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Sealab 2021 was an animated comedy shown on Cartoon Network's adult-oriented programming block, Adult Swim. To each one episode was Quarter-hour hanker, including commercial message. Such as Cartoon Network's Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, the animation utilized equity footage from either the 1970's Hanna-Barbera cartoon, in this instance a short-transient environmentally-themed Sealab 2020, along with original animation. Sealab 2021 was by 7030 Productions for Cartoon Network's Williams Street Studios. Sealab was cancelled fallowing 5 seasons by Cartoon Network, by owning a final episode airing inside April 2005. Several critics felt that a indicate was never a equivalent when the demise of voice actor Harry Goz and that this led Adult Swim to cancel a popular series.

Characters and premise
A indicate is placed 1 month fallowing a period frame of Sealab 2020. When you took this month, a crew hwhen slowly no thomas more crazy, & as this has happened, a crew has spent more instance goofing off inside various ways than doing any good function. Continuity is oftentimes ignored; supplementary typically than does'nt a entire installation is destroyed at a prevent of the episode.

Main characters
Captain Hank Murphy Captain Hazel "Hank" Murphy is the ostensible leader of the crew. Alas, he's likewise a virtually all deranged member, & quite bad for service; instead of providing any rattling leadership, he's either heading the pirate radio show, complaining about his missing Happy Cake oven, or even swimming golf near the station's reactor core (among more items). Spud was voiced by Harry Goz until his death in September 5, 2003 from cancer. Fallowing that, Spud wwhen described as with left Sealab to fight in the "Great Spice Wars," probably the information to Frank Herbert's Dune series.


Captain Bellerophon "Tornado" Shanks earned his position as Sealab's fresh captain by answering the aid-wanted ad. The out football coach and lovable redneck, he has all of Spud's nearsighted amentia combined by owning a Southern charm. Tornado's leadership qualities own led him to coach the crew inside a football against killer robots, declare Sealab a sovereign nation, warp the minds of Sealab's orphaned people, & assert that a brobdingnagian tumour in his head would last away across prayer alone, forcing the crew to shrink themselves & make their way injected into his immune system sequentially to save him. Shanks is voiced by Michael Goz, son of the late Harry Goz.


"White" Debbie Debbie DuPree (the.k.the. "White" Debbie) (sonant by Kate Miller) is the token female of the crew, a marine life scientist, & blond & beautiful additionally. Existence the tokenish female, she tends for upset after a guys run nationalistic items, however existence a stereotyped blonde, she's nin exactly wholly there herself (& she tends to hit on the guys up to it hit on her). She has the intimate relationship running in sustaining Doctor Quinn—once she feels prefer it, course—& she's hump Potato at least it used to be that. Recently, she hwhen stopped existence as intimate & get religious, acting as a stereotype of modern-contemporary Christians, pick at everyone & saying it stand to reform their ways or even it might suffer God's wrath, despite her complete deficiency of noesis just about Christianity. (She, e.g., thinks Jesus was originally the wooden son that sleep in the whale.)


Stormy Derek "Stormy" Waters (soft by Ellis Henican) is the station's resident pretty son (his actual work on the crew has never been revealed). He's 100% looks & there is no brains; virtually all of the period, he barely knows what's running in in the area of him. His stupidity has gotten him into condition many days, chiefly using "Black" Debbie (world health organization thinks he's the racist).


Dr.Quinn Doctor Quentin Q. Quinn (soft by Brett Butler) is the brains of the outfit. When a simply member of the crew sustaining any formal education & any rather sense left, he's a a single that ceases higher heading a station (&, inside a bit of legal actions, trying to keep it from either exploding). He's too a token black guy. He & Debbie keep close at hand an in-again, off-again relationship. Quinn is actually the bionic man; an unwellness within his youth forced him to transplant his person brain into the reproduction automaton system. Although Quinn dramatically revealed this in the pilot episode "I, Robot" it doesn't really affect his character that tremendously, & these are sole seldom mentioned once again throughout a series.


Jodene Sparks Jodene Sparks (sonant by Bill Lobley) is the station's sarcastic, scheming radio operator, and co-conspirator by owning Captainside Murphy in virtually all of his escapades (though typically as a front to more his have plans). Sparks is never seen away from his rolling chair. He claims this is does'nt because he's game, however good sleeping.


Marco Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez (sonant by Erik Estrada) is the station's engineer, macho human, & aspirant Latin lover. He's tried to seduce each females on the station at various days, by having limited profits. He too has the tool for CHiPs.


Minor characters
"Black" Debbie Debbie Love (the.k.the. "Black" Debbie) (soft by Angela Gibbs) is both a merely more female & a exclusively more negro on the station. She teaches school to Dolphin Son & a rest of Sealab's orphans, is very pleased her blackness (she's fought using Stormy on top this at least it used to be that), & has been seduced by Marco many days. A previous Heisman Trophy winner has also been known for hopped-up off the water pipe pipe, when loudly asserting that fully compliance using standards and practices (Cartoon Network's censoring department) that she's enjoying the pipe "in a drug-free way." (Inside a single episode, her title is given when Debbie Allison)

Sharko is Marco's interspecies son, from after Marco "put his human penis in Sharko's shark mother's vagina," (referred to as the "shark-gina") equally is painfully stated inside each episode he appears within. Sharko is scatterbrained & flighty, & longs to understand up to he may study all about his father. Marco actually doesn't understand Sharko lives, when Sharko thinks Marco is dead. Them eventually meet around Year 4, which Marco responds to by non recognizing Sharko & shooting him by having the Mini-Uzi, though non fatally.

Dolphin Son occurs as little, zoftig son (world health organization looks to exist as astir Decade) that talks within dolphin noises. He's the member of Black Debbie's class, & is the target of endless plump out jokes.

Fatass McBlobicus is an acne-infested, monocled member of Black Debbie's class. When Dolphin Son is plump, McBlobicus is severely heavy. When substituting for Debbie 1 day, Quinn didn't think that McBlobicus' title was really, however the promptly prevent of the class roll proved him wrong.

Doctor Ilad Virjay (soft by Adam Reed) is the station's official doctor and around-home sawbones. He has been known to utilise a surgery's flatulence mask in himself. He as well another time headed his have rockabilly band.

Chopper Dave occurs as whirlybird pilot by owning a U.S. Navy. He is too the lycanthrope & has his have popular tv program using TV picture work it.

Hesh Hepplewhite is the station's houseman, & quite typically a whipping son besides. It was revealed super recently that he is Jewish. Nasal-voiced, smart-mouthed, & whiney, Hesh international relations and security network't swell liked by virtually all of a crew, & so works in the a portion of the station utmost out of the children (the reactor core). Exposure to vivid radiation may turn Hesh into "Monster Hesh," an Incredible Hulk-like vary ego by having there are no neck. Hesh has the habit of high-pressure on to himself in the third human. A character is voiced by independent rapper & previous Cartoon Network staff member mc chris (Chris Ward). He too "wants married sex."

Carl is an heavy human world health organization works in the reactor room using Hesh, barely tolerating him. He typically finishes higher flushed by whatever crisis a crew is presently facing. Carl is voiced by Sealab 2021 artist Christian Danley.

A Bizarros come a class action that resemble the independent Sealab characters lone by using melanize uniforms & more noticeable features. Bizarro Murphy has the scar & an patch. Bizarro Debbie has the bionic woman arm & pinkish hair. Bizarro Stormy has ice hair & could breathe ice cubes. Bizarro Marco has the metallic jaw sustaining sharply dentition & Bizarro Sparks occurs as head within the swimming jar. A strangest is Bizarro Quinn, world health organization hatches away from an egg. These are short, white, has orangish hair, the beak, gangly paws forgoing arms, & an allergic reaction to peanuts. A Bizarros have a tendency to utilise a word "Bizarro" virtually each instance it say something, & periodically encourage others to. the Bizarros come a information to the DC Comics villian "Bizarro", an imperfect clone of Superman who is one of that hero's more memorable villains. In the period of Bizarro's appearances inside Hanna-Barbera's productions of Super Friends, his speech was very disjointed, & the Bizarros of Sealab part a similar impediment.

Episode list and original air dates

Three episode pilot
December 21, 2000 "Radio Free" - Murphy starts a pirate-radio station, which attracts the attention of the FCC. December 30, 2000 "Happy Cake" - Murphy complains about his purloined Happy Cake oven (which makes really baked goods using the Xl watt bulb!), when Sparks flash his mountain fort. December 30, 2000 "I, Robot" - While a station is around danger from either a hull breach, the crew ponders what life would exist as prefer in case it put their brains in robot bodies.

Season one
September 2, 2001 "Chickmate" - Debbie's biological clock goes off, and she strains to locate the crewmember that would produce a good father for her when-however-unconceived binky users. September 16, 2001 "Predator" - A pseudo-invisible monster (remindful of a monster from either the picture Predator) is on the sidesplitting fling inside Sealab. May Captain Murphy & Dr. Quinn save Sealab? September 30, 2001 "Lost in Time" - When pirating cable for Captaaround Murphy, Quinn & Stormy come caught in the Fifteen-microscopic period warp when Sealab high-pressure blows higher. October 14, 2001 "Little Orphan Angry" - An "orphan" comes aboard Sealab, courtesy of the Final Asking Foundation, by having sinister plans within his mind. October 21, 2001 "Waking Quinn" - Electrocuted in the station's tank room, Quinn drifts in & away from consciousness, dreaming the series of freaky stories. October 28, 2001 "All That Jazz" - Murphy is trapped by an evil soda machine, while a rest of the crew goes out on the road sustaining MC Chris. December 9, 2001 "Murphy Murph and the Feng Shui Bunch" - Murphy is sold in redecorating a station based on data from feng shui rules, but Quinn distrusts a guy doing a merchandising. the face-off between a decorator & Marco at a prevent of the episode reveals that the cases of the episode as a matter of fact require place within a video game played by Master Shake & Meatwad of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Season two
April 7, 2002 "In the Closet" - Due to the faulty door, a Sealab crew gets bolted within a thing closet. Two or three black eyes symptom when it try for out, on the other hand it discover that the dozen of unfed killer dogs come skylark Sealab. April 28, 2002 "Stimutacs" - Sparks starts pushing a newly, "mostly kelp" energy pill that proves to exist as extremely tying up. May 5, 2002 "Swimming in Oblivion" - Behind a scenes at a chaotic "set" of Sealab 2021. Therein episode, a voice actors have their have list like than a characters'. May 12, 2002 "Der Dieb" - A series of unexplained stealing leads Spud to declare "Martian law". In the following madness, everyone finishes higher blaming Quinn for all the thievery. November 3, 2002 "Policy" - After heading higher hundreds to thousands of dollars inside credit card debt, Irish potato could't came higher by using how else to invite it totally...until Sparks intervenes. He will require out life assurance policies in the crew prior to sending the babies on the calamitous fool's err&, and yield to destroy Captain Potato by owning the homemade tesla coil in the hot tub prior to stealing all the toys Murphy bought. November 10, 2002 "Hail Squishface" - the mysterious (& super jolly) Asian visitant will bring a overwhelmingly cute Gloop onto the station, which Tater list Squishface. There's 2 problems, though: Gloops stink, & it multiply then convenient that in time Sealab is overproductiin by using the babies (Gloops down the road produce little cameos on Harvey Birdman). November 17, 2002 "Bizarro" - The crew is held surety by the Bizarro version of themselves. November 24, 2002 "Legend of Baggy Pants" - Fallowing trying to begin a game of golf game next to the reactor core (& turning Hesh into Monster Hesh in the run), Tater goes wanting to find the in favor shop—& gets thoroughly misplaced in the run. December 8, 2002 "7211" - the nuclear-powered submarine crashes outside a station, & a crew of Sealab (around a uncommon occurrence) must operate quickly to prevent an environmental disaster from either happening. A exclusively "serious" episode in the indicate, this was an original episode of Sealab 2020 which was redubbed per 2021 voice actors, by having more or less half of the original episode's footage excised to healthy a shorter going period. At a prevent of a closing credits, the submarine crashes into Sealab & two explode. A episode's title derives from either either a sequence total of the original episode its footage comes from. December 15, 2002 "Tinfins" - The crew of Sealab (along by having the vapid gossip-indicate hikers, the bear around lederhosen and guest stars Kid N' Play) star in the sneak preview favorite for the pic Tinfins, complete sustaining plenty of ads for the eating house Grizzlebee's. December 29, 2002 "Feast of Alvis" - Capt. White potato's tries at the happy Alvistide last awry thanks to non-Alvian crewman, an disobliging linesman, & Alvis himself "crapping the buffet".

