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The Angry Beavers
Format	Animated series
Created by	Mitch Schauer
Starring	Richard Steven Horvitz, Nick Bakay (voices)
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	63 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	April 19, 1997 – November 11, 2001
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Angry Beavers is an Emmy nominated Nickelodeon American animated television series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two brothers who are beavers who have left their parents and home to become bachelors in the forest. Their many adventures spark them to release their ugly sides very often, drawing in the name Angry Beavers. The show premiered in 1997 after the 1997 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and was cancelled amid controversy in 2001 (with a handful of unaired episodes remaining). It was created by Mitch Schauer.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Episodes 3 DVD Release 4 Current status 5 In-jokes 6 Trivia 7 Controversy 8 Awards and nominations 9 See also 10 External links

• Daggett Doofus Beaver: Dag is the younger twin brother of Norbert (by four minutes). He is very crazy, extremely hyper, and always hilarious. He says an assortment of strange phrases and likes calling people names. His trademark phrase is "That was nuts!" and is also known for adding 'eh' and also "dot dot dot" at the end of sentences (which Invader Zim did as well in the episode Door to Door, in homage to Daggett). Dag also says SPOOT! whenever he's really upset. He is generally considered the less intelligent of the two. He has dark brown fur and a red nose, and was voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.
• Norbert Foster Beaver: Norb is Dag's laid back older twin brother (by four minutes). He uptakes many hobbies (including playing the French Horn in a Baroque chamber ensemble) and frequently (and intentionally) mispronounces words for humorous effect. He comes across as the smarter of the two and is more down-to-earth and sarcastic than his brother. His trademark phrase is "Biiiiig hug!" (often accompanied by him hugging Dag). He has yellowish-tan fur and a purple nose, and was voiced by Nick Bakay.
• Stump: Stump is a tree stump whom Norb met and introduced to the other creatures of the forest in the episode Guess Who's Stumping to Dinner. Stump often moves on his own while he is off-screen; in Brothers...To The End? he can actually be seen drinking the punch along with the others, marking the first time he actually moved to some extent on screen.
• Barry Bear: Daggett and Norbert's funk loving friend, introduced in the episode Enter The Daggett; obviously based on Barry White. He is a famous singer, whom Norb and Dag try to exploit. He is voiced by actor John Garry, who provided the narration for the pilot episode of Invader Zim and also provided the voice of the host of "Mysterious Mysteries", a show-within-a-show seen on Invader Zim.
• Treeflower: The love of Norbert's life whom he met at a hippie concert, in Bummer of Love.
  (NOTE: Before Treeflower's official introduction she appears in Long in the Teath. She was also seen shortly in the background of the Good-bye-Bing-party in The Bing That Wouldn't Leave.) Once a hippie beaver, she successfully works in versatile jobs, e.g. as elevator-music composer (Tree of Hearts) and firefighter (A Little Dad'll Do You). She was voiced by Cynthia Mann.
• Bing: An annoying lizard who hangs around Norb and Dag, introduced in ep. The Bing That Wouldn't Leave. Bing speaks extremely fast and often employs circular logic. Victor Wilson provided Bing's hyperactive voice. It is not confirmed what kind of Lizard Bing is; however, he is seen changing color like a chameleon and losing his tail like a gecko.
• Truckee: A trucker shrew who thinks only about trucks and shrews, introduced in the episode Tree of Hearts.
  (NOTE: Before Truckee's official introduction there was a shrew in Enter the Daggett who looked, sounded and acted similar to Truckee. This might be Truckee or the character he is based on.). Truckee hates Daggett, and the feeling is mutual; in addition, he briefly dated Treeflower, causing animosity between him and Norbert.
• Oxnard Montalvo: Norb and Dag's favorite B-movie actor, introduced in the episode Up All Night. Norb and Dag often watch black and white horror movies (these are very seriously drawn, contrary to the regular style of the show), which are an obvious homage to 1950's horror movies.
• Toluca Lake: Another B-movie actor, introduced in Up All Night, who often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress. The name plays on the eponymous California city Toluca Lake, and is also a reference to 1940's actress Veronica Lake^{[citation needed]}.
• El Grapadura: The beavers (Especially Daggett's) favorite vale tudo/lucha libre wrestler, introduced in Kandid Kreatures.. His name is Spanish for "The Stapler". Daggett has an autographed copy of his board game, "El Grapadura and Ladders" (an obvious reference to Snakes and Ladders).
• Scientist #1 and Pete: A pair of scientists introduced in the episode Stinky Toe. They call the beavers "pointy weasels" and try to use them for very strange experiments. Scientist No.1 has a distinctive cleft chin and always wears sunglasses; he is just as arrogant as he is incapable. Since season 3 he has a name plate with a "1" on his coat. It is revealed in one episode that he never even went to college. Pete greatly resembles Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, and speaks only in an unintelligible mutter that Scientist No.1 apparently understands just fine. At one point, they wore green coats, making them environmentalists.
• Bill Licking: Presenter of TV shows and prototype of a touting salesman. He wears an impressive black wig. He was introduced in the episode Born to Be Beavers.
• Stacy and Chelsea: The twin younger sisters of Norbert and Daggett, their birth led to their eviction from their family's home. They were first identified in the episode If You In-sisters, though before their official introduction they are shortly shown in Born To Be Beavers as newborns without their names or even their genders identified. Chelsea bears a resemblance to and acts much like Daggett in her hyperactivity and speech patterns, while Stacy apparently takes after Norbert in appearance and personality. They are much more familiar and united than their brothers. They are named after and voiced by creator Mitch Schauer's daughters.
• "Mum" and "Dad": The parents of Norb and Dag. The mother's name was never revealed, but the father's name was said to be "Leonard" in the episode If You In-Sisters. Mrs. Beaver has the same fur color as Dag (although her color was the same as Norb's in Born to Be Beavers), but in her intelligence she is more similar to Norb. Mr. Beaver reflects these attributes vice-versa.

