Oscar's Oasis | |
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Created by | Tae-Sik Shin [1] |
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Composer | Le Chantier |
Country of origin | France South Korea [3] |
Original languages | Silent Interjection |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 90 + 7 shorts + 1 pilot |
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Editor | Nazim Meslem [3] |
Running time | 4 minutes (pilot) 1–3 minutes (shorts) 7 minutes (original) |
Production companies | TeamTO [4] Tuba Entertainment [4] Cake Entertainment Synergy Media |
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Network | Canal+ Family / Télétoon+ / TF1 (France) EBS (South Korea) |
Release | 5 September 2010 – 25 September 2011 |
Oscar's Oasis (known as Oscar & Co in French and Oi! Osgar in Welsh) is an animated comedy television series consisting of 78 7-minute episodes. [1] It was produced by TeamTO and Tuba Entertainment, in co-production with Cake Entertainment and Synergy Media with the participation of TF1, Canal+ Family, Télétoon+, EBS, BENEX, and Carrimages 5, and the support of National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (CNC), the Rhône-Alpes Region, the Poitou-Charentes region and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA). [5] Although the series contains no dialogue, [1] it features the voices of Marie Facundo, Sly Johnson, Martial Le Minoux and Jérémy Prevost. [3] The show takes heavy inspiration from the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts from the Golden age of American animation.
Originally, the series started out as a short called Oasis, which then later became a series that was called Ooohhh Asis, and was composed of seven one-minute-and-a-half episodes, which were broadcast on 26 March 2008 from TF1. [6] [7] Oscar's Oasis debuted in its new format at the 2010 MIPTV Media Market. [8] The series premiered on Canal+ and Canal+ Family in September 2010, and was broadcast on TF1 since late summer 2011. [2] [7] In July 2011, the series was released on Nintendo 3DS in 3D. [9] The show started airing on Gulli on July 2, 2019.
Oscar is a lizard living in a non-specific desert that has features from several different real deserts, like the Sahara, Kalahari Desert, and North American deserts. An asphalt concrete highway runs through the area, used from time to time by various cargo trucks. Oscar is generally searching for food or water; he sometimes discovers liquid, in bottles or elsewhere, but is usually frustrated from recovering it for drink. An oasis supplies the only fresh water in the area, but its thick population of irascible and hungry crocodiles renders it inaccessible. At considerable personal risk (lizard is a delicacy for chickens), Oscar occasionally manages to steal an egg from a nearby hen coop, and he sometimes explores one of the piles of trash that litter the parched landscape. The Trio, which involves Buck, a vulture; Harchi, a hyena; & Popy, a fennec fox, inhabit a derelict school bus situated on a neighboring hill, but they mostly race about on a cast-off warehouse or grocery cart powered by Harchi and directed by Popy. Like Oscar, the trio constantly search for food and water - often competing with him, sometimes abusing him as a means, but occasionally cooperating with him when it suits their purpose. The main characters often find themselves falling off cliffs a la Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner, wherein the law of gravity is briefly suspended while the character comes to realize their imminent doom.
The four main characters are: [4]
Each episode runs for 7 minutes. There is one episode in Oasis, 7 episodes in Ooohhh Asis, & 78 episodes in Oscar's Oasis, which is 86 episodes total. [1]
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