Saturday Morning All Star Hits! | |
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Genre |
Live-action/
Animation Comedy/ Parody Variety/ Sketch comedy Surreal humour |
Created by |
Ben Jones Kyle Mooney |
Based on | Saturday-morning cartoons of the 1980s–90s |
Directed by | Ben Jones (animated segments) Dave McCary (live-action segments) |
Starring | Kyle Mooney Geraldine Viswanathan Dylan Sprouse Rae Dawn Chong Nathan Fielder |
Voices of | Kyle Mooney Pamela Adlon Fred Armisen Eric Bauza Maurice LaMarche Kevin Michael Richardson Beck Bennett Kate Lyn Sheil Cree Summer Frank Welker Chris Redd Paul Rudd Emma Stone Ben Jones |
Composer | Timothy Cleary |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Executive producers |
Scott Gairdner Scott Greenberg Craig Hartin Katy Jenson Ben Jones Joel Kuwahara Dave McCary Lorne Michaels Kyle Mooney Andrew Singer |
Producers | Aubrey Danielson Carl Fieler Simon Gibney Andrew Grissom James Merrill Max Minor |
Editors | Andrew Lainhart Zach Zdbzeibko |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 19–28 minutes |
Production companies | Animated portions: Bento Box Entertainment Ben Jones Studio, inc. Live-action portions: Broadway Video Universal Television |
Original release | |
Network | Netflix |
Release | December 10, 2021 |
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! (S.M.A.S.H.!) is an American adult animated television series that first aired on December 10, 2021. Directed by Dave McCary and Ben Jones, [1] the show stars Kyle Mooney. Produced by Universal Television, the show was made as a mix of live-action with animation in conjunction with Ben Jones Studio, Inc., and Bento Box Entertainment for the animated segments, and Broadway Video for the live-action segments, and is a parody of Saturday-morning cartoon programming blocks from the 1980s and early 1990s, with a mix of animated and live-action content. [2] It has received mostly positive reviews from critics.
The show is a parody of Saturday-morning cartoons from the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness, Fox Kids, and The Disney Afternoon, framed by an eponymous show called S.M.A.S.H.! for short. [3] It is hosted by twin brothers Skip and Treybor (parodies of Chip and Pepper), both played by Kyle Mooney. [4] They introduce various cartoon shows and have brief conversations between shows. The cartoons include:
Sometime after S1:E6, Treybor quits S.M.A.S.H.! because he feels overshadowed by his twin brother Skip. In the season finale, Treybor confronts Skip during a live broadcast to vent his frustrations, before their mother shows up and urges them to reconcile while introducing them to their long-lost triplet brother, Corbee ( Nathan Fielder). Skip leaves S.M.A.S.H.!, after which all three triplets become VJs on Monday Early Afternoon Rock Song Hits, which shows skludge rock ( grunge rock) music videos geared towards older teenagers and young adults.
Starting in S1:E4, breaking news interruptions chronicle the disappearance of Lottie co-stars Lottie Wolfe and Sean Benjamin and the subsequent police investigation; Wolfe's boyfriend and fellow teen sensation Johnny Rash is initially arrested and tried for their presumed deaths (in a nationally televised trial a la O. J. Simpson), during which Benjamin's body is found, but a jury acquits Rash due to matching left-and-right shoeprints being found at the scene, contradicting Rash's fashion statement of always wearing mismatched shoes (reminiscent of the backwards clothes worn by Kris Kross). Though it proved futile in court, evidence against Rash was found by a 9-year-old S.M.A.S.H.! superfan named Katherine Logan (implied to be the one who is switching tapes of S.M.A.S.H.! off-screen), who spotted a blooper in the Skip and the Strongimals Movie in which an unidentified figure (thought to be Johnny Rash himself) threw an athletic shoe matching the crime scene into the D'ahai Sea.
Running gags include the names of animation studios GIK (a play on DIC Entertainment), Herb Whibley ( Walt Disney), and Polystar (a spoof of Carolco), numerous appearances of sub sandwiches and catchphrases like "zuzzy zazz" and "uh... subs?".
