Snorks

This article is about the USA/Belgian cartoon TV series. For the characters in Tove Jansson's Moomin books, cartoons and TV series, see Moomin.

Snorks
Starring	Michael Bell B.J. Ward Barry Gordon Frank Welker Nancy Cartwright Brian Cummings Rob Paulsen Roger DeWitt Clive Revill René Auberjonois Fredricka Weber
Country of origin	Belgium United States (animated series)
No. of episodes	108
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera Freddy Monnickendam
Producer	Gerard Baldwin (Season 1) Berny Wolf (Seasons 2-4)
Running time	12 minutes per episode / 24 minutes per episode (later episodes)
Original release
Network	NBC, Syndicated; Boomerang
Release	September 15, 1984 – May 13, 1989

Snorks is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran on NBC from September 15, 1984 to May 13, 1989, and in syndication from 1986 to 1989 and on the BBC late 90's going into 2001,2002. Again from 2009–present (on the Boomerang Network). Freddy Monnickendam of Belgian character licensing firm SEPP originally developed the "Snorks" concept in 1982. Belgian comics artist Nicolas Broca created the original character designs. The cartoon was relatively successful and has a considerable fan following.

Synopsis

The Snorks are a race of small, colorful, fictional beings that live happily in the underwater world of Snorkland. They have snorkels on their heads, which are used to propel them swiftly through the water. As evidenced by the cartoon series, when a Snork becomes excited their tube makes a "snork" sound. Like the Flintstones or the Smurfs, they have much of the same technology as contemporary humans, adapted to their own aquatic environment. The Snorks use pearls as currency, because clams were already being used by The Flintstones.

According to the Snork back-story, which was described in the show's first opening theme, a few ventured to the surface (which the Snorks believe is "outer space") in 1643, and watched a Royal Navy ship being attacked by pirates. The captain wound up in the water, and that was the first contact between the species when the Snorks saved his life, to which the captain then expressed his gratitude by writing a book about the Snorks, although very few humans believe in the existence of the Snorks. Since then, Snorks have adopted several human habits, such as wearing clothes.

There are a few episodes which have human encounters with the Snorks.

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Main characters

• AllStar Seaworthy (voiced by Michael Bell) - An athletic, yellow-skinned, male Snork. More or less the hero of the series. As well as being athletic and heroic, he's interested in Science and also an inventor. He helps his uncle, Dr. Gallio, with his projects whenever he can. Whenever he has an important idea or comes to an important conclusion the star on his belt buckle starts to spin—his "startbright idea". He's believed to be Casey's love interest and boyfriend. In the later seasons his parents have a baby girl named Smallstar, who becomes AllStar's infant sister. He used to be best friends with Junior.

• Casey Kelp (voiced by B.J. Ward) - A light and adorable pink-skinned, female Snork with reddish hair and generally believed to be AllStar's love interest and girlfriend. She's intelligent, brave and strongwilled. She dislikes bullies or being bullied and will stand up for herself as well as others. She is best friends with Daffeny Gillfin.

• Wellington Jr. Wetworth aka: "Junior" (voiced by Barry Gordon) - One of the primary protagonists of the series. An orange-skinned, male Snork with bluish hair who's a nice and spoiled snob, and also more or less generous in some must episodes, that takes after his parents, especially his father, the Governor of Snorkland. Before Bigweed became the villain in season 3, Junior was seen as minor villain-like, due to his rude attitude towards other Snorks, especially AllStar & his friends. His ambitions are to become the Governor, like his father, to become rich, and to outperform AllStar, whom he frequently referred to as "AllWet", in everything. Usually learns lesson at the end of the episode. Takes after Grandpa Wetworth. Junior used to be best friends with AllStar (when he was younger and starting off in school) until standing up for himself went to his head. In the third season, he appeared to be Daffney's love interest. During the seasons 1 and 2, he appeared to have a crush on Casey.

