Fanboy & Chum Chum
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| Genre | Comedy Animated Cartoon series |
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| 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 – July 12, 2014 |
| Preceded by | Random! Cartoons |
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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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