Dan Vs.

Dan Vs.
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Dan Mandel Chris Pearson
Voices of	Curtis Armstrong Dave Foley Paget Brewster
Composer	Patrick Griffin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	53 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dan Mandel Chris Pearson Dan Angel Jay Fukuto (Season 1) Dana Booton (Season 2-3)
Producer	Lizbeth Velasco
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Film Roman The Hatchery
Original release
Network	Hub Network
Release	January 1, 2011 (2011-01-01) – March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09)

Dan Vs. is an American Flash animated television series created by Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson. The series spanned three seasons, airing on Hub Network from January 1, 2011 to March 9, 2013 before it was ultimately canceled. The series is rated TV-PG.

Plot

The show is about Dan, a borderline sociopath and arsonist with anger management issues who thinks the world is against him and recurringly goes on revenge missions to "destroy" whom or whatever has wronged him (the wrongings often involving things happening to Dan's beloved but oft used car). Accompanying him in his revenge missions is his put-upon friend, Chris, who can't help but go along with Dan's wild plots to get even despite how ridiculous they may seem. The third regular character is Elise, Chris's wife, who objects to Chris's participation in Dan's revenge quests but doesn't really interfere due to being distracted with her secret operative work for the government, which often acts as a subplot to many episodes. The show is set primarily in the Los Angeles, CA, area, and background scenes often show notable landmarks in and around Los Angeles.

Production

Mandel's original idea was for the show to be a live-action sitcom, but new possibilities opened up once they started development for an animated series. The show was pitched to various networks, including Adult Swim, until it finally ended on the Hub.

Series creators Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson conceived the personalities of the main characters Dan and Chris by loosely basing them on their own negative qualities. He has stated that the show's self-mockery with the character Dan was in part inspired by the works of Evan Dorkin. Pearson once stated that he thought of the Dan character as "Calvin [from Calvin and Hobbes] as a grownup, if his life had gone horribly wrong somewhere."

The series is animated in Adobe Flash. The designs for the characters was handled by a team of artists led by supervising director Matt Danner with some involvement from Mandel and Pearson. The vocal cast was selected through an audition first consisting of pre-recorded voice-overs, followed by several rounds of callbacks. Curtis Armstrong stood out prominently to the creators as the voice of Dan from the beginning of the process, replacing the idea of creator Mandel to voice Dan. The idea to have Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross portray Elise's parents Elise Sr. and Don came from executive producer Jay Fukuto, who had worked with them during their time together on Family Ties. Co-creator, Dan Mandel himself does many voices in the series.

Characters

Main characters

• Dan (voiced by Curtis Armstrong) – Dan is a very hostile and short-tempered man, especially when lectured about his own attitude. He has a mission to get revenge on anyone and anything he deems has wronged him. He always calls his best friend Chris whenever he is plotting or enacting revenge. He has said that he has been thrown out of libraries and jailed on multiple occasions. Dan has said to have been tear-gassed so many times that he no longer feels any effects from it, and he has also been maced enough times to claim that it is "tangier" than tear-gas. His everyday outfit consists of blue jeans, black shoes, and a black T-shirt that says "JERK" in capital letters. He has black hair, green eyes, a soul patch, and round yet sharp teeth. He is described by Elise as "dangerously-unstable". Dan is lactose intolerant. He seems to really like his car, despite its state of disrepair; several of his "revenge missions" were instigated by people damaging or tampering with it. He also is very fond of his female cat, Mr. Mumbles, and cannot remain angry at her for very long. He lives in studio apartment hovel in North Hollywood, CA. According to his drivers license, Dan was born on Halloween of 1975. He serves as the anti hero protagonist of the series. In Dan Vs. The Family Cruise, he admits that he feels he has wasted his life with his insane plots to avenge ultimately meaningless transgressions.

• Chris (voiced by Dave Foley) – Dan's best friend and Elise's husband. Despite how much Dan mistreats him, he is almost always on call whenever Dan needs help with one of his revenge schemes. He is a complete pushover and almost never can say no to his wife or best friend. He has a nearly uncontrollable appetite and has food on his mind most of the time. His regular outfit consists of a blue t-shirt, an orange over-shirt, drab cargo pants, and white socks with brown flip-flops. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He is also a notoriously bad driver, as it is mentioned by both him and Dan that he is constantly running over bicyclists. He has a pathological fear of prairies. Chris works at a temp agency and holds different office jobs that vary from episode to episode. He lives with Elise in a single story suburban house in Burbank, CA. Often, when Dan is in trouble with the law, Chris is labelled an "accessory" and also punished.

