"Game Over" (2004) TV series

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Creators:

Marcy Carsey
David Sacks

Release Date:

10 March 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Did you ever wonder what happens after the game ends? Welcome to the other side.

Plot:

The story of your mild-mannered family in a not-so-normal video game world. Mom is a Lara Croft rip-off, dad is a Grand Prix racer, the neighbors are Kung Fu monks and the kids... well, they try to be cool.

Plot Keywords:

Oddworld

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Elizabeth Daily	...	Billy Smashenburn / Zenna (voice) (as E.G. Daily)
Rachel Dratch	...	Alice Smashenburn / Mammoth (voice)
Artie Lange	...	Turbo (voice)
Lucy Liu	...	Raquel Smashenburn (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Ripley "Rip" Smashenburn (voice)
Marie Matiko	...	Dark Princess Chang (voice)
James Sie	...	Sam Chang (voice)
Marisa Tomei	...	Raquel Smashenburn (unaired pilot) (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Common	...	Common (voice)
Jennifer Coolidge	...	Ramona (voice)
Jessica Glassberg	...	Sylvie Glassberg (voice)
Barbara Heller	...	Cheerleader (2004) (voice)
John Michael Higgins	...	Sully / Various Characters (voice)
Jan Hooks	...	Nadine (voice)
Tom Kenny	...	Arthur / Various Characters (voice)
Danica McKellar	...	Elsa / Renee (voice)
James Arnold Taylor	...	Various Characters (voice)

Also Known As:

"Meet the Breaknecks" (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Carsey-Warner-Mandabach

Trivia:

Well-known videogame characters make cameo appearances in this series. For example, a billboard showing Crash Bandicoot is visible in the first episode, and a character from Munch's Odysee is visible briefly in the second episode.

Quotes:

Billy Smashenburn: Suki moved back to Japan.
Ripley "Rip" Smashenburn: Oh.
Billy Smashenburn: The country.
Ripley "Rip" Smashenburn: *Oh.* I'm sorry kiddo. You'll meet other girls.
Billy Smashenburn: Will they shoot rainbows out of their butts?
Ripley "Rip" Smashenburn: [uncomfortable pause] You'll meet other girls.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs TRON (1982)

Game Over man, it's cancelled!

damn. finally a cg series with great animation, great writing, and great voice acting (cant even tell its lucy liu!!). the last bunch of cg animation has been crap , things like Max Steel, Starship Troopers:Roughnecks, only Reboot had amazing cg. now its over, cancelled. 6 episodes made, 5 aired, good work upn. worse than the handling of THE TICK!

ah well, pack up and try again, the tick was great, (made by the same guys that did game over), i'm sure they can do it again! dont let all these neilson people get to you.

i dont understand why upn moved it from wednesdays to fridays. its not the way to keep viewers. thats how tv stations screwed the schedule on futurama, family guy, the tick, and countless other shows.

from neilsen's website "For our national ratings estimates, we use a sample of more than 5,000 households, containing over 13,000 people who have agreed to participate." so 13000 people decide what 220million people get to watch (and even more when you think how much us tv goes overseas). good work. according to neilsen, Game Over had 2 million viewers.