Larry 3000 (2001)
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Cartoon Animal |
Outfit: Robot parts / Red knobs / Analog gauge thing / Mark Hamill voice modulator / Exaggerated blackie lips like on those stamps in Mexico
Tagline: "It's go time!"
Plot summary: By the year 1,000,000 A.D., all the nations of the Earth will have joined together into one peaceful utopia, with no wars, no pollution, & bacon that's good for your heart. The only current threat of chaos lies in the past. Time, according to this show's model, is like a rope, & comes frayed & unraveled with the passing of... um, itself. Thus, the Time Squad organization was formed to travel through history, fixing it as it should be so as to assure the ultimatum that exists in the ten-thousand-and-first century. One would naturally assume that a police squad assigned to go back in time & set things right would be responsible for avoiding wars, terrorist acts & other global catastrophes, right? Nope, the Time Squad has to go back in time & make sure that Confuciuos doesn't write long-winded stories, General George Patton doesn't open up a flower shop, Marty's parents kiss at the big high school dance, & Ganondorf doesn't turn the castle garden into a giant lava pit.
Dimwitted, go-get-em time cop Buck Tuddrussel (whose voice actor's name
is Robert
Paulsen, whose voice actor's name is Robert
Paulsen, whose voice actor's name is Robert
PauRAPHAEL THE NINJA TURTLE) & his robotic language translator
& etiquette assistant, Larry 3000 (Luke Skywalker) run into orphan
Otto Osworth during a wrong turn into the early 21st century on a mission
to help Eli Whitney invent the cotton gin. They decide to abduct
ADOPT Otto, who's convinced them that his extensive knowledge of history
up to & including the first two milennia will prove helpful to the
Time Squad. Because if Blackbeard doesn't stop trying to save animals
& go back to being a bloodthirsty pirate like he's supposed to, the
whole world is going straight to hell.
Oddly enough, Cartoon Network was forced to cancel Time Squad in 2003, after an episode involving a mission to snap George W. Bush out of an obsession with a giant ball of twine. So if it makes you feel better, you could very well be reading this from an unraveled thread of rope in time that someone's trying to stop from being fixed. So don't get antsy & start making wristbands out of any loose frays you might come across. The future needs those. (more)
User comments: Larry 3000 is the latest in robotic assistant technology, & a much improved upgrade from the previous model, which was mostly used to fix the cable & called GIT-R-DUN 2999. Originally designed as a diplomat robot, Larry was reprogrammed after the nations of future Earth united. Our home planet during the show's "present" time is never actually shown from the Time Squad's space station, & upon hearing that the world's nations were joined together, my idiot brain pictured a Pangea-like land mass reorganization. Which is awesome, because I've always dreamed of living in a future where the Jersey shore was right next to Casablanca.
Instead, it's Larry's job to interpret the cultural & lingual differences of the past, & letting Buck know where the himself stops so that he doesn't make even more of an idiot of himself. To do this efficiently & with an aura of learnedness, Larry has been equipped with the voice of Mark Hamill's Joker if he sounded more like a distinguished, upper-class British homosexual talking into a rotating fan.
On the plus side, Larry 3000 is the only member of the Time Squad who's readily equipped to survive in the freezing depths of space, where it's cooler than cool. It's ICE COLD.
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