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The Angry Beavers
Format	Animated series
Created by	Mitch Schauer
Starring	Richard Steven Horvitz, Nick Bakay (voices) Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... 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. ... Richard Steven Horvitz, sometimes credited as Richard S. Horvitz, Richard Horvitz or Richard Wood (born on July 29, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor and voice actor. ... Nick Bakay (Pronounced: BUH-K-EYE) (born October 8, 1959 in Buffalo, New York) is an American actor, voice actor, and writer. ...
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	63 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	April 19, 1997 – November 11, 2001
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Angry Beavers is an Emmy Award nominated Nickelodeon American animated television series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two brothers who are beavers who have left their parents and home to become 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 cancelled amid controversy in 2001 (with a handful of unaired episodes remaining). It was created by Mitch Schauer. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... This is a list of episodes from the Nickelodeon animated television series The Angry Beavers. ... This article is about the TV channel. ... is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1997. ... is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2001. ... This article is about the TV channel. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Daggett Beaver is a cartoon character designed by Mitch Schauer. ... Norbert Beaver is a cartoon character designed by Mitch Schauer. ... Species C. canadensis C. fiber Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents native to North America and Europe. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The Kids Choice Awards is an awards ceremony hosted by Nickelodeon. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 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. ...

Characters

Norbert and Daggett Beaver.

• Daggett Doofus Beaver: Dag is the younger twin brother of Norbert (by four minutes). He is very crazy, extremely hyper, and always hilarious. 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' and also "dot dot dot" at the end of sentences (which Invader Zim did as well in the episode Door to Door, in homage to Daggett). Dag also says SPOOT! whenever he's really upset. He is generally considered the less intelligent of the two. He has dark brown fur and a red nose. Voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.
• Norbert Foster Beaver: Norb is Dag's laid back older twin brother (by four minutes). He uptakes many hobbies (including playing the French Horn in a Baroque chamber ensemble) and frequently (and intentionally) mispronounces words for humorous effect. He comes off as the smarter of the two and is more down-to-earth and sarcastic than his brother. His trademark phrase is "Biiiiig hug!" (often accompanied by him hugging Dag). He has yellowish-tan fur and a purple nose. Norbert aspires to be a Lipizzaner Stallion even though he is not a horse. Voiced by Nick Bakay.
• Stump: Stump is a tree stump whom Norb met and introduced to the other creatures of the forest, who often moves on his own off-screen. - Introduced in ep. Guess Who's Stumping to Dinner. In Brothers...To The End? he can actually be seen drinking the punch along with the others, marking the first time he actually moved to some extent on screen.
• 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. - Introduced in ep. Enter The Daggett.
• Treeflower: The love of Norbert's life whom he met at a hippie concert. Once a hippie beaver, she successfully works in versatile jobs, e.g. as elevator-music composer (Tree of Hearts) and firefighter (A Little Dad'll Do You). She was voiced by Cynthia Mann - Introduced in ep. Bummer of Love.
  (NOTE: Before Treeflower's official introduction she appears in Long in the Teath. She was also seen shortly in the background of the Good-bye-Bing-party in The Bing That Wouldn't Leave.)
• Bing: An annoying lizard who hangs around Norb and Dag. Bing speaks extremely fast and often in circles. Victor Wilson provided Bing's hyperactive voice. - Introduced in ep. The Bing That Wouldn't Leave. It is not confirmed what kind of Lizard bing is. However, he is seen changing color like a chameleon and losing his tail like a gecko, both traits are possessed by the Anole.
• Truckee: A trucker shrew who thinks only about trucks and shrews. Hates Daggett, and Daggett hates him. Briefly dated Treeflower, causing animosity between him and Norbert. - Introduced in ep. Tree of Hearts.
  (NOTE: Before Truckee's official introduction there was a shrew in Enter the Daggett who looked, sounded and acted similar to Truckee. This might be Truckee or the character he is based on.)
• 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 seems to be a parody of Ricardo Montalban, if not the character's look. His name is a homage to the California towns of Oxnard and Ventura, California. Most likely, the creators of this character were driving north along the US 101 and saw the exit signs for Oxnard and Montalvo, an area in Ventura. - Introduced in ep. Up All Night.
• Toluca Lake: Another B-movie actor who often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress. The name plays on the eponymous California city Toluca Lake. Also a reference to 1940's actress Veronica Lake. - Introduced in ep. Up All Night.
• El Grapadura: The beavers (Especially Daggett's) favorite vale tudo/lucha libre wrestler. His name is Spanish for "The Stapler". Daggett has an autographed copy of his board game, "El Grapadura and Ladders" (an obvious reference to Snakes and Ladders). - Introduced in ep. Kandid Kreatures.
• Scientist #1 and Pete: They are scientists, because they wear fancy white coats. They call the beavers "pointy weasels" and try to use them for very strange experiments. Scientist No.1 has a distinctive cleft chin and always wears sunglasses. He is just as arrogant as he is incapable. Since season 3 he has a name plate with a "1" on his coat. It is revealed in one episode that he never even went to college. Pete greatly resembles Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, and speaks only in an unintelligible mutter that Scientist No.1 apparently understands just fine. At one point, they wore green coats, making them environmentalists. - Introduced in ep. Stinky Toe.
• Bill Licking: Presenter of TV shows - and prototype of a touting salesman. He wears an impressive black wig. - Introduced in ep. Born to Be Beavers.
• Stacy and Chelsea: The twin younger sisters of Norbert and Daggett, their birth lead to their eviction from their family's home. 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. Both dress like stereotypical preteens. They are named after and voiced by creator Mitch Schauer's daughters. - Introduced in ep. If You In-sisters.
  (NOTE: Before their official introduction they are shortly shown in Born To Be Beavers as newborns without their names or even their genders identified, though the sound of a baby girl crying is heard.) Unlike their brothers they seem to get along better because they are never seen fighting.
• "Mum" and "Dad": The parents of Norb and Dag. The mother's name was never revealed, but the father's name was said to be "Leonard" in the episode If You In-Sisters. Mrs. Beaver has the same fur color as Dag (although her color was the same as Norb's in Born to Be Beavers), but in her intelligence she is more similar to Norb. Mr. Beaver reflects these attributes vice-versa.

