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Titan Maximum
''Titan Maximum'' is an American stop motion animated television series created by Tom Root and Matthew Senreich. The series premiered on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim, from September 27 to November 22, 2009. A teaser premiered during the "''Robot Chicken'' on Wheels" tour and at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International. It is a parody of the "Super Robot" anime style produced using stop motion animation. Plot Drafted from the solar system's best and brightest young people, Titan Force Five once defended the capital of Saturn's moon Titan using the heavily armed Mecha Titan Maximum. However, the team was disbanded due to budget cuts after a series of escalating incidents caused by Titan Force Five. Two years later, after the team members have long separated and gone to ground in civilian jobs (one of them, Spud, has even died in an accident), their former teammate Gibbs returns as a villain who wants to conquer the Solar System with an army of monster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss. Writers and comedians often use it as a tool for exploring vulgar issues by provoking discomfort, serious thought, and amusement for their audience. Thus, in fiction, for example, the term ''black comedy'' can also refer to a genre in which dark humor is a core component. Popular themes of the genre include death, crime, poverty, suicide, war, violence, terrorism, discrimination, disease, racism, sexism, and human sexuality. Black comedy differs from both blue comedy—which focuses more on crude topics such as nudity, sex, and Body fluids—and from straightforward obscenity. Whereas the term ''black comedy'' is a relatively broad term covering humor relating to many serious subjects, ''gallows humor'' tends to be used more specifical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurtwood Smith
Kurtwood Larson Smith (born July 3, 1943) is an American television and film actor. He is known for playing Clarence Boddicker in ''RoboCop'' (1987), Robert Griggs in ''Rambo III'' (1988), and Red Forman in ''That '70s Show'' (1998–2006), as well as for his many appearances in science fiction films and television programs (''Lou Grant'', ''Star Trek'', ''The X-Files''). He also starred in the seventh season of '' 24''. He voiced Gene on ''Regular Show'' (2012–2017), Leslie Claret on ''Patriot'' (2015–2018), and Old Man Peterson on ''The Ranch'' (2017–2020). Early life Smith was born in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, the son of Mabel Annette Lund (née Larson) and George Smith. Smith's mother was a fan of a country singer named Kurt (or Curt) in the early 1940s. However, she thought "Kurt Smith" was too short a name, so she added "wood" ("she just tacked it on to the end", he said); Smith has said that he is likely the only Kurtwood. Smith's father was a Major during the Second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoopid Buddy Stoodios
Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (formerly known as Stoopid Monkey and stylized as Stoop!d Monkey) is an American production company and animation studio, formed by Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, John Harvatine IV, and Eric Towner. It was established in 2011 following the partnership of Stoopid Monkey, which had been founded in 2005, and Buddy Systems Studios. It is one of the producers of the Adult Swim animated television series ''Robot Chicken'' and ''Titan Maximum'' as well as ''SuperMansion'' on the streaming service Crackle and ''Buddy Thunderstruck'' on Netflix. Filmography Television series Web series Specials Feature films Other credits Production logos Every episode of ''Robot Chicken'' from seasons 1– 4 displays one of many still Stoopid Monkey production logos following the credits; each depicts a cartoon monkey performing an obviously foolish or life-threatening activity or the aftermath of suicide as an irritated Seth Green is heard saying, "Stupid m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ShadowMachine Films
ShadowMachine is an American animation studio and production company for film, television, commercials and music videos. Since its early days producing the stop-motion animation show '' Robot Chicken'', the company has been producing such shows as ''Moral Orel'', ''Mary Shelley's Frankenhole'' and ''Titan Maximum'' for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Afterwards, the company produced '' BoJack Horseman'', for Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, starring Will Arnett, Aaron Paul, and Amy Sedaris, as well as ''Tuca & Bertie'', starring Tiffany Haddish, Ali Wong, and Steven Yeun. Films Television Specials Music videos Advertising As the studio has grown, they have also taken on work with various advertising campaigns with high-profile clients such as Honda. It was also honored at the ADDY Awards for an ad campaign with Farmers Insurance, directed by Jed Hathaway. * Pinto Promos for Fuel TV' * Hallmark eCards (Can't Touch This)' ** Director: Rohitash Rao * Happy H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Tran
Rosa Tran is an American film producer who specializes in stop-motion animation. In 2016, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in the 88th Academy Awards for producing the film ''Anomalisa''. Filmography Film * 2015: ''Anomalisa'' *2020: '' I'm Thinking of Ending Things'' (producer of animation) Television * 2018–2021: ''Final Space'' (supervising producer - 10 episodes, 2018) (co-executive producer - 26 episodes, 2019–2021) * 2012: '' Beforel Orel: Trust'' (producer - Television special) * 2010–2011: '' Mad'' (production manager - 20 episodes) * 2010–2012: '' Mary Shelley's Frankenhole'' (production supervisor - 1 episode, 2010) (associate producer - 2 episodes, 2010) (producer - 10 episodes, 2012) * 2009: ''Titan Maximum'' (production supervisor - 9 episodes) * 2008: ''Moral Orel ''Moral Orel'' is an American adult stop-motion animated sitcom created by Dino Stamatopoulos which originally aired on Cartoon Network's nighttime p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Lazzo
Michael Lazzo (born April 10, 1958) is a retired American television producer and the former executive (management), executive vice president in charge of the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network, and its production arm, Williams Street. Life and career Lazzo was born in LaGrange, Georgia, LaGrange, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. In his childhood, his family would often relocate, making it difficult for him to make friends. Instead, he grew heavily invested in television, cartoons (mainly Astro Boy and Speed Racer), and comic books. He dropped out of high school at 15 and for a time worked at a movie theater. In 1984, he began working in the shipping and receiving department of Turner Broadcasting System. He gradually worked his way through the programming department of Turner in the intervening years. He went to program TBS (U.S. TV channel), TBS's animation block, running daily from 4:30–6PM Eastern time until 1993, when he became the first programmer in Cartoon Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Crofford
