ITT: Cartoons only you remember
>>84343486
Holy shit, I remember this. What the hell was this called?
>>84343712
Father of the pride
>>84343754
Thanks, wasn't it an adult swim show or something. I remember it being a late-night comedy at the very least
>>84343781
I think it was Fox.
>>84343781
Nope, prime time sitcom, only with lions. Didn't last long.
>>84343837
NBC
>>84343879
Shit, I haven't thought about this in ages, but I definitely remember it. I think I even had a Rude Dog shirt.
>>84344088
Wasn't this actually a clothing line that somehow got a cartoon?
>>84343855
It was obscenely expensive because they were trying to do movie quality with lots of fuzzy animals.
>>84343486
>accurate Donkey outside of the Shrek universe, not even a knock-off or subtle reference, just literally fucking Donkey
What the fuck?
>>84343486
>>84343486
You saw the post on Tumblr too today?
>inb4 tumblr
I only came here to take a pulse on the /co/ response to the new SU promo (I didn't like it, but the rest of the site sure did).
Anyone remember this cartoon with a black cat and an orange dog, they live in this giant mansion where everything is giant and they like tiny in comparison. Its a tom and jerry style show with no real plot. I faintly remember it but can't remember it. Or find it for that matter..
>>84345001
He's an actor in that universe.
Try not to question it too much.
>>84345105
Dick Cheney's annoying gimmick, terrible animation, and dicksucking of Obama aside, I rather liked lil Bush.
>>84345001
The show was created by Dreamworks, so yeah
>>84344759
what is that?
>>84343486
So many sex jokes.
FURRY sex jokes.
>>84345968
Well yeah, you can't be a cartoon for adults without being as crass as possible
>Grandpa lion slaps a lioness' ass on her way out the door
I still remember that shit, very surprised it wasn't just a kids cartoon.
>>84346096
Oh man.
The grandpa lived in much better times.
>>84346013
This one opened up with the main character's entire family dying on screen. How's that for a hook?
>>84346096
do you also call every cartoon "disney" and every video game "nintendo"
>>84343486
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxC0JrBHoYg
>>84345480
did you try google?
Dis nigga here.
I was really into dragons as a kid, always being irked when they died in fairy tales. First fan work I ever made was a self-insert comic of some Russian folk tail in which the mighty Ivan became dragon toast. I think I was 9 or 10.Also got a scaly fetish for some time as a result; but since I didn't have Internet at the time, it eventually evaporated. I also fantasized about turning into a Stegosaurus when I was 7.
>>84347314
*tale blah
>>84347220
Thanks bud, that really narrows it down.
>>84347314
Sheeeeeeeit I loved this show. Could only catch it if I was off school on a sick day.
I made an ass of myself in 3rd grade when I coordinated a massive roleplay of it for recess only to not know what the fuck to do when we got there.
I still remember the theme song...
>>84344545
Buh- buh muh CGI is cheap meme!
>>84347357
>using google's best guess
>somehow not expecting "woman" to give you wonder woman results
I'm embarrassed on your behalf.
My memory's a bit fuzzy since it was so long ago, but I'm pretty sure I absolutely loved this cartoon for some reason.
>>84343486
Eh... this show will be 10 years old next year.
>>84349350
The pilot for this was really fucking cool. Stop motion and everything. It's too bad the show seems to be family guy tier garbage.
https://vimeo.com/98621656
>>84347396
Well yes, moving forward they realized they could save a bunch of money by texturing fur instead of rendering it, but back then they were trying way too hard.
>>84349471
But it has way better sense of humor than current Family Guy itself.
>>84345105
Wasn't this the show that Comedy Central cancelled Drawn Together for?
>>84343976
I remember basically none of that show, but I do remember
>and Godzooookyyyyyy
My grandma used to have this on video when I was a kid. Anyone else remember it?
No one remembers this show
>>84349638
Is that the blue toes the elf?
I have a box of 3 VHS of a cartoon about the Puss in boots, the Little Red Riding Hood and Gulliver. An orange cat was telling the story, and was even warped by magic in the story of the Little Red Riding Hood.
Not even Google seems to remember it, no image or anything about it. I guess it's literally a cartoon only me remember.
>>84343486
That show was great. Pity it was expensive to make and the average american viewer couldn't process the words "FOR ADULTS ONLY" when they read it, assuming they were able to read to being with, and decided to watch the "funny looking animal show" with their underage crotch droppings.
In alternate universe where people aren't retards this show got a second season and is regarded as an early 00's success.
>>84347041
Wasn't that from "What a cartoon"?
>>84345105
What the fuck was the 2000's
>Downloaded it
>2 minutes in
>close video player
>recycle bin.
>>84351449
Everyone in /co/ likes Kappa Mikey, you know that?
>>84351523
haha your just fucking with me, right?
>>84349471
It's an interesting difference in style, but I have one question...
Where's Mr Boots?
sad that this awesome show premiered during CBS E/I mandate...
>>84349638
>>84349651
I don't even remember those ones.
>>84352461
>tenkai knights is so unpopular (thanks to CN shitty scheduling) that no one remembers it
>>84347872
>I'm pretty sure I absolutely loved this
Rewatch it anon.
