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📊 Series Specifications
Network Network Broadcast
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 12
Original Language EN
Creator Tom Snyder
The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special (1999)
Created by Tom Snyder
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
Dick and Paula Celebrity Special was a Soup2Nuts animated series that aired on FX from 1999 to 2000. The premise of the show was that Dick and Paula hosted a talk show where famous individuals, usually deceased, talked about their work or what made them widely known. Examples of such guests include Charles Darwin, Marquis de Sade, Oedipus Rex, and Lewis and Clark, among many others. Accompanying the two hosts was a Paul Shaffer-esque keyboard player. This premise bears similarities with that of Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds. The series, like Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, the first season of Home Movies, and Science Court, was animated in Squigglevision, a computer animation technique that caused the edges of people and important objects to vibrate constantly. Also like those series, Dick and Paula utilized retroscripting for much of the dialog, in that a basic outline is given and the actors improvise the dialog. Later, the dialog is edited to a coherent script.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
12 Episodes E1 Oedipus
E2 Marquis de Sade
E3 Charles Darwin
E4 Guillotine
E5 Maryweather Lewis
E6 Douche