The Angry Beavers was a Nickelodeon animated series about Daggett and Norbert Beaver, two brother beavers who have left their mom and home to become two bachelors in the forest. Their many adventures spark them to release their ugly sides very often, drawing in the name Angry Beavers. The show premiered in 1997 and was cancelled amid controversy in 2001 (with a handful of unaired episodes remaining). It was created by Mitch Schauer.

Recurring characters

• Daggett: Dag is the younger brother of Norbert by four minutes. He is very crazy, extremely hyper, and sometimes funny. He says an assortment of strange phrases and likes calling people names. His trademark phrase is "That was nuts!" and is also known for adding 'eh' at the end of sentences. He is dark brown with a red nose, and voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz.
• Norbert: Norb is Dag's laid back, older brother. He uptakes many hobbies and frequently pronounces words incorrectly. His trademark phrase is "Biiiiig hug!" or "Biiiig Beaver Hug" (often accompanied by him hugging Dag). He is light brown with a purple nose, and voiced by Nick Bakay, or Salem of Sabrina, The Teenage Witch fame.
• Stump: Stump is a tree stump whom Norb met and introduced to the other creatures of the forest. He often moves on his own off-screen. He is similar to Plank from Ed Edd and Eddy
• Barry Bear: Dagget and Norbert's disco loving friend; obviously based on Barry White. He is a famous singer, whom Norb and Dag try to exploit. Whenever he sees a clown he flashbacks to his days as a circus bear and cowers.
• Treeflower: The love of Norbert's life whom he met at a hippie concert. Once a hippie, now turned business woman/elevator-music composer.
• Bing: An annoying lizard who hangs around Norb and Dag. Bing speaks extremely fast and often in circles.
• Truckee: A trucker shrew who thinks only about trucks and shrews.
• Oxnard Montalvo: Norb and Dags favorite B-movie actor. Norb and Dag often watch black and white horror movies, these are very seriously drawn, contrary to the regular style of the show. An obvious homage to 50's horror movies.
• Teluca Lake: Another B-movie actor, often accompanies Oxnard Montalvo as the damsel in distress.

Episodes

Season 1

1. Born to Be Beavers
2. Up All Night
3. A Dam Too Far
4. Long in the Teeth
5. Gift Hoarse
6. Go Beavers
7. Boxtop Beavers
8. Salmon Sez
9. Beach Beavers A-Go-Go
10. Deranged Ranger
11. Muscular Beaver
12. Fish and Dips
13. Enter the Daggett
14. Bug-A-Boo
15. Mission to the Big Hot Thingy
16. I Dare You
17. Stinky Toe
18. House Broken
19. Tree's Company
20. Guess Who's Stumping to Dinner
21. Fancy Prance
22. H2Whoa!
23. The Bing That Wouldn't Leave
24. You Promised
25. Bummer of Love
26. Food of the Clods

Season 2

1. Kandid Kreatures
2. Fakin' It
3. Beaver Fever
4. Same Time Last Week
5. Muscular Beaver 2
6. Stump Seeks His Roots
7. Tree of Hearts
8. Dag for the Night
9. Un-barry-ble
10. Another One Bites the Musk
11. The Mighty Knothead
12. Pond Scum
13. Utter Nonsense
14. Endangered Species
15. Lumbjerjack's Delight
16. Zooing Time
17. Friends, Romans, Beavers
18. The Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy
19. If You In-sisters
20. Alley Oops! (where the controversy surrounding the series began... see below)
21. Open Wide for Zombies
22. Dumb Waiters
23. Sans-A-Pelt
24. Gonna Getcha
25. The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up! (the series' only 30 minute episode)

Season 3

1. My Bunnyguard
2. What's Eating You?
3. Omega Beaver
4. Bite This!
5. Spooky Spoots
6. Up all night 2: Up All Day
7. Muscular Beaver 3
8. Sang 'em High
9. In Search of Big Byoo-Tox
10. Moronathon Man
11. The Legend of Kid Friendly
12. Silent but Deadly
13. Pass It On!
14. Stump's Family Reunion
15. Tough Love
16. A Little Dad'll Do You
17. Too Loose Latrine
18. Pack Your Dags
19. Daggy Dearest
20. Dag's List
21. Muscular Beaver 4
22. Act Your Age
23. Mistaken Identity
24. Easy Peasy Rider
25. Stare and Stare Alike
26. I'm Not an Aminal, I'm Scientist #1
27. Norberto y Daggetto en El Grapadura Y El Castor Malo
28. The Loogie Hawk
29. Kreature Komforts
30. Oh, Brother?
31. Das Spoot
32. SqOtters
33. Long Tall Daggy
34. Practical Jerks
35. Dagski and Norb
36. Come Shell or High Water
37. Nice & Lonely
38. Soccer? I Hardly Knew Him!
39. Slap Happy
40. Home Loners
41. Ugly Roomers
42. Finger Lickin' Goofs
43. Brothers...to the End?
44. Euro Beavers
45. Strange Allure
46. Partying Is Such Sweet Sorrow

