Mona the Vampire

Mona the Vampire
Format	Animated
Created by	Sonia Holleyman
Starring	Emma Taylor-Isherwood Justin Bradley Carrie Finlay Oliver Grainger Louis Negin Sonja Ball Michael Yarmush John Stocker
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	65
Production
Executive producer(s)	Micheline Charest Christian Davin Ronald A.Weinburg Peter Moss David Ferguson Clement Calvet Lesley Taylor Steven Ching Louis Fournier
Running time	20 mins. (Two 10 minute episodes per show)
Production company(s)	Fancy Cape Productions Radio-Canada Originals Tiji (season 3) Agogo Media (season 4) Alphanim Cinar Cookie Jar Entertainment Animation Services(season 3)
Broadcast
Original channel	This TV YTV (English) VRAK.TV/Radio-Canada (French) Cartoon Network CBBC
Original airing	Original series: 1999-2003 United States airings: September 26, 2011-present

Mona the Vampire is a Canadian animated television series based on the series Robyn le Vampire, directed by Louis Piché and Jean Caillon, originally based on the short stories created and written Sonia Holleyman and later written by Hiawyn Oram. It is mainly shown on YTV, Radio-Canada, VRAK.TV and Canal à Moi, CBBC and Cartoon Network Poland. The series follows the extraordinary adventures of 10-year-old Mona Parker (a.k.a. Mona the Vampire) and her friends as they battle a new foe of the supernatural in every episode.

The show was produced in Montreal by Cinar (now Cookie Jar Entertainment), in association with Alphanim, Fancy Cape Productions, Agogo Media and Tiji.

Characters

Main article: List of Mona the Vampire characters

Mona Parker (Mona the Vampire)

• Mona, the show's main protagonist, is a young girl with a vivid imagination. She believes her hometown is overrun with supernatural monsters and she plans to stop them all and save the town on a daily basis. Her alter ego, Mona the Vampire has a "vampire sense" which tingles every time there is something foul in the air. Together with her two friends Princess Giant and Zapman, they solve some unlikely mysteries. She dislikes cleaning her bedroom and would rather be battling her arch nemesis, Von Kreepsula. Mona has a cat named Fang, who is her trusted sidekick. She has a talent for breaking spells.

Fang

• Mona's pet cat and sidekick that she ties unreal wings around (probably to make him look like a bat). Fang is her accomplice in the nether realms of her imagination. Most important of all, he is Mona's sounding-board and confidante, always by her side, ready and willing to follow her anywhere, anytime, no questions asked. And the fact that he can't talk back makes him the perfect sidekick. Positively gregarious, he's as keen as Mona when it comes to setting out on adventure.

Mr. and Mrs. Parker

• Mr. and Mrs. Parker are Mona's loving parents. Mrs. Parker is a moral force to be reckoned with, while Mr. Parker is more light-hearted and has an imagination like Mona, and allows her to continue her fantasy life.

Charley Bones (Zapman)

• Charley is Mona's best friend. He wears glasses, and is an intelligent but scared boy in real life. His alter ego is Zapman, who wears a green costume and is armed with a deadly Zapp-A-Rama Gun (a water pistol in reality). Charley is bullied by George at school, but has stood up to him once or twice. Charley has fallen prey to some of Mona's foes including the Nefarious Computer Virus and a Siren (defeated by Mona, who was cast as Athena in the school production of Odysseus' adventures). Charlie knows a lot about science. Although he, like his friends, has a strong imagination he often needs Mona's help initially to see the "Strange things" suggesting he is slightly more grounded to reality although he is normally convinced unless the plot requires him to be a victim of the villain, when he usually ignores his friends. His hero is a daredevil known as the Man With Nine Lives, who he saves from being killed thanks to the Menacing Mechanical Gremlins. Always ready for action as his alter ego Zapman, Charley is the friend of Mona's most likely to get into as much trouble as she does.

Lily Duncan (Princess Giant)

• Lily is Mona's second best friend. Before she was a quiet, shy girl who had her hair covering her eyes. She soon became Princess Giant, a braver and stronger version of Lily. Lily once fell in love with a cartoon character. She has also been in troubling situations such as when Frankenstein was going to transplant her brain.

Angela Smith

• Angela is Mona's snob in the series. Often, Angela boasts about her wealth to her classmates and often enlists George in her schemes to cause problems for Mona. Her parents won the lottery.

George Dumol

• A school bully who refers to Mona, Lily and Charley as a "bunch of babies in Halloween costumes" and picks on Charley most of the time but is not that tough when confronted. He is often seen with Angela. Not only is he a bully, but he's also a tattletale extraordinaire. If there is mischief occurring to which he is not a party or if students haven't done their homework, George is there to tell Ms. Gotto. George is thick, mean, and like all successful bullies, he has a preference for bullying those smaller than him. Worst of all, his tattling has made him the Principal's pet, so the Principal won't lift a finger to discipline him. That and the fact that he is Principal Shawbly's nephew.

