Free Magilla

Free Magilla
Premiere date	September 11, 2005
Writer(s)	Christine Bielinski, Michael Ouweleen, and Erik Richter
Director(s)	Richard Ferguson-Hull
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"Free Magilla" is the eighth episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law season three, and the twenty-eighth overall. It aired on September 11, 2005 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It was written by Christine Bielinski, and series creators, Michael Ouweleen, and Erik Richter, produced by Evan W. Adler, and directed by Richard Ferguson-Hull. The Hanna-Barbera series ridiculed in this episode is Magilla Gorilla.

An animal activist group take Mr. Peebles to court over the freedom of Magilla Gorilla.

Memorable quotes

Reducto: Mr. Pebbles.
Mr. Peebles: Uh, it's Peebles.
Reducto: Control yourself, sir!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Magilla Gorilla	Maurice LaMarche
Mr. Felder	John Michael Higgins
Activist #2	Chris Edgerly
Harvey Birdman	Gary Cole
Avenger	Unavailable
Phil Ken Sebben	Stephen Colbert
Peter Potamus	Chris Edgerly
Stewie	Chris Edgerly
Fooey	Chris Edgerly
Spewie	Chris Edgerly
Peanut	Thomas Allen
Mr. Peebles	Maurice LaMarche
Debbie	N/A
Bandit	N/A
Scrappy-Doo	N/A
Jonny Quest	N/A
Hadji	N/A
Mailman	Maurice LaMarche
Newscaster	Thomas Allen
Melvin Van Peebles	Gary Cole
Myron Reducto	Stephen Colbert
Poochie	Unavailable

Organizations

• People's Animal Freedom Front
• Sebben & Sebben
• Freezoid, Zarog, & Skon

Locations

• Peebles Pet Shop
• Washington, D.C.
  • Sebben & Sebben offices
• Marigold Lane
• Bank
• The Moon

Objects

• Tribonin (mentioned)
• Times newspaper
• Freez-O-Lux
• Ol' Dirty Brew
• Bird Times
• Reducto's shrink gun

Vehicles

• 1/2 Blind Justice

Music

The music is composed by Michael Kohler.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 11, 2005 on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)

Behind the scenes

• Harvey's laptop has a pear-shaped logo in reference to Apple computers.
• Harvey's calendar says January. It appears to be the same one shown before with Victoria Principal's birthday noted.
• Stewie, Fooey, and Spewie are a parody of the Disney duck triplets, Louie, Dewie, and Hewey.
• Out of the three, Edgerly is only credited as Fooey.
• The camera cuts around ever needing to show Mentok. This is despite Higgins being available.

Home availability

• In the United States, it was first released onto DVD as part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Volume Three on July 24, 2007, by Warner Home Video.
• In the UK, Revolver Entertainment first released the episode onto DVD as part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: Seasons 1,2 & 3 on December 7, 2009, then separately put out the same volume 3 set on April 12, 2010.
• In Australia, Madman Entertainment released the same set on August 6, 2008, then re-released the episode as part of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: The Complete Cases on November 28, 2012.