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The Moxy Show

The Moxy Show, also known as The Moxy Pirate Show and The Moxy & Flea Show,[c] is an American animated anthology television series produced by Colossal Pictures for Cartoon Network. It consists of classic cartoons inter-spliced with segments featuring commentary from Moxy the anthropomorphic dog, who purportedly works for Cartoon Network as a janitor but secretly hijacks their signal every Sunday. The Moxy Show was Cartoon Network's first exclusive original programming and was created out of Cartoon Network's desire for an animated host that could be aired live. They contracted Colossal Pictures to develop the character and the motion capture technology to realize Cartoon Network's vision. Moxy would be voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait, while Colossal Pictures' software would use John Stevenson as an actor for Moxy's movements. The series first aired as The Moxy Pirate Show on December 5, 1993, before being rebranded as The Moxy Show on November 6, 1994, alongside the introduction of a new character named Flea, who serves as Moxy's sidekick. The series run ended on May 25, 1996, reportedly due to poor audience reception, and has become lost media.

The Moxy Show
GenreAnthology
Written by
Directed by
Voices of
Opening theme"De La Funk" by René De Wael
ComposerDavid Wayne Powers[a]
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Margo de la Cruz
  • Tammy Walters[a]
EditorLili Cunningham
Running time
  • 60 minutes[b]
  • 30 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkCartoon Network
ReleaseDecember 5, 1993 (1993-12-05) –
May 25, 1996 (1996-05-25)

Premise edit

Moxy (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) is an anthropomorphic cartoon dog who purportedly works as a janitor for Cartoon Network and was unsuccessful in being granted his own show.[1][2] Moxy has built a bootleg studio in his closet where he hijacks the signal to Cartoon Network every week to host The Moxy Show.[1][3] On The Moxy Show, Moxy showcases classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, and Popeye.[4] Between each cartoon, Moxy provides commentary and trivia.[1] During the show's initial iteration as The Moxy Pirate Show, Moxy was the only character. When the show rebranded as The Moxy Show, a sidekick named Flea (voiced by Penn Jillette) was introduced,[5][6] who is described as a "professional pest".[7] Moxy and Flea serve as a dynamic duo, in which Moxy is careless while Flea is level-headed.[8]

Production edit

Cartoon Network is a cable television channel focused on animation, created by Turner Broadcasting System, and launched on October 1, 1992. Cartoon Network's initial programming relied on reruns of classic television cartoons.[9][10] Cartoon Network wanted to create both a mascot that would perform animated skits in between airings and a live host for special events. "The problem arose," according to Cartoon Network president Betty Cohen, "when [they] realized that for the Cartoon Network, [they] were going to need a cartoon host."[11] Traditional animation and computer animation could not be produced and aired live and thus could not be used for Cartoon Network's desired animated host. Cartoon Network approached Colossal Pictures, a company that had been merging traditional animation with new "real-time applications in new media".[12] Brian DeGraff of Colossal Pictures proposed Moxy as Cartoon Network's mascot. Moxy would be computer-modeled in 3D and use motion capture for animation as the series. Approving this idea, Cartoon Network contracted Colossal Pictures to produce sixteen interstitial animations.[13] Cartoon Network chose to work with Colossal Pictures due to their innovation and experience in animation and character development.[14]

Moxy went through many design variations before Colossal Pictures settled on his final design.[15] Despite being 3D, Moxy's design was meant to emulate other cartoons by having jointless limbs and skewed facial features. Though DeGraff wanted to model Moxy's closet studio through computer graphics, budgetary constraints forced Colossal Pictures to overlay Moxy over a live-action set and to restrict the recording setup to three cameras, limiting the number of fixed perspectives accordingly. As part of the creators' attempts at imitating other cartoons, the set purported used "cartoon logic" such as the closet consisting of shelves with the heaviest objects on the upper shelves.[13] In addition, The miniature set was intentionally given a "wanky" appearance to convey Moxy's unpreparedness and improvisatory nature and was built in forced perspective, "giving it the illusion of depth".[16]

