Freakazoid Review

This is the brain, and you're listening to the

Geekcast Radio Network. Yes! I'm the network

sensor, and I object to the previous scene. It's

too scary! Change it now! Fine. Here's my very

own story again. Only now, everything interesting

is gone. Are you happy? Yes! I'll bet you're

real happy. I am! This is boring and dumb! I

don't care! I like it! Okay! Oh look, there's

the Freakazoid sign. It's not like we haven't

seen that before. And check out those bricks!

Wow, what a showstopper! Why don't you grow up?

Why don't you make me? Go eat a melon! Go censor

your head! Be quiet! Now introduce this week's

episode of You're Fired! And now, another nice

Freakazoid episode. Beyond good, beyond evil,

beyond your wildest imagination. Freakazoid!

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Madness Your computer hates Hello and welcome

to Tooncast Beyond. I am one of your hosts, Dave

Jones -Mike, and joining me is Steve Megatron.

Hello. Hello. Today we are going to be taking

a trip back in time as we hop in the DeLorean

and arrive in 1995 as we are both freaking out

over Freakazoid. Yes. Oh god I was watching clips

of this on YouTube and I had the DVDs. I wish

I had the DVDs but I was I remember when this

show aired, oh my god. So a quick overview and

history lesson. We're not going to read all of

this, but just to give you guys an overall feel

for what Freak as White is, which is an American

animated television series created by Steven

Spielberg, Bruce Timm, and Paul Dini for the

kids WB programming block, the WB. of the WB.

The series chronicles the adventure and title

character Freakazoid, a manic, insane superhero

that battles with an army of supervillains. The

show also features many episodes of adventures

with other bizarre superheroes. The show was

produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros.

Animation. The cartoon was the third animated

series to be produced by the collaboration of

Steven Spielberg and Warner Bros. Animation during

the Animation Renaissance of the late 1980s and

early 1990s. uh... bruce tim best known for his

major principal dc universe originally intended

to be a straightforward superhero action -adventure

cartoon uh... with comic overtones but executive

producer steven silvery s series producer and

writer tom ruger and the maniacs team to turn

freakazoid into a flat -out comedy The show is

similar to fellow Ruger -led programs such as

Animaniacs, and the humor is unique in its inclusions

of slapstick, fourth -wall firings, parody, surreal

humor, and pop culture references. It was ranked

on that crappy NGI list at number 53 of their

top 100 animated series list. I don't even know

if it made the GCRN list. I don't know. I believe

it did. Yeah, I'd have to go back and look. I'd

have to go back and look as well, which I might

do while we're continuing our chat. My general

memories of this show was like, back in the 90s,

for me growing up, like this came out in 95,

yeah. I was 15, I was into superhero stuff, but

this to me as a 15 year old was too off the wall.

It's not... It's not very often that I like a

lot of off -the -wall comedy. I mean, you know,

car crashes and, you know, funny superhero cartoons.

That's all well and good, but I don't know. This,

to me, had a kind of an animated Beakman's World

kind of feel to it with how crazy the character

or freak is what it was. I'm not saying it's

a bad thing, but I don't remember if I've maybe

seen, as a kid... I probably saw two and a half

episodes of this show. Well, you obviously didn't

get the right impression because it's not at

all like be right and As for our top 100 it was

number 57. Oh So Dan had it four places higher

And and don't misunderstand me here, I'm not

saying that I dislike the show now I'm saying

that back then it wasn't Not only I don't think

it wasn't on my radar, none of those shows, even

Animaniacs back then, I didn't start appreciating

or finding my love for Animaniacs until it was

off the air. I don't know, I had a fucked up

childhood. I grew up on these shows. I used to

watch this. I used to look forward to watching

this late at night. So this was definitely one

of those shows that I liked watching. What other

memories do you have of it? Well, besides the

parodies and having Ricardo Montalban in the

show, I just like the fact that it was the internet

and he turned into a superhero by hitting a random,

which seemed like random select set of keys,

which they decode later. But yeah, I mean I there

were some points that were a little annoying

but I liked Cosgrove and Freakazoid whenever

they got together and then uh, you know, you

had the lobe which Was Raish Oh David Warner.

