Angelo Rules
Angelo Rules
Angelo Rules (French Angelo la Débrouille) is an animated cartoon produced by TeamTO and Cake Entertainment and directed by Zoé Miller (and Franz Kirchner for the season 2). Based on the French book collection « Comment faire enrager… » written by Sylvie de Mathuisieulx, illustrated by Sébastien Diologent and edited by “Petit à Petit”.
There are two seasons, the first one includes 78 episodes wich run 7 minutes. The second one has 46 episodes of 13 minutes and 3 "double episodes" of 26 minutes. Also, 30 short-episodes running 1.30 minute have aired on the Nintendo 3DS in 3D. The first broadcasting was on the French TV channel France 3 on April 5th 2010. In the United States, some episodes can be seen on Netflix Streaming.[1]46 x13 minute episodes and three double episodes of 26 minutes
| Angelo Rules | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Season 1: Zoé Miller Season 2: Zoé Miller & Franz Kirchner |
| Country of origin | France United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 49 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Genevieve Dexter Corinne Kouper Tom van Waveren Guillaume Hellouin |
| Running time | season 1: 7 min (+ 30x1.30 episodes) season 2: 13 min |
| Original release | |
| Network | France 3, Cartoon Network, Super RTL, TeleTOON+, Rai 1 |
Synopsis
For a kid, life can be a daily battle. There are adults, siblings, teachers and rivals telling you what to do, what not to do, what to say, and blah blah blah… …well it‟s time for us kids to take control! I‟m here to show you the way. Sure I have an annoying kid brother, a big sister who gets to do just about anything, and two parents who boss me around… …But to me, they‟re all just my guinea pigs who unwittingly help me craft my theories. I observe and then come up with elaborate strategies to wheedle, sweet-talk, con, and work around any adversary. Luckily, my friends Lola and Sherwood are here to help me!
