Iggy Arbuckle
| Iggy Arbuckle | |
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Teletoon (Canada) | |
| Release | June 29[2] – October 10, 2007[3] |
Iggy Arbuckle is an
The series also aired in Australia on
Plot
Set in a fictional national park known as the "Kookamunga" (or "the Kook" for short; the park's full name is likely a pun on the Cucamonga Valley in California), full with animals and creatures. The series follows Iggy Arbuckle, a young white pig, who is the creator of the "Pig Rangers", a fictional type of forest ranger. He is accompanied by his beaver friend Jiggers, who is the only other canonical Pig Ranger in the show.
Iggy's nemesis is Stu, a catfish, who is always trying to use the Kookamunga to obtain wealth with the ferret brothers. Most of the stories revolve around Iggy and Jiggers' efforts to save the park's ecosystem from Catfish Stu.
Recurring locations
The most prominent locations in the park include a volcano called Mount Kaboom, which Jiggers is constantly afraid will erupt, despite Iggy saying it has been dormant for centuries. The
Production
Iggy Arbuckle began as a comic strip entitled Iggy Arbuckle: Nature Freak! that premiered in National Geographic Kids in the June 2004 issue.[5] To date, this was the only issue of the comic strip; in which the characters Iggy Arbuckle, Jiggers and Zoop made their first appearances. The plot involved Iggy and Jiggers trying to find an acorn so Iggy could make an acorn squash pie for Zoop as a birthday present.
Series creator Guy Vasilovich (director of Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.!, writer for Moville Mysteries and production designer for Hey Arnold!: The Movie), based the series loosely on his childhood experiences while living in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.[6][7]
On April 11, 2005,
In January 2008, Oasis International sold the distribution rights of the series to
Characters
The characters in the show are drawn as animal species, including many types of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and even insects. Rather than referring to the male characters as "men" and the females as "women" in the appropriate contexts, the characters refer to each other by their species (though the words "lady/ladies,"
A gag in the series is that whenever a character gets conked on the head,
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original release date | |||
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| 1 | "Iggy Vs. the Volcano" | June 29, 2007 | |||
| "A Dip in the Pole" | |||||
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Iggy and Jiggers must stop Mount Kaboom from erupting. later, they try to prove that Admiral "Brrrrrd" really did sail to the Norse Pole. | |||||
| 2 | "The Things We Do for Mud" | July 1, 2007 | |||
| "How Much Wood Can a Wood Pecker Peck?" | |||||
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Catfish Stu tries to become a Pig Ranger in order to find out where "Miracle Mud" comes from. Iggy and the gang try to save the Great Bamzeani from being pecked to dust by woodpeckers . | |||||
| 3 | "The Beaver Who Would be King" | July 3, 2007 | |||
| "I am Iggy, Hear Me Snore" | |||||
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Jiggers becomes the King of the Lost Warthog tribe. Iggy must cease his snoring or else cease his residence in the Kookamunga. | |||||
| 4 | "Idle Worship" | July 10, 2007 | |||
| "There's Something about Berries" | |||||
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Iggy gives a famous nature explorer a tour of the Kookamunga. later, he tries to find out how Stu is behind the disappearance of the Juniper berry bushes. | |||||
| 5 | "Yawny Come Lately" | July 12, 2007 | |||
| "Petition Impossible" | |||||
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It's Yawny Yump-A-Lot Day, and Yawny's angry spirit is forcing the town to do something for him, or else become the world's largest totem pole. Iggy and Jiggers must get 200 signatures in a petition before a construction crew builds a highway all along the Kookamunga. | |||||
| 6 | "Paradise Found" | July 19, 2007 | |||
| "Luck Before You Leap" | |||||
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Iggy and Jiggers seek after the Legendary Lost City of the Kookamunga. Iggy frantically tries to figure out what happened to his good luck toothpick. | |||||
| 7 | "The Fish Who Came for Dinner" | July 21, 2007 | |||
| "Courage Under Fur" | |||||
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Temporarily banned from his house for the sake of a crane family, Catfish Stu and the ferrets stay at Iggy's house for a month. Zoop hypnotizes Jiggers so he can overcome his fear of spiders. | |||||
| 8 | "Lights, Camera, Distraction!" | July 29, 2007 | |||
| "Fish and Chip off the Old Block" | |||||
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A movie director is trying to produce a film in the Kookamunga. A bump on the noggin leads Iggy to believe Catfish Stu is his father. | |||||
| 9 | "Any Friend of Yours" | August 1, 2007 | |||
| "Miner Misfortunes" | |||||
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Jiggers and Kira develop an attraction, and Jiggers begins to ignore Iggy. In order to stop Catfish Stu from tearing the Kook apart, the gang must bring a legendary curse to life. | |||||
| 10 | "The Way of the Skunk" | August 5, 2007 | |||
| "I Fought the Laundromat" | |||||
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Spiff quits his job as a street cleaner after a robot takes over. Iggy and Jiggers suspect Catfish Stu is behind Old Reliable's sudden inability to erupt. | |||||