Yes. So I mean that sounds so Well, it was called

the lobe right? Okay. So yeah Cosgrove which

was at Asner Sweet it was he looked kind of like

at Asner so that was kind of nice So the show

overall was I like the characters of those three

primarily Awesome um we would be advertising

the behind -the -voice actors Listing for Freakazoid

however the page is incomplete damn it So going

through the characters from Wikipedia You have

Freakazoid, voiced by Paul Rugg. The protagonist

of the series, he was once geeky 16 year old

Dexter Douglas, voiced by David... Oh wow! Jimmy

Olsen, from Superman the Animated Series, voices

the Dexter character. Wow. Holy crap, that's

awesome. Who became Freakazoid from Overloaded

Pinnacle. chip inside his computer. He attends

Harry Connick High School to transform into Freakazoid

Dexter quotes that he is freaking out to change

back to Dexter Freakazoid quotes that he is freaking

in. Freaking out I liked. Freaking in was kind

of weird, I thought. That was... I don't know.

I mean, it's kind of like... You know, if Captain

Marvel said something else besides Shazam, I

don't know. What are your thoughts on the...

Essentially, they're two characters. What are

your thoughts on Freakazoid and Dexter Douglas?

Well, first of all, I was going to mention they

do have a pretty decent chunk of list on Behind

the Voice actors. I went to it just now, which

primarily is a Frank Walker fest. Yeah. Oh, pinky

the brainer in it. Yeah. I as far as Dexter Douglas

and Freakazoid, I could not stand the character

of Dexter Douglas. Really? I just he bothered

me. I just there was something about the portrayal

of the character. I just it annoyed me more than

anything else. And I more so. love the freakazoid

persona. Alright, moving on to the Douglas family,

you have Duncan Douglas, who is Dexter's older

brother. He was voiced by Goggy Gress. He is

a bully towards Dexter and is portrayed as a

character of the high school jock. You have Debbie

Douglas, who is Dexter's mother, voiced by Tress

McNeil. Douglas Douglas, oh god. Seriously, they're

pulling a DC here. And what I mean by that is,

you know how we always say DC Comics? Yes. The

DC for DC Comics stands for Detective Comics.

So it's like Detective Comics Comics. Nice. That

sounds like a bad rap song. I know it does. Detective

Comics Comics. Yeah. And Douglas Douglas is voiced

by John P. McCann, who is Dexter's dad. And Mr.

Chubkins or Chubbykins, voiced by the great Frank

Walker, morbidly obese cat. It was funny, though.

I liked Foamy the Freak -a -Dog better. Foamy

the Freak -a -Dog. Oh, wow. Yes, that was another

Frank Walker, but it was like Freak -a -Zoid,

except it was like a blue dog. So it's essentially

- And he was foaming, he was like rabid. Yeah.

So it's essentially Milo from The Mask. After

he had the mask on, yeah. After he had the mask

on, yeah. Essentially. That's awesome. Do you

have a favorite character out of the Douglas

family besides Freakazoid? No. Really? You didn't

like any of the family members? No. I hated his

family. Really? Yes. Wow. Okay, feeling the hate

over here. As far as Dexter slash Freakazoid's

allies, you have Sergeant Mike Cosgrove, voiced

by Ed Asner, a heavyset gruff cop with a heart

of gold who is friends with Freakazoid and several

other characters. By pointing at something and

saying, cut it out, he has the almost supernatural

ability to get people to stop whatever they're

doing on command. I know, that was hilarious.

That's that's funny. Holy shit, Craig Ferguson.