Episodes
Season 1
1. Detention
2. Cat box
3. Yakking it up
4. The greatest free sample ever
5. Go Mental Fest
6. Clean Break
7. Battle underwear
8. Pop quiz
9. Picked Last
10. Lords of the prize
11. Bolivia exports farts
12. A fish called mr. Bubble
13. Snack thief
14. Spitball Wars
15. Let Manetti win
16. A longer recess
17. Chore wars
18. Changing the channel
19. Riding the dragontail
20. The great wait
21. Adorable horrible Peter
22. Who killed the rabbit ?
23. Stop the experimental music
24. No substitute
25. The casserole
26. Out of the saddle
27. Angelo's Blunder
28. The sneeze
29. Shame of lame
30. Here comes the judge
31. Break Up
32. The fake sick day
33. The Kid who has everything
34. Zonka's death march
35. The beach
36. Collect them all
37. Manetti's Crush
38. Manetti Must Not Fail
39. Help! My friends are falling in Love!
40. The brush off
41. A Little Romance
42. Mission : Frog
43. USB Mine
44. School Heist
45. Working Hard
46. Scary Movie
47. Final Countdown
48. Thar he blows!
49. Yesterbirthday
50. Career Day
51. The Break In
52. Director's Cut
53. One Shot
54. The Chimp Sleeps Tonight
55. Savant Idiot
56. Face the Music
57. The thousandth
58. Fearless
59. Dirty Politics
60. Friend vs. Friend
61. The Audition Mission
62. Tea Time
63. Wanna Piece of Me ?
64. The List
65. Shower Up
66. The Fever
67. In the Bag
68. King of the Sidewalk
69. Money Money Money
70. Cereal Zombie
71. Picture Perfect
72. Career Test
73. Sherwood's Fault
74. Curse
75. Cool Kid
76. The Book Club
77. Manettied
78. Ticking Clock
Mini episodes
1. Cats
2. Feed your pet
3. Bullies
4. Girls and their phones
5. Bullies in love
6. Little brothers
7. Mom's cooking
8. Athletic skills
9. Slow school
10. Love birds
11. Waking up
12. After school
13. Free fun
14. Good shape
15. Being popular
16. Look clever
17. Coaches are the worst
18. Mom won't buy me nothing
19. Noisy little brothers
20. Art critic
21. Acting like a star
22. I broke something
23. Behaving like a teenager
24. Dads are ridiculous
25. Parents are so unfair
26. Fun without video games
27. Eating fruits
28. Fun teacher
29. Big sisters
30. Getting around
Season 2
1. Junkboy
2. Kick-it ball
3. The sandman cometh
4. Bullicus smarticus
5. The cool hat
6. Game off
7. Spoiler alert
8. How to dismantle an alien attack
9. Doy to the world
10. Operation waterpark
11. Buddy page
12. Wiznimals
13. Book war
14. Ninja for hire
15. Ping pong
16. Bring it back
17. Heatwave
18. Family game night
19. The funniest kid
20. Courtroom tv
21. Damage remote control
22. Catch that cat
23. Fame
24. Door to door to door
25. When peter attacks !
26. Silent treatment
27. Clean up
28. Frontier family
29. The case of missing controlers
30. Ice cream panic
31. No take backs
32. Brain Scrambler
33. Air guitar hero
34. Karate kids
35. Mini grand prix
36. Break a leg
37. Soccer tryouts
38. Buddy guard
39. Battle for the room
40. Fieldtrip of dreams
41. The ultimate locker
42. Girl pyjama party
43. The candy vault
44. Stealth plan
45. Revolution
46. Foot by foot
47. Bed race
48. Cabin fever
49. Cosmic pirates
Characters
Angelo is an 11-year old kid who concocts elaborate schemes and strategies to help himself get what he feels he deserves, or what he thinks his friends deserve. He’s a stop-at-nothing kind of guy, undaunted by any obstacle put in his way. The bigger the challenge, the bigger the plan. Angelo thinks he knows what makes people tick and uses this knowledge to his advantage. “Angelo’s wisdom” is often the basis of his strategies like: Dads have insane pride in their car. Moms love anything that’s “on sale." Teen boys need to look macho in front of teen girls. Angelo is supremely confident and if he doesn’t find the perfect solution to a problem right away, he’ll improvise. Usually, Angelo finds a way to win in the end and often it’s with a couple of uncalculated side effects. But Angelo’s attitude is positive – it was all worth it. Angelo’s only weakness is that, as 11-year olds do, he often thinks in the short term and doesn’t consider the long term consequences of his actions.
Lola is the 12-year old cool and upbeat girl next door. She’s Angelo’s oldest friend, they’ve known each other their whole lives. They are practically related. Lola almost never says “no” to one of Angelo’s far-fetched plans. In fact, she delights in a challenge. She’s the fuel to Angelo’s fire. She can spur him on to do something that Sherwood might say is a bad idea. Lola is the only one in the group with a cell phone, which is integral in several of their plans. She’s good with putting on voices and can play anything from a store clerk to radio newscaster to health inspector to automated operator to Sherwood’s mom.
Sherwood is Angelo’s best friend and his most intellectual classmate. Sherwood can be skeptical of Angelo’s plans. Often, he’s the one to point out the possible logic flaws or potential problem with logistics. But once he’s convinced, Sherwood feeds off of Angelo and Lola’s infectious enthusiasm. Sherwood’s parents are pretty overprotective, so hanging out with Angelo means he can let loose a little and enjoy some needed freedom, excitement, and danger.
Mum & Dad : Angelo’s Mom is the main decision-maker in the family. She’s in charge of the operational workings of the home/family (schedules, duties, rules) which can be overwhelming at times. Mom constantly tries to maintain balance and peace between the kids. Angelo takes full advantage of the chaos at times surrounding Mom. He knows, for example, that when Mom’s cooking dinner and on the phone, she’s so crazed that it’s the prefect time to have her sign a fake “sick note” excusing him from school the next day. Whereas mom wears the pants in the family, Dad is more malleable. He has a boyish immaturity and has been known to stoop to Angelo’s level and argue about what to watch on TV. There’s a strong father/son bond between Angelo and Dad, even when Angelo gets in trouble. Mom’s natural authority over her kids sometimes extends to Dad, making him look somewhat like her fourth kid. But Dad and Mom form a loving couple all the same.
Elena is Angelo’s trendy but very annoying 15-year old sister. Since she was the first born kid she expects the other do whatever she says. They don’t.
Peter is Angelo's 5 years old brother and he acts it. Peter literally bounces around the house like a chimpanzee pretending to be anything from a grunting caveman to the latest superhero. He often pulls out the “baby” card to get his way.
Joe Momma is the family cat Mr.Foot is Angelo’s high minded stick-in-the-mud teacher at school Hunter is the local teenage hunk (and obstacle) who works at Adventureparkland, the local adventure themed amusement park Manetti is the bully in Angelo’s class who has been held back so many times no one knows how old he really is. His fists are faster than his brain.
Awards & Nominations
Selected for the Emmy Kids Awards - October 2013
Selected for Stuttgart animated film festival, Germany 2012
Selected for the Animamundi festival, Brazil 2011
Selected for the "Pepites", in the category of Best Adaptation at the Montreuil Children’s Book Fair – November 2011
Selected for the Chicago International Children Film Festival with episode Spitball Wars being screened – October 2011
Selected for the Banff World Televison Festival with episodes Who Killed Mr Rabbit and Bolivia Exports Farts being screened – May 2011
Selected for the Ziln Film Festival with episode Who Killed Mr Rabbit being screened – April 2011
Selected for the Annecy Festival with episode Who Killed Mr Rabbit being screened – March 2011
Won a Pulcinella Award at the 2010 Cartoons on the Bay Festival, for the Best Kids TV Series – April 2010
Ranked first at MIPCOM Junior as the most viewed program out of hundreds of shows – October 2009
External Links
Official website IMDB article Angelo Rules on Cartoon Network