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|title=<center>Little Shop</center>
|title=<center>Little Shop</center>
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|imagecaption=''Little Shop'' title card, featuring "Junior".
|imagecaption=''Little Shop'' title card, featuring Junior.
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>
|datefound=Nov 2012-Jan 2, 2017
|foundby=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjohqA2_R_luprA8yC4DwA Betamax King], [http://tv-vault.me/user.php?id=57958 Comixbear], VHS Land of Videos, The Little Shop Archive
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'''''Little Shop''''' was a French-American Television Series that aired on Fox & La Cinq (a defunct French Television Network) in 1991, inspired by the off-Broadway musical, and it's 1986 film musical adaptation, ''Little Shop of Horrors'', as well as the original 1960 film ''The Little Shop of Horrors''.
'''''Little Shop''''' was a French-American Television Series that aired on Fox and La Cinq (a now-defunct French television network) in 1991, inspired by the original 1960 film ''The Little Shop of Horrors'' and the 1982 off-broadway musical (and the 1986 musical film adaptation of the same name).<ref>[https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3233667/saturday-morning-cartoons-revisiting-the-awful-little-shop/ Bloody-discusting article on the show.] Retrieved 01 Dec '18</ref>


==Premise==
==Premise==
The show was about Seymour Krelborn, an adolescent, a self-proclaimed nerd who works in a little flower shop owned by Mr Mushnik. His daughter, Audrey, is the love of Seymour's life, yet she doesn't seem to notice, or even understand his affections. Also, there's a bully named Paine Driller who constantly targets Seymour in his bullying. Seymour also has a pet flytrap named Junior. Junior was once a 200 million-year-old seed until he was found by Seymour in a junkyard. Once he was cared for by Seymour, he sprouted into a Venus Flytrap that raps and talks in hip-hop dialect. Unlike the musical, he's on Seymour's side and also has eyeballs.
The show was about Seymour Krelborn, an adolescent, a self-proclaimed nerd who works in a little flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik. His daughter, Audrey, is the love of Seymour's life, yet she doesn't seem to notice or even understand his affections. Also, there's a bully named Paine Driller, who constantly targets Seymour in his bullying.


The horror elements that were in the musical & movie adaptations were cut, as ''Little Shop'' was a children's show.
Seymour has a pet flytrap named Junior. Junior was once a 200 million-year-old seed until Seymour found him in a junkyard. Once he was cared for by Seymour, he sprouted into a Venus Flytrap that raps and talks in hip-hop dialect. Unlike the films and the musical, where Junior (there named "Audrey II") is an antagonist who forces Seymour to commit murders to satisfy his hunger for human blood, the TV series depicts Junior as a protagonist who sides with Seymour.
 
The horror elements that were in the previous musical and films were cut in favour of a more child-friendly tone.<ref>[http://www.skwigly.co.uk/retro-ranting-little-shop/ Retro Ranting article on the show.] Retrieved 01 Dec '18</ref>


==Staff==
==Staff==
While the credit for the concept for this adaptation is given to Ellen Levy & Mark Edward Edens, the show was created by Jean Chalopin (best known as the founder of DIC Entertainment & the co-creator of ''Inspector Gadget''), and was produced by animator Tom Tataranowicz (who first did animation for ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'').
While the credit for the concept for this adaptation is given to Ellen Levy and Mark Edward Edens, the show was created by Jean Chalopin (best known as the founder of DIC Entertainment and the co-creator of ''Inspector Gadget'') and was produced by animator Tom Tataranowicz (who first did the animation for ''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'') and producer Haim Saban (who would later go on to create ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers''). The music for the series was written by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy.


==Availability==
The series stars Jana Lexxa as Seymour Krelborn, Jennie Kwan as Audrey Mushnik, Michael Rawl as Mr. Mushnik, Terry McGee as Audrey Junior, and Mark Ryan-Martin as Paine Driller. Lisa Paulette is credited as Seymour's singing voice.
''Little Shop'' ran for only 13 half-hour episodes until it ended only two months after its premiere in September of 1991.