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Episodes

Main article: List of The Angry Beavers episodes

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Current status

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In-jokes

There were several in-jokes throughout The Angry Beavers entire run. One in particular involves Richard Steven Horvitz, the voice of Dag, being mentioned in the episode "Tree of Hearts".
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Norb: [reading mail] Hey, Dag! Check it out! [reading letter] "Richard Horvitz had a little baby boy, April 11th! Jake Elliot Horvitz".

Dag: Really? That's something!

Norb: Yeah, I think so.

Dag: Who's Richard Horvitz?

Norb: Eh... Nobody.

Another joke was using "spoot" in place of swear words, such as an exclamation ("Oh spoot!"), or a descriptor ("What a pile of spoot" or "You're a spoot-head"). Although this was used primarily by Daggett, it was also often used by Norbert.

Also, both beavers would often mispronounce common words in pseudo French or otherwise foreign pronunciation, such as calling a refrigerator a "re-FRIGE-er-A-twoah/re-FRIGE-er-IZE-or", mine as "MY-yun", me as "mee-ah", or speak as "spee-ack." Another example includes "natural" in which Norbert pronounces it as "nature-ral". Sometimes even saying beaver as bee-vwARE. As an augmentation to this, they would also elongate words, particularly each other's names, with superfluous syllables, such as "Norbie-orbie" and "Dag-a-lag-a-ding-dong." On occasions, they would use actual foreign words, although mispronounce them, for example the French word "moi" pronounced phonetically "moy". In one episode, Norbert exclaims "Urethra!" in place of 'Eureka!' Surprisingly enough, few people noticed.

One running gag was Norbert giving Dag a big hug and saying "Come on, BIIIIIIG hug!".^{^1}

Another, in the episode, "Daggy Dearest," while explaining to Dagget why Dag couldn't have had a baby, Norb opens a medicine cabinet in the bathroom and an image of a camera man is quickly visible.

