Zazoo U
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Zazoo U is an American animated series that aired on Fox Kids on Saturday mornings from September 8, 1990 to January 19, 1991.[1][2]
On July 23rd, 2001, Zazoo U and other properties of Saban Entertainment were sold to The Walt Disney Company.[3]
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[edit] Plot
The series followed the antics of an institution of higher learning that is populated by animals.
[edit] Voice cast
- Michael Horton as Boink
- Jerry Houser as Grizzle
- Brian Cummings as Bully
- Neil Ross as Logan Chomper
- Tress MacNeille as Ms. Devine
- Susan Silo as Tess
[edit] International Broadcast
Chile
- Canal 13
- TVN (Chile) (2003–2006)
[edit] List of episodes
| № | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Nine Mile Pile" | 8 September 1990 |
| All the students arrive at Zazoo U for the first class, and immediately struggle to adjust to the school and to each other. | ||
| 2 | "The Crayon Box That Talked" | 15 September 1990 |
| A box of talking crayons is discovered; each crayon wants to be the greatest of the box, and befriends each of the students to try to succeed. | ||
| 3 | "The Search for the Meaning of Life" | 29 September 1990 |
| A troubled Tess sets out on a quest to find the meaning of life. | ||
| 4 | "Yesterday's Zoo" | 6 October 1990 |
| Boink, Tess and Bully search for Zazoo U's Janitor, and discover a world of past bygone relics. | ||
| 5 | "Is Bigger Better?" | 20 October 1990 |
| The students enter a dispute about whether bigger means better. The dispute soon goes into bigger, but not better, dimensions. | ||
| 6 | "Har V and Sue" | 3 November 1990 |
| Tess and Grizzle fall out as friends, and vie for Boink's affections. | ||
| 7 | "Bully Loses His Temper" | 17 November 1990 |
| Bully gets mad and loses his temper; an enraged miniature version of himself jumps out and storms around wreaking destruction. The class must now get the Temper back to Bully. | ||
| 8 | "Share a Chair" | 1 December 1990 |
| Everybody at Zazoo U gets a special gadget-laden custom schoolchair, except for Grizzle. But no one will share with him, so he gets despondent and wanders off, leading the class to search for him. | ||
| 9 | "Ms. Devine's Blues" | 15 December 1990 |
| Miss Devine is dejected about her pet Rarf being unremarkable, and thus possibly a worthless nothing. Rarf goes out of his way to prove he is special to her. | ||
| 10 | "No Strings Attached" | 5 January 1991 |
| Boink discovers invisible strings that can be seen only with the imagination. But his messing around with the strings causes the laws of physics to go seriously awry. | ||
| 11 | "Money for Music" | 19 January 1991 |
| The class work to earn money to get new musical instruments. Grizzle and Tess try all sorts of money-making schemes, while Boink and Bully go around looking for donations. | ||
| 12 | "One Single Seed" | Never aired |
| The school is invaded by an alien... a talent agent who's looking for the next big star. The agent himself possesses creativity, but can the others help him realize his potential? | ||
| 13 | "Boinks's Rap" | Never aired |
| Everybody gets ready for the school talent show, and all sorts of incredible antics and performances are in store. But Boink gets a serious case of stage fright, so it's up to the others to coax the show's best act out of him. | ||
[edit] References
- Zazoo U at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ TV Guide Guide to TV. Barnes and Noble. 2004. pp. 720. ISBN 0-7607-5634-1.
- ^ "Television Today Networks Starting to Ease Off on War Coverage to Pay the Bills" (in English). The Salt Lake Tribune (USA). January 24, 1991. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SLTB&p_theme=sltb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=101181E445FF091D&p_field_direct-0=document_id. Retrieved 6 August 2011. "The original episode entitled "First Encounter" will air at 6 am replacing Zazoo U. which is on hiatus, according to Fox Broadcasting ."
- ^ Saban (July 23, 2001). "News Corp. and Haim Saban Reach Agreement to Sell Fox Family Worldwide to Disney for $5.3 Billion" (in English). http://www.saban.com/html/press/010723.html. Retrieved 1 May 2011. "As part of the transaction, Disney will acquire the Fox Family Channel, a fully distributed cable channel reaching 81 million U.S. homes; Saban Entertainment Inc., a production, distribution and merchandising company with one of the world's largest libraries of children's programs at over 6,500 half hours"
