The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special (1999)

Synopsis

Dick and Paula Celebrity Special was a Soup2Nuts animated series that aired on FX from 1999 to 2000. The premise of the show was that Dick and Paula hosted a talk show where famous individuals, usually deceased, talked about their work or what made them widely known. Examples of such guests include Charles Darwin, Marquis de Sade, Oedipus Rex, and Lewis and Clark, among many others. Accompanying the two hosts was a Paul Shaffer-esque keyboard player. This premise bears similarities with that of Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds. The series, like Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, the first season of Home Movies, and Science Court, was animated in Squigglevision, a computer animation technique that caused the edges of people and important objects to vibrate constantly. Also like those series, Dick and Paula utilized retroscripting for much of the dialog, in that a basic outline is given and the actors improvise the dialog. Later, the dialog is edited to a coherent script.

Series Information

Created By

Tom Snyder

First Aired

1999

Last Aired

1999

Seasons

1

Episodes

12

Episode Length

30 min

Status

Ended

Rating

8.0 / 10 (1 votes)

Top Cast

Richard Snee

Dick

Paula Plum

Paula

Andy Kindler

Andy

H. Jon Benjamin

Various

Jonathan Katz

Various

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