ToonMarty
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| Genre | Adventure Comedy Action Fantasy |
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| Based on | An original idea by Robin Balzano Pascale Beaulieu Philippe Daigle Stéphanie Larrue Alexis Rondeau Paul Stoica Claudine Vézina Frédérick Wolfe |
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| Directed by | Sean Scott |
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| Theme music composer | Mathieu Dubus |
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| Original languages | English French |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (40 segments) |
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| Running time | 22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) |
| Production companies | Snipple Animation Studios Sardine Productions |
| Distributor | Corus Entertainment |
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| Original network | Teletoon (Canada) Nickelodeon (International) |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | May 1 – May 25, 2017 |
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ToonMarty is an animated television series produced by Sardine Productions,[1] which first premiered on Teletoon in Canada, on May 1, 2017.
Plot[]
ToonMarty follows the adventures of Marty, the mascot of ToonMart who becomes alive when a billboard is hit by lightning. Together, he and his friends Burnie and Holly have fun in Toonville under the supervision of Marty's boss, Jack.
Characters[]
Main[]
- Marty (voiced by Brian Froud) is the mascot of ToonMart and its only employee.
- Burnie (voiced by Mike Patterson) is Marty's best friend.
- Holly (voiced by Holly Gauthier-Frankel) is a female blue robot.
- Jack (voiced by Brett Schaenfield) is Marty's boss.
Recurring[]
- Suki (voiced by Erin Agostino) is Marty's love interest. She is a blue-haired anime magical girl.
- Carly is a cat.
- Burnatron is Burnie's father.
- Super Simon is a superhero who saves Toonville.
- Chef and Chicken
- Hobo Jeb
- Grizelda is a witch.
- Punchy McKnuckles is Toonville's bully.
- Lenny is a bench.
- Dr. Smarty Pants is a monkey doctor.
Episodes[]
| No. | Title | Written by | Storyboard by | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Moonlighting Marty" "Awful Waffle" | Dan Williams | Alexei Kazakov Pierre-Alexandre Comtois | May 1, 2017 | |
| Marty is super extra good at being Burnatron's evil sidekick, so good in fact that he alienates his best friend Burnie. His solution to bring father and son back together again is successful but quite explosive. | |||||
| 2 | "Billboard Boy" "Marty's Zit" | Heidi Foss Paul Stoica | Louis Piché Daniel Payette | May 2, 2017 | |
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After an open call to find the New Face of the Toonmart, Burnie becomes the new Toonmart Mascot, and Marty his mentor, until Burnie gets bored and overworked and sabotages himself. Marty befriends his first pimple: From childhood, through adolescence, into parenthood, and finally into old age, Zitty proves to be a great companion and a true friend. | |||||
| 3 | "Where There's Smoke There's Marty" "Chicken Fricassee" | Doug Hadders & Adam Rotstein John Hazlett | Guy Lamoureux Louis Piché | May 3, 2017 | |
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Marty's overworked cartoon exit-smoke trail leaves in a huff, leaving him without energy. He borrows Burnie's smoke trail to compete for the Employee of the Month award. Will his dreams go up in smoke? Marty, out to prove all Toonmart gizmos work perfectly, helps Chef catch Chicken. When he roasts Chicken, the toons ostracize him and he learns that everyone has their place and that saucy Chicken's not really dead. | |||||
| 4 | "Toonsgiving Day Parade" "Rest in Pieces" | Kevin Shustack Anne-Marie Perrotta | Daniel Payette Karine Charlebois & Guy Lamoureux | May 4, 2017 | |
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The trio fights over building a float for the Toonsgiving Day Parade, and ends up getting snagged on the moon. They must work together and embrace Marty's love of "Razzle Dazzle" to make it back to Toonville. Missing a fourth for their quartet, Marty makes Blub from various parts. Blub is a great singer but an extremely annoying toon who pushes everyone's limits. Blub needs a friend or the gang could be stuck with him forever. | |||||
| 5 | "The No-Toon Bro Zone" "You're It!" | Penelope Laurence Paul Stoica | Daniel Payette Guy Lamoureux | May 5, 2017 | |
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Marty and Burnie find Holly's "chill space", a blank area devoid of toons, and turn it into their awesome "Bro Zone". When she finds out, she's furious, until they invite her to "bro out" with them and see how great it is. When Marty gets tagged "it", he thinks it's a great honor and a fun game. When he finds out that in Toonville that "it" is a life-threatening disease, he and Burnie find the Wise Tree to figure out how to get rid of it. | |||||
| 6 | "Candy Cute" "Were-Poodle" | Lisa Hunter John Hazlett | Zee Risek Yann Ben Alluch | May 8, 2017 | |
