Mega Babies
Mega Babies is an animated children's television series created by the Tremblay brothers, Christian and Yvon, who previously had made the Hanna-Barbera show SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.[2] It is produced by CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group in association with Sony Wonder.[3]
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The English Mega Babies logo. From left to right: Derrick, Meg and Buck. | |
| Genre | Adventure Action fiction Toilet humor Comedy |
| Created by | Christian Tremblay Yvon Tremblay |
| Directed by | Kevin Patrick Currie |
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| Narrated by | Terrence Scammell |
| Music by | James Fieldman Gary Guttman |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (52 segments) (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 10–11 minutes |
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| Original release | October 10, 1999[1] – April 22, 2000[1] |
The series was broadcast on Fox Family Channel and Teletoon. The show was also aired in UK on Sky One's weekday mornings and later repeated on Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002.
Synopsis
The show is about a trio of mutant babies who are three characters that fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Meg, Derrick and Buck and their care-giver's name is Nurse Lazlo. The show takes place in Your City, USA.
After their birth, they are brought to an orphanage. When the entire solar system aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other powers, and Nurse Lazlo's IQ rose.
Voice actors
Buck was voiced by Sonja Ball, Dean Hagopian voiced many male characters, Laura Teasdale did Derrick's voice, Meg was voiced by Jaclyn Linetsky, and Bronwen Mantel voiced Nurse Lazlo.
Even though the voice acting was done in Montreal, the voice directing was done by Vancouver based veteran voice actor and voice director Terry Klassen who has done voiceovers for many animated television series and films such as voicing Krillin in the Ocean dubbed version of Dragon Ball Z. Klassen has also voice directed other works such as Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Test, Cardcaptors, several Barbie films, and more recently, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This was the only time that Klassen has ever voice directed an animated project outside of Vancouver. During the later episodes, Terrence Scammell, who also voiced several characters in the series, as well as providing the main title narration, took over as voice director. Scammell has also done many voice acting roles for film, television and video games in both Montreal and Ottawa, Ontario.
Production
The show was announced in January 1999 as a co-production between CinéGroupe and Sony Wonder set to premier on the Fox Family Channel in fall of that year. The show was created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and Landmark Entertainment Group budgeted between $5.9 million (C$9 million) and $6.6 million for 52 10-minute episodes which were pre-produced in Montreal and animated in Asia then bundled into 26 half-hour daily shows.[4]
Episodes
Season 1 (1999)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [1] | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Full Metal Grizz" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Christian Tremblay | October 10, 1999 | |
| The Mega Babies new neighbor doesn't know what he's gotten into when he baby-sits the three superpowered tykes. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Attack of the Cownibals" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Angus Bungay | October 10, 1999 | |
| Alien cows have invaded and are stealing all the milk on earth, which is bad for the milk loving Mega Babies. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Molar Attack" | Erin Ehrlich | Boomstone | October 13, 1999 | |
| Meg is teething, and she's destroying everything in her path to find the right teething tool. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Boy in the Drastic Bubble" | Mitch Watson | Jeff Barker | October 13, 1999 | |
| A trouble making imp plans to takeover the Mega Babies home by framing them for his destructive pranks. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Chicken Pox Outbreak" | Lisa Malone | Jim Caswell | October 20, 1999 | |
| Derrick's fear of vaccination causes an outbreak of mutant chicken pox that threatens the world. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite" | John Paragon | Jeff Barker | October 20, 1999 | |
| Mutant bed bugs that grow giant in sunlight are loose in the city and one has apparently swallowed Lazlo. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Adoption D-Day" | Ken Segall | Jeremy Hildebrand | October 27, 1999 | |
| Meg is adopted by a couple who turn out to be balloon-like aliens who only want her for her gas. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Crustacean Frustration" | Russell Arch | Jeremy Hildebrand | October 27, 1999 | |
| Lazlo takes the babies to a seafood restaurant, but Derrick's shellfish allergy causes him to turn into different sea creatures every time he sneezes. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The In Breed" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Normand DeRepentigny | November 3, 1999 | |
