Spark Plug Entertainment



Spark Plug Entertainment is a New York-based computer animation company founded by Michael Schelp in 2006. The American equivalent of Video Brinquedo, it specializes in low-quality Direct to Video Mockbuster films, with just as much hate directed toward it. Its first film was Bug Bites: An Ant's Life, first released in 1998 and later re-released in 2006 as the company was founded.

Notable movies include:

 * Bug Bites: An Ant's Life (later known as simply An Ant's Life)
 * A Cars Life Sparkys Big Adventure
 * Plan Bee
 * Piper Penguin and His Fantastic Flying Machines (formerly Penguins: Waddle On)
 * Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale
 * A Cars Life 2 (no byline)
 * And will be upcoming, Frankie Stein

Tropes in these movies include:

 * Alliteration: The names of the penguins in Piper Penguin which all begin with P.
 * An Aesop: Often delivered in an Anvilicious manner.
 * Bad Liar: Walter the pig in Spider's Web, whose lying drives the plot.
 * Big Eater: Joey in Plan Bee.
 * Bland-Name Product: Krill Cola (Coca-Cola) and PNN (CNN) in Piper Penguin.
 * Captain Ersatz
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Pepperoni in Piper Penguin, who is also The Speechless.
 * Covers Always Lie: The DVD front covers (at least the Italian ones) always have a line talking about some of the characters being special guest stars. Because you know, Sal Caterpillar is a very famous cartoon character and his appearance in An Ant's Life was very shocking for everyone.
 * Cross-Dressing Voices
 * Disproportionate Retribution: Near the end of A Car's Life,
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty: The Krill Cola krill sargent who somehow sounds like Daffy Duck.
 * Dumb Muscle: Winthrop the walrus in Piper Penguin.
 * Everything Trying to Kill You: In Spider's Web, don't you dare change the channel on a motel TV, or it will go mad!
 * Everything's Better with Penguins: For Piper Penguin.
 * Everythings Messier With Pigs: For Spider's Web, and of the Type 2 variety.
 * Everything's Worse with Bees: For Plan Bee.
 * Filler / Padding: An Ant's Life is only 25 minutes long, so to fill time, four classic cartoons from MGM, Famous Studios, and Warner Bros. were added to the DVD.
 * Follow the Leader
 * Gasshole: Once again, Winthrop in Piper Penguin, whose burping comes in handy later in the film.
 * Gonk: So many of Spark Plug's characters are, but the best example is the lantern-jawed bee Pistol in Plan Bee.
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Diesel in A Car's Life, who is always seen holding a cigarette with her antenna, and is always pointed out as being bad.
 * Happily Adopted: Winthrop in Piper Penguin, who is the titular character's step-brother.
 * Hey, It's That Voice! / What the Hell, Casting Agency?: Corinne Orr stars in most of these. Peter Fernandez also voices the evil snake Noiman Ja Rahr in Spider's Web and Piper's dad in Piper Penguin.
 * In Name Only: These cartoons only loosely follow the plot of what they're trying to rip off.
 * "I Want" Song: Sparky in A Car's Life attempts to sing one, but is stopped by his dad as he exclaims "This isn't a musical!".
 * Jerk Jock: Punch in Piper Penguin.
 * Just in Time / Big Damn Heroes:.
 * Karma Houdini: Why doesn't that bitchy teacher in Piper Penguin stop Punch the jock?
 * Kent Brockman News: Piper Penguin has the PNN reporter Peraldo Penguin, who has the audacity to
 * Large Ham: The teacher in Piper Penguin.
 * Likable Villain: Many of the villains are like this to most Internet users.
 * Mickey Mousing: Piper slamming his head against his locker while opening it up in Piper Penguin.
 * Mockbuster
 * No Export for You: Piper Penguin never saw a region 1 release until 2011, and thankfully so.
 * Overprotective Dad: Sparky's dad in A Car's Life, but considering Sparky's reckless behavior, this is justified.
 * Real Life Relative: Sparky's little sister Gracie is voiced by Michael Schelp's real-life daughter (niece?) Grace, and the Gas Leech's son is voiced by his real-life son (nephew?) Mark.
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The two geckos in An Ant's Life, as well as the snakes in Spider's Web.
 * Sadist Teacher: Miss Prim in Piper Penguin.
 * Shown Their Work: An Ant's Life has a lot of bug facts clumsily woven into the script.
 * Spoken Word in Music: The entirety of Walter's "song" in Spider's Web as he tries to explain how his mother's pie went missing.
 * This Is a Drill: At one point, the bees in Plan Bee drill into the flowers to collect nectar, complete with the sound of a dentist's drill.
 * Two Lines, No Waiting: An Ant's Life has this.
 * The Website: Spark Plug's website is even more boring that Video Brinquedo's.
 * What the Hell Is That Accent?: Tiffany the spider in Spider's Web. Is she supposed to be Jamaican or Scottish or what?
 * Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Noiman Ja Rahr in Spider's Web, among others.