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
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1 | "Tape 1: SCHOOL" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 101 |
Twin hosts Skip and Treybor develop a sibling rivalry. Teenage dinosaur Randy gets dumped. David hides his friendship with the cute Create-A-Crittles. | |||||
2 | "Tape 2: LOST" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 102 |
Randy applies to Music College. David's pals colorize his logo. "The Strongimals" visit Earth and meet Skip, whose cameo role is mocked by Treybor. | |||||
3 | "Tape 3: ZOO" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 103 |
Skip's fame grows, along with Treybor's jealousy. Randy makes a friend at Music College. The Create-A-Crittles join David's corporate creative team. | |||||
4 | "Tape 4: SMASH!" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 104 |
The show gets a new studio. Skip now stars in "The Strongimals." A comedian presents "Lil' Bruce." The Crittles — and David's marriage — split up. | |||||
5 | "Tape 5: NEWS" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 105 |
An episode of "Primeline" profiles rising star Skip and tracks a startling disappearance. The "Pro Bros" live in the shadows of their famous brothers. | |||||
6 | "Tape 6: MOVIE" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 106 |
Treybor pays a humiliating visit to the set of Skip's new film. The Pro Bros mount a rescue mission. A disappearance becomes a homicide investigation. | |||||
7 | "Tape 7: DANGER" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 107 |
The stars of the Saturday-morning lineup join the president and pop star Nuance to address a serious social issue: the disrespectful phrase, "Shut up!" | |||||
8 | "Tape 8: LIVE!" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 108 |
The live premiere of "Skip and the Strongimals" is interrupted by dysfunctional family dynamics and the pending results of a TV star's murder trial. |
The show was co-created by Mooney (who plays both Skip and Treybor), director Dave McCary (directing the live action segments), and animator Ben Jones, best known for his work on the Cartoon Network series The Problem Solverz and the FXX animated series Stone Quackers, and the Emmy Award-winning sitcom Bob's Burgers. [8] [9] [10] It is produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. [11]
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! has received mostly positive reviews from critics for its "hilariously sharp edge" on 90s nostalgia. [4] [8] [9] [12] [13]
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! | |
---|---|
Genre |
Live-action/
Animation Comedy/ Parody Variety/ Sketch comedy Surreal humour |
Created by |
Ben Jones Kyle Mooney |
Based on | Saturday-morning cartoons of the 1980s–90s |
Directed by | Ben Jones (animated segments) Dave McCary (live-action segments) |
Starring | Kyle Mooney Geraldine Viswanathan Dylan Sprouse Rae Dawn Chong Nathan Fielder |
Voices of | Kyle Mooney Pamela Adlon Fred Armisen Eric Bauza Maurice LaMarche Kevin Michael Richardson Beck Bennett Kate Lyn Sheil Cree Summer Frank Welker Chris Redd Paul Rudd Emma Stone Ben Jones |
Composer | Timothy Cleary |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Executive producers |
Scott Gairdner Scott Greenberg Craig Hartin Katy Jenson Ben Jones Joel Kuwahara Dave McCary Lorne Michaels Kyle Mooney Andrew Singer |
Producers | Aubrey Danielson Carl Fieler Simon Gibney Andrew Grissom James Merrill Max Minor |
Editors | Andrew Lainhart Zach Zdbzeibko |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 19–28 minutes |
Production companies | Animated portions: Bento Box Entertainment Ben Jones Studio, inc. Live-action portions: Broadway Video Universal Television |
Original release | |
Network | Netflix |
Release | December 10, 2021 |
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! (S.M.A.S.H.!) is an American adult animated television series that first aired on December 10, 2021. Directed by Dave McCary and Ben Jones, [1] the show stars Kyle Mooney. Produced by Universal Television, the show was made as a mix of live-action with animation in conjunction with Ben Jones Studio, Inc., and Bento Box Entertainment for the animated segments, and Broadway Video for the live-action segments, and is a parody of Saturday-morning cartoon programming blocks from the 1980s and early 1990s, with a mix of animated and live-action content. [2] It has received mostly positive reviews from critics.
