wait remember the replacements it was a disney channel original animated tv series that aired
on the flagship disney channel from july 28 2006 to march 30th 2009. it ran for two seasons disney
plus only has one of the seasons why regardless today for our wait remember series we are going
to take a look into what this show was some interesting info about it and what ultimately
happened to it and of course my personal thoughts on it as well so let's just hope that i don't get
replaced oh okay uh-huh i understand all right some company just called me apparently i have
to go to a thing now hi it's me nerdstalk jordan had two uh like he said do a thing i guess and
now i'm here i don't know what i'm supposed to do here uh just play the intro thingy i guess
that was weird but you know what else is weird the amount of times i say weird also the replacements
not shown but explained at the beginning of each episode in the theme song is the overall concept
of the series that two siblings todd and reilly were living in an orphanage until one day they
stumbled across a flemco comic book which had an ad for the fleemco phone after mailing away
their order along with 1.98 the two kids received their fleemco phone which allowed them to call
the fleemco company to replace any person at all that they want with someone else now a word from
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also explained in the theme song but not shown in the series is that riley and todd immediately
after getting the fleemco phone used it to get a british secret agent mom named agent k
and a professional daredevil dad named dick daring this does suddenly bring into question
if todd and riley were orphans who did agent k and dick replace were there birth parents
out there the entire time and todd and riley got them replaced with two people who actually cared
about them this is wild right also are dick daring and agent k in love they were suddenly
assigned together to be two random kids parents like what's their relationship like is this an
emotionally functional household okay i'm done questioning these plot holes back to discussing
the actual show and a lot of these plot holes were kind of be discussed later in the show anyway todd
daring is an 11 year old who is mischievous lazy and self-centered he loves playing video games
and hates school you know like stereotypical 11 year old kids do in cartoons throughout the series
he uses the fleemco phone mostly for selfish purposes calling in replacements that solely
benefit him or his friends riley daring is the 13 year old older sister of todd who is more mature
and more caring than her brother probably is a bit of an overachiever engaging in numerous
extracurricular activities including everything from hornet hive scouts to baseball compared to
todd riley normally uses her phone to replace mean or unfair adults in their lives despite her
normally good intentions riley does occasionally use the phone for selfish purposes as well their
replacement mother karen agent k daring is a super spy from britain who is habitually either running
off on a mission or taking care of house missions i.e chores she is always there to give advice to
her adopted children and is fully committed to being the best mom that she can be with that said
she is canonically a terrible cook saving the world no biggie cooking some chicken
nuggies that's another story richard dick daring todd and riley's replacement father is a world
daredevil and semi-professional stunt artist dick is committed to the daredevil lifestyle spending
much of the series planning and or performing new tricks while mildly immature and reckless dick is
shown to care greatly about his family it should also be noted that in several episodes instead
of seemingly being randomly put together by flemco dick and agent k do seem to deeply care about each
other so plot holes aside the love may be real who will it be next the replacements is all new
right here on disney channel put down that phone we're back with the replacements on disney channel
the last member of the daring family is the family car and bear with me this makes sense in a second
named carter but nicknamed carr the family car is a high-tech spy car with a british accent with
an advanced intelligence and numerous gadgets who will do just about anything for the family as long
as the person it's for isn't dick carr's concept was strongly modeled after kit from knight rider
and plays into 2001 space odyssey's hal tropes the replacements was created by dan santat an
american children's book arthur and illustrator santat was born to thai parents in brooklyn before
moving to california at the age of three where he still lives today he initially attended the
university of california san diego where he got a bachelor's degree in microbiology unsatisfied
with this choice santa decided to go back to get an education and illustration from the art center
of college design a decision that really helped him find his true calling in 2004 he published
his first children's book the guild of geniuses and he later did other illustration jobs such
as the illustrator for r.a spratt's book manny piggins in the first book in rail pearlman's auto
undercover series in 2015 he won the caldecott medal for distinguished illustrations for his book
the adventures of beekle the unimaginary friend santa originally came up with the concept for
the replacements as a children's book idea but after thinking about it for a while he decided
that it would function best as a tv show and thus he decided to pitch it to disney santa found the