• Elise (voiced by Paget Brewster) – Chris's level-headed kind-hearted wife. She is usually calm and easy-going, but can become dangerous when provoked. She is constantly annoyed by Dan's revenge antics, though she rarely tries to stop her husband whenever he goes off to help Dan. She will occasionally help Dan herself if she believes it to be necessary or advantageous. Elise works as a covert field agent for an unnamed (but presumably American) 'quasi' government agency and her work for said agency often acts as a subplot in several episodes. Elise normally wears a white T-shirt with red trim, blue hip huggers, and red sneakers. Her hair is reddish-brown and her eyes are purple. She has a brother named Ben. Elise's mother also has the first name "Elise", so the elder Elise refers to the younger as "Elise Jr." or simply "Junior", which annoys her.

• Mr. Mumbles (voiced by Paget Brewster) – Dan's cat that he rescued from an animal shelter while taking revenge on it. He later learned through a hobo that Mr. Mumbles is a female, though he still calls her "Mr". Dan appears to be able to understand her meows and engage in meaningful conversation with her and she often manages to subdue his fits of rage with her cuteness. Dan seems to have trained her to perform several numbered escape plans. Like her owner, she is distrustful of others and scrappily cute.

Supporting characters

• Crunchy (voiced by Tom Kenny) – A dreadlock-wearing hippie who has the misfortune of working as a store clerk in several places that Dan takes revenge on. He has a ridiculously laid-back personality, to the point that on one instance he was completely unfazed by being in an animal shelter explosion (at least until he discovers that his dreadlocks were burned off). His insistence on non-violence have often made him an easy target for Dan to physically abuse when angered by whatever establishment Crunchy is currently working in at the time. Despite their several encounters, neither Dan nor Crunchy seem to recognize each other whenever they meet.

• Don (voiced by Michael Gross) – Elise's father who runs a successful cupcake store chain and hates Chris to the point of several murder attempts.

• Elise Sr. (voiced by Meredith Baxter) – Elise's mother, who dislikes Chris but not quite as much as her husband. She works for an unspecified Mafia family, a fact none of the other characters are aware of, much like Elise's hidden job with the government.

• Ninja Dave (voiced by Eric Bauza) – A former ninja of the Koshugi clan who swore never to bake cookies and thus had to steal them whenever he wanted to eat some. He was the last surviving member of the Koshugi clan, having been ill during a field trip which ended in a fatal bus crash. After a sword duel with Elise and Dan, he reformed and opened a cookie shop, which acts as the main hangout for several of the series' main and recurring characters.

• Spy Boss (voiced by Dan Mandel) – The unnamed and unseen boss of Elise who sends her on different missions during specific episodes. It is revealed he is a former super model in the episode "The Common Cold". He and Elise were good friends, than once Elise became a super agent and he becomes one of the new bosses, he had to erase her memory of what he looks like just to keep his identity 'a secret'.

• Hortence (voiced by Grey DeLisle) – An employee of the Burgerphile restaurant who falls for Dan after he begins a protest against the restaurant because they gave him the wrong order and refused to correct themselves. The two briefly date during Dan's protest but break up by the end of the episode when she gets promoted to regional manager in another district and Dan refuses to make her "give up on her dream". She later returns and announces she is to be married to the owner of Burgerphile named Jeremiah Burger which drives Dan insane with jealousy. He tries to crash the wedding but fails to win back her heart. Dan lets her go but remains hopeful, since he estimates that the overweight, burger-addicted, sixty year-old Jeremiah Burger doesn't have much time left. She is the only person whom Dan consistently treats with kindness during the show's entire duration.

• The Imposter (voiced by John C. McGinley) – An unnamed man who one day shows up in Dan's apartment claiming to be Dan. He manipulates everyone around him and portrays himself as a "good neighbor" to steal Dan's life. He is later arrested for a crime Dan committed, and swears revenge. He later returns as a telemarketer who continually harasses Dan with phone calls, determined to "drive him absolutely batty, nutso, around the bend". He eventually gets Dan arrested, however, Dan believes he has won because he can't call him in prison, and the Imposter lets him have his "victory."

