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Mercy's Meeting is an American animated television series like those humans and all his friends at the town of Wacky World and ran on FOX Kids and Go!Animate Network from May 1, 1999. Every seasons of the series were produced. It chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and endeavors of a beautiful optimistic woman named Mercy, and her friends DJ, Austin, and Curly, living in the fictional cartoon city of Wacky World. She makes pancakes at the Wackyworld Warehouse and Burger Gator in Wackyworld. They try to live in a normal everyday life to occasionally prevent attacks from a wicked mastermind named Star-lla and her Commander Block, so Mercy and the gang, along with their other friends, must team up to stop Star-lla's plans.

In addition to the segments featuring Mercy, the series also included segments featuring the characters from Galactic Heroes, Futt the Silly Putty, Arctic Adventurers and Frog and Crazy Ferret, a comic strip Davis was drawing concurrently with Mercy when Mercy's Meeting premiered on television. Like the comic strip these were based on, the animated segments were re-titled The Vivid Crew, Futt and his Friends, Tip & Dash and The Frog and the Ferret for viewers outside of the United States (taking the name of their main character, Tab and Zipper). Although Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone started producing new strips of Galactic Heroes/The Vivid Crew, Futt the Silly Putty/Futt and his Friends, Arctic Adventurers/Tip & Dash and Frog and Crazy Ferret/The Frog and the Ferret seven months after Mercy's Meeting debuted, the characters continued to appear on television for the rest of the show's run.

A total of 505 episodes were made, each consisting of six Mercy's Meeting segments, one Tip and Dash segment, one Hands and Friends segment, one Futt and his Friends segment, one The Frog and the Ferret segement and one The Vivid Crew segment, totaling 360 Mercy segments and 145 Tip and Dash, The Frog and the Ferret, Futt and his Friends, Hands and Friends and The Vivid Crew segments. All episodes have been released in the U.S. on five DVD sets by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The first season aired in a half-hour format. Starting with the second season, it switched to an hour-length format, showing two episodes each week. During the last season, while the series was still an hour long, the second half-hour of the show featured either an episode from the previous season or one of the Mercy TV specials.

The series was first broadcasted on May 1, 1999, as a "sneak peek" after the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. It officially began airing on July 17 of the same year. The show was initially only greenlit for 6 half-hour episodes (twelve total segments); creator John A. Davis said, "I thought if it did go to a full season that we'd get twelve chances to write stories and that might be it...twelve shows and get cancelled." To his surprise, the show became a ratings success, and it has since run for 13 seasons. Season 14 has been renewed.

Jeremy McAbee created the title character for an unpublished comic book series in the early 1990s, and later reluctantly produced the animated short The Frog and The Ferret, which became a part of What a Cartoon! in 1995 on the newly-formed GoAnimate network. Following this success, the sketch was developed into a Saturday morning cartoon and GoAnimate Network gave the staff a large amount of creative freedom, with the writers targeting both children and adults. Jeremy turned to voice actress Cristina Vee, who had worked with him on What a Cartoon!, to voice the title character.

GoAnimate Network aired a preview for the series in the United States on May 1, 1999, after the airing of the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. The series officially premiered on June 4, 1999. It gained enormous popularity by its second season, and has subsequently received worldwide critical acclaim. The thirteenth season began in October 2020, and the series was renewed for a fourteenth season on March 24, 2022. It has inspired four feature films: Mercy's Meeting The Movie (2004), Most Wanted (2008), Mercy Out of WackyWorld (2015), and Mercy on the Run (2020). Two spin-off series, Camp Whack: Mercy's Under Years and The DJ Show, premiered in 2021. As of February 2022, four additional films are planned: three character spinoff films for Disney+ and Netflix, and a new theatrical Mercy's Meeting film.

Mercy's Meeting has won a variety of awards including six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Children's Awards, and a record-breaking twenty Kids' Choice Awards. A Broadway musical based on it opened in 2017 to critical acclaim. The series is also noted for having a profound impact on Generation Z.

Throughout the series, during some episodes, the fourth wall is broken, live-action scenes are shown, and sometimes the episode's title is mentioned during the episode. In some episodes, there are time cards which are often read by the French Narrator. During production of an episode, sometimes the episode's title gets renamed before it premieres. Sometimes the production of an episode is canceled, and some scenes of an episode can be deleted, either before or after the episode is produced. Various locations and objects are mentioned but not seen.

Segments
Some episodes are divided into different stories or segments, each being 7–12 minutes long. Occasionally, a segment centers on characters other than Mercy. One segments are shown primarily during season one: The Vivid Crew, Futt and his Friends, The Frog and the Ferret, Hands and Friends and Tip and Dash.

Mercy's Meeting
Mercy's Meeting features Mercy (voiced by Cristina Vee) was a beautiful and also as silly woman that who loves to be with her friends DJ (voiced by Jack McBrayer) a coolest man He likes Italian Karate, Awesome Speedcycles and also from the Rock and Roll Band, Austin (voiced by Rob Paulsen) the Grumpy human teenager that likes watching TV and workout section, Brian (voiced by Jeff Bennett) a silly stickman. He visits Mercy and the gang all day and also as the stickman like you. Curly (voiced by Kath Souice) as DJ's best cousin. She likes DJ a lot and It's about spending the time with DJ, and Annie (voiced by Grey DeLisle) a gorgeous little baby. She like rattles, baby shows, baby food and everything about a baby. She faces against her rival Star-lla (voiced by Ashley Johnson) an evil female villain led up by Commander Block (voiced by Wallace Shawn) as Star-lla's Boss to protect Wackyworld to put an end of their evil plan around the world to stop the Bummers (voiced by David Bateson) with the help of her friends.

The Vivid Crew
The Vivid Crew features Tab (voiced by Hank Arazia), a weasel-like creature and his green alien sidekick Zipper (voiced by Richard Kind), a duo of close friends working in a secret space organization known as the Vivid Crew, led by Commander Morvis (voiced by Gregg Berger). Tab and Zipper's mission in each segment is to travel planets to protect them from harm, but things do not go very well due to Tab and Zipper's awkward goals.

Tip and Dash
Tip & Dash follows Tip (voiced by Max Casella), a Penguin, and Dash (voiced by Stephen Furst; later voiced by Yuri Lowenthal), a Walrus, both characters from the Disney animated film The Little Mermaid II: Return of the Sea. Taking place after the events of the original film (and the 2000 direct-to-video film The Little Mermaid II: Return of the Sea), the characters live their Atlantica lifestyle are two best friends who dream of becoming heroes. The problem? They're both cowards in the face of real danger, and because of this tend to cause more harm than good, as they are seen having (mis)adventures in the ocean as well as across the globe in various settings, such as Canada, the United States, France, and Spain.

The Frog and the Ferret
The Frog and the Ferret features the Ferret (voiced by Maddie Blaustein, later voiced by Carter Cathcart), which spends all of his time occupies its days trying to catch and eat the Frog (voiced by Daran Norris) to eat it, but it never succeeds and fails every time due to an intrusion of some sort, usually because someone else wants the Frog. The frog itself is carefree enough that it completely does not take notice of when anyone is endangering his life. Recurring places for the ferret to wind up in during his frog-capturing exploits include a restaurant owned by Chef Maurice (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), a swampy area serving as the home of Bayou Joe (voiced by Clancy Brown), and a pink castle, complete with a king (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), queen (voiced by Andrea Martin), and princess (voiced by Tara Strong).

Futt and his Friends
Futt and his Friends features the main character being Futt (voiced by Keith Ferguson), a silly gray putty (the runt of the litter) who had been taken from his mother shortly after being born. The early days of the strip showed Futt's life on his old house with his loving mother and nice older brothers. Eventually, due to Futt being a silly, the clubhouse's owner wanted to dispose of him, so he put him in the back of his pick-up truck and drove off. However, due to a bumpy road, Futt fell off the truck and ended up in the road where he was found by a young little girl. She convinced her father to let him stay at their house and Futt found himself living in "the funniest house in the world," as some merchandise says. As he got settled, he met the rest of the clubhouse's inhabitants and the series went on from there.

Hands and Friends
Hands and Friends takes place in a quaint, old-fashioned neighborhood inhabited by hand puppets. It is shown from the perspective of a twenty-year-old named Hands (voiced by Jeremy McAbee). The puppets often talk directly to the audience and encourage participatory viewing. The show takes place from the Handsville where Hands goes on adventures where to outsmart Lord Demon (voiced by Keith Silverstein) and Lord Hands (voiced by Michael Bell) as they manage to ruin everything, but Hands foils their plans as he remarks the handy dandy luck of the hand.

Setting
The series is set in an cartoon city named Wacky World. The citizens are mostly cartoons of different characters who live in the neighborhood and drive cars. Main locations within Wacky World include Acme Street, Burger Gator, Star-lla's Ship, Yogurtown Self Serve, Pizza World, Ice Cream Jack, Powerhouse: Amusement Arcade, Wacky World Mall, Sandwich Express, Wacky World Wackiversity, Mercy's House, Bumblebee Fields, and Sunnyshore Lagoon Beach. Special episodes of the show are usually presented from The Vivid Ship. In the series, the university is founded to teach cartoon characters how to become funny. The school is not featured in every episode, as not all of its storylines revolve around the school.

Like Looney Tunes and The Pink Panther cartoons, the series makes use of cartoon violence (e.g. anvils falling on someone, liberal use of explosives) and slapstick. The series parodies and references the current events of the early 1990s and Hollywood culture. Occasionally, episodes delve into veiled ethical and morality stories of ecology, self-esteem, and crime.

Regular Characters

 * Mercy (voiced by Cristina Vee): A beautiful and also as silly woman. She likes making Pancakes and reading about Weird Man and The Vivid Crew.
 * DJ (voiced by Jack McBrayer): A coolest man ever known on earth. He likes Italian Karate, Awesome Speedcycles and also from the Rock and Roll Band.
 * Austin (voiced by Rob Paulsen): A Grumpy human teenager that likes watching TV and workout section.
 * Brian (voiced by Jeff Bennett) A silly stickman. He visits Mercy and the gang all day and also as the stickman like you.
 * Curly (voiced by Kath Souice): DJ's best cousin. She likes DJ a lot and It's about spending the time with DJ.
 * Annie (voiced by Grey DeLisle): A gorgeous little baby. She like rattles, baby shows, baby food and everything about a baby.
 * Stickman (voiced by Bruce Dinsmore): A very nice friend of yours. He only works with Mercy for the Pancake for breakfast and Burger for lunch cooking with Austin as the cashier for Burger Gator.
 * Peewee (voiced by Khary Payton): He is a genuinely nice guy with a good heart, Peewee's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he doesn't show much talent in the ring either. Despite these shortcomings, he has managed to scrape out a few wins here and there. He owns Burger Gator and is Plume's single father. He lives with his daughter Plume in his apartment. He is obsessed with money and will do almost anything to make a profit, even if it means overworking his employees Mercy and Austin. The only people who have more control over him than money are Plume and Ms. Frizzle, one of his love interests.
 * Star-lla (voiced by Ashley Johnson): She's evil, she's got anger issues and she's all blonde. And also Mercy loves Star-lla and now She hates Mercy.
 * Commander Block (voiced by Wallace Shawn): He shoots the weapon of the universe. He is a Star-lla's Boss.
 * Bummers (voiced by David Bateson): He all about to destroy the universe. It's a Star-lla's Army.

