The Crazy Crash Bandicoot Show!

The Crazy Crash Bandicoot Show is an American animated musical comedy television show loosely based off the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise created by Naughty Dog Studios. The show is produced by GAME Entertainment in collaboration with Bohbot Entertainment.

The series first aired in Syndication through the Amazin' Adventures block from January-September 1997. The show eventually aired it's remaining episodes on the BKN from September '97-January '98. It was the first GAME production to be completely animated in Digital Ink.

Show Summary
Crash is part of a band called "The N-Sane Crew". The bands members mainly consist of Crash himself, his sister Coco, his fiancée Tawna and his childhood friend named "Jimmy". However, they have to face competition from a rival band titled "The N.Gins" with the band members being: Neo Cortex, N.Gin, Dingodile and Ripper Roo.

Although the N-Sane Crew are just a "rookie" band, they'll never give up no matter what. As all they wanna do is have fun and fight evil.

The show takes place in a seperate canon from the Crash Bandicoot series and is therefore: non-canon.

The N.Sane Crew

 * Weird "Al" Yankovic as Crash Bandicoot, a goofy yet heroic member of the N.Sane crew who always takes risks, he's very emotional and is quick to laugh and quick to cry. He's the lead vocalist of the N.Sane Crew who serves as the leader and Face of the group.
 * Rachael Macfarlane as Coco Bandicoot, Crash's sister who also serves as a genius, she is also a goofball as she likes to make silly faces at various photoshoots. She's the main guitarist and backup vocalist of the group. Although she has become a lead vocalist in some songs. She's often seen carrying a pink laptop just like the games.
 * Anna Van Hooft as Tawna, Crash's Fiancée who is a huge fashionista, she's also kind although she can be rough at times. She's the main Bassist of the group.
 * Richard Steven Horvitz as Jimmy, Crash's childhood friend who doesn't understand what's going on most of the time. He's the main drummer of the group.

The N.Gins

 * Corey Burton as N.Gin, lead vocalist of the group who thinks he's way better than everyone, his music is infamously known for being "awful".
 * Lex Lang as Neo Cortex, a short-tempered reckless doctor who doesn't feel any regret. He's the Guitarist of the group and backup vocalist.
 * David Anthony Pizzuto as Dingodile, half Crocodile, half Dingo. He is infamous for running his restaurant with the worst food imaginable, although he's evil on the outside, he's actually nice deep down. He's the group's main bassist.
 * Andrew Sabiston as Ripper Roo, the most craziest member of the group who can't control himself. He's the group's main drummer.

Other Characters

 * Natasha Collins as Liz, the apartment manager at the N.Sane Crew's apartment. She's often seen sulking over people and constantly reading the latest magazines.
 * Kazumi Evans as Megumi, a hyperactive genki girl who's the N.Sane Crew's biggest fan.
 * James Arnold Taylor as Geoffery, a Bandicoot who works at the "Slop n' Stuf" Diner (A place where the N.Sane crew hangs out).
 * Lauren Tom as Yaya Panda a shy panda girl who's always checking in on the N.Sane Crew.
 * Richard Yearwood as Hasty, a reindeer from the north who always takes risks.
 * Quinton Flynn as Chick Gizzard Lips, a Chicken who hosts "The Wumpa News" with his co-host.
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Stew, a co-host of "The Wumpa News" who tends to go off-topic at times.
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Penta Penguin, a penguin from the north who loves all music.

Production
In Mid 1996, GAME announced that a Crash Bandicoot show was in development as a co-production with Bohbot. Early production of the show started around the same time as the original Crash Bandicoot game was being developed, the show's working title was "Discount Sonic Show". coincidentally, GAME would produce a similar show with SEGA called "Sonic Speed Blast" 2 decades later.

The show's animation was outsourced to Hong Ying Animation while the shows theme song was animated in-house from an unknown studio. According to producer: Joseph Kim, Universal Cartoon Studios would've helped co-produce the project, but quietly stepped down for unknown reasons.

The show marks the debut of various characters, including Crash's sister: Coco Bandicoot.

Broadcast
Although the series first aired on syndication through the BKN (formerly Amazin' Adventures), reruns of the show would eventually air on the GAME Funhouse Network from 2005-2006 with the show briefly returning for the 2011 season on: GAME's super secret breakfast party as part of Crash Bandicoot's 15th Anniversary.

In Canada, the show aired on Teletoon.

The show aired on CBBC in the UK, with the show not airing in Australia until 1999 as part of Network Seven's The Big Breakfast. Additionally, the show aired on Antena 3 (Spain), Mediaset (Italy), Fox Kids (Latin America) and TV Tokyo (Japan).

Home Media Releases
In the year 1998, GAME released the show on VHS through GAME home entertainment with 4 volumes of the show. Eventually in the year 2004, ADV Films acquired the distribution rights to the series on VHS and DVD and would release 3 more volumes of the show.

In June 2011, GAME released a 10-episode best of collection entitled: "The Crazy Crash Bandicoot Show: The Best Band In Town!" which also included a bonus episode of The Adventures of Big Nate and RobotWho?.

Later in 2016, Studio upstairs released the complete series on DVD excluding the bonus cartoons as part of "The Golden Toon Collection".