Santo Bugito


Santo Bugito is an American animated television series produced and developed by Klasky-Csupo for CBS and created by Arlene Klasky. It ran for thirteen episodes and revolved around the goings on in a fictional community of insects. The show was advertised as the first Tex-Mex cartoon.
Notable achievements of this series included a revival of the insect-community genre, and voice cameos from well known performers such as Jim Belushi. The regular cast included Tony Plana, William Sanderson, Henry Gibson, George Kennedy, Cheech Marin and Joan [Van Ark].

Synopsis

Santo Bugito is set in a titular border town between Texas and Mexico, populated by various anthropomorphic insects. Carmen De La Antchez is the show's protagonist, an ant who runs a restaurant in the town with her husband, Paco. The town is populated by other insects, including two brash American flies, Clem and Burt, a hyperactive flea named Lencho, a cynical artist termite named Eaton Woode, a butterfly named Rosa and her boyfriend Miguel who is still in his cocoon, Amelia, an enthusiastic damselfly, Ralph, a large friendly ladybug with a deep voice and a praying mantis professor who occasionally interrupts the show to give dull educational lectures, but is usually pushed off-screen by another character.
The show primarily deals with slice of life stories, but often with a strange insect twist. Some episodes include the town still trying to operate when Carmen is bedridden with a broken leg, Lencho trying to attract a famous black widow spider dancer to perform in the town, and one where a mosquito lawyer named Emma Squito comes to town, and everyone in the town is caught up in a suing frenzy, in exchange for Emma sucking the blood from each of her clients. A mariachi band of ants occasionally narrate the action with music.

Main cast

Only 13 episodes were aired, and the series was canceled after only one season.
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