Cubo (TV Series)

Cubo is an American Animated Television Series created by Bob Plauzer for FOX. Produced by 20 Glims Productions and Film Roman. The Series follows Three cubes, the main protagonist is Cubo, A mischievous and joyful ampromopic cube thingy who loves to play on easily pranks on his friends, Sally, a bossy one and Michael, a gentle one, two other cubes. In the fictional town of Cubo Town, an small town next to the public city, Cube City. Unlike The Simpsons, Kim Possible, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama and American Dragon: Jake Long (Which consists of adult content) Cubo is mostly designed appealed for young audiences and featured cartoon violence, humor, running gags and pop culture references.

The Series was originally a comic strip by Plauzer created in 1978 called Cubo the Cube. As pilot on the series, The pilot shorts were aired on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 along with The Simpsons appeared on shorts as well, and FOX originally going to launch it as a mini series, Glims Productions gives the Network a chance to air it as a full series, pitching the series into it, The Series was seen in a preview on August 19, 1988 on FOX and officially premiered on September 25th that year. The Series became one of FOX's Popular animated show behind The Simpsons and the second longest running Animated series and would spawn several media, Cubo: The Movie released in theaters on April 23, 2007 and grossed over $700 Million on the box office, it spawn spin offs media including comics, DVD Releases, video games, music albums and collectable toys, A spin off series called Momo the Monkey aired on FOX from 1997 to 2002.

Despite the widespread acclaim, the series had been involved in several public controversies, including on Bobby's indeed sexual orientation, Currently, Cubo finished airing it's thirtieth season which begin on Setember 23, 2018. The Series is renewed for a thirty-Frist, thirty second, thirty third, thirty fourth season on February 6, 2019. In which one of the seasons will contain a 700th episode. Partions of the show have become a remix culture, has formed the basis of a variety of internet memes.

On July 31st 2019, 20 Century Fox Television confirmed and announced that the entire Cubo series will be featured on the new streaming service, Disney+.

Synopsis
Set in a world populated by ampromopic cubes and set in the city of Cubo Town, There lives the lives and antics of a blue cube named cubo, he loves to play and in a joyful way, his friends are medically are ashamed for his pranky calls includes his blanful of fallacy that come up in a deep way of sound, each story contains the character's daily life, each day Cubo and his friends learn that friendship and hardships exists in a very amount of time, including eating and making fun facts about life.

Characters
See List of Cubo Characters


 * Cubo (Voiced by Candi Milo) A blue cube who the main protagonist and the leader of the gang in the series, he's mischievous yet kind, loveable, out going and helpful. He loves playing pranks on his fellow cubemates, especially annoys his neighbor, Gruncy who hates him all the time. He adores playing various type of games such as football, playing chess, playing games and do spinups, he can get much attention through he entertains everyone with his humor.
 * Sally (Voiced by Nancy Cartwright) a over-brighted, beautiful, smart, clever pink cube girl who loves beautiful things and Cubo's love interest and best friends, She gets very angrier when her friends mostly fools and their annoyance to her, in fact she gives out more memories that good Grace's her own business she.
 * Michael (Voiced by Charlie Alder) A Strong, Bond, Cowardly and Magnanimous green cube who is Cubo's other best friend, he do exercise and strong pull ups, Although he's can do an strong that leghts everyone he picks up, He's also gets coward when a big crawls mostly makes him freaks out when a time something makes him scared comes.
 * Bobby (Voiced by Hank Azaria) A Cool, Slicked yet selfish orange cube who has a huge obsession with being cool, he likes the style of life and old rock n roll, he mostly behaved super critfully when he sees Cubo, he has attracted feelings that come off well.
 * Knowy (Voiced by Frank Welker) A Intelligent, brainy and good-hearted orange cube who is one of Cubo's best friends, he wears glasses to learn the insanity of good, he gets totally upset about his machines are broken causes a running gag can be seen cubo went to his lab a lot of things go messing with him.
 * Gruncy (Voiced by Jim Cummings) An Grouchy, Short-Tempered, talented and music-loving brown cube who hates annoyance, mostly due to Cubo's hijinks and antics, he hates him very much but has a bright side of being a good person to, reminds living hell that he advance the talents of playing jazz.
 * Lisle (Voiced by Julie Kavner) is an cute-loving, exploring and pretty purple cube who introduced in Sesaon 2 episode, Epic Rodes, likes the sound of nature, mostly like her friends more commonly on loud humor, she mostly likes peaceful soul rather than slapstick.
 * Neo (Voiced by Greg Berger) An black cube who is very evil and spurious, he mostly likes to cause trouble of his own deeds and minds, although he a total mid-infolder, he cam lasses into trouble journeys.
 * Mayor Brickle (Voiced by TBA) TBA
 * Callers Mind (Voiced by TBA) TBA
 * Peaceful Sid (Voiced by TBA) TBA
 * Miss Cubic (Voiced by TBA) TBA

