Standard Deviants TV (2000)
Standard Deviants TV (2000)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Chip Paucek
Creator / Executive Producer
James Rena
Creator / Executive Producer
Amy M. Pitcher
Producer / Director
Andrew Walworth
Co-Executive Producer
Malcolm Foster Smith
Malcolm
Holmes Ives
Music
Joy T. Lane
Additional Writing / Screenplay
Kristi Devlin
Additional Writing
Joseph Doria
Director
Chris Fetner
Director
Beth Bickford
Producer
Debbie Mintz
Producer
Igor Torgeson
Screenplay
Kristie Wingenbach
Screenplay
Jason Orfanon
Screenplay
David Newland
Screenplay
Chas Mastin
Himself
Gelila Asres Hurwitz
Herself
Jeremy Klavens
Himself / Himself (voice)
Jennifer O'Brien
Herself
Andy Campbell
Himself - Host / Himself
Andrea Shreeman
Herself (voice) / Herself (voice) / Snackers Malacky
Trinity Baker
Herself / Herself - Host
Sam Genovese
Director / Himself
Kristjana Knight
Herself / Herself (voice, uncredited)
Ptolemy Slocum
Hazlitt Granville-Bakerman (uncredited)
Brad Aldous
Himself
Lara Hopewell
Executive Producer / Herself / Herself (uncredited)
Mike Birbiglia
Himself
Tessa Munro
Herself / Herself - Host / Desdemona
Shannon Ward
Herself
Gabrielle Smith
Herself (uncredited)
Kerry Washington
Herself (voice, uncredited)
Desmond Dutcher
Himself
Herschel Bleefeld
Himself / Porter / Himself - Host / Governor / Himself / Governor / Mercutio / Himself - Host
T.J. Miller
Himself
Tim Gore
Himself / Macduff / Iago / Himself (voice) / Himself (voice) / Farmer
KenYatta Rogers
Himself / Escalus / Hamlet / Othello
Chris Wylde
Unnamed Character (uncredited)
Patricia Buignet
Virginie (uncredited)
Shaun Powell
Himself / Horatio / Chorus
Katie Lewis
Witch
Paul Crapol
Executive Producer / Francisco / Fool / Czar Jon (uncredited) / Witch / Screenplay
Leila Howland
Unnamed Character / Valérie
David Sturdevant
Macbeth / Gloucester / Bernardo / Executive Producer
Rahaleh Nassri
Hélène / Valérie
Diane Cooper
Unnamed Character (uncredited) / Herself (uncredited)
Sara Barker
Cordelia / Lady Macbeth / Juliet
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 8, 2000
StatusEnded
Seasons2
Episodes54
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Standard Deviants (originally The Standard Deviants) was a series of educational videos produced in the United States. The name also referred to the troupe of actors and comedians who presented the series. The series is owned by Cerebellum Corporation, founded in the Washington, D.C. area by George Washington University alumni Chip Paucek and James Rena, who created the series to help students learn using humor. As such, the series blended essential information with humorous examples and comic sketches. For example, the English punctuation video illustrates the usage of exclamation points through a sketch in which two characters excitedly play Battleship. The series was originally targeted at college students, but its intended audience became progressively younger over time, eventually described as "for junior high, high school, college and beyond".
The original videos, which typically had running times of 1–2 hours, were later adapted into Standard Deviants TV, a series of fifty-two 26-minute episodes on PBS from 2000–2002. They were then retrofitted again into shorter videos for the K-12 school market, which as of 2024 are packaged as two lines: Standard Deviants School and Standard Deviants Teaching Systems.
Cerebellum also created two other series, both short-lived. No-Brainers, described as "The Video Guides to Life", featured the same cast (but without the Standard Deviants name) in videos about various life skills, targeted at adults rather than students. The series comprised 12 videos, two of them adapted from Standard Deviants videos, released in 1998 and 1999. Later, Jibberboosh was a series of two videos for preschoolers, released in 2002.