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March 10, 2004
It's Game Over for UPN
Tonight, UPN will take the mainstreaming of video game culture to the next level with Game Over, an animated comedy about the day-to-day lives of a family of video game characters.
The Smashenburn family invites you into their home in digital suburbia, where they try to live a normal life among monsters, action heroes and fantasy creatures. After all, you never know when a backyard barbecue will be interrupted by a gaggle of goons bent on wreaking havoc.
Actress Lucy Liu provides the voice for the family matriarch, Raquel, and Seinfeld 's Patrick Warburton voices the father, Rip. Both make a living playing video game characters: Mom as a Lara Croft-style super-agent in search of priceless relics and Dad as a Grand Prix driver.
The family pet Turbo, voiced by Artie Lang from the Howard Stern Show, seems to be the sitcom's stand-out character. The wisecracking, cigar-puffing, liquor-swilling creature seems to give a honorary nod to Robert Smigel as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. (Although we hear his funniest bits were cut by nervous network execs in the wake of the current media indecency hysteria.)
Game Over debuts tonight, Wednesday at 8/7c on UPN.
Link: http://www.gameover.tv/characterbios.html
Posted by gamegal at March 10, 2004 12:31 PM
Comments
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Posted by: Sara B Sterling at November 6, 2004 01:49 AM
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Posted by: Stephanie Jones at November 6, 2004 10:16 PM
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Posted by: Ming Ho Lee at November 7, 2004 08:29 PM
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Posted by: Stacy at November 10, 2004 01:05 AM