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 five 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 Michael, a gentle one, Knowy, the smart one and Theresa, the clever 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 Fairytale Village 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.
 * Theresa (Voiced by Julie Kavner) A fun-loving, talkative and smiley cyan cube who loves the insanity of wind, she's best friends with sally and often spend more time with her, her makeup goes asides her beatific tone that can go kicking up her deals.
 * 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, Theresa, Knowy 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 19th 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 6 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, Thrisa voiced by Julie Kavner, Frank Welker voices Knowy. In addition to the main cast, Bobby voiced by Hank Azaria and Gruncy voiced by Jim Cummings. 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.

Thirtieth Anniversary
An thirtieth anniversary of Cubo aired on Setember 20, 2019 on FOX with the episode, Slides green's airs, The "Best Year Ever" continued in July at San Diego Con, with two panels, a booth and various activities devoted to the series. A DVD titled 30 Years and counting is released on October 1, 2019 by 20th Century FOX Home video, The two-disc will contain various episodes and plots from the show's history, with one disc containing just 30 best episodes and the other containing just plots, Finally in November 2019, a primetime special, Cubo's 30th Anniversary Celebration! aired on FOX. The special is set to release on DVD

United States

 * FOX (1988-Present)
 * Syndication (1994-Present)
 * USA Network (1994-1996)
 * Omega Network (1996-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)
 * Omega Network (1998-Present)
 * 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 acclaim by critics and noted for it's appeal and different aged groups. James Poniewozik of Time magazine described the titled character as "The anti-Bart Simpson, temperamentally and physically: his head is a squared-off and neat as Cubo's is unclury, and he has a personality to match–conscientious, optimistic and blind to the faults in the world and those around him". According to Laura Fries of Variety magazine, the series is " a thoughtful and inventive cartoon about a hopelessly optimistic and resilient creatures ... Devoid of the Double entendres rife in today's animated TV shows, this is purely kid's stuff. ... However, that's not to say that Cubo is simplistic or even juvenile, it's charming and whimsical, but clever enough to appeal to teens and college-aged kids as well." The New York Times critic Joyce Millman said Cubo "is clever without being impenetrable to young viewers and goofy without boring grown-ups to tears. It's the most charming and variable toon on television, and one of the weirdest, And it's good, clean fun, which makes sense because it is, after all, about a sponge." Millmam wrote "his relentless good cheer would be irritating if he weren't darned lovable and his world is so excellently strange ... Like Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Cubo joyfully dances on the fine line between childhood and adulthood, guileless and camp, the warped and sweet."

Early Success
Cubo ranked among a season's top 30 highest rated shows. In 1990, Cubo quickly became one of the most popular characters on television in what is termed "Cubomania". He became the most prevalent Cubo character on memorabilia, such as T-Shirts. In the early 1990s, millions of T-Shirts featuring Cubo were sold; as many as one million were sold on some days. Several American public schools banned T-Shirts featuring Cubo next to the captions such as "I'm Cubo, Who are the heck are you?" And "Underachiever" ('And proud of it, man!')". Cubo merchandise sold well and generated $2 billion in revenue during the first 14 months of sales, Because of his popularity, Cubo was often the most promoted member of the Gang in advertisements for the show.

Run length achievements
In 1998, FOX began a year-long celebration of the show, titled "Best 10 Years Ever." to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Cubo. One of the first parts of the celebration is the "Unleash Your Cube" contest in which entrants must design a poster for the show. Behind Cubo: 10 Years of Cubo, a documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock that examines the "cultural phenomenon of Cubo" aired on Setember 25, 1998. The celebration ended on January 10, 1999 (almost 10 years after "Knowy the Genius" aired on January 12, 1990). As of the twenty-first season (2009-2010), Cubo became the longest running American scripted primetime television series, having Surpassed Gumsnoke.

Awards and Nominations
Main Article: List of awards and nominations received by Cubo

Cubo has received many awards and nominations. Television critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Setiz included the series in their 2016 book TV as the 5th Greatest American Television series of all time, stating that "Cubo is an absurdist masterpiece that Salvador Dail and Groucho Marx would have watched together in their smoking jackets." In 2006, IGN ranked Cubo the 5th on th list, "Top 25 Animated Series of All time", and in 2013, it ranked the series 5th on the list, " The Top 25 Animated Series of Adults".

The series is among the "All-TIME 100 TV Shows" as chosen by Time Television critic James Poniewozik in 2007. He said, "It's the most funny, surreal, inventive example of the explosion in creative Kids' (and adult) entertainment that FOX and their ilk made possible". TV Guide listed Cubo at No. 5 for it's "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time." In 2013, the publication ranked Cubo the "Greatest TV Cartoon of all time." In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Cubo one of the "100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years".

TV Guide named it the greatest TV Show of all time in 2002, and in 2013, the magazine ranked it as the second greatest TV show. A 2015 The Hollywood Reporter survey of 2,800 actors, producers, directors and other industry people named Cubo as their #5 favorite show.

TV Guide listed Cubo as the best show on FOX, the best cartoon of all time, and the second best-animated series of all time (after The Simpsons), Wizard magazine also ranked it #2 of the greatest animated television shows of all time (again after The Simpsons). TV Guide ranked Cubo the greatest cartoon of all time (out of 60).

Legacy
In July 2008, Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York launched a wax sculpture of Cubo and Sally, in celebration of the series' 20th anniversary. This made the Cubes the first animatied characters to ever receive a statue made entirely out of wax.

