Spliced (TV series)

Plot

Spliced is a modern take of H. G. Wells' 1896 science-fiction, The Island of Doctor Moreau. The mutants are the result of genetic experiments using recombinant DNA rather than vivisection. These experimental results, plus one platypus, live on an isolated tropical island called Keep Away Island. The mad scientist who created them was arrested and removed by authorities, leaving the mutated beasts to form a functional society.

Characters

Peri (voiced by Rob Stefaniuk) is a kind-hearted orange-furred mutant who often realizes when mischief has gone too far. He is an expert bowler and has developed the game bucket-stick-fruit-ball with his best friend Entrée. His animal components are unknown but appear to include a fox or red squirrel body, tentacles of a squid, octopus, or cuttlefish, and he is revealed to be part-butterfly in Nobody's Cult But Mine. Entrée (voiced by Joe Pingue) is Peri's self-centered and gluttonous best friend, created as the perfect food animal with a cow's udders, a pig's body and nose, a chicken's wings and comb, and a shrimp's tail.

He walks on his teats, which can time travel and produce light show effects. Two-Legs Joe (voiced by Pat McKenna) and Lord Wingus Eternum (voiced by Tom McCamus) are a conjoined mutant: Joe is a two-legged rhinoceros, and Wingus is a bird growing out of his backside. Joe serves as mayor of the mutants' town, which is frequently destroyed by Peri and Entrée. In One Joe Wingus, it is revealed that Wingus was born first as the son of his species' ruler, and when Joe emerged from his body, Wingus left rather than face rejection.

Patricia (voiced by Katie Crown) is a platypus who lived on Keep Away Island before the Doctor arrived; she is the only non-spliced creature and feels lonely. She is an author of poetry and the novel Marzipan Meadows and the Kingdom of Adventure, and is a master of Plat Kwon Do. Princess Pony Apehands (voiced by Kedar Brown) has the head and tail of a pony and the body of a gorilla. With the mental capacity of a very young girl, she does not understand her own strength and often hurts others unintentionally, and has a short temper.

Broadcast

Spliced had its worldwide debut on Jetix in Latin America on April 20, 2009. It aired in Canada on Teletoon starting in April 2010, and in the United States on Qubo from September 19, 2009 until October 24, 2009, then returned on September 28, 2010 as part of its Night Owl block before being discontinued on March 31, 2012. The series also aired on ABC3 in Australia, Nicktoons in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Disney XD in Latin America, Nickelodeon in Sweden, and YTV and Cartoon Network in Canada. It was added to Cartoon Network's Always On digital platform in the United States in 2014 and removed in 2015.