| Lazlo takes the babies on a road trip, but the babies end up taken by a family of hillbillies. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Destructive Nature" | William Forrest Cluverius | Karen Lloyd | November 3, 1999 | |
| The great outdoors will never be the same when Lazlo takes the Mega Babies camping. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Island of Dr. Thoreau" | Russell Arch | Normand DeRepentigny | November 10, 1999 | |
| Lazlo and the babies become shipwrecked on the island home of a mad scientist and his freaky animal experiments. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Journey to the Center of the Sewer" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Marco Menard | November 10, 1999 | |
| Meg and Derrick chase a bouncy ball down into the sewer and stumble upon an evil fast food chef's plan to take over the world | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Inner Ear Inferno" | Erin Ehrlich | Zoran Vanjaka | November 12, 1999 | |
| When Derrick needs his ear cleaned, Meg and Buck shrink down to give it a thorough cleaning. | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | "Lost Freeway" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Luc Savoie | November 15, 1999 | |
| A road trip turns treacherous when Lazlo and the babies get lost on a freeway full of bizarre creatures and characters. | ||||||
| 15 | 15 | "Dr. Franken-Buck" | Matt Mallach | Normand DeRepentigny | November 17, 1999 | |
| Buck eats a "smart" cookie and becomes a genius bent on world domination. | ||||||
| 16 | 16 | "Intergalactic Battle of the Babies" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Jeff Barker | November 17, 1999 | |
| The Mega Babies compete against alien babies in an intergalactic competition to win an amazing playset. | ||||||
| 17 | 17 | "The Evil Eye" | Lisa Malone | Dan Leveille | November 24, 1999 | |
| A trip to the pool has the Mega Babies facing off against a sentient pink eye virus. | ||||||
| 18 | 18 | "A Mega Christmas" | William Forrest Cluverius | Richard Forgues | November 24, 1999 | |
| The Mega Babies must save Christmas when an alien shapeshifter replaces Santa Claus in his evil scheme to ruin the holidays. | ||||||
| 19 | 19 | "Alien Withdrawal" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Marc Simard | December 1, 1999 | |
| The babies are caught in the middle of a bank robbery by alien collectors after three very rare coins. | ||||||
| 20 | 20 | "Nursery Slimes" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Richard Forgues | December 1, 1999 | |
| Lazlo leaves the babies at a fancy daycare, where they cause their usual mayhem and drive the teacher crazy. | ||||||
| 21 | 21 | "Ice Ice Baby" | Jim Newman & Keith van Straaten | Jim Caswell | December 8, 1999 | |
| The babies must save the day when a frostbitten ice skater kidnaps her competition to ensure her victory. | ||||||
| 22 | 22 | "Nightmare of the Sleepwalker" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Rick Thomas & Marc Simard | December 8, 1999 | |
| When Buck starts sleepwalking, Meg and Derrick try to keep him from getting into trouble. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | "The Flight of the Killer Zombees" | Erin Ehrlich | Jeff Barker | December 20, 1999 | |
| After Derrick inadvertently destroys their hive, the babies must save the earth from a swarm of angry alien bees. | ||||||
| 24 | 24 | "If a Wood Chuck Upchucks" | Mitch Watson | Karen Lloyd | December 20, 1999 | |
| The babies go to an amusement park for a day of fun where the security personnel try and rein in their playful mayhem. | ||||||
| 25 | 25 | "Berried Alive" | John Paragon | Zoran Vanjaka | December 26, 1999 | |
| Experimental seeds wind up in the babies garden and grow into metal eating blueberry monsters. | ||||||
| 26 | 26 | "Insepction Insurrection" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Normand DeRepentigny | December 26, 1999 | |
| A bump on the head makes Lazlo behave like a baby just as a state inspector, who is secretly an evil alien, comes to evaluate her. | ||||||
Season 2 (2000)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date [1] | |
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| 27 | 1 | "Exterminator Bob" | William Forrest Cluverius | Richard Forgues | March 6, 2000 | |
| After Lazlo's growth serum creates giant roaches, an evil exterminator plots to use them to take over the world. | ||||||
| 28 | 2 | "Vampire Girls" | Robert Gaylor | Dan Leveille | March 6, 2000 | |
| Meg is hypnotized by a group of teenage vampires who use mind controlling cookies to make the citizens build a dome to block the sun. | ||||||
| 29 | 3 | "Portrait of a Madman" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Normand DeRepentigny | March 8, 2000 | |
| Wanting pictures of the babies to show off, Lazlo takes them to a photographer who plans to steal their youth for himself. | ||||||
| 30 | 4 | "The Potty's Over" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Jeff Barker | March 8, 2000 | |
| Lazlo starts potty training the babies just as an evil diaper manufacturer tries to eliminate the potty training mascot. | ||||||
| 31 | 5 | "Beach from Beyond" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Vida Escauriaga | March 15, 2000 | |
| The babies take an over worked Lazlo to the beach to help her unwind, but she keeps seeing danger everywhere. | ||||||
| 32 | 6 | "Toxic Hobby" | Lisa Fineberg Malone | Normand DeRepentigny | March 15, 2000 | |
| When the babies use a toxic substance to paint, the drawings end up coming to life and go on a rampage through the city. | ||||||
