They don't make 'em like this anymore. Then again, they don't make much of anything out of claymation anymore. This show is an artistic treasure. It doesn't hurt that the humor, writing, and voice-acting is all top-notch too.
If it'll make you feel better, I plan to make my own comic series at some point, but due to my drawing ability not being the best, I might have my characters be posable figures in physical sets with props!
If I had a nickel for every time Janice Kawaye played a female robot character in a kids' show capable of speaking both English & Japanese, came equipped with a fully-functional weapon system, but was naturally kindhearted & friendly, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's crazy it happened twice, right?
This is the first time I've seen this since I was a child and it makes me so happy :) also did not realize how many voices Jim Cummings did! Impressive.
Man… a guy at work brought this up tonight and blew me away. This show had been lost and misplaced in the deepest oldest of places of my memory. Wow…. So glad to have found this again!
Until tonight, I was half convinced that I imagined watching this as a kid in 94'. I would periodically ask people if they remembered a "stop animation show about a green monster that lived under a kids bed" but nobody ever knew what I was talking about. Luckily I was watching a Jurassic Park retrospective documentary and became curious as to what the last major Hollywood release to use stop animation was. This curiosity led me to a website advertising a "brief history of stop animation" which mentioned this show as being one of the last stop animation cartoons pre-Jurassic Park and Toy Story. Glad I finally discovered it was real after all these years. Now, time to enjoy a bit of entertainment from my early years.
I had no idea that the voice's of Winnie the Pooh and Jenny the Robot starred in this series. I wish they did more with Little Robot though, apart from Bumpy, Squishyton, and Molly, she's my favorite character, and I felt she had untapped potential in the show.
Watching this as a kid was fun but now watching it as an adult, this show is pretty impressive! The time and talent it must have took to do this claymation is astounding. Kudos to all who worked on this show and thank you for the happy memories!
That would be Danger Productions. The same guys that did the animation for the Clayfighter games. (Well the first and third ones. They were too busy w/ something else to do the second one)
Janice Kawaye voiced the robot?! Holy crap, that’s the same voice actress for Jenny Wakeman / XJ9 and Tammy in My Life as a Teenage Robot, Ami Onuki in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Yuzu Kurosaki in Bleach, Ayane in Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive franchise and Visco in The Witch and the Hundred Knight. Also it’s really cool to hear her speak Japanese since the actress herself can speak both English and Japanese, she’s a wonderful voice actress. 😊
Jim Cummings is just freaking awesome in anything he appears in, he’s been a major part of my childhood like hearing him sing the theme for Extreme Ghostbusters, voicing Pete, Darkwing Duck, Tigger and Pooh over at Disney and of course hearing him as Shang Tsung and Sub-Zero in the awful Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins tie in movie to the live action movie (he’s not awful in that, it’s simply the movie that is). Every time I hear him I get really happy.
@@canaisyoung3601 that's what I'm sayin. This is not even considered crap. They should see modern cartoons if they think Bump in the Night is crap. Also, idk why I'm replying to this comment from 8 years ago.. 🥲
Molly's voice actress is Gail Matthius, who was also Bobby Generic's mom on "Bobby's World", Shirley the Loon on "Tiny Toon Adventures", and was once a cast member on Saturday Night Live during the early 1980s (which was the first season where everyone agreed that the show's quality was in the toilet).
@@canaisyoung3601 She's literally my waifu, like I'm NOT gonna know all that? She's also on record as stating she usually put on either a voice or accent for her characters (she also voiced Bobby's sister Kelly), and that Molly was just her own pure, natural voice. Seems fitting though, I'm PRETTY sure Molly was her final voice roll, or at least ONE of the last, and she never seems to have really done a whole lot else. Last roll, best roll, had the most of her real soul in it. It's a literal HATE CRIME what the shitty nineties writing allowed a once lovely and perfect character to devolve into. Went from literally every bit of a full character as the two male leads to essentially just another villain who wore the original Molly's skin-- ironically, an episode where ALMOST that exact thing happens-- except she was already entirely out of character from the very start of that episode AS HERSELF!
One of the cool shows made by and geared to adults who refused to grow up. In an era of Ren and Stimpy, Calvin and Hobbs, Garfield, Spaceghost 2000, Teen Aqua Force, and alternative late nite cable Adult Swim, this stuff is just...creative😎 Where did my Bumpy bendable toy go?
