37-430: Problem Solvers may refer to: The Problem Solverz , an animated television series aired on Cartoon Network " The Problem Solvers ", an episode of sitcom 30 Rock Problem Solvers Caucus , in U.S. politics See also [ edit ] Problem solving Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
74-432: A support group for people that live with fur monsters. The Problem Solverz was first aired on April 4, 2011, on Cartoon Network . The premiere was seen by 1.1 million viewers, receiving a Nielsen rating of 0.8, in that 0.8 percent of families with a television set viewed the episode on that date. The most-watched episode of the series ("The Mayan Ice Cream Caper") was seen by 1.6 million viewers. Viewership fell with
111-619: A 2007 pilot for Adult Swim titled Neon Knome . It was passed by the network and went on to become rebranded as a Cartoon Network show called The Problem Solverz . Jones is the main creator and the voice actor of Alfe and Roba in the Cartoon Network show, The Problem Solverz . In 2013, Jones became the creative director of the Fox Saturday night programming block ADHD , where he released his series, Stone Quackers . The program aired as sneak peek on October 27, 2014, on FXX and
148-481: A development contest sponsored by Burger King . Mark Marek, who was known for his work on Nickelodeon 's KaBlam! was one of the artists and animators for the short. After deciding the show's aesthetics were not a good fit for Adult Swim, who claimed it looked "too mind-blowingly cute" for their channel, the network's executives later referred Jones to Cartoon Network , believing his creativity would fit better there. Jones agreed to do business with Cartoon Network on
185-542: A giant clock time monster. The trio achieves this through the many Alfe's clones collected by the same rollercoaster. Note : One of the scenes in which Alfe captures his clone is taken from the segment "D-O-G's Song" of the Paper Rad 's 2008 short Problem Solvers . Horace hinders a mission by being addicted to a video game, "Tomb of Nefertiti", given to him by Famitaro's owner Mr. Konishi, to kill its rogue AI. Horace himself continuing to play for 8 days, becoming hypnotized in
222-486: A group of thieves place experts in this race, called the "Elevator Banditz". To capture Alfe and Roba go undercover, and to do dress up and look like them. The work of a funny-face artists named Tony Marv, which Roba is a biggest fan, is stolen due to someone who leaked the photos of him in his program for the next show. His assistant Buddy Huxton presents the Problem Solverz, who asked them to solve this problem, finding
259-581: A hobby initiated by his father, Frank, who was a software engineer. This influenced Jones a lot, so much that later he would draw inspiration for his future style of art and design. Jones attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design , and graduated in 1999 with a B.F.A. in Studio of Interrelated Media (SIM). While studying in Boston at Massachusetts College of Art and design, he began working in an art collaboration with classmate Christopher Forgues (C.F.) under
296-605: A segment called "Gone Cabin Carzy" in which Alfe, Horace, and Roba appear. In tandem with these experiments, Jones worked as a television animator on Yo Gabba Gabba! and Wonder Showzen . The year of the DVD's release, Jones talked to Nick Weidenfeld , then an executive producer at Adult Swim , about an idea for a series of his own. The result was Neon Knome , a pilot produced by PFFR Productions and Williams Street in 2007, and released on Adult Swim's website two years later as part of
333-493: A vehicle for Jones to create art and influenced his later visual style. Jones attended the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the mid-1990s, where he became motivated to launch a project he could adapt to different media. This impetus manifested itself in the characters Alfe, Horace, and Roba. Tux Dog, another principal character, was designed while Jones was in primary school. After his graduation, Jones formed
370-489: Is an American animated television series created by Ben Jones for Cartoon Network . It follows Alfe, Roba, and Horace; a group of detectives in their troubled town, Farboro. The aforementioned characters were designed while Jones attended college in the 1990s; he later founded the art collective Paper Rad with Jessica and Jacob Ciocci . The characters were featured in Jones' and the collective's animations and comics before
407-482: Is the only The Problem Solverz game on the official Cartoon Network website. www.cartoonnetwork.com/games/theproblemsolverz/tombofnefertiti/index.html (Includes Badges) The Problem Solverz team up with K-999, a robot dog to stop a Girl Scout-aided alien invasion. The Problem Solverz are involved, thanks to the Police Captain of the city's huge mall, in an underground elevator racing, world from which they capture
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#1733085625522444-644: The 2011 San Diego Comic Con Panel) found and raised by Horace when both were young. He loves devouring large quantities of food, especially pizza and hamburgers, and acts impulsively during missions. Roba, Horace's twin brother and cyborg, is the smartest member of the group, but he suffers from insecurity and anxiety. Horace is the calm and collected leader of the team, usually applying common sense with his detective work and caring after Alfe. Growing up in Pittsburgh, creator Ben Jones had an appreciation for comics and animation. His father's Macintosh computer served as
