Game Over (TV series)

Game Over (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Game Over


caption = The Smashenburn family
genre = Animation
creator = David Sacks
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voices = Patrick Warburton
Lucy Liu
Rachel Dratch
Elizabeth Daily
Artie Lange
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country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 6
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network = UPN
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first_aired = March 10, 2004
last_aired = April 2, 2004
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imdb_id = 0397149
tv_com_id = 16962

"Game Over" is a short-lived American computer-animated television series created by David Sacks, produced by Carsey-Werner Productions, and broadcast on UPN in 2004. It was canceled due to low ratings.Fact|date=June 2008

"Game Over" (the title was inspired by the phrase "game over" that commonly concludes video games) focused on what happens to video game characters after the game ends. The show is based around the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family that lives in an alternate video game universe.

The show made numerous references to videogames and even featured certain game characters as cameos. For example, "Crash Bandicoot" appears on a Got Milk? billboard whilst creatures from "" appear in one of the episodes.

Marisa Tomei voiced the character of Raquel Smashenburn in the show's unaired pilot episode, but scheduling problems saw Lucy Liu take over the role for the actual series. [ [http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmTv/features/gameover/davegoestch.asp Dave Goestch of Game Over] , "UGO".]

"Game Over" was heavily hyped by UPN before its debut. Some were skeptical of "Game Over" due to UPN's track record with their cartoons, but the show generally received positive press upon its airing [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE4DD143EF933A25750C0A9629C8B63 TELEVISION REVIEW; Video Game Heroes: Just Folks] , "New York Times", March 10, 2004.] . Despite this, only six episodes were made, which aired on a variety of different days – the fourth and fifth episodes were broadcast on 2 April 2004, and the sixth episode ("Monkey Dearest") was not aired.

Characters

*Rip Smashenburn, a Grand Prix driver who races every day and crashes his car all the time. (Patrick Warburton)
*Raquel Smashenburn, a covert agent who fights monsters and is vaguely similar to Lara Croft. (Lucy Liu)
*Alice Smashenburn, a cynical yet socially conscious 15-year-old. Is part of a beach volleyball team, but wears a hoodie instead of a skimpy bikini. (Rachel Dratch)
*Billy Smashenburn, a 13-year-old hoping to become a rapper. (Elizabeth Daily)
*Turbo, their pet, a 300-pound talking doglike creature who robs pawn shops and smokes cigars. (Artie Lange)
*The Changs, a family of Kung-Fu-fighting Shaolin monks who live next door.
*Another Next door neighbour who talks to Rip in first person perspective.

DVD release

Anchor Bay Entertainment released all six episodes of the series as "Game Over: The Complete Series" on DVD in North America on June 28, 2005. [ [http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=4668 Game Over - Complete Series] , TVshowsonDVD.com.]

References

External links

*imdb title|0397149|Game Over


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