Game Over (TV series)
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Game Over was a short-lived UPN series produced by Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions, LLC. It is aimed at teenage audiences and focuses on what happens to your favorite video game characters after the game ends. UPN had hyped the show a lot before its debut. Some people were skeptical of this because of UPN's track record with their cartoons.
The show is based around the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family who lives in an alternate video game universe. Only five of the produced episodes of the show were ever aired.
The show's characters include:
- Rip Smashenburn, a Grand Prix driver who races every day and crashes his car all the time
- Raquel Smashenburn, a covert agent who fights monsters and is some sort of Lara Croft rip-off
- Alice Smashenburn, a cynical yet socially conscious 14-year-old
- Billy Smashenburn, a 13-year-old hoping to become a rapper
- Turbo, a 300-pound talking creature who robs pawn shops and smokes cigars
- The Changs, a family of kung fu-fighting Shaolin monks
The show's stars are:
The title of the series comes from game over, a common phrase at the ending of various video games.
Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=4668) that all six episodes of the series will be released on DVD in North America on June 28, 2005.Template:Tvseries-stub