The Angry Beavers
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The Angry Beavers is an American
United States
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 animated television series created by Mitch Schauer
Mitch Schauer
Mitchell L. Schauer is an animation professional who's been involved in children's programming, primetime live-action series and feature films since 1978.-Early Life:...

 for the Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...

 channel. The series revolves around Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two young beaver
Beaver
The beaver is a primarily nocturnal, large, semi-aquatic rodent. Castor includes two extant species, North American Beaver and Eurasian Beaver . Beavers are known for building dams, canals, and lodges . They are the second-largest rodent in the world...

 brothers who have left their home to become bachelors in the forest near Wayouttatown, Oregon. The show premiered in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 on April 19, 1997 and completed its run on November 11, 2003. The show started airing on the Nickelodeon Canada
Nickelodeon (Canada)
Nickelodeon is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel based on the U.S. cable network Nickelodeon. It is wholly owned by Corus Entertainment, with its name licensed from MTV Networks International, a division of Viacom....

channel when it launched on November 2, 2009.

Characters

  • Daggett Doofus Beaver: Daggett (usually nicknamed as "Dag" and "Daggy") is the younger twin brother of Norbert

ic motions as well as a potent penchant for name-calling. He shares with his brother a typical brotherly love-hate relationship, supporting and antagonizing his elder sibling as his mood requires. While he is occasionally capable of intellectual competence, he is generally overshadowed by his brother when faced with challenges that require mental capacity. His catchphrase is "That was nuts!" He is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz
Richard Steven Horvitz
Richard Steven Horvitz, sometimes credited as Richard S. Horvitz, Richard Horvitz, or Richard Wood, is an American actor and voice actor best known for his work as the voice of the original Alpha 5 in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, and Power Rangers Turbo, as Raz in Psychonauts,...

.
  • Norbert Foster Beaver: Norbert (usually nicknamed as "Norb" and "Norby") is Daggett's laid-back older twin brother. Generally well-spoken and quite intelligent, Norbert is a highly sarcastic beaver with a habit of performing great feats of impeccable engineering with aplomb and without explanation. While he is frequently manipulative of his younger brother and just as often condescending he shows great concern and love for Daggett, constantly soliciting and imposing hugs on the less receptive sibling. He is voiced by Nick Bakay.
  • Stump: Stump is a tree stump
    Tree stump
    After a tree has been cut and felled, the stump or tree stump is usually a small remaining portion of the trunk with the roots still in the ground. Stumps may show the age-defining rings of a tree. The study of these rings is known as dendrochronology....

     friend of the beaver brothers. Despite his kind's tendency toward lifelessness, Stump is apparently self-aware and animate. He frequents many of the beavers' social events, forming an integral part of their inner circle. He's is known around the forest as someone who goes out of his way to help others, and thusly is well liked throughout the forest.
  • Barry Bear: Barry Bear, a character based on Barry White
    Barry White
    Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...

    , is a hulking yet kind-hearted friend to the beaver brothers. Possessed of a sultry, deep voice, Barry is a prodigious singer and die-hard vegetarian, contrary to his species' generally carnivorous nature. While he is occasionally manipulated by and tormented by Norbert and Daggett, he maintains a close and easy-going friendship with the pair. Barry is voiced by John Garry.
  • Treeflower: Treeflower is the love of Norbert's life, whom he met at a concert (a parody of Woodstock) in Bummer of Love. Once a hippie beaver, she successfully works in versatile jobs, e.g. as an elevator-music composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     (as noted in the episode Tree of Hearts) and firefighter
    Firefighter
    Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...

     (as noted in A Little Dad'll Do You). She was voiced by Cynthia Mann.
  • Bing: Bing is an annoying lizard
    Lizard
    Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with nearly 3800 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica as well as most oceanic island chains...

     who hangs around Norbert and Daggett, introduced in episode The Bing That Wouldn't Leave. Bing talks extremely fast and often employs circular logic. Victor Wilson provided Bing's hyperactive voice. It is not confirmed what kind of lizard Bing is; however, he is seen changing colors like a chameleon
    Chameleon
    Chameleons are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of lizards. They are distinguished by their parrot-like zygodactylous feet, their separately mobile and stereoscopic eyes, their very long, highly modified, and rapidly extrudable tongues, their swaying gait, the possession by many of a...

     and losing his tail like a gecko
    Gecko
    Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm....

