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Camp Lazlo is an Emmy award winning American animated television series created by Joe Murray, produced by Cartoon Network Studios which currently airs on Cartoon Network.
Each episode is approximately 11 minutes long with two episodes usually aired as one slot, this runs for 30 minutes inclusive of advertisement breaks (21 minutes exclusive). There are also 12 short episodes and one 45 minute special. Camp Lazlo has a similar animation style and humor to that of Joe Murray's older work, Rocko's Modern Life, which aired on Nickelodeon a decade earlier[citation needed]. The show breaks the fourth wall, is discontinuous in some of the plot-lines, and exhibits many examples of cartoon physics.
Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny and Doug Lawrence, all of whom did much of the voice work on Murray's previous series Rocko's Modern Life, provide lead voices in this show along with veteran voice actors Jeff Bennett, Jodi Benson, Jill Talley and Steve Little's debut voice acting role.
| Camp Lazlo | |
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 Camp Lazlo title card. |
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| Format | Animated series Comedy |
| Created by | Joe Murray |
| Starring | Carlos Alazraqui Jeff Bennett Tom Kenny Doug Lawrence Jodi Benson Jill Talley Steve Little |
| Country of origin | USA |
| No. of episodes | 52 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22 minutes approximately |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Cartoon Network |
| Original run | July 8, 2005 – Present |
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[edit] Show information
The show features a cast of anthropomorphic animal characters and is primarily based around a summer camp named Camp Kidney, attended by Bean Scouts nearby Leaky Lake. The camp is run by a grumpy old moose named Lumpus, whose personality consistently clashes with Lazlo, the title character. The show also features a number of secondary locations, such as the neighboring camp of Acorn Flats, which is attended by young girls called Squirrel Scouts and the nearby town of Prickly Pines.
[edit] Camp Kidney and the Bean Scouts
Camp Kidney is the summer camp which the scouts attend during the summer. The head of Camp Kidney, Scoutmaster Lumpus, resides at the camp year-long, looking forward to the times when the children are gone. The camp is often plagued by numerous problems: broken equipment, malfunctioning showers, bad food, and so on.
The Bean Scouts are:
- Lazlo who is a Brazilian spider monkey with a carefree personality, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
- Raj who's a cautious Asian elephant who speaks with a distinct Indian accent. He is one of Lazlo's bunkmates at Camp Kidney, voiced by Jeff Bennett.
- Clam is a small, quirky, albino, white rhinoceros who is part of the Jelly Cabin trio. He has a low voice and speaks in short bursts of three or four words, repeating the last words that others say, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
- Edward Platypus is a duck-billed platypus who portrays the "camp bully", voiced by Doug Lawrence.
- Samson is the stereotypical unlucky guinea pig, voiced by Jeff Bennett.
- Chip and Skip are twin dung beetle brothers of questionable intelligence, both voiced by Steve Little.
- Dave and Ping Pong are another pair of twins, common loons, both voiced by Doug Lawrence.
- The Lemmings are a group of unnamed lemmings. All four of their voices are done by Steve Little.
- Harold is a gray walrus scout from Camp Kidney. An ongoing plot device is that his name is never fully revealed, which is either Harold or Fred, voiced by Steve Little.
- Ted is a little pink pig scout.
- Gordon is a dark brown bear scout, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
- Norman is a whitish bighorn sheep scout.
- Bill is a light periwinkle aardvark.
Camp Kidney maintains a full staff of personnel:
- Algonquin C. Lumpus is the Scoutmaster of Camp Kidney; a bitter and angry moose. Voiced by Tom Kenny
- Slinkman is a banana slug who is Scoutmaster Lumpus' assistant, the one who really does all the work around Camp Kidney, voiced by Tom Kenny.
- Chef McMuseli is Camp Kidney's hippy goat cook, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
- Nurse Leslie is a pink nurse shark who functions as Camp Kidney's nurse, voiced by Doug Lawrence.
[edit] Acorn Flats and the Squirrel Scouts
Neighboring Camp Kidney is the girls-only camp of Acorn Flats, which is attended by the Squirrel Scouts. Acorn Flats has superior facilities than Camp Kidney: tennis courts, motorboats, and horses. This disparity between the camps is a source of conflict between the two camps.
- Patsy Smiles is a mongoose who has a crush on Lazlo, voiced by Jodi Benson.
- Gretchen is an aggressive and perpetually irritable and angry alligator, voiced by Jill Talley.
- Nina is a scholarly giraffe, best friends with Patsy and Gretchen, voiced by Jill Talley.
- Almondine is a wise beige owl, voiced by Jodi Benson.
- Toodie is a little light gray squirrel, voiced by Tara Strong.
- Amber is a light grey-blue rabbit, voiced by both Tara Strong and Jill Talley.
- Honey is a light brown bear, voiced both by Tara Strong and Jill Talley.
