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According to the Dailybeast, Mike Tyson Mysteries, a new cartoon
series airing this fall, might be the weirdest.
On the show, Tyson is recast as a kinder, gentler, and funnier version
of himself—only this time, he’s a detective tasked with solving mysteries. He’s
joined on his quests by Yung Hee, an adopted Korean teenage daughter (Rachel
Ramras), who acts as the brains of the bunch, i.e. Velma; the ghost of the
Marquess of Queensbury (Community’s Jim Rash), a
19th-century nobleman who developed the rules of boxing; and last but not
least, a foul-mouthed, alcoholic talking pigeon (voiced by Norm Macdonald).
Tyson is, of course, a fan of our feathered friends, owning an army of 2,000
pigeons.
Mike
Tyson Mysteries was Tyson’s idea. The 48-year-old ex-pugilist with the unfortunate
face tattoo grew up on Hanna-Barbera cartoons and kung-fu flicks, and the wacky
show is being billed as a cross between Scooby Doo and The A-Team, though Ramras says it more closely resembles
a Brady Bunch-style sitcom rather than Saturday morning
cartoons.
The episodes revolve around solving mysteries (or not) brought in by
Tyson’s fleet of carrier pigeons. In one episode, Yung Hee is kidnapped by
ruthless gangsters because of the pigeon’s gambling debts. Another sees the
gang help author Cormack McCarthy—a play on the author of The Road, Blood Meridian, and
countless other novels—finish a novel after the author is struck by a crippling
case of writer’s block. And yet another sees Tyson pay a visit to IBM, only to
find the man who enlisted his help trapped inside a computer.
Culled From The Dailybeast
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