481-606: The art collective Paper Rad with Jessica and Jacob Ciocci in 2000. The collective moved that year to Providence, Rhode Island, to participate in the Fort Thunder music venue. After the venue's closure in 2001, Jones released animations on the Web using Adobe Flash , with some featuring Alfe. Paper Rad later produced animations with the premise of The Problem Solverz but with the three principal characters absent. The collective's 2006 direct-to-DVD release Trash Talking features
518-438: The condition that Alfe be a character on The Problem Solverz . Eric Pringle, a veteran of 2D digital animation , was employed as animation director, providing Jones with much technical assistance. Pringle's colleagues from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends , another Cartoon Network production, comprised a team of around fifteen full-time animators at the network's studio, all working on Apple computers. Greg Miller
555-467: The creator pitched a pilot in 2007 to Adult Swim featuring the trio, collaborating with PFFR and Williams Street . The network's executives referred Jones to Cartoon Network, who commissioned a series featuring the same characters. The series was produced in Adobe Flash , with around fifteen animators employed at Cartoon Network Studios and the co-production of Mirari Films . The Problem Solverz
592-402: The culprit. At the beginning Roba and Horace are still in doubt to solve it due to Alfe, that under the effect of "Taco crazy" think they know you already know everything with a rangefinder taco, and doing even suspect that a loser funny-faces artist named Fungsten has not leaked the photos. But then discover that real culprit is still at large when the taco truck sign blocking the view. At the end
629-499: The first episode to have been aired on a Thursday ("Hamburger Cavez"), which was watched by 1.1 million viewers. The first season concluded on September 29, 2011, after eighteen episodes. A second season consisting of eight episodes was released exclusively on Netflix on March 30, 2013. The series received mostly negative reviews from critics, who viewed the series as "dull, boring, and uninteresting"; but worse reviews from audiences and online viewers. Criticism of The Problem Solverz
666-420: The first seamless use of Flash for television animation, with conceptualization and the end result occurring in the same program. Writing was the longest aspect of production, taking up to several months for the crew to conceive the story and draft a script. Animation was comparatively quicker, with the team delivering work in only a few weeks given the digital approach; Jones felt that the animators could play to
703-488: The main Problem Solverz characters, it introduces the problem solving concept which Jones would use as the basis of his homonymous Cartoon Network series. The short describes the adventures of six original characters: Dewey, T Bubbles, Pandemonia, Riviera, Buck, and D-O-G. It's composed of three segments ("Intro", "Dewey's Bike Ride", and "D-O-G's Song"), and from only two episodes: Note : D-O-G, Dewey, and Buck are
740-592: The name "Paper Radio". Art in America magazine named Jones one of the, "most important cartoonists of their generation" for his work with Paper Radio. In 2000, he founded the East Coast art collective Paper Rad , with the artists Jacob and Jessica Ciocci . Paper Rad is best known for creating comics, zines, video art, net art , MIDI files , paintings, installations, and music with a distinct "lo-fi" aesthetic. Ben Jones collaborated with PFFR and Williams Street on
777-546: The numerous problems that plague their town, Farboro. To their aid is Tux Dog ( John DiMaggio ), an extremely wealthy dog who helps the Solverz in some of their cases but is just as often the source of their problems. Alfe (pronounced Alfé ) is a large, fluffy, fur monster (even though it was suggested that he may be "half-chocolate, half-mutt" in Neon Knome or that he was a man-dog-anteater by creator and voice actor Ben Jones during
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#1733085625522814-556: The official debut of The Problem Solverz on Cartoon Network, a preview of this episode was shown on the official Paper Rad YouTube channel. Note 2 : The opening theme in this episode is to Neon Knome , the Adult Swim 's pilot. Eight episodes were produced for Season 2 and were originally supposed to air in 2012, but were released through Netflix on March 30, 2013 due to the show's negative critical reception. It never aired on television. Alfe discovers that Roba and Horace attend
851-510: The only characters of the short that made cameo appearances in The Problem Solverz . The pilot episode "Neon Knome" was produced in 2007 by PFFR and Williams Street for Adult Swim , and then released in 2010 on their official website as part of the "Big, Über, Network, Sampling" programming block. The Problem Solverz encounter on the city's amusement park "Time Twister", a time-travelling rollercoaster that ages people. They solve
888-413: The problem of people and seal the rollercoaster, but Alfe later uses it to satisfy his pizza cravings by traveling back in time and getting a slice of pizza, and ends up causing the appearance prehistoric animals to cause chaos in the city plus he turns into a baby. To put an end to this mess, the Solverz on the advice of Tux Dog must reverse the process destroying Time Twister through its core of Eternitron,
925-453: The process until after the universe is threatened by the same video game enemies. To stop the invasion Alfe and Roba, with the help of a special cable given to them by Tux Dog, enter the game but must return before Horace completely turns into a virtual human block. Once finding him immediately the trio must pass the last three levels and then defeat the AI at the final level. Note : Tomb of Nefertiti