Season three
May 26, 2003 "Brainswitch" - An accident leaves Quinn comatose and Stormy allegedly ache. Own it really switched brains? June 2, 2003 "Vacation" - Dr. Quinn forcibly requires the easily-deserved vacation, in Sealab's bulwarks, a crew tries to call for out what he's doing. (As well referred to as a "Uh-oh" episode.) June 9, 2003 "Fusebox" - a electricity is call at Sealab, & a crew seeks to turn the power back in. June 16, 2003 "Article 4" - a loophole in a Sealab charter turns everyone into captains, except Stormy (as well dullard), Quinn (as well gallant to exploit the loophole), & the Chinese crewman (because of anime, among more items). How else might Sealab last? & in which did Capt. White potato last? November 16, 2003 "Return to Oblivion" - A network executive audits a placed of a tough-hitting action drama Sealab 2021, by having hopes of somehow salvaging the tapering series. November 23, 2003 "Splitsville" - Debbie and Quinn decompose, patch Dr. Virjay gets his old rock group back together. November 30, 2003 "Tourist Season" - Captain Murphy opens Sealab to holidaymaker, at length prompting Dr. Virjay to renounce his religion, & start to eat meat from either cows. December 7, 2003 "Red Dawn" - Kommissar Murphy brings Marxist-Leninist ideals to Sealab. December 14, 2003 "Meet Beck Bristow" - Hollywood Actor Beck Bristow comes to Sealab to study for the television role. December 21, 2003 "I, Robot, Really" - Due to an incident by having Chubby Carol, Quinn is blackmailed into generating to each one crewman the golem system, however what is to be of the crew's old bodies? December 31, 2003 "Frozen Dinner" - The Sealab crew tries the daring saving mission to Ice Station Zebra, one of whose dweller has turned to cannibalism. It is accompanied by the German world health organization bears to the higher degree a pass resemblance to Jürgen Prochnow & is given to firing his pistol and shouting "Sieg Heil!" Unfortunately, them habitant of Ice Station Zebrthe can't exist as rescued due to a deficiency of wetsuits, thanks to Debbie. the episode finishes sustaining a rousing rendition of the chorus of "It's a Long Way to Tipperary." January 11, 2004 "Tornado Shanks" - As Captain Murphy leaves for a Groovy Spice Wars, the newly captain, Tornado Shanks, is given the helm.

Season four
June 20, 2004 "ASHDTV" - A redeeming mishap & a few dishonesty in Sparks' the portion pockets Sealab a brand freshly Asteroid Smasher/High-Definition TV. June 27, 2004 "Chalkboard Jungle" - Dr. Quinn teaches Debbie Love's class of 4th-graders including Fatass McBlobbicus, when getting to treat using Tornado Shanks' warped & unscientific review of education. A classic story "The Scarlet Ibis," by James Hurst, is chisel when the share of a schoolroom discussion of demise. All the when, cuts come processed between Debbie Love's schoolroom & the spa Love is camping, creating a series of double entendres. July 4, 2004 "Dearly Beloved Seed" - A survive of Captain Shanks' brothers dies from either the heart attack when ingesting the dump out; all the when, Hesh & Debbie Dupree wed. A episode terminates by having Uzi fire and the parody of the dialogue style of The Matrix. (written by the Sealab fan known exclusively when "MCHeshpants420", his screen title at Adult Swim's official web boards) July 11, 2004 "Craptastic Voyage" - Quinn, White Debbie, and "He Who Smokes Bitches" Stormy Waters venture deep into Tornado Shanks to kill the malignant tumor around Captain Shanks' head. July 18, 2004 "Let 'Em Eat Corn" - Tornado Shanks declares Sealab a sovereign united states sequentially to become his have revenue enhancement haven. a wave of secession fever sweeps through the entire crew, sustaining the half-pack nations declaring themselves independent within 2 or three proceedings; by owning the support of two British business community, it is 100% shortly armed by owning missiles allegedly loaded sustaining nuclear warheads. Once click comes to shove & each Sealab united states declares war in each more of these, even so, a nuclear warhead completely turn intent on become duds. A Brits become away by owning Sealab's cash & play the horrifying "rock" song all over a prevent credits. July 18, 2004 "Neptunati" - Stormy's meddling inquistiveness uncovers Shanks' membership inside the globe-controlling society. November 14, 2004 "Isla de las Chupacabras" - a team-building exercise goes awfully incorrectly whenever the Sealab crew come attacked by Chupacabras. November 21, 2004 "Joy of Grief" - the grief counselor seeks to help a Sealab crew across a stiff instance. November 28, 2004 "Green Fever" - Zombies ravage Sealab as Debbie plans her (fifth) Thirtieth birthday person. December 5, 2004 "Sharko's Machine" - Marco's illegitimate boy applies for the job in Sealab. Could he pass a civil service examination by using Debbie & Quinn serving? December 12, 2004 "Return of Marco" - Marco died three episodes agone. What's he doing back?

