"Diseasy Does It" | |
Season 1, Episode 1 | |
Mission: | 002 |
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Production Code: | 101 |
Airdate: | September 04, 1998 |
Credits | |
Writer(s): | Mr. Warburton |
Storyboards by: | Mr. Warburton |
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"Diseasy Does It" or "Chimp-N-Pox" is the pilot and only produced episode for Mr. Warburton's unproduced series Kenny and the Chimp.
It was featured as part of the first episode of Codename: Kids Next Door, and aired on January 31, 2003.
Plot[]
Kenny and his pet chimpanzee Chimpy are called by Professor Triple-Extra Large to watch over his laboratory, which contains samples of thousands of deadly diseases, while Professor XXXL goes to destroy the PTA. Despite Chimpy being extremely unintelligent, even by animal standards, Professor XXXL believes that he is Kenny's brother and trusts him to watch over his collection while he does not trust Kenny at all and tasks him with marking a checklist of the diseases while Chimpy handles them.
As soon as he leaves, Chimpy begins tampering with the diseases and exposes Kenny to "Swine Flu, which turns his head into a pig. He calls the "Horrible Disease Help Me Hotline", which proves entirely ineffective at helping him as Chimpy continues to destroy the lab. Kenny then sees a first aid box labeled "in case of Swine Flu", which contains a man cooking bacon who scares away the pig and returns Kenny’s head to normal.
Later, as Kenny attempts to explain to Chimpy that he must not mess with the diseases, he accidentally breaks open a jar containing "SalmonEllafitzgerald". He calls the hotline again, and the operator tells him that his affliction can be cured by licking a chimp. Kenny begins chasing Chimpy in order to lick him as he continues to destroy the lab until Professor XXXL returns, having been defeated by the PTA and had his lobster claw torn off. Upon seeing the state of his lab, he is furious at Kenny and begins chasing him until a man carrying an ice cream cake appears (as Kenny accidentally called him while trying to cure the swine flu), who they all then proceed to chase after.
Featured[]
Main Characters
Villains
- Professor XXXL (debut)
Cameos
- Hotline worker (voice only)
- Chef (only appearance)
- Ice Cream Guy (only appearance)
Quotes[]
Delivery guy: Heey! Which one of you freaks ordered the ice cream cake?
Professor XXXL: Come on, boys! Ice cream cake!
[Professor XXXL, Kenny and Chimpy start chasing the delivery guy]
Trivia[]
- Kenny and the Chimp would have been the first cartoon made after the merger between Turner and Warner Brothers.[1] The cartoon was produced at the Hanna-Barbera Studios months before staff at the studio moved to Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios.
- Professor XXXL would later appear as a recurring character in the Codename: Kids Next Door series, starting in “Operation: A.R.C.T.I.C.”.
- Kenny and Chimpy make a cameo appearance in the Codename: Kids Next Door pilot “No P in the Ool”.
- Mark Hamill initially auditioned to voice Professor XXXL, but Warburton chose Frank Welker as he felt he was a better match for the role.[1]
- Years after this cartoon was produced, the real-life H1N1 influenza virus, popularly known as "swine flu", emerged as a pandemic. The relationship between this and the fictional Swine Flu depicted in the cartoon is purely coincidental.
- This is the only episode of the unproduced series.
- This episode is merely a filler, due to the 2 episodes of C:KND only being 14 min instead of the usual 21 and therefor needed another 7-minute segment to fill out the time slot.[2]
- Tom Warburton himself has his voice featured as the chef in the "In Case of Swine Flu" box. This was simply because Warburton was the only person in the studio when that part was filmed.
- The music in the episode was composed by "Chase and Rucker" (Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker), who went on to compose music for Codename: Kids Next Door.[3]
Production Notes[]
- The original storyboards were timed to be 14 minutes long, and had to be cut down to 7 minutes.[1]
- A working title for the episode was Chimp N'Pox. This later became the episode's alternative title.
- Mr. Warburton did both storyboards and layout drawings for the episode, which was not common for TV-series due to both time and money constraints.[4]
- Kenny's head was initially supposed to be more oval-shaped similar to how most of the Kids Next Door characters are designed but was changed to a circle as the executives thought he looked too similar to "Hey Arnold!".
Cultural References[]
- "Salmonella Fitzgerald" is a reference to the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald as well as Salmonella, a type of food poisoning..
- The Chef that pops out of the First-Aid kit shouting "Bam! Look at that bacon sizzle!" is a reference to celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, where his signature catchphrase is "Bam!"
Voice credits[]
- Tom Kenny: Kenny
- Frank Welker: Professor XXXL/Chimpy
- Eddie Deezen: Ice Cream Guy
- Candi Milo: Salmonella Fitzgerald
- Gregg Berger: Hotline voice
- Tom Warburton: Chef