As of January 16, 2015, only three episodes of the show (the pilot episode, titled "Bad Seed", the 4th Episode "Unfair Science", and the 6th Episode "I Loathe a Parade") are known to be publicly available, due to VHS recordings that were subsequently uploaded to YouTube.
Roger Corman, the writer and director of the original 1960 film, is also credited as a creative consultant for the series.


On September 19th, 2015, a YouTube user Joey Bridgehouse uploaded a VHS quality rip of "It's a Wonderful Leaf". The episode is in German with the title changed to "Ein schlimmer Traum" ("A Bad Dream"). The premise is a typical spoof of Frank Capra's ''It's a Wonderful life''. Nearly a week afterwards, Youtube user VHS Land of Videos uploaded an incomplete VHS quality rip of "Air Junior", including some of the original commercial breaks. An Italian video can be found [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GBFI3uz5fI here].
==Availability==
''Little Shop'' first ran for only 13 half-hour episodes, from September 7 to November 30, 1991. It was rerun until September 5, 1992. It was later on the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) as part of Cartoon Quest and The Animation Station block until 1997.


More recently, during December 2016, three additional episodes (the 2nd episode "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", the 3rd episode "Back to the Fuchsia" and the 5th episode "Stage Blight") were uploaded by The Little Shop Archive YouTube account. This was followed on January 1, 2017, by the resurfacing of the entirety of "Air Junior" as well as the upload of the 8th episode "Untitled Halloween Story". The remaining episodes were uploaded on January 2, 2017. The only episode yet to be uploaded in English is the 9th episode, "It's a Wonderful Leaf", as the DVD copy given to the The Little Shop Archive YouTube account was damaged. A German copy of this episode was uploaded in its place.
In January of 2015, only three episodes of the show (the pilot episode, titled "Bad Seed," the fourth episode "Unfair Science," and the sixth episode "I Loathe a Parade") were known to be publicly available due to VHS recordings that were subsequently uploaded to YouTube.


<br/>
On September 19th, 2015, YouTuber Joey Bridgehouse uploaded a VHS quality rip of the German dub of episode nine, "It's a Wonderful Leaf" (re-titled "Ein Schlimmer Traum," translated into English as "A Bad Dream"). The premise is a typical spoof of Frank Capra's ''It's a Wonderful Life''. Nearly a week afterward, the YouTube channel VHS Land of Videos uploaded an incomplete VHS quality rip of "Air Junior," including some of the original commercial breaks. An Italian video can be found [https://youtu.be/7GBFI3uz5fI here].


{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHGqR3xyXVU|240x180|right|The 9th Episode of Little Shop "It's a Wonderful Leaf" in German.}}
More recently, in late-December 2016, three additional episodes (the second episode "Real Men Aren't Made Of Quiche," the third episode "Back to the Fuchsia" and the fifth episode "Stage Blight") were uploaded by The Little Shop Archive YouTube account. This was closely followed on January 1st, 2017, by the entirety of "Air Junior" and the eighth episode "Untitled Halloween Story." The remaining episodes were uploaded on January 2nd, 2017. The only episode not uploaded was the English version of "It's a Wonderful Leaf," as the DVD copy given to The Little Shop Archive YouTube account was damaged. A mirror upload of the German dub of this episode was uploaded in its place.