It will be like running into that hot girl from high school years later only to find out she was a guy and fat.
>>84345968
This should of been the animated movie for adults instead of Sausage party
>>84351886
This show was pretty dark. Classic 90s cyberpunk.
What mandate?
>>84347041
Is this Krab's great grandson?
>>84354564
After the 1996-97 season, most of CBS Kids shows became dull edutainment. The Weird Al Show and Santo Bugito tried to avert this. Tried.
>>84354678
>The Weird Al Show and Santo Bugito tried to avert this.
Really? I'm currious for this now.
>>84355024
Weird Al wanted to make a show on par with Pee-Wee's Playhouse but dull, humorless executives all but killed the show, limiting it to 13 episodes
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheWeirdAlShow
I've been kicking myself for not watching after all these years then again my first year in high school was hella restrictive (it was at a Catholic high school).
>>84349651
>No one remembers this show
I remember Cartoon Network airing it at like 5 or 6am on Saturdays right before Pokemon and I think on Weekdays.
I caught a few minutes of it but was never interested.
Does anybody remember this one animated Christmas special that focused on elves? All I remember is the use of Paul McCartney's "A Wonderful Christmastime" at one point, while the main character (an elf child) is walking with a taller elf (possibly the designated villain).
A while back someone clued me in on What It's Like Being Alone. Funny stuff.
>>84355202
Oh God. That's disturbing.
>>84347041
I like how that guy is pretty much just Zapp Brannigan, down to West doing the same voice roughly.
Also wow that doctor's ass is as thick as her accent.
>>84349651
What is that show, it looks good.
>>84351886
>>84354564
>Classic 90s cyberpunk
Apparently it was pitched as an educational show, making it the only piece of cyberpunk edutainment I know of.
I actually have a fair amount of love for the show. It could be pretty fun, especially the villain, but the writers/directors/whoever had a tendency to accentuate the worst aspects of GKR's personality. His catchphrases could come off as annoying, but it's slightly interesting when you realizethat since he's practically a newborn he's trying to figure out how language works.
Still legitimately worth a watch.
And it has a race of talking dinosaurs.
>>84355202
>it was at a Catholic high school
Christ (no pun intended), but Weird Al is even Christian. I'm pretty sure he's non-denominational though, and depending on the sort of Catholics that's worse than being Anglican.
>>84355740
Tenkai Knights.
>>84355545
Yeah I remember watching this late at night on CBC, good shit.
>>84347041
so this is the cartoon that inspired symmetra
>>84343486
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eveig2pMdLQ
>>84355887
The Catholic High School I attended was strict on being punctual. Sadly my ma was not a morning person and I spent my Saturday in detention. And they demanded money every chance they got.
I also missed a good portion of The Silver Surfer because of this then again considering how the show ended....
>>84345105
Comedy Central was so hellbent on having a "Let's make fun of Bush" show, they tried and failed TWICE.
First was That's My Bush. Like any of you remember it. The when it flopped they tried Lil Bush. It flopped too.
Eventually they just settled on the Daily Show and Colbert Report as their sources for Let's Make Fun of Bush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGkY_RHJIs
>>84349651
This show actually wasn't bad.
Loved the shit out of this show when dinosaurs were all the rage thanks to Jurassic Park.
These pudding-hungry niggas.
Also that old show with the puppet cats, dog and cockatoo, can't remember the name
>>84357056
Wasn't that Grinch like bowl magic and they always tried to eat it?
>>84357117
Who can forget Darkwing Duck? I believe it's still popular.
>>84357182
Yeah, Albert the Magic Pudding. Could turn into any pudding/meal you asked for and was infinite in supply. Voiced by motherfucking John Cleese.
>>84357117
Huh. Are you sure about the dog and cat? Because the puppet cockatoo made me think of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkBkR5jb6u0
>>84345105
>We have a new show all about making fun of George Bush!
>Wait, he has HOW many months left in office?
>>84357259
It is still popular, but no one cultivate that very much. People are busy cultivating other cartoons these days.
I am trying to remember the name of an animation which main character looked like this (kek).
The figures looked like child drawings and everything happened in a virtual world setting.
Also just remembered picrelated.
>>84352510
Worst part is that it actually isn't half-bad.
>>84357735
only watched this so I could fap to nutsy
>>84357650
I discovered this by watching french channel called TV5. Good times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSC4pZBYcsg
>>84358162
>that picture
Aw hell no nigga I ain't clicking that YT link
No goddamn way
>>84355545
what's that? looks like a stopmotion show about freaky monster. how is it called? is it good?
more important question: is that a new obscure goth waifu?
>>84343770
Go away Skrek
>>84344545
that, and right after the first episode (i think) Roy was mauled by one of the tigers
>>84357632
I think I know what you're talking about but I can't remember the name either.
>>84357632
>>84359002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVtzCO7C6Is
It's this, right?
I remember this show about a bird and a cat that were the pets of a witch and a wizard that were siblings, they had to put curses on the city they lived on, and the cat and bird had to stop the curse following a specific anticurse before it became permanent.
