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Notable Roles: Roger Ramjet, Space Ghost, Blue Falcon, Captain Squash, Commander
Ulysses Feral, Powdered Toast Man, 1950s Batman
Born Gary
Bernard Altman, Owens was
notable for his baritone speaking voice and deadpan comedic delivery that made
him an ideal narrator and announcer for various projects—particularly of the
humorous kind. He began his career as a news reporter on radio station KORN in 1952 in Mitchell,
South Dakota, and was
promoted to news director two years later. In 1956 he left to be a newscaster
at KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa, before becoming a disc jockey at KOIL in Omaha, Nebraska. After bouncing around a few other stations, he finally ended up in
California in 1959. He began a two-decade tenure at 710 KMCP (now KSPN
AM) where he displayed his surrealistic humor and tendency
for puns, as well as inventing nonsense words and doing amusing radio
promotions. He also developed several alter-egos: gruff old man earl C. Festoon
and his wife, Phoebe; stuffy businessman Endocrine J. Sternwallow; goofy good
ol’ boy Merle Clyde Gumpf; and crochety old Mergenthaler Waisleywillow. In 1961
he started transitioning into film and television by providing the uncredited
prologue narration for The
Naked Witch(although it wasn’t released until 1964). In 1965, he made a couple of appearances on McHale’s
Navyand voiced the titular character in the animated Roger
Ramjet.
His most well-known role came in 1968 as the
announcer for the sketch comedy series Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, where he established his trademark routine of holding his hand on his
ear as he spoke into the microphone. Owens had a long association with Hanna-Barbera
Productions, providing
either opening narrations or episode narrations for various shows like The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Yogi’s Space Raceand Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, as well as various roles including the heroes Space Ghost in Space Ghost and Blue Falcon in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and supporting antagonist Commander Ulysses Feral
in SWAT Kats. Additionally, he voiced various cartoon
characters on Sesame
Street, the characters of Powdered
Toast Man in The Ren & Stimpy Showand Captain Squash in Bobby’s
World, and was even one of the prospective
voices for Inspector Gadget in one of the pilot episodes. In 2004, Owens
co-wrote the book How to Make a Million Dollars with
Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying)with Jeff Lenburg,
an anecdote-laden guide on how to get into voice acting. In his final years,
Owens served as the promotional announcing voice for retro network Antenna TV until his death in 2015 due to complications from
his life-long bout with Type-1 diabetes.
Saturday Credits: Space
Ghost and Dino Boy Sesame
Street The
Perils of Penelope Pitstop Dynomutt,
Dog Wonder Scooby’s
Laff-A-Lympics Yogi’s
Space Race Captain
Caveman and the Teen Angels Space
Stars The
Mighty Orbots Inspector
Gadget (1 pilot version) Garfield
& Friends Yogi’s
Treasure Hunt Bobby’s
World Defenders
of Dynatron City Tom
& Jerry Kids Show Eek!
the Cat Goof
Troop Raw
Toonage Skeleton
Warriors The
Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat The
Mask: The Animated Series Nightmare
Ned 101
Dalmatians: The Series The
New Batman Adventures Buzz
Lightyear of Star Command Teamo
Supremo
Animator and director Savage Steve
Holland seems to have carved a career for himself out of his pitiful life
experiences. He turned his failed 11-year-old birthday party into a sad film a
comedy festival audience found hilarious, translated people he knew into the
casts of Better Off
Deadand One
Crazy Summer, and utilized his harrowing experience as a pet owner for
his first animated series.
Eek with Annabelle.
Developed with friend and colleague
Bill Kopp, Eek! The Cat centered on a pudgy purple cat named Eek (after
one of Holland’s cats, voiced by Kopp using a voice he came up with for his own
cat) who was an eternal optimist and always willing to live up to his motto
that “It never hurts to help!” Except, in Eek’s case, it often did. Not only
was he the victim of slapstick pratfalls that would make Wile E. Coyote
jealous, but he often inadvertently caused harm and misery to others. He was also
surrounded by some of the worst people that often sought to actively abuse or
take advantage of him.
