Three Delivery
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| Three Delivery | |
| Format | Animated sitcom action |
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| Created by | Larry Schwarz |
| Directed by | Andy Coyle Tavis Silbernagel |
| Starring | Johnny Yong Bosch Stephanie Sheh Robby Duncan Sharpe Nancy Wu Michael Alston Baley David Chen Lex Woutas |
| Opening theme | Delivery by Ten Minute Turns |
| Composer(s) | Ten Minute Turns John Angier |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22 minutes approx. |
| Production company(s) | Animation Collective Fatkat YTV PVP Animations |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nicktoons Network |
| Original airing | Friday, June 27, 2008, 7:30pm |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Kappa Mikey (2006-2008) Speed Racer: The Next Generation (2008-present) |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Three Delivery is an American animated sitcom and action adventure, inspired by kung-fu movies. It is created by Larry Schwarz, who also created similar series, Kappa Mikey and Speed Racer: The Next Generation. It is an animation collaboration between Animation Collective in Manhattan, New York and Fatkat in Miramichi, New Brunswick. The show premiered on Nicktoons Network on Friday, June 27, 2008. An episode of Three Delivery was first shown at the New York Comic Con 2008, on April 19, 2008. The show is currently being broadcast in the UK on CBBC having begun on February 21, 2009.
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[edit] Official Show Description
| Years ago, an evil young apprentice named Kong Li unleashed the power of a magical cookbook, scattering its dangerous recipes throughout Chinatown. Thanks to an ancient spell, a force field was placed around the city, keeping the magic in. For many years, the rest of the world was protected, but now Kong Li has returned to find the powerful recipes. If he succeeds, their evil power will be released and the world will be in grave danger.
Luckily, three teenage heroes, skilled in kung-fu, have been trained to stop him. When orphans Sue, Sid and Tobey were recruited by Nana to make deliveries for Wu’s Garden Chinese restaurant, they saw it as a way to move out of the orphanage and have a chance to ride cool bikes. Little did they know then, that they would be locked in a battle against evil for the fate of the world. On top of everyday teenage problems, the heroes must track down every last magic recipe – and shut down Kong Li for good. |
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— Three Delivery Official Website, http://www.ThreeDelivery.com |
[edit] Production
Animation Collective partnered with FatKat to guarantee more fluid, traditional-style 2D animation not usually found in Flash shows. The backgrounds are also painted in Flash. Schwarz was drawn to the premise, saying that he used to live near Manhattan's Chinatown himself, and that this show would reflect some personal experiences from him [1]. Art director and former director Alan Foreman designed the visual style of the show, which he compares to a living graphic novel. He also performs the vocals for the theme song, and contributes to the score, with his New York-based, indie-rock band Ten Minute Turns[2].
This is the first series by Animation Collective where two of the main characters are voiced by actors from high-profile anime dubs. Johnny Yong Bosch and Stephanie Sheh both play opposite each other in BLEACH and Eureka Seven, and they each have countless anime credits between them. Animation Collective mainstay Michael Sinterniklaas directed the voice performances for this show.
Promotion for the show began with the studio making 11 two minute-long original adventures for mobile phones in 2007, which also gave the studio an exercise in working with the new characters in preparation for the series. Three of them first aired on May 2 on Nicktoons Network during the premiere of Speed Racer: The Next Generation during commercials. Some of the clips are named "A Silver Tongue is fine, but Silence is Golden", "Two Heads Aren't Always Better than One", and "Out of Sight? You're Out of your Mind!", after each of the fortune cookie fortunes that appear at the beginning of every short. The last eight will soon be broadcast in 2009.
[edit] Cast
- Stephanie Sheh as Sue
- Johnny Yong Bosch As Sid
- Robby Duncan Sharpe as Tobey
- Michael Alston Baley as Mr. Wu
- Nancy Wu as Nana
- Lex Woutas as Kong Li
- David Chen as Barney
- Jamie McGonnigal as Eugene
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Shorts (2008)
| # | Title | Original Release Date | Production code |
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| 1 | "A Silver Tongue is fine, but Silence is Golden" | May 2, 2008 | 001 |
| Tobey uses a fortune to make Sue unable to talk. | |||
| 2 | "Two Heads Aren't Always Better than One" | May 2, 2008 | 002 |
| Sid uses a fortune cookie to make a copy of himself to clean Wu's Garden's kitchen so he can go to the movies with Sue and Tobey. | |||
| 3 | "Out of Sight? You're Out of your Mind!" | May 2, 2008 | 003 |
| There is an invisible man harassing Sue and Tobey while they eat. It turns out to be Sid. | |||
| 4 | "There is Nothing to make the Spirit Soar like the Passing of the Wind" | May 9, 2008 | 004 |
| Tobey uses one of Nana's cookies to fly in the wind, but it turns out he flies by breaking wind. | |||
[edit] Season 1 (2008)
The first season began on June 27, 2008 on Nicktoons Network.
