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''The Moxy Show'' (also known as ''The Moxy Pirate Show'' and ''The Moxy & Flea Show'') is an animation anthology television series produced by Colossal Pictures for Cartoon Network. The show ran on December 5, 1993, originally as ''The Moxy Pirate Show'', and consisted of classic cartoons divided by 3-D animated interstitials featuring Moxy, a dog, and Flea, a flea. The show ran on Cartoon Network from 1993 to 1998, with its last episode on January 2, 2000, right before reruns of the show were removed completely on April 1, 2000. ''Moxy'' is considered the first original series on Cartoon Network, but ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' was Cartoon Network's first fully produced series. ==Production== The series was originally titled ''The Moxy Pirate Show'' and only featured Moxy. In 1994, Moxy's sidekick Flea was added to the series. In 1995, the series was retitled simply as ''The Moxy Show'', and in 1998 it was renamed again to ''The Moxy & Flea Show'' with major changes: *Moxy's design has changed a lot. As opposed to wearing his usual yellow shirt with red/white checkerboard pants, and palette-swapped black and white sneakers; both of which resemble the likeness of Cartoon Network's traditional checkerboard logo, he is seen wearing a longer sleeved, green/black striped shirt and black jeans, complete with non pallete-swapped sneakers, which seem to resemble those of Converse All-Stars. In addition, his eyes have become much smaller, with heterochromic green (left) and light blue (right) eyes complete with pupils, whereas they were previously red (left) and dark blue (right), sans pupils. His yellow whiskers and freckles have disappeared in his new design, his nose changed from the color purple to black, and his fur was changed to a darker shade of orange. *Flea's design was changed only slightly. Flea wore a blue fez instead of a propellor beanie, his height grew massive making him half as high as Moxy, and comedian Chris Rock replaced illusionist Penn Jillette as the voice of the character. Also, his eye color changed from blue and yellow to just yellow eyes with red pupils. *The opening sequence has changed a lot featuring a new theme song composed by Ben Friedman, Moxy and Flea dancing new moves and they do not speak at all (although in one part, Moxy says "Come on!"). *The series does not show many classical cartoons unlike the previous seasons and it features more computer-animated characters and settings. *The one hour time slot for the series was shortened down to 30 minutes. After Colossal Pictures shut down in 1999, the series' production was later moved over to Williams Street during the "Moxy & Flea" adaption. Until its cancellation on January 2, 2000, reruns were removed completely on April 1, 2000, the same day where most of the classical cartoon programming were moved to Boomerang except for this show. The CGI Moxy is considered the first real-time(sometimes called a "live") cartoon, though never actually broadcast live. A puppeteer wearing a motion capture apparatus would act out Moxy's motions, while Goldthwait provided the voice, and a technician would control facial expressions. The show is considered to be a lost television series since it was never to be found anywhere because it was never picked up by Boomerang and it was never released in any home media. This is the only Cartoon Network original series to be animated with computer animation as all of the other programs featuring CGI are acquired animated programming and not Cartoon Network originals. It's the first CN show to be animated with cartoon animation as well, making ''The Moxy Show'' the first Cartoon Network original series to feature a hybrid of different animation styles (''Courage the Cowardly Dog'' would be the second, and ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', ''Chowder'', and ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' following). The show is also the first to use stock footage from classical shows (second is ''Space Ghost: Coast to Coast'', the second CN series to air). To this day, only a handful of clips, plus various segments of the "Great International Toon-In" and a full episode from the final season of the show are currently existent. 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「The Moxy Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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