Rip-Penn

Rip-Penn

July 20, 2015 TV Episode Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

Studio
Walt Disney Television Animation
Animation studio
Walt Disney Television Animation, Mercury Filmworks
Distributor
Disney-ABC Domestic Television

Synopsis

While in a Victorian London world, Penn accidentally drinks a potion that turns him into a monster Rippen whenever he loses his temper.

Characters

Penn, Sashi, Boone, Rippen, Principal Larry

Credits

Directing

Director
Tom De Rosier

Producing

Producer
Jared Bush, Sam Levine (Executive Producers)

Writing

Writer
Jase Ricci

Voices

Voice
Thomas Middleditch (Penn), Adam DeVine (Boone), Tania Guanadi (Sashi), Alfred Molina (Rippen), Larry Wilmore (Principal Larry)

Music

Music
Ryan Shore
Theme
Ryan Shore, Beau Black

Crew

Created By
Jared Bush, Sam Levine
Storyboards
Heiko Drengenberg

Production notes

Each half-hour show contains two eleven-minute segments.

Created by writer Jared Bush and artist Sam Levine. Bush is a TV writer whose credits include the UPN sitcom All of Us and the reality show Who Wants to Marry My Dad?, and more recently, he has been attached as the writer of Disney's upcoming feature Zootopia. Levine, who is directing Penn Zero, is a Disney vet who has worked in the animation department of films like Hercules and Tarzan, and as a story artist on Bolt.

A boy from the suburbs who inherits the coolest job ever – part-time hero and leader of a team of good guys who zap to other worlds to save the day. With his sidekick Sashi and wise man Boone, the three tackle everything from outer space and the Old West, to lands of enchantment and the ultimate challenge – suburbia.

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