Minor Characters

 * Evil Men (voiced by Harry Shearer): He is the nemesis of Austin that who wanted to seek revenge for his evil plans.
 * Calypso (voiced by David Boat): He is the CEO of Wacky World Wackiversity and the ruler of Wacky World to destroy Mercy and her gang, He's Star-Lla and Commander Block's boss.
 * Mercy's Father (voiced by Corey Burton): He is a tall, hairy, and somewhat muscular, with a bit of a gut who is Mercy's father. He has brown hair. He is usually seen in a red shirt, and blue pants. He loves and cares about them. He also loves his wife, and often acts playfully romantic towards her. He has been shown to have a childlike side at times, even sometimes taking part in his kids' antics, when it's all in good fun. He's also the more sensitive of the two parents, often necessitating his wife and kids to step in whenever he needs to pull himself together.
 * Mercy's Mother (voiced by Kath Souice): She is a tall and skinny 50's housewife style woman who is a responsible parent for her daughter Mercy. She has light brown hair in a 50's flip hairstyle. She wears a blue shirt and blue skirt with black shoes. She and her husband act playfully romantic towards each other, though she is apparently more level-headed than him.
 * Jason (voiced by Pamela Adlon): He is DJ's little brother. However, he makes up for it by being extremely witty and clever. He is also truly brave and heroic proving to be rather caring and loving.
 * Flamingo Rogerson (voiced by Jeffrey Garcia): He can be quick-tempered when things don’t go the way he wants, but he has a heart of gold and is very devoted to his friends. He wears his ordinary clothing including a White shirt, a black tie, and a blue sailor hat.
 * Mr. Herriman (voiced by Tom Kane; later voiced by Steve Furst): He is the president/head of the Wacky World Wackiversity, and is the principal. He's an organized, proper, uptight, stern, lawful, rules-oriented but still somewhat naïve rabbit.
 * Squiddly Diddly (voiced by Tom Kenny): He lives and performs in Bubbleland, a marine-life park modeled on Marineland of the Pacific, Unlike a real squid, Squiddly has a large round head and only six tentacles, which function as his arms and legs.
 * Lenny Beaks the Censor Crow (voiced by Billy West): He is the productive and slightly intelligent Censor Crow that takes out things that are objectionable or inappropriate, like covering up nudity with censor bars and bleeping out all the bad words.
 * Salty Mike (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui): He is a portly, obnoxious spanish accent parrot who acts as both ally and foil to Mercy in his various appearances, and is able to speak full coherent English. The color of his feathers often change, most frequently appearing green and to lesser extent blue.
 * Ms. Frizzle (voiced by Lily Tomlin): She is a former second-, third-, and fourth-grade schoolteacher at Wacky World School, now an independent research professor.
 * Arty Smartypants (voiced by Tom Kenny): He is a bunraku puppet, who is also known as "The Great Smartini", who wears smarty pants. Although he has never visited the library, he occasionally would make appearances in the series.
 * Denise (voiced by Megan Fahlenbock): She is a wonderful Austin's girlfriend.
 * Four Murasame (voiced by Carol-Anne Day): She is very unstable and has fits of insanity that drives her to kill everyone. Beside this, Four actually a kind girl, who wanted to get her memories back and become a full-fledged normal person than become a killer machine. Even she realized that she become a "different person" without any memories.
 * Marsha (voiced by Candi Milo): She is originally a sweet, caring, and intelligent girl in Wacky World. She is shown to be rude, vengeful, entitled, and impulsive which contributes with her antagonistic perceptions and beliefs.
 * Charity (voiced by Tara Strong): She has already acquired more material possessions than most people manage to amass in a hundred lifetimes. Growing up in the Hamptons, under the exceedingly generous gaze of billionaire parents Muffy and Biff Cashwell, Charity was weaned on caviar and truffles fed to her with a diamond-encrusted silver spoon. Charity's motto is simple: "What's yours is hers!". Despite her covetous proclivities, however, Charity can still sometimes manage to come across like your average little seven-year-old girl... But don't be fooled by her cuteness, she will stop at nothing to take what is already hers. Just be sure to keep all shiny objects, cash money, credit cards, and candy on hand for whenever she's around.
 * Applejack (voiced by Ashleigh Ball): She lives and works at Sweet Apple Acres with her grandmother Granny Smith, her older brother Big McIntosh, her younger sister Apple Bloom, and her dog Winona. She represents the element of honesty. She works at Sweet Apple Mart as a cashier.
 * Murray (voiced by Jeff Bennett): A coolest man. He has a very muscular build, which is often exaggerated in size.
 * Rikimaru (voiced by Dan Petronijevic): He is very egotistical wanna-be DJ's uncle who sought power to become the famous rockstar and thinks he is much better than he actually is
 * Joe (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried): He is Austin's cousin.
 * Ferdinand Flamingo (voiced by Thom Huge): He is a kind individual pink flamingo with his summer hat who is seen very attached to his hat and expresses great discomfort when it is gone from his head by force.
 * Tigger (voiced by Paul Winchell, Seasons 1–3; Jim Cummings, Seasons 4–onwards) is an ebullient tiger. Tigger is always filled with great energy and optimism, and though always well-meaning, Tigger can also be mischievous, and his actions have sometimes led to chaos and trouble for himself and his friends. Tigger is very confident and has quite an ego, having a high opinion of himself.
 * Dorothy the Dinosaur (voiced by Jocelyne Loewn): She is a "rosasaur" (a dinosaur who eats roses), coloured green with bright yellow spots. She is seen wearing a white, floppy hat with a red rose in it, as well as white gloves. Dorothy loves singing, dancing, eating roses and making rosy tea. She lives in a pink and purple house with a large rose garden in her backyard.
 * Rintindumb (voiced by Rob Paulsen): He is extremely slow and accident-prone DJ's pet dog. However, he is usually very good-natured and loyal.
 * Starper (voiced by Cree Summer): She's the twin sister of Star-lla, She also have fun with the mischievous with her sister Sarlla to stop Mercy and her friends for Star-lla.
 * Sarlla (voiced by Grey DeLisle): She's the twin sister of Star-lla, She does the mischievous acts to capture Mercy and her friends.
 * Weird Man (voiced by Steve Blum): A silly red stickman. He likes rescuing their friends but it was pretty weird alright.
 * Blast-Off Buzzard (voiced by Ted Lewis): A buzzard in aviator gear and a de facto villain who chases Crazylegs, a wacky football helmet-wearing snake who outruns the buzzard.
 * Crazylegs (voiced by Charlie Adler): A wacky snake who outruns the buzzard. Crazylegs knows the big bird is a loser and delights in beating him in situations.
 * Quincy Quail (voiced by Jason Marsden): He's blue quail bird with a black plume on the top of his head. Covered in blue feathers. And had 2 yellow legs and a yellow beak.
 * Garfield (voiced by Frank Welker): He is an overweight, bipedal orange tabby cat noted for his laziness, sarcasm, arrogance, selfishness, and intense passion for food—particularly lasagna and most other foods made from flour. He dislikes raisins and (sometimes) anchovy pizza.
 * Spike (voiced by John DiMaggio): He is a large, muscular bulldog quite prone to anger, always critical. He doesn't hesitate to use force if he wants, despite this they still are getting along. so it can be argued that Spike can play both the good guy and the bad guy depending on the cartoon, His only consistent article of clothing is a red, spiked dog collar.
 * Buzz Buzzard (voiced by Mark Hamill): He is a typical con-artist. He often tries to scam people out of their money, mainly Mercy and her friends. He is very sneaky, sleazy, and sly.
 * Rex (voiced by Wallace Shawn): He is an anxiety-riddled, green Tyrannosaurus Rex. Despite his endless worries and insecurities about his small roar, Rex always comes through for his pals. Though his vocabulary is fairly strong, he is somewhat absent-minded and tends to cause accidental mayhem due to his size and obliviousness.
 * Zig (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz): He is mischievous, cunning, clever, and devious wise-cracking and friendly brown hyena who would go to many lengths by plotting to capture Marina and eat her. His best friend, Bernie also helps him out with plotting to capture Marina. However, as seen in some episodes, Zig is shown to be an anti-hero because he willingly teams up with either Sharko or Marina to help them fight other enemies.
 * Sharko (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson): He is a strong, friendly shark at Sunnyshore Lagoon beach whom he protects at almost all times due to Zig's constant attempts to beat up his enemies, particularly Zig. He is very serious when it comes to fighting off threats to her life, such as Zig and his friend Bernie. He is a very willing person, often doing whatever Marina wants to keep her happy, even though he occasionally realizes that Marina's desires can result in some dangerous consequences.
 * Marina (voiced by Hynden Walch): She is very sweet, cheerful, perky, affectionate, and childlike in nature. She is best friends with Sharko, who also acts as Marina's bodyguard against Zig. She is best friends with Sharko, who also acts as Marina's bodyguard against Zig. Zig constantly hunts Marina, but she seems blissfully unaware of his intentions and is friendly whenever she sees him.
 * Bernie (voiced by Billy West): He is a small hermit crab with red skin, large blue eyes and a tiny light sand-colored military shell. Comparatively, he is smarter than Zig. He is often seen making gadgets and devices to help Zig get Marina the mermaid. Despite their occasional squabbles (such as when Zig tried to eat him or when he takes advantage of him), Zig and Bernie show that they care for each other very much.
 * Swiper (voiced by Hank Arazia): He is a sneaky orange fox who loves to swipe anything.
 * Mermaid DJ (voiced by Dan Castellaneta): He is a semi-retired superhero who lives in wacky world. He and his sidekick Barnacle Austin are the stars of a show-within-a-show called The Adventures of Mermaid DJ and Barnacle Austin, but they are also real superheroes within the Mercy's Meeting universe.
 * Barnacle Austin (voiced by Scott Menville): He is the sidekick of Mermaid Man. He is a superhero and a parody of both Aqualad and Robin. He is said to be 68 years old. He first appears in "Mermaid DJ and Barnacle Austin."
 * King K. Rool (voiced by Benedict Campbell): He is the malevolent ruler of the Kremling race (despite Klubba's statement about the Kremlings hating K. Rool because he is always abusing them), the head of the Kremling Krew who constantly terrorize the Kongs, and the archenemy of Mercy, DJ and Austin.
 * Dementor (voiced by Phil LaMarr): He is an evil genius who wears a blue, classic Sci-Fi villain suit with a glass cap on his head which contains his brain. He's highly intelligent and possesses a lot of arsenal and weapons in his suit as well as a teleportation device. He also commands a group of minions called the demon team.
 * Bowser (voiced by Christopher Lloyd): He is a large, powerful, fire-breathing Koopa who leads the Koopa Troop, an evil kingdom of turtle-like creatures, and has been the arch-nemesis of Mercy and her Friends.
 * The Marijuana Plant (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker): He's extremely powerful and almost impossible to defeat by conventional means.
 * Red Rage (voiced by Maurice LaMarche): An evil red circle villain.

Main Characters

 * Tab (voiced by Hank Arazia): A weasel-like creature who works at the Vivid Crew organization with Zipper
 * Zipper (voiced by Richard Kind): A green alien sidekick who works at the Vivid Crew organization with Tab.
 * Commander Morvis (voiced by Gregg Berger): A leader of the Vivid Crew who works to command Tab and Zipper to travel planets to protect them from harm to accomplish their missions.

