In fact, he's the reason that Wheeler pretty much ran away from home (his father drove him to the breaking point by calling him a worthless loser for not being able to fulfill his demand for another bottle). ![]() Abusive Parents: Wheeler's father is an alcoholic with a nasty habit of belittling his son.Oh, and Funny or Die made a series of spoof videos featuring Don Cheadle as Captain Planet in 20. In 2016 it was announced that Leonardo DiCaprio would produce and star, with Glen Powell also on board. ![]() In July 2011, Cartoon Network announced that a live-action film adaptation of the show was in the works. The packaging was, unsurprisingly, made from 100% earth-friendly recycled paper. ![]() The show's first season was finally released on DVD (in the US) on April 19th, 2011-just in time for Earth Day. 2017 saw the Captain and Kwame making a guest appearance on Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, with David Coburn and LeVar Burton reprising their roles. The Captain was also a unexpected Guest Fighter on the Mascot Fighter Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion. Probably it has a lot of to do with how much this show was promoted, since it was clearly Adored by the Network. The show was quite popular, for not only its tacky and ham-fisted charm, but its messages about the environment and social issues. Blight = unethical scientific research Duke Nukem = irresponsible use of nuclear power and radiation Hoggish Greedly = overconsumption Looten Plunder = corporate greed The Slaughters = animal poaching Sly Sludge = waste production Verminous Skumm = disease and urban decay Zarm = hatred and war rather than the actions of individuals. To avoid friction, the writers created villains who were intentionally exaggerated and made to represent the planet's environmental problems note Dr. This was a sincere, if exceptionally hamfisted, way of avoiding offense: if the villains had been given grayer morality and more emphasis had been put on the systematic nature of environmental harm rather than the role of individuals, the showrunners feared that kids might have compared them to their parents or their parents' employers who, as they said, are only trying to do their jobs in an efficient manner. ![]() The villains - who all had Obviously Evil names like Duke Nukem (not that one), Hoggish Greedly, and Looten Plunder - were cartoonish in every sense of the word, being evil representations of the various real human activities that threaten the environment. Prevalent in the show's theme was the concept of personal responsibility: Captain Planet's Catchphrase was "The power is yours!" Aesops! When they are inevitably unable to deal with problems individually, they combine their powers into a single unstoppable entity: Captain Planet.Ĭaptain Planet and the Planeteers (1990 to 1996) underwent several small revisions over the course of its run - it was renamed The New Adventures of Captain Planet during its 1993 to 1996 run, which coincided with a change in production companies (from DiC to Turner-owned Hanna-Barbera) - but the tone of the show always focused on the environment, often with An Aesop about the environment note though other topics like violence or AIDS received their Aesops as well near the close of each episode. The eponymous Planeteers are a Multinational Team of teenagers imbued with Elemental Powers to stop pollution using the power of. The brainchild of Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner (though most of the actual development work on the show was done by DiC producers Phil Harnage and Nicholas Boxer, as well as Pyle herself), Captain Planet and the Planeteers was an attempt to provide a show which would entertain younger viewers, while simultaneously educating them about taking care of the environment.
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