962-455: The second season more "subdued" than the first, allowing viewers to concentrate on the principal character's relationships. She compared the series to the band Anamanaguchi , in that its unique and polarizing style makes fans of the series hard to find. Ben Jones (American cartoonist) Benjamin Queair Jones (born 1977) is an American artist, animator, filmmaker, and voice actor. He
999-463: The series as misguided, its stories as undeveloped, and its visual style as unappealing. The Weekly Alibi ' s Devin D. O'Leary acknowledged the style as Paper Rad 's own and found the writing more solid than that of Adult Swim 's programming for which it could be mistaken. The jokes were not instantly funny according to O'Leary, but the visual style combined with the writing would provide amusement for Paper Rad's existing fans. Critics felt that
1036-555: The series would've worked better had it been on Adult Swim instead of Cartoon Network. Art-related publications, on the other hand, gave praise to Jones' creativity. Dan Nadel, a former publisher of Jones, lauded the series in The Comics Journal for the imagination displayed, "funny and humane and invaluable" at the same time. Paper writer Sammy Harkham called The Problem Solverz "radical" and unlike any other series on television. Geek Exchange writer Liz Ohanesian called
1073-566: The strengths of the fully digital animation process. The show's criticism led to only 26 episodes being produced. 18 of which were produced during the first season in 2011. Towards the end of 2011, eight episodes were produced for the second and final season, and was supposed to air by the end of 2011 or any time in 2012, but due to the show's low ratings, they were only released through Netflix on March 30, 2013. The main Problem Solverz characters first appeared in an animated short entitled, "Alfe: Gone Cabin Carzy" [ sic ]. The short
1110-490: The title Problem Solvers . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Problem_Solvers&oldid=1157185381 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Problem Solverz The Problem Solverz
1147-458: The trio back to Buddy Huxton which, however, admits: he leaked that photos to postpone tonight's show of Tony, and in order to avenge him for his trauma as a child. Alfe, Roba and Horace find some Go-Seeki Hide and Seek Ninjaz in whom kidnap a little girl of the Hido Clan's mom. The Problem Solverz are called upon to stop an ice-cream factory from being destroyed by its owner. Note 1 : Before of
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1184-608: Was a co-founder and member of the art collective Paper Rad from 2001 to 2008, as well as his own studio Ben Jones Studio, Inc. in 2008. He has worked on various animated television programs and web series for Animation Domination High-Def (ADHD). Since 2017, Jones is the creative director of Bento Box Entertainment . He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Jones was born in 1977 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania and grew up in central Massachusetts . His family collected computers,
1221-413: Was created and produced by the art collective Paper Rad , and was written by Ben Jones . This short was included on their DVD Trash Talking , published by Load Records in 2006. The second Paper Rad animated short, "Problem Solvers", was released on a stand-alone DVD in 2008 as a bonus for the seventh volume of The Ganzfeld , a periodical book series written by Dan Nadel. Although it does not include
1258-495: Was directed at the visual style and writing. Rob Owen writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the style reminiscent of Atari 5200 video games and wrote that viewers could "thank" or "blame" Jones for his creation. For the magazine Variety , Brian Lowry disregarded the series as uninteresting and challenging to watch, the visuals and sounds weird for weirdness' sake. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media defined
1295-445: Was employed as a writer for most episodes, with Mirari Films ' CEO Eric Kaplan supervising the creation of scripts. The series was noted for its visual style employing highly saturated colors and varying shapes. Jones was inspired by the limited-animated series Roger Ramjet and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show , which he felt employed good character design, cohesiveness, jokes, and timing. He credited The Problem Solverz as
1332-495: Was first aired on April 4, 2011. The first season consisted of nine episodes, concluding on September 29, 2011. A second and final season was released exclusively on Netflix in 2013. The show received extremely negative reviews from both audiences and critics, many considering it as one of the worst animated series ever made. The series follows the eponymous detectives Alfe ( Ben Jones ), Roba (also Jones), and Horace ( Kyle Kaplan ). The trio take up solving, and sometimes creating,
1369-481: Was hired as supervising director, Martin Cendreda as technical director, and John Pham with Jon Vermilyea as character designers. Miller is the creator of Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? , another series on the network. Vermilyea worked also as a character designer on the network's series Adventure Time , while Cendreda, Pham, and Jones all contributed to the anthology comic book Kramers Ergot . Michael Yank
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