Penny Arcade (TV series)

Penny Arcade is an American-Australian animated television series based upon the comic of the same name by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Created by Alex Harshegyi and co-developed by Holkins and Krahulik, the series will be airing on Comedy Central. Penny Arcade was Harshegyi’s first cartoon to be released.

Characters
Jonathan “Gabe” Gabriel - Gabe is energetic and free-spirited, but has a propensity to become extremely angry. As a contrast to Tycho's expansive vocabulary, Gabe usually speaks using only simple, common words. He has a fascination with unicorns, a secret love of Barbies, is a dedicated fan of Spider-Man and Star Wars, and his favorite song of all time is “Jessie’s Girl”. Gabe’s enthusiasm and inability to think things through makes him the perfect Wise Guy to Tycho’s straight man, though these roles are often reversed as he possesses a degree of common sense that Tycho lacks. Gabe is voiced by James Arnold Taylor.

Tycho Brahe - Tycho is bitter and sarcastic. Tycho enjoys books, role-playing video games, using large and uncommon words in conversation, and deflating Gabe's ego. He is an enthusiastic fan of Harry Potter and Doctor Who. He also plays Dungeons & Dragons often, and adopts a wildly theatrical style when acting as a dungeon master. Tycho has a drinking problem, a bizarre sexual fetish involving long necked animals such as giraffes and ostriches, and occasionally makes reference to his scarring childhood, during which his mother physically abused him until he “ran away from that awful house”. Tycho is voiced by Kid Beyond (credited by his real name, Andrew Chaikin).

Anne Claire “Annarchy” Brahe - Annarchy is Tycho’s 11-year-old niece who shares her uncle’s intellect and love of gaming, but a slight bit of his depravity. Annarchy is known as an accomplished polyglot, like her uncle, employing extensive vocabulary, and some knowledge of the Klingon language, and a hardcore gamer, claiming to have played Final Fantasy on the Famicom in the original Japanese. Annarchy is voiced by Kari Wahlgren.

Jesus Christ - Jesus Christ is the Lord and Savior of Mankind. In addition to his job as such, he loves fighting games and first person shooters. He enjoys shooting people in online games when they are talking, and “throwing up the horns” when he wins (this also makes him “fucking metal”). He has visited Tycho and Gabe for years and is on a personal level with them. Jesus Christ is voiced by Jeff Glen Bennett.

Brenna Brahe - Brenna is Tycho’s wife who shares her husband’s sense of wit. She does not share her husband’s interest in games or fetish for long-necked animals, as she doesn’t seem to understand them. It was claimed that few people were able to match Tycho in a battle of wits until Brenna did so, and all that was left was for him to marry her. Brenna is voiced by Grey Griffin.

Kara Gabriel - Kara is Gabe’s wife who shares her husband’s high-energy and free spirit. She is Brenna’s roommate who initially came with Brenna to Gabe and Tycho’s house on occasions, but Gabe became attracted to her and she eventually became a gamer at his influence. Kara is voiced by Miranda Cosgrove.

The Juice Bot - The Juice Bot, also known as the Fruit Fucker 2000, is a small robotic juicer with a programming flaw that works by having violent sexual intercourse with pieces of fruit. Gabe has described it as “a literal rapist”, although most of its actual victims are citrus fruits. The Juice Bot is voiced by Billy West.

Div - Div is a media device produced for the nearly-instantaneously discontinued digital video format DIVX that somehow came to life. He has a hostile, surly attitude and a penchant for consuming large quantities of alcohol. He is also known to have rough, yet “magical” sex with other video game consoles, and considers Gabe and Tycho as weaklings, also insulting them with names such as “ladies” and “girls”. He is usually attempting to acquire money for booze or voicing his opinion over how stupid something is. Tycho and Gabe also seem to take him on walks, akin to a pet dog. Div is voiced by Patrick Warburton.

The Merch / The Flesh Reaper - The Merch is a cute cartoon character with a devastating past. Sometime in The Merch’s past, an Evil Wizard cast a spell on him that can only be lifted once a week if good children purchase enough Merch merchandise. This places The Merch into a prolonged coma. When the merchandise is bought, he wakes up from his coma long enough to share some keen insight, then falls unconcious again. When not enough merchandise is bought, he turns into an evil version of himself called The Flesh Reaper. As the Merch, he is voiced by Tom Kenny. As the Flesh Reaper, he is voiced by Fred Tatasciore.

Charles Davis - Charles is a fanatical Mac user. Originally known as Chuck, he had a great fall and was retooled as the hipper Charles. He lives across from Gabe and Tycho, works at an Apple store and occasionally visits to talk about Apple-based matters. He is very vocal in his contempt for Gabe and Tycho’s lack of appreciation for Apple products, and regularly tells the two to “shut [their] pie holes”. Charles is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.

Frank Anderson - Frank is a war veteran turned manager for the local EB Games. He has been known to have extreme and unjust store policies, has an unexplained hatred for Gabe, and is hated by Tycho for all those things. A running gag in the series is for him to be arrested for his abuse of power. Frank is voiced by John DiMaggio.

L. H. Franzibald - Franzibald is a narcissistic fantasy writer responsible for the Song of the Sorcelator saga, whom Tycho loathes with a burning passion, mainly due to being a rampant plagiarism of his Elemenstor saga, although Tycho is reminded by Gabe, who admires Franzibald’s work, that he plagiarized his Elemenstor saga from J. R. R. Tolkien’s work. Franzibald is voiced by Billy West.

Diesel Jackson - Diesel is Gabe and Tycho’s next door neighbor. He is shown to be a smart and reasonable person, as he tends to reason with the duo’s obsessions, although he generally treats them with respect like any neighbor would. Diesel was the first Penny Arcade character created by Harshegyi personally. Diesel is voiced by Rick Carter.

Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik are the founders and hosts of the video game festival PAX. Not much is known about them, other than they seem to be enthusiastic about their jobs, and Gabe and Tycho admire them. They are voiced by themselves.

Music
Opening Theme: “Penny Arcade Theme” by MC Frontalot (arranged by Alex Harshegyi)

Closing Theme: “Penny Arcade Theme (Instrumental)” arranged by Alex Harshegyi