    .
  • Truckee: Truckee is a trucker shrew
    Shrew
    A shrew or shrew mouse is a small molelike mammal classified in the order Soricomorpha. True shrews are also not to be confused with West Indies shrews, treeshrews, otter shrews, or elephant shrews, which belong to different families or orders.Although its external appearance is generally that of...

     who thinks only about truck
    Truck
    A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...

    s and shrews, introduced in the episode Tree of Hearts. Truckee hates Daggett and the feeling is mutual. In addition, he briefly dated Treeflower, causing animosity between him and Norbert.
  • Wolffe D. Wolf: He is a grey wolf who tends to be a little laid back. He does show some interest in most common things.
  • Big Rabbit Or Big Bunny: He is a humungous rabbit
    Rabbit
    Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world...

    . It is revealed that he has two younger brothers and lives with his parents. He has a tattoo on his right arm. His dad has his left foot taken off by charm hunters, and his mom is a pro at wrestling. He was one time hired as Norb and Dag's bodyguard.
  • Racoon: He is a recurring wild character.
  • The Female Racoon Tribe: They are a crazy tribe of racoons that believe in godly power.
  • Laverta Lutz: She is a magical lady who showed up at the bowling alley. She has the power to grant a wish to anyone. The only one who knows of this is Dag. She normally talks with a little phlegm.
  • Oxnard Montalvo: Oxnard is Norbert and Daggett's favorite B-movie
    B-movie
    A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....

     actor, introduced in the episode Up All Night. Norbert and Daggett often watch black and white horror movies (these are very seriously drawn, contrary to the regular style of the show), which are an obvious homage to 1950's horror movies. Named after two streets in Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
    Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

    , Montalvo resembles B-movie stars like John Agar
    John Agar
    John George Agar was an American actor. He starred alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, but was later relegated to B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Flesh and the Spur, and Hand of Death...

     and Peter Graves
    Peter Graves (actor)
    Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...

     (who guest stars in the Halloween special, The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up!). Oxnard Montalvo is voiced by Tom Kane
    Tom Kane
    Tom Kane is a prominent American voice actor with over 25 years of experience. He is most widely known for his animation work...

    .
  • Toluca Lake: Toluca is another B-movie actor, introduced in Up All Night, who often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress. The name plays on the eponymous California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

     city Toluca Lake, and is also a reference to 1940s actress Veronica Lake
    Veronica Lake
    Veronica Lake was an American film actress and pin-up model. She received both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and her femme fatale roles in film noir with Alan Ladd during the 1940s, and was well-known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle...

     .
  • El Grapadura (The Stapler
    Stapler
    A stapler is a mechanical device that joins sheets of paper or similar material by driving a thin metal staple through the sheets and folding the ends. Staplers are widely used in government, business, offices, and schools....

    ): The beavers' (especially Daggett's) favorite vale tudo
    Vale tudo
    Vale tudo are full-contact unarmed combat events, with a limited number of rules, that became popular in Brazil during the 20th century. Vale tudo has been considered a combat sport by some observers...

    /lucha libre
    Lucha libre
    Lucha libre is a term used in Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking countries, for a form of professional wrestling that has developed within those countries...

     wrestler, introduced in Kandid Kreatures. Daggett has an autographed copy of his board game, "El Grapadura and Ladders" (a reference to Snakes and Ladders
    Snakes and ladders
    Snakes and Ladders is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played between two or more players on a game board having numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and "snakes" are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares...

    ).
  • Scientist #1 and Pete: A pair of scientists introduced in the episode Stinky Toe. They call the beavers "pointy weasels" and try to use them for very strange experiments. Scientist No. 1 (voiced by Edward Winter) has a distinctive cleft chin and always wears sunglasses
    Sunglasses
    Sunglasses or sun glasses are a form of protective eyewear designed primarily to prevent bright sunlight and high-energy visible light from damaging or discomforting the eyes. They can sometimes also function as a visual aid, as variously termed spectacles or glasses exist, featuring lenses that...

    ; he is just as arrogant as he is incapable. Since the third season, he has a name plate with a "1" on his coat, although his real name may likely be Todd based on his dialogue in a later episode where he mentions about wanting to name the world Todd. It is revealed in one episode that he never even went to college
    College
    A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...

