Ozzy & Drix

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Ozzy & Drix
Starring Phil LaMarr
Jeff Bennett
Tasia Valenza
Alanna Ubach.
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 26
Production
Running time 22 Minutes (Without Adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel Kids' WB
Original run September 14, 2002 – July 5, 2004
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Ozzy & Drix is an American animated television series based on the Warner Bros. Film Osmosis Jones. It takes place inside the body of teenager Hector Cruz (referred to by the characters as "the City of Hector"). The series premiered on September 14, 2002 on the Kids' WB; the final episode aired July 5, 2004. Reruns can be seen on Cartoon Network.

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[edit] Characters

Note: none of the voice cast in Ozzy & Drix appeared in the original film, Osmosis Jones.

[edit] Main Characters

  • Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones (Phil LaMarr) - A white blood cell with a dark sense of humor. He works as a private-eye in the city of Hector. He also has a slight crush on Maria Amino, although she does not return the emotion. He and Drix were originally from the city of Frank, the character portrayed in the movie, although they were transferred to Hector through a mosquito while chasing a scarlet fever virus aptly named Scarlet, forcing Ozzy to build his reputation again from the ground up.
  • Drixenol "Drix" (Jeff Bennett) - A cold pill and Ozzy's fellow private eye. They have an office inside Hector's left retina ("prime real estate"). His right arm is a multi-launcher which launches various chemical containers stored in his torso. The right arm also contains a phone, and other gadgets (apparently the only thing it can't do is make a decent milkshake). Drix is very cautious and completely honest (and quite gullible), which puts him at odds with the devil-may-care Ozzy. He often tries to "fit in" with the other cells in the body, usually failing to comprehend the concepts.
  • Maria Amino (Tasia Valenza) - A white blood cell and a cop in the city of Hector. She has a crush on Drix and speaks with a Spanish accent. She is highly skilled at fighting and possibly the most competent cop inside of Hector.
  • Mayor Paul Spryman (Alanna Ubach) - The mayor of the city of Hector. He is approximately the same age as Hector, and acts very immaturely. His decisions often put Hector's health in extreme danger.
  • Ellen Patella (Vivica A. Fox) - An attorney-at-law who helps new cells find their place in Hector. Ozzy has a crush on her as well, although she has no interest in him.
  • Chief Gluteus (Jim Cummings) - A muscle cell and the Chief of Police for the city of Hector. He hates both Ozzy and Drix and prefers to handle things himself, which often results in disasters.
  • Hector Cruz (Justin Cowden) - The teenager that the show revolves around. He likes girls and listening to music. He is foolhardy, a risk taker, and somewhat ignorant, all probably to further the show's plot.
  • Christine (Kimberly Brooks) - A girl in Hector's school that has a crush on him. Ozzy once got stuck in her body.
  • The Mole (Jeffrey Tambor) - A former secret agent, and klutz and generally used as comic relief, he has his own adrenaline supply, and in every one of his appearances he tries to "vanish mysteriously" (failing to do so every time in comical ways)

[edit] Germs, Viruses and Villains

This is a list of the bad guys in order of appearance:

