Awesome Antics

***Awesome Antics*** is an American animated sketch comedy television series produced by Paramount Television Animation. It was premiered on Nickelodeon on November 11, 2016 and ended on August 16, 2019, and is inspired by NBC's own *Saturday Night Live*, Fox's *Mad TV*, Cartoon Network's *Mad* and Nickelodeon's *All That* and *The Amanda Show*.

Each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, films, video games, celebrities, and other media, using various types of animation (CGI, claymation, stop-motion, photoshopped imagery, etc.) instead of the usual animation style that Paramount Television Animation is known for. The series ended its three-year run on August 16, 2019.

## Recurring sketches

The series has some recurring sketches:

* ***Wolf vs. Sheep*** - The segment features a hungry anthropomorphic gray wolf, who tries to catch a sheep, but failing.
* ***AABS News*** - The segment features two teenagers as newscasters who end up delivering the recent news. Starting with Season 2, the sketch serves as the cold opening for every episode. This sketch is also similar to the Weekend Update from SNL and MAD News from Cartoon Network's *MAD*.
* ***Cartoon Break*** - The segment features flash-animated intermission sequences with inanimate objects.

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## Production

### Casting

Unlike *MAD*, whose voices were in its majority performed by the show's writers, with regular voice actors appearing in recurring or guest roles, the voices in this series are performed in its majority by regular voice actors. Most of its voice cast already performed other roles in other television series from Paramount and Nickelodeon.

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Awesome Antics episodes*
## Voice cast

### Principal cast

* Tom Kenny
* Jeff Bennett
* Mae Whiteman
* Paul Rugg
* Maurice LaMarche
* Kevin Michael Richardson

### Guest/other voices

* J.G. Quintel
* William Salyers
* Zach Callison
* Estelle
* Deedee Magno-Hall
* Michaela Dietz
* Charles Martinet
* Jeremy Shada
* Quinton Flynn
* Mike Pollock
* Bill Farmer
* Dan Castellaneta
* Rob Paulsen
* Jess Harnell
* Tress MacNeille
* Billy West
* Corey Burton
* Johnny Yong Bosch
* Tara Strong
* Daran Norris
* Susanne Blakeslee
* Jeff Bergman
* Grey Griffin
* Bryce Papenbrook
* Dionne Quan
* Carlos Alazraqui
* Charlie Adler
* Bill Fagerbakke
* Rodger Bumpass
* Clancy Brown
* E.G. Daily
* Nancy Cartwright
* Kath Soucie
* Frank Welker
* Travis Willingham
* Dee Bradley Baker
* Nolan North
* Richard Steven Horvitz
* Roger Craig Smith
* David Kaufman
* Colleen Villard
* Robbie Daymond
* Eric Bauza
* Jim Ward
* Fred Tatasciore
* Phil LaMarr
* Greg Baldwin
* Dan Green
* Janice Kawaye
* Candi Milo
* Catherine Taber
* Jessica DiCicco
* Lara Jill Miller
* Cathy Cavadini
* Benjamin Diskin
* Lauren Tom
* Cree Summer

## Trivia

* The series contains the characters from Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Channel, Disney XD, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Entertainment and other companies, just like *MAD*.
* Due to the fact of having an assemble cast of regular VAs, in most of the cases, they end up to reprise their Paramount/Nickelodeon and non-Paramount/Nickelodeon roles (like Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants, Tara Strong as Timmy Turner and David Kaufman as Danny Phantom, for example).