    . Pete speaks in an unintelligible mutter that only Scientist No. 1 seems to understand. At one point, they wore green coats, making them environmentalists.
  • Bill Licking: Bill Licking was a presenter of TV shows and prototype of a touting salesman. He wears an "impressive" black wig. He was introduced in the episode Born to Be Beavers. Licking has often been known to manipulate Daggett and Norbert into being filmed for fraudulent documentaries. Voiced by Gregg Berger
    Gregg Berger
    Greggory "Gregg" Berger is an American voice actor, who is known for his longtime role as Odie the dog from the Garfield franchise...

    .
  • Stacy and Chelsea: The twin younger sisters of Norbert and Daggett, their birth led to their eviction from their family's home. They were first identified in the episode If You In-Sisters, though before their official introduction they are shortly shown in Born to Be Beavers as newborns without their names or even their genders identified. Chelsea bears a resemblance to and acts much like Daggett in her hyperactivity and speech patterns, while Stacy apparently takes after Norbert in appearance and personality. They are much more familiar and united than their brothers. They both adore their older brothers and hate it when they fight. They are named after and voiced by creator Mitch Schauer's daughters.
  • "Mom" and "Dad": Norbert and Daggett's parents. Following the birth of their youngest children, they kicked the elder beaver brothers out of their dam to make room for the new offspring. In spite of this stern approach to their sons, they love the two of them greatly. Daggett shares a great many physical features in common with his mother, but relates to and gets along with his father the best; the opposite is true for Norbert, visibly taking after his father but behaving remarkably like his mother.

Media Releases

  • Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon is a US cable TV channel.Nickelodeon may also refer to:-In television:*Spinoffs of the Nickelodeon channel:** Nickelodeon Magazine, a children's magazine.** Nickelodeon Universe, an amusement park....

     (1997–2003)
  • Nicktoons (2002–2007)
  • TeenNick
    TeenNick
    TeenNick, formerly The N, is an American television network aimed at the teenage market. TeenNick is owned by the MTV Networks subsidiary, Viacom. The channel was originally known as The N from its April 1, 2002 launch until September 28, 2009....

     (October 7, 2011)

In-jokes

There were several in-joke
In-joke
An in-joke, also known as an inside joke or in joke, is a joke whose humour is clear only to people who are in a particular social group, occupation, or other community of common understanding...

s throughout The Angry Beavers run. One involves Richard Steven Horvitz
Richard Steven Horvitz
Richard Steven Horvitz, sometimes credited as Richard S. Horvitz, Richard Horvitz, or Richard Wood, is an American actor and voice actor best known for his work as the voice of the original Alpha 5 in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo, and Power Rangers Turbo, as Raz in Psychonauts,...

, the voice of Daggett, being mentioned in the episode "Tree of Hearts", as well as the birth of his oldest son, Jake Elliot Horvitz, who was born on April 11, 1998:
Norbert: [reading mail] Hey, Daggett! Look at this! [reading letter] Richard Horvitz had a little baby boy, April 11th!
Daggett: Ooh!
Norbert: Jake Elliot Horvitz.
Daggett: Wow! That's great!
Norbert: I think so.
Daggett: Who's Richard Horvitz ?
Norbert: Nobody.


The use of "spoot" in place of swear words, such as an in exclamation ("Oh spoot!") or a descriptor ("What a pile of spoot" or "You're a spoot-head"), was another form of in-jokes in the series. Although these were said primarily by Daggett, they were used by Norbert from time to time.

Both beavers would often mispronounce common words in pseudo-French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 or otherwise foreign pronunciation. For example, pronouncing refrigerator as "re-frige-er-A-twoah/re-frige-er-ize-or", mine as "my-yun", natural which Norbert pronounces as "nature-ral", and "Canada" as "Ca-naa-da". Characters would also elongate words, particularly each other's names, with superfluous syllables, such as "Norbie-orbie" and "Dag-a-lag-a-ding-dong." On occasion, they would use foreign words but mispronounce them: for example, pronouncing the French word "moi" phonetically as "moy".

iTunes releases

iTunes released several episodes of angry beavers in 'Best of' Volumes 1-3. It has also been made available on Netflix via their Instant View service, however Netflix
Netflix
Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...

