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The Wombles

2009-01-25T23:13:29Z

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[[Image:The_wombles.jpg|thumb|right|The Wombles (the band)]]

'''The Wombles''' were created by author [[wikipedia:Elisabeth Beresford|Elisabeth Beresford]], originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. The characters later became nationally famous in the mid 1970s as a result of a popular [[wikipedia:BBC|BBC]] children's television show using [[wikipedia:stop motion animation|stop-motion animation]]. A number of spin-off novelty songs also became major hits in the British music charts.

Wombles are pointy-nosed furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and [[wikipedia:recycling|recycling]] rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Their [[wikipedia:motto|motto]] is '''Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish.''' This [[wikipedia:environmentalism|"green"]] message was a reflection of the ecology movement of the 1970s. Although Wombles live in every country in the world, the stories focus on the life of the burrow in [[wikipedia:Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]] in London, England.

==Background==
[[wikipedia:Elisabeth Beresford|Elisabeth Beresford]] was a freelance [[wikipedia:ghost writer|ghost writer]] and children's book author. She was born in Paris and travelled the world with her [[wikipedia:BBC|BBC]] sports commentator husband [[wikipedia:Max Robertson|Max Robertson]].

One [[wikipedia:Christmas|Christmas]], Elisabeth Beresford took her young children for a [[wikipedia:Boxing Day|Boxing Day]] walk on Wimbledon Common, where one referred to the green as "Wombledon Common." On getting home, Elisabeth Beresford wrote down the idea and started developing the characters and storylines.<ref name="Tidy Bag: Elisabeth Beresford">[http://www.tidybag.co.uk/wombles-info/elisabeth-beresford.html Tidy Bag: Elisabeth Beresford]</ref>

==Characters==
Beresford developed the characters around members of her family, and named them after places the family had associations with:<ref name="Tidy Bag: Elisabeth Beresford"/>
*Great Uncle Bulgaria - the Wombles' leader, was based on Beresford's father-in-law
*Tobermory - an engineer, was based on Beresford's brother, a skilled inventor, and named after the capital of the Isle of Mull
*Orinoco - a shirker who loved sleep and food, was styled on Beresford's teenage son
*Bungo - over-enthusiastic and bossy
*Tomsk - athletic but not overly-smart Womble
*Wellington - scientifically inclined, named after her [[wikipedia:Wellington School, Somerset|nephew's school]]
* Madame Cholet - a cook, was styled on Beresford's mother

Later character names for the [[wikipedia:Wombling Free|film]] and second [[wikipedia:The Wombles (TV series)|TV series]] developed in the same manner:
*Cousin Cairngorm McWomble the Terrible - named after the mountain range in Scotland
*Alderney - Madame Cholet's assistant, was named after the island where Beresford lived at the time of the second television series
*Shansi - often paired with Alderney, as Bungo was with Orinoco
*Miss Adelaide - schoolmistress
*Stepney - East Ender with dreadlocks
*Obidos

In the first book, Bungo was the youngest and least experienced of the team, and the story is mostly viewed through his eyes. Afterwards Wellington (who was not introduced until the second book) took over the role of "new boy". Alderney and Adelaide appeared in the earlier books but were not included in the original 1970s TV series. Alderney was re-introduced in the later TV shows produced in the 1990s (the [[Channel Island]] of Alderney was actually Elisabeth Beresford's home at the time), along with Stepney (who appeared in none of the earlier versions).

==The Wombles and sport==
Due to the Wombles' association with the area, sporting teams representing [[wikipedia:Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]] are sometimes affectionately dubbed "the Wombles". These teams include the Ladies side of [[wikipedia:Wimbledon RFC]] [http://ladies.wimbledonrfc.co.uk/] (whose mascot is Alderney), Wimbledon Volleyball Club and the Wombles Netball Club. [http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/netball/]

From 2000 to June 2003, [[wikipedia:Wimbledon F.C.|Wimbledon F.C.]] used a Womble named ''"Wandle"'' as a club mascot after the local [[wikipedia:River Wandle|River Wandle]]. However, in light of the controversy of moving the club to [[wikipedia:Milton Keynes|Milton Keyes]], the licence was not renewed.<ref>[http://www.tidybag.co.uk/wombles-info/questions.html Tidy Bag: Wombles FAQ]</ref> In 2006 the club's spiritual successor [[wikipedia:AFC Wimbledon|AFC Wimbledon]] agreed a licensing deal, and launched its own Womble mascot. After a naming competition in which the final name was chosen by Elisabeth Beresford herself, the club announced that the new Womble would be known as ''"Haydon,"'' after [[Haydons Road railway station|Haydons Road]], the nearest railway station to Wimbledon's original home ground, [[wikipedia:Plough Lane|Plough Lane]].

==The storyline==
Though Wombles live all around the world, the story is based on the group living in [[wikipedia:Wimbledon and Putney Commons|Wimbledon Common]] burrow in London, England. Below a certain age, all Wombles are nameless. Upon coming of age, a Womble chooses his name from Great Uncle Bulgaria's atlas, after which he leaves Miss Adelaide's "Womblegarten" and enters the communal work of the burrow, which is mostly clearing up and recycling human refuse. The life expectancy of a Womble is over 200 years, with some reaching 300, which would make them the longest-lived of all animal species.

The story is mostly viewed and told through the eyes of the lazy and gluttonous Orinoco. His favourite food, as with every Womble, are Cloud Berries.

==Children's novels==
There were a total of five novels:
*''The Wombles'' (1968)
*''The Wandering Wombles'' (1970)
*''The Wombles at Work'' (1973)
*''The Wombles to the Rescue'' (1974)
*''The Wombles Go Round the World'' (1976)

The latter two books are less well known than the original three, perhaps because they appeared after the advent of successful TV series. In ''The Wandering Wombles'', the setting moved from Wimbledon Common to [[Hyde Park, London|Hyde Park]] in central London. However ''The Wombles to the Rescue'' saw them return to Wimbledon Common.

Four of the books were illustrated by Margaret Gordon. ''The Wombles at Work'' (1973) was illustrated by Barry Leith. The appearance of the Wombles in the books followed the design of the [[Ivor Wood]] TV puppets, with the exception of ''The Wombles'' (1968) which preceded the TV series and depicted the Wombles as teddy bear-like creatures.

Wombles appearing in the books included:

* Great Uncle Bulgaria
* Tobermory
* Madame Cholet
* Miss Adelaide
* Tomsk
* Bungo
* Orinoco
* Wellington
* Alderney
* Shansi

Additional Wombles included:

* Cousin Yellowstone Womble
* Cairngorm the MacWomble
* Omsk
* Culvain
* Ness, Ross and Cromarty - the Water Wombles
* Cousin Botany
* Speyer and Heilbronn
* Frau Heidelberg
* Habsburg Von Womble
* Ms Atlanta
* Idaho
* Dalai Gartok
* Nanking
* Cairns and Perth
* Great-Great Aunt M. Murrumbidgee
* Eucula
* Uncle Dunedin
* Cousin Tokyo
* Hirado

Beresford also wrote a collection of short stories entitled ''The Invisible Womble and Other Stories'' (1973), in which the original Wimbledon Common setting was restored. Although based on episodes from the TV series, these stories occasionally refer to events in the novels.

In addition to these books, a great many annuals, picture-books and children's early readers have been published over the years, some of which were also written by Elisabeth Beresford.

==Television==
{{main|wikipedia:The Wombles (TV series)|The Wombles (TV series)}}
A motion animated series was made in 1973-1975. Further animated episodes were made in 1998-1999.

==Music==
{{main|wikipedia:The Wombles (band)|The Wombles (band)}}
Songwriter and producer [[wikipedia:Mike Batt]] wrote the series' theme tune, and later went on to perform and produce a number of highly successful novelty singles as ''[[wikipedia:The Wombles (band)|The Wombles]]'' in the 1970s.

==Film==
{{Main|wikipedia:Wombling Free|Wombling Free}}
A feature-length live-action movie ''[[wikipedia:Wombling Free|Wombling Free]]'' was released in 1977, starring [[wikipedia:David Tomlinson|David Tomlinson]] and [[Bonnie Langford|Bonnie Langford]]. A soundtrack album was released in 1978.

==Other appearances==
The Wombles starred in a number of British comics including [[wikipedia:Teddy Bear (comic)|Teddy Bear]] (1973), [[wikipedia:Jack and Jill (comic)|Jack and Jill]] (1973-81), a number of holiday specials, and as the interval act at the [[wikipedia:Eurovision Song Contest 1974|Eurovision Song Contest 1964]].

The Wombles were exported to American audiences in the early 70s when they made occasional appearances on CBS' [[wikipedia:Captain Kangaroo|Captain Kangaroo]] but were never aired in the US ever since

==In popular culture==
[[wikipedia:Barry Wom|Barrington Womble MBE]] is the drummer of the fictional band ''[[wikipedia:The Rutles|The Rutles]]'' played by John Halsey. A spoof of ''[[wikipedia:The Beatles|The Beatles]]'' drummer [[wikipedia:Ringo Starr|Ringo Starr]], he is sometimes referred to as The Lost Womble.{{Fact|date=March 2008}}

English rock band, [[wikipedia:The Libertines|The Libertines]] mention the characters in their song "Time For Heroes".

The 2005 film [[wikipedia:Breakfast on Pluto|Breakfast on Pluto]] features the Wombles.

In the ''[[wikipedia:Bottom_%28TV_series%29#Series_1_.281991.29|Bottom]]'' episode [[wikipedia:'S Out|'s Out]], the main characters Eddie and Richie camp out on Wimbledon common and try hunting Wombles to get a meal. They fail.

The British comedy ''[[wikipedia:The Vicar of Dibley|The Vicar of Dibley]]'' references the Wombles repeatedly. According to [[wikipedia:Dawn French|Dawn French]]'s character Geraldine Granger: "I once tried to go on ''[[wikipedia:Mastermind (television)|Mastermind]]'', but they didn't like my special subject. Apparently there just aren't enough questions about the Wombles."

The term "womble" is sometimes used in British [[wikipedia:slang|slang]] to describe a person who is well-meaning but absent-minded or ineffectual.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tidybag.co.uk/ Tidy Bag - The Online Wombles Museum]
* [http://www.fidella.com/womble/ Womble Lovers]
* [http://www.cerise.f2s.com/womble/ The Womble Burrow]

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The Wombles

2009-01-25T23:12:14Z

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Category:Television series

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'''[[Wikipedia:Television series|Television series]]''' that feature [[furry]] [[character]]s in some manner.
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* [[The Angry Beavers]]
* [[Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars]]
* [[Capitol Critters]]
* [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]
* [[Count Duckula]]
* [[Don't Eat The Neighbours]]
* [[Duck Dodgers]]
* [[DuckTales]]
* [[Dumbo's Circus]]
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===E-P===
* [[Fievel's American Tails]]
* [[Garfield and Friends]]
* [[The Get-Along Gang]]
* [[Gophers]]
* [[Gummi Bears (TV show)|Gummi Bears]]
* [[Heathcliff (cartoon)|Heathcliff]]
* [[KO Century Beast]]
* [[Krypto the Superdog]]
* [[Pecola]]
* [[Pinky and the Brain]]
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* [[Redwall (show)|Redwall]]
* [[Roobarb]]
* [[Samurai Pizza Cats]]
* [[Sherlock Hound]]
* [[Shirt Tales]]
* [[Shoebox Zoo]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shoeboxzoo/ website]
* [[Sitting Ducks]]
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* [[The Sylvanian Families]]
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* [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]
* [[Tom and Jerry]]
* [[Welcome To Pooh Corner]]
* [[Woody Woodpecker]]
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Untalkative Bunny

2007-04-22T07:52:16Z

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[[Image:UntalkativeBunny.jpg|thumb|right|Bunny playing with a Jigsaw Puzzle]]
'''''Untalkative Bunny''''' is a Canada/UK co-produced animated series about a yellow rabbit and it's life in the big city (closely based on Ottawa,Canada.) The series consists of small episodes (about 4-5 minutes long each), and are aired by Teletoon, as well as Disney in many parts of the world including the UK & France. The episodes usually deal with Bunny and the problems of a modern life in the big city, and often present surreal elements. The show is full of "modern life" elements, such as diets, vegetarianism, and environmentalism.

The series is based on a short film called "Untalkative Bunny" created by Graham Falk.

The name of the show comes from the fact that Bunny, the main character, never says any word at all, expressing itself completely by facial expressions and other forms of body language. The true gender of Bunny is not completely defined, since it seems to portray both
gender roles in different episodes.

Other recurring characters are the Orange Squirrel, who frequently pays visits to Bunny, and lives in the wild (as far as a city allows, such as city parks), but still with all the affordable modern comforts. He is sometimes accompanied with his son and daughter. There is also a cantankerous blue emu who usually puts Bunny in bad situations.

65 by 5 minute episodes were made for the first season. A subsequent 2nd and 3rd season was made with Graham Falk supervising the co-writers from the first season. Some of the episodes in the third season were written soley by the UK department.
The cartoon soundtrack consists almost entirely of bossa nova and jazz tunes.

==External links==
*[http://bunny.23skidoo.org/ Untalkative Bunny Unofficial Homepage with Episode Guide]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293743/ IMDB profile]
* http://www.criterionlicensing.com/UntalkativeBunny.htm
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6363gGh3M Untalkative Bunny episode "Animal Music"]

[[Category:Television series]]

Untalkative Bunny

2007-04-22T07:50:57Z

CyberFox: New page: Bunny playing with a Jigsaw Puzzle '''''Untalkative Bunny''''' is a Canada/UK co-produced animated series about a yellow rabbit and it's life in ...

[[Image:UntalkativeBunny.jpg|thumb|right|Bunny playing with a Jigsaw Puzzle]]
'''''Untalkative Bunny''''' is a Canada/UK co-produced animated series about a yellow rabbit and it's life in the big city (closely based on Ottawa,Canada.) The series consists of small episodes (about 4-5 minutes long each), and are aired by Teletoon, as well as Disney in many parts of the world including the UK & France. The episodes usually deal with Bunny and the problems of a modern life in the big city, and often present surreal elements. The show is full of "modern life" elements, such as diets, vegetarianism, and environmentalism.

The series is based on a short film called "Untalkative Bunny" created by Graham Falk.

The name of the show comes from the fact that Bunny, the main character, never says any word at all, expressing itself completely by facial expressions and other forms of body language. The true gender of Bunny is not completely defined, since it seems to portray both
gender roles in different episodes.

Other recurring characters are the Orange Squirrel, who frequently pays visits to Bunny, and lives in the wild (as far as a city allows, such as city parks), but still with all the affordable modern comforts. He is sometimes accompanied with his son and daughter. There is also a cantankerous blue emu who usually puts Bunny in bad situations.

65 by 5 minute episodes were made for the first season. A subsequent 2nd and 3rd season was made with Graham Falk supervising the co-writers from the first season. Some of the episodes in the third season were written soley by the UK department.
The cartoon soundtrack consists almost entirely of bossa nova and jazz tunes.

==External links==
*[http://bunny.23skidoo.org/ Untalkative Bunny Unofficial Homepage with Episode Guide]
*{{imdb title|id=0293743|title=Untalkative Bunny}}
* http://www.criterionlicensing.com/UntalkativeBunny.htm
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z6363gGh3M Untalkative Bunny episode "Animal Music"]

[[Category:Television series]]

Under the Umbrella Tree

2007-04-12T18:12:44Z

CyberFox: /* Recent developments */

[[Image:Threeutut.jpg|thumb|right|Holly Higgins, Jacob Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.]]
'''Under the Umbrella Tree''' is a Canadian children's television television series created by canadian puppeteer Noreen Young in 1986. The show was well appreciated for using humour coupled with family values and promotion of healthy activities to enlighten and educate the youth of North America. Under the Umbrella Tree was produced by ''Noreen Young Productions'' and CBC Television. The first episode aired was on the CBC in 1986, and the show's 280 episode run ended in 1993.

In 1991, American television station The Disney Channel began to co-produce the program, and episodes were aired for American viewers on The Disney Channel from 1991 to 1996. Syndication continued on YTV, a Canadian station, until 1997. Many episodes of the show were released to DVD by ''Cinerio Entertainment, Inc.'' in partnership with Noreen Young in 2006, following a long wait for expiration of ownership rights.

As part of an agreement with CBC, episodes of the show were filmed with the understanding that no TV commercials would be later added. Because of this, each "regular" episode is exactly 15 minutes, and each "special" episode is 28–30 minutes, leaving no room for TV ads if it were to resurface in syndication on network television in the future.

==Plot and characters==
===The series===
''Under the Umbrella Tree'' was well known for its many lovable characters, including the only human cast member Holly Higgins, and lively puppets Iggy the Iguana, Jacob the Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.

There are also various other puppet characters, such as Mrs. McMurtry, the Umbrella Tree gang's neighbour, and Chuck Chickadee, who is Jacob's friend. Special guests have also appeared on the program, such as Michelle St. John as the gang's new neighbour in 1990's ''Great Gardening'' episode.

The program consists of 280 episodes, 270 of which are 15 minutes in length, and there are ten 30-minute specials. There are episodes about baseball, holidays, singing, dancing, exercise, and various other activities. The show is well known for being quite enjoyably funny; an example being the half-hour special opening credits, which showcase a bucket of water being dispensed on Holly's head, a pie being thrown at Iggy's face, envelopes falling on Gloria, and Jacob tumbling over a display of cans. The show aired from 1986 to 1993, and was picked up by The Disney Channel and YTV from 1993 off-and-on through 1997.

===Characters===
*'''Holly Higgins''' (Holly Larocque) - The only human cast member. Holly was seen as a parental figure for the three puppet characters. She is known for being funny, artistic, and generous.

*'''Iggy Iguana''' (Bob Stutt) - Iggy sleeps on the shelf at the Umbrella Tree residence, and his characteristics include sometimes thinking too highly of himself, and unwillingly making mistakes. He, along with Jacob Bluejay, can be regarded as the klutzes of the gang.

*'''Gloria Gopher''' (Noreen Young) - Gloria is the only female puppet in the Umbrella Tree household, and lives and sleeps 'under the umbrella tree', which is located behind the couch. It is known as her ''borough''.

*'''Jacob Bluejay''' (Stephen Brathwaite) - Jacob is the only citizen of the Umbrella Tree household capable of flight. He usually sleeps somewhere outdoors, preferably on the patio. Jacob sometimes invents things that seldom work as he plans, which results in a humorous episode.

*'''Louis Bird''' (Bob Stutt) - Louis is a friend of the Umbrella Tree gang, usually involved in festivities outside the apartment, or in dialogue within several episodes. He is well known for overusing the term "indeed", and usually adds the phrase "hmm, indeed!" at the end of his statements.

*'''Mitzi the Dog''' (Holly Larocque) Mitzi is Gloria's best friend who is always seeming to get either herself or Gloria in trouble.

==Recent developments==
In 2001, it was revealed by the creator, producer, and star of ''Under the Umbrella Tree'', Noreen Young, that plans to bring back the 280 episodes of the program to airwaves was a large possibility. It was noted at that time that the show may be aired on a Canadian television station by 2005. Though three DVDs have already been released with episodes of the program during 2005, the re-occurrence of television syndication seems less than likely and did not occur during the foreclosed year 2005.

In 1997, ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' reruns were placed on hiatus, after the Disney Channel stopped allowing the airing of the program and shelved the episodes. Since Disney owned all rights to the family classic, airing reruns on another television station was not possible until the rights expired in 2005. Since then, Noreen Young Productions in unison with [http://www.cinerioentertainment.com Cinerio Entertainment, Inc.]has begun selling the episodes on DVD. It is not publicly known whether this decision means there is no chance of the program airing in syndication on any television station in the future.

