Rolie Polie Olie
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Rolie Polie Olie is a CGI television cartoon created by William Joyce (the creator of George Shrinks). The cartoon centers on a robotic family in Polieville. The characters include Olie, his father, his mother, his sister Zowie, and their pet dog Spot. Rolie Polie Olie is the first completely computer generated 3-D animated TV series for preschoolers.
The television series was produced by Sparx, Metal Hurlant Productions, and Nelvana Enterprises for The Disney Channel. Original episodes ran from 1998 to 2001; two direct-to-DVD movies, The Great Defender of Fun and The Baby-Bot Chase, followed. The original episodes were rerun on The Disney Channel until 2005.
William Joyce was striving for an idealized 1950s suburban-style world, being heavily influenced by early Mickey Mouse cartoons and shows such as Leave it to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show. In Olie's world, normally inanimate objects have a life of their own. This is based on Joyce's childhood, when he would perceive everything as having a life of its own. He took that idea and exaggerated it, until even mundane objects like knives and forks are alive and can move about.
The Polie family lives in a teapot-shaped house, which is also alive and sentient.
Joyce himself has said that Rolie Polie Olie is a show entirely made from the phrase "wouldn't it be cool if..."
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- Official Rolie Polie Olie Site at playhousedisney.com
- Rolie Polie Olie web page at TreeHouseTV.com
- Rolie Polie Olie @ TV.com
- Rolie Polie Olie at the Internet Movie Database
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