• Daffney Gillfin (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) - A vain, coral colored, female Snork with purple hair who was always concerned with her looks and appears to be Dimmy's love interest. She has ambitions of becoming an actress. In one of the episodes, she understudies for a famous female, Broadway Theatre actress (from New Snork City) and becomes the star of the show. She is known for having a big heart and for being extremely tactful, especially when it comes to breaking bad news to others. She is best friends with Casey Kelp. In the third season, she appeared to be Junior's love interest.

• Tooter Shellby (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker) - A green-skinned, male Snork with dark green hair who could only communicate through "tooting". He has the ability to communicate with some of the sealife. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Minor characters

• Demitrius "Dimmy" Finster aka (voiced by Brian Cummings) - An athletic, orange-skinned, male Snork who seemed to have a crush on Daffney. He fancies himself to be a comedian as well as a fighter. He also appears to have an insatiable appetite. Whenever Dimmy talks it sounds like he has a cold. He hates being called by his full name. From the beginning of the season 3, he is written out of the storylines for unknown reasons, but he did make some cameo appearances.

• Occy (voiced by Frank Welker) - Allstar's male, red, pet octopus. He was once owned by Junior until he abandoned him. Occy does not get along with Junior whatsoever and will go out of his way to embarrass and/or chase Junior. Conversly, Occy is very loyal to AllStar.

• Corky (voiced by Rob Paulsen) - An orange-skinned, male Snork. He's the Snork Patrol Officer and a workaholic, but a dedicated policeman and defender of Snorkland. He is liked by all Snorks and gets along with AllStar and his friends.

• JoJo (voiced by Roget Dewitt in Season 1-2, Jim Cummings Season 3) - A male, tan-skinned, two-snorked Snork who was raised and lives in the wild, he's the Snork equivalent of Tarzan. He's incredibly strong and can communicate with all the sealife. However is lacking in grammar skills.

• Fengy - A dogfish which is JoJo's companion since he was a child.

• Willie Wetworth (voiced by Fredricka Weber) - An orange-skinned child, male Snork. Even though Junior picks on him, Willie looks up to his big brother, Junior. He is the opposite of Junior—nice, friendly, generous, and well liked by all. He is friends with SmallStar. Takes after Grandpa Wetworth. He often repeats what Junior says.

• Governor Wellington Wetworth (voiced by Frank Nelson in Season 1 and 2, Barry Gordon in Season 3) - An orange-skinned, male Snork with lavender colored hair. He is the governor of Snorktown. Governor Wentworth is a stereotypical politician that resorts to double talk, tries to abuse his power, blames others when things go wrong, sends others to do the work while he tries to take the credit, cowardly, thinks of himself first, and a social climber who thinks that he and his family are better than others. He's also an egomaniac who raises taxes in order to build monuments to himself; all of which causes him to be disliked by the majority of Snorks. He's Junior and Willie's father. He wants Junior to succeed (and be governor) to the extent that he turns a blind eye to Junior's underhanded tricks until they cause trouble and/or are exposed. He doesn't like Dr Gallio, AllStar and his friends because they're in the spotlight more than his son. He secretly has an older brother, Captain Long John, who is a kindly, old pirate and is friends with AllStar and Casey. However, Governor Wetworth does have some sense of charity through giving a monetary donation to a school toy drive for underprivileged Snorks, and forcing Junior to give up some of his toys to donate to the drive as well.

• Dr. Gallio Seaworthy (voiced by Clive Revill) - A purple-skinned, male Snork with white hair. He is involved in all things scientific, medical and technical. He has saved Snorktown numerous times from villains and natural disasters. He is AllStar's and SmallStar's uncle and a friend to AllStar's gang. He is a brother to AllStar's father as in the episode "A Hard Day's Snork" he reveals his last name is Seaworthy when he meets with his old classmate Rip Van Snorkel in the belly of "Predatory Piperfish". He is also the brother of Dr. Strangesnork.

