Game Over (TV series)
Game Over is an American adult animated sitcom, created by David Sacks and produced by Carsey-Werner Productions. The series was broadcast on UPN in 2004 and was cancelled after five episodes.
Game Over focuses on what happens to video game characters after the game ends and recounted the lives of the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family that lived in an alternate video game universe. The series made numerous references to video games and even featured certain game characters in cameo appearances. 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 originally voiced Raquel Smashenburn in the series' unaired pilot episode, but scheduling problems had Lucy Liu take over the role for the actual series.
Game Over was heavily hyped by UPN before its debut. It generally received positive press on its airing. Due to this, six episodes were produced and aired on a variety of different days; the fourth and fifth episodes were broadcast on April 2, 2004, with the sixth episode never aired and only appears on the complete series DVD.
Characters
- Rip Smashenburn is a Grand Prix driver who races every day and crashes his car all the time.
- Raquel Smashenburn is a covert agent who likes to fights monsters and is vaguely similar to Lara Croft.
- Alice Smashenburn is a cynical yet socially conscious 14-year-old girl in which she is part of a beach volleyball team. However, instead of wearing a bikini, she wears a hoodie.
- Billy Smashenburn is a 13-year-old boy who is hoping to become a rapper.
- Turbo is a purple walrus-dog creature and the Smashenburn family's talking 300-pound pet. Turbo robs pawn shops and smokes cigars, and shows an inclination towards teenage girls.
- The Changs are a family of Kung-Fu-fighting Shaolin monks who live next door, this includes Dark Princess Chang.
- Another Next door neighbor who talks to Rip in first person perspective