Keith Crofford (born April 14, 1956) is the former executive vice president of production for Adult Swim, the adult-oriented division of Cartoon Network, and general manager of Williams Street. He was executive producer for several Williams Street in-house productions such as ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'', ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'', ''The Brak Show'' and ''Squidbillies''. He also served as the executive producer for Williams Street out-of-house productions such as ''Sealab 2021'', ''Robot Chicken'', ''Tom Goes to the Mayor'', ''Minoriteam'' and ''Moral Orel''. Crofford was also the executive in charge of production for Adult Swim's ''The Venture Bros.'' Crofford was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and attended Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawn Patterson (composer)
Shawn Michael Patterson (born September 14, 1965) is an American composer and songwriter. His most notable work to date is as the songwriter/composer for the song "Everything Is Awesome", written for the Warner Brothers feature film ''The Lego Movie'' (2014). Early life Shawn Patterson was born in the small rural town of Athol, Massachusetts, to blue collar working parents, Ronald and Joan Patterson. His father was a gifted musician playing several instruments including the saxophone, guitar, trumpet, and pedal steel. However, Patterson's very first draw to music came from watching comedian Steve Martin play the banjo on television during his ''Let's Get Small Tour.'' Martin's banjo playing was so influential, Patterson begged his parents to purchase a 5-string banjo and began taking lessons studying Bluegrass and Dixieland styles of music. Although he was jamming along with his father, Patterson grew bored with the instrument after a year and began tampering with the banjo, att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Welker
Franklin Wendell Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American voice actor. He began his career in the 1960s, and holds over 860 film, television, and video game credits as of 2022, making him one of the most prolific voice actors of all time. With a total worldwide box-office gross of $17.4 billion, he is also the third- highest-grossing actor of all time. Welker is best known for voicing Fred Jones in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise since its inception in 1969, and Scooby-Doo himself since 2002. In 2020, Welker reprised the latter role in the CGI-animated film ''Scoob!'', the only original voice actor from the series in the movie's cast. He has also voiced Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in ''Epic Mickey'' and its sequel; Megatron, Galvatron and Soundwave in the ''Transformers'' franchise; Shao Kahn and Reptile in the 1995 ''Mortal Kombat'' film; Curious George in the ''Curious George'' franchise; Garfield on ''The Garfield Show''; Nibbler on ''Futurama''; the titular character in ''Jabb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Shinick
Kevin Thomas Shinick ( ; born March 19, 1969) is an American writer, producer, director and actor, as well as a comic book creator. Shinick received an Emmy award for his work on the stop motion animated series '' Robot Chicken'', and an Emmy nomination for his work on '' Mad'', the animated series based on the iconic humor magazine, before serving as showrunner and supervising producer for Disney XD's Emmy nominated animated series, '' Marvel's Spider-Man''. Shinick also played a role as the ACME Time Net Squadron Leader of the PBS series '' Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?''. Biography Early life Shinick was born in the Long Island suburb of Merrick, New York. He attended Sanford H. Calhoun High School, and continued onto nearby Hofstra University where he earned a bachelor's degree in both theatre and communication. During his time at Hofstra he appeared as a contestant on the game show '' Jackpot!'', where he shared a $14,500 jackpot during its first week in September 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edie McClurg
Edith Marie McClurg (born July 23, 1945) is an American actress and comedian. She has played supporting roles in the films ''Carrie'' (1976), ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), and ''Elvira: Mistress of the Dark'' (1988), and bit parts in '' Cheech and Chong's Next Movie'' (1980), ''Mr. Mom'' (1983), ''Back to School'' (1986), ''Planes, Trains and Automobiles'' (1987), ''A River Runs Through It'' (1992), ''Natural Born Killers'' (1994), and ''Flubber'' (1997). On television, McClurg regularly performed on ''The David Letterman Show'', before playing Bonnie Brindle in ''Small Wonder'' (1985–1987) and Mrs. Patty Poole on ''The Hogan Family'' (1986–1991). As a one-off character, she has appeared in ''Alice'', ''Mr. Belvedere'', ''The Golden Girls'', ''Roseanne'', ''Full House'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', ''Hannah Montana'', ''Crashbox'' and ''Portlandia''. Since 1977, she has also appeared in numerous commercials. As a voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Kane
Thomas Kane Roberts (born April 15, 1962) is a retired American voice actor. He is best known for his work in animation and video games, most notably in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. Career Kane began his voice-over career in 1977, at fifteen years old. He is known for his animation work throughout his career, including Jedi Master Yoda and Admiral Yularen in ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' feature film and TV series, The Chancellor in '' 9'', Magneto in '' Wolverine and the X-Men'' and '' Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds'', Ultron in '' Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow'' and '' The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes'', Mr. Herriman in ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', Lord Monkey Fist on ''Kim Possible'', Professor Utonium and HIM in ''The Powerpuff Girls''. He has voiced Oxnard Montalvo in ''The Angry Beavers'' and the chimpanzee sidekick Darwin in ''The Wild Thornberrys''. Kane is also a prominent video game voice actor, appearing in numerous titles - from bit par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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