Stripperella

Stripperella
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Created by	Stan Lee
Starring	Pamela Anderson Joey Lauren Adams Mark Hamill Thomas F. Wilson Dee Bradley Baker Jon Cryer Sirena Irwin Tom Kenny Kid Rock Maurice LaMarche Vince McMahon Jill Talley
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Stan Lee Kevin Kopelow & Heath Seifert
Producer	Kevin Altieri
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	The Firm
Original release
Network	Spike TV
Release	June 26, 2003 (2003-06-26) – April 1, 2004 (2004-04-01)

Stripperella was an American animated series created by Stan Lee. The main character, voiced by and based on Pamela Anderson, is a stripper named Erotica Jones who is also the superheroine/secret agent Stripperella. The series was produced by The Firm and Nickelodeon Animation Studios. It is rated TV-MA in the United States.

Background

Stripperella's powers include enhanced reflexes and senses, an above average intelligence (realizing obvious things that everyone else in the show is inevitably oblivious to), superhuman strength (able to hold a large, falling tree above the heads of ungrateful children as shown in "The Curse of the WereBeaver"), jumping extremely high, "sexy" martial arts and "killer" moves. She has twice claimed to be impervious to all temperatures and weather conditions, but this has only been casually tested on screen. She generally has access to a number of Bond-esque, super-technological devices of questionable usefulness. She is also able to use her extravagant blonde hair as an effective parachute.

She has a brother named Chipperella, who also happened to be a stripper living the double life as a superhero and secret agent. He was briefly mentioned when Stripperella temporarily lost faith in her crime fighting abilities after having been shrunken by Small fry. He appears in a flashback as a hunky blonde and is affectionally referred to by Erotica and Chief Stroganoff as "Chip."

In a humorous anecdote, Stroganoff tells Stripperella that her brother's memory was erased, later being mostly restored except for the word 'quit' which was forever erased from his memory.

Stripperella debuted on Spike TV in the spring of 2003 and lasted one season with 13 episodes. Anderson described it as not being a raunchy show, despite obvious double entendres and topless nudity (which was blurred out when shown on Spike TV).

The animation style changed halfway through the show's run, becoming brighter and revamping the looks of many of the show's major characters. Stripperella, for example, was now drawn with a cowl having larger eyeholes, similar to Batgirl's. Fellow stripper Persephone now had a darker complexion and an accent that inexplicably changed from episode to episode.

In Australia, Stripperella began airing uncensored on SBS TV, starting Monday March 13, 2006 at 21:00 local time (9:00PM), after having previously been restricted to early-morning airings on the Nine Network.

In the United Kingdom, Stripperella is aired uncensored as part of the U.K. incarnation of the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. In Germany, the show aired uncensored on Comedy Central Germany available for all audiences.

In Italy, it's aired on FX Italia, uncensored and unrated; in Latin America is transmitted by MTV Latin America; and in Brazil is transmitted by Multishow.

Recurring characters

• Erotica's workplace Tenderloins features the wishy-washy owner Kevin (voiced by Tom Kenny), swishy bartender Leonard, and dancers Persephone who is promiscuous and switches accents, naive and good-natured Giselle, and the antagonistic Kat.
• The main competition of Tenderloins is SiliCones, a strip club owned by Dirk McMahon (voiced by Vince McMahon).
• Stripperella works for the agency FUGG along with Chief Stroganoff, technicians Hal and Bernard, and Special Agent 14(Voiced by Tomy Kenny).
• There are two recurring villains: Cheapo (voiced by Maurice LaMarche, doing a Jon Lovitz impersonation), the world's cheapest bad guy, and Queen Clitoris (pronounced kli-TOR-is), a woman who lashes out on society for her facial appearance.
• Reporter Skip Withers (voiced by Tom Kenny) appears when TV news coverage is needed. Weird Al has appeared twice without any lines.

Episode guide

Note: What follows is the chronology according to the DVD release. Spike TV aired the episodes out of order. The airdates have not been changed.