Minor Characters

 * Dr. Vultron (voiced by Stephan Cox): A buzzard-like villain, He's the ruler of Space and the main antagonist of the series. Despite being his enemy, He can rise the Ceturion Robots and is the leader of the Roboclops. He is the leader of the Neo Doom Force.
 * Kacricon (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui): A Hyena-like creature, He's a leader of the Punisher Trio served as Neo Doom Force's Mercenaries. He is wise-cracking and intelligent that who wants to eliminate The Vivid Crew.
 * Greta (voiced by Stevie Vallance): A Wolf-like creature, She's a assistant of the Punisher Trio served as Neo Doom Force's Mercenaries. She has a scar that she's evil and smart who wants to seek revenge on The Vivid Crew to rule the empire.
 * Horace (voiced by Eric Stuart): A Rat-like creature, He's a commander of the Punisher Trio. He is the dimwit and crazy where he wants to destroy The Vivid Crew who has the mass of weapons of destruction.
 * Queen Zira Trayaurus (voiced by Kathleen Barr): The ruler of Mars and the main antagonist of the series. Despite being his enemy, she is infatuated with Tab and, just like Zipper, believes him to be a true hero. Her outfits are reminiscent of Lioness in the Haman Karn in the Gundam series.
 * Captain Ray Hawkings (voiced by John O'Hurley): A Hawk-like creature, He is a rival/ally captain of Tab in the Vivid Crew. Gifted with a university education, Ray has a Flash Gordon-like personality about him, and once took Tab to court over his incompetence. Since then, Ray has been involved in working together to help The Vivid Crew Out from the military coup by Dr. Vultron, and searching for gangsters when Tab went missing for a brief period of time. He also played rocketball in college.
 * Roberto Grizzly (voiced by Michael Adamthwaite): A Bear-like creature, In "The Six Wazillion Dollar Duck" (a parody of The Six Million Dollar Weasel), it was revealed Rocket worked for the Protectorate as a Maintenance Supervisor and was also the first (thing) to receive cyborganic implants (Steve Boston was the first man to receive them, but before The Protectorate tested it on someone with a similar anatomy). These implants enhanced his combat abilities, as he is able to hold off several centurions before they bait and trapped him with pie. He is seemingly very uneducated as the only two words he says are "Weasel" and "Stereo".
 * Commander Shadow (voiced by Jason Mardsen): A Vulture-like creature, The confident commander of the Buzzard military who is The Vivid Crew's archenemy. He is infatuated with the Queen Gatorsaurus that he serves, and considers The Vivid Crew more of a nuisance than a true enemy. He once essentially created Tab and Zipper by going back in time and making him a hero so as to not be proven wrong by the Queen (the Queen did figure it out and was punished). He's a commander of the Neo Doom Force and the former nemesis of The Vivid Crew.
 * Centurion Robots (voiced by Michael Dorn): The faithful robotic servants of the Neo Doom Force. They appear to be sentient, and make up a large portion of the Imperial Army, while the organic sangheili act as officers. This is a homage to the Cylon Centurions of Battlestar Galactica. Dorn's casting may be a nod to his popular sci-fi character Worf from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The Frog and the Ferret
Main Characters


 * Frog (voiced by Daran Norris): A calm and playful amphibian who lives in the pond, He likes being saved by the Ferret.
 * Ferret (voiced by Maddie Blaustein; Later voiced by Carter Cathcart): A bellied starving rodent who wants nothing more than to get his teeth into the Frog himself, it only thinks of eating. But it has a specific prey: The Frog!

Minor Characters


 * Bear (voiced by Patrick Warburton): A bear who acts like a real bear who loves honey on many occasions that protects the Frog from the Ferret.
 * Duck (voiced by Tony Anselmo): A duck who gets to have fun being flying.
 * Tiger (voiced by Jim Cummings): A tiger that helped the Frog.
 * Rhino (voiced by Brad Garrett): A rhino who was the friend of the Frog and on many occasions protects the Frog from the Ferret which leads to attack with his horn.
 * Hawk (voiced by Rob Paulsen): A hawk who gets to learn to fly and catch animals.
 * Crocodile (voiced by John DiMaggio): A crocodile who likes to enjoy swimming in the lake and swamps.
 * Warthog (voiced by Greg Abbey): A warthog who acts tough and using his horns to tackle anywhere.
 * Seal (voiced by Dan Russell): A seal who enjoys clapping and relaxing in the water.
 * Wolf (voiced by Mark Hamill): A wolf is a prowler, he catches sheep, He even howls.
 * Crane (voiced by Billy West): A crane does act like a real crane who flies and stands on water.
 * Hippo (voiced by Ty Olsson): A hippo who was the friend of the Frog and on many occasions protects the Frog from the Ferret.
 * Rattlesnake (voiced by Colin Murdock): A snake who lives in the swamp, He always slithers and coils any prey.
 * Murry (voiced by Harry Shearer): A Mongoose who is a friend of the Frog and on many occasions protects the Frog from the Ferret.
 * Panther (voiced by Steve Blum): A panther who lives in the jungle, He even keeps the Frog safe from the Ferret.
 * Turtle (voiced by Danny Mann): A yellow turtle with the green shell that who walks and protects himself with his shell.
 * Coqui (voiced by Candi Milo): A mostly golden-yellow Coqui Musician Frog that who sings songs that who became famous musical Coqui the world.
 * Bayou Joe (voiced by Clancy Brown)
 * Alligator (voiced by Fred Tatasciore)
 * General Skud (voiced by Mr. Lawrence)
 * The Guard of the Princess (voiced by Jeff Bennett)
 * Chef Maurice (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui)
 * The Professor (voiced by Tom Kenny)
 * The Dragon (voiced by Maurice LaMarche)
 * Fred (voiced by Jason Mardsen)
 * Luigi the Burglar (voiced by Tim Curry)
 * The Martian (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker)
 * The Princess (voiced by Tara Strong)
 * The King (voiced by Dan Castellaneta)
 * The Queen (voiced by Andrea Martin)
 * Pétronilla (voice by Susanne Blakeslee)
 * Plume (voiced by Brooke D'Orsay): A sweet girl who is the daughter of Peewee that who always being interested on many things. She also is an inspiring french lover.
 * Captain Connor (voiced by Hank Arazia): Ferret's master, he's a pirate who loves hunting, but, he likes Ferret so much, treated him like his son.
 * Boomer (voiced by Andrew Francis): Plume's boyfriend/husband, he's a young man live in his small house, he loves his girlfriend/wife, Plume, when he loves frog,
 * Adele (voiced by Kath Souice)
 * Luigi's companion (voiced by Grey DeLisle)
 * The Witch (voiced by Susan Silo)
 * Cat (voiced by Marc Thompson): The Witch's pet who helps with The Witch to search and catch the any prey.
 * Raven (voiced by Scott McNeil): The Witch's pet assistant who works with The Witch to help her make potion to cast spells.

Tip & Dash
Main Characters


 * Tip (voiced by Max Casella): The most assertive of the two and has a big mouth opposed to his small size. He envisions himself a daring adventurer and explorer, braving dangers in a heroic manner but rarely backs up his boastings with true heroics.
 * Dash (voiced by Stephen Furst; Later voiced by Yuri Lowenthal): The sidekick of the duo but with a kinder heart, and with a more realistic perspective on the situation at hand.
 * Captain Minus (voiced by Rick Miller): the captain of the pirate ship. This rat with always well-groomed mustaches spends his time plucking the feathers of the parrot that serves as his teammate...
 * First Mate Zero (voiced by François Sasseville): a small yellow parrot, with a red headband and fake pirate eye patch, is certainly smarter than his captain, although he spends his time cleaning the deck, preparing pizzas for his captain or serving him a guinea pig for his failed experiments...
 * Splash (voiced by Louis Champagne): a pirate shark, not really bad but not very intelligent. Although he is in the service of Captain Minus, he can be kind to others and especially to the inhabitants of Pacific Ocean. He likes swimming at full speed and eating.

Minor Characters


 * Andre the Anaconda (voiced by Billy West): An easygoing desert snake who can talk and sing. Tip and Dash originally planned to eat him, but ended up becoming friends with him instead. They often find themselves rushing to have to save Andre from dangerous situations.
 * Phillip (voiced by Greg Cipes): A maniacal penguin who is an old friend of Tip. He loves to laugh and play around, as well as pulling practical jokes. He often uses Tip and Dash as his victims, although they don't find his jokes very funny.
 * Croakshi (voiced by Khary Payton): An blue frog that who can be on top of the world, He's not much of a loud and hyperactive frog anyway, but he tries to find anything optimistic about Ribbert's idol.
 * Fiesta Trio (voiced by Tom Kenny, Rob Paulsen and Dee Bradley Baker): The frog is blue with a green stomach. The grasshopper is orange with red spots and a yellow stomach. The snail is pink with a purple shell with light blue lines. Each of them have white eyes with black pupils.
 * Boss Beaver (voiced by Brad Garrett): A stereotypical beaver whose life philosophy is the exact opposite of Atlantica. He values hard work and is sometimes too harsh on his employees. He also emphasizes the importance of safe work conditions.
 * Toby Guppy (voiced by Clancy Brown): A light tan fish who can support Tip and Dash who thus landing on their help in the ocean.
 * Señor Tucán (voiced by Maurice LaMarche): A very helpful bird who is always willing to assist Tip and Dash on their adventures. He has a long beak that can pick things up with ease, and his ability to quickly fly around always comes in handy.
 * Val the Octopus (voiced by Elaine Del Valle): A Octopus who She drives an Ice Cream Truck and does many other different jobs like a lifeguard, a librarian, a cashier, and even a mail truck driver.
 * Edward (voiced by Ian James Corlett): A short tempered, accident-prone Duck whose thus he would scream and yell at them in an exaggerated way whenever the duo are doing something losing his feathers, often threatening to exploit them or at the very least seems to be terribly contagious. Tip and Dash became his friends after they were stranded in Antarctica and Edward had two extra tickets to a cruise ship. They will try to avoid him at all costs.
 * Lucas Jonathan Bird (voiced by J.P. Manoux): A cool Flamingo who is a friend of Tip and Dash. On the top of his head is a orange beanie. He has two eyes that are white with black pupils and a flamingo beak is located beneath his eyes. He has two orange shoes that are connected to the rest of his body by his cylindrical black legs.
 * Sewer Mike (voiced by Rob Tinkler): A talking alligator who is an cousin of Tip and Dash. He loves to party and play around, as well as rock and roll music. He often uses Tip and Dash as his victims, although they don't watch funny viral videos.
 * Jaq Jaguar (voiced by Jim Cummings): A magnificent jaguar shows up on the island where Tip and Dash immediately ingratiates himself. The proud and extremely pretentious predator seeks Tip and Dash to turn them into a forbidding brute.
 * Don the Whale (voiced by Richard McGonagle): A muscular orca and has a black backside with dark gray arms and legs, and he has a dark white underside. He wears light blue shorts that resemble swim trunks.
 * Wilbur Weasel (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui): A cowardly endangered North Dakotan Shaved Weasel that ends up being getting bad luck at least to be terribly contagious. Tip and Dash became his friends after they were struck by bad luck and Wilbur had to get protected by them. They will try to avoid him having bad luck at all costs.
 * Tony Toucan (voiced by Steve Vinovich): A cool toucan who lives in the Jungle, He likes to be used for action move to help Tip and Dash out for their support.
 * Geriant (voiced by Jess Harnell): He is Tip and Dash's human archenemy and the main antagonist of the series. He is a man of many disguises and his role varies from episode to episode, from mildly bothersome antagonist to full villain.
 * Victor McSharp (voiced by Jason Lee): A criminal swordfish, wanted by the police. He is known for being a sly con-artist and always manages to trick Tip and Dash (or just Tip) into helping him in his schemes and cons.
 * Marcus and Christo (voiced by John DiMaggio and Paul F. Tompkins respectively): A pair of sophisticated mongooses who hunt for their prey, enemies of Tip and Dash and of Kacricon, Greta and Horace. Although hard to tell apart, aside from their voices, Marcus appears to be more eager and aggressive while Christo seems more likely to think things through and is the most conniving.
 * Sid the Bear (voiced by Mark Hamill): A large polar bear with a very short temperament who Tip and Dash often run into. He can be quite menacing and dangerous, but at least one episode shows that deep inside he is a nice guy.
 * The Three Natives (voiced by Jeff Bennett): A trio of natives who are really university students. Their "chief" is also a university student, and usually precedes what he says with "Bungala bungala!"
 * Gideon (voiced by Tara Strong): A cute yet dangerous skunk who is a criminal mastermind. He also has two voices: a cute, innocent voice to pass himself off as a cub and a gruff voice to prove his true maturity.

