Marsupilami (1993 TV series)
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Theme music composer | Roy Braverman |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
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Producer | Andre Franquin |
Running time | 30 minutes |
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Release | September 18 December 11, 1993 | –
Marsupilami is an American animated television series that first appeared on television in Raw Toonage, and was then spin off into his own eponymous show on CBS for the 1993–94 season. The show was based on the popular comic book line by Belgian artist André Franquin et al. In 2000, a second Marsupilami cartoon premiered in France, lasting 130 episodes spread over 5 seasons.
Cast
- René Auberjonois as Chef Louie
- Dan Castellaneta as Stewart the Elephant
- Jim Cummings as Maurice the Gorilla, Norman, Leonardo the Lion
- Steve Landesberg as Eduardo the Leopard
- Steve Mackall as Marsupilami, Husband
- Tress MacNeille as Wife
- Jason Marsden as Shnookums
- Frank Welker as Meat
- Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian the Crab
Production
There were 13 episodes in the series, which lasted one season and ended on December 11, 1993. Reruns of the show were aired on The Disney Channel (from October 1994[1] to June 1995[2][3]), and later on Toon Disney. Each of the 13 episodes would feature one new "Marsupilami" short, then one short either featuring Sebastian the Crab or Shnookums and Meat, and then an old "Marsupilami" short, from "Raw Toonage". The old short "Wanna Be Ruler" isn't part of this series.
The original Marsupilami comic stories by Franquin never included a recurring gorilla or elephant character, since these species are native to Africa, while the marsupilami in the comic version was said to come from South America (However, in the album "Le dictateur et le champignon", the Marsupilami escaped from his cell on a boat along with a gorilla). Another change is that the animated Marsupilami can speak, whereas his comic counterpart can only mimic sound like a parrot.
Segments
Marsupilami
This segment deals with the adventures of Marsupilami (voiced by Steve Mackall) and his friends Maurice the Gorilla (voiced by Jim Cummings) and Stewart the Elephant (voiced by Dan Castellaneta). Some episodes of Marsupilami would have him either evading Eduardo the Leopard (voiced by Steve Landesberg) or outwitting a human named Norman (voiced by Jim Cummings).
Sebastian the Crab
Sebastian the Crab (voiced by Samuel E. Wright) from The Little Mermaid is a segment which takes place in various locations out of the sea after the end of the events of The Little Mermaid. Ariel has become human, married Prince Eric, moved onto land, and almost never has any time to drop by and visit her old friends in the ocean. Flounder and Scuttle have also moved on with their lives now that their best friend Ariel is living away on land. Sebastian has some new adventures, with some of them having him outwit Chef Louie (voiced by René Auberjonois). The events in this segment seem to show that both Sebastian and Louie moved away from the coastal area where The Little Mermaid took place, even though they both returned in the second movie.
Shnookums and Meat
Shnookums and Meat was a secondary segment on this show which would later spin-off into its own show. This segment involves a cat named Shnookums (voiced by Jason Marsden) and a dog named Meat (voiced by Frank Welker) who did not get along very well. Their owners are unseen stock characters only viewed from the neck down and named (appropriately enough) Husband & Wife (voiced by Steve Mackall and Tress MacNeille). Husband is always referring to their home as their "domicile" before the two leave their pets in charge while they are away.
