The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is an American
animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and
featuring Martin Short's fictional character Ed Grimley (with Short
reprising his role as Grimley). The show aired on NBC from September
10 to December 3, 1988 for a single season of 13 episodes. The show is
the only Saturday morning animated adaptation of both an SCTV
character and a Saturday Night Live character.Guest stars on the show
included Christopher Guest and SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Dave
Thomas. The show also featured the voices of René Auberjonois,
Kenneth Mars, and Arte Johnson. Though the show was not renewed for a
second season, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was
later seen in reruns in 1996 on Cartoon Network's unnamed pre-Adult
Swim-era late-night programming block, which consisted of such shows
as Space Ghost Coast to Coast and reruns of classic Looney Tunes
shorts and Hanna-Barbera programming, before it was rerun again on
Boomerang. Hanna-Barbera sponsored an Ed Grimley look-alike contest
midway through the first season, which was won by 10-year-old Matt
Mitchell from Des Moines, Iowa.Episodes of the show often featured Ed
Grimley in several adventures, which start out as mundane, but turn
very surreal and cartoonish, interspersed with science lessons from
The Amazing Gustav Brothers, Roger and Emil, and a live-action segment
with a "scary story" titled The Count Floyd Show presented as a
show-within-a-show by Grimley's favorite television host, SCTV's Count
Floyd (played by SCTV cast member Joe Flaherty). Grimley's fellow
cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus (voiced by
Jonathan Winters), Leo's wife Deidre (voiced by Andrea Martin), his
ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone (voiced by Catherine
O'Hara; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an
SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted
by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical
guest Tina Turner), and her little brother Wendell (voiced by Danny
Cooksey). Ed owns a goldfish named Moby and a clever pet rat named
Sheldon (voiced by Frank Welker). At the end of each episode, Ed would
write in his diary about what happened in his day.On January 29, 2013,
Warner Home Video (through the Warner Archive) released The Completely
Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series on DVD in
region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection. This is a
Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through
Warner's online store, MoviesUnlimited.com, and Amazon.com. In
addition, the episode "Tall, Dark & Hansom" is available on Warners'
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s Volume 1 DVD set, released on May 4,
2010.
animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and
featuring Martin Short's fictional character Ed Grimley (with Short
reprising his role as Grimley). The show aired on NBC from September
10 to December 3, 1988 for a single season of 13 episodes. The show is
the only Saturday morning animated adaptation of both an SCTV
character and a Saturday Night Live character.Guest stars on the show
included Christopher Guest and SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Dave
Thomas. The show also featured the voices of René Auberjonois,
Kenneth Mars, and Arte Johnson. Though the show was not renewed for a
second season, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley was
later seen in reruns in 1996 on Cartoon Network's unnamed pre-Adult
Swim-era late-night programming block, which consisted of such shows
as Space Ghost Coast to Coast and reruns of classic Looney Tunes
shorts and Hanna-Barbera programming, before it was rerun again on
Boomerang. Hanna-Barbera sponsored an Ed Grimley look-alike contest
midway through the first season, which was won by 10-year-old Matt
Mitchell from Des Moines, Iowa.Episodes of the show often featured Ed
Grimley in several adventures, which start out as mundane, but turn
very surreal and cartoonish, interspersed with science lessons from
The Amazing Gustav Brothers, Roger and Emil, and a live-action segment
with a "scary story" titled The Count Floyd Show presented as a
show-within-a-show by Grimley's favorite television host, SCTV's Count
Floyd (played by SCTV cast member Joe Flaherty). Grimley's fellow
cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus (voiced by
Jonathan Winters), Leo's wife Deidre (voiced by Andrea Martin), his
ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone (voiced by Catherine
O'Hara; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an
SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted
by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical
guest Tina Turner), and her little brother Wendell (voiced by Danny
Cooksey). Ed owns a goldfish named Moby and a clever pet rat named
Sheldon (voiced by Frank Welker). At the end of each episode, Ed would
write in his diary about what happened in his day.On January 29, 2013,
Warner Home Video (through the Warner Archive) released The Completely
Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley: The Complete Series on DVD in
region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection. This is a
Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through
Warner's online store, MoviesUnlimited.com, and Amazon.com. In
addition, the episode "Tall, Dark & Hansom" is available on Warners'
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s Volume 1 DVD set, released on May 4,
2010.
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