A Plaintive Wail

A Plaintive Wail
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Premiere date	December 20, 2015
Run time	11:17
Starring	Mike Tyson; Norm Mcdonald; Rachel Ramras; Jim Rash; Sarah Baker; Carla Delaney; Larry Dorf
Music composed by	Walker Martin
Writer(s)	Hugh Davidson; Larry Dorf; Rachel Ramras
Storyboard artist(s)	Seung-Hyun Oh; Ethan Spaulding
Director(s)	Jeff Siergey
Animation director(s)	Jinsung Kim
Art director(s)	Jeff Palm
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"A Plaintive Wail" is the seventh episode of Mike Tyson Mysteries season two, and the seventeenth overall. It aired on December 20, 2015 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. It was written by Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf, and Rachel Ramras, and produced and directed by Jeff Siergey.

A sandwich shop owner may be losing customers due to a curse placed on the building.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Pigeon	Norm Macdonald
Mike Tyson	Himself
Marquess of Queensberry	Jim Rash
Carlos Ortiz (photo)	N/A
Caroline Nuberry (photo)	N/A
Paula Jean Nuberry
Yung Hee Tyson	Rachel Ramras
Molly Gibson	Sarah Baker
Nadia Pavlova	N/A
Tobar Pavlova
Librarian	Unavailable
Sandra Sanchez
Duchess of Abernathy
Whale	Larry Dorf

Organizations

Mike Tyson Mystery Team
Versace (mentioned)

Locations

Earth
- United States
  - Las Vegas
    - Nevada
      - Tyson residence
  - Massachusetts
    - - Boston
        Newbury Street
        Sandwich shop
        
        Library
        
        Versace store (mentioned)
  - Arkansas (mentioned)
- North Atlantic Ocean (indirectly mentioned)
  - Bermuda (mentioned)
- England
  - London
- Japan (mentioned)
- Finland (mentioned)

Objects

GPS (voiced by Carla Delaney)
Lucky Diamond Lager

Vehicles

Mystery Mobile

Production

Development

Filming

It was copyrighted in 2015.

Music

The music was composed by Walker Martin, who is uncredited.

Crew credits

Producer: Hugh Davidson
Consulting producers: Mike Tyson, Lee Stimmel
Line producer: Susan Ward
Production manager: Leslie Granger
Assistant production manager: Leore Berris
Art director: Jeff Palm
Character designers: Dusty Abell, Dou Hong
Background designers: Cameron Thompson
Background painter: Luciano Herrera, Emily Tetri
Prop designer: Robert J. Dever
Color stylist: Kristina Giblin
Editor: Dave Mendel
Storyboard artists: Seung-Hyun Oh, Ethan Spaulding
Timer: Brian Hogan
Animation checker: Charlene Moncrief
Effects animators: Matthew Girardi, Brett Hardin
Animation services by Digital eMation
- Animation director: Jinsung Kim
- Layout artists: Kyungsook Park, Kyungsun Park, Choonhee Kim, Keumhee Lim
- Background directors: Soonhee Huh, Imjung Choi, Myunghoon Lee, Yeonmi Sung, So-Eun Kim
- Key animators: Sang-il Shim, Bongkeun Kim, Seung-woo Yang, Sungchan Lee, Wooyong Jung, Seyong Jung
- Production staff: Scarlet Sookyung Kim, Hyungjoo Jun, Kwangsool Kim, Agatha Sarim Kim, Alex Eunsun Park, Daniel Jung-Ah Kim, Lena Hyesoo Song
Post production executive: Greg Emerson
Post production manager: Matt Singer
Recording facilities: Warner Bros. Post Production Services
Recording machine operators: Jeff O. Collins, Sarah Baluch
Track reader: Fred Salinas
Supervising dialogue/ADR editor: Mark A. Keatts
Dialogue/ADR editors: Kelly Foley Downs, Mike Garcia, Patrick J. Foley
Production services: Levy Production Group
Post production audio services: Margarita Mix
Online editor: Brian Master
Assistant editor: Gabe Thorburn
Production administrator: Candi Purugganan
Production support: Cher Bentley, Tina Fallah, Tamara Miles, Celeste Moses, Jill Share, Kira Tirimacco, Renee Toporzysek
Casting administrator: Liz Carroll
Business and legal affairs: Lori Blackstone, Sharmalee Lall, Rebecca Mathany, Bonnie Negrete, Joulene St. Catherine
Production accountants: Yadira Davis, Luisa Guzman, Debbie Lindquist, Maral Simonian, Athena Wingate
Production supervisor: Bobbie Page
Production manager: Ed Adams
Executive producers for Williams Street: Keith Crofford, Mike Lazzo
Executive in charge for Williams Street: Big Leopard
Executive in charge of production: Peter Girardi
Executive producer: Sam Register

Release

Dates are in order of release:

United States: December 20, 2015 on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network)

Behind the scenes

The social media site Mike is a member of is a parody of Facebook.
One of the online friends of Mike resembles a dark haired Sandy Duncan, who appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde."
The death of Tobar is dated September 18th.
During the end credits, the real Mike plays the alphabet game with the letter "F."

Errors

Critical reception

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

In the United States:
- September 26, 2016: Warner Archive Collection releases Mike Tyson Mysteries: Season Two on DVD.

References