Mona the Vampire
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| Mona the Vampire | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animated |
| Starring | Emma Taylor-Isherwood (Mona Parker) Justin Bradley (Charley Bones 1999-2002) Evan Smirnow (Charley Bones 2003-) Carrie Finlay (Lily Duncan) |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 minutes per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | YTV |
| Original run | September 1, 1999 – 2002 |
Mona the Vampire is an animated children's television based on the series Mona le Vampire, directed by Louise Piche and Jean Caillon, originally based on the short stories by Sonia Halleyman and Hiawyn Oram. It is mainly shown on YTV and Radio-Canada (Canada) and CBBC (Great Britain). The series follows the extraordinary adventures of 10-year-old Mona Parker (A.K.A. Mona the Vampire) and her friends as they battle a new foe of the supernatural in every episode. The adventures actually all happen in Mona and her friends' imaginations, as they deal with every day events in their small town.
The show was produced in Montreal by Cinar (now Cookie Jar Entertainment), in association with Alphanim.
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[edit] Characters
- Mona Parker: Mona is a young girl with a vivid imagination. She believes her hometown is overrun with supernatural monsters and she plans to stop them all and save the town on a daily basis. Her alter ego, Mona the Vampire has a "vampire sense" which tingles every time there is something foul in the air. Together with her two friends Princess Giant and Zapman, they solve some unlikely mysteries. She dislikes cleaning her bedroom and would rather be battling her arch nemesis, Von Kreepsula. Mona has a cat named Fang, who is her trusted sidekick.
- Charley Bones: Charley is Mona's best friend. An intelligent but scared boy in real life, his alter ego is Zapman, who wears a green costume and is armed with a deadly Zapp-A-Rama Gun (a water pistol in reality). Charley is bullied by George at school, but has stood up to him once or twice. Charley has fallen plague to some of Mona's foes including the Nefarious Computer Virus and a Siren. Charlie knows a lot about science. His hero is a daredevil known as the Man With Eight Lives, who he saves from being killed thanks to the Menacing Mechanical Gremlins.
- Lily Duncan: Lily is Mona's second best friend. Before she was a quiet, shy girl who had her hair covering her eyes. She soon became Princess Giant, a braver and stronger version of Lily. Lily once fell in love with a cartoon character.
- Fang: Mona's pet cat and sidekick that she ties fake wings around (probably to make him look like a bat). He follows Mona everywhere and they have only fought several times. Fang has proved to be a worthy ally to Mona as he helped defeat the Phantom Dogcatcher and other villains.
- Mona's Parents - Mr. and Mrs. Parker are Mona's loving parents. Mrs. Parker is a moral force to be reckoned with, while Mr. Parker is more light-hearted and has an imagination like Mona, and allows her to continue her fantasy life.
- Von Kreepsula - Mona's arch-nemesis. He is actually only a comic character who has supposingly had a duel with Mona, who sealed him into the comic book. He appeared twice in the show, once in the second episode when Charlie accidentally left his comic book prison in the rain and left the ink running, thus freeing him (although he was "defeated and sealed" by Mona again). The second is in episode twenty-six, when Mona's little cousin took a bite off the book and freeing him again.
[edit] Writing
The writing of each episode remains fairly consistent. Something odd happens in the real world, and Mona puts a supernatural explanation to it. This would most likely be very repetitive, if not for the originality and creativity of the storyline.
The layout of the programme tends to start with an insight of what happened in real life. Then an 'imagination scene' with the children explains the storyline further, and then it switches back to real life to explain even further. This pattern continues, until the story comes to a climax, which is nearly always an 'imagination scene'. Then the denouement is often a real life scene, explaining what happened in reality throughout the episode.
[edit] Trivia
- In one episode, Charley is seen to have an Arthur plush doll in his toybox. Arthur is another cartoon produced by Cinar (now known as Cookie Jar Entertainment.)
- Mona also makes a reference to The Simpsons in another episode based on The Oddyssey, when her teacher Miss Gotto asks her if she knows who the Greek poet Homer is. Mona simply answers this by saying "Isn't he that funny father from that cartoon show?", thus, obviously getting him confused with Homer Simpson.
[edit] Series guide
- 65x26' - Each programme features 2 episodes.