• Ben (voiced by Eric Bauza) – Elise's younger brother who was mentioned in the episode "Elise's Parents" and makes an appearance in "The Family Thanksgiving" and "The Dinosaur". Ben is allergic to cats and has a video game addiction. He's also trying to get his driver's license with the help from Chris. He dislikes Chris and tends to insult him by his weight but as of the episode "The Dinosaur", he had grown fond of him.

• Mechanic Mike (voiced by Kurtwood Smith) – Dan's local mechanic who works on his car free of charge since he loves working on off-brand Filipino cars. Years ago, he was in a part of a society where people build robotic armors out of car parts and battle in areas. Originally just for fun, as years progressed, he became so addicted that gambling started and he was losing money so much that he overcharged customers, stole their parts and tried to sell his garage. This was why he stole Dan's car parts, replaced them with household items and lied to him about fictitious parts so he can built a robotic suit out of them influencing Dan to threaten to beat him up. At the end, Dan won the battle against Elise in a robot match allowing him to quit the sport forever and fix Dan's car again but it crashes due to the thromibulator (a fictional part originally fake but turned out real) not installed yet.

• Vegan Vic – Owner of the Vegan Vic store chain. In "Dan Vs. Vegetables" Dan tries to get rid of California's veggie supply since Burgerphile stops serving fries. In the end, Vegan Vic eats a broccoli monster Dan accidentally created. He has hatred for any vegetarian that almost eats meat.

Episodes

The series premiered on January 1, 2011 on Hub Network, and ended its first season on July 9, 2011. The second season of Dan Vs. began on November 19, 2011, and continued through June 23, 2012. Dan Vs. was renewed for a third season, which premiered November 17, 2012 and ended on March 9, 2013.

Main article: List of Dan Vs. episodes

Dan Vs.
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Dan Mandel Chris Pearson
Voices of	Curtis Armstrong Dave Foley Paget Brewster
Composer	Patrick Griffin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	53 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dan Mandel Chris Pearson Dan Angel Jay Fukuto (Season 1) Dana Booton (Season 2-3)
Producer	Lizbeth Velasco
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Film Roman The Hatchery
Original release
Network	Hub Network
Release	January 1, 2011 (2011-01-01) – March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09)

Dan Vs. is an American Flash animated television series created by Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson. The series spanned three seasons, airing on Hub Network from January 1, 2011 to March 9, 2013 before it was ultimately canceled. The series is rated TV-PG.

Plot

The show is about Dan, a borderline sociopath and arsonist with anger management issues who thinks the world is against him and recurringly goes on revenge missions to "destroy" whom or whatever has wronged him (the wrongings often involving things happening to Dan's beloved but oft used car). Accompanying him in his revenge missions is his put-upon friend, Chris, who can't help but go along with Dan's wild plots to get even despite how ridiculous they may seem. The third regular character is Elise, Chris's wife, who objects to Chris's participation in Dan's revenge quests but doesn't really interfere due to being distracted with her secret operative work for the government, which often acts as a subplot to many episodes. The show is set primarily in the Los Angeles, CA, area, and background scenes often show notable landmarks in and around Los Angeles.

Production

Mandel's original idea was for the show to be a live-action sitcom, but new possibilities opened up once they started development for an animated series. The show was pitched to various networks, including Adult Swim, until it finally ended on the Hub.

Series creators Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson conceived the personalities of the main characters Dan and Chris by loosely basing them on their own negative qualities. He has stated that the show's self-mockery with the character Dan was in part inspired by the works of Evan Dorkin. Pearson once stated that he thought of the Dan character as "Calvin [from Calvin and Hobbes] as a grownup, if his life had gone horribly wrong somewhere."

The series is animated in Adobe Flash. The designs for the characters was handled by a team of artists led by supervising director Matt Danner with some involvement from Mandel and Pearson. The vocal cast was selected through an audition first consisting of pre-recorded voice-overs, followed by several rounds of callbacks. Curtis Armstrong stood out prominently to the creators as the voice of Dan from the beginning of the process, replacing the idea of creator Mandel to voice Dan. The idea to have Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross portray Elise's parents Elise Sr. and Don came from executive producer Jay Fukuto, who had worked with them during their time together on Family Ties. Co-creator, Dan Mandel himself does many voices in the series.

