6.4 /10 1 Votes
5.3/10 TV Country of origin United States No. of seasons 1 First episode date 1999 Program creator Tom Snyder | 7.5/10 IMDb Created by Tom Snyder Original language(s) English No. of episodes 7 Final episode date 2000 Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Voices of Paula Plum
Richard Snee
Jonathan Katz
Andy Kindler
H. Jon Benjamin
Tom Leopold Genres Animation, Comedian, Television comedy Similar Dr Katz - Professional Therapist, Home Movies, Science Court, O'Grady, Hey Monie! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dick and Paula Celebrity Special was an animated series that aired on FX from 1999 to 2000.
The premise of the show was that Dick and Paula hosted a talk show where famous individuals, usually deceased, talked about their work or what made them widely known. Examples of such guests include Charles Darwin, Marquis de Sade, Oedipus Rex, and Lewis and Clark, among many others. Accompanying the two hosts was a Paul Shaffer-esque keyboard player. This premise bears similarities with that of Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds.
The series, like Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, the first season of Home Movies, and Science Court, was animated in Squigglevision, a computer animation technique that caused the edges of people and important objects to vibrate constantly. Also like those series, Dick and Paula utilized retroscripting for much of the dialog, in that a basic outline is given and the actors improvise the dialog. Later, the dialog is edited to a coherent script.
FX didn't have a big success with Dick and Paula Celebrity Special, and thus the series was canceled after fewer than a dozen episodes.