Oggy And The Cockroaches Cartoon

The cartoon “Oggy and the Cockroaches” is an original French cartoon first broadcast on September 27, 1997. In the so-called “first generation”, Oggy is a cat of indeterminate color in a brown anthropomorphic house, along with his two mouse roommates, one of whom communicates only by squeaking. He spends his days lazily doing nothing until nighttime, when he goes out to the garbage can to eat leftovers (and the occasional live mouse) meant for his three voracious feline neighbors: big red Tom, small white Jerry and black-orange-striped Dee Dee. Oggy and the Cockroaches is a French animated television series created by SPIP and produced by DQ Entertainment Group. The show is about a family of human-like cockroaches in New York City that suffer abuse from humans, but thrive on this behavior. Each episode features slapstick comedy adapted from American cartoons, as well as original situations.

Oggy And The Cockroaches Cartoon

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Oggy is a cat with a light blue body, green eyes, red nose, grey tummy and white feet. Oggy usually spends his time either watching TV or doing housework — when not chasing the cockroaches. Despite the constant mayhem caused by the cockroaches, Oggy has developed a sort of love–hate relationship with them, having lived with them for a long time. Whenever he finds himself alone in his house, he will eventually begin to miss the cockroaches along with their pranks (as seen in the episode “Priceless Roaches” and “So Lonely”/”Alone at last”) followed by nothing interesting happening in his life. He also has a fear of heights, as shown in Season 1 episodes “The Rise & the Fall”/”Vertigo”, but in “The Lighthouse Keeper” Jack has a morbid fear of heights instead of him.
The Cockroaches are a gang of three cockroaches named Dee Dee, Marky and Joey, who loves playing tricks on other characters such as Oggy and Jack. However, if the cats left, they would miss each other as seen in “Moving Out”.
- Dee Dee is the youngest cockroach with a dark blue body, orange head, black nose, green eyes and black feet. Always hungry, his appetite sometimes reaches insane proportions, often resulting in the consumption of larger animals or other things that would otherwise be inedible (such as hyenas in one case and, due to the effects of a poisonous mushroom in another case, an insect; other instances include the fish on the wallpaper in “Oggy’s Clone”/”Oggy’s Costume” and a clownfish in “Scuba Diving”). He is known to like opera. Sometimes it is shown that his feet are so foul-smelling that the juice they produce is toxic and can melt objects, as seen in “Caught in a Trap”/”High Security Fridge”.
- Marky is the tallest and middle cockroach with a silver body, green head, black nose, pink eyes (originally red), and black feet. Although Marky originally used to love causing mischief just like Dee Dee and Joey, he has grown to be more laid-back as the series progress. In most episodes, he is shown with Dee Dee as his partner. His hobbies are dating puppets and reading books; he also has bad breath as revealed in “It’s a Small World”/”Itsy-Bitsy Oggy”. His eyes are red again in the ending of the episode “Teleportation” where he is stuck in ice cubes.
- Joey (born 15 June 1991) is a cockroach with a purple-pink body, a pink right eye (originally red), a yellow left eye, lavender head, black nose, and black feet. Even though he is the shortest roach in the group, he is the most intelligent, always being the brain in the plans, but is sometimes forced to go alone because Marky and Dee Dee often think that his plans are stupid. He loves money, but his efforts always fall short, usually ending with him getting swatted or beaten up.
Jack is a cat with an olive body, yellow eyes, red nose, pale pink stomach, and white feet. In contrast to Oggy, he is more short-tempered, violent, and arrogant than him. He often finds himself building huge machinery, such as roach-catching contraptions, and is very interested in physics and chemistry (that is, the more explosive parts of it). Jack has an excellent relationship with Oggy, as he cares about him a lot, especially in the episode “Happy Birthday” where he tries to stop Oggy from suicide. Jack mostly lives and sleeps at Oggy’s house, and owns a green jeep in which he and Oggy go for journeys, beach, and fishing. He is sometimes seen trying to propose to Monica, but the cockroaches’ pranks always make it stop. In one episode (“Don’t Rock the Cradle”/”Oggy the Babysitter”), Jack and Monica seem to have a baby together and ask Oggy to babysit their child. In “Just Married”, Jack plans to get married but it got canceled at the end due to roaches. In the Hindi dub, Jack is shown as the elder brother of Oggy.

Oggy and the Cockroaches is a French-American animated series based on the characters from the French animated television series of the same name. The show is produced by Xilam Animation and Marathon Media, with animation done in France and South Korea. It debuted in 2001 as part of Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block for action cartoons.

The series features Oggy, a cat who lives with his owner Tom and his dog Jack. He is often tormented by three cockroaches—Marky, Dee Dee, and Joey—who live in the house next door. They generally plot to steal food from Oggy or take over his house while he is away, but their plans always fail due to their own incompetence or Oggy’s ingenuity.

The cartoon Oggy And The Cockroaches is a unique show that distinguishes itself from other shows with its unique animation. The characters have their own unique personalities, and the show’s creators have created an interesting plot for each episode.

The episodes focus on Oggy, an anthropomorphic cat, who lives with his friends: Jacky, an anthropomorphic dog; Igor, an anthropomorphic fly; and Marguerite, an anthropomorphic housekeeper who is often referred to as “Madam” by the other characters. The series follows their adventures at home and at work along with their enemies François le cafard (a cockroach) and his wife Patricia la cafarde (a cockroach).