| # | Title | Writer | Original Release Date | Production code |
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| 1 | "I Feel the Earth Move" | Adeline Colangelo, Kim Holmes | June 27, 2008 | 101 |
| 2 | "Bottomless Soup" | Sean Boyland, Bennett Madison | July 4, 2008 | 102 |
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Sue, Sid, and Tobey must discover the source of the soup flooding Chinatown. |
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| 3 | "Great Balls of Fire" | Leila Strachan | July 11, 2008 | 103 |
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A kid named Eugene, who idolized Sue, Sid and Tobey, draws comics using ink he makes himself, but his creations somehow come to life and set the town on fire. |
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| 4 | "Let Them Eat Cookies" | Adeline Colangelo | July 25, 2008 | 104 |
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Tobey is turned into a monkey when he opens a magic fortune cookie. |
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| 5 | "The Other Garden" | Kim Holmes | August 1, 2008 | 105 |
| Tired of always training for Kong Li and never getting to do normal teen activities, Sid wishes he, Sue and Tobey had never met Nana... and witnesses a parallel universe that results. |
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| 6 | "Shape Shifter" | Adeline Colangelo | August 8, 2008 | 106 |
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Kong Li sends a shape shifter to track down a collection of antiques. |
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| 7 | "The Tutor" | Adeline Colangelo | August 15, 2008 | 107 |
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Sue wants to learn magic so bad, because she believes Kong Li can't be defeated with kung fu alone. While on a delivery, her customer is a magic master. She decides to train from him, but he might be using her for a recipe. Recipe Obtained: The Crab Rangoon Recipe |
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| 8 | "Happy Birthday to Sid" | Kim Holmes | August 22, 2008 | 108 |
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Kong Li mixes a potion into the ingredients of a cake, which turns Nana and Mr. Wu into children on Sid's birthday, and tricks little Nana into thinking the siblings are her enemy. Recipe Obtained: 'unknown' |
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| 9 | "Terracotta Warriors" | Kim Holmes | August 29, 2008 | 109 |
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The siblings practice team building in an art museum, when they discover the terracotta warrior statues are coming to life. Recipe Obtained: The Qin La Chili Recipe |
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| 10 | "The Jiangshi" | Adeline Colangelo | October 31, 2008 | 110 |
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Sid, Sue and Tobey each try to avoid delivering to the creepy house of Mr. Drumm. Sue spots a child in the window, which they discover to be the soul of Drumm's dead twin brother. Sid bumps into zombie-like monsters called the Jiangshi. |
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| 11 | "Cocoon" | Keith Staskiewicz | November 7, 2008 | 111 |
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A silker uses a magic recipe to make silk grow, but it turns out that his worms grew, and they all turned into Cocoons. Afterwards, the worms's cocoons hatched and became giant moths. |
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| 12 | "Night of the Nian" | Adeline Colangelo | November 14, 2008 | 112 |
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A dog food seller uses a magic recipe to make a lot of dog food, but it soon gets over used... and turns 10 of the neighborhood dogs into monstrous beasts called Nian. |
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| 13 | "Paint Problem" | Kim Holmes | November 21, 2008 | 113 |
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Sue gets stuck inside a house while trying to investigate the source of purple painted on it, and both magically disappear. Meanwhile, Mr. Wu is going on a date, but he messes it up. |
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[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Three Delivery Official Site
- Official Three Delivery Nicktoons Network Site
- Official Teaser Clip #1 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #2 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #3 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #4 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #5 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #6 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #7 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Official Teaser Clip #8 from Animation Collective's YouTube Channel
- Three Delivery at the Internet Movie Database
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