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My Dad the Rock Star

Willy Zilla and his rock-star father Rock Zilla, as seen on the show's opening sequence.
Genre Animated television series
Created by Gene Simmons
Starring Joanne Vannicola
Lawrence Bayne
Don Francks
Sarah Gadon
Martin Villafana
Kathleen Laskey
Stephanie Mills
Rob Stefaniuk
Country of origin Canada/United States
No. of episodes 26
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Various
Original run February 2004 (Canada)
January 2005 (United States) – December 2005 (Canada/United States)

My Dad the Rock Star is an animated television series created by KISS rocker Gene Simmons, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana. The show is about Willy Zilla, a 12-year old boy just trying to be normal despite being the son of Rock Zilla, a flamboyant musician. The program airs on Teletoon in Canada, and ran for a short period of time on the NickToons network in the United States. Image File history File links MyDadtheRockStar. ... This example of a title sequence, from long-running serial drama Another World, was seen from 1966 to 1981, making it one of the longest-running continuous title sequences on television. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American hard rock bass guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. ... Joanne Vannicola is a Canadian actress. ... Lawrence Bayne is a Canadian actor, born November 11, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Don Francks or Iron Buffalo (born February 28, 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a legendary Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician. ... Sarah Gadon (born September 8, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress who has guest starred in number of notable television series including Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Doc, In a Heartbeat, Le Femme Nikita, Life with Derek, Mutant X and a few others. ... Stephanie Mills (born March 22, 1957 in Harlem, New York) is an African American R&B and soul singer and former Broadway star. ... Rob Stefaniuk has worked in numerous television shows as an actor, appearing as both guest lead and series regular. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → // February 29, 2004 Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as president of Haiti and flees the country for the Central African Republic. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15... December 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → 31 December 2005 (Saturday) 25-year-old Scottish human rights worker Kate Burton and her parents are freed unharmed in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian gunmen who kidnapped them two days earlier. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American hard rock bass guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. ... Nelvana Limited is a Canadian entertainment company, founded in 1971, that is well-known for its work in childrens animation, among many things. ... For the unrelated, similarly-formatted channel in France, see TéléTOON (France). ...

Contents

Cast

  • Joanne Vannicola - Willy Zilla - The main character Stars In 3 Games Drakkhen Final Fantasy 5 Advance & Final Fantasy 5 Play Station 2 Version WILLY Zilla Tags Along With Reina PS2 Version Lenna GBA Version Galuf Krile & Faris Reina/Lenna & Krile Both Like Dragons Willie Has A Pet Chocobo Named "Boko".
  • Lawrence Bayne - Rock Zilla - Willy's rock star father.
  • Don Francks - Skunk - Ex-driver of the Zilla tour bus, friend of the family.
  • Sarah Gadon - Alyssa - Willy's best friend, and eventually girlfriend.
  • Martin Villafana - Quincy - Willy's other best friend.
  • Kathleen Laskey - Crystal Zilla - Willy's mother.
  • Stephanie Mills - Serenity Zilla - Willy's Sister

Joanne Vannicola is a Canadian actress. ... Lawrence Bayne is a Canadian actor, born November 11, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Don Francks or Iron Buffalo (born February 28, 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a legendary Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician. ... Sarah Gadon (born September 8, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress who has guest starred in number of notable television series including Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Doc, In a Heartbeat, Le Femme Nikita, Life with Derek, Mutant X and a few others. ... Stephanie Mills (born March 22, 1957 in Harlem, New York) is an African American R&B and soul singer and former Broadway star. ...

Episodes

The show ran for two seasons and currently is on hiatus.


Season 1

1. Welcome to Silent Springs

Rock and his family move to Silent Springs. Willy disguises himself as "Willy Zillowsky" but he is being forced by Buzz to steal Rock's gold record.

2. Zilla's House of Horrors

Willy heard Buzz saying that the house is haunted due to a man buried under the house of Rock.

3. Mr. Zilla's Opus

Rock revealed to everyone in school that Willy is Rock Zilla's son, when Rock became the new band teacher.

4. High Infidelity

When Crystal opens a Psychic Wellness Centre next to Willy's school, Willy is in for some ribbing from classmates wanting to tease him over his flakey Mom.

5. Angela D'Angelo Psychic, from the Greek psychikos meaning mental, of the soul (in turn derived from psyche meaning soul, mind), is a term used to describe phenomena or abilities that are said to originate from the brain but which transcend its confines. ...

Willy meets a new student named Angela, she invites him to the pre-date but it is revealed that they hate Rock Zilla.

6. The Candidate

Willy planned to be the candidate for class representative, but Buzz keeps stealing all of his plans and a candidate party! But before the party, he asks Rock and Crystal to be normal but chaos ensues. Then later, Willy won as class rep.

7. Willy Unplugged

Willy's excited about playing a cool acid jazz number on his trumpet at his school's talent night. But when Rock finds out, he tries to "help" by adding over-the-top theatrics to Willy's show. Then Q and Alissa try to get in on Willy's act - with less-than-musical results.

8. Dance Party

Willy is in the dance committee. His teacher, Ms. Zachwiss, seems to like the former parties just to be the same like the last 19 years and she does not want new ideas for the next dance party.

