Kaeloo

Kaeloo (유쾌한 개굴루씨 in Korea) is a French animated series with 52 episodes, each 7 minutes long. The series is a CGI cartoon by Rémi Chapotot and Jean-François Henry and produced by Cube Creative associated with Blue Spirit. The series aired from June 6, 2010 on Canal + Family and Canal +.

Technical

• Producer: Cube Creative Productions
• Co-producer: Canal +, Cube Creative Computer Company, Blue Spirit, Comptoir sound and images, Be Films
• Authors: Rémi Chapotot, Jean-François Henry

Characters

• Kaeloo: The titular main character. She is a sweet and imaginative but a dangerously emotionally unstable little frog who's always looking for games to play with her "buddies". With provocation, she enters an intense rage which transforms her into the hulking "Bad Kaeloo". This character's gender is unclear, though it is implied via the official Facebook page that she is only female in the English dub. Her voice actor who previously voiced is Double Dee from Ed, Edd n Eddy.
• Stumpy: Uneducated and immature, Stumpy the squirrel loves anything that is dangerous. He has little to no sense of reality. He is fascinated by adventure, explosions, super powers, intergalactic wars and the like. Stumpy aspires to be like his idol, comic book hero Mr. Coolskin. He hates books without pictures, being made fun of, other people touching his things, and washing. Whenever he doesn't understand something (which is often), is afraid or otherwise agitated, he spouts gibberish as his neck spasms erratically.
• Quack-Quack: Whilst still in his egg, his parents were killed by a hunter. He was taken into a laboratory as a duckling and repeatedly experimented on. He was made indestructible, super intelligent and addicted to yogurt. He is afraid of never finding his creator and expired yogurt. He is incapable of speech and is Mr. Cat's favorite punching bag.
• Mr. Cat: Proud and macho, he always wants to win, whatever the means and is even willing to cheat to do so. His inflated ego and overall foul attitude attract negative attention from the others. He especially enjoys torturing Quack-Quack, which upsets Kaeloo and is the usual cause of her transformation into Bad Kaeloo.
• Bad Kaeloo: The hulking, massive monster into which Kaeloo transforms when angry or threatened. While Kaeloo herself had stated in an early episode that the transformations must be triggered by anger, she has been seen in several episodes deliberately taking this form to cheat at games which require a level of physical prowess (e.g. strong golf swings) or to intimidate others. The transformations seem to be accompanied by a profound drop in intellectual capacity and reasoning, later followed by remorse once she returns to her "normal" form. This implies that Bad Kaeloo's actions are usually beyond her conscious control. It is hinted at in one episode that this personality will become the dominant one later in her life. The changes that occur are also characteristic of taking steroids.

Episodes

Kaeloo was originally a three-minute short film animation created in 2007, titled Red Light, Green Light, 1, 2, 3^[1] and presented to the MIP TV in the same year. It is widely considered the pilot of the series.

The episode Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel (La Quête du Greul) was released to the Annecy Animation Festival 2010 in 3D.^[2]

Season 1

1. Let's Play Prison-Ball
2. Let's Play Doctors and Nurses
3. Let's Play Red-Light, Green Light
4. Let's Play Reading Books
5. Let's Play Magicians
6. Let's Play Hopscotch
7. Let's Play Trap-Trap
8. Let's Play Teachers
9. Let's Play Cops and Robbers
10. Let's Play Simon Says!
11. Let's Play Happy Rotter (parody of Harry Potter)
12. Let's Play TV News
13. Let's Play Hide N' Hunt
14. Let's Play Ecologists
15. Let's Play Prince Charming
16. Let's Play Danger Island Survivor
17. Let's Play Peace Man!
18. Let's Play Market Vendors
19. Let's Play House
20. Let's Play Scaredy-Cat
21. Let's Play Baby-Sitting
22. Let's Play Spies
23. Let's Play Air Pockets
24. Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel
25. Let's Play Golf
26. Let's Play Catch the Mail-man
27. Let's Play Treasure Hunt!
28. Let's Play Cowboys and Indians
29. Let's Play Time Travel
30. Let's Play Grown Ups
31. Let's Play Me-Me-Nopoly
32. Let's Play Art Class
33. Let's Play Circuses
34. Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!
35. Let's Play Courtroom Drama
36. Let's Play Musical Chairs
37. Let's Play Paranormal Stuff
38. Let's Play Driver's License
39. Let's Play Super-Powers
40. Let's Play Astronauts
41. Let's Play Justice Masters
42. Let's Play Detectives
43. Let's Play Streetball
44. Let's Play The Thing From Outer Space
45. Let's Play Hot - Cold
46. Let's Play Once Upon A Time
47. Let's Play Tennis
48. Let's Play Figurines
49. Let's Play Gangster Poker
50. Let's Play Guess Who!
51. Let's Play Tea Party
52. Let's Play Bye-Bye Yoghurt

Voice cast

French

• Kaeloo: Emmanuel Garijo
• Moignon, Coin-Coin: Rémi Chapotot
• M. Chat: Philippe Spiteri

English

• Kaeloo, Stumpy and Quack-Quack: Doug Rand
• Mr Cat: Mike Powers

Italian (Unofficial dubbing)

• Kaeloo: Domenico Coscia
• Mignolo: Martino Garavaglia
• Mr. Gatto: Davide Maugeri

Dissemination and reception

The launch of the series was made June 6, 2010 in the show on Cartoon + in Canal + Family. The show is also broadcast on Canal +. Kaeloo is also distributed outside the show on Canal + Family. The series has received good reviews from Télérama TV 2 Weeks and Télérama considering it "hilarious" and TV two weeks as "a fast-paced cartoon and humor pest, which accomplishes the feat to entertain young and old".

DVD release

Kaeloo: Hide and Hunt was released on Region 4 DVD by Beyond Home Entertainment on 1 December 2011.^[3] It contains the first 13 episodes of Series 1.

International Broadcasts

Region/Country	Network/Channel	Notes
France	Canal +, Canal + Family and Télétoon +	-
Belgium	RTBF	-
Portugal	Panda Biggs	-
India	Nickelodeon India	-
Australia	ABC3	Currently airing every day. Weekdays at 6:00 am, 2:40 pm and 7:50 pm.[4]
Ukraine	K1	-
United Kingdom	CBBC	-
Serbia	TV Ultra	Currently airing every day.
Korea	CHAMP TV	Currently airing every day.
Mauritius	MBC 3	Currently airing from Monday to Friday.[5]

Awards

Wins

• Kids Screen Awards for Best Series of the Year for the Family category.^[6]
• Audience Award at the Festival de Liège Stereo media for the episode Let's Play the Quest for the Wholly Gruel.

Nominations

• Selection in the official competition of the Annecy Animation Festival 2011 in the category TV Series for the episode Let's Play Prince Charming.
• Kids Screen Awards for Best Series of the Year for Class Family.

References

1. http://www.cube-creative.en/index.php?t=m&fid=18&l=en&lf=18,132,204,257
2. "Kaeloo en relief à Annecy 2010". Kaeloo.fr. 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
3. "Kaeloo: Hide and Hunt at Beyond Home Entertainment". http://www.beyondhomeentertainment.com.au. 2011-12-01. Retrieved 2012-03-20. External link in |publisher= (help)
4. "ABC3 - TV Program - Kaeloo". abc.net.au. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
5. ( http://mbc.intnet.mu/mbc/search)
6. "des NEWS de l'anim - N°40" (in French). Animation-france.fr. Retrieved 2011-11-10.

External links

• Kaeloo at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Kaeloo at the Internet Movie Data Base