The Lampies

The Lampies is a 2000 British animated television series. Co-production is between Red Balloo Productions and Uli Meyer Studios. It was created by David Bonner.

Plot
This series revolves around a literally colorful group of sprites called the Lampies, who are also tiny electricians responsible for making sure lights stay lit and fixing them if they're needed. They often have to fend off the Roons, a group of cloaked, hooded, green creatures who live in the sewers and are opposed to light, as they detest it due to their sensitivity to it, and they prefer darkness. Light is the Roons' weakness. Sometimes the Lampies help others in need or they receive assistance from them as they meet them along the way.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The art is quite vivid and crisp enough. The animation is just among the smoothest one will find in T.V. cartoons.
 * 2) The concept makes it stand out enough, having plenty of creativity and originality going for it.
 * 3) The stories are imaginative and well-conceived as well.
 * 4) The character designs are pleasant and decent enough.
 * 5) The characters themselves are great and have enough individualities to them.
 * 6) Nice, synthesized music for the theme song in the intro.
 * 7) Voice acting that sounds well-done.
 * 8) Viewers get to know and learn more about the characters as the series goes on, like one of the Lampies, Capt. Brightlight, having a brother who looks like him, but is buff, and the latter visits him and the others in one episode.
 * 9) A lot of hilarity that pursues and is provided.
 * 10) Well-written and decent dialogue.
 * 11) Some, certain, heartwarmingly pleasant and delightful episodes, like one in which Livewire temporarily adopts a puppy-like dustywuppy.
 * 12) It spawned a Christmas single called "Light Up the World for Christmas" and an album of songs inspired by the show.
 * 13) Although the main characters' names are generic in their pertaining to some aspect of electricity, one can see how they're understandable and make sense given the show's theme.

Trivia

 * Show creator David Bonner was previously a police officer.
 * There were originally supposed to be 50 more episodes made, which would've brought the total to 100. But ended up with less getting produced due to budget issues.

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