Stripperella
Stripperella is an adult animated series created by Stan
Lee. The lead character is a stripper named Erotica Jones
who is secretly the superheroine/secret agent Stripperella.
The series was produced by The Firm and Spike Animation Studios. It is rated TV-MA in the United States.
as part of the U.K. incarnation of the Cartoon Network's
Adult Swim programming block. In Germany, the show
aired uncensored on Comedy Central Germany available
for all audiences.
In Italy, its aired on FX Italia, uncensored and unrated;
in Latin America is transmitted by MTV Latin America;
and in Brazil is transmitted by Multishow.
Background
Stripperellas powers include enhanced reexes and
senses, an astonishing intelligence, superhuman strength,
jumping extremely high, sexy martial arts and killer
moves. She has twice claimed to be impervious to all
temperatures and weather conditions, but this has only
been casually tested on screen. She generally has access
to a number of Bond-esque, super-technological devices
of questionable usefulness. She is also able to use her
extravagant blonde hair as an eective parachute.
2 Recurring characters
Eroticas workplace Tenderloins features the wishywashy owner Kevin (voiced by Tom Kenny), swishy
bartender Leonard, and dancers Persephone who
is promiscuous and switches accents, and naive
and good-natured country girl Giselle. The newest
member, the antagonistic Kat, gets hired in Tenderloins under false pretenses of being an Amish virgin.
She has a brother named Chipperella (Jon Cryer), who
also happened to be a stripper living the double life as
a superhero and secret agent. He was briey mentioned
when Stripperella temporarily lost faith in her crime ghting abilities after having been shrunken by Small Fry. He
appears in a ashback as a hunky blonde and is aectionately referred to by Erotica and Chief Strogano as
Chip.
The main competition of Tenderloins is SiliCones,
a strip club owned by Dirk McMahon (voiced by
Vince McMahon) who openly admits his obsession
for Erotica to work at his club.
Stripperella works for the agency FUGG under
Chief Strogano. Other recurring FUGG members
include technicians Hal and Bernard, and Special
Agent 14 (Voiced by Tom Kenny).
In a humorous anecdote, Strogano tells Stripperella that
her brothers memory was erased, later being mostly restored except for the word 'quit' which was forever erased
from his memory.
There are two recurring villains: Cheapo (voiced
by Jon Lovitz in his rst appearance, and later by
Maurice Lamarche doing a awless impression of
Lovitz), the worlds cheapest bad guy, and Queen
Clitoris (pronounced kli-TOR-is), a woman who
lashes out on society for her facial appearance.
Stripperella debuted on Spike TV in the spring of 2003
and lasted one season with 13 episodes. Anderson described it as not being a raunchy show, despite obvious
double entendres and topless nudity (which was blurred
out when shown on Spike TV).
The animation style changed halfway through the shows
run, becoming brighter and revamping the looks of many
of the shows major characters. Stripperella, for example,
was now drawn with a cowl having larger eyeholes, similar
to Batgirl's. Fellow stripper Persephone now had a darker
complexion and an accent that inexplicably changed from
episode to episode.
Reporter Skip Withers (voiced by Tom Kenny) appears when TV news coverage is needed. Weird Al
has appeared twice without any lines.
In Australia, Stripperella began airing uncensored on SBS 3 Episodes
TV, starting Monday March 13, 2006 at 21:00 local
time (9:00PM), after having previously been restricted Note: What follows is the chronology according to the
to early-morning airings on the Nine Network.
DVD release. Spike TV aired the episodes out of order.
In the United Kingdom, Stripperella is aired uncensored The air dates have not been changed.
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Comic books
Originally there was to have been a promotional
Stripperella comic published by Humanoids Publishing (publishers of Mtal Hurlant magazine) alongside
the animated series,[2] but creative dierences between
TNN/Spike TV and Pamela Anderson saw it canceled before publication.
Critical reception
Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gave the show a
positive review, saying that it was unexpectedly clever,
albeit sometimes crude, and that its tongue in cheek
humor was reminiscent of the 1960s Batman series.[3]
DVD
The Complete DVD boxed set released in 2005 contains
uncensored versions with a new opening theme replacing
the original Kid Rock song.
Legal controversy
In 2003, ex-stripper Janet Clover, a.k.a. Jazz, a.k.a.
Stripperella, led a lawsuit in the Daytona Beach,
Florida circuit court against Viacom, Stan Lee, and
Pamela Anderson, claiming she is Stripperellas true creator and Stan Lee stole her idea when she discussed it
during a lap dance.[4] Clover led the original suit herself without an attorney as she said she couldn't aord
the $6,000 lawyer fee. The suit was led in the name of
the non-existent Oce of the Professional Nurse Advocate - Moral and Ethical Division because she said it
sounded more impressive than if it were led by a semiretired stripper.
The lawsuit attracted the attention of local media, and the
story was picked up by the Associated Press and national
media, including People and Entertainment Weekly, upon
which attorneys in New York City learned about the case
and subsequently oered their services. Clover moved
to dismiss her own suit before it could be challenged and
had a practicing attorney rele it, specically targeting
Lee. This as well as creative dierences led to the shows
demise.
References
[1] Erickson, Hal. Stripperella [Animated TV Series]".
Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 20,
2013.
EXTERNAL LINKS
[2] Humanoids to publish Stripperella one-shot.
2003-03-28.
ICV2.
[3] Owen, Rob (22 June 2003). TV Reviews: Cartoons for
guys premiere on Spike TV. Pittsburg Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
[4] Will the real Stripperella please .... Chicago Tribune. 10
July 2003. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
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