#	Title	Overview	Original airdate
1	Beauty and the Obese (1)	In the premiere episode, Stripperella must face-off against her first threat, Dr. Cesarean, a plastic surgeon who's injecting beautiful models with deadly implants that make them gain weight and become obese.	June 26, 2003
2	Stripperella: Beauty and the Obese (2)	After discovering the villain responsible for turning several supermodels hideously fat, Stripperella learns that one of them has been "booby-trapped" with a bomb disguised as a breast implant.	October 2, 2003
3	Crime Doesn't Pay...Seriously, It Really Doesn't	Stripperella goes up against that low-rate villain, Cheapo, a criminal whose idea of a prime robbery would be knocking over an 89 cent store.	July 3, 2003
4	Everybody Loves Pushy	Stripperella discovers the truth behind the success of Pushy Galore's home shopping networks, which is that Pushy's products have been made out of human flesh.	July 10, 2003
5	The Wrath of Klinko	Klinko, a copy store master, uses his copy machines to brainwash customers into criminals and carry out his multiple dirty deeds.	July 17, 2003
6	You Only Lick Twice	We're introduced to the evil Queen Clitoris who, from her hidden island hide-out, is preparing to launch a rampage against men.	July 24, 2003
7	The Bridesmaid	After being the bridesmaid and never the bride too many times, (226) Molly Lumpkin goes on a citywide rampage kidnapping grooms from weddings. Her plan is to choose one to marry and kill the rest with a laser engagement ring. Stripperella must stage a fake wedding and risk her very own "Mr. Right".	February 12, 2004
8	Evil Things Come in Small Packages	Small Fry wants to shrink everything down so he can be big and tall. Stripperella runs to ruin his plans but she gets shrunk. The Chief talks to Stripperella and convinces her that being small doesn't matter. So Stripperella goes and wins. Meanwhile Cat, fellow stripper, learns about Erotica's secret double life. The problem is, she keeps getting hit in the head and forgetting it...then learning it again...then getting hit in the head again. Finally, Stripperella returns to normal size, but her breasts are much larger than normal size. Stripperella wants her breasts reduced to normal, and by the next scene, they are, if not a little smaller.	February 19, 2004
9	Eruption Junction, What's Your Function	Someone is kidnapping all the smart kids at high school and it's up to Stripperella (disguised as student "Kathy Teria") to stop the kidnapper.	February 26, 2004
10	The Evil Magicians	Erotica is up for the Stripper of the Year Award in fabulous Las Vegas, but Stripperella has to stop a pair of robbing masked evil magicians. Can Erotica get the award? Will Stripperella foil the crooks in time? And will Kevin ever get his money back?	March 4, 2004
11	Cheapo by the Dozen	Cheapo's back and ready to steal several bars of copper worth at least $16, with the help of Erotica going under the alias Robin Stuff. Meanwhile, Kevin gets into trouble over a misunderstanding in a casino, lands in jail and wins a Hawaiian vacation.	March 11, 2004
12	The Return of the Queen	Queen Clitoris comes again, and this time she wants Stripperella dead! So Clitoris hatches a fiendish plot and lures Stripperella into her lair on a secluded island. Can Stripperella get off... the island in time to save her own life?	March 18, 2004
13	The Curse of the WereBeaver	An asthmatic motorist runs off the road to avoid hitting an animal and slams into a tree. He is bitten by the animal -- a glowing werebeaver -- and he turns into a giant glowing werebeaver that runs amok, chewing through anything made of wood and terrorizing the population. Stripperella must stop this rampaging werebeaver without violating her ethics on harming cute furry animals.	April 1, 2004

Comic books

Originally there was to have been a promotional Stripperella comic published by Humanoids Publishing (publishers of Métal Hurlant magazine) alongside the animated series, but creative differences between TNN/Spike TV and Pamela Anderson saw it canceled before publication.

DVD

The Complete DVD boxed set released in 2005 contains uncensored versions with a new opening theme replacing the original Kid Rock song.

Legal controversy

In 2003, ex-stripper Janet Clover, aka "Jazz", aka "Stripperella", filed a lawsuit in the Daytona Beach, Florida circuit court against Viacom, Stan Lee, and Pamela Anderson, claiming she is Stripperella's true creator and Stan Lee stole her idea when she discussed it during a lap dance. Clover filed the original suit herself without an attorney as she said she couldn't afford the $6,000 lawyer fee. The suit was filed in the name of the non-existent "Office of the Professional Nurse Advocate - Moral and Ethical Division" because she said it sounded more impressive than if it were filed by a semi-retired stripper.

The lawsuit attracted the attention of local media, and the story was picked up by the Associated Press and national media, including People and Entertainment Weekly, upon which attorneys in New York City learned about the case and subsequently offered their services. Clover moved to dismiss her own suit before it could be challenged and had a practicing attorney refile it, specifically targeting Lee. This as well as creative differences lead to the show's demise.

External links

• Stripperella at epguides.com
• Stripperella at IMDb
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