The series was broadcast on Fox Family Channel and Teletoon. The show was also aired in UK on Sky One's weekday mornings and later repeated on Channel 5 on weekend mornings between 2001 and 2002.
Synopsis
The show is about a trio of mutant babies who are three characters that fight off evil monsters and aliens. Their names are Meg, Derrick and Buck and their care-giver's name is Nurse Lazlo. The show takes place in Your City, USA.
After their birth, they are brought to an orphanage. When the entire solar system aligned itself, the babies and their nurse were struck by lightning. The babies were given super strength and other powers, and Nurse Lazlo's IQ rose.
Voice actors
Buck was voiced by Sonja Ball, Dean Hagopian voiced many male characters, Laura Teasdale did Derrick's voice, Meg was voiced by Jaclyn Linetsky, and Bronwen Mantel voiced Nurse Lazlo.
Even though the voice acting was done in Montreal, the voice directing was done by Vancouver based veteran voice actor and voice director Terry Klassen who has done voiceovers for many animated television series and films such as voicing Krillin in the Ocean dubbed version of Dragon Ball Z. Klassen has also voice directed other works such as Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Test, Cardcaptors, several Barbie films, and more recently, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. This was the only time that Klassen has ever voice directed an animated project outside of Vancouver. During the later episodes, Terrence Scammell, who also voiced several characters in the series, as well as providing the main title narration, took over as voice director. Scammell has also done many voice acting roles for film, television and video games in both Montreal and Ottawa, Ontario.
Production
The show was announced in January 1999 as a co-production between CinéGroupe and Sony Wonder set to premier on the Fox Family Channel in fall of that year. The show was created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay and Landmark Entertainment Group budgeted between $5.9 million (C$9 million) and $6.6 million for 52 10-minute episodes which were pre-produced in Montreal and animated in Asia then bundled into 26 half-hour daily shows.[4]
Meg has gas from eating POW Chips. So Nurse Lazlo, Derrick, and Buck find a solution to stop Meg from getting gassy. Meanwhile, some aliens crash into the orphanage.
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"Toys of the Future"
Michael Carnes & Josh Gilbert
Jeremy Hildebrand
April 15, 2000 (2000-04-15)
Meg, Derrick and Buck are taken to the local toy company to test their latest products.
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"Summer of Sandman"
Jesse Dienstag
Stan Gadziola
April 16, 2000 (2000-04-16)
When everyone refuses to fall asleep when the Sandman wants them to, the sleep inducer decides to extract his revenge.
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24
"Curse of the Doo Doo Doll"
Cathy Shambley
Richard Forgues
April 16, 2000 (2000-04-16)
A voodoo master creates a voodoo doll of Nurse Lazlo.
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25
"Golf for It"
Susie Geiser & Todd Rohrbacher
Karine Charlebois
April 22, 2000 (2000-04-22)
The babies play a round in the city's most dangerous miniature golf course.
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"Snow Long Suckers"
William Forrest Cluverius
Normand DeRepentigny
April 22, 2000 (2000-04-22)
During a trip to the snowy mountains, the babies must stop an evil snowboarder before he freezes the entire planet.
Video game
Entitled with the same name, this video game based on the show was developed and published by Global Star Software in 2000, exclusively for PC.[5]
Reception
Mega Babies was negatively received by critics and audiences, mainly by its excessive crude and gross-out humor, especially for a television series aimed for kids. WatchMojo ranked the series #4 in their "Top 10 Most Embarrassing ‘90s Cartoons" list.[6]IMDb's user score for the series, as of November 2022, is 2.6 out of 10.[7]
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 537–538. ISBN978-1476665993.
