Mega Babies
Mega Babies is a 1999–2001 Canadian–American animated children's television series created by the Tremblay brothers, Christian and Yvon, who previously had made the Hanna-Barbera show SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.[2] It is produced by CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group in association with Sony Wonder.[3]
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 The English Mega Babies logo. From Right to left; Derrick, Meg and Buck. | |
| Genre | Action fiction Adventure Toilet humor |
| Created by | Christian Tremblay Yvon Tremblay |
| Directed by | Kevin Patrick Currie |
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| Narrated by | Terrence Scammell |
| Music by | James Fieldman Gary Guttman |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 10–11 minutes |
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| Distributor | m4e AG |
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| Original release | October 10, 1999[1] – April 22, 2000[1] |
The series was broadcast on Fox Family Channel and Teletoon. The show was also aired in UK on Sky One's weekday mornings and later repeated on Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002.
Synopsis
The show is about a trio of babies who are three characters that fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Meg, Derrick and Buck and their care-giver's name is Nurse Lazlo. The show takes place in Your City, USA.
After their birth, they are brought to an orphanage. When the entire solar system aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other powers, and Nurse Lazlo's IQ rose.
The show uses a lot of violence and toilet humor based on snot, vomit, feces, flatulence, drool, veins popping out of muscular parts, and various other bodily fluids coming from the cast.
Voice actors
Buck was voiced by Sonja Ball, Dean Hagopian voiced many male characters, Laura Teasdale did Derrick's voice, Meg was voiced by Jaclyn Linetsky, and Bronwen Mantel voiced Nurse Lazlo.
Even though the voice acting was done in Montreal, the voice directing was done by Vancouver based veteran voice actor and voice director Terry Klassen who has done voiceovers for many animated television series and films such as voicing Krillin in the Ocean dubbed version of Dragon Ball Z. Klassen has also voice directed over works such as Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Test, Cardcaptors, several Barbie films, and more recently, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This was the only time Klassen has ever voice directed an animated project outside of Vancouver. During the later episodes Terrence Scammell who also voiced several characters in the series as well as providing the main title narration took over as voice director. Scammell has also done many voice acting roles for film, television and video games in both Montreal and Ottawa, Ontario.
Episodes
Season 1 (1999)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [1] |
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| 1 | 1 | "Full Metal Grizz" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Christian Tremblay | October 10, 1999 |
| 2 | 2 | "Attack of the Cownibals" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Angus Bungay | October 10, 1999 |
| 3 | 3 | "Molar Attack" | Erin Ehrlich | Boomstone | October 13, 1999 |
| 4 | 4 | "The Boy in the Drastic Bubble" | Mitch Watson | Jeff Barker | October 13, 1999 |
| 5 | 5 | "Chicken Pox Outbreak" | Lisa Malone | Jim Caswell | October 20, 1999 |
| 6 | 6 | "Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite" | John Paragon | Jeff Barker | October 20, 1999 |
| 7 | 7 | "Adoption D-Day" | Ken Segall | Jeremy Hildebrand | October 27, 1999 |
| 8 | 8 | "Crustacean Frustation" | Russell Arch | Jeremy Hildebrand | October 27, 1999 |
| 9 | 9 | "The In Breed" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Normand DeRepentigny | November 3, 1999 |
| 10 | 10 | "Destructive Nature" | William Forrest Cluverius | Karen Lloyd | November 3, 1999 |
| 11 | 11 | "The Island of Dr. Thoreau" | Russell Arch | Normand DeRepentigny | November 10, 1999 |
| 12 | 12 | "Journey to the Center of the Sewer" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Marco Menard | November 10, 1999 |
| 13 | 13 | "Inner Ear Inferno" | Erin Ehrlich | Zoran Vanjaka | December 15, 1999 |
| 14 | 14 | "Lost Freeway" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Luc Savoie | December 15, 1999 |
| 15 | 15 | "Dr. Franken-Buck" | Matt Mallach | Normand DeRepentigny | November 17, 1999 |
