The Angry Beavers - Definition and Overview

The Angry Beavers was a Nickelodeon animated series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two brother beavers who have left their mom and home to become two bachelors in the forest. Their many adventures spark them to release their ugly sides very often, drawing in the name Angry Beavers. The show premiered in 1997 and was cancelled amid controversy in 2001 (with a handful of unaired episodes remaining). It was created by Mitch Schauer.

Contents

1 Recurring characters

2 Episodes

2.1 Season 1
2.2 Season 2
2.3 Season 3
2.4 Season 4

3 Angry Beavers And The Public

4 Controversy

5 See also

Recurring characters

Daggett: Dag is the younger brother of Norbert by four minutes. He is very crazy, extremely hyper, and sometimes funny. He says an assortment of strange phrases and likes calling people names. His trademark phrase is "That was nuts!" He is dark brown with a red nose, and voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.
Norbert: Norb is Dag's laid back, older brother. He uptakes many hobbies and frequently pronounces words incorrectly. His trademark phrase is "Biiiiig hug!" or "Biiiig Beaver Hug" (often accompanied by him hugging Dag). He is light brown with a purple nose, and voiced by Nick Bakay, or Salem of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch fame.
Stump: Stump is a tree stump whom Norb met and introduced to the other creatures of the forest. He often moves on his own off-screen. He is similar to Plank from Ed Edd and Eddy
Barry Bear: Dagget and Norbert's disco loving friend; obviously based on Barry White. He is a famous singer, whom Norb and Dag try to exploit. Whenever he sees a clown he flashbacks to his days as a circus bear and cowers.
Treeflower: The love of Norbert's life whom he met at a hippie concert. Once a hippie, now turned business woman/elevator-music composer.
Bing: An annoying lizard who hangs around Norb and Dag. Bing speaks extremely fast and often in circles.
Truckee: A trucker shrew who thinks only about trucks and shrews.
Oxnard Montalvo: Norb and Dags favorite B-movie actor. Norb and Dag often watch black and white horror movies, these are very seriously drawn, contrary to the regular style of the show. An obvious homage to 50's horror movies.
Teluca Lake: Another B-movie actor, often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress.

Episodes

Season 1

Born to Be Beavers
Up All Night
A Dam Too Far
Long in the Teeth
Gift Hoarse
Go Beavers
Boxtop Beavers
Salmon Sez
Beach Beavers A-Go-Go
Deranged Ranger
Muscular Beaver
Fish and Dips
Enter the Daggett
Bug-A-Boo
Mission to the Big Hot Thingy
I Dare You
Stinky Toe
House Broken
Tree's Company
Guess Who's Stumping to Dinner
Fancy Prance
H2Whao
The Bing That Wouldn't Leave
You Promised
Bummer of Love
Food of the Clods

Season 2

Kandid Kreatures
Fakin' It
Beaver Fever
Same Time Last Week
Muscular Beaver 2
Stump Seeks His Roots
Tree of Hearts
Dag for the Night
Un-barry-ble
Another One Bites the Musk
The Mighty Knothead
Pond Scum
Utter Nonsense
Endangered Species
Lumbjerjack's Delight
Zooing Time
Friends, Romans, Beavers
The Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy
If You In-sisters
Alley Oops! (where the controversy surrounding the series began... see below)
Open Wide for Zombies
Dumb Waiters
Sans-A-Pelt
Gonna Getcha
The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up! (the series' only 30 minute episode)

Season 3

My Bunnyguard
What's Eating You?
Omega Beaver
Bite This!
Spooky Spoots
Up all night 2: Up All Day
Muscular Beaver 3
Sang 'em High
In Search of Big Byoo-Tox
Moronathon Man
The Legend of Kid Friendly
Silent but Deadly
Pass It On!
Stump's Family Reunion
Tough Love
A Little Dad'll Do You
Too Loose Latrine
Pack Your Dags
Daggy Dearest
Dag's List
Muscular Beaver 4
Act Your Age
Mistaken Identity
Easy Peasy Rider
Stare and Stare Alike
I'm Not an Aminal, I'm Scientist #1
Norberto y Daggetto en El Grapadura Y El Castor Malo
The Loogie Hawk
Kreature Komforts
Oh, Brother?
Das Spoot
SqOtters
Long Tall Daggy
Practical Jerks
Dagski and Norb
Come Shell or High Water
Nice & Lonely
Soccer? I Hardly Knew Him!
Slap Happy
Home Loners
Ugly Roomers
Finger Lickin' Goofs
Brothers...to the End?
Euro Beavers
Strange Allure
Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Season 4

