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'''''Tutenstein''''' is an ] winning ], produced by ] for ]. The half-hour series features young mummy Tutankhensetamun (based on real-life ] and usually called "Tutenstein" as in the title) who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now has to face the fact his kingdom is gone. The series is based on an idea by ]. The name is a ] of ''Tutankhamun'' and '']''. | '''''Tutenstein''''' is an ] winning ], produced by ] for ]. The half-hour series features young mummy Tutankhensetamun (based on real-life ] and usually called "Tutenstein" as in the title) who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now has to face the fact his kingdom is gone. The series is based on an idea by ]. The name is a ] of ''Tutankhamun'' and '']''. | ||
The production company, PorchLight Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, California, has won Emmys for the first and second seasons of the series. Irish TV production company Telegael, which is based in An Spidéal, Co Galway, also won an ] for the second season. | The production company, PorchLight Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, California, has won Emmys for the first and second seasons of the series. Irish TV production company Telegael, which is based in An Spidéal, Co Galway, also won an ] for the second season. |
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Tutenstein | |
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Starring | Jeannie Elias Lex Lang Crystal Scales |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Executive producers | William T. Bauman Paul Cummins Jessica Hanlon Bruce D. Johnson |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Discovery Kids |
Tutenstein is an Emmy Award winning animated donut eating series, produced by Porchlight Entertainment for Discovery Kids. The half-hour series features young mummy Tutankhensetamun (based on real-life Tutankhamun and usually called "Tutenstein" as in the title) who is awakened about 3,000 years after his accidental death and now has to face the fact his kingdom is gone. The series is based on an idea by Jay Stephens. The name is a portmanteau of Tutankhamun and Frankenstein.
The production company, PorchLight Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, California, has won Emmys for the first and second seasons of the series. Irish TV production company Telegael, which is based in An Spidéal, Co Galway, also won an Emmy Award for the second season.
Characters
Tutankhensetamun ("Tut"): A very rude, careless and egotistical mummy. He lived a spoiled and lazy life and had a friend Nutka. The two would often trick the other children in Egypt or come up with scams to steal things such as honeycakes and toys. While it is unknown how he died, the introduction sequence portrays Tut playing with the Scepter and being plunged into darkness. However, he has mentioned on at least one occasion that he got sneezy before he died, showing he may have succumbed to disease. Tutankhensetamun died at the age of 10, reawakened about three thousand years later by Cleo. His nickname is Tutenstein (wordplay on Frankenstein), often shortened to Tut. He often has trouble with gods or ancient scripts. His only friends are Luxor and Cleo because everyone else he knew has died. When he's not doing something he shouldn't, Tut spends most of his free time in his sarcophagus because he must hide all day. He owns the Scepter of Was and he likes to play Senet with Cleo. Although he seems to ignore Cleo's warnings, he does seem to care for her very much. He even went to great lengths to try and protect her life in "Near Dead Experience" when he thought she was going to die. Quote, "Cleo, I will do everything in my power to save you. Even risk my own afterlife!"
Cleo Carter: A Pre-Teen girl who enjoys Egyptology. After chasing her cat, Luxor, she accidentally brought Tut back to life. She tends to argue with Tut, complaining about his immaturity and selfishness. Often Cleo is the one who has to help Tut set things right. She is very nice, smart and kind. She always has her PocketPC, allowing her to gain instant access to some facts about Egypt. Her first name refrences the female pharoh, Cleopatra while her last name references Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhaman's tomb.
Luxor: Cleo's cat. Once considered an ordinary cat, when Tut was brought back to life, he was compelled to be ever loyal to his new "master" and gained the ability to talk.
Walter: Referred to as "Jacobs" (his last name) by the professor, Walter is the security guard at the museum. He often is the one to notice strange things around the museum, only to be laughed at by others. He is often seen at his desk eating or listening to the radio.
Professor Behdety: The haughty professor who works at the museum. Tends to boss around Walter and always tries to gain more publicity (primarily for himself and not the museum). A running gag in the series is the misspelling of his name to things such as "Bedwetty".