Setting
The Primary setting of Cubo is Cubo Town.

Early inspirations
The Series creator, Bob Plauzer first came in an idea of the character Cubo, he spotted a cube at the tree as a child, in the park realizing someone draws an simpled cube on the middle of the tree behind his toy car, he spotted in and found out that fictional cubes could done in 3d as well he noticed, afterwards, he draws characters of his own, being marched into various of halves artists, when he gotten older, Plauzer graduated and joined the New York University of United College of Arts and Science in 1977 after respendings times of working on his slots, In 1978, he made unpublished comic strip series created by himself called  Cubo the Cube  and follows an different design of a three-dimensional cube in a 2d world.

While Plauzer was up there, he loves how art of 3d and science of the obvious characters were officially made but still weren't any details about the complexity begin riggs and stretches, The Comic Strip late became simply Cubo, which a more similar and cartoonyer design of the titular character and a few more other changes were broughted to being the character's life, through Plauzer partnered up with Scientist, Joseph Keller that making great deals of motioning of the mathematical elements that used for the strip.

Conception
while workng as a staff in the United Arts and Science, Plauzer has entertain plans to return collage for a master's degree in art and science, Before this could materialize, he attended to his move to California for the California Institute of the Arts, he attended an animation festival, which inspired him to make slight change in course. Instead of doing sciencestic and mathematics on the strip, his thesis film, spheres and cubes (1984) is about the theory of relativity. He wanted his series to stand out the most popular cartoons of time, which he felt were exemplified by cartoons like Muppet Babies and Heathcliff. As a Insult Plauzer decided to focus on the single main character: the  mischievous  and  weirdest  creature he could think of. This led him to the sponge. Cubo the Cube's Cubo resembles an actual sea sponge, and at first, Plauzer continued to used this design. He then considered modeling the character after a 2D Sqaure and realized this idea would match the character's personality fits perfectly. Sally, Michael, Bobby, Knowy, Gruncy and Neo were the next characters Plauzer created for the show.

Pitching
In 1987, while pitching a cartoon for the FOX Broadcasting Company executives, Plauzer Drew's an animation of a cube going to the FOX logo besides it, and played montage and goofy setup music it it, executive, The setup was described Garth Ancier as  amazing and good animation skills . They were given money an orginally bring the pitch of the series as a pilot series of shorts from the Sketch Comedy variety show called The Tracey Ullman Show, a show hosted by comedian, Tracey Ullman, and Plauzer and film maker, Jymn Magon and animator, Mike Milo returned with what was described by FOX official Barry Diller as '' a performance [he] wished [he] had on tape".

In a interview, Garth Ancier, then president of FOX said '' their [FOX Executive] immediate reaction was to see it again, both because they liked it and it was unlike they'd never seen before. '' Ancier was one of the four executive in the room when Cubo was first screened for the first time".

Cubo first premiered and appeared with the development slate by FOX in late 1987, under no official name for the pilot, after a report that FOX had purchased the series from creators, On September 5, 1987, Plauzer and 20th Century Pictures linked a deal, The Shorts were simply called Cubo in November 1987. When it appeared on the primetime stale for the 1988-89 Television Sesaon, although it aired on the network's schedule as a preview episode. In August 1, 1988, it was announced that the show would aired as a sneak peek on August 25th then on September 25, 1988, It would officially premiere on that day.

