Fanboy & Chum Chum

Fanboy & Chum Chum is an American animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on Fanboy, an animated short created by Robles for Nickelodeon Animation Studio and Frederator Studios, that was broadcast on Random! Cartoons. The series was first broadcast on October 12, 2009, on Nickelodeon as a preview, then officially premiered on November 6, 2009, after SpongeBob's Truth or Square. In the show, two slow-witted would-be superheroes attempt to rid their town of Galaxy Hills of evil, while annoying everyone around them. Marija Delovska of Screen Rant assessed: "the show is a sort of satire centered around the ridiculousness of superheroes." The series has been described as "loud [and] chaotic" in nature, as well as "fast-paced" and "colorful." Additionally, many episodes of the series contain toilet humor.

The series premiere drew 5.8 million viewers. The second episode was watched by 5.4 million viewers. The series won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program at the 38th Daytime Emmy Awards.

The series' initial release on Nickelodeon finished on November 2, 2012. One episode, "Brain Freeze", was released on DVD in 2011 instead of being broadcast on television. It finally aired on July 12, 2014.

Fanboy & Chum Chum aired in reruns on Nicktoons from October 23, 2009, to December 25, 2016.

The theme song was written by Brad Joseph Breeck and performed by an experimental punk band, The Mae Shi.

The entire series was added to Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access) on December 15, 2020, and streamed for 4 years. It was removed on December 23, 2024 due to licensing agreements expiring.

The series centers around Fanboy and Chum Chum, a pair of hyperactive, odd, energetic, and slow-witted best friends enthusiastically obsessed with superhero comics, particularly those featuring their favorite superhero Man-Arctica, who also apparently seems to double as a holiday figurehead parodying Santa Claus within the series. Many episodes are based around comical parodies of famous films or contain countless references to popular culture, chronicling Fanboy and Chum Chum's exaggerated, surreal daily experiences and misadventures relating to dilemmas in which they have entangled themselves or the surrounding characters' utter infuriation with their irritating antics.

A sneak preview of Fanboy & Chum Chum was aired in the United States on October 12, 2009. The official US debut of the series was November 6, 2009. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV on November 1, 2009, and on Nickelodeon on November 2, 2009. In the UK and Ireland, the series premiered on Nickelodeon April 2, 2010.^{[citation needed]} The series debuted on Nickelodeon (Australia and New Zealand) April 19, 2010.^{[citation needed]}. Nickelodeon in Sub-Saharan Africa began airing the series June 2010.^{[citation needed]}