Eek with Wendy Elizabeth and J.B.
Though anthropomorphized, Eek was
generally a typical cat around his family. The matriarch known simply as Mom
(Elinor Donahue) was often busy cleaning house or attempting to learn
nonsensical phrases in foreign languages. She had two kids: Wendy Elizabeth
(Elizabeth Daily) and J.B. (Charlie Adler). Both were whiny and spoiled, with Wendy
Elizabeth being prone to emotional outbursts whenever things don’t go her way
and J.B. being the least-intelligent of the pair. The kids’ favorite show was The
Squishy Bearz Rainbow of Enchanted Fun Minute. It starred The Squishy Bearz,
four family-friendly colorful bears—Kozy (Jaid Barrymore first time, then
Daily), Puffy, Wuz Wuz (both Cam Clarke), Pierre (Kopp using a French accent)—that
were a parody of the Care Bears and often ended up in extreme peril.
Sharky out for Eek's blood.
Outside of the house, Eek had his
girlfriend and neighbor, Annabelle (Tawny Kitaen, later Karen Haber, both using
a southern drawl), an obese pink cat whose heftiness often escaped Eek.
Annabelle was protected by Sharky the Sharkdog (who spoke in often-subtitled
growls), her pet guard dog that resembled a shark and generally disliked Eek as
he always happened to cause him injury or destroy his stuff (particularly his
deceptively cavernous dog house). Sharky’s favorite show was Patriotic
Warriors (a parody of American Gladiators),
and was in love with one of their stars, Platinum. Mittens (Dan Castellaneta,
later John Kassir), was Eek’s best friend who suffered from extreme paranoia
and lived with the poor-sighted Granny (Adler). Steven was a squirrel who lived
in a nearby tree with his family and was incredibly boring. The Incredible Elmo
(Holland) was Eek’s inept yet loyal friend who hid his cowardice by constantly tricking
Eek into doing something dangerous for him by claiming he needed to raise money
for an absurd medical procedure for his brother, Timmy. Elmo had a variety of
professions, including talk show host and medical doctor.
Close encounters of the Eek kind.
Eek! The Cat debuted on FOX on September 12, 1992 as part of the Fox Kids programming block. Every
episode was written by Holland and Kopp, utilizing slapstick humor and pop
culture references. Occasionally, episodes would spoof entire movies, be done
as a musical, or completely in rhyme. Rather than focus on the typical life of
a housecat like other productions, Eek was often thrust into one silly
situation after another; such as having to rescue Annabelle from the evil alien
Zoltar (Brad Garrett) who wanted to use her as a battery. Although FOX had a
comparatively liberal standards and practices department when compared to the
other networks, Holland and Kopp made sure that the censor assigned to their
show earned every penny she was paid by jamming the script with elements they
couldn’t air. For instance, the aliens in the episode “Eek vs. the Flying Saucers”
were initially described as a toilet, a urinal and a roll of toilet paper that
were treated “like filth” on their last visit to Earth. It could be surmised
that was just Holland and Kopp applying the old trick of putting in outlandish
content in order to get the stuff they actually wanted past the censor.
Animation duties were handled by Nelvana
while Nathan Wang composed the music.
Renewed for a second season, Eek!
received a revamp. Holland and Kopp came up with the idea for a spin-off
series that instead became a segment of the parent show. Eek! adventures
were pared down to make room for The Terrible Thunderlizards, which saw
the whole show renamed Eek! and the Terrible Thunderlizards. Production
delays prevented the segment from joining the show when the season debuted and
it ended up starting that November. Additional 1-minute segments were planned
starring the various supporting characters, but they were dropped when they
found they didn’t have sufficient time to air them. The Thunderlizards segments
had their own theme composed by Dee Snider
of Twisted Sister.
The Thunderlizards: Kutter, Squatt and Doc.
