Oddballs (TV series)

Oddballs
File:Oddballs (2022 TV series) Logo.png Title design
Genre	Comedy
Created by	James Rallison Ethan Banville
Directed by	Carl Faruolo Jouchelle Miranda Annisa Adjani Sarah Soh Chelsea Ker
Voices of	James Rallison Julian Gant Kimberly Brooks Gary Anthony Williams Misty Lee Kari Wahlgren Carl Faruolo Misty Lee Erika Ishii
Composer	Ben Bromfield
Country of origin	United States Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producers	Ethan Banville Carl Faruolo James Rallison Michael Zoumas Matthew Berkowitz Aaron Behl Jennifer Twiner McCarron
Producers	Sarah Soh (supervising) Alex Cichon (supervising) Caroline Lagrange (line) Tini Wider (line)
Editor	Megan McShane
Running time	17-20 minutes
Production companies	Netflix Animation Atomic Cartoons
Animation services	Atomic Cartoons
Original release
Network	Netflix
Release	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07) – present (present)

Oddballs is an animated comedy streaming television series created by James Rallison and Ethan Banville for Netflix. The series is based on Rallison's YouTube channel, TheOdd1sOut. Produced by Netflix Animation and Atomic Cartoons, the series debuted on October 7, 2022. The show features a total of twelve 17-20 minute episodes in its first season.

Premise

In the little town of Dirt, James, a bubble-shaped teenager, has observations on life which fuel his comedic rants at everyday annoyances and elevates them to "laughably" absurd heights. Along with his best friends Max, a talking crocodile, and Echo, a girl who claims to be from the future, James’ ridiculous schemes to question norms often result in disaster, which leads to them learning life's lessons...the odd way.

Cast and characters

• James Rallison as
  • James, a fictionalized version of Rallison. He is a bubble-shaped teenage boy who enjoys insane misadventures and going on rants, including subjects like toasters, trophies and line cutting.
  • Sagu, the talking cactus that houses James' trailer/tree-house.
• Julian Gant as Max, an anthropomorphic and dimwitted crocodile who is James' next-door neighbor and best friend. Max was previously seen in the music video for Rallison and David Brown's song Life is Fun.
• Kimberly Brooks as Echo, a time-traveling teenage girl who comes from the future and loves eating food, as she comes from a future where processed food went extinct as the result of one of James and Max's actions.
• Gary Anthony Williams as Mr. McFly, a Fly who is a teacher at Dirt school, that everyone loves.
• Carl Faruolo as Stuart
• Kari Wahlgren as Toasty
• Misty Lee
• Erika Ishii
• Harland Williams as Patrick
• Debra Wilson
• Paul Rugg