{| class="wikitable"
==Episodes==
|- style="vertical-align:top;horizontal-align:left;"
{| class="wikitable" style="vertical-align:top;horizontal-align:left;"
|-
! style="background-color:lightblue" | #
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Found by
|-
|1
|1
|Bad Seed
|Bad Seed
|'''FOUND''' [https://youtu.be/3ktE0kjw3zc 1] [https://youtu.be/QGzL4y6RIGE 2] [https://youtu.be/edft3U0u7uU 3], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72uUzMiv_0 Alt], [https://youtu.be/mkJJQpzejJE Alt 2]
|<span style="color:green;">'''Found''' [https://youtu.be/3ktE0kjw3zc 1] [https://youtu.be/QGzL4y6RIGE 2] [https://youtu.be/edft3U0u7uU 3], [https://youtu.be/mkJJQpzejJE Alt], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeRO_NDGrKQ Alt 2]
|Unknown, [[User:Wumo|Wumo]], [[User:Scuttleman1127|Scuttleman1127]], The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|2         
|2         
|Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
|Real Men Aren't Made Of Quiche
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPs6e7m5MmU FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/tPs6e7m5MmU <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|3
|3
|Back to the Fuchsia
|Back to the Fuchsia
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDk9sKGpGLY FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/vDk9sKGpGLY <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|4
|4
|Unfair Science
|Unfair Science
|[https://youtu.be/YT7JpM9TZmE FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/qk70JStQsAc <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|[http://tv-vault.me/user.php?id=57958 Comixbear], The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|5
|5
|Stage Blight
|Stage Blight
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72uUzMiv_0 FOUND]
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSMjos62K0 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|[[User:Wumo|Wumo]], The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|6
|6
|I Loathe a Parade
|I Loathe a Parade
|[https://youtu.be/CT_rR_QBpLo FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/Ky2X15uWy8g <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjohqA2_R_luprA8yC4DwA Betamax King], The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|7
|7
|Air Junior
|Air Junior
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEObgjYqAvs FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/VEObgjYqAvs <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|8
|8
|Untitled Halloween Story
|Untitled Halloween Story
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjxof7HwNc FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/ivjxof7HwNc <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|9
|9
|It's a Wonderful Leaf
|It's a Wonderful Leaf
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHGqR3xyXVU FOUND (German)]
|[https://youtu.be/EHGqR3xyXVU <span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>] (German)
|Joey Bridgehouse
|-
|-
|10
|10
|Tooth or Consequence
|Tooth or Consequences
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-xqy3SYht0 FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/A-xqy3SYht0 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|11
|11
|Walk Like a Nerd
|Walk Like a Nerd
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-7cGduM4o FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/Hg-7cGduM4o <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|12
|12
|Pulp Fiction
|Pulp Fiction
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YNhpEJCJE FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/W6YNhpEJCJE <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|-
|-
|13
|13
|Married to the Mush
|Married to the Mush
|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8un_F_Q6RQ FOUND]
|[https://youtu.be/g8un_F_Q6RQ <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|The Little Shop Archive
|}
|}


{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"
==Gallery==
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
{{Video|perrow  =1
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkJJQpzejJE|240x180|center|The 1st Episode of Little Shop "Bad Seed".}}
  |service1    =youtube
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a72uUzMiv_0|240x180|center|Another video of "Bad Seed", plus the 5th Episode of Little Shop "Stage Blight".}}
  |id1          =y4LjOcWp5Ps
|{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPs6e7m5MmU|240x180|center|The 2nd Episode of Little Shop "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche".}}
  |description1 =Promo for the show showing "Untitled Halloween Story."
|}
}}
 
==External Link==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120982/ The show's IMDb page.]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDk9sKGpGLY|240x180|center|The 3rd Episode of Little Shop "Back to the Fuchsia".}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT7JpM9TZmE|240x180|center|The 4th Episode of Little Shop "Unfair Science".}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT_rR_QBpLo|240x180|center|The 6th Episode of Little Shop, "I Loathe a Parade".}}
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEObgjYqAvs|240x180|center|The 7th Episode of Little Shop "Air Junior".}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivjxof7HwNc|240x180|center|The 8th Episode of Little Shop "Untitled Halloween Story".}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-xqy3SYht0|240x180|center|The 10th Episode of Little Shop "Tooth or Consequence".}}
|}


{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"
==References==
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
{{reflist}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-7cGduM4o|240x180|center|The 11th Episode of Little Shop "Walk Like a Nerd".}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6YNhpEJCJE|240x180|center|The 12th Episode of Little Shop "Pulp Fiction".}}
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8un_F_Q6RQ|240x180|center|The 13th and Final Episode of Little Shop "Married to the Mush".}}
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LjOcWp5Ps|240x180|center|Promo for the show showing "Untitled Halloween Story".}}
|}


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Revision as of 14:30, 2 August 2021

Littleshoplogo.png

Little Shop title card, featuring Junior.

