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12 April 1984 (USA) more
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Skip Tarkenton is a young animator who's just started with a low-budget animation company that produces "The Dippy Duck Show." As new guy... more
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Won 2 Primetime Emmys. more
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Jim Carrey ... Skip Tarkenton (13 episodes, 1984)
Julie Payne ... Aggie Aylesworth (13 episodes, 1984)
Nancy Lane ... Andrea Lewin (13 episodes, 1984)
Jay Tarses ... Marty Fenneman (13 episodes, 1984)
Clarence Gilyard Jr. ... Roland Culp (13 episodes, 1984)
Don Messick ... Wally Wooster (13 episodes, 1984)

Teresa Ganzel ... Mrs. Sheree Winkler (13 episodes, 1984)

Jack Gilford ... Brooks Carmichael (13 episodes, 1984)
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30 min (13 episodes)
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Jim Carrey wasted, 21 July 2003
Author: Steven Forbis (stevenforbis) from New York

The basic concept was earnest, young art school grad Jim Carrey lands his dream job at a venerable animation studio only to find the crazy people who work there are running the place into the ground and it is up to him to be the responsible grown up who keeps it all together. See the irony? One of the greatest physical comics ever, a man who is himself a living cartoon character, is locked into a straight-man role, while everyone else on the show is supposed to be a lunatic. Carrey is such a good actor that when he emerged a decade later as a wild man on "In Living Color," I was absolutely amazed. It didn't help anything that this show took the time slot of the truly inspired "Buffalo Bill" show with, oh, you know, Dabney Coleman, Gina Davis...

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