| 16 | 16 | "Intergalactic Battle of the Babies" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Jeff Barker | November 17, 1999 |
| 17 | 17 | "The Evil Eye" | Lisa Malone | Dan Leveille | November 24, 1999 |
| 18 | 18 | "A Mega Christmas" | William Forrest Cluverius | Richard Forgues | November 24, 1999 |
| 19 | 19 | "Alien Withdrawal" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Marc Simard | December 1, 1999 |
| 20 | 20 | "Nursery Slimes" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Richard Forgues | December 1, 1999 |
| 21 | 21 | "Ice Ice Baby" | Jim Newman & Keith van Straaten | Jim Caswell | December 8, 1999 |
| 22 | 22 | "Nightmare of the Sleepwalker" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Rick Thomas & Marc Simard | December 8, 1999 |
| 23 | 23 | "The Flight of the Killer Zombees" | Erin Ehrlich | Jeff Barker | December 20, 1999 |
| 24 | 24 | "If a Wood Chuck Upchucks" | Mitch Watson | Karen Lloyd | December 20, 1999 |
| 25 | 25 | "Berried Alive" | John Paragon | Zoran Vanjaka | December 26, 1999 |
| 26 | 26 | "Insepction Insurrection" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Normand DeRepentigny | December 26, 1999 |
Season 2 (2000)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [1] |
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| 27 | 1 | "Exterminator Bob" | William Forrest Cluverius | Richard Forgues | March 6, 2000 |
| 28 | 2 | "Vampire Girls" | Robert Gaylor | Dan Leveille | March 6, 2000 |
| 29 | 3 | "Portrait of a Madman" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Normand DeRepentigny | March 8, 2000 |
| 30 | 4 | "The Potty's Over" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Jeff Barker | March 8, 2000 |
| 31 | 5 | "Beach from Beyond" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Vida Escauriaga | March 15, 2000 |
| 32 | 6 | "Toxic Hobby" | Lisa Fineberg Malone | Normand DeRepentigny | March 15, 2000 |
| 33 | 7 | "Killer Dillers from Outer Space" | Glenn Leopold | Zoran Vanjaka | March 19, 2000 |
| 34 | 8 | "It's My Party & I'll Puke If I Want To" | Mitch Watson | Karen Lloyd | March 19, 2000 |
| 35 | 9 | "Re-Usable Terror" | William Forrest Cluverius | Jeff Barker | March 25, 2000 |
| 36 | 10 | "Poop Doggy Dogg" | Ken Segall | Jeff Barker | March 25, 2000 |
| 37 | 11 | "Hot Rod Babies" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Normand DeRepentigny | March 26, 2000 |
| 38 | 12 | "Gross'ery Shopping" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Richard Forgues | March 26, 2000 |
| 39 | 13 | "The Creature from the Blackhead Lagoon" | Sean Abley | Normand DeRepentigny | April 1, 2000 |
| 40 | 14 | "Balemtime's Day" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Karen Lloyd | April 1, 2000 |
| 41 | 15 | "Bucky at the Bat" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Vida Escauriaga | April 2, 2000 |
| 42 | 16 | "A Boy Named Su" | J. Harry Hardman | Normand DeRepentigny | April 2, 2000 |
| 43 | 17 | "Deep Booger" | William Forrest Cluverius | Zoran Vanjaka | April 8, 2000 |
| 44 | 18 | "Shopping Mall Madness" | Lisa Malone | Richard Forgues | April 8, 2000 |
| 45 | 19 | "Little Beauty Shop of Horrors" | Russell Arch | Jeff Barker | April 9, 2000 |
| 46 | 20 | "Chewing the Fat" | Robert Gaylor | Tom Nesbitt | April 9, 2000 |
| 47 | 21 | "Let It Rip" | Dean Stefan | Karine Charlebois, Normand DeRepentigny & Stan Gadziola | April 15, 2000 |
| 48 | 22 | "Toys of the Future" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Jeremy Hildebrand | April 15, 2000 |
| 49 | 23 | "Summer of Sandman" | Jesse Dienstag | Stan Gadziola | April 16, 2000 |
| 50 | 24 | "Curse of the Doo Doo Doll" | Cathy Shambley | Richard Forgues | April 16, 2000 |
| 51 | 25 | "Golf for It" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Karine Charlebois | April 22, 2000 |
| 52 | 26 | "Snow Long Suckers" | William Forrest Cluverius | Normand DeRepentigny | April 22, 2000 |
Video game
Entitled with the same name, this video game based on the show was developed and published by Global Star Software in 2000, exclusively for PC.[4]
References
- "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2016-03-02. Alt URL
- Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 537–538. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ""Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-01-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) ," CinéGroupe
- 109.11301: Mega Babies | video game | PC Games | Video Games | Online Collections | The Strong
External links
- Mega Babies at TV.com
- Mega Babies on IMDb