The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat


The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat is an American animated television series produced by Film Roman. The series first aired on September 16, 1995 on CBS Saturday mornings lasting for two seasons with the final episode airing on April 12, 1997. The first season consists of 13 episodes and the second and final season consists of 8 episodes.
This is the second television series featuring Felix the Cat; the first was the 1958–1960 series Felix the Cat.

History

The show was a modern take of the original 1958–1961 series produced by Otto Messmer's former assistant, Joe Oriolo. His son, Don Oriolo, was involved in the creation of this series as well.
In many ways, the show reverts to the silent era of shorts with surreal settings and offbeat character depictions. Felix is also more like his original mischievous adult form, rather than the young and innocent depiction from the 1936 Van Beuren shorts, the 1959 TV series and Felix the Cat: The Movie. It does, however, contain some elements from the 1950s series such as Felix's Magic Bag of Tricks and the characters Poindexter, the Master Cylinder, the Professor and Rock Bottom. The series had a Fleischer Studios-inspired art style.
The series starred Thom Adcox-Hernandez as the voice of Felix the Cat, but since Adcox-Hernandez's voice was apparently a temporary role while the producers kept looking for a more suitable actor by the first season's run, he was replaced by Charlie Adler in Season 2. It was produced by Phil Roman and Timothy Berglund and is reputed to have been one of the most expensive cartoons ever made by Film Roman. Martin Olson and Jeremy Kramer, two comedy writers known for pushing the envelope into the bizarre, wrote both outlines and scripts for the series. The main theme was composed by Don Oriolo, while the musical score and closing theme were composed and performed by the Club Foot Orchestra.

Characters

Felix the Cat: The main character and star of the show. He has many adventures with his magic bag of tricks that often helps in dangerous situations. Unlike his original counterpart, he is shown to be a pre-teen cat who has a cute personality.

Allies

  • Rosco – Felix's dim-witted best friend.
  • Candy Kitty – Rosco's older sister and Felix's love interest.
  • Sheba Beboporeba – Felix's friend.
  • Shamus T. Goldcrow – an anthropomorphic crow detective.
  • Skiddoo the Mouse – one of Felix's friends.
  • Bermuda Triangle: He is an anthropomorphic version of the location of the same name. He wreaks havoc because of his stupidity. He caused all sorts of chaos in New York City until he fell in love with Times Square. The two ended up getting married.
  • Nastassia Slinky – an actress who Felix is obsessed with. She however, never returns the feelings. In fact, she hates Felix and wants nothing to do with him, not showing him even the slightest grip of affection. She has a mother, who is also an actress.
  • : He is the nerdy young nephew of the Professor and is Felix's other best friend. He is depicted as a stereotypical scientist; he is very intelligent and always wears thick Coke-bottle glasses, a lab coat, and a mortarboard. A button on the chest of his lab coat acts as a control for whatever device the plot calls for. Despite the Professor being his uncle, he is also one of Felix's best friends. Whenever he talks to Felix, he refers to him as "Mr. Felix". He is a year older than Felix, he is 13 years old.
  • Guardian Angel

Villains

  • Peking Duck – an antagonist who wants Felix's bag.
  • * Moo Shoo and One-Ton – Peking Duck's chicken henchmen.
  • The Sludge King
  • Fufu Gauche – a disgraced fashion designer who tries to get revenge on the city by replacing everyone's clothes with his tacky fish costumes.
  • Oscar – a minor villain whose sole appearance was in the episode "Phoney Phelix", serving as one of the most pathetic foes Felix has ever faced. A wannabe cartoon star who met failure at every step of the way, Oscar sought to climb his way to stardom by hijacking Felix's own cartoon, despite being a painfully obvious impersonator.
  • Fuzzy Bunny – a cutesy toy rabbit who manages to replace Felix's own show and become a nationwide sensation, thanks to how cute he is. In truth however, he is actually a gruesome thug in a rabbit suit.
  • * Froggy – Fuzzy Bunny's henchman.
  • Bet a Billion Bill – a smooth-talking and arrogant hotshot playboy gambler.
  • Captain Herman
  • Mad Doctor : He is a parody of the Professor from the 1958–60 Felix the Cat series.
  • Leadfanny : He is a parody of Rock Bottom from the 1958–60 Felix the Cat series. He is a stereotypically gay dog whose voice is an imitation of actor Harvey Fierstein. Leadfanny is Mad Doctor's assistant.
  • Black Cats Leader

Cast

Crew

Home media

Some of the episodes were released on VHS and DVD by BMG Video in North America, and several DVD releases of episodes were available in Hong Kong under the title "The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat II". A 3-DVD box set of the entire series was released on April 26, 2013, exclusively in Germany, containing 21 episodes or 58 individual segments, this release being the first complete collection with an English soundtrack. As of 2020, the series is available to stream on the NBCUniversal streaming service, Peacock.

Broadcast

The series first aired on September 16, 1995 on CBS, lasting for two seasons, with the final episode airing on April 12, 1997. The first season consists of 13 episodes and the second and final season consists of 8 episodes.
The show also has Spanish-dubbed episodes of the series aired on Saturday mornings on Univision in the United States from September 16, 2000 to September 8, 2001 as part of the ¡De Cabeza! block as Los Nuevos Cuentos de Felix el Gato. It also has Spanish-dubbed episodes of the series aired on Saturday and Sunday mornings on Telefutura in 2003 as part of Toonturama as Las Nuevas Aventuras de Felix el Gato along with Bruno the Kid and Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm.