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THE TIME SQUAD ICEBERG

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LEVEL 1

For those just getting into the show

In the Villanous Short titled "Videos de orientación para villanos: Los casos perdidos del futuro", at the end there is a short skit featuring Time Squad, where they travel to the future to fix a temporal anomaly caused by Demencia.

Villanous Cameo

Self explanatory, especially if you've watched the show. While Larry wasn't meant to be gay at first, Mark Hamill's voice acting heavily influenced how the creators wrote him in later episodes.

Larry 3000 is gay

Similar to the above, Buck and Larry's relationship in the show is uncannily similar to a domestic marriage at times. Tuddrussel calls Larry "the old ball and chain" in Larry Upgrade, while Larry complains about his position as what is basically a housewife in several episodes.

Tuddrussel and Larry are like a married couple

Very visibly apparent in the show, especially in Season 2. Co-Writer Carlos Ramos has referred to them as a family consisting of a husband, wife and kid.

The Time Squad is a family

LEVEL 2

Entries here take a bit of digging

Time Squad's Latin American / Mexican dub (Escuadrón del Tiempo) features José Antonio Macías (A.K.A. Pepe Toño) as Larry 3000, who also does the voice for Dr. Flug. Lots of regional sayings are also present in this dub.

The Mexican dub

Time Squad Reanimated was a MAP (Multiple Animator Project) made in 2019, focused on reanimating one episode of Time Squad. Although a Discord server was created and some parts were finished, the project is unfinished by today.

TS Reanimated

Rob Paulsen, while having Mark Hamill as a guest on his podcast Talkin' Toons with Rob Paulsen, described Larry as "the robot about whom there was no ambiguity with respect to his sexual preferences", to which Hamill replies in-character, "I love the idea of that people question my sexuality, because, as Larry, I didn't think of myself as anything but a machine!".

Larry confirmed gay by Mark Hamill and Rob Paulsen

LEVEL 3

Entries here take quite some searching

On January 12th 2019, Time Squad co-writer Carlos Ramos posted the script for a Time Squad episode that was never created on his Tumblr. The episode was supposed to be about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where the temporal anomaly was them being peace-loving hippies.

Adam and Eve episode

While all episodes of the Mexican dub have been found and archived, two episodes —Big Al's Big Secret and The Island of Dr. Freud— are missing their first and second halves respectively, making these scenes lost media.

Lost Mexican dub segments

A term used to refer to the Time Squad fandom, proposed around 2012 by twilian.

Timefags

In September 2002, Cartoon Network and Subway partnered for a Kids' Pak promotion at restaurants featuring Time Squad toys. There were 5 toys in total: Vortex Larry, Otto's Relativity Module, TS Quantum Probe, Scout Port Tuddrussel and an Otto rattle.

Subway Toys

Similar to the show's Mexican dub, the Portuguese dub (Esquadrão do Tempo) is incomplete, with multiple episodes being lost or unavailable. It's also currently the dub with the highest quality episodes available, with most in 480p or 720p.

Portuguese dub

LEVEL 4

We're really in it now

FusionFall Retro was a fanmade revival of the official Cartoon Network MMORPG FusionFall, released around 2017 and developed until its DMCA takedown in 2020. An update featuring the characters from Time Squad and missions relating to them was released around 2018-2019, although finding the actual release date is difficult.

FusionFall Retro Time Squad update

Michael Tavera, composer of the Time Squad theme, calls the show "an American-Estonian animated television series" with the Estonian name Aeg Salk on his personal website. When this information was brought up to co-writer Carlos Ramos on his Tumblr, he denies the information and shows a screenshot of the name translated into English, apparently meaning "Time to Boy".

Time to Boy

Refers to a promotion between Cartoon Network and Nestle iceScreamers where they gave out game cards for the now defunct Cartoon Orbit gaming network. Photos of the Time Squad card were uploaded by constellationmelody on Tumblr.

Ice cream cards

Time Squad: Time Travel is a 2002 Flash game released on Cartoon Network and was possibly available on their online games section at the time.

Flash game

Similar to the previous entry, this one refers to 3 storyboards uploaded by storyboard artist Sahin Ersöz on his personal website. The storyboards are for A Sandwich by Any Other Name,Out with the In Crowd and the Season 2 intro respectively. The "Flash" portion refers to the fact that they're available as Flash files.

Flash storyboards

I'll be honest, I don't know where I got this information from. I remember learning it and putting it on the original iceberg image, but I can't find the source anymore. Just trust me on this one for the time being, okay?

White House Weirdness is not the original name

LEVEL 5

The depths

Refers to a now deleted Google Docs document titled "Time Squad Trash Document", containing multiple pieces of fanfiction written by various Time Squad fans.

Trash fic

There exist multiple Amazon and eBay listings for a strangely official Time Squad DVD containing the first 3 episodes of the show, made in 2011 according to the information on the back. The DVD was a Poundland exclusive.

DVD

Refers to a 1992-1994 Hannah-Barbera bumper that played on Boomerang in Poland, portraying a picture of Larry's head surrounded by hearts with Otto and Tuddrussel looking at him with puzzled expressions on their faces. For me to call this the "gay Larry bumper" is pure exaggeration and is not an accurate description, but the name has stuck on.

Polish gay Larry bumper

Refers to a page in the Time Squad Fandom Wiki with the same title. There's nothing much to say here, just that it still gets a hearty chuckle out of me.

Otto Osworth Sings a Classics

LEVEL 6

How did we get here?!

Refers to the Time Squad press kit, which contained an "album" with information about the show, a disposable camera and a VHS recording of the first episode. Thomas Warburton (creator or KND) has high-quality pictures of the kit uploaded on his personal website.

Press kit and disposable camera

A drawing of a mashup between TF2 and Time Squad's main characters, made around 2012 by YGM.

Time Squad Fortress 2

In a Summer Promo for Cartoon Network Poland announcing the return of classic cartoons, there's a short scene of Tuddrussel wearing a swimsuit.

Swimsuit Tuddrussel





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