The motion capture software used for Moxy was developed in-house.[17][18] Goldthwait was hired to voice Moxy, and John Stevenson was hired as the motion capture actor. Moxy's lip-syncing was automatic, being determined by the loudness of Goldthwait's voice. For Moxy's movements, Stevenson wore a magnetic harness with sensors for motion capture, along with a hard hat with a long beak and cardboard hands with sensors to compensate for Moxy's large ears and hands. Moxy's limb movements were intentionally distorted by the software to give Moxy a "rubbery" feel.[19] The software also gave Moxy procedurally animated details independent of the motion capture such as wiggling ears to eliminate stiffness.[20][21] Additional animated details were also added post-recording such as his eyes squinting and his eyebrows raising.[20]

Broadcast and reception edit

Moxy was first showcased at a Manhattan news conference on September 28, 1993.[22] Marketed as the "first real-time cartoon character", Moxy later debuted publicly as the host of The Great International Toon-In, a 14-hour animated program run by Turner Broadcasting System.[1][23] It was broadcast on November 26, 1993, spanning six Turner Entertainment cable networks including Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT.[17] The Moxy Pirate Show first aired on December 5, 1993,[3] as Cartoon Network's first exclusive original programming,[9] with subsequent episodes airing every Sunday night in an hour-long format. On November 6, 1994, with the introduction of Flea, the show was rebranded as The Moxy Show and changed to a half-hour format.[5] One episode was broadcast under the moniker The Moxy & Flea Show, which aired on December 25, 1995.[24] The Moxy Show last aired on May 25, 1996.[25] The Moxy Show has never aired since or been released for purchase, making it lost media.[26]

The critical and audience reception of The Moxy Show was generally poor.[26] A week after The Moxy Pirate Show's premiere, Lee Winfrey of The Philadelphia Inquirer called Moxy, "The most overhyped and disappointing new cable television host this fall". Winfrey considered Moxy's character to be without wit or distinction and believed that the creators' focus on motion capture led to them neglecting to make Moxy interesting.[4] In a 2003 interview with Andy Merrill, interviewer Ken P. noted that The Moxy Show did not air for long, with Merrill speculating that it was because it did not "click" for audiences.[27] Retrospectively, Screen Rant ranked The Moxy Show as the tenth best Cartoon Network show of the 1990s, beating out Big Bag and Mike, Lu & Og. Amanda Bruce and Rosie Mulley of Screen Rant wrote that since The Moxy Show's poor reception and short-lived airing, Cartoon Network has "learned from their mistakes and created more successful and popular original characters from then out."[26]

See also edit

  • Space Ghost Coast to Coast – the first TV series produced by Cartoon Network, the first Cartoon Network series as a pre-Adult Swim show; similarly used an animated host.
  • JBVO – similarly used an animated host and is considered lost media