Thunderlizards
was
set in prehistoric times, however the dinosaurs were shown to possess advanced
intelligence and modern equipment. A trio of dinosaur mercenaries—leader Doc
Tari (Holland), a Parasaurolophus whose crest hole contained a multitude of
gadgets; Day Z. Kutter (Kopp); a Styracosaurus who was an expert with sharp
weaponry, and Bo Diddley Squatt (Jason Priestly, later Corey Feldman), a
dim-witted Allosaurus that was often the first to volunteer for dangerous
missions (modeled after Private Hudson from Aliens)—were tasked
by their commander, General Galapagos (a Tyrannosaurus voiced by Kurtwood
Smith), with exterminating a pair of cavemen before they were allowed to mate
and eventually supplant dinosaurs as the dominant species.
Scooter and Bill.
Those
cavemen were Bill (Adler) and Scooter (Curtis Armstrong, a frequent Holland
collaborator). Scooter was the jolly, optimistic inventor of the pair, often
coming up with a variety of (ultimately defective) devices. Ill-tempered Bill
was often the guinea pig for those devices with disastrous results (ending with
the line “When does the hurting stop?”). They were aware of the Thunderlizards’
attempts to come after them although they had no clue exactly why. It was often
by sheer luck and the Thunerlizards’ ineptitude that the cavemen managed to
escape every time.
Thuggosaur Biff looks at their latest failed invention.
The
Thunderlizards had another foe: the Thuggosaurs. They were a race of undead
Grim Reaper-like dinosaurs that lived in a place called the X-Zone. They were
based on the Forbidden Zone mutants from Beneath the Planet of the Apes and
Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The Thuggosaurs constantly try to
attack Jurassic City, only to end up thwarted by the Thunderlizards and
sometimes the cavemen. Leading the Thuggosaurs was Thuggo (Garret, Smith for 4
episodes), a fan of dramatic TV shows. Biff was his second in command; a gentle
soul who enjoyed flowers.
While
the show remained unchanged for the third season, it did gain another (and
final) new name: Eek! Stravaganza. It also had a loss behind the scenes
as Kopp left the production. While he still provided the voices for all of his
characters, Kopp accepted a deal to develop The Shnookums and Meat Funny
Cartoon Showfor Disney’s The
Disney Afternoonprogramming block. The show ended up being
short-lived, and Kopp was offered a deal to do another show for FOX. Joining
Holland on writing duties for the season were Kati Rocky, Pamela Wick, Henry Gilroy, Paul Germain, Sandy Fries and Frank Santopadre.
The
fourth season introduced another new segment: Klutter! The segment
focused on Ryan (Clarke) and Wade (Holland) Heap, two boys who desperately
wanted a pet. However, their reporter father, John (co-creator David Silverman)
was allergic to just about every animal. They got their wish, however, when Ryan
accidentally charged a pile of clutter with static electricity, creating
Klutter (Kirk Thatcher). They, along with their baby sister Sandee (Sandy Fox)
and neighbors Vanna Erving (Halle Stanford) and Kopp (Michael Zorek) often went
on adventures with Klutter as Ryan fancied himself a reporter like his father.
Despite John’s insistence that their town was completely dull, that didn’t stop
them from encountering ghosts, monsters, mad scientists and aliens.
Klutter munching on some chips.
Klutter!
looked
markedly different from the rest of the Eek! line-up. That was because
it was co-produced by Film Roman with characters designed by Eric S. Keyes and Mark Walsh. Holland
took on most of the staff from the recently-cancelled The Critic, all of
whom worked on the segment.Because Holland and others often had fun
talking about and drawing funny pictures of Bill Kopp behind his back, they
created the character of Kopp based on him. Kopp was portrayed as a bit of a
dimwit and often bore the brunt of some of the jokes. Only 8 episodes of Klutter!
were made, alternating with Thunderlizards segments, which were produced
and directed by Brian Sheesley.
Silverman served as the story editor.
Eek and Elmo cook as Timmy looks on.
For
the fifth and final season, Eek! was taken off of Saturday mornings and
moved to the weekday afternoon timeslot. Klutter! reruns were used to
fill up episode run times, alternating again with Thunderlizard segments.
Although FOX cancelled the series in 1996, new episodes didn’t finish airing until
the summer of 1997. Parts of episodes returned in reruns the following year in
Fox’s Cartoon Cabaña programming block. Both
seasons were written entirely by Holland.
