| The Angry Beavers | |
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Tile card featuring Daggett (left) and Norbert (right) Beaver |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Format | Animated series |
| Created by | Mitch Schauer |
| Voices of | Richard Steven Horvitz Nick Bakay John Garry Cynthia Mann Victor Wilson Gregg Berger Tom Kane Mitch Schauer Stacey Schauer Chelsea Schauer |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 62 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Gunther-Wahl Productions Nickelodeon Animation Studios |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| Original run | April 19, 1997 – August 27, 2006 |
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| Website | |
The Angry Beavers is an American animated television series created by Mitch Schauer for the Nickelodeon channel. The series revolves around Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two young beaver brothers who have left their home to become bachelors in the forest near Wayouttatown, Oregon. The show premiered in the United States on April 19, 1997 and completed its run on August 27, 2006. The show started airing on the Nickelodeon Canada channel when it launched on November 2, 2009.
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The Angry Beavers was a generally popular show during its various airtimes. This was the show that kept adolescents and adults interested in Nickelodeon in the late 90s. It had a more adult, sophisticated sense of word play jokes and culture references that made up its humor, but was silly and unrealistic enough to attract the attention of young children too. Unfortunately, it was aired in the midst of the success of Rugrats, and many fans believe it did not earn the popularity it deserved. Many people compare it to Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy as one of the most influential Nicktoons of the 90s. Character quirks, like Daggett's compulsive adoption of a superhero alter-ego named "Muscular Beaver", whose costume consisted of an ill-fitting ski mask, a stuffed sweater, vent-front white briefs, stockings, socks and a cape, kept older and younger audiences' interest, but entertained them on different levels. For example: children and adults would be amused by the costume, but adults might get some additional mileage from finding the name "Muscular Beaver" to be vaguely risqué.
The show's popularity with the more "adult" audience managed to get it some recognition. The show even had a small merchandise line that included T-shirts and plush toys.
The series ran from 1997 to 2001, ending a few episodes early in the United States on Nickelodeon. According to Script Supervisor Micah Wright, the last episodes have been seen in England, France and Australia, and may have been shown on Nicktoons in the United States. At the end of the fifth season, three episodes were in development but never finished. The first was "Tree Flockers". Also titled "Tree Trouble", it involved the beavers selling flocked Christmas trees in July. The script for this episode can be downloaded from Wright's website.
The second was "Magnum Opus, aka The Beavers Rock Opera". It would have been a post-series half hour special. "Tree Flockers" was bumped in favor of "Magnum", but after "Magnum" was cancelled, "Tree Flockers" was not reinstated.
The final unfinished episode was "Bye-Bye Beavers". In it, Norbert learns that their show has been cancelled and he breaks the news to Daggett: they are both cartoon characters and the show will soon enter reruns. Wright stated, "Nickelodeon hated this episode because it actually told the kids the truth: that the show was ending! Nick likes to just rerun their shows forever and pretend that they're still making new episodes and this show idea drove them up a wall!"
The recording session for this episode starts off as with Norb and Daggett discussing the situation. As it progresses, actors Nick Bakay and Richard Steven Horvitz begin switching in and out of character and later address each other by both their real name and the characters' name. There is also a few instances where Richard addresses Nick as "Salem", referring to his character on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and laughter from the recording engineers can occasionally be heard.
The final line in the session is Norb and Daggett saying "April Fools!". Whether this indicates the episode is an April Fools prank on the audience or whether the recording session itself is an April Fools joke is not clear. If the latter, then Wright's claim that Nickelodeon hated the episode would be a continuation of that joke. Only 63 episodes have been produced.
There were several in-jokes throughout The Angry Beavers run. One involves Richard Steven Horvitz, the voice of Daggett, being mentioned in the episode "Tree of Hearts", as well as the birth of his oldest son, Jake Elliot Horvitz, who was born on April 11, 1998:
The use of "spoot" in place of swear words, such as an in exclamation ("Oh spoot!") or a descriptor ("What a pile of spoot" or "You're a spoot-head"), was another form of in-jokes in the series. Although these were said primarily by Daggett, they were used by Norbert from time to time.