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i The Moxy & Flea Show
  2. ^ The Moxy Pirate Show
  3. ^ The Moxy Show has gone by three names throughout its airing. The series was titled The Moxy Pirate Show when it first premiered on December 5, 1993; was renamed The Moxy Show upon the introduction of Flea on November 6, 1994; and was briefly known as The Moxy & Flea Show for one episode on December 25, 1995.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d DeRosa, Robin (November 24, 1993). . USA Today. Archived from the original on May 19, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  2. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 1:53–2:18.
  3. ^ a b Gill, Suzanne (December 4, 1993). "Cartoon Network's Moxy shows chutzpah". The Montana Standard. p. 25. Retrieved August 25, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Winfrey, Lee (December 11, 1993). "The Moxy Pirate Show". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. D12. Retrieved August 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (2 ed.). Checkmark Books. pp. 468–469. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  6. ^ Katz, Frances (November 27, 1994). "New Toon". Boston Herald. p. 1.
  7. ^ "Meet Penn Jillette". Standard-Speaker. January 21, 1995. p. 22. Retrieved August 25, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Etemesi, Philip (May 19, 2023). "10 Best CGI Cartoons From The 90s, Ranked". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  9. ^ a b Carter, Justin (October 2, 2022). "Thanks, Cartoon Network, for 30 Years of Being You". Gizmondo. Retrieved August 26, 2023.
  10. ^ Winfrey, Lee (February 12, 1995). . Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on May 13, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  11. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 0:18–0:41.
  12. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 0:50–1:20.
  13. ^ a b Baker 1994, p. 125.
  14. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 1:20–1:36.
  15. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 2:32–2:50.
  16. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 2:56–3:32.
  17. ^ a b Werts, Diana (November 24, 1993). "Moxy the Live Cartoon To Debut Worldwide". Newsday. p. 106. Retrieved August 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ Cartoon Network 1993, 4:36–4:42.
  19. ^ Baker 1994, p. 126.
  20. ^ a b Baker 1994, p. 127.
  21. ^ Robertson, Barbara (September 1994). "Caught in the Act". Computer Graphics World. p. 28. Retrieved August 30, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  22. ^ Ramirez, Anthony (September 29, 1993). "Cartooning Is All Set to Go Live". The New York Times. from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  23. ^ Walley, Wayne (October 4, 1993). "Cartoon Network brings 'toon to life". Electronic Media. Vol. 12, no. 40. pp. 8, 14. Retrieved August 26, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  24. ^ "Monday-Friday morning and afternoon". Chicago Tribune. December 24, 1995. sec. 11, p. 13. Retrieved August 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "Prime Time". The Philadelphia Inquirer. May 25, 1996. p. D13. Retrieved August 26, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ a b c Bruce, Amanda; Mulley, Rosie (October 15, 2023). "Every Original Cartoon Network Show Of The 90s, Ranked". Screen Rant. Retrieved November 22, 2023.
  27. ^ Merrill, Andy (November 18, 2003). "An Interview with Andy Merrill". IGN (Interview). Interviewed by Ken P. Retrieved November 29, 2012.