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Marty, who’s allergic to candy, pretends he isn’t so that Suki will think he’s cool, Marty learns that being cool is all about being yourself. A lesson he quickly forgets. Marty hates that everyone thinks he’s cute all the time so he’s super proud when he discovers that he's really a fearsome werewolf! Holly and Burnie don’t have the heart to tell him he’s actually a super-cute were-poodle. | |||||
| 7 | "15 Minutes to Save the World" "Spare Parts" | Penelope Laurence Shane Simmons | Louis Piché Zee Risek | May 9, 2017 | |
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Marty notices that Toonville always resets. The trio goes nuts and leaves Toonville a wasteland. But when Jack dies and Toonville doesn't reset, Marty has to put Toonville back. Is it his only hope of bringing Jack back? Holly's parts get scattered after Marty lets Burnie be there for her cleaning. They find most of her, but Carly and her friends now worship her head, Holly loves it until they get demanding, temperamental and dangerous... | |||||
| 8 | "The Suit Makes the Super Hero" "Marty's Bright Idea" | Anne-Marie Perrotta Kevin Shustack | Werner Marcus, Benjamin Arcand & Louis Piché Louis Piché | May 9, 2017 | |
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Marty and Burnie agree to dry-clean Super Simon's suit in 24 hours, but they get stuck in it. The boys create chaos with their "superhero" antics. At the day's end, they still need to get out of the suit and give it back... When Marty uses up all the idea light bulbs in Toonville and everyone starts getting dim, he and Burnie travel to the Toonville Volcano to find the light bulb source, a gross and angry worm who poops them out her bum. | |||||
| 9 | "The Barber of Toonville" "A Choice Apple" | Paul Stoica Gerard Lewis & Tean Schultz | Alexei Kazakov Daniel Payette | May 10, 2017 | |
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When Burnie gets the worst (and only) haircut ever in the history of Toonville, Burnie’s hair clippings go on a cultural crime spree while Marty’s lost hair goes on a lonely quest to be reunited with his owner. Before the final of the Toonville trivia contest, Grizelda gives Marty a "Choice Apple" that answers all his yes/no questions. But his brain atrophies and Jack might lose the Toonmart. Will Holly and Burnie help? | |||||
| 10 | "Toonscout Marty" "Batteries Included" | Shawn Kalb Gerard Lewis & Tean Schultz | Yann Ben Alluch Rachel Peters, Adriana Blake & Guy Lamoureux | May 11, 2017 | |
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When Super Simon has to go and do his scout badges, Marty is thrilled to help him. But Super Simon takes all the credit and Marty gets jealous and sabotages his hero – forgetting the true meaning of Toon Scouts. A universal remote allows the trio to control everything, leading to a slew of pranks. But when the batteries run out and they get stuck on slo-mo, they realize they have to face their victims or stay stuck forever. | |||||
| 11 | "Toon-Derworld" "Cavetoon Fever" | Paul Stoica Gerard Lewis & Tean Schultz | Yann Ben Alluch Zee Risek | May 12, 2017 | |
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Marty and Underworld Marty swap places on Halloween. Underworld Marty goes trick-or-treating with Burnie and Holly, while the real Marty is trapped below, where the under worldly inhabitants want to make a meal of him. When Marty and Burnie accidentally kill the frozen Cavetoon who can save them from a dinosaur attack, Marty gets caught in bigger and bigger lies as Burnie, a natural for the role, has a ball impersonating the Cavetoon. | |||||
| 12 | "ToonMart Mutt" "Hot Tub Toon Machine" | Heidi Foss Sean Scott | Guy Lamoureux Zee Risek | May 15, 2017 | |
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When Burnie believes Marty would be a great pet owner, he switches bodies with a dog so he can live a life of luxury. But Marty is a bad pet owner and Burnie is miserable, especially since the dog isn't eager to switch back. An overworked Marty soaks in Burnie's hot tub, but his colors drain and he looks like an old-timey toon. Locked up in an old folks home, he must get his color back and escape before the trio is trapped forever. | |||||
| 13 | "How Marty Got His Toon Back" "Marty's Exploding Head" | Kevin Shustack Anne-Marie Perrotta | Alexei Kazakov Yann Ben Alluch | May 16, 2017 | |
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Marty is cursed by Grizelda and loses ALL his tooniness. Marty has got to break the curse, but without a sense of humor and stripped of his toon-ability to sustain physical injury (even death), this proves very painful. Marty gets so smart that his head expands. Dr. Smartypants tells Holly and Burnie that if he learns one more thing, his head will explode. While keeping all new information from him, they try to bring him back to normal. | |||||
| 14 | "Jack: Stunt Mole" "The Dog Catchers" | Kevin Shustack Shane Simmons | Daniel Payette | May 17, 2017 | |