 has full seasons.
Volume Episode Number Episode Name
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 1 Born To Be Beavers / Up All Night
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 2 A Dam Too Far / Long In The Teeth
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 3 Gift Hoarse / Go Beavers!
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 4 Beach Beavers A Go-Go / Deranged Ranger
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 5 Muscular Beaver / Fish And Dips
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 6 Enter The Daggett / Bug-A-Boo
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 1 7 Mission To The Big, Hot, Thingy / I Dare You
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 1 Stinky Toe / House Broken
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 2 Trees Company / Guess Who's Stumping To Dinner
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 3 Fancy Prance / H-2 Whoa
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 4 The Bing Wouldn't Leave / You Promised
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 5 Kandid Kreatures / Fakin' It
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 6 Same Time Last Week / Beaver Fever
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 2 7 Muscular Beaver II / Stump Looks For His Roots
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 1 Tree Of Hearts / Dag For Nite
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 2 Mighty Knot Head / Pond Scum
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 3 Lumberjack's Delight / Zooing Time
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 4 Friends, Romans, Beavers / Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 5 If You Insisters / Alley Oops!
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 6 Open Wide For Zombies / Dumbwaiters
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 3 7 Gonna Getcha / Sans - A - Pelt
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 1 The Day the Earth Really Got Screwed Up
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 2 My BunnyGuard / What's Eating You?
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 3 Omega Beaver / Bite This
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 4 Spooky Spoots / Up All Day
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 5 Muscular Beaver III / Sang 'em High
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 6 In Search of Big Byoo-Tox / Moronathon Man
Best of Angry Beavers Vol. 4 7 Pass it On / Stump's Family Reunion
Nick Rewinds Vol. 1 1 Born To Be Beavers / Up All Night
Nick Rewinds Vol. 2 1 A Dam Too Far / Long In The Teeth
Nick Rewinds HALLOWEEN! 1 The Day The World Got Really Screwed Up

Angry Beavers DVD releases

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
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 stopped selling the Create Space DVDs as a result of Shout Factory now producing their own sets.
CreateSpace Releases Release date Discs Episodes
Best of Angry Beavers Season 1 June 28, 2010 3 11
Best of Angry Beavers Season 2 December 8, 2010 3 19
Best of Angry Beavers Season 3 December 8, 2010 3 19

Shout Factory Releases Release date Discs Episodes
Season 1 & 2 August 23, 2011 4 26
Season 3: Part 1 February 28, 2012 2 11
Season 3: Part 2 TBA 2 11
Season 4 TBA 3 15

In other media

The Angry Beavers appeared in Nicktoons Racing
Nicktoons Racing
Nicktoons Racing is a Nickelodeon racing game for the PlayStation, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, Windows, and arcade.- Teams :From Rugrats:...

 for the PlayStation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...

, Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance
The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...

, PC
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

, Game Boy Color
Game Boy Color
The is Nintendo's successor to the 8-bit Game Boy handheld game console, and was released on October 21, 1998 in Japan, November 19, 1998 in North America, November 23, 1998 in Europe and November 27, 1998 in the United Kingdom. It features a color screen and is slightly thicker and taller than...

, and Arcade
Arcade game
An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars, and amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers...

, as playable characters. Norbert and Daggett had a cameo as a Trophy in Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots is the 2007 sequel to the 2005 game Nicktoons Unite! and 2006 game Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island. It is also the prequel to the game Nicktoons: Globs of Doom, which was released in 2008...

.

Awards and nominations

Award Category Nominee Result
World Animation Celebration Best Animation Produced for Daytime Mitch Schauer Won
World Animation Celebration Best Director for Daytime Series Robert Hughes Won
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Best Sound Editing — Television Animated Series Unknown Nominated
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Best Sound Editing — Television Animated Series Tim Borquez, Thom Syslo Nominated
Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing — Special Class Timothy J. Garrity Nominated
Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Sound Editing - Special Class Thomas Syslo,Timothy Borquez, Eric Freeman, Rick Hammel, Les Wolf and Marc Mailand Won
Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement in a Daytime Animated Television Program Mitch Schauer Nominated
Annie Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement for Effects Animation Joel Krasnove Nominated
Annie Awards Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Television Production Dan Chessher Nominated
Annie Awards Best Individual Achievement: Production Design in a TV Production Mitch Schauer Won
Annie Awards Best Promotional Production (for main title) Unknown Nominated
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