Walter Melon (TV series)

"Walter Melon" was an 1998 animated TV show, very loosely adapted from the French comic and television series Achille Talon. The show aired in the United States on the Fox Family Channel during 1998 and 1999.

Plot

Walter Melon and his assistant Bitterbug run a company as "heroes for hire". Whenever superheroes get in trouble or get sick, Melon and Bitterbug (Lefuneste) take their places temporarily. In the show Walter and Bitterbug replaced all kinds of heroes spoofs, such as: Superman, James Bond, Batman and Robin, Kirk and Spock, Tarzan, Luke Skywalker, Mad Max, Spider-Man, 2 of the Super Sentai & Power Rangers, Alan Grant, Fox Mulder, Jim Phelps, Casper, White Rabbit, and Little Red Riding Hood. Walter is not a supertrained, intelligent and beautiful macho man like most superheroes. Instead, he is a big jolly fellow with a large nose and a lot of luck. Despite his significantly greater size than the heroes he impersonates, nobody ever notices the difference, with his greater weight merely been commented on after his arrival and subsequently ignored. When as any of those heroes, he fights Sneero who is represented as the bad guys spoofs, such as: Lex Luthor, Goldeneye, Joker, Darth Vader, Doctor Octopus, Witch Bandora & Rita Repulsa, Cigarette Smoking Man, Queen of Hearts, and the Big Bad Wolf.

In a second season, possibly to make the cartoon more educational, Walter and Bitterbug would receive cross-time distress messages from famous and important historical figures such as Thomas Edison, Lewis and Clark, and the Apollo 11 astronauts, rather than superheroes.

The series is now available on Jetix (Russia). Unfortunately the series aren't available anywhere else anymore.All episodes have been deleted from the internet by the producers.

"``Hero for hire. Reasonable rates. All major credit cards accepted.""

--Walter Melon

External links

* [http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvshows/962-walter-melon/ retrojunk.com "Retrojunk on Walter Melon"]
*imdb title|0283817|Walter Melon