Mulder and Scully appear on Eek!
One
notable aspect of the show was the type and number of celebrity cameos they
were able to book. William Shatner
played Santa in the Christmas special and returned to play Captain Berzerk in
another episode. Bobcat
Goldthwait played Santa’s reindeer, Blitzen. Tim
Curry narrated an episode. Dee Snider and Mr. T portrayed dinosaur versions
of themselves in Thunderlizards. Phil Hartman was a psychotic
bunny, Buck Henry was Cupid,
and Heather Locklear played
Alice, a rival for Annabelle’s affections for Eek. As a love letter to the X-Files,
and an acknowledgement for the fact that Eek! was seen on an episode
of that show, not only did Eek! parody X-Files but David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprised their
roles for an episode of Eek! Appearing as themselves was Nia James, John Walsh, “Weird Al” Yankovic, John Landis, Don Cornelius, Julie Strain, Chuck Jagger, Chris Leary, The Barbi Twins, Cynthia Rothrock, Fabio and Margaret Loesch, the head of
Fox Kids. Holland and Kopp also appeared as themselves. Kato Kaelin was scheduled to
appear as well, but the network vetoed that.
EPISODE
GUIDE (there is some discrepancy with the episode order & air dates for
later seasons): Season
1:
“Misereek”
(9/12/92) – Eek takes Mittens’ place in order to get some better food but finds
out the grass is always greener.
“Bearz
N’ the Hood” (9/19/92) – Eek goes to get a Squishy Bearz autograph for Wendy
Elizabeth, but the Rat Pack disguise themselves as the Bearz to take the
mayor’s statue hostage.
“Castanova”
(9/26/92) – Cupid aids Eek in getting the attention of his new neighbor
Annabelle, while also avoiding her guard dog Sharky.
“Eek
vs. the Flying Saucers” (10/3/92) – Eek has to save Annabelle and the planet
from an evil alien.
“Cape
Fur” (10/17/92) – Eek rescues and adopts a bunny, only to discover the bunny is
a psychopath.
“HallowEek”
(10/31/92) – Eek has to rescue his children and some ghosts from a pretty
witch.
“Eek’s
International Adventure” (11/14/92) – While on a family vacation, Eek is
mistaken for a secret agent and ends up captured by the evil Brain with the
gorgeous agent Sasha.
“HawaiiEek
5-0” (11/21/92) – Rescuing Anabelle from a swimming pool lands her, Eek and
Jacques L’Ducks on a tropical island where Anabelle is made queen—and a
sacrifice.
“Great
Balls of Fur” (11/28/92) – When superstar Melvis fakes his death to escape his
career, his manager tricks Eek into impersonating him for his own benefit.
“The
Whining Pirates of Tortuga” (12/5/92) – While waiting for Sharky to leave, Eek
regales the neighborhood kittens with an adventure tale about his encounter
with real pirates.
“The
Eekcidental Tourist” (12/12/92) – Wendy Elizabeth’s mother takes the family on
a cross-country road trip to improve her geography knowledge, and Eek is left
behind in every state.
“It’s
A Wonderful Nine Lives” (12/19/92) – Eek goes on a mission to deliver a package
that fell out of Santa’s sleigh.
“The
Eeksterminator” (12/26/92) – Eek has to rescue the termites he gave Wendy
Elizabeth from a group of spiders and an exterminator.
Season
2:
“Shark
Therapy / Speed FrEek” (9/25/93) – Eek rushes Sharky to Dr. Elmo after running
him over with a lawn mower, but all they do is make Sharky worse. / Elmo tricks
Eek into running a race for him when he goes up against a superior opponent.
“Rocketship
to Jupiter / Eek’s Funny Thing That He Does” (10/2/93) – Eek dreams that he and
the Squishy Bearz visit Professor Wiggly to test his rocket ship. / Eek has to
get lemons from Sharky’s yard in order to replenish J.B. and Wendy Elizabeth’s
supply for their lemonade stand.
