Creator / Saerom

Saerom (Or Sae Rom, as they're been alternatively credited as) is a Seoul based South Korean company founded in 1987 by Gilhwan Kim. It got its start at animating mostly American shows. They're probably known for very deranged animation in their works.

Compare AKOM, Rough Draft Studios, Dong Woo Animation, Hanho Heung-Up, DR Movie, Sunwoo Entertainment and Digital eMation, eight other major Korean studios. Also compare a few Taiwanese studios, such as Hong Ying, also known for exporting crazy cartoons.

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Shows and films worked on by Saerom (works sent off to former subsidiary Saerom Plus One, now known as Plus One Animation, under contract marked with *):

• The Adventures of Kid Danger (with Powerhouse Animation)
• Adventure Time (with Rough Draft Studios)
  • Adventure Time: Distant Lands
  • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (4 episodes)^List "Fionna Campbell", "Cake the Cat", "Destiny", "The Star", "Casper & Nova"
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (with Hong Ying, Rainbow Animation Korea, Shanghai Rainbow Animation and TMS Entertainment)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
• The All New Dennis the Menace
• Animaniacs (14 episodes)^List "Now Loading", "The Hamburg Tickler", "Know Your Scroll", "The Longest Word", "Christopher Columbusted", "The Apology", "Royal Flush", "Über Nachtmare", "Global Warnering", "WARnerGAMES" (with Flystudio), "Santamaniacs", "International Mouse of Mystery", "Joe", "Everyday Safety: Giant Adirondack Chair"
• The Avengers: United They Stand
• Amphibia (36 episodes)^List "Hop Luck/Stakeout", "The Domino Effect/Taking Charge", "Anne Theft Auto/Breakout Star", "Lily Pad Thai/Plantar's Last Stand", "Grubhog Day/Hop Pop and Lock", "Civil Wart", "Croak and Punishment", "A Night at the Inn/Wally and Anne", "Cursed!/Fiddle Me This", "Reunion", "The Ballad of of Hopediah Plantar/Anne Hunter", "Quarreler's Pass/Toadcatcher", "Marcy at the Gates", "Lost in Newtopia/Sprig Gets Schooled", "The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers/A Day at the Aquarium", "The Shut-In!", "The First Temple", "Toad to Redemption/Maddie & Marcy", "Bessie and MicroAngelo/The Third Temple", "True Colors", "The New Normal", "Thai Feud/Adventures in Catsitting", "Fixing Frobo/Anne-Sterminator", "Spider-Sprig/Olivia & Yunan", "Froggy Little Christmas", "The Three Armies/The Beginning of The End", "All In" (with Flying Bark Productions), "The Hardest Thing" (plus the seasons 1 and 2 ending animations, the season 3 intro, and all "Teen Girl in a Frog World" shorts)
• Battletoads*
• Bibi Blocksberg (1997)
• Bugtime Adventures
• Captain N: The Game Master (season 3)*
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers* (season 1 only)
• CatDog (some episodes)
• Clarence
• Clerks: The Animated Series
• Close Enough
• Craig of the Creek (6+ episodes)^List "Itch to Explore", "Too Many Treasures", "Escape From Family Dinner", "Monster in the Garden", "Dog Decider", "Lost in the Sewers"
• Danger & Eggs
• Dora the Explorer
  • Go, Diego, Go! (Plus the main title)
  • Dora and Friends: Into the City! (9+ episodes)^List "Doggie Day", "We Save a Pirate Ship" "The Royal Ball", "Puppet Theater", "The Search for Mono", "Return to the Rainforest", "The Ballerina and the Troll Prince", "Community Garden", "The Princess and the Kate"
• Double Dragon (first episode only; replaced by Pacific Rim Animation and Hong Ying)
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest (with Wang Film Productions, Rough Draft, Hanho Heung-Up, A. Film, Luk Film, Character Builders, Time Art Studios, Siam Mammoth Animation, Sidley-Wright & Associates, Available Light Productions, Kroyer Films, Lumeni Productions, Electric Filmworks, Karen Johnson Productions, The Baer Animation Company, Pacific Title and The Chandler Group)
• For Better or for Worse (1 special; In-Between Animation and Opaquing)
• Friendly Compa [cancelled]
• The Fungies!
• Gadget Boy & Heather (with Hong Ying)
• Gargoyles (2 episodes)^List "Vows", "Protection"
• Hailey's On It! (12 episodes)^List "The Beginning of the Friend", "Beta'd and Hooked/The Wild, Wild Mess", "Cubix Dudes/Cos-Played", "Escape Doom", "Splatter of the Bands", "Dance Like No Mom is Watching", "Catching Felines", "U.F. Whoa!", "Kissed Opportunities", "Leather Jacket Hailey/In a Pinch", "The Fart of War", "Beta's Gonna Hate"
• Hamdoon (Co-produced with Ajyaal Entertainment)
• Hey Arnold! (seasons 2-5)
  • Hey Arnold! The Movie
  • Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie
• HouseBroken
• The Incredible Hulk
• Jim Button
• Jingle Bell Rock
• JJ Villard's Fairy Tales
• Johnny Bravo (season 4)
• Krapopolis (1 episode)^List "Wife Swamp"
• Long Live the Royals
• The New Adventures of Madeline (season 2 only)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
• Mixels (1 episode)^List "Nixel, Nixel, Go Away"
• Monster Farm (starting on episode 7)
• Mouse and the Monster, The (with Sunwoo Entertainment)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey
• NASCAR Racers (season 1)
• Ni Hao, Kai-Lan (intro and season 2, replacing Wang/Hong Guang)
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons (depending on the short; with Rough Draft, Plus One, Galaxy Digimation, Tama Productions and Yeson Entertainment)
• Oswald
• Party Wagon (with Sunwoo Entertainment)
• Random! Cartoons
• Regular Show
  • Regular Show: The Movie
• The Real Ghostbusters (season 7 only; other studios that worked on the show include Wang, Koko Enterprises, TMS Entertainment, Sei Young, Dai Won, KK C&D Asia, Toei Animation, Studio Korumi, Hanho, Visual 80 and Trans Arts)*
• Sam & Max: Freelance Police (with Philippine Animation Studio Inc.)
• Sanjay and Craig
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (Season 1 only) (8 episodes) ^List "Beware the Beast from Below", "Revenge of the Man Crab", "The Grasp of the Gnome", "Howl of the Fright Hound", "When the Cicada Calls", "Where Walks Aphrodite", "Nightfright", "Attack of the Headless Horror" (alongside Dong Woo Animation and Lotto Animation)
• Stunt Dawgs (with Point Animation, Big Star, Woo Nam and Rainbow Animation Korea)
• Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire
• Super Zuri: The Galactic Quest (one of the few properties created by Saerom itself, not as an animation subcontractor)
• Tak and the Power of Juju (animated adaptation, 2 episodes)^list "Bad Medicine", "Slog the Babysitter"
• Twelve Forever
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (3 episodes, with Plus One Animation)
• Walter Melon
• We Bare Bears (15+ episodes)^List "Our Stuff", "Viral Video", "Food Truck", "Panda's Date", "Primal", "Nom Nom", "Shush Ninjas", "My Clique", "The Road", "Pet Shop", "Yuri and the Bear", "Icy Nights", "Creature Mysteries", "The Library", "Christmas Parties" and probably others
  • We Baby Bears
• What-a-Mess (1995 animated adaption)
• Young Robin Hood (season 1 only, with Big Star and Fil-Cartoons)

