Oggy and the Cockroaches

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Oggy and the Cockroaches
Genre	Animated television series
Creator(s)	Jean-Yves Raimbaud
Country of origin	France
Production
Executive producer(s)	Marc du Pontavice (Xilam Animation)
Running time	7 minutes approx. per episode
Broadcast
Original channel	Gaumont
Original run	1998 – 2003?
Links
Official website

Oggy and the Cockroaches is a French animated series produced by Gaumont Film Company in 1998, creator of the popular series Space Goofs.

1 Cast
2 Synopsis
3 Production
4 DVD's
5 Characters
6 List of Oggy episodes
7 Airing History
8 External links

Created by Jean-Yves Raimbaud
Directed by Olivier Jean Marie and Thomas Szabo
Produced by Marc du Pontavice (Xilam Animation)

The show centers on Oggy, a content and lazy, albeit very tender fat blue cat, who would usually spend his days watching TV and cooking - if it wasn't for the three pesky roaches in the household: Joey, Dee Dee and Marky (named after members of the punk group Ramones). The trio seems to enjoy generally making Oggy's life miserable, which involves mischieves ranging from (in most cases) plundering his fridge to such awkward things like hijacking the train Oggy just boarded.

The cartoon itself relies on slapstick humour, much like its "ancestor", Tom and Jerry, only amplifying the level of extremities up a notch; while "traditional" slapstick cartoon characters prefer dropping anvils and pianos on each other, this show sometimes uses even buses or submarines. Despite these however, most gags are easily accessible and enjoyable for younger viewers. This show is a cross-between Tom and Jerry and Happy Tree Friends. There are no acceptable endings for the episodes — happy endings are never guaranteed.

The 30 minute show typically contains 3 episodes. In total, 52 shows were produced. The voices were all provided by Marc du Pontavice, but no spoken voice is heard. In Germany, witty poems relating to the screen action were dubbed over the original sound, spoken by actor Dirk Bach.

Five DVD's of the show came out in 2003, each with four shows (12 episodes) on.

Oggy is the protagonist of the show. Bearing some uncanny resemblances to fellow cat Garfield, Oggy usually spends his time either watching TV or doing housework - when not chasing roaches. Although sometimes acting somewhat female (or in some cases, dressing like a maid), his gender can be considered male (in one episode the roaches steal his laundry bag and keep dropping a track of clothes - Oggy picks them up one-by-one, but embarrassedly moves offscreen when a bra becomes visible among the boxershorts and socks)
Joey is the self-proclaimed leader of the roaches. Even though he's the smallest roach in the gang, most of the time he's the brains behind the operations, but is often forced to go solo, because his companions think his plans are stupid.
Dee Dee is an ever-hungry, devour-it-all roach. His appetite sometimes reaches insane regions, often resulting in the consumption of larger animals (such as hyenas in one case and due to some plant in another case, an insect).
Marky is a laid-back, suave heartbreaker roach, often not really caring about what the two others are doing. His hobby is, obviously, dating girls - even puppets.
Jack is the other cat in the show. A complete opposite of Oggy, Jack is short-tempered, violent, arrogant - a perfect target for the roaches to annoy. He often finds himself building huge machinery such as roach-catching contraptions, most of the time resulting in backfiring. He is also very interested in Chemistry (that is, the more explosive parts of it). Jack is Oggy's very close friend (he often sleeps over at Oggy´s house) He´s Oggy´s neighbour (though he drives the couple of feet between their houses whenever he visits oggy) but due to the in-consistent in the cartoon, his house tends to be replaced by Bob's every now and then. Jack can come into Oggy´s home without knocking and he often goes to see Oggy to help him against the roaches' evil schemes. His telephone number is 2.
Bob, Oggy's huge neighbor dog, - though he's not mentioned in the opening credits - is one frequent star in the show. While Bob tries to live his life as quietly and calmly as possible, the next door racket usually results in destruction of his property, for which he usually responds with pummeling one of the cats. This mostly happens off-screen, usually because the image is changed to silly wallpaper-like backgrounds; the only hint the viewer gets is fighting sounds and cat-squealing.
Monica, Oggy´s sister and Jack's love-interest. In one episode (Don't Rock The Cradle) they seem to have a child together. She visit Oggy's house every now and then. She is well known for being very active and likes to take on physical challenges such as Sky diving and Bungee jumping. She's always seen skating around on her Inline skates. She has the least amount of appearances of all the main characters.

3 wishes and your out A bedouin, who is lost and parched in as desert, finds a magic lamp. He uses his three wishes to get a palace, a pile of gold and lovely girls but forgets to wish for water. The genie flees after being attacked by the infuriated bedouin and of course, ends up in oggy's house.

A bird off ill omen Oggy is minding his own business, watering his flowers when a turkey comes running and hides behind his back. Shortly after, a visually impaired hunter appears from the hedge. The hunter has a problem: Because of his poor eyesight, turkeys looks like Oggy to him and Oggy looks like a turkey.