Season 4

1. Chocolate Up to Experience
2. Three Dag Nite
3. All in the Colony
4. Line Duncing
5. The Beave Master
6. Deck Poops
7. Fat Chance
8. Dag in the Mirror
9. Canucks Amuck
10. Yak in the Sack
11. Driving Misses Daggett
12. Big Fun
13. Moby Dopes
14. Present Tense
15. House Sisters
16. Muscular Beaver 5
17. It's a Spootiful Life
18. The Mom from U.N.C.L.E.
19. Vantastic Voyage
20. Blacktop Beavers
21. The Big Frog
22. Dag Con Carnie
23. Damnesia
24. The Posei-Dam Adventure
25. Specs Appeal
26. Things That Go Hook in the Night

Angry Beavers And The Public

Angry Beavers was a generally popular show during its airtime. Angry Beavers was 'the show' that kept adolescents and adults interested in Nickelodeon in the late 90s. It had a more adult, sophisticated sense of word play jokes and culture references that made up its humor, but was silly and unrealistic enough to attract the attention of young children too. Unfortunately, it was aired in the midst of the success of Rugrats, so it did not earn the popularity it deserved. Many people compare it to Rocko's Modern Life as one of the most influential Nickelodeon cartoons of the 90s. Its influence is evident in other current shows too. Spongebob Squarepants has a notably similar humor pattern and animation style to this show, and it has the same backing music as Jimmy Neutron.

Angry Beavers's popularity with the more "adult" scene managed to get it some recognition. Rock stations also used Dag's catch phrase "That's Nuts!" for promos for music marathons, and the show even had a small merchandise line that included T-shirts and plush toys.

Controversy

The whole controversy surrounding the series first started in 1998, when Alley Oops! had Norb saying "Oh, shut up, Dag!"

When this episode was first televised in the US on Nick, the "shut" in "shut up" was bleeped out. Apparently, someone complained about the phrase "shut up" in a Nick program. What that bleep did, however, was it generated more interest in the show, as some felt that it had vulgar language in the dialog. Between airings, however, Nick changed Norb's line to "Shush up, stupid!" It was the first time any Nicktoon had a line changed between airings since Ren & Stimpy. Many people believe this was ridiculous, and it has been shown that many other Nickelodeon programs that aired before Angry Beavers did use "shut up" and in fact, language that is generally considered to be worse (ex. Hey Arnold, which, particularly in its early episodes, used a few words many people believe should not air in childrens programming), that the Angry Beavers did not use. None the less, this was edited.

The final straw was an unaired episode titled Bye Bye Beavers, which was going to be the shows last episode, involving Norb having to convince Dag that they're just characters on a TV show. Staffer Micah Wright said that Nick hated this episode, as it made fun of Nick's practice of not making new episodes of their Nicktoons and, instead, making money on the constant barrage of repeats instead. It is unclear if it was even part of foreign syndication. Also, the episode had broken Nick's code on Nicktoons: When you're going off the air, don't tell your viewers! By consequent, the beavers are the first Nicktoons to ever break the fourth wall.

This is a quote from Wright's website about Nick cancelling the show: "Nickelodeon hated this episode because it actually told the kids the truth: that the show was ending! Nick likes to just rerun their shows forever and pretend that they're still making new episodes and this show idea drove them up a wall!"

All in all, 63 episodes of the show were produced, because Nick cut 2 episodes out of the planned 65. Later new episodes have been added, creating a total of 108.

Many of the shows fans were extremely upset when the show was cancelled, and online petition sites have taken action, see the link at the bottom.

Nicktoons TV

Fortunatly to digital cabel carrying Angry Beavers fans, the show was cancelled when Nicktoons TV became an exclusive digital cable channel. Re-runs of The Angry Beavers were and still are aired reguarly. The show used to have an hour block of 2 episodes between 4 and 5 PM, but this was recently took over by Tiny Toon Adventures. The shows morning slots were taken over by As Told By Ginger. An enraged Angry Beavers fan on tvtome.com wrote a letter to Nicktoons to see what was going on, fortunatly, the show has not been permenantly removed from Nicktoons TV but is merely "taking a break" from the network. Nictoons TV does this to all their cancelled shows at one point. It is likely that the show will return to its orginal slot at 4-5 PM later this year. There is also talk that the Angry Beavers is moving to Rocko's Modern Life's former time slot at 3-4 PM. It is unknown if this is true what time Rocko's Modern Life will now be aired at.

Current Status

As we all know, the Angry Beavers is cancelled, but there are rumors of a DVD collection some time in the near future. This is completely unconfirmed, but there are rumors of Nickelodeon releasing DVD collections of this show and several other 90's Nickelodeon cartoons including Rocko's Modern Life, Kaablam! , and Hey Arnold all being released on DVD. This was the subject of a forum thread at [1] on the Angry Beavers forum.

In-jokes

There were several in-jokes throughout The Angry Beavers' entire run. One particular one involves Richard Steven Horvitz himself being mentioned, as well as his oldest son, Jake Elliot Horvitz.

See also

• List of Nickelodeon Shows
• Nicktoons

External links

• Official Website
• The Angry Beavers at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Sound clip from last episode that never aired-This is from Micah Wright's official website. These are the lines that slam Nick for re-re-re-runs of its Nicktoons as spoken by Daggett and Norbert. About 10-20 seconds of dialogue that basically ended the show early.
• Unofficial Website
• Bring Back The Angry Beavers- An online petition to save The Angry Beavers, Currently has 36 signatures. The petitions creator has a goal to have 200 signatures by the end of 2006, but if he gets 200 signatures earlier he will send in the petition. So sign it if you want the show back.