Like Camp Kidney, Acorn Flats also has a staff, but it is much smaller consisting of:
- Jane Doe is the absent-minded doe leader of the Squirrel Scouts, voiced by Jodi Benson.
- Ms. Rubella Mucus is the mean-tempered warthog assistant of Jane Doe at Acorn Flats, voiced by Jill Talley.
Both of these camps are under the hierarchal control of Commander Hoo-Ha, who is both Lumpus' and Jane Doe's direct supervisor; a military-style bison who requires anger management, voiced by Jeff Bennett.
[edit] Prickly Pines
The nearby town of Prickly Pines hosts a number of locations which feature in many of the plots. As a full-sized town, there are stores, a post office, a train station, and a number of restaurants.
[edit] Episodes
As of September 2007, Camp Lazlo has finished its fourth season, and is currently in its fifth.
[edit] Crew
- Joe Murray: producer / executive producer / creator / writer/ storyboard artist
- Mark O'Hare: creative director / supervising producer / writer / storyboard artist
- Merriwether Williams: story editor / writer
- Kaz: writer / storyboard artist. Will not be returning for the fifth season, although some episodes previously written have aired. [1]
- Martin Olson: writer / songwriter (left to become head writer for Disney's Phineas and Ferb)
- Steve Little: writer / voice actor
- Shareena Carlson: producer
- Brian A. Miller: producer
- Carey Yost: writer / storyboard artist
- Antoine Guilbaud: writer / storyboard artist
- Rick Farmilce: writer / storyboard artist
- Thurop Van Orman: writer / storyboard director / storyboard artist
- Mike Roth: writer / storyboard director
- Tom King: writer / storyboard artist
- Mike Kenny: writer / storyboard artist
- JG Quintel: writer / storyboard artist
- Kent Osborne: writer / storyboard director
- John Infantrino: writer / storyboard artist
- Piero Piluso: writer / storyboard artist
- Clayton McKenzie Morrow: writer / storyboard director
- Cosmo Segurson: writer / storyboard artist
- Stephanie Erdel: writer / storyboard artist
- Kim Roberson: writer / storyboard artist
- Eddie Trigueros: writer / storyboard artist
- Ant Ward: writer / storyboard artist
- Russell Calabrese: animation director
- Brian Sheesley: animation director / supervising director
- Lindsey Pollard: animation director
- Swinton O. Scott III: animation director
[edit] Awards
[edit] Pulcinella Awards
The series won three 2006 Pulcinella Awards for Best Animated Series for Children and Best Animated Series for all ages and was the winner of Best Character at the 10th Cartoons By The Bay Festival in Positano, Italy[2]. It was the second consecutive year that a Cartoon Network series won the latter two awards, as the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends character, Blooregard Q. Kazoo, won the award the year before.[citation needed]
[edit] Emmy Awards
"Hello Dolly / Over Cooked Beans" was nominated for an Emmy in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than One Hour) category [3], but was defeated by The Simpsons. The episode has been hosted on the Cartoon Network website and can be viewed here.
The TV movie "Where's Lazlo?" has won an Emmy in the Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More) category in 2007.[4]
[edit] Annie Awards
Sue Mondt, a production designer on Camp Lazlo, was nominated an Annie Award for production design on the episode "Hard Days Samson."[5]
[edit] Camp Lazlo on DVD and other media
Prior to Camp Lazlo's premiere on Cartoon Network, a press kit for the show was given away as a promotional item, containing fact sheets on the show and a DVD with four episodes (2 half-hour episodes): Gone Fishin' (Sort Of) / Bean Are From Mars and Parasitic Pal / It's No Picnic. On July 18, 2007, Madman Entertainment of Australia released a set of two DVDs of Season One episodes encoded for Region 4.
Two episodes have also appeared on Cartoon Network themed DVDs. Hello Dolly appeared on the Cartoon Network Fridays - Volume 1 DVD, released on September 19, 2006. Snow Beans, a winter-themed episode of the show, was released on the Cartoon Network Christmas: Volume Three DVD on October 3, 2006. [6]
[edit] Game
Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games is a Game Boy Advance game based on the show. The player plays as the three main three characters to compete in a series of game challenges and earn merit badges in the Leaky Lake Games event. That will allow them to compete against the Squirrel Scouts in a final tournament. In the game, the player meets characters, such as Scoutmaster Lumpus, Slinkman, Edward, and many others to receive hints and directions in achieving goals in the game. They even trigger some of the mini-games, which are all timed.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.kazunderworld.com/
- ^ Ryan Ball (2006-4-10). Lazlo Emerges as Champ on the Bay. Animation Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-10-29.
- ^ http://www.emmys.tv/awards/2006pt/awards/animated.php
- ^ 2007 Emmy Nominations http://www.emmys.tv/awards/2007pt/nominations.php?action=search_db
- ^ 2006 Annie Awards by Category - Nominees from the official Annie Award website, November, 2006
- ^ http://animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=1150
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