Uncredited: (see their website for proof)

• Aladdin: The Series
• Bad Dog
• Beetlejuice
• Darkwing Duck
• Diabolik (with Ashi Productions)
• Phantom2040
• The Smurfs (1981) (later seasons)

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Tropes associated with Saerom:

• Animation Bump: Present in many shows (especially the deranged ones, as well as Hey Arnold!).
• Deranged Animation: Extremely evident, but Adventure Time, Flapjack, Sanjay and Craig, The Twisted Tales Of Felix The Cat, Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog, and JJ Villard's Fairy Tales especially.
• Limited Animation: Visible in many of their action shows and adds to their already disturbing animation of the others.
  • The Adventures of Kid Danger takes this up to eleven, with it looking more like a cheaply animated Flash-cartoon on the internet.
  • Done deliberately in JJ Villard's Fairy Tales, as it doesn't even bother to animate the characters walking a-la-South Park.
  • Also seen in their Nick Jr. and DiC Entertainment shows.
• Medium Blending: NASCAR Racers
• Production Posse: Cartoon Network Studios has gravitated towards them in the last decade; Saerom has worked on Johnny Bravo, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Clarence, We Bare Bears, and Craig of the Creek.
  • They've also worked with Nickelodeon, having worked on Hey Arnold, CatDog, Dora the Explorer (and its spinoffs), and Sanjay and Craig.
  • They are also a common contractor for DiC back in the early-to-mid-90s.
• Thick-Line Animation: Clerks and Cartoon Network shows such as Johnny Bravo and My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
• Troubled Production: Sanjay and Craig, of which was animated by them, waffles between fluid to stiff, along with the occasional miscolor, wrong character model, or unused drawings.

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