Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
| Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy | |
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| File:Ricky director's chair.jpg The show's main character, Ricky Sprocket. | |
| Created by | Alison Snowden David Fine |
| Developed by | Alison Snowden David Fine |
| Written by | Russell Marcus David Fine Alison Snowden Bill Motz Bob Roth Shane Simmons Steven Sullivan Alicia Sky Varinaitis |
| Directed by | Josh Mepham Alison Snowden David Fine |
| Starring | Jillian Michaels Tabitha St. Germain Ashleigh Ball Jayne Eastwood Jeff Lumby Kathleen Barr Dorla Bell Andrea Libman Scott McNeil Ian James Corlett Jamie Watson Brian Drummond Peter Kelamis Richard Newman French Tickner Dave "Squatch" Ward Cathy Weseluck Dale Wilson Chiara Zanni |
| Composer | Hal Beckett |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Alison Snowden David Fine Chris Bartleman Tatiana Kober Blair Peters |
| Producer | Ashley Ramsay |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Teletoon, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons Network |
| Release |  September 1, 2007 September 8, 2007 January 21, 2008 |
| Release | Canada |
| Release | Canada |
| Release | Canada |
| Release | Canada |
| Release | Canada |
| Release | Canada |
Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy is an animated TV series that airs on Nickelodeon. Its first airing was on September 1, 2007 in the United Kingdom.
The series was produced in 2007 and it is seen in over 127 countries. In Canada, it is aired on Teletoon. Elsewhere, Nickelodeon in UK, Australia, Latin America, Germany, Italy, France, Spain and Scandinavia and on Nicktoons Network in the United States. It is a Canadian production made in Vancouver, BC.
Production
The series was created by Alison Snowden and David Fine, who also created the primetime animated series, Bob and Margaret as well as the Oscar winning short, Bob's Birthday. They co-directed the series along with Josh Mepham.
The series was produced at Studio B Productions in Vancouver, BC and was a production of Studio B, Snowden Fine and Bejuba Entertainment. There are 52, 11 minute episodes which air as half hours with two eps in each show. It was produced using Flash animation which was done partly at Studio B and partly in the Philippines at Top Draw Animation.
Writers on the series include Russell Marcus (who also served as an executive story editor), Louise Moon, Bill Motz and Bob Roth, Brandon Sawyer, Shane Simmons, Ian Boothby, Roger Fredericks and others.
Voices were recorded in Vancouver and Toronto.
Characters
Ricky Sprocket (Jillian Michaels) – Huge 10 year-old movie star, despite his bizarre looks and buck teeth. He loves movies and has fun making them. He is not a precocious child star (see Kitten Kaboodle).
Bunny Sprocket (Jayne Eastwood) – Ricky's mother. She is a down to earth, "no nonsense" mom who couldn't care less about show biz. She's more concerned that Ricky eats his vegetables.
Leonard Sprocket (Jeff Lumby) – Ricky's father. He is well meaning, but not that bright. In fact, a bit of a buffoon. He loves his job at Wishworks Sausages.
Ethel Sprocket (Kathleen Barr) – Ricky's indifferent little sister. She has little regard for her famous brother. She likes to be alone.
Benny Newford (Tabitha St. Germain) - Dim witted, but obsessively loyal to Ricky.
Morris Moony (Ashleigh Ball) – The smarty pants of the group. Not much of an athlete, but is a good rope holder.
Jamal Pennycook (Dorla Bell) Always ready for action, Jamal is the cool kid.
Alice Applewood (Chiara Zanni) – Level headed and sweet. She is the least seen of Ricky's friends.
Kitten Kaboodle (Andrea Libman) She is Ricky's co-star and is obsessed with stardom and fame. Her agent is her domineering mother. Her father is a milquetoast. Kitten is jealous of Ricky and loves to see him fail.
Mr. Louie Fischburger (Scott McNeil) – Ricky' boss, the head of Wishworks studios (a parody of DreamWorks). He's an old time Hollywood boss and movies are his life. He treats Ricky like his own son. Well, better than his own son actually, because Ricky pays the bills.
Wolf Wolinski (Jamie Watson) – Ricky's director. He is obsessive and manic.
Vanessa Stimlock (Tabitha St. Germain) – Entertainment reporter at large. She specializes in all things Ricky Sprocket.