Characters

Main characters

• Dan (voiced by Curtis Armstrong) – Dan is a very hostile and short-tempered man, especially when lectured about his own attitude. He has a mission to get revenge on anyone and anything he deems has wronged him. He always calls his best friend Chris whenever he is plotting or enacting revenge. He has said that he has been thrown out of libraries and jailed on multiple occasions. Dan has said to have been tear-gassed so many times that he no longer feels any effects from it, and he has also been maced enough times to claim that it is "tangier" than tear-gas. His everyday outfit consists of blue jeans, black shoes, and a black T-shirt that says "JERK" in capital letters. He has black hair, green eyes, a soul patch, and round yet sharp teeth. He is described by Elise as "dangerously-unstable". Dan is lactose intolerant. He seems to really like his car, despite its state of disrepair; several of his "revenge missions" were instigated by people damaging or tampering with it. He also is very fond of his female cat, Mr. Mumbles, and cannot remain angry at her for very long. He lives in studio apartment hovel in North Hollywood, CA. According to his drivers license, Dan was born on Halloween of 1975. He serves as the anti hero protagonist of the series. In Dan Vs. The Family Cruise, he admits that he feels he has wasted his life with his insane plots to avenge ultimately meaningless transgressions.

• Chris (voiced by Dave Foley) – Dan's best friend and Elise's husband. Despite how much Dan mistreats him, he is almost always on call whenever Dan needs help with one of his revenge schemes. He is a complete pushover and almost never can say no to his wife or best friend. He has a nearly uncontrollable appetite and has food on his mind most of the time. His regular outfit consists of a blue t-shirt, an orange over-shirt, drab cargo pants, and white socks with brown flip-flops. He has light brown hair and blue eyes. He is also a notoriously bad driver, as it is mentioned by both him and Dan that he is constantly running over bicyclists. He has a pathological fear of prairies. Chris works at a temp agency and holds different office jobs that vary from episode to episode. He lives with Elise in a single story suburban house in Burbank, CA. Often, when Dan is in trouble with the law, Chris is labelled an "accessory" and also punished.

• Elise (voiced by Paget Brewster) – Chris's level-headed kind-hearted wife. She is usually calm and easy-going, but can become dangerous when provoked. She is constantly annoyed by Dan's revenge antics, though she rarely tries to stop her husband whenever he goes off to help Dan. She will occasionally help Dan herself if she believes it to be necessary or advantageous. Elise works as a covert field agent for an unnamed (but presumably American) 'quasi' government agency and her work for said agency often acts as a subplot in several episodes. Elise normally wears a white T-shirt with red trim, blue hip huggers, and red sneakers. Her hair is reddish-brown and her eyes are purple. She has a brother named Ben. Elise's mother also has the first name "Elise", so the elder Elise refers to the younger as "Elise Jr." or simply "Junior", which annoys her.

• Mr. Mumbles (voiced by Paget Brewster) – Dan's cat that he rescued from an animal shelter while taking revenge on it. He later learned through a hobo that Mr. Mumbles is a female, though he still calls her "Mr". Dan appears to be able to understand her meows and engage in meaningful conversation with her and she often manages to subdue his fits of rage with her cuteness. Dan seems to have trained her to perform several numbered escape plans. Like her owner, she is distrustful of others and scrappily cute.

Supporting characters

• Crunchy (voiced by Tom Kenny) – A dreadlock-wearing hippie who has the misfortune of working as a store clerk in several places that Dan takes revenge on. He has a ridiculously laid-back personality, to the point that on one instance he was completely unfazed by being in an animal shelter explosion (at least until he discovers that his dreadlocks were burned off). His insistence on non-violence have often made him an easy target for Dan to physically abuse when angered by whatever establishment Crunchy is currently working in at the time. Despite their several encounters, neither Dan nor Crunchy seem to recognize each other whenever they meet.

• Don (voiced by Michael Gross) – Elise's father who runs a successful cupcake store chain and hates Chris to the point of several murder attempts.

• Elise Sr. (voiced by Meredith Baxter) – Elise's mother, who dislikes Chris but not quite as much as her husband. She works for an unspecified Mafia family, a fact none of the other characters are aware of, much like Elise's hidden job with the government.

