Weird-Ohs | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Bill Campbell |
Directed by | Ezekiel Norton James Boshier |
Voices of | Kathleen Barr Cusse Mankuma Tabitha St. Germain |
Theme music composer | Mark Berry Robert Buckley |
Composers | David Sinclair Peter Berring Robert Buckley |
Country of origin | United States Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 (26 segments) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Bill Matthew Ian Pearson Mark Ralston Christopher J. Brough Steven DeNure |
Producers | Kim Dent Wilder Ezekiel Norton |
Running time | 10 minutes (each segment) 21 minutes |
Production companies | Decode Entertainment EM.TV & Merchandising AG Mainframe Entertainment Testors Corporation |
Original release | |
Network | YTV (Canada) Fox Family Channel (US) |
Release | September 15, 1999 – March 15, 2000 |
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. 13 episodes of the series were produced. [1]
The show that 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]
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]
In 2000, the show was nominated for a Gemini award. [6]
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