Capitol Critters
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| Capitol Critters | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated series |
| Creator(s) | Steven Bochco |
| Starring | Neil Patrick Harris Charlie Adler Jennifer Darling Patti Deutsch Bobcat Goldthwait Dorian Harewood Frank Welker |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | January 31, 1992 – March 14, 1992 |
Capitol Critters is an animated television series about the lives of mice, rats, and roaches who reside in the basement and walls of the White House in Washington, D.C.. The series was produced by Steven Bochco and Hanna-Barbera Productions for the ABC Television Network, which aired 7 out of show's 13 episodes from January 31, 1992 to March 14, 1992. The Cartoon Network began airing all 13 episodes in 1995.
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[edit] The Story
The series began on a Nebraska farm, which was also home to a family of mice, including a young mouse named Max. While Max was outside the farmhouse basement to gather some corn, exterminators had just arrived to eliminate the mice of that basement. Once Max noticed the exterminators from a distance, he quickly returned to the basement only to witness the death of his entire family. Before Max's mother was killed after a failed rescue attempt, she told him to leave for Washington, D.C., where his cousin Berkeley resides. Upon arrival in the nation's capital was a rat awaiting Max named Jammett, who resides along with Berkeley in the White House basement. After meeting Berkeley at last, Max met a former lab rat named Muggle and Jammett's mother Trixie, who allowed him to share her son's room as a place to sleep. Just when a new set of cats (presidential and vice presidential) were just beginning to be a nuisance for the mice before Max's arrival, the very familiar sight of rat poison returned into the mouse's life at his new home. Just when death appeared to be Max's fate, a cockroach named Moze came to his aid and brought him outside the White House basement. When Max returned to the basement, the sight of Muggle without conscience brought back terrible memories that caused him to run outside toward a presidential helicopter preparing to take off. Jammett managed to join Max on the helicopter before returning to the White House, giving the two plenty of time to know each other better.
[edit] Voice cast
- Neil Patrick Harris - Max
- Charlie Adler - Jammett
- Jennifer Darling - Berkeley
- Patti Deutsch - Trixie
- Bobcat Goldthwait - Muggle
- Dorian Harewood - Moze
- Frank Welker - Presidential Cats
[edit] Trivia
- The Steven Bochco Productions logo at the end of each episode featured a mouse playing violin.
- Burger King released a line of Capitol Critters figurines with characters along with famous Washington, D.C. attractions, such as Jammett as a disc jockey above the White House.
- The first three episodes aired during the same week. The second episode aired Friday night at 8:00 p.m. EST before settling into the 8:30 p.m. slot on Saturday.
- The series was put on hiatus twice before cancellation.
- There were no VHS releases of the series and no future plans for a DVD release.
- During the opening of a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode, the words "Capitol Critters" as well as Family Dog and Fish Police appear on tombstones. This poking fun at the fact that they were all prime-time animated series and all had relatively short on-air life spans.