Plauzer pitched a 24-minute and 8-second pilot to FOX which aired as a sneak peek on August 19th, 1988 right after a airing of Second Chance. On March 23, 1989, it announced that the show was renewed for a 26-episode second season after the first season of the show aired. It was given the green light to start production. On May 21, 1989, less than six days after the first season's closure it was announced that FOX was ordering a third season. A fourth season was announced in July 23, 1990, just a few months after the second season was concluded.

Executive Producers and showrunners
Plauze had been served as the executive producer over the course of the series entire history and functioned as the showrunner from it's debut in 1988 until 2004. Plauzer and Magon served as executive producers (Along with Jack Himsey until Sesaon 15 in early 2005 as a result of working on Firehouse Mighty and The Grim Adventures of Bill and Mandy) and showrunners during the series entire run and also functioned as creative consultants. Give Shawn Levy and Al Jean became an executive producer for Sesaon 16 and subsequent seasons.

Writing
Planning for each episode begins with a table meeting of writers, discuss the plot ideas as a group. The writtes are given index cards with plots points that they required to uses a the center of the activity in each episode. A single staff writer writes an outline and then produces a script. Once the draft is finished, the writers and executive producers call in the actors for the table read, afterwards, the writers collaborate to rewrite the script as a group before sending it to the animation team.

Voice actors
See List of Cubo cast members and List of Cubo guest stars

Cubo has 7 main cast members Candi Milo voices the titular character, the character of Neo was originally created and intended going to be voiced by Frank Welker but turn down the role, which the regretted, and Greg Berger was given as the role.

Nancy Cartwright voiced Sally, Charlie Alder voiced Michael in a deep tone, Hank Azaria voices Bobby, Frank Welker voices Knowy, Gruncy voiced by Jim Cummings. In addition to the main cast, Neil Ross voiced several supporting and minor characters, Like Kim Possible, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and Futurama. episodes feature guest voices from many professions, including actors, athletes, musicians and artists. Recurring guest stars includes Marcuie LaMarche, Carlos Alazraqui, Billy West, Jodi Benson, Mark Hamill, Sarah Sliversman, Chris Parnell, Patton Owsald, Wayne Knight, John Goodman, Cam Clarke, Debra Messing, Phil Procter, Elijah Wood, Amy Hill, James Arnold Taylor, B.J Ward, Tara Strong, George Takei, Phil LaMarr, Harland Williams, Ryan Reynolds, Patrick Stewart, Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg and Dan Floger. Posthumously, Chris Farley originally voiced Papa Cube in the first nine seasons but since he was replaced by John DiMaggio since the tenth season after Farley's death in 1997. Jess Harnell and Fred Tatasciore have also appeared in minor roles but do not voice any of the recurring characters. Harnell left the show on 2006 and since then Brain T. Delaney has appeared regularly to voiced minor characters. John Cygan voiced the majority of the other minor characters until his death on May 13, 2017. Other current additional voices also include Kari Wahlgren, Roger Craig Smith, Lex Lang, Bynce Papenbrook, Yuri Lowenthal, Jamie Marchi, Kevin Michael Richardson and Joe Bryte.

Animation
Plauzer's studio, Glims Productions provided Production services "In case animation proved to be difficult". Several different U.S. and international studios animate The Simpsons.

For the first three seasons, Sunbow Productions animated Cubo in the United States. In 1992, the series' production company, Glims Productions, switched domestic production to Film Roman, who continued to animated the show until 2016. In Sesaon 28, It was switched to 20th Century FOX Animation, By Season 30, the animation switched to 9 Story Media Group. In Sesaon 10, production switched from traditional cel to digital ink and paint. In Sesaon 22, Production switched from digital ink and paint to Adobe Flash following of the release of Crash Crayon, sucesseding the rise of rigged animation.

The Production staff at the U.S. animation studio, 20th Century FOX Animation, draws storyboards, designs new characters, backgrounds, props and draw character and background layouts. Which turn in become animatics to be screened for the writters at Glims Productions for any chances to be made before the work is quickly shipped overseas. The overseas studios then draws the inbeetwens, ink and paint, and rendered the animation to tape before it is shipped back to the United States to be delivered to FOX three or four months later.

The series began high-definition production in Sesaon 20: The first episode "Best Viking on Ace Street" aired in September 20, 2009, the move to HDTV included a new opening sequence, Bob Plauzer called it a complicated change because it affected the timing and composition of animation.

