# The Brothers Flub

The Brothers Flub is a sci-fi-comedy-fantasy children's animated television series created by David Burke and Laxlo Nosek for Nickelodeon. It was produced by Sunbow Entertainment and Sony Wonder Television in co-production with Ravensburger Film + TV and Videal. Nickelodeon billed the show as its original programming despite it not being a Nicktoon. The show's title characters are a pair of alien brothers named Guapo and Fraz, both of whom work as couriers, who travel throughout their universe to deliver packages to a different planet in each episode of the series. It ran from January 16, 1999, until January 8, 2000 and was widely panned by critics, who compared it unfavorably to actual Nicktoons.

## Summary

The Brothers Flub takes place in outer space. The show's title refers to its two central characters: a pair of blue-furred alien brothers named Guapo and Fraz Flub. Guapo is shorter and fatter than his brother, and is a lighter shade of blue. Both wear spacesuits, shoes and caps.
In the series, they work for a company called RetroGrade Interdimensional Couriers, of which a green-colored female alien named Tarara Boomdeyay is the boss. Other characters at their job include a female alien named Valerina and an older orange, male alien named Squish. The brothers, who are couriers, travel through their universe in their spacecraft (called the Hoog) to deliver packages to various planets. Each episode features a different planet with a different characteristic, such as "The Land of Oversized Games", which comprises life-sized game pieces such as a pinball machine, or "Hip City", a planet inhabited by beatnik aliens.

## Production

The show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment, at the time a subsidiary of Sony Wonder. creators marketed the series for children ages six through eleven. Sunbow contracted with Animatics, an Orlando, Florida-based company, allowing for Animatics to create the storyline and the storyboard for the series. Laura Sullivan, the senior director of marketing of Sony Wonder, said in a 1999 Promo article that the series attracted equal numbers of male and female children and that it was "very Nickelodeon-looking." The series was delayed for a year from its original scheduled debut.

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Written by | Directed by |
| 1 | Wrestlemaniacs | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Raldolph Heard | Thom Kins & Bert Ring |
| 1 | Bard Brain | Doug Langdale | Thom Kins & Bert Ring |
| 2 | Queen Bees | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Ralph Soll | Thom Kins |
| 2 | Fitness Freaks | Doug Langdale | Thom Kins |
| 3 | Flub, Flub and Away | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Ralph Soll | Thom Kins & Bert Ring |
| 3 | Cookie Crumbles | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Kati Rocky | Thom Kins & Bert Ring |
| 4 | Village Idiots | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 4 | Flubs Overeasy | Steve Brasfield | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 5 | Hair Brains | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 5 | Tiresome Twosome | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 6 | Pizza! Pizza! | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Steve Brasfield | Thom Kins |
| 6 | Bad Judgement Day | Andrew Brenner | Thom Kins |
| 7 | Snow Doomed | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Andrew Brenner | Thom Kins |
| 7 | Guapos Galore | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Shaun McLaughlin | Thom Kins |
| 8 | Tarara Birthdeeyay | Andrew Brenner | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 8 | Big Business | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Andrew Brenner | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 9 | Cold Soreheads | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Ralph Soll | Thom Kins |
| 9 | Operation Flubpossible | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Andrew Brenner | Thom Kins |
| 10 | Warped Speed | Kati Rocky | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 10 | Double Feature | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 11 | A Courier's Carol | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 11 | Boys Toys | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Raldolph Heard | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 12 | Sore Loser | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 12 | Paradise Shmaradise | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 13 | Finder's Keepers | Steve Brasfield | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 13 | Shrinky Dinky | Andrew Brenner | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 14 | Teacher's Pest | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Bert Ring & Thom Kins |
| 14 | Yippy-Ki-Yay | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 15 | It's a Mystery | Ralph Soll | Thom Kins |
| 15 | For the Birds | Shaun McLaughlin | Thom Kins |
| 16 | Unlucky Charmers | Don Priess & Susie Singer | Thom Kins |
| 16 | Bunch of Trouble | Story by: Dan Danko, Tom Mason & Kati Rocky Teleplay by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 17 | Madman Mambo | David Burke | Thom Kins & Bert Ring |
| 17 | Guapo's Funhouse | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins & Bert Ring |
| 18 | Heads Up | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Ralph Soll | Thom Kins |
| 18 | Pay Dirt | Andrew Brenner | Thom Kins |
| 19 | Bosom Buddies | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 19 | Mother's Little Helpers | Shaun McLaughlin | Thom Kins |
| 20 | Wishmasters | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 20 | Train in Vain | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 21 | Fatal Distraction | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 21 | Just Deserts | Ralph Soll | Thom Kins |
| 22 | Good Sports | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 22 | Sidekicked | Rick Gitelson | Thom Kins |
| 23 | Playtime | Dave Polsky | Thom Kins |
| 23 | On My Case | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 24 | Family Outing | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 24 | Talent Show Offs | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 25 | Thanks for the Memories | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 25 | Sloppy Sentiment | Dan Danko & Tom Mason | Thom Kins |
| 26 | Scared Stiff | David Burke | Thom Kins |
| 26 | Prehysteria | Story by: Dan Danko & Tom Mason Teleplay by: Ralph Soll | Thom Kins |

## Cast
### Main cast

* Guapo Flub: Jerry Sroka
* Fraz Flub: Scott Menville
* Tarara Boomdeyay: Charlotte Rae
* Squish: Ron Hale
* Valerina: Christine Cavanaugh

### Additional voices

* Richard Horvitz
* Mariette Hartley
* Joe Lala
* John Kassir
* Jerry Sroka
* Tim Curry
* Candi Milo
* Jeff Bennett
* H. Richard Greene
* Michael Bell
* Pat Fraley
* Sally Struthers
* Roger Rose
* Kevin Michael Richardson
* Jennifer Darling
* Bruce Eckstart
* Tom Shell
* Gayiel Von
* Nick Bakay
* Tress MacNeille
* Harvey Korman
* Estelle Harris
* Marsha Clark: Judy Hen
* Stuart Pankin
* Gregg Berger
* Gary Littman
* Vanessa Marshall
* Peter Ratray
* Dee Bradley Baker
* Lori Alan
* Jim Ward
* Billie Hayes
* Michael Horton
* Tom Kenny
* Tommy Widmer: Bob

## Crew

* Charlie Adler - Voice Director

## Merchandising

The Brothers Flub was used in several promotional deals for various brands. Fast food chain KFC announced that it would use the characters in a kids' meal, while Carl's Jr. and Hardee's branded tray liners and bags with The Brothers Flub images. GNC planned to include The Brothers Flub yo-yos in its children's vitamins, while department store chain Macy's used the characters in their back-to-school advertising flyers. Skechers started a sweepstakes that distributed Skechers and The Brothers Flub-branded items.

### VHS release

Sony Wonder released two videocassettes of the show in 2000. These were entitled Plan C: Panic! and Doom Wears Funny Tights!. Each one featured four episodes of the series. Both tapes are now out of print and hard to find.
VHS releases were planned for the series by Maverick in the United Kingdom, but in the end, no releases came to fruition.

## Reception

The Brothers Flub was panned by critics. Joanne Weintraub of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel described the show as "a rare clinker with all the noisy hyperactivity of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and little of the cockeyed charm." The Hollywood Reporter called it "a somewhat vacuous effort that lacks the charm and substance of much of Nick's other programming" but added "now and again [the creators] hit on some clever high jinks." Writing for the Lakeland Ledger, Evan Levine thought that the show had a promising premise, but thought that its humor was mean-spirited.