Sources edit

External links edit

  • The Moxy Show at IMDb  

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The Moxy Show also known as The Moxy Pirate Show and The Moxy amp Flea Show c is an American animated anthology television series produced by Colossal Pictures for Cartoon Network It consists of classic cartoons inter spliced with segments featuring commentary from Moxy the anthropomorphic dog who purportedly works for Cartoon Network as a janitor but secretly hijacks their signal every Sunday The Moxy Show was Cartoon Network s first exclusive original programming and was created out of Cartoon Network s desire for an animated host that could be aired live They contracted Colossal Pictures to develop the character and the motion capture technology to realize Cartoon Network s vision Moxy would be voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait while Colossal Pictures software would use John Stevenson as an actor for Moxy s movements The series first aired as The Moxy Pirate Show on December 5 1993 before being rebranded as The Moxy Show on November 6 1994 alongside the introduction of a new character named Flea who serves as Moxy s sidekick The series run ended on May 25 1996 reportedly due to poor audience reception and has become lost media The Moxy ShowGenreAnthologyWritten byThe Moxy Show Scott Sedita Jonathan Groff Tim Boxell Bobcat Goldthwait Penn Jillette Matt Maiellaro a Matt Harrigan a Directed byGeorge Evelyn Tim Boxell Greg Harrison a Voices ofBobcat Goldthwait Penn Jillette Chris Rock a Opening theme De La Funk by Rene De WaelComposerDavid Wayne Powers a Country of originUnited StatesOriginal languageEnglishProductionExecutive producersBetty Cohen Joshua Katz Mike Lazzo a Keith Crofford a ProducersMargo de la Cruz Tammy Walters a EditorLili CunninghamRunning time60 minutes b 30 minutesProduction companiesColossal Pictures Turner Studios a Original releaseNetworkCartoon NetworkReleaseDecember 5 1993 1993 12 05 May 25 1996 1996 05 25 Contents 1 Premise 2 Production 3 Broadcast and reception 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Sources 8 External linksPremise editMoxy voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait is an anthropomorphic cartoon dog who purportedly works as a janitor for Cartoon Network and was unsuccessful in being granted his own show 1 2 Moxy has built a bootleg studio in his closet where he hijacks the signal to Cartoon Network every week to host The Moxy Show 1 3 On The Moxy Show Moxy showcases classic cartoons such as Looney Tunes Tom and Jerry and Popeye 4 Between each cartoon Moxy provides commentary and trivia 1 During the show s initial iteration as The Moxy Pirate Show Moxy was the only character When the show rebranded as The Moxy Show a sidekick named Flea voiced by Penn Jillette was introduced 5 6 who is described as a professional pest 7 Moxy and Flea serve as a dynamic duo in which Moxy is careless while Flea is level headed 8 Production editCartoon Network is a cable television channel focused on animation created by Turner Broadcasting System and launched on October 1 1992 Cartoon Network s initial programming relied on reruns of classic television cartoons 9 10 Cartoon Network wanted to create both a mascot that would perform animated skits in between airings and a live host for special events The problem arose according to Cartoon Network president Betty Cohen when they realized that for the Cartoon Network they were going to need a cartoon host 11 Traditional animation and computer animation could not be produced and aired live and thus could not be used for Cartoon Network s desired animated host Cartoon Network approached Colossal Pictures a company that had been merging traditional animation with new real time applications in new media 12 Brian DeGraff of Colossal Pictures proposed Moxy as Cartoon Network s mascot Moxy would be computer modeled in 3D and use motion capture for animation as the series Approving this idea Cartoon Network contracted Colossal Pictures to produce sixteen interstitial animations 13 Cartoon Network chose to work with Colossal Pictures due to their innovation and experience in animation and character development 14 Moxy went through many design variations before Colossal Pictures settled on his final design 15 Despite being 3D Moxy s design was meant to emulate other cartoons by having jointless limbs and skewed facial features Though DeGraff wanted to model Moxy s closet studio through computer graphics budgetary constraints forced Colossal Pictures to overlay Moxy over a live action set and to restrict the recording setup to three cameras limiting the number of fixed perspectives accordingly As part of the creators attempts at imitating other cartoons the set purported used cartoon logic such as the closet consisting of shelves with the heaviest objects on the upper shelves 13 In addition The miniature set was intentionally given a wanky appearance to convey Moxy s unpreparedness and improvisatory nature and was built in forced perspective giving it the illusion of depth 16 The motion capture software used for Moxy was developed in house 17 18 Goldthwait was hired to voice Moxy and John Stevenson was hired as the motion capture actor Moxy s lip syncing was automatic being determined by the loudness of Goldthwait s voice For Moxy s movements Stevenson wore a magnetic harness with sensors for motion capture along with a hard hat with a long beak and cardboard hands with sensors to compensate for Moxy s large ears and hands Moxy s limb movements were intentionally distorted by the software to