==External links==
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume1.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 1 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume2.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 2 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume3.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 3 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.noreenyoungproductions.com ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' at Noreen Young Productions]
*[http://www.angelfire.com/droid/undertheumbrellatree The Unofficial ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Fansite]

[[Category:Television series]]

Under the Umbrella Tree

2007-04-12T18:12:06Z

CyberFox: /* Recent developments */

[[Image:Threeutut.jpg|thumb|right|Holly Higgins, Jacob Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.]]
'''Under the Umbrella Tree''' is a Canadian children's television television series created by canadian puppeteer Noreen Young in 1986. The show was well appreciated for using humour coupled with family values and promotion of healthy activities to enlighten and educate the youth of North America. Under the Umbrella Tree was produced by ''Noreen Young Productions'' and CBC Television. The first episode aired was on the CBC in 1986, and the show's 280 episode run ended in 1993.

In 1991, American television station The Disney Channel began to co-produce the program, and episodes were aired for American viewers on The Disney Channel from 1991 to 1996. Syndication continued on YTV, a Canadian station, until 1997. Many episodes of the show were released to DVD by ''Cinerio Entertainment, Inc.'' in partnership with Noreen Young in 2006, following a long wait for expiration of ownership rights.

As part of an agreement with CBC, episodes of the show were filmed with the understanding that no TV commercials would be later added. Because of this, each "regular" episode is exactly 15 minutes, and each "special" episode is 28–30 minutes, leaving no room for TV ads if it were to resurface in syndication on network television in the future.

==Plot and characters==
===The series===
''Under the Umbrella Tree'' was well known for its many lovable characters, including the only human cast member Holly Higgins, and lively puppets Iggy the Iguana, Jacob the Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.

There are also various other puppet characters, such as Mrs. McMurtry, the Umbrella Tree gang's neighbour, and Chuck Chickadee, who is Jacob's friend. Special guests have also appeared on the program, such as Michelle St. John as the gang's new neighbour in 1990's ''Great Gardening'' episode.

The program consists of 280 episodes, 270 of which are 15 minutes in length, and there are ten 30-minute specials. There are episodes about baseball, holidays, singing, dancing, exercise, and various other activities. The show is well known for being quite enjoyably funny; an example being the half-hour special opening credits, which showcase a bucket of water being dispensed on Holly's head, a pie being thrown at Iggy's face, envelopes falling on Gloria, and Jacob tumbling over a display of cans. The show aired from 1986 to 1993, and was picked up by The Disney Channel and YTV from 1993 off-and-on through 1997.

===Characters===
*'''Holly Higgins''' (Holly Larocque) - The only human cast member. Holly was seen as a parental figure for the three puppet characters. She is known for being funny, artistic, and generous.

*'''Iggy Iguana''' (Bob Stutt) - Iggy sleeps on the shelf at the Umbrella Tree residence, and his characteristics include sometimes thinking too highly of himself, and unwillingly making mistakes. He, along with Jacob Bluejay, can be regarded as the klutzes of the gang.

*'''Gloria Gopher''' (Noreen Young) - Gloria is the only female puppet in the Umbrella Tree household, and lives and sleeps 'under the umbrella tree', which is located behind the couch. It is known as her ''borough''.

*'''Jacob Bluejay''' (Stephen Brathwaite) - Jacob is the only citizen of the Umbrella Tree household capable of flight. He usually sleeps somewhere outdoors, preferably on the patio. Jacob sometimes invents things that seldom work as he plans, which results in a humorous episode.

*'''Louis Bird''' (Bob Stutt) - Louis is a friend of the Umbrella Tree gang, usually involved in festivities outside the apartment, or in dialogue within several episodes. He is well known for overusing the term "indeed", and usually adds the phrase "hmm, indeed!" at the end of his statements.

*'''Mitzi the Dog''' (Holly Larocque) Mitzi is Gloria's best friend who is always seeming to get either herself or Gloria in trouble.

==Recent developments==
In 2001, it was revealed by the creator, producer, and star of ''Under the Umbrella Tree'', Noreen Young, that plans to bring back the 280 episodes of the program to airwaves was a large possibility. It was noted at that time that the show may be aired on a Canadian television station by 2005. Though three DVDs have already been released with episodes of the program during 2005, the re-occurrence of television syndication seems less than likely and did not occur during the foreclosed year 2005.

In 1997, ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' reruns were placed on hiatus, after the Disney Channel stopped allowing the airing of the program and shelved the episodes. Since Disney owned all rights to the family classic, airing reruns on another television station was not possible until the rights expired in 2005. Since then, Noreen Young Productions in unison with[http://www.cinerioentertainment.com Cinerio Entertainment, Inc.] has begun selling the episodes on DVD. It is not publicly known whether this decision means there is no chance of the program airing in syndication on any television station in the future.

==External links==
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume1.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 1 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume2.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 2 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume3.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 3 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.noreenyoungproductions.com ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' at Noreen Young Productions]
*[http://www.angelfire.com/droid/undertheumbrellatree The Unofficial ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Fansite]

[[Category:Television series]]

Under the Umbrella Tree

2007-04-12T18:10:59Z

CyberFox: New page: Holly Higgins, Jacob Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher. '''Under the Umbrella Tree''' is a Canadian children's television television series created by canadian...

[[Image:Threeutut.jpg|thumb|right|Holly Higgins, Jacob Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.]]
'''Under the Umbrella Tree''' is a Canadian children's television television series created by canadian puppeteer Noreen Young in 1986. The show was well appreciated for using humour coupled with family values and promotion of healthy activities to enlighten and educate the youth of North America. Under the Umbrella Tree was produced by ''Noreen Young Productions'' and CBC Television. The first episode aired was on the CBC in 1986, and the show's 280 episode run ended in 1993.

In 1991, American television station The Disney Channel began to co-produce the program, and episodes were aired for American viewers on The Disney Channel from 1991 to 1996. Syndication continued on YTV, a Canadian station, until 1997. Many episodes of the show were released to DVD by ''Cinerio Entertainment, Inc.'' in partnership with Noreen Young in 2006, following a long wait for expiration of ownership rights.

As part of an agreement with CBC, episodes of the show were filmed with the understanding that no TV commercials would be later added. Because of this, each "regular" episode is exactly 15 minutes, and each "special" episode is 28–30 minutes, leaving no room for TV ads if it were to resurface in syndication on network television in the future.

==Plot and characters==
===The series===
''Under the Umbrella Tree'' was well known for its many lovable characters, including the only human cast member Holly Higgins, and lively puppets Iggy the Iguana, Jacob the Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.

There are also various other puppet characters, such as Mrs. McMurtry, the Umbrella Tree gang's neighbour, and Chuck Chickadee, who is Jacob's friend. Special guests have also appeared on the program, such as Michelle St. John as the gang's new neighbour in 1990's ''Great Gardening'' episode.

The program consists of 280 episodes, 270 of which are 15 minutes in length, and there are ten 30-minute specials. There are episodes about baseball, holidays, singing, dancing, exercise, and various other activities. The show is well known for being quite enjoyably funny; an example being the half-hour special opening credits, which showcase a bucket of water being dispensed on Holly's head, a pie being thrown at Iggy's face, envelopes falling on Gloria, and Jacob tumbling over a display of cans. The show aired from 1986 to 1993, and was picked up by The Disney Channel and YTV from 1993 off-and-on through 1997.

===Characters===
*'''Holly Higgins''' (Holly Larocque) - The only human cast member. Holly was seen as a parental figure for the three puppet characters. She is known for being funny, artistic, and generous.

*'''Iggy Iguana''' (Bob Stutt) - Iggy sleeps on the shelf at the Umbrella Tree residence, and his characteristics include sometimes thinking too highly of himself, and unwillingly making mistakes. He, along with Jacob Bluejay, can be regarded as the klutzes of the gang.

*'''Gloria Gopher''' (Noreen Young) - Gloria is the only female puppet in the Umbrella Tree household, and lives and sleeps 'under the umbrella tree', which is located behind the couch. It is known as her ''borough''.

*'''Jacob Bluejay''' (Stephen Brathwaite) - Jacob is the only citizen of the Umbrella Tree household capable of flight. He usually sleeps somewhere outdoors, preferably on the patio. Jacob sometimes invents things that seldom work as he plans, which results in a humorous episode.

*'''Louis Bird''' (Bob Stutt) - Louis is a friend of the Umbrella Tree gang, usually involved in festivities outside the apartment, or in dialogue within several episodes. He is well known for overusing the term "indeed", and usually adds the phrase "hmm, indeed!" at the end of his statements.

*'''Mitzi the Dog''' (Holly Larocque) Mitzi is Gloria's best friend who is always seeming to get either herself or Gloria in trouble.

==Recent developments==
In 2001, it was revealed by the creator, producer, and star of ''Under the Umbrella Tree'', Noreen Young, that plans to bring back the 280 episodes of the program to airwaves was a large possibility. It was noted at that time that the show may be aired on a Canadian television station by 2005. Though three DVDs have already been released with episodes of the program during 2005, the re-occurrence of television syndication seems less than likely and did not occur during the foreclosed year 2005.

In 1997, ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' reruns were placed on hiatus, after the Disney Channel stopped allowing the airing of the program and shelved the episodes. Since Disney owned all rights to the family classic, airing reruns on another television station was not possible until the rights expired in 2005. Since then, Noreen Young Productions in unison with [http://www.cinerioentertainment.com Cinerio Entertainment, Inc.] has begun selling the episodes on DVD. It is not publicly known whether this decision means there is no chance of the program airing in syndication on any television station in the future.

==External links==
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume1.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 1 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume2.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 2 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.ultimatedisney.com/umbrellatree-volume3.html ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Volume 3 DVD Review with pictures at UltimateDisney.com]
*[http://www.noreenyoungproductions.com ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' at Noreen Young Productions]
*[http://www.angelfire.com/droid/undertheumbrellatree The Unofficial ''Under the Umbrella Tree'' Fansite]

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2007-04-12T17:57:11Z

CyberFox: Holly Higgins, Jacob Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.

== Summary ==
Holly Higgins, Jacob Bluejay, and Gloria Gopher.
== Licensing ==
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Gay Purr-ee

2007-04-08T22:58:23Z

CyberFox: It's fixed :3

[[Image:Gay purr-ee dvd cover.jpg|thumb|right|DVD box cover]]
'''Gay Purr-ee''' is an animated musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of Judy Garland and was Garland's only animated voice role. According to the Production Notes on the DVD edition it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters Arlen and Yip Harburg should write the songs for ''Gay Purr-ee''.
== Plot synopsis==
{{spoiler}}
The story is set in turn-of-the-century France and takes place predominantly in Paris. However, it begins on a farm in Provence, where the lovely cat Mewsette is bored with her beau (Jaune Tom, an accomplished but shy mouser). Inspired by stories of the glamour and sophistication of Paris ("Take my Hand, Paree"), Mewsette runs away to the big city, where she encounters the slick con-cat Meowrice. Taking advantage of the country kitty's naivete, he puts her in the care of the sultry Madame Reubens-Chatte, who promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante. Unbeknownst to Mewsette, Meowrice is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh ("The Money Cat"). Meanwhile, Jaune Tom and his sidekick Robespierre arrive in Paris, searching for Mewsette.

Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mew-lon Rouge. Reinvigorated, she returns to her studies. Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive just at that moment but are waylaid by one of Meowrice's shadowy cat henchmen and barely escape drowning in Paris's famous labyrinthine sewers. By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who sees a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers to a ship bound for Alaska.

Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her by such famous artists as Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso (an opportunity for the animators to indulge in some artistic parodies), so that he can send them to the rich American. Meowrice quietly writes a check to pay his accomplice, Mme. Reubens-Chatte (using disappearing ink, so that the check is worthless), and takes Mewsette to an old church. There, he reveals his plan to ship her to America and tries to coerce her to enter a luggage crate, but she manages to escape him. In the resulting chase scene, she leads Meowrice and his henchmen onto a dog, who injures the villain badly enough to put him out of action for some time. Meanwhile, his sycophants (who are nowhere near as intelligent as he is) comb the city without success, searching for Mewsette.

On the ship, Robespierre consoles a depressed Jaune Tom, telling him that any problem, regardless of size, can be broken up into manageable pieces ("Little Drops of Rain"). He is right; not long after they reach Alaska (a howling wilderness of snow), they strike gold. Now wealthy, the two cats hurry back to Paris.

Disillusioned and homeless, Mewsette walks the city of Paris ("Paris is a Lonely Town.") Just as she is about to hurl herself into the Seine River from one of Paris' many bridges, Meowrice appears with his cats and captures her. She is taken to the train station, en route to a boat to America, and all hope seems lost, when Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive. They have been aided by Mme. Ruebens-Chatte, who is irritated that Meowrice double-crossed her. In a humorously over-the-top fight scene inside the boxcar of a moving train, Jaune Tom defeats Meowrice and packs him into the crate intended for Mewsette. Doubtless this will be a nasty surprise for the rich American husband in Pittsburgh. The film concludes with Mewsette, Jaune Tom and Robespierre enjoying the high life in Paris that Mewsette was seeking when she left home.

==Cast==
*Judy Garland as Mewsette (voice)
*Robert Goulet as Jaune Tom (voice)
*Red Buttons as Robespierre (voice)
*Paul Frees as Meowrice (voice)
*Hermione Gingold as Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
*Morey Amsterdam (voice)
*Mel Blanc (voice)

== External link==
*[http://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/soundtracks/pureelp.html The Judy Garland Online Discography "Gay Purr-ee" pages.]
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/ IMDB entry for Gay Purr-ee
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQPP896wreI Gay Purr-ee Trailer]

[[Category:Movies]]

Gay Purr-ee

2007-04-08T22:57:57Z

CyberFox: /* External link */

[[Image:Gay purr-ee dvd cover.jpg|thumb|right|DVD box cover]]
'''Gay Purr-ee''' is an animated musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of Judy Garland and was Garland's only animated voice role. According to the Production Notes on the DVD edition it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters Arlen and Yip Harburg should write the songs for ''Gay Purr-ee''.
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== Plot synopsis==
{{spoiler}}
The story is set in turn-of-the-century France and takes place predominantly in Paris. However, it begins on a farm in Provence, where the lovely cat Mewsette is bored with her beau (Jaune Tom, an accomplished but shy mouser). Inspired by stories of the glamour and sophistication of Paris ("Take my Hand, Paree"), Mewsette runs away to the big city, where she encounters the slick con-cat Meowrice. Taking advantage of the country kitty's naivete, he puts her in the care of the sultry Madame Reubens-Chatte, who promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante. Unbeknownst to Mewsette, Meowrice is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh ("The Money Cat"). Meanwhile, Jaune Tom and his sidekick Robespierre arrive in Paris, searching for Mewsette.

Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mew-lon Rouge. Reinvigorated, she returns to her studies. Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive just at that moment but are waylaid by one of Meowrice's shadowy cat henchmen and barely escape drowning in Paris's famous labyrinthine sewers. By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who sees a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers to a ship bound for Alaska.

Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her by such famous artists as Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso (an opportunity for the animators to indulge in some artistic parodies), so that he can send them to the rich American. Meowrice quietly writes a check to pay his accomplice, Mme. Reubens-Chatte (using disappearing ink, so that the check is worthless), and takes Mewsette to an old church. There, he reveals his plan to ship her to America and tries to coerce her to enter a luggage crate, but she manages to escape him. In the resulting chase scene, she leads Meowrice and his henchmen onto a dog, who injures the villain badly enough to put him out of action for some time. Meanwhile, his sycophants (who are nowhere near as intelligent as he is) comb the city without success, searching for Mewsette.

On the ship, Robespierre consoles a depressed Jaune Tom, telling him that any problem, regardless of size, can be broken up into manageable pieces ("Little Drops of Rain"). He is right; not long after they reach Alaska (a howling wilderness of snow), they strike gold. Now wealthy, the two cats hurry back to Paris.

Disillusioned and homeless, Mewsette walks the city of Paris ("Paris is a Lonely Town.") Just as she is about to hurl herself into the Seine River from one of Paris' many bridges, Meowrice appears with his cats and captures her. She is taken to the train station, en route to a boat to America, and all hope seems lost, when Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive. They have been aided by Mme. Ruebens-Chatte, who is irritated that Meowrice double-crossed her. In a humorously over-the-top fight scene inside the boxcar of a moving train, Jaune Tom defeats Meowrice and packs him into the crate intended for Mewsette. Doubtless this will be a nasty surprise for the rich American husband in Pittsburgh. The film concludes with Mewsette, Jaune Tom and Robespierre enjoying the high life in Paris that Mewsette was seeking when she left home.

==Cast==
*Judy Garland as Mewsette (voice)
*Robert Goulet as Jaune Tom (voice)
*Red Buttons as Robespierre (voice)
*Paul Frees as Meowrice (voice)
*Hermione Gingold as Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
*Morey Amsterdam (voice)
*Mel Blanc (voice)

== External link==
*[http://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/soundtracks/pureelp.html The Judy Garland Online Discography "Gay Purr-ee" pages.]
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/ IMDB entry for Gay Purr-ee
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQPP896wreI Gay Purr-ee Trailer]

[[Category:Movies]]

Gay Purr-ee

2007-04-08T22:56:31Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Gay purr-ee dvd cover.jpg|thumb|right|DVD box cover]]
'''Gay Purr-ee''' is an animated musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of Judy Garland and was Garland's only animated voice role. According to the Production Notes on the DVD edition it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters Arlen and Yip Harburg should write the songs for ''Gay Purr-ee''.
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== Plot synopsis==
{{spoiler}}
The story is set in turn-of-the-century France and takes place predominantly in Paris. However, it begins on a farm in Provence, where the lovely cat Mewsette is bored with her beau (Jaune Tom, an accomplished but shy mouser). Inspired by stories of the glamour and sophistication of Paris ("Take my Hand, Paree"), Mewsette runs away to the big city, where she encounters the slick con-cat Meowrice. Taking advantage of the country kitty's naivete, he puts her in the care of the sultry Madame Reubens-Chatte, who promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante. Unbeknownst to Mewsette, Meowrice is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh ("The Money Cat"). Meanwhile, Jaune Tom and his sidekick Robespierre arrive in Paris, searching for Mewsette.

Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mew-lon Rouge. Reinvigorated, she returns to her studies. Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive just at that moment but are waylaid by one of Meowrice's shadowy cat henchmen and barely escape drowning in Paris's famous labyrinthine sewers. By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who sees a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers to a ship bound for Alaska.

Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her by such famous artists as Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso (an opportunity for the animators to indulge in some artistic parodies), so that he can send them to the rich American. Meowrice quietly writes a check to pay his accomplice, Mme. Reubens-Chatte (using disappearing ink, so that the check is worthless), and takes Mewsette to an old church. There, he reveals his plan to ship her to America and tries to coerce her to enter a luggage crate, but she manages to escape him. In the resulting chase scene, she leads Meowrice and his henchmen onto a dog, who injures the villain badly enough to put him out of action for some time. Meanwhile, his sycophants (who are nowhere near as intelligent as he is) comb the city without success, searching for Mewsette.

On the ship, Robespierre consoles a depressed Jaune Tom, telling him that any problem, regardless of size, can be broken up into manageable pieces ("Little Drops of Rain"). He is right; not long after they reach Alaska (a howling wilderness of snow), they strike gold. Now wealthy, the two cats hurry back to Paris.

Disillusioned and homeless, Mewsette walks the city of Paris ("Paris is a Lonely Town.") Just as she is about to hurl herself into the Seine River from one of Paris' many bridges, Meowrice appears with his cats and captures her. She is taken to the train station, en route to a boat to America, and all hope seems lost, when Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive. They have been aided by Mme. Ruebens-Chatte, who is irritated that Meowrice double-crossed her. In a humorously over-the-top fight scene inside the boxcar of a moving train, Jaune Tom defeats Meowrice and packs him into the crate intended for Mewsette. Doubtless this will be a nasty surprise for the rich American husband in Pittsburgh. The film concludes with Mewsette, Jaune Tom and Robespierre enjoying the high life in Paris that Mewsette was seeking when she left home.

