Mega Babies
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 The English Mega Babies logo. From left to right: Derrick, Meg and Buck. | |
| Genre | Adventure Action fiction Toilet humor Comedy |
| 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 | 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 | CinéGroupe Distribution (Canada) Sony Wonder (United States) Sunbow Entertainment (Internationally)[1] |
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| Original release | October 10, 1999[2] – April 22, 2000[2] |
Mega Babies is an 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.[3] It is produced by CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group in association with Sony Wonder.[4]
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 mutant 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.
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 other 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 that 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.
Production[]
The show was announced in January 1999 as a co-production between CinéGroupe and Sony Wonder set to premier on the Fox Family Channel in fall of that year. The show was created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and Landmark Entertainment Group budgeted between $5.9 million (C$9 million) and $6.6 million for 52 10-minute episodes which were pre-produced in Montreal and animated in Asia then bundled into 26 half-hour daily shows.[5]
Episodes[]
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Season 1 (1999)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [2] | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Full Metal Grizz" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Christian Tremblay | October 10, 1999 | |
| The Mega Babies new neighbor doesn't know what he's gotten into when he baby-sits the three superpowered tykes. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Attack of the Cownibals" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Angus Bungay | October 10, 1999 | |
| Alien cows have invaded and are stealing all the milk on earth, which is bad for the milk loving Mega Babies. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Molar Attack" | Erin Ehrlich | Boomstone | October 13, 1999 | |
| Meg is teething, and she's destroying everything in her path to find the right teething tool. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Boy in the Drastic Bubble" | Mitch Watson | Jeff Barker | October 13, 1999 | |
| A trouble making imp plans to takeover the Mega Babies home by framing them for his destructive pranks. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Chicken Pox Outbreak" | Lisa Malone | Jim Caswell | October 20, 1999 | |
| Derrick's fear of vaccination causes an outbreak of mutant chicken pox that threatens the world. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite" | John Paragon | Jeff Barker | October 20, 1999 | |
| Mutant bed bugs that grow giant in sunlight are loose in the city and one has apparently swallowed Lazlo. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Adoption D-Day" | Ken Segall | Jeremy Hildebrand | October 27, 1999 | |
| 8 | 8 | "Crustacean Frustration" | 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 | |
| Meg and Derrick chase a bouncy ball down into the sewer and stumble upon an evil fast food chef's plan to take over the world | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Inner Ear Inferno" | Erin Ehrlich | Zoran Vanjaka | November 12, 1999 | |
| When Derrick needs his ear cleaned, Meg and Buck shrink down to give it a thorough cleaning. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Lost Freeway" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Luc Savoie | November 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 | |
| The Mega Babies compete against alien babies in an intergalactic competition to win an amazing playset. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "The Evil Eye" | Lisa Malone | Dan Leveille | November 24, 1999 | |
| A trip to the pool has the Mega Babies facing off against a sentient pink eye virus. | ||||||
| 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 [2] |
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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.[6]
Reception[]
Mega Babies was largely panned by critics and audiences. WatchMojo ranked the series #4 in a "Top 10 Most Embarrassing ‘90s Cartoons" list.[7] IMDb's user score for the series, as of July 2021, is 3.3 out of 10.[8]
References[]
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- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 537–538. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ "CinéGroupe". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-01-27. , CinéGroupe
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- ^ "109.11301: Mega Babies". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2021-04-19., The Strong
- ^ "Top 10 Most Embarrassing '90s Cartoons". YouTube. WatchMojo.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Mega Babies (TV Series) 1999-2000". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
External links[]
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