Rapunzel
- Studio
- DiC Enterprises, Saban Productions, Lorimar-Telepictures
Characters
Gordon Shumway/Alf, Sloop, Curtis, Flo, Augie, Rhoda, Larson, Bob, Skip, Stella
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Kevin Altieri
Producing
- Producer
- Vic Kephart (Associate Producer)
- Supervising Associate Producer
- Ken Duer
- Executive Producer
- Richard Raynis
Writing
- Writer
- Brad Kesden, Skip Shepherd
- Based on a Story by
- Steve Roberts
Animation
- Animator
- Masakazu Higuchi (Animation Director)
Voices
- Voice
- Paul Fusco (Gordon Shumway), Dan Henessey (Sloop), Noam Zylberman (Curtis), Paulina Gillis (Augie, Rhonda), Thick Wilson (Larson Petty, Bob), Rob Cowan (Skip), Ellen-Ray Hennessey (Stella), Peggy Mahon (Flo), Michael Fantini, Debra Theraker, Don Francks, Marvin Goldhar, Greg Swanson, Michael Lamport, Maria Lukofsky, Stephen Ouimette, Harvey Atkin, Jayne Eastwood, John Stocker, Greg Morton, Nick Nichols, Len Carlson, Ray Kahnert, Eva Almos, Linda Sorenson
Music
- Music
- Shuki Levy, Haim Saban
Crew
- Created By
- Paul Fusco, Tom Patchett
- Executive in Charge of Music
- Ron Kenan
- Music Production Supervisor
- Andrew Dimitroff
- Engineer and Mixer
- Barron Abromovitch, Kevin Newson, Xavier Garcia
- Orchestration and Arrangement
- Hiram Titus, Barry Trop
- Executive in Charge of Production
- Winnie Chaffee
- Assistants
- Dawn Jackson, Stacey Gallishaw
- Production Coordinator
- Krista Haimovitch
- Production Assistant
- Brad Rosen
- Assistant Story Editor
- Phil Harnage
- Script Coordinator
- Lori Crawford
- Assistant Script Coordinators
- George G. Robinson, William A. Ruiz, Penny Wylie
- Storyboard Artists
- Rich Chidlaw, Scott Jorgenson, Lester Gooch, Ray Raymond Jafelice, Mike Swanigan, Dan Fausett, Chris Schouen, Tom Nesbitt, Greg Garcia, John Hutton
- Character Design
- Michael Kim, Mike Goguen, Marcelo Vighali, Lou Police, David Feiss, Joe Banaskiewies
- Background Design
- John Koch, Lou Police, Kelly Day, Jim Finnegan, Colette Van Mierto
- Voice Directors
- Madeline Barsoom, Greg Morton
- Dialogue Editors
- Richard Gannon, Gregory K. Bowron, Michelle Rochester, Robert T. Gillis, Elvida Abella
- Crew
- In Loving Memory of Vic Kephart
Production notes
Gordon Shumway was an alien from the planet Melmac. When his planet exploded, "Gordo" escaped and crash-landed in the garage of the Tanner family, who dubbed him Alf (Alien Life Form). This was the basis for the prime-time sitcom Alf, a surprise hit on NBC in the mid-80's. After one season, the network brought the furry orange star to Saturday morning in an all-new animated series.
The cartoon took place several years earlier?before Melmac's destruction?and featured Gordon, his friends, and his family in everyday situations (everyday for Melmac, that is). Gordo's family consisted of dad Bob, mother Flo, brother Curtis, and little sister Augie. Friends Sloop and Skip made frequent appearances, as did Gordo's girlfriend Rhonda. Paul Fusco, who voiced the alien for the sitcom, also lent his throaty tenor to the cartoon.
The animated Alf won legions of new fans by spoofing what most people considered normality? shopping, school, driving, etc. The writers were free to create outrageous scenarios and let the characters react as if everything were perfectly normal; it was another planet, after all. Within this framework, many episodes ended up being a parody of any number of pop-culture icons.
In 1988, Alf was expanded to a full hour, adding a segment entitled Alf Tales. These portions of the show featured Alf and his friends in familiar fairy tales or classic movies?everything from Sleeping Beauty to Batman?all peppered with the Shumway family wit.
The cartoon took place several years earlier?before Melmac's destruction?and featured Gordon, his friends, and his family in everyday situations (everyday for Melmac, that is). Gordo's family consisted of dad Bob, mother Flo, brother Curtis, and little sister Augie. Friends Sloop and Skip made frequent appearances, as did Gordo's girlfriend Rhonda. Paul Fusco, who voiced the alien for the sitcom, also lent his throaty tenor to the cartoon.
The animated Alf won legions of new fans by spoofing what most people considered normality? shopping, school, driving, etc. The writers were free to create outrageous scenarios and let the characters react as if everything were perfectly normal; it was another planet, after all. Within this framework, many episodes ended up being a parody of any number of pop-culture icons.
In 1988, Alf was expanded to a full hour, adding a segment entitled Alf Tales. These portions of the show featured Alf and his friends in familiar fairy tales or classic movies?everything from Sleeping Beauty to Batman?all peppered with the Shumway family wit.
Reviews
Rapunzel
This is a rap episode as a woman with long long long pink hair named Rapunzel(Rhonda) who has been taking away from her parent by an evil witch, because they lost in the game show they were in. When a handsome Royal Prince of Rap(Gordon Shumway)and his "Ronald Regan" father, the King sees that Rapunzel is a slave to the evil witch, the king does nothing to save her, but the Prince, his "Human Beat Box"(Rick) and his DJ(Skip) goes over to the castal to rap to Rapunzel and she let her long hair down. The Prince climbed on her hair and they talked. The Prince told her that he will be back with the ladder and climbed down, not realizing that the evil witch is listening, went up to the tower, cut all of Rapunzel's hair and send her off. Her mission, to get the kingdom and the Prince. Later, he came back with the ladder as he promised, raps to her to let down her hair, but as he climbs up to the window, it was the wicked witch. She offered her hand and marriage and rule the kingdom, he rejected her, which forces her to cut off the hair and made him fall and broke his glasses. Now blind and lost, the Prince manange to find Rapunzel. Rapunzel knows they are lost, so she cries her eyes out, giving his eyes a perfect 20 20 vision. After that, the Prince and Rapunzel got married.