• SmallStar Seaworthy (voiced by Gail Matthius) - A yellow-skinned, infant, female Snork. She is AllStar's baby sister and friends with Willie. She was introduced in later seasons when AllStar's mother was pregnant.

Supporting Snorks

"SNIP" redirects here. For other uses, see Snip (disambiguation).

• Mr. Seaworthy (voiced by Bob Holt) - Mr. Seaworthy is a yellow-skinned, male Snork. He is AllStar & "Baby" SmallStar's father. Mr Seaworthy is the manager of the Snorkland Steam Plant. The Steam Plant is responsible for providing energy for buildings & automobiles, as well as heat for heating & cooking needs for the residents of Snorktown.

• Mrs. Seaworthy (voiced by Edie McClurg) - Mrs. Seaworthy is a yellow-skinned, female Snork. She is AllStar & "Baby" SmallStar's mother.

• Mrs. Kelp (voiced by Joan Gerber) - A light pink-skinned, female Snork and Casey's mother.

• Auntie Maranda (voiced by Mitzi McCall) - A light pink-skinned, female Snork with reddish hair. She is an actress that's always trying to perform for people; no matter where she is or what the situation is. She is Casey's aunt.

• Mrs. Wetworth (voiced by Joan Gardner) - A female Snork with bluish hair. She is Junior & Willie's mother. Just like her husband & oldest son (Junior), she aspires to be a social climber and a snob which believes that she's better than other Snorks. She's always correcting her husband, Governor Wellington Wetworth, whenever he's making a speech (which he always either forgetting or mixing up).

• Grandpa Wetworth (voiced by Frank Welker) - An orange-skinned Snork. He's Junior & Willie's grandfather. He's a smart trickster that acts as if he knows less than what he does. He's an elderly male that is young at heart & spirit, as well as being technologically savvy. Junior always tries to get scams, stunts & tricks past him but Grandpa Wetworth is always one step ahead. He's liked by all and likes AllStar & his friends.

• Ms. Seabottom (voiced by Edie McClurg) - A yellow-skinned, female Snork who wears glasses. She is a high school teacher and appears to be the only teacher to take the students on field trips.

• SNIP & SNAP - A pair of Robotic Snorks. The male Robotic Snork is named SNIP, while the Female Robotic Snork is named SNAP. They were created by Bigweed in order to infiltrate and make it easier for him to takeover Snorkland by getting rid of Corky—head of The Snork Patrol. They first appeared to AllStar insinuating that they were UFOs (Unidentified Floating Objects). After they succeeded in having Governor Wetworth take away The Hero of the Year Award from Corky and in making Corky leave Snorktown, after he felt unwanted & unappreciated, they allowed Bigweed & Lil' Seaweed to take over Snorkland. After SNIP & SNAP had a change of heart (which earned the wrath of Bigweed & Lil'Seaweed to SNAP being dismantled by Lil' Seaweed), SNIP helped Corky, Tooter, AllStar & Casey run Bigweed & Lil' Seaweed out of town. Dr. Gallio was able to successfully rebuild SNAP. Later on, Dr Gallio builds a communication device for SNIP & SNAP which allows them to make basic sounds and words.

Villains

• Dr. Strangesnork "Seaworthy" (voiced by René Auberjonois) - A purple-skinned, male Snork with white hair that has a black lightning shaped streak going down the center. He is a villainous, forgetful, absent-minded scientist that can't remember his own name at times. He wants to take over Snorktown, which he attempted to do by swapping his mind with Governor Wetworth's. He is jealous of his brother, Dr. Gallio, and want to get revenge upon him and his nephew, AllStar.
  • Finneus (voiced by Frank Welker) - A catfish that's orange in color with black striping. He's Dr. Strangesnork's sidekick and companion from childhood. He's always reminding Dr. Strangesnork of everything that he forgets.

