Kid Notorious
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Kid Notorious was an animated television series which aired for nine weeks (October-December 2003) on Comedy Central and is currently running on the UK version of Adult Swim. It starred Hollywood film producer Robert Evans as himself. Episode plots were often bizarre and absurdist in nature, featuring Evans as a James Bond type character. ex-Guns N' Roses, current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash also appeared on the show as himself. The show was directed by Pete Michels.
[edit] Characters
- Robert "Kid Notorious" Evans (Robert Evans), a playboy Hollywood producer who finds himself mixed up in bizarre situations but never loses his cool.
- Puss Puss, Evans' beloved cat, which follows him wherever he goes; she can play chess and smokes marijuana. Puss has a hate-hate relationship with English which has included pistol-whipping, neck crushing and piranha in the sauna.
- English (Alan Selka), Evans' long suffering butler. A running gag involves Puss Puss farting into his face. Voiced by Evans' real life butler.
- Tollie Mae (Niecy Nash), Evans' loud and morbidly obese maid. Spends most of her time binge eating chocolate and lusting after Denzel Washington. Her catchphrase is "Not in my job description." Tollie Mae was named for Tollie Mae Wilson, who was Evans' housekeeper at the time of his marriage to Ali MacGraw.
- Slash (Slash), the former lead guitarist for Guns N' Roses. He is Evans' sidekick and next door neighbor.
[edit] Episode list
| No. | Title | Air Date | Plot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hip Hop to the Godfather | 2003-10-22 | Robert Evans tries to produce a musical, rap-oriented version of The Godfather, but finds his life threatened when he casts Crips and Bloods as the Corleones |
| 2 | The F-You Soup | 2003-10-29 | Evans and company travel to Asia to obtain yak milk needed for Slash's special soup |
| 3 | French Take Woodland | 2003-11-05 | Evans loses his home to Jacques Chirac in a poker game, and must win it back with the help of Latoya Jackson |
| 4 | Kim Jong II Must Die | 2003-11-11 | Donald Rumsfeld tasks Evans with assassinating Kim Jong Il, but he finds himself conflicted when it turns out that Il is one of the world's greatest directors |
| 5 | The Nazi Party | 2003-11-18 | One of Evans' friends is murdered by a fugitive Nazi, so Evans goes undercover as a Neo-Nazi to take revenge |
| 6 | Princess Serena | 2003-12-02 | Evans falls in love with the runaway wife of a Middle Eastern sheik and must assassinate the sheik in order to keep her as his own |
| 7 | Wedding Belles | 2003-12-09 | Evans has to get pictures of Martha Stewart's buttocks in order to obtain his ex-assistant's sex tape from Hugh Hefner. Meanwhile, English schools Johnny Knoxville on how to be a butler. |
| 8 | Pilot | 2003-12-16 | With Ben Affleck in a coma, Matt Damon befriends Leonardo DiCaprio, and the new duo teams up with Evans and Slash to break Francis Ford Coppola out of prison |
| 9 | White Christmas | 2003-12-16 | A Christmas variety show featuring the guest characters from the previous eight episodes |
