My Black Son
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| Genre | Comedy |
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| Based on | Popeye, by E. C. Segar |
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| Theme music composer | Walter Murphy |
| Opening theme | "My Black Son" by Seth MacFarlane |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Production companies | Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Mondo Media Fuzzy Door Productions King Features Entertainment 20th Television[a] |
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| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | February 26, 1995 – present |
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My Black Son is an American animated comedy series created by Seth MacFarlane and Kenn Navarro for the Cartoon Network. Based on the Popeye comic strip created by E.C. Segar and published by King Features Syndicate. Jointly produced by 20th Television, Mondo Media, Hanna-Barbera, Fuzzy Door Productions and King Features subsidiary King Features Entertainment, the series premiered on February 26, 1995. It is a follow-up to The All New Popeye Hour and Popeye and Son. Billy West catches a new voiced of Popeye and then, West retiring on voice Popeye replaces Tom Kenny in season twelfth to present. In the animated of the 1940's-1950's Famous Studios and 1930's-1940's Fleischer Studios designed-style.
A three special half-hour crossover episodes with produced by Cartoon Network Studios and 20th Century Fox Television on the Cartoon Network series, Ben 10, aired in 2007 until 2011.
Overview
In the Famous Studios's style, Popeye and Olive Oyl who is returned to the Shorty since 1944 in the lunched time on the spinach. The adventures of the boat Popeye goes to the sailor.
Voice cast
- Billy West (seasons 1-11) and Tom Kenny (season 12-present) as Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy
- Tabitha St. Germain (seasons 1-11), Grey DeLisle (season 12-present) as Olive Oyl
- Tabitha St. Germain (seasons 1-9), Mae Questel and Margie Hines (archival recordings on season 10-present) as Swee'Pea
- Dan Castellaneta as Shorty
- Seth MacFarlane (seasons 1-2) and Gary Chalk (seasons 3-present) as Bluto
- Sanders Whiting as J. Wellington Wimpy
Episodes
Production
Development
In 1995, Seth MacFarlane and Kenn Navarro begins with join of he show and a team of production companies titled with adapted My Black Son into a half-hour series for the Cartoon Network. The half-hour series premiered on February 26, 1995, with "The Morning Club of Popeye" was the first full-length episode.
Showrunners
Kenn Navarro and Seth MacFarlane have served as executive producers during the show's entire history, and also function as creative consultants.
Voice actors
My Black Son has new recording of the voice cast members: Billy West and Tom Kenny as the voice of Popeye, Tabita St. Germain as the voice of Olive Oyl and Swee'pea and Dan Castellaneta as the voice of Shorty. Every main cast member has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.
Animation
Several different American and international studios animate My Black Son. These are AKOM, Grimseam, Sunwoo Entertainment, Rough Draft Studios, Yeson Animation Studios, Yearim and Digital eMation.
For the first seven seasons, Film Roman animated My Black Son, the show when they were replaced by Fatkat in 2005 and then, replaced by Rough Draft Studios in 2007, which the show is now on Glendale and Korea in Rough Draft. In the first episode of Season 6, production switched from traditional cel animation to digital ink and paint in the episode "Popeye's Class Teacher".
The production staff at the American animation studio, Film Roman, draws storyboards, designs new characters, backgrounds, props and draws character and background layouts, which in turn become animatics to be screened for the writers at Fuzzy Door Productions for any changes to be made before the work is shipped overseas. The overseas studios then draw the inbetweens, ink and paint, and render the animation to shipped back to the United States to be delivered to Cartoon Network.
The series began high-definition production in season 9; the first episode, "Fans of the Dance", aired May 13, 2007. The move to HDTV included pan-and-scan opening sequence in full-screen. Seth MacFarlane called it a high-definition is good show.
The high-definition production in season 10; this episode, "The Orchestra to Concerto", aired February 5, 2010, The new animated opening sequence on HDTV. Seth MacFarlane called it a completed in the animation on new opening title sequence.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 55 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 9.9/8. The website's critics consensus reads: "What's a fantastic Popeye new animated-style designed of wonderful Famous Studios's style". Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 100 based on 90 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
References
External links
- My Black Son on IMDb
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- ↑ Credited as 20th Century Fox Television until season 18.
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