Code Monkeys

Code Monkeys is an American-Japanese animated program created by Glen Murakami (of Teen Titans fame). The series is a spin-off of the 2007 G4 animated series, Code Monkeys. Some of the main characters of the series are based on the famous webcomic series, Penny Lane. The series is about two teenagers who find an abandoned arcade cabinet in which teleports the characters in a video-game world set in the 1980s. Adam de la Pena, creator of Code Monkeys, reprised his role as Dave, even though he had nothing to do with the production of the show.

The series aired in Cartoon Network in 2011. The theme song was similar to the previous series, Code Monkeys by Jonathan Coulton. The series gets picked up for a third season. An official TV movie premiered titled "Code Monkeys: Raiders of the Lost Internet" which aired in October 19, 2011.

Plot
The series takes place 21 years after the original Code Monkeys series. Dave, a slacker programmer of GameaVision, is now inheir of his company after Mr. Larrity announced his retirement. Dave has now married by an unidentified women and has a child named Gabe. Gabe, along with his best friend, Tycho (the son of Dave's best friend, Jerry) enter a local arcade as they find a dusty mysterious arcade game in which they played, they were mysteriously transported into a fictional video-game universe called "The World" which was about to be destroyed by an evil computer virus named F.H.A.C.I.V. (Fast Hacking Active Computer International Virus) so it's up for Gabe and Tycho to save the world.

Production
The series features two animation styles that frequently change throughout the series. The entire series takes place in California in the present day, regardless of the year. The modern world is presented as a Japanese anime cartoon similar to that of an English dubbed anime transformed into a laserdisc arcade game. The show is animated with Adobe Flash and cartoon animation as an inspiration from Japanese animation. The show's anime-style characters perform with large comedic overuses of face faults, such as a face and/or body turning into an exaggerated general appearance, or becoming much smaller. This allowed animators to have more control over how a character looks and acts than on many other Flash shows, and they didn't always have to be on-model. The show uses clichés common to anime, including the sweat drop, lines over the eyes or no eyes at all, big heads, flaming eyes, bodies becoming smaller.

When the characters stat to play The World, the scene where the mysterious glowing hand grabs both of the characters into the sceen to be transported in the game was animated with Maya on CGI. When the characters are in The World, it as animated in 8-bit. In The World, the show takes place in the 1980s in which it makes numerous references to video games, past and present, but mostly those from the 8-bit era including River City Ransom, Castlevania, Mega Man,Contra, Ikari Warriors, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Tyson%27s_Punch-Out!! Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros. Super Mario Bros.] Code Monkeys'' is presented as though it were an 8-bit video game. In keeping with this format, characters, backgrounds and other objects are rendered with an 8-bit color palette, occasionally leading to trouble animating specific objects. Most episodes begin with a screen flashing "PLAYER 1 START!";[2] episodes end with a black "GAME OVER" screen. The show also features status bars at the top and bottom of the frame, which display a running counter of points earned by the characters doing video game-like actions in each episode, a health meter for the current characters, narrative asides based on certain characters' actions or dialogue, and other humorous sayings or pictures based on an episode's story line.'''

TV movie
An official TV movie aired in October 2011 titled 'Code Monkeys: Raiders of the Lost Internet. ' The plot for the movie is about a hacker who resembles a human version of FHACIV creates an MMORPG version of The World in which the original World keeps disappearing.

The song, Code Monkeys by Johnathan Coulton, was extended in which Johnathan Coulton and Leo Howard sing. Howard did the voice of Gabe singing the song and most of the lyrics were changed in order to make the song appropriate for kids. Instead of frustation of junior programmer's life in dead-end programming jobs, the theme of it was life as a video-game loving school student who rather plays video-games instead of going to school.

Cast

 * Leo Howard - Gabe Gomez
 * Jake T. Austin - Gregory "Tycho" Ellsworth
 * Adam de la Pena - Dave Gomez
 * Kevin Michael Richardson - CommandPrompt
 * Janice Kawaye - Visual C.
 * Brian Tochi - Notepad
 * Tom Kenny - Flash
 * Dana Snyder - Oz the Video-Game Wizard/The Codemaster