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''Avenger Penguins'' is an animated series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films in 1993, filmed by Alfonso Productions, a Spanish-based animation studio also responsible for bringing Cosgrove Hall's show ''Fantomcat'' to life. It aired largely on Children's ITV and was originally to be called ''Hell's Penguins''. It has the distinction of being the last Cosgrove Hall cartoon to be animated using hand painted animation cels, as all 2D animated series from the studio thereafter would use computers for the ink and paint process; with the animation drawings scanned and then digitally coloured. The story revolves around three bike riding Penguins that inhabit Big City, uniting to protect it and its citizens from the evil Caractacus P. Doom, an insane and reclusive criminal scientist. The Penguins attempt to prevent Doom's schemes but find themselves often hampered by their own miscommunicating and occasional scraps with other biker gangs infesting Big City, such as The Stink Brothers, a canine squad of Hell's Angels. As with most Cosgrove Hall cartoons, the series poked fun at the popular concepts of having creatures performing inhuman action feats and stunts in an animated medium, made popular by the then enormously successful ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' franchise. The core the show's themes is heavily and coincidently similar to ''Biker Mice from Mars, ''although with the two shows being aired at exactly the same time, and from two different parts of the world that hadn't any connections whatsoever with each other, it is completely difficult to determine who ripped off who. It's very likely that neither ripped off each other and that the two shows having similar concepts is simply a coincidence. The cast, like ''Danger Mouse'' and ''Count Duckula'' had with David Jason, John Ratzenberger, Mel Blanc and Joe Ranft, boasted a star talent in a major role, this time in the form of Mike McShane as the Penguin's un-coordinated but brash leader Marlon, as well as the villainous Doom. To show how the series was mocking the often rushed animation style of the original TMNT series, two supporting characters known as "The Badly Drawn Brothers" were always left with the design construction lines still showing out of deliberate neglect. Pop culture references were found in abundance in many of the episodes and in the characters, Doom himself is patterned on an elderly Orson Welles, Harry Slime (who talks like Peter Lorre) in the meantime is based somewhat on Harry Lime, a character from the movie ''The Third Man''. The season 2 episode, ''"The 23rd Century"'' also served as a parody of ''Star Trek''. The entire series was released on a three disc DVD box set in March 2006. ==Voices== *Mike McShane (Marlon/Mr. Caractacus P. Doom/Blue Badly Drawn Brother/Baracuda Stink/TV Joe) *Jimmy Hibbert (Bluey/Harry Slime/Bella/Brown Badly Drawn Brother/Poodle Stink) *Rob Rackstraw (Rocky/Doc/Cecil Stink/Irv) *Lorelei King (Dolores Divine/Ms. Leatherclad Fullarain/all other females except Bella) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Avenger Penguins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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