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Fanboy & Chum Chum

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Genre Comedy
Animated
Cartoon series
Created by Eric Robles
Directed by Pilot:
Shaun Cashman
Season 1:
Brian Sheesley
Jim Schumann
Russell Calabrese
Season 2:
Eddie Trigueros
Brandon Kruse
Tom King
Ken Mitchroney
Voices of David Hornsby
Nika Futterman
Jeff Bennett
Wyatt Cenac
Jamie Kennedy
Josh Duhamel
Candi Milo
Steve Tompkins
Dyana Liu
Estelle Harris
Theme music composer Brad Joseph Breeck
Opening theme "Fanboy & Chum Chum" Performed by The Mae Shi
Ending theme "Fanboy & Chum Chum" (Instrumental)
Composer(s) Brad Joseph Breeck
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52 (100 segments, 4 half hours) (list of episodes)
Executive producer(s) Fred Seibert
Steve Tompkins
Eric Robles (co-executive producer)
Producer(s) Shaun Cashman
Jason Meier
Running time 22 minutes (consisting of two 11 minute cartoons)
Production company(s) Frederator Studios
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Original network Nickelodeon
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
Original release October 12, 2009 (2009-10-12) – July 12, 2014 (2014-07-12)
Preceded by Random! Cartoons
Website
Production website

Fanboy & Chum Chum is an American 3D CGI animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on Fanboy, an animated short created by Robles for Nicktoons and Frederator Studios, which was broadcast August 14, 2009 to July 12, 2014 on Random! Cartoons. The series was first broadcast October 12, 2009 on Nickelodeon as a preview, then officially premiered November 6, 2009 after SpongeBob's Truth or Square.

The series premiere drew 5.8 million viewers. The second episode was watched by 5.4 million viewers.

Though the majority of the produced episodes had aired by November 2, 2012, the final episode to be broadcast, "Brain Freeze" did not air on television until July 12, 2014 (yet was released on DVD in 2011).

The theme song was written by Brad Joseph Breeck and performed by experimental punk band The Mae Shi.

No third season was announced at Nickelodeon's upfront for the 2013-2014 season.

The series centers around Fanboy and Chum Chum, a pair of hyperactive, odd, energetic, and slow-witted best friends enthusiastically obsessed with superhero comics, particularly those featuring their favorite superhero Man-Arctica, who also apparently seems to double as a holiday figurehead parodying Santa Claus within the series. Many episodes are based around comical parodies of famous films or contain countless references to popular culture, chronicling Fanboy and Chum Chum's exaggerated, surreal daily experiences and misadventures relating to dilemmas in which they have entangled themselves or the surrounding characters' utter infuriation with their irritating antics.

Aaron H. Bynum of Animation Insider called Fanboy & Chum Chum "a fun show that deserves a good look. The quality animation helps counterbalance the immense amount of dialogue from the series' chatty characters, and the sheer comedy of marginally competent comic-loving kids helps outweigh what might otherwise be a binge of geeky annoyance. But overall, Fanboy & Chum Chum is a lot of fun."Variety praised the series' "bright, energetic look and even an appealing premise in theory". David Hinckley of NY Daily News gave the series three stars out of five, and said that "it's good [but] might not be the next SpongeBob".


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