FANTASTIC MAX (1988 - 1990)

Developed by: Judy Rothman, Robin Lyons, Mike Young

Starring: (voices) Ben Ryan Ganger, Gregg Berger, Nancy Cartwright, Paul Eiding, Benji Gregory, Elisabeth Harnois, Gail Matthius, Lewis Arquette, Rene Auberjonois, George Ball, Susan Blu, Earl Boen, Hank Azaria, Sorrell Booke, Phillip Boute, Greg Burson, William Callaway, Hamilton Camp, Selette Cole, Townsend Coleman, Peter Cullen, Brian Cummings, Tim Curry, Jennifer Darling, Jerry Dexter, Dick Erdman, Pat Fraley, Jeffrey Fried, Joanie Gerber, Dan Gilvezan, Dorian Harewood, Phil Hartman, Dana Hill, Jerry Houser, Arte Johnson, Jay Arlin Jones, Zale Kessler, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Lembeck, Aaron Lohr, Laurence Luckinbill, Danny Mann, Kenneth Mars, Kellie Martin, Nan Martin, Chuck McCann, Anne Marie McEvoy, Don Messick, Jeremy Miller, Brian Mitchell, Howard Morris, Lorenzo Music, Gennie Nevinson, Alan Oppenheimer, Rob Paulsen, Henry Polic II, Larry Riley, Roger Rose, Neil Ross, Ronnie Schell, Avery Schreiber, Susan Silo, Greg Snegoff, John Stephenson, Carl Steven, Howard Stevens, Andre Stojka, Russi Taylor, Susan Tolsky, B.J. Ward, Jimmy Weldon, Frank Welker, Edward Winter

26 episodes

(TV-Y - animated sci-fi/fantasy adventure)

PLOT:

A young baby and his toys travel space and time going on amazing adventures in his crib spaceship.

season 1 - 

A.B. is frustrated because Max never listens to him, so he suggests that Max create a new plastic parent – so he does. A toy manufacturer named Sticky Wicket can't think of a new idea for a toy, so he steals FX and pretends to have invented him. Max is bored when he has to spend all day in a day care center, so he takes his baby friends into space. FX's cord gets pulled out of shape and ruins his voice, so the gang goes back to Twinkle Twinkle in search of his doctor to fix it. Max takes A.B. and FX to colorless planets (literally) with crayons, but after they meet color lovers Alan and Neil, things get out of hand. The gang visits an interplanetary circus and discovers that the ringmaster had kidnapped the animals and is making them perform against their will. Max is bored with fairy tales until the gang goes into storybook world. Things are fine until FX's mischievous cousin, XS, comes along and makes everyone dance to music—which distracts them from their duties. Zoe gets plagued with Nasal Bathrobe, the virus from Osirus, on the day of her birthday party. By order of Agent Wally, Max and company have to capture the virus or else they'll never go into outer space again. Zoe grows a giant carrot for a vegetable competition, but the carrot, named Rooty, appears to be alive. He enlists Max's help to save him from a rabbit named Fatso, who wants to eat him. While on a mission, Max is thrown out of his rocket and is grabbed by astronauts who mistake him for an alien. Everyone on Earth thinks Max's baby talk are an alien language and that his clothes are alien as well. Max and his friends enlist the help of Dumpin' Jack Trash to help find the plug of planet Beachball before it drifts fatally close to the sun. The gang takes Stitches through time via the rocket, but Stitches is a baby at heart, which gets him into trouble. FX is deeply homesick so he ponders going back home to Twinkle Twinkle, but Max is reluctant to let him go.

season 2 - 

XS pays as a visit on Halloween, challenging FX's bravery on Halloween and it is up to Max and A.B. to help FX. Ben videotapes Max's latest trip into space, and he blackmails Max into letting him come along on the next voyage in exchange for his silence. Max's latest babysitter turns out to be Hoo Jipson, a famous outer space rodeo star. A.B.'s body is stolen by a plumber. When they go on an adventure, the plumber and Max trade, when the plumber finds a rare "hairball extractor". Then A.B. gets his body again. A.B. tells Max about being the baby, then Max says that FX and Max were born before him, so technically, Max says that A.B. is the baby, so they dress him as a baby. Max says that he and FX decide when A.B. sleeps. While visiting Buckyland theme park, Max and company encounter a friendly family of rats who are desperate for food, and they in turn do what they can to help. Max wishes that he had special powers like FX, so he decides to visit a place where he can learn all the best magic acts. Max attends a film festival with himself as the main attraction. The gang goes after the tooth fairy after s/he takes Max's tooth from under his pillow and doesn't leave him any money. After being covered with a shimmering ray, Max develops a more selfish and cruel personality. A sultan mistakes Max for his long-lost son. Max's constant crank telephone calls result in a long bill, and he has to work at an interplanetary phone company to pay it off. Max winds up on a fairground full of games. But he lets his winning streak get in the way of things. After an accident, A.B.'s foot squeaks, so the gang travels to Ireland to find a good cobbler. The cobbler they find is a leprechaun named Blarney Fife who is trying to keep the map to Leprechaun Land from a greedy sneak named Pete O'Moss.

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