Earthworm Jim (TV series): Difference between revisions

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'''''Earthworm Jim''''' is an American [[animated television series]] based on the [[Earthworm Jim|video game series of the same name]] that aired on [[The WB]] (now [[The CW]])'s [[Kids' WB]] strandblock<ref name=animation>{{cite news|last=Mendoza|first=N.F.|title=WB Raises the Animation Ante|url=httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-22/news/-tv-59667_1_animation59667-showstory.html|access-date=23 March 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=October 22, 1995}}</ref><ref name="network">{{cite web |author=Gamasutra Staff |date=April 22, 2008 |title=Interplay, TenNapel Partner For Earthworm Jim Game, Cartoon Revival |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18353 |access-date=April 24, 2008 |publisher=[[Gamasutra]]}}</ref> for two seasons from September 9, 1995, to December 13, 1996. A co-production between [[Universal Animation Studios|Universal Cartoon Studios]] and [[Living TV Group|Flextech Plc]] and based on the [[Earthworm Jim|video game series of the same name]] from [[Playmates Toys|Playmates]] and [[Shiny Entertainment]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Greg |date=December 17, 1995 |title=A Company and an Artist from Orange County Work to Turn Video Game Character Earthworm Jim Into a Multimedia Star |url=httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-17/business/-fi-15129_1_earthworm15129-jim-video-gamestory.html |access-date=August 27, 2010 |work=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref> with characters created by [[Doug TenNapel]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=298–300}}</ref> the series follows the adventures of the titular character who battles the forces of evil using a robotic suit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=117 }}</ref>

Most episodes involve the series' numerous villains attempting to reclaim the super suit or conquer the universe. However, some episodes have Jim facing more mundane issues, which include returning his neighbor's [[Mixer_(appliance)#Eggbeater|eggbeater]] and finding a new power source after his suit's battery runs out. Also, the show breaks the [[fourth wall]] with characters often talking to the audience and the narrator.

| ShortSummary = As Jim plays poker with other heroes, he learns that they have run out of sugar and heads to the nearest planet to get some. However, this planet is La Planeta de Agua ''(Arriba!)'', home of Bob the Killer Goldfish, who confronts Jim with his feline henchmen. Jim manages to defeat them, but realizes that he never got the sugar and ventures out again in search of it.

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| ShortSummary = Evil attempts to destroy the universe by making two untalented [[Lounge music|lounge singers]], Morty and Eileen, sing a particularly bad song. Meanwhile, the High Council of superheroes determine that Peter has saved the day more often than Jim and decide to give him Jim's suit. Evil nearly succeeds in his plan before the show's budget runs out mid-song, enabling Jim to erase him out of existence with the animator's pencil. Peter then decides that he does notdoesn't deserve the suit and gives it back to Jim.

| ShortSummary = While fighting Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, Jim and Peter are transported to an alternate dimension akin to ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''. After meeting its counterparts of Walter, the [[Grim Reaper]], and the Hamsternator, the group sets out to meet the Wizard of Ooze in hopes of returning home and obtaining their individual wants. Amidst this, they fight the alternate counterparts of Queen Slug-for-a-Butt and Professor Monkey-for-a-Head, who seek to obtain Jim's [[Ruby slippers|sapphire toe socks]]. After learning that the Wizard cannotcan't give them what they want, the group instead gets them at a mall, after which Jim and Peter return home via an interdimensional towing service.

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In the United States, the show was aired on [[Kids' WB]] on The WB Television Network (now [[The WBCW|The WB TelevisionCW Network]]) from 1995 to 1996.<ref name="network" /><ref>{{cite magazine |title='Toon In: MDK Comes to Life as an Animated Series |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]|issue=101 |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |date=December 1997|page=30}}</ref>

==Home Mediamedia==

Aspects of the show, such as newly created characters, or art style, were later implemented in future video games ''[[Earthworm Jim 3D]]'' and ''[[Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy]]''. Two Earthworm Jim [[comic book]] series, in the US and UK, were also created to tie into the animated series.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ramsay |first=Morgan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEYnCgAAQBAJ&q=earthworm+jim+marvel+comicscomic&pg=PA1#v=snippet&q=earthworm%20jim%20comic&f=false |title=Online Game Pioneers at Work |date=3 June 2015 |publisher=Apress |isbn=9781430241867 |access-date=21 May 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref>