LarryBoy: The Cartoon Adventures (also known as The Cartoon Adventures of LarryBoy! or simply as LarryBoy) is a short-lived cartoon adaptation to LarryBoy and is the third show created by Big Idea.
History
The cartoon series starring everyone's favorite plunger-headed hero started a few years after the production of either the first or second LarryBoy videos were completed, when the staff was asked to doing a series on the character. But Phil Vischer stated that it would have been too hard due to the production process of their feature film at the time. Then someone suggested to Phil that could make it in a style of a comic book; cartoon style. Animator Tom Bancroft, who just joined the company, worked on the new series, made it a cartoon done in flash animation.
The first episode of the series was released during March 16, 2002, selling to various Christian bookstores and retailers across the country. However, the reception was mixed at the time. According to Phil in his blog, fans and parents complained that it looked cheap and it looked like something similar to The Powerpuff Girls that they can watch on cable television instead. Tim Hodge stated in the Bad Apple commentary it was somewhat an experiment they tried out, but didn't become what they wanted.
The series lasted for four episodes total, with the last one coming out on June 10, 2003. It is unknown why the series was cancelled, though it is possible that it was due to Big Idea moving to Franklin and filing for bankruptcy at the time following disappointing box-office results for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie and a lawsuit by former VeggieTales mass market distributor HiT Entertainment, as well as the reception everyone had towards the series at the time.
Episodes
Shorts
Other Languages
- Leri-Djali (Albanian)
- سوبر تيخة (Arabic)
- Super-Snurk (Norwegian)
- لری بوی (Persian)
- LarryBoy: As Aventuras Animadas (Portuguese) (Brazil)
- LarryBoy: Las Aventuras Animadas (Spanish) (America)
Fun Facts
Trivia
- The series is considered a different continuity to the main LarryBoy as there are some elements that were in the VeggieTales episodes. This was confirmed by Tom Bancroft.
- Originally, it was going to be part of the main series, as the story treatment states Alfred's name and using the Milk Money Bandit scene from Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed.
- Further supporting this is the fact that a few early pieces of concept art show LarryBoy in his original design, albeit hand-drawn.
- Originally, it was going to be part of the main series, as the story treatment states Alfred's name and using the Milk Money Bandit scene from Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed.
- These episodes have been included as their bonus features for their Australian VeggieTales DVD releases. These include:
- This show aired on Qubo, bundled with 3-2-1 Penguins!. 3-2-1 Penguins would air most of the time, while this show aired occasionally.
- Because of this, all four LarryBoy Super Shorts were omitted to fit the running time during Qubo airings.
- Speaking of Qubo, LarryBoy and the Bad Apple aired under this show, as it had this intro rather than the VeggieTales on TV intro.
- Because of this, all four LarryBoy Super Shorts were omitted to fit the running time during Qubo airings.
- During the end credits, each episode has a rock instrumental of the theme song. There is a song rest that instead plays a specific sound:
- LarryBoy and the Angry Eyebrows!: "Aww, peanut brittle!"
- Leggo My Ego!: "Bubble-bath!"
- LarryBoy and the Yodelnapper!: "Baaa!"
- The Good, the Bad, and the Eggly!: "Yes!"
- This is the first Big Idea production to use professional voice actors, including Marc Graue.
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