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Animated Tron Spoof Coming to UPN 156

Posted by CowboyNeal from the remakes-of-reboot dept.
Gudlyf writes "Sci Fi Wire is reporting that executive producers of 'That 70's Show,' Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach, are doing a CGI-animated midseason replacement show for UPN called 'Game Over,' which is best described as a sitcom spoofing 'Tron.' The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters. Patrick Warburton and Marisa Tomei will be voicing the husband Rip and wife Raquel respectively."
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  • "The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters."

    So nothing at all like Reboot, then. Totally different idea.
    • It doesn't sound like TRON either. I don't know what the submitter was thinking. There is not much information given in the article to make those conclusions.

  • Cast Details (Score:5, Informative)

    by henbane ( 663769 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:36AM (#6365994)
    CHARACTER VOICES
    Marisa Tomei/Raquel
    Patrick Warburton/Rip
    D.L.Hughley/Turbo
    Rachel Dratch/Alice
    James Sie/Sam Chang
    Marie Matiko/Vox
    E.G.Dailey/Billy

    WRITERS
    David Sacks ("The Simpsons"), Ross Venokur,Jason Venokur and David Goetsch

    And some pictures here (pdf) [vidiot.com]

  • Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

    by rampant mac ( 561036 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:37AM (#6365997)
    "...an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe..."

    "Hi honey, what's on TV tonight?"

    *Rail Gun*

    OMG wtf l4m3r, sh0uld4 |)uck3d f4gg0t!

    • Re:Huh? (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Mart ( 19570 )

      "Hi honey, what's on TV tonight?"

      *Rail Gun*

      I once saw a short film that was pretty much like that. The characters lived in an alternate video game universe in which daily life involved the usual violence of a FPS and dodging death in various forms. The main character was a boy who was playing a video game in which he had to be nice in order to succeed (e.g. helping an old lady across the street instead of shooting her).

      I won't give away the ending. I can't remember the title of the film but it was m

      • The main character was a boy who was playing a video game in which he had to be nice in order to succeed (e.g. helping an old lady across the street instead of shooting her).

        God damn that sounds lame.

        Goblin
      • It was called 'Arcadia', a Channel 4 sponsored short film affair that doesn't even show up on IMDB. It was quite amusing, really. Mainly the bit where he's playing the game for the first time, walking along a typical suburban street, and a cheerful postman pops up to say "Good Morning" - and gets shot in the face.
  • I was sitting there musing on the image of EG Daily and Marisa Tomei when another headline caught my eye. Sorry, but I couldn't resist...

    Dark Horizons posted speculation about the rumor that Ashton Kutcher is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie. The '70s Show star is Warner Brothers' first choice, but not that of director Christopher Nolan, the site reported.

    Now, back to EG Daily and Marisa... that's right babies... who's your daddy?

    • <<completely off topic but...>>

      "...is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie."

      - Holy sequel Batman!
      - What is it Robin?
      - Those dastardly studio-execs have hatched a fiendish plot! They're making another batman movie!
      - We must stop them at once, Robin! To the batmobile!

      I know what those studio-execs were thinking:
      "It is impossible to make a batman movie that is worse than it's immediate predecessors. Huzzah, we're on to a winner!"
    • Yeah, apparently producer Guber (fuckwit to the stars, and the man responsible for the amount of neon in the last two Batman films) really wanys Kutcher, having failed to get him into the Superman job.

      Nolan, rightly, thinks this is a fecking horrible idea, and wants his Memento star Guy Pearce for the role. Personally, I think Pearce would make a great Batman - he's got the chin for the suit, while at the same time being able to play a convincing Wayne when out of it. Getting both right at the same time ha
      • I'm still rooting for Seinfeld's "Puddy" as Superman. He has the right build for it. Superman really doesn't do a lot of talking anyway.

        Beyond that the actor has a very serious "straight man" aura around him that would make him perfect for Superman. This would translate into an excellent Clark Kent since this seriousness is often VERY FUNNY!!!!
  • TV and movies promote too much violence they say. With a name like "Smashenburns"... I'd say I agree!! ;-)

    ooooh! I like Marisa Tomei though!!
  • What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there. You either shake your head and dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than we think. Perhaps it really is a doorway to another place. If you choose to go inside you may find many unexpected things. - Shigeru Miyamoto
    • One time I was on a pier on the North Shore (Massachusetts -- Salem I think). It was late afternoon; the sun was at an angle of around 20-30 degrees from the horizon. The moon had just risen, at an angle of 10 degrees or so above the horizon. The sun was roughly 90 degrees horizontally from the moon.

