Game Over was a short-lived UPN series produced by Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions, LLC . It is aimed at teenage audiences and focuses on what happens to your favorite video game characters after the game ends. UPN had hyped the show a lot before its debut. Some people were skeptical of this because of UPN's track record with their cartoons.
The show is based around the Smashenburns, a far-from-ordinary suburban family who lives in an alternate video game universe. Only five of the produced episodes of the show were ever aired.
The show's characters include:
- Rip Smashenburn , a Grand Prix driver who races every day and crashes his car all the time
- Raquel Smashenburn , a covert agent who fights monsters and is some sort of Lara Croft rip-off
- Alice Smashenburn , a cynical yet socially conscious 14-year-old
- Billy Smashenburn , a 13-year-old hoping to become a rapper
- Turbo, a 300-pound talking creature who robs pawn shops and smokes cigars
- The Changs , a family of kung fu-fighting Shaolin monks
The show's stars are:
The title of the series comes from game over, a common phrase at the ending of various video games.
Anchor Bay Entertainment has announced that all six episodes of the series will be released on DVD in North America on June 28, 2005.
