Mr. Meaty

Mr. Meaty
Genre	Teen situation comedy Off-color humor Surreal humor Satirical comedy
Format	Puppetry
Created by	Jason Hopley Jamie Shannon
Starring	Jamie Shannon Jason Hopley
Country of origin	Canada, US
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	20 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jack Lenz
Producer(s)	Jason Hopley Jamie Shannon
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	3J's Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	September 22, 2006 (2006-09-22) – May 23, 2009 (2009-05-23)

Mr. Meaty is an Canadian television series, airing on CBC Television in Canada and the Nicktoons Network in the United States. It originally began in 2004, as a series of interstitial shorts that aired on Nickelodeon. The show features puppets working at a fast food restaurant called Mr. Meaty (a parody of fast food chains) located inside the Scaunchboro Mall (a name based on the Ontario city of Scarborough). Mr. Meaty is the third Nickelodeon/CBC Television co-production, the first being Little Bear and the second Pelswick.

Mr. Meaty has a number of episodes featuring full a 14-minute Director's Cut, Extended Scenes and Deleted Scenes on Turbonick.

The TV series received a great deal of criticism from vegetarians and parents who did not like the gross-out humor. Many petitions were signed and sent to Nickelodeon to end the show. This may be a reason for its move to the Nicktoons Network and ultimately its short life. It is also the first show on Nickelodeon to utilize puppetry which many kids probably didn't appreciate as much as regular animation which could have also contributed to its short life.

History

The show began as a series of shorts featured on CBC's The Void and in between shows on Nickelodeon. Many of the original shorts can still be found on iTunes and TurboNick. An 11-minute pilot aired on December 30, 2005, which was a retrospective featuring material from the earlier shorts. On September 22, 2006, the series premiered on Nickelodeon. The series was aired in reruns on November 2006 on The N as of the channel's "TEENick on The N" lineup. It started airing on the Nicktoons Network (in the United States) on March 10, 2007.

Characters

• Josh Redgrove is the 16-year-old cashier and the smarter of the two Mr. Meaty employees. He is the protagonist. Josh is into dating and girls and is often seen hitting on his female customers. He also enjoys making movies, indie-punk, and acting cool. His ambition is to become a filmmaker/rock star. On his job application, he mentions that he enjoys buttering bread and fixing holes. He is voiced by Jamie Shannon.

• Parker Dinkleman is the 15-year-old fry cook at Mr. Meaty. He is the deuteragonist. Dim-witted and hygenically challenged, Parker enjoys making movies with his friend Josh and cooking foods. Unfortunately, his gross habits, including flatulence and other bodily noises, scare away girls that Josh is talking to, and for this reason, Parker can be considered Josh's foil. His special skills that he wrote on his job application were "Nunchucks and stopping kids from running". He is voiced by Jason Hopley.

• Doug the Mall Cop is the beefy security guard with a buzz haircut, black shades, and a prominent bottom lip. He speaks with a macho attitude and is very dedicated to his job. He can be friendly to the kids of the mall, or pretty aggressive to troublemakers. In the episode, "Wedgelor," he thwarts the demon by going "commando" that day to work. He is terrified of zombies, and was trained in the martial arts (presumably by Ping, who works at Chop Schtick), and died. He seems to have a liking towards Josh and Parker, and wanted to be a hero to them (to the point of lying by pretend that he fought an army of zombies and even helped them with their movie). He is voiced by Todd Doldersum.

• Edward R. Carney is Mr. Meaty's 109-year-old founder and CEO (as pointed out in Mr. Meaty Employee Training Video #77), previously cryogenically frozen. Carney serves as the main antagonist in a few episodes. He will not rest, until every man, woman and child has a Mr. Meaty meal 5 times a day. He claims that he had nothing, but a bathtub full of pork butt and according to him, he rules "the ninth largest meat buffet in the universe". He is voiced by Marty Stelnick.

• Mr. Wink is The manager with an electric chip on the back of his head. Even though he is not exactly an antagonist, he can easily be considered an anti-hero. He is hinted to have once been kind, but Carney used the electric chip to turn him cold, bitter, and robotic. His ancestor from many generations ago signed a contract, that forces him to work at Carney's side. He seems to have issues, hinted by dressing as a woman in "Noseferateens." Apparently, his opinion on being shocked is not as bad as it used to be; in the first few times, he would respond with terror, but later, he seems to see it coming, as he responds with a sarcastic "Oh, here it comes." before being electrocuted. He is voiced by Troy Baker.

Broadcast history

• Nickelodeon (September 22, 2006 – October 4, 2007)
• The N (November 7, 2006 – April 23, 2009)
• TEENick (September 23, 2006 – July 21, 2007)
• Nicktoons (March 10, 2007 – December 31, 2010)

Future

The show is no longer in production. It began airing on the Canadian channel Teletoon in June 2009 but is no longer in their current lineup. It's still airing in reruns on The N on May 13, 2009 until July 28, 2009. Mr. Meaty returned in reruns on Nicktoons on October 18, 2009. Since September 1, 2010, all of the episodes will be shown on the German channel Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

It was announced on October 11, 2011 that new episodes of Mr. Meaty will begin airing in 2012. The newer episodes will be more adult-oriented and will air on Adult Swim.

Episodes

Main article: List of Mr. Meaty episodes

External links

• CBC's Mr. Meaty Page
• Nickelodeon's Mr. Meaty Page
• Mr. Meaty at the Internet Movie Database
• Mr. Meaty at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Mr. Meaty at TV.com