      The strange thing was that the terminator, the line separating light and shadow on the moon, was pointing down, ie at a light source below the horizon. The angle was about 20 degrees below horizontal.

      There's

      • It's called 'Them', and it starts with the guy running upstairs, as he's about to leave his house, for no reason at all, with his wife trying to stop him. It's pouring down rain outside, but from one of the upstair windows it's perfectly clear and sunny.

        I won't tell you what's going on, but it's not impossible to figure out.

  • In case of /. (Score:4, Informative)

    by n1nj4k3n ( 685377 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:40AM (#6366005)
    UPN All Over Game

    UPN announced that it has picked up the computer-animated SF comedy pilot Game Over as a series. The network has given a six-episode midseason order to the Carsey-Werner-Mandabach show, which features the voices of Marisa Tomei and Patrick Warburton.

    Written and executive produced by David Sacks, David Goestch, Jason Venokur and Ross Venokur, Game Over centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters. Also executive producing are CWM's Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach. In addition to Tomei and Warburton, who will voice Mrs. and Mr. Smashenburn, the voice cast also includes E.G. Daily and Rachel Dratch, who portray their teen kids, and Artie Lange as the family's 300-pound pet creature.
    • Why the hell was parent modded +4 informative...he basically restated the article summary from the front page with one or two additional names on there. Jesus, I guess the going rate for karma whores is pretty cheap these days.

  • I hate to see their mail box (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    They better have good filters, if they get spam like me.

    I can see it now.

    "honey I going to get the mail"

    **BOOM** mail box explods with 100's of messages

  • Horay for Animation (Score:5, Insightful)

    by luzrek ( 570886 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:44AM (#6366015) Journal
    Didn't see any screenshots, but it sounds like it might be fun to watch.

    More seriously, perhaps the people in th US are finally realizing that animation isn't just for children. TNN (I think) has also just started airing three new animated shows Ren & Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon, Gerry the Rat (spelling?), and Stan Lee's Striperella (spelling?). While I'm not a huge Ren & Stimpy fan, all three seem pretty good. Kelsey Grammar's voice acting as a bitter and sarcastic giant rat is pretty good, and there seem to be quite a few running jokes (in just the first two episodes). Additionally, the show is able to deal with issues of race/class/ethanticity/whatever with species standing in for the politically untouchable subject (much as robots do in Futurama). Stripperella is obviously intended to be much more comical, and suceeds in at least two areas. First, the general atmosphere is a throwback to the 1960's batman series (campy villans, secret identities, etc., but no "Biff" or "Baff"). Second, the degree of normalcy that the public persona and the other exotic dancers enjoy is stressed to the point of being funny (or perhaps I'm not ready for porn to be mainstreamed).

    Anyway, horay for more animation (that isn't aimed at kids).

    • Re:Horay for Animation (Score:5, Interesting)

      by golgotha007 ( 62687 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:54AM (#6366038)
      More seriously, perhaps the people in th US are finally realizing that animation isn't just for children.

      perhaps you meant that people in the world are finally realizing this. the US has been responsible for shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy and Beavis and Butthead (and more i am sure).

      i don't know what country you're from, but it seems the US makes the best adult oriented animated shows. why do i think this? why, here in Russia i can see all the shows mentioned above. of course, the voice overdubs in Russian are sometimes lame, but oh well.

      • How on earth could you group beavis and butthead in with the simpsons and futurama (haven't seen much family guy since i'm in .au without cable). Beavis and butthead was nothing but a massive "fuck you" to audiences all over the world, it's just not funny at all. I always thought it was a joke down at mtv to prove to some executives that enough self-generated hype can sell even the absolute worst product.

        </rant>
        • Beavis and Butthead was MTV's version of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000'. Their job was to poke fun at videos and perform sophmoric, idiotic humor (their modern replacement is Tom Green).

          On the good side ... Beavis and Butthead was never really pretentious. The Movie WAS funny because the characters were idiotic morons who you could laugh at and relate to some of your neighbors and co-workers.

          Stupid for "higher moral" sake is annoying and pretentious. Stupid for stupid's sake is pretty funny.

          P.S. regar
          • Tom green.... *shudder*

            I'll never forgive my brother for making me watch freddy got fingered. Sure I've since sat him down and made him watch project viper, but we're still a long way from even.
      • the US makes the best adult oriented animated shows.

