Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
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Image:Starcommand.jpg Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a name of a Disney animated science fiction adventure show. It first aired in 2000 and features Buzz Lightyear, a character who first appeared in the feature film Toy Story.
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Story
The premise of the show is that, within the Toy Story universe, "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command" is actually the TV show which inspired the Buzz Lightyear toy line, and namely, the creation of the Buzz Lightyear toy, as shown by the intro sequence, done by Pixar especially for the series. In this 3D sequence we see Buzz Lightyear in Andy's room getting ready, along with the other toys, to watch the show on TV, which follows to the rest of the intro, several clips from the traditionally animated show itself.
The actual TV show follows the adventures of Buzz Lightyear and his Star Command cadet team as they struggle to keep justice in the galaxy, often thwarted by the Evil Emperor Zurg and other threats of the universe. The initial four episodes were originally released as "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins", a feature-length DVD. The voice cast for the DVD was identical, save for Tim Allen reprising the role as Buzz Lightyear. When the episodes were aired for television, Patrick Warburton, the series' regular voice of Buzz, redubbed all of Lightyear's dialogue to maintain continuity with the rest of the series.
Characters
Star Command
- Buzz Lightyear (Seinfeld's Patrick Warburton), famed "Space Ranger" known for heroism and bravery. Like his Toy Story incarnation, Buzz's personality is somewhat tightly wound, and he's quite a stickler for procedure.
- XR (Larry Miller), a short robot with many pop-out gadgets (like R2D2), who can store objects in his chest cavity (like Bender). Xr stands for experimental ranger (or expendable ranger, depending on your point of view). He's somewhat neurotic, and keeps getting blown up as a running gag.
- Mira Nova (Mad TV's Nicole Sullivan), a rookie ranger and heir to the Tangean throne, with the ability to walk through walls and read minds. (it's the ability of her planet's people to do so). She seems to have the most common sense of the group, and can at times be something of a smart-mouth.
- Booster (Animal House/Babylon5's Stephen Furst), a dinosaur-like former janitor from the agricultural planet of Jo-ad (a play on the name of the Joad family, from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath),with a big appetite and lots of muscle power. Big-hearted, but somewhat simple-minded and not particularly brave.
- Commander Nebula (Adam Carolla of KROQ's Loveline), their commander, missing a leg. Rather angry. Hates to do paperwork. Considered to be a father by XR.
- Ty Parsec (Steve Hytner from The Haunted Mansion (film)) is the infamous old comrade of Buzz Lightyear. The Space Ranger was transformed into the robotic Wirewolf on the planet of Canis Lunis, after being bitten by the villain, NOS-4-A2. Appeared in two episodes, with a cameo appearance in the episode War, Peace, and War.
- LGMs, or Little Green Men (also voiced by Warburton), are small aliens who keep Star Command in shape. (originally appeared as squeaky toy aliens in Toy Story)
The Villains
- The Evil Emperor Zurg (Seinfeld's Wayne Knight), main villain of the series. Rules his own evil empire, and wants to rule the entire galaxy. Most of his subjects are robots. His feet double as rockets and he can transform his arms into a variety of energy weapons. Despite being fairly campy (often screwing up the seriousness of otherwise purely evil statements), he's widely considered the most evil person in the galaxy, especially by the other villains.
- Warp Darkmatter (The Drew Carey Show's Diedrich Bader), Buzz's one time partner, but now a recurring bad guy. Lost his arm after being buried in an avalanche by Zurg on a routine mission with Buzz, now works as a mercenary in Zurg's employ.
- Brain Pods are cybernetic brains in a vat who serve Zurg as scientists and researchers
- Grubs, (Scooby Doo's Frank Welker) Zurg's equivalents to the LGMs of Star Command, more technicians and mechanics than the Brain Pods.
- "Hornets" are Zurg's robotic soldiers, extremely expendable (similar to battle droids from Star Wars) and always get vaporized in mass numbers by Lightyear's team.
- "NOS-4-A2" (The Drew Carey Show's Craig Ferguson), is a robotic Vampire, capable of draining any system or entity driven by electrical power, as well as turing organisms into robots. His name is a pun on the term Nosferatu.
- Torque (Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett) minor bad guy with the ability to create duplicate versions of himself.
- XL (Bobcat Goldthwait) Earlier version of XR, but larger and more powerful due to his rebuilding himself with stolen robot parts. Also has a red (As opposed to yellow, with XR) head.
