Lache Madness Random Frenzy

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**Lache Madness Random Frenzy** is a French animated series created by A. Randolf Tinàger and Eb Shudadmirrer and produced by Pop Culture Animation Entertainment and Nelvana HDN Limited Production. The series first aired on February 2, 2003 on Comedy Central XD, Toon Wild Channel and Cartoon Network XD.

So far, 19 seasons have been greenlit for the show, each containing 30 episodes.

On April 13th 2022, Comedy Central XD renewed the series of a 19th and 20th seasons of 30 episodes , It is also announced that the season 18 would have 43 episodes.

Above 40 special TV based on the series was aired on Comedy Central XD and others channel since 2010.

Lache Madness Random Frenzy has inspired several similar TV shows including The Incredible Object Human Show with Central Unity and Andrew and The Peanuts Crossover Show. Some consider them to be spin-offs, however only Quincy Hangover has been confirmed to be one. One fan has even speculated that the creator is planning to make a universe out of all the crossover shows he's created, similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

## Plot

Lache Madness Random Frenzy tells the story of a 14-year-old boy named Luke who is living a crazy adventure with crossovers, emotion, etc.

## Origin

In 1997, A. Randolf Tinàger graduated from the California Institute of Arts. After returning to France, Tinàger was one day watching cartoons, and after watching what appeared to be a crossover production, he then suddenly had the idea to create the very first crossover series in the history of animation. In 1998, he pitched the series to HDN, a French enterntainment channel created on September 1st 1988 on the Cable . At first, HDN executives were fine with the idea since they weren't aware of the series' crossover elements. However, after Tinàger showed an animation test at HDN, the series was rejected due to containing elements from other intellectual properties without the rights holder's consent, which is considered copyright infrigement. In the EU, the copyright of a work lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. This resulted in Tinàger temporarily abandoning development of the series.

The following year, Tinàger turned to writing fanfictions. His first fanfiction was called "The Original Lazy Madness Earthventure", which was a comic book, and was published in 2000. The comic starred an adventurous boy named Luke, which would later be the main protagonist of his later production, Lache Madness Random Frenzy. Tinàger sold more than 100 copies of the comic, however, it was heavily panned by critics for using copyrighted materials. Tinàger planned to write a second issue, but numerous legal threats forced him to put the comic book series on hiatus. However, many fans were in defense of the comic, one of them being Eb Shudadmirrer, the son of a famous fantasy writer. Shudadmirrer was the biggest fan of the comic and he and Tinàger eventually became friends. Shudadmirrer was from the United States and planned to make a series about a void girl named Viola (who would later apear in Lache Madness Random Frenzy) based on one of his father's books, but he put his ideas aside in favor of Tinàger's projects.

Tinàger and Shudadmirrer discussed about continuing Tinàger's comic book series, but decided that they should do something even bigger - a TV show. Tinàger was suddenly reminded of an idea for a TV series which he originally made for HDN, and he and Shudadmirrer decided to finally execute it.

In 2001, Tinàger and Shudadmirrer made a television pilot titled "The Original Lazy Madness Earthventure", named after the comic book the pilot was based off of. It not only featured several characters from the comic book, but also introduced a few new characters. The pilot was originally made for MTV Extra (another French entertainment channel), but Kevin Macarty, another fan of the comic book, came over to Tinàger's residence and watched the pilot, giving him the idea of starting a television network to air the channel, claiming it was "better than airing it on a network not owned by a friend". The network was originally called Alternative Network, but was later renamed to Comedy Central XD for unknown reasons, possibly to rival MTV Extra. Production for Season 1 started in January 2002.

## Characters

List of Lache Madness Random Frenzy characters

## Episodes

List of Lache Madness Random Frenzy episodes

## Broadcast

List of international broadcast of Lache Madness Random Frenzy

The series is initially aired on February 2th 2003 on Comedy Central XD at 9pm in France, also the series is international broadcast, in the USA, the series aired on November 20th 2004 on The Starimation Channel and on Comedy Central XD (USA) on January 16th 2012, in September 3rd 2003 in UK, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Canada and Germany on Cartoon Network XD, in October 11th 2003 in Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium ( Wallonia), India and Russia.

