The Angry Beavers was a Nickelodeon animated series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two brother beavers who have left their mom and home to become two bachelors in the forest. Their many adventures spark them to release their ugly sides very often, drawing in the name Angry Beavers. The show premiered in 1997 after the 1997 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and was canceled amid controversy in 2001 (with a handful of unaired episodes remaining). It was created by Mitch Schauer. The series has, so far, not yet come to DVD, most likely never will due to the controversies. The show continues re-run on Nicktoons TV. Nickelodeon took it off the air on January 1, 2000. Nickelodeon (Nick for short) is an American cable TV network for children. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Beaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mitch Schauer (Unknown, but rumors suggest he was born in March 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a television worker who worked on childrens shows starting in 1990, when he produced Bobbys World. ... // DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Old NickToons TV logo NickToons, also known as NickToons TV, is a digital cable and satellite television network. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Recurring characters

• Daggett: Dag is the younger brother of Norbert by four minutes. He is very crazy, extremely hyper, and sometimes funny. He says an assortment of strange phrases and likes calling people names. His trademark phrase is "That was nuts!" and is also known for adding 'eh' at the end of sentences (which Zim did as well in the episode Door to Door, in homage to Dag). He is dark brown with a red nose, and voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.
• Norbert: Norb is Dag's laid back, older brother. He uptakes many hobbies and frequently pronounces words incorrectly. His trademark phrase is "Biiiiig hug!" or "Biiiig Beaver Hug" (often accompanied by him hugging Dag). He is light brown with a purple nose, and voiced by Nick Bakay, or Salem of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch fame.
• Stump: Stump is a tree stump whom Norb met and introduced to the other creatures of the forest. He often moves on his own off-screen. He is similar to Plank from Ed Edd and Eddy.
• Barry Bear: Daggett and Norbert's disco loving friend; obviously based on Barry White. He is a famous singer, whom Norb and Dag try to exploit. Whenever he sees a clown he flashbacks to his days as a circus bear and cowers, saying: "Oh, the baaaaad times!". He is voiced by actor John Garry, who provided the narration for the pilot episode of Invader Zim and also provided the voice of the host of "Mysterious Mysteries", a show-within-a-show seen on Invader Zim.
• Treeflower: The love of Norbert's life whom he met at a hippie concert. Once a hippie, now turned business woman/elevator-music composer.
• Bing: An annoying lizard who hangs around Norb and Dag. Bing speaks extremely fast and often in circles. Victor Wilson, who would later become part of a little show titled Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, provided Bing's hyperactive voice.
• Truckee: A trucker shrew who thinks only about trucks and shrews. Hates Daggett, and Dagget hates him.
• Oxnard Montalvo: Norb and Dag's favorite B-movie actor. Norb and Dag often watch black and white horror movies (these are very seriously drawn, contrary to the regular style of the show). An obvious homage to 1950's horror movies. The name seens to be a parody of Ricardo Montalban, if not the character's look.
• Teluca Lake: Another B-movie actor, often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress. The name is an pun off the California city named Toluca Lake.
• El Grapadura: The beavers (Especially Daggett's) favorite Vale Tudo wrestler.

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Angry Beavers And The Public

Angry Beavers was a generally popular show during its airtime. Angry Beavers was 'the show' that kept adolescents and adults interested in Nickelodeon in the late 90s. It had a more adult, sophisticated sense of word play jokes and culture references that made up its humor, but was silly and unrealistic enough to attract the attention of young children too. Unfortunately, it was aired in the midst of the success of Rugrats, and many fans believe it did not earn the popularity it deserved. Many people compare it to Rocko's Modern Life as one of the most influential Nickelodeon cartoons of the 90s. Its influence is evident in other current shows too. SpongeBob SquarePants has a notably similar humor pattern and animation style to this show, and it has the same backing music as Jimmy Neutron. The Adolescents were a punk band in the 1980s. ... The whole Rugrats gang as of 2001. ... Rockos Modern Life was an animated series whose four seasons aired from 1993 to 1996. ... Nickelodeon (Nick for short) is a cable TV network for children. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... SpongeBob SquarePants is a popular animated series created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. ... The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is a spin-off of the Oscar-nominated computer-animated movie; Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, first officially aired in September 2002. ...

Angry Beavers' popularity with the more "adult" scene managed to get it some recognition. Radio stations also used Dag's catch phrase "That was nuts!" for promos for music marathons, and the show even had a small merchandise line that included T-shirts and plush toys. A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...

Controversy

The whole controversy surrounding the series first started in 1998, when Alley Oops! had Norb saying "Oh, shut up, Dag!"

When this episode was first televised in the US on Nick, the "shut" in "shut up" was bleeped out. Apparently, someone complained about the phrase "shut up" sounded like "shit up" in a Nick program. What that bleep did, however, was it generated more interest in the show, as some felt that it had vulgar language in the dialog. Between airings, however, Nick changed Norb's line to "Shush up, stupid!" It was the first time any Nicktoon had a line changed between airings since Ren and Stimpy. Many people believe this was ridiculous, and it has been shown that many other Nickelodeon programs that aired before Angry Beavers did use "shut up" and in fact, language that is generally considered to be worse (ex. Hey Arnold, which, particularly in its early episodes, used a few words many people believe should not air in children's programming), that the Angry Beavers did not use. None the less, this was edited. Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting the feces, the solid byproduct of digestion. ... Ren and Stimpy are the eponymous characters of two cartoon television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. ... Hey Arnold! is a Nickelodeon cartoon first aired in autumn 1996. ...