experience of working for a large company like disney new and challenging with a steep learning
curve when it comes to figuring out how to appease several high-ranking executives at once while
still trying to tell the story he was interested in telling when the replacements ended he decided
that while he learned a lot from his time at disney he greatly prefers the greater freedom that
comes with illustrating for books and commercials and decided to refocus his efforts on that as of
2020 santa has provided the illustrations for over 60 books during his career back to
the replacements though every episode follows a basic formula riley and todd are living their
lives they run into some adult who causes some sort of problem for them then one or both of the
two kids call flemco using the flimco phone with a request to replace the adult or adults with some
other specific type of person the episodes then normally end with todd and riley realizing some
sort of lesson about appreciating what they had had before and they asked for the replacement to
be reversed they are re-replacing the replacement or are they un are they unreplacing the rep who's
replay are they were double replacing is it a triple replacement during the end credits of
each episode a character from the show endorses a random fleemco product which confirms that fleemco
does have other services besides the wild one of switching out people at will why doesn't everyone
just have and use this technology then though it just seems too big for everyone to not know
about this thing and going further to use it well there is a reason for that thanks for asking when
calling in a replacement todd and riley normally video call conrad fleem the mysterious owner of
flemco with a great mustache conrad's face isn't shown to the audience until the final episode of
the series titled irreplaceable so going forward to explain all this it will be considered heavy
spoilers so if you'd want to not be spoiled you can skip to the time stamp on the screen
in irreplaceable todd and riley learn that conrad fleem is actually their red-haired biological
uncle who had been wearing a disguise the entire time so they wouldn't recognize him on the video
calls after this revelation conrad explains that he has created this company so that his niece and
nephew would have the help they need in life while also learning important life lessons preventing
them from turning out like their careless father conrad's brother he also explains that he didn't
adopt riley and todd himself because at the time he was nervous that he wouldn't know how to raise
kids the episode and thus the series ends with conrad riley and todd deciding to have a closer
relationship moving forward with conrad going as so far as to invite his niece and nephew to co-run
the fleemco replacement program so they can help out other kids that were once in a similar
situation as their own no particular reason has been credited as to why the show ended in
mixed reviews low ratings all of the above can be pointed out as possible reasons but at least the
show ended in a proper way that finished telling the story they wanted to tell this isn't always a
commonplace thing so it's at least satisfying to get some answers regarding interesting questions
from the series and get an ending worthy of what the show was offering i personally really like the
aspect and dynamics of todd and riley's sibling relationship sure they have all the tropes that
siblings and media do they don't see eye to eye a lot they get on each other's nerves have opposing
ideas and views but at the end of the day they still care for each other and always look out for
one another especially because of their origins only having each other the concept of the show
while as cool as it is and in most cases works really well in the same vein as fairly oddparents
where timmy can make a wish and learn a lesson based upon the wish not being what he thought
it originally was that he wanted it can be a bit played out when you know what to expect nearly to
a t every episode some person is not to their liking they get replaced someone is being mean
they get replaced at least the title of the show fits really well the parental dynamics of agent k
and dick daring can fall into a nice heartwarming category at moments that feel genuinely sweet to
see other times it feels like they aren't fit to be replacement parents because of the lives
that they already live beyond the household it's very give and take here in the show that tries
to balance out cool ideas and cool characters with plots that don't feel too much different
from one another in no way do i think this is a bad show again i had a lot of fun with it and i
do like the characters and how they all interact plus the ending of the show leaves a solid impact
on everything that came before to fulfill your soul it's just missing something on top of it
to make it more memorable something worth going back to over and over again but knowing exactly
what to expect every episode can put a hindrance on doing so it was a fun and pretty easy watch
through but to get to that great ending again even though i do enjoy the characters feels
like a taller order than it should be better call flemco but what i want to know is your opinion on
the replacements what do you think about the show should it have continued on or did it wrap up in
a nice way that felt satisfying let me know in the comments thanks so much for watching
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