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Staurday Morning All Star Hits!
GenreLive-action animation
Comedy
Parody
Sketch comedy
Surreal humour
Created byBen Jones
Dave McCary
Kyle Mooney
Based onSaturday-morning cartoons
Directed byBen Jones (animated segments)
Dave McCary (live-action segments)
StarringKyle Mooney
Geraldine Viswanathan
Dylan Sprouse
Rae Dawn Chong
Nathan Fielder
Voices ofKyle Mooney
Pamela Adlon
Fred Armisen
Eric Bauza
Maurice LaMarche
Kevin Michael Richardson
Beck Bennett
Kate Lyn Sheil
Cree Summer
Frank Welker
Chris Redd
Paul Rudd
Emma Stone
ComposerTimothy Cleary
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producersScott Gairdner
Scott Greenberg
Craig Hartin
Katy Jenson
Ben Jones
Joel Kuwahara
Dave McCary
Lorne Michaels
Kyle Mooney
Andrew Singer
ProducersAubrey Danielson
Carl Fieler
Simon Gibney
Andrew Grissom
James Merrill
Max Minor
EditorsAndrew Lainhart
Zach Zdbzeibko
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time19-28 minutes
Production companiesGeorgia Entertainment Industries
Bento Box Entertainment
Broadway Video
Universal Television
Original release
NetworkNetflix
ReleaseDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)

Saturday Morning All Star Hits! is a Netflix adult cartoon comedy television series that first aired on December 10, 2021. Directed by Dave McCary and Ben Jones,[1] the show stars Kyle Mooney. The show is a parody of Saturday-morning cartoon programming blocks from the 1980s and early 1990s, with a mix of animated and live-action content. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics.

Plot

The show is a parody of Saturday-morning cartoons from the 1980s and early 1990s, framed by an eponymous show called SMASH! for short.[2] It is hosted by twin brothers Skip and Treybor (parodies of Chip and Pepper), both played by Kyle Mooney.[3] They introduce various cartoon shows and have brief conversations between shows. The cartoons include:

  • Randy, a show about a dinosaur that befriends a group of teenagers. Randy falls into depression and alcoholism following a breakup with his firefighter girlfriend, before heading to music college. Randy is a spoof of Denver, the Last Dinosaur.[4]
  • The Create-A-Crittles, a show about four magical creatures secretly living in the backyard shed of a Yuppie expatriate graphic designer and his wife. Crittle Glitter, a euphemism for cocaine, is prominently featured throughout the show. Create-A-Crittles parodies such shows as Care Bears, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Popples.[5]
  • Pro Bros, a show created by Ethan Rush who's known as the less prominent brother of controversial movie star/singer Johnny Rash, parodying ProStars and other series where pro athletes play themselves (albeit the pilot premiering in prime time as opposed to Saturday morning). The show's antagonist "Ronnie $elfish" and his drug habit are an obvious allegory for Ethan's brother Johnny.
  • Strongimals, a show loosely parodying Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other action cartoons of the era. The show is later retitled as Skip and the Strongimals, radically shifting its focus to Skip and his "uh... subs?" catchphrase as a result of Skip's rise to greater fame (which in itself is a reference to show The Real Ghostbusters and it's eventual focus on the popular character Slimer).[5]
  • Lil' Bruce, an animated comedy about comedian Bruce Chandling's "crazy childhood" similar to Howie Mandel's Bobby's World. The series ends up a failed pilot due to live-action Bruce's excessive narration and a too-heavy plotline about Bruce's father leaving him and his mother when he was young.[6]
  • All Cartoon Stars Say Don't Say Shut Up, a public service announcement in the format of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue warning against the consequences of saying "shut up" to one's elders. Guest stars include "President of the Country" Barbara Barone (loosely based on Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore, particularly their advocacy campaigns for media censorship) and famous pop singer Nuance (based on Paula Abdul).
  • Slingers, a toy-based show parodying the animated pilot The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers.
  • Others include brief clips from The Meeps (satirizing The Smurfs), Crittle Littles (satirizing Muppet Babies and Kingdom Chums), the character Puppy the Dog (satirizing classic cartoons), Dr. Von Duck(satirizing Ducktales), Egyptian Jazz Cats (satirizing music-band cartoons), Lottie (a live-action teen sitcom satirizing Blossom) and Intimate Compromise: Casino Nights Seductions: The Animated Series (a wildly inappropriate kid's cartoon spinoff of an R-rated live-action film, parodying such films as Basic Instinct, True Lies and L.A. Confidential) seen with numerous clips from home movies, news shows and commercials promoting Nextronico's Mega Mitten (spoofing Nintendo's infamous Power Glove), Rude Cubes (Madballs), Sonic Yum gum (spoofing Bubble Yum and "For You, Not Them" Bubble Tape ads), diet sodas, sneakers and submarine sandwiches.

