Pencilmate’s World

***Pencilmate’s World*** is an American computer-animated comedy television series based on the cartoons entitled Pencilmation (which has generations unlike the real version: G1, G1.5, G2, & G3.) It is created by Stephen Spielberg and produced at Warner Bros. Animation Television. It first premiered on Toon WB (the defunct predecessor of Kids WB that was shutdown the same day as Kids WB first, the network came back the same day as Kids WB shutdown) on October 28, 1989, as a first episode Pencilmate's Midnight Sleep, which led to a series of half-hour episodes. The series had ended on June 5, 2013, leading to the production of a spin-off/continuation of Pencilmate’s *World* known as *Redward's World* which was eventually cancelled due to low viewership and negative reception.

*Pencilmate’s World* was conceived by Spielberg since 1978 shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with the producer Terry Ward. The comics became a part of Universal Press Syndicate on July 9, 1981, becoming the network's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season (1989).

The series aired on Toon WB and its affiliates, except in Canada where it has aired on English and Francophone networks due to Canadian television ownership regulations with a total of 269 episodes.

The success of the show's premiere eventually resulted in eight feature films, *Pencilmate's 1st Movie*, *Pencilmate’s 2nd Movie*, *Pencilmate's 3rd Movie*, Pencilmate’s *4th Movie*, Pendilmate’s *5th Movie,* Pencilmate’s *6th Movie,* Pencilmate’s *7th Movie,* and Pencilmate’s *8th Movie*. A spin-off film titled Pencilmate’*s Friends* was released in 2014

A reboot/continuation titled Pencilmate’s Universe first aired on ABC in late 2013 and is currently ongoing.

## History

*Pencilmation* was conceived in the lobby of his office by Chuck Jones since 1930. He was asked to do a series of cartoons, and decided to do his Pencilmation series; but since he realized that animating

 File:Geo Guy and Green Bob.png  *Pencilmation* would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life's work, and substituted Pencilmate for his own name; as it was an anagram of 'ego'.

*Pencilmation* first appeared to the world in the comic on July 9, 1934 by Universal Press Syndicate. Chuck submitted crudely drawn sketches of Pencilmate and his friends to the animators, assuming they would clean them up in production. However, the animators just re-traced over his drawings; that is why *Pencilmation* appears crudely drawn in the comics.

## Production

In 1986, Stephen Spielburg was approached by Toon WB about the possibility of adapting the comic strip into a television series. In 1988, a team of production companies adapted *Pencilmate’s World* into a half-hour primetime series, for Toon WB. Toon WB was initially nervous to air Pencilmate’s *World*; as there hasn't been a cartoon in primetime since *Bobby's World*, and that they were unsure if they could keep the audience's attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven-minute shorts and four specials until the audienc adjusted, but the producers gambled for thirteen half-hour episodes for the series. Pencilmate’s *World* was originally to premiere in the fall of 1988; with "Pencilmate VS. Nat Peterson," but when the episode came back from animation in Korea, it had major, major problems with it. was extremely dissatisfied with the product and called for many parts of the episode to be redone. The producers then decided to just go ahead and air "Pencilmate’s Midnight Sleep," on October 28, 1989.

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Through the entire show's history, Stephen Spielburg was the creator

The first team of writers for *Geo's World* were assembled by Robert Stainton. These were: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Phil Roman, Tim Hill, John France, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and Dan Povenmire. Newer *Geo's World* writing teams usually have 16 writers and episode ideas are thought of and proposed in early October. The main writer writes the first draft and the group changes it, adding in jokes and removing parts they don't like. This can sometimes change a script entirely. Up until 2001, the head of these groups was Jeff Pidgeon, who apparently wrote lots of the best lines from episodes. But the idea of all this came from the magic hand of Geo G. who invented the pictures.

