Frisky Dingo
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| Genre | Action Comedy Adult animation Animated sitcom |
| Created by | Adam Reed Matt Thompson |
| Written by | Adam Reed Matt Thompson |
| Directed by | Adam Reed Matt Thompson |
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| ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Casey Willis Killer Mike |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United States |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Production | |
| Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Adam Reed Matt Thompson Keith Crofford Mike Lazzo |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | 70/30 Productions Williams Street |
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| Network | Adult Swim |
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Frisky Dingo is an American adult animated television series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Adult Swim. The series revolves around the conflict between a supervillain named Killface and his nemesis, a superhero named Awesome X, alias billionaire Xander Crews, and much of the show's humor focuses on parodying superhero and action-movie clichés.[1]
It debuted on October 15, 2006, and its first season ended on January 21, 2007. The second season premiered on August 26, 2007, and ended on March 23, 2008. A third season was considered, but both the creators and Adult Swim mutually decided against it.[2] The production company, 70/30 Productions, subsequently went out of business in January 2009; Reed and Thompson would later found Floyd County Productions.
A spin-off show, The Xtacles, premiered on November 9, 2008, but only the two-episode premiere aired prior to the production company's closure, with no further episodes produced.
Origins
Frisky Dingo was created by 70/30 Productions, the same group of animators who worked on Sealab 2021. The show's name during development was Whiskey Tango. Because a band was already using the name, it was changed to Whiskey Tango Six. This name was determined not to be sufficiently distinct to avoid infringement suits, so the creators jokingly said they would call the show Frisky Dingo, and the name remained. In episode 13, Killface can be seen entering "Frisky Dingo" into the Annihilatrix launch terminal; this is mentioned in the second episode of the second season, where Sinn/Hooper remarks that "Frisky Dingo" is the launch code for the Annihilatrix.
According to an article in Atlanta Magazine, Whiskey Tango Six was going to be the name of the six-member superhero group on which the show focused, headed by husband and wife Jack and Grace Taggart.[3] The team flew around in a spaceship called the Glennis. Killface was going to be the main villain, but not a major character.[3] During revisions of the show's scripts, Killface became the focus of the show. When Whiskey Tango Six was replaced with Xander Crews/Awesome X and the Xtacles is not known.
Characters
The two main characters of the show are Killface, who is a naked, bone-white, red-eyed, earless, talon-toed, spur-heeled, 7-foot-tall (2.1 m), 440 lb (200 kg), hairless, muscular humanoid supervillain focused on destroying Earth with his invention, the Annihilatrix;[4] and billionaire tycoon Xander Crews, who fights crime under the superhero alias Awesome X.[5] Both Killface and Xander are voiced by co-creator Adam Reed. The two have an ever-shifting relationship, changing from enemies to unwilling allies on many occasions.
Other major characters include Killface's son Simon – voiced by Christian Danley – an overweight, blond-haired, pale-skinned, sexually confused, teenaged Hannah Montana fan, who wears sweater vests and exhibits adolescent rebellion by muttering and breaking cereal bowls;[6] reporter Grace Ryan, former girlfriend of Xander Crews turned into Antagone, a toxic, radioactive ant-powered villainess; Sinn – voiced by Kelly Jenrette – later known as Hooper, originally Killface's sidekick and later his enemy;[7] and the Xtacles, Awesome X's team of easily distracted and remarkably inept, rocket-booted troops.[8]
Setting
Frisky Dingo takes place primarily in and around a large city simply called "Town" or "the Town". Its actual name never being mentioned becomes a running joke throughout the series. Despite its lack of a specific name, maps of "Town" are featured throughout the series, which closely resemble interstate roadmaps of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, where 70/30 Studios, producers of Frisky Dingo, were based. Additional evidence for "Town" being Atlanta is the presence of buildings suspiciously resembling the Cotton Mill Lofts (a location that at one time housed production operations for 70/30) burning in the second episode, "Meet Awesome-X". Also, in the episode where Killface is pandering to the African American church congregation, he is wearing what looks like Michael Vick's Atlanta Falcons football jersey.
Episodes
Series overview
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Season 1 (2006–07)
The first season of Frisky Dingo follows the adversarial relationship between the villainous Killface, who aspires to strike fear into humankind before he drives the Earth into the Sun with his Annihilatrix, and Awesome X, the secret superhero identity of multibillionaire Xander Crews, who dreads retiring after having defeated the last known supervillain. Script error: No such module "Episode table".
Season 2 (2007–08)
At the beginning of the second season, Killface is taking credit for "curing" global warming due to the Annihilatrix having moved the Earth a total of three feet further from the Sun before it malfunctioned, and has decided to run for President of the United States. Xander Crews follows suit, reforming his company and launching his own presidential campaign. Script error: No such module "Episode table".
International broadcast
In Canada, Frisky Dingo previously aired on Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block,[9] and currently airs on the Canadian version of Adult Swim.[10]
Home releases
| Title | Release date | No. of episodes |
Additional information |
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| Season One | March 25, 2008 | 13 | Comes with a replica of Killface's 'Welcome to you're [sic] "doom!"' postcard |
| Season Two | January 6, 2009 | 12 | Features a brand-new short made to tie in with the spin-off series The Xtacles (as a result, the DVD box says 13 episodes), also comes with a Frisky Dingo sticker |
The Xtacles
The Xtacles is a spin-off from Frisky Dingo in which the Xtacles, Xander Crews' private army, take a lead role. The series revolves around the Xtacles' lack of direction following the abduction of their leader by aliens at the end of Frisky Dingo. They take on random missions from President Stan, who returns from the previous series. The series premiered its only two episodes on November 9, 2008.
Episodes
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 222–223. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adam Reed (Co-creator of Sealab 2021) | Adult Swim Podcast". YouTube. September 11, 2019.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heckert, Justin (2006). The Making of Frisky Dingo. Retrieved December 24, 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hagan, Merrill; Macke, Liz (May 28, 2008). "Frisky Dingo - Killface". Adult Swim. Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hagan, Merrill; Eason, Jonas (May 29, 2008). "Frisky Dingo - Awesome X". Adult Swim. Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hagan, Merrill (May 13, 2008). "Frisky Dingo - Simon". Adult Swim. Archived from the original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hagan, Merrill (May 13, 2008). "Frisky Dingo - Sinn". Adult Swim. Archived from the original on November 9, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hagan, Merrill; Eason, Jonas (May 13, 2008). "Frisky Dingo - Xtacles". Adult Swim. Archived from the original on November 9, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Teletoon skeds 13 new shows for fall". August 1, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adult Swim (Canada) November 2015 Programming Highlights". October 27, 2015. Retrieved September 20, 2020.[dead link]
External links
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