==Cast==
*Judy Garland as Mewsette (voice)
*Robert Goulet as Jaune Tom (voice)
*Red Buttons as Robespierre (voice)
*Paul Frees as Meowrice (voice)
*Hermione Gingold as Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
*Morey Amsterdam (voice)
*Mel Blanc (voice)

== External link==
*[http://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/soundtracks/pureelp.html The Judy Garland Online Discography "Gay Purr-ee" pages.]
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/ IMDB entry for Gay Purr-ee]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQPP896wreI Gay Purr-ee Trailer]

[[Category:Movies]]

Gay Purr-ee

2007-04-08T22:54:54Z

CyberFox: A slight tweakage :3

[[Image:Gay purr-ee dvd cover.jpg|thumb|right|DVD box cover]]
'''Gay Purr-ee''' is an animated musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of Judy Garland and was Garland's only animated voice role. According to the Production Notes on the DVD edition it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters Arlen and Yip Harburg should write the songs for ''Gay Purr-ee''.

== Plot synopsis==
{{spoiler}}

The story is set in turn-of-the-century France and takes place predominantly in Paris. However, it begins on a farm in Provence, where the lovely cat Mewsette is bored with her beau (Jaune Tom, an accomplished but shy mouser). Inspired by stories of the glamour and sophistication of Paris ("Take my Hand, Paree"), Mewsette runs away to the big city, where she encounters the slick con-cat Meowrice. Taking advantage of the country kitty's naivete, he puts her in the care of the sultry Madame Reubens-Chatte, who promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante. Unbeknownst to Mewsette, Meowrice is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh ("The Money Cat"). Meanwhile, Jaune Tom and his sidekick Robespierre arrive in Paris, searching for Mewsette.

Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mew-lon Rouge. Reinvigorated, she returns to her studies. Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive just at that moment but are waylaid by one of Meowrice's shadowy cat henchmen and barely escape drowning in Paris's famous labyrinthine sewers. By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who sees a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers to a ship bound for Alaska.

Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her by such famous artists as Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso (an opportunity for the animators to indulge in some artistic parodies), so that he can send them to the rich American. Meowrice quietly writes a check to pay his accomplice, Mme. Reubens-Chatte (using disappearing ink, so that the check is worthless), and takes Mewsette to an old church. There, he reveals his plan to ship her to America and tries to coerce her to enter a luggage crate, but she manages to escape him. In the resulting chase scene, she leads Meowrice and his henchmen onto a dog, who injures the villain badly enough to put him out of action for some time. Meanwhile, his sycophants (who are nowhere near as intelligent as he is) comb the city without success, searching for Mewsette.

On the ship, Robespierre consoles a depressed Jaune Tom, telling him that any problem, regardless of size, can be broken up into manageable pieces ("Little Drops of Rain"). He is right; not long after they reach Alaska (a howling wilderness of snow), they strike gold. Now wealthy, the two cats hurry back to Paris.

Disillusioned and homeless, Mewsette walks the city of Paris ("Paris is a Lonely Town.") Just as she is about to hurl herself into the Seine River from one of Paris' many bridges, Meowrice appears with his cats and captures her. She is taken to the train station, en route to a boat to America, and all hope seems lost, when Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive. They have been aided by Mme. Ruebens-Chatte, who is irritated that Meowrice double-crossed her. In a humorously over-the-top fight scene inside the boxcar of a moving train, Jaune Tom defeats Meowrice and packs him into the crate intended for Mewsette. Doubtless this will be a nasty surprise for the rich American husband in Pittsburgh. The film concludes with Mewsette, Jaune Tom and Robespierre enjoying the high life in Paris that Mewsette was seeking when she left home.
{{endspoiler}}

==Cast==
*Judy Garland as Mewsette (voice)
*Robert Goulet as Jaune Tom (voice)
*Red Buttons as Robespierre (voice)
*Paul Frees as Meowrice (voice)
*Hermione Gingold as Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
*Morey Amsterdam (voice)
*Mel Blanc (voice)

== External link==
*[http://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/soundtracks/pureelp.html The Judy Garland Online Discography "Gay Purr-ee" pages.]
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/ IMDB entry for Gay Purr-ee]]

[[Category:Movies]]

Gay Purr-ee

2007-04-08T22:53:17Z

CyberFox: New page: Image:Gay purr-ee dvd cover.jpg '''Gay Purr-ee''' is an animated musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of...

[[Image:Gay purr-ee dvd cover.jpg]]
'''Gay Purr-ee''' is an animated musical produced by United Productions of America and released by Warner Bros. in 1962. It features the voice talent of Judy Garland and was Garland's only animated voice role. According to the Production Notes on the DVD edition it was Garland who suggested that her Wizard of Oz songwriters Arlen and Yip Harburg should write the songs for ''Gay Purr-ee''.

== Plot synopsis==
{{spoiler}}

The story is set in turn-of-the-century France and takes place predominantly in Paris. However, it begins on a farm in Provence, where the lovely cat Mewsette is bored with her beau (Jaune Tom, an accomplished but shy mouser). Inspired by stories of the glamour and sophistication of Paris ("Take my Hand, Paree"), Mewsette runs away to the big city, where she encounters the slick con-cat Meowrice. Taking advantage of the country kitty's naivete, he puts her in the care of the sultry Madame Reubens-Chatte, who promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante. Unbeknownst to Mewsette, Meowrice is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh ("The Money Cat"). Meanwhile, Jaune Tom and his sidekick Robespierre arrive in Paris, searching for Mewsette.

Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mew-lon Rouge. Reinvigorated, she returns to her studies. Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive just at that moment but are waylaid by one of Meowrice's shadowy cat henchmen and barely escape drowning in Paris's famous labyrinthine sewers. By coincidence, Jaune Tom displays his incredible mouse-hunting skills in front of Meowrice, who sees a money-making opportunity, gets them drunk, and sells them as mousers to a ship bound for Alaska.

Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her by such famous artists as Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso (an opportunity for the animators to indulge in some artistic parodies), so that he can send them to the rich American. Meowrice quietly writes a check to pay his accomplice, Mme. Reubens-Chatte (using disappearing ink, so that the check is worthless), and takes Mewsette to an old church. There, he reveals his plan to ship her to America and tries to coerce her to enter a luggage crate, but she manages to escape him. In the resulting chase scene, she leads Meowrice and his henchmen onto a dog, who injures the villain badly enough to put him out of action for some time. Meanwhile, his sycophants (who are nowhere near as intelligent as he is) comb the city without success, searching for Mewsette.

On the ship, Robespierre consoles a depressed Jaune Tom, telling him that any problem, regardless of size, can be broken up into manageable pieces ("Little Drops of Rain"). He is right; not long after they reach Alaska (a howling wilderness of snow), they strike gold. Now wealthy, the two cats hurry back to Paris.

Disillusioned and homeless, Mewsette walks the city of Paris ("Paris is a Lonely Town.") Just as she is about to hurl herself into the Seine River from one of Paris' many bridges, Meowrice appears with his cats and captures her. She is taken to the train station, en route to a boat to America, and all hope seems lost, when Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive. They have been aided by Mme. Ruebens-Chatte, who is irritated that Meowrice double-crossed her. In a humorously over-the-top fight scene inside the boxcar of a moving train, Jaune Tom defeats Meowrice and packs him into the crate intended for Mewsette. Doubtless this will be a nasty surprise for the rich American husband in Pittsburgh. The film concludes with Mewsette, Jaune Tom and Robespierre enjoying the high life in Paris that Mewsette was seeking when she left home.
{{endspoiler}}

==Cast==
*Judy Garland as Mewsette (voice)
*Robert Goulet as Jaune Tom (voice)
*Red Buttons as Robespierre (voice)
*Paul Frees as Meowrice (voice)
*Hermione Gingold as Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
*Morey Amsterdam (voice)
*Mel Blanc (voice)

== External link==
*[http://www.thejudyroom.com/discography/soundtracks/pureelp.html The Judy Garland Online Discography "Gay Purr-ee" pages.]
*http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057093/ IMDB entry for Gay Purr-ee]]

[[Category:Movies]]

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2007-04-08T22:45:37Z

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== Licensing ==
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Category:Movies

2007-04-08T22:29:37Z

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'''Movies''' that feature [[furry]] characters.
=== See also ===
* [[:Category:Television programs|Television programs]]
*[[FurFilms List]]

== Movies to add ==

If you can think of a movie that needs writing about, please add it here.

{|
|- valign="top"
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===# & A-C===
* [[101 Dalmatians]]
* [[Ace Ventura: Pet Detective]]
* [[Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls]]
* [[All Dogs Go To Heaven]]
* [[All Dogs Go To Heaven 2]]
* [[An American Tail]]
* [[An American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West]]
* [[The Animal]]
* [[The Aristocats]]
* [[Babe]]
* [[The Black Stallion]]
* [[Born Free]]
* [[Cats and Dogs]]
* [[Chicken Run]]
* [[A Close Shave]]
||
===D-I===
* [[Doctor Dolittle 2]]
* [[Duma]]
* [[Dumbo]]
* [[Fearless Four|The Fearless Four]] (''Die Furchtlosen Vier'')
* [[FernGully: The Last Rainforest]]
* [[FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue]]
* [[Flushed Away]]
* [[The Fox and the Hound]]
* [[Gay Purr-ee]]
* [[A Grand Day Out]]
* [[Happy Feet]]
* [[Home on the Range]]
* [[Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey]]
* [[Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco]]
* [[Hoodwinked]]
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===J-Q===
* [[Jungle Emperor Leo]]
* [[Lady and the Tramp]]
* [[Legend of Cougar Canyon]]
* [[Living Free]]
* [[Milo & Otis]] (''Koneko monogatari'')
* [[My Neighbor Totoro]] (''Tonari no Totoro'')
* [[Oliver & Company]]
* [[Once Upon a Forest]]
* [[Open Season (film)|Open Season]]
* [[Paulie]]
* [[Porco Rosso]]
* [[Princess Mononoke]] (''Mononoke Hime'')
||
===R-Z===
* [[Rock-a-Doodle]]
* [[The Secret of NIMH 2]]
* [[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron]]
* [[Stuart Little]]
* [[Stuart Little 2]]
* [[Tarzan]]
* [[Two Brothers]]
* [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]
* [[The Wrong Trousers]]
|}

[[Category:Culture]]
[[fi:Elokuvat]]

Category:Television series

2007-04-08T21:45:18Z

CyberFox:

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'''[[Wikipedia:Television series|Television series]]''' that feature [[furry]] [[character]]s in some manner.
__NOEDITSECTION__
__NOTOC__
==Series to add==
If you can think of a series that needs writing about, add it in here:

{| width="100%"
|- valign="top"
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===# & A-D===
* [[The Angry Beavers]]
* [[Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars]]
* [[Capitol Critters]]
* [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]
* [[Count Duckula]]
* [[Don't Eat The Neighbours]]
* [[Duck Dodgers]]
* [[DuckTales]]
* [[Dumbo's Circus]]
||

===E-L===
* [[Fievel's American Tails]]
* [[Garfield and Friends]]
* [[Gophers]]
* [[Gummi Bears (TV show)|Gummi Bears]]
* [[Henry's Cat]]
* [[KO Century Beast]]
* [[Krypto the Superdog]]
||
===M-S===
* [[Merrie Melodies]]
* [[Pecola]]
* [[Pinky and the Brain]]
* [[Redwall (show)|Redwall]]
* [[Roobarb]]
* [[Samurai Pizza Cats]]
* [[Sherlock Hound]]
* [[Shoebox Zoo]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shoeboxzoo/ website]
* [[Sitting Ducks]]
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)]]
* [[The Sylvanian Families]]
||
===T-Z===
* [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]
* [[Tom and Jerry]]
* [[Under The Umbrella Tree]]
* [[Welcome To Pooh Corner]]
* [[Woody Woodpecker]]
|}
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[[fi:Sarjat]]

Henry's Cat

2007-04-08T21:44:26Z

CyberFox: New page: Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit '''''Henry's Cat''''' is an animated children's television program, written by Stan Hayward and produced by Bob Godfrey, who w...

[[Image:116-5.jpg|thumb|right|Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit]]
'''''Henry's Cat''''' is an animated children's television program, written by Stan Hayward and produced by Bob Godfrey, who was also the producer of Roobarb, a similar cartoon series from the 1970s. The show starred a laid-back, ponderous yellow cat, known only as Henry's Cat, and his many friends and enemies.

''Henry's Cat'' was first screened in 1982 and five series were made in total; the series has enjoyed repeated showings since. It developed a cult following and is still very popular along with shows such as Bod, Button Moon, Pigeon Street, The Flumps and Mr Benn. It is coming soon to Classic Pop, a soon-to-be launched british digital cable channel.

==Characters==
===Henry's Cat's friends===
*Henry's Cat - laid-back, a daydreamer.
*Chris Rabbit - Henry's Cat's best friend, an ever-enthusiastic, highly energetic blue rabbit.
*Mosey Mouse - the opposite of Chris Rabbit, Mosey is dour and realistic.
*Douglas Dog, Sammy Snail, Pansy Pig, Denise Duck, Ted Tortoise, Philippe Frog - miscellaneous friends of Henry's Cat. They all mean well, but often overestimate their own abilities in various ways.

===His enemies===
*Farmer Giles - a (human) farmer, frequently inconvenienced by Henry's Cat's adventures.
*Constable Bulldog - a very stern policeman (or policedog) who takes a very dim view of the gang's well-meaning escapades.
*Rum Baa Baa - a criminal mastermind, and the most evil sheep in the whole world.
===Henry===
Henry himself never appeared on screen; the name was an allusion to an earlier one-off Hayward/Godfrey collaboration, ''Henry 9 To 5'' about a bowler-hatted commuter who escaped his boring everyday life by indulging in daydreams, mostly of a sexual nature. Henry's Cat shared the earlier character's tendency toward wild flights of fancy and laid-back approach to life. The name "Henry's Cat" was mostly an in-joke for those few people who remembered the earlier cartoon and did not mean that Henry's Cat had a "master", unseen or otherwise.

==Episode list==
<table width="100%">
<tr><th width="20%">Series 1</th><th width="20%">Series 2</th><th width="20%">Series 3</th><th width="20%">Series 4</th><th width="20%">Series 5</th></tr>
<tr><td>The Hobby</td><td>The Magic Tummy Button</td><td>The Treasure Hunt</td><td>Out for the Count</td><td>The Mystery of the Missing Santa</td></tr>

<tr><td>The Race</td><td>The Secret Weapon</td><td>The Day of Terrible Jokes</td><td>The Birthday Caper</td><td>When Time Went Wrong</td></tr>

<tr><td>The Circus</td><td>The New Year's Resolution</td><td>The Case of the Pilfered Pearls</td><td>The Funny Feeling</td><td>The New President</td></tr>

<tr><td>The Competition</td><td>The Good News Day</td><td>The Lost World</td><td>Once Upon a Time</td><td>Valentine's Day</td></tr>

<tr><td>The Moon Trip</td><td>The Cat's Eye Kid</td><td>The Computer</td><td>The Jingle</td><td></td></tr>

<tr><td>The Hypnotist</td><td>The Hot Day</td><td>The Correspondence Course</td><td>The Great Adventure</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Holiday</td><td>The Merry Men And Women</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Treasure</td><td>The Actor</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Ill Wind</td><td>The Weatherman</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Diet</td><td>The Invitation</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Fortune Teller</td><td>The Ventriloquist</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Explorer</td><td>The Clever Trick</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Whale</td><td>The Hero</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Invention</td><td>Caveman Cat</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Dream</td><td>The Abominable Snowman </td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Robbery</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Christmas Dinner</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Film</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Disco Dance</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Artist</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
</table>

==Trivia==
*"Reading" down Henry's Cat's face spells "Miiow" (M= ears, II= eyes, O= nose, W=mouth).
* Although a cat, Henry's Cat has no tail, similar to a real-life Manx cat.
*Intentional or not, there are similarities between the partnership of Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit to that of Tony Hancock and Sid James in the classic 1950s radio/TV series Hancock's Half Hour (Henry's Cat/Hancock - the gullible, easily lead, sometimes pompous dreamer; Chris Rabbit/Sid - the crafty chancer, never misses a trick).
*The companies that released the videos were Castle Vision, Playbox Video, Screen Legends and Pickwick Video. Family Home Entertainment also had a USA release in 1987.
*The three videos The Case of the Pilfered Pearls, The Computer and Once Upon a Time have a promotional Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends advert before the first story.
*Bob Godfrey Films' closing logo of this series was Henry meowing. The opening logo seemed to parody the MGM logo.

==Credits==
===Series 1===
*'''Created by:''' Stan Hayward
*'''Script:''' Stan Hayward
*'''Narrated by:''' Bob Godfrey
*'''Music and Sound:''' Peter Shade
*'''Animation:''' Bob Godfrey, Paul Stone, Kevin Baldwin
*'''Camera and Editing:''' Derek Phillips
*'''Production:''' Mike Hayes
*'''Produced and Directed by:''' Bob Godfrey

===Series 2===
*'''Created by:''' Stan Hayward
*'''Script:''' Stan Hayward
*'''Narrated by:''' Bob Godfrey
*'''Music:''' John Hyde / DeWolfe Ltd
*'''Animation:''' Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Malcolm Hartley, Drew Mandingo, Paul Stone, Mark Oz
*'''Trace and Paint:''' Tancy Baran, Beryl Godfrey, Louise Unwin
*'''Dubbing:''' John Wood Studios
*'''Camera:''' Derek Phillips
*'''Editing:''' Sean Lenihan, John Daniels
*'''Production:''' Mike Hayes
*'''Produced and Directed by:''' Bob Godfrey

===Series 3===
*'''Created by:''' Stan Hayward
*'''Script:''' Stan Hayward, Kevin Baldwin, Mike Knowles, Bob Godfrey
*'''Narrated by:''' Bob Godfrey
*'''Music:''' Rowland Lee
*'''Title Music:''' Jonathan P. Hodge
*'''Animation:''' Kevin Baldwin
*'''Additional Animation:''' Jeff Goldner, Neil Salmon, Bob Godfrey
*'''Storyboard and Layout:''' Kevin Baldwin
*'''Backgrounds:''' Bob Godfrey
*'''Trace and Paint:''' Denise Hambry, Lisa Smith, Jazvinda Phull, Beryl Godfrey, Ricky Arnold
*'''Camera:''' Heather Reader
*'''Editing:''' Picturehead
*'''Production:''' Mike Hayes
*'''Produced and Directed by:''' Bob Godfrey

==External links==
*[http://www.henryscat.com Official website]
*[http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4314/main.htm The Henry's Cat Page]
*[http://www.toonhound.com/henryscat.htm Toonhound: ''Henry's Cat'']
*[http://www.jedisparadise.co.uk/childrenstv/Henrys_Cat/Henrys_Cat.htm Jedi's Paradise: ''Henry's Cat'']

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2007-04-08T21:40:29Z

CyberFox: Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit

== Summary ==
Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit
== Licensing ==
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2007-04-08T21:39:23Z

CyberFox: Henry's Cat (right) and Chris Rabbit

== Summary ==
Henry's Cat (right) and Chris Rabbit
== Licensing ==
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Category:Television series

2007-04-08T21:32:44Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:SilkIcon-television.png|left]]
'''[[Wikipedia:Television series|Television series]]''' that feature [[furry]] [[character]]s in some manner.
__NOEDITSECTION__
__NOTOC__
==Series to add==
If you can think of a series that needs writing about, add it in here:

{| width="100%"
|- valign="top"
||
===# & A-D===
* [[The Angry Beavers]]
* [[Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars]]
* [[Capitol Critters]]
* [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]
* [[Count Duckula]]
* [[Don't Eat The Neighbours]]
* [[Duck Dodgers]]
* [[DuckTales]]
* [[Dumbo's Circus]]
||

===E-L===
* [[Fievel's American Tails]]
* [[Garfield and Friends]]
* [[Gophers]]
* [[Gummi Bears (TV show)|Gummi Bears]]
* [[Henry's Cat]]
* [[KO Century Beast]]
* [[Krypto the Superdog]]
* [[Looney Tunes]] & [[Merrie Melodies]]
||
===M-S===
* [[Pecola]]
* [[Pinky and the Brain]]
* [[Redwall (show)|Redwall]]
* [[Samurai Pizza Cats]]
* [[Sherlock Hound]]
* [[Shoebox Zoo]] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shoeboxzoo/ website]
* [[Sitting Ducks]]
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)]]
* [[The Sylvanian Families]]
||
===T-Z===
* [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]
* [[Tom and Jerry]]
* [[Under The Umbrella Tree]]
* [[Welcome To Pooh Corner]]
* [[Woody Woodpecker]]
|}
[[Category:Television programs]]
[[fi:Sarjat]]

Underdog (cartoon)

2007-04-08T14:23:52Z

CyberFox: /* Film */

[[Image:Underdog_300.gif|right]]
'''Underdog''' is the name of an [[anthropomorphic]] cartoon [[dog]] featured in both TV cartoons and an upcoming live action movie in 2007. He first appeared in his own cartoon on October 3rd, 1964 as a parody of Superman and other various superheroes. Wally Cox provided the rhyming voice for both Underdog and his secret identity, mild-mannered Shoeshine Boy.

