Pasta Genie
Pasta Genie is a British comedy-drama-tragedy-llama television programme which started in 2005 and is known for being the longest-running TV series in the Milky Way. Over 300 episodes have been produced, and the series has been met with universal praise, no one having ever said something negative about it in the history of the world.
The series has five main storylines: the adventures of a boy called Benny and his sister Toce at school, where they get the magical Pasta Genie to perform tricks on their peers and teachers; their mother Eradish's attempts to complete various tasks, which she eventually manages, only for the result to be ruined by her husband; their father and Eradish's husband (whose name is always inexplicably bleeped out) working at a newspaper, and trying to prove stories to his angry boss who never believes him; the exploits of the family's dog Combine, and his nemesis, next door's cat Harvester; and the family's fish, Groin, who just manages to keep his anthropomorphism and successful acting career as Gerald Meecewhopper secret.
It was created by brothers Vex and Mole Hovinson, and is produced in England by a team of cheap animators who work around the clock every day to produce one half-hour episode each week for the entire year, except at Christmas and New Year's Eve, when they produce a double-length special.
History[edit | edit source]
John Beavish, head of the Wolf Broadcasting Company, who has very bad eyesight, misread the end credits of an episode of The Simpsons and believed it to be the work of the Hovinson brothers, who worked as plumbers in Hull. He called them, and commissioned a series of twenty episodes.
Written by the pair, they became the first of many series as Beavish, who was by that time mostly blind, liked what he saw. To keep up for increasing demand, the brothers hired more animators and came up with a system whereby upon finishing a cell, they were given a raisin. This boosted morale enough to allow for the high amount of episodes produced.
Since then, the series has moved on to using professional digital animation software, and a new writer, Rospbennen Tichaul, has been hired. He works mainly on the Combine and Groin storylines.
Episodes[edit | edit source]
Episodes generally have a specific theme or message which is echoed through all of the storylines: an example, from series 2's "Snake Eyes", is dice.