Oscar's Oasis

Oscar's Oasis
Genre	Silent comedy Slapstick Cartoon series
Created by	Tae-Sik Shin[1]
Directed by	Arthur Qwak[2] Tae-Sik Shin Joeri Christiaen Frédéric Martin Fabrice Fouquet Stéphane Mit Yoshimichi Tamura Geoffroy De Crécy Lionel Allaix Marco Allard Dominique Debar Olivier Derynck
Voices of	Marie Facundo[3] Sly Johnson Martial Le Minoux Jérémy Prevost
Composer	Le Chantier
Country of origin	France South Korea[3]
Original languages	Silent Interjection
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	90 + 7 shorts + 1 pilot
Production
Executive producers	Sung-Jai Ahn[1] Corinne Kouper Eugene Kang Tom van Waveren Genevieve Dexter Guillaum Hellouin
Editor	Nazim Meslem[3]
Running time	4 minutes (pilot) 1–3 minutes (shorts) 7 minutes (original)
Production companies	TeamTO[4] Tuba Entertainment[4] Cake Entertainment Synergy Media
Original release
Network	Canal+ Family / Télétoon+ / TF1 (France) EBS (South Korea)
Release	5 September 2010 (2010-09-05) – 25 September 2011 (2011-09-25)

Oscar's Oasis (known as Oscar & Co in French and Oi! Osgar in Welsh) is an animated comedy television series consisting of 78 7-minute episodes.^[1] It was produced by TeamTO and Tuba Entertainment, in co-production with Cake Entertainment and Synergy Media with the participation of TF1, Canal+ Family, Télétoon+, EBS, BENEX, and Carrimages 5, and the support of National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (CNC), the Rhône-Alpes Region, the Poitou-Charentes region and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA).^[5] Although the series contains no dialogue,^[1] it features the voices of Marie Facundo, Sly Johnson, Martial Le Minoux and Jérémy Prevost.^[3] The show takes heavy inspiration from the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts from the Golden age of American animation.

Originally, the series started out as a short called Oasis, which then later became a series that was called Ooohhh Asis, and was composed of seven one-minute-and-a-half episodes, which were broadcast on 26 March 2008 from TF1.^[6][7] Oscar's Oasis debuted in its new format at the 2010 MIPTV Media Market.^[8] The series premiered on Canal+ and Canal+ Family in September 2010, and was broadcast on TF1 since late summer 2011.^[2][7] In July 2011, the series was released on Nintendo 3DS in 3D.^[9] The show started airing on Gulli on July 2, 2019.

Oscar is a lizard living in a non-specific desert that has features from several different real deserts, like the Sahara, Kalahari Desert, and North American deserts. An asphalt concrete highway runs through the area, used from time to time by various cargo trucks. Oscar is generally searching for food or water; he sometimes discovers liquid, in bottles or elsewhere, but is usually frustrated from recovering it for drink. An oasis supplies the only fresh water in the area, but its thick population of irascible and hungry crocodiles renders it inaccessible. At considerable personal risk (lizard is a delicacy for chickens), Oscar occasionally manages to steal an egg from a nearby hen coop, and he sometimes explores one of the piles of trash that litter the parched landscape. The Trio, which involves Buck, a vulture; Harchi, a hyena; & Popy, a fennec fox, inhabit a derelict school bus situated on a neighboring hill, but they mostly race about on a cast-off warehouse or grocery cart powered by Harchi and directed by Popy. Like Oscar, the trio constantly search for food and water - often competing with him, sometimes abusing him as a means, but occasionally cooperating with him when it suits their purpose. The main characters often find themselves falling off cliffs a la Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner, wherein the law of gravity is briefly suspended while the character comes to realize their imminent doom.

The four main characters are:^[4]

• Oscar (voiced by Marie Facundo) is the main character of the show. He is a gecko that is always getting into trouble with the trio – Buck, Harchi and Popy – and the chickens too. Oscar is always trying to catch flies and find some water, but most of the time things don't come out right. Whenever he has something interesting, the trio always tries to take it from him. Whilst he in turn often tries to steal the trio's food. In Oasis & Ooohhh Asis, he had no name.
• Harchi (voiced by Sly Johnson) - a hyena, the brawn of the Trio, he is given the physical jobs. He normally acts as the driving force behind the makeshift cart that he and his friends use to chase Oscar or the chickens. In the event of them taking a collective tumble, Harchi typically catches everyone so they avoid the ravine. Sometimes he can also show stupidity. In Oasis & Ooohhh Asis he was originally had his real name or was called Hatch.
• Buck (voiced by Sly Johnson) - a vulture, the brains of the Trio. This silly vulture tolerates when Harchi gets yelled at by Popy. In Oasis & Ooohhh Asis, he was originally called Burk.
• Popy (voiced by Marie Facundo) - a fennec fox, the leader of the Trio, the one who strategizes and gives directions. She is clever and sneaky, tricking the other animals as well as the two others in the trio. As shown in the episodes Pronto Express, Forbidden Paradise, and Bad Seed, she is also greedy. In Oasis & Ooohhh Asis, she was originally a male fennec fox called Panic.

• Manolo (voiced by Martial Le Minoux) - a truck driver who transports various items in the series. He is always asleep at the wheel while his dog, Roco, drives.
• Roco - Manolo's loyal and faithful dog. He always tries to keep their cargo safe and frequently chases Oscar and the trio or tries to deter them from the contents of the truck. He is generally more friendly with Oscar than with the trio.
• Lizardette - a female lizard to whom Oscar's heart belongs, though they sometimes compete with each other over things. In the episode Corn to be Wild, she has babies, but it's unknown who her mate is.
• The Chickens - their half-closed eyes give them a nonchalant, blasé appearance. They fall blindly into the traps laid for them, and get out of them without realizing they have escaped any kind of danger. They always try to eat Oscar.
• The Crocodiles - the most feared animals of the desert and the top predators.
• The Skunk - He doesn't smell good. He uses his smell to terrorize the other denizens of the desert, however Oscar is unaffected by his smell and often unwittingly scares him off instead. He often takes the trio's fruit.
• The Meerkats - The "thieves" of the desert, they sometimes steal stuff from the trio as they compete with Oscar. In some episodes, however, they work together with Oscar against the trio.
• The Dung Beetles - Oscar's friends who occasionally help him out of tough predicaments. In the episode Revenge of the Small Fry, Oscar once helped them roll up a large ball of dung, which they have never forgotten.
• Junior - Oscar's adopted son who made only one appearance in the show.
• The Fly - Oscar's dessert which he eats after a meal. The fly is quick and isn't always eaten by Oscar.

Each episode runs for 7 minutes. There is one episode in Oasis, 7 episodes in Ooohhh Asis, & 78 episodes in Oscar's Oasis, which is 86 episodes total.^[1]

• Official website
• Oscar's Oasis at IMDb