NOTE: Please do not take any of the little nitpicks in this review (or any of my other reviews, for that matter) seriously. I write these reviews in the hopes of making people laugh. Those nitpicks are really just dumb little observations that I'm attempting to make jokes out of, not complaints that add to whether or not I like something.
NOTE #2: No disrespect is meant towards anyone who worked on the show I am reviewing today. I'm sure they are all very nice and talented people.
NOTE #3: If you like this show, that is great. Go ahead and like it. I'm not judging you.
Y'know what my only memory of Pet Alien is? I think my family was in an airport and the show (or at least an ad for it) was playing on a TV there. That's it!
Considering that this show, created by Jeff Muncy, aired on Cartoon Network in the United States, it's strange that I never saw any of it when it was on. Premiering at some point in 2004, this is actually a very loose adaptation of a toyline that Jeff Muncy created in the 2000s. The theme song explains the show's premise: a thirteen-year-old boy named Tommy (voiced by Charlie Schlatter) has his life turned upside-down when a spaceship lands on the roof of his lighthouse. From that spaceship emerges five wacky aliens: dinosaur-like Dinko (Charlie Adler), gluttonous and dimwitted Gumpers (Jess Harnell), blue-skinned Swanky (also Jess Harnell), hyperactive parrot-esque Flip (also Charlie Adler), and Dinko's purple dog-ish pet Scruffy. With the exception of Scruffy, they're really not so much pets as they are houseguests.
Two seasons of Pet Alien were produced, making for a total of fifty-two episodes... unless you count each segment as a separate episode (this is one of those "each episode is two segments in one" shows), in which case there were one hundred and four. The show's reception online seems to be pretty mixed, there are some folks who like it and some folks who hate it. Which side will I fall on? Let's find out. We're going to be watching the seventh episode of the show, which consists of the segments "They Came From Outer Space" and "Tentacles of Terror". This is Pet Alien.