9. Psychic Convention

Crystal asks Willie to come with her to the Psychic Convention to meet Madame Persenchia. But Mosh got lost; Willie has to get ready for his Math exam.

10. Call of the Wild

The Zillas go on a camping trip with willies friends but something goes wrong

11. Mr. Big

When Sally Raptor offers Willy a coveted spot in the "in crowd", Willy gets a taste of what it's like to be extremely popular - and it rocks! But complications arise when Sally tries to get Willy to abandon his old friends Alissa and Quincy. Meanwhile, Serenity is terrorizing the neighbourhood practising to get her driver's license.

12. Rebel Without A Nose Ring

Buzz sets Willy up to experience a series of unfortunate encounters with Mr. Malfactor after which Malfactor labels Willy a Rebel and seizes the opportunity to restore order upon the student body by implementing a dress code.

13. Going for Broke

When the Zillas go broke, Quincy's father enables them to stay at their place.

Season 2

14. Meet the Zillas

Rock runs his own TV show, after thinking that the show that they were watching was boring. But later, they run pranks on Willie, so they change their mind of the show title. They changed it to "MEET WILLY ZILLA".

15. Rock Is From Mars, Willy Is From Venus

Willy and Rock try to spend some quality time together but things don't go as Willy intended.

16. The Sound of Zilla

Willie's school is celebrating International Students Week.

17. Home for the Holly Daze

It's the Zillas' first Christmas in Silent Springs and when they inadvertently become the cause of a famous Broadway director, losing his job, misery befalls them when he tries to get even.

18. What's the Scoop?

Scoop keeps on sneaking out on Rock; Buzz kept Willie in detention, after he found out that he was late. So Scoop and him have a plan to prove Willie innocent.

19. Rock Bottom

It's Rock's birthday but things get chaotic when Rock gets depressed, Serenity lands herself in the slammer, and she ends up serving community service at a senior's home, with Rock as her newest patient!

20. Saving Sawchuck

After Willie saves Buzz from drowning, he has to let Buzz save him from harm; Serenity falls in love with the Lifeguard, so she has lifeguard lessons.

21. Rock Zilla, King of the Desert

Willie, Quincy, and Allyssa take on a band trip, but ends up in the middle of the desert: Serenity and Crystal has to hide Rock's concert t-shirt (which he refuses to wash) before he comes back.

22. Big Willy on Campus T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ...

Willie, Allyssa, Serenity, Quincy, Skunk and Rock are going for a trip to Sara Bellum University, where Rock studies (and got expelled also.), but his roommate, Dean has a plan to sabotage Rock.

23. Metamorphic Rock

Willy, Quincy and Alissa are assigned a group project in Science class but with his mom missing in action, the house gets chaotic.

24. Kant Buy Me Love

Willy and his friends help their neighbor, Mr. Kant throw a silent party.

25. Chip Off the Old Rock

Rock's parents come to visit him, but they became mortal enemies; Serenity and her Grandmother have a day off.

26. Blind Date A blind date is a date where the people involved have not met each other previously. ...

When Serenity informs Willy that his plan to hook up with Alissa at the carnival is a date, Willy becomes a wreck. Panicked about going out with a girl who's not only smart and pretty, but also one of his best friends, a desperate Willy turns to Serenity for help.

Look up smart in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Beauty also refers to the bottom quark, a flavor of quark in particle physics. ...

DVD

The first season was released on DVD on September 20th, 2006.


Trivia

  • Rockzilla, like Gene Simmons himself, is a Beatles fan. When lost in the desert, he whipped up a list of necessary items:
  • The episode "Kant buy Me Love" is named after the Beatles' song "Can't Buy Me Love".
  • The episode "Rock Bottom" refers to the KISS song of the same name.
  • When Rock's parents visit, he and his father go to a formal party. When the violinist is asking for requests, Rock asks for KISS.
  • In the episode "Angela D'Angelo" when Willy, Skunk and Rock are discussing the predate, the chimney has a Millenium Eye design on it from Yu-Gi-Oh.
  • The Episode name, "Big Willy On Campus" is a spoof of the television show "Big Wolf On Campus".
  • The theme song is sung by artist Spookey Ruben, written by songwriter Jason Gleed, and mixed by John "Naz" Naslind in Toronto.

The self-titled double album The Beatles, released by the Beatles in 1968 at the height of their popularity, is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music. ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973. ... Yu-Gi-Oh! manga volume 1 (English version) Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王 yūgiō, Japanese for King of Games) is a popular Japanese anime and manga franchise from Kazuki Takahashi that mainly involves characters who play a card game called Duel Monsters (originally called... Los Angeles-based pop musician Spookey Ruben was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in Germany, Holland, and Washington D.C. In his childhood, Spookeys parents insisted he take up an instrument and he chose classical guitar. ... Jason Gleed 2006 Jason William Gleed is a musician, songwriter, and producer. ...

External links


  Results from FactBites:
 
My Dad the Rock Star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (772 words)
Rock and his family is broke, after Quincy's Father accidentally wrote Rock's name on the "List of clients who whill have low taxes".
Rock runs his own TV show, after thinking that the show that they were watching was boaring.
Rock's parents come to visit him, but they became mortal enemies; Serenity and her Grandmother have a day off.
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