Sometime after S1:E6, Treybor quits SMASH! because he feels overshadowed by his twin brother Skip. In the season finale, Treybor confronts Skip during a live broadcast to vent his frustrations, before their mother also shows up and urges them to reconcile while introducing them to their long-lost triplet brother, Corbee (Nathan Fielder). Skip also leaves SMASH!, after which all three triplets become VJs on Monday Early Afternoon Rock Song Hits (MEARSH), which shows skludge rock (grunge rock) music videos geared towards older teenagers and young adults.

Starting in S1:E4, breaking news interruptions chronicle the disappearance of Lottie co-stars Lottie Wolfe and Sean Benjamin and the subsequent police investigation; Wolfe's boyfriend and fellow teen sensation Johnny Rash is initially arrested and tried for their presumed deaths (in a nationally televised trial a la O.J. Simpson), during which Benjamin's body is found, but a jury acquits Rash due to matching left-and-right shoeprints being found at the scene, contradicting Rash's fashion statement of always wearing mismatched shoes (reminiscent of the backwards clothes worn by Kris Kross). Though it proved futile in court, evidence against Rash was found by a 9-year-old SMASH! superfan named Katherine Logan, who spotted a blooper in the Skip and the Strongimals Movie in which an unidentified figure (thought to be Johnny Rash himself) threw an athletic shoe matching the crime scene into the D'ahai Sea.

Running gags include the names of animation studios GIK (a play on DIC Entertainment) and Herb Whibley (Walt Disney), numerous appearances of sub sandwiches and catchphrases like "zuzzy zazz" and "uh... subs?".

Cast

List of episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code
1"Tape 1: SCHOOL"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)101
2"Tape 2: LOST"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)102
3"Tape 3: ZOO"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)103
4"Tape 4: SMASH!"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)104
5"Tape 5: NEWS"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)105
6"Tape 6: MOVIE"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)106
7"Tape 7: DANGER"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)107
8"Tape 8: LIVE!"Ben Jones & Dave McCaryKyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott GairdnerDecember 10, 2021 (2021-12-10)108

Production

The show was co-created by Mooney (who plays both Skip and Treybor), director Dave McCary (directing the live action segments), and animator Ben Jones, best known for his work on the Cartoon Network series The Problem Solverz and the Emmy Award-winning sitcom Bob's Burgers.[7][8][9] It is produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.[10]

Reception

Saturday Morning All Star Hits! has received mostly positive reviews from critics.[3][7][8][11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^ MUBI
  2. ^ How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? - The New York Times
  3. ^ a b Keller, Joel (December 10, 2021). "Stream It Or Skip It: 'Saturday Morning All-Star Hits!' On Netflix, Kyle Mooney's Twisted Tribute To Kids Show Lineups Of The '80s And '90s". Decider. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  4. ^ Saturday Morning All Star Hits! review: Kyle Mooney brings his weird to Netflix - Polygon
  5. ^ a b Kyle Mooney's Saturday Morning All Star Hits! grows weirdly compelling the further you get into it - PRIMETIMER
  6. ^ Kyle Mooney's Saturday Morning All Star Hits! grows weirdly compelling the further you get into it - PRIMETIMER
  7. ^ a b Bell, Josh (December 10, 2021). "Kyle Mooney Creatively Parodies Kids TV in Saturday Morning All Star Hits!". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  8. ^ a b Allen, Nick (December 10, 2021). "Netflix's Saturday Morning All-Star Hits is a Gift for Kyle Mooney Fans". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  9. ^ SNL star Kyle Mooney spoofs Saturday morning cartoons in new Netflix show|EW.com
  10. ^ ‘Saturday Morning All Star Hits!’: First Look At ‘SNL’s Kyle Mooney In Netflix Series From Lorne Michaels – Update - Deadline
  11. ^ Fienberg, Daniel (December 10, 2021). "Netflix's 'Saturday Morning All Star Hits!': TV Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  12. ^ Greene, Steve (December 15, 2021). "'Saturday Morning All Star Hits!' Has '90s Nostalgia with a Hilariously Sharp Edge". IndieWire. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
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