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Retarded Animal Babies
Retarded Animal Babies DVD
Genre	Black comedy Gore Scatological comedy Satire
Created by	David Lovelace
Voices of	David Lovelace Rebecca Lovelace Michael Picozzi Ryan Brechlin Holden Johnson Peter Bradley Laurie Sprague
Theme music composer	David Lovelace
Country of origin	United States of America.
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	Five (Internet) One (TV series)
No. of episodes	20
Production
Producer(s)	David Lovelace Andrew Keplinger
Running time	typ. 10 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	G4 as part of Happy Tree Friends and Friends
Picture format	Flash cartoon
Audio format	stereo
First shown in	2003
Original airing	Internet Series: 2003-present TV series: 2006-2007
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Retarded Animal Babies (or RAB in acronym form) is an online Flash cartoon created by David Lovelace in 2003. ^[1] This series is modelled after children's cartoons, yet incorporates numerous offensive adult situations, such as scatology, drug use, sexual aberrancy, and heavy profanity, to cater to an adult audience. 20 episodes of Retarded Animal Babies have been released as of early 2008, two of which are exclusive to DVDs released by David Lovelace's self-owned company LCD Productions. RAB episodes have been included in the Happy Tree Friends television series Happy Tree Friends and Friends, shown on the G4 channel and on various television outlets worldwide. RAB characters also appeared in the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song Virus Alert, produced by Lovelace.

Warning: descriptions of offensive, scatological, and sexual situations follow. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Major characters
2 Recurring characters
3 List of episodes
4 Other information
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Major characters

Bunny

Cat

Donkey

Hamster

Puppy

Bunny: A yellow rabbit. He is killed in every episode.

Cat: An orange cat. Apparently the smartest and most articulate of the RABs, not necessarily the "straight man" of the group.

Donkey: A grey donkey. The most foolish of the RABs, also speaks in a Southern accent.

Hamster: A beige hamster. The "cute" character, has a perverted obsession with Bruce Willis.

Puppy: A brown dog, the main focus of most RAB episodes. Foul-mouthed, obsessed with sexual intercourse and breasts.

[edit] Recurring characters

Satan: The Devil himself. Has appeared in almost all episodes of RAB to date.

Cat's Stepdad: A notorious drunk and a stereotypically repressed homosexual.

Cat's Cousin: She comes to visit Cat and his stepdad occasionally. Cat considers her very annoying.

Hamster's Gumpa (Grandpa) A centenarian and war veteran (presumably from World War 2). Has hooks for hands.

Leprechaun Aliens Borrowed from another Lovelace cartoon, The Sci-Fi Guys.

Matt Groening Satirical portrayal of the "Simpsons" creator.

Pico The unofficial mascot of Newgrounds. His speech subtitles are always in leet-speak.

The Fucking Fucker: Puppy's super-villain alter ego. Lovelace later used Puppy in the panel artwork for a guitar amplifier made by Metasonix, also called the Fucking Fucker[1].

Böözy and Karen Böözeborne: An obvious parody duo of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne.

[edit] List of episodes

RAB 1 - Retarded Animal Babies: The RABs recite their version of the alphabet, which includes such inaccuracies as "E is for Pants", "XXX is for porno and beer", and "splunge is for splunge."
RAB 2 - magic!: The RABs hold a magic show, with an alternate ending the web viewer may select by clicking on Hamster at the end.
RAB 3 - show and hell: The RABs hold "Show and Tell".
RAB 4 - stupor heroes!: The actual episodes featuring the RABs are hidden among channels on an animated TV set. (see Ch. 9.)
RAB 5 - dungeons and christwagons: The RABs meet Cat's cousin, play Dungeons & Dragons.
RAB 6 - fucky fucksgiving: The RABs attempt to kill a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but fail.
RAB 7 - shitty shitsmas: The RABs celebrate Christmas.
RAB 8 - cunty cuntingstine day: The RABs go to a club to try and have sexual intercourse with hot women.
RAB 9 - pirate ship: Puppy asks all of the other animal babies to hold their tongue and say "I was born on a pirate ship." This made it sound as if they said "I was born on a pile of shit." Only available on the DVDs "Every Little Something By DAVE" and "The Definitive Retarded Animal Babies DVD".
RAB 10 - fux0rrz: The RABs surf Cat's stepfather's computer for Internet porn, but get zapped into the World Wide Web.
RAB 11: The RABs form a heavy metal group called Fuck and win the TV show Battle For Böözefest.
RAB 12: The RABs attempt to get gold from an Irish bar to score chicks, but end up stopping a world domination plot instead.
RAB 13: The RABs, Satan and Cat's cousin play Star Wars in the field.
RAB 14: Primarily set 50 years in the future.
RAB 15 - pendumbvirate: Satirizes internet phonomena, most notably the Hampster Dance and Badger Badger Badger, as well as the usual 1980s pop-cultural spoofs that appear throughout the series.
RAB 16 - a sequel to episode 14. Only available on the DVD "Retarded Animal Babies: The Definitive DVD".
Magic Animal Babies: A commercial advertisment made for a contest by Magic Hat Brewery. It is not considered part of continuity with the other cartoons in the series and is not avaialble online.
Engadget Animal Babies: A TV advertisement made for a contest by Engadget.com. Also not available online.
Lovelace animated the video for Virus Alert, one of "Weird Al" Yankovic's songs from the album Straight Outta Lynwood.^[2] ^[3] The video is available on the DVD side of the DualDisc version of the album. RAB characters appear in the video.

[edit] Other information

Some controversy resulted from similarities between Retarded Animal Babies and the Happy Tree Friends series. Though it is true that HTF debuted before RAB, and Lovelace admitted he had seen HTF before he created RAB, the similarities were apparently unintentional.
David Lovelace makes other flash animations that have been submitted to Newgrounds, such as "'Sno Problem", "Sci-Fi Guys", "Jot and Jab" and "Farkman" (for the Fark website). "'Sno Problem" features characters resembling Hamster, but none of these cartoons feature actual RABs themselves.
RAB has used many TV, music, & movie pop-cultural references for storylines and episode features.
The voices of the adult RABs from RAB 14 were provided by the Hartford, CT based cast and crew of radio station WCCC.
Most recent use of the RAB characters in advertising: a guitar amplifier made by Metasonix called the Fucking Fucker. It caused a minor sensation when displayed at the 2008 Winter NAMM Show. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

[edit] References

^ Meet the Creator of Retarded Animal Babies
^ Yankovic Heads 'Straight Outta Lynwood'
^ Flash Animation Gets Weird

unknown (2005-12-25). Meet the Creator of Retarded Animal Babies. g4tv.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.

Bulger, Adam. "Fully Animated: Middletown Internet Animator David Lovelace Teams Up With Weird Al Yankovic", Hartford Advocate (Hartford, CT), 2006-09-22. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.

Vrabel, Jeff (2006-08-04). Yankovic Heads 'Straight Outta Lynwood'. billboard.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.

Simpson, Aaron (2006-10-13). Flash Animation Gets Weird. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.