The theatrical release of Monsters vs. Aliens is less than a week away! These last few days of waiting can be the most difficult, so to tide you over, let’s take a look at another animation featuring the voice talents of our fearless leader, Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Jansen Adventure. Here’s everything you need to know, courtesy of MKTG 401: Marketing Concepts: The Colbertoverse.
Tek Jansen: The animated adventures (Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Jansen Adventure): In the summer of 2006, the Report began presenting a series of seven animated Tek Jansen adventures produced by J.J. Sedelmaier Productions (the same company that has worked with Robert Smigel, one of the actor Stephen Colbert’s mentors, on his “TV Funhouse” cartoons for Saturday Night Live). In addition to parodying the hypersexual characters in the fiction stylings of Bill O’Reilly, the adventures poke fun at science fiction novels and movies with intricate titles (Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7 — Tek Jansen in “Operation: Heart of the Phoenix — Dead or Alive: A Tek Jansen Adventure,”) and complicated plots. The opening sequence of the first episode parodies the scrolling plot explanation in the Star Wars series, for instance. Each adventure manages to work in a signature exclamation (“Solar Plexus!” “Halley’s Comet!”) and at least one mention that Tek, voiced by Colbert, has “obviously had hundreds of girlfriends.” In September 2007, the show debuted the first of a new series of eight Tek adventures. Created by FlickerLab, these episodes will cover the earlier history of the Tek Jansen character.
For wonderful synopses of each episode, point your laser to Wikiality.com. To see each episode and learn which Report writers worked on it and voiced some of the characters, see Better Know a Report Staffer.
Your homework this week is to discuss your favorite Tek Jansen episode(s). Mine is “Beginning’s First Dawn”, the first of Series 2. I’ve got a bit of a crush on the Alpha Squad agent . . . there’s just something about his voice. I also have a soft spot for “Space Station Theta-Zeus-Aquarius”, because it was the first episode I saw, and Tek’s frustration with his landing gear always makes me giggle like a Hgbwian high priestess.
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The theatrical release of Monsters vs. Aliens is less than a week away! These last few days of waiting can be the most difficult, so to tide you over, let’s take a look at another animation featuring the voice talents of our fearless leader, Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Jansen Adventure. Here’s everything you need to know, courtesy of MKTG 401: Marketing Concepts: The Colbertoverse.Tek Jansen: The animated adventures (Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Jansen Adventure): In the summer of 2006, the Report began presenting a series of seven animated Tek Jansen adventures produced by J.J. Sedelmaier Productions (the same company that has worked with Robert Smigel, one of the actor Stephen Colbert’s mentors, on his “TV Funhouse” cartoons for Saturday Night Live).
In addition to parodying the hypersexual characters in the fiction stylings of Bill O’Reilly, the adventures poke fun at science fiction novels and movies with intricate titles (Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Squad 7 — Tek Jansen in “Operation: Heart of the Phoenix — Dead or Alive: A Tek Jansen Adventure,”) and complicated plots. The opening sequence of the first episode parodies the scrolling plot explanation in the Star Wars series, for instance. Each adventure manages to work in a signature exclamation (“Solar Plexus!” “Halley’s Comet!”) and at least one mention that Tek, voiced by Colbert, has “obviously had hundreds of girlfriends.” In September 2007, the show debuted the first of a new series of eight Tek adventures. Created by FlickerLab, these episodes will cover the earlier history of the Tek Jansen character.