Main article: List of The Angry Beavers episodes

Currently there is no date on the release of any Angry Beavers DVD being released, but many fans have suggested it be released, with no feedback from the producers, strange considering the enormous appeal of the show.

The Angry Beavers was removed from Nicktoons Network on January 14, 2007 but was brought back October 2007 for Halloween.

The first episode Born to Be Beavers/Up All Night was shown on Nickelodeon on November 22, 2007 at 8:00 AM (GMT -6:00) as part of Nickelodeon's nicktoons marathon on Thanksgiving day.

There were several in-jokes throughout The Angry Beavers entire run. One in particular involves Richard Steven Horvitz, the voice of Dag, being mentioned in the episode "Tree of Hearts".

Norb: [reading mail] Hey, Dag! Check it out! [reading letter] "Richard Horvitz had a little baby boy, April 11th! Jake Elliot Horvitz".

Dag: Really? That's something!

Norb: Yeah, I think so.

Dag: Who's Richard Horvitz?

Norb: Eh... Nobody.

Another joke was using "spoot" in place of swear words, such as an exclamation ("Oh spoot!"), or a descriptor ("What a pile of spoot" or "You're a spoot-head"). Although this was used primarily by Daggett, it was also often used by Norbert.

Also, both beavers would often mispronounce common words in pseudo French or otherwise foreign pronunciation, such as calling a refrigerator a "re-FRIGE-er-A-twoah/re-FRIGE-er-IZE-or", mine as "MY-yun", me as "mee-ah", or speak as "spee-ack." Another example includes "natural" in which Norbert pronounces it as "nature-ral". Sometimes even saying beaver as bee-vwARE. As an augmentation to this, they would also elongate words, particularly each other's names, with superfluous syllables, such as "Norbie-orbie" and "Dag-a-lag-a-ding-dong." On occasions, they would use actual foreign words, although mispronounce them, for example the French word "moi" pronounced phonetically "moy". In one episode, Norbert exclaims "Urethra!" in place of 'Eureka!'

One running gag was Norbert giving Dag a big hug and saying "Come on, BIIIIIIG hug!".^{^1}

Another, in the episode, "Daggy Dearest," while explaining to Dagget why Dag couldn't have had a baby, Norb opens a medicine cabinet in the bathroom and an image of a camera man is quickly visible.