The show is a parody of Saturday-morning cartoons from the 1980s and early 1990s, such as Chip and Pepper's Cartoon Madness, Fox Kids, and The Disney Afternoon, framed by an eponymous show called S.M.A.S.H.! for short. [3] It is hosted by twin brothers Skip and Treybor (parodies of Chip and Pepper), both played by Kyle Mooney. [4] They introduce various cartoon shows and have brief conversations between shows. The cartoons include:
Sometime after S1:E6, Treybor quits S.M.A.S.H.! because he feels overshadowed by his twin brother Skip. In the season finale, Treybor confronts Skip during a live broadcast to vent his frustrations, before their mother shows up and urges them to reconcile while introducing them to their long-lost triplet brother, Corbee ( Nathan Fielder). Skip leaves S.M.A.S.H.!, after which all three triplets become VJs on Monday Early Afternoon Rock Song Hits, which shows skludge rock ( grunge rock) music videos geared towards older teenagers and young adults.
Starting in S1:E4, breaking news interruptions chronicle the disappearance of Lottie co-stars Lottie Wolfe and Sean Benjamin and the subsequent police investigation; Wolfe's boyfriend and fellow teen sensation Johnny Rash is initially arrested and tried for their presumed deaths (in a nationally televised trial a la O. J. Simpson), during which Benjamin's body is found, but a jury acquits Rash due to matching left-and-right shoeprints being found at the scene, contradicting Rash's fashion statement of always wearing mismatched shoes (reminiscent of the backwards clothes worn by Kris Kross). Though it proved futile in court, evidence against Rash was found by a 9-year-old S.M.A.S.H.! superfan named Katherine Logan (implied to be the one who is switching tapes of S.M.A.S.H.! off-screen), who spotted a blooper in the Skip and the Strongimals Movie in which an unidentified figure (thought to be Johnny Rash himself) threw an athletic shoe matching the crime scene into the D'ahai Sea.
Running gags include the names of animation studios GIK (a play on DIC Entertainment), Herb Whibley ( Walt Disney), and Polystar (a spoof of Carolco), numerous appearances of sub sandwiches and catchphrases like "zuzzy zazz" and "uh... subs?".
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
Prod. code |
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1 | "Tape 1: SCHOOL" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 101 |
Twin hosts Skip and Treybor develop a sibling rivalry. Teenage dinosaur Randy gets dumped. David hides his friendship with the cute Create-A-Crittles. | |||||
2 | "Tape 2: LOST" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 102 |
Randy applies to Music College. David's pals colorize his logo. "The Strongimals" visit Earth and meet Skip, whose cameo role is mocked by Treybor. | |||||
3 | "Tape 3: ZOO" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 103 |
Skip's fame grows, along with Treybor's jealousy. Randy makes a friend at Music College. The Create-A-Crittles join David's corporate creative team. | |||||
4 | "Tape 4: SMASH!" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 104 |
The show gets a new studio. Skip now stars in "The Strongimals." A comedian presents "Lil' Bruce." The Crittles — and David's marriage — split up. | |||||
5 | "Tape 5: NEWS" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 105 |
An episode of "Primeline" profiles rising star Skip and tracks a startling disappearance. The "Pro Bros" live in the shadows of their famous brothers. | |||||
6 | "Tape 6: MOVIE" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 106 |
Treybor pays a humiliating visit to the set of Skip's new film. The Pro Bros mount a rescue mission. A disappearance becomes a homicide investigation. | |||||
7 | "Tape 7: DANGER" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 107 |
The stars of the Saturday-morning lineup join the president and pop star Nuance to address a serious social issue: the disrespectful phrase, "Shut up!" | |||||
8 | "Tape 8: LIVE!" | Ben Jones & Dave McCary | Kyle Mooney, Ben Jones, Dave McCary, Scott Gairdner | December 10, 2021 | 108 |
The live premiere of "Skip and the Strongimals" is interrupted by dysfunctional family dynamics and the pending results of a TV star's murder trial. |
The show was co-created by Mooney (who plays both Skip and Treybor), director Dave McCary (directing the live action segments), and animator Ben Jones, best known for his work on the Cartoon Network series The Problem Solverz and the FXX animated series Stone Quackers, and the Emmy Award-winning sitcom Bob's Burgers. [8] [9] [10] It is produced by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels. [11]
Saturday Morning All Star Hits! has received mostly positive reviews from critics for its "hilariously sharp edge" on 90s nostalgia. [4] [8] [9] [12] [13]