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American animated television series

Lloyd in Space
Created byJoe Ansolabehere
Paul Germain
Directed byHowy Parkins
Voices ofCourtland Mead
April Winchell
Brian George
Justin Shenkarow
Pamela Hayden
Bill Fagerbakke
Pamela Adlon
ComposerJim Lang
Country of origin
United States
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes39
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Howy Parkins
  • Bart Jennett (S2–3)
Running time22 minutes
Production companiesWalt Disney Television Animation
Paul & Joe Productions
Original release
NetworkABC (Disney's One Saturday Morning)
ReleaseFebruary 3, 2001 (2001-02-03) 
February 16, 2002 (2002-02-16)
NetworkDisney Channel
ReleaseOctober 1 (2002-10-01) 
October 24, 2002 (2002-10-24)
NetworkToon Disney
ReleaseSeptember 2, 2002 (2002-09-02) 
February 27, 2004 (2004-02-27)

Lloyd in Space is an American animated television series, created by Recess co-creators Joe Ansolabehere and Paul Germain. It premiered on February 3, 2001, on ABC on Saturday mornings.[1] The pilot was written by Ansolabehere, Germain and Mark Drop, with the characters designed by Eric Keyes. The series ran for three seasons, airing its final episode on February 27, 2004.

Premise

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The series follows Lloyd Nebulon, a green-skinned alien of the Verdigrean race, living in outer space. Lloyd lives in the Intrepidville Space Station along with his telekinetic and telepathic little sister Francine and his mother, Commander Norah Li Nebulon, the Head of Intrepidville. Lloyd's friends are Eddie R. Horton (a red-haired teenage human), Kurt Blobberts (a massive purple blob with a single eyeball and low intelligence, of a species known as the Blobullons), and Douglas McNoggin (a giant brain with limbs and a face, of a species known as the Cerebellians).

Characters

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Main

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  • Lloyd P. Nebulon (voiced by Courtland Mead) is a 13-year-old Verdigrean. Though he is usually a kind and easygoing teenager, despite his mother's leadership over Intrepidville, he and his group are pegged as "dorks" at Luna Vista Middle School. Such instances involve or result in constant disrespect and occasional bullying at the hands of their classmates, especially ones of the more socially-popular circle. Lloyd has a crush on his classmate Brittany Boviak, a cheerleader who secretly reciprocates his feelings despite bullying him.
  • Commander Nora Li Nebulon (voiced by April Winchell) is the commander of Intrepidville and Lloyd and Francine's single mother. She is authoritarian, but patient, caring and supportive.
  • Francine Nebulon (voiced by Nicolette Little) is Lloyd's younger sister. She loves her doll Rosie and using her telekinesis and telepathy. Her favorite TV show is The Daisy Droid Girls (a parody of The Powerpuff Girls).
  • Station (voiced by Brian George) is the space station's computer. When activated, he assumes the form of an eyeball attached to a long wire leading from a computer terminal. Station has a tendency to be neurotic and dismissive to those around him.
  • Edward R. "Eddie" Horton (voiced by Justin Shenkarow) is Lloyd's human best friend. He has wavy orange hair and tries to act in a "cool" manner. His father is a police officer.
  • Douglas McNoggin (voiced by Pamela Hayden) is a Cerebellian who resembles a brain with limbs.
  • Kurt Blobberts (voiced by Bill Fagerbakke) is Lloyd's large, one-eyed friend of the Blobullon species. While sometimes slow-witted, Kurt is a kind and loving character, but is usually treated the same as the rest of his group of friends. His head can be easily removed from his body and still function well.

Villains

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  • The Zeptar's Bandit (voiced by Danny Cooksey) is a lowly criminal.
  • Frontok (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is the captain of a fleet of space pirates.
  • The Pick-pocket is a criminal that appears in Eddie's memory in the final episode of the show. He is caught by Eddie's dad.
  • Kurtlas is the fusion between Douglas and Kurt due to Lloyd's suggestion. At first, Kurtlas defends the weaker and smaller kids at school from Rodney and the other bullies, but his fame goes to his head and becomes the school bully himself. He is stopped by Lloyd in the end.
  • The Preditalien is a monster which attacks and infects Intrepidville from the year X27 to X37. If one scratched or bit another life form they too would become monsters.