## Broadcast

Main article: List of episodes
The show has been picked up for 25 seasons on ABC. The list of episodes are as follows:
List of episodes

### Main characters

* Geo Guy
* Geo Girl
* Green Bob
* Leah
* Brody Guy
* Little Guy
* Dr. PBS
* Coraline Jones
* Margo
* Dave the Minion
* Toon Link
* JawLocker

### Villains

* Bob Beanson
* Gree Guy
* Pingu 2012
* Elias Pickney
* Bryan Guy
* Keithy Guy
* Santed Sailor
* Homer Simpson (formerly)

### Secondary characters

* Liz Conner
* Tom Conner
* Kate
* Harold
* Madame Gabrielle
* Wally and Lumpy
* Dr. Beanson
* Doctor
* Homer Simpson
* Marge Simpson
* Bart Simpson
* Lisa Simpson
* Maggie Simpson
* Jea Tentomon
* Stuart the Minion

### Minor characters

* Dr. Beanson (Greeny Phatom)
* Edith
* Agnes
* Bloo
* Frankie Foster
* Len Guy
* Eric Cartman
* Dick Grayson

## Films

Main article: List of Films

Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios produced *Geo's 1st Movie*, a computer-animated film based on the series that was released in theaters on December 23, 1997. The film was directed by John Lasseter, co-directed by *Geo's World* creator Geo G. and written by John Lasseter, Geo G., Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, and Pete Docter. In this film, Geo Guy's newest enemy, Doom Vercetti has a plan to destroy his parents once and for all, so Geo Guy, Green Bob, Leah, Little Guy, Lucas Guy, Wally, Lumpy, Geo Girl, Gum, Lara, Coraline, Lisa, Margo, Dave, Dr. Beanson, Geo Guy 2, Doctor, and Dr. PBS need to save Geo Guy's parents from her. It was followed by seven sequels which includes: *Geo's 2nd Movie*, *Geo's 3rd Movie*, *Geo's 4th Movie*, *Geo's 5th Movie,* *Geo's 6th Movie, Geo's 7th Movie*, and *Geo's 8th Movie.* They make up what is known as the *Geo's World* film series

## Broadcasting

### United States

* ABC (1989–present; returns from 2013)
* Geoshea Television Network (1989–present; returns from 2013)
* The Greeny Channel (1991–present; returns from 2013)
* Toon Disney (1998–2002)
* Zits 8
* Tj's World Network (2003–present)
* Disney XD (2009-present)
* Syndication (2013-present)

### Canada

* YTV (English) (1989–present)
* Réseau Outre Mer 1ere (French) (1993–present)

### Latin America

* Discovery Kids (1996–present)
* Azteca 7 (Mexico) (1992-present)
* SBT (Brazil) (1995-present)
* Chilevision (Chile) (1996-present)
* Latina Television (Peru) (1997-present)
* Venevision (Venezuela) (1998-present)
* Repretel (Costa Rica) (1997-present)
* Canal 9 (Argentina) (1999-present)
* Canal 13 (Colombia) (1998-present)
* Ecuavision (Ecuador) (1999-present)
* Canal 5 (Honduras) (1998-present)
* Canal 12 (El Salvador) (1997-present)
* Canal 35 (Guatemala) (2006-present)
* RNC-TV (Panama) (1999-present)

### United Kingdom and Ireland

* CITV (UK) (1990–present)
* RTE2 (Ireland) (1992-present)

### Germany

* Das Erste (1992-1995)
* ProSieben (1994-present)
* NDR Fernsehen (1998-present)
* RTL (1998-2004)
* Super RTL (2001–present)

### Belgium

* RTBF (French) (1992-present)
* VRT (Flemish) (1994-present)

### Bulgaria

* BNT 2 (2000-present)
* Diema Family (2007-2009)
* Diema (2010-present)

### Croatia

* HRT 2 (1995-present)
* RTL Televizija (2005-present)

### Czech Republic

* TV Nova (1996-present)
* ČT1 (2000-2011)
* ČT2 (2012-present)
* ČT :D (2015-present)

### France

* France 3 (1989–present)
* Réseau Outre Mer 1ere (French overseas territories and Canada) (1993-present)

### Greece and Cyprus

* ANT1 (1989–present)
* ERT1 (1990-present)
* ANT1 Cyprus (1993-present) (Shown in Greek and Cypriot)

### Hungary

* M2 (1994-present)
* TV2 (1998-present)
* RTL Klub (2000-present)
* Viasat 3 (2001-2008)

