Da Boom Crew was a very short-lived 2004 cartoon series created by Bruce W. Smith (of The Proud Family fame) that aired on Kids' WB!. Thirteen episodes were made, but the show was such a ratings disaster that only four of them were aired in the United States; the last nine aired (un-dubbed) in the United Kingdom. The entire series is streaming on Tubi TV and Amazon Prime with the Ameba addon.
The plot: Four children create a homemade video game, and a power surge throws them into the game. The show details their adventures in this parallel world. They embark on a quest to find their missing game cartridges and stop the villain Zorch from taking control of the cosmos.
This show contains examples of:
- Big, Thin, Short Trio: Of the three males of the group, Jubei(Big), Justin(Thin), Nate(Short)
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: "Great Commander" Blurp is a coward who "scares easily" and he speaks with a French accent despite being from outer space.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: The group often struggle with enemies and puzzles in a game they designed.
- Conveniently an Orphan: All of the main quartet are foster kids. Justin and Nate are brothers.
- Expository Theme Song: The theme has Justin telling the viewer how they entered the world identical to their homemade game.
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Zorch's entire goal is to "extinguish all light from the universe".
- Genre Blind: The kids demonstrate practically no knowledge of how to succeed in the world they find themselves in, even though it's exactly the same as a video game that they built.
- Mind Screw: It's not made clear whether they got sucked into their game or they just happened to get transported to an alien world completely like it. Thanks to the show being cancelled, we may never find out.
- Not a Game: Nate lampshades in the opening: "This ain't no game no more, baby, this is real!"
- Plot Hole: The cast are completely oblivious to a world similar to a videogame they made.
- The Smurfette Principle: There are three guys and one girl on the hero team.
- The Starscream: Headlock wants to take the boom cards for himself.
- Techno Babble: Ricky insists on using highly elaborate names for everything...like when asking for a wrench.
- Totally Radical: The title alone uses slang and several of the characters talk in slang. Jubei is the worst offender as practically every other line of dialogue out of his mouth is some misused or made-up slang.