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• In the first episode (Born to be Beavers) Norbert and Dag are seen walking along a highway with a sign that places Pawhuska at 20 miles away, Burbank at 41 miles, and Fairfax at 52 miles. These cities are all located in Osage County, Oklahoma.
• The beavers' postal address is: Norbert & Daggett Beaver, RTE 4 BOX 413, Wayouttatown, Oregon (from episode Omega Beaver)
• In the early episodes the show's music is from or based off of the soundtrack for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Later there is mainly classical/instrumental music, as in many other Nicktoons like Ren and Stimpy and SpongeBob SquarePants.
• In episode Beaver Fever the beavers created a disco/funk band that was very popular until Dag casually said that they were "bigger than sliced bread," causing a very brief period where everyone hated them. This was a clear reference to The Beatles and their "Bigger than Jesus" controversy, where Lennon offhandedly remarked that they were more popular than Jesus. The beavers got over their problem when Dag explained what he meant was that they were literally larger than a slice of bread. It also is a play on the phrase "the biggest thing since sliced bread". This was similar to how Lennon explained to the media that his comment was misunderstood and didn't mean to offend anyone.
• The show's visual style is rather novel, and much humor is made of the fact that the main characters don't actually look much like beavers. They are often referred to by minor characters as weasels, ferrets, or "pointy birds".
• If you watch the credits carefully, various jokes are inserted into staff members names, usually in the center.
• In one episode where Dag and Norb play pranks, you can hear Treeflower's doorbell has the tone of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
• In the episode where Scientist #1 creates his "future" world and plans on ruling earth, he gives Dag a piece of it. As Dag is creating names for his cities, all of them have something to do with his name, except for the last one, which he calls "Otisburg", a reference to Superman.
• Grade B Horror films of a 1950's style era are parodied, most notably when Norb is constantly sleepwalking because of his junk food eating, however there is no side effect of gaining weight which sparked controversy with the FDA.
• Dag called himself Beaver Dos in an episode in which he and Nobert travel to space. Norb is contacted by NASA personnel and responds with his code name Beaver Alpha, Dag not knowing what comes after alpha, comes up with the name Beaver Dos (Spanish for the number "two").
• Many films are frequently referenced or parodied on the show, including Planet of the Apes (the line "Get your hands off me, you damn, dirty apes" was used in the episode Zooing Time by Daggett, and Three Dag Night by Norbert), Ben-Hur (an exchange of dialogue between Norbert and Daggett in Ugly Rumors), "Glengarry Glen Ross" (the ending dialogue between Norbert and Daggett in "Chocolate Up to Experience"), and On Golden Pond (Daggett mentions it in A Dam Too Far), and the episode The Legend of Kid Friendly extensively parodies the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone.

The controversy involving The Angry Beavers first started in 1998, when "Alley Oops!", a story in the series' 24th episode (seen during its 2nd season), contained the following lines:
Dag: "You stink!"
Norb: "Oh, shut up, Dag!".

After its first airing a viewer anonymously complained about the phrase "shut up" in a Nick program, although it had been used by Dag twice in the episode "Go Beavers" in season one. So the second time this episode was aired, the "shut" in "shut up" was bleeped out. This bleep generated more controversy surrounding the show, as some mistakenly thought that it had vulgar language in the dialog. However, between airings, Nickelodeon has changed Norberts' line to "Shush up, stupid!" It was the first time any Nicktoon had a line changed between airings.

The final straw was when the developers of the show came up with its final episode, titled "Bye Bye Beavers". The plot consisted of Norbert being told that he's part of a TV series that has been canceled, and that he has to convince Daggett that they're not real, only cartoon characters.

According to Micah Wright, a staffer who wrote several of the episodes for the show, Nickelodeon rejected this episode, as it ridiculed the company's practice of profiting off re-runs instead of new episodes. This episode also disobeyed a rule Nickelodeon imposed on its shows, to never point out that the show has ended.

Bye Bye Beavers was never aired, and after reviewing the episode, Nickelodeon canceled the series.

Award	Category	Nominee	Result
World Animation Celebration	Best Animation Produced for Daytime	Mitch Schauer	Won
World Animation Celebration	Best Director for Daytime Series	Robert Hughes	Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA	Best Sound Editing - Television Animated Series	Unknown	Nominated
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA	Best Sound Editing - Television Animated Series	Tim Borquez, Thom Syslo	Nominated
Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Special Class	Timothy J. Garrity	Nominated
Annie Awards	Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Program	Mitch Schauer	Nominated
Annie Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Effects Animation	Joel Krasnove	Nominated
Annie Awards	Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television Production	Dan Chessher	Nominated
Annie Awards	Best Individual Achievement: Production Design in a TV Production	Mitch Schauer	Won
Annie Awards	Best Promotional Production (for main title)	Unknown	Nominated

• Nicktoons

• The Angry Beavers at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Sound clip from last episode that never aired-This is from Micah Wright's official website. These are the lines that slam Nick for "re-re-re-runs" of its Nicktoons as spoken by Daggett and Norbert.

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