Supporting

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  • Dunkirque (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is second-in-command of the space station. He is a tough and obedient prominent aide to Commander Nebulon.
  • Larry (voiced by Eddie Deezen) is one of Commander Nebulon's prominent aides. He is a purple humanoid who frequently acts very childishly.
  • Boomer (voiced by Diedrich Bader) is the mechanic who repairs all the spacecraft on Intrepidville. He is fairly simple-minded. It is revealed in "Boomer's Secret Life" that he is the heir to his race's throne, but he turned his title over to his brother Sleeveknot.
  • Lou 2000 (voiced by John DiMaggio) is Station's bad-mouthed backup system. When in use, he frequently picks on Larry a lot.
  • Brittany Boviak (voiced by Anndi McAfee) is a wealthy, popular six-armed Tsktskian girl who is the captain of the cheerleading squad. She is also revealed later in the series to have a secret crush on Lloyd. Although she secretly likes Lloyd, she verbally and emotionally abuses him a lot, giving the impression that he is not worthy of her time.
  • Megan Uno (voiced by Rachel Crane) is Brittany's best friend with a single eyestalk. She is usually with Brittany wherever she goes, and most of the time she is slightly more sour than Brittany herself and surprisingly more shallow in terms of boys.
  • Cindy (voiced by Tara Strong (right) and Mayim Bialik (left) respectively) is a girl with two heads: one head is friendly, empathetic, and mature, and the other head tends to be rude, offensive, and grouchy. Cindy is one of the few recurring students to be a friend to Lloyd's group.
  • Eileen (voiced by Michelle Horn) is a girl who has three eyes and tentacles in place of arms and legs.
  • Rodney Glaxer (voiced by Warren Sroka) is a four-armed school bully who is also the quarterback of the Luna Vista crushball team. He favors picking on nerds, particularly Mendel, though he is still often enough antagonistic to anyone of lesser popularity such as Lloyd and his friend group.
  • Mendel (voiced by Blake McIver Ewing) is one of the nerds at Luna Vista and the main target of Rodney's bullying. He often hangs out with his nerd friends such as Lou and Benny, as well as other unpopular kids.
  • Mrs. Barbara Bolt (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is Lloyd's teacher at Luna Vista Middle School. She is a cranky robot who gets very angry when Lloyd or any other student is messing around in class.
  • Mr. Stinko (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) is the garbage man of Intrepidville.
  • Charmaine is a female Cerebellian. She is seen as a very intelligent character, and often is involved in debates against other schools, often with partner Douglas. She is friends with Douglas, Cindy and Missy.
  • Missy is a Blobullon who resembles Kurt in many ways, she has one eye and purple skin. However, she is slightly smaller than Kurt. She and Kurt seem to like each other as shown in "Double Date", he compliments her saying she is "neat". She is friends with Cindy, Charmaine and Kurt.
  • Leo Andromedos (voiced by Brian Doyle-Murray) is the grandfather of Lloyd and Francine and the father of Nora. He is a father figure to Lloyd.
  • Jake is one of Rodney's friends. Jake, like Rodney, is also a bully and one of the Crater Worm jocks on the school's crushball team.
  • Marcus Xenon is another one of Rodney's friends who is also a bully. Marcus, like Eileen, is a green, three-eyed, octopus-like alien, only without hair and having a more frequent tendency to moving bipedal.
  • Violet (voiced by Ashley Johnson) is a girl who is friends with Brittany and Megan. Violet tends to be much more shy than the other girls of her class and she even reveals in the season 2 finale that she has a crush on Lloyd, though this was never mentioned again afterwards. According to this same episode, she is president of the school yearbook staff.

Episodes

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Series overview

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SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast releasedNetwork
113February 3, 2001September 29, 2001ABC
28October 6, 2001October 24, 2002ABC
Disney Channel (Ep 6 only)
318February 9, 2002February 27, 2004ABC (Ep 1 only)
Disney Channel (Eps 2-9)
Toon Disney (Eps 10-18)

Season 1 (2001)

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Note: All episodes in this season aired on ABC.