@@radbradmusicartist no. The artist/creator doesn't participate in that part of the bizz, not even allowing merchandise, only his c'n'h books. Any products out are bootlegs
Gotta love these nostalgia trips we all take every now and again. Taking us back to a time where nobody questions how toys or monsters with no capabilities to interact with people outside of their small-scale environment can send away for something like a free toy or medical stuff...Why can't most modern-day cartoons do this sort of thing!?
Uh a lot of modern cartoons DO do this sort of thing if you know where to look. The Amazing World of Gumball for example doesn’t have any specific reason for why there’s a world full of cartoon animals, inanimate objects, 3D animated Muppet people and a sentient internet all exist at once.
7:00 I thought he was gonna realize he is speaking Japaneese and he actually knows it...well, that was a clever 4th wall break. I’m starting to like this show..
16:00 Squishy: Hello, my loyal listeners. It is my great pleasure to give you... INDIGESTION...! Cure the... News on the hour: Tornadoes devastate... THIS HILARIOUS TUNE FROM FRANCE! Jerry Lewis and... Boris Yeltsin saying... ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDIIIING!!! And A TEST OF THE JUST IN CASE OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST BEEP! THIS IS ONLY A TEST BEEP! *BEEEEEEEEP*!!!!
What a gem of a show. In all honesty, I'd consider this highly underrated and no matter how popular it got when it aired, it deserved more attention. The music, the characters, the animation, the voices, the writing, all great. What I'm going to assume is since there were only two seasons that they just quit because stop motion is hard work, but that is ONLY my guess because i know very little about this. I was fairly young when it aired, and I only just finished the series last night. Plenty of laughs and will more than likely watch it again. I think someone else mentioned it, and I whole heartedly agree, the series should be revitalized in some way. Like, if not a series/movie but like a special or something. Anyways, lol great show.
I used to have a squishington toy from a kids meal when i was a kid and could not for the life of me remember what it was from. Its cool today, recognizing all the voice actors and just being amazed with all that they have worked on in their careers. The 90s was truly a unique era for cartoons/kids shows!
I used to listen to this on my radio when it played the local ABC station. I'd listen while riding my bike up and down the driveway, lol. Good memories...
Bump in the Night was a awesome show. A couple of years ago, I told a friend of mine whom never saw this before. He asked me if it was like Toy Story and I said yes.
Thank you, Thank you for posting this amazing show. My husband & I we're watching; AHHH... Real Monsters I started thinking about squishington and Bumpy - what a rare and great gift you have given us!!
Oh man i remember in the 90s when YTV would play a ton of episodes of Bump in the Night, Freaky Stories and Aaahhh Real Monsters during Halloween. October was my favorite month growing up in that time. Still is too. Im currently re-watching all the Aaahhh Real Monsters episodes right now. Gotta love Krumm.
i used to wake up at 4 am everrryy day to watch the reruns of this in the 90s (i dunno when it originally aired though). but now watching it, it kinda creeps me out hahaha.
Yea it's kind of unsettling now for some reason. Kind of like a meth head Spongebob precursor meets acid nightmare. More than half of the dialogue went over my head as a kid.
I barely remembered this show so on a hunch I googled "weird stop motion animated show nickelodeon 1990s" and this was the second thing that popped up after Action League Now. Good to know this show was real and wasn't a dream.
I remember I had the purple robot toy from the beginning intro song \m/ 35 living it up own my own home, no kids but have a Playstation 5 & saving up for a PSVR2 next month \m/ thank you uploader😎🐧😎🐧😎🐧
I went to Louisiana last year and met my mom's boyfriend's dad. Used his restroom and turns out he had a cup from Sonic with this as the theme. I couldn't help but laugh!
This Is The First Time I've Seen This Since I Was A Child And It Makes Me So Happy :) Also Did Not Realize How Many Voices John DiMaggio Did! Impressive.
Oh heck ya! My ptsd is loving this 😍🔥 Lowkey still hard to watch this and the age of dinosaur and fantastic planet...as a kid they left me with little sleep 😭
The show was filmed using stop-motion animation and aired on ABC from 1994 to 1995, with reruns continiung until September 7, 1996. Bump in the Night might have continued into a third season (1996-1997), but Disney’s purchase of ABC in 1996 led to a massive expulsion of non-Disney Saturday morning programs in favor of their own programming.
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