The Aquabats Super Show!

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show_name = The Aquabats Super Show!


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creator = Christian Jacobs
Scott Schultz
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starring = Christian Jacobs
Ian Fowles
James Briggs
Richard Falomir
Chad Larson
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"The Aquabats Super Show!" is a television series currently in production by The Magic Store and Wild Brain, and created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, who both created the successful children's television series, "Yo Gabba Gabba!". It is based on the fictional universe of the band The Aquabats, of whom Jacobs is the frontman.

Early production took place in January 2008, with location filming around Orange County, California and a fan-only free gig for concert footage at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. The Aquabats sold their custom RV in an online auction, presumably to recoup the costs of the pilot. A teaser trailer for the series was released on YouTube and the band's website [http:http://theaquabats.com/supershow/intro.html] in June 2008.

Pilot Synopsis

On July 25th, 2008, a segment of the pilot episode was aired on Boing Boing. The animated clip showed the Aquabats stuck in traffic, late for a concert. Jimmy the Robot (In the show, an actual robot) activates a large drill, the Mega-Drill, on the nose of the Aquabats Battle Tram, and began to dig under the traffic, and Jimmy states that they will arrive to the concert right on time. However, they collide with a large crystal barrier, and as they breach it, they fall into a large, forrested, and well lit cavern, inhabited by an assortment of peaceful creatures. The band sings a song to celebrate the paradise they believe they have found, but are interrupted by a 'flying snake thing', which they assume will 'snack on that poor little mushroom man'. The band defeats the flying snake, only to discover that the creatures are in fact sinister and friends with the snake. They capture the band bring them before their ruler, Susan the Unicorn. Susan refuses to allow them to reveal where the cavern is, freezes them with her magical horn, and orders them to be melted in the Lava Pool. After the advertisments, there is a live action clip of the Aquabats in concert playing a rapid recital of Awesome Forces. [http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/07/25/aquabats-supershow-s.html]

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