Mega Babies (original) (raw)
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Television series
| Mega Babies | |
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 The English Mega Babies logo. From left to right: Derrick, Meg and Buck. |
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| Genre | Action-adventureGross-out humorToilet humor |
| Created by | Christian TremblayYvon Tremblay |
| Directed by | Kevin Patrick Currie |
| Voices of | Sonja BallDean HagopianJaclyn LinetskyBronwen MantelLaura TeasdaleArthur HoldenDanny BrochuRichard DumontJohn StockerEleanor NobleJames PidgeonMichel PerronTerrence Scammell |
| Narrated by | Terrence Scammell |
| Music by | James FieldmanGary Guttman |
| Country of origin | CanadaUnited States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (52 segments) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Jacques PettigrewMichel LemireLoris KramerGary Goddard |
| Producer | Louis Duquet |
| Running time | 21–22 minutes (10–11 minutes per segment) |
| Production companies | CinéGroupeLandmark Entertainment GroupSony Wonder Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | Teletoon (Canada)Fox Family Channel (US) |
| Release | October 10, 1999 (1999-10-10)[1] –April 22, 2000 (2000-04-22)[1] |
Mega Babies is an animated television series created by the brothers Christian and Yvon Tremblay, who previously had made the Hanna-Barbera show SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.[2] It is produced by CinéGroupe and Landmark Entertainment Group for Sony Wonder.[3]
The series was broadcast on Fox Family Channel and Teletoon. The show was also aired in UK on Sky One's weekday mornings and later repeated on Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002.
The show is about a trio of mutant babies who fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Meg, Derrick and Buck and their care-giver's name is Nurse Lazlo. The show takes place in Your City, USA.
After their birth, they are brought to an orphanage. When the entire Solar System aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other powers, and Nurse Lazlo's IQ rose.
Buck was voiced by Sonja Ball, Dean Hagopian voiced many male characters, Laura Teasdale did Derrick's voice, Meg was voiced by Jaclyn Linetsky, and Bronwen Mantel voiced Nurse Lazlo.
Even though the voice acting was done in Montreal, the voice directing was done by Vancouver based veteran voice actor and voice director Terry Klassen who has done voiceovers for many animated television series and films such as voicing Krillin in the Ocean dubbed version of Dragon Ball Z. Klassen has also voice directed other works such as Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Test, Cardcaptors, several Barbie films, and more recently, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. This was the only time that Klassen has ever voice directed an animated project outside of Vancouver. During the later episodes, Terrence Scammell, who also voiced several characters in the series, as well as providing the main title narration, took over as voice director. Scammell has also done many voice acting roles for film, television and video games in both Montreal and Ottawa, Ontario.
The show was announced in January 1999 as a co-production between CinéGroupe and Sony Wonder set to premier on the Fox Family Channel in fall of that year. The show was created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and Landmark Entertainment Group budgeted between 5.9million(C5.9 million (C5.9million(C9 million) and $6.6 million for 52 10-minute episodes which were pre-produced in Montreal and animated in Asia then bundled into 26 half-hour daily shows.[4]
A video game based on and having the same name of the show the show was developed and published by Global Star Software in 2000, exclusively for PC.[5]
Mega Babies was very negatively received by critics and audiences, mainly for its excessive crude and gross-out humor, especially for a television series aimed for kids. WatchMojo ranked the series #4 in their "Top 10 Most Embarrassing ‘90s Cartoons" list.[6] IMDb's user score for the series, as of November 2022, is 2.6 out of 10.[7]
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- ^ "Top 10 Most Embarrassing '90s Cartoons". YouTube. WatchMojo.com. 16 September 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Mega Babies (TV Series) 1999-2000". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- Mega Babies at IMDb