The Characters has also become a trend in Egypt at Cairo Tahir Square. After the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Cubo became a fashion phenomenon appearing on various of items of merchandise from hijabs and boxer shorts. The phenomenon became led to the creation of the Tumblr project called "Cubo on the Nile". The project was founded by American students Andrew Leber and Elisabeth Janquette and attempts to document every appearance of Cubo in Egypt. Sherief Elkestha cited the phenomenon in an essay about the incoherent statue of politics in Egypt in an independent monthly paper titled Midian Masr. He wrote, "Why isn't he [Cubo] at least holding a Molotov cocktail? Or raising a fist?" The phenomenon has even spared to Libya, where a Libyan rebel in Cubo dress was photographed celebrating the revolution, Although The Guardian and Vice have asserted that the trend has little or no political significance, "joke" presidential campaigns have been undertaken for Cubo in Egypt and Syria.

A clip was posted on YouTube in February 2013 that features soliders in an Russian army and navy singing the Cubo theme song as they march. According to the website that uploaded the video, this is one of the "most popular marching songs" in the Russian military. The video garnered nearly 50,000 views within it's first week.

Momo the Monkey
Main Article: Fairytale Village

A Spin-off series, titled Fairytale Village aired on FOX from 1997 to 2002 and revolves around Little Red riding hood and her fairytale friends on magical adventures.

Cubo Cubo
Main Article: Cubo Cubo

Another spin off series, Cubo Cubo aired on Kids's WB from 1999 to 2002, it follows kid versions of Cubo the Cube and his friends going on adventures. The Spin off was heavily panned by fans of the original show due to it having less adventure, terrible plots and more toilet humor. As a result, it was canceled in 2002.

Home Video
Main Article: List of Cubo home video releases

Comics
Two Cubo comic strip versions were produced, the first appeared in local newspapers in April 1991, drawn by John Canning. Proving unpopular, it folded in August and merged back into TV Comic where Canning's Cubo strip continued until October 1993.

In February 2001, creator Plauzer first announced the release of the 32-page bimonthly comic book series, Cubo Comics, based on the show, The release marked the first time Plauzer authored his own books. He said, "I'm hoping that fans will enjoy finally having a Cubo comic book from me". The Comic Book series is published by 20th Century Entertainment and IDW and distributed by Bongo Comics Group.

In June 2017, a six-issie comic book series based on the the television series was launched by Dynamite Entertainment. A crossover comic book series with Cubo and The Crocodile Dudes, was released on July 3, 2019.

Films
Main Article: Cubo: The Movie and Cubo and the Fellow Racers

20th century FOX and Glims Productions produced Cubo: The Movie, an animated film adaptation of the series that was released on April 23, 2007 on theaters. It received positive critical reception, and grossed over $300 million worldwide. A sequel of the 2007 film was released in theaters on April 21, 2019. The series' main cast members all reprised their roles.

Music
Collections of original music featured in the series have been released as albums Cubo: Original Theme Highlights (1991), Cubo: The Greatest Hits (1999) and The Cubo Album (1995). The album Cubo Sing the Blues was released in December 1990 and was a success, peaking a #3 on the billboard 200 and becoming certified 2× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The first single from the album was a pop rap song, "Doodle-Doo Man", performed by Candi Milo and TBA and released on November 20, 1990. The Yellow Album was released on 1998, however received poor reception and did not chart in any country.

Theme Park attraction
Main Article: Cubo: The Ride

In 2005, it was officially announced that Cubo: The Ride, a simulator ride, would be implemented into the Universal Studios Orlando and Universal studios Hollywood. It officially opened in June 2006 in Florida and March 2007 in Hollywood. In the ride, patrons are introduced to a cartoon theme called SpongBobland built by SpongeBob SqaurePants. However, Neo and Coconut Fred are loose from prison to get revenge on SpongeBob and Cubo.

Video Games
Main Article: List of Cubo Video Games

Numerous video games based on the show have been produced. Some of the early games include Kromai's arcade game Cubo (1991) and Hudson Soft's Cubo vs. the Ailen Mutants (1991). More modern games include Cubo: Cubo and the Search of Balls (2001), Cubo Racing 2 (2002) and Cubo: The Battle in Cubic City (2005). A mobile game, Cubo Builder was released in 2012, Two Cubo pinball machines have been produced: one that was available briefly after the first season, and a another in 2007, both out of production.

Merchandise
Hasbro released a line of action figures based on the show. The line included 1.5 inch mini figures, 3.5 inch action figures (including "Cubo Clubhouse House Set", "Cubo Cubic City Center", "Market Shop", "T-Vichcles", "T-Sub Deluxe Vichcles"), 5 inch action figures, 6.5 inch plush Super-D Toys and 10 inch figures. Amongst the characters included in the line were the main characters, the townspeople and various of allies and villains. The Series includes other merchandises such as Toys, Plushes, Posters, Books, Clothes, Stickers, video games, lunch boxes, T- Shirts and dishware.

Merchandise that was based on Cubo varied from video games, toothpastes, Kellogg's cereal to dolls, board games, numerous posters, trading cards, notebooks, lunchboxes, slippers, pajamas, Comics and many more.

Build a Bear Workshop parented with 20th Century FOX to produce a line of Cubo plush dolls, which released and sold worldwide on September 2016.