Oh Yeah! Cartoon: #26 Zoo Mates

Nickelodeon  

Previously, sometimes you need to fight it out a little   [HERE]

  #26 Zoo Mates

Season 1, Episode 12b 

     Zoo Mates makes us  wonder a parallel world where there's  Nickelodeon running a series created by Seth MacFarlane and directed by Butch Hartman.    This one has a laugh track , that's right , it was filmed in front of a live-studio audience, either that or it's a laugh track.  Helen, who looks like Vicky from "Fairly Odd Parents" but with blonde hair  and voiced by Jennifer Love Hewitt who wants all the animals released from the zoo.

        The zoo director lets  Paul, an alligator,  Warren an ostrich, and Mark a polar get out of the zoo and the  to live normal lives and he'll consider shutting it down.  So yes they get their own apartment and Helen leaves them to see see if they can do it. (That's a smart idea)  The cartoon is very dialogue and slap stick heavy.  

          This of course, doesn't go well., as over night they flood the apartment then start a fire. The sprinkler comes on and they don't know how to turn it off and the flood makes a mess of the apartment and it ends up getting destroyed. 

        Helen says this is going to be harder then she thought and it ends. 

     Uh, I think this supposed to be a parody of sitcoms, hence the laugh, which is overused. There's not much interesting going on in this cartoon, just a bunch of animals and the one joke that ha animals that can talk and stuff, but they can't do human stuff that's funny somehow.    It does try to  be cutting but tame at the same time. 

   Yeah, I'm not sure it would be an interesting series unless MacFarlane changed almost every part of it to something a little more interesting.  By the time this aired though, Family Guy was on the way. and yeah. It's totally bad , it's more meh than anything.  MacFarlane and Hartman did find other better things to do, though imagine a world where they did get a series together on Nickelodeon, a lot of TV would be different, holy wow! 

      That's it for now, tune in next time, when I sue animals for messing up my apartment building.