Music
The show's soundtrack was composed by Shawn Patterson, while its theme song composed by multi-instrumentalist Milan Kymlicka, produced by Devo's singer Mark Mothersbaugh and was recorded at Mautato Muzika Studios.

Styles and Themes
According to TV Guide, "The Show is pretty fairy action-oriented, but had a strong, lighthearted and comedic atmosphere". In addition to action, comedy and science fiction. Cubo's storylines also explore romance and drama. According to The Artfice, the show's unique brand of humor distinguishes itself from slapstick style associated with most FOX's sitcoms, named Married... with Children and Duet. With a tendency to not take itself seriously, Cubo both parodies and pays homage to the spy, action and science fiction genres, it's comedy benefitting from the show's emphasis on "over the top plots" and circumstance, self-referential in its humor that avoid taking down the viewers, the series parodied the sitcom genre, while occasionally adopting common cartoon and sitcom tropes. Other inspirations included old MGM and Waner Bros. Cartoons including as well as Hanna Barbera cartoon shows, UPA Shorts and the works of Jay Ward.

Episodes
See List of Cubo Episodes and Specials

Clucks in the Diner Special
Main Article: Clucks in the Diner Special

A crossover episode of Clucks in the Diner and Cubo aired on November 20, 2004 entitled "The Turkey who screened for Duty".

Twentieth Anniversary
FOX begin celebrating the 20th anniversary of Cubo on October 19, 2008, The reading- a first for the series– was held at the year's Sundance film festival. Other celebratory actions taken by the network included the launching of a new website for the series (Cubo.com) and the introduction of new merchandising. A "Cubo and the water conversation themed element" was added to FOX's pro social campaign The Big Cube of Help, In a interview, Chris Renaud said. "What I'm most proud at of the kids still really like Cubo and cared about it... They eagerly await new episodes, people who were young children when it started 20 years ago are still watching it and digging it and think it's funny, That's the loving cup to me".

On the official anniversary date, an hour long documentary on the series, The Story of Cubo, premiered on FOX on Friday, July 16, FOX aired a 50 hour long television marathon titled "The Biggest Cubo Episode Marathon Weekend". Saturday saw a countdown of the top 10 episodes as picked by fans.

FOX continued celebrating the anniversary through the rest of the year. On October 8, an hour long television film titled The Dare of Cubo debuted on FOX. The film is narrated by Ricky Gervais and features live action cameo appearances by: Rosario Dawson, Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell, Tina Frey and Robin Williams.

United States

 * FOX (1988-Present)
 * Syndication (1994-Present)
 * USA Network (1994-1997)
 * Omega Network (1997-Present)
 * Univision (Latin American Spanish, 1999-Present)
 * Omega Toons (2002-Present)
 * Cartoon Network (2003-2004)
 * Telemundo (Latin American Spanish, 2005-Present)

Canada

 * YTV (English, 1991-2007, 2018-Present)
 * Radio Canada (French, 1991-1994)
 * Teletoon (English/French, 1997-2004)
 * Jiffy TV (English, 2005-Present)
 * Teletoon Retro (English/French, 2007-2015)

Latin America and Brazil

 * ZAZ (1992-1996)
 * Cablin (1993-1996)
 * The Big Channel (1993-1996)
 * Chilevision (1995-2000)
 * Canal 5 (1997-2001)
 * Omega Network (1997-Present)
 * Cartoon Network (2005-2009)
 * Boing (2018-Present)
 * Magic Kids (1999-2005)
 * Rebe Globo (1998-2005)
 * SBT (2005-2011)
 * FOX (2017-Present)

Spain

 * Canal+ (1994-2000)
 * TVE-1 (2000-2006)
 * Clan TVE (2006-Present)
 * Comedy Central (2014-Present)

Portugal

 * RTP1 (1994-2002)
 * RTP2 (2002-Present)
 * Panda Biggs (2009-2016)
 * Cartoon Network (2019-Present)

France

 * France 3 (1991-Present)
 * Canal+ (1994-2000)
 * Gulli (2006-Present)
 * M6 (2018-Present)

