Dumb and Dumber

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Dumb and Dumber
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On-screen title card.
Network ABC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
New Line Television
Distributor Turner Entertainment
Original release October 28, 1995February 3, 1996
Run time 22 minutes
Starring Bill Fagerbakke
Matt Frewer
Executive producer(s) Robert Friedman
Sasha Emerson
Sherry Gunther
Producer(s) Byron Vaughns
Music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh
Writer(s) Patrick Moran
Bennett Yellin
Director(s) Kris Zimmerman (voices)
Animation director(s) Robert Alvarez
Cullen Blaine
Ron Campbell
Marlene May

Dumb and Dumber, also known as Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series, is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera, in association with New Line Television, for ABC's Saturday morning block. It ran from 1995 to 1996, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season. It is based on the 1994 live-action film of the same name, with the director, Peter Farrelly, his brother, Bobby, and Bennett Yellin returning as executive consultants, who co-wrote the film with him; Yellin was also a story editor and wrote the pilot. The stars, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, on the other hand, did not return, instead being replaced with Matt Frewer and Bill Fagerbakke, respectively.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Production

Development

Music

The music was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 October 28, 1995
1x02 November 4, 1995
1x03 November 11, 1995
1x04 November 18, 1995
1x05 November 25, 1995
1x06 December 2, 1995
1x07 December 9, 1995
1x08 December 16, 1995
1x09 January 6, 1996
1x10 January 13, 1996
1x11 January 20, 1996
1x12 January 27, 1996
1x13 February 6, 1996

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Cast

Merchandise

Home media

In 1995, Turner Home Entertainment released two VHSes called Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series: Volume 1: Vroomin' to Las Vegas and Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series: Volume 2: Flooring it to Florida, in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia; each VHS contained two episodes. The following year, Forward International Singapore released the series on LaserDisc, featuring all four episodes from the two VHS tapes, in Singapore.

On January 13, 2015, it debuted on DVD with Warner Archive Collection's Dumb and Dumber: The Animated Series: The Complete Series.

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