The Misfortune of Being Ned | |
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Genre | Animation Black comedy |
Created by | Dane Boedigheimer and Bobjenz |
Written by | Bobjenz Aaron Massey Spencer Grove |
Voices of | Steve Zaragoza Kevin Brueck Meghan Camarena Bobjenz |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Producer | Bob Harper |
Running time | ~1 minute |
Production companies | Collective Digital Studio YouTube Studio |
Original release | |
Network | YouTube |
Release | October 9, 2013 – April 23, 2014 |
Related | |
Annoying Orange |
The Misfortune of Being Ned is a 2013 animated short series created by the producers of the Annoying Orange web series. [1] The series centers on the titular character of Ned, voice acted by Steve Zaragoza, a young boy who repeatedly finds himself in unfortunate situations that usually get him killed. [2] Having debuted as part of the Annoying Orange "Shocktober" event on October 9, 2013, the series aired every Wednesday, and ended April 23, 2014. [3]
Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | |
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1 | 10 | October 9, 2013 | December 18, 2013 | |
2 | 10 | February 19, 2014 | April 23, 2014 |
No. in series | Title | Original airdate | Ned's Misfortune | |
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1 | "Free Balloons" | October 9, 2013 | Ned gets hit with NORAD projectiles, plummets to the ground, and gets sprayed by van smoke. | |
Ned takes a ride on a free balloon, only to find himself attacked as an airborne threat. Note: This episode was featured as a sneak peek in Annoying Orange's Shocktober 2013, which is a pun of October. | ||||
2 | "Spider-Ned" | October 16, 2013 | Ned turns into a spider and gets attacked by the janitor. | |
Ned visits a medical research facility, and upon being bitten by a radioactive arachnid, turns into a spider. | ||||
3 | "Pumpkin Ned" | October 23, 2013 | Ned's head gets replaced by a pumpkin. | |
Ned goes out trick-or-treating, and in a last-minute attempt after forgetting to pick a costume, pretends to be the Headless Horseman before confronting the being himself. | ||||
4 | "Hogwarts" | October 30, 2013 | Ned turns into a pig from the disease Hogwarts. | |
In a parody of the introduction to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , Ned receives a letter in the mail notifying him that he has been admitted into Hogwarts... or so he thinks. | ||||
5 | "Ned Goes to Mars" | November 6, 2013 | Ned gets eaten by an alien from Mars. | |
Ned arrives on Mars after a long flight in space, only to be confronted by his rival, Greg. | ||||
6 | "Going Up" | November 13, 2013 | Ned gets shot by multiple arrows and his body explodes. | |
Ned catches an elevator which leads him straight to the arena from The Hunger Games . | ||||
7 | "Spelling Bee" | November 20, 2013 | Ned gets stung by a "spelling bee". | |
Ned spells a word right in the school spelling bee and his prize is... a spelling bee, literally a real bee. | ||||
8 | "The Chronicles of Ned" | December 4, 2013 | Ned gets eaten by a pride of lions. | |
9 | "The Joke's on Ned" | December 11, 2013 | Ned gets beaten by Batman after his face-paint, and the face paint costed 3 dollars for Ned. | |
10 | "Merry Nedmas!" | December 18, 2013 | Ned gets crushed, beaten and burnt into the toy machine thus becoming a jack-in-the-box, which is sent to Greg on Christmas Day. | |
Ned (who is dressed up as an elf) is working for Santa Claus, but he, however, ends becoming a jack-in-the-box when he has a look inside the toy machine. |
On December 18, 2013, Daneboe announced that The Misfortune of Being Ned would be renewed for a second season. The season premiered on February 19, 2014, with more episodes during the year.
No. | Title | Original airdate | Ned's Misfortune | |
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11 | "Ned Wins!!!" | February 19, 2014 | Ned wakes up realizing it was just a dream and an evil teddy bear attacks him with an axe. | |
Ned climbs on Mount Everest, and defeats Greg the Godzilla, flies on a bald eagle and it got changed into his girlfriend and wins the heart of his girlfriend Wendy, he finds out that it was all just a dream. | ||||
12 | "Ball Boy" | February 26, 2014 | Ned gets thrown and hit like a football by the two football teams, thus after the Home team won the match, Ned earns an alligator and it eats him and the football staff needs a new football. | |
Two teams are having a Football Match, but when the football burst, Ned who is in charge of getting new footballs, ran out of footballs, and becomes the new football instead. | ||||
13 | "Ice Fishing" | March 5, 2014 | Ned is given superhero powers but no-one believes he's a real superhero and he gets a prank call from the Justice League saying he should join them. | |
14 | "Family Reunion" | March 12, 2014 | Ned's family reunion gets ruined when a volcano erupts and kills everyone. | |
Ned's family reunion is in chaos when Ned's family gets killed by natural and unnatural causes. Note: This episode reveals that Ned's family is jinxed. | ||||
15 | "Jet Pack" | March 19, 2014 | Ned gets killed when he crashes a jet pack and is run over by a bus. | |
Ned misses the school bus and is given a jet pack so he can get to school, but crashes it outside the school and gets ran over by the school bus. | ||||
16 | "Video Games" | March 26, 2014 | Ned is killed by a character in his new video game console. | |
Ned's parents get him a hologram gaming system but a character out of the game fights him and kills him. | ||||
17 | "Ned & the Beanstalk" | April 2, 2014 | Ned is eaten by a giant. | |
Ned plants some magic beans which grow into a huge beanstalk. He climbs it and is taken to a "giant spa" where he is pampered. However, after this he is eaten by Greg the Giant. | ||||
18 | "Time Machine" | April 9, 2014 | Ned is killed by the T-1000 and squashed by the Tardis. | |
Ned is sent to go back to the future but before he can gets stopped by a police car. Driving it is a future baddy sent to kill Ned. He stabs Ned before Ned is squashed by the Tardis which lands on top of him. | ||||
19 | "Easter Egg Hunt" | April 16, 2014 | Ned gets eaten by a T-rex. | |
Ned goes on an Easter egg hunt and tries to find a special egg. He finds it but it turns out it's a dinosaur egg and the baby dinosaur's mother devours Ned. | ||||
20 | "Ned Gets Annoyed" | April 23, 2014 | Ned loses everything but his head because of the eraser. | |
In the series finale, Ned goes to the kitchen studio to meet the Annoying Orange. However, he soon loses his body after Orange summons an eraser. Note: It is said at the end of the video that a new talk show titled The Marshmallow Show was announced for premiere on June 4. |
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