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleWritten byStoryboard byOriginal release date[2]Prod.
code[2]
11"The Big 1–3"Joe Ansolabehere
Paul Germain and Mark Drop
Stark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
February 3, 2001 (2001-02-03)LIS-001
22"The Science Project"Bart JennettStark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
February 17, 2001 (2001-02-17)LIS-002
33"Double Date"Mark Drop and Bernadette LuckettStark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
February 10, 2001 (2001-02-10)LIS-003
44"Nerd from Beyond the Stars"Story by: Mark Drop
Teleplay by: Gil Evans
Stark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
May 26, 2001 (2001-05-26)LIS-004
55"Daydream Transceiver"Jack MonacoFrancisco Barrios
Craig Kemplin and Roy Meurin
March 24, 2001 (2001-03-24)LIS-005
66"Caution: Wormhole!"Bart Jennett and Sandy FrankFrancisco Barrios and Craig KemplinFebruary 24, 2001 (2001-02-24)LIS-006
77"The Hero of Urbit-Knarr"Mark Drop
Eric Garcia
Bart Jennett and Jack Monaco
Stark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
March 3, 2001 (2001-03-03)LIS-007
88"Campout on Zoltan III"Bart JennettStark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
March 31, 2001 (2001-03-31)LIS-008
99"Kurtlas, the Symbiotic Boy!"Mark DropFrancisco Barrios
Craig Kemplin and Roy Meurin
April 7, 2001 (2001-04-07)LIS-009
1010"Babysitter Lloyd"Joe AnsolabehereStark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
April 21, 2001 (2001-04-21)LIS-010
1111"Android Lloyd"Eric Garcia and Bart JennettFrancisco Barrios
Craig Kemplin and Roy Meurin
May 19, 2001 (2001-05-19)LIS-011
1212"Girl from the Center of the Universe"Bart JennettFrancisco Barrios
Craig Kemplin and Roy Meurin
September 22, 2001 (2001-09-22)LIS-013
1313"Pet Wars"Story by: Mark Drop
Bart Jennett and Eric Garcia
Teleplay by: Charlie Tercek
Stark Howell
David Knott
Brad Vandergrift and Francisco Barrios
September 29, 2001 (2001-09-29)LIS-014

Season 2 (2001–02)

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Note: All episodes in this season aired on ABC, unless noted.

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleWritten byStoryboard byOriginal release dateProd.
code[2]
141"Nora's Big Date"Story by: Bart Jennett
Eric Garcia and Mark Drop
Teleplay by: Joe Ansolabehere and Eric Garcia
Francisco Barrios
Craig Kemplin and Roy Meurin
October 6, 2001 (2001-10-06)LIS-101
152"Boomer's Secret Life"Joe Ansolabehere
Eric Garcia
Bart Jennett
Cate Lieuwen and Richard Whitley
Wendy Grieb
Stark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
November 10, 2001 (2001-11-10)LIS-102
163"Lloyd Changes His Mind"Story by: Mark Drop
Bart Jennett and Cate Lieuwen
Teleplay by: Elijah Aron
Craig Kemplin
Roy Meurin
Kevin Pawlak and Shane Zalvin
November 3, 2001 (2001-11-03)LIS-103
174"Lloyd's Lost Weekend"Story by: Mark Drop
Bart Jennett and Richard Whitley
Teleplay by: Cate Lieuwen
Stark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
January 19, 2002 (2002-01-19)LIS-104
185"The Big Sleepover"Story by: Cate LieuwenStark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
February 16, 2002 (2002-02-16)LIS-105
196"Neither Boy Nor Girl"Eric Garcia and Richard WhitleySandy Frame
Wendy Grieb and Craig Kemplin
October 24, 2002 (2002-10-24)[3][a]LIS-106
207"Francine's Power Trip"Nancylee MyattStark Howell
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
November 17, 2001 (2001-11-17)LIS-107
218"Cheery Theerlap, Lloyd"Mark Drop and Cate LieuwenSandy Frame
Craig Kemplin and Kevin Pawlak
December 22, 2001 (2001-12-22)LIS-108