On a weekly basis, villains such as Simon Bar Sinister, Cad and anthro [[wolf]] Riff Raff, The Electric (Slippery) Eel, Battyman, and Overcat would threaten the fair city and more importantly Underdog's girlfriend reporter Sweet Polly Purebred (a parody of Lois Lane). Mild-mannered shoeshine boy Shoeshine Boy would duck into a phone booth in a parody of Superman transformations and, in an explosion that would destroy the booth, become Underdog.

Underdog's powers originally come from a "Underdog Super Energy Vitamin Pill," but in the 80's and 90's, this was edited out from the cartoons as the producers didn't want to glorify drug use.

Although the series was canceled in 1973 and went into syndication, Underdog had entered cult status. He can be seen annually as a balloon at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He's also seen on t-shirts, commercials and parodied in cartoons.

==Film==
On August 3rd, 2007, [[Disney|Walt Disney Pictures]] plans to release a live-action Underdog motion picture, featuring the voice of Jason Lee as the voice of beagle Underdog. Amy Adams will provide the voice of his sweetheart Polly Purebred. Actor Peter Dinklage will play Underdog's archnemesis Simon Bar Sinister, while Alex Neuberger will play Underdog's [[human]] friend. The movie is not based on any previous continuity of Underdog and will offer a new, different perspective on the character and his origins, the film will bomb nevertheless.

==External links==
*[http://www.toonopedia.com/underdog.htm Toonopedia entry]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467110/ Underdog] at Internet Movie Database
*[http://www.tv.com/underdog/show/6885/summary.html?q=underdog ''Underdog'' at TV.com]

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Dog characters]][[Category:Television series]][[Category:Movies]][[Category:1964 births]]

Talk:Fetish (PSA)

2007-04-06T23:56:01Z

CyberFox:

Wow. This made my day. XD [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 21:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:Indeed, certainly fascinating how many fetish references one can make in less than a minute. XD -- [[User:JSharp|JaeSharp]] 21:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

PSA or No PSA, This is basically another typecastin' of Furries in general! -- [[User:CyberFox|CyberFox]] 19:55, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Fetish (PSA)

2007-04-06T23:55:42Z

CyberFox:

Wow. This made my day. XD [[User:SpazKitty|Spaz Kitty]] 21:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
:Indeed, certainly fascinating how many fetish references one can make in less than a minute. XD -- [[User:JSharp|JaeSharp]] 21:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

PSA or No PSA, This is basically another typecatin' of Furries in general! -- [[User:CyberFox|CyberFox]] 19:55, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Underdog (cartoon)

2007-04-06T23:48:54Z

CyberFox: /* Film */

[[Image:Underdog_300.gif|right]]
'''Underdog''' is the name of an [[anthropomorphic]] cartoon [[dog]] featured in both TV cartoons and an upcoming live action movie in 2007. He first appeared in his own cartoon on October 3rd, 1964 as a parody of Superman and other various superheroes. Wally Cox provided the rhyming voice for both Underdog and his secret identity, mild-mannered Shoeshine Boy.

On a weekly basis, villains such as Simon Bar Sinister, Cad and anthro [[wolf]] Riff Raff, The Electric (Slippery) Eel, Battyman, and Overcat would threaten the fair city and more importantly Underdog's girlfriend reporter Sweet Polly Purebred (a parody of Lois Lane). Mild-mannered shoeshine boy Shoeshine Boy would duck into a phone booth in a parody of Superman transformations and, in an explosion that would destroy the booth, become Underdog.

Underdog's powers originally come from a "Underdog Super Energy Vitamin Pill," but in the 80's and 90's, this was edited out from the cartoons as the producers didn't want to glorify drug use.

Although the series was canceled in 1973 and went into syndication, Underdog had entered cult status. He can be seen annually as a balloon at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He's also seen on t-shirts, commercials and parodied in cartoons.

==Film==
On August 3rd, 2007, [[Disney|Walt Disney Pictures]] plans to release a live-action Underdog motion picture, featuring the voice of Jason Lee as the voice of beagle Underdog. Amy Adams will provide the voice of his sweetheart Polly Purebred. Actor Peter Dinklage will play Underdog's archnemesis Simon Bar Sinister, while Alex Neuberger will play Underdog's [[human]] friend. Shamefully, despite the hype the film might bring, The live-action film is NO WAY accurate spiritually or otherwise to the animated series it's based on.

==External links==
*[http://www.toonopedia.com/underdog.htm Toonopedia entry]
*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467110/ Underdog] at Inernet Movie Database
*[http://www.tv.com/underdog/show/6885/summary.html?q=underdog ''Underdog'' at TV.com]

[[Category:Characters]][[Category:Dog characters]][[Category:1964 births]]

Talk:QueerTV

2007-03-22T16:37:57Z

CyberFox: /* IMHO */

I can't get the article to format right, first time dealing with YouTUBE media,... Any tips? =/ [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] 07:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

== IMHO ==
I think this is tranishing the reputation of the furry fandom a bit further

Furs should something that's worthy like, Fighting for The Right to see Classic Animation on TV (i.e. Linus The Lionhearted, Ruff and Reddy and The Cattanooga Cats) {{Unsigned|CyberFox}}

Talk:QueerTV

2007-03-22T14:18:02Z

CyberFox:

I can't get the article to format right, first time dealing with YouTUBE media,... Any tips? =/ [[User:Spirou|Spirou]] 07:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

== IMHO ==
I think this is tranishing the reputation of the furry fandom a bit further
Furs should something that's worthy like, Fighting for The Right to see Classic Animation on TV (i.e. Linus The Lionhearted, Ruff and Reddy and The Cattanooga Cats)

Shaun the Sheep

2007-03-20T00:27:21Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Shaun the Sheep.JPG|thumb|right|Shaun The Sheep]]
'''''Shaun the Sheep''''' is a British children's television series produced by Aardman Animations. A spinoff from Wallace and Gromit, the show is currently airing in the UK, on BBC One and the CBBC Channel.

Shaun the Sheep was originally introduced as a sidekick of Wallace and Gromit in the Oscar winning short film "A Close Shave". He also once featured in Cracking Contraptions, testing Wallace's invention called "the Shopper 13". Shaun got his name after he had all his wool shaven off by one of Wallace's contraptions. From that
point onward, he wore a sweater made from the wool. Pronounced in British English, "Shaun" is a homophone for "shorn".

==Synopsis==

It’s countryside chaos as Shaun The Sheep returns to the small screen with his very own series. Shaun is a sheep who doesn’t follow the flock – in fact, he leads them into all sort of scrapes and scraps, turning peace in the valley into mayhem in the meadow. Shaun and his pals run rings around their poor sheepdog Bitzer, as he tries to stop the Farmer finding out what’s going on behind his back. The show also introduces a farmyard-full of new characters, including the Naughty Pigs, Timmy the baby lamb and the enormous Shirley, a sheep who eats anything and everything.

Every day brings a new adventure for Shaun – a stray cabbage bouncing into the field turns into a football feud with the Naughty Pigs, and a freezing cold sheep dip sends him on a commando raid to get hot water from the Farmer’s bathroom. With high-energy slapstick and classic silent comedy in Aardman’s world-beating animation style, one thing’s for sure – when Shaun’s around, the countryside will never be the same again!

== Episodes: ==
# Off The Baa!
# Bathtime
# Shape Up With Shaun
# Timmy In A Tizzy
# Scrumping
# Still Life
# Mower Mouth
# Take Away
# The Bull
# Saturday Night Shaun (Titled "Heavy Metal Shaun" in USA)
# The Kite (Working Title: "Being for the Benefit of Shaun's Kite!". This was mistaken to be the actual production name)
# Little Sheep of Horrors
# Who's the Mummy?
# Fleeced
# Shaun Shoots the Sheep
# Big Top Timmy
# Fetching
# Mountains Out of Moleholes
# Buzz off Bees
# Things That Go Bump

The 40 part series, "Shaun the Sheep" has been produced at Aardman's Bristol studios. Shaun is said to be having many adventures in this series such as synchronised swimming in a sheep dip and disguising himself in a scarecrow costume, all of which are with his fellow flock. The series has been aired on Danish television. One episode will feature a character designed by a Blue Peter competition winner.

The theme tune is sung by the comedian Vic Reeves.

==Characters==
===Major===
====Shaun====
Shaun is a sheep who does not follow the flock. Inquisitive, imaginative and mischievous, his lively personality marks him out from the other sheep in his field. His fun-loving, maverick nature is forever leading him into tricky situations, but he usually proves resourceful enough to come out on top.

Popular with the rest of the flock and a natural leader, Shaun’s independence is sometimes undermined by his relative youth and naiveté. He confronts problems with a can-do sheep-like logic, but has a tendency to leap before he looks – this mix of enthusiasm and inexperience is often a recipe for trouble. But despite his recklessness, he has an inherent sense of responsibility and will try to make amends for the chaos he causes.

Unlike Shaun in the Wallace and Gromit series, Shaun has a tail in the TV series.

====Bitzer====
Bitzer is the long-suffering sheepdog who keeps a watchful eye over his wayward flock. He only wants a quiet life, but this is the last thing he is going to get when Shaun is around. He has tolerant attitude to the sheep’s antics, but is ready to step in if things get seriously out of hand. And if there’s something in it for him, he’ll even join in some of Shaun’s crazy schemes – as long as the Farmer never finds out.

He behaves like a factory foreman, checking the sheep into the field on his clipboard and bringing a flask of tea and sandwiches to work. He often relieves the tedium of his job by listening to his walkman or doing the crossword, which gives Shaun ample opportunity to get up to mischief behind his back. Although Shaun is a source of constant exasperation, the relationship between them is essentially friendly. But ultimately Bitzer’s loyalty lies with the Farmer – he is not going to bite the hand that keeps him in dog food! Bitzer wishes that he could at least round the flock up without trouble but that never seems to happen!

====The Farmer====
A solitary and unremarkable figure, the Farmer tends to his small-holding with only the loyal Bitzer for assistance. He goes about his business with a dogged dependability, expressing little emotion except the occasional burst of frustration when things go wrong, or an air of bemusement at the result of some of Shaun’s antics. However, we get some clues to his inner life – he is enthusiastic about new technology and has a secret passion for drum and bass.

Like all the human characters in the series, we see him from the animals’ point of view and his speech comes across as a series of grunts and mumbles. He is unaware that his farmyard fold are anything other than normal animals – and Bitzer is determined to keep it that way; the Farmer must never find out what goes on when his back is turned.

====The Flock====
For the most part, the flock are typical sheep – content to spend the day chewing the cud. But when Shaun gets an idea into his head, they are only too happy to follow where he leads. They are easily amused and even more easily influenced – they provide an enthusiastic audience for Shaun’s shenanigans, and willingly throw themselves into whatever plans he hatches. But equally they can be clumsy, cowardly and are none too bright – their incompetence all too often undermines Shaun’s more ambitious exploits.

While they are mainly a group of indistinguishable and undistinguished animals who usually act as one, there are a few more individualistic characters who stand out within the group:

====Shirley====
Four times the size of any other member of the flock, Shirley has to be pushed from place to place and can eat just about anything that comes her way. She is also useful as a trampoline, a battering ram and her capacious fleece provides a hiding place for all manner of unlikely items.

====Timmy====
Adorable but perhaps not as innocent as he looks, Timmy is a baby lamb who sucks a dummy and has an alarming propensity for getting into dangerous situations. He loves teddy bears and will cry if he is without them. He even likes pizza shown in two episode. He only has one tooth.

====Timmy's Mother====
With curlers in her hair, Timmy’s mother displays a rather careless attitude towards maternal duties, leaving a lot of the work with Shaun. But when her little boy goes astray – as he frequently does – she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her arms.

====The Naughty Pigs====
Housed in a yard next to the sheep’s field, the Naughty Pigs are the bane of Shaun’s life. Mocking, cantankerous and greedy, they get no greater pleasure than disrupting Shaun’s schemes-though they are far too lazy to come up with any good ideas for themselves.

===Minor Characters===

====Animals====

=====The Cockerel=====
Appears at the start of the opening credits.

=====The Mother Hen=====
She and her annoyingly chirpy Chicks appear in Who’s The Mummy.

=====The Duck=====
Appears in several episodes, including Off The Baa and Bath Time, and often suffers collateral damage as a result of Shaun’s exploits. As seen in Bitzer Puts His Foot In It, he has several other duck friends.

=====Mower Mouth=====
The goat is an unstoppable eating machine – while not an unfriendly character, all his considerable energy is focused on his next meal.

=====The Bull=====
A short-tempered belligerent powerhouse, who is all too ready to see red at Shaun’s antics. He appears in The Bull and Heavy Metal Shaun. The bull gets angry at red items so when Shaun orders a red bed sheet, he stops chasing the other sheep (that have been painted red) around the farm.

=====The Mole=====
A rude and annoying pest who appears in Mountains Out Of Molehills. He is fearless when mocking Shaun, but not so brave when his Mother Mole turns up.

=====She-Bitzer=====
A female dog belonging to some campers who pitch their tent next to the sheep’s field in Fetching. After a brief courtship, she and Bitzer are cruelly separated.

=====Pidsley=====
The Farmer’s Cat, an idle and selfish lout who can be remarkably quick and vicious when he wants to be. Doesn’t like sheep. Appears in Timmy In A Tizzy.

=====The Frog=====
A rather non-descript frog that is found in the hat of the scarecrow, then later in the pocket when Shaun takes the coat, he is given as currency along with 3 buttons, a small comb and a kazoo in exchange for a number of pizzas. However he seems unwilling to become the pizza boy's pet.

====Humans====
=====Pizza Delivery Boy=====
A gormless teenager who rides a moped and works in the local pizzeria. Has also been seen moonlighting as a postman in Saturday Night Shaun.

=====The Farmer’s Niece=====
A sweet little cherub whose over-enthusiastic love of animals spells trouble for Shaun.

=====The Ramblers=====
A liberal, nature-loving couple who appear in Shaun Shoots The Sheep.

=====The Camper=====
A yobbish litterbug who sets up his tent in the sheep’s field in Camping Chaos.

=====The Scarecrow=====
Not a human character, more of a handy prop which Shaun makes use of in Take Away and Things That Go Bump.

=====Aliens=====

An Extra-Terrestrial crash-lands his flying saucer in the sheep’s field in Alien. The sheep treat him like any other species, helping him return home.

In Shaun and the Aliens, we meet his pesky joy-riding off-spring and his wife.

==External links==
*[http://www.shaunthesheep.com Official website]
*[http://www.aardman.com/ Aardman Animation official website]
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/09_september/23/shaun.shtml BBC Press release (animation series)]

[[Category:Television series]]

Shaun the Sheep

2007-03-19T15:13:48Z

CyberFox: /* Episodes: */

[[Image:Shaun the Sheep.JPG|thumb|right|Shawn The Sheep]]
'''''Shaun the Sheep''''' is a British children's television series produced by Aardman Animations. A spinoff from Wallace and Gromit, the show is currently airing in the UK, on BBC One and the CBBC Channel.

Shaun the Sheep was originally introduced as a sidekick of Wallace and Gromit in the Oscar winning short film "A Close Shave". He also once featured in Cracking Contraptions, testing Wallace's invention called "the Shopper 13". Shaun got his name after he had all his wool shaven off by one of Wallace's contraptions. From that
point onward, he wore a sweater made from the wool. Pronounced in British English, "Shaun" is a homophone for "shorn".

==Synopsis==

It’s countryside chaos as Shaun The Sheep returns to the small screen with his very own series. Shaun is a sheep who doesn’t follow the flock – in fact, he leads them into all sort of scrapes and scraps, turning peace in the valley into mayhem in the meadow. Shaun and his pals run rings around their poor sheepdog Bitzer, as he tries to stop the Farmer finding out what’s going on behind his back. The show also introduces a farmyard-full of new characters, including the Naughty Pigs, Timmy the baby lamb and the enormous Shirley, a sheep who eats anything and everything.

Every day brings a new adventure for Shaun – a stray cabbage bouncing into the field turns into a football feud with the Naughty Pigs, and a freezing cold sheep dip sends him on a commando raid to get hot water from the Farmer’s bathroom. With high-energy slapstick and classic silent comedy in Aardman’s world-beating animation style, one thing’s for sure – when Shaun’s around, the countryside will never be the same again!

== Episodes: ==
# Off The Baa!
# Bathtime
# Shape Up With Shaun
# Timmy In A Tizzy
# Scrumping
# Still Life
# Mower Mouth
# Take Away
# The Bull
# Saturday Night Shaun (Titled "Heavy Metal Shaun" in USA)
# The Kite (Working Title: "Being for the Benefit of Shaun's Kite!". This was mistaken to be the actual production name)
# Little Sheep of Horrors
# Who's the Mummy?
# Fleeced
# Shaun Shoots the Sheep
# Big Top Timmy
# Fetching
# Mountains Out of Moleholes
# Buzz off Bees
# Things That Go Bump

The 40 part series, "Shaun the Sheep" has been produced at Aardman's Bristol studios. Shaun is said to be having many adventures in this series such as synchronised swimming in a sheep dip and disguising himself in a scarecrow costume, all of which are with his fellow flock. The series has been aired on Danish television. One episode will feature a character designed by a Blue Peter competition winner.

The theme tune is sung by the comedian Vic Reeves.

==Characters==
===Major===
====Shaun====
Shaun is a sheep who does not follow the flock. Inquisitive, imaginative and mischievous, his lively personality marks him out from the other sheep in his field. His fun-loving, maverick nature is forever leading him into tricky situations, but he usually proves resourceful enough to come out on top.

Popular with the rest of the flock and a natural leader, Shaun’s independence is sometimes undermined by his relative youth and naiveté. He confronts problems with a can-do sheep-like logic, but has a tendency to leap before he looks – this mix of enthusiasm and inexperience is often a recipe for trouble. But despite his recklessness, he has an inherent sense of responsibility and will try to make amends for the chaos he causes.

Unlike Shaun in the Wallace and Gromit series, Shaun has a tail in the TV series.