Futt and his Friends
Main Characters


 * Futt (voiced by Keith Ferguson) is a silly gray putty. He likes to do funny things like Futt. He is extremely funny!
 * Boogie Board The Big Daddy (voiced by Benjamin Diskin) is a Boogie Board Thing. He tries to join the gang and now it was very very happy and silly too.
 * Googly Eye (voiced by Jim Cummings) is Futt's best friend. He likes spending the time with Futt and his friends.
 * Twigs (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is Futt's Girlfriend. She joins the gang with Futt, Googly Eye and Boogie Board The Big Daddy.
 * Evil Frog (voiced by Mel McMurrin) is a evil villain. He all destroys all the friends but now Futt will punch Evil Frog.
 * Cyrano (voiced by John Cleese) is a crocodile captain, He also attempts to become greedy to become rich at Pudding Hill.

Minor Characters


 * Evil Toothpick (voiced by Mr. Lawrence) is a greedy one.
 * Tak (voiced by Jim Cummings) is a blue tiger who is constantly trying to capture and eat Futt. He is as fast as Futt but not as smart. He has wolverine-like claws and he can pull out stripes from his body and modify them to make a weapon.
 * Tail (voiced by Billy West) is the living tail of Tak. Tail is a vegetarian and really likes carrots, which he tries to steal from Futt.
 * Kaa (voiced by Jim Cummings) is an enormous snake with an equally large appetite—specifically for Futt the Silly Putty. Kaa's most dangerous attributes are his hypnotic eyes, which he uses to manipulate unsuspecting prey and lure them into his jaws.
 * Worley Wolf (voiced by Steve Kramer) is a greedy, villainous wolf who loves food. His first villainous act was treating Futt like a slave.
 * Mr. Taper (voiced by John DiMaggio) is Ms. Buttoner's Boyfriend.
 * Ms. Buttoner (voiced by Megan Cavanagh) is a women buttoner. She travels all the time and spending the night with Mr. Taper.
 * Mr. Rectangle (voiced by Clancy Brown) is the member of wackiness.
 * Mr. Lion (voiced by Jim Conroy) is a boss. He learned about everything who they can told me to.
 * Mr. Fidget Spinner (voiced by Scott Menville) is a good silver spinner guy.
 * Bartleby Bat (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) is extremely adventurous, outspoken, and he's sensitive about his height. He often chases mouses, but can never seem to catch them, which aggravates him to no end. Though he does occasionally get even with the mouses in the comics.
 * Stuart Bat (voiced by Billy West) is a typical brother of Bartleby who can be brothers together to fly by night.
 * Candy Hector Caramella (voiced by Charlie Adler) is the most sensitive alien of the Aliens' household. Obsessed with cleaning and decorating, Candy is a neat-freak, tomgirl, leader and a house-alien that was sure to keep the house clean in a perfect condition, but not allow it to become a filthy, health hazard-like mess.
 * Rudolf (voiced by Tom Kenny) is the yellow rabbit who sells from door to door and meets weirdos day to day. Wherever he knocks – he’s in for a shock. Each encounter escalates into slapstick mayhem but Rudolf remains undeterred.
 * Bud Budiovitch (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is laid back... in fact downrig ht lazy. He spends most of his time flat on his back, watching TV and guzzling sodas. He is a true TV addict and will watch anything and everything. Bud is not enthusiastic nor is he driven by anything, but his TV. No one is quite sure if there is some intelligence behind his simple facade.
 * Flinty Duck (voiced by Pamela Hayden) is a duck, that always became gen erous.
 * Percy Pigeon (voiced by Wayne Knight) is a hyper-active and egocentric blue pigeon. He's lovable due to his innate wackiness and his tragic and comic flaws. Percy is driven by blind ambition. He has big dreams of wealth, fame and power, but he's so desperate to get them that he always falls victim to his own wild schemes.
 * Carlin (voiced by Mike Pollock) is a old blue crow who is an artist, tr aveler and also a musician. He also plays certain instruments, like the piano.
 * Rodney Rooster (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui) is a rooster, who calls out for "Cock-a-Doodle Doo!" in the morning and tells everyone and said "Good night!" at night.
 * Principal Secretary (voiced by Tom Kenny; later voiced by Nic Smal) is a South African-accented secretary bird who is the principal at Futt, Googly Eyes Twigs's school. He aspired to be a principal ever since he was in high school.
 * Crusty the Turtle (voiced by Bi lly West) is a boredom turtle, so it supposed to be fun.
 * Mr. Chalk (voiced by Thom Huge) is a good chalk as a shape of a popsicle.
 * Pink (voiced by Lauren Tom) is a beautiful Etch-a-sketch girl.
 * Tiny Eye (voiced by Jason Mardsen) is Googly Eye's best cousin.
 * Telescope (voiced by Sam Vincent) was so tall.
 * Spiky (voiced by Tom Kenny) is Googly Eye's best friend.
 * Mooch (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) is very sly, high-strung, sarcastic, underhanded and pretty cocky. Even though he is very prone to mishaps and misfortune, he is zealous and persistent.
 * Danny Dingo (voiced by Keith Scott) is a suave, smug dingo teen, almost always seen with his sunglasses on, who's usually thinking of ways to scam the townspeople. Despite this, he's got a heart of gold.
 * Benny (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a six-year-old cow with a big heart. Benny lives with his grandma in Benny's Barn. Benny is also a bit accident-prone.
 * Tico (voiced by Nika Futterman) is a four-year-old squirrel and a good friend to Futt. While Tico is young and playful, he can also be brave and heroic. Since Tico can operate any vehicle--everything from a bicycle-powered plane to a Super Spy boat-car--he has been known to save the day in a crisis. He is often found driving in his little yellow car or in his tree at the Nutty Forest.
 * Courage (voiced by Marty Grabstein) is a small pink dog of undetermined breed (possibly a mix breed) with thin and long black ears. He has a black diamond-like nose and tiny limbs in proportion to his body. His middle toe always seems to point straight ahead regardless of stance, making it appear as though Courage is always tip-toeing. He has numerous large human-like teeth, with one having a circular hole in it. He has three black spots on his back.
 * Eek (voiced by Bill Kopp) is a chubby purple cat. His ears are not pointed; rather, they are curved and resemble short antennae or dog ears. The fur on his belly is a lighter shade of purple, with his nose conversely being a darker, more pinkish shade. His whiskers are strangely not straight; rather, they are wavy.
 * Chilly Willy (voiced by Tara Strong) is a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin living in Fairbanks, Alaska, although the species is native only to the southern hemisphere.
 * Skunk (voiced by Jules de Jongh) is a caring skunk at times, who will even feel sympathetic to his enemies. He tries his best to be kind and a good friend but can be quite rude at times. He is hyperactive and gets bored and distracted easily.
 * Little Guy (voiced by Pamela Adlon) is a baby.
 * Mr. Paper (voiced by Kurtwood Smith) is Little Guy's father.
 * Ms. Paper (voiced by Jill Talley) is Little Guy's mother.
 * Scissors (voiced by Rob Paulsen) A Scissor has a color of red with black spots.
 * Service Monster (voiced by Erine Sabella) is a Manager.
 * Trixie (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is Boogie Board The Big Daddy's Girlfriend.

Hands and Friends
Main Characters


 * Hands (voiced by Jeremy McAbee) is a great friend. He is having a spending time with friends but it was cool.
 * Handsy (voiced by Katey Sagal) is Hand's Girlfriend. She likes Hands so much and she always loves it.
 * Lord Demon (voiced by Keith Silverstein) is a foul and evil villain of all time. He's big, he's got anger issues and he's destroy Hands.
 * Lord Hands (voiced by Michael Bell) is a hand villain. He destroy Hands but Hands is always punch Lord Demon every single time.

Musical guests

 * Rush in "Closer to the Heart"
 * Junior Brown in "Texas"
 * Ween in "Your Shoe's Untied"
 * David Glen Eisley in "Band Geeks"
 * Cream in "Livewire Frog"
 * Blondie in "Amphibian Comedian"
 * Pantera in "Prehibernation Week"

Additional actors
Additional voices were also provided by Gary Owens and Neil Ross.

There have been several celebrity guest stars who did voice acting on Mercy's Meeting for both Mercy and Friends, Tip and Dash, Hands and Friends, The Frog and the Ferret, Futt and his Friends & The Vivid Crew portions, including Dee Bradley Baker, Bob Bergen, Corey Burton, Frank Welker, Rich Little, John Byner, Bill Farmer, Jim Ward, Jess Harnell, Candi Milo, Carolyn Lawrence, Tom Kenny, Danny Cooksey, Jennifer Hale, Sirena Iriwn, Mike Fite, April Winchell, Imogene Coca, Stan Freberg, George Foreman, Chick Hearn, Nathan Ruegger, Ron Pardo, Eric Bauza, Brian Drummond, Roger Rose, Jeff Bergman, Charlie Schattler, Jim Gomez, Rick Gomez, Marvin Kaplan, Robin Leach, John Moschitta Jr., Jack Riley, Rod Roddy, Chris Hardwick, Jeremy Harris, Will Ryan, Pat Buttram, Thomas F. Wilson, Sara Paxton, Dick Beals, Paul Winchell, Don Knotts, Michael Bell, Arnold Stang and Greg Burson.

Development
The idea for Mercy's Meeting originated in the early 1990s, when Jeremy McAbe, while at college, created a series of comic books titled Girly Mercy and Friends that starred various characters, many of which would evolve into Mercy's Meeting characters, especially the titular protagonist. Jeremy tried selling the comic book so it can be professionally published, but none of the companies he sent it to were interested. After graduating from college to work at Michael Wildshill's animation studio, his work laid untouched in his attic for a few years. When he left Wildshill's studio to start his own production company, Jeremy revisited his idea and wanted to adapt his comic series to television.

On January 20, 1994, the Warner Bros. Animation studio approached Steven Spielberg to collaborate with Semel and 20th Century Fox head of licensing Dan Romanelli on Semel's ideas. They eventually decided that the new characters would be similar to the Looney Tunes and The Pink Panther characters with no direct relation. As series producer/show-runner Tom Ruegger explained: "Well, I think in 20th Century Fox case, they had the opportunity to work with Steven Spielberg] on a project [...] But he didn't want to just work on characters that Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson and Bob Clampett made famous and created. He wanted to be involved with the creation of some new characters." The result was a series similar to Looney Tunes without the use of the same characters. However, Mercy and Friends did not go into production then, nor was it even planned to be made for television; the series initially was to be a theatrical feature-length film.

On December 27, 1995, Mercy and Friends was changed from a film to a television series, with Jean MacCurdy overseeing production of the first 65 episodes. MacCurdy said that Mercy and Friends was changed to a television series to "reach a broader audience". For the series, MacCurdy hired Tom Ruegger, who previously wrote cartoons for Filmation and Hanna-Barbera, to be a producer. In January 1996, Ruegger and writer Wayne Kaatz began developing the characters and the setting of "Wacky World" with McAbee.

On January 9, 1996, 20th Century Fox Animation chose its voice actors from over 1,200 auditions and put together its 100-person production staff. On April 13, 1998, full production of series episodes began with five overseas animation houses and a total budget of $25 million. The first 65 episodes of the series aired in syndication on 135 stations, beginning in May 1999. During that time, Mercy's Meeting was a huge success and got higher ratings than its Disney Afternoon competitors in some markets.

