Gecko

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**Gecko** (Also known as **The Misadventures of Gecko**, and **Gecko Chronicles**) is an American television series created by Ralf Hat. Just like the title of the series says, the series format follows the exploits of Gecko McKek, and his friends, who mainly go on adventures throughout their town, while battling villains, solving problems, and having fun times. The series is famous for its comedic, surreal humor. The series first was originally going to be made out of 5 minute shorts. However, later on as the ideas matured, all episodes began to run by 22 minutes long (with two 11 minute segments in each)

The Gecko series received critical acclaim for it's unusual humor, themes, and atmosphere. It had many spinoff media including, web shows, shorts, books, even two feature length films.

The series was first pitched to Kingson on January 9, 1995, and had a very successful run from 1995 to 2012. All episodes are written by either Ralf Hat, Thatstuff, or a guest writer. The series officially ended with the season fourteen episode, *All's Well, That ends Well*, on November 23, TBA.

The Gecko series is as well known to be sister series with *Instruments & Instruments*, and *The Sherry Show*.

## Development

Ralf Hat was very imaginative during his childhood. He would often always draw, and write stories, usually featuring his stuffed animals. One stuff animal was beyond his favorite. A toy lizard in which he called Gecko. When had aged more, and got into computer graphic designing and animation, which led him into making a bunch of short films featuring Gecko, and other stuffed animals as characters.

Friends of Hat, including Thatstuff, helped Hat with many of the short films. In 1991, during Hat's third year at CalArts, he conceived the show. Using animation cels to animate, Hat managed to get the voices of the main cast of Billy West (Gecko), Tom Kenny (M-Bunny), and Richard Steven Horvitz (Fred). During the series mid development, Hat pitched the series to *Kingson*, which helped animate, provide actors, help produce, etc.

Pitching the series was easy, especially since Kingson was founded by Hat. The series was halfway finished development, a conception for the first few episodes had came, it took nearly $100,500 to produce the first three episodes each. *Gecko* first appeared on Kingson in TBA. As a result, the show was financed as an independent production by *Deadpan Productions.*

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## Cast

### Voice cast

#### American cast

* **Billy West** as Gecko
* **Tom Kenny** as M-Bunny
* **Richard Steven Horvitz** as Fred
* **Son of Hat** as House Guy
* **Joe Alaskey** as McTurtles
* **Matt Hill** as Greeny
* **Keith Ferguson** as Squirm Worm
* **Tara Strong** as Jessica
* **Carlos Alazraqui** as Crocks
* **Thatstuff** as Yarnman
* **Frank Welker** as Woof Woof Dog
* **Jim Cummings** as Snake & Eyez
* **Tom Kane** as Octi
* **Dee Bradley Baker** as Bearo
* **BaconMahBoi** as Brickman
* **Maurice LaMarche** as Superdude
* **Grey DeLisle** as Bunny Blue

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## Production

### Writing

Writing an episode of *Gecko* takes extremely less time than other well developed series. Since the fist few seasons of the series ran for five minutes, writing it could take only an hour. It commonly included punchlines, gags, random/ wacky plots and more. As the series began to mature, episodes took nearly two days to write only eleven minutes of it.

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### Animation

Animation is done with cels for the first 8 seasons, digital ink and paint for seasons 9-13, and Adobe Flash from season 14. Animation is done by Paramount Television Animation from TBA-TBA, Frederatorin TBA, and Kingson Animation Studios in TBA (when the studio was founded). Animation is done in only 3 days, which makes a rather cheap yet charming animation style.

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