====Bitzer====
Bitzer is the long-suffering sheepdog who keeps a watchful eye over his wayward flock. He only wants a quiet life, but this is the last thing he is going to get when Shaun is around. He has tolerant attitude to the sheep’s antics, but is ready to step in if things get seriously out of hand. And if there’s something in it for him, he’ll even join in some of Shaun’s crazy schemes – as long as the Farmer never finds out.

He behaves like a factory foreman, checking the sheep into the field on his clipboard and bringing a flask of tea and sandwiches to work. He often relieves the tedium of his job by listening to his walkman or doing the crossword, which gives Shaun ample opportunity to get up to mischief behind his back. Although Shaun is a source of constant exasperation, the relationship between them is essentially friendly. But ultimately Bitzer’s loyalty lies with the Farmer – he is not going to bite the hand that keeps him in dog food! Bitzer wishes that he could at least round the flock up without trouble but that never seems to happen!

====The Farmer====
A solitary and unremarkable figure, the Farmer tends to his small-holding with only the loyal Bitzer for assistance. He goes about his business with a dogged dependability, expressing little emotion except the occasional burst of frustration when things go wrong, or an air of bemusement at the result of some of Shaun’s antics. However, we get some clues to his inner life – he is enthusiastic about new technology and has a secret passion for drum and bass.

Like all the human characters in the series, we see him from the animals’ point of view and his speech comes across as a series of grunts and mumbles. He is unaware that his farmyard fold are anything other than normal animals – and Bitzer is determined to keep it that way; the Farmer must never find out what goes on when his back is turned.

====The Flock====
For the most part, the flock are typical sheep – content to spend the day chewing the cud. But when Shaun gets an idea into his head, they are only too happy to follow where he leads. They are easily amused and even more easily influenced – they provide an enthusiastic audience for Shaun’s shenanigans, and willingly throw themselves into whatever plans he hatches. But equally they can be clumsy, cowardly and are none too bright – their incompetence all too often undermines Shaun’s more ambitious exploits.

While they are mainly a group of indistinguishable and undistinguished animals who usually act as one, there are a few more individualistic characters who stand out within the group:

====Shirley====
Four times the size of any other member of the flock, Shirley has to be pushed from place to place and can eat just about anything that comes her way. She is also useful as a trampoline, a battering ram and her capacious fleece provides a hiding place for all manner of unlikely items.

====Timmy====
Adorable but perhaps not as innocent as he looks, Timmy is a baby lamb who sucks a dummy and has an alarming propensity for getting into dangerous situations. He loves teddy bears and will cry if he is without them. He even likes pizza shown in two episode. He only has one tooth.

====Timmy's Mother====
With curlers in her hair, Timmy’s mother displays a rather careless attitude towards maternal duties, leaving a lot of the work with Shaun. But when her little boy goes astray – as he frequently does – she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her arms.

====The Naughty Pigs====
Housed in a yard next to the sheep’s field, the Naughty Pigs are the bane of Shaun’s life. Mocking, cantankerous and greedy, they get no greater pleasure than disrupting Shaun’s schemes-though they are far too lazy to come up with any good ideas for themselves.

===Minor Characters===

====Animals====

=====The Cockerel=====
Appears at the start of the opening credits.

=====The Mother Hen=====
She and her annoyingly chirpy Chicks appear in Who’s The Mummy.

=====The Duck=====
Appears in several episodes, including Off The Baa and Bath Time, and often suffers collateral damage as a result of Shaun’s exploits. As seen in Bitzer Puts His Foot In It, he has several other duck friends.

=====Mower Mouth=====
The goat is an unstoppable eating machine – while not an unfriendly character, all his considerable energy is focused on his next meal.

=====The Bull=====
A short-tempered belligerent powerhouse, who is all too ready to see red at Shaun’s antics. He appears in The Bull and Heavy Metal Shaun. The bull gets angry at red items so when Shaun orders a red bed sheet, he stops chasing the other sheep (that have been painted red) around the farm.

=====The Mole=====
A rude and annoying pest who appears in Mountains Out Of Molehills. He is fearless when mocking Shaun, but not so brave when his Mother Mole turns up.

=====She-Bitzer=====
A female dog belonging to some campers who pitch their tent next to the sheep’s field in Fetching. After a brief courtship, she and Bitzer are cruelly separated.

=====Pidsley=====
The Farmer’s Cat, an idle and selfish lout who can be remarkably quick and vicious when he wants to be. Doesn’t like sheep. Appears in Timmy In A Tizzy.

=====The Frog=====
A rather non-descript frog that is found in the hat of the scarecrow, then later in the pocket when Shaun takes the coat, he is given as currency along with 3 buttons, a small comb and a kazoo in exchange for a number of pizzas. However he seems unwilling to become the pizza boy's pet.

====Humans====
=====Pizza Delivery Boy=====
A gormless teenager who rides a moped and works in the local pizzeria. Has also been seen moonlighting as a postman in Saturday Night Shaun.

=====The Farmer’s Niece=====
A sweet little cherub whose over-enthusiastic love of animals spells trouble for Shaun.

=====The Ramblers=====
A liberal, nature-loving couple who appear in Shaun Shoots The Sheep.

=====The Camper=====
A yobbish litterbug who sets up his tent in the sheep’s field in Camping Chaos.

=====The Scarecrow=====
Not a human character, more of a handy prop which Shaun makes use of in Take Away and Things That Go Bump.

=====Aliens=====

An Extra-Terrestrial crash-lands his flying saucer in the sheep’s field in Alien. The sheep treat him like any other species, helping him return home.

In Shaun and the Aliens, we meet his pesky joy-riding off-spring and his wife.

==External links==
*[http://www.shaunthesheep.com Official website]
*[http://www.aardman.com/ Aardman Animation official website]
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/09_september/23/shaun.shtml BBC Press release (animation series)]

[[Category:Television series]]

Shaun the Sheep

2007-03-19T15:12:27Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Shaun the Sheep.JPG|thumb|right|Shawn The Sheep]]
'''''Shaun the Sheep''''' is a British children's television series produced by Aardman Animations. A spinoff from Wallace and Gromit, the show is currently airing in the UK, on BBC One and the CBBC Channel.

Shaun the Sheep was originally introduced as a sidekick of Wallace and Gromit in the Oscar winning short film "A Close Shave". He also once featured in Cracking Contraptions, testing Wallace's invention called "the Shopper 13". Shaun got his name after he had all his wool shaven off by one of Wallace's contraptions. From that
point onward, he wore a sweater made from the wool. Pronounced in British English, "Shaun" is a homophone for "shorn".

==Synopsis==

It’s countryside chaos as Shaun The Sheep returns to the small screen with his very own series. Shaun is a sheep who doesn’t follow the flock – in fact, he leads them into all sort of scrapes and scraps, turning peace in the valley into mayhem in the meadow. Shaun and his pals run rings around their poor sheepdog Bitzer, as he tries to stop the Farmer finding out what’s going on behind his back. The show also introduces a farmyard-full of new characters, including the Naughty Pigs, Timmy the baby lamb and the enormous Shirley, a sheep who eats anything and everything.

Every day brings a new adventure for Shaun – a stray cabbage bouncing into the field turns into a football feud with the Naughty Pigs, and a freezing cold sheep dip sends him on a commando raid to get hot water from the Farmer’s bathroom. With high-energy slapstick and classic silent comedy in Aardman’s world-beating animation style, one thing’s for sure – when Shaun’s around, the countryside will never be the same again!

== Episodes: ==
# Off The Baa!
# Bathtime
# Shape Up With Shaun
# Timmy In A Tizzy
# Scrumping
# Still Life
# Mower Mouth
# Take Away
# The Bull
# Saturday Night Shaun (Titled "Heavy Metal Shaun" in USA)
# The Kite (Working Title: "Being for the Benefit of Shaun's Kite!". This was mistaken to be the actual production name)
# Little Sheep of Horrors
# Who's the Mummy?
# Fleeced
# Shaun Shoots the Sheep
# Big Top Timmy
# Fetching
# Mountains Out of Moleholes
# Buzz off Bees
# Things That Go Bump

The 40 part series, "Shaun the Sheep" has been produced at Aardman's Bristol studios. Shaun is said to be having many adventures in this series such as synchronised swimming in a sheep dip and disguising himself in a scarecrow costume, all of which are with his fellow flock. The series has been aired on Danish television. One episode will feature a character designed by a ''[[Blue Peter]]'' competition winner.

The theme tune is sung by the comedian [[Vic Reeves]].

==Characters==
===Major===
====Shaun====
Shaun is a sheep who does not follow the flock. Inquisitive, imaginative and mischievous, his lively personality marks him out from the other sheep in his field. His fun-loving, maverick nature is forever leading him into tricky situations, but he usually proves resourceful enough to come out on top.

Popular with the rest of the flock and a natural leader, Shaun’s independence is sometimes undermined by his relative youth and naiveté. He confronts problems with a can-do sheep-like logic, but has a tendency to leap before he looks – this mix of enthusiasm and inexperience is often a recipe for trouble. But despite his recklessness, he has an inherent sense of responsibility and will try to make amends for the chaos he causes.

Unlike Shaun in the Wallace and Gromit series, Shaun has a tail in the TV series.

====Bitzer====
Bitzer is the long-suffering sheepdog who keeps a watchful eye over his wayward flock. He only wants a quiet life, but this is the last thing he is going to get when Shaun is around. He has tolerant attitude to the sheep’s antics, but is ready to step in if things get seriously out of hand. And if there’s something in it for him, he’ll even join in some of Shaun’s crazy schemes – as long as the Farmer never finds out.

He behaves like a factory foreman, checking the sheep into the field on his clipboard and bringing a flask of tea and sandwiches to work. He often relieves the tedium of his job by listening to his walkman or doing the crossword, which gives Shaun ample opportunity to get up to mischief behind his back. Although Shaun is a source of constant exasperation, the relationship between them is essentially friendly. But ultimately Bitzer’s loyalty lies with the Farmer – he is not going to bite the hand that keeps him in dog food! Bitzer wishes that he could at least round the flock up without trouble but that never seems to happen!

====The Farmer====
A solitary and unremarkable figure, the Farmer tends to his small-holding with only the loyal Bitzer for assistance. He goes about his business with a dogged dependability, expressing little emotion except the occasional burst of frustration when things go wrong, or an air of bemusement at the result of some of Shaun’s antics. However, we get some clues to his inner life – he is enthusiastic about new technology and has a secret passion for drum and bass.

Like all the human characters in the series, we see him from the animals’ point of view and his speech comes across as a series of grunts and mumbles. He is unaware that his farmyard fold are anything other than normal animals – and Bitzer is determined to keep it that way; the Farmer must never find out what goes on when his back is turned.

====The Flock====
For the most part, the flock are typical sheep – content to spend the day chewing the cud. But when Shaun gets an idea into his head, they are only too happy to follow where he leads. They are easily amused and even more easily influenced – they provide an enthusiastic audience for Shaun’s shenanigans, and willingly throw themselves into whatever plans he hatches. But equally they can be clumsy, cowardly and are none too bright – their incompetence all too often undermines Shaun’s more ambitious exploits.

While they are mainly a group of indistinguishable and undistinguished animals who usually act as one, there are a few more individualistic characters who stand out within the group:

====Shirley====
Four times the size of any other member of the flock, Shirley has to be pushed from place to place and can eat just about anything that comes her way. She is also useful as a trampoline, a battering ram and her capacious fleece provides a hiding place for all manner of unlikely items.

====Timmy====
Adorable but perhaps not as innocent as he looks, Timmy is a baby lamb who sucks a dummy and has an alarming propensity for getting into dangerous situations. He loves teddy bears and will cry if he is without them. He even likes pizza shown in two episode. He only has one tooth.

====Timmy's Mother====
With curlers in her hair, Timmy’s mother displays a rather careless attitude towards maternal duties, leaving a lot of the work with Shaun. But when her little boy goes astray – as he frequently does – she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her arms.

====The Naughty Pigs====
Housed in a yard next to the sheep’s field, the Naughty Pigs are the bane of Shaun’s life. Mocking, cantankerous and greedy, they get no greater pleasure than disrupting Shaun’s schemes-though they are far too lazy to come up with any good ideas for themselves.

===Minor Characters===

====Animals====

=====The Cockerel=====
Appears at the start of the opening credits.

=====The Mother Hen=====
She and her annoyingly chirpy Chicks appear in Who’s The Mummy.

=====The Duck=====
Appears in several episodes, including Off The Baa and Bath Time, and often suffers collateral damage as a result of Shaun’s exploits. As seen in Bitzer Puts His Foot In It, he has several other duck friends.

=====Mower Mouth=====
The goat is an unstoppable eating machine – while not an unfriendly character, all his considerable energy is focused on his next meal.

=====The Bull=====
A short-tempered belligerent powerhouse, who is all too ready to see red at Shaun’s antics. He appears in The Bull and Heavy Metal Shaun. The bull gets angry at red items so when Shaun orders a red bed sheet, he stops chasing the other sheep (that have been painted red) around the farm.

=====The Mole=====
A rude and annoying pest who appears in Mountains Out Of Molehills. He is fearless when mocking Shaun, but not so brave when his Mother Mole turns up.

=====She-Bitzer=====
A female dog belonging to some campers who pitch their tent next to the sheep’s field in Fetching. After a brief courtship, she and Bitzer are cruelly separated.

=====Pidsley=====
The Farmer’s Cat, an idle and selfish lout who can be remarkably quick and vicious when he wants to be. Doesn’t like sheep. Appears in Timmy In A Tizzy.

=====The Frog=====
A rather non-descript frog that is found in the hat of the scarecrow, then later in the pocket when Shaun takes the coat, he is given as currency along with 3 buttons, a small comb and a kazoo in exchange for a number of pizzas. However he seems unwilling to become the pizza boy's pet.

====Humans====
=====Pizza Delivery Boy=====
A gormless teenager who rides a moped and works in the local pizzeria. Has also been seen moonlighting as a postman in Saturday Night Shaun.

=====The Farmer’s Niece=====
A sweet little cherub whose over-enthusiastic love of animals spells trouble for Shaun.

=====The Ramblers=====
A liberal, nature-loving couple who appear in Shaun Shoots The Sheep.

=====The Camper=====
A yobbish litterbug who sets up his tent in the sheep’s field in Camping Chaos.

=====The Scarecrow=====
Not a human character, more of a handy prop which Shaun makes use of in Take Away and Things That Go Bump.

=====Aliens=====

An Extra-Terrestrial crash-lands his flying saucer in the sheep’s field in Alien. The sheep treat him like any other species, helping him return home.

In Shaun and the Aliens, we meet his pesky joy-riding off-spring and his wife.

==External links==
*[http://www.shaunthesheep.com Official website]
*[http://www.aardman.com/ Aardman Animation official website]
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/09_september/23/shaun.shtml BBC Press release (animation series)]

[[Category:Television series]]

File:Shaun the Sheep.JPG

2007-03-19T15:08:26Z

CyberFox: Shawn The Sheep

== Summary ==
Shawn The Sheep
== Licensing ==
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Furry Broadcasting Corporation

2007-03-16T04:49:16Z

CyberFox: /* Content */

[[Image:FBC.png|right|The FBC]]
The '''Furry Broadcasting Corporation''' (The '''FBC''') is a [[furry]] internet radio station created in 2005 by [[Jaie Davis]], when ''[[2 Sense]]'' decided to stop production. Run by Jaie and a few veterans of the deceased ''2 Sense'', the FBC airs round-the-clock music, radio dramatizations and talk shows, all of which are furry based. Some shows have even modeled themselves off of the ''2 Sense'' concept, and the original show itself is in syndication on the channel.

The FBC's broadcasted contents are also available from the web portal as podcasts, though many episodes (and some exclusive content) are only attainable through the site's subscription service. Users are also able to request songs for play, decide what songs stay in rotation on the server and converse with show hosts and staff live on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]'s [irc://irc.furnet.org:6667/fbc #FBC] channel; a few shows also utilize IRC audience feedback.

*'''Website''': [http://thefbc.net/ http://thefbc.net/]

==Content==
The FBC features several talkshows and radio dramas bookended by non-stop music. The music selection itself runs nearly the entire musical spectrum and is automated via the server; users are able to request songs for the playlist queue and vote on which songs stay within the database via the '''''Rate It!''''' program (though users are able to vote on which songs stay for several days after the broadcast.) Some furry staples such as "[[Dragostea Din Tei]]" and "[[Move Your Dead Bones]]" can be found in rotation, along with several songs submitted by furry musicians like [[Wiru|DJ Wiru]] and [[Zephryos]]. There is also a '''''Top Ten Most Requested''''' program.

The talkshows run the gamut from the family-oriented gaming show '''''[Plus] 5''''' to the sexually explicit [[yiffing|yiff]] program '''''Rubber Beaver'''''. A number of shows feature explicit language ranging from simple explitives to graphic descriptions of sexual and bodily functions, though the latter is fairly uncommon. Nearly all shows that features guests use [[Wikipedia:Skype|Skype]] to host them, though a few shows (notably '''''Mediaphilia''''') do have in-house guests to carry the show.

The station's syndicated programs are '''''[[2 Sense]]''''' and '''''[[Sabrina Online Radio Play]]'''''.

==Active shows==
{| border="1px solid" style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="3px" cellpadding="4px"
|-
! Title
! Host
! Description
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''The Brainstew'''
| [[Jaie Davis]]
| A socio-political show which aims to challenge the mind and stress the importance of common sense and logic in today's society. The show is almost always broadcast live and usually incorporates viewer feedback (via e-mail and IRC) into the program.
|-
| '''DJ Wiru in the mix'''
| [[Wiru|DJ Wiru]]
| An hour-long mix of trance, techno and various club tracks. Wiru broadcasts a live set on the first Saturday of each month.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''Rubber Beaver'''
| [[Moldred]]
| A sexually explicit [[yiffing|yiff]] program, featuring [[fanfiction]] readings and songs with obscene lyrics.
|-
| '''[[Bunny Suicide]]'''
| [[TornadoCreator]]
| A potentially offensive show. TC interviews his guests/co-hosts and is prone to ranting. The show is a gaming and news show consisting of two parts. The first is a section where different topics are discussed as well as letters read out from listeners. The second is a gaming review and discussion segment, games for PS2, PSP, Xbox360, Xbox, PC, Dreamcast, Saturn and PSone are all reviewed. Nintendo is almost never reviewed as the show hosts do not own nor play Nintendo consoles. The gaming segment will also include reviews of roleplay systems and CCG's and any gaming news. The Dumb Laws segment is read out on the show for comedy value.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''Mediaphilia'''
| [[Réizàr]]
| A view of what's wrong with the world from a certain [[tiger|weretiger]]'s perspective. Features music, parody commercials, guest segments and weekly pieces such as [[Wikipedia:Skippy's_list|Skippy's List]].
|-
| '''[[Rendal's Ravings]]'''
| [[Raving Rendal]]
| A weekly rant show that usually tries to have one topic a week. Topics have ranged from politics, to music, wrestling and sexuality. Other segments known to have been featured include Bozo Criminal of the Day and entries from the RPG Mortuary.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''[[Flash In The Pan]]'''
| [[Raving Rendal]]
| An hour of music, flash videos, and otherwise internet media that is cool and awesome.
|-
| '''Storm Gryphon Tonight'''
| [[Storm Gryphon]]
| A sometimes ranting talk show with topics covering everything from furry politics to computers to [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]].
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''The Wolf Den Radio Show'''
| [[Austin Wolfclaw]]
| A two-hour show full of news (from the fandom and abroad), tabloids, fiction, random music and requests. Austin always broadcasts live and usually interacts with his audience via IRC and various IM programs.
|}

==Inactive Shows==
{| border="1px solid" style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="3px" cellpadding="4px"
|-
! Title
! Host
! Description
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''The VLF'''
| [[Garr]] & [[Sphelx]]
| A show based in the United Kingdom that has been described as "the bastard love child of ''[[2 Sense]]''" for taking a unique spin on the original concept.
|-
| '''[Plus] 5'''
| [[Jier]]
| The FBC's family-oriented gaming show, featuring reviews of games and gameplay.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''Pro Valde Justicia'''
| [[Panther Claw]]
| A talk show focusing on news, politics and the connecting threads that lie inbetween.
|}

==External links==
* [http://thefbc.net/ Official FBC Website]
* [http://loudcity.com/station/618/listen.aspx The FBC's Listen Live Link]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/fbci/profile The FBC Interactive Community (Livejournal)]
* [http://www.cafepress.com/thefbc Official FBC Online Store]
* [http://www.angrybastards.com Angry Bastards Website] - Recently Abandoned

[[Category:Radio]]

Austin Wolfclaw

2007-03-14T23:27:33Z

CyberFox:

'''Austin Wolfclaw''' is a [[anthro]] [[deer]] [[furry]]. He is the the founder of #[[furry_vore]] on irc.furnet.org.
{{person-stub}}
==External links==
* [http://rp.aryion.com/fullinfo.php?user_id=469&session= Austin's profile]
* [http://www.furnation.com/austinwolfclaw/ Austin's website]

[[Category:People]][[Category:Deer characters]]

Calvin and the Colonel

2007-02-27T04:49:34Z

CyberFox: YouTube video was Deleted, damn you NBC Universal!