        I know a throbbing horde of anime fans that would like to disagree with you.

        Neon Genesis Evangelion > Family Guy.

      • Re:Horay for Animation (Score:3, Interesting)

        by luzrek ( 570886 )
        The shows that you listed (especially the Simpsons and Futurama) are all very good. However, there are only a handfull of adult-oriented (in a clean way) animated shows on in the US (mostly on Fox). Let's see if I can name them all, think Sunday night, ok. King of the Hill and the Simpsons. I'm pretty sure that Fox has canceled Futurama (at least in my city).

        In the early days of cinema (1920's and 1930's) Walt Disney, and others, made a concerted effort to portray animated features as "only for childre

        • Correction (Score:1, Interesting)

          by Uncle Dick ( 534747 )
          Actually, in the 20s and 30s, animation was aimed towards all age groups and Walt knew that. While many of the "classic" fairy tales told by Disney were based on children's stories, Walt chose them because they lent themselves well to the animation process.

          Ask any child what he or she thinks of Fantasia (and later, Fantasia 2000) and you'll undoubtedly hear that it's "boring" or "too long" or something to that effect. Walt may have been producing children's stories but he was also pushing forward the art o
        • Fox has canceled Futurama (at least in my city).

          It's on on Sunday at 7:00 around here.
          • Fox has a bunch of episodes that haven't aired yet due to being preempted by football. They slip in an episode every now and then, but the show has been cancelled. No new episodes will be made.

      • Re:Horay for Animation (Score:1, Insightful)

        by Anonymous Coward
        beep!! that would be japan, sir, not the usa...

      • The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy and Beavis and

        Lucky russians :( In Sweden all we have got is The Simpsons(subtitled), South Park(ditto), and some Beavis and Butthead(raw as far as I've seen) sometimes too... I wish someone would bring some more in.

        What I would really like though is some anime(japanese animation), the only anime we have here is Sailor Moon and Pokémon, yay! The only chance we have is Cartoon Network, they don't send any anime right now, and never have here, but maybe they will,

        • Hmm... and I don't think South Park would work out very well in Mother Russia!
          Sure it would. Just substitute "Siberean" every time they say "Canadian" and it will translate just fine ;-)

          BTW, if your getting the same Cartoon network as American's do ... They do show quite a bit of cartoons for "mature" audiences in their "adult swim" late night segments. Futurama, Family Guy, and some pretty bizzare, poorly animated, but excellently written originals.

          Of course if it's broadcast at THE SAME time as the A
          • No, our Cartoon Network is not the same... all shows are dubbed. And it also ends at 9 PM and changes to another channel(TCM - Older movies)(CN ends completely AFAIK, the other channel goes on all day), which is not bad as I got to see Soylent Green :) Now I've got to read the book

            And The Critic, eh? Hmmm... that sounds familiar...
      • As other people have mentioned, Japan releases far more "adult oriented animated shows" than the US does. What about Neon Genesis Evangeleon, FLCL (Furi Kuri), Ghost in the Shell, The Wings of Honneamise, Akira, Witchhunter Robin, Ninja Scroll, Princess Mononoke, Cowboy Bebop, Battle Angel, Blood or *gasps for breath* Macross Zero?

        You can't really claim such shows are geared up for children, and that's just all I can think of off the top of my head. Japan's got a wide lead over the US, whose only "adult or
        • The Simpsons alone has more episodes than all of those put together...

          By the way: when was Mononoke a regular TV show in Japan? It must have been a very short series.
          • The simpsons has approximately 300 episodes; 12 full length anime series would have about the same amount of episodes, and there are far more than 12 adult-orientated anime series about.

            There's unarguably more diversity in the animated series over in Japan, but even counting the huge amount of Simpsons, there's still more non-child-orientated animation per hour from Japan then there is in the US.

            Oh, and ok, if we're just counting *series*, Mononoke can be skipped, likewise with Blood, and a few others. St

    • Re:Horay for Animation (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Babbster ( 107076 ) <aaronbabb@@@gmail...com> on Friday July 04, 2003 @05:13AM (#6366084) Homepage
      I've only seen one of the new cartoons on the TNN Thursday, and that's "Gary The Rat." Stan Lee has been a hack since almost before I was BORN [1972], and combining him with Pamela "Social Disease" Anderson doesn't do anything for me; Ren & Stimpy was over years ago.