“Eekpocalypse
Now! / Eex Men” (10/9/93) – Eek, the kittens and Elmo head up the McTropolis
River to find Sharky. / Superpersonman decides to give up being a hero and
saddles Eek with the job.
“Quadrapedia
/ Night on Squishy Mountain” (11/6/93) – The Rat Pack kidnaps Anabelle on
behalf of two witch cats jealous of her beauty. / A day at the amusement park
is disrupted when Mom is captured by an insane automaton.
“Star
TrEek / Eeking Out a Living” (11/13/93) – Eek dreams he’s a starship captain
engaged in a battle with Sharky the Sharktarian. / When Eek and Sharky accidentally
break Annabelle’s garden fountain statue, they get jobs in order to buy the
glue needed to fix it.
“Meat
the Thunderlizards / The Great Eekscape” (11/20/93) – Believing mankind will
lead them to extinction, General Galapagos forms the Thunderlizards to stamp
out two cavemen. / Eek and Sharky end up in the pound when they’re found
without their licenses.
“The
Lava my Life / Eek Goes to the Hot Spot” (11/27/93) – A chase leads the
Thunderlizards and the cavemen into unwittingly rescuing the President’s
daughter. / When Eek ends up in the afterlife, a bad cat trades places with him
so that Eek will end up in the hot spot instead.
“Tar
and Away” (12/4/93) – The cavemen and Thunderlizards discover an alien ship in
a tar pit.
“It’s
a Very Merry Eek’s Mas” (12/5/93) – Eek takes Sharky to see Santa to grant him
a Christmas wish, but they end up delivering presents instead when the reindeer
and elves go on strike.
“Always
Eat Your Spinach” (12/18/93) – Trying to root the cavemen out of a house leads
Squatt to accidentally create a spinach monster.
“All
About Babs” (1/1/94) – The dino scientists create a female human designed to
lure the cavemen to the Thunderlizards, but she has her own plans.
“The
Frying Game” (1/8/94) – The Thuggasaurs plan to use missiles to destroy
Jurassic City.
“Ice
Age Kapades / Something’s Abyss” (1/15/94) – The cavemen discover a lost ice
projection gun in their travels and accidentally start the Ice Age. / The
cavemen fall into a ravine where they’re captured by slugs whose princess wants
to marry Bill.
“The
Unbearable Lightness of Being Scooter / Thundersaurus Wrecks” (1/22/94) – While
the cavemen escape via helium, the Thunderlizards discover the Thuggasaurs’
inflatable bomber. / Scooter saves a baby bat from falling, and as thanks its
mother gives them a ride while the Thunderlizards pursue in a plane.
“A
Sharkwork Orange / Let’s Make a Wheel” (2/5/94) – Eek sends Sharky to Dr. Elmo
for his anger issues. / Bill tries out Scooter’s new wheel and ends up foiling
the Thunderlizards’ new weapon against them.
“T-Rex,
Lies and Videotape” (2/19/94) – Spy cameras used to find the cavemen stumble
upon the Thuggasaurs’ latest explosive plot.
“Mountain
Groan” (2/26/94) – On a camping trip, Annabelle ends up the only one not abducted
and left alone against a bigfoot.
Season
3:
“Paws
/ In the Line of Fur” (9/10/94) – Eek, Sharky and Mittens have to retrieve
Annabelle’s overfed goldfish from Wendy Elizabeth’s pool party. / After rescuing
the President’s cat Socks, Eek becomes his escort and has to rescue him from
mad dog Checkers.
“Chariots
of Fur / Honey I Shrunk the Cat” (9/17/94) – Elmo forces Eek to substitute in a
race for him and uses Sharky to ensure Eek will win. / Eek and Sharky end up
shrunken by Elmo’s shrink ray, but before they can be enlarged they have to
remove a raisin from the President’s brain.
“Shark
Doggy Dog / Fatal Eektraction” (9/24/94) – Choking on a sock has Don Corenlius
turn Sharky into a rap star. / Eek’s new neighbor has the hots for him and
tries to get rid of Annabelle.
