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| Making Fiends | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animation/Comedy/Horror |
| Created by | Amy Winfrey |
| Directed by | Amy Winfrey |
| Voices of | Amy Winfrey as Charlotte, Marion, Maggie, and the Giant Kitty Aglaia Mortcheva as Vendetta Peter Merryman as Mr. Milk, Marvin, Malachi, Grudge and Mort |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon |
| First shown in | January 25, 2008 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Making Fiends is an animated television series, created by Amy Winfrey. It is a spin-off of an online series of the same name and will start airing on Nickelodeon sometime in 2008.
History
Making Fiends started on July 14, 2003, as an independent online cartoon made by Winfrey using Macromedia Flash. Winfrey had previously created two other online series, Big Bunny and Muffin Films. In early 2004, Nick started negotiations with Winfrey to develop the series into a half-hour television program. During the long negotiation and development period, Amy continued to create new web episodes independently, and sell related merchandise in her own online "souvenir shop". In 2006, Nickelodeon began distributing many of the web cartoons as streaming video on their own TurboNick platform, and later as podcasts available on iTunes. Making Fiends was picked up for a first season of television episodes in late 2006. Production began in January 2007 and the show is expected to start airing in 2008.
Episodes
As of November 2007, Nickelodeon has released clips on TurboNick of six episodes. It is unknown if they are episode clips or shorts to promote the show. Nonetheless, they are entitled "Ralph", "The Kite", "The Puppy", "Teeth", "Monkeys", and "No. 2 Pencil".
Premise
The show revolves around the life of Charlotte, a sweet, innocent little girl who is the new girl in the town of Clamburg. Charlotte is also incredibly naïve, and is unable to think badly of anyone around her. Charlotte quickly makes friends with Vendetta, a horrid little girl who makes monsters, or fiends, through baking. Vendetta cannot stand Charlotte's happy-go-lucky nature, and will often go to great lengths to destroy Charlotte (or at least get her out of the way for a little bit). These attempts inevitably backfire, usually resulting in Vendetta doing great damage to herself. When they do succeed, Charlotte can only see the bright side of her situation and will become more annoying than usual. Everything is back to normal by the end of the episode. Vendetta, due to her fiend-making abilities, appears to have the entire town at her control. As such, Clamburg is a bleak, dark and forbidding place. Mr. Milk, who has gotten the misfortune of teaching Charlotte and Vendetta's class, is incredibly timid and never gets around to teaching due to his fear of Vendetta's reactions to his lessons. Charlotte's classmates include Marion, who speaks quietly and is fearful of Vendetta; Marvin, who starts each sentence with the word "my" and has his property vandalized by Vendetta in various ways (which leads to such exclamations as "My banana!" and "My ice cream!"); Malachi, who speaks in Shakespearian phrases and consistently warns Charlotte against messing with Vendetta (to no avail); Maggie, who has resigned herself to depression and dreams of someday escaping; and Mort, an earnest little boy who often spouts nonsensical advice.