Episodes
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1a | "Working Class Mars" | September 18, 1993 | |
Corporate head Norman hires Mars and Maurice as office workers, to his regret. | |||
1b | "StC: King of the Beach" | September 18, 1993 | |
Lifeguard Sebastian tries to kick out a seagull that's made her nest in his lifeguard chair. | |||
1c | "The Hairy Ape" | November 21, 1992 | |
Norman traps Maurice to take to the zoo, telling Mars that he's taking him to a party. But now Mars wants to go, too. | |||
2a | "Normzan of the Jungle" | September 25, 1993 | |
Norman learns hypnosis and intends to use it to control all the jungle animals as Normzan. He hypnotizes Maurice to make him his sidekick. | |||
2b | "StC: Room Service" | September 25, 1993 | |
Hotel Clerk Sebastian has to keep everything quiet for guest Chef Louie, who's at the breaking point because of a failed restaurant opening. | |||
2c | "Bathtime for Maurice" | November 7, 1992 | |
Mars has to go through a lot of trouble to get filthy Maurice to take a bath. | |||
3a | "Hole in Mars" | October 2, 1993 | |
Golfing expert Norman challenges Mars to a betting game of golf, and regrets it. | |||
3b | "StC: Crab Scouts" | October 2, 1993 | |
Sebastian takes the Crab Scouts on a hike, always stressing the value of the Crab Scout Manual. | |||
3c | "The Treasure of the Sierra Marsdre" | October 3, 1992 | |
Norman spies on Mars and Maurice planning to go on a treasure hunt, and worms his way into joining them. | |||
4a | "The Wizard of Mars" | October 9, 1993 | |
A strong windstorm blows Mars all the way to the Land of Oz, with Maurice playing a composite of the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, and Norman playing the Wicked Witch of the West. | |||
4b | "StC: TV Jeebies" | October 9, 1993 | |
A TV executive keeps casting Sebastian and Chef Louie in various TV pilots. | |||
4c | "The Puck Stops Here" | September 26, 1992 | |
Norman uses the hotel air conditioning system to freeze the lake, and then challenges Mars to a game of hockey. | |||
5a | "Mar-Sup-Du-Jour" | October 16, 1993 | |
Mars first meets Eduardo, a Spanish leopard who wants to eat Mars. | |||
5b | "S&M: Kung-Fu Kitty" | October 16, 1993 | |
Shnookums the cat is alarmed when his owners buy a guard dog named Meat. But he learns kung-fu to defend himself. The premiere short. | |||
5c | "Romancing the Clone" | October 24, 1992 | |
Norman dresses up as a female Marsupilami to deceive a tourist that's trying to take a picture of a marsupilami. But Mars falls in love with Norman. | |||
6a | "Toucan Always Get What You Want" | October 23, 1993 | |
Mars protects a baby toucan from Eduardo and tries to teach it how to fly. | |||
6b | "S&M: I.Q. You, Too" | October 23, 1993 | |
The cat and dog use brain-enhancing devices to come up with evermore violent pranks to commit against each other. | |||
6c | "Fear of Kites" | November 7, 1992 | |
Mars and Maurice's kite gets tangled up on the hotel rooftop. But bellhop Norman won't let them inside to retrieve it. | |||
7a | "Mars' Problem Pachyderm" | October 30, 1993 | |
Mars tries to cure the many phobias of his friend Stewart, the scaredy elephant. | |||
7b | "S&M: Night of the Living Shnookums" | October 30, 1993 | |
On a stormy night, Meat thinks he's killed Shnookums! But it's not the last he's seen of the cat. | |||
7c | "Mars Meets Dr. Normanstein" | September 19, 1992 | |
Mars and Maurice take refuge from a rainstorm in the home of Dr. Normanstein, who wants to use Maurice's brain for his monster. | |||
8a | "Steamboat Mars" | November 6, 1993 | |
Norman tries to smuggle a rare bird out of the jungle by transporting it in his steamboat. But he runs into Mars fishing for piranhas. | |||
8b | "S&M: Something Fishy" | November 6, 1993 | |
The pet fish learns how to make itself evolve, and turns into a giant monster that terrorizes Shnookums and Meat. | |||
8c | "Someone's in the Kitchen with Mars" | October 17, 1992 | |
Chef Norman steals Mars and Maurice's big basket of fruit. But Mars and Maurice track him to the hotel kitchen. | |||
9a | "Hey, Hey! They're the Monkeys!" | November 13, 1993 | |
A trio of thuggish baby monkeys abandoned by a circus clown rob Mars of his nest. | |||
9b | "S&M: Jingle Bells, Something Smells" | November 13, 1993 | |
Meat's smelly sock fells Santa Claus, and now the cat and dog must drive the sleigh in his place. | |||
9c | "Prime Mates Forever" | December 5, 1992 | |
