Line #9 WesternAnimation/TheMoxyShow


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moxyandflea.PNG]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350: The eponymous Moxy the dog (left) and his friend Flea (right).]]
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4	-> '''Moxy''': Hi, um...I'm Moxy. And...uh, uh...that's Flea! And uh...
5	-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVvypQCTq6Y Show open]]'''
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7	Question: What was the first Creator/CartoonNetwork original series? A lot of animation fans would probably say ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''. Others may be more clever and point at ''WesternAnimation/WhatACartoonShow'', the anthology series from which ''Dexter's Lab'' and many of the network's early Creator/CartoonCartoons originated. And still others will have done a bit more homework and point to ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' as the network's first original series. All those people would be wrong. [[note]]Well, the people who said ''Coast to Coast'' technically aren't. That was the first ''fully-produced'' original series, while here we're talking interstitials in the vein of future programming blocks such as Creator/{{Toonami}} or Creator/CartoonCartoonFridays.[[/note]]
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9	Premiering in 1993, ''The Moxy Show'' was Creator/CartoonNetwork's first-ever original series. Initially known as ''The Moxy Pirate Show'', it was a collection of classic Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons with CGI-animated interstitials placed in-between, starring Moxy the dog and his friend Flea. The show originally only featured Moxy and was entitled ''The Moxy Pirate Show''; Flea wasn't added until 1994, with the show gaining its new name of ''The Moxy Show'' upon his debut appearance.
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11	In 1995, the final episode was produced, with this episode being an intended {{pilot}} episode for another iteration of the series, ''The Moxy & Flea Show''. This new show was never greenlit for its own series due to poor reception.
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13	If you're sitting here wondering why you've never heard of this cartoon before an hours-long dive into TV Tropes or that one cameo from [[Recap/OKKOLetsBeHeroesS2E18CrossoverNexus an episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'', it's because ''The Moxy Show'' is one of the biggest examples of [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes lost media]] that Cartoon Network has to offer. The series never saw reruns after Creator/{{Boomerang}} was spun off into its own network in 2000, and no form of home media containing any part of the show was ever released. Only segments of an assumed 24 episodes have been found, leaving Moxy and Flea as the most forgotten characters in the channel's stable.
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16	!!This show provides examples of:
17	* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Flea only wears a propeller beanie.
18	* ADogNamedDog: Flea is a flea named Flea.
19	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: One episode had a scene where Flea tells Moxy he needs a catchphrase. When he uses WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck's catchphrase "You're despicable!" as an example, Moxy takes it as Daffy actually thinking he's despicable.
20	* TheEponymousShow: All three of the titles which the show was known by use this naming convention.
21	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: Moxy is fully clothed.
22	* FunnyAnimal: Moxy is an anthropomorphic dog.
23	* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Moxy's boss from ''The Moxy Pirate Show'' episodes, who is usually only shown from the neck up.
24	* ManiacMonkeys: How about monkey aliens? In ''The Moxy & Flea Show'', Moxy and Flea are abducted by alien monkeys who then proceed to experiment on them.
25	* MediumBlending: Moxy and Flea are two CGI-animated characters composited over a scale-model set. The set itself was shot in forced perspective, giving it the illusion of depth. There's also Moxy's boss, who appears in live action through the "Boss Alert" monitor.
26	* MotionCapture: ''The Moxy Show'' was one of the first shows done in this technique. He first appeared in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrDVqu85gg a TBS special]] that was broadcast live, an early experiment in real-time animation.
27	* NameAndName: ''The Moxy & Flea Show''.
28	* ProductPlacement: Moxy's studio has several Cartoon Network logos plastered onto the walls.
29	* ReminderOfImpossibility: In the one episode produced for ''The Moxy and Flea Show'', Moxy is driving a car with Flea when the latter starts to talk about how it bothers him that dogs can't drive. It takes a while for Moxy to be thrown off by the realization that ''he's'' a dog driving a car.
30	* ShortRunner: ''The Moxy & Flea Show'' is one of the few TV shows to only air one episode.
31	* WorldShapes: The monkey aliens from ''The Moxy & Flea Show'''s only episode live on a banana-shaped planet.
32	* WrongfullyAttributed: For a long time, the Wikipedia page for the show listed Scott Fellows (best known for ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' and ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'') as the creator. At the time, no further information of the show's actual development, or footage from the show had been resurfaced yet. It was only later that one of the show's actual developers was identified, with said developer stating in [[http://foofnscoops.wixsite.com/cnvideogame/interview-brad-degraf this interview]] that Fellows had no involvement.

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