Chocolate Up to Experience
Three Dag Nite
All in the Colony
Line Duncing
The Beave Master
Deck Poops
Fat Chance
Dag in the Mirror
Canucks Amuck
Yak in the Sack
Driving Misses Daggett
Big Fun
Moby Dopes
Present Tense
House Sisters
Muscular Beaver 5
It's a Spootiful Life
The Mom from U.N.C.L.E.
Vantastic Voyage
Blacktop Beavers
The Big Frog
Dag Con Carnie
Damnesia
The Posei-Dam Adventure
Specs Appeal
Things That Go Hook in the Night

Angry Beavers And The Public

Angry Beavers was a generally popular show during it's airtime. Angry Beavers was 'the show' that kept adolescents and adults interested in Nickelodeon in the late 90's. It had a more adult, sophisticated sense of word play jokes and culture refrences that made up it's humor, but was silly and unrealistic enough to attract the attention of young children too. Unfortunatly, it was aired in the midst of the success of Rugrats, so it did not earn the popularity it deserved. Many people compare it to Rocko's Modern Life as one of the most influential Nickelodeon cartoons of the 90's. It's influence is evident in other current shows too. Spongebob Squarepants has a notably similar humor pattern and animation style to this show, and it has the same backing music as Jimmy Neutron.

Angry Beaver's popularity with the more "adult" scene managed to get it some recognition. Rock statiosn also used Dag's catch phrase "That's Nuts!" for promo's for music marathon's, and the show even had a small merchandise line that included T-shits and plush toys.

Controversy

The whole controversy surrounding the series first started in 1998, when Alley Oops! had Norb saying "Oh, shut up, Dag!"

When this episode was first televised in the US on Nick, the "shut" in "shut up" was bleeped out. Apparently, someone complained about the phrase "shut up" in a Nick program. What that bleep did, however, was it generated more interest in the show, as some felt that it had vulgar language in the dialog. Between airings, however, Nick changed Norb's line to "Shush up, stupid!" It was the first time any Nicktoon had a line changed between airings since Ren & Stimpy. Many people believe this was ridiculous, and it has been shown that many other Nickelodeon programs that aired before Angry Beavers did use "shut up" and in fact, language that is generally considered to be worse (ex. Hey Arnold, which, particuarly in it's early episodes, used a few words many people believe should not air in childrens programming), that the Angry Beavers did not use. None the less, this was edited.

The final straw was an unaired episode titled Bye Bye Beavers, which was going to be the shows last episode, involving Norb having to convince Dag that they're just characters on a TV show. Staffer Micah Wright said that Nick hated this episode, as it made fun of Nick's practice of not making new episodes of their Nicktoons and, instead, making money on the constant barrage of repeats instead. It is unclear if it was even part of foreign syndication. Also, the episode had broken Nick's code on Nicktoons: When you're going off the air, don't tell your viewers!

This is a quote from Wright's website (http://www.micahwright.com) about Nick cancelling the show: "Nickelodeon hated this episode because it actually told the kids the truth: that the show was ending! Nick likes to just rerun their shows forever and pretend that they're still making new episodes and this show idea drove them up a wall!"

All in all, 63 episodes of the show were produced, because Nick cut 2 episodes out of the planned 65. Later new episodes have been added, creating a total of 108.

Many of the shows fans were extremely upset when the show was cancelled, and online petition sights have taken action. If you were a fan of the Angry Beavers, you can sign a petition on gopetitions.com to save it. The link as at the bottom.