Stressed Eric

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Stressed Eric is a cartoon series that was produced by the UK's Absolutely Productions for the BBC2 TV channel in the United Kingdom. The cartoons revolve around Eric Feeble, a middle class man who is always stressed out, because of his family, work, co-workers, etc. The animation for the first season was carried out by American studio Klasky Csupo.

NBC bought the rights to air it shortly after its initial airing in the UK, ceased broadcasting the show after just three episodes, despite changes being made to the cartoon: cutting 4 minutes from each episode due to the 8 minutes of commercial time required and giving Eric an American accent to make the story revolve more around an American living in England. The American version ran on NBC from August 12, 1998 to August 26, 1998, after which Stressed Eric was never seen again in any form in the United States.

The show's original publicity claimed that it was the first British animated show that could challenge American shows such as The Simpsons.^{[citation needed]} Some critics felt that this claim was undermined by the fact that the show was animated by an American company.^{[citation needed]}

The original unedited version aired in Canada on YTV beginning with "Nativity" in December of 1999, and the rest of the series airing Friday nights the following year. It proved a reasonable success, and series two was aired in 2001.

Contrary to popular myth the series has since been repeated in full in the UK on both BBC Choice and UK Play (both channels now defunct). There are no plans to ever release the series on DVD.

1 List of characters
2 Voice cast
3 List of episodes
- 3.1 Series 1
- 3.2 Series 2
4 External links

[edit] List of characters

Eric Feeble - Stressed out divorced father of two children.
Claire Feeble - Daughter of Eric and allergic to basically everything.
Brian Feeble - Son of Eric who has not learned to talk and is always putting things in his mouth.
Maria - The Feeble family's live-in au pair, she is Portuguese and always drunk.
Liz - Eric's eccentric and slightly psychotic ex-wife.
Mr. Perfect - Snobbish and "perfect" next door neighbour of Eric. Shares Eric's workplace but is senior and consistently praised for his fine work.
Mrs. Perfect - Snobbish wife of Mr. Perfect. Catchphrase: "How art thou, Eric?"
Heather Perfect - Snobbish daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perfect.
Paul Power aka P.P - Boss of Eric who is usually very angry. Catchphrase: "Double arseburgers, Eric!"
Alison - Eric's useless secretary who spends all her time on the phone to friends.
Doc - Eric's dementedly relaxed doctor, more interested in chasing women than treating Eric.
Mrs Wilson - An old lady who slowly tries in vain to post a letter, whereupon it always falls from her hand and into a drain, sometimes with Eric to blame. Catchphrase: "Morning Mister Eric. Just off to the post..."