Bobby's World
| Bobby's World | |
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| Genre |
Comedy Fantasy |
| Created by | Howie Mandel |
| Developed by | Jim Staahl Jim Fisher |
| Starring |
Howie Mandel Gail Matthius Edie McClurg Charity James Tino Insana Kevin Smets Pamela Segall Rob Paulsen Gary Owens Frank Welker Debi Derryberry |
| Theme music composer | John Tesh |
| Composer(s) | John Tesh (1990–1993) Mark Koval (1993–1998) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 81 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Phil Roman Howie Mandel |
| Producer(s) |
Mitch Schauer Gary Conrad |
| Production company(s) |
Film Roman Alevy Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor |
20th Television (1990–1997) Saban International (1997–2001) Buena Vista Television (2001–2007) Splash Entertainment (2007–present) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox Kids CITV |
| Audio format |
Stereo (Season 1–5) Dolby Surround (Season 6–8) |
| Original release | September 8, 1990 – February 23, 1998 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Bobby's World (originally known as The World According to Bobby, to parody The World According to Garp) is an American animated television series, which ran from 1990 to 1998, on Fox Kids. It was about the daily life of Bobby Generic (/ˈdʒɛnərɪk/ GEN-er-ic) and his very overactive imagination on how he sees the world. The show was created by Canadian actor-comedian Howie Mandel. Mandel also provided the voice of both Bobby and his father Howard Generic. It was produced by Film Roman for Mandel's company - Alevy Productions - and Fox Kids Productions. The theme song for Bobby's World was composed by John Tesh, along with Michael Hanna.
Howie Mandel said that he accidentally created the voice that would be later used to voice Bobby when he was choking on a piece of cake. Two of Mandel's friends Jim Fisher and Jim Staahl signed an agreement with the Fox Corporation's then newly created television division in 1989. Fisher and Staahl asked Mandel to join them in creating a show based on Mandel's Bobby character and voice. Mandel said that he believed Fox did not think his stand-up routines were "family entertainment." He, Fisher, and Staahl (co-producers) recalled stories from their childhoods as they discussed the formation of the show. Mandel stated "that was the seed of Bobby's World." Later stories from the childhoods of writers Dianne and Peter Tilden along with Mitch Schauer were used as the basis of many of the stories. The other characters on the show were mixes of characteristics of the creators' parents' friends and relatives. Specifically, Uncle Ted was based on Fisher and Staahl's former comedy partner in a comedy trio formed by the three after leaving Chicago's Second City, called The Graduates. Amazingly, that partner Tino Insana read for and won the part of Uncle Ted.
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