Officer Halcroft

• The chief of local police. He's become used to Mona's antics, and is quick to offer a more rational explanation to Mona's stories, which, ironically, Mona finds rather outlandish and unbelievable.

Belinda

• Mona's babysitter. Mona thinks that she's a robot. In reality, she just knows a lot about robots and is a very nice person, who, on several occasions, helps Mona due to being good at controlling younger kids. Belinda is about fourteen years old and is teenaged.

Lawrence

• One of Mona's classmates. He is a minor character.

Reverend Gregory

• The local reverend.

Principal Shawbly

• The stern Principal of St. Faith's elementary. He has no time for Mona's weird behaviour and is quick to discipline her.

Madeleine Gotto

• Mona's teacher. She is very stern, she has a habit of falling in love easily. She is often exasperated by Mona's strange ideas and arguments for supernatural occurrences which are ordinary events.

Mrs. Bryerson

• Mona's elderly neighbour. She has a poodle named Blitzy.

Mayor Rosenbaum

• The town's bumbling mayor.

Von Kreepsula

• Mona's arch-nemesis. He is actually only a comic character who has supposedly had a duel with Mona, who sealed him into the comic book. He appeared twice in the show, once in the second episode when Charley accidentally left his comic book prison in the rain and let the ink run, thus freeing him (although he was "defeated and sealed" by Mona again). The second is in episode twenty-six, when Mona's little cousin took a bite off the book and freeing him again.

Voice cast

English

• Emma Taylor-Isherwood as Mona
• Justin Bradley as Charley until 2002
• Evan Smirnow as Charley Bones--replaced Justin Bradley in 2003.
• Carrie Finlay as Lily Duncan
• Carole Jeghers as Mrs. Parker
• Marcel Jeannin as Mr. Parker
• Tia Caroleo as Angela Smith
• Oliver Grainger as George Dumol until 2002
• James Harbour as George Dumol--replaced Oliver Grainger in 2003.
• Louis Negin as Reverend Gregory
• Gary Jewell as Officer Halcroft (1999–2002)
• Richard Dumont as Officer Halcroft (2003)
• Jennifer Seguin as Miss Gotto
• Rick Miller as Principal Shawbly (1999–2002)
• Stephen Spreekmeester as Principal Shawbly (2003)
• Sonja Ball as Mrs. Bryerson
• John Stocker as Mayor Rosenbaum
• Michael Yarmush as Lawrence
• Holly Gauthier-Frankel as Belinda (2003)
• Jonathan Koensgen as Robin
• Ricky Mabe as Morris
• Al Gravelle as Big Al
• Jessica Kardos as Additional Voices
• Michael O'Reilly as Additional Voices
• Dawn Ford as Additional Voices
• Mark Trafford as Additional Voices
• Helen King as Additional Voices
• John Koensgen as Additional Voices
• Dennis St. John as Additional Voices
• David Tyler as Additional Voices
• Doug Price as Additional Voices
• Jeremy Zafran as Additional Voices
• Ellen David as Additional Voices
• Terence Bowman as Additional Voices
• Wyatt Bowen as Additional Voices
• Nadia Verucci as Additional Voices
• Susan Glover as Additional Voices
• Gabrielle Lazarovitz as Additional Voices
• Michelle Heisler as Additional Voices
• Bruce Dinsmore as Additional Voices
• Tedd Dillon as Additional Voices

French

• Kelly Marot as Mona Parker
• Zoé Bettan as Lily Duncan, Angela Smith
• Stéphanie Lafforgue as Charlie Os ou Charlie Genoux, Maman de Mona
• Suzanne Sindberg as George Dumol, Mademoiselle Mile Suffy, Additional Voices
• Bernard Jung as Papa de Mona, Inspecteur Lostus, Additional Voices
• Thierry Murzeau as Directeur Bonneuil, Révérend Gregory, Maire Rosenbaum, Additional Voices
• Danièle Hazan as Madame Baterville

German

• Sylvie Nogler as Charley Bones
• Saskia Weckler as Lily Duncan

Spanish

Hispanoamérica

• Cristina Hernández as Mona Parker (1999-2001)
• José Antonio Marcías as Charley Bones (1999-2000)

