The Replacements (TV series)
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| The Replacements | |
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| Format | Animated television series Children's television series |
| Created by | Dan Santat |
| Starring | Nancy Cartwright Grey DeLisle Kath Soucie Daran Norris David McCallum Jeff Bennett Lauren Tom Erica Hubbard Tara Strong J.P. Manoux |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (30 aired) (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Jack Thomas |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | The Disney Channel |
| Original run | September 8, 2006 – present |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
| Common rating | |
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| Australia | G |
| Canada | C |
| United States | TV-Y7 (E/I), ABC Kids showings, TV-G, Disney Channel/Toon Disney showings |
The Replacements is a Disney Channel animated series. The series premiere occurred on September 8, 2006, but a sneak-peak episode of the series was aired on July 25, 2006, following the premiere of That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana. A second season has been announced and will only contain eighteen episodes. Although the series originally aired new episodes on Saturday nights, Disney Channel began airing the new episodes Mondays at 2:30/1:30c. The series is dubbed to latin spanish in Chile.
The Replacements is noted for its roster of celebrity guest stars, including High School Musical's Zac Efron, Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright, and Miley Cyrus.
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[edit] Plot
The opening sequence explains that siblings Todd and Riley lived what seem to be their entire lives in an orphanage, with no explanation of what happened to their parents. While cleaning the floors, they stumbled across a Fleemco comic book. They mail-ordered a Fleemco phone (which allows them to replace any person or animal they desire) and in the process they got new parents: a female British secret agent named K and a professional daredevil named Dick Daring. Whenever Todd and Riley want to replace someone, they call Conrad Fleem on the Fleemco phone via a large button. Fleemco immediately replaces the person with someone to the liking of Todd and Riley. The series follows their chaotic misadventures as they use Fleemco to attempt to better their lives in nearly every problematic situation they encounter.
[edit] Broadcasting History
Disney Channel (2006-present), ABC under the ABC Kids banner (2006-present), Toon Disney (October 2006-present)
Family Channel (2006-present)
Disney Channel (2006-present), KidsCo (2007-present)
Disney Channel (2007-present)
Disney Channel (2007-present)
Disney Channel (2007-present)
Toon Disney (2007-present); Super RTL (2007-present)
Disney Channel and Toon Disney (2006-present)
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[edit] Main Characters
- Todd Daring - He is the lazy, trouble-making, and self-centered one of the Daring siblings. He usually uses the Fleemco phone to replace people for selfish purposes. He is best friends with Jacobo. In an episode, it is revealed that Todd has a talent for singing. Riley, K, and Dick forced him to join the school choir, along with Shelton Klutzberry and the twins. Todd loves the Monkey Cop movie series as well as playing the Gamecone (parody of GameCube) video game console. He hates school, learning, and reading which forces him to replace the librarian in another episode. His catch phrases include "Don't judge me" and "Sweet." In "Ratted Out" for the first time, Todd sings the second verse to "My Rat Buddy" at the end of the episode.
- Riley Eugene Daring - She is the older, more responsible, more naive and more trustworthy sibling who enjoys school. She generally uses the Fleemco phone to replace mean or unfair adults. She is a girly girl and enjoys playing baseball, playing the violin, horses, ponies, Hornet Hive Scouts, candy, and pretty much any form of sugar. At one point she was part of the Journalism staff at school. She has a crush on Johnny Hitswell and they became a couple in season two. She has an imaginary unicorn friend named Rainbow Jumper. She gets a B average in school. She prefers playing country fiddle/country rock on the violin. She's a fan of Susie May and Dustin Dreamlake. Riley loves reading and the library. Riley had braces when she was younger. Riley also has a mission: Get Todd to do the right thing and be selfless. Sugar makes Riley hyper. In "The Spy That Wasn't Riley" Riley tries one of her dream careers as a spy instead of a window washer like the Career Day test and the ex-gudiance counsiler Mr.Leslie told her to be. and almost blows up Antartica when she stows away on K's mission to stop Dr.Scorpius, but in the end Riley saves the day even though K's mission is too dangerous. In "She Works Hard For The Movie" we learn that Riley has an Aunt Debbie and her middle name is Eugene. In "Ratted out", she started to sing the very first song of the whole series entitled "My Rat Buddy".
- Richard "Dick" Daring - He is the siblings' world-famous daredevil father. He is a semi-former stunt artist, and is constantly working on new tricks. He resembles Evel Knievel. He is also rather immature, and is seen having a teddy bear known as "Evel Bearnievel". He thinks that C.A.R. is his best friend, when in reality C.A.R. hates Dick. Dick bought Riley a mule named Prince Cinnamon Boots instead of a horse like she wanted. Like Todd, Dick isn't smart at all. In "The Spy That Wasn't Riley" we learn that Dick is afraid of clowns and tries to force Todd to be a stunt man instead of a circus clown for his career. In "She Works Hard For The Movie" we learn that Dick was in a movie back in the 70s. We also hear Dick sing his first true song; "Space training Montage" in "Space family Daring".