>>84351523
They like the opening, probably.
I Can't Believe it's Not Butter had an animated webseries. It also aired on some Direct TV channel briefly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7vo4DZqq-I&list=PL5lu3cPA1KmWvrYPNXgfo5u_wIba0p5z3
>>84347872
Made by the same guys who brought you S.W.A.T. Kats believe it or not.
It was a show about a genius spy kid and his superspy bodyguard going on missions around the world. They got to each site via being shot out of a cannon (that IIRC was hidden in the Eiffel Tower? or maybe some generic water tower) in some orb thing. It was called The Boy, and it has been impossible to find any trace of it in English.
>>84357144
I HAVE BEEN FUCKING SEARCHING FOR THIS SHOW FOR AGES! THANK YOU ANON <3 luv ya
>>84343486
Fun fact:
Father of the Pride cost 1.6 million dollars PER EPISODE to make. They made 14 episodes. Ratings were so bad they didn't even bother airing the last two episodes.
It's considered one of the biggest TV bombs ever.
>>84356798
The music on this show was sublime.
>>84356971
I watched that with my roommates sometimes since all we had was basically ion/qubo/cw. It was terrible, but the entertaining kind of terrible. Also, Rob Paulsen voiced the bully and like half of the one-shot characters.
>>84362267
I enjoyed catscratch, fuck the haters
>mfw my gf spilled soda on one of my animation cells from it
PRINCESS TENKO AND THE GUARDIANS OF MAGIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1iwzMnwbiY
>>84359661
>Ross Pierogi
Okay, that one got me.
>>84362331
You mean ex-gf, right?
>>84349651
Never saw the cartoon,I recognise the Yellow kid from a doujin cover.
What is this about? Is it good?
insektors
>>84358164
FUCK
![DETN-pg04[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QzmIS3s.jpg "DETN-pg04[1].jpg")
Does anybody remember that cartoon movie with a green cricket that fights giant milipedes at the end? I think he also rode a bird, but i'm not sure.
>>84349705
Childhood.
From a children's show that aired between 3:30-4:30pm
>>84362427
nah, we make it work.
if my /pol/ ass can put up with her tumblr shit and vice versa, messing up a cell wouldn't break it.
>>84357117
I think you mean Pets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-lLTun4_q0
>>84357632MOON MAN MOON MAN
>>84362750
Don't fuck with shrikes!
>>84356798
Ay that was pretty nice
Kiddie LotR ripoff.
Books were better.
>>84356446
>First was That's My Bush. Like any of you remember it.
I remember it because it made me develop a breast expansion fetish.
>>84349705lapping and lapping and lapping...
>>84364917
You just awoke a long dormant memory in my brain, anon.
>>84364917
Holy fuck. I had BK toys from this.
https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=mlmxYq0RGEE
Yes /co this existed and there was more than one. Really weird, but the animation was decent.
>>84359093
I had the idea for a show with this name and I googled it just in case it already existed and it does and it's this piece of shit and I'm still pissed
>>84364995
WHAT WAS THAT SHOW CALLED?!
I remember watching it, those little fucks turned into mushrooms when they died right?
>>84365237
Hey there everybody, it's a looniful day
Too have a little fun, the Baby Looney Tunes way
There's lots to do at Granny's house
Games to play, balls to bounce
Let's jump and slide and holler
Hooray!
Sylvester, Bugs and Daffy
Taz and Lola, too
Tweety's such a sweety
Now all we need is you
Hey there everybody, it's a looniful day
To play the Baby Looney Tunes way
>>84365549
Toad patrol
and yes, they'd shroomify if they didn't get back to toadshire fast enough or some shit
>>84359093
>Googles this show
Wasn't there an anime released recently with the same exact plot?
>>84365588
>sang it in my head
I watched this show when I was like 11 and had no idea it was aimed at preschoolers. Same with Krypto the Superdog.
>>84349593
Is that Kairi from Kingdom Hearts on the right?
Anyone remeber that show about bugs it was CGI and there was the creepy white spider that kinda looked like Ted cruz
>>84362267
I liked it
>>84366144
no?
>>843493
>10 years old
>haha 90s were wei-
>10 years was 2060 ago
Rocken
>>84351544
anon, dont you know that the man is kappa mckey
>>84359202
TWIPSY TWIPSYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
>>84346814
Damn, you weren't kidding. All within the first five minutes too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q5ugkUhocE
>>84355545
Looks British. Is it British?
>>84366995
Turns out it's Canadian. Huh.
>>84362915
Sky Dancers and Dragon Flyz, right?
Wunschpunsch
>>84365960
i liked this show, it´s from the same studio that makes gumball i think
>>84366021
best kablam
best cape comedy
best characters, specially meltman and flesh
>>84367182
It's a french production.
I wish more than 6 out of 51 episodes got dubbed in English. At least the comics up to volume 5 were translated.
Somehow this show even got PC / Dreamcast game based on it.
No one has ever had a clue what I'm talking about whenever I bring this one up.
>>84366241
Unfortunately I remember. The show was called Miss Spider. This character in particular was just unsettling.
>>84367311
Literally the only thing I remember about this