España

• Carmen Ambrós as Mona Parker
• Assumpta Navascués as Charley Bones

Episode list

Season 1 1999/September 26, 2011-October ??, 2011

• 1 The Night of the Living Scarecrow - In the series premiere, Angela dares Mona, Charley and Lily to find a living scarecrow. / The Robot Baby-sitter - Mona thinks her babysitter is really a robot.
• 2 Von Kreepsula Runs Amok - Charley accidentally lets out Von Kreepsula. / The Nefarious Computer Virus - A new CD-ROM is possessing a virus into the minds of everyone in town, and Mona and Lily must find a way to stop the epidemic.
• 3 The Miserable Phantom Dog - Mona and Lily travel to a different universe to find Mrs. Bryerson's missing dog. / Jurassic Parking Lot - Mona creates an artificial intelligent dinosaur called the "Frankensteinasaurus" that she claims will come to life. Angela is so annoyed by this, that she and George try to steal Mona's prized creation.
• 4 The Whirling Void - Mona is convinced that a "whirling void" is stealing people's things. / There's No Place Like Gnome - Mrs. Bryerson's garden gnomes are missing.
• 5 The Dreaded Human Spider - Mona thinks a guest at her school is a bug disguised as a human. / Night of the Living Mannequin - Mona believes that a manneguin is a living thing.
• 6 The X-Change Student - Mona and Charley are calling extra-terrestrials. Somehow, an exchange student in Mona's class makes her think he's one of the extra-terrestrials. / The Red Moon Monsters
• 7 The Skeleton Cowboy - Mona is aware that she saw a skeleton cowboy at night, and she and her friends try to find him. / The Men in Darksuits - There are men in black in Mona's school, and she believes that they are aliens who brainwash people.
• 8 The Vampire Hunter / The Sounds of Sirens
• 9 The Book of the Slimy / The Sam and Ella Infiltration
• 10 Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - At the museum, the gang sees a mummy they claim to be alive. / Freaky the Snowman - Mona recalls building a living snowman that protected her from Angela, and went into a big freezer. She takes him out, which causes him to wreak havoc in the town.
• 11 The Dastardly Dr. Voodoo / The Dancing Underpants Ghoulie
• 12 Cry of the Swamp Thing / The Haunted House of the Washburns
• 13 Spirit of the Woods / The Bogeyman Cometh
• 14 The Man with 9 Lives / Yak of the Yammering Yam
• 15 A Little Tiny Town / The Devious Doppelgänger
• 16 Creature from the Depths / Mona and the Werewolf
• 17 Garage Sale Genie - Mona dares Angela to tell a scary story if she wants to be in her club. Angela brings out a bottle of shampoo, she claims has a genie inside. / Ghouls and Dolls - Mona, Lily and Charley see one of Angela's dolls blink her eye. The gang, because of this, believes that the dolls are alive, so they must figure out what's going on.
• 18 Flea Circus of Horrors - Mona takes the term "a flea circus in the house" seriously, since the whole Parker family is bitten by fleas. Through her eyes, she sees that the fleas show no care to the Parker family household. / Shadow of a Doubt - Principal Shawbly is acting weird since he is getting fit in the school running race with his new shoes that makes him "feel light". Mona thinks it's because of his shadow, who has ran away from him.
• 19 The Fortune Cookie / Pixies
• 20 The Billabong Bunyip / The Subhuman Substitutes
• 21 Hex of a Dancer - Mona's cousin Dotty is ridiculed by her ballet teacher. She believes it is because of a hex around Dotty and the ballet teacher is really a witch. / The Two Magicians - Angela's pet parrot is believed to be a shape-shifter from Scottish folklore by Mona.
• 22 Time Shift - The class goes on a field trip to a figure skating history show. However, Mona believes that the skaters in the show are really the real people and she tries to bring them back to their time periods. / Timeout - A clocksmith stops time and steals everything he can; annoying Mona, Charley and Lilly, they vow to stop him.
• 23 Bird Boy - Mona believes the riduculed new kid is really a bird, considering birds are attacking people everywhere. / Flower Power - A mean parkworker steals flowers from the park.
• 24 Spitting Image - Mona's mean uncle pays a visit; however, she thinks he's a ghost. / Fourth Dementia Funhouse - A boy dares Mona, Lilly and Charley to go through a 4-D maze.
• 25 Brainwash Boogie / Von Kreepsula's Revenge
• 26 Cupid's Mark / The Lost Pirates