  • Scarlet Fever (Tim Curry) - A lizard-like scarlet fever virus, possibly related to Thrax, the movie's villain, that makes Hector get a fever. He was transported along with Ozzy and Drix from Frank to Hector. Fever sucks up all of Hector's fluids that make him active, mutating to become more virulent in the process, and gives Hector a slow and fatal fever. Luckily, when he and Ozzy were fighting in a police helicopter, they were heading for Hector's spleen where it appeared to be a giant fan. Ozzy escaped the helicopter but Fever was killed once he and the helicopter were shredded into the spleen. Hector was then back to his normal self and his fluids returned.
  • Ernest Strepfinger (Brad Garrett and Jim Cummings) - A powerful germ whose goal is to make Hector sick. He has a large gang of germs and viruses to do his dirty work. In "Strepfinger", Strepfinger is planning to make Hector have phlegm, but in the end, he falls down from his hideout along with his pet. In "Ozzy Jr.", Strepfinger returns, but this times he has an eye patch on his right eye and his pet has an eye patch, too. He plans to infect Hector with bacteria. In "Lights Out", he plans to wipe out Hector's memories. In "Tricky Ricardo", he tricks Ricardo into thinking that he is working for Strepfinger, but in the end, Strepfinger gets stuck on one of the cotton balls and fell down the drain of the shower. Strepfinger is a parody of the stereotypical Bond villain with a particular emphasis on Auric Goldfinger and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
  • Rhoda Virus - An intestinal virus, brought in on a bean, which causes Hector to experience extreme flatulence.
  • Protozilla (Frank Welker) - An allergen with a weak form and a monster form. He was a giant monster that terrorized the city of Hector and made it look like it was Drix's dog who was causing the disaster (meanwhile, outside of Hector, Hector himself had a dog and his mother believed the dog was causing his allergies). Ozzy, Drix and Drix's dog confronted Protozilla at Hector's nose and when Hector sneezed, Protozilla was sucked out and killed. And back with Hector, it was revealed his allergies are really from a certain flower his mother was bringing in and not the dog.
  • Smirch (Danny Bonaduce) - A germ that plans to make Hector get a zit ("Street Up").
  • Nick O' Teen (Tim Curry) - A tobacco addictive that plans to make Hector smoke ("Where There's Smoke"). Nick can shapeshift and release clouds of smoke that brainwash cells and makes them do Nick's evil bidding. He has three lackeys: Butane (Jeff Bennett), Carbon Monoxide (Tara Strong), and Tar (Frank Welker). Nick's lackeys were killed before him in confrontations with Ozzy and Drix but when Nick was finally powerful enough to hold Ozzy and Drix back from foiling his plans, Hector decided not to smoke anymore and Nick weakened where he became nothing but junk on Ozzy's shoe.
  • Sylvian Fisher (Brian Posehn): A nerdy brain cell who planned to use a growth formula to make Hector grow.
  • General Malaise (Charlie Adler) - A bacterium who uses sugar to make his army of bacteria multiply. He develops evil plots to make Hector eat sugar. Of course, he and all his troops were killed when they were in Hector's teeth and he was visiting the dentist (a weird one) and they fell out through a sink and all died off.
  • Professor Nightmare - A nightmare that originated from a movie Hector saw.
  • Chief Maximus (Rob Paulsen) - The Chief of Police in the city of Christine (a girl that Hector likes) that teams up with the Pneumonic.
  • Mother Worm (Frank Welker) - A worm that came from a sausage Hector barely cooked.
  • Shane (Danny Cooksey) - A leader of a testosterone gang that one time tied up Mayor Spryman and took over his office.
  • Cryo (Susan Silo) - A virus that one time tried to give Hector hypothermia, despite the fact that hypothermia is when the core temperatures of the body decrease to a critical level. Therefore, it is not a disease.
  • Billy Bob Bile (Frank Welker) - An owner of an appendix hotel who was causing detours which resulted in Hector's appendix almost bursting.

[edit] Episode List

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[edit] Season 1: 2002-2003

# Title Original airdate Production code
1 "Home With Hector"  September 14, 2002
By way of a simple mosquito bite, Ozzy and Drix are transferred into the body of a 13-year old boy, Hector. Unfortunately, a nasty germ named Scarlet Fever is also transferred, and our heroes have to capture him before he wreaks havoc on the City of Hector. 
2 "Reflex"  September 21, 2002
Ozzy accidentally produces a neural spasm that causes Hector to kick the school bully. When the bully threatens to beat up Hector after school, Ozzy has to figure out a way to help Hector defend himself. 
3 "Strep-Finger"  September 28, 2002
Ozzy becomes jealous of a super agent (Penicillin G) who has been injected into Hector to track down a powerful germ known as Strepfinger. 
4 "A Lousy Haircut"  October 5, 2002
When Ozzy discovers there are lice eggs in Hector's hair, he and Drix venture onto the scalp to knock the eggs off, only to end up running into the monstrous Mother Louse! 
5 "Oh My Dog"  October 12, 2002
Drix's new pet dog, Dander, is mistaken for an Allergen that is threatening the city, while, outside Hector, Mrs. Cruz thinks that it is Hector's dog causing the allergy that Hector is suffering from. 
6 "Street Up"  October 19, 2002
Drix tries to learn how to act "street" and ends up helping an acne germ create a huge zit on Hector's face. 
7 "Gas of Doom"  November 9, 2002
Ozzy, Drix, and Maria commandeer a submersible police craft into the intestines to stop a gas build-up that threatens Hector's social situation. 
8 "Where There's Smoke"  November 16, 2002
Ozzy must keep Nick O'Teen from getting to the brain where he will cause Hector to smoke. 
9 "The Globfather"  November 30, 2002
When Sal Monella, a poisonous gangster germ, kidnaps the Mayor with plans to poison Hector, Ozzy and Drix must come to his rescue. 
10 "Ozzy Jr."  December 7, 2002
Ozzy thinks he's going to have a baby, but it turns out he's been infected with an intracellular bacteria by returning villain Strepfinger. Ozzy and Drix must find a way to destroy the parasite growing within Ozzy before it spreads its infection to all of Hector. The parasite grows to monstrous preportions, exits Ozzy, and is eventually destroyed when Drix finds it is killed by pastry products. 
11 "Growth"  February 1, 2003
The Mayoral election is coming up, and Spryman's opponent, a nerdy brain cell named Sylvian Fisher, is using a secret growth formula to cause destructive growth spurts and make the Mayor look bad. Ozzy and Drix must stop this fiendish plan, which becomes more difficult when Sylvian takes the growth formula himself and becomes a raging, muscular monster. 
12 "Sugar Shock"  February 8, 2003
Hector binges on candy, creating a sugar rush that speeds up all the cells and causes the bacteria population to swell. When his parents cut him off sugar, his drop in blood sugar slows all the cells to a crawl. But the bacteria need sugar, so they form an army to raid Hector's sugar reserves. Now Ozzy and Drix, with the help of the Mole, must take on the bacterial army. 
13 "The Dream Factory"  March 1, 2003
Hector's terrible recurring nightmare is keeping everyone in the City of Hector awake. Ozzy and Drix go to the "Subconscious Network," where dreams are produced, and enter Hector's nightmare to help him face his fear. 