- Agent K "Classified" [Mildred] Daring - She resembles Emma Peel. She is the siblings' mother who is of British descent and is a superspy. From an outside view it may seem she doesn't care for her kids or husband, but in fact she loves them devotedly, even though she may express it through a recording or videotape. If something is done unfairly, she fixes it very quickly. She is seen to be a terrible cook. Her career as a spy has also made her highly suspicious of anything that is the least bit out-of-place, to the point of paranoia. In the episode Abra K Dabra!, it is revealed that she has stage fright and that her middle name is Mildred. She plays classical violin. K once took karate lessons from the evil Master Pho (Master Foe) to bust his secret evil bank robbing karate gang. Even though she's just as logical as C.A.R., she seems to favor Dick over him.
- C.A.R.T.E.R. - C.A.R.T.E.R. aka C.A.R. is the high-tech family car with a british accent. He can do just about anything, but is never willing to do anything for the family, especially not for Dick. He often calls Dick a twit, and does not wish to let Dick drive him, presumably under the assumption that Dick's daredevil habits would cause him to wreck C.A.R.T.E.R. He prefers to use a maneuver called "The Oslo Option" to scare Dick, which consists of C.A.R.T.E.R. pulling out a large spinning buzzsaw blade from his hood. The family usually refers to him as simply C.A.R. Most likely a parody of K.I.T.T from Knight Rider. He also bears a strong resemblance to the Mach 5 from Speed Racer.
- Conrad Fleem - Conrad is the mysterious owner of the Fleemco company. He processes Todd and Riley's requests whenever they call him. He has a very long moustache. In the show his face is never shown. In a flashback of his it appears he was bullied during his childhood.
- Tasumi - She is Riley's best friend, who is of Japanese descent and has a crush on Jacobo. She wears a metal suit which resembles Robocop. She claims her family is part of a crime-fighting team. (parody of Power Rangers/Super Sentai). She also has a list of people she hates. Riley is either on or off it.
- Abbey - She is Riley's other best friend and an African-American. Even though she hates the popular girls such as Sierra, she is seen wanting to be a part of them so bad, and has a habit of telling Sierra she is cool, even though she doesn't mean to. It also seams that her parents are rich. She sometimes can be hypocritical,
- Shelton Klutzberry - Shelton is a nerd at school. He is afraid of girls, and once had a relationship with Celebrity Starr.He also has an imaginary girlfriend named Zelda. He becomes very muscular when he takes his glasses off, but this is not to his advantage because he can't use contacts, and has to have glasses. He always seems to be where ever Todd and Rilley are. He sometimes just wants to be part of the group. In one episode he is seen to have a giant pet turtle. His voice and mannerisims are greatly similar to famous comedian Jerry Lewis. When he gets hurt, he ususally says "Hoygle!"
- Buzz Winters - Buzz is a wannabe bully and is Todd's arch nemesis. He usally makes corny jokes then laughs then saying " Good one Buzz!" and " I got to stop righting these down!". Although he is normally a bully in some episodes they have put their differences aside and even become friends. Deep down Buzz is jealous of Todd and Riley because their dad is cooler than his dad. Buzz used to have the coolest dad in the neighborhood until Todd and Riley came along. On more than one account Buzz has been mistaken for a wild boar. He also has a taste for crabgrass. Like Todd, Buzz hates school, and he has a habit of cheating.
- Donny Rottweiler - Donny is a professional bully who is much taller than Todd, but still attends his school. He is Buzz's mentor and Todd's other nemesis, he is feared because of his giant size.
- Jacobo (HA-CO-BO) - Todd's best friend who is of Mexican descent (Though his shirt has the colors of the flag of Spain). He has a funny looking mouth. Hacobo loves mystery books and has a secret talent for singing. He also has a crush on Agent K. He resembles Fez from That 70's Show.
- Johnny Hitswell - He is the subject of Riley's affection and her middle school sweet heart. Even though every girl in the school is all over him, he tends to pay no attention to them most of the time, except for his annual Kumquat Day card readings. He enjoys basketball and baseball, and plays on the same baseball team as Todd and Riley. It is assumed he likes her, because he asked her out on a date and then kissed her. But in season 2 he starts dating Riley as Boyfriend and Girlfriend.
- Sierra McCool - She is the popular girl at school, and is Riley's arch nemesis. She is constantly competing with Riley for the affections of Johnny Hitswell. In the second season, when Riley and Johnny become a couple, her crush on him persists, and her aim becomes to break them up so she can be Johnny's girlfriend. She has her own posse and a huge, conceited ego. She is seen to have another side in which, she is infatuated with a Star Trek parody mentioned, which Todd also likes. This forges a bond between the two, which doesn't last long when she becomes a cheerleader again.
