Skatoony

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Skatoony
Format Fantasy Quiz
Created by Cartoon Network Inc. (UK)
Voices of Rupert Degas (Chudd Chudders) Lewis Macleod (The Earl)
Theme music composer Whole Company
Country of origin Flag of the United Kingdom UK
Flag of India (Origin not India, but also aired)
No. of episodes Flag of the United Kingdom 60[1]
Flag of India 48
Production
Running time 22 minutes approx.
Distributor Cartoon Network Inc. / Time Warner
Broadcast
Original channel Flag of the United Kingdom Cartoon Network UK
Flag of India Cartoon Network India
Original run Flag of the United Kingdom October 2006 - February 10, 2008
Flag of India January 2007-Present
– UK - February 10
India - Present
External links
Official website
TV.com summary

Skatoony is a children's competition show which airs on Cartoon Network in the UK. It is based around two hosts named 'Chudd Chudders' (voiced by Rupert Degas) and 'The Earl' (voiced by Lewis MacLeod). Whenever a contestant leaves, the hosts sing "You're Outta Here!"

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[edit] History

Skatoony was not originally a TV show but instead originated as a microsite on the Cartoon Network UK website. 2006 was the first Skatoony full length TV show. However a few phone-in shows such as Skatoony Christmas and Skatoony Truckatoony existed before as a sort of continuity during school holidays. These phone-in shows ended in 2005.

[edit] Plot

Skatoony is a toon vs children quiz show that offers prizes to the winners. Chudd Chudders and The Earl are the main cartoon characters in the show, and the have appeared in other questionairre adverts on the cartoon network held all the way in Holland/The Netherlands, asking viewers in English some unscrambling questions and more. The current prize to be one is a Nintendo Wii, since last time only low price small gizmos were offered as prizes, Video Ipod and a sony PSP, but now, a bigger and better console it offered as a prize, and it should stay the same one, since a Sony PS3 will be far to expensive to win just in a quiz, although an xbox 360/xbox might be held at some stage. Also another character the show's fictional money making producer and big boss Tony Eagle Eyes makes appearances, likes sausages, hates Chudders and calls him Chubbers.

[edit] Toon Contestants

  • Headley Didly Dee: an evil untalented wannable quizz show host who is always after Chudd's job
  • Kevin Quizzy: the self proclaimed greatest quizzer to ever put on pants
  • Captain Quills: a hedgehog based superhero
  • Santa Claus(Twice): the legendary giver of Joy
  • Guts Glory: a superhero based on Superman
  • Colonel Zappo: an alien warlord
  • Wasp Boy: a superhero and Guts Glory's sidekick although he says Guts is his sidekick
  • Dabs: a balloon man, seen in the audience at times
  • Attila the Hun: a warrior king
  • Chef: a chef
  • Dr Jenkhill and Mr Hives: a smart scientist who always get the questions right and his later ego is a monster who always gets the questions wrong, parody of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Fernado Fernado Fernado: the self proclaimed greatest wizard in all of Mexico.
  • Erbert Einstein: a smart scientist
  • Rex Triumph: the over competitive "most successful, greatest and most expensive player of Rugby, Soccer, Basketball and Hungry Hungry Hippos in the world"
  • T-Bone, Fibbs and Skabbs: 3 skeletons who make up the skeleton crew, a rap group, T-Bone is apperently the leader and gets the other 2 to do stuff like give him their place if he loses, they make numerous cameos in the audience and even present Tony Eagle-Eyes with new shows (all terrible ideas).

[edit] Rap

Whenever a quizer loses a round, a song is sung by The Earl - "Thanks for playing but your outta here! You gave it a go but your outta here! Dont hang around town, your outta here! Its time to go cuz thats the show and your outta here!" In the background music The Earl says "Yeah!"

[edit] Types of questions

There are many types of questions, the current are Hoo Flung Dung! , Bang on or Bogus , the same sound name round, Skatoony quiz champ challenge , draw what you here then shout out when you know what you've drawn! In the new series , skatoony co. adds a one episode quiz round, depending what the episode is based on , in the first episode of the new series , there was a pre-school/nursery typed round, and in the second, there was a sporty round, of Rugby , Soccer and Golf.

[edit] Practice

Children try to gain advantage of questions held in Skatoony, by going to the UK website microsite of Skatoony, they can play question games and learn the questions on there, which are the ones that could be shown on the TV show.

[edit] Participating

The only current way to participate in the show is by going on the official website, although soon competitions will be held in the UK Cartoon Network Magazine by Panini.

[edit] Theme Song

Here is the introduction theme song for skatoony: THEME SONG:

  • Girl: Skatoony!
  • The Earl: Where it is the word on the street
  • Girl: Skatoony!
  • The Earl: It makes me feel so neat
  • Girl: Skatoony!
  • The Earl: It gets me hot inside
  • BOTH: Skatoony,why don't you take me for a ride?
  • Girl: Skatoony!
  • The Earl: It sounds really neat!
  • BOTH:It's crazy,wacky,looney baby!
  • The Earl:It's Skatooooneey yeah!

Various pictures of Chudd and Earl probably when they have been on vacation

  • The Earl:All right!

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Cartoon Network has stop doing this for a while due to unpopularity and the loss of money from the nintendo wii's.

Owing to the success of the first two series of Skatoony, Turner Broadcasting have commissioned a third series of the show, to launch on Cartoon Network (UK) in November 2008.