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Jack quits the Toonmart and gives it to Burnatron so he can fulfill his bucket list – and discovers that he's a natural daredevil. But Marty vows to get himself to get Jack back where he belongs: The Toonmart. Believing that Dog Catchers appeal to dogs and are public figures, Marty and Burnie apply for the job. But they BOTH get it and discover they have to catch the biggest, meanest, most monstrous dog ever... yikes! | |||||
| 15 | "Senseless Burnie" "Chef and the Marty Show" | Paul Stoica Shane Simmons | Yann Ben Alluch Zee Risek | May 18, 2017 | |
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When Burnie loses the use of all his senses, Marty volunteers to be his surrogate sensor via the use of painful sense-leeches. But when Burnie abuses Marty's good graces, he puts them both in head-exploding danger. When Chef gets tired of chasing Chicken, he finds an even better prey: Marty. Or so he thinks. Chicken helps Marty escape Chef's cleaver, and Marty gives Chicken some etiquette training to get her old job back. | |||||
| 16 | "The Holly Show" "Psych-o-Marty" | Paul Stoica Anne-Marie Perrotta | John C. Falconer Zee Risek | May 19, 2017 | |
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When Marty and Burnie take over Holly's webseries, they steal her spotlight and her robo-super fans. But the robots hijack Marty and Burnie's lives and it’s up to Holly to help them lose their super-scary super-fans. When Marty takes over Dr. Smartypants' annual job of recalibrating the toons, he and Burnie make a mess of things. Marty races against the clock to get their calibrations to stop Toonville from exploding into the toon-abyss. | |||||
| 17 | "A Friend Too Close" "To Be Continued..." | John Hazlett Lienne Sawatsky | Louis Piché Yann Ben Alluch | May 22, 2017 | |
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Burnie and Marty discover that everyone in Toonville hates when they're together. Blaming each other for their unlikableness, they end their friendship. Marty then skyrockets to success, and Burnie sinks into the gutter. Marty finds himself in the second part of a "To Be Continued" episode, with no recollection of what happened in the first part and everyone is depending on him to save Toonville! To be continued... | |||||
| 18 | "Birthday Boy" "Marty the Monster" | Kevin Shustack Stephen Senders | Guy Lamoureux John C. Falconer | May 23, 2017 | |
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Marty is super excited about his birthday, but when he finds out it’s also Carly's birthday, and that he has to work her preschool party at the Toonmart, Marty stops at nothing to reclaim his special day. Marty beats the toughest monster in Toonville and is declared a hero. But he grows tired of his hero status and he vows to reset everything. The problem is Toughy turns out to be a pacifist. Cue the staged fight. | |||||
| 19 | "You Can't Handle the Tooth" "The Hat Makes the Toon" | James Braithwaite Kevin Shustack | Guy Lamoureux Zee Risek | May 24, 2017 | |
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When Marty gets a gold-grill after losing his teeth, he becomes super cool and hangs out with Super Simon and his cool guy posse. But he gets bored of them and tries everything to hang with Burnie and Holly again. When Marty's hat is stolen by Hobo Jeb, everyone thinks Hobo Jeb is Marty! Holly and Marty have to get the toons to look past the superficial. And when that doesn't work, well, he has to steal his hat and identity back. | |||||
| 20 | "Marty's Theme" "Logic Police" | Anne-Marie Perrotta David Dias | Zee Risek Yann Ben Alluch | May 25, 2017 | |
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When Marty replaces his inner-theme band with a less-than-stellar yodeling crocodile, he puts his relationships and life in serious jeopardy. Holly’s logic board jammed and she vows to destroy all toons because they’re illogical. She turns Toonville into real things, until Marty puts on a toon display of unmatched proportions. A display so toony it saves Toonville. | |||||
Online game[]
An online game was available on Teletoon's website called Marty's Special Delivery.[2]
References[]
- ^ Mercedes Milligan (July 12, 2016). "Nickelodeon Takes 'ToonMarty' on International Spree". Animation Magazine. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ^ "MARTY'S SPECIAL DELIVERY". Teletoon. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
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- 2010s Canadian animated television series
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- Canadian children's animated adventure television series
- Canadian children's animated comedy television series
- Canadian children's animated action television series
- Canadian children's animated fantasy television series
- Canadian flash animated television series
- Animated television series about robots
- Animated television series about children
- English-language television shows
- Teletoon original programming
- 2010s Canadian children's television series