The Misfortune of Being Ned
The Misfortune of Being Ned | |
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Genre |
Comedy Joke Humour Suspense Pun Off-color humor Adult animation Animation |
Created by | Daneboe |
Written by |
Bobjenz Aaron Massey Spencer Grove |
Voices of |
Steve Zaragoza Kevin Brueck Meghan Camarena Various guest stars |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Bob Harper |
Running time | ~1 minute |
Production company(s) | Collective Digital Studio |
Distributor | |
Release | |
Original network | YouTube |
Original release | October 9, 2013 – April 23, 2014 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | The Annoying Orange |
The Misfortune of Being Ned is an animated short series created by the producers of the Annoying Orange web series. The series centers on the titular character of Ned, voice acted by Steve Zaragoza, a young boy who repeatedly finds himself in unfortunate situations.[1] Having debuted as part of the Annoying Orange "Shocktober" event on October 9, 2013, the series airs every Wednesday.[2]
Characters
Main
- Ned (voiced by Steve Zaragoza) is the titular protagonist of every episode. He is last seen going into a kitchen studio to meet the Annoying Orange whom he gets annoyed by. He suddenly wants to leave the kitchen but gets erased to a single head.
- Greg (voiced by Kevin Brueck) is a school bully and the main antagonist of the series
- Wendy (voiced by Megan Camarena) is Ned's girlfriend in most episodes including Ned Wins and Jet Pack.
- Sketchy Dude (voiced by Bobjenz) a guy who gets Ned Murdered a lot in Jet Pack, Ned gets Annoyed and the Pilot episode Free Balloon his fate is unknown.
Minor
- Radar Guy (voiced by Bobjenz)
- General (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Teacher (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Janitor (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Headless Horseman (voiced by Ethan Newberry)
- Fred's Dad (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Fred's Mom (voiced by Felicia Day)
- Fred (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Guy In The Elevator (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Games Worker (voiced by Ethan Newberry)
- Photographer (voiced by Kevin Brueck)
- Batman (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Painting Girl (voiced by Megan Camarena)
- Elves (voiced by Bobjenz and Aaron Massey)
- Santa Claus (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Evil Teddy Bear (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Ball Guys (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Other Teacher (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Batman Fan (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Ned's Grandpa (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Firemans (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Ned's Dad (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Ned's Mom (voiced by Megan Camarena)
- Luchador Loco (voiced by Tobuscus)
- Bird (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Scientist (voiced by Kevin Brueck)
- Police Man (voiced by Bobjenz)
- Future Man (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Musical Guys (voiced by Fine Brothers)
- Annoying Orange (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
- Marshmallow (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer)
Episodes
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Season premiere | Season finale | |
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1 | 10 | October 9, 2013 | December 18, 2013 | |
2 | 10 | February 19, 2014 | April 23, 2014 |
Season 1 (2013)
No. in series | Title | Original airdate | Ned's Misfortune |
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1 | "Free Balloons" | October 9, 2013 | Ned gets fired by the N.O.R.A.D, plummets to the ground, and gets sprayed by van smoke. |
Ned takes a ride on a free balloon, only to find himself attacked as an airborne threat. | |||
2 | "Spider-Ned" | October 16, 2013 | Ned turns into a spider and gets attacked by the janitor. |
Ned visits a medical research facility, and upon being bitten by a radioactive arachnid, turns into a spider. | |||
3 | "Pumpkin Ned" | October 23, 2013 | Ned's head gets replaced by a pumpkin. |
Ned goes out trick-or-treating, and in a last-minute attempt after forgetting to pick a costume, pretends to be the Headless Horseman before confronting the being himself. | |||
4 | "Hogwarts" | October 30, 2013 | Ned turns into a pig from the disease Hogwarts. |
In a parody of the introduction to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Ned receives a letter in the mail notifying him that he has been admitted into Hogwarts... or so he thinks. | |||
5 | "Ned Goes to Mars" | November 6, 2013 | Ned gets eaten by an alien from Mars. |
Ned arrives on Mars after a long flight in space, only to be confronted by his rival, Greg. | |||
6 | "Going Up" | November 13, 2013 | Ned gets shot by multiple arrows and his body explodes. |
Ned catches an elevator which leads him straight to the arena from The Hunger Games. | |||
7 | "Spelling Bee" | November 20, 2013 | Ned gets stung by a "spelling bee". |
Ned spells a word right in the school spelling bee and his prize is...a spelling bee, literally a real bee. | |||
8 | "The Chronicles of Ned" | December 4, 2013 | Ned gets eaten by a pride of lions. |
Ned goes to a haunted house and finds a mystical wardrobe, Ned thinks it would take him to Narnia, but it takes him to a lions den full of lions instead of Narnia. | |||
9 | "The Joke's On Ned" | December 11, 2013 | Ned gets beaten by Batman after his face-paint, and the face paint costed 3 dollars for Ned. |
Ned goes to a fun fair, He has a lot of fun and has his face painted as a clown, but Batman mistakes Ned for the Joker. | |||
10 | "Merry Nedmas!" | December 18, 2013 | Ned gets crushed, beaten and burnt into the toy machine thus becoming a jack in the box, which is sent to Greg on Christmas Day. |
Ned (who is dressed up as an elf) is working for Santa, but he, however he ends becoming a jack in the box when He has a look inside the toy machine. |
Season 2 (2014)
On December 18, 2013, Daneboe announced that The Misfortune of Being Ned would be renewed for a second season. The season premiered on February 19, 2014 with more episodes during the year.