Early inspirations
Series' creator Jeremy McAbee first became fascinated with the cartoon world as a child and began developing his artistic abilities at a young age. Although these interests would not overlap for some time—the idea of drawing fcartiibs seemed boring to him—McAbee pursued both during college, majoring in comic designer and minoring in art. After graduating in 1984, he joined the Toon Institute, an organization in San Francisco, California, dedicated to educating the public about film making and maritime history. While McAbee was there, his love of the story-telling began to influence his artistry. He created a precursor to Mercy's Meeting: a comic book titled The Wacky Zone used by the institute to teach visiting students about the toon life of crossover. The comic starred various cartoon crossover characters, many of which would evolve into Mercy's Meeting characters. McAbee tried to get the comic professionally published, but none of the companies he sent it to were interested.

A large inspiration to McAbee was Ween's 1997 album The Mollusk, which had a nautical and underwater theme. McAbee contacted the band shortly after the album's release, explaining the baseline ideas for Mercy's Meeting, and also requested a song from the band, which they sent on Christmas Eve. This song was "Loop de Loop", which was used in the episode "Your Shoe's Untied".

Writing
According to writer and storyboard artist Luke Brookshier, "Mercy is written differently to many television shows." Unlike most of its contemporaries, Mercy's Meeting does not use written scripts. Instead, storylines are developed by a team of five outline and premise writers. A two-page outline is then assigned to a team of storyboard directors, who produce a complete rough draft of the storyboard. One of the methods used to assemble storyboards was to use Post-it notes. Most of the dialogue and jokes are added during this stage. Brookshier has likened this process to how cartoons were made "in the early days of animation."

''The decision to eschew scripts for storyboards is one that Davis made early in the series' development. The PowerPet Squad had also used storyboarding derived from short outlines, and having worked on that series, McAbee felt strongly about adopting the process for Mercy's Meeting—''even though GoAnimate Network was beginning to show a greater preference for script-driven cartoons. Another series' writer, Merriwether Williams, explained in an interview that she and Mr. Lawrence would write a draft for an episode in an afternoon and be done at 4:00 pm.

The writing staff often used their personal experiences as inspiration for the storylines of the series' episodes. For example, the episode "Human Mouth", where Mercy and DJ learn profanity, was inspired by creative director Derek Drymon's experience as a child of getting into trouble for using the f-word in front of his mother. Drymon said, "The scene where DJ is running to Peewee to tattle, with Mercy chasing him, is pretty much how it happened in real life". The end of the episode when Peewee uses even more profanity than Mercy and DJ, was inspired "by the fact that my [Drymon's] mother has a human mouth herself". The idea for the episode "The Secret Box" also came from one of Drymon's childhood experiences. John A. Davis explained, "Drymon had a secret box [as a kid] and started telling us about it. We wanted to make fun of him and use it."

The series and the show's characters were developed by series producer, head writer and cartoonist Tom Ruegger, division leader Jean MacCurdy, associate producer and artist Alfred Gimeno and story editor/writer Wayne Kaatz. Among the first writers on the series were Jim Reardon, Tom Minton, and Eddie Fitzgerald. Other writers included Arleen Sorkin. The character and scenery designers included Alfred Gimeno, Ken Boyer, Dan Haskett, Karen Haskett, and many other artists and directors. The series was actually planned to be a feature film. Once Steven Spielberg was attached, numerous things changed, including the idea of turning the movie into a television series.

"Mercy and Curly Go Hawaiian" was co-written by three then-teenage girls who were fans of the show.

Almost every episode is divided into two 11-minute segments. Hillenburg explained: "[I] never really wanted to deliberately try to write a half-hour show". He added, "I wrote the shows to where they felt right".

Voice actors
Further information: List of Mercy's Meeting cast members and List of Mercy's Meeting guest stars

Voice director Andrea Romano auditioned over 1,200 voices for the series and chose more than a dozen main voice actors. The role of Mercy was given to Cristina Vee, who gave the role, as producer Tom Ruegger said, "a great deal of energy". The role of Babs Bunny was given to Tress MacNeille. Writer Paul Dini said that MacNeille was good for the role because she could do both Babs' voice and the voices of her impressions. Voice actors Rob Paulsen and Jack McBrayer were given the roles of Austin and DJ, respectively. Ashley Johnson played Star-lla and, according to Paul Dini, was good for the role because she could do a "tremendous mean voice." Johnson was also the only voice actor in the cast who was not an adult. Tara Strong played the roles of Chairty and Chilly Willy; former Saturday Night Live cast member Kath Souice played Curly, Grey DeLisle had the role of Annie, and Jocelyn Loewn had the role of Dorothy the Dinosaur. Other actors for the series included Richard Steven Horvitz as the voice of Zig and Bartelby Bat; Kevin Michael Richardson as the voice of Sharko; Hynden Walch as the voice of Marina, Frank Welker as the voice of Garfield, Bill Kopp as the voice of Eek! The Cat, Marty Grabstein as the voice of Courage, Maddie Blaustein as the voice of Ferret, Daran Norris as the voice of Frog, Khary Payton as Peewee, and other voices; and Billy West as the voice of Bernie, Andre the Anaconda, Crane, Crusty the Turtle, and other characters. The legendary original voice actor behind the Looney Tunes and The Pink Panther, Mel Blanc, was initially set to reprise his roles as the classic characters, but due to his death in July 1989, his characters were recast to Paulsen, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Bob Bergen, and Mel's son, Noel Blanc.

During production of the series' third season, Wahlgren left the show due to a feud with the producers. Wahlgren was angry that he had not been offered a role in Animaniacs while voice actors with smaller roles in Mercy's Meeting such as Paulsen, McBrayer, LaMarche, and Welker were given starring roles in the new series. Cristina Vee replaced Wahlgren for the remainder of the show's run (although Wahlgren would eventually return to voice Mercy in the sci-fi crossover video game, Mercy's Meeting: Enter the Vivid Crew). McCord, the voice of DJ, briefly left Mercy's Meeting for financial reasons, but returned when an agreement was reached with the studio.

Animation
Approximately 50 people work together to animate and produce an episode of Mercy's Meeting. Throughout its run, the series' production has been handled domestically at GoAnimate Animation Studio in San Mateo, California. The finished animation has been created overseas at Rough Draft Studios in South Korea. The California crew storyboard each episode. These are then used as templates by the crew in Korea, who animate each scene by hand, color each cel on computers, and paint backgrounds. Episodes are finished in California, where they are edited and have music added.

The series' first season was produced by Hanna-Barbera, and was produced in association with Wang Film Productions in Taiwan, Rough Draft Studios in South Korea, TMS Entertainment Co,. Ltd. in Japan., Mr. Big Cartoons in Australia, and Fil-Cartoons in the Philippines. However, due to difficulties with the animation studios, production was switched from Hanna-Barbera to DNA Productions for the second and third seasons. After the third season ended, the production went to Film Roman. Despite Film Roman being the animation company for Season 4 and on, GoAnimate Network encountered difficulties with Film Roman, bringing in DNA Productions temporarily to animate the episodes. They animated Austin's Day Off, Somewhere That's Green, Frog Snogs, Shopping Mauled, New Digs, and Escape from Star-lla's Starland and before the animation company went back to Film Roman. In Season 7, the show switched to computer animation.

During the first season, the series used cel animation. A shift was made the following year to digital ink and paint animation. In 2009, executive producer Paul Tibbitt said: "The first season of Mercy's Meeting was done the old-fashioned way on cells [sic], and every cell sic had to be part-painted, left to dry, paint some other colors. It's still a time-consuming aspect of the process now, but the digital way of doing things means it doesn't take long to correct".

In 2008, the crew began using Wacom Cintiqs for the drawings instead of pencils. The fifth season episode "Pest of the West", one of the half-hour specials, was the first episode where the crew applied this method. Series' background designer Kenny Pittenger said, "The only real difference between the way we draw now and the way we drew then is that we abandoned pencil and paper during the fifth season". The shift to Wacom Cintiqs let the designers and animators draw on computer screens and make immediate changes or undo mistakes. Pittenger said, "Many neo-Luddites—er ... I mean, many of my cohorts—don't like working on them, but I find them useful. There's no substitute for the immediacy of drawing on a piece of paper, of course, but digital nautical nonsense is still pretty fun". Screen Novelties created character models based on the works of Rankin/Bass for the show's stop-motion episodes. Since 2004, the Mercy's Meeting crew has periodically collaborated with the LA-based animation studio Screen Novelties to create stop-motion sequences for special episodes. The studio produced a brief claymation scene for the climax of the first theatrical film. It was re-enlisted in 2009 to create an exclusive opening for the series' tenth anniversary special. The abominable snow mollusk, an shark-like creature made of clay who acts as the antagonist of the double-length episode "Frozen Face-Off", was also animated by the company. Animation World Network reported that "within the Mercy's Meeting creative team, there was always talk of doing a more involved project together" with Screen Novelties. As a result, the group was asked to create an episode animated entirely in stop motion in 2011. This project became "It's a Mercy Christmas!", which reimagined the show's characters as if they were part of a Rankin/Bass holiday film. Tom Kenny, who is normally uninvolved in the writing process, contributed to the episode's plot; he said in 2012 that he and GoAnimate"wanted to do something just like those old school, stop-motion Rankin-Bass holiday specials ... which I watched over and over again when I was a kid growing up in Syracuse." Unconventional materials such as baking soda, glitter, wood chips and breakfast cereal were used in mass quantities to create the special's sets. Members of the Screen Novelties crew received one win and two nominations at the 30th Annie Awards, a nomination at the 2013 Golden Reel Awards, and a nomination at the 2013 Annecy International Animated Film Festival for animating the episode. The team built a dragon puppet named Drayden, voiced by Albert Brooks, for Mercy's Meeting Movie: Mercy Out of Wackyworld. Sequences involving Drayden included a blend of stop motion and traditional animation. A second special animated in stop motion, themed around Halloween and using the same Rankin/Bass-inspired character models, was produced for season 11.

Music
Bruce Broughton composed the Mercy's Meeting theme song. Its lyrics were written by Tom Ruegger and Wayne Kaatz and the series' original creative director Derek Drymon. The melody was inspired by the sea shanty "Blow the Man Down". An old oil painting of a pirate is used in the opening sequence. Dubbed "Painty the Pirate", according to Tom Kenny, McAbee found it in a thrift shop "years ago". Patrick Pinney voices Painty the Pirate, singing the theme song as the character. McAbee's lips were imposed onto the painting and move along with the lyrics. Vee joked this is "about as close of a glimpse as most Mercy's Meeting fans are ever going to get of John A. Davis", because of his private nature.

A cover of the song by Avril Lavigne can be found on the Mercy's Meeting: The Movie soundtrack. Another cover by the Violent Femmes aired on GoAnimate Network as a promotion when the series moved to prime time.

Alf Clausen, one of McAbee's friends from CalArts, wrote and performed the music heard over the end credits. This theme includes ukulele music at McAbee's request. Drymon said, "It's so long ago, it's hard to be sure, but I remember McAbee having the Belfer music early on, maybe before the pilot".

The series' music editor and main composer is Nicolas Carr. After working with John A. Davis on The PowerPet Squad, he struggled to find a new job in his field. He had considered a career change before Davis offered him the job. The first season's score primarily featured selections from the Associated Production Music Library, which Carr has said includes "lots of great old corny Hawaiian music and big, full, dramatic orchestral scores." The PowerPet Squad also used music from this library. It was John A. Davis's decision to adopt this approach. Carr has described the selections for Mercy's Meeting as being "more over-the-top" than those for The PowerPet Squad.

John A. Davis felt it was important for the series to develop its own music library, consisting of scores that could be reused and re-edited throughout the years. He wanted these scores to be composed by unknowns, and a group of twelve was assembled. They formed "The Girly Toonsters Orchestra", which includes Carr and Belfer. The group went on to provide most of the music for later seasons, although Carr still draws from the Associated Production Music Library, as well as another library that he founded himself—Animation Music Inc.