• Bigweed (voiced by Michael Bell) - The villain of the series after season 3. He is supposed to be an evil, green, seaweed-like creature with magical abilities. Bigweed can magically disguise himself to look like a Snork or any form of sealife.
  • Lil' Seaweed (voiced by B.J. Ward) - Bigweed's female sidekick. Also an evil, green, seaweed-like creature with magical abilities. She is supposed to have the same magical abilities as Bigweed but on a diminished scale. She is about the same age as AllStar & his friends. Later on, Lil' Seaweed is forced by Snorktown Social Services to attend school in Snorktown because of her age.

Supporting villains

• The Great Snork Nork (voiced by Frank Welker) - He is a purple and indigo colored male Snork. Unlike other Snorks, his snork is on the front of his face, facing down, not on the top of his head. He's the Snork's equivalent of Dracula, the Prince of Darkness. Fans refer to him as Count Snorkula. He sleeps upside-down, hanging from the ceiling, just like a bat, and has fangs. He has magical abilities and is able to hurl electrical bolts from his hands. He hates sunlight & bright light, avoiding it at all cost. He's an evil vampire villain, that wants to take over Snorktown, and is always accompanied by two sidekicks. His sidekicks are a miniature version of him minus the magical abilities, they're purple & coral colored.

• The Snork-Eaters (Various Voices) - Large, red creatures that are known to prey off Snorks. The only thing that scares them are fishes called Snork-Eater Eaters, which are tiny fish with enormously large mouths. However, King Neptune has the power to banish Snork-Eaters.

• Weed and Wood - Bigweed's two buddies minor sidekicks.

Others

• Serena the Mermaid - A small mermaid with blonde hair. She was saved from a storm and later from Dr. Strangesnork by Dimmy. Dr. Strangesnork's shrinking device works in reverse on her, and she becomes regular mermaid sized.

• King Neptune - A mythological figure from Roman Mythology that is the ruler of the seas. He's portrayed as a merman who controls the rise & falls of the tides with a magical conch shell. Most Snorks believed King Neptune was a myth until he appeared after losing his magical conch shell which Willie later finds.

• Matilda (Voiced by Mitzi McCall) - An over zealous Snork girl/cheerleader who appeared briefly in season 1 and season 2. She appeared on the episodes "Allstar's Allstar Band", "Snorkdance" and "Me JoJo, You Daffeney." She appears to be a love interest for Junior Wetworth and seems to enjoy dancing a lot.

• The Snork-Eater Eater - A normal yellow fish that can commune with the Snorks, but when his mouth opens wide, it becomes large and expanded, specially designed to devour Snork-Eaters.

Original Broadcast Stations

• KYW-TV / Channel 3• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• WBZ-TV / Channel 4• Boston, Massachusetts
• WSMV / Channel 4• Nashville, Tennessee
• WCYB-TV / Channel 5• Bristol, Virginia
• WMC-TV / Channel 5• Memphis, Tennessee
• WGAL / Channel 8• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• WAVY-TV/ Channel 10• Norfolk, Virginia
• WWBT/ Channel 12• Richmond, Virginia

Stations

• WZTV / Channel 17• Nashville, Tennessee
• WFXT-TV / Channel 25• Boston, Massachusetts
• WTAF-TV / Channel 29• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• WLWT / Channel 30• Memphis, Tennessee
• WTVZ-TV / Channel 33• Norfolk, Virginia
• WRLH-TV / Channel 35• Richmond, Virginia
• WETO-TV / Channel 39• Bristol, Virginia
• WPMT-TV / Channel 43• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Episode list

Season 1 (1984)

Season 1 ran from September 15, 1984 to December 8, 1984. Several title cards from season 1 were lost in syndication for some unknown reason. The First Season had a narration opening starting off with a random man narrating about a mythical legend about mysterious underwater sea creatures rescuing Spanish Capt Ortega. It was used exclusively on NBC in 1984.

