Camp Lazlo
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| Camp Lazlo | |
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 The title character |
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| Genre | Animated series |
| Running time | 22 minutes approximately |
| Creator(s) | Joe Murray |
| Starring | Carlos Alazraqui Jeff Bennett Tom Kenny Doug Lawrence Jodi Benson Jill Talley Steve Little |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original channel | Cartoon Network |
| Original run | July 8, 2005–Present |
| No. of episodes | 50 |
Camp Lazlo is an Emmy nominated, American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios and currently airs on Cartoon Network. The show features a Boy Scout-like summer camp with a cast of all animal characters, along with a "retro" type of humor and silliness which is akin to Murray's previous series, Rocko's Modern Life (which aired on Nickelodeon a decade earlier). The show focuses the wacky adventures of the Brazilian spider-monkey named Lazlo and with his friends, Raj the elephant and Clam, the albino pygmy rhino. The three embark on events that later end up into trouble. Each episode is split into two parts approximately 11 minutes long.
Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence, who did much of the voice work on Rocko's Modern Life, provide lead voices in this show as well, along with veteran voice actors like Jeff Bennett, Jodi Benson, Kenny's wife and Mr. Show co-star Jill Talley, and Alazraqui's Reno 911! co-star and first time voice acting, Steve Little.
Camp Lazlo premiered on July 8, 2005 with episodes on Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT in the USA, but as of June 26, 2006, the show airs Monday through Friday at 6:30 PM US ET/PT which is coincidentally the day that Teletoon started airing the show and it airs it at 8:30 ET/PT.
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[edit] Characters
[edit] Places
[edit] Episode Guide
[edit] Comparing Camp Lazlo and Rocko's Modern Life
Although there are similarities, there's a noticeable difference in the two shows content-wise. Rocko's Modern Life was known for its crazy imaginative sequences and sometimes use of "adult" humor, and despite the double-entendres, somehow it still managed to slip by with a TV-Y rating. In fact, some content of Rocko's Modern Life was so adult-oriented that the clips were pulled off the air. Camp Lazlo, however, lacks all of the above elements, but for some reason is rated with a higher TV-Y7 rating. This may be due to Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network each having different standards for ratings.
There are, however, some distinct similarities:
- Created by Joe Murray.
- Carlos Alazraqui voices the title character of both series.
- Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence supplied other character voices on both shows.
- Mark O'Hare was storyboard artist on "Rocko" and is creative director on "Lazlo".
- The well-known comedy writer Martin Olson was staff writer on both shows, and also contributed a number of crazy songs to both series.
- All characters are animals.
- The episode "Movie Night" claims that when a little boy becomes a big boy, the planets align and alter their very being. A similar concept was used in the great Rocko's Modern Life episode "Born to Spawn" (written by Spongebob-creator Stephen Hillenburg, Mark O'Hare and writer Martin Olson) for when turtles became old enough to become adults.
- In "Waiting for Edward", Edward says, "I hate my life", in the same way that Ed Bighead did in Rocko ("I hate my life" was one of his catchphrases).
- In the Rocko's Modern Life episode Floundering Fathers, a character resembling Lazlo is seen in the back of the parade, only he is a female and wearing white and green clothes.
- The first half-hour episode occurred in the second seasons.
- In the episode "It's No Picnic", the Bean Scouts and Squirrel Scouts have a pinecone-sitting contest of doom. As most of the scouts fall off one by one, nurses appear carrying a stretcher repeating the word "Hup hup hup hup..." as the nurses did in Rocko's Modern Life when an injury occurred.
- Lumpus and Heffer's heads look incredibly similar. Both are also voiced by Tom Kenny.
[edit] Continuity errors and goofs
- In "It's no Picnic" Lumpus' shirt can be seen sometimes long-sleeved.
- In "Prodigidous Clamus" Slinkman says that there is 14 scouts in camp, whereas, there is actually 24 scouts at the camp.
- In "Beans and Pranks" when Lumpus is walking to the wall when he is covered in food Slinkman took off his hat but in the next scene the hat is still on then he takes it off.
