"Justice League" Kid Stuff (2004)

Writer:

Henry Gilroy (writer)

TV Series:

"Justice League" (2001)

Original Air Date:

14 August 2004 (Season 3, Episode 3)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

After Modred magically eliminates adults from the world, his mother transforms a League team into children in order to do battle with her son in that situation. |

Plot Keywords:

Laser Vision | Poetic Justice | Based On Comic Book | Fight | Disarming Someone

Cast

Phil LaMarr	...	Green Lantern / John Stewart (voice)
George Newbern	...	Superman / Clark Kent (voice)
Susan Eisenberg	...	Wonder Woman / Princess Diana (voice)
Kevin Conroy	...	Batman / Bruce Wayne / Etrigan the Demon (voice)
Dakota Fanning	...	Young Wonder Woman (voice)
Kyle Alcazar	...	Young Batman (voice)
Marc John Jefferies	...	Young Green Lantern (voice)
Shane Haboucha	...	Young Superman (voice)
Olivia d'Abo	...	Morgaine le Fey (voice)
Soren Fulton	...	Mordred (voice)
Sheryl Lee Ralph	...	Cheetah / Barbara Ann Minerva / Teacher (voice)
Ashley Edner	...	May (voice)
Jose Yenque	...	Copperhead (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Blockbuster / Older Mordred / Young Etrigan (voice)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Henry Gilroy		writer

Produced by
Dwayne McDuffie	....	producer
James Tucker	....	producer

Original Music by
Kristopher Carter

Film Editing by
Joe Gall

Art Department
James Tucker	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
George Brooks	....	sound effects editor
Robert Hargreaves	....	sound effects editor
Robert Hargreaves	....	sound re-recording mixer
Morten Folmer Nielsen	....	adr editor
Morten Folmer Nielsen	....	adr recordist

Animation Department
Justin Schultz	....	animatic
James Tucker	....	character designer
Glenn Wai Lim Wong	....	character designer

Editorial Department
Myra Owyang	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Mark Mattson	....	music mixer
Michael McCuistion	....	composer: main title theme
Michael McCuistion	....	composer: theme music

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ernie Altbacker
John Broome		character: Wally West (uncredited)
Gardner Fox		creator (uncredited)
Bob Goodman		four episodes (as Robert Goodman)
Carmine Infantino		character: Wally West (uncredited)
Robert Kanigher		character: Wally West (uncredited)
Denny O'Neil		character: John Stewart
Jerry Robinson		character: The Joker (uncredited)

Produced by
Linda Steiner	....	producer

Film Editing by
Stan Berkowitz
Dwayne McDuffie

Art Department
Shannon Denton	....	painted backgrounds

Sound Department
Joseph Adorisio II	....	adr recordist
Joseph Adorisio II	....	isdn recordist
Ryan Heiferman	....	adr recordist: New York

Visual Effects by
Everett Burrell	....	digital artist
David Carlson	....	lead animator
David Carlson	....	technical director
Justin Hammond	....	digital artist, opening titles: Cantina Pictures
Michael Melchiorre	....	digital compositor
Eric Reinhard	....	visual effects
Kevin Gendreau	....	CGI modeler: main titles (uncredited)
Kevin Lane	....	digital artist: opening titles: Cantina Pictures (uncredited)
Kevin Struckman	....	CGI supervisor: opening credits: Cantina Pictures Inc. (uncredited)

Animation Department
Ben Berkman	....	animatic editor
Jim Lara	....	animatic editor

Editorial Department
Christopher D. Lozinski	....	on-line editor

Other crew
Sarah Carragher	....	publicist (2003)
Rita Cooper	....	publicist (2003)
Andrew Garda	....	production administrator
Steve Kindernay	....	production coordinator
Catherine Lucas	....	publicist (2003)
Teri McDonald	....	production checker
Matt Wayne	....	story editor (2005-)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Trivia:

This episode is very similar in some ways to the DC Comic series Justice League: A World without Grown-Ups which was the prelude to the creation of the series Young Justice staring Robin, Superboy and Impulse. In the story, a blond-haired boy comes into possession of an artifact that contains in it purple energy similar to Mordred. The boy wishes for a world without grown-ups. However, unlike this episode, the Justice League did not get transformed into children, but instead their sidekicks defeated the genie and his master. This story also shares elements to another Young Justice storyline, Sins of the Youth in which the Justice League is transformed into children, while the younger heroes are transformed into adults.

Quotes:

Young Batman:[sees Lantern squinting] What's wrong?
Young Green Lantern:I wore glasses as a kid. Guess I need 'em again.
[a pair of big, square glasses appear over his eyes]
Young Green Lantern:Wow! I didn't even try to make these.
Young Batman:[as Superman bursts out laughing] I hope not.

Movie Connections:

References "Family Matters" (1989)

The "cutest" episode of the show's five-year history

The animated series, "Justice League," never had a large following with Cartoon Network's younger audience; it was the boomers that savored the exploits of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the others in the duties of being defenders of Earth. "Kid Stuff" attempted to put a little "youth" in the characters by having some of them magically turned into kids to do battle against Mordrid, the son of ancient sorceress Morgan Le Fey.

The vocal interplay between the younger versions of Batman (guest voice Kyle Alcazar), Wonder Woman (movie star Dakota Fanning), Green Lantern (Marc John Jeffries), and Superman (Shane Haboucha) is priceless with Batman delivering a smile-inducing revelation about his own childhood.

Though the story itself is rather weak, in the writing department, it still benefits from the premise of super-powered adults trapped in children's bodies and the adaptations they must make.

It is one of the best of the single part episodes of the series; perhaps it's greatest strength is its brevity, without the necessity of two parts as did the installments in the show's first two years.