Broadcast
Main article: Mercy's Meeting/Broadcast

The self-titled pilot episode silently premiered on GoAnimate Netework at 6:30 PM, to test how viewers would think of it. It was received fine, which lead the remake of the pilot into the works. Although Mercy's Meeting's first episode was originally set to premiere on May 1, 1999, the first episode, "The Wacky Beginning," aired on May 1, 1999, due to minor post-production delays.

United States

 * GoAnimate Network (1999-)
 * GoAnimate Toons (1999-)
 * Fox Kids (1999-2001)
 * Univision (Latin American Spanish, 1999-)
 * Qubo (2007-2021)
 * Telemundo (Latin American Spanish, 2000-2004, 2008-)
 * The Hub (2010-2014)
 * Disney Channel (2019-)

Canada

 * YTV (English, 1999-2007, 2018-)
 * Teletoon (English/French, 1999-)
 * GoAnimate Network (2000-)
 * Teletoon Retro (English/French, 2006-)

Latin America & Brazil

 * GoAnimate Network (2000-)
 * GoAnimate Toons (2000-)
 * ZAZ (2001-)
 * Cablin (1999-)
 * The Big Channel (2001-)
 * Chilevision (1999-)
 * Canal 5 (1999-2003, 2011, 2018-)
 * Cartoon Network (2001-)
 * Boomerang (2002-)
 * Magic Kids (1999-)
 * USA Network (????)
 * Rede Globo (1999-2005, 2018-)
 * TV Cultura (1994-2013)

Spain

 * Canal+ (1994-2004)
 * Clan TVE (2005-2008, 2019-)

Portugal

 * TVI (1994-2002)
 * RTP1 (2001-2004)
 * RTP2 (2019-)

Germany

 * ProSieben (1995-2001)
 * Super RTL (2001-2008)
 * Nickelodeon (2019-)

France

 * Canal J (1994-2010)
 * Gulli (2005-2012, 2019-)

United Kingdom & Ireland

 * CITV (1999-)
 * GoAnimate Network (1999-present)
 * Channel 4 (1999-)
 * Pop (2008-09)
 * Nicktoons (2018)
 * RTÉ2 (2000-2010, 2018-)

Italy

 * Italia 1 (1994-2006, 2019-)
 * GoAnimate Network (1999-)
 * Frisbee (2010-2012)

Japan

 * NHK (1999-)
 * GoAnimate Network (1999-present)
 * Fuji TV (1999-)
 * TV Tokyo (2019-)

Episodes
Main article: List of Mercy's Meeting episodes

Episode segments
Each episode featured most of the following segments:


 * Mercy Quickie: This was a segment of the show that featured Mercy Sunday strips from the mid-to-late 2000s. Very rarely would a weekday strip be shown.
 * Theme song: See below.
 * First Mercy cartoon: This is a general Mercy's Meeting episode taking on a more domestic nature mostly involving DJ and Austin.
 * Galactic Heroes/The Vivid Crew Quickie: This Quickie usually aired before the main story and featured strips from the newspaper run for that series. These ran from seasons 1 to 3.
 * The Vivid Crew cartoon: This episode featured the Galactic Heroes/The Vivid Crew characters in various situations. From seasons 1 to 3, there was a song segment that was built on the episode's theme.
 * Hands and Friends Quickie: This Quickie usually aired before the main story and featured strips from the newspaper run for that series. These ran from seasons 1 to 3.
 * Hands and Friends cartoon: This episode featured the Hands and Friends characters in various situations. From seasons 1 to 10, there was a song segment that was built on the episode's theme.
 * Tip & Dash Quickie: This Quickie usually aired before the main story and featured strips from the newspaper run for that series. These ran from seasons 1 to 3.
 * Tip & Dash cartoon: This episode featured the Tip and Dash characters in various situations. From seasons 1 to 8, there was a song segment that was built on the episode's theme.
 * The Frog and the Ferret Quickie: This quickied usually aired before the main story and featured strips from the newspaper run that series. These ran from seasons 1 to 3.
 * The Frog and the Ferret cartoon: This episode featured The Frog and the Ferret charactres in various situations. From seasons seasons 1 to 3.
 * Futt and his Friends Quickie: Just like the first quickie except it would be on before or after the second Mercy's Meeting episode.
 * Futt and his friends cartoon: This cartoon starring Futt. Though stories may have a live action adventures, the viewers might see a parody teaching segment that featured a Futt lecture of some sort or learning situation.
 * Second Mercy Quickie: Just like the first quickie except it would be on before or after the second Mercy's Meeting episode.
 * Second Mercy cartoon: Another cartoon starring Mercy. Though stories may have a domestic nature, the viewers might see a parody teaching segment that featured a Mercy lecture of some sort or learning situation.
 * End credits

A "Quickie" is a short joke that is used between segments. There is at least one Mercy's Meeting, Tip & Dash, Futt and his Friends, The Frog and the Ferret, Hands and Friends or The Vivid Crew Quickie per episode. Most of the Quickies are based on a Saturday comic strip, and some on a daily comic strip. There are also a couple of Quickies called The Vivid Crew's Safety Lecture and Ferret's Frog Hunt-O-Rama. According to one The Vivid Crew Quickie, they last 45 seconds and most of these were cut out in syndication.

In syndication, the format was as follows:


 * Theme song
 * First Mercy cartoon
 * The Vivid Crew cartoon
 * Futt and his Friends cartoon
 * The Frog and the Ferret cartoon
 * Hands and Friends cartoon
 * Tip & Dash cartoon
 * Second Mercy cartoon
 * Mercy Quickie
 * End credits

Ratings
Within its first month on air, Mercy's Meeting overtook Pokémon as the highest rated Saturday-morning children's series on television. It held an average national Nielsen rating of 4.9 among children aged two through eleven, denoting 1.9 million viewers. Two years later, the series had firmly established itself as GoAnimate Network's second highest-rated children's program, after Toddler Tales. Mercy's Meetingwas credited with helping GoAnimate Network take the "Saturday-morning ratings crown" for the fourth straight season in 2001. The series had gained a significant adult audience by that point—nearly 40 percent of its 2.2 million viewers were aged 18 to 34. In response to its weekend success, GoAnimate Network gave Mercy's Meeting time slots at 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM, Monday through Thursday, to increase the series' exposure. By the end of 2001, Mercy's Meeting boasted the highest ratings for any children's series, on all of television. Weekly viewership of the series had reached around fifteen million, at least five million of whom were adults.

In October 2002, another GoAnimate Network series, Drago and Friends, ranked as the number two program for children between two and eleven years old. Its ratings at that time were almost equal to Mercy's Meeting 's then-average of 2.2 million viewers per episode. Drago and Friends even briefly surpassed Mecry's Meeting, causing it to drop into second place. At this time, Drago and Friends had a 6.2 rating and nearly 2.5 million child viewers, while Mercy's Meeting had a 6.0 rating and 2.4 million child viewers aged two to eleven. GoAnimate Network "recognized" Drago and Friends for its climbing ratings and installed it in a new 8:00 PM time slot, previously occupied by Mercy's Meeting. In an interview, Cyma Zarghami, then-general manager and executive vice president of GoAnimate Network, said, "Are we banking on the fact that Drago and Friends will be the next Mercy? ... We are hoping. But Mercy is so unique, it's hard to say if it will ever be repeated."

In 2012, however, the series' ratings were declining. The average number of viewers aged two to eleven watching Mercy at any given time dropped 29% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to Nielsen. Wall Street Journal business writer John Jannarone suggested the series' age and oversaturation might be contributing to its ratings' decline and might also be directly responsible for the decline in Nickelodeon's overall ratings. Media analyst Todd Juenger attributed the decline in GoAnimate's ratings directly to the availability of streaming video content on services like Netflix, a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media.

Philippe Dauman, the president and CEO of Viacom, contradicted that notion, saying: "We are getting nice revenues through these subscription VOD deals", adding Netflix only has "some library content" on its service. A GoAnimate spokesman said, "Mercy is performing consistently well and remains the number one rated animated series in all of children's television." He added, "There is nothing that we have seen that points to Mercy as a problem." Dauman blamed the drop on "some ratings systemic issues" at Nielsen, citing extensive set-top-box data that "does in no way reflect" the Nielsen data.

Juenger noted Mercy's Meeting could affect the ratings of other GoAnimate Network programming because children often change channels to find their favorite programs, then stay tuned to that network. GoAnimate reduced its[clarification needed] exposure on television. In the first quarter of 2012, the network cut back on the number of episodes it aired by 16% compared to a year earlier.

On April 22, 2013, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced their intentions not to renew their existing deal with Warner Bros. Warner Bros.' deal with Netflix expired, and shows such as Mercy's Meeting and Amanda the Adventurer were removed. However, seasons five through eight of Mercy's Meeting are still available to stream on Netflix in Canada. On June 4, 2013, Viacom announced a multi-year licensing agreement which would move its programs, such as Mercy's Meeting and Amanda the Adventurer, to Amazon.com, Netflix's top competitor. Amazon agreed to pay more than $200 million to Viacom for the license, its largest subscription streaming transaction ever.

Mercy's Meeting is one of the longest-running series on GoAnimate Network. It became the network's series with the most episodes during its eighth season, surpassing the 172 episodes of Toddler Tales. In the ninth season, its 26 episodes brought the number of episodes produced to 204. In a statement, Brown Johnson, GoAnimate Network's animation president said, "Mercy 's success in reaching over 200 episodes with 4 segments is a testament to creator Jeremy McAbee's vision, comedic sensibility and his dynamic, lovable characters. The series now joins the club of contemporary classic GoAnimate Toons that have hit this benchmark, so we're incredibly proud." Many children of the 2000s grew up with the series, leading to the series possessing an extensive influence on Generation Z and millennials and greater internet culture.

Critical reception
Mercy's Meeting was originally received mixed-to-positive by critics, with critics praising the stories and writing, and the others disliking how the first seasons were filled with morals, but liked the concept of the show. Around the third season, the critics had praised the show extremely due to a noticeable change with more crazier episodes. The original series overall was mostly very well received. When the show was revived, they started to notice many drawn-out filler episodes which were because the writers (John A. Davis, Thomas Astruct, Jeremy McAbee, Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, etc.) had to work on a very limited schedule. The episodes had to be completed in about 1 day, leading to many filler episodes and recycled episodes. This was changed at the very end of Season 8 (Escape from Star-lla's Starland) by series creator Jeremy McAbee when they were given a longer schedule.

Awards and nominations
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Mercy's Meeting

Mercy's Meeting has received many awards and nominations; among these are four Emmy Awards (Outstanding Special Class Animated Program in 2010; Outstanding Sound Editing – Animation" in 2014; Outstanding Children's Animated Series in 2018; and Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program in 2018 for Kenny); six Annie Awards; and two BAFTA Children's Awards. In 2006, IGN ranked Mercy's Meeting 15th on its list, Top 25 Animated Series of All Time, and in 2013, it ranked the series 12th on its list, The Top 25 Animated Series for Adults. In addition, the website's UK division ran a Top 100 Animated Series list, and like its US counterpart, ranked Mercy's Meeting 15th.

TV Guide listed Mercy's Meeting himself at number nine on its list 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time in 2002. In June 2010, Entertainment Weekly named Mercy one of the 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. Viewers of UK television network Channel 4 voted Mercy's Meeting the 28th Greatest Cartoon in a 2004 poll. The series is among the All-TIME 100 TV Shows as chosen by Time television critic James Poniewozik in 2007. He said, "It's the most funny, surreal, inventive example of the explosion in creative kids' (and adult) entertainment that GoAnimate Network, Cartoon Network and their ilk made possible." In 2013, the publication ranked Mercy's Meeting the eighth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. Television critic Matt Zoller Seitz included the series in his 2016 book with Alan Sepinwall titled TV (The Book) as the 22nd greatest American television series of all time, saying that "Mercy's Meeting is an absurdist masterpiece that Salvador Dalí and Groucho Marx would have watched together in their smoking jackets".