| 11 | "A Whale of a Tale" | August 10, 2007 | |||
| "Big Toe's Faux Paw" | |||||
| 12 | "Prince of the Kookamunga" | August 12, 2007 | |||
| "Voyage to the Bottom of the Lake" | |||||
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A friend of Kira's from the city visits the Kookamunga. Catfish Stu tries to retrieve a ship he believes contains treasure, from the bottom of the lake. | |||||
| 13 | "Tower of Beaver" | August 19, 2007 | |||
| "A Bird in the Hoof" | |||||
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Spiff and Zoop can't stop arguing, and it gets in the way of their volunteer work. A back-talking parrot drives all of Mooseknuckle crazy. | |||||
| 14 | "Fair is Ferret" | August 20, 2007 | |||
| "The Case of the Messy Marauder" | |||||
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After Iggy saves them repeatedly, the ferrets become his henchmen. A mysterious (and messy) thief keeps taking Zoop's peanuts. | |||||
| 15 | "If Pigs could Fly" | August 22, 2007 | |||
| "Xtreme Iggy" | |||||
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Iggy and Jiggers find an abandoned avalanches turn him into an extreme sports star. | |||||
| 16 | "Resident Weevil" | August 24, 2007 | |||
| "Kook Kook Achoo" | |||||
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A water hyacinth Robear places in Lake Gottalottowatta, for Stu, grows out of control. Jiggers inexplicably gains an allergy to sawdust. | |||||
| 17 | "Pig-Coloured Glasses" | August 27, 2007 | |||
| "Art for Iggy's Sake" | |||||
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Jiggers' nephew, Chip, idolizes Iggy. Iggy is depressed because he can't find an art category he fits in with. | |||||
| 18 | "Good Scavenger Hunting" | August 29, 2007 | |||
| "Mooseknuckle Unplugged" | |||||
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Iggy and Stu face off in a scavenger hunt. After a power failure, the residents of Mooseknuckle. | |||||
| 19 | "Pandamonium" | August 31, 2007 | |||
| "Ghost of a Chance" | |||||
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The gang try to attract more tourists to the Kook. Iggy and Jiggers are driven out of their home by a "ghost". | |||||
| 20 | "O Brother, Where art Thou?" | September 5, 2007 | |||
| "Ol' Trusty" | |||||
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Robear "saves" Zoop's life, and she does everything she can to repay him. Stu makes cheap knock-offs of Iggy's pig scout knife to sell to tourists. | |||||
| 21 | "Nature's Calling" | September 10, 2007 | |||
| "Honey, I Ate the Bug" | |||||
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The film director returns, this time in hopes of getting indulged in nature. Jiggers believes that he ate Iggy's pet caterpillar. | |||||
| 22 | "Sticking Together" | September 12, 2007 | |||
| "Slow Gnus Day" | |||||
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Iggy and Spiff become chained together when one of Jiggers' magic tricks goes wrong. Later, they try to return a herd of wild buffalo (gnus) to the savannah . | |||||
| 23 | "Scents and Sensibility" | September 20, 2007 | |||
| "The Great Kookamunga Standoff" | |||||
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Iggy and Jiggers try to make a perfume for Zoop's birthday. Later, they argue over what the theme of the party celebrating the good harvests in the park will be. | |||||
| 24 | "The Big Flap" | September 24, 2007 | |||
| "The Unsung Hero" | |||||
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Iggy and Jiggers must save the butterflies from the wind. Iggy and Jiggers enlist Spiff's help in singing for cactuses, because Zoop is sick. | |||||
| 25 | "The Kindness of Rangers" | September 30, 2007 | |||
| "Iggy's Family Tree" | |||||
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Catfish Stu's mother, Catfish Stella, visits her son. Iggy tries to save a dying old oak, which has been a part of his family for several generations. | |||||
| 26 | "When Iggy Met Jiggers" | October 10, 2007 | |||
| "One Fine Day" | |||||
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Iggy and Jiggers tell Kira about Jiggers' arrival at Mooseknuckle. After discovering the one day off, Iggy wants to do in that day. | |||||
Reception
Iggy Arbuckle has been received well in Europe, with Jetix Europe receiving strong sales on the show.[14] In the United Kingdom, its biggest timeslot is among young male viewers.[14] As of Autumn 2008, it ranks among the top shows viewed by European children, in the markets in which Jetix has aired the show.[15]
Awards and nominations
As of March 2008, the sub-episode "Petition Impossible", of the episode "
Merchandise
On November 1, 2007, an online game based on the series, The Great Kookamunga Challenge, was launched. Hosted on the Teletoon web site and created by Zinc Roe Design, the game was an online race in which players explored the Kookamunga National Park in search of 115 "checkpoints." At each checkpoint, they could earn points by playing games, answering trivia questions about the series, or completing group activities. The first players who completed the entire challenge won real-world prizes, including a digital camera and items from National Geographic Kids. The game ran for six weeks.[23][24]
The entire series of Iggy Arbuckle was released on
References
- ^ This is how the character's name is spelt in the end credits of the show, and in closed captioning (although in CC, a hyphen is placed between both syllables). All official material on the show spells his name as "Robear"; see Teletoon.com.