“The
Good, the Bad and the Squishy / Birth of a Notion” (10/8/94) – Eek tells
Annabelle about a mysterious stranger who partners with a sheriff to save a
Western town. / Babs returns to celebrate Bill’s burpday…by having the cavemen
build her a mall.
“Eek’s
SnEek Peek / The Thunder Years” (10/15/94) – Eek provides some behind the
scenes information of his movie with the Squishy Bearz. / The Thunderlizards
are downed in Thuggasaur territory and reminisce while they await rescue in a
cave.
“The
Eex Files / The Hurting Show” (11/5/94) – Eek is believed to be an alien when
he crashes into Area 51 after falling out of an airplane. / While the
Thunderlizards stop a hijacking, Scooter invents a talk show to help Bill work
through his problems.
“Paw
Sores / T-Rex and Sympathy” (11/12/94) – Eek dreams he’s a space knight in a Star
Wars-esque setting. / Mr. T-Rex rides along on the Thunderlizards’ next
mission.
“The
Eeksorcist / Boo Thunder” (11/19/94) – Elmo accidentally unleashes the joyful
spirit Huggie who possesses Sharky and makes him too cute and lovable. / Scooter
invents Halloween where they scare their neighbors with masks while the Thuggosaurs
create a lava-covered robot for their next attack.
“Lord
of the Fleas / Postcards from the X-Zone” (11/26/94) – Elmo tricks Eek into
babysitting some savage penguins that he has to wrangle out of the mall. / The
cavemen go on vacation when their home is hit by a stink bomb and the
Thuggosaurs plan a giggle gas attack.
“Eekstremely
Dull / Planet of the Crepes” (2/4/95) – An extremely boring squirrel family
moves into the neighborhood. / While the Thunderlizards battle the Thuggosaurs’
submarine, an astronaut crash lands on Earth and is shocked by what he finds.
“Eeksy
Rider / A Sharkdog Day Afternoon” (2/18/95) – While getting Wendy Elizabeth’s
bike fixed, Eek, Sharky and Mittens enter a BMX bike tournament. / The
Sharkenator arrives to eliminate Sharky, but Tera comes to his rescue.
“Rebel
Without the Claws / Cromagnon Farce” (2/25/95) – While Annabelle’s at the
beach, she sends Eek and Sharky off for an hour resulting in mishaps to befall
Sharky’s car. The Thuggosaurs try to hijack the space rocket the Thunderlizards
launch to track the cavemen.
“This
Eek’s Your Life” (5/6/95) – Sharky relives his past as everyone comes out to
celebrate his birthday.
“Try
Hard” (7/8/95) – Eek heads off to donate things to the Kittens’ Hospital while
Sharky seeks revenge against him for unknowingly destroying his statue.
Season
4:
“Valley
of the Dogs / Klutter” (9/9/95) – Sharky wakes up one day and decides to become
a Broadway star. / Ryan and Wade are desperate for a pet and accidentally create
one when static electricity brings their clutter to life.
“Pup
Fiction / The Klutter and I (Infection)” (9/16/95) – Eek and Sharky find a
briefcase and set out to return it to its owner. / Klutter tries to help the
kids stay awake long enough to watch a late-night horror movie.
“Natural
Bored Kittens / Lizard of Aaaahs” (9/23/95) –
“OutbrEek
/ Arctic Blast” (9/30/95) –
“Octopussy
Cat / Mixed Klutter” (10/7/95) – Eek undergoes a series of trials to return a
lost octopus to the ocean. / A trip to the aquarium has Klutter being captured
after he’s mistaken for an escaped sea creature.
“Going
to Eekstremes / Bi-Predator” (10/21/95) – Eek’s cousin visits and drags him on
a series of disastrous adventures. / Mr. T-Rex and Bill get blasted into a
restaurant where General Galapagos is eating with his wife.
“Dazed
and Eekstremely Confused / Franken-Klutter” (11/4/95) – Elmo tricks Eek into
taking his place as a movie stuntman. / A disgraced scientist wants to get his
hands on Klutter to figure out the secret to his living and become respected in
his community.