Wow. Yeah, he played he played Roddy McStew which

which was like the like the Almost mentor of

freakazoid. It was hilarious to listen to him

though Okay, it's official Anybody want to donate

the Freakazoid DVDs to me? Email me. tfguandmikeatgmail

.com. Oh, it is so good, though, dude. I've only

seen clips on YouTube in preparation for this

because I don't have the extra cash to buy it

on iTunes or anything like that. It's pretty

cheap, actually. I bought it, I think. I bought

the first season only so far, but it only cost

me like $10 on Amazon. Other characters are Steph

and Hans. Steph is voiced by Tracy Rowe. Hans

is voiced by Larry Cedar. Ed Gilbert voices Professor

Heine. Oh, boy. Would Professor Heine be anything

like Beekman? He more so reminds me of the guy

off DuckTales. Oh. yeah um oh oh god that professor

von drake that's what it is yes von drake yes

and then and then you have professor jones which

is jonathan harris from lost in space oh my god

it was he he yeah and he played it basically

just like that oh my god but we can't forget

um many other notable characters like pinky in

the brain yes um you have the this is our narrator

or joe lee he was also as himself you have mark

hamill playing himself you have lennard malton

playing himself it's so awesome you have a kissinger

voice by maurice lamarge and and and you have

uh... steven spielberg played by frank walker

you have cave guy which is played by jeff bennett

but sounds like uh... Cameron off Ferris Bueller.

He's actually impersonating Jim back us. I don't

know Never but it sounds it. Yeah, the voice

sounds more like that. And then of course the

lobe is the incredible David Warner. Yeah and

Some other notable villains. Anyway, you've got

Cobra Queen, which is Tress McNeil You've got

Armando Gutierrez, which is Ricardo Montalban.

Wow. You got Dr. Mystico, which is Tim Curry.

Yes. You know, there's so many, there's so many

good characters. And I know that behind the voice

actors is missing some. Yeah. There's I mean,

it pretty much touches on the bigger ones in

this one. But I just I loved all of the Different

in every character had a complete polar opposite

of another character So I mean there was not

one that was anything like any other character

You even had as far as going with there was a

character called fanboy. Yeah, which is this

Overweight like nerdy guy that just sits there.

It's like oh my god. It's free concern They also

had a bunch of mini segments Freakazoid also

featured several minisegment. Primarily during

the first season, each of these have their own

theme songs, title cards, and cast only rarely

cross over into the continuity of the main show.

The segments include Lord Bravery, a John Cleese

-esque superhero voiced by Jeff Bennett from

the United Kingdom in an outfit slightly resembling

that of a Roman soldier. Hmm, sounds like a bad

Doctor Who impression. Not the voice, but the...

Just the description of Lord Bravery sounds like

a bad Doctor Who impression. The Huntsman, also

voiced by Jeff Bennett. Yes, the Huntsman. Do

you like the Huntsman? Yes. Because he was way

over the top. He's like, yeah, I loved his Charlton

Heston -ish character. What weapon did he use?

Did he have a weapon? I think it was supposed

to be like Green Arrow. Like a direct parody.

Well, as soon as you said over -the -top, you

know what the first thing I thought of, sadly?

Going back to our tap days and - Yes, our - Oh,

Suf! I am angry Acha! Yes, that's - that's -

yeah, except this one's so much cooler. Yeah,

it's - yeah. And he was so angry at every scene

that he was in, too. Yeah, that's awesome. The

Lawn Gnomes, a group of lawn statuary that come

to life in a night parody of the Gargoyles animated

series. Infamous for their mischief, they were

cursed to become stone by day. Oh wow, they did

a Gargoyles parody. Oh, I think it's better.

Wait a second a powerful wizard after they played

a prank on him and after they attacked his brother

Eric the large they would revert at night during

which time they were given the opportunity to

Mend their ways to fight evil alongside mankind

after which the curse would be lifted they have

yet to do so to this day so essentially it's

a essentially it was My name is Earl before my

name is Earl was what it is mmm It's like a combination

of gargoyles and My Name is Earl, because the

whole point of that show, My Name is Earl starring

Jason Lee, was he is trying to make up for all

the past mistakes he made. I'll pick your word

for it. Toby Danger. Toby! Any thoughts on Toby

Danger? I don't really remember that too much,

but I don't know why, but and the last mini mini

segment was fat man and boy blubber the misadventures

of two morbidly obese superheroes and a pair

of the Batman TV series only segment involves

them saving a boy being bullied about his weight

only to unintentionally bully him themselves

when they try to take a sweet bun in his lunch

box to prevent him from getting fatter as he

practically only eats sweet buns And fat man

makes an appearance during hero boy where it

is revealed yet in the episode is also a storybook

being read by fat man to children And it did

fat man like, you know, but apparently 60s yes,

it was great. Oh My god, yeah So getting into

some background here, as we've said before, Dexter

can change into and out of Freakazoid at will

with the words Freak Out and Freak In. When not

in Freakazoid mode, Dexter looks and acts completely

normal and his family is unaware that anything

has happened to him. Freakazoid spends his time

in an area of Dexter's brain called the Freak

Zone, where he reflects his profound thoughts

and watches reruns of The Rat Patrol. He has

a freak -o -layer. Freak -o -layer? Yeah, freak

-o -layer. That's awesome. The parody of the

Batcave. Yes. And then he's got a hall of nifty

things to know. Oh my god. That's nuts. His greatest

weakness is that he can be imprisoned in a cage

with graphite bars. Bars with negative ions.

