Pet Alien

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Pet Alien

Pet Alien title card
Genre Computer animation
Created by Jeff Muncy
Developed by Jeff Muncy
Sadaf Cohen Muncy
Voices of Charlie Schlatter
Charlie Adler
Jess Harnell
Candi Milo
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 4
No. of episodes 52 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Jeff Muncy
Sadaf Cohen Muncy
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Cartoon Network
Original run January 23, 2005 – May 26, 2005
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Pet Alien is an American Daytime Emmy Award-nominated computer-animated series produced by Mike Young Productions in 2005. It was created by Jeff Muncy and the episodes are mainly written by Dan Danko and directed by Andrew Young. The series centres around the 13 year old boy, Tommy Cadle, whose light house is invaded by five aliens.

Pet Alien aired 26 episodes, before being cancelled due to low ratings. However, the series returned in 2007 and aired a third and fourth season.

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[edit] Premise

Pet Alien is a show about a 13 year old boy called Tommy Cadle who lives with five aliens in a lighthouse. The series takes place in the fictional town of DeSpray Bay where it follows Tommy's hectic life with five aliens from the planet Conforma (a play of the word conform) who once crash-landed in his lighthouse and have stayed there ever since. Unlike most animated aliens living on Earth, the aliens in this cartoon don't wear disguises, but all the humans, except Tommy, are too ignorant to tell that they're aliens.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

  • Tommy Cadle

Tommy is a happy and sensible boy. He rarely gets into trouble, except for when the aliens are around. Like all the other aliens, Tommy loves taffy.

  • Dinko

Dinko is the biggest troublemaker of the gang. Though he always tries to help Tommy, he always mucks things up, often because he misunderstands Tommy's words to the point of insanity his evil twin Cousin name Danko.

  • Gumpers

Gumpers is a big alien with a big appetite (and not just for food, e.g. eating shoes). He likes to burp and fart and also possesses a living tooth. He is very strong, but also very afraid. He appears to be extremely dumb most of the time, but he is capable of intelligent thoughts if he strains his brain hard enough.

  • Swanky

Swanky is an arrogant, cocky, snobby and luckyness alien who only thinks about himself. In the series, he often tries to eliminate Tommy and the other aliens so that he can have the lighthouse to himself, particularly Tommy's bedroom. His father is called Harold.

  • Flip

Flip is an alien that looks like a parrot with a lot of energy. It's difficult to understand what he's saying, although the last word uttered in his sentences often is understandable.

  • Scruffy

Scruffy is a dog-looking alien who jumps like a hare and whose tongue supposedly is smarter than himself.

[edit] Major characters

  • Gabby

Gabby is in love with Tommy, but unfortunately he doesn't feel the same way. In several episodes it is revealed that she can smell when Tommy is in trouble. her twin cousin called Jabby who has not glasas.

  • Granville DeSpray

Granville is a direct descendant of DeSpray Bay's founders, as you can tell from his name, and as such he values old English traditions like teatime. Oddly, many characters mistake him for being Norwegian. Granville is hopelessly in love with Melba and has numerous times, to no avail, attempted to win her heart. He hates Tommy and blames him for everything bad that happens. He only has one friend; the statue Admiral Puff.

  • Clinton Fillmore Jefferson XIII

Clinton competes in any kind of sports available and usually wins. His hobby is to annoy Tommy. also lost one game card game.

  • Melba Manners

Melba is a spoiled brat who is Arch-Rival of Tommy. She enjoys forcing him to do tedious or tiresome tasks, thanks to her loud and shrill voice and nasty attitude. She is also an exceptionally clever opponent in staring competitions. Despite her last name, she is very impolite. Like most humans, she doesn't know that the aliens are aliens. She just calls them Tommy's "things".

  • Cap'n Spangley

Cap'n Spangley is an old sailor who is a little crazy. He is afraid of water and crustaceans and he runs the local taffy shop which Tommy and the aliens visit at least daily.

[edit] Recurring characters

  • Tommy's Mom

Tommy's Mom lives in a house located near to Tommy's lighthouse. The viewers never get to see her, as she keeps contact with her son solely through a speaker installed in Tommy's bedroom.

  • Old Man Bitters

Old Man Bitters is Cap'n Spangley's enemy and the angry man fishing.

  • Doctor Daffodil

Doctor Daffodil is the doctor Dinko and his friends consults whenever Tommy needs a doctor. Unfortunately, his methods can be highly dangerous and Tommy therefore tries to evade him as much as possible.

