Doodlez

Doodlez

A snapshot from the pilot.
Genre Comedy
Animated
Children's Television Series
Slapstick
Cartoon series
Created by Gretha Rose
Sean Scott
Written by Gretha Rose
Sean Scott
Directed by D. Campbell MacKinlay
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
French
No. of episodes 50[1]
Production
Executive producer(s) Gretha Rose
Running time 1–2 minutes
Production company(s) Cellar Door Productions
Release
Original network Teletoon
Télétoon
Original release September 6, 2002 (2002-09-06)[2] – January 23, 2004 (2004-01-23)[2]
External links
Website
Production website

Doodlez is a Canadian series of animated shorts produced for television by Cellar Door Productions, animated by Trapeze Animation Studios, which started airing on Teletoon in 2002.[3] It was seen on Nicktoons Network.

Summary

Doodlez is about Dood, a small boy who is a doodle. Dood gets himself in and out of various Duck Amuck-esque situations, with the aid of Hand, a disembodied hand that uses his pencil to draw (sometimes) helpful things onto the screen for Dood's use, such as helping Dood cheat in a skating race against his rival by drawing a booster behind Dood. Otherwise, however, Hand draws objects or people that complicate the situation and/or make things worse for Dood. Situations include girl troubles, becoming a werewolf, being stuck in a picture frame, watering a sunflower, traveling inside a giant beast to get his lollipop out of its stomach, and many other situations. There was also one episode done without Hand or his pencil, but on a computer, and Cursor (see "one-time characters" below) stood in for Hand. Dood is usually angry at the end of the cartoon, likely because it has to end so early. There is never any spoken dialogue, but sometimes the characters communicate through gibberish and Dood sometimes has a chipmunk laugh. The end of a cartoon always shows the word “fin” (French for “the end”) appearing somewhere.

Major characters

Supporting characters

Doodette

A female version of Dood and also the love of his life.

Martini Moose

He shows up now and then, usually with a martini in hoof. He likes bubble baths and knows karate. He is seen as Dood's sidekick.

Cop

In various episodes, Cop usually squashes Dood and throws him somewhere. After he is squashed, Dood gets handcuffed.

Penguin

Usually appears during winter.

Monster

Usually eats Dood and his things.

One-time characters

Television series

In 2007, Teletoon announced a Doodlez television series to be released soon. Either the studio cancelled the production, or they are still in production. An opening for the show was released on KidMango along with a bit of the classic shorts. However, they do not show the shorts anymore.

References

  1. http://www.cellardoor.tv/television_sub.php?filter=family
  2. 1 2 "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2016-03-02. Archived from the original on 2016-05-16.
  3. Laura Bracken (2002-07-08). "SRC brings first major drama to New Brunswick » Playback". Playbackonline.ca. Retrieved 2013-08-21.

External links

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