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| {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Fanboy & Chum Chum''}}
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| |name = ''Fanboy & Chum Chum''
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| |Image = FanboyAndChumChumParamountCover.jpg
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| |Caption = <center>🎵🎶''We're gonna scream at the top of our lungs! We're gonna fly and have some fun! We don't care if you stare, I mean, look at our underwear!''🎵🎶<br>No, thanks.</center>
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| |Genre = [[:w:Comedy|Comedy]]<br>[[:w:Animation|Animated]]<br>[[:w:Superhero|Superhero]]<br>[[:w:Adventure|Adventure]]<br>[[:w:Slapstick|Slapstick]]
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| |Running Time = 22 minutes
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| |Country = United States
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| |Release Date = November 6, 2009 – October 17, 2012<br>July 12, 2014 ("Brain Freeze")
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| |Network(s) = Nickelodeon (season 1)<br>Nicktoons (season 2)
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| |Created by = Eric Robles
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| |Distributed by = ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks
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| |Starring = David Hornsby<br>Nika Futterman<br>Jeff Bennett<br>Wyatt Cenac<br>Jamie Kennedy<br>Josh Duhamel<br>Candi Milo<br>Steve Tompkins<br>Dyana Liu<br>Estelle Harris
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| |Seasons = 2
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| |Episodes = 52
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| }}
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| '''''[[:w:Fanboy & Chum Chum|Fanboy & Chum Chum]]''''' is an American CGI animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on ''Fanboy'', an animated short created by Robles for Nicktoons and Frederator Studios, which was broadcast from August 14, 2009, to October 17, 2012, on ''Random! Cartoons''. The series was first broadcast on October 12, 2009, on Nickelodeon as a preview, then officially premiered on November 6, 2009, after ''[[Truth or Square (SpongeBob SquarePants)|SpongeBob's Truth or Square]]'', and officially ended on July 12, 2014.
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| ==Plot==
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| Fanboy and Chum Chum are fans of all things science fiction and fantasy and wear wild superhero costumes with their underwear on the outside. Their lives are filled with adventure, from Fanboy's teacher turning into a zombie to an ice monster operating the Frosty Freezy Freeze machine. Their pal Kyle usually tags along on their escapades. Kyle is a real wizard, but Fanboy and Chum Chum are oblivious to his mystical powers, although they live in a world of fantasy.
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| ==Why It Gives You a Brain Freeze==
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| #The show can easily be seen as a rehash of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', as Fanboy, Chum Chum, and Kyle are literal clones of SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward, respectively (though Kyle is likable).
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| #The art style, despite being original, Looney Tunes-esque, and also Veggietales-esque, has its problems:
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| #*The character designs are quite ugly and unnatural, thus, they also don't translate well in 3D. Notably, the eyes look like they're bulging out of the characters' skulls, the hands of some of the characters are too big, the ears make them look like monkeys, and some of their foreheads are too big (with Kyle and Sigmund being perfect examples), and the faces look uncanny and unnatural. Also, they look like characters rejected by ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius]]'' at best.
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| #*The backgrounds are a bit of an eyesore, due to the colors being too bright and them looking weird.
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| #While the animation is very nice and fluid, especially for the time it came out, several animation errors can be noticed throughout several episodes. This can be noticeable in the first season.
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| #It can be inappropriate at times, like ''[[Breadwinners]]'' and ''[[Sanjay and Craig]]'':
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| #*It overuses [[Toilet/Gross-Out Humor|toilet/gross-out humor]], especially in the episodes "Pick a Nose" and "Fanboy Stinks". Examples:
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| #**Fanboy sneezing into his surgical mask when he is disguised as a nurse.
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| #**Chum Chum has a foot with a bad odor rubbed on his face, which disgusts Fanboy.
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| #**Kyle attempts to pull Fanboy's finger and Fanboy flatulates on him when he refuses.
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| #**Fanboy and Chum Chum hiding in a waste container.
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| #**Mr. Mufflin's feet with a bad odor.
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| #**Boog saying that he likes to defecate in his diaper.
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| #**Fanboy getting his head stuck in a toilet.
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| #**A bunch of girls being attracted to Fanboy's odor in "Fanboy Stinks".
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| #*The episode "Moppy Dearest" has '''objectophilia''' jokes in a '''kids'''' show, where Fanboy falls in love with a mop.
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| #The use of pop culture references, especially to '''R-rated movies''' (eg. ''A Clockwork Orange'' and ''The Shining''), is used in a bad way.
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| #*They even use references to cereal and other cartoons like ''Lucky Charms'', ''Marvel'' comics, and even ''Schoolhouse Rock'', which are all just weird.