[edit] Minor characters

  • Emperor Breet

Emperor Breet is an evil emperor who now and then journeys to Earth to kidnap the aliens living with Tommy. Unfortunately, he always loses the right to take them in a game he isn't very clever at, and therefore despises: the musical chairs.

  • Swanky parents

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[edit] Video game

Main article: Pet Alien: An Intergalactic Puzzlepalooza

A video game based on the series was released in the United States on July 30, 2007 for the Nintendo DS handheld console. It is a puzzle game developed by Shin'en Multimedia and published by The Game Factory.[1]

[edit] Reception

Pet Alien was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program", which was Jess Harnell, at the 33rd Daytime Emmy Awards.[2]

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Season 1

  1. The Boy with Six Legs/Evil Emperor
  2. The Amazing Atomic Tommy/Crater of Doom
  3. Attack of the 50 ft Boy/It Came from the Closet
  4. The Bride of Gumpers/The Thing on the Corner
  5. I Was a Teenage Bearded Boy/Escape from Detention X
  6. Box of Doom/Assault of a Rodent
  7. They Came from Outer Space/Tentacles of Terror
  8. The Great Movie Massacre/The Day That Wouldn't End
  9. It Comes When You Sleep/Attack of the Werescruffy
  10. Sounds of Doom/Darkness
  11. She Comes for Your Heart/Beast Who Stole My Heart
  12. Night of the Walking Cannonball/It Landed on the Porch
  13. Bay of the Triffids/Doctor of Doom

[edit] Season 2

  1. Invasion of the Balloon People/The Little Monster Ball
  2. The Land That Size Forgot/The Day the Food Expired
  3. The Evil that Thumbs Do/Terror TV
  4. Bad Blood from Beyond/The Day Time Stood Still
  5. Horror Scope/Scare Affair
  6. Stage Fright/Night of the Cat People
  7. Return of the Ghastly Gobbler/Shipping and Handling Not Included
  8. The Boy Who Became Something/Unleashed Beast of Fury
  9. The Creature of the Spray Bay/The Alien Who Sold the World
  10. Beware the Decider Maker/I Voted for an Alien
  11. A Pirate and His Dog/They Took Tommy's Brain
  12. The Boy Who Ate Too Much Taffy/The Floating Head
  13. The Time That Time Ended/The Day of Judgement

[edit] Season 3

  1. The Creature Who Left/It Came from the Fan Club
  2. A World Without Hamburgers/Evil That Pinched My Feet
  3. The Earth Boy Who Needed Protection/Seventy Foot Tommy
  4. Island of Doom/Him
  5. The Guest Who Wouldn't Leave… Ever/Day of the Naked Aliens
  6. Master Bakers!/The Horror That Is Klattou
  7. He Walks and Talks Like an Alien/The Night of Two Tommys +1
  8. Curse of the Frozen Tommy/Night of the Norwegian Boy
  9. Curse of the Invisible Boy/Remote Control of Doom
  10. They Took the Toilet to Outer Space/This Phone, This Insanity!
  11. They Had an Aluminium Ticket/The Slo-Mo Terror
  12. Trapped in the Pink Purse Dimension/Race with the Clinton
  13. Big Hand of Fate/The Beast That's Stuck in My Foot

[edit] Season 4

  1. The Black Eye Of Doom/The Sheriff Was An Alien
  2. Crevice Of Doom/She Came From Conforma!
  3. Terror In My Nose/Belch Of Destruction
  4. Gumpers Of The Fututre/Planet Of The Granvilles
  5. The Boy Who Cried „Waaah!”/The Cow Says „Moo!”
  6. Duet From Another Dimension!/The Doctor Is In… Sane!
  7. The Horrible Workout Of Evil/The Incredible Floating Boy
  8. The Lookalike Girl Of Evil/Uranus Awaits
  9. The Night My Brain Froze/Scout's Horror!
  10. When TV Ruled The World/The Thing With The Ugly Face
  11. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Swanky/The Day That Flip Stood Still
  12. When Clinton Ruled The World!/Beware The Crack!
  13. The Alien Who Invaded The Taffy Shoppe/Hammy Of Earth!

[edit] Broadcast history

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pet Alien. IGN. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
  2. ^ Daytime Emmy Awards: 2006. IMDb. Retrieved on 2007-09-18.

[edit] External links