Daft Planet
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{{Infobox television
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| creator = Brent Donnelly
Derry Smith
| director = Jon Minnis
| writer = Derry Smith
Brent Donnelly
| starring = Oliver Grainger
Mark Hauser
Susan Alamgren
Sonja Ball
Jaclyn Linetsky
Ellen David
Arthur Holden
Matt Holland
Michael Perron
Felicia Schulman
Terrence Scammell
Brigid Tierney
| country = Canada
| company = CinéGroupe
| network = The Detour On Teletoon
| first_aired = {{start date|2002|9|2}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2002|12|23}}
| num_episodes = 13
| num_seasons = 1
| list_episodes = List of Daft Planet episodes
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Daft Planet is a Canadian cartoon, first airing on Teletoon. The first episode ran on September 2, 2002{{cite press release |date=August 28, 2002 |title=Fall 2002 Highlights: Teletoon |url=http://www.channelcanada.com/canadian-channels/specialty-channels/teletoon/fall-2002-highlights-teletoon |url-status=live |location=Toronto |publisher=Teletoon |agency=Channel Canada |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021080011/http://www.channelcanada.com/canadian-channels/specialty-channels/teletoon/fall-2002-highlights-teletoon |archivedate=October 21, 2013}} and the show continued to run for almost two years even though only 13 episodes were produced. Its main claim to fame is that it was the first cartoon in the world that was animated entirely in Flash and appeared on a national television network. The show met with some success but was taken off the air when funding ran out due to cuts to the CTF program. The show was born from a 10-minute pilot written and animated by Brent Donnelly and Derry Smith and produced by Valis Video (Toronto). The pilot can be viewed on YouTube along with some aired episodes of Daft Planet.
Plot
The plot, set in the fictional Maple City, encircles the day-to-day lives of the protagonists, Ched and Hudson, in their on-going struggle to keep up with the latest trends and maintain their positions in the social hierarchy in high school. With Ched living from a trailer park, as the son of a taxidermist and Hudson as the son of a wealthy network executive, a parallel is drawn between the two characters, offering unlikely chemistry. No one in the show has necks, and their heads just float over their bodies, but this is never mentioned and they have no apparent difficulty doing things that would require necks, like eating or breathing.
Episodes
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| Title = Cool Hunters
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|9|2}}
| ShortSummary = A mysterious new senior starts a "cool" frenzy at Maple Central High; Ched and Hudson quickly become irritated with the chaos his popularity has created.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| Title = Fashion Victims
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|9|16}}
| ShortSummary = A high-powered designer lures Ched into the seductive world of fashion; Hudson has his hands full with the designer's daughter and his controversial haute couture.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| Title = Family Feud
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|9|9}}
| ShortSummary = The Stiles' life is turned upside-down when Fred's bitter rival returns to Maple City and threatens his TV empire; unfortunately for Hudson, his capricious heart is caught in the crossfire.
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| Title = The New Me- Kinda
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|9|23}}
| ShortSummary = Ched, Hudson and their science class learn first-hand about the horror and the beauty of human cloning.
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| Title = Requiem for a Game
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|10|10}}
| ShortSummary = Ched and Hudson stumble upon the coolest hand-held video game ever made as Bitzi struggles to shake her obsession with Timmy from Magnetik.
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| Title = Trading Faces
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|10|24}}
| ShortSummary = In their search for cooler parents, Ched and Hudson find themselves in each other's shoes; the secrets of Bitzi's scandalous past are dug up by a ruthless reporter.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| Title = Snitchy and the Phobe
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|10|17}}
| ShortSummary = A terrifying discovery at an all-you-can-eat buffet sends Hudson spiraling toward madness in this epic man vs. germ psychological thriller.
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| Title = Evil Boxatrons
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|7}}
| ShortSummary = Tired of Jake's incessant TV habit, Francine sends him to be "reprogrammed" while Ched and Hudson get their first TV show and find out how stupid the tube really is.
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9
| Title = Pug: A Mascot Betrayed
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|14}}
| ShortSummary = A scourge of vandalism in the days leading up to the unveiling of Maple Central's new mascot lead Principal Dubinsky to tighten school security and point his giant red finger at Hudson.
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10
| Title = The Footprints of Nanigans
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|10|31}}
| ShortSummary = Hudson's older brother Albert finally scores a stand-up comedy gig thanks to his seven foot tall, lime-green fuzzy friend; for the first time, Ched questions his rock star dream.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 11
| Title = Drat That Frat!
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|21}}
| ShortSummary = A classic Dickensian tale of a boy (Ched) dispossessed by the rich brotherhood of the Delta Felta Pi fraternity and his friend (Hudson), whose father is his easy ticket in..
| LineColor = F86B19
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 12
| Title = Virtual Utopia
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|28}}
| ShortSummary = Iggy discovers a top secret technology that allows him to create his own fantastic worlds. As his "real" body deteriorates, his larger-than-life avatars run amok in cyberspace.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 13
| Title = Karmacade
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|12|23}}
| ShortSummary = Ched and Hudson learn the true meaning of chaos theory in this whimsical and thought-provoking look at karma in a stylistic video game format.
| LineColor = F86B19
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|430834|Daft Planet}}
{{Teletoon}}
Category:2002 Canadian television series debuts
Category:2002 Canadian television series endings
Category:2000s Canadian adult animated television series
Category:2000s Canadian animated comedy television series
Category:2000s Canadian high school television series
Category:Canadian adult animated comedy television series
Category:Canadian flash animated television series
Category:Canadian English-language television shows