Production

Creators Rallison and Banville pitched the series to Netflix in early 2020, with the service picking up the series in August that year. According to Rallison, the entire production of the series occurred remotely, amid studios locking down during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rallison announced the series in a YouTube video on June 23, 2022, alongside a sneak peek of it. He also said in the video that the show would premiere later in the year. On September 16, 2022, an official trailer was released on James, Ethan and Netflix's YouTube channels, with an official release date of October 7 announced. Later the same month, James would upload a YouTube video titled "Pitching a Show", which goes over his process pitching the show and the show's screenwriting bible. More details on its production are currently unknown.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	"Raising Toasty"	Carl Faruolo	James Rallison, Ethan Banville & Carl Faruolo	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
James and Max have a sleepover and plan on making the perfect breakfast by making the perfect toast. However, the toaster ends up burning the bread, leaving Max and James upset. James proposes the idea of making a "smart toaster", and so he does with an AI chip. After he creates the smart toaster, it becomes sentient. James decides to call it Toasty and he tries to parent him. Max also tries to parent Toasty, but he does it differently than James, since he was a lab experiment. James and Max try to raise Toasty, but they argue due to the different ways they parent him, which leads to Toasty becoming evil and firing toast towards them. James and Max try to stop him, but Toasty escapes and runs to a bread factory. James catches up to him and calms him, which leads to Toasty powering off due to it raining and making a perfect piece of toast. Back at James and Max's tree-house, they throw the AI chip and Toasty to the trash, but Toasty, without them knowing, becomes sentient again.
2	"Breaking and Entering"	Jouchelle Miranda	James Rallison, Ethan Banville & Carl Faruolo	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
James wants a smartphone instead of his busted flip phone, and so he tries to convince his mom to do so, also saying to Max that he'll give him the flip phone. Begrudgingly, his mom brings him to her science lab where she works and fuses him with a smartphone, telling him that if he can go 24 hours without getting broken, she will give him a smartphone. James, excited, decides to use his smartphone body to do things like instant cake delivery, show baby photos of his teacher Mr. Mcfly (which leads to him being fired), and give a restaurant a 1-star review. However, right when he's about to go home, Max high-fives him, cracking his hand. Max takes James to his sister to fix him in exchange for food from the restaurant he gave him 1 star. Max's sister also fixes James' flip phone for Max to use. James ends up having to apologize to the owner of the restaurant, and he gets fixed. James gets back home with Mr. Mcfly because he became a rideshare driver after his firing. When James gets home, he accidentally confesses to his mom what happened and says he no longer wants a smartphone. Max then angrily throws the flip phone to James.
3	"Wanted Dead or Fly"	Annisa Adjani & Sarah Soh	Darin Henry	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
James is in prison working out and recounts what led to this. While procrastinating on homework, James kills a fly that is interrupting. The next day, James and Max find out their teacher, Mr. McFly's grandma went missing around James' house and he's starting a search party, causing James & Max to realize they might have killed her. When they get home, James buries the body, returning to find that Max has murdered several more flies. When they go to a store to get a shovel, Mr. McFly comes in and tells the cashier that 8 more family members have gone missing. When they begin to go home they are pursued by Mr. McFly, who then comes to James' house with tools. When James confesses, Mr. McFly informs him that his grandma was just holding a party that he wasn't invited to and James' parents had hired him to clean their gutters. The next day, James is arrested after Max snitches to the police out of panic. We go back to James exercising before he is released and meets up with Max. They are then chased by a horde of flies after James kills one of them.
4	"Line Cutters"	Chelsea Ker	Darin Henry	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
James and Max are in line to eat ribs when suddenly a girl who claims to be from the future cuts in front of the line. James, angry, tells Roxanne, a sentient rock guard, about the situation, but she brings all three back in line. The girl says she's named Echo and that she came from a future where processed food doesn't exist. She also says that a mysterious doctor in James' time period began the chaos in the future. James doesn't believe her, but Max does. James then plays Rock Paper Scissors with Roxanne, saying that if he wins, he'll go back to where he was, but if he loses he gets kicked out. James loses. Echo says that the cooks who made the ribs are aliens who plan on eating the humans. Max, desperate, sneak to where the ribs are located, and the trio eats them. Despite this, the cook (a parody of Gordon Ramsey) finds out and reveals himself to be an alien. James still doesn't believe Echo, but he does so after she says that they'll escape if he believes her, leading to them eating the ribs in peace. James plays another round of Rock Paper Scissors with Roxanne, but if he loses, he, Max, and Echo get kicked out again. He loses, and the trio are left alone.
5	"Boy with 2 Brains"	Sarah Soh	Ethan Banville	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
James discovers that a group of lockers, including his, has been made tiny so that the participation trophies can be added. While James complains about trophies having no worth anymore, Stuart, a slime kid, attacks Mr. McFly for giving him a D. When James shoves a bunch of trophies out of the way to fit his books in the shelf, one of them hits Stuart, freeing Mr. McFly, who then awards James the nicest person award. Stuart, angry, enters James' body to wreak havoc on Dirt. Max and Echo try to force Stuart out of James' body with hot sauce, but they fail. Eventually, James realizes that Stuart just wanted an award, changes his award from Nicest Person to Wurst Person and gives it to Stuart, convincing him to leave his body.
6	"Emo like the Wolfstank"	Annisa Adjani	Nick Lopez	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
In the locker room, Max is applying deodorant when James comes in upset he doesn't have a thing, such as Max being king of Competitive Feeling Squad. James complains about sweating for the first time and puts deodorant on his face, to Max's disgust. James begins sweating from his eyes, which he gets bullied for by Stuart, whom he stands up to. Mr. McFly is impressed and allows James to join Competitive Feeling Squad for the big competition the next day. James officially joins, allowing him to find his thing. Max, angry, confronts James who is reveling in his new found thing. The next day at the competition James is pulled aside by Mr. McFly who introduces Smooth Jason, Max's enemy, to James. Roxanne announces Smooth Jason against Max in the topic "Honesty in Sports". They both talk and Smooth Jason wins. James comes over to help and argues with Smooth Jason and wins. After winning one of the rounds, he finds he's run out of deodorant and goes to his stash, where he is confronted by Max. He refuses to give James the deodorant, saying that he's stolen his thing. James eventually gets it. James and Smooth Jason go against each other in the final round, a debate about stealing your best friend's thing. James confesses and then gives a speech about how it's Max's thing. Smooth Jason has a meltdown, calling James a cheater, but it's revealed the flower he's been sniffing the whole time was an onion, resulting in him and James getting disqualified.
7	"Behind Frenemy Lines"	Jouchelle Miranda	Valencia Parker	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
As James and Max enter the RV at the top of Sagu, Max asks if Echo has found a place to live yet. James reveals he's allowing Echo to live there. They enter to find the place a wreck with trash everywhere,as Echo eats snacks and plays a video game. James is unable to tell her how he feels, leading to him becoming incredibly passive aggressive. James claims Sagu is now a protected species, causing Echo to crash with James, much to his chagrin. Echo begins unintentionally making James' life miserable: eating his favorite donuts, throwing her stuff everywhere, interrupting his favorite show and moving into his room. Eventually, James drives Echo out of his room by getting rid of the furniture. James and Echo get in a fight, leading to James confessing he lied and finally telling Echo how he feels. Realizing her mistakes, Echo agrees to clean it up and the two make up.
8	"Pillow Fight Club"	Jouchelle Miranda	Darin Henry	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
9	"Grandma's Boy"	Chelsea Ker	Kathleen Chen & Brian Polk	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
10	"Blood Excuse"	Jouchelle Miranda	Nick Lopez	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
11	"Almost Home Alone"	Annisa Adjani	Darin Henry	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)
12	"Nugget Nonsense"	Annisa Adjani	Nick Lopez	October 7, 2022 (2022-10-07)

External links

• Oddballs on Netflix
• Oddballs at IMDb