Animated Tron Spoof Coming to UPN

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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Cast Details

[henbane]

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)

Horay for Animation

[luzrek]

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

[golgotha007]

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.

reboot

[tonyt]

i liked this show when it was called reboot

(slowly counts to 20)