My god, he also expresses a great aversion to

poo gas. I remember this He always says poo gas

and like stops They use I think they even use

poo gas a couple times on him Okay, I'm getting

into some controversy because really huh what

I'm just laughing Well, apparently there's some

controversy with Mike Allred's Madman. The show

and its lead character have been criticized as

being plagiarism of the comic book Madman by

the creator of Madman Mike Allred. Both titular

characters share several personality traits and

according to Allred wear similar costumes, both

featuring the chest emblem and exclamation mark.

of an exclamation mark, though Freakazoid's logo

adds his initial F before the exclamation mark.

During the short run of the show, Allred remained

relatively silent on the subject. However, in

2003, he responded to a question about the show

on a message board of his official website. Show

creator Bruce Tim was kind enough to tell me

that Madman was a direct inspiration for the

show, with comics open refer to when developing

the show. Stupidly, I was flattered, happy to

inspire anything, but when the show came out,

with no acknowledgement or credit of any kind

of compensation, I slowly became annoyed as everyone

and their uncle confronted me with, there's this

cartoon that's ripping off Madman, and you oughta

sue. I simply wrote a friendly letter to show

producer Steven Spielberg telling him this production

was a direct lift of my creation. I had no intention

of creating ripples. I just wanted him to know

that I knew. No one replied, which is fine. And

to be honest, Madman is an amalgam of half a

dozen other influences. So who am I to complain?

The exclamation mark on the chest is still kind

of irks me a little, though. Still too close

for comfort. You know what, dude? Boohoo. Get

over it I mean You know the the same thing could

be said for the DC anime universe, you know ripping

off Batman comic storylines, you know, I mean

that's Anything is is a thing worth doing is

a copy of something else, right? Exactly. I mean,

you know, it's not a direct copy obviously, but

I mean, you know inspiration is everywhere so

You want to talk about some of the humor in the

show? Yes. It relied heavily on slapstick parody

and pop cultural references. Due to the series

being metafiction, much of the series was self

-aware, i .e. breaking the fourth wall, for instance.

After the first appearance of the Freakmobile,

the show goes immediately into an impromptu commercial

for a toy version and later in the episode, Freakazoid

addresses an audience congratulating the staff

on how hard they have worked to make the show

toyetic. A typically strange running gag involves

a repeated credit for Weena Mercator as the hopping

woman. Though no such character appears in any

episode, her credit is usually preceded by a

number of other fictional names and followed

by a fictional director. The show also incorporated

humor aimed at the then -newly -founded WB Network,

such as questioning the meaning of the initials

WB example, weird butt, or wet bananas instead

of Warner Bros. In addition to this, Freakazoid

also made frequent use of stock footage, including

the peaceful scene of a field of flowers called

Relaxovision, which they used when, well, they

wanted you to pretend to relax during a scene

of the show. They would just interrupt it all

of a sudden. They'd say, Relaxovision. And then,

of course, there would be another one called

Screamovision. With you know traditionally dressed

Bavarians dancing and slapping each other a man

being shot in the belly with a cannonball and

a man wrestling a bear Yes But yes, there was

also cameos in the show such as pinky in the

brain the animaniacs And insinuation appearance

of the Batman from Bruce Tim's animated version

Which has similar drawing style yes This show,

Frigazoid, actually was created by Bruce Timm.

He left the show because Spielberg was looking

to make a more comedic superhero. Bruce Timm

wanted this show to be a serious superhero show.