[[Image:Calv-4.jpg|thumb|right|Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon and Calvin Burnside]]
'''Calvin and the Colonel''' was an animated television series in 1961 about a shrewd fox and a dumb bear.

The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll from the radio series.

Due to low ratings, the show was cancelled after one month, but returned three months later as a Saturday morning show, to complete the first season contract. It was also adapted as a comic book by Dell Comics, and as such was the final installment in the company's extremely prolific (more than 1,300 issues published) Four Color anthology series.

==Series data==

Aired on ABC, October 3, 1961-November 7, 1961; January 27, 1962-June 9, 1962

===Staff===
*Production Company: Kayro Productions
*Animation Company: Creston Studios
*Created by Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll
*Animation Producers: Bob Ganon, Sam Nicholson, Gerald Ray
*Music: George Bruns
*Art Director: Norm Gottfredson
*Visual Adaption: Lee Mishkin, Ed Levitt, David Hill
*Layout: Ellie Bogardus, Bob Gore, Bill Kohn, Al Hubbard
*Animation Directors: Chuck McKimson, John Walker
*Supervising Animators: Tom McDonald, Fred Madison, John Sparey, Bob Bemiller, Ben Washam, Volus Jones, Jim Davis, Harvey Toombs, C.L. Hartman
*Animators: Buf Partch, Arch Lean, Bob Maxfield, Barbara Williams, Earl Combs, Casey Onaitus, Phil Roman, Barney Posner, Morey Golub, Tom McDonald Jr., Frank Andrina
*Production Coordinator: Dave Hoffman
*Backgrounds: Dave Weldman
*Editing: Norman Vizents, Chuck McCann
*Ink and Paint: Martha Buckley
*Production Executive: Al Amatuzio
*Produced by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher

===Voices===
*The Colonel: Freeman Gosden
*Calvin: Charles Correll
*Maggie Belle: Virginia Gregg
*Sister Sue: Beatrice Kay
*Judge Clutch: Paul Frees

===Episodes===
*The Television Job (October 3, 1961)
*The Polka Dot Bandit (October 10, 1961)
*Thanksgiving Dinner (October 17, 1961)
*The Costume Ball (October 24, 1961)
*Sycamore Lodge (October 31, 1961)
*Money in the Closet (November 7, 1961)
*Calvin Gets Psychoanalyzed (January 27, 1962)
*Wheeling and Dealing (February 3, 1962)
*The Wreaking Crew (February 10, 1962)
*The Colonel's Old Flame (February 17, 1962)
*Sister Sue and the Police Captain (February 24, 1962)
*Jim Dandy Cleaners (March 3, 1962)
*Jealousy (March 10, 1962)
*Cloakroom (March 17, 1962)
*Sister Sue's Sweetheart (March 24, 1962)
*The Winning Number (March 31, 1962)
*Calvin's Glamour Girl (April 7, 1962)
*Colonel Out-Foxes Himself (April 14, 1962)
*Nephew Newton's Fortune (April 21, 1962)
*Calvin's Tax Problem (April 28, 1962)
*Women's Club Picnic (May 5, 1962)
*Magazine Romance (May 12, 1962)
*Ring Reward (May 19, 1962)
*The Carnappers (May 26, 1962)
*Colonel Traps a Thief (June 2, 1962)
*Back to Nashville (June 9, 1962)

===External links===

* [http://www.toontracker.com/calvin/calvin.htm TOON TRACKER "Calvin and the Colonel"]
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/calcolon.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Calvin and the Colonel]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDmYxrkAwc Opening and Ending Credits]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdqJ25llyW8 Opening and Ending Credits (2nd Version)]

[[Category:Television series]]

Time Machine Show

2007-02-25T05:45:54Z

CyberFox: /* External links */

[[Image:timemachineshowsm2.gif|right|frame|The Time Machine Show]]
The '''Time Machine Show''' is an online radio broadcast which features classic rock and oldies from the 50's, 60's, 70's, and early 80's. The show began in October, 2003 and is hosted by [[SonicBlu]]. Music played includes [[wikipedia:classic rock|classic rock]], [[wikipedia:hard rock|hard rock]], [[wikipedia:heavy metal|heavy metal]], [[wikipedia:doo-wop|doo-wop]], [[wikipedia:rockabilly|rockabilly]], [[wikipedia:psychedelic|psychedelic]], [[wikipedia:pop music|pop]], [[wikipedia:folk music|folk music]], [[wikipedia:blues|blues]], [[wikipedia:jazz|jazz]], and [[wikipedia:soul music|soul]]. The show is co-hosted by a wise-cracking drunkard named Bar Hoppin' Bill and a retired Vietnam War sergeant major named Mad Cajun. The Time Machine Show usually runs from 10:00 PM until approximately 3:00 AM EST. The show has even been known to occasionally run until 7:00 AM.

== Nightly Features ==
=== Bang the Drum ===
Midnight (EST) marks the moment in time where the playlist freezes to celebrate the dawning of a new day. SonicBlu makes a nightly tradition to allow listeners to make as much noise as they think they can get away with to help ring in the new day much like a new year's day celebration. After which, the song Bang the Drum by [[wikipedia:Todd Rundgren|Todd Rundgren]] is played during the festivities.

=== Double-Shots ===

Bar Hoppin' Bill comes directly from his full-stocked bar to the microphone, usually sipping on one of many stiff drinks while broadcasting his own section of the Time Machine Show, where he plays two songs by [[wikipedia:The Beatles|The Beatles]], followed by two songs by any random artist for the Double-Shot Chaser.

=== Rock & Roll Roulette ===

Before the Requestin's After Midnight, SonicBlu takes an hour and a half to present the nightly contest '''Rock & Roll [[wikipedia:roulette|Roulette]]'''. Listeners are allowed to chose a single year in rock & roll history (1950 - 1985) and try to guess which artist that had released material in the chosen year will be determined when the roulette wheel stops spinning. Prizes are generally awarded for anyone who guesses correctly. For instance, a valid contest entry would read: "[[wikipedia:1983|1983]] - [[wikipedia:The Police|The Police]]." The roulette wheel is set to 1983 and every song title listed from that year is shown. If the wheel lands on The Police, the listener is declared the winner.

=== Requestin's After Midnight ===

Throughout the rest of the broadcast, listeners are free to request any song in the Time Machine Show's grand repertoire, which are generally played throughout the rest of the night.

=== Rarity and Goodnight ===

Traditionally, every broadcast of the Time Machine Show ends with a rarity, which could range anywhere from unreleased songs to forgotten live performances. SonicBlu makes it known that the show comes to an end by hollering "I'll see you on the flip side!" as his closing statement.

== External links ==

* [http://www.sonicblu.net/timemachine/ Official Website] of the Time Machine Show
* [http://sonicblu.efurry.com/forum/ Official Forums] of the Time Machine Show
* [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=timemachineshow The Time Machine Show Channel] at [http://www.youtube.com YouTube]

[[Category:Radio]][[Category:2003 births]]

Furry Broadcasting Corporation

2007-02-25T05:44:32Z

CyberFox: /* Content */

[[Image:FBC.png|right|The FBC]]
The '''Furry Broadcasting Corporation''' (The '''FBC''') is a [[furry]] internet radio station created in 2005 by [[Jaie Davis]], when ''[[2 Sense]]'' decided to stop production. Run by Jaie and a few veterans of the deceased ''2 Sense'', the FBC airs round-the-clock music, radio dramatizations and talk shows, all of which are furry based. Some shows have even modeled themselves off of the ''2 Sense'' concept, and the original show itself is in syndication on the channel.

The FBC's broadcasted contents are also available from the web portal as podcasts, though many episodes (and some exclusive content) are only attainable through the site's subscription service. Users are also able to request songs for play, decide what songs stay in rotation on the server and converse with show hosts and staff live on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]]'s [irc://irc.furnet.org:6667/fbc #FBC] channel; a few shows also utilize IRC audience feedback.

*'''Website''': [http://thefbc.net/ http://thefbc.net/]

==Content==
The FBC features several talkshows and radio dramas bookended by non-stop music. The music selection itself runs nearly the entire musical spectrum and is automated via the server; users are able to request songs for the playlist queue and vote on which songs stay within the database via the '''''Rate It!''''' program (though users are able to vote on which songs stay for several days after the broadcast.) Some furry staples such as "[[Dragostea Din Tei]]" and "[[Move Your Dead Bones]]" can be found in rotation, along with several songs submitted by furry musicians like [[Wiru|DJ Wiru]] and [[Zephryos]]. There is also a '''''Top Ten Most Requested''''' program.

The talkshows run the gamut from the family-oriented gaming show '''''[Plus] 5''''' to the sexually explicit [[yiffing|yiff]] program '''''Rubber Beaver'''''. A number of shows feature explicit language ranging from simple explitives to graphic descriptions of sexual and bodily functions, though the latter is fairly uncommon. Nearly all shows that features guests use [[Wikipedia:Skype|Skype]] to host them, though a few shows (notably '''''Mediaphilia''''') do have in-house guests to carry the show.

The station's syndicated programs are '''''[[2 Sense]]''''' and '''''[[Sabrina Online Radio Play]]'''''.

currently, '''''Rate It!''''' is in Inactive mode due to Playlist issues (on which Jaie is a total daft git because he doesn't even bother researching the tunes)

==Active shows==
{| border="1px solid" style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="3px" cellpadding="4px"
|-
! Title
! Host
! Description
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''The Brainstew'''
| [[Jaie Davis]]
| A socio-political show which aims to challenge the mind and stress the importance of common sense and logic in today's society. The show is almost always broadcast live and usually incorporates viewer feedback (via e-mail and IRC) into the program.
|-
| '''DJ Wiru in the mix'''
| [[Wiru|DJ Wiru]]
| An hour-long mix of trance, techno and various club tracks. Wiru broadcasts a live set on the first Saturday of each month.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''Rubber Beaver'''
| [[Moldred]]
| A sexually explicit [[yiffing|yiff]] program, featuring [[fanfiction]] readings and songs with obscene lyrics.
|-
| '''[[Bunny Suicide]]'''
| [[TornadoCreator]]
| A potentially offensive show. TC interviews his guests/co-hosts and is prone to ranting. The show is a gaming and news show consisting of two parts. The first is a section where different topics are discussed as well as letters read out from listeners. The second is a gaming review and discussion segment, games for PS2, PSP, Xbox360, Xbox, PC, Dreamcast, Saturn and PSone are all reviewed. Nintendo is almost never reviewed as the show hosts do not own nor play Nintendo consoles. The gaming segment will also include reviews of roleplay systems and CCG's and any gaming news. The Dumb Laws segment is read out on the show for comedy value.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''Mediaphilia'''
| [[Réizàr]]
| A view of what's wrong with the world from a certain [[tiger|weretiger]]'s perspective. Features music, parody commercials, guest segments and weekly pieces such as [[Wikipedia:Skippy's_list|Skippy's List]].
|-
| '''[[Rendal's Ravings]]'''
| [[Raving Rendal]]
| A weekly rant show that usually tries to have one topic a week. Topics have ranged from politics, to music, wrestling and sexuality. Other segments known to have been featured include Bozo Criminal of the Day and entries from the RPG Mortuary.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''[[Flash In The Pan]]'''
| [[Raving Rendal]]
| An hour of music, flash videos, and otherwise internet media that is cool and awesome.
|-
| '''Storm Gryphon Tonight'''
| [[Storm Gryphon]]
| A sometimes ranting talk show with topics covering everything from furry politics to computers to [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]].
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''The Wolf Den Radio Show'''
| [[Austin Wolfclaw]]
| A two-hour show full of news (from the fandom and abroad), tabloids, fiction, random music and requests. Austin always broadcasts live and usually interacts with his audience via IRC and various IM programs.
|}

==Inactive Shows==
{| border="1px solid" style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="3px" cellpadding="4px"
|-
! Title
! Host
! Description
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''The VLF'''
| [[Garr]] & [[Sphelx]]
| A show based in the United Kingdom that has been described as "the bastard love child of ''[[2 Sense]]''" for taking a unique spin on the original concept.
|-
| '''[Plus] 5'''
| [[Jier]]
| The FBC's family-oriented gaming show, featuring reviews of games and gameplay.
|- bgcolor="#eeeeff"
| '''Pro Valde Justicia'''
| [[Panther Claw]]
| A talk show focusing on news, politics and the connecting threads that lie inbetween.
|}

==External links==
* [http://thefbc.net/ Official FBC Website]
* [http://loudcity.com/station/618/listen.aspx The FBC's Listen Live Link]
* [http://community.livejournal.com/fbci/profile The FBC Interactive Community (Livejournal)]
* [http://www.cafepress.com/thefbc Official FBC Online Store]
* [http://www.angrybastards.com Angry Bastards Website] - Recently Abandoned

[[Category:Radio]]

Heckle and Jeckle

2007-02-24T22:07:54Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Heckle and Jeckle.png|thumb|right|Heckle and Jeckle]]
'''''Heckle and Jeckle''''' was a theatrical cartoon series created by Paul Terry, and released by his own studio, Terrytoons. The characters were a pair of identical magpies who calmly outwitted their foes in the manner of Bugs Bunny, while maintaining a mischievous streak reminiscent of Woody Woodpecker. Their names were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

One magpie spoke with a British accent, while the other spoke with a Brooklyn dialect, although it is uncertain precisely which character was which. Some sources assert that Jeckle was the British one, perhaps by association with the British surname "Jekyll", coupled with the assumption that a resident of Brooklyn might be more likely to "heckle" someone. Others say they were just the opposite. Both characters were voiced at different times by Dayton Allen, Sid Raymond, Roy Halee, Ned Sparks and Frank Welker.

Since the birds never addressed each other by name, there was originally no apparent resolution to the question of which was which. In 1978's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, however, the birds introduced themselves by name in the opening credits; in this version, Heckle had the Brooklyn accent, and Jeckle the British one.

The first ''Heckle and Jeckle'' cartoon premiered in 1946, the last in 1966. In Filmation's Mighty Mouse series in their own segment.

Heckle and Jeckle had their own comic book title for several years.
*St. John Publications, #1-24 (1951-55)
*Pines Comics, #25-34 (1956-59)

In September of 1998, the duo made a cameo appearance in the Simpson's episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" as attendees of Homer Simpson's self-imagined funeral. The magpies had the following dialogue:

Heckle: "Now there goes a real bag of crap."

Jeckle: "Indubitably."

Heckle and Jeckle (along with the enitre Terrytoons library) is currently owned by CBS Paramount Televsion. Sadly, they have never done anything of note with the library.

==External links==
* [http://www.archive.org/details/the_talking_magpies The Talking Magpies cartoon @ the Internet Archive]

{{Wikipedia|Heckle and Jeckle}}

[[Category:Television series]]
[[Category:Avian characters]]

Heckle and Jeckle

2007-02-24T17:35:25Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Heckle and Jeckle.png|thumb|right|Heckle and Jeckle]]
'''''Heckle and Jeckle''''' was a theatrical cartoon series created by Paul Terry, and released by his own studio, Terrytoons. The characters were a pair of identical magpies who calmly outwitted their foes in the manner of Bugs Bunny, while maintaining a mischievous streak reminiscent of Woody Woodpecker. Their names were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

One magpie spoke with a British accent, while the other spoke with a Brooklyn dialect, although it is uncertain precisely which character was which. Some sources assert that Jeckle was the British one, perhaps by association with the British surname "Jekyll", coupled with the assumption that a resident of Brooklyn might be more likely to "heckle" someone. Others say they were just the opposite. Both characters were voiced at different times by Dayton Allen, Sid Raymond, Roy Halee, Ned Sparks and Frank Welker.

Since the birds never addressed each other by name, there was originally no apparent resolution to the question of which was which. In 1978's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, however, the birds introduced themselves by name in the opening credits; in this version, Heckle had the Brooklyn accent, and Jeckle the British one.

The first ''Heckle and Jeckle'' cartoon premiered in 1946, the last in 1966. In Filmation's Mighty Mouse series in their own segment.

Heckle and Jeckle had their own comic book title for several years.
*St. John Publications, #1-24 (1951-55)
*Pines Comics, #25-34 (1956-59)

In September of 1998, the duo made a cameo appearance in the Simpson's episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" as attendees of Homer Simpson's self-imagined funeral. The magpies had the following dialogue:

Heckle: "Now there goes a real bag of crap."

Jeckle: "Indubitably."

Heckle and Jeckle (along with the enitre Terrytoons library) is currently owned by CBS Paramount Televsion. Sadly, They never did jack squat with the library

==External links==
* [http://www.archive.org/details/the_talking_magpies The Talking Magpies cartoon @ the Internet Archive]

[[Category:Television series]]

Heckle and Jeckle

2007-02-24T17:33:36Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Heckle and Jeckle.png|thumb|right|Heckle and Jeckle]]
'''''Heckle and Jeckle''''' was a theatrical cartoon series created by [[Paul Terry]], and released by his own studio, Terrytoons. The characters were a pair of identical magpies who calmly outwitted their foes in the manner of Bugs Bunny, while maintaining a mischievous streak reminiscent of Woody Woodpecker. Their names were inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

One magpie spoke with a British accent, while the other spoke with a Brooklyn dialect, although it is uncertain precisely which character was which. Some sources assert that Jeckle was the British one, perhaps by association with the British surname "Jekyll", coupled with the assumption that a resident of Brooklyn might be more likely to "heckle" someone. Others say they were just the opposite. Both characters were voiced at different times by Dayton Allen, Sid Raymond, Roy Halee, Ned Sparks and Frank Welker.

Since the birds never addressed each other by name, there was originally no apparent resolution to the question of which was which. In 1978's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, however, the birds introduced themselves by name in the opening credits; in this version, Heckle had the Brooklyn accent, and Jeckle the British one.

The first ''Heckle and Jeckle'' cartoon premiered in 1946, the last in 1966. In Filmation's Mighty Mouse series in their own segment.

Heckle and Jeckle had their own comic book title for several years.
*St. John Publications, #1-24 (1951-55)
*Pines Comics, #25-34 (1956-59)

In September of 1998, the duo made a cameo appearance in the Simpson's episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" as attendees of Homer Simpson's self-imagined funeral. The magpies had the following dialogue:

Heckle: "Now there goes a real bag of crap."