Episodes
Season 1
| Title | Original air date | ||
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| 1a | "The Screen Kiss" | September 8, 2007 | |
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Ricky has to kiss Kitten Kaboodle, his rival movie star in a movie. | |||
| 1b | "The Boy King" | September 9, 2007 | |
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Ricky visits an island to learn about its boy king who he will play in a movie. However, he has no idea of the island's rituals. | |||
| 2a | "Great Bowls of Ricky" | September 9, 2007 | |
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Ricky launches a cereal, but Kitten attempts to sabotage it. | |||
| 2b | "The Screen Kiss" | September 9, 2007 | |
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Ricky gets outshined by a burping star. | |||
| 3a | "We Are Not Amused" | September 15, 2007 | |
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Ricky opens an amusement park, but Kitten also does. | |||
| 3b | "Being Leonard" | September 15, 2007 | |
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Ricky gets his dad, Leonard, fired from the sausage factory, so he gets him a job at the studio. | |||
| 4a | "Oh Hap-Pee Day" | September 16, 2007 | |
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Everybody thinks Ricky has peed his pants during the Little Biggie Awards thanks to an accident involving Ethel. So, he and his friends device a plan. | |||
| 4b | "Ricky for Sale" | September 16, 2007 | |
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Ricky sells his junk online to raise charity money. However, he ends up accidentally selling his favorite sock. | |||
| 5a | "Ethel's New Friend" | September 22, 2007 | |
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Ethel gets a robotic friend, but it is not amusing to her at all. Meanwhile, Leonard holds a sausage grill. | |||
| 5b | "Vicky Sprocket" | September 22, 2007 | |
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Ricky dresses up as a girl to get a movie part. However, the plan falls apart when Morris and Benny fall in love with "her" at school. | |||
| 6a | "Monkey See, Monkey Do" | September 23, 2007 | |
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Ricky befriends a talking monkey. | |||
| 6b | "Runaway Ethel" | September 23, 2007 | |
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Ethel gets trapped in Ricky's trailer when it breaks free. | |||
| 7a | "Double Crossed" | September 29, 2007 | |
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Ricky gets a stunt double who is oblivious to pain, and it likes to help him do chores and sneak out of school. | |||
| 7b | "Freezer Burn" | September 29, 2007 | |
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Ricky and his friends have to get Mr. Fischburger's rabbit, Pudding, back to the freezer because Mr. Fischburger wants to freeze it for future years. | |||
| 8 | "Ricky Sprocket: Halloween Special" | October 30, 2007 | |
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In two different plots, the characters celebrate Halloween. | |||
| 9a | "The Perfect Pitch" | November 3, 2007 | |
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Ricky is determined to audition for a school play, only to find out he never had a singing voice and someone else does it for him in movies. | |||
| 9b | "In the Drink" | November 3, 2007 | |
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Ricky is in a new movie but he and everyone else cannot do the swimming scene. The movie is in crisis so Kitten uses this opportunity to show that Ricky is a fraud. | |||
| 10a | "I Want to Direct" | November 4, 2007 | |
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Ricky directs a movie, but it ends in disaster. | |||
| 10b | "Roy vs. Roy" | November 4, 2007 | |
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Ricky's dog, Roy, gets jealous of a robot dog by the name of "Roy 2." | |||
| 11a | "The Big Sleepover" | November 10, 2007 | |
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Ricky's sleepover at the movie set ends in disaster when the set has to be clean by the next day and a giant vaccuum gets loose. | |||
| 11b | "The Lie Detector" | November 10, 2007 | |
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Ironically in Ricky's cop movie is that they use a real lie detector. But his curiosity gets the better of him where he takes it home with him only to experiment on his family and friends. In return he discovers everyones secrets but also find out that most of them are not honest. Ricky then promises to always be honest but this upsets those around him. | |||
| 12a | "Leonard Gets His Groove Back" | November 11, 2007 | |
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When the band playing for Ricky's school at a dance fails to attend, Leonard uses this opportunity to restart his old band. | |||
| 12b | "Dueling Birthdays" | November 11, 2007 | |
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Ricky's family throws him a party, but Mr. Fischburger throws him a Birthday Extravanganza so Ricky switches parties. | |||
| 13 | "The Real Sprocket" | January, 2008 | |
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Ricky has to learn what it is like as a farmer boy, so he and his cousin Ronald switch places. | |||
| 14 | "A Book at Bedtime" | January, 2008 | |
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A new book (sent by Kitten as a plan) of Ricky's favorite series keeps him from sleeping, causing him to lose chances of getting a part in the movie. | |||
Season 2
| Title | Original air date | ||
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| 15 | "A Boy and His Bodyguard" | TBA | |
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Ricky gets a protective bodyguard. | |||
| 16 | "Ricky Who?" | TBA | |
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Ricky stumbles into a town that has never heard of him and he loves being treated like a normal boy for once. Fischburger is not so thrilled so he makes sure that they know who Ricky is. | |||
| 17 | "Space Family Sprocket" | TBA | |
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Ricky's family gets the opportunity to live in space. | |||
| 18 | "Write for the Part" | TBA | |
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Ricky gets the chance to write an autobiography, but he makes up lies to cover up for the small amount of interesting things in his life. | |||
| 19 | "The Survivors" | TBA | |
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Ricky and Kitten must learn to work together when they have to film a movie on a deserted island. | |||
| 20 | "Ricky Is History!" | TBA | |
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After Ricky grades began to drop, his parents keep him from making anymore movies. He has a history project due and decides to do it on the history of show business. | |||
| 21 | "The Highest Bidder" | TBA | |
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After Ricky's contract with Wishworks is up, rival company Knishworks Studios tries to get him to sign with them. It starts a bidding war between Mr. Fischburger and Larry Knish. | |||
| 22 | "Ethelebrity" | TBA | |
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Ethel becomes a movie star, but she gets too popular and Ricky and Kitten work together to stop her. | |||
| 23 | "Ricky Rolls Over" | TBA | |
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At a charity event, Harry the Hypnotist hypnotizes Ricky to act like a dog every time he hears the word "Action." This affects Ricky's film career so he has to hunt the hypnotist down and get him to reverse the hypnosis. | |||
| 24 | "Up, Up and Away" | TBA | |
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Ricky beomes self-conscious about his teeth gaps. However, he learns that a big float of his body will be in a parade so his friends try to hide his teeth gaps. | |||
| 25 | "Ricky Inc." | TBA | |
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Ricky takes the summer off his film career, but he ends up working odd jobs. | |||
| 26 | "Relative Discomfort" | TBA | |
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The Sprockets and the Kaboodles appear against each other in a game show. | |||
| 27 | "Fan Club" | TBA | |
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Ricky gets an overload of fan club letters so Fischburger decides to hire help. Kitten disguises herself and gets the job just to sabotage Ricky's fan base. | |||
| 28 | "Grounded" | TBA | |
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Ricky gets framed and grounded, so Mr. Fischburger makes a rally for his release. | |||