The final straw was an un-aired episode titled Bye Bye Beavers, which was going to be the shows last episode, involving Norb having to convince Dag that they're just characters on a TV show. Staffer Micah Wright said that Nickelodeon hated this episode, as it made fun of the station's practice of not making new episodes of their Nicktoons, preferring to air reruns instead. It is unclear if it was even part of foreign syndication. Also, the episode had broken Nick's code on Nicktoons: When you're going off the air, don't tell your viewers! By consequent, the beavers are the first Nicktoons to ever break the fourth wall. Micah Ian Wright (b. ... Specifically in a proscenium theater, the term fourth wall applies to the imaginary invisible wall at the front of the stage in a theater through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. ...

This is a quote from Wright's website about Nick canceling the show: "Nickelodeon hated this episode because it actually told the kids the truth: that the show was ending! Nick likes to just rerun their shows forever and pretend that they're still making new episodes and this show idea drove them up a wall!"

All in all, 63 episodes of the show were produced, because Nick cut 2 episodes out of the planned 65. Later new episodes have been added, creating a total of 108.

Many of the show's fans were extremely upset when the show was cancelled, and an on-line petition has been created.

Current Status

The Angry Beavers was brought back to Nicktoons TV on June 20th, 2005.

In-jokes

There were several in-jokes throughout The Angry Beavers entire run. One particular one involves Richard Steven Horvitz himself being mentioned. An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... Richard Steven Horvitz (born July 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California), is an American actor and voice actor. ...

Episodes

Season 1

1. Born to Be Beavers / Up All Night
2. A Dam Too Far / Long in the Teeth
3. Gift Hoarse / Go Beavers
4. Boxtop Beavers / Salmon Sez
5. Beach Beavers A-Go-Go / Deranged Ranger
6. Muscular Beaver / Fish and Dips
7. Enter the Daggett / Bug-A-Boo
8. Mission to the Big Hot Thingy / I Dare You
9. Stinky Toe / House Broken
10. Tree's Company / Guess Who's Stumping to Dinner
11. Fancy Prance / H2Whoa!
12. The Bing That Wouldn't Leave / You Promised
13. Bummer of Love / Food of the Clods

Season 2

1. Kandid Kreatures / Fakin' It
2. Beaver Fever / Same Time Last Week
3. Muscular Beaver 2 / Stump Seeks His Roots
4. Tree of Hearts / Dag for Night
5. Un-barry-ble / Another One Bites the Musk
6. The Mighty Knothead / Pond Scum
7. Utter Nonsense / Endangered Species
8. Lumbjerjack's Delight / Zooing Time
9. Friends, Romans, Beavers / Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy
10. If You In-sisters / Alley Oops (where the controversy surrounding the series began... see above)
11. Open Wide for Zombies / Dumbwaiters
12. Sans-A-Pelt / Gonna Getcha
13. The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up (the series' only 30 minute episode)

Season 3

1. My Bunnyguard
2. What's Eating You?
3. Omega Beaver
4. Bite This!
5. Spooky Spoots
6. Up all night 2: Up All Day
7. Muscular Beaver 3
8. Sang 'em High
9. In Search of Big Byoo-Tox
10. Moronathon Man
11. The Legend of Kid Friendly
12. Silent but Deadly
13. Pass It On!
14. Stump's Family Reunion
15. Tough Love
16. A Little Dad'll Do You
17. Too Loose Latrine
18. Pack Your Dags
19. Daggy Dearest
20. Dag's List
21. Muscular Beaver 4
22. Act Your Age
23. Mistaken Identity
24. Easy Peasy Rider
25. Stare and Stare Alike
26. I'm Not an Aminal, I'm Scientist #1
27. Norberto y Daggetto en El Grapadura Y El Castor Malo
28. The Loogie Hawk
29. Kreature Komforts
30. Oh, Brother?
31. Das Spoot
32. SqOtters
33. Long Tall Daggy
34. Practical Jerks
35. Dagski and Norb
36. Come Shell or High Water
37. Nice & Lonely
38. Soccer? I Hardly Knew Him!
39. Slap Happy
40. Home Loners
41. Ugly Roomers
42. Finger Lickin' Goofs
43. Brothers...to the End?
44. Euro Beavers
45. Strange Allure
46. Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Season 4

1. Chocolate Up to Experience
2. Three Dag Nite
3. All in the Colony
4. Line Duncing
5. The Beave Master
6. Deck Poops
7. Fat Chance
8. Dag in the Mirror
9. Canucks Amuck
10. Yak in the Sack
11. Driving Misses Daggett
12. Big Fun
13. Moby Dopes
14. Present Tense
15. House Sisters
16. Muscular Beaver 5
17. It's a Spootiful Life
18. The Mom from U.N.C.L.E.
19. Vantastic Voyage
20. Blacktop Beavers
21. The Big Frog
22. Dag Con Carnie
23. Damnesia
24. The Posei-Dam Adventure
25. Specs Appeal
26. Things That Go Hook in the Night

See also

• List of Nickelodeon Shows
• Nicktoons

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External links

• Official Website
• The Beaver Channel (David Wright's *JohnOfE* Un-official Website)
• The Angry Beavers at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Sound clip from last episode that never aired-This is from Micah Wright's official website. These are the lines that slam Nick for "re-re-re-runs" of its Nicktoons as spoken by Daggett and Norbert. About 10-20 seconds of dialogue that basically ended the show early.
• Unofficial Website
• Bring Back The Angry Beavers- An on-line petition to save The Angry Beavers. Currently has over 240 signatures.