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| Pet Alien | |
|---|---|
 Pet Alien title card | |
| Genre | Computer animation |
| Created by | Jeff Muncy |
| Developed by | Dan Danko Bill Shultz John Fisher Jeff Muncy Tom K. Mason Sadaf Cohen Muncy Andrew Young |
| Voices of | Charlie Schlatter Charlie Adler Jess Harnell Candi Milo |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Bill Schultz Jeff Muncy Sadaf Cohen Muncy Nicolas Atlan Christophe Di Sabatino |
| Producer | Cary Silver |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | January 23, 2005 – May 26, 2005 |
Pet Alien is an American computer-animated television series. The series airs on Cartoon Network, and on Cartoon Network in the UK from January 2005, but it will move to Nicktoons UK from June 4, 2007. The series aired 26 episodes, before being cancelled due to low ratings.
Plot
Pet Alien is a show about a 13 year old boy called Tommy Cadle who lives with five aliens in a lighthouse. The series takes place in the fictional town of DeSpray Bay where it follows Tommy's hectic life with five aliens from the planet Conforma who once crash-landed in his lighthouse and have stayed there ever since. Unlike most animated aliens living on Earth, the aliens in this cartoon don't wear disguises, but all the humans, except Tommy, are too ignorant to tell that they're aliens.
Characters
Main characters
- Tommy Cadle
Tommy is a happy and sensible boy. He rarely gets into trouble, except for when the aliens are around. Like all the other aliens, Tommy loves taffy.
- Dinko
Dinko is the biggest troublemaker of the gang. Though he always tries to help Tommy, he always mucks things up, often because he misunderstands Tommy's words to the point of insanity his evil twin Cousin name Danko.
- Gumpers
Gumpers is a big alien with a big appetite (and not just for food, e.g. eating shoes). He likes to burp and fart and also possesses a living tooth. He is very strong, but also very afraid. He appears to be extremely dumb most of the time, but he is capable of intelligent thoughts if he strains his brain hard enough.
- Flip
Flip is an alien that looks like a parrot with a lot of energy. It's difficult to understand what he's saying, although the last word uttered in his sentences often is understandable.
- Swanky
Swanky is an arrogant, cocky and snobby alien who only thinks about himself. In the series, he often tries to eliminate Tommy and the other aliens so that he can have the lighthouse to himself, particularly Tommy's bedroom. His father is called Harold.
- Scruffy
Scruffy is a dog-looking alien who jumps like a hare and whose tongue supposedly is smarter than himself.
Major characters
- Melba Manners
Melba is a spoiled brat who is an enemy of Tommy's. She enjoys forcing him to do tedious or tiresome tasks, thanks to her loud and shrill voice and nasty attitude. She is also an exceptionally clever opponent in staring competitions. Despite her last name, she is very impolite. Like most humans, she doesn't know that the aliens are aliens. She just calls them Tommy's "things".
- Gabby
Gabby is in love with Tommy, but unfortunately he doesn't feel the same way. In several episodes it is revealed that she can smell when Tommy is in trouble.
- Granville DeSpray
Granville is a direct descendant of DeSpray Bay's founders, as you can tell from his name, and as such he values old English traditions like teatime. Oddly, many characters mistake him for being Norwegian. Granville is hopelessly in love with Melba and has numerous times, to no avail, attempted to win her heart. He hates Tommy and blames him for everything bad that happens. He only has one friend; the statue Admiral Puff.
- Clinton Fillmore Jefferson XIII
Clinton competes in any kind of sports available and usually wins. His hobby is to annoy Tommy.
Recurring characters
- Cap'n Spangley
Cap'n Spangley is an old sailor who is a little crazy. He is afraid of water and crustaceans and he runs the local taffy shop which Tommy and the aliens visit at least daily.
- Tommy's mum
Tommy's mum lives in a house located near to Tommy's lighthouse. The viewers never get to see her, as she keeps contact with her son solely through the microphone installed in Tommy's bedroom.
- Old Man Bitters
Old Man Bitters is Cap'n Spangley's enemy and the angry man fihsing.
Minor characters
- Emperor Breet
Emperor Breet is an evil emperor who now and then journeys to Earth to kidnap the aliens living with Tommy. Unfortunately, he always loses the right to take them in a game he isn't very clever at, and therefore despises: the musical chairs.
- Doctor Daffodil
Doctor Daffodil is the doctor Dinko and his friends consults whenever Tommy needs a doctor. Unfortunately, his methods can be highly dangerous and Tommy therefore tries to evade him as much as possible.
Episode list
Season 1
- The Boy with Six Legs / Evil Emperor
- The Amazing Atomic Tommy / Crater of Doom
- Attack of the 50 ft Boy / It Came from the Closet
- The Bride of Gumpers / The Thing on the Corner
- I Was a Teenage Bearded Boy / Escape from Detention X
- Box of Doom / Assault of a Rodent
- They Came from Outer Space / Tentacles of Terror
- The Great Movie Massacre / The Day That Wouldn't End
- It Comes When You Sleep / Attack of the Werescruffy
- Sounds of Doom / Darkness
- She Comes for Your Heart / Beast Who Stole My Heart
- Night of the Walking Cannonball / It Landed on the Porch
- Bay of the Triffids / Doctor of Doom
Season 2
- Invasion of the Balloon People / The Little Monster Ball
- The Land That Size Forgot / The Day the Food Expired
- The Evil that Thumbs Do / Terror TV
- Bad Blood from Beyond / The Day Time Stood Still
- Horror Scope / Scare Affair
- Stage Fright / Night of the Cat People
- Return of the Ghastly Gobbler / Shipping and Handling Not Included
- The Boy Who Became Something / Unleashed Beast of Fury
- The Creature of the Spray Bay / The Alien Who Sold the World
- Beware the Decider Maker / I Voted for an Alien
- A Pirate and His Dog / They Took Tommy's Brain
- The Boy Who Ate Too Much Taffy / The Floating Head
- The Time That Time Ended / The Day of Judgement
Broadcast history
- USA
- UK
- CITV
- Cartoon Network (2005)
- Nick Toons (2007–)