United Kingdom and Ireland

 * CITV (1992-1998)
 * Channel 4 (1998-2003)
 * Pop (2008-09)
 * Nicktoons (2017-2019)
 * RTÉ2 (2000-2008, 2015-Present)
 * ITV (1990-2016)
 * Sky 1 (2016-Present)
 * Cartoon Network

Itlay

 * Italia 1 (1993-2001, 2016-Present)
 * Frisbee (2010-2012)
 * Rai 1 (1991-Present)
 * Boing (2019-Present)

Japan

 * NHK (1993-Present)
 * Juji TV (1999-2002)
 * TV Tokyo (2019-)

Popularity
Cubo is the first "Low Budget" FOX show. According to the network, to become extremely popular. Low-budget shows had not previously garnered as much esteem as a higher rated (and higher budgeted) shows. When Cubo first premiered in 1988, it gained a significant number of viewers in the ratings. Cubo did not gain it's much popularity until around 1990. and it's had remained popular since then, It has extremely high ratings on TV.com scoring a average of 9.0.

Board appeal
Cubo is one in a long time of animated series that design and appeal to adults as well as children, This has a lot to do with the absurd way sci-fi life and situations, references and words used, which younger viewers might wouldn't understand. The Show has became popular with younger viewers due to it's silly characters, grade school levels jokes, fast pace and colorful art style, while older viewers tend to prase the show for it's writting, dialogue, cultural references and innuendos. Curtain innuendos are also intended to go over younger viewers' heads. For example, Cubo tries to show his grandma that he is a mature adult by wearing sideburns and a derby and listening to '' Free form jazz". These are jokes most children would not understand. Numerous space planets-in jokes are woven into the show. There are also often complex ironic scenarios that need close attention. Part of the show's appeal has to do with the childlike nature of Cubo and his best friend, Michael, both are whom as adults but display an innocence typical of human children.

Ratings
Within it's first season on air, Cubo became the highest rated Monday-night scripted series on television. It held an average national Nielsen rating of 4.9 among people aged 8 to 16, denoting 1.9 million viewers. Two years later, the series had firmly established itself as FOX's second highest-rated program, after Married... with children. That year, 1991, Cubo was credited with helping FOX take the '' Sunday–night ratings crown" for the straight fourth season. The series grained a significant adult audience by that point - nearly 40 percent of it's 22 Million viewers were aged 18 to 34. In response to this weekend found success, FOX gave Cubo a time slot at 8 PM on Sundays, to increase exposure if the series, by the end of that year, Cubo boasted the highest ratings for any series, on all of television. Weekly viewership of the series had reached around fifteen million, at least five million have whom were adults.

In October 1992, another FOX series, Beverly Hills 90210 ranked as the No. 2 program for people aged between 8 and 16 years old. It's ratings at that time were almost equal to Cubo then-average of 2.2 Million viewers per-episode. Beverly Hills 90210 briefly surpassed Cubo, causing the latter series to drop into second place – at this time, Beverly Hills 90210 had a 6.2 rating and nearly 2.5 million child viewers, while Cubo had a 6.0 rating and 2.4 million kids 2–11. FOX "recognized" Beverly Hills for it's climbing ratings and installed it into a new 8 PM time slot, previously occupied by Cubo, In a interview, Sandy Grushow, then general manager and executive vice president of FOX, said, "Are we banking on that Beverly Hills 90210 will be the next Cubo ?... We are hoping, but Cubo is so unique, It's hard to say if it ever will be repeated".

In 2012, however, it was reported that the series' ratings were declining. The average numbers of viewers aged 8 to 16 watching Cubo at any given time dropped 29% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to Nielsen, Wall Street Journalists business writer,  John Jannarone suggested that the age of the series and oversaturation of the series of the series might be contributing to the decline of the series' ratings and might also be directly responsible for the decline in FOX's overall ratings.

Cubo is one of the longest running series on FOX, it became the network's series with most episodes during the twentieth season, surpassing the 431 episodes of Bonanza, in the twenty-first season, its 24 episodes brought the number of episodes produced to 462. In a statement, Kevin Rilley, FOX's animation president said, "Cubo's success in reaching over 444 episodes is a testament to creator Bob Plauzer's vision, comedic sensibility and his dramatic, loveable characters.

Critical Reception
Cubo received by critical