Science Court
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| Also known as | Squigglevision |
| Genre | animation/nontraditional court show |
| Created by | Tom Snyder |
| Developed by | Tom Snyder |
| Written by | Bill Braudis David Dockterman Tom Snyder |
| Directed by | Loren Bouchard Tom Snyder |
| Voices of | Bill Braudis Paula Plum H. Jon Benjamin Paula Poundstone Fred Stoller |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United States |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 29 |
| Production | |
| Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Bonnie Burns Tom Snyder |
| ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Loren Bouchard Tom Snyder |
| Cinematography | Ivan Rhudick (post-production director) |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | Burns & Burns Productions Tom Snyder Productions |
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| Network | ABC (Disney's One Saturday Morning) |
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Science Court (retitled Squigglevision in 1998)[1] is an educational entertainment, animation/non-traditional court show from Tom Snyder Productions, which was aired on ABC's Disney's One Saturday Morning block from 1997 to 2000. The cartoon was animated in Squigglevision.[2]
Development
Science Court utilized the limited-animation Squigglevision as its style of animation.[3] In 1998, Science Court was renamed to Squigglevision in its second to third seasons. Tom Snyder Productions has released twelve of the episodes into a series of educational CD-ROMs with accompanying workbooks and experiment kits for schools.[4] On December 2, 2004, Snyder, founder and former CEO of Tom Snyder Productions, was inducted into the Association of Educational Publishers Hall of Fame to honor his extraordinary contribution to educational publishing.[5]
Plot and characters
The half-hour program mixed courtroom drama, science experiments, and humor to teach fundamental concepts in elementary and middle school science such as the water cycle, work, matter, gravity, flight, and energy. As each case unfolded, the characters in the trial used humor to highlight scientific misconceptions and model good scientific practice.[6] In a typical episode, a lawsuit or criminal action would take place based around some scientific point. Humor and musical numbers were used to break down scientific concepts.[7]
The primary characters of Science Court were the trial lawyers Alison Krempel and Doug Savage. Alison Krempel, voiced by Paula Plum, was modest, intelligent and kind. Her logical and articulate arguments always lead to the explanations of the scientific points. Doug Savage, voiced by Bill Braudis, was ignorant, arrogant and unscrupulous.
Both Doug and Allison called on a variety of expert witnesses to prove their case. Doug, often to his detriment, called upon child academics Dr. Julie Bean and Dr. Henry Fullerghast to testify. Their scientific testimony usually disproved Doug’s case. Professor Nick Parsons, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin served as an expert for Alison Krempel. He used science to successfully refute Doug Savage's usually ludicrous and ill-informed claims while also frequently cracking off jokes, often to Krempel's and sometimes even Stone's annoyance. Often Micaela and Tim, Savage and Krempel's child assistants respectively, helped to break down scientific concepts and occasionally ask questions of the stand. Comedians Paula Poundstone and Fred Stoller rounded out the cast playing Judge Stone and court stenographer Fred respectively.
- Paula Plum as Alison Krempel
- Bill Braudis as Doug Savage
- H. Jon Benjamin as Prof. Nick Parsons
- Paula Poundstone as Judge Stone
- Fred Stoller as Stenographer Fred
Episodes
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Series overview
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Season 1 (1997–98)
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Season 2 (1998–99)
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Season 3 (1999–2000)
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Critical reception
Science Court earned top television awards for Tom Snyder.[5]
Variety thought that the TV series tried too hard to make science entertaining, and that it would come across as too complicated for its target audience.[8]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Staff (September 13, 1998). "'Science Court' changes into 'Squigglevision' to charm the kids". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri, USA: Kevin Mowbray. ISSN 1930-9600. OCLC 1764810. Retrieved August 2, 2012.(subscription required)
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Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rosenberg, Ronald; Ackerman, Jerry (May 7, 1997). "Television Software creator hopes science series catches on". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Christopher M. Mayer. p. D.4. ISSN 0743-1791. OCLC 66652431. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)(subscription required) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 533. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.De Nike, Kristina (October 1, 2001). "Science Court: Gravity". Macworld. San Francisco, California, USA: David Bunnell. ISSN 0741-8647. OCLC 607262846. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hodin, Debbie (December 3, 2004). "Tom Snyder Inducted into Hall of Fame" (Press release). Tom Snyder Productions. Archived from the original on October 25, 2005. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
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{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) [dead link] - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 717–718. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Everett, Todd (September 5, 1997). "Review: 'Science Court'". Variety. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
External links
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