- In the episode, "Mascot Madness" when Edward sees Clam and Raj's Jumping Beans act he hates it, then in the next shot he could be seen applauding, then after that shot and the rest of the episode he hates it.
- In the episode "Bowling for Dinosaurs" you can see the camp gate behind Lumpus's bowling alley. But since the bowling alley is next to the Scoutmaster's Cabin, the camp gate should be almost directly across from the cabin.
- In the episode "Campers All Pull Pants Down" one of the campers, which is Samson, by the campfire tells Lazlo something, but when Lazlo is remembering it in the cave he hears Edward saying it.
- In the episode Beany Weenies, two Lazlos can be seen, one next to Commander Hoo Ha and the other one in the group with the bean scouts.
- In the episode "Racing Slicks", Edward can be seen twice with Lazlo's coloring of lower head, head, skin, hair, hat placement, and nose.
- In "Beans And Pranks" when everyone is cheering and carrying Scoutmaster Lumpus out of the mess hall, Clam says, "Boris is Slinkman!" but his mouth doesn't move.
- Near the beginning of "Creepy Crawly Campy", when Raj is looking at a bug, his eyelids briefly change color.
- Near the beginning of "Temper Teepee", when Edward is playing checkers with Samson, Edward moves a red checker, but then Samson wins with a red checker.
- Also in "Temper Teepee" when Gretchen and Edward are playing Lazlo in checkers when Lazlo moves a black checker it changes red.
- Yet again in "Temper Teepee" when Edward, Gretchen and Lazlo start their game of checkers the pieces are already moved.
- In Squirrel Seats when the campers enter the bus again, all the scouts are sitting, including Dave and Ping Pong, who were not present before. Edward pokes fun at this intentional error by saying, "when were you on this bus?" to which they reply, "We've been here this whole time".
- In Tomato Paste, Samson changes from grey to white in every screenshot.
- In the episode Tusk Wizard, it can be seen that Raj has lost his tusks, however, in the next shot, you can see Raj's tusks in place.
- In "Dirt Nappers", when the Bean Scouts are looking in the trash can for the dirt, you will notice in the background that the dirt is back in the camp for a few seconds.
- In "Dirt Nappers", when the Bean Scouts begin crawling on top of a plot of land, you can easily see the Ping-Pong's eyes will disappear.
[edit] Camp Kidney Alma Mater
In "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp", the campers apparently sing the camp Alma Mater, "By the wondrous Leaky waters..." which is set to the Cornell University Alma mater "Far Above Cayuga's Waters". The lyrics are:
By the wondrous leaky waters
And great Mt. White Head
Stands the pretty, good Camp Kidney,
Not too bad all said.
Not the greatest, not the smartest,
Not the best are we...BUT!
Proud to be the second best camp,
Here on Lake Leaky!
Give us flea-invested blankets,
Cabins that are old,
Loud speakers that pop and gargle,
Showers full of mold.
Healthy food and giant head lice
They will never break,
The spirit of our Kidney campers
Here on Leaky Lake.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Pulcinella Awards
The series won three 2006 Pulcinella Awards for Best Animated Series for Children and Best Animated Series for all ages and Lazlo was the winner of Best Character at the 10th Cartoons By The Bay Festival in Positano, Italy.[1] It was the second consecutive year that a Cartoon Network series won the latter two awards, as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Blooregard Q. Kazoo won the awards the year before.
[edit] Emmy Awards
"Hello Dolly / Over Cooked Beans" was nominated for an Emmy in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour) category, but was defeated by The Simpsons. The episode has been hosted on the Cartoon Network website and can be viewed here.
[edit] Annie Awards
Sue Mondt, a production designer on Camp Lazlo, was nominated an Annie Award for production design on the episode "Hard Days Samson."[2]
[edit] Video Game
A Game Boy Advance game called "Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games" has been scheduled for release in December 1, 2006.
[edit] Camp Lazlo on DVD
The only Camp Lazlo-only DVD is included on the Camp Lazlo Press Kit, which was given away as a promo item for the show before it aired. It contained file sheets of the show and a DVD with four episode (2 half-hour episodes): "Gone Fishin' (Sort Of) /Bean Are From Mars" & "Parasitic Pal/It's No Picnic". This item can only be acquired through someone sells it through eBay, which are rare. If lucky, you might acquire the Press Kit, DVD & a shirt as an extra.