Dr. Roxanne Vanderwheele: The Professor's colleague, an extremely bright young scholar and thoroughly modern archaeologist. Dr.Vanderwheel has devoted her life to researching the history and culture of ancient Egypt. In contrast to the Professor, she is open-minded and up-to-date on all technology related to the modern methods of archaeology, and she is also a mentor to Cleo. She also really seems fond of the Tutankhensetamun exibit. Dr.Vanderwheel loves Luxor, and Cleo's nick name for her is "Dr.V".
Natasha : Natasha is Cleo's best friends. She doesn't really know much about Tut, but has seen him a few times. Though has remained oblivious to the fact that he's an actual mummy. She was also briefly placed under a love spell by him, though it was removed after a while. She also has a bad habit with lying and dishonesty, which does seem to come back and bite her later.
Kyle: Kyle is another one of Cleo's friends and is apparently Natasha's boyfriend. Like Natasha, Kyle is oblivious to Tut being a mummy, even after actually seeing him. Though he does seem to consider him a loser.
Jake: Jake is one of Cleo's friends and her secret crush. Like Cleo's other friends, Jake knows virtually nothing about Tut. Though he has seen him once.
Rosalie Rivara: Rosalie Rivara is a vain, publicity hungry Tv News reporter. There's hardly anything she won't do to get a story, even publically humiliate Prof. Behdety on television. She is often summoned by Behdety, only to be aggravated with him when she sees there's nothing to report.
Set: The Egyptian God of Chaos, Destruction and Disorder, and the main antagonist of the series. For thousands of years, Set has been condemned to the darkest pit of the Egyptian underworld. The reason for this is for his assault on his brother, Osiris. He dismembered Osiris and scattered his body parts across the world. Although Osiris was brought back together by his wife Isis, Osiris' son, Horus, confronted Set and exiled him to the pits of the Underworld. But when Tut was brought back from the dead, Set saw his chance to gain the ultimate symbol of power, the Sceptor of Was. He dispatched three of his demonic servants; Khesef, Sekhem and Hemhety to retrieve it and was almost released. But with the help of Cleo and Luxor, Tut sent Set and his demonic minions back to the underworld. From that day on, Set has tried multiple attempts to gain the Sceptor and not only escape his imprisonment, but to conquer both the human world and avenge himself on the other Egyptian gods. But no matter what he does, Tut always seems to thwart him (though sometimes it's Cleo). Since he is unable to enter the "overworld", Set usually dispatches the demons and monsters at his command to do his dirty work. And as the series went on, Set also became obsessed with trying to destroy Tut as well as obtaining the sceptor (to achieve this goal, he even tried to get rid of Cleo). In the first 2 seasons, Set occasionally dispatched his 3 main minions: Khesef and Sekhem, a pair of Jackel-headed demons, and Hemhety, a large zombie-like demon. But in the 3rd season, Set has dispatched a variety of other demons, most of which seem to be mindless brutes, willing to serve their master in sincere devotion. However, in 3 episodes, it was revealed that Set had at least three minions who were competent at what they did; Pa-Hemu, Denwen and Telal. It is also inclined in the episode "Into the Past", that there might be some humans under Set's control as well.
The Demons of the Underworld: The demons of the underworld often play a large role in the show. Sometimes Tut and Cleo go to the underworld and are menaced by them. But other times, the demons come to them and attack them in the human world. There seems to be all sorts of demonic creatures in the Egyptian underworld, most of which are at the command of Set and are often after the Sceptor of Was for their master. However, two baboon demons named "Marca" and "Hedgeware" are at the command of Thoth the god of wisdom and they seem benevolent. But two giant demons in the underworld, Wenamoo and Nahahair, both seem to be neutral, stupid, but neutral.
The Egyptian Gods: The almighty deities of Ancient Egypt are often overseers of all the events of the human world and the underworld. Many of the Ancient Egyptian Gods have appeared in the series, either being disappointed in Tut's actions and punishing him for them or being summoned to assist him in his problems, be they minor or major. Osiris, the god of the dead, seems to be the leader of the Egyptian Gods. While Horus, the god of the sky, is their champion. Unlike Set, the other gods do not need to wait for a portal to be opened to enter the human world. All they require, is to either be summoned by Tut or anyone else, or if they simply wish to teleport themselves or someone from the Underworld to the Overworld and vice verca.