      Anyway, I watched the first episode and I didn't laugh once. I've been a Kelsey Grammer fan for a long, long time but I found his performance just as wooden and painful to listen to as everyone else's in that episode. The story and script were just dreck (concept great, execution pitiful - see "Enterprise"). The only redeeming quality was the art style which I thought was excellent.

      Usually, I give new shows three or four episodes (my time permitting) to get a head of steam but I didn't even see potential in Gary The Rat.

      If this is where "cartoons for adults" are heading they're going to go away again, sooner rather than later.

      • Regaurdless of how you feel about the individuals involved in these projects, or how envious you are of their positions in US culture, I enjoyed these shows (at least the first two episodes), and suspect that the differences in our oppinions comes from cultural (and perhaps generational) differences. With regaurds to your assessment of Gary the Rat, I suggest that you read Kafka's "Metamorphosis" so you get at least one joke. Perhaps you should also take a look at some other exostentalist works, or some a
        • I think you're mistaking a "plot device" for a "joke." If nobody in the show got the irony then there would be some basis for calling that a joke. Since most of them do, it's not.
      • Stan Lee has been a hack since almost before I was BORN [1972], and combining him with Pamela "Social Disease" Anderson doesn't do anything for me;

        You may be in for a pleasant surprise. My wife feels the same way you do, but when I was watching it, she came to see what I was laughing at.. she sat down, and found it very funny.. she said it was one of the best shows she's seen in awhile.
      • What did you expect????

        Kelsey Grammar is more "Wooden" then a porn jock. I dare say he's more wooden than Al Gore.

        Stan Lee is a wonderfully successful writer of Comics. His body of work and it's popularity speaks for itself. Translating that work into other mediums is the job of others. Don't blame Stan if someone takes his wonderful stories and makes something like the recent Hulk movie.
      • --I think TNN renaming themselves to "Spike TV" and calling themselves the "Network for Men" is just plain stupid. Their pathetic offering of "Stripperella" and the like only makes it worse.

        --Attempting to cater to the lowest common denominator doesn't exactly do wonders for other countries' opinion of the US.

    • Re:Horay for Animation (Score:2, Informative)

      by k0de ( 619918 )
      Didn't see any screenshots, but it sounds like it might be fun to watch.

      There's one [vidiot.com] at vidiot. (PDF link)

    • Anyway, horay for more animation (that isn't aimed at kids).

      Just before I got to slashdot, I finished reading an article on the way people are using Sims to create their own sitcoms. [wired.com] http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,59461,00.ht ml This is truly a way in which animation can be used by the masses for expression. I am sure other products using this concept will soon come in the market and make it a legitimate market.

      What is interesting in the Sim's story is how many people are using the charact

  • Raquel: "What sounds good for dinner?"

    Rip, squinting: "Feels like a Virtual Arby's night..."

  • reboot (Score:5, Funny)

    by tonyt ( 115436 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:48AM (#6366026) Homepage
    i liked this show when it was called reboot

    (slowly counts to 20)

  • Obligatory Simpsons Reference (Score:5, Funny)

    by MalleusEBHC ( 597600 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @04:56AM (#6366041)
    Homer: Uh...it's like...did anyone see the movie "Tron"?
    Hibbert: No.
    Lisa: No.
    Marge: No.
    Wiggum: No.
    Bart: No.
    Patty: No.
    Wiggum: No.
    Ned: No.
    Selma: No.
    Frink: No.
    Lovejoy: No.
    Wiggum: Yes. I mean -- um, I mean, no. No, heh.

  • Has it come to this (Score:5, Funny)

    by panurge ( 573432 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @05:05AM (#6366065)
    Did anyone else read an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe and think "So that's what all those ordinary suburban families do nowadays. That's why I never see them about anymore" ?
    • "So that's what all those ordinary suburban families do nowadays. That's why I never see them about anymore"

      They've evolved out of existance. After generations, the white male father became so clumsy and stupid that he couldn't procreate, and the mothers so super-intelligent and powerful that she evolved into a bodyless alien overlord.

