Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures
| Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Crime Action Superhero Drama |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 23 minutes |
| Production company | Big Idea Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | Direct-to-video |
| Release | March 15, 2002 – June 6, 2003 |
| Related | |
| VeggieTales 3-2-1 Penguins! | |
Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures (also known as Larryboy) is an American direct-to-video animated children’s series developed by Tom Bancroft (a former animator for Disney) as a spin-off of the VeggieTales franchise created by Big Idea Entertainment. The first video titled "Larryboy and the Angry Eyebrows", was released on March 15, 2002. The videos came to an end with "The Good, The Bad and the Eggly!", released on June 6, 2003, due to Big Idea's bankruptcy. Unlike its predecessor VeggieTales, which was animated in CGI using Softimage 3D and later Autodesk Maya, LarryBoy was animated in 2D animation using Adobe Flash. From 2006 to 2009, NBC aired the content of all four videos on its Qubo block alongside airings of VeggieTales videos. Each video contains two segments, a twenty-minute long segment and a seven-minute short segment (Larryboy Super Short).
Premise
[change | change source]The series revolves around the character Larry's superhero alter ego Larryboy as he tries to manage his life as a superhero while working as a janitor for the Daily Bumble newspaper in Bumblyburg.
Characters
[change | change source]Larryboy only carries over four characters: Larry the Cucumber, Bob the Tomato, Junior Asparagus, and Archibald Asparagus, with reprising their respective roles.
| Voice actor | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Nawrocki | Larry the Cucumber | The janitor Larry and his superhero alter ego, Larryboy. |
| Phil Vischer | Archibald Asparagus | Larryboy's butler. Unlike previous Larryboy videos, this character is named Archie instead of Alfred. |
| Bob the Tomato | Larry's boss, who works as the head of the Daily Bumble newspaper. | |
| Lisa Vischer | Junior Asparagus | A kid editor of the Daily Bumble. |
| Shari Belgeau | Vicky Cucumber | One of the members of the Daily Bumble. She is the love interest of Larry. |
| Mother Pearl | The Alchemist's evil sidekick and mother. | |
| Larry Whitaker | The Alchemist | A villain who appeared in the second video. |
| Officer Olaf | Bumblyburg's resident policemen. | |
| Chief Croswell | ||
| Awful Alvin | A villain who first appeared in "Larryboy and the Angry Eyebrows". | |
| Herbert and Wally | The eggplant brothers. | |
| Marc Graue | Bok Choy | The wise teacher of the superhero class that Larryboy attends. |
| Anita Protich | Greta Von Gruesome | A villainess with a German accent who appeared in the final two videos. |
Episodes
[change | change source]| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboards by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Larryboy and the Angry Eyebrows" | March 15, 2002 | ||||
| Larryboy fights a "cheese-breathing cow dragon", but discovers that it is Herbert and Wally in disguise and the duo are arrested. Soon after, Larryboy breaks an inventor's "KnitMaster 3000" (which recycles hair collected in bathtub drains). Despite Larryboy's apology and the promise to repair the device, the inventor, Ma Mushroom, holds a grudge against him. Awful Alvin, planning to take control of Bumblyburg, releases eyebrows that force everyone to hold onto their anger. Soon, the eyebrows are attached to everyone who is angry. Larryboy confronts Alvin and soon an eyebrow attaches to him, which he lets go after remembering that he should let go of his anger. Soon, the citizens also let go of their anger and the eyebrows leave them. Larryboy, using the now-fixed KnitMaster, turns the eyebrows into a night cap. Alvin rues the loss of his eyebrows and his anger causes the eyebrows, now in night cap form, to entrap him. Alvin is arrested, and Ma (seeing the KnitMaster) lets go of her anger and her eyebrow leaves her. | ||||||
| 2 | "Leggo My Ego!" | August 23, 2002 | ||||
| Larryboy is at the local carnival when the cotton candy machine malfunctions. Following its violent explosion, Archie discovers a bottled substance known as Ultra Sucrose Enhancement Catalyzer, which Officer Olaf suspects was used for "chemical sabotage" of the machine. Larryboy runs into the Alchemist and is about to smell his flower; however, Olaf warns against it just in time and Larryboy supposedly sniffs no trace of the spray from the flower. However, after the Alchemist is thrown in Olaf's van and driven off, Larryboy begins to feel superior to the entire town and puts down the citizens, causing them to be shrunk, captured, and taken to the Alchemist's lab. Larryboy soon realizes what he's done and arrives at the lab, only to be confronted by a much deadlier and more dangerous version of himself - the Alter Ego. After fighting it, Larryboy then remembers he needs help from Archie and his friends, which causes the Alter Ego to shrink and eventually disappear and returning the town residents to normal size. In retaliation, the Alchemist takes Bob hostage. After dropping him at Herbert and Wally's firing of jelly donut juice at him, he inadvertently releases the spray on his mother (Mother Pearl), who flings it back at him and shrinks him. Soon after, Mother Pearl and the Alchemist are apprehended by the cops. | ||||||
| 3 | "The Yodelnapper!" | November 22, 2002 | ||||
| At Mr. Snappy's Extremely Gigantic Toy Emporium, Larryboy accidentally knocks down a chemistry set which falls on clay sets creating the monstrous Crazy Clay Monster. The monster attacks Larryboy, but he puts it asleep by playing a toy saxophone. Larryboy then goes to a concert of his favorite yodeler, Einger Warblethroat. However, the performance goes wrong when Greta Von Gruesome kidnaps Einger and takes him to her castle to join other yodelers that she is holding captive. Archie disguises Larryboy, who poses as a yodeler and gets "yodelnapped" and taken to the castle. Larry releases the trapped performers, but the group falls into a pit and is attacked by an army of Greta-controlled Hula Heidi dolls. After defeating the dolls with the help of Einger, Larryboy apprehends Greta. The five rescued yodelers then put on a "Tribute to Larryboy" concert. The Crazy Clay Monster returns to fight Larryboy, but is interrupted and begins dancing to polka music as the performers yodel Larryboy's theme song. | ||||||
| 4 | "The Good, The Bad and the Eggly" | June 6, 2003 | ||||
| Awful Alvin and Greta Von Gruesome are out of jail. After three flying pigs with bacon-and-egg guns shoot down the Larry-Plane, Larryboy is saved by the Dark Crow, who is the hero of a neighboring town. The two team up to fight the pair, but Larryboy makes a mistake and the two steal a machine called the Overeasy Egg Ray which turns anything not alive into eggs. Using it, they steal various antiques from a museum and kidnap Vicky. Larryboy and the Dark Crow are stripped of their supersuits and are captured. After getting free, Larryboy destroys the Overeasy Egg Ray but is knocked out. Larryboy is freed by the Dark Crow and the duo capture Alvin and Greta and send them back to jail. | ||||||
Home media
[change | change source]All of the videos were released in both VHS and DVD formats. They were also released as a set or included with the other Larryboy videos in: VeggieTales: Bumblyburg Super-Hero Value Pack (2004), VeggieTales: Larryboy Super Hero Power Pack (2012), and VeggieTales: Larryboy Ultimate Super Hero Collection (2019).