John Candyism

I've been a john candy fan for a looong while. Me and my brother got to meet him in 1991, he was a great guy to hang with.

I went as him for Halloween once, and here's the photographic evidence: And by the way, this is me turning into Chumsley.

A little known fact about our beloved mascot Chumsley is that he's a good singer even though in most animated bits we've done with him in them he rarely sings. In the rock opera animated special his musical numbers are done in the style of Meatloaf. Chumsley was created way back in the early 80's, he was inspired by John Candy's performances in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Stripes, and Uncle Buck. John Candy first provided the voice of him in the animated short Chumsley And Friends (which also featured such characters and a dimwitted koala named Sidney, a ladybug named Doizee and a cat named Cleo). Chumsley and Friends was the first animated series we worked on. We almost got around to making an animated film about him in the mid ninetees, but unfortunately John Candy's death in 1994 got in the way- and so we had to hire a replacement voice actor- so we got Tino Insana (the voice of Pig in Barnyard, and Uncle Ted in Bobby's World) to take over. Chumsley has recently appeared in one of our Doizee's Fairy Tales animated episodes, in the episode Beauty's Beast Friend our mascot Chumsley plays the role of the Beast, it is heavily inspired by Disney's Beauty And The Beast and our version of Belle in it is in fact modelled on and based on our good friend Andria. Voice actors: John Candy (1983-1994), Tino Insana (1994-present).

Doizee the ladybug would later get her own series called The Doizee Club which also featured her children Doizee Jr, Doizee Jr 2nd, Countess, and Frankie. She later on starred in several movies we did including the wildly successful movie Doizee Club (which unfortunately spawned several lame sequels such as Doizee Club Safari). The Doizee Club sequels weren't as good as the original and were pretty lame (we'd like to forget that we let Doizee direct them) and they relied on various cliches both of the cinematic and cartoon variety. We made the very first Doizee Club movie, Doizee proved to be a bit of a diva afterwards. She wanted to direct, and she did..she directed the incredibly lame Doizee Club sequel movies, the only good one she did was Doizee Club And The Pirate Treasure. Don't get us wrong, Doizee is very creative and some of her projects were pretty good, but the moral is....don't give her any ideas at all.

We would like to give a belated thanks to the man who both inspired the character of Chumsley. Thanks John, you really touched a generation of viewers. We miss you.

He provided the original voice for our mascot from 1983 to 1994.