- Principal Cutler - He is the principal of George Stapler Middle School. Since he is from Alaska, he allows school on major snow days until Todd and Riley changed it one time. He is also very cheap and cares about money over the students, the school, and the faculty.
- Prince Cinnamon Boots - The Daring Family's pet mule. He was originally given to Riley by her father when she asked for a show horse. PCB has many talents but is often forgotten by his family after Dick says "I keep thinking we're forgetting something."
- Shelly Klutzberry - Shelton's older sister who has less appearances than her brother. She resembles her brother but doesn't change appearance when her glasses are taken off. In "Late Night With Todd and Riley" she is first mentioned as shelton's sister and also we learn she loves Dustin Dreamlake
[edit] Minor Recurring Characters
- Phil Mygrave - Dick's stunt coordinator. He is not very good with measurements, as he doesn't use proper units of measurements, rather just "tweaking the thingy on the whatchimacallit a smidge". He has also been married six times, and has poor advice for maintaining a relationship. He was twice replaced by Riley. First when Riley felt that his setting up of Dick's stunts were unprofessional and dangerous, and second when Riley tried to get Dick a better love coach, and almost ended up costing Dick his stunt secrets. His name is a play on the phrase "fill my grave", referring to his shoddy assembly of Dick's stunts, a fact only noticed by C.A.R.T.E.R.
- Gordo Glideright - Dick's stunt rival. He is always trying to steal Dick's stunt secrets. He once had Phil Mygrave as his stunt coordinator, and injured himself. He also tried to steal Dick's stunt secrets during his time as Dick's love coach.
- Dustin Dreamlake - A parody of Justin Timberlake. He once danced at Riley's 13th birthday party.
- Ace Palmero - Local news reporter of Pleasant Hills, he always refers to himself as "I, Ace Pamlero". A recurring gag involves only his profile being show on TV with the camera changing whenever he turns to face it.
- Hans Herkmer - A scientist who works for the space program. He worked with Dick Daring in becoming a Space pilot in "Space Family Daring". He also was his stunt coordinator in "Jumping Mad".
- Amanda McMurphy - A hard-hitting investigator reporter who helped Riley with the school newspaper. She also got the story on how Todd's rat was able to reverse the aging process.
- Mr. Vanderbosh - Riley's Teacher who gave Riley a Detention. He also sent Riley and Tasumi to the guidance office in "Best friends for never". He's usually mean at times.
- Lady Lady - A professional wrestler who settled Tasumi and Riley's feud for Todd in "Best friends for never". She got married to the Canadian Knucklehead in "Serf's up".
- Wrestler announcer- He announces the wrestling matches since Riley and Tasumi's end-of-friendship argument in "Best friends for never". He announced Lady Lady's Marraige to Canadian Knucklehead in "Serf's up"
[edit] Bad Language
- In a couple of episodes some characters have been known to say bad language.
- In one episode Todd called someone an a**.
[edit] References
- In the episode "Zoo or False," while the monkeys are free, and they grab Todd, he says "take your filthy paws off me you darn, dirty apes!" This famous line is from Planet of The Apes.
- In the episode "A Maid For K," K can be heard saying "out, darn spot!" while vacuuming, in reference to Macbeth.
- In the episode "The Spy That Wasn't Riley," Doctor Scorpius finally came up in the series as a character for it, instead of only being mentioned by K.
- In one episode, riley's crush, Davey Hunkerhoff, is likely a parody of David Hasselhoff
[edit] Cast and Crew
[edit] Main Cast
[edit] Crew
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[edit] Episodes
| Season | Ep # | First Airdate | Last Airdate |
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| Season 1 | 21 | July 28, 2006 | October 29, 2007 |
| Season 2 | 19 (9 aired) | March 10, 2008 | 2009 |
[edit] Taglines
- Make the call this fall.
- They have the power to change their world.
- They can change anything with the push of a button.
[edit] See also
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[edit] Notes
- In Clueless; Conrad's Day off when Hocobo went to get a screwdriver the door label said screwpiver. *After "Insecurity Guard" The school was renamed George Stapler Middle School. All the following episodes use this name too. Including "Todd Strikes Out", and "CinderRiley". The reason for this is when Todd incorrectly identified the first president of the United States as "George Stapler" instead of "George Washington" (the original name of the school) Todd's guardian robot intimidated the teacher into declaring Todd's answer correct - and the sign on the school was thereupon changed.
- The Carson Palmer on the show is the voice of the real Carson Palmer.
- For the second season, subtle changes have been made. Character models now have five fingers on each hand instead of four, the animation has improved, and the Daring siblings now appear to be a little bit older. Also, the main characters facial features (like their eyes) have been altered. Storywise, the second season focuses less on Fleemco's replacement service