Mars helps Maurice try to romance a tough female gorilla. | |||
10a | "Thorn O' Plenty" | November 20, 1993 | |
Mars pulls a thorn out of Eduardo's paw, and so the leopard now feels he must save Mars's life before he can eat him. | |||
10b | "StC: Basic Insting" | November 20, 1993 | |
Sebastian unknowingly gets a fishhook tangled on his back, and a near-sighted female scorpion falls in love with him. | |||
10c | "Witch Doctor is Which?" | November 21, 1992 | |
Witch Doctor Norman places a series of curses on Mars so that he instead of Mars will be the happiest person in the jungle. | |||
11a | "A Spotless Record" | November 27, 1993 | |
Mars loses his spots from eating bad fruit. A reluctant Stewart knows how to cure him and ends up taking Mars and Maurice to where a cure might be found. | |||
11b | "StC: A Boy and His Crab" | November 27, 1993 | |
Sebastian waits out Crab Season by being the pet of a boy who thinks he's a dog. | |||
11c | "Mars vs. Man" | October 10, 1992 | |
Foreman Norman uproots Mars's tree to make space for his condominiums, but Mars squats in one of them. | |||
12a | "Cropsy-Turvy" | December 4, 1993 | |
Mars scares his friends with campfire stories of the monstrous Cropsy, but finds that he's wrong when he meets the real Cropsy. | |||
12b | "StC: A Crabby Honeymoon" | December 4, 1993 | |
Sebastian gets mixed up in the problems of a newlywed couple staying at his hotel. | |||
12c | "Safari So Good" | November 28, 1992 | |
Norman's Aunt Mindy pays a visit and takes an immediate liking to Mars. | |||
13a | "Royal Foil" | December 11, 1993 | |
Mars and Maurice vacation in London, where Norman tricks them into helping him steal the crown jewels. | |||
13b | "StC: Flambe, Bombe" | December 11, 1993 | |
Superstar Sebastian rushes through New York trying to get to the Mervin Peevish center in time to host a variety show, and avoiding getting caught by Chef Louie. Note: Originally a host sequence in "Raw Toonage". | |||
13c | "Jungle Fever" | November 14, 1992 | |
Mars tries to cure a sick Maurice, but keeps getting sneezed into the way of a refined lion named Leonardo. |
Crew
- Ginny McSwain – Dialogue Director
Home media
North American (NTSC) releases
Three VHS compilations, each containing five short episodes, were released in North America by Walt Disney Home Video.
Home Video title | Episode(s) | Release date |
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“Marsuper-Duper” | ‘Mars Meets Dr. Normanstein’ ‘Hole in Mars’ ‘Witch Doctor is Which?’ ‘Safari So Good’ ‘Steamboat Mars’ |
March 18, 1994 |
“Adventurous Tails” | ‘Bathtime for Maurice’ ‘Hey, Hey! They're the Monkeys!’ ‘Fear of Kites’ ‘Toucan Always Get What You Want’ ‘Mar-Soup-Du-Jour’ |
March 18, 1994 |
“Jumpin' Jungle Jive” | ‘The Hairy Ape’ ‘Working Class Mars’ ‘Cropsy-Turvy’ ‘Mars' Problem Pachyderm’ ‘Normzan of the Jungle’ |
March 18, 1994 |
European and Oceania (PAL) releases
Five VHS cassettes all of them containing the entire series, were released in Europe and Oceania.
Home Video title | Episode(s) | Release date |
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“Houba, Houba!” | ‘The Hairy Ape’ ‘Bathtime for Maurice’ ‘Fear of Kites’ ‘Mars Meets Doctor Normanstein’ ‘Witch Doctor is Which?’ ‘Safari So Good’ ‘Jungle Fever’ |
November 26, 1993 |
“The Superstar” | ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Marsdre’ ‘Hot Spots’ ‘Mars vs. Man’ ‘Someone's in the Kitchen with Mars’ ‘Wanna Be Ruler’ ‘Prime Mates Forever’ ‘The Young and the Nestless’ ‘The Puck Stops Here’ |
November 26, 1993 |
“Jumpin' Jungle Jive” | ‘The Wizard of Mars’ ‘Working Class Mars’ ‘Cropsy-Turvy’ ‘Mars' Problem Pachyderm’ ‘Normzan of the Jungle’ |
April 1, 1994 |
“Adventurous Tails” | ‘Royal Foil’ ‘Hey, Hey! They're the Monkeys’ ‘Toucan Always Get What You Want’ ‘Mar-Soup-Du-Jour’ |
April 1, 1994 |
“Marsuper-Duper” | ‘Hole in Mars’ ‘Thorn o' Plenty’ ‘A Spotless Record’ ‘Steamboat Mars’ |
April 1, 1994 |
See also
References
External links
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- 1990s American animated television series
- 1993 American television series debuts
- 1993 American television series endings
- American children's animated comedy television series
- CBS network shows
- Disney Channel shows
- English-language television programs
- Television series based on Belgian comics
- Television series by Disney Television Animation
- American animated television spin-offs