The Eggs
Four egg graduates search for sounds across the Looneyverse.
The Eggs, a children's animated series, ran on the Nine Network during 2004 and 2005. Its 52 episodes each run 12 minutes, and two were typically paired for a half-hour broadcast. Producers Tony Byrne and Brendan Byrne, who are unrelated, created the show.
Quick Facts
- Runtime
- 12 minutes
- Creator
- Tony Byrne
- Brendan Byrne
- Don Arioli
- Director
- Gillian Carr
- Company
- B&T Entertainment; Funbag Animation Studios
- Country
- Australia; Canada
- Network
- Nine Network
- First aired
- 2004
- Last aired
- 2005
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- The Eggs' home planet is Kazoo, which loves music.
- The characters are anthropomorphic egg college graduates.
- They search for valuable new sounds in the Looneyverse.
Characters
Benedict, voiced by Mike O'Reilly (speaking) and John Koensgen (singing), is a level-headed scientist egg who leads the group and has a laboratory aboard Shelly; he wears a blue spacesuit. Yolky, voiced by Kate Hurman (speaking) and Andrea Lees (singing), is a plucky, feisty female egg often teased for being slightly smaller, and wears a red spacesuit. Scramble, voiced by Terrence Scammell, is a cowardly and lazy egg in a green spacesuit. Sunnyside, voiced by Hélène Joy, is a friendly, positive and stylish egg in a purple spacesuit.
Shelly, also voiced by Hélène Joy, is the Eggs' spaceship who acts as a mother figure and communicates via a screen on a mechanical tube. Min is voiced by Kate Hurman. Eggor, voiced by Rick Jones, is Benedict's robotic assistant. The Worms are Sunnyside's worm-like companions.
Eeny (voiced by Terrence Scammell), Meeny (voiced by Rick Jones), Miney (voiced by Mike O'Reilly), and Fred (voiced by Terrence Scammell) are also characters.
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