Camp Lazlo

Camp Lazlo
The title character
Created by	Joe Murray
Starring	Carlos Alazraqui Jeff Bennett Tom Kenny Doug Lawrence Jodi Benson Jill Talley Steve Little
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes approximately
Original release
Network	Cartoon Network
Release	July 8, 2005 – Present

Camp Lazlo is an Emmy nominated, American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios and currently airs on Cartoon Network. The show features a Boy Scout-like summer camp with a cast of all animal characters, along with a "retro" type of humor and silliness which is akin to Murray's previous series, Rocko's Modern Life (which aired on Nickelodeon a decade earlier).

Description

The show focuses on the wacky adventures of the Brazilian spider-monkey named Lazlo and his friends Raj, the elephant and Clam, the albino pygmy rhino. The three embark on events that later end up into trouble. Each episode is split into two parts approximately 11 minutes long. With the exception of two episodes.

Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence, who did much of the voice work on Rocko's Modern Life, provide lead voices in this show as well, along with veteran voice actors like Jeff Bennett, Jodi Benson, Kenny's wife and Mr. Show co-star Jill Talley, and Alazraqui's Reno 911! co-star and first time voice acting, Steve Little.

Camp Lazlo premiered on July 8, 2005 with episodes on Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the USA; as of June 26, 2006, the show airs Monday through Friday at 6:30 PM US ET/PT. In Canada, Teletoon's English channel also debuted the show June 26, 2006; but in the last week of August, it was pulled from TELETOON, for reasons still unknown.

Characters

Main articles: List of characters in Camp Lazlo and List of minor characters in Camp Lazlo

Places

Main article: List of places in Camp Lazlo

Episode Guide

Main article: List of Camp Lazlo episodes

Awards

Pulcinella Awards

The series won three 2006 Pulcinella Awards for Best Animated Series for Children and Best Animated Series for all ages and Lazlo was the winner of Best Character at the 10th Cartoons By The Bay Festival in Positano, Italy. It was the second consecutive year that a Cartoon Network series won the latter two awards, as the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends character, Blooregard Q. Kazoo, won the award the year before.

Emmy Awards

"Hello Dolly / Over Cooked Beans" was nominated for an Emmy in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour) category, but was defeated by The Simpsons. The episode has been hosted on the Cartoon Network website and can be viewed here.

Annie Awards

Sue Mondt, a production designer on Camp Lazlo, was nominated an Annie Award for production design on the episode "Hard Days Samson."

Goofs

Main article: List of goofs from Camp Lazlo

Video Game

Main article: Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games

A Game Boy Advance game called "Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games" was released in December 1, 2006.

Camp Lazlo on DVD

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Camp Lazlo Press Kit with DVD

The only Camp Lazlo-only DVD is included on the Camp Lazlo Press Kit, which was given away as a promo item for the show before it aired. It contained file sheets of the show and a DVD with four episode (2 half-hour episodes): "Gone Fishin' (Sort Of) /Bean Are From Mars" & "Parasitic Pal/It's No Picnic". This item can only be acquired through someone sells it through eBay, which are rare. If lucky, you might acquire the Press Kit, DVD & a shirt as an extra.

Although Camp Lazlo does not have its own DVD (except the press kit), 2 episodes have appeared on Cartoon Network themed DVDs. Hello Dolly appeared on the Cartoon Network Fridays - Volume 1 DVD, released on September 19, 2006. Snow Beans, a winter-themed episode of the show, was released on the Cartoon Network Christmas: Volume Three DVD on October 3, 2006. [1]

Cultural references

• The main theme song plays on the children's song "B-I-N-G-O".
• Being a monkey, Lazlo's mouth is appropriately shaped like a banana, especially when he smiles.
• The opening and closing credits font is "Way out West" from P22 type foundry.

Crew

• Brian A. Miller producer
• Joe Murray producer / executive producer / creator / writer/ storyboard artist
• Mark O'Hare creative director/supervising producer/writer
• Merriwether Williams story editor/writer
• Kaz writer / storyboard artist (left to create his own pilot for Cartoon Network but will return to work on Season 5)
• Martin Olson writer/songwriter (left to become head writer for Disney's Phineas and Ferb)
• Steve Little writer/voice actor
• Shareena Carlson producer
• Carey Yost writer/storyboard artist
• Antoine Guilbaud writer/storyboard artist
• Thurop Van Orman writer/storyboard director/storyboard artist
• Mike Roth writer / storyboard director
• JG Quintel writer/storyboard artist
• Kent Osborne writer/storyboard director
• John Infantrino writer/storyboard artist
• Clayton McKenzie Morrow writer/storyboard director
• Cosmo Segurson writer/storyboard artist
• Stephanie Erdel writer/storyboard artist
• Eddie Trigueros writer/storyboard artist
• Russell Calabrese animation director
• Brian Sheesley animation director/supervising director
• Lindsey Pollard animation director
• Swinton O. Scott III animation director

External links

• Official site

• Camp Lazlo at IMDb