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| #While there are some likable characters, there are a few unlikable, insufferable, or just plain loathsome characters:
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| #*The titular duo are immature jerks who, although not intentionally mean, annoy everyone around them, which doesn't help that their voices are a bit too overly squeaky.
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| #**On top of that, both of their names are downright laughable and nonsensical.
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| #*Yo, despite being interesting, is a young girl in Fanboy and Chum Chum's class, who obsesses over Chum Chum ''anytime she is seen onscreen''.
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| #*Mr. Mufflin, despite being likable, used to be quite boring in the first season of the show, as he was a typical "depressed teacher" type character.
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| #*Sigmund is also somewhat mean-spirited, but only towards Kyle, as he constantly fools him into believing he can get back into milkweed.
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| #**In his debut episode, he '''gave Fanboy and Chum Chum dynamite so they can explode'''. '''Yes, really'''.
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| #*Michael Johnson is an insult to the late Michael Jackson, and to add insult to injury, the show premiered four months after his death.
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| #*Otherwise, some of the good characters, such as Kyle, can have their fair portion of unlikable moments, with a good example being in "Separation Anxiety".
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| #Kyle's cliché of being treated like dirt is insulting, turning him into a butt-monkey, a character who gets hurt by everyone in the show for little to no (if not any) apparent reason at all.
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| #*Even Fanboy and Chum Chum are butt-monkeys in some episodes. In "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha", Miss Olive mistakes them as kindergarten students and forces them to attend the class for the whole day.
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| #Some characters use the same models but with slightly different appearances, different names, and classifications. For example, Lunch Lady Cram's twin sister, Bus Lady Cram, is her but as a bus driver. She has the same appearance as Lunch Lady Cram (the only difference is the hat), the same personality as Lunch Lady Cram (only much more hurtful, cruel, and sadistic), and even the same voice actress as Lunch Lady Cram, Candi Milo (only her voice is slightly deeper and has a much more evil laugh). In one episode, before her name was revealed, everyone in the show even called her Lunch Lady Cram because of this.
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| #The background music sounds distorted and broken.
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| #There is so much noise that never stops nor ends:
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| #*The voice acting mostly consists of screaming and squealing, even from actors such as David Hornsby (Rickety Cricket from ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia''), Nika Futterman (Luna Loud and Alexis from ''The Loud House'', Sticks The Badger from ''Sonic Boom'', and Stretch the Tape Measure and Squeeze the Pliers from ''Handy Manny''), Jamie Kennedy (''Son of The Mask'' and ''The Jamie Kennedy Experiment''), and Jeff Bennett (the eponymous character from ''Johnny Bravo'', Kowalski from ''Penguins of Madagascar'', the man with the yellow hat from ''Curious George'', Mick Swagger from ''The Loud House'', Raj and Samson from ''Camp Lazlo,'' Conrad Fleem and Shelton Klutzberry from ''The Replacements, Silvester from The Larry Doyle era of Looney Tunes, Kyle Katarn from Star Wars: Jedi Outcast and Academy'' and Dexter's father from ''Dexter's Laboratory''), Candi Milo (Nora Wakeman from My Life as a Teenage Robot, the eponymous character from Season 3 and 4 of Dexter's Laboratory, Janet from The Boondocks, Dona from Final Fantasy X series, the titular chracter from the Astro Boy game (2004) and Redback Thorn from Ty3: The Tasmanian Tiger: Night of the Quinkan).
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| #*The theme song, while admittedly catchy, is incredibly annoying, loud, and ear-piercing and the lyrics of the second half of the song consist of "bah bah bah"s. Brad Breeck, the composer of the theme song, also did the ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' title tune. The titular characters sound even worse than they do in the actual show, as they sing like an emo pop or pop punk band by whining.
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| #**Apart from the "bah bah bah"s, the song also consists of loud screaming throughout.
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| #*** There are painful yet insufferable sound effects.
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| #The majority of the show is painfully nonsensical and doesn't have any logical premise.
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| #Much like ''[[Breadwinners]]'', the pacing is insufferable.
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| #The title cards, despite looking cool, have a very weird choppy looking art style to them which can sometimes look pretty uncanny. A few are also misleading, such as the one in "Bubble Trouble", where it depicts Boog getting stuck in a soap bubble, despite it '''never actually happening''' throughout the episode.
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| ==Qualities That Deserve Frosty Freezy Freezes==
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| #The show has some funny moments.
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| #This show has a good amount of likable characters such as:
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| #*Kyle
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| #*Lenny
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| #*Boog Shlizetti
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| #*Man-Arctica
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| #*Mr. Mufflin
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| #*Dollarnator
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| #*Agent Johnson
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| #*Lupe
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| #*The Oz | | #*The Oz |
| #*Yo | | #*Yo |