give Moxy a rubbery feel 19 The software also gave Moxy procedurally animated details independent of the motion capture such as wiggling ears to eliminate stiffness 20 21 Additional animated details were also added post recording such as his eyes squinting and his eyebrows raising 20 Broadcast and reception editMoxy was first showcased at a Manhattan news conference on September 28 1993 22 Marketed as the first real time cartoon character Moxy later debuted publicly as the host of The Great International Toon In a 14 hour animated program run by Turner Broadcasting System 1 23 It was broadcast on November 26 1993 spanning six Turner Entertainment cable networks including Cartoon Network TBS and TNT 17 The Moxy Pirate Show first aired on December 5 1993 3 as Cartoon Network s first exclusive original programming 9 with subsequent episodes airing every Sunday night in an hour long format On November 6 1994 with the introduction of Flea the show was rebranded as The Moxy Show and changed to a half hour format 5 One episode was broadcast under the moniker The Moxy amp Flea Show which aired on December 25 1995 24 The Moxy Show last aired on May 25 1996 25 The Moxy Show has never aired since or been released for purchase making it lost media 26 The critical and audience reception of The Moxy Show was generally poor 26 A week after The Moxy Pirate Show s premiere Lee Winfrey of The Philadelphia Inquirer called Moxy The most overhyped and disappointing new cable television host this fall Winfrey considered Moxy s character to be without wit or distinction and believed that the creators focus on motion capture led to them neglecting to make Moxy interesting 4 In a 2003 interview with Andy Merrill interviewer Ken P noted that The Moxy Show did not air for long with Merrill speculating that it was because it did not click for audiences 27 Retrospectively Screen Rant ranked The Moxy Show as the tenth best Cartoon Network show of the 1990s beating out Big Bag and Mike Lu amp Og Amanda Bruce and Rosie Mulley of Screen Rant wrote that since The Moxy Show s poor reception and short lived airing Cartoon Network has learned from their mistakes and created more successful and popular original characters from then out 26 See also editSpace Ghost Coast to Coast the first TV series produced by Cartoon Network the first Cartoon Network series as a pre Adult Swim show similarly used an animated host JBVO similarly used an animated host and is considered lost mediaNotes edit a b c d e f g h i The Moxy amp Flea Show The Moxy Pirate Show The Moxy Show has gone by three names throughout its airing The series was titled The Moxy Pirate Show when it first premiered on December 5 1993 was renamed The Moxy Show upon the introduction of Flea on November 6 1994 and was briefly known as The Moxy amp Flea Show for one episode on December 25 1995 References edit a b c d DeRosa Robin November 24 1993 Moxy s dog moves dictated by real life USA Today Archived from the original on May 19 2013 Retrieved August 29 2023 Cartoon Network 1993 1 53 2 18 a b Gill Suzanne December 4 1993 Cartoon Network s Moxy shows chutzpah The Montana Standard p 25 Retrieved August 25 2023 via Newspapers com a b Winfrey Lee December 11 1993 The Moxy Pirate Show The Philadelphia Inquirer p D12 Retrieved August 14 2023 via Newspapers com a b Lenburg Jeff 1999 The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons 2 ed Checkmark Books pp 468 469 ISBN 0 8160 3831 7 Katz Frances November 27 1994 New Toon Boston Herald p 1 Meet Penn Jillette Standard Speaker January 21 1995 p 22 Retrieved August 25 2023 via Newspapers com Etemesi Philip May 19 2023 10 Best CGI Cartoons From The 90s Ranked Comic Book Resources Retrieved August 26 2023 a b Carter Justin October 2 2022 Thanks Cartoon Network for 30 Years of Being You Gizmondo Retrieved August 26 2023 Winfrey Lee February 12 1995 Cartoon Network Brings Some Fresh Faces To Life Chicago Tribune Archived from the original on May 13 2013 Retrieved August 29 2023 Cartoon Network 1993 0 18 0 41 Cartoon Network 1993 0 50 1 20 a b Baker 1994 p 125 Cartoon Network 1993 1 20 1 36 Cartoon Network 1993 2 32 2 50 Cartoon Network 1993 2 56 3 32 a b Werts Diana November 24 1993 Moxy the Live Cartoon To Debut Worldwide Newsday p 106 Retrieved August 26 2023 via Newspapers com Cartoon Network 1993 4 36 4 42 Baker 1994 p 126 a b Baker 1994 p 127 Robertson Barbara September 1994 Caught in the Act Computer Graphics World p 28 Retrieved August 30 2023 via Internet Archive Ramirez Anthony September 29 1993 Cartooning Is All Set to Go Live The New York Times Archived from the original on October 13 2014 Retrieved November 29 2012 Walley Wayne October 4 1993 Cartoon Network brings toon to life Electronic Media Vol 12 no 40 pp 8 14 Retrieved August 26 2023 via Internet Archive Monday Friday morning and afternoon Chicago Tribune December 24 1995 sec 11 p 13 Retrieved August 26 2023 via Newspapers com Prime Time The Philadelphia Inquirer May 25 1996 p D13 Retrieved August 26 2023 via Newspapers com a b c Bruce Amanda Mulley Rosie October 15 2023 Every Original Cartoon Network Show Of The 90s Ranked Screen Rant Retrieved November 22 2023 Merrill Andy November 18 2003 An Interview with Andy Merrill IGN Interview Interviewed by Ken P Retrieved November 29 2012 Sources editBaker Christopher W 1994 How Did They Do It Computer Illusion in Film and TV Alpha Books ISBN 978 1 567 61422 0 The Making of Moxy Just Yabba Dabba Doo It 1993 Cartoon Network External links editThe Moxy Show at IMDb nbsp Retrieved from https en 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