Jeckle: "Indubitably."

Heckle and Jeckle (along with the enitre Terrytoons library) is currently owned by CBS Paramount Televsion. Sadly, They never did jack squat with the library

==External links==
* [http://www.archive.org/details/the_talking_magpies The Talking Magpies cartoon @ the Internet Archive]

[[Category:Television series]]

File:Heckle and Jeckle.png

2007-02-24T17:25:27Z

CyberFox: Heckle and Jeckle

== Summary ==
Heckle and Jeckle
== Licensing ==
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The Basil Brush Show

2007-02-23T05:09:32Z

CyberFox: a mear typo

[[Image:Asset 823.jpg|thumb|right|Basil Brush (cartoon form)]]

'''The Basil Brush Show''' is a 2002-present remake of the 1970s-1980s comedy show starring Basil Brush, the famous glove puppet fox.

A new comic foil was introduced for the first 4 seasons called Mr Stephen who was played by Christopher Pizzey. Georgina Leonidas and Michael Hayes also appear on the show. No-one is directly credited as playing Basil on this show, although it is almost certainly Michael Winsor, who is credited as either Basil's fitness instructor, or his personal assistant.

However, Despite Basil Brush's worldwide success, Basil Brush's TV Show (Original nor This remake) was never shown in the United States

==Characters==
===Stephen===

Stephen is the uncle to Dave and Molly, and is left in charge of them when their parents go on a round-the-world tour. It is never mentioned how he was chosen to be their guardian, or what his exact relationship with the children is. He is often the main subject of Basil or another character's jokes, much to his annoyance.

In the fifth series, Mr Stephen left the show (it is as yet unknown whether or not he will return later on, but it appears that he will not, as he has "officially left the show" [http://www.basilbrush.com/blog/]). He was revealed in the first episode to have been employed by "Hollywood", which turned out to in fact be a mobile snack bar named "Hollywood". This is a reference to his eagerness to be recognised as a brilliant actor in the first four series and be accepted into Hollywood, an endeavour that almost invariably flopped. (2002-2006)

===Dave===

Dave is another of the new characters that feature in the comeback. He is regularly shown to have a flair for business, and has, throughout the course of the series, set up a media empire, imported stolen goods and even started his own TV show, Big Bother (a play on the actual television program "Big Brother")
He is portrayed by Michael Hayes.

===Molly===

Molly is Dave's older sister and Stephen's niece. She is portrayed as the sensible character, trying to reason with the characters whenever they make a bad decision. Molly is one of the most popular characters on the show. She is very clever and very witty. In Series 5, Molly appears in only a few episodes, with Lucy partially replacing her character-type. (2002-Present) She is portrayed by Georgina Leonidas.

===Anil===

Appearing in every season of the comeback so far, Anil is the owner of Basil's local hangout, Anil's Cafe. Like Mr Stephen, he is shown to have a less than average intelligence, and a running joke through the series is the terrible quality of his food. (2002-Present)

===Amanda===

Stephen's first love interest Amanda appeared in the first series, but betrayed the gang by working for Cousin Mortimer. (2002)

===Ella===

Intelligent and headstrong, Ella is Stephen's second love interest, Molly's best friend, and the gang's upstairs neighbour. She appears in the second series. (2003)

===Madison===

An American who appears in the later seasons, having moved to the flat upstairs. She is introduced as a fashion student, but her initial designs were thrown out by Basil, having mistaken them for rubbish. Madison is Stephen's third love interest in the Basil Brush Show. She mispronounces Basil's name as ''Bay-zill'' (2004-Present)

===The Voice Over Man===

Witty but often voicing-over in the wrong situations, the Voice Over Man is never seen but often heard, and heard very loudly too, much to the annoyance of Basil and co. (2002-present)

===Cousin Mortimer===

Mortimer, Basil's criminal cousin is a fox on the run who often appears as the main baddie of the show. After telling a joke, he says "Bang bang!", usually accompanied by two gun shots. His full name is Mortimer Trouble Brush (2002-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen.

===Bingo===

Basil's playful and hyper nephew fox cub. Often says "Bing bing!". (2003-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen, (also voices Cousin Mortimer).

===Bungo===

Only seen once, Bungo is Bingo's twin brother. Described by Basil as "like Bingo, but much, much worse..." (2003)

=== Miss Pike ===

Only seen in one episode, Miss Pike is Dave's evil maths teacher who toasts any pupil that don't do or bring in their homework. In the episode ''The Fakes Progress'' when Steven is handsome he pretends to fall in love with Miss Pike to save Dave. Her first name is Ermintrude but she likes to call her name Minty. (2002)

===India Beau===

Pop-singing waitress at Anil's. She is a very good singer and is the second most popular on the show. She left the show in 2005.

===Liam===

Liam was found during the search for Stephen's predessesor. He impressed the judges, although he revealed that he was actually a distant cousin of Stephen and had just come to look for him. (2006-Present)

===Lucy===

Anil's niece, Lucy, as of series 5. She was found working as a "slave" for Anil, and was "rescued" by Basil. (2006-Present)

===Roxy===

Roxy is Basil's new girlfriend, but unlike the other foxes in the show (Bingo & Mortimer) she's an arctic fox. She has so far only been seen in four episodes. (2006-Present)

==Places==
* '''Stephen's Flat''' (2002-Present): This is the place where the gang live, and spend most of their time at. It is made up of a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and three bedrooms. The bathroom is seen in many occasions, and Basil & Stephen's bedroom is seen at the end of every episode from Series 1-4. Molly's room is only seen in one episode in Series Two, and Dave's room is only seen in an episode from Series 4.

* '''Anil's Café''' (2002-Present): The gang spend most of their time here, although it apparently serves bad food. This is the place where the group meet Amanda (1.1), India (Series 2), and Lucy (5.1). We also see Anil's Kitchen in one episode from Series 2. It is later refurbished in Series 3.

* '''Ella's Flat''' (2003): Only featured in one episode (2.1), this is the place where Stepehen and Basil end up after falling through the air vent.

* '''Madison's Flat''' (2004-Present): This is the place where Madison lives. It is exceptionally smaller than both Ella's and Stephen's flat.

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush Wikipedia: Basil Brush]
*[http://www.basilbrush.com Official Website]

[[Category:Television series]]

Ruff and Reddy

2007-02-23T03:11:17Z

CyberFox: /* ''The Ruff & Reddy Show'' in other languages */

[[Image:Rufreddy.jpg|thumb|right|Ruff (cat) and Reddy (dog)]]
'''''The Ruff & Reddy Show''''' was a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera.

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera entered the television field fresh from serving as the heads of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation department, which shut down in June 1957. Unlike its successor '''''The Huckleberry Hound Show''''', Ruff and Reddy featured a live action host, Jimmy Blaine, and various theatrical cartoons from Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems library including The Fox and the Crow and Li'l Abner filling up the rest of the half-hour.

Messick's "Ruff" voice characterization was very similar to the one he would later use for Pixie the mouse. Butler used his tried-and-true southern drawl for "Reddy", a voice that would later become mainly identified with Huckleberry Hound. A supporting character in some episodes was the tiny-sized Professor Gizmo (also voiced by Don Messick). The show's episodes borrowed from the serialized storytelling format of such shows as Crusader Rabbit by making extensive use of cliffhanger storylines.

Ruff and Reddy was broadcast in black and white until fall 1959, when it went to color. NBC cancelled the show at the end of the 1959-1960 season, and was later rerun in 1962 with Captain Bob Cottle as the live-action host.

The characters next appeared on The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, in the episode Yogi's Ark Lark (which featured almost every Hanna-Barbera animal character that existed at the time). Since then, they haven't been used in anything new.

Episodes of Ruff and Reddy later appeared on one volume of the '''Hanna-Barbera Personal Favorites''' home video series called "Animal Follies" along with ''Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey'', ''Touché Turtle'', ''Augie Doggie'' and ''Snagglepuss''.

==''The Ruff & Reddy Show'' in other languages==
* Brazilian Portuguese: ''Jambo & Ruivão''
* French Canadian: ''Pouf & Riqui''
* Spanish: ''Ruff y Reddy''

==External links==
*[http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/P-R/The_Ruff_and_Reddy_Show/ Big Cartoon DataBase: The Ruff and Reddy Show]
*[http://www.wingnuttoons.com/RuffReddy.html List of episodes @ Wingnut]
*[http://www.toontracker.com/ruffredd/ruffredd.htm Toon Tracker: Ruff & Reddy]
*[http://www.toonopedia.com/rufreddy.htm Toonopedia's ''Ruff & Reddy'' entry]

[[Category:Television series]]

Rex the Runt

2007-02-23T01:41:41Z

CyberFox:

'''''Rex the Runt''''' is an animated ([[w:claymation|claymation]]) [[w:television|television]] show produced by Aardman Animations. Its main characters are four [[w:Plasticine|Plasticine]] [[dog|dogs]]: Rex, Wendy, Bad Bob and Vince.

The series began with a short, "Ident", in 1989 directed by Richard Goleszowski. After a long gestation period this developed into two unaired shorts and then thirteen ten-minute episodes that first aired over two weeks on [[w:BBC2|BBC2]] from December 1998. A second thirteen episode series aired from September 2001 on the same channel. As well as the core cast guest voices included [[w:Paul Merton|Paul Merton]], [[w:Morwenna Banks|Morwenna Banks]], [[w:Judith Chalmers|Judith Chalmers]], [[w:Antoine De Caunes|Antoine De Caunes]], [[w:Bob Holness|Bob Holness]], [[w:Bob Monkhouse|Bob Monkhouse]], [[w:Jonathan Ross (television presenter)|Jonathan Ross]], [[w:Graham Norton|Graham Norton]], [[w:Arthur Smith (comedian)|Arthur Smith]], [[w:June Whitfield|June Whitfield]] and [[w:Eddie Izzard|Eddie Izzard]].

The animation is unusual in that the models are almost two-dimensional and are animated to exaggerate this - they are flattened in appearance and animated on a sheet of glass with the backgrounds behind the sheet.

Plots also regularly make reference to the fact that characters are made of Plasticine, such as one episode where Wendy goes to a hair salon and starts melting when under the hairdryer.

Series One has been released on [[w:VHS|VHS]] in the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] and on [[w:DVD|DVD]] in [[w:South Korea|South Korea]]. A DVD of all 26 episodes has been released in the [[w:United States|United States]].

== Characters ==

* '''Rex the Runt Esq.''' (Steve Box) - The title character and head of the household. Rex often leads the others through their adventures in Telly, which always take a more surreal turn.

* '''Bad Bob''' (Andy Jeffers) - Bob is "A big, fat, jelly, wobbley, fat bastard." Although he has two eyes, he wears an eyepatch, which switches from one eye to another. He also likes guns and sheds.

* '''Wendy''' (Elisabeth Hadley) - Rex's female companion, although they have never really been romantically together. She often comes up with good ideas with Rex steals.

* '''Vince''' (Colin Role) - The closet the others have to a pet dog, Vince often blurts out things, such as, "Tuesday," and, "Jam." He suffers from Random Pavarotti Disease.

== Random Pavarotti Disease ==

'''Random Pavarotti Disease''' is a psychological disease that mainly affects plastacine dogs. The condition causes the random blurting out of opera-like singing. The only known cure is to go into either the victim's brain or bum, using a shrunken submarine. It rarely works, and, on the rare occasion it does work, causes the random blurting out of programmes from [[w:BBC Radio 4|BBC Radio 4]] instead (the ''[[w:Shipping Forecast|Shipping Forecast]]'' and ''[[w:Gardeners' Question Time|Gardeners' Question Time]]'' were used to demonstrate this).

== References to other Aardman productions ==
Several episodes of ''Rex the Runt'' contain inside references to other television programmes created by Aardman Animations:
*In the episode "Adventures on Telly Part I", Wallace (from the Wallace and Gromit series) is washing the windows on Rex's house, until Bad Bob pushes his ladder over (in the film "A Close Shave", Wallace operates a window washing business).
*Pib and Pog, two of Aardman's lesser known creations, are present in the spectator gallery during the courtroom scene from "The Trials of Wendy".
*The exorcist called upon in "Patio" is actually [[w:Morph (character)|Morph]], a character from an Aardman children's show, wearing a trench coat, hat, and large mustache.
*There are two references in the episode "Wayne the Zebra": A Chicken Run-style chicken is rejected during the auditions (with Bad Bob making a comment regarding the recent popularity of chickens, referring to the film's success), and Bad Bob consults a book entitled ''Cracking Animation'' (which lists zebras as one of the top five hardest things to animate, due to their stripes), which has the same distinctive yellow cover as Aardman's how-to book, ''Creating 3-D Animation''.

== Episode list ==
'''Season 1'''
# "Holiday in Vince"
# "Adventures on Telly Part I"
# "Adventures on Telly Part II"
# "Adventures on Telly Part III"
# "Bob's International Hiccup Centre"
# "Easter Island"
# "Too Many Dogs"
# "The Trials of Wendy"
# "Stinky's Search for a Star"
# "Under the Duvet"
# "Johnny Saveloy's Undoing"
# "The City Shrinker"
# "Carbonara"

'''Season 2'''
# "Mouse in Me Kitchen"
# "Wendy's Hot Date"
# "Patio"
# "Crap Day Out"
# "Slim Bob"
# "Private Wendy"
# "Rocket Raymond"
# "Plasticene Gene"
# "Wendy's New Hairdo"
# "Wayne the Zebra"
# "Art of Cooking"
# "Bob Joins a Gang"
# "Hole in the Garden"

== ''Rex The Runt'' merchandise ==

*''Rex The Runt: The Complete First Season'' (VHS) (B00005NB24)
*''Rex The Runt: The Complete Collection'' (DVD) (US only) (B000068QOF)
*''Rex The Runt: Rainy Day Companion'' (Book written by Andrew Franks and Kevin Wrench, a.k.a the voices of Rex and Bad Bob) (ISBN 0-340-74862-1)
*''Aardman's Darkside'' (a compilation DVD featuring episodes of ''Rex The Runt'', to be released on October 18th 2006) (DVD) (B000FS9SDM)

== External links ==
*[http://www.aardman.com/rextherunt/window.html ''The New Aardman 'Rex The Runt' Site.'']
* [http://web.archive.org/web/19991001095006/www.aardman.com/rextherunt/ ''The old Aardman 'Rex The Runt' site, featuring the 'Ask Dr. Dogg' questions and much more.'']
* [http://www.atomfilms.com/af/spotlight/series/rextherunt/ ''Watch 'Rex The Runt' Series 1 episodes on AtomFilms.'']

{{wikipedia|Rex the Runt}}
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Category:Television series

2007-02-23T01:36:36Z

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===# & A-D===
* [[The Angry Beavers]]
* [[The Basil Brush Show]]
* [[Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars]]
* [[Capitol Critters]]
* [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]
* [[Count Duckula]]
* [[Don't Eat The Neighbours]]
* [[Duck Dodgers]]
* [[DuckTales]]
* [[Dumbo's Circus]]
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===E-L===
* [[Fievel's American Tails]]
* [[Garfield and Friends]]
* [[Gophers]]
* [[Gummi Bears (TV show)|Gummi Bears]]
* [[Heckle and Jeckle]]
* [[KO Century Beast]]
* [[Krypto the Superdog]]
* [[Looney Tunes]] & [[Merrie Melodies]]
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===M-R===
* [[Pecola]]
* [[Pinky and the Brain]]
* [[Redwall (show)|Redwall]]
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===S-Z===
* [[Samurai Pizza Cats]]
* [[Sherlock Hound]]
* [[Sitting Ducks]]
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)]]
* [[The Sylvanian Families]]
* [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]
* [[Tom and Jerry]]
* [[Under The Umbrella Tree]]
* [[Welcome To Pooh Corner]]
* [[Woody Woodpecker]]
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Category:Television series

2007-02-23T01:35:56Z

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|- valign="top"
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===# & A-D===
* [[The Angry Beavers]]
* [[The Basil Brush Show]]
* [[Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars]]
* [[Capitol Critters]]
* [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]
* [[Count Duckula]]
* [[Don't Eat The Neighbours]]
* [[Duck Dodgers]]
* [[DuckTales]]
* [[Dumbo's Circus]]
||

===E-L===
* [[Fievel's American Tails]]
* [[Garfield and Friends]]
* [[Gophers]]
* [[Gummi Bears (TV show)|Gummi Bears]]
* [[Heckle and Jeckle]]
* [[KO Century Beast]]
* [[Krypto the Superdog]]
* [[Looney Tunes]] & [[Merrie Melodies]]
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===M-R===
* [[Pecola]]
* [[Pinky and the Brain]]
* [[Redwall (show)|Redwall]]
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===S-Z===
* [[Samurai Pizza Cats]]
* [[Sherlock Hound]]
* [[Sitting Ducks]]
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)]]
* [[The Sylvanian Families]]
* [[Tiny Toon Adventures]]
* [[Tom and Jerry]]
* [[Welcome To Pooh Corner]]
* [[Woody Woodpecker]]
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The Basil Brush Show

2007-02-23T01:13:57Z

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[[Image:Asset 823.jpg|thumb|right|Basil Brush (cartoon form)]]

'''The Basil Brush Show''' is a 2002-present remake of the 1970s-1980s comedy show starring Basil Brush, the famous glove puppet fox.

A new comic foil was introduced for the first 4 seasons called Mr Stephen who was played by Christopher Pizzey. Georgina Leonidas and Michael Hayes also appear on the show. No-one is directly credited as playing Basil on this show, although it is almost certainly Michael Winsor, who is credited as either Basil's fitness instructor, or his personal assistant.

However, Despite Basil Brush's worldwide success, Basil Brush's TV Show (Origianl nor This remake) was never shown in the United States

==Characters==
===Stephen===

Stephen is the uncle to Dave and Molly, and is left in charge of them when their parents go on a round-the-world tour. It is never mentioned how he was chosen to be their guardian, or what his exact relationship with the children is. He is often the main subject of Basil or another character's jokes, much to his annoyance.

In the fifth series, Mr Stephen left the show (it is as yet unknown whether or not he will return later on, but it appears that he will not, as he has "officially left the show" [http://www.basilbrush.com/blog/]). He was revealed in the first episode to have been employed by "Hollywood", which turned out to in fact be a mobile snack bar named "Hollywood". This is a reference to his eagerness to be recognised as a brilliant actor in the first four series and be accepted into Hollywood, an endeavour that almost invariably flopped. (2002-2006)

===Dave===

Dave is another of the new characters that feature in the comeback. He is regularly shown to have a flair for business, and has, throughout the course of the series, set up a media empire, imported stolen goods and even started his own TV show, Big Bother (a play on the actual television program "Big Brother")
He is portrayed by Michael Hayes.

===Molly===

Molly is Dave's older sister and Stephen's niece. She is portrayed as the sensible character, trying to reason with the characters whenever they make a bad decision. Molly is one of the most popular characters on the show. She is very clever and very witty. In Series 5, Molly appears in only a few episodes, with Lucy partially replacing her character-type. (2002-Present) She is portrayed by Georgina Leonidas.

===Anil===

Appearing in every season of the comeback so far, Anil is the owner of Basil's local hangout, Anil's Cafe. Like Mr Stephen, he is shown to have a less than average intelligence, and a running joke through the series is the terrible quality of his food. (2002-Present)

===Amanda===

Stephen's first love interest Amanda appeared in the first series, but betrayed the gang by working for Cousin Mortimer. (2002)

===Ella===

Intelligent and headstrong, Ella is Stephen's second love interest, Molly's best friend, and the gang's upstairs neighbour. She appears in the second series. (2003)

===Madison===

An American who appears in the later seasons, having moved to the flat upstairs. She is introduced as a fashion student, but her initial designs were thrown out by Basil, having mistaken them for rubbish. Madison is Stephen's third love interest in the Basil Brush Show. She mispronounces Basil's name as ''Bay-zill'' (2004-Present)

===The Voice Over Man===

Witty but often voicing-over in the wrong situations, the Voice Over Man is never seen but often heard, and heard very loudly too, much to the annoyance of Basil and co. (2002-present)

===Cousin Mortimer===

Mortimer, Basil's criminal cousin is a fox on the run who often appears as the main baddie of the show. After telling a joke, he says "Bang bang!", usually accompanied by two gun shots. His full name is Mortimer Trouble Brush (2002-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen.