“Eek
Space-9 / The Yawn of Man” (11/11/95) – Eek and the crew have to stop Commander
Berzerk from destroying the universe. / Babs shows off her anacondaminium while
the Thuggosaurs’ latest plot backfires and turns them and the Thunderlizards
into babies.
“The
GraduEek / Peanut Klutter and Jelly” (11/18/95) – Sharky graduates obedience
school and befriends an attractive mail carrier prospect. / After bringing a
turtle back to the river, the kids have to chase their lunches after they float
away on a log.
“PolitEekly
Correct / Whatta Woild” (11/25/95) – After causing a quail to forget his song,
Eek and Sharky take him on a musical tour. / The Thunderlizards have to stop
the Thuggosaurs’ submarine attack.
“Night
of the Living Spuds” (1/29/96) – John gives the kids a pointless story for them
to investigate which leads them into encountering giant living potatoes.
“Goop
Dreams” (1/30/96) – The dino scientists invent a sticky goop that can trap the
cavemen.
“It’s
a Thunderful Life” (2/1/96) – The Thunderlizards’ latest device against the
cavemen goes crazy and begins attacking Jurassic City.
“Thunder
& Frightning” (2/5/96) – The Thunderlizards are given jet packs for their
next human hunt.
“The
Ghost of Goober Bottom Pond” (2/6/96) – Klutter and the kids investigate a
ghost story at the local pond.
“The
Thunder of It All” (2/7/96) – The Thuggosaurs plan to use a missile launcher
disguised as a smiling inch worm to invade and destroy Jurassic City.
“Bonfire
of the Vanna Tea” (2/8/96) – Klutter accidentally ruins the high society party
Vanna attempts to throw.
“The
Magnificent 5 ½” (2/16/96) – To stop a Thuggosaur invasion, the Thunderlizards
are saddled with three specialists for help.
Season
5:
“DiabolEek”
(9/6/96) – Sharky goes to Dr. Elmo to help get rid of his Eek nightmares.
“Pre-Hysteric
Man / Molten Rock-n-Roll” (9/13/96) – Bill accidentally releases a lava flow at
the city, and the Thunderlizards are tasked with stopping it. / The
Thunderlizards have to rescue musician Dee Snidersaur from the Thuggosaurs
after his helicopter crashes in the X-Zone.
“MystEek
Pizza” (9/16/96) – Eek ends up in orbit after ruining one of Sharky’s favorite
shows.
“Eek
Bin Ein Berliner / Thunder Valley” (9/20/96) – Eek causes the destruction of
Shakry’s dog house, and disrupts his attempts to rebuild. / Bill tries to lose
weight while Squatt flies away after drinking liquid helium.
“Snowbored”
(10/14/96) – Elmo tricks Eek into taking his place in a snowboard race.
“Fists
of Furry” (10/28/96) – Cynthia Rothrock trains Sharky in the martial arts.
“The
Island of Dr. Meow / Home O’Spaien Alone” (7/7/97) – Sharky has to defend his
newfound island paradise from a deranged scientist. / The Thunderlizards head
to the X-Zone to escape General Galapagos’ wrath when they tear down the wrong
building.
“Nightmare
on Elmo St. / Night of the Living Duds” (7/14/97) – Eek and Elmo accidentally
create a giant living chocolate souffle. / The Thunderlizards set out to stop
the Thuggosaurs’ Super Beehive cannon.
“Show
Squirls” (7/18/97) – The Squirrel’s show is taken on the road with Sharky serving
as their manager.
“Eekscaliber”
(7/21/97) – A conk on the head sends Sharky back to medieval times, serving
King Eek by finding the Holy Grill.
“The
FugEektive” (7/25/97) – Eek enlists John Walsh’ help in clearing an amnesiac
Sharky of a bank robbery.
“The
Sound of MusEek / Oh…the Humanity” (7/28/97) – Elmo’s friends hold a benefit
concert for Timmy’s next procedure. / The Thunderlizards are sent to escort and
important archaeological find while Scooter invents dentistry.
“Rock-Eek
6” (8/1/97) – When Sharky accidentally injures Platinum, he takes her place in
her upcoming match against the Disturbed Android.
