Game Over (TV series)

Game Over is a 2004 American adult computer-animated sitcom created by David Sacks (who later became president of Nickelodeon Animation Studio), produced by Carsey-Werner Productions, and broadcast on UPN in 2004. It was cancelled after five episodes.

Game Over
The Smashenburn family
GenreAnimated sitcom
Created byDavid Sacks
Voices of
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6 (1 unaired)
Production
Executive producers
Running time22 minutes
Production companies
Release
Original networkUPN
Original releaseMarch 10 (2004-03-10) –
April 2, 2004 (2004-04-02)

Game Over (the title was inspired by the phrase "game over" that commonly concludes video games) focused on what happens to video game characters after the game ends. It recounted the lives of the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family that lived in an alternate video game universe.

The show made numerous references to video games and even featured certain game characters as cameos. For example, Crash Bandicoot appears on a Got Milk? billboard, and creatures from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee appear in one of the episodes.

Marisa Tomei voiced the character of Raquel Smashenburn in the series' unaired pilot episode, but scheduling problems saw Lucy Liu take over the role for the actual series.[1]

Game Over was heavily hyped by UPN before its debut. It generally received positive press on its airing.[2] Despite this, only six episodes were made, which aired on a variety of different days – the fourth and fifth episodes were broadcast on April 2, 2004, and the sixth episode ("Monkey Dearest") was not aired.

Characters
  • Rip Smashenburn, a Grand Prix driver who races every day and crashes his car all the time (voiced by Patrick Warburton)
  • Raquel Smashenburn (née Grunkmeyer), a covert agent who fights monsters and is vaguely similar to Lara Croft (voiced by Lucy Liu)
  • Alice Smashenburn, a cynical yet socially conscious 14-year-old, who is part of a beach volleyball team, but wears a hoodie instead of a bikini (voiced by Rachel Dratch)
  • Billy Smashenburn, a 13-year-old hoping to become a rapper (voiced by Elizabeth Daily)
  • Turbo, their pet, a 300-pound talking doglike creature who robs pawn shops and smokes cigars (voiced by Artie Lange)
  • The Changs, including Dark Princess Chang (Marie Matiko), a family of Kung-Fu-fighting Shaolin monks who live next door
  • Another Next door neighbour who talks to Rip in first person perspective

Episodes
No.TitleOriginal air date
0"Pilot"N/A
1"Meet the Smashenburns"March 10, 2004 (2004-03-10)
2"Basic Win-stincts"March 17, 2004 (2004-03-17)
3"All Work and All Play"March 26, 2004 (2004-03-26)
4"Into the Woods"April 2, 2004 (2004-04-02)
5"Alice and the C.A.T.s"April 2, 2004 (2004-04-02)
6"Monkey Dearest"N/A

Home media

Anchor Bay Entertainment released all six episodes of the series as Game Over: The Complete Series on DVD in North America on June 28, 2005.[3]

References
  1. Dave Goestch of Game Over Archived 2008-01-27 at the Wayback Machine, UGO.
  2. TELEVISION REVIEW; Video Game Heroes: Just Folks, The New York Times, March 10, 2004.
  3. Game Over - Complete Series Archived 2006-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, TVshowsonDVD.com.
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