- Gravitina, (Reno 911!'s Kerri Kenney),a big-headed female villain with mental control over gravity. In love with Buzz.
- Evil Buzz Lightyear (Seinfeld's Patrick Warburton) A ruthless, pure evil version of Buzz Lightyear from an alternate reality. He was his reality's ruler, head of a vast evil empire, and was very cruel and cunning, manipulating Zurg and Gravitina (who adored him) to his own wicked ends. He is the exact opposite of Buzz in personality and demeanor,wears a modified uniform in colors similar to Zurg's, and has a goatee.
Episodes
01 - 10/02/00/00 - "The Torque Armada"
02 - 10/03/00/00 - "Gravitina"
03 - 10/04/00/00 - "XL"
04 - 10/05/00/00 - "Little Secrets"
05 - 10/06/00/00 - "Inside Job"
06 - 10/08/00/00 - "NOS-4-A2"
07 - 10/09/00/00 - "The Planet Destroyer"
08 - 10/10/00/00 - "The Beasts of Karn"
09 - 10/11/00/00 - "Tag Team"
10 - 10/12/00/00 - "The Main Event"
11 - 10/13/00/00 - "The Return of XL"
12 - 10/15/00/00 - "Strange Invasion"
13 - 10/16/00/00 - "The Taking of PC-7"
14 - 10/17/00/00 - "Mindwarp"
15 - 10/18/00/00 - "Mira's Wedding"
16 - 10/19/00/00 - "Panic on Bathyos"
17 - 10/20/00/00 - "Shiv Katall"
18 - 10/22/00/00 - "Stress Test"
19 - 10/23/00/00 - "A Zoo Out There"
20 - 10/24/00/00 - "Root of Evil"
21 - 10/25/00/00 - "Super Nova"
22 - 10/26/00/00 - "Downloaded"
23 - 10/27/00/00 - "The Plasma Monster"
24 - 10/29/00/00 - "The Crawling Flesh"
25 - 10/30/00/00 - "Dirty Work"
26 - 10/31/00/00 - "The Slayer"
27 - 11/01/00/00 - "The Lightyear Factor"
28 - 11/02/00/00 - "Clone Rangers"
29 - 11/03/00/00 - "Bunzel Fever"
30 - 11/05/00/00 - "Develoutionaries"
31 - 11/06/00/00 - "Head Case"
32 - 11/07/00/00 - "The Yukari Imprint"
33 - 11/08/00/00 - "The Shape Stealer"
34 - 11/09/00/00 - "Star Crossed"
35 - 11/10/00/00 - "Haunted Moon"
36 - 11/12/00/00 - "Stranger Invasion"
37 - 11/13/00/00 - "Eye of the Tempest"
38 - 11/14/00/00 - "Revenge of the Monsters"
39 - 11/15/00/00 - "Lone Wolf"
40 - 11/16/00/00 - "Planet of the Lost"
41 - 11/17/00/00 - "Revenge of the Raenoks"
42 - 11/19/00/00 - "The Starthought"
43 - 11/20/00/00 - "Millennial Bugs"
44 - 11/21/00/00 - "Conspiracy"
45 - 11/23/00/00 - "At Large on a Small Planet"
46 - 11/24/00/00 - "Sunquake"
47 - 11/26/00/00 - "First Missions"
48 - 11/27/00/00 - "Large Target"
49 - 11/29/00/00 - "War and Peace and War"
50 - 10/14/00 - "Lost in Time"
51 - 10/21/00 - "Rookie of the Year"
52 - 10/28/00 - "Wirewolf"
53 - 11/04/00 - "The Rescue Mission"
54 - 11/11/00 - "Star Smasher"
55 - 11/18/00 - "Enemy Without a Face"
56 - 11/25/00 - "Good Ol' Buzz"
57 - 12/02/00 - "Return to Karn"
58 - 12/09/00 - "Speed Trap"
59 - 12/16/00 - "Holiday Time"
60 - 12/23/00 - "Opposites Attract"
61 - 01/06/01 - "Ancient Evil"
62 - 01/13/01 - "42"
63 - ??/??/?? - "The Adventure Begins - Part 1"
64 - ??/??/?? - "The Adventure Begins - Part 2"
65 - ??/??/?? - "The Adventure Begins - Part 3"