Dan and Ethel

Dan and Ethel is a Flarlandian animated series made by Next Level (later merged with Studio Warley) for K-Zone. Despite 46 episodes and a total of roughly 85 segments, it's been considered as "forgotten" in Flarlandian animation history, for numerous reasons: jokes that its purported target wouldn't understand, being "too Flarlandian" to export and "too unappealing". Nonetheless the series was exported to a number of foreign channels, including international feeds of Nickelodeon during its run.

Premise

Dan is 11 years old. He is "just a normal boy" who works at MediaWorks (supposedly a parody of IBC) for one of its newspapers, with his apartment being an annex. He is reportedly underpaid and spends his work money at school. Ethel, his twin sister, is the opposite and is much omre successful, landing a film career. Breaking family balance is Dan's younger (by a year) brother, Michael, who is an inventor.

Characters

• Dan
• Ethel
• Michael
• Pen
• AJ (voiced by Ajakoo Johnson-Roberts)
• Mathilda
• Squibbles (voiced by George Wendell)
• Keri

Episodes

Season 1

• 1: Exchangee
• 2: Night at the Salon/Pen's Birthday
• 3: Home Camping/A Hamster is Born
• 4: Nothing (At All)/Dan-ish
• 5: Mathilda
• 6: A New Job/Ethel's Room
• 7: Dirty/The Mask
• 8: Hurl World/Mansion: Impossible
• 9: Music Contest

Features special guest star John Risham, lead vocalist of Pyracy. This episode was highly controversial upon its premiere, even though Pyracy made a song with lyrics "appropriate" for its viewing audience.

• 10: Nobody/I Dream of Teleporting
• 11: Problems in Me/I Lost My Voice
• 12: Dragons
• 13: The Curse
• 14: Egg Hunt/My Name Is Not Richard
• 15: Back to Basics/AJ Out of Control
• 16: Pareha!/Michael's Machine Con

With Dan and Michael in the Pakifas, they accidentally speak Pakifan while trying to integrate with the locals, but have to find a way to go to the Pakifan capital and start speaking English again.

• 17: Contingency/Hidden Talent
• 18: Secret Ingredient
• 19: Hidden/Everybody's Pen 'Cept Me
• 20: The Search for Squibbles
• 21: A Gift from Hopeland/Unlocking the Kid in Me
• 22: More Than Cool/Mixed Together
• 23: Fire and Ice/Sand Hassle
• 24: Jailed

This episode was supposed to be a four-parter (pairs 24 and 25), but K-Zone executives thought that it was "too long".

• 25: I Bought MediaWorks!/Philip Under Control
• 26: The Mayor/I See the Future in My Eyes
• 27: Out of the Family/Nemo

Tired of Squibbles, Dan adopts a merboy named Nemo.

• 28: Family Business: Part 1
• 29: Family Business: Part 2
• 30: Sharing a Room with AJ/Alternate Dimensions
• 31: Be Quick!/Be Slow!
• 32: Terrorific Tales/Funland?
• 33: Merdragons/Michael's Portal
• 34: Nemo Productions

Nemo wants to be "the next Khyber" and gets in charge of MediaWorks' film division, and renames it because he's the boss now.

• 35: Plagiarizer
• 36: The Puppeteer/No Work, No Life
• 37: No Candy
• 38: The Sweetest Things in Life Are Bad/Nemo's Rise
• 39: Dinner Time Machine/Caught on Camera
• 40: Glued Together/Cheating is Fun
• 41: Holiday from Another Dimension/Chained Up
• 42: King AJ
• 43: Cooking is so Fun/Apologies Invented
• 44: Ninjas/Ethel Cheats Class
• 45: Not What It Seems: Part 1
• 46: Not What It Seems: Part 2

Season 2

• 1 (47): Buy One, Get One Free
• 2 (48): Nemo's Wickedness/Saving Classmates
• 3 (49): Lazy/Killing Time in the Time Machine
• 4 (50): A Distant Convention
• 5 (51): Farewell, Fancies/Return of the Merdragons
• 6 (52): Michael's Failure/Playing Sports is Bad
• 7 (53): New Jobs/Guilty
• 8 (54): The Tragedy: Part 1
• 9 (55): The Tragedy: Part 2
• 10 (56): Fancies Reopened/Eye Problems
• 11 (57): The Volcano
• 12 (58): Triple Trouble/Mad Game
• 13 (59): Super Incredible: Part 1
• 14 (60): Super Incredible: Part 2
• 15 (61): Park/Houston, a Huge Problem
• 16 (62): King of Everything/A Merman's Eyesight
• 17 (63): Two and a Half Brothers
• 18 (64): Insomnia/Putting the Flarlandian Flag on the Moon
• 19 (65): Flushed Ideas/Time Flies, But Returns
• 20 (66): Pen, Nemo's Next Victim
• 21 (67): In Orience/MediaWorks Bankrupt
• 22 (68): Farewell, Everyone

Series finale. As MediaWorks winds up and all of Dan's family members lose their jobs there, Michael turns everyone in the family - including himself - into merpeople, as per Nemo's request.