- ^ "Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 – Cynopsis Media". June 6, 2007.
- ^ "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. March 2, 2016.[dead link] Alt URL
- ^ Sofley, Kris (March 21, 2006). "Blueprint, Nat Geo's Iggy pops up on Teletoon". C21Media. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ a b "National Geographic Kids' Programming and Production and Blueprint Entertainment Conclude Production Deal on New Animated Series 'Iggy Arbuckle'" (Press release). NoticiasB2B. April 11, 2005. Archived from the original on December 5, 2007. Retrieved November 8, 2007.
- ^ "Nat Geo teams with Blueprint for new toon" (Press release). C21Media. April 13, 2005. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ a b "Jetix Europe Strengthens Comedy Line-Up With Iggy Arbuckle" (PDF) (Press release). Jetix Europe. February 19, 2007. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 22, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2007.
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- ^ Brzoznowski, Kristin (January 31, 2008). "Oasis Shores Up Deals for Iggy Arbuckle". World Screen. Archived from the original on January 4, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- Prince of the Kookamunga/Voyage to the Bottom of the Lake"; In "Prince of the Kookamunga," when Iggy, Jiggers and guest character Princearrive in Mooseknuckle, the town has gathered to meet their newest visitor. When Prince is saying hello, he greets three females as "ladies."
- Any Friend of Yours/Miner Misfortunes"; In "Any Friend of Yours", Jiggers and Kira are discussing wood carving. Jiggers tells Kira that his favourite wood for carving is maple, and she replies that she's an "elmgirl."
- ^ Character Catfish Stu frequently calls his henchmen "Boys".
- ^ a b "Jetix Europe N.V. announces results for the six months ended March 31, 2008". Euronext.com. May 15, 2008. Archived from the original on May 17, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2008.
- ^ "Jetix Europe N.V. Announces Results for the Year ended September 30, 2008". euronext.com. November 13, 2008. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2008.
- ^ "CBCNews.ca's report on the finalists in the 2008 Canadian Screenwriting Awards". CBCNews.ca. March 17, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2008.
- ^ Salem, Rob (March 18, 2008). "Hot Box: Television worth talking about". The Star. Toronto. Retrieved April 14, 2008.
- ^ "CBCNews.ca's report on the winners of the 2008 Canadian Screenwriting Awards". CBCNews.ca. April 14, 2008. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ "Official Writers Guild of Canada website's review on the 2008 winners". wgc.ca. Archived from the original on December 28, 2008. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ "Official Gemini awards website page for winning writers of children and youth's television" (PDF). geminiawards.com. October 21, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 19, 2009. Retrieved October 24, 2008.
- ^ "'Degrassi' tops Canada's Geminis". Jennie Punter; www.variety.com. October 21, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2008.
- ^ "Best Individual or Ensemble Performance in an Animated Program or Series". Official 2008 Gemini Awards website. Retrieved February 11, 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "Great Kookamunga Challenge". Zinc Roe Design. November 1, 2007. Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ Rusak, Gary (November 7, 2007). "Blueprint, Nat Geo put real-time twist on Iggy Arbuckle game". KidScreen Magazine. Archived from the original on August 14, 2011. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ "Iggy Arbuckle series on DVD". ABC Shop. Archived from the original on August 19, 2008. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
External links
- Iggy Arbuckle at IMDb