Legacy
In July 2009, Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York launched a wax sculpture of Mercy's Meeting in celebration of the series' 10th anniversary. Mercy became the first animated character sculpted entirely out of wax.

The character has also become a trend in Egypt at Cairo's Tahrir Square. After the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Mercy became a fashion phenomenon, appearing on various merchandise items from hijabs to boxer shorts. The phenomenon led to the creation of the Tumblr project called "Mercy on the Nile". The project was founded by American students Andrew Leber and Elisabeth Jaquette and attempts to document every appearance of Mercy in Egypt. Sherief Elkeshta cited the phenomenon in an essay about the incoherent state of politics in Egypt in an independent monthly paper titled Midan Masr. He wrote, "Why isn't he [Mercy] at least holding a Molotov cocktail? Or raising a fist?" The phenomenon has even spread to Libya, where a Libyan rebel in Mercy dress was photographed celebrating the revolution. Although The Guardian and Vice have asserted that the trend has little to no political significance, "joke" presidential campaigns have been undertaken for Mercy in Egypt and Syria.

A clip was posted to YouTube in February 2013 that features soldiers in the Russian army and navy singing the Mercy's Meeting theme song as they march. According to the website that uploaded the video, this is one of the "most popular marching songs" in the Russian military. The video garnered nearly 50,000 views within its first week.

Following Hillenburg's death in November 2018, more than 1.2 million fans signed a petition for the National Football League to have the song "Sweet Victory" from the season 2 episode "Austin's Band Geeks" performed in his honor at the Super Bowl LIII halftime show. Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium's Twitter account, the venue of the show, tweeted a GIF of Mercy dancing in "Austin's Band Geeks" in December. Maroon 5 who were performing at the game, included a brief clip of Mercy in a preview video, leading fans to believe the song would be performed. While the song's opening was ultimately included, it served as a transition into artist Travis Scott's set, which left many fans disappointed. In response to fans' disappointment at not hearing the complete "Sweet Victory" song during the halftime show at the Super Bowl LIII, the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League showed a clip of the full "Sweet Victory" song during a game at the American Airlines Center. In the clip, the characters' band uniforms are recolored green after the Stars.

Several species of organism have been named in reference to Mercy's Meeting. In May 2011, a new species of mushroom, Storpharia aeruginosa, was described and named after the series' title character. In 2019, a species of sea sponge, Clathria hillenburgi, was named in honor of Hillenburg, also referencing his creation of SpongeBob SquarePants. In 2020, a species of abyssal sea star, Drosophila melanogaster, was described and named after DJ; individuals of this species were found to be closely associated with hexactinellid sponges, and it was thus named after DJ as a reference to the character's friendship with Mercy.

In honor of Stephen Hillenburg, a non-profit fan project, titled Mercy's Meeting: The Movie ReWhacked!, was released online on May 1, 2022. It consists of a recreation of Mercy's Meeting: The Movie reanimated by 300 people with re-recorded music and dialogue. Amid the YouTube premiere, the video was taken down by 20th Century Studios due to copyright laws. As a result, the hashtag #JusticeForMercy became trending on Twitter against Paramount's action. The video was restored the following day.

Influence
With the success of Mercy's Meeting, The Adventures of The Pink Panther and New Twentieth Toons, these shows noticeably influenced the golden age generation of mainstream animated television series. After the season 9 of Mercy's Meeting, the series inspired similar animated series starring cartoon series, including Garfield and Friends, Tiny Toons Adventures, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, The Ren & Stimpy Show, ''Eek! The Cat, and Animaniacs''.

Spin-offs
A spin-off television series of Mercy's Meeting featuring The Vivid Crew, Futt and his Friends: Fatal Fantasy, The Frog and The Ferret: Furry Showdown!, Hands and Friends: Finger Frontier and Tip and Dash: Sea of Trouble was in the works at GoAnimate Network in the early 2000s. A video game was released in November 2000, the second video game was released in April 2002, the third video game was released in November 2004, the fourth game was released in March 2004, and the fifth video game was released in September 2005, but the series was never produced, most likely in favor of Zina Supermoon and That 70's Show.

Books
Main Article: Mercy's Meeting Books

In the 2000s, various Mercy's Meeting story books were published by the Little Golden Book Company. These books included adaptations of episodes as well as original stories.

Among the same time that Mercy's Meeting premiered, a quarterly children's magazine based on the series was published for at least seven issues. Also, various storybooks were published by Little Golden Books, including a few episode adaptations and some original stories (Lost in the Fun House and Happy Birthday, Mercy!). Mercy's Meeting also had a comic book series made by Warner Bros. and DC Comics. The characters also made occasional cameo appearances in the That 70's Show and Pink Panther comic books.

Comic Books
Main article: Mercy's Meeting Comics

The 32-page bimonthly comic book series, Mercy's Meeting Comics, was announced in November 2010 and debuted the following February. Before this, Mercy's Meeting comics had been published in GoAniamte Magazine, and episodes of the television series had been adapted by Cine-Manga, but Mercy and Friends Comics was the first American comic book series devoted solely to Mercy's Meeting. It also served as Mercy's Meeting creator Jeremy McAbee's debut as a comic book author. The series was published by McAbee's production company, Playhouse Animals Pictures, and distributed by Bongo Comics Group. McAbee described the stories from the comic books as "original and always true to the humor, characters, and universe of the Mercy's Meeting series." Leading up to the release of the series, McAbee said, "I'm hoping that fans will enjoy finally having a Mercy and Friends comic book from me."

Chris Duffy, the former senior editor of GoAnimate Magazine, serves as managing editor of Mercy and Friends Comics. McAbee and Duffy met with various cartoonists—including James Kochalka, Hilary Barta, Graham Annable, Gregg Schigiel, and Jacob Chabot—to contribute to each issues. Retired horror comics writer and artist Stephen R. Bissette returned to write a special Halloween issue in 2012, with Tony Millionaire and Al Jaffee. In an interview with Tom Spurgeon, Bissette said, "I've even broken my retirement to do one work-for-hire gig for Mercy and Friends Comics so I could share everything about that kind of current job."

In the United Kingdom, Titan Magazines published comics based on Mercy's Meeting every four weeks from February 3, 2005, through November 28, 2013. Titan Magazines also teamed up with Lego to release a limited edition Mercy and Friends-themed comic.

Television film

 * Main article: Mercy's Dimensional Disasters

A made-for-television film, entitled Mercy's Dimensional Disasters, aired on Go!Animate Network on October 9, 2001. In this film, Star-lla makes Mercy and her friends get sucked into a parallel universe where they meet other versions of themselves. There, they try to find a way to get back home with a help of their alternate dimension selves before it is too late.

Specials
A feature-length movie was released direct-to-video in 2000, entitled Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation. This was later re-edited and aired as part of the series. The length of the movie is 73 minutes. Fox Kids aired Mercy's Meeting Christmas Special: Christmas Who? in primetime on December 6, 2001. This episode is a parody of It’s a Wonderful Life. The Mercy's Meeting Spring Break Special was aired on Fox Kids during primetime on March 27, 2002. GoAnimate Network aired Mercy's Night Ghoulery in primetime on October 28, 2003.

Theatrical films

 * Main article: Mercy's Meeting The Movie

On June 10, 2004, 20th Century Fox, Glass Ball Productions, and GoAnimate Pictures produced and released a theatrical feature film titled Mercy's Meeting: The Movie into theaters. Originally planned as a direct-to-video feature, the film was written and directed by series creator Jeremy McAbee. with screenplay co-written by Paul Tibbitt, Derek Drymon, Aaron Springer, Kent Osborne, and Tim Hill. In this film, A Beautfiul Girl named Mercy and his cool friend, DJ, embark on a quest to clear the name of Stickman, who has been framed for stealing the crown of ocean deity King Neptune. Leaving the familiar confines of Wackyworld, Mercy and DJ venture out towards Monster City, where they hope to find Neptune's crown, but numerous criminals stand in their way. It received very mixed reviews from critics and fans and was a box office failure, grossing over $89 million worldwide on its $60 million budget. This also served as the series finale of the series' original run.

On November 17, 2019, a year after the series revival, it was announced that 20th Century Fox and GoAnimate Pictures were developing a new theatrical film featuring Mercy's Meeting, which was scheduled for a May 13, 2022 release with Mike Mitchell set to direct from a screenplay by Erica Rivinoja and David I. Stern. It is expected to be traditionally animated like the series. However by April 1, 2020, Universal pulled the film from its schedule following an update on 20th Century Fox's feature animation slate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Direct-to-video crossover film

 * Main article: Mercy's Meeting + Chuck's Misadventures in Animalville: New Horizons

In addition to the theatrical film being announced in November 2019, it was further announced that 20th Century Fox began production on a new direct-to-video Mercy's Meeting film to be released in the summer of 2020. By late February 2020, this was later revealed to be a crossover film with the Animalville lineup as a collaboration with 20th Century Fox's longtime rival The Warner Bros. Company, entitled Mercy's Meeting + Chuck's Misadventures in Animalville: New Horizon. Geo G. and his production company Glass Ball Productions created both Mercy's Meeting and the Chuck's Misadventures in Animalville animated series as a result. The film is the first collaboration between Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox since the video game Epic Smash Bros. (and its respective television and video game crossover special), as well as one of the few collaborations between GoAnimate's parent company Warner Bros. Pictures and 20th Century Fox. It was released on Blu-ray and Digital HD on June 9, 2020, but was heavily panned by critics and fans alike.

Music
During the development of the show Steven Spielberg said that 20th Century Fox would use a full orchestra, which some thought too expensive and impossible, but they ended up agreeing. 20th Century Fox selected Bruce Broughton to write the theme (for which he would win a Daytime Emmy along with Tom Ruegger and Wayne Kaatz, who both worked with Broughton on the lyrics) and serve as music supervisor. In addition to scoring 11 episodes, Broughton chose 26 other composers to score each different episode: Julie Bernstein (1 episode) Steve Bernstein (2 episodes) Steven Bramson (5 episodes; also a contributor for Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation) Don Davis (5 episodes; also a contributor for Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation) John Debney (2 episodes) Ron Grant (5 episodes) Les Hooper (1 episode) Carl Johnson (1 episode) Elliot Kaplan (1 episode) Arthur Kempel (4 episodes) Ralph Kessler (1 episode) Albert Lloyd Olson (13 episodes; also a contributor for Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation) Hummie Mann (2 episodes) Dennis McCarthy (2 episodes) Joel McNeely (3 episodes) Peter Myers (1 episode) Laurence Rosenthal (1 episode) William Ross (9 episodes) Arthur B. Rubinstein (3 episodes) J. Eric Schmidt (1 episode) David Slonaker (1 episode) Fred Steiner (7 episodes) Morton Stevens (4 episodes) Richard Stone (17 episodes; also a contributor for Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation) Stephen James Taylor (1 episode; also a contributor for Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation) Mark Watters (8 episodes; also a contributor for Mercy's Meeting: How I Spent My Vacation).

Theme park attractions
The Mercy's Meeting 4-D film and ride opened at several locations including Six Flags Over Texas, Vyond Land, Flamingo Land Resort, and the Shedd Aquarium. The ride features water squirts, real smoke, and other sensory enhancements. In 2012, GoAnimate teamed up again with SimEx-Iwerks Entertainment and Super 78 to produce Mercy's Meeting 4-D: The Great Bee Rescue. The attraction opened in early 2013 at the Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration. It was also installed at the GoAnimate Suites Resort Orlando in Orlando, Florida. The seven-minute film follows Mercy, DJ, and Curly rescuing the bumblebee of Bumblebee Fields from Star-lla's evil clutches. On May 23, 2015, an interactive 3D show titled Mercy's Multiversal Adventure opened in Texas at Moody Gardens. The show was replaced with a generic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" re-theming in 2019.

