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Animated Tron Spoof Coming to UPN

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Huh? by rampant+mac · · Score: 4, Funny
    "...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!

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  2. I hate to see their mail box by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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

  3. reboot by tonyt · · Score: 5, Funny

    i liked this show when it was called reboot

    (slowly counts to 20)

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  4. Obligatory Simpsons Reference by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  5. Has it come to this by panurge · · Score: 4, Funny

    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" ?

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  6. My vote goes for by Phekko · · Score: 3, Funny

    we don't get UPN you insensitive clod!

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  7. Re:Horay for Animation by xScruffx · · Score: 1, Funny

    Couldn't this have been summed up with a simple "you suck?"

    xScruffx

  8. Typecasting! by Ridge · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...and Artie Lange as the family's 300-pound pet creature."

    Poor Artie.

  9. Mid-season replacement? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    A second string show on UPN?

    Are they finally going to replace Enterprise with something scifi?

  10. Re:Cast Details by Leffe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, that's nice and all, but.. Who will play the bit?

  11. Even More Timely than SpaceBalls by nightsweat · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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  12. I thought the original Tron ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... was an animated spoof.