Have you ever heard of this cartoon out of France?
Totally Spies! features the adventures and missions of three teenage spies (Sam, Clover, and Alex) led by the founder and administrator of WOOHP, Jerry Lewis.
One episode features evil Romanian gymnasts who try to gain advantage by taking “agility” from zoo monkeys.
Click PLAY or watch Part 1 on YouTube. (10min)
To me this looks pretty lame. Yet the series, now finished after 5 seasons, has been successful.
…The show is elected as ‘Best performing cartoon’ (Channel 4, UK), has the best ratings (Fox kids UK), and is number 1 in its timeslot in France (TF1 and Jetix), Italy (Italia Uno), the Netherlands (Fox Kids, then Jetix, now Disney XD), Brazil (TV Globo) and the US (Cartoon Network).
… The show has sold to more than 100 countries. In 2004, it was Cartoon Network’s second highest rated show. The show is popular among girls and boys, with, according to David Michel (Co-creator and co-producer of Totally Spies) “a 50% boys 50% girls audience ratio, whereas everybody was predicting the show would score very low on boys” …
(via kitty on IG forum)
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