The series also aired on Family Sat, in the late-night block Night unleashed since October 31, 2021 until February 16th 2023

Adult Swim XD has also stopped airing the series since January 2023 due to the exclusive broadcast rights of Comedy Central XD and HDN

In Russia, the series is rather broadcast on HDN (Russia), however starting from March 21, 2022, the series is no longer broadcast in Russia due to Russian invasion of Ukraine, however An unknown local channel launches at the same time to start broadcasting the series without having the broadcasting rights with a illegal dubs of following seasons , at present , the series is still not legally broadcast on Russian television

In 2023, Comedy Central XD and HDN are the only channels to broadcast the series

## Reception

Lache Madness Random Frenzy has been widely praised particularly for Teenagers, the show earned numerous awards, the series received positive reviews becoming one of the most popular series, and has acquired a cult status

Comedy Central XD announced on January 25, 2010 that the series is now more popular than SpongeBob SquarePants, moreover the series is ranked first in the Top 50 Cartoon of 2012.

The popularity of the series has resulted in a huge fan base, especially on the character Chad due to the extreme kindness of the character, The series also has a large fan base in Eastern Europe mainly in Poland.

The series is considered the most popular French series since 2015.

Seasons 8 and 9 are considered by fans to be the best seasons of the series.

## Trivia

* The pilot of the series has been created in 2001 but it was never broadcast, it was recycled into an episode of season 8.

* The season 2 has been dubbed by fans "The Season of the Crossover" because of its many Crossovers.

* Crossovers with Nickelodeon's live action series became common from Season 7 onwards.

* According to Flashlight Television Inc, Ximi was supposed to be a very nice character but the cast members wanted him to be the bad cousin.

* In the episode 15b of season 2 "Ximi Takes Advantage of Chad's Kindness" it is revealed that Chad and Ximi are cousins.

* The series was originally called "The Original Lazy Madness Show Earthventure" based on a comic book published back in 2000, but was changed to "Lache Madness Random Frenzy" for unknown reasons.
* The series was never broadcast in China for unknown reasons
* The episodes " The Halloween Special ( Le Special Halloween in French)" is inspired by the Simpson Horror Show
* The series is very popular in France, United States, Canada and Spain.
* The creators have Stated that he did not expect such success

## Controversy

Despite the popularity of the series, there has been some controversy.

Many complaints from parents have arisen, including one in the case that a mother stated that her 12-year-old child had become insolent because of the series' foul language and the showing of rude behaviors, which prompted the channel to censor out the foul language used by the characters. Despite this, the foul language remains uncensored on other networks that broadcast the series. Another complaint involved a father contacting Comedy Central XD, asking that the series should be broadcast around 10 PM.

The same case occurred in Canada in 2006 that the channels broadcasting the series decided to broadcast it at 11:00 p.m., however the Quebec counterpart TéléToon Extra still broadcast the series around 6:30 p.m. with a warning before each episode before finally airing at 10:00 p.m

In 2011, the 5 parts episodes " Vacation in Degrassi " was temporarily banned from airing in Europe, USA , Canada because of a scene where Kool Aid Man ( a new character ) accidentally say the N Word , which caused a controversy , since the episode was reauthorized to be airing with the scene cut, although in the USA, the episode was reauthorized from to be aired only in 2013

In 2009, Viacom filed a lawsuit of $1 billion against the creators of the series for using their intellectual properties without their consent, which violates both US and EU copyright laws. As a result, the series was at risk of cancelation. The creators claim to have won the case, but as of 2023, there is no evidence to back up this claim.

The episode 6a of season 17"NinjaVirus" was temporarily banned from broadcast worldwide due to controversy, due the plot being considered to be too similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. A replacement episode similar (season 17 episode 8a) named NinjaVirus ( alternative version) was broadcast with all references to the virus being removed, being mostly about the main characters going on a ninja adventure. However, it was later announced that the original NinjaVirus episode has been unbanned and will be broadcast on May 6, 2022, a week after the premiere of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Kwarantined Krab".

## Introduction

Season 1 - Early season 9

TBA

Season 9 - season 14

In its seasons, the intro uses scenes from other episodes with new music, in the end of the intro, a running gag occurring

The notable phrasing is

- POTATOES

- I'm a soup

## Soundtrack

Season 1 - Season 6

TBA

Season 7 - Early season 9

TBA

Season 9 - season 14

In the following 5 seasons, this music will be used, the extended version will be used only in the end of The SpongeBob squarepants movie : Lache Madness Edition

[1] it's here

## DVD

Main article: List of DVD

The first season was released on DVD in February 2nd 2004 to celebrate the first anniversary of the series

In January 2013, Comedy Central XD announced a DVD box set with all 8 seasons would be marketed in February 2013 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series

## Streaming

In France, The series was released on Time Videos (the french equivalent of Hulu)on its September 2007 launch.

## Reference of Lache Madness Random Frenzy in other series

The series has been referenced in other series such as The Peanuts Crossover show, The Amazing world of gumball : Reinvented, The MiddleToon Amazing Show

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