Trivia

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• In the first episode (Born to be Beavers) Norbert and Dag are seen walking along a highway with a sign that places Pawhuska at 20 miles away, Burbank at 41 miles, and Fairfax at 52 miles. These cities are all located in Osage County, Oklahoma.
• The beavers' postal address is: Norbert & Daggett Beaver, RTE 4 BOX 413, Wayouttatown, Oregon (from episode Omega Beaver)
• In the early episodes the show's music is from or based off of the soundtrack for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Later there is mainly classical/instrumental music, as in many other Nicktoons like Ren and Stimpy and SpongeBob SquarePants.
• In episode Beaver Fever the beavers created a disco/funk band that was very popular until Dag casually said that they were "bigger than sliced bread," causing a very brief period where everyone hated them. This was a clear reference to The Beatles and their "Bigger than Jesus" controversy, where Lennon offhandedly remarked that they were more popular than Jesus. The beavers got over their problem when Dag explained what he meant was that they were literally larger than a slice of bread. It also is a play on the phrase "the biggest thing since sliced bread". This was similar to how Lennon explained to the media that his comment was misunderstood and didn't mean to offend anyone.
• The show's visual style is rather unique, and much humor is made of the fact that the main characters don't actually look much like beavers. They are often referred to by minor characters as weasels, ferrets, or "pointy birds".
• If you watch the credits carefully, various jokes are inserted into staff members names, usually in the center.
• In one episode where Dag and Norb play pranks, you can hear Treeflower's doorbell has the tone of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.
• In the episode where Scientist #1 creates his "future" world and plans on ruling earth, he gives Dag a piece of it. As Dag is creating names for his cities, all of them have something to do with his name, except for the last one, which he calls "Otisburg", a reference to Superman.
• Grade B Horror films of a 1950's style era are parodied, most notably when Norb is constantly sleepwalking because of his junk food eating, however there is no side effect of gaining weight which sparked controversy with the FDA.
• Dag called himself Beaver Dos in an episode in which he and Nobert travel to space. Norb is contacted by NASA personnel and responds with his code name Beaver Alpha, Dag not knowing what comes after alpha, comes up with the name Beaver Dos (Spanish for the number "two").
• Many films are frequently referenced or parodied on the show, including Planet of the Apes (the line "Get your hands off me, you damn, dirty apes" was used in the episode Zooing Time by Daggett, and Three Dag Night by Norbert), Ben-Hur (an exchange of dialogue between Norbert and Daggett in Ugly Rumors), "Glengarry Glen Ross" (the ending dialogue between Norbert and Daggett in "Chocolate Up to Experience"), and On Golden Pond (Daggett mentions it in A Dam Too Far), and the episode The Legend of Kid Friendly extensively parodies the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone.

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Controversy

The controversy involving The Angry Beavers first started in 1998, when "Alley Oops!", a story in the series' 24th episode (seen during its 2nd season), contained the following lines:
Dag: "You stink!"
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After its first airing a viewer anonymously complained about the phrase "shut up" in a Nick program, although it had been used by Dag twice in the episode "Go Beavers" in season one. So the second time this episode was aired, the "shut" in "shut up" was bleeped out. This bleep generated more controversy surrounding the show, as some mistakenly thought that it had vulgar language in the dialog. However, between airings, Nickelodeon has changed Norberts' line to "Shush up, stupid!" It was the first time any Nicktoon had a line changed between airings. This article is about the TV channel. ... Nicktoons TV NickToons, also known as NickToons TV, is a digital cable and satellite television network. ...

The final straw was when the developers of the show came up with its final episode, titled "Bye Bye Beavers". The plot consisted of Norbert being told that he's part of a TV series that has been canceled, and that he has to convince Daggett that they're not real, only cartoon characters.

According to Micah Wright, a staffer who wrote several of the episodes for the show, Nickelodeon rejected this episode, as it ridiculed the company's practice of profiting off re-runs instead of new episodes. This episode also disobeyed a rule Nickelodeon imposed on its shows, to never point out that the show has ended. Micah Ian Wright is an author who has worked in film, animation, video games, and comic books (Stormwatch: Team Achilles). ... This article is about the TV channel. ...

Bye Bye Beavers was never aired, and after reviewing the episode, Nickelodeon canceled the series.

Awards and nominations

See also

• Nicktoons

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External links

• 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.