with glasses; Arnold the Pit Bull, a muscular white pit bull; Fowlmouth, a white rooster; Barky Marky, a brown dog; and Mary Melody, a young human girl. The show often contained political and entertainment satire. Caricature versions of celebrities made frequent appearances, though were almost always voiced by imitators, and often appeared under parody names. The show also parodied other TV shows and cartoons of the day, including The Simpsons (a flagship series of the FOX network, which aired Tiny Toons for two seasons). Like the original Looney Tunes, cartoon violence (e.g. anvils, explosions) and slapstick were prominent. Every episode of the show also featured a gag credit during the closing credits. After the credits, the episodes closed with one or more characters appearing in the Warner Bros. rings and saying a closing line: A reference, not to The Burns and Allen Show, but to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Buster "Say good-night, Babs." Babs "Goodnight, Babs." Quoting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Plucky Parting is such sweet sorrow. A reference to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Furball seemingly "roars", then covers his mouth afterwards, softly mewing as if he had belched. Buster "And that's a wrap!" Fifi La Fume (waving her tail in her hand like a feather boa) "Au revoir, mon petite potatoes du couch!" Dizzy Devil "Show over!" (then spins around and destroys the Warner Bros. rings.) One closer that breaks the fourth wall: (Gogo Dodo pops up in the rings, holding a TV remote control.) Gogo "It's been surreal!" (Gogo points the remote to the viewer, presses the "POWER" button, and the screen irises out.) Byron Basset (sniffing around the Warner Bros. rings) "Woof!" Elmyra "Let the show begin!" (Showing how much of an idiot she really is.) Source: Wikipedia Opening God, this show rocked. It was one of the better shows of the mid-90s. Just so much satire and slapstick, and it all fit well together. They just don't make anything like this anymore.
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