A variety of Mercy's Meeting-related attractions are currently located within GoAnimate themed-areas at Movie Park Germany, Vyond Land, Pleasure Beach Blackpool, Sea World, American Dream Meadowlands, and Mall of America, which includes the Mercy's Meeting Rottenworld Plunge euro-fighter roller coaster.

Video games

 * Main article: List of Mercy's Meeting video games

Numerous video games based on the show have been produced. Some of the early games include LJN's Mercy's Meeting (1999), THQ's Mercy's Meeting: The Precursor Adventures (1999), Capcom's Mercy's Meeting: Saving the Day! (2000), THQ's Mercy's Meeting: Super Mercy (2000), THQ's Mercy's Meeting: Legend of the Lost Diamond (2001), and THQ's Mercy's Meeting: The Power of Coins (2001). More modern games include Mercy's Meeting: Rise of Star-lla (2001), Mercy's Meeting: Enter the Vivid Crew (2002), Mercy's Meeting: Epic Dimensions (2003), Mercy's Meeting The Movie (2004), Mercy's Meeting: The Fight for Fame (2005), Mercy's Meeting: Nightmare on Wackyworld (2006), Mercy's Meeting: Atlantis Girly-Lantis (2007), Mercy's Meeting: The Whackiest Frontier (2008), Mercy's Meeting: Wacky Rally (2010), Mercy's Meeting: Surf n' Skate Fusion (2011), Mercy's Meeting: Star-Lla's Robotic Revenge (2013), Mercy's Meeting: Superhero Surge (2015), Mercy's Meeting: Morph Over Matter (2018), Mercy's Meeting: Cosmic Chasers (2023). In December 2018, Activision announced Mercy's Meeting Superb Trilogy, a collection of remasters of the first five titles in the 3D Mercy's Meeting series: The Precursor Adventures (1999), Super Mercy, and Rise of Star-Lla (2001), Enter the Vivid Crew (2002), and Epic Dimensions (2003); all which were developed by Ripcord Games for the PlayStation and released from 1999 to 2001. The game was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows on June 7, 2019.

Other appearances in games
Mercy's Meeting characters have also made appearances in other GoAnimate Network video games:


 * GoAnimate: Summer Camp (TV plug-and-play game)
 * GoAnimate Kart (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube)
 * GoAnimate Extreme Party Fusion (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube)
 * GoAnimate World Tour Racing (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC, Game Boy Advance)
 * GoAnimate Smash Rumble: All Star Challenge (PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube)
 * GoAnimate World (Play Station 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC)
 * GoAnimate Gundam: All Star Challenge (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance)
 * GoAnimate All Star Racing (Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance)
 * GoAnimate HoverZone (internet)
 * GoAnimate Smash Rumble 2: Battle Revolution (Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance)
 * GoAnimate Nitro (arcade)
 * GoAnimate Network: Battle Crashers (internet)
 * GoAnimate Smash Rumble 3: CrossOver Showdown! (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch)
 * Vyond Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows)
 * Vyond Smash Rumble: All-Star Brawl (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows)
 * Vyond Extreme Tennis (IOS)
 * Vyond Kart Racers 3: MultiVersal Speedway (PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch)

Live performances

 * Main article: Mercy's Meeting The Broadway Musical

Mercy's Meeting The Broadway Musical (originally titled Mercy's Meeting the Musical, later retitled as such for the national tour) is a stage musical, co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau with songs by various artists and a book by Kyle Jarrow. It is based on the Jeremy McAbee Cartoon animated television series Mercy's Meeting and made its world premiere in September 23, 2019.

Merchandise
The popularity of Mercy's Meeting inspired merchandise from T-shirts to posters. In 2009, it was reported that the franchise had generated an estimated $8 billion in merchandising revenue for GoAnimate Network. The series is also the most distributed property of Disney Media Networks. Mercy is viewed in 170 countries speaking 24 languages, and has become "a killer merchandising app". The title character and his friends have been used as a theme for special editions of well-known family board games, including Monopoly, Life, and Operation, as well as a Mercy's Meeting edition of Ants in the Pants, and Yahtzee.

In 2001, GoAnimate signed a marketing deal with Target Corporation and Burger King, expanding its merchandising. The popularity of Mercy has translated well into sales. In 2002, Mercy's Meeting dolls sold at a rate of 75,000 per week—faster than Tickle Me Elmo dolls were selling at the time. Mercy has gained popularity in Japan, specifically with Japanese women. GoAnimate's parent company Warner Bros. purposefully targeted marketing at women there. Skeptics initially doubted that Mercy could be popular in Japan, as the character's design is very different from already popular designs for Hello Kitty and Pikachu. Ratings and merchandise sales showed Mercy's Meeting has caught on with parents and with college audiences. In a 2013 promotion, college-oriented website Music.com gave away 80,000 Mercy and Friends T-shirts, four times more than during a similar promotion for Comedy Central's South Park.

Kids' meal tie-ins have been released in fast food restaurants in many parts of the world, including Burger King in Europe and North America, as well as Wendy's in North America, and Hungry Jack's in Australia. A McDonald's Happy Meal tie-in with SpongeBob-themed Happy Meal boxes and toys was released in Europe and other international markets in the summer of 2007. In Australia, the advertisement for the McDonald's Mercy and Friends Happy Meal won the Pester Power Award because the ads enticed young children to want its food because of the free toy. As a tie-in beverage for the DVD release of Mercy's Meeting: The Movie, 7-Eleven released the limited edition Wacky Berry Slurpee in March 2004. Pirate's Booty released limited edition Mercy's Meeting Pirate's Booty snacks in 2013.

In 2007, high-end Mercy-themed electronics were introduced by Imation Electronics Products under the Npower brand, including MP3 players, digital cameras, a DVD player, and a flatscreen television. Pictures of Mercy's Meeting began to appear on the labels of 8 ounce cans of Green Giant cut green beans and packages of frozen Green Giant green beans and butter sauce in 2007, which featured free stickers. This was part of an initiative to encourage kids to eat their vegetables. The Simmons Jewelry Co. released a $75,000 diamond pendant as part of a Mercy and Friends collection. In New Zealand, the UK-based Beechdean Group unveiled the Mercy's Meeting Vanilla Ice Cream character product as part of a license deal with GoAnimate Network. NZ Drinks launched the Mercy's Meeting bottled water.

Build-A-Bear Workshop introduced the new Mercy's Meeting collection in stores and online in North America on May 17, 2013. Shoppers can dress their Mercy and DJ plush in a variety of clothing and accessories. Curly, Zig, Sharko, Frog, Ferret and Annie are also available as pre-stuffed minis. Build-A-Bear Workshop stores nationwide celebrated the arrival of Mercy and Friends with a series of special events from May 17 through May 19.

On July 13, 2013, Toyota, with GoAnimate, unveiled a Mercy and Friends-inspired Toyota Highlander. The 2014 Toyota Highlander was launched on Mercy Day at the San Diego Padres v. Giants game. The Mercy Toyota Highlander visited seven U.S. locations during its release, including the GoAnimate Family Suites Orlando in Florida.

In April 2019, Vyond released a series of toys adapted from various Mercy Internet memes. These included "Handsome Austin", "Imaginaaation Mercy", "Dabbing Tab", "Tip and Dash Wild Take", "Troll Face Futt", "Ferret's Runaway Nose", "Mocking Mercy", "MercyGar", and "Surprised DJ". Shortly after the release of the line, most of the toys sold out on Amazon.com.

Home media

 * Main article: List of Mercy's Meeting videos

Columbia Tristar/Fox Video released six videos of Mercy's Meeting between 2000 and 2001. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment released several videos of the series from 2001 to 2004; each collection contained four episodes of the series.

In March 2005, 20th Century Fox gave Shout! Factory the rights to release the series. Season 1 was released that May, followed by season 2 that August and season 3 in December. That same month, Shout announced that Season 4 would be released "sometime in 2006", but Shout delayed the release to an unknown date before finally releasing Season 4 in April 2009 and Season 5 in September 2009. From there on, Shout made a plan to put out two-three seasons a year. Season 6 saw a release that December, followed by Seasons 7, 8, and 9 in March, August, and October 2010. Seasons 10 through twelve were released between February, July, and December 2011, completing the entire original series.

On the series' 20th anniversary in 2011, Shout released a boxset containing all seasons of the original show and a bonus disc. The set went out of print, but Shout re-released the set in May 2017 in "shelf-friendly" packaging.

Video on demand
On September 25, 2020, the series became available to stream on Disney+ and Vyond+.

Trivia

 * Mercy's Meeting is now the longest-running show on GoAnimate Network, after it took the title from GoAnimate News on December 15, 2022 and also the longest running animated show on GoAnimate.
 * GoAnimate Network is also the second longest-running American children's animated television and the fifth longest-running American animated television series altogether after The Simpsons, Arthur, South Park, and Family Guy respectively. Since the show has been renewed for a fourteenth season, it will beat Arthur's record of 25 years, 4 months, and 14 days on the air by May 1, 2024 and become the longest-running American children's animated TV series and the fourth longest-runner in American animated-television.
 * Mercy's Meeting is the only Fox Kids and GoAnimate Network show that premiered in the 1990s and is still airing new episodes on TV today. This does not include the Toddler Tales 2021 revival series, as the original series ended in 2004.
 * The URL "mercysmeeting.com" redirects to goanimate.com.
 * In Australia, the show, along with its titular protagonist, is renamed Mercian Deane-Johns, who had been active between 1991 and 1998 in Australia.
 * Mercy's Meeting is mostly inspired by Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Garfield and Friends and Warner Bros' Tiny Toon Adventures.
 * Some of the characters were inspired by people from Geo G.'s life. Flamingo Rogerson was inspired by Donald Duck. Peewee was inspired by one of characters from Def Jam Vendetta.
 * Some of the segments were based on Zina Supermoon, The Frog Show and The Little Mermaid II: Return of the Sea characters. The Vivid Crew was inspired by Zina Supermoon, The Frog and the Ferret was inspired by The Frog Show, and Tip and Dash was inspired by The Little Mermaid II: Return of the Sea.
 * According to Vincent Waller, John A. Davis had several "rules" and guidelines for the show. One rule was to never explain why Plume and Peewee Krabs are different relationships. Another rule was that the Pancake has no dairy in it.
 * Before Star-lla became a main character, GoAnimate Network wanted to cast a one-time guest star to provide his voice.
 * The show was originally rated TV-G while the first four seasons were airing. Since the fifth season, it has been rated TV-PG.
 * The episode "It's a Mercy Christmas!" premiered on Fox Kids in the USA, making it the first Mercy's Meeting episode to premiere on an American network outside of GoAnimate Network or any of its sister networks, and also the first time the show has aired on terrestial television.
 * Mercy's Meeting has won 15 consecutive Favorite Cartoon Awards and 21 overall awards at the Kids' Choice Awards. The series won 2 awards in 2014, one for Favorite Cartoon and one for Favorite Animated Coolest Sidekick (DJ).
 * The original 1997 version of "Help Wanted" featured an opening with a different theme song. The show's current theme song had not been written at the time.
 * Mercy's Meeting is the most distributed property of The Walt Disney Company.
 * According to tweets by Vincent Waller, it takes anywhere from five to nine months to make a single regular-length episode.
 * There was a temporary firewall between GoAnimate and 20th Century Fox content from 2004 to 2015 that prevented designs from the first theatrical movie from being used in the show. The firewall was lifted in 2015, allowing movie characters (such as Ice Cream Jack and Marina) to reappear in episodes.