Game Over (TV series)
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Game Over | |
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Genre | Animated sitcom |
Created by | David Sacks |
Voices of | Patrick Warburton Lucy Liu Rachel Dratch Elizabeth Daily Artie Lange Marie Matiko |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | David Sacks Dave Goetsch Ross Venokur Jason Venokur Marcy Carsey Tom Werner Caryn Mandabach |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production companies | Never Give Up Productions Venokur Goetsch Venokur Carsey-Werner Productions DKP Studios |
Release | |
Original network | UPN |
Picture format | NTSC |
Original release | March 10 April 2, 2004 | –
External links | |
Website |
Game Over is a 2004 American adult computer-animated sitcom created by David Sacks (who later became president of Nickelodeon Animation Studio), produced by Carsey-Werner Productions, and broadcast on UPN in 2004. It was cancelled after five episodes.
Game Over (the title was inspired by the phrase "game over" that commonly concludes video games) focused on what happens to video game characters after the game ends. It recounted the lives of the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family that lived in an alternate video game universe.
The show made numerous references to video games and even featured certain game characters as cameos. For example, Crash Bandicoot appears on a Got Milk? billboard, and creatures from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee appear in one of the episodes.
Marisa Tomei voiced the character of Raquel Smashenburn in the series' unaired pilot episode, but scheduling problems saw Lucy Liu take over the role for the actual series.[1]
Game Over was heavily hyped by UPN before its debut. It generally received positive press on its airing.[2] Despite this, only six episodes were made, which aired on a variety of different days – the fourth and fifth episodes were broadcast on April 2, 2004, and the sixth episode ("Monkey Dearest") was not aired.
Characters
- Rip Smashenburn, a Grand Prix driver who races every day and crashes his car all the time. (Patrick Warburton)
- Raquel Smashenburn, a covert agent who fights monsters and is vaguely similar to Lara Croft. (Lucy Liu)
- Alice Smashenburn, a cynical yet socially conscious 14-year-old. Is part of a beach volleyball team, but wears a hoodie instead of a skimpy bikini. (Rachel Dratch)
- Billy Smashenburn, a 13-year-old hoping to become a rapper. (Elizabeth Daily)
- Turbo, their pet, a 300-pound talking doglike creature who robs pawn shops and smokes cigars. (Artie Lange)
- The Changs, including Dark Princess Chang (Marie Matiko), a family of Kung-Fu-fighting Shaolin monks who live next door.
- Another Next door neighbour who talks to Rip in first person perspective.
Episodes
Nº | Title | Original air date |
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0 | "Pilot" | N/A |
1 | "Meet the Smashenburns" | March 10, 2004 |
2 | "Basic Win-stincts" | March 17, 2004 |
3 | "All Work and All Play" | March 26, 2004 |
4 | "Into the Woods" | April 2, 2004 |
5 | "Alice and the C.A.T.s" | April 2, 2004 |
6 | "Monkey Dearest" | N/A |
Home media
Anchor Bay Entertainment released all six episodes of the series as Game Over: The Complete Series on DVD in North America on June 28, 2005.[3]
References
- ^ Dave Goestch of Game Over Archived 2008-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, UGO.
- ^ TELEVISION REVIEW; Video Game Heroes: Just Folks, The New York Times, March 10, 2004.
- ^ Game Over - Complete Series Archived 2006-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, TVshowsonDVD.com.
External links
- 2000s American adult animated television series
- 2000s American sitcoms
- 2004 American television series debuts
- 2004 American television series endings
- American adult animated comedy television series
- English-language television shows
- American adult computer-animated television series
- Television series by Carsey-Werner Productions
- UPN original programming
- Animated television series about families
- Animated television series about teenagers