• Ninja Dave (voiced by Eric Bauza) – A former ninja of the Koshugi clan who swore never to bake cookies and thus had to steal them whenever he wanted to eat some. He was the last surviving member of the Koshugi clan, having been ill during a field trip which ended in a fatal bus crash. After a sword duel with Elise and Dan, he reformed and opened a cookie shop, which acts as the main hangout for several of the series' main and recurring characters.

• Spy Boss (voiced by Dan Mandel) – The unnamed and unseen boss of Elise who sends her on different missions during specific episodes. It is revealed he is a former super model in the episode "The Common Cold". He and Elise were good friends, than once Elise became a super agent and he becomes one of the new bosses, he had to erase her memory of what he looks like just to keep his identity 'a secret'.

• Hortence (voiced by Grey DeLisle) – An employee of the Burgerphile restaurant who falls for Dan after he begins a protest against the restaurant because they gave him the wrong order and refused to correct themselves. The two briefly date during Dan's protest but break up by the end of the episode when she gets promoted to regional manager in another district and Dan refuses to make her "give up on her dream". She later returns and announces she is to be married to the owner of Burgerphile named Jeremiah Burger which drives Dan insane with jealousy. He tries to crash the wedding but fails to win back her heart. Dan lets her go but remains hopeful, since he estimates that the overweight, burger-addicted, sixty year-old Jeremiah Burger doesn't have much time left. She is the only person whom Dan consistently treats with kindness during the show's entire duration.

• The Imposter (voiced by John C. McGinley) – An unnamed man who one day shows up in Dan's apartment claiming to be Dan. He manipulates everyone around him and portrays himself as a "good neighbor" to steal Dan's life. He is later arrested for a crime Dan committed, and swears revenge. He later returns as a telemarketer who continually harasses Dan with phone calls, determined to "drive him absolutely batty, nutso, around the bend". He eventually gets Dan arrested, however, Dan believes he has won because he can't call him in prison, and the Imposter lets him have his "victory."

• Ben (voiced by Eric Bauza) – Elise's younger brother who was mentioned in the episode "Elise's Parents" and makes an appearance in "The Family Thanksgiving" and "The Dinosaur". Ben is allergic to cats and has a video game addiction. He's also trying to get his driver's license with the help from Chris. He dislikes Chris and tends to insult him by his weight but as of the episode "The Dinosaur", he had grown fond of him.

• Mechanic Mike (voiced by Kurtwood Smith) – Dan's local mechanic who works on his car free of charge since he loves working on off-brand Filipino cars. Years ago, he was in a part of a society where people build robotic armors out of car parts and battle in areas. Originally just for fun, as years progressed, he became so addicted that gambling started and he was losing money so much that he overcharged customers, stole their parts and tried to sell his garage. This was why he stole Dan's car parts, replaced them with household items and lied to him about fictitious parts so he can built a robotic suit out of them influencing Dan to threaten to beat him up. At the end, Dan won the battle against Elise in a robot match allowing him to quit the sport forever and fix Dan's car again but it crashes due to the thromibulator (a fictional part originally fake but turned out real) not installed yet.

• Vegan Vic – Owner of the Vegan Vic store chain. In "Dan Vs. Vegetables" Dan tries to get rid of California's veggie supply since Burgerphile stops serving fries. In the end, Vegan Vic eats a broccoli monster Dan accidentally created. He has hatred for any vegetarian that almost eats meat.

Episodes

The series premiered on January 1, 2011 on Hub Network, and ended its first season on July 9, 2011. The second season of Dan Vs. began on November 19, 2011, and continued through June 23, 2012. Dan Vs. was renewed for a third season, which premiered November 17, 2012 and ended on March 9, 2013.

Main article: List of Dan Vs. episodes

Voice actors

Main cast

Curtis Armstrong was chosen to voice the part of Dan from early production, as were Dave Foley and Paget Brewster who voice Chris and Elise, respectively.

