Game Over (TV series)

{{short description|2004 American animated television series}}

{{use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Game Over cast.jpg

| caption = The Smashenburn family

| genre = Animated sitcom

| creator = David Sacks

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| starring =

| voices = {{plainlist|

• Patrick Warburton
• Lucy Liu
• Rachel Dratch
• Elizabeth Daily
• Artie Lange
• Marie Matiko}}

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| opentheme =

| endtheme =

| composer = Kevin Riepl

| country = United States

| language = English

| company = {{plainlist|

• Never Give Up Productions
• Venokur Goetsch Venokur
• Carsey-Werner Productions
• DKP Studios}}

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 6 (1 unaired)

| executive_producer = {{plainlist|

• David Sacks
• Dave Goetsch
• Ross Venokur
• Jason Venokur
• Marcy Carsey
• Tom Werner
• Caryn Mandabach}}

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| runtime = 22 minutes

| network = UPN

| first_aired = {{start date|2004|3|10}}

| last_aired = {{end date|2004|4|2}}

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Game Over is an American adult animated sitcom, created by David Sacks and produced by Carsey-Werner Productions. The series was broadcast on UPN in 2004 and was cancelled after five episodes.

Game Over (the title was inspired by the phrase "game over" that commonly concludes video games) focuses on what happens to video game characters after the game ends and recounted the lives of the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family that lived in an alternate video game universe. The series made numerous references to video games and even featured certain game characters in cameo appearances. For example, Crash Bandicoot appears on a Got Milk? billboard and creatures from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee appear in one of the episodes.

Marisa Tomei originally voiced Raquel Smashenburn in the series' unaired pilot episode, but scheduling problems had Lucy Liu take over the role for the actual series.[http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmTv/features/gameover/davegoestch.asp Dave Goestch of Game Over] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080127181945/http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmTv/features/gameover/davegoestch.asp |date=2008-01-27 }}, UGO.

Game Over was heavily hyped by UPN before its debut. It generally received positive press on its airing.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE4DD143EF933A25750C0A9629C8B63 TELEVISION REVIEW; Video Game Heroes: Just Folks], The New York Times, March 10, 2004. Due to this, six episodes were produced and aired on a variety of different days; the fourth and fifth episodes were broadcast on April 2, 2004, with the sixth episode ("Monkey Dearest") never aired and only appears on the complete series DVD.