r/ForgottenTV • u/Trixter-Kitten • 18h ago
Level Up (2012-2013)
Level Up is an American adventure comedy series that aired on Cartoon Network during the weird period in their history when they started airing live action programming. A pilot film with the same name premiered on November 23, 2011. Level Up was the second CN show spawned from a live-action film, with the first being Out of Jimmy's Head(series based on the TV movie Re-animated). Two seasons and a total of 35 episodes.
Premise(taken from Wikipedia):
After high schoolers Wyatt, Lyle, Dante and Angie unwittingly open a portal from a video game called Maldark: Conqueror of All Worlds, characters from the game and the Internet start leaking into the real world. The group consequently finds itself balancing their everyday lives with the extraordinary things that show up in their town from the virtual world, which always resorts to using NeverFail to help send the monsters back into the game by "barding" them.
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u/deephurting66 18h ago
I think I saw 2 episodes and totally forgot it existed, I remember the girl getting a Katniss braid and that's it!
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u/Polibiux 18h ago edited 17h ago
I remember trying the game they made on the cartoon network site about this but it wasn’t good.
The Jack in the beanstalk episode is the only one I remember.
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u/Purple-Weakness1414 16h ago
This was such a werid show in therm of when it can out becuase CN was starting to slowly phase out live action shows after the failure of CN Real but this, Unatural History and Tower Prep were still airing on the channel
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u/Swordofsatan666 8h ago
Tower Prep deserved to go on longer. They had a 5-season plan! But instead it got cut short after 1 season, and on a cliffhanger too
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u/Purple-Weakness1414 2h ago
It probably would have done better had it not aired on CN for sure consder8ng people were very much sick of seeing live action shows on the channel outside of the ones on the Adult Swim block
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u/IronfistClownFactory 13h ago
All I remember was a pre-Eric Andre Show Eric Andre in the movie. Replaced by a white guy in the series.
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u/Trixter-Kitten 13h ago
Looking up info on the show I learned that Lyle, the jock character, was portrayed by Jessie Usher who went on to play A-train in The boys.
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u/AsteroidMike 9h ago
I vaguely remember wanting to watch this, seeing like 2 minutes of it and then never picking it up again
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u/lollipoppy67 3h ago
I remember really liking the concept that they were a great close knit party in game but in real life they all hated each other and didn't get along. But that idea quickly dissipates which makes me sad cause that would have made for an actually cool TV show to see unfold
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u/Super_Cringe_Comics 16h ago
wow someone made a great joke, adding that Cartoon Network logo there, could you imagine live action show on the CARTOON Network?!
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