No. | Title | Original airdate | Ned's Misfortune |
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11 | "Ned Wins!!!" | February 19, 2014 | Ned wakes up realizing it was just a dream and an evil teddy bear attacks him with an axe. |
Ned climbs on Mount Everest, and defeats Greg the Godzilla, flies on a bald eagle and it got changed into his girlfriend and wins the heart of his girlfriend Wendy, he finds out that it was all just a dream. | |||
12 | "Ball Boy" | February 26, 2014 | Ned gets thrown and hit like a football by the two football teams, thus after the Home team won the match, Ned earns an alligator and it eats him and the football staff needs a new football. |
Two teams are having a Football Match, but when the football burst, Ned who is in charge of getting new footballs, ran out of footballs, and becomes the new football instead. | |||
13 | "Ice Fishing" | March 5, 2014 | Ned is given superhero powers but no-one believes he's a real superhero and he gets a prank call from the Justice League saying he should join them. |
Ned is thrown underwater when ice fishing with Wendy and Greg, and a merman (presumed to be Poseidon or Neptune) gives Ned powers to be Aquaman. At Comic Con, no one believes he is the real Aquaman. | |||
14 | "Family Reunion" | March 12, 2014 | Ned's family reunion gets ruined when a volcano erupts and kills everyone. |
Ned's family reunion is in chaos when Ned's family gets killed by natural and unnatural causes. Note: This episode reveals that Ned's family is cursed. | |||
15 | "Jet Pack" | March 19, 2014 | Ned gets killed when he crashes a jet pack and is run over by a bus. |
Ned misses the school bus and is given a jet pack so he can get to school, but crashes it outside the school and gets ran over by the school bus. | |||
16 | "Video Games" | March 26, 2014 | Ned is killed by a character in his new video game console. |
Ned's parents get him a hologram gaming system but a character out of the game fights him and kills him. | |||
17 | "Ned & the Beanstalk" | April 2, 2014 | Ned is eaten by a giant. |
Ned plants some magic beans which grow into a huge beanstalk. He climbs it and is taken to a "giant spa" where he is pampered. However, after this he is eaten by Greg the Giant. | |||
18 | "Time Machine" | April 9, 2014 | Ned is killed by the T-1000 and squashed by the Tardis. |
Ned is sent to go back to the future but before he can gets stopped by a police car. Driving it is a future baddy sent to kill Ned. He stabs Ned before Ned is squashed by the Tardis which lands on top of him. | |||
19 | "Easter Egg Hunt" | April 16, 2014 | Ned gets eaten by a T. Rex. |
Ned goes on an Easter egg hunt and tries to find a special egg. He finds it but it turns out it's a dinosaur egg and the baby dinosaur's mother devours Ned. | |||
20 | "Ned Gets Annoyed" | April 23, 2014 | Ned loses everything but his head because of the eraser. |
In the series finale, Ned goes to the kitchen studio to meet the Annoying Orange. However, he soon loses his body after Orange summons an eraser. Note: It is said at the end of the video that a new talk show titled The Marshmallow Show was announced for premiere on June 4. |
References
- ↑ ""Annoying Orange" YouTube Channel Expands Slate with New Animated Shows" (Press release). ToonZone. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
- ↑ "Annoying Orange - Shocktober!!!". Collective Digital Studio. 30 September 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.