A Dog Day Afternoon Oggy arrives at home after shopping and trips over a small pup. He takes it inside and start pinching his own nose as a squeezing toy to play with the pup. When Jack arrives he, of course, begins to think that Oggy has gone crazy as Jack and the pup are not seen simulataneously.

A Night at the Opera Jack is now a tenor and is making a performance at the opera. Dee Dee wishes to join him in singing and tries to team up with him. Jack tosses Dee Dee in a trashcan as a result. But this only spurs Dee Dee in trying to ruin the performance and taking it all for himself.

A Tip For The Road Oggy is taking driving lessons. The cockroaches, of course, try their best to ruin it all.

A tooth for a tooth The cockroaches are pulling yet another prank on poor Oggy. This time, they put huge, fake teeth in his mouth. Oggy is forced to call jack in order to get rid of his new, oversized teeth.

Baby Boum The stork is coming, and of course, he brings babies. Oggy is forced to try and dump the babies in Bob's garden. This results in a battle between Oggy and Bob where both are trying different methods of dumping the babies in the opponent's garden.

Baby Doll Oggy is playing with his new doll and its playhouse. The cockroaches however, have taken the house for themselves and when Marky spots the doll, he falls in love with it.

Barbecue Oggy is enjoying a barbecue in his garden and Jack is unsuccessfully trying to fly a kite. When he (Jack) gets wrapped in the line the cockroaches are using for their tennis ball, he of course, starts a quabble. The quabble soon involves them all, including Bob and the Hawk living in Oggy's tree.

Beachcombers Oggy is riding his moped to the beach. The cockroaches, of course, decide to tag along without him noticing it. And when Oggy and the cockroaches are near each other, trouble is bound to happen. They continue their never-ending quabble in which the little chinese clams and the other visitors on the beach are soon unwillingly involved.

Beware Of Destruction Jack is renovating Oggy's house and when the cockroachs steel his cement tray to use it as a swimming pool, their quabble begins anew.

Beware of the bodyguard The cockroaches are causing trouble, again. Oggy is sick and tired of them bullying him all the time (at least more than he usually is), so he decides to get... a bodyguard.

Bitter Chocolate Oggy gets a box of deluxe-chocolate delivered to his house and gets inside to enjoy it. But the cockroaches (quite obviously) have decided to take it all for themselves.

(Sidenote: The cockroaches laughter in this episode is different than the laughter they use in the other episodes)

Black and white Oggy is trying a new, super-strong detergent. The cockroaches decide to fill the washing machine to the brim with detergent. This causes the washing machine to over-flow and cover Oggy's house with pink foam. When a rain cloud washed it off, the house (and the garden) has lost all its colour. This has quite a depressive effect on both Oggy and the cockroaches.

Blue Sunday Jack takes Oggy on a sunday trip with the beach as the destination. The cockroaches decide to tag along. When they get caught in the traffic, a quabble soon begins between them all.

Boxing Fever The cockroaches pranks accidentally involves Bob again and this time, he challenges Oggy to a boxing duel. Oggy is forced to call Jack and get some help in training for the upcoming match.

Brainchild Oggy trips over a small, fat kid sitting on the street and typing with a laptop. The kid then decides to follow Oggy home. Oggy tries (but to no avail) to call Jack for advice. But while he does, the unusually intelligent kid starts performing strange experiments on the cockroaches. Soon, Oggy must call the FBAÏ (Federal Bureau of Analgesics Ïo) for help.

Bugball oggy gets his hands on a new, super bugball. He decides to try it out and it soons bounces all over the house, wrecking everything in its path.

Carneval Its time for the carneval. Oggy and Jack decides to dress up in different costumes. But the costumes soon causes a serious misunderstanding not only between the cats, but between two bears as well.

Cat Kit Jack arrives with a put-it-together-yourself roach-catching trap. When he tries to get some silence to work, the cockroaches tries their best in causing as much noise as possible.

Caught in a trap Oggy wakes up and finds his house completely messed up. The cockroaches have yet again plundered his fridge and caused a mess which makes Oggy's eyes pop out of his head. He is now forced to protect the fridge as well as he can.

Chatterbox Oggy buys a new type of crackers that causes anyone who eats one to speak non-stop in gibberish. Dee Dee tries one out and gains the ability to speak. However, the other cockroaches are not very impressed by Dee Dee's new verbal skills (and no one else by the way until Jack also eats one of the crackers).

Cloning around Jack is tired of the weak, useless poison in the insecticide. He decides to enhance it by using his new chemistry set. The result is a gas that clones targets.

Control freak Jack and Oggy are having a racing contest in order to decide who should be allowed to use the TV's remote-control.

Copy Cat When the cockroaches break the ear of one of Oggy's most precious figurines, he gets so frustrated that he simply sits still in the sofa, holding the rest of the broken ear in his hand. The cockroaches decide to build a robot to take Oggy's place in chasing them, a decicion that they will come to regret.

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