Tortellini Western

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Tortellini Western is an animated television series produced by Animation Collective. It debuted on Nicktoons on June 20, 2004.^[1] The title is a play on the term Spaghetti Western.

Characters[]

• Giovanni - A young boy who is the main protagonist of the show. He has a lot of adventures, but many of them have him fail in his goals. He loves pasta that his grandma makes. His grandparents seem to be his only relatives shown, though his parents were seen in the intro. His voice seems to commonly crack all the time.
• Grandma - Giovanni's grandmother, who likes making pasta.
• Grandpa - Giovanni's grandfather, who sometimes ruins Giovanni's day. The intro states that he came up with the idea to move to America when his family's pasta supply ran out.
• Buck - Giovanni's enemy.
• Dances - Giovanni's Indian "girl" friend.
• Towns People - The citizens of the fictional city of Palermo, Montana; on-lookers to the plight of the family Ruggiero.

Credits[]

Cast[]

• - Giovanni/Various
• Larry Schwarz - Grandpa
• - Grandma

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• Executive Producer: Larry Schwarz
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Mini-episodes[]

1. Some Like This Pot - Giovanni tries to find Grandma's pasta pot, only to find it in the hands of Buck.
2. Cattlefield Earth - Cattle run wild and Giovanni attempts to calm them down.
3. No Small Heat - Giovanni looks for a way to resist an intense heat wave.
4. Pony Express Yourself - Once he finds the mailman sick, he fills in for him on the last mail. Unbeknownst to him, the mail is for the mailman.
5. Cacti Fighter - Giovanni cuts the lawn.
6. Das Boot - Giovanni keeps stepping in cow pies.
7. Montana Tea - Giovanni sees a man sell oil to get money, and tries it himself. He ends up striking the sewage line.
8. Of Thee I Sting - Giovanni gets stung by a poisonous scorpion, so Grandma and Grandpa look for treatment.
9. Golden Stumblers - Giovanni tries to get gold during a gold rush.
10. Lasso Miserables - Giovanni has trouble lassoing.
11. Up in Smoke Signals - Giovanni spots smoke signals in the sky and thinks that an army of dinosaurs and mummies are going to attack. The end, however, reveals that the smoke signals are just gas from his grandpa.
12. All's Well That Ends Well - Giovanni gets stuck in a well while attempting to fetch water and calls for help, but he ends up getting cows in the well. He eventually uses the pile of cows to get out.
13. The Bull Marked Kid - A bull chases Giovanni, just for his pasta.

References[]

External links[]

• Tortellini Western at IMDb