  • My vote goes for (Score:3, Funny)

    by Phekko ( 619272 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @05:16AM (#6366089)
    we don't get UPN you insensitive clod!
    • we sorta get UPN, earlier this spring one of the local stations went rogue/independant. That left CBS without a broadcast station in our city. To rectify this problem they purchased the local UPN affiliate and moved 43 channels up the spectrum. The deal they struck has the station broadcasting as cbs most of the day and thru prime time, then they rebroadcast the UPN prime time lline-up from midnight to 4 AM. So unless this hits mid prime time i'm too busy watching [adult swim] on CN

      • So unless this hits mid prime time i'm too busy watching [adult swim] on CN

        Tape it. Or, if you are rich, record it on your TiVo. If you live in the USA, time-shifting is a fair use.

    • You say that like its a bad thing...

      Jaysyn
    • dont worry, UPN gets horrible ratings and will probably go bankrupt soon anyway.

  • Typecasting! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Ridge ( 37884 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @06:09AM (#6366227)
    "...and Artie Lange as the family's 300-pound pet creature."

    Poor Artie [imdb.com].

  • Mid-season replacement? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    A second string show on UPN?

    Are they finally going to replace Enterprise with something scifi?

  • Dilbert instead? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by DarkHelmet ( 120004 ) <<ten.elcychtneves> <ta> <kram>> on Friday July 04, 2003 @06:41AM (#6366300) Homepage
    Maybe I'm the only one thinking this, but since Buffy is no longer on TV, taking up the nerd demographic, shouldn't they instead focus on bringing Dilbert [dilbert.com] back on the air?

    For the most part, the stations get it. Do NOT align your shows with other stations so that you're vying for the same demographic. This was dilbert's failure, and this is why it tanked.

    If / when this Tron-clone show fails, I hope it's not because of their poor choice on where to have it.

    • NO!

      i watched it a few times. sat through the entrire show never laughed once.

      dilbert tanked 'cuz . . .(dramatic pause)
      it wasn't funny!

      (just like this comment)

      • dilbert tanked 'cuz . . .(dramatic pause)
        it wasn't funny!

        Personally, I didn't like it when I saw it during its run. After a time I figured out why: Loud Howard. For some reason, they decided to make this one-off gag (that wasn't very funny to begin with) into what was almost a main character. I'd wince every time he spoke on the main show. (This could have to do with my roommate, who suffered hearing loss from working on F-4s and turned the TV way up.) I wouldn't enjoy the show.

        Now they're showing

  • Even More Timely than SpaceBalls (Score:5, Funny)

    by nightsweat ( 604367 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @06:49AM (#6366322)
    A parody of "Tron"? That's a little out of date, isn't it? What's next, a sizzling indictment of shark movies?

    Mel Brooks must be kicking himself.

  • Like Tron - Not (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Chasuk ( 62477 ) <chasuk@gmail.com> on Friday July 04, 2003 @06:56AM (#6366336)
    This show is like Tron? How?

    In Tron, a video game programmer gets sucked into a virtual world by something called the MCP (forget what that stands for, after all these years), and is forced into gladiatorial games...

    And because they both involve video games, this show about the Smashenburns is like Tron?

    Is Beevis and Butthead like the Flintstones because they are both cartoons?

    • Re:Like Tron - Not (Score:3, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Master Control Program
    • MCP - Master Control Program

      --- end of line ---
      • We call a friend of mine's domineering overbearing bitchwad of a wife the MCP.

        Not to her face of course. She would annhilate us.

        She rules him with an iron first. I think I've seen him alone twice in the last 4 years.

    • This show is like Tron? How?

      Ordinary humans are sucked into a computer world inhabited by anthropomorphisized software programs that engage in videogames.

      How is it different? This one is a comedy series, instead of an action movie. The Hollywood-pitch for "Game Over" is "Tron meets Married With Children".

  • I thought the original Tron ... (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    ... was an animated spoof.
  • 1) Star Blazers
    2) Battle Of The Planets

  • Sounds a little more like a spoof on "The Sims" and a few other games. Does it take these characters an hour to eat a bag of chips, and half an hour to go to the bathroom? (now that people on TV _have_ bathrooms)

  • Yet they end up with Turbo,a 300-pound talking creature,whose favorite past times are robbing pawn shops,smoking stogies and creating mayhem - all with an attitude.

    Poochie, meet Bender. Bender, Poochie.

    Krusty: Whaddya got in mind? Sexy broad? Gangster octopus?
    Myers: No, no. The animal chain of command goes mouse, cat, dog.
    Weinstein: Uh, a dog? Isn't that a tad predictable?
    Lady: In your dreams. We're talking the original dog from hell.
    Oakley: You mean Cerberus?
    Lady: We at the network want a dog with atti

  • I know nothing about this, but I'm already planning to spend hundreds of dollars on merchandising! Oh my god! Animation! Computers! Horny Japanese pre-teens!