[edit] Season 2: 2003-2004

# Title Original airdate Production code
14 "An Out of Body Experience Part 1"  August 23, 2003
Ozzy gets transferred into a girl named Christine's body when she gives Hector mouth-to-mouth after he jumps off the high dive to impress her. While there, Ozzy starts changing colors and acting like a girl and gets arrested because they think he is a virus. 
15 "An Out of Body Experience Part 2"  August 30, 2003
Ozzy is still in Christine, using REM sleep (or Rapid Eye Movement). He calls Drix for help, and that's when he learns he's gender morphing. When a cell from a certain gender goes to a body of another gender, that cell becomes that gender. With Drix's plan, and the help of another Drixinol cold pill in Christine called "Drixina," Ozzy might come back to Hector, and keep Christine from having pneumonia. 
16 "Lights Out!"  September 6, 2003
Everyone inside Hector forgets who Ozzy and Drix are when Hector experiences a concussion, forcing them to locate the site of the concussion, so they can reboot Hector's memories. 
17 "The Conqueror Worm"  September 13, 2003
Hector eats a barely cooked sausage and gets sick which leads him to getting two worms in his body. The male worm dies after mating, but the female survives, so Ozzy tries to kill it along with a crazy captain and Drix. 
18 "Puberty Alert"  September 20, 2003
Hector discovers hair growing on his chin; the testosterone gang ties up the Mayor and wreaks havoc. 
19 "Tricky Ricardo"  September 27, 2003
After getting injured on a police case, Maria is sent home to rest for the week. She decided to use this time to work on a family reunion coming up for her. Drix notices a rip on the corner of Maria's family picture. Maria doesn't seem to want to talk about it but then Ricky comes in and starts putting the puzzle pieces together. Maria and Ricky share their past with Drix which turns out as Ricky being the family prankster. Maria lost his trust in him so Drix decides to help Ricky get it back. He allows him to be a private eye along with Ozzy with not so good results. 
20 "Aunti Histamine"  October 4, 2003
Hector uses a nose spray to clear his nose, and Drix's aunt appears. Suddenly, there's a drop in water in Hector and Ozzy thinks Drix's aunt is causing it. 
21 "A Growing Cell"  October 11, 2003
Hector is super-sizing at fast-food resturaunts far too much, which gives Sticity, a bad cholestrial beatnik, the chance to kidnap a fat cell family's child, in an attempt to clog an artery. Can Ozzy and Drix (and the new navigational system, installed by Drix, named Backseat) return the huge blob to his parents in time? 
22 "A Cold Day in Hector"  October 25, 2003
While snowboarding with Travis, Hector crosses an off limits area. Hector starts to freeride, but falls and makes a rip in his trousers. This causes a virus named Cryle to drop Hector's temperature. Ozzy and Drix get ready for a day at the beach, but have to stop Cryle from making Hector die of hypothermia. 
23 "Supplements (aka Triumph of the Supplements)"  June 14, 2004
When Hector accidentally breathes in lead, the lead gang cause him to make him feel ill. The Mayor then makes Hector eat cereal so he can bring in The Supplements. 
24 "Double Dose (a.k.a. Ozzy & Ozzy)"  June 21, 2004
Ozzy goes into mitosis and a four armed evil clone doubles from him trying to steal the iodine. 
25 "Nature Calls"  June 28, 2004
Hector's appendix is about to burst. 
26 "Cavities (a.k.a. Journey to the Center of the Tooth)"  July 5, 2004
Hector eats too much sugar and doesn't brush so he gets a cavity caused by General Malay. 

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