| 33 | 7 | "Killer Dillers from Outer Space" | Glenn Leopold | Zoran Vanjaka | March 19, 2000 | |
| A race of dill pickles from beyond the moon want to extract revenge on humanity for every pickle that's been eaten. | ||||||
| 34 | 8 | "It's My Party and I'll Puke if I Want To" | Mitch Watson | Karen Lloyd | March 19, 2000 | |
| Lazlo takes the babies to the birthday party of the richest girl in the city. But the magician plots to kidnap her. | ||||||
| 35 | 9 | "Re-Usable Terror" | William Forrest Cluverius | Jeff Barker | March 25, 2000 | |
| A crazed recycle man builds a mechanical army from recycled parts, and the robots threaten to recycle the whole city. | ||||||
| 36 | 10 | "Poop Doggy Dogg" | Ken Segall | Jeff Barker | March 25, 2000 | |
| Lazlo and the babies create a mechanical dog which soon gets out of control. | ||||||
| 37 | 11 | "Hot Rod Babies" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Normand DeRepentigny | March 26, 2000 | |
| The babies go to a demolition derby and face against a trio of monster trucks with artificial intelligence. | ||||||
| 38 | 12 | "Gross'ery Shopping" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Richard Forgues | March 26, 2000 | |
| When the owner of a grocery store is thawed out, he turns loose an army of evil food monsters. | ||||||
| 39 | 13 | "The Creature from the Blackhead Lagoon" | Sean Abley | Normand DeRepentigny | April 1, 2000 | |
| The babies help their new babysitter remove a bad case of acne, but their solution releases a hoard of living pimples. | ||||||
| 40 | 14 | "Balemtime's Day" | Kate Donahue & Scott Kreamer | Karen Lloyd | April 1, 2000 | |
| Meg is not into celebrating Valentine's Day, and she has a nightmare where villains from the past compete for her love. | ||||||
| 41 | 15 | "Bucky at the Bat" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Vida Escauriaga | April 2, 2000 | |
| When the home city's baseball team starts losing, Buck is enlisted to help them win the game. | ||||||
| 42 | 16 | "A Boy Named Su" | J. Harry Hardman | Normand DeRepentigny | April 2, 2000 | |
| Meg falls for a sumo wrestler and must rescue him when he is captured. | ||||||
| 43 | 17 | "Deep Booger" | William Forrest Cluverius | Zoran Vanjaka | April 8, 2000 | |
| When a giant booger from space threatens the Earth, the babies are sent on a mission to stop it before it's too late. | ||||||
| 44 | 18 | "Shopping Mall Madness" | Lisa Malone | Richard Forgues | April 8, 2000 | |
| The babies visit the mall in the hopes of getting to meet their favorite TV star. | ||||||
| 45 | 19 | "Little Beauty Shop of Horrors" | Russell Arch | Jeff Barker | April 9, 2000 | |
| The babies go to a barber shop. When the barbers find out how fast their hair grows back, they decide to use it to sell for profit. | ||||||
| 46 | 20 | "Chewing the Fat" | Robert Gaylor | Tom Nesbitt | April 9, 2000 | |
| After Lazlo decides to get a liposuction, the extracted fat cells escape and go after everyone else who has had liposuction. | ||||||
| 47 | 21 | "Let it Rip" | Dean Stefan | Karine Charlebois, Normand DeRepentigny & Stan Gadziola | April 15, 2000 | |
| Meg has gas from eating POW Chips. So Nurse Lazlo, Derrick, and Buck find a solution to stop Meg from getting gassy. Meanwhile, some aliens crash into the orphanage. | ||||||
| 48 | 22 | "Toys of the Future" | Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert | Jeremy Hildebrand | April 15, 2000 | |
| Meg, Derrick and Buck are taken to the local toy company to test their latest products. | ||||||
| 49 | 23 | "Summer of Sandman" | Jesse Dienstag | Stan Gadziola | April 16, 2000 | |
| When everyone refuses to fall asleep when the Sandman wants them to, the sleep inducer decides to extract his revenge. | ||||||
| 50 | 24 | "Curse of the Doo Doo Doll" | Cathy Shambley | Richard Forgues | April 16, 2000 | |
| A voodoo master creates a voodoo doll of Nurse Lazlo. | ||||||
| 51 | 25 | "Golf for It" | Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher | Karine Charlebois | April 22, 2000 | |
| The babies play a round in the city's most dangerous miniature golf course. | ||||||
| 52 | 26 | "Snow Long Suckers" | William Forrest Cluverius | Normand DeRepentigny | April 22, 2000 | |
| During a trip to the snowy mountains, the babies must stop an evil snowboarder before he freezes the entire planet. | ||||||
Video game
Entitled with the same name, this video game based on the show was developed and published by Global Star Software in 2000, exclusively for PC.[5]
Reception
Mega Babies was not well received by critics and audiences, and was criticised for its excessive crude and gross-out humor, especially for a children’s series . WatchMojo ranked the series #4 in a "Top 10 Most Embarrassing ‘90s Cartoons" list.[6] IMDb's user score for the series, as of November 2022, is 2.6 out of 10.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2016-03-02.[dead link] Alt URL
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 537–538. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-01-27. , CinéGroupe
- ^ "Cin-Groupe, Sony toon in 'Babies'". Variety. 1999.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2021-04-19., The Strong
- ^ "Top 10 Most Embarrassing '90s Cartoons". YouTube. WatchMojo.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Mega Babies (TV Series) 1999-2000". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
External links
- Mega Babies at IMDb