Season 3 (2002–04)

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No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleWritten byStoryboard byOriginal release dateProd.
code[2]
221"You're Never Too Old"Bart Jennett and Nancylee MyattStark Howell
David Knott
Kevin Pawlak and Brad Vandergrift
February 9, 2002 (2002-02-09)[b]LIS-201
232"Gimme Some Skin"John Doolittle and Bart JennettStark Howell and Craig KemplinOctober 1, 2002 (2002-10-01)[a]LIS-202
243"Incident at Luna Vista"Story by: Cate Lieuwen
Teleplay by: Bart Jennett
David Knott and Brad VandergriftOctober 2, 2002 (2002-10-02)[a]LIS-203
254"Big Brother Kurt"Cate LieuwenStark Howell and Craig KemplinOctober 3, 2002 (2002-10-03)[a]LIS-204
265"The Thrilla at Intrepidvilla"Story by: Elijah Aron
Mark Drop and Cate Lieuwen
Teleplay by: Eric Garcia
David Knott and Brad VandergriftOctober 4, 2002 (2002-10-04)[a]LIS-205
276"That's Debatable"Elijah AronStark Howell and Craig KemplinOctober 7, 2002 (2002-10-07)[a]LIS-206
287"Stink-O-Rama"Joe MolinariWendy Grieb
David Knott and Brad Vandergrift
October 8, 2002 (2002-10-08)[a]LIS-207
298"Space Farm"Bart Jennett and Krista TuckerStark Howell and Craig KemplinOctober 9, 2002 (2002-10-09)[a]LIS-208
309"Love Beam #9"Cate LieuwenDavid Knott and Brad VandergriftOctober 10, 2002 (2002-10-10)[a]LIS-209
3110"At Home with the Bolts"Amy Debartolomeis and David WarickDavid Knott
Kevin Pawlak and Brad Vandergrift
September 5, 2003 (2003-09-05)[5][6][c]LIS-210
3211"A Place for Larry"Elijah AronStark Howell and Craig KemplinSeptember 12, 2003 (2003-09-12)[5][7][c]LIS-211
3312"The Big Feud"Eric GarciaWendy Grieb
Stark Howell and Craig Kemplin
September 19, 2003 (2003-09-19)[5][7][c]LIS-212
3413"Halloween Scary Fun Action Plan"Elijah AronStark Howell and Craig KemplinOctober 26, 2002 (2002-10-26)[c]LIS-213
3514"Commander Lloyd"Story by: Jim Peronto
Teleplay by: Cate Lieuwen
Wendy Grieb, David Knott,
Kevin Pawlak and Brad Vandergrift
September 26, 2003 (2003-09-26)[5][c]LIS-214
3615"Heads Up, Blobberts!"Story by: Cate Lieuwen
Teleplay by: Elijah Aron
David Knott and Brad VandergriftFebruary 6, 2004 (2004-02-06)[8][c]LIS-215
3716"Day One"Elijah AronWendy Grieb and Kevin PawlakFebruary 13, 2004 (2004-02-13)[8][c]LIS-216
3817"Go Crater Worms"Eric GarciaDavid Knott and Brad VandergriftFebruary 20, 2004 (2004-02-20)[8][c]LIS-217
3918"The Ride Along"Cate LieuwenStark Howell and Craig KemplinFebruary 27, 2004 (2004-02-27)[8][c]LIS-218

Production

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Lloyd in Space was first introduced in early 2001 during Disney's One Saturday Morning on ABC. The show received higher ratings than initially expected, prompting Disney to quickly order additional episodes (some of which would air in the second season).

Lloyd in Space finished production in 2003, after the Disney's One Saturday Morning block was removed. The final episodes aired in February 2004.

Reception

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The series received a mixed reception. Andrea Graham of Common Sense Media described the series as focusing on "space teen [who] copes with intergalactic boredom". She also argued that the series is "charming and heartwarming".[9]


Notes

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 This episode first aired on Toon Disney between September 2-16, 2002;[4] the listed date reflects its Disney Channel premiere.
  2. This episode first aired on ABC.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 This episode first aired on Toon Disney.

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