Hey Monie!

Hey Monie!
Genre
Created byDorothea Gillim
Voices ofAngela V. Shelton
Frances Callier
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes25
Production
ProducerSoup2Nuts
Running time11 minutes
Original release
NetworkOxygen
BET
ReleaseMarch 4 (2003-03-04) –
April 15, 2003 (2003-04-15)
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Hey Monie! is an American animated sitcom produced by Soup2Nuts. It features heavily improvised dialogue by the Second City cast,[1][2] similarly to Soup2Nuts animated sitcom Home Movies.

Its creator and executive producer was Dorothea Gillim, creator of WordGirl, who also produced animated series Curious George, Pinkalicious & Peterrific, Molly of Denali, and Time Warp Trio.[3]

The show began as 5-minute shorts that were part of Oxygen's animation series X-Chromosome.[4] It achieved 11-minute episodes Hey Monie! aired on BET and, afterward, on Oxygen in 2003.[5][6][7] It was BET's first in-house animated series; BET stated that it followed "the tradition of entertaining and satirical animated programming like The Simpsons, The Critic, and Daria."[4]

In 2003, Seattle PI described the series as "smart, and at times wickedly funny."[8]

It is one of the only adult animated series to feature a Black woman as its protagonist.[6][9]

  1. ^ Lotz, Amanda D. (2010-10-01). REDESIGNING WOMEN: Television after the Network Era. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09176-6.
  2. ^ Seham, Amy E. (2009-10-20). Whose Improv Is It Anyway?: Beyond Second City. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-0202-6.
  3. ^ "GBH Announces Expansion of GBH Kids". www.wgbh.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  4. ^ a b "Remembering the Black Friendship of "Hey Monie!"". FLOOD. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  5. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 282. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  6. ^ a b Gularte, Alejandra (2022-05-16). "Daria Spinoff Jodie Announced As Film, Cast Includes Pamela Adlon and Kal Penn". Vulture. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  7. ^ Fearn-Banks, Kathleen (2009-08-04). The A to Z of African-American Television. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6348-4.
  8. ^ MCFARLAND, MELANIE (2003-05-30). "These aren't your kids' cartoon shows". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
  9. ^ Lang, Jamie (2024-06-13). "Adult Swim Unveils Series Orders for 'Oh My God, Yes!,' 'Ha Ha You Clowns' and Season 3 of 'Smiling Friends' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2024-06-28.