Mr. Meaty

Mr. Meaty
Genre
Created by
Starring
Composers
  • Asher Lenz
  • Stephen Skratt
Country of origin
  • United States
  • Canada
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes
  • Shorts: 17[1]
  • Full-length episodes: 20 (32 segments)
(list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producerJack Lenz
ProducersJason Hopley
Jamie Shannon
EditorSusan Cormack
Running time
  • 3 minutes (shorts)
  • 22 minutes (full-length)
Production companies
Original release
Network
ReleaseSeptember 22, 2006 (2006-09-22) –
May 23, 2009 (2009-05-23)
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Mr. Meaty is a teen sitcom created by Jamie Shannon and Jason Hopley. The show centers on two lazy teenage boys, Josh Redgrove and Parker Dinkleman, who work at a fast food restaurant called Mr. Meaty inside a shopping mall as they often encounter supernatural and bizarre situations. The series is set in the fictional town of Scaunchboro, based on Scarborough, Toronto.

Mr. Meaty originated as a series of 17 shorts that appeared as interstitials on Nickelodeon in the United States and CBC Television in Canada. A pilot episode featuring material from the shorts aired on December 30, 2005. The series officially premiered on September 22, 2006, and continued to air until May 23, 2009. It ended with a total of two seasons and twenty episodes, three of which are 22-minute specials.

  1. ^ "Canadian Television Produced Puppet Series, Mr. Meaty, to Premiere September 22 in 90 Million Homes in U.S." Marketwired. Nasdaq, Inc. September 19, 2006.