"I first discovered Capt. Ortega's logbook in a monastery overlooking the ocean. On The morning of February 13, 1634, Capt. Ortega anchored his ship behind a barrier reef. That night, they were attacked by pirates. The ship set afire sank into the lagoon. Ten days later, the Capt. was found. Delirious, still clutching his logbook. He described a world of tiny,underwater creatures no bigger than his thumb. No one believed him, But you know there's something about Capt Otega's story. That makes me believe it's true." A chorus of men begin singing "Snork along, it's a snorkfilled celebration", which then yields to Tooter blowholing the title.

1. Journey To the Source / Hooked on a Feeling
2. Vandal Scandal/ The Ugliest Yuckfish
3. The Littlest Mermaid / Which Snork Snitched
4. Allstar's All-Star Band /A Sign of The Tides
5. Now You Seahorse, Now You Don't/Snorkymania
6. Snork Dance / Snork Marks the Spot
7. Junior's Secret /The Blue Coral Necklace.
8. Casey and The Doubleheader/ Das Boot
9. Snorkin Surf Party / The Snorkness Monster
10. A Snork on the Wild Side / Allstar's Double Trouble
11. Fine Fettered Friends / Time Out for Sissies
12. Me Jo-Jo, You Daffney / The Old Shell Game
13. The King of Kelp/ Whale Tales

Season 2 (1985–1986)

Season 2 ran from September 14, 1985 to May 4, 1986. It featured a lively uptempo dance theme called "We're The Snorks". This theme would later be used on Worldvision Home Video releases of 1986–1987. It was also featured on VH1's I Love The 80s 3D segment about the Snorks.

1. Up,Up, and a Wave/ Gills Just Wanna Have Fun.
2. Snorkitis is Nothing to Sneeze At / The Whole Toot and Nothing But the Toot
3. Chickens of the Sea / Never Cry Wolf-fish
4. A Hard Day's Snork / Learn to Love Your Snork
5. Allstar's Freshwater Adventure / Dr. Strangesnork
6. It's Just a Matter of Slime / Water Friends For?
7. Junior's Octopuppy / The Shape of Snorks To Come
8. A Snorking We Did Go/ Guess What's Coming To Dinner?
9. The Big Scoop/ The New Neighbors
10. I Squid You Not / The Backwards Snork

Season 3 (1987)

Season 3 ran in fall 1987 on the syndicated block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. In this season, the familiar "Come Along with the Snorks" theme debuted.

1. All's Whale that Ends Whale / Allstar's Last Hour
2. A Willie Scary Shalloween / Sea Shore Sideshow
3. Freeze Save our Town / Snip and Snap
4. Junior's Empire / The Golden Dolphin
5. It's Always Darkest Before the Snork / The Sand Witch
6. Tooter Loves Tadah / The Shady Shadow
7. Daffney's Ransom / Salmon Chanted Evening
8. Casey in Sandland / Reefberry Madness
9. A Farewell of Arms / Mummy Snorkest
10. Jo-Jo in Control / The Day the Ocean Stood Still
11. Chills, Drills and Spills / The Longest Shortcut
12. Willie & Smallstar's Big Adventure / Taming of the Snork
13. A Snork in a Gilded Cage / The Snorkshire Spooking

Season 4 (1988)

Season 4 aired in 1988-1989 on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera. Most of the episodes in this season were full-length episodes, rather than two shorts.

