The Moxy Show
| The Moxy Show | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Brad DeGraf Colossal Pictures |
| Written by | Scott Sedita Jonathan Groff Tim Boxell Bobcat Goldthwait Penn Jillette |
| Directed by |
George Evelyn Greg Harrison |
| Starring | Bobcat Goldthwait Penn Jillette Chris Rock |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 24 (3 found) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Betty Cohen Joshua Katz |
| Producer(s) | Margo de la Cruz Ann Brilz |
| Editor(s) | Lili Cunningham |
| Running time | 22 minutes approx. |
| Production company(s) |
Colossal Pictures Hanna Barbera Cartoons |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Cartoon Network TBS TNT |
| Original release | December 5, 1993 – January 2, 2000 |
The Moxy Show (also known as The Moxy Pirate Show and The Moxy & Flea Show) is an animation anthology television series produced by Colossal Pictures for Cartoon Network. The show ran on December 5, 1993, originally as The Moxy Pirate Show, and consisted of classic cartoons divided by 3-D animated interstitials featuring Moxy, a dog, and Flea, a flea. The show ran on Cartoon Network from December 5, 1993 to April 1, 2000 including reruns apparently, but the last ever episode was made in 1995, that being the sole episode for The Moxy & Flea Show. Moxy is considered the first original series on Cartoon Network, but Space Ghost Coast to Coast was Cartoon Network's first fully produced series.
The series was originally titled The Moxy Pirate Show and only featured Moxy. In 1994, Moxy's sidekick Flea was added to the series and the series was retitled simply as The Moxy Show, and in 1995 it was renamed again to The Moxy & Flea Show with major changes for a single pilot episode:
The pilot didn't test well enough to allow more episodes to be produced, as revealed by Frank Gresham who worked on the pilot. Reruns were supposedly removed completely on April 1, 2000, the same day where most of the classical cartoon programming were moved to Boomerang except for this show.
The CGI Moxy is considered the first real-time (sometimes called a "live") cartoon, though only broadcast live through the "Great International Toon-In". A puppeteer wearing a motion capture apparatus would act out Moxy's motions, while Goldthwait provided the voice, and a technician would control facial expressions.
The show is considered to be a lost television series since it was never to be found anywhere because it was never picked up by Boomerang and it was never released in any home media.
This is the only Cartoon Network original series to be animated with computer animation as all of the other programs featuring CGI are acquired animated programming and not Cartoon Network originals. It's the first CN show to be animated with cartoon animation as well, making The Moxy Show the first Cartoon Network original series to feature a hybrid of different animation styles (Courage the Cowardly Dog would be the second, and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Chowder, and The Amazing World of Gumball following). The show is also the first to use stock footage from classical shows (second is Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the second CN series to air).
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