He didn't want it to be the comedy gold that

it is. So he left. After Tim left the series,

Tom Ruger, who developed Spielberg's series,

Time Tune Adventures, and Antimaniacs, was brought

in to redevelop the series Tim had created from

the ground up. Ruger's version of the series

used some of Tim's designs and concepts, but

Tim said that the series was radically altered

to become the comedy series that it was more

to Spielberg's liking. Eh, you know, you're gonna

have differences of opinion. Yeah. uh... i guess

we should get to the premiere cancellation and

syndication part of it uh... it premiered on

the kids wb saturday morning line lineup september

ninth nineteen ninety -five during its run freakazoid

came across problems of appealing to its target

demographic young children tom roger said that

freakazoid had done poorly in ratings because

the audience that the series gathered was older

than the target audience Also, Freakyzoid ran

time slot problems. Writer John McCann said that

the times of the series change frequently. This

happens to a lot of series, you know. Not just

the kids' WB stuff. Well, most of the time when

a show gets canceled, it's because the studio

or the station decided to put it on a shit time

slot, and that's what kills it. Yep. Yep. Getting

into the music of the series. The music for Freakazoid

was written by supervising composer Richard Stone

and his team consisting of Steve Bernstein and

Julie Bernstein, Gordon Goodwin and Tim Kelly.

Stone won a daytime Emmy with lyricist and senior

producer Tom Ruger for the main title song in

1996. Julie Bernstein was nominated for a daytime

Emmy for Outstanding Original Song in 1998 for

the song Invisibo from the episode Freak -a -Panel.

The theme song for this is very catchy I love

this theme song. It's it's one of the one of

the better 90s animated show theme songs Any

other thoughts on the overall music of this is

is the music like when you were watching this

not only now But as a kid when you were watching

it Did the music catch you at all? Oh, yeah,

it definitely catches you. I mean, because it's

it also goes along with the spoofs that it's

playing in the show. So, I mean, it was very

entertaining. I mean, it just like I said earlier

with the relaxo vision, it would play some kind

of a calm being like either see music or they

play some kind of a, you know, upbeat kind of

calm music. So. and then with the screaming one

they would just be all kinds of like pots and

pans and you know all the screaming and somebody

getting hit you know just stuff like that so

i mean everything sound wise or music wise would

pull you in further into the scene so screamovision

would you say it's the same thing as uh... the

word of the day very very similar very similar

Getting into the legacy of Freakazoid. It never

had its own comic book, but he did make a special

guest crossover in issue number 35 of the Animaniacs

comic published by DC Comics. And as Steve mentioned

earlier, Warner Bros. has released the entire

series on DVD in Region 1. Season 1 has 14 episodes.

It was released on July 29th, 2008. Audio commentary

on three key episodes, promos from the series,

launch and feature it, tracking the evolution

of the show from action series to comedy series.

Season two has the remaining 11 episodes. It

was released April 21st, 2009. Feature it on

the making of the last episode, favorite moments

from the series, and original demo tape for the

song Bon Jour Lobby from the series composer,

Richard Stone. So yes, if anybody wants to donate

to me, And I still need the second season, so

Steve at Geekcastradio .com. No, from what I

watched on YouTube, these aren't my final thoughts

because we're going to break here in a second,

but from what I was able to catch on YouTube,

this is a series now that I think I could appreciate

the humor. Oh, it's definitely one of those shows

that you have to be older, just like with Pinky

and the Brain. There's certain things I never

caught as a kid, but watching it now, it's hilarious

because I understand the either political or

pop culture references that it's hitting. Yeah.

And I mean, you even have Bill Clinton and Hillary

Clinton in the show. Yes. Because Dexter Douglas

lives in Washington, D .C. Washington, D .C.

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to watch this. This show is so funny, and if

you love any kind of superheroes, they've even

got direct knockoff of kind of like the, it looks

almost like a Solomon Grundy Hulk, and then you've

got Freakazoid, then you've got, I mean, there's

just so many different references throughout

this show. And so many great voice actors that

it's just It's hard to pass up I can still watch

this to this day and not get bored with it. Yeah

Awesome. Yeah, I I really want to check this

series out now It's probably gonna be something

I do in my spare time if I ever get a hold of

the DVDs But it it sounds like I would really

enjoy it now. Whereas when I was a kid, I just

was like Like I said before fucked up childhood,

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