Status: Partially Lost

Little Shop was a French-American Television Series that aired on Fox and La Cinq (a now-defunct French television network) in 1991, inspired by the original 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors and the 1982 off-broadway musical (and the 1986 musical film adaptation of the same name).[1]

Premise

The show was about Seymour Krelborn, an adolescent, a self-proclaimed nerd who works in a little flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik. His daughter, Audrey, is the love of Seymour's life, yet she doesn't seem to notice or even understand his affections. Also, there's a bully named Paine Driller, who constantly targets Seymour in his bullying.

Seymour has a pet flytrap named Junior. Junior was once a 200 million-year-old seed until Seymour found him in a junkyard. Once he was cared for by Seymour, he sprouted into a Venus Flytrap that raps and talks in hip-hop dialect. Unlike the films and the musical, where Junior (there named "Audrey II") is an antagonist who forces Seymour to commit murders to satisfy his hunger for human blood, the TV series depicts Junior as a protagonist who sides with Seymour.

The horror elements that were in the previous musical and films were cut in favour of a more child-friendly tone.[2]

Staff

While the credit for the concept for this adaptation is given to Ellen Levy and Mark Edward Edens, the show was created by Jean Chalopin (best known as the founder of DIC Entertainment and the co-creator of Inspector Gadget) and was produced by animator Tom Tataranowicz (who first did the animation for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe) and producer Haim Saban (who would later go on to create Mighty Morphin Power Rangers). The music for the series was written by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy.

The series stars Jana Lexxa as Seymour Krelborn, Jennie Kwan as Audrey Mushnik, Michael Rawl as Mr. Mushnik, Terry McGee as Audrey Junior, and Mark Ryan-Martin as Paine Driller. Lisa Paulette is credited as Seymour's singing voice.

Roger Corman, the writer and director of the original 1960 film, is also credited as a creative consultant for the series.

Availability

Little Shop first ran for only 13 half-hour episodes, from September 7 to November 30, 1991. It was rerun until September 5, 1992. It was later on the Sci-Fi Channel (now Syfy) as part of Cartoon Quest and The Animation Station block until 1997.

In January of 2015, only three episodes of the show (the pilot episode, titled "Bad Seed," the fourth episode "Unfair Science," and the sixth episode "I Loathe a Parade") were known to be publicly available due to VHS recordings that were subsequently uploaded to YouTube.

On September 19th, 2015, YouTuber Joey Bridgehouse uploaded a VHS quality rip of the German dub of episode nine, "It's a Wonderful Leaf" (re-titled "Ein Schlimmer Traum," translated into English as "A Bad Dream"). The premise is a typical spoof of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Nearly a week afterward, the YouTube channel VHS Land of Videos uploaded an incomplete VHS quality rip of "Air Junior," including some of the original commercial breaks. An Italian video can be found here.

More recently, in late-December 2016, three additional episodes (the second episode "Real Men Aren't Made Of Quiche," the third episode "Back to the Fuchsia" and the fifth episode "Stage Blight") were uploaded by The Little Shop Archive YouTube account. This was closely followed on January 1st, 2017, by the entirety of "Air Junior" and the eighth episode "Untitled Halloween Story." The remaining episodes were uploaded on January 2nd, 2017. The only episode not uploaded was the English version of "It's a Wonderful Leaf," as the DVD copy given to The Little Shop Archive YouTube account was damaged. A mirror upload of the German dub of this episode was uploaded in its place.

Episodes

# Episode Title Status Found by
1 Bad Seed Found 1 2 3, Alt, Alt 2 Unknown, Wumo, Scuttleman1127, The Little Shop Archive
2 Real Men Aren't Made Of Quiche Found The Little Shop Archive
3 Back to the Fuchsia Found The Little Shop Archive
4 Unfair Science Found Comixbear, The Little Shop Archive
5 Stage Blight Found Wumo, The Little Shop Archive
6 I Loathe a Parade Found Betamax King, The Little Shop Archive
7 Air Junior Found The Little Shop Archive
8 Untitled Halloween Story Found The Little Shop Archive
9 It's a Wonderful Leaf Found (German) Joey Bridgehouse
10 Tooth or Consequences Found The Little Shop Archive
11 Walk Like a Nerd Found The Little Shop Archive
12 Pulp Fiction Found The Little Shop Archive
13 Married to the Mush Found The Little Shop Archive

Gallery

Promo for the show showing "Untitled Halloween Story."

External Link

References