My Dad the Rock Star
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| My Dad the Rock Star | |
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 Willy Zilla and his rock-star father Rock Zilla, as seen on the show's opening sequence. |
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| Genre | Animated television series |
| Creator(s) | Gene Simmons |
| Starring | Joanne Vannicola Lawrence Bayne Don Francks Sarah Gadon Martin Villafana Kathleen Laskey Stephanie Mills Rob Stefaniuk |
| Country of origin | Canada/United States |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Various |
| Original run | February 2004 (Canada) January 2005 (United States) – December 2005 (Canada/United States) |
My Dad the Rock Star is an animated television series created by KISS rocker Gene Simmons, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana. The show is about Willy Zilla, a 12-year old boy just trying to be normal despite being the son of Rock Zilla, a flamboyant musician. The program airs on Teletoon in Canada, and NickToons TV in the United States.
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[edit] Cast
- Joanne Vannicola - Willy Zilla - The main character.
- Lawrence Bayne - Rock Zilla - Willy's rock star father.
- Don Francks - Skunk - Ex-driver of the Zilla tour bus, friend of the family.
- Sarah Gadon - Alyssa - Willy's best friend.
- Martin Villafana - Quincy - Willy's other best friend.
- Kathleen Laskey - Crystal Zilla - Willy's mother.
- Stephanie Mills - Serenity Zilla - Willy's Sister
[edit] Episodes
The show ran for two seasons (and currently is on hiatus):
[edit] Season 1
1. Welcome to Silent Springs
- Rock and his family move to Silent Springs. Willy disguises himself as "Willy Zillowsky" but he is being forced by Buzz to steal Rock's gold record.
2. Zilla's House of Horrors
- Willy heard Buzz saying that the house is haunted due to a man buried under the house of Rock.
3. Mr. Zilla's Opus
- Rock revealed to everyone in school that Willy is Rock Zilla's son, when Rock became the new band teacher.
4. High Infidelity
- When Crystal opens a Psychic Wellness Centre next to Willy's school, Willy is in for some ribbing from classmates wanting to tease him over his flakey Mom.
5. Angela D'Angelo
- Willy meets a new student named Angela, she invites him to the pre-date but it is revealed that they hate Rock Zilla.
6. The Candidate
- Willy planned to be the candidate for class representative, but Buzz keeps stealing all of his plans and a candidate party! But before the party, he asks Rock and Crystal to be normal but chaos ensues. Then later, Willy won as class rep.
7. Willy Unplugged
- Willy's excited about playing a cool acid jazz number on his trumpet at his school's talent night. But when Rock finds out, he tries to "help" by adding over-the-top theatrics to Willy's show. Then Q and Alissa try to get in on Willy's act - with less-than-musical results.
8. Dance Party
- Willy is in the dance committee. His teacher, Ms. Zachwiss, seems to like the former parties just to be the same like the last 19 years and she does not want new ideas for the next dance party.
9. Psychic Convention
- Crystal asks Willie to come with her to the Psychic Convention to meet Madame Persenchia. But Mosh got lost; Willie has to get ready for his Math exam.
10. Call of the Wild
- The Zillas go on a camping trip with willies friends but something goes wrong
11. Mr. Big
- When Sally Raptor offers Willy a coveted spot in the "in crowd", Willy gets a taste of what it's like to be extremely popular - and it rocks! But complications arise when Sally tries to get Willy to abandon his old friends Alissa and Quincy. Meanwhile, Serenity is terrorizing the neighbourhood practising to get her driver's license.
12. Rebel Without A Nose Ring
- Buzz sets Willy up to experience a series of unfortunate encounters with Mr. Malfactor after which Malfactor labels Willy a Rebel and seizes the opportunity to restore order upon the student body by implementing a dress code.
13. Going for Broke
- When the Zillas go broke, Quincy's father enables them to stay at their place.
[edit] Season 2
14. Meet the Zillas
- Rock runs his own TV show, after thinking that the show that they were watching was boring. But later, they run pranks on Willie, so they change their mind of the show title. They changed it to "MEET WILLY ZILLA".
15. Rock Is From Mars, Willy Is From Venus
- Willy and Rock try to spend some quality time together but things don't go as Willy intended.
16. The Sound of Zilla
- Willie's school is celebrating International Students Week.
17. Home for the Holly Daze
- It's the Zillas' first Christmas in Silent Springs and when they inadvertently become the cause of a famous Broadway director, losing his job, misery befalls them when he tries to get even.
18. What's the Scoop?
- Scoop keeps on sneaking out on Rock; Buzz kept Willie in detention, after he found out that he was late. So Scoop and him have a plan to prove Willie innocent.
19. Rock Bottom
- It's Rock's birthday but things get chaotic when Rock gets depressed, Serenity lands herself in the slammer, and she ends up serving community service at a senior's home, with Rock as her newest patient!
20. Saving Sawchuck
- After Willie saves Buzz from drowning, he has to let Buzz save him from harm; Serenity falls in love with the Lifeguard, so she has lifeguard lessons.
21. Rock Zilla, King of the Desert
- Willie, Quincy, and Allyssa take on a band trip, but ends up in the middle of the desert: Serenity and Crystal has to hide Rock's concert t-shirt (which he refuses to wash) before he comes back.
22. Big Willy on Campus
- Willie, Allyssa, Serenity, Quincy, Skunk and Rock are going for a trip to Sara Bellum University, where Rock studies (and got expelled also.), but his roommate, Dean has a plan to sabotage Rock.
23. Metamorphic Rock
- Willy, Quincy and Alissa are assigned a group project in Science class but with his mom missing in action, the house gets chaotic.
24. Kant Buy Me Love
- Willy and his friends help their neighbor, Mr. Kant throw a silent party.
25. Chip Off the Old Rock
- Rock's parents come to visit him, but they became mortal enemies; Serenity and her Grandmother have a day off.
26. Blind Date
- When Serenity informs Willy that his plan to hook up with Alissa at the carnival is a date, Willy becomes a wreck. Panicked about going out with a girl who's not only smart and pretty, but also one of his best friends, a desperate Willy turns to Serenity for help.
[edit] DVD
The first Season was released on DVD on September 20th, 2006.
[edit] Trivia
- Rockzilla, like Gene Simmons himself, is a Beatles fan. When lost in the desert, he whipped up a list of necessary items:
- Food
- Shelter
- The Beatles White Album
- Firewood
- The episode "Kant buy Me Love" is named after the Beatles' song "Can't Buy Me Love".
- The episode "Rock Bottom" refers to the KISS song of the same name.
- When Rock's parents visit, he and his father go to a formal party. When the violinist is asking for requests, Rock asks for KISS.
- In the episode Angela D'Angelo when Willy, Skunk and Rock are discussing the predate, the chimney has a Millenium Eye design on it from Yu-Gi-Oh
- The Episode name, "Big Willy On Campus" is a spoof of the televison show "Big Wolf On Campus".