Both beavers would often mispronounce common words in pseudo-French or otherwise foreign pronunciation. For example, pronouncing refrigerator as "re-frige-er-A-twoah/re-frige-er-ize-or", mine as "my-yun", natural which Norbert pronounces as "nature-ral", and "Canada" as "Ca-naa-da". Characters would also elongate words, particularly each other's names, with superfluous syllables, such as "Norbie-orbie" and "Dag-a-lag-a-ding-dong." On occasion, they would use foreign words but mispronounce them: for example, pronouncing the French word "moi" phonetically as "moy".
iTunes released several episodes of angry beavers in 'Best of' Volumes 1-3. It has also been made available on Netflix via their Instant View service, however Netflix has full seasons.
| Volume | Episode Number | Episode Name |
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| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 1 | Born To Be Beavers / Up All Night |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 2 | A Dam Too Far / Long In The Teeth |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 3 | Gift Hoarse / Go Beavers! |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 4 | Beach Beavers A Go-Go / Deranged Ranger |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 5 | Muscular Beaver / Fish And Dips |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 6 | Enter The Daggett / Bug-A-Boo |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 | 7 | Mission To The Big, Hot, Thingy / I Dare You |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 1 | Stinky Toe / House Broken |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 2 | Trees Company / Guess Who's Stumping To Dinner |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 3 | Fancy Prance / H-2 Whoa |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 4 | The Bing Wouldn't Leave / You Promised |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 5 | Kandid Kreatures / Fakin' It |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 6 | Same Time Last Week / Beaver Fever |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 | 7 | Muscular Beaver II / Stump Looks For His Roots |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 1 | Tree Of Hearts / Dag For Nite |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 2 | Mighty Knot Head / Pond Scum |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 3 | Lumberjack's Delight / Zooing Time |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 4 | Friends, Romans, Beavers / Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 5 | If You Insisters / Alley Oops! |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 6 | Open Wide For Zombies / Dumbwaiters |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 | 7 | Gonna Getcha / Sans - A - Pelt |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 1 | The Day the Earth Really Got Screwed Up |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 2 | My BunnyGuard / What's Eating You? |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 3 | Omega Beaver / Bite This |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 4 | Spooky Spoots / Up All Day |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 5 | Muscular Beaver III / Sang 'em High |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 6 | In Search of Big Byoo-Tox / Moronathon Man |
| Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 | 7 | Pass it On / Stump's Family Reunion |
| Nick Rewinds Vol. 1 | 1 | Born To Be Beavers / Up All Night |
| Nick Rewinds Vol. 2 | 1 | A Dam Too Far / Long In The Teeth |
| Nick Rewinds HALLOWEEN! | 1 | The Day The World Got Really Screwed Up |
Amazon.com stopped selling the Create Space DVDs as a result of Shout Factory now producing their own sets.
| CreateSpace Releases | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
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| Best of Angry Beavers Season 1 | June 28, 2010 | 3 | 11 |
| Best of Angry Beavers Season 2 | December 8, 2010 | 3 | 19 |
| Best of Angry Beavers Season 3 | December 8, 2010 | 3 | 19 |
| Shout Factory Releases | Release date | Discs | Episodes |
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| Season 1 & 2 | August 23, 2011 | 4 | 26 |
| Season 3: Part 1 | February 28, 2012[1] | 2 | 11 |
| Season 3: Part 2 | TBA | 2 | 11 |
| Season 4 | TBA | 3 | 15 |
The Angry Beavers appeared in Nicktoons Racing for the PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, PC, Game Boy Color, and Arcade, as playable characters. Norbert and Daggett had a cameo as a Trophy in Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots.
| Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| World Animation Celebration | Best Animation Produced for Daytime | Mitch Schauer | Won |
| World Animation Celebration | Best Director for Daytime Series | Robert Hughes | Won |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA | Best Sound Editing — Television Animated Series | Unknown | Nominated |
| Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA | Best Sound Editing — Television Animated Series | Tim Borquez, Thom Syslo | Nominated |
| Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing — Special Class | Timothy J. Garrity | Nominated |
| Daytime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Editing - Special Class | Thomas Syslo,Timothy Borquez, Eric Freeman, Rick Hammel, Les Wolf and Marc Mailand | Won |
| Annie Awards | Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Program | Mitch Schauer | Nominated |
| Annie Awards | Outstanding Individual Achievement for Effects Animation | Joel Krasnove | Nominated |
| Annie Awards | Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television Production | Dan Chessher | Nominated |
| Annie Awards | Best Individual Achievement: Production Design in a TV Production | Mitch Schauer | Won |
| Annie Awards | Best Promotional Production (for main title) | Unknown | Nominated |
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