Season five
March 6, 2005 "Casinko" - Sealab is in danger of crashing into an ancient Western Indian graveyard. March 13, 2005 "Butchslap" - Marco's secret past from either 50 years ago threatens a populates of the Sealab crew. March 20, 2005 "Monkey Banana Raffle" - An eccentric trillionaire (the parody of Richard Branson) buys Sealab. March 28, 2005 "Shrabster" - This episode parodies both Pulp Fiction and the "backwards" episode of Seinfeld. Quinn genetically engineers the intercrossed crustacean to reproduce plenty larvae to prevent globe hunger. a plot, which is revealed withwithin the series of scenes in reverse chronological sequentially introduced sustaining an plaguy voiceover & a bad title card, continues by having Sparks selling off the rights for the shrimp-crab-lobster to Grizzlebee's; the corporation's agents, Dan and Don, try to take possession of the queen shrabster with the help of Captain Shanks, only to be thwarted by Shanks' non-cooperation. Dan & Don hijack a submersible loaded by owning shrabster eggs instead, simply to wind higher crashing it into the davy jones & giving to dry land empty-handed. Quinn finds out astir Sparks' double treating & kills him. Shanks escapes sustaining the queen to an unidentified city, in which her aloud roars attract a attention of a law; a captain gets the queen to agree to a murder-suicide treaty, so neglects to obliterate himself, instead helping himself to many bites of her claws. April 4, 2005 "Cavemen" - Quinn and Stormy come stuck within the cave by owning exclusively Ten transactions of o when Sealab burns. It rehash a total of items just about their experiences & the todays week's destruction of Sealab, typically across combat, & eventually ascend to heaven together, in which it lead off an hereafter good of encounters by owning longtime friends & cocotte. April 11, 2005 "Moby Sick" - Quinn is smitten by having the moral quandary after Abelard, the whale death of asbestos-induced "whale cancer," begs Quinn to euthanize him. Conservationist insist in saving his life, when two or three population insist mercy killing is the better stock. Dolphin Son will require higher a banner of Odontocetian Pride against a intrusion of the inferior Mysticetians, vowing to stamp out Abelard. Marco discovers that Abelard's cancer is delicious, & take to eat it whole away from him at the prevent of the episode, as a skinhead Dolphin Son jumps onto him by owning a harpoon & Debbie DuPree chains herself to the fleetly sinking whale. April 18, 2005 "No Waterworld" - All the water as much as Sealab cryptically disappears following of an alien landing. Sparks sells slay all a atomic number 8 tanks & shoots out all the glass windows inside the station by having an AK-47, following in however an additional catastrophe while the a water supply eventually is restored. April 25, 2005 "Legacy of Laughter" - The final episode of Sealab 2021, done as an locate & kindthe a sequel to "Tinfins" (a film "Tinfins 2" is in the works & it's sponsored by Grizzlebee's). There is a Q&A session with the audience, during which one person asks of the people on stage are supposed to be the voice actors as themselves, or are they in character now? A sole guide is "yes". It's determined that a large condition by having Sealab 2021 is that it "wasn't enough like Aqua Teen Hunger Force". a interview/episode finishes sustaining the greatest hits tribute to Captain Murphy & a sneak preview of the next year perfect when the commercial break. Ironic tool is, there aren't any longer freshly episodes when a episode stops that way.

Home releases
A number one DVD of the series, featuring the 1st 13 episodes (I personally, Golem across Swim within Oblivion), was discharged July 20, 2004, along with Aqua Teen Hunger Force Volume Two.

A 2nd DVD of the series was released in February First 2005, alongside The Brak Show Volume 1 DVD. Unlike Volume I, which experienced thin favorite features, Volume Two got comment for everthing xiii episodes, an animatic for the unseen episode "Ronnie," & more assorted bonus features- several of which require women around bikinis.

A third DVD of the series was released in July 12th, 2005, by owning 2 unseen episodes & the animatic of a third unseen episode, comment for quatern episodes, & more features.

AdultSwim.com - Sealab 2021
Official site with episode clips, MP3s, character profiles, images, and a brief synopsis.

The Other Unofficial Adult Swim Site
Sealab 2021 fanpage with character descriptions, quotes and "Season Zero" episode details.

epguides.com - Sealab 2021
A title and air dates episode guide.

imdb.com - Sealab 2021
Cast and crew list, reviews, trivia and quotes.

David Michael Friend - Backadaisical Productions
Sealab 2021 intro [QuickTime download] from one of the show's animators.

TV.com - Sealab 2021
Detailed episode guide with cast and crew listings, goofs, and show information.


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