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The Brothers Flub is a German-American animated television series created by David Burke and Laxlo Nosek for Nickelodeon. It was produced by Sunbow Entertainment in co-production with Ravensburger Film + TV and Videal. Nickelodeon billed the show as its original programming despite it not being a Nicktoon. The show's title characters are a pair of alien brothers named Guapo and Fraz, both of whom work as couriers, who travel throughout their universe to deliver packages to a different planet in each episode of the series. It ran from January 16, 1999, until January 8, 2000 and was widely panned by critics, who compared it unfavorably to actual Nicktoons. Sony Pictures Television currently owns the rights to the series.




Summary


The Brothers Flub takes place in outer space. The show's title refers to its two central characters: a pair of blue-furred alien brothers named Guapo and Fraz Flub. Guapo is shorter and fatter than his brother, and is a lighter shade of blue. Both wear bodysuits, shoes and caps.
In the series, they work for a company called RetroGrade Interdimensional Couriers, of which a green-colored female alien named Tarara Boomdeyay is the boss. Other characters at their job include a female alien named Valerina and an older orange, male alien named Squish. The brothers, who are couriers, travel through their universe in their spacecraft (called the Hoog) to deliver packages to various planets. Each episode features a different planet with a different characteristic, such as "The Land of Oversized Games", which comprises life-sized game pieces such as a pinball machine, or "Hip City", a planet inhabited by beatnik aliens.




Production


The show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment, at the time a subsidiary of Sony Wonder. creators marketed the series for children ages six through eleven. Sunbow contracted with Animatics, an Orlando, Florida-based company, allowing for Animatics to create the storyline and the storyboard for the series. Laura Sullivan, the senior director of marketing of Sony Wonder, said in a 1999 Promo article that the series attracted equal numbers of male and female children and that it was "very Nickelodeon-looking." The series was delayed for a year from its original scheduled debut.




Episodes






Cast






= Main cast

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Guapo Flub: Jerry Sroka
Fraz Flub: Scott Menville
Tarara Boomdeyay: Charlotte Rae
Squish: Ron Hale
Valerina: Christine Cavanaugh




= Additional voices

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Richard Horvitz
Mariette Hartley
Joe Lala
John Kassir
Jerry Sroka
Tim Curry
Candi Milo
Jeff Bennett
H. Richard Greene
Michael Bell
Pat Fraley
Sally Struthers
Roger Rose
Kevin Michael Richardson
Jennifer Darling
Bruce Eckstart
Tom Shell
Gayiel Von
Nick Bakay
Tress MacNeille
Harvey Korman
Estelle Harris
Marsha Clark: Judy Hen
Stuart Pankin
Gregg Berger
Gary Littman
Vanessa Marshall
Peter Ratray
Dee Bradley Baker
Lori Alan
Jim Ward
Billie Hayes
Michael Horton
Tom Kenny
Tommy Widmer: Bob




Crew


Charlie Adler - Voice Director




Merchandising


The Brothers Flub was used in several promotional deals for various brands. Fast food chain KFC announced that it would use the characters in a kids' meal, while Carl's Jr. and Hardee's branded tray liners and bags with The Brothers Flub images. GNC planned to include The Brothers Flub yo-yos in its children's vitamins, while department store chain Macy's used the characters in their back-to-school advertising flyers. Skechers started a sweepstakes that distributed Skechers and The Brothers Flub-branded items.




= VHS release

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Sony Wonder released two videocassettes of the show in 2000. These were entitled Plan C: Panic! and Doom Wears Funny Tights!. Each one featured four episodes of the series. Both tapes are now out of print and hard to find.
VHS releases were planned for the series by Maverick in the United Kingdom, but in the end, no releases came to fruition.




Reception


The Brothers Flub was panned by critics. Joanne Weintraub of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel described the show as "a rare clinker with all the noisy hyperactivity of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and little of the cockeyed charm." The Hollywood Reporter called it "a somewhat vacuous effort that lacks the charm and substance of much of Nick's other programming" but added "now and again [the creators] hit on some clever high jinks." Writing for the Lakeland Ledger, Evan Levine thought that the show had a promising premise, but thought that its humor was mean-spirited.




See also


Butt Ugly Martians
The Cramp Twins




References






External links


The Brothers Flub at IMDb

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