Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales

Not to be confused with Cartoon.

Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales
Genre	Miniseries
Created by	John Lasseter
Developed by	Disney·Pixar
Directed by	John Lasseter Rob Gibbs Victor Navone
Starring	Larry the Cable Guy Keith Ferguson
Theme music composer	Mark Mothersbaugh
Opening theme	Cars Toon Theme Song
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	11
Production
Executive producer	Lee Unkrich
Producer	Kori Rae
Editors	Roy E. Disney (Season 1 and first episode of Season 2 only)
Running time	5 mins (except "Tokyo Mater": 7 mins, "Air Mater": 5 mins, and "Time Travel Mater": 6 minutes, 23 seconds)
Production company	Pixar
Original release
Release	October 27, 2008 (2008-10-27) – June 6, 2012 (2012-06-06)

Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales is an American animated short television series by Pixar, featuring the characters Mater and Lightning McQueen from the film Cars. The series' first broadcast was on October 27, 2008, on Toon Disney,^[1][2] Disney Channel and ABC Family. The series was moved to Disney Junior on February 14, 2011.

Cast

• Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
• Keith Ferguson as Lightning McQueen
• George Carlin as Fillmore
• Tony Shalhoub as Luigi
• Guido Quaroni as Guido
• Michael Wallis as Sheriff
• Katherine Helmond as Lizzie
• Lindsey Collins as Mia
• Elissa Knight as Tia
• Jerome Ranft as Red

Episodes

No.	Title	Original air date	Original broadcaster
1	"Rescue Squad Mater"[3]	October 27, 2008 (2008-10-27)	Toon Disney
2	"Mater the Greater"[3]	October 28, 2008 (2008-10-28)	Toon Disney
3	"El Materdor"[3]	October 29, 2008 (2008-10-29)	Toon Disney
4	"Tokyo Mater"[4]	December 12, 2008 (2008-12-12)	Theatrically with Bolt
5	"(U.F.M.) Unidentified Flying Mater"[5]	November 20, 2009 (2009-11-20)	Disney Channel
6	"Monster Truck Mater"[6]	July 30, 2010 (2010-07-30)	Disney Channel
7	"Heavy Metal Mater"[7]	October 8, 2010 (2010-10-08)	Disney Channel
8	"Moon Mater"	November 2, 2010 (2010-11-02)	Mater's Tall Tales DVD/Blu-ray
9	"Mater Private Eye"	November 2, 2010 (2010-11-02)	Mater's Tall Tales DVD/Blu-ray
10	"Air Mater"[8]	November 1, 2011 (2011-11-01)	Cars 2 DVD/Blu-ray
11	"Time Travel Mater"[9][10]	June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05)	Disney Channel
12	"Ghost Mater"[11][12]	June 6, 2012 (2012-06-06)	Disney Channel

Video game

A video game based on the series was released on October 19, 2010 for the Wii.^[13][14]

References

1. "Mater's Tall Tales". TheTVDB.com. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
2. Victor Navone (25 October 2008). "CarsToons!". VNOG Blog. Blogger.com.
3. Zahed, Ramin (September 26, 2008). "Mater Stars in Own Mini-Show on Disney". Animation Magazine. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
4. Lesnick, Silas (December 9, 2008). "Exclusive: First Look at Pixar's Tokyo Mater!". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
5. Sciretta, Peter (November 23, 2009). "New Pixar Cars Short: Unidentified Flying Mater". /Film. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
6. Sciretta, Peter (July 14, 2010). "New Pixar Cars Toon 'Monster Truck Mater' Premieres July 30th". /Film. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
7. Gallagher, Brian (October 6, 2010). "Cars Toons Short Heavy Metal Mater Debuts on the Disney Channel". MovieWeb.com. Retrieved March 24, 2013.^{[permanent dead link]}
8. Weiner, David (August 17, 2011). "ET Exclusive: 'Air Mater' Takes Flight". ET Online. Archived from the original on September 20, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
9. "Mater's Tall Tales : Time Travel Mater". Zap2It. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
10. "'Time Travel Mater' to Air on Disney Channel This Week Ahead of Disneyland 'Premiere'". Stitch Kingdom. June 6, 2012. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
11. "Mater's Tall Tales : Time Travel Mater". Zap2It. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 2, 2012.
12. "'Time Travel Mater' to Air on Disney Channel This Week Ahead of Disneyland 'Premiere'". Stitch Kingdom. June 6, 2012. Archived from the original on June 15, 2012. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
13. "Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
14. "Cars Toon: Mater's Tall Tales". IGN. Archived from the original on 2010-09-12. Retrieved 2011-02-17.

Other websites

• Mater's Tall Tales Official website
• Official website Archived 2012-08-30 at the Wayback Machine at Pixar
• Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales on IMDb
• Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales at the Big Cartoon DataBase