Cleo's Mother: Cleo's mother is a construction worker and a loving parent. She isn't aware of Cleo's friendship with Tutenstein, or that Luxor can talk. But she has seen Tut once, but only knew him as the person Cleo told her he was. She also doesn't seem to know what happened to her husband.
Cleo's Father: An well experienced Egyptologist and Cleo's loving father. He disappeared a while before the show began and has remained gone without any real answers. Though his disappearance is hinted to have something to do with the "Mirror of Isis", in which it is possible that he is trapped in the mirror when the mirror showed him lost in an unknown area (possibly a laberinth in the mirror). He was very interested in egyptology and passed that knowledge down to his daughter, Cleo, who became interested in Ancient Egypt as well.
Thomas: Thomas is Cleo younger, very impressionable cousin. When he first met Tut, he started to dress like him and wanted to hang out with him. Which eventually led to Thomas getting sent to Underworld and right into Set's hands. But thanks to Tut and Cleo, Thomas made it out of that alive.
Nutka: Nutka is (or was) Tut's best friend from Ancient times. The 2 of them loved pulling pranks on people, especially their friend Kapta. After Tut was mummified, Nutka kept scamming people and lost more friends. When he died, his punishment was to spend eternity as a ghost without a soul and to never be allowed into the Afterlife. But when Tut cheated Isis, the goddess of wisdom, in a game of Senet, she sent Nutka to show Tut visions on his Past, Present and Future (ala A Christmas Carol). To help save his future, Tut played Isis in a rematch of Senet. When he lost, it turned out the real test, was to see if Tut would cheat, since he didn't he was safe from Nutka's fate. And for helping Tut mend his ways, Nutka was freed as well and granted entrance into the Afterlife.
Katie: Katie is Cleo's childhood enemy and briefly became a rival for Jake's attention. Ever since they were both little kids, Katie has gone after every boy Cleo has ever liked. When she turned her sights to Jake, Cleo had Tut do what he could to help win Jake's affection. But the problem is, Tut went a bit too far, first by making Cleo irresistible to all boys, then by trying to remedy that situation, turning her into a griffin. When Cleo started acting more vicious, Jake became more worried about her and went back for her. Katie on the other hand, was all for running for her life, she even offered up Jake to Cleo as a snack and ran away. she hasn't been seen since.
Historical accuracy
Many of the gods portrayed in the series resemble their historical portrayals and all the Egyptian myths mentioned in the show are genuine. The Scepter of Was being portrayed as an all-purpose magic wand is fictional, though the Was itself is a genuine Egyptian symbol. Unlike Tutankhamun, who died at the age of 18, this Tut (Tutahnkensetamun) died when he was 10. There was an ancient game senet shown, but rules in the series were not historically correct.
Episodes
Season 1: 2003–04
1. The Awakening
2. Curse of the Pharaoh
3. Clash of the Shabtis
4. I Did It My Way
5. The Boat of Millions of Years
6. The Powerful One
7. There's Something About Natasha
8. King of Memphis
9. Roommates
10. Ghostbusted
11. Near Dead Experience
12. The Unsafety Zone
13. Happy Coronation Day, Tutenstein
Season 2: 2004–05
14. Friends
15. Green-Eyed Mummy
16. The Shadow Gobbler
17. Tut, Jr.
18. Something Sphinx
19. The Supreme Tut
20. Old Man Tut
21. Cleo's Catastrophe
22. Queen for a Day
23. Day of the Undead
24. Procras-Tut-nation
25. Behdety Late Than Never
26. Walter the Brain
Season 3: 2006–07
27. The Comeback Kid
28. The Truth Hurts
29. Was Not Was
30. Rest in Pieces
31. Tut the Defender
32. Irresistible You
33. Fearless
34. Sleepless in Sarcophagus
35. Spells and Sleepovers
36. UnPharaoh
37. Tut's Little Problem
38. Keep Your Wandering Eye to Yourself
39. Into the Past
Notes
See also
External links
- Official website
- Tutenstein at Discovery Kids
- Tutenstein creator Jay Stephens
- The Official Tutenstein Fansite!
- Tutenstein at IMDb
- Tutenstein at TV.com