Although Camp Lazlo does not have its own DVD (except the press kit), 2 episodes have appeared on Cartoon Network themed DVDs. Hello Dolly appeared on the Cartoon Network Fridays - Volume 1 DVD, released on September 19, 2006. Snow Beans, a christmas-themed episode of the show, was released on the Cartoon Network Christmas: Volume Three DVD on October 3, 2006. [1]
[edit] Cultural references
- The main theme song plays on the children's song "B-I-N-G-O".
- Appropriately, Lazlo's mouth is shaped like a banana (Lazlo is a monkey).
- The opening and closing credits font is "Way out West" from P22 type foundry.
[edit] Miscellaneous
- The episode "It's No Picnic" was first broadcast on the afternoon of July 8, 2005: the same day that the first episode premiered.
- Some background music and sound effects in Camp Lazlo came from SpongeBob SquarePants and other shows. This is due to the fact some of the songs and effects from Camp Lazlo come from the Associated Production Music library, some of which have also been used in shows such as The Ren and Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, SpongeBob SquarePants, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey..
- Camp Kidney Bean Scouts have hand-me-down uniforms and in "Hello Summer, Goodbye Camp", Camp Kidney is obviously inferior to the other camps.
- The totem pole in Jelly Bean cabin has a monkey, an elephant, and a rhino in descending order.
- Camp Kidney uses a bean theme by using types of beans for each cabin name, which are: Fava, Jelly, Pinto, Kidney, and Baked
- The Bean Scouts have to collect all the badges possible to promote while in cub scouts you do not have to. Once the scouts collect every merit badge in Camp Kidney, they become Tomato Scouts with Commander Hoo-Hah, as shown in "Tomato Paste".
- The animal species seem to switch from civilized to wild, such as Gordon being a Bean Scout and a bear, yet in another episode a bear was seen wild and Lazlo brought it back to camp.
- Camp Kidney has an alma mater titled "On the Famous Leaky Waters"
- Doug Lawrence played the voice of Filburt, which was a turtle, in Joe Murray's previous cartoon Rocko's Modern Life. In the Camp Lazlo Slap Happy," Mr. Lawrence played the leader of the secret club that Scoutmaster Lumpus wanted to become a part of. Interestingly, the leader was also a turtle.
- In the Spanish version, Slinkman is named Banano and Clam is named rhino.
[edit] Crew
- Brian A. Miller producer
- Joe Murray producer / executive producer / creator / writer/ storyboard artist
- Mark O'Hare creative director
- Merriwether Williams story editor/writer
- Martin Olson writer
- Steve Little writer/voice actor
- Kaz writer / storyboard artist
- Shareena Carlson producer
[edit] References
- ^ Ryan Ball (2006-4-10). Lazlo Emerges as Champ on the Bay. Animation Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-10-29.
- ^ 2006 Annie Awards by Category - Nominees from the official Annie Award website, November, 2006
[edit] External links
| Camp Lazlo | |
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| Main Characters Minor Characters |
Jelly Cabin: Lazlo | Raj | Clam |
| Episodes | |
| Places |
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| Crew | Joe Murray | Mark O'Hare | Mike Roth | Merriwether Williams | Steve Little | Kaz | Thurop Van Oman | JC Quintel | Eddie Trigueros | Andy Paley | Stephanie Erdel | Antoine Guilbaud |
| Voice Cast | Main Cast: Carlos Alazraqui | Jeff Bennett | Steve Little | Mr. Lawrence | Jill Talley | Tom Kenny | Jodi Benson Guest stars: Tara Strong | Joe Murray |
| Games | Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games |
| Cartoon Cartoons |
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| Other Cartoon Network original series |
| Camp Lazlo • Class of 3000 • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi • The Life and Times of Juniper Lee • My Gym Partner's a Monkey • Squirrel Boy • Chowder • Zoot Rumpus • Phibian Mike |