### Netherlands and Flanders

* NPO2 (1993-present)
* Een (Flanders) (1993-present)

### Nordic and Scandinavia

* Kanal 5 (Sweden) (1989-present)
* TV4 (Sweden) (1993-present)
* SVT (Sweden) (1996-present)
* DR (Denmark) (1996-present)
* NRK (Norway) (1996-present)
* TV2 (Norway) (1997-present)
* YLE TV2 (Finland) (1998-present)
* Stöð 2 (Iceland) (1999-present)
* TV3 (1995-2004)

### Poland

* Polsat (1993–present)
* TVP2 (1994-present)
* TVP Katowice (1995-1998)
* RTL7 (1998-2001)
* TVN (2002-present)
* TV4 (2005-present)
* TV Puls (2014-2015)
* Puls 2 (2015-present)

### Romania

* TVR (1996-present)
* Pro TV (1997-present)

### Russia and Eastern Europe

* 2x2 (Russia) (1992–present)
* STS Media (1997-2012)
* Novyi Kanal (Ukraine) (2000-present)
* TV3 (Estonia) (2001-present)
* Belarus 1 (Belarus) (1998-present)
* LNT (Latvia) (2003-present)
* LNK (Lithuania) (2002-present)

### Spain and Portugal

* TVE 1 (Spain) (1990–present)
* Neox (Spain) (2009-present)
* TVG (Spain) (1999-present)
* Super 3 (Spain) (2009-present)
* RTP 2 (Portugal) (1993-present)
* SIC (Portugal) (1996-present)

### Turkey and Northern Cyprus

* TRT Cocuk (1995–present)
* BRT 1 (Northern Cyprus) (1998-present)

### Australia and New Zealand

* Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (1991–present)
* TV2 (New Zealand) (1992-present)

### Southeast Asia

* Thai PBS (Thailand) (1997-present)
* NTV7 (Malaysia) (1998-present)
* MediaCorp Channel 5,8 (Singapore) (1995-present)
* Indosiar (Indonesia) (1997-present)
* VTV2 (Vietnam) (2001-present)

## TV content ratings

### United States

* TV-G
* TV-Y7-FV
* TV-PG

### United Kingdom

* U
* PG

## Video games

Main article: List of Video games
A selection of video games based on the show have been released. The latest release has been *Geo's World Racing 3*, released in 2014.

## Reception

### Awards

The series has been acknowledged with the George Foster Peabody Award and four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Animated Program.

### Critical response

Since its debut in 1989, *Geo's World* generally received acclaim from critics and fans. Critics says for the show "The shows looks cool. I think it was one of the best animated shows ever made." The show received a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an IMDb rating of 8.9/10. The show would help jumpstart the Geo's World franchise consisting of many feature films, video games, and merchandise.

## Theme park attractions

Main article: Geo's World in amusement parks

## Trivia

* Gree Guy gets killed in each episodes of *Geo's World off-screen*.
* There were many different changes in every seasons of the show, The title card was first appeared in "Geo Guy's Midnight Sleep". The season 1 title card said: "Season [NUMBER] Episode [NUMBER] [EPISODE TITLE]" It ran from 1989 to 1993. The title card has changed the card. It shows the title of episode and the credits, that ran from 1994 to present. The original 1989 intro was ran to 1989 to 1990. The new intro was ran to 1991 to present.
* The episodes were based on the comics.
* France was the 1st country to air Geo's World outside the USA and Canada is the 2nd.
* Some episodes has similar plots to any episodes of other shows.
* From 1998 to 2002, the show aired on Toon Disney.
* This was one of the only Greenytoons to air on YTV in Canada
* Due to being popular among kids, it often aired on ABC's Saturday Morning blocks.
* The series is banned in Moldova because the president thought it was too unfunny.
* In some countries Geo's World was a launch customer for channels in Greece, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Arab World, Turkey, Latin America, Norway, Hungary, and Afghanistan.
* The show, along with its featured films and spin-offs, were added to Disney+ in 2020.

## See also

* List of episodes
* Geo Guy
* Green Bob

## External links

* Geo's World at Geopedia

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