Camp Lazlo
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| Genre |
Adventure Comedy Slapstick |
| Created by | Joe Murray |
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| Creative director(s) | Mark O'Hare |
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| Theme music composer | Terry Scott Taylor |
| Opening theme | "Lazlo Was His Name-O", performed by Carlos Alazraqui, Jeff Bennett, Tom Kenny, Mr. Lawrence, and Steve Little |
| Composer(s) | Andy Paley |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 61 (total) 120 (segments) 2 (specials) 14 (shorts) (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Joe Murray |
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| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Joe Murray Productions Cartoon Network Studios |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | Cartoon Network |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Original release | July 8, 2005 – March 27, 2008 |
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| Website | |
| Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games | |
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Cover art for Camp Lazlo: Leaky Lake Games
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| Developer(s) | Collision Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Crave Entertainment |
| Distributor(s) | Cartoon Network Interactive |
| Composer(s) | Andy Paley |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
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| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Camp Lazlo (or known in the opening title card as Camp Lazlo!) is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The show revolves around Lazlo, a spider monkey who attends a Boy Scout-like summer camp with a cast of anthropomorphic animal characters. The series has a style of humor similar to Murray's previous series, Rocko's Modern Life.
The series ran on Cartoon Network from 2005 to 2008, with five seasons, 61 episodes, and an hour-long television special. During its run, the series won three Emmy Awards and three Pulcinella Awards, and was also nominated for another Emmy and an Annie Award.
After Rocko's Modern Life concluded production, series creator Joe Murray kept a notebook of ideas for television shows and books. Murray attributes some of his most fond memories to days at summer camp; Murray said that he attended summer camp every summer for "4 or 5 years in a row" and that he "couldn't really get the scouting thing down". He also described cartoons with pastoral settings, such as the Bugs Bunny cartoons of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series and Yogi Bear, as having a "calming" effect due to the tree-filled backgrounds. At the time he believed that too many futuristic themes appeared in media and literature, so he wished to create a series that would "get back to nature".
Camp Lazlo originated from a camp-related children's book series concept by Murray that, according to him, "outgrew its medium". As Murray developed the concept, he felt that his "lunatic characters wanted to live" and decided that a simple story could not sufficiently house his characters. Murray desired to create a series about a group of children without "high tech stimulus" and "in nature".
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