    Ahem. Thanks for the thought, but how about we get excited about this after it appears, not before. Don't make me remind you about Phantom Menace and Lone Gunmen. Let's focus on reviews, not promotional material.

  • I wonder how UPN will react to Spy Kids 3? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Artifex ( 18308 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @08:23AM (#6366659) Journal
    I saw a trailer for Spy Kids 3 recently, and it revolves around some evil virtual reality game called Game Over.

  • Farnsworth: Who else has a question for the What If? machine? Scruffy? Katrina? Xanfor?

    Fry: Ooo I have one. I'm good at video games and bad at everything else. That's why I wish life were more like a video game.

    Farnsworth: Can you put that in the form of a question?

    Fry: Uh, What if that thing I said?

    [Farnsworth lights a stick of incense.]

    Farnsworth: Oh great machine we beseech thee. What if life were more like a video game?

    [What If? Scene: A video game ship flies around shoots some asteroids like in t
  • after that 80's show, i don't know whether to run screaming or stand next to the tv, shivering and waiting with a big stick with a nail in it. that 70's show is probably one of the best shows out there, but that's largely due to the incredible ensemble cast. i have my doubts here.
    • The cast of "That 70's Show" is phenomenal. The cominc timing and chemistry are great, no doubt. But the writing sets it above other sitcoms as well. The characters are real human beings, the situations are more realistic than standard sitcom mistaken identity, and sometimes, things aren't neatly resolved in half an hour.

      I agree, "That 80's Show" stunk, bad, so obviously the producers can make crap as well as the good stuff. However, note that one of the writers of "Game Over" used to work for The Simp

  • Google found this information (Score:3, Informative)

    by Lumpish Scholar ( 17107 ) on Friday July 04, 2003 @10:23AM (#6367293) Homepage Journal
    GAME OVER is UPN's new family comedy series featuring the adventures of the suburban Smashenburn family, who just happen to live in an alternate video-game universe. Comprised of offbeat characters who face everyday familial issues, the Smashenburns find unconventional ways to fight, survive and love within this 3-D CGI-animated world of action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters, inspired by the popular genre of video games.

    As head of the Smashenburn household, Rip is a hotshot Grand Prix racecar driver who rides and wrecks daily. His feisty and attractive wife, Raquel, is a modern working woman, juggling family and her exhilarating job as gun-toting, monster-fighting Agent Smashenburn. Their son, Billy, is a 13-year-old shallow, but trendy, wannabe hip-hopster, who often argues with his 14-year-old sister, Alice, a cynical yet socially conscious teen. In the family's master plan to form a stronger bond, the Smashenburns attempt to find the perfect pet. Yet they end up with Turbo, a 300-pound talking creature [looks like a carnivorous purple rabbit], whose favorite past times are robbing pawn shops, smoking stogies and creating mayhem -- all with an attitude. The friendly next-door neighbors are the Changs, a family of Kung Fu fighting Shaolin monks, including the attractive Dark Princess, a.k.a. "Mom," and her husband, Sam.

    CHARACTER VOICES
    Marisa Tomei/Raquel
    Patrick Warburton/Rip
    D.L.Hughley/Turbo
    Rachel Dratch/Alice
    James Sie/Sam Chang
    Marie Matiko/Vox
    E.G.Dailey/Billy

    WRITERS
    David Sacks ("The Simpsons"), Ross Venokur, Jason Venokur and David Goetsch

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
    Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach ("That 70s Show," "Grounded for Life, "3rd Rock From the Sun"), David Sacks ("The Tick"), Jason Venokur ("3rd Rock From the Sun "), David Goetsch, Ross Venokur ("The Tick")

    PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions, LLC.
  • They don't mention anything about using visuals similar to Tron. I don't think it could be called a "Tron Spoof" otherwise. There have been a few series focused on the electronic world (there was "Reboot" and I think "Digimon" had something like that?). What makes Tron be Tron is the look&feel, not only the premise.

    I mentioned this when the Tron 2.0 demo was released, but I made a series of Tron strips in my webcomic a while ago. If you want to see them, these are the links:
    Strip 1 [overcaffeinated.net]
    Strip 2 [overcaffeinated.net]
    Strip 3 [overcaffeinated.net]

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