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Teenage nerd Dexter Douglas is accidentally sucked into his computer, giving him superhuman powers to fight crime and villainy, as Freakazoid!
From the collaborative team that created "Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs," and "Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky & The Brain" comes "Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid!” The first super hero series to combine exceptional comedy with an unforgettable variety show delivering a fast paced exciting half-hour of animated comic misadventures. Teen crime fighter Freakazoid! and his comic caped co-stars, hit Cartoon Network!
Mild-mannered Dexter Douglas, a timid teen from Washington, D.C., while logged onto the Internet, is involved in a smash up on the information superhighway and transformed into the live wire - electrifying - synapse mis-firing - superhero Freakazoid! who confounds villains with his fast-talking comic routines and incredible physical gags.
Joining Freakazoid! in his attempts to outwit his half-wit foes - The Lobe, Candle Jack and Cave Guy - are his associates from the superhero world; Lord Bravery, The Huntsman, Fanboy, Toby Danger, The Lawn Gnomes, Foamy the Freakdog, Hero Boy, and the visitor from beyond the stars, Mo-Ron not forgetting his female counterpart, Freakazette.
· The show premiered in the states in 1995 to rave reviews.
· Freakazoid! is an Emmy Award winning series (Outstanding Original Song and Outstanding Special Class-Animated Program)
· Paul Rugg, one of the story editors and writers of "Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid!," also performs the voice of our superhero Freakazoid!. In quite an unusual circumstance, after auditioning literally hundreds of talented voice-over artists, Steven Spielberg, along with other members of the creative team on the series, decided that Rugg was the most capable person to perform Freakazoid!.
· Edward Asner, 5 times Emmy Award winning actor best known for his comedic and dramatic portrayal of journalist Lou Grant voices Freakazoid’s pal Sergeant Cosgrove.
· The voice of Longhorn, Maurice LaMarche is only the third person in history and the second in the last 50 years, to be used as the official voice of Popeye.
· As a superhero spawned by the information superhighway it is not suprising that there are hundreds of web sites dedicated to all things Freakazoid!.
Dexter Douglas is a mild-mannered teenager who, one snowy afternoon in Washington DC, while logged onto the Internet, becomes involved in a pileup on the information superhighway and is transformed into an electrifying superhero Freakazoid - the humorous personification of information overload. His synapses constantly misfire, sending his thoughts and ideas streaking in various comic directions. Confronted with his silliness, villains are left completely dumbfounded.
As narrator of "Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid!” The Announcer puts Freakazoid through his paces at each and every turn. Of course, since no one can predict what Freakazoid will do next, The Announcer is not always in sync with our superhero.
Sergeant Cosgrove is one of Freakazoid's best buddies with whom he shares a fondness for the banal, such as visiting places like the Museum of Spackle or the world's largest free-standing beef jerky.
This "All-American Girl Next Door" has a terrible crush on Freakazoid, unaware that he and her classmate Dexter are one and the same.
Freakazoid's number one nemesis The Lobe is a brilliant arch villain with a very low sense of self-esteem, the body of a man and the head of a brain.
Mrs. Douglas (Dexter's mom) is totally unaware that her son is Freakazoid. She is also unaware that Eisenhower is no longer President.
Dexter's father, Mr. Douglas, is a car salesman who believes a goblin lives in his gas tank.
Guitierrez is the brilliant, evil CEO of the Apex Microchip Company. He is obsessed with finding the code that unlocks the path to the heart of the Internet where Dexter Douglas became Freakazoid.
Dexter's older brother Duncan is a bully who takes great pleasure in taking advantage of his younger sibling whenever the opportunity arises.
An arch criminal, and quite possibly the worst country and western singer in the world, Longhorn was at one time a man but later in life was transformed by a doctor into a …..(tune in to find out!)
Lord Bravery, is a neophyte crime fighter who toils in obscurity in London while waiting for that one big rescue that will give him the recognition as a superhero he feels he deserves.
The most dangerous of villains, he is a highly intelligent Neanderthal who when not reading The New Yorker enjoys persecuting defenceless people.
Candlejack is really the ‘Boogie Man’ who can steal away the unwary at the mention of his name.
An extremely capable but frustrated superhero with a penchant for hickory cakes, he is unable to find work because he has cleaned up all the crime in his city.
Fan Boy is president of the Freakazoid! fan club and a pain in Freakazoid's side. He is a teenage master of useless entertainment trivia.
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