John Callahan's Pelswick (or simply Pelswick) is a comedy animated television series based on the comic books by John Callahan for CBC Television. It was co-produced by Nelvana and Suzhou Hong Ying Animation Company Limited.
Characters
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Pelswick Eggert (voiced by Robert Tinkler) – A 13-year-old boy who uses a wheelchair. How he became a paraplegic is not revealed in the series, but the series' creators imply through commentary that it was due to a car accident. He dislikes it when people treat him differently because of his disability. He dislikes following the crowd and he goes by his own rules.
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Ace Nakamura (voiced by Phil Guerrero) – Pelswick's best friend of Asian ethnicity. Ace is technologically smarter than any of his friends, and is often the thinker of the situation.
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Goon Gunderson (voiced by Peter Oldring) – Pelswick's other best friend. Huge and slow-witted in his actions and thoughts, Goon is generally good-hearted but rather dangerous when angry. He does not know that wrestling is staged.
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Julie Smockford (voiced by Julie Lemieux) – A beautiful redhead and Pelswick's love interest. She dislikes all the cliques and popularity contests at school and seems to care mostly about her popularity and image. Julie is smart, dramatic, sometimes annoying, but cares a lot about Pelswick. Pelswick has a crush on her but she is fully oblivious about it. Julie believes in justice for all.
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Sandra Scoddle (voiced by Kim Kuhteubl) – Julie's snooty and arrogant best friend/rival and one of Pelswick's friends. She thinks she is better than everyone else and often disputes with Julie. She thinks she is cool, but she's not. She gets caught into the latest trends. Is of African-American ethnicity.
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Mr. Jimmy (voiced by David Arquette) – Pelswick's guardian angel who often gives him advice that confuses him until the last moment, no matter what it is. Pelswick cannot stand it when his advice doesn’t make sense. He is also the comic relief of the series.
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Kate Eggert (voiced by Tracey Moore) – Pelswick's precocious younger sister. She treats her reputation as a little sister like a business and usually blackmails Pelswick when butting into his business. She has dreams of owning a big corporation. She is 7 years old.
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Bobby Eggert – Pelswick's and Kate's baby brother. He rarely talks and admires Pelswick. Because their mother died in a car accident Bobby doesn’t remember her.
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Quentin Eggert (voiced by Tony Rosato) – Pelswick, Kate and Bobby's politically correct father who works as a college professor until he is fired in "The Case of the Filched Files." He later gets his job back. He wants to do everything by papers. His wife was killed in the same car accident that made Pelswick into a paraplegic.
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Priscilla "Gram-Gram" Eggert (voiced by Ellen-Ray Hennessy) – Quentin's mother and Pelswick, Kate and Bobby's deranged grandmother. She often does "extreme" acts beyond that of a grandmother. Most of these acts results in her getting arrested.
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Boyd Scullarzo (voiced by Chuck Campbell) – The rival of Pelswick's school who likes bullying Pelswick and others, not physically (he's particularly against hitting Pelswick because he's in a wheelchair), but with humiliation.
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Vice Principal Ziegler (voiced by David Huband) – The vice principal of Alcatraz Jr High, Pelswick’s school. Despite his title, he usually assumes the role of a principal. Throughout the show, there is no state of there being a principal at Alcatraz Jr High. During the second episode of the series, this issue was mentioned by Goon who questioned why their school had a vice principal but without a principal.
Episodes
Season 1 (2000–01)
Season 2 (2001–02)
Broadcast and home media
The show aired in reruns on
CBS during the Nick on CBS block from September 14 to November 23, 2002, and on Nicktoons from May 2002 to Early 2005. In 2004, a poll on FUNimation's website revealed that they held the DVD rights to Pelswick, but failed to materialize and years later, they added to all of streaming services such as Tubi and Pluto TV. The show airs in reruns on Adult Swim in Canada as of early 2021.
[ TV Schedule for Adult Swim - East HD]
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