1. Daffney's Not so Great Escape / Willie's Best Fiend
2. Dr. Strangesnork's Bomb / Day of the Juniors
3. Ooze Got the Snorks / A Starfish is Born
4. The Silly Snorkasaurus / Who's Who?
5. Battle of the Gadgets / Little Lord Occy
6. Junior's Fuelish Kelp Rush / The Boo Lagoon
7. How the Snork was Won / In Junior's Image
8. Robosnork
9. Summer and Snork
10. Allstar's Odyssey
11. In Greed we Trust
12. Jaws Says the Word
13. Prehissnorkic
14. Rhyme and Punishment
15. The Wizard of Ice
16. Big City Snorks
17. Nightmare on Snorkstreet
18. Robin Snork
19. Snorkerella
20. Snork Ahoy
21. The Daring Young Snork on the Flying Trapeze
22. Oh Brother!
23. The Story Circle
24. I'll Be Senior
25. The Day They Fixed Junior Wetworth
26. The First Snork in Space
27. Wish or Wish Out
28. All That Glitters is Not Goldfish
29. My Dinner with Allstar

Cast

• René Auberjonois - Dr. Strangesnork
• Michael Bell - AllStar Seaworthy, Bigweed
• Nancy Cartwright - Daffney Gillfin
• Brian Cummings - Dimmy Finster
• Roger DeWitt - JoJo
• Joan Gardner - Mrs. Wetworth
• Joan Gerber - Mrs. Kelp
• Barry Gordon - Junior Wetworth, Governor Wetworth (2nd voice)
• Bob Holt - Mr. Seaworthy
• Gail Matthius - SmallStar Seaworthy
• Mitzi McCall - Auntie Marina
• Edie McClurg - Ms. Seabottom, Mrs. Seaworthy
• Frank Nelson - Governor Wetworth (1st voice)
• Rob Paulsen - Corky
• Clive Revill - Dr. Gallio
• B.J. Ward - Casey Kelp, Lil' Seaweed
• Fredricka Weber - Willie Wetworth
• Frank Welker - Tooter Shelby, Occy, Grandpa Wetworth, Great Snork Nork, Finneus

Additional Voices

• Patricia Alice Albrecht
• Jack Angel
• Chub Bailey
• Roger C. Carmel
• Mary Ann Chin
• Cam Clarke
• Selette Cole
• Townsend Coleman
• Peter Cullen
• Jim Cummings
• Jennifer Darling
• Jerry Dexter
• Jeff Doucette
• Marshall Efron
• Dick Erdman
• Miriam Flynn
• Pamela Hayden
• Arte Johnson
• Stan Jones
• Zale Kessler
• Marilyn Lightstone
• Shane McCabe
• Chuck McCann
• Diane Michelle
• Howard Morris
• Alan Oppenheimer
• Laurel Page
• Hal Rayle
• Peter Renaday
• Robert Ridgely
• Joe Ruskin
• Ken Sansom
• Ronnie Schell
• Howard Stevens
• Rip Taylor
• Jean Vander Pyl

Other media

• Michael Bell reprises his role of AllStar Seaworthy in the Family Guy episode "Brian the Bachelor" while Nancy Cartwright voiced Casey Kelp.
• The Snorks were parodied multiple times in Robot Chicken. In the episode "Werewolf vs. Unicorn," a segment shows a Snork blowing into another Snork's snork causing that Snork's head to explode. Breckin Meyer voices AllStar Seaworthy in the episode called "Unionizing Our Labor" with Gallio voiced by David Hasselhoff, Daffney Gillfin voiced by Alex Borstein, and Governor Wetworth voiced by Seth Green. The Snorks had a war with The Smurfs when Allstar and Gallio first notice that the water has been contaminated by the Smurfs' ruptured sewage tank. The two send flying fish stuffed with dynamite upon the Smurfs' village followed by the entire Snork race coming to shore to attack the Smurfs. The fight ends when the Smurfs seeing Daffney Gillfin (as the Smurfs thought Smurfette was "the only female in the world"). Afterwards, Papa Smurf and Governor Wetworth sign a treaty for the Smurfs to stop dumping their sewage in their water in exchange for photos of the female Snorks. The post-credits of the episode shows one of the flying fish in Hell wondering how he got there since he was promised 72 fish virgins if he agreed to suicide bomb the Smurfs. The Devil laughs "stupid fish" then orders him to jump in a frying pan.

External links

• Snorks at IMDb
• fr:Nicolas Broca