Season 2 2001/2011

• 27 Dr. Java and Mr. Hyde - A new coffee makes everyone turn into zombies. / Miss Dewey's Dismal System - Mona can't finish her book report because she is waiting to get a new comic book. However, her extremely mean librarian Ms. Dewey steals their book report and they must get it back before "she eats it".
• 28 Polyester Power Suit - A powersuit is making Dad act weird. / The Droll Troll - Mona thinks a troll is in the basement.
• 29 Ventrillo-Creep - Mona believes that a dummy is really an evil being. / Limo to Loserville - A limo turns the whole town into "losers".
• 30 The Columbus Triangle / Soccer Sasquatch - Mona's soccer coach is convinced to be Bigfoot.
• 31 Cyborg Phantas - Mona thinks a cyborg possessed Angela's protector. / Kitten of the Sea - Fang runs away after an argument with Mona.
• 32 Sun Worshippers - A tanning studio is making the town weird. / Heat Wave - It is a really hot day, and Mona thinks that a monster is in the ponds.
• 33 Witch Watch / The Hexed Mansion of Agatha Misty
• 34 The Ninja's Curse - Charley's nunchuks are stolen. / Hal T. Neander - Mona thinks the new kid in her class is really a Neanderthal.
• 35 Shame on the Shaman - Mona is given a shaman from her uncle. / Programmed Pioneers - The Boy Pioneers fad is spreading, but Mona thinks they're being controlled!
• 36 Flu-topia / The Broken Chain Letter
• 37 The Baby Charmer - Mona thinks her aunt's baby turns everyone into babies. / Monster Trash - It's almost the end of the garbage strike, and the whole town is covered in garbage. But Mona thinks that somebody is making garbage creatures...that could eat the whole town.
• 38 The Granite Goliath - A huge rock seems to be living by Mona. / Intergalactic Space Campers - Mona and Charley discover a spaceship whilist at space camp.
• 39 Potato Fish Creepers - A potato craze is spreading. / It's All Relative - Mona's aunt makes her think she's a black widow spider.

Season 3 2002/2011

• 40 The Black Hole - Leonard thinks the whole town is calling him "boring", and, through Mona's eyes, a black hole has sucked him in. / Waxing Nostalgic - Mona thinks the wax museum curator is waxing Miss Gotto and Reverend Gregory.
• 41 Lil' Freddy Frosty / Attack of the Bratty Vamp Pack
• 42 The Transformation of Frank Stein / Taking the Cake
• 43 Terror in Toon Town / Ghost in the Knight
• 44 All in a Day's Work / Interchange Intrigue
• 45 Jack out of the Box / Crazy Crop Circles
• 46 Toys Are Us / The Hair Scare
• 47 Mona vs. Ms. Marvelous / Spelling Bee
• 48 The Horned Horror / The Cat Lady's Meow
• 49 The Legend of Caboose Malloy / The Wereclown
• 50 Ghouls Rule! / The Transylvanian Twist
• 51 Terminate Her / 18 Holes to Oblivion
• 52 The Case of the Moll Troll / The Alien Magician

Season 4 2003

• 53 Monster Mobile / Monkey Sea, Monkey Do
• 54 The Wrath of Thor / The Pied Piper
• 55 Horrorscope / The Rescue of Queen Mab
• 56 Dr. Purrman's Secret Recipe / The Sharkman Goeth
• 57 Atlantis at Last / Invasion of the Shadflies
• 58 Gotto Robotto / The Laser Wizard
• 59 Bowling Gremlins / The Ghost of Flying Trapeze
• 60 Aliens 1-2-3 / Zapman, Myself and I
• 61 Would You Like Fries with That? / The Haunted School Bus
• 62 Nickelodeon Nightmare / Ready Steady Yeti
• 63 The Sandman / Von Kreepsula's Day Off
• 64 Rockin' Reptile Roundup / The Suck-O-5000
• 65 Medusa's Revenge / The Fearsome Forecasts

DVD release

Direct Source Label, under license to Cookie Jar Group, released two DVDs in 2005 and 2006, making Mona the Vampire debut in the U.S. These are completely hard to find and are out of print. Mill Creek Entertainment (under license from Cookie Jar Group) released a DVD entitled "Show Us Your Fangs" in Region 1 on July 23, 2010. They later released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 on August 17, 2010.^[1]

Writing

The writing of each episode remains fairly consistent. Something odd happens in the real world, and Mona puts a supernatural explanation to it. This would most likely be very repetitive, if not for the originality and creativity of the storyline and the fact that the target audience consisted of children.

The layout of the program tends to start with an insight of what happened in real life. Then an 'imagination scene' with the children explains the storyline further, and then it switches back to real life to explain even further. This pattern continues, until the story comes to a climax, which is nearly always an 'imagination scene'. Then the denouement is often a real life scene, explaining what happened in reality throughout the episode, although, often Mona would find something to argue against the case (e.g. revealing a dinosaur shaped footprint in the soil) Also an episode of attacked aliens

Broadcast details

• In Canada, the series originally aired on YTV, and on Radio-Canada in Quebec. with reruns subsequently aired on Vrak.TV and Canal à Moi.
• In Australia, the series is currently aired on ABC1 during May 2011. The series originally aired on Nickelodeon from 1999-2004.
• In the United States, the series is currently aired on This TV starting on September 26, 2011.

Commentary

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References

1. ^ Amazon.com
2. ^ fr:Mona le Vampire#Commentaires (In French)
3. ^ fr:Discussion:Mona le Vampire#section commentaire (In French)

External links

• The official Mona the Vampire website
• CBBC - Mona the Vampire at bbc.co.uk