Additional voices

The series employs many guest stars and recurring roles. Carlos Alazraqui portrays a balloon cult member in the episode "New Mexico", both a surfer and a lifeguard in "The Beach", Maurice in "The Fancy Restaurant", Magnifico the Magnificent in "The Magician", and Flynn Goodhill in "Parents", among others. Matt Angel guest starred as a Burgerphile employee in "The Wedding". René Auberjonois is the voice of Chef Puree in "The Fancy Restaurant". Eric Bauza plays the part of a paramedic in "The Wolf-Man" and "The Animal Shelter", as well as Ninja Dave in "The Ninja", Clark in "The Barber", and Ben in "The Family Thanksgiving" and "The Dinosaur". Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (of Family Ties fame) both play the voice of Elise's parents Don and Elise Sr. (respectively). Jeff Bennett plays a librarian in "New Mexico", another paramedic in "The Wolf-Man" as well as "The Animal Shelter", Jiro Kushugi in "The Ninja", and other various roles. Felicia Day voices the boss in his titular role "The Boss". Grey DeLisle voices a supermodel and two children in "The Wolf-Man", as well as a dental assistant in "The Dentist". John DiMaggio plays the voice of a police officer in three episodes, and a security guard in "baseball". Jenna Fischer voices Amber in "Anger Management". Judy Greer does the part of Jennifer in "The Neighbors". Seth Green does the voice of the mummy in the his titular episode "The Mummy". Ernie Hudson played the voice of the Camp Counselor in "Summer Camp".

Other guest stars include Clancy Brown, Mark Hamill, David Kaye, Tom Kenny, Bill Kopp, Maurice LaMarche, Kevin McDonald, John C. McGinley, Daran Norris, Kevin Michael Richardson, Kurtwood Smith, Tara Strong, Cree Summer, Fred Tatasciore, Harland Williams, and Henry Winkler for various parts.

Reception

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result
2012	Annie Awards	Character Design in a Television Production	Nominated
2012	Annie Awards	Directing in a Television Production	Nominated
2013	Annie Awards	Editorial in an Animated Television or Other Broadcast Venue Production	Nominated
2013	Daytime Emmy Award	40th Daytime Emmy Awards# Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program	Nominated
2013	Daytime Emmy Award	40th Daytime Emmy Awards# Outstanding Special Class Animated Program	Nominated
2013	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program	Won
2013	2013 Kidscreen Awards	Best Animated Series Tweens/Teens Category	Nominated
2014	2014 Kidscreen Awards	Best Animated Series Tweens/Teens Category	Won

Hiatus

The show went on hiatus in 2013. Actor Curtis Armstrong has stated that "it's funny sometimes how much like 'canceled' being 'on hiatus' feels. I repeat, though, Dan Vs. is NOT canceled! People are talking to other people in that way that they do here. We shall see."

Armstrong later announced on his Facebook page that the show has been canceled. His statement says: "Christian Paredes, James Jones and Larry Reaper, among others, have been kind enough to ask about Dan Vs., the animated series I've been doing for the last few seasons on The Hub. It was created by Chris Pearson and Dan Mandel and also starred Dave Foley and Paget Brewster, giving truly funny performances as Dan's best friend and wife respectively. Dan Vs. actually won an Emmy this year for direction for Dan Angel and was among my favorite past times. It has been canceled, for the baffling and inexplicable reasons that shows like Dan Vs. get canceled. I can't really explain it because it has never been explained to me. Occasionally I would ask about the status of the show and be told that it wasn't canceled, but when I would ask about specifics, there would be long, awkward pauses and then changes to other subjects, like the weather or the possibility of a government shut down (this was the previous government shutdown, which gives you an idea how long this has been going on.) Finally, I had to just give up and move on with my life. This is actually not uncommon in my business. Things just sort of fade away, with an noticeable absence of closure. You can't help dwelling on it for a time, but eventually the whole thing just becomes a sort of fragrant memory. Some fragrances, of course, are sweeter than others: I'm happy to say that in the case of Dan Vs., they are, pretty much across the board, sweet. I loved everyone I worked with, the company was great, the network was supportive and, of course, the fans were rabid and vocal in their enthusiasm. The checks cleared, it's out on DVD and it was fun and you can't really ask for more than that."

When contacted, the Hub network disputed Armstrong's claims and said that the show will be back in production in the future.

External links

• Official website
• Dan Vs. at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com show

Voice actors

Main cast

Curtis Armstrong was chosen to voice the part of Dan from early production, as were Dave Foley and Paget Brewster who voice Chris and Elise, respectively.

