Iggy Arbuckle
| Iggy Arbuckle | |
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| Genre | Animation Sitcom |
| Created by | Guy Vasilovich |
| Voices of | Jonathan Wilson David Berni James Rankin Derek McGrath Stephanie Milo Novie Edwards Neil Crone Patrick McKenna |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Donna Friedman Meir Noreen Halpern John Morayniss Audrey Velichka |
| Running time | 22 min approx. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Teletoon |
Iggy Arbuckle is a Canadian animated series, seen in Canada on Teletoon, Australia on ABC Kids and on Jetix UK from August 25, 2007. The show is about a pig (Iggy Arbuckle) who happens to be a forest ranger, known in the series as a "Pig Ranger".
The series is created by Guy Vasilovich and is based on a comic strip in the National Geographic Kids magazine from June, 2004.
The Kookamunga
The show takes place in a vast land known as the "Kookamunga" (The "Kook" for short). It contains many different types of environmental areas, including:
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- Agog Bog - A swamp.
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- Brainfreeze - An Iceland.
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- Nasty Gnarl - A large tunnel of thorn bushes.
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- Heebie-Jeebies Forest - A woods-type forest.
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- Hissabiss - A canyon filled with venomous snakes.
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- Lake Gottalottawatta: A large lake, in which Catfish Stu tends to dwell.
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- Mango Tango Beach - A Hawaii-style beach, where vicious pink flamingoes dwell.
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- Mine-all-Mine - An old mine located in the desert region. According to legend, an old miner from the 1850's, named "Sourdough" Sulley, cursed any gold contents of the mine after a friend of his, named Fuzzy, stole some from his claim.
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- Mooseknuckle - A town in the middle of the Kookamunga; where most of the goings-on in the stories takes place. Also possibly a parody of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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- Mount Kaboom - A volcano, who at times seems to be on the verge of erupting, even though, according to Iggy, it's supposed to be dormant.
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- Mount Peekaboo - A benign mountain, which is frequently used for rock-climbing and sightseeing.
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- Old Reliable - A geyser whose name parodies "Old Faithful". It is used by the residents as a laundromat.
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- Wet-Wally's Rainforest - Another forest, this time a
rainforest .
- Wet-Wally's Rainforest - Another forest, this time a
Characters
- Main Article: List of Iggy Arbuckle Characters
Episode List
The series has currently run for one full season, consisting of twenty-six episodes. The episodes were produced in January 2007, and aired in Canada in June 2007.[1]
Season One
| Release Order | Title | Original airdate | Episode Number |
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| "Iggy Vs. the Volcano/A Dip in the Pole" | |||
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Iggy and Jiggers must stop Mount Kaboom from erupting; later, they try to prove that Admiral “Brrr” really did sail to the North Pole. |
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| "The Things We Do for Mud/How Much Wood Can a Wood Pecker Peck?" | |||
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Catfish Stu tries to become a Pig Ranger in order to find out where “Miracle Mud” comes from; Iggy and the gang try to save
the Great Bambzeani from being pecked to dust by |
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| "The Beaver Who Would be King/I am Iggy, Hear Me Snore" | |||
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Jiggers becomes the King of the Lost Warthog tribe; Iggy must cease his snoring or else cease his residence in the Kookamunga. |
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| "Idle Worship/There’s Something about Berries" | |||
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Iggy gives a famous nature explorer a tour of the Kookamunga; later, he tries to find out how Stu is behind the disappearance of the Juniper berry bushes. |
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| "Yawny Come Lately/Petition Impossible" | |||
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It’s Yawny Yump-A-Lot Day, and Yawny’s angry spirit is forcing the town to do something for him, or else become the world’s largest totem pole; Iggy and Jiggers must get 200 signatures in a petition before a construction crew builds a highway all along the Kookamunga. |
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| "Paradise Found/Luck Before You Leap" | |||
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Iggy and Jiggers seek after the Legendary Lost City of the Kookamunga; Iggy frantically tries to figure out what happened to his good luck toothpick. |
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| "The Way of the Skunk/I Fought the Laundromat" | |||
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Spiff quits his job as a street cleaner after a robot takes over; Iggy and Jiggers suspect Catfish Stu is behind Old Reliable’s sudden inability to erupt. |
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| "The Fish Who Came for Dinner/Courage Under Fur" | |||
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Temporarily banned from his house for the sake of a crane family, Catfish Stu and the ferrets stay at Iggy’s house for a month; Zoop hypnotizes Jiggers so he can overcome his fear of spiders. |
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| "Lights, Camera! Distraction!/Fish and Chip off the Old Block" | |||
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A movie producer/director/actor is trying to produce a film in the Kookamunga; A bump on the noggin leads Iggy to believe Catfish Stu is his father. |
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| "Any Friend of Yours/Miner Misfortunes" | |||
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Jiggers and Kira develop an attraction, and Jiggers begins to ignore Iggy; In order to stop Catfish Stu from tearing the Kook apart, the gang must bring a legendary curse to life. |
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| "A Whale of a Tale/Big Toe’s Faux Paw" | |||
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Iggy spies a narwhal, and must stop an evil British scientist from capturing it; Iggy and Jiggers argue over whether Big Toe is real… or just another of Catfish Stu’s scams. |
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| "Prince of the Kookamunga/Voyage to the Bottom of the Lake" | |||
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A friend of Kira’s, from the city, visits the Kookamunga; Catfish Stu tries to retrieve a ship he believes contains treasure, from the bottom of the lake. |
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| "Tower of Beaver/A Bird in the Hoof" | |||
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Spiff and Zoop can’t stop arguing, and it gets in the way of their volunteer work; A back-talking parrot drives all of Mooseknuckle crazy. |
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| "Fair is Ferret/The Case of the Messy Marauder" | |||
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After Iggy saves them repeatedly, the ferrets become his henchmen; A mysterious (and messy) thief keeps taking Zoop’s peanuts. |
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| "If Pigs could Fly/Xtreme Iggy" | |||
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Iggy and Jiggers find an abandoned condor egg and try to raise it; Iggy's attempts to protect skiers from avalanches turn him into an extreme sports star. |
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| "Nature’s Calling/Honey, I Ate the Bug" | |||
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The film director returns, this time in hopes of getting indulged in nature; Jiggers believes he ate Iggy’s pet caterpillar. |
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| "Sticking Together/Slow Gnus Day" | |||
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Iggy and Spiff become chained together when one of Jiggers’ magic tricks goes wrong; later, they try to return a herd of wild buffalo (gnus) to the savannah. |
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| "Resident Weevil/Koo Koo Achoo" | |||
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A water hyacinth Stu places in Lake Gottalottowatta grows out of control; Jiggers inexplicably gains an allergy to sawdust. |
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| "Pig-Coloured Glasses/Art for Iggy’s Sake" | |||
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Jiggers’ nephew, Chip, idolizes Iggy; Iggy is depressed because he can’t find an art category he fits in with. |
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| "Pandamonium/Ghost of a Chance" | |||
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The gang try to attract more tourists to the Kook; Iggy and Jiggers are driven out of their home by a "ghost". |
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| "Good Scavenger Hunting/Mooseknuckle Unplugged" | |||
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Iggy and Stu face off in a scavenger hunt; After a power failure, the residents of Mooseknuckle try "green" power sources. |
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| "O Brother, Where art Thou?/Ol' Trusty" | |||
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Robear "saves" Zoop's life, and she does everything she can to repay him; Stu makes cheap knock-offs of Iggy's pig scout knife to sell to tourists. |
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References and External Links
- This Cartoon itself
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