Hey Monie!
Hey Monie! is an American animated sitcom produced by Soup2Nuts. It features heavily improvised dialogue by the Second City cast, similarly to Soup2Nuts animated sitcom Home Movies.
| Hey Monie! | |
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| Created by | Dorothea Gillim |
| Voices of | Angela V. Shelton Frances Callier |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
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| Producer | Soup2Nuts |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
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| Network | Oxygen BET |
| Release | March 4 – April 15, 2003 |
Its creator and executive producer was Dorothea Gillim, creator of WordGirl, who also produced animated series Curious George, Pinkalicious & Peterrific, Molly of Denali, and Time Warp Trio.
The show began as 5-minute shorts that were part of Oxygen Network's animation series X-Chromosome. It achieved 11-minute episodes Hey Monie! aired on BET and, afterward, on the Oxygen in 2003. It was BET's first animated series; BET stated that it followed "the tradition of entertaining and satirical animated programming like The Simpsons, The Critic, and Daria."
In 2003, Seattle PI described the series as "smart, and at times wickedly funny."
It is one of the only adult animated series to feature a Black woman as its protagonist.