Additional voices

The series employs many guest stars and recurring roles. Carlos Alazraqui portrays a balloon cult member in the episode "New Mexico", both a surfer and a lifeguard in "The Beach", Maurice in "The Fancy Restaurant", Magnifico the Magnificent in "The Magician", and Flynn Goodhill in "Parents", among others. Matt Angel guest starred as a Burgerphile employee in "The Wedding". René Auberjonois is the voice of Chef Puree in "The Fancy Restaurant". Eric Bauza plays the part of a paramedic in "The Wolf-Man" and "The Animal Shelter", as well as Ninja Dave in "The Ninja", Clark in "The Barber", and Ben in "The Family Thanksgiving" and "The Dinosaur". Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (of Family Ties fame) both play the voice of Elise's parents Don and Elise Sr. (respectively). Jeff Bennett plays a librarian in "New Mexico", another paramedic in "The Wolf-Man" as well as "The Animal Shelter", Jiro Kushugi in "The Ninja", and other various roles. Felicia Day voices the boss in his titular role "The Boss". Grey DeLisle voices a supermodel and two children in "The Wolf-Man", as well as a dental assistant in "The Dentist". John DiMaggio plays the voice of a police officer in three episodes, and a security guard in "baseball". Jenna Fischer voices Amber in "Anger Management". Judy Greer does the part of Jennifer in "The Neighbors". Seth Green does the voice of the mummy in the his titular episode "The Mummy". Ernie Hudson played the voice of the Camp Counselor in "Summer Camp".

Other guest stars include Clancy Brown, Mark Hamill, David Kaye, Tom Kenny, Bill Kopp, Maurice LaMarche, Kevin McDonald, John C. McGinley, Daran Norris, Kevin Michael Richardson, Kurtwood Smith, Tara Strong, Cree Summer, Fred Tatasciore, Harland Williams, and Henry Winkler for various parts.

Reception

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result
2012	Annie Awards	Character Design in a Television Production	Nominated
2012	Annie Awards	Directing in a Television Production	Nominated
2013	Annie Awards	Editorial in an Animated Television or Other Broadcast Venue Production	Nominated
2013	Daytime Emmy Award	40th Daytime Emmy Awards# Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program	Nominated
2013	Daytime Emmy Award	40th Daytime Emmy Awards# Outstanding Special Class Animated Program	Nominated
2013	Daytime Emmy Award	Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program	Won
2013	2013 Kidscreen Awards	Best Animated Series Tweens/Teens Category	Nominated
2014	2014 Kidscreen Awards	Best Animated Series Tweens/Teens Category	Won

Hiatus

The show went on hiatus in 2013. Actor Curtis Armstrong has stated that "it's funny sometimes how much like 'canceled' being 'on hiatus' feels. I repeat, though, Dan Vs. is NOT canceled! People are talking to other people in that way that they do here. We shall see."

Armstrong later announced on his Facebook page that the show has been canceled. His statement says: "Christian Paredes, James Jones and Larry Reaper, among others, have been kind enough to ask about Dan Vs., the animated series I've been doing for the last few seasons on The Hub. It was created by Chris Pearson and Dan Mandel and also starred Dave Foley and Paget Brewster, giving truly funny performances as Dan's best friend and wife respectively. Dan Vs. actually won an Emmy this year for direction for Dan Angel and was among my favorite past times. It has been canceled, for the baffling and inexplicable reasons that shows like Dan Vs. get canceled. I can't really explain it because it has never been explained to me. Occasionally I would ask about the status of the show and be told that it wasn't canceled, but when I would ask about specifics, there would be long, awkward pauses and then changes to other subjects, like the weather or the possibility of a government shut down (this was the previous government shutdown, which gives you an idea how long this has been going on.) Finally, I had to just give up and move on with my life. This is actually not uncommon in my business. Things just sort of fade away, with an noticeable absence of closure. You can't help dwelling on it for a time, but eventually the whole thing just becomes a sort of fragrant memory. Some fragrances, of course, are sweeter than others: I'm happy to say that in the case of Dan Vs., they are, pretty much across the board, sweet. I loved everyone I worked with, the company was great, the network was supportive and, of course, the fans were rabid and vocal in their enthusiasm. The checks cleared, it's out on DVD and it was fun and you can't really ask for more than that."

When contacted, the Hub network disputed Armstrong's claims and said that the show will be back in production in the future.

External links

• Official website
• Dan Vs. at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com show