welcome to hector hector what's a hector your new home whoa hold the phone ladies
there was a moment in history where a lot of the cartoons that were coming out were a lot of darts
being thrown at a dart board to see what would stick what would land and what would be ultimately
okay to show on tv spoiler alert not a lot worked the early 2000s produced a lot of interesting
cartoons we were in an era of popular shows getting a theatrical movie but then we started
to see the opposite like jimmy neutron that had a movie in theaters and then was continued on
into a television show for nickelodeon which nowadays this isn't really a new concept we
basically see everything that dreamworks makes has already some sort of cartoon continuation on
netflix in the works that was a sentence that was hard to get out i'm gonna say two words osmosis
and jones a movie that you might remember as this weird bill murray eating a gross egg fever
dream or as a fun unique take on how your white blood cells and medicine help fight off germs
and bacteria within your body and i have some fun weird memories of this film but after not doing
so well at the box office somehow warner bros greenlitted tv series to follow ozzie and drix
on new adventures thus now we have ozzie andrix going on new adventures man that's pretty crazy
how this stuff just writes itself sometimes to the show's credit it lasted two seasons and received
mostly better reviews than the movie itself which is what i see and personally feel about how jimmy
neutron was received while i loved the original movie there are some episodes of the show that
i love and enjoy more than the film maybe that's the case here with ozzy and drix because the movie
received these mixed reviews so the show couldn't possibly have the hardest hurdles to leap over
right with the first episode of the show we catch up with ozzie and drix dealing with a situation
inside of frank who is the person they were inside of from the original film and due to them chasing
a disease known as the scarlet fever voiced by tim curry the end of getting transferred from frank to
hector gross hector is a young teen on the cusp of maturing the major difference being that frank was
an unkept germ-ridden slob that most time felt like there was no helping him even if ozzie and
drix were on the case hector was well kind of a clean slate and as osmosis jones himself puts it
i seen the photos in frank's memory banks the guy used to be in good shape what happened
fast food late nights smoking it all started going downhill around this age we can do a lot more good
here i mean 13 is a scary age hector's gonna need somebody who's been around the block a few times
somebody who can help him through these changes and keep him healthy so there's a legit chance
here to help out hector to stop early on from having bad eating habits smoking and well
overall personal hygiene so both ozzy and drix decide sure effort let's help make sure hector
has a fighting chance early on not to go down the same path as frank did and there we have the
basic premise of the show osmosis jones and drix are now part of hector's immune system
i really like this i think to have the top defenders of sickness join a new crew within a
new host dealing with new and more interesting situations than eating a disgusting egg
hold on i think i need a minute it still makes me gag i like all of what the show
had to offer it felt more interesting to see what new situations a younger healthier person
could offer the dynamic duo i mean seriously frank was a lost cause he was absolutely disgusting he
he ate the egg oh he ate the egg he ate the egg
the show never really had that big moment of relevance as it is easy to
get lost in the shuffle of muchalucha yugioh static shock cubics and oh yeah
pokemon i mean it even got overshadowed on its premiere episode coming out alongside
what's new scooby-doo what is new scooby-doo i don't know you're still solving mysteries guess
it can't be that new a pup named scooby-doo is better there i said it you cowards
get off me your army get off me so i wouldn't be surprised if the majority of you at all barely
remember this show i'm sure it at least sparked a vague memory of it or at least remembering the
film itself but i bet you couldn't name an episode of the show and i grew up watching all the shows i
listed on fridays and saturdays and because of my captured attention of the other shows
ozzie and drix became sort of lost in the mix i mean i never really forgot it i just didn't
fully remember it it was like a memory that's stuck in the back of my brain that rears its
head now and then to make me go oh yeah ozzy and drix existed so even though it isn't the
first show you remember from that time what made it special enough to be remembered at
all it was still a fairly competently made show the animation wasn't lazy and it was comparable
to anything else on kids wb at the time i think something that was impressive was that the show
always had unique character design since most of the show was different cells germs giant cold pill
everyone kind of had their own identity i mean even background characters and secondary
characters always have their own looks as well i mean ozzy and trix themselves are extremely
fleshed out here now sure they play into the same characteristics of the film just now a bit more
of their personality shines through osmosis jones is this over charismatic too big for his britches
private eye who is at most times too cocky for his own good and constantly trying to prove how good
he is at his job to his peers you're talking to osmosis jones here white blood cell police legend
and number one germinator from the city of frank drix is well just a fun-loving sweetheart who
wants nothing more than to be a beacon of good who can be a little naive sometimes now let's preface
this do i think you'll be able to pass any tests on the human anatomy or your immune system or any
