Rolie Polie Olie

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Rolie Polie Olie is a CGI television cartoon created by William Joyce (the creator of George Shrinks). The cartoon centers on a robotic family in Polieville. The characters include Olie, his father, his mother, his sister Zowie, and their pet dog Spot. Rolie Polie Olie is the first completely computer generated 3-D animated TV series for preschoolers.

The television series was produced by Sparx*, Metal Hurlant Productions, and Nelvana Enterprises for The Disney Channel. Original episodes ran from 1998 to 2001; two direct-to-DVD movies, The Great Defender of Fun and The Baby-Bot Chase, followed. The original episodes were rerun on The Disney Channel until 2006. In Canada, the episodes continue to be run on Treehouse TV.

William Joyce was striving for an idealized 1950s suburban-style world, being heavily influenced by early Mickey Mouse cartoons and shows such as Leave it to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show. In Olie's world, normally inanimate objects have a life of their own. This is based on Joyce's childhood, when he would perceive everything as having a life of its own. He took that idea and exaggerated it, until even mundane objects like knives and forks are alive and can move about.

The Polie family lives in a teapot-shaped house, which is also alive and sentient.

Joyce himself has said that Rolie Polie Olie is a show entirely made from the phrase "wouldn't it be cool if..."

[edit] References

Interview with William Joyce

[edit] External links

• Official Rolie Polie Olie Site at playhousedisney.com
• Rolie Polie Olie web page at TreeHouseTV.com
• Rolie Polie Olie at the Internet Movie Database
• Rolie Polie Olie at TV.com