Weird-Ohs

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Weird-Ohs
Genre Comedy
Created byBill Campbell
Directed byEzekiel Norton
James Boshier
Voices of Kathleen Barr
Cusse Mankuma
Tabitha St. Germain
Theme music composerMark Berry
Robert Buckley
ComposersDavid Sinclair
Peter Berring
Robert Buckley
Country of originCanada
United States
Germany
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (26 segments)
Production
Executive producersBill Mattheny
Ian Pearson
Mark Ralston
Christopher J. Brough
Steven DeNure
ProducersKim Dent Wilder
Ezekiel Norton
Running time21 minutes (10 minutes per segment)
Production companies Decode Entertainment
EM.TV & Merchandising AG
Mainframe Entertainment
Testors Corporation
Original release
Network YTV (Canada)
Fox Family Channel (US)
ReleaseSeptember 15, 1999 (1999-09-15) 
March 15, 2000 (2000-03-15)

Weird-Ohs is an animated television series produced by Decode Entertainment, Mainframe Entertainment and EM.TV & Merchandising AG in association with the Testors Corporation. The show was originally aired in 1999 until 2000 on Fox Family (now Freeform) in the United States and YTV in Canada. Only 13 episodes of the series were produced. [1]

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Synopsis

The show focused on deformed characters and their misadventures in Weirdsville, a place just off Route 66. [2] It was based on a popular toy line, and featured two anthro teenagers, Portia and Eddie, living in a world populated with talking cars. [3]

Production

The concept and characters were based on the Weird-Ohs series of polystyrene model kits by the Hawk Company. The characters in the model kits were popular in the early 1960s as satire on America's car culture. [4] [5]

Honours

In 2000, the show was nominated for a Gemini award.

Characters

References

  1. "Zany series fuel Fox Family fall makeover". KidsScreen.com. September 1, 1999. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  2. Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 688. ISBN   978-1538103739.
  3. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 899. ISBN   978-1476665993.
  4. "history-of-the-hawk-%E2%80%9Cweird-ohs%E2%80%9D-plastic-model-kits/". www.oldmodelkits.com. February 17, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
  5. Voger, Mark (2015). Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze In America, 1957-1972. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 119. ISBN   978-1-60549-064-9.