other medical school test because of watching this show no of of course not but what the show did do
was effectively kind of show how germs or other situations would happen and enter you and how it
would affect your insides and how your white blood cells and your immune system would fight it off
to keep you good and healthy in an exaggerated way obviously but at least in a way that was
effectively entertaining and educational plenty of times they would even reference and mention
more obscure issues as to not make the show feel like it's stale or redoing the same narrative over
and over and over again heck in one episode they even mention float like a butterfly sting like
hepatitis b what i think was really interesting was the episode where's the smoke which would be
equivalent to your basic hey smoking is bad psa episode but at this point in the early
2000s a lot of the shows that would have a lot of these psas about not smoking don't do drugs
kind of phased out at this point that was more of like an 80s and 90s kind of
thing you would see here and there to be like hey kids we know you like this program
also don't touch a cigarette are you stupid so to see it still kind of carry over into the 2000s was
kind of interesting and you know i guess still a good message so yeah i guess you could say i
was still kind of in shock to see an episode like this still being made and in this episode we see
hector trying to fit in with the cool kids at school who hasn't been there in which he gets
peer pressured into trying a puff of a cigarette that causes nicotine yes you heard that right nick
oteen to be the representation inside hector's body of what smoking can do to your insides
and how the addiction can take place maybe it was media like honey i shrunk the kids or the
magic school bus but for some reason i really liked the concept of a micro world within
our world a smaller look at everything whether it's based in reality or a fantastical concept
does that make me weird i don't know what it is but growing up i thought it was so cool to see
how your insides work through the guise of cartoons so whatever weird reasoning i like stuff
like that this show played right into my enjoyment of it in season two it tackled puberty as hector
has an increase of testosterone leading to a new gang of some rowdy teenage hormone troublemakers
resulting in the changing of attitude inside hector's brain causing him to be a little bit uh
rebellious rebellious and of course we had all the pun based titles and characters galore as you can
imagine as we've already talked about nick oteen so there were other characters like antihistamine
yes like antihistamine and like i mentioned the show lasted for two seasons ending with
the episode journey to the center of the tooth where the escaped general melias tries to take
over one of hector's tooth resulting in him having major tooth pain and trust me that's my nightmare
tooth pain can be the worst and dentists are scary that's that's just a fact i'm not even that's not
even a joke that's just real that's just honest truth i don't trust y'all get your sharp things
out of my mouth i don't want them there and while this episode does conclude and you know ozzie
and drix saving the day it just kind of ends the series there's no continuation it's just the end
jones oh you're serious after that this ip has to dormant no movie sequel no show continuation
or reboot nothing sometimes things run their course and maybe that's just the case here
but i think there are enough interesting stories to tell if a comeback was ever in the works
i highly doubt that would happen and again lower ratings in the second season really
hurt any chances of any more but either way i had a lot of fun revisiting this show and
based off a vague memory i would love to see somehow more of this show because i genuinely
enjoyed my time revisiting ozzy and drix i mean hey it was popular enough at one point to at
least get its own game boy advance game oh god that says midway doesn't it i hate this so much
ozzie and drix a 3d side-scrolling platformer disease brawler based on the show ozzy andrix
yeah i know again this is all super complicated it's very hard to follow along but please
try your best the game has you fight the show's rogues gallery of germs and diseases as they plot
to take you both down for good and overrun hector the game reviewed poorly and was cited for having
very bad controls shocking would not have seen that coming at all who would have thought yeah
ozzy and drix really didn't have a chance at being a beloved franchise it's pretty unfortunate as
i do think there are some great takeaways from a show like this aside from appeasing my interest in
the small verse yeah so overall ozzie and drix was an inoffensive show that fought for existence in a
time where there were so many new shows popping up that it was hard to stand out from the crowd
emma shut up
not only that it was also the continuation of a movie that didn't perform to the studio's
expectations this show had everything going against it for it to fully succeed and hey
two seasons though was nothing to shake a stick at despite all the odds against it the show produced
26 episodes only thing is over time and especially season two the show's ratings started to plummet
resulting in the show's cancellation and since then the end of the osmosis jones ip i do still
really enjoy the concept and i think that it could still work today with some new fresh writers and
ideas and something to give it a brand new coat of paint whether that's another movie or a new take
on the tv show either way i would love to see a comeback for the germ fighting duo or maybe
all this was just a fever dream and it's all just one big tough pill to swallow no more mr nice guy
but what do you think do you even remember this show do you think it even deserves any
sort of comeback if that were to happen let me know all that stuff in the comments down below
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