===Bingo===

Basil's playful and hyper nephew fox cub. Often says "Bing bing!". (2003-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen, (also voices Cousin Mortimer).

===Bungo===

Only seen once, Bungo is Bingo's twin brother. Described by Basil as "like Bingo, but much, much worse..." (2003)

=== Miss Pike ===

Only seen in one episode, Miss Pike is Dave's evil maths teacher who toasts any pupil that don't do or bring in their homework. In the episode ''The Fakes Progress'' when Steven is handsome he pretends to fall in love with Miss Pike to save Dave. Her first name is Ermintrude but she likes to call her name Minty. (2002)

===India Beau===

Pop-singing waitress at Anil's. She is a very good singer and is the second most popular on the show. She left the show in 2005.

===Liam===

Liam was found during the search for Stephen's predessesor. He impressed the judges, although he revealed that he was actually a distant cousin of Stephen and had just come to look for him. (2006-Present)

===Lucy===

Anil's niece, Lucy, as of series 5. She was found working as a "slave" for Anil, and was "rescued" by Basil. (2006-Present)

===Roxy===

Roxy is Basil's new girlfriend, but unlike the other foxes in the show (Bingo & Mortimer) she's an arctic fox. She has so far only been seen in four episodes. (2006-Present)

==Places==
* '''Stephen's Flat''' (2002-Present): This is the place where the gang live, and spend most of their time at. It is made up of a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and three bedrooms. The bathroom is seen in many occasions, and Basil & Stephen's bedroom is seen at the end of every episode from Series 1-4. Molly's room is only seen in one episode in Series Two, and Dave's room is only seen in an episode from Series 4.

* '''Anil's Café''' (2002-Present): The gang spend most of their time here, although it apparently serves bad food. This is the place where the group meet Amanda (1.1), India (Series 2), and Lucy (5.1). We also see Anil's Kitchen in one episode from Series 2. It is later refurbished in Series 3.

* '''Ella's Flat''' (2003): Only featured in one episode (2.1), this is the place where Stepehen and Basil end up after falling through the air vent.

* '''Madison's Flat''' (2004-Present): This is the place where Madison lives. It is exceptionally smaller than both Ella's and Stephen's flat.

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush Wikipedia: Basil Brush]
*[http://www.basilbrush.com Official Website]

[[Category:Television series]]

The Basil Brush Show

2007-02-23T01:12:36Z

CyberFox: /* External links */

[[Image:Asset 823.jpg|thumb|right|Basil Brush (cartoon form)]]

'''The Basil Brush Show''' is a 2002-present remake of the 1970s-1980s comedy show starring Basil Brush, the famous glove puppet fox.

A new comic foil was introduced for the first 4 seasons called Mr Stephen who was played by Christopher Pizzey. Georgina Leonidas and Michael Hayes also appear on the show. No-one is directly credited as playing Basil on this show, although it is almost certainly Michael Winsor, who is credited as either Basil's fitness instructor, or his personal assistant.

However, Despite Basil Brush's worldwide success, Basil Brush's TV Show (Origianl nor This remake) was never shown in the United States

==Characters==
===Stephen===

Stephen is the uncle to Dave and Molly, and is left in charge of them when their parents go on a round-the-world tour. It is never mentioned how he was chosen to be their guardian, or what his exact relationship with the children is. He is often the main subject of Basil or another character's jokes, much to his annoyance.

In the fifth series, Mr Stephen left the show (it is as yet unknown whether or not he will return later on, but it appears that he will not, as he has "officially left the show" [http://www.basilbrush.com/blog/]). He was revealed in the first episode to have been employed by "Hollywood", which turned out to in fact be a mobile snack bar named "Hollywood". This is a reference to his eagerness to be recognised as a brilliant actor in the first four series and be accepted into Hollywood, an endeavour that almost invariably flopped. (2002-2006)

===Dave===

Dave is another of the new characters that feature in the comeback. He is regularly shown to have a flair for business, and has, throughout the course of the series, set up a media empire, imported stolen goods and even started his own TV show, Big Bother (a play on the actual television program "Big Brother")
He is portrayed by Michael Hayes.

===Molly===

Molly is Dave's older sister and Stephen's niece. She is portrayed as the sensible character, trying to reason with the characters whenever they make a bad decision. Molly is one of the most popular characters on the show. She is very clever and very witty. In Series 5, Molly appears in only a few episodes, with Lucy partially replacing her character-type. (2002-Present) She is portrayed by Georgina Leonidas.

===Anil===

Appearing in every season of the comeback so far, Anil is the owner of Basil's local hangout, Anil's Cafe. Like Mr Stephen, he is shown to have a less than average intelligence, and a running joke through the series is the terrible quality of his food. (2002-Present)

===Amanda===

Stephen's first love interest Amanda appeared in the first series, but betrayed the gang by working for Cousin Mortimer. (2002)

===Ella===

Intelligent and headstrong, Ella is Stephen's second love interest, Molly's best friend, and the gang's upstairs neighbour. She appears in the second series. (2003)

===Madison===

An American who appears in the later seasons, having moved to the flat upstairs. She is introduced as a fashion student, but her initial designs were thrown out by Basil, having mistaken them for rubbish. Madison is Stephen's third love interest in the Basil Brush Show. She mispronounces Basil's name as ''Bay-zill'' (2004-Present)

===The Voice Over Man===

Witty but often voicing-over in the wrong situations, the Voice Over Man is never seen but often heard, and heard very loudly too, much to the annoyance of Basil and co. (2002-present)

===Cousin Mortimer===

Mortimer, Basil's criminal cousin is a fox on the run who often appears as the main baddie of the show. After telling a joke, he says "Bang bang!", usually accompanied by two gun shots. His full name is Mortimer Trouble Brush (2002-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen.

===Bingo===

Basil's playful and hyper nephew fox cub. Often says "Bing bing!". (2003-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen, (also voices Cousin Mortimer).

===Bungo===

Only seen once, Bungo is Bingo's twin brother. Described by Basil as "like Bingo, but much, much worse..." (2003)

=== Miss Pike ===

Only seen in one episode, Miss Pike is Dave's evil maths teacher who toasts any pupil that don't do or bring in their homework. In the episode ''The Fakes Progress'' when Steven is handsome he pretends to fall in love with Miss Pike to save Dave. Her first name is Ermintrude but she likes to call her name Minty. (2002)

===India Beau===

Pop-singing waitress at Anil's. She is a very good singer and is the second most popular on the show. She left the show in 2005.

===Liam===

Liam was found during the search for Stephen's predessesor. He impressed the judges, although he revealed that he was actually a distant cousin of Stephen and had just come to look for him. (2006-Present)

===Lucy===

Anil's niece, Lucy, as of series 5. She was found working as a "slave" for Anil, and was "rescued" by Basil. (2006-Present)

===Roxy===

Roxy is Basil's new girlfriend, but unlike the other foxes in the show (Bingo & Mortimer) she's an arctic fox. She has so far only been seen in four episodes. (2006-Present)

==Places==
* '''Stephen's Flat''' (''2002-Present''): This is the place where the gang live, and spend most of their time at. It is made up of a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and three bedrooms. The bathroom is seen in many occasions, and Basil & Stephen's bedroom is seen at the end of every episode from Series 1-4. Molly's room is only seen in one episode in Series Two, and Dave's room is only seen in an episode from Series 4.

* '''Anil's Café''' (''2002-Present'''): The gang spend most of their time here, although it apparently serves bad food. This is the place where the group meet Amanda (1.1), India (Series 2), and Lucy (5.1). We also see Anil's Kitchen in one episode from Series 2. It is later refurbished in Series 3.

* '''Ella's Flat''' (''2003'''): Only featured in one episode (2.1), this is the place where Stepehen and Basil end up after falling through the air vent.

* '''Madison's Flat''' (''2004-Present'''): This is the place where Madison lives. It is exceptionally smaller than both Ella's and Stephen's flat.

==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush Wikipedia: Basil Brush]
*[http://www.basilbrush.com Official Website]

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The Basil Brush Show

2007-02-23T01:11:56Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Asset 823.jpg|thumb|right|Basil Brush (cartoon form)]]

'''The Basil Brush Show''' is a 2002-present remake of the 1970s-1980s comedy show starring Basil Brush, the famous glove puppet fox.

A new comic foil was introduced for the first 4 seasons called Mr Stephen who was played by Christopher Pizzey. Georgina Leonidas and Michael Hayes also appear on the show. No-one is directly credited as playing Basil on this show, although it is almost certainly Michael Winsor, who is credited as either Basil's fitness instructor, or his personal assistant.

However, Despite Basil Brush's worldwide success, Basil Brush's TV Show (Origianl nor This remake) was never shown in the United States

==Characters==
===Stephen===

Stephen is the uncle to Dave and Molly, and is left in charge of them when their parents go on a round-the-world tour. It is never mentioned how he was chosen to be their guardian, or what his exact relationship with the children is. He is often the main subject of Basil or another character's jokes, much to his annoyance.

In the fifth series, Mr Stephen left the show (it is as yet unknown whether or not he will return later on, but it appears that he will not, as he has "officially left the show" [http://www.basilbrush.com/blog/]). He was revealed in the first episode to have been employed by "Hollywood", which turned out to in fact be a mobile snack bar named "Hollywood". This is a reference to his eagerness to be recognised as a brilliant actor in the first four series and be accepted into Hollywood, an endeavour that almost invariably flopped. (2002-2006)

===Dave===

Dave is another of the new characters that feature in the comeback. He is regularly shown to have a flair for business, and has, throughout the course of the series, set up a media empire, imported stolen goods and even started his own TV show, Big Bother (a play on the actual television program "Big Brother")
He is portrayed by Michael Hayes.

===Molly===

Molly is Dave's older sister and Stephen's niece. She is portrayed as the sensible character, trying to reason with the characters whenever they make a bad decision. Molly is one of the most popular characters on the show. She is very clever and very witty. In Series 5, Molly appears in only a few episodes, with Lucy partially replacing her character-type. (2002-Present) She is portrayed by Georgina Leonidas.

===Anil===

Appearing in every season of the comeback so far, Anil is the owner of Basil's local hangout, Anil's Cafe. Like Mr Stephen, he is shown to have a less than average intelligence, and a running joke through the series is the terrible quality of his food. (2002-Present)

===Amanda===

Stephen's first love interest Amanda appeared in the first series, but betrayed the gang by working for Cousin Mortimer. (2002)

===Ella===

Intelligent and headstrong, Ella is Stephen's second love interest, Molly's best friend, and the gang's upstairs neighbour. She appears in the second series. (2003)

===Madison===

An American who appears in the later seasons, having moved to the flat upstairs. She is introduced as a fashion student, but her initial designs were thrown out by Basil, having mistaken them for rubbish. Madison is Stephen's third love interest in the Basil Brush Show. She mispronounces Basil's name as ''Bay-zill'' (2004-Present)

===The Voice Over Man===

Witty but often voicing-over in the wrong situations, the Voice Over Man is never seen but often heard, and heard very loudly too, much to the annoyance of Basil and co. (2002-present)

===Cousin Mortimer===

Mortimer, Basil's criminal cousin is a fox on the run who often appears as the main baddie of the show. After telling a joke, he says "Bang bang!", usually accompanied by two gun shots. His full name is Mortimer Trouble Brush (2002-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen.

===Bingo===

Basil's playful and hyper nephew fox cub. Often says "Bing bing!". (2003-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen, (also voices Cousin Mortimer).

===Bungo===

Only seen once, Bungo is Bingo's twin brother. Described by Basil as "like Bingo, but much, much worse..." (2003)

=== Miss Pike ===

Only seen in one episode, Miss Pike is Dave's evil maths teacher who toasts any pupil that don't do or bring in their homework. In the episode ''The Fakes Progress'' when Steven is handsome he pretends to fall in love with Miss Pike to save Dave. Her first name is Ermintrude but she likes to call her name Minty. (2002)

===India Beau===

Pop-singing waitress at Anil's. She is a very good singer and is the second most popular on the show. She left the show in 2005.

===Liam===

Liam was found during the search for Stephen's predessesor. He impressed the judges, although he revealed that he was actually a distant cousin of Stephen and had just come to look for him. (2006-Present)

===Lucy===

Anil's niece, Lucy, as of series 5. She was found working as a "slave" for Anil, and was "rescued" by Basil. (2006-Present)

===Roxy===

Roxy is Basil's new girlfriend, but unlike the other foxes in the show (Bingo & Mortimer) she's an arctic fox. She has so far only been seen in four episodes. (2006-Present)

==Places==
* '''Stephen's Flat''' (''2002-Present''): This is the place where the gang live, and spend most of their time at. It is made up of a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and three bedrooms. The bathroom is seen in many occasions, and Basil & Stephen's bedroom is seen at the end of every episode from Series 1-4. Molly's room is only seen in one episode in Series Two, and Dave's room is only seen in an episode from Series 4.

* '''Anil's Café''' (''2002-Present'''): The gang spend most of their time here, although it apparently serves bad food. This is the place where the group meet Amanda (1.1), India (Series 2), and Lucy (5.1). We also see Anil's Kitchen in one episode from Series 2. It is later refurbished in Series 3.

* '''Ella's Flat''' (''2003'''): Only featured in one episode (2.1), this is the place where Stepehen and Basil end up after falling through the air vent.

* '''Madison's Flat''' (''2004-Present'''): This is the place where Madison lives. It is exceptionally smaller than both Ella's and Stephen's flat.

==External links==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush Wikipedia: Basil Brush]
[http://www.basilbrush.com Official Website]

[[Category:Television series]]

The Basil Brush Show

2007-02-23T01:10:41Z

CyberFox:

[[Image:Asset 823.jpg|thumb|right|Basil Brush (cartoon form)]]

'''The Basil Brush Show''' is a 2002-present remake of the 1970s-1980s comedy show starring Basil Brush, the famous glove puppet fox.

A new comic foil was introduced for the first 4 seasons called Mr Stephen who was played by [[Christopher Pizzey]]. [[Georgina Leonidas]] and [[Michael Hayes]] also appear on the show. No-one is directly credited as playing Basil on this show, although it is almost certainly [[Michael Winsor]], who is credited as either Basil's fitness instructor, or his personal assistant.

However, Despite Basil Brush's worldwide success, Basil Brush's TV Show (Origianl nor this remake) was never shown in the USA

==Characters==
===Stephen===

Stephen is the uncle to Dave and Molly, and is left in charge of them when their parents go on a round-the-world tour. It is never mentioned how he was chosen to be their guardian, or what his exact relationship with the children is. He is often the main subject of Basil or another character's jokes, much to his annoyance.

In the fifth series, Mr Stephen left the show (it is as yet unknown whether or not he will return later on, but it appears that he will not, as he has "officially left the show" [http://www.basilbrush.com/blog/]). He was revealed in the first episode to have been employed by "Hollywood", which turned out to in fact be a mobile snack bar named "Hollywood". This is a reference to his eagerness to be recognised as a brilliant actor in the first four series and be accepted into Hollywood, an endeavour that almost invariably flopped. (2002-2006)

===Dave===

Dave is another of the new characters that feature in the comeback. He is regularly shown to have a flair for business, and has, throughout the course of the series, set up a media empire, imported stolen goods and even started his own TV show, Big Bother (a play on the actual television program "Big Brother")
He is portrayed by Michael Hayes.

===Molly===

Molly is Dave's older sister and Stephen's niece. She is portrayed as the sensible character, trying to reason with the characters whenever they make a bad decision. Molly is one of the most popular characters on the show. She is very clever and very witty. In Series 5, Molly appears in only a few episodes, with Lucy partially replacing her character-type. (2002-Present) She is portrayed by Georgina Leonidas.

===Anil===

Appearing in every season of the comeback so far, Anil is the owner of Basil's local hangout, Anil's Cafe. Like Mr Stephen, he is shown to have a less than average intelligence, and a running joke through the series is the terrible quality of his food. (2002-Present)

===Amanda===

Stephen's first love interest Amanda appeared in the first series, but betrayed the gang by working for Cousin Mortimer. (2002)

===Ella===

Intelligent and headstrong, Ella is Stephen's second love interest, Molly's best friend, and the gang's upstairs neighbour. She appears in the second series. (2003)

===Madison===

An American who appears in the later seasons, having moved to the flat upstairs. She is introduced as a fashion student, but her initial designs were thrown out by Basil, having mistaken them for rubbish. Madison is Stephen's third love interest in the Basil Brush Show. She mispronounces Basil's name as ''Bay-zill'' (2004-Present)

===The Voice Over Man===

Witty but often voicing-over in the wrong situations, the Voice Over Man is never seen but often heard, and heard very loudly too, much to the annoyance of Basil and co. (2002-present)

===Cousin Mortimer===

Mortimer, Basil's criminal cousin is a fox on the run who often appears as the main baddie of the show. After telling a joke, he says "Bang bang!", usually accompanied by two gun shots. His full name is Mortimer Trouble Brush (2002-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen.

===Bingo===

Basil's playful and hyper nephew fox cub. Often says "Bing bing!". (2003-Present). He is voiced by Don Austen, (also voices Cousin Mortimer).

===Bungo===

Only seen once, Bungo is Bingo's twin brother. Described by Basil as "like Bingo, but much, much worse..." (2003)

=== Miss Pike ===

Only seen in one episode, Miss Pike is Dave's evil maths teacher who toasts any pupil that don't do or bring in their homework. In the episode ''The Fakes Progress'' when Steven is handsome he pretends to fall in love with Miss Pike to save Dave. Her first name is Ermintrude but she likes to call her name Minty. (2002)

===India Beau===

Pop-singing waitress at Anil's. She is a very good singer and is the second most popular on the show. She left the show in 2005.

===Liam===

Liam was found during the search for Stephen's predessesor. He impressed the judges, although he revealed that he was actually a distant cousin of Stephen and had just come to look for him. (2006-Present)

===Lucy===

Anil's niece, Lucy, as of series 5. She was found working as a "slave" for Anil, and was "rescued" by Basil. (2006-Present)

===Roxy===

Roxy is Basil's new girlfriend, but unlike the other foxes in the show (Bingo & Mortimer) she's an arctic fox. She has so far only been seen in four episodes. (2006-Present)

==Places==
* '''Stephen's Flat''' (''2002-Present''): This is the place where the gang live, and spend most of their time at. It is made up of a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and three bedrooms. The bathroom is seen in many occasions, and Basil & Stephen's bedroom is seen at the end of every episode from Series 1-4. Molly's room is only seen in one episode in Series Two, and Dave's room is only seen in an episode from Series 4.

* '''Anil's Café''' (''2002-Present'''): The gang spend most of their time here, although it apparently serves bad food. This is the place where the group meet Amanda (1.1), India (Series 2), and Lucy (5.1). We also see Anil's Kitchen in one episode from Series 2. It is later refurbished in Series 3.

* '''Ella's Flat''' (''2003'''): Only featured in one episode (2.1), this is the place where Stepehen and Basil end up after falling through the air vent.

* '''Madison's Flat''' (''2004-Present'''): This is the place where Madison lives. It is exceptionally smaller than both Ella's and Stephen's flat.

==External links==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Brush Wikipedia: Basil Brush]
[http://www.basilbrush.com Official Website]

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