Angela Anaconda
Boomerang
Boomerang
Junior school escapades with Angela and her friends, Gina, Johnny and Gordy as they pit their wits against stuffy teachers and annoying classmates, in particular Nanette Manoir.
Angela is a pretty good kid, but sometimes her wild imagination takes over. And when that happens, Angela is almost always dreaming of a way to get back at the super annoying Nanette Manoir.
Conceived by Joanna Ferrone and the renowned children's animator Sue Rose, Angela Anaconda is filmed with a unique 2D, digital cut and paste style of animation.
My show according to me...
First things first:
These are stories about me. Angela Anaconda and definitely not about Nanette “Ninnie Wart” Manoir. On the surface, I am pretty much average except with too many freckles. But in fact I am much more special and different than you might at first think. See, down deep deep I am much more interesting and way more neat than the person who bugs me most in the whole wide world - Nanette Manoir, who will definitely bug you too once you meet her, which unfortunately you will have to cause she’s in my class at school.
Nanette ‘Manure’ lives alone with only her two parents and her hair in a big fancy house with a below the ground pool, that has its own slide. While I have to live with my two creepy teenager brothers, who think I don’t exist, a little baby sister Lulu, who has no teeth, my really really cool completely perfect Dad and my crazy Mum who always has too much laundry or something to do! We all live in an okay-sized wood house with a half-falling off porch, a frog pond and no slide. But that’s okay, I like it.
At my school, I am in Mrs. Brinks’ class with a whole bunch of other kids. There’s Johnny Abatti who everybody thinks I like just because we built a tree fort together. But his Grandmother owns Abatti’s pizza parlour “Best In Town”, so he is almost nearly all right apart from being a boy.
There is also my best friend, Gina Lash, who everyone says has a gland problem, but I just think she’s way big because she eats too much. Gina has been personally spotted by me, Angela Anaconda, eating mookie pies before school in the morning. The best thing about Gina though is she is the smartest in the class and always beats Nanette at spelling and maths and that makes the little pukey princess go nuts.
And then there’s Karlene Trainor, and January Cole who are like Nanette Manoir’s very own personal servant girls. To them, everything Nanette does is perfect, but not to me. And they don’t mind that she bosses them around, but I do.
And there’s lots of other kids too like Gordy Rhinehart who is even skinnier than me and is always sick with something. I think Gordy is in love with Gina Lash but Gina thinks I am nuts because every time he tries to say something to her, he has to use his inhaler. And there’s Mary Jo Praline who says she wants to be a nun. But mostly there’s Nanette Manoir.
Nanette has super creepy blond frizzy things and wears different actual dresses every single day, which are never even a tiny bit stained or a weenie little bit wrinkled. And she thinks she’s French but she’s not. Nanette always gets A plus plus in everything but what do I care - she actually does her homework on time so it doesn’t truly count. Nanette thinks everyone really really likes her but really they’re only just afraid of her. I know this for an actual fact because Nanette Manoir is mean. And when she grows up she’ll just be old and mean. And one day she’ll probably be a mean grandma.
Okay I guess I should say that I do try to be good. I do. I try to obey my elders. And do my homework. And to be good in school. And usually I am, except in my mind. In my mind no, okay, I am not that nice. But that’s fine, because you don’t have to be that nice in your mind. In your mind you can do whatever you want. Anything. That’s what my dad says. So in my mind I am pretty much always doing something really truly awful to Nanette Manoir that she really truly deserves.
This is how it works:
Every week I will tell you a story, a true story about my life. Maybe it will be about the school Science Fair. Or maybe only just what exactly happened at lunch. Because every single day no matter what it is going on, no matter what it is I try to do, no matter who it is who is there, Nanette Manoir manages to find a way to drive me absolutely crazy nuts out of my cotton picking mind.
Like for instance I’ll think my science project, which is about the history of monkeys, for which I bring an actual monkey, is gonna win the blue ribbon for sure, but oh no, Nanette Manoir does hers about how you can’t train worms with electric shocks, which involves a whole car battery and everything, and not only does she win she accidentally on purpose lets my monkey out and it thinks that Mrs. Brinks is its mother and then does something it’s not suppose to do.
See it’s just about me doing my best and Nanette somehow sticking her snotty-snooty nose in and ruining everything.
Angela Anaconda
The frequently offended third grade star of the show and heroine of her fantasies.
Gina Lash
Angela’s overweight best friend and the smartest girl in school.
Johnny Abatti
Angela’s side-kick (even though he’s a boy), also the boy whose adoration Nanette Manoir demands.
Nanette Manoir
The pretty, prissy teacher’s pet who’s also Angela’s arch-nemesis.
Mrs. Brinks
Angela’s teacher who adores Nanette and abides (barely) Angela.
January Cole and Karlene Trainor
Nanette Manoir’s sycophant friends;equally rich, prissy and mean!
Gordy Rhinehart
A sickly boy who’s never far from his inhaler; devoted to Gina.
Bill Anaconda
Angela’s dad; a perennial optimist and garage-workshop inventor.
Geneva Anaconda
Angela’s over-extended mum. Focused when it comes to her art but not when it comes to her family.
Derek and Mark
Angela’s teenage brothers. Not twins, but cut from the same astro-turf.
Baby Lu (LuLu)
Angela’s baby sister; an innocent roadblock on Angela’s path to fun. Angela thinks she’s a pest.
Other characters
As the show goes on you’ll get to meet other characters such as:
Gina Lash’s glamorous mum, Liz Lash; Gordy Rhinehart’s father, Coach Rhineheart, the athletic antithesis of his son; Signora ‘Nonna’ Abatti, Johnny’s quintessential Sicilian grandmother (and a woman of few words); Mr and Mrs Abatti, Johnny’s passionate parents (either quarrelling or making up) and Uncle Nicky, Johnny’s playboy uncle.
In school, there’s Angie-Jo Praline, the shy girl from the wrong-side of the tracks; Stu and Ray Bernstein, twin brothers who don’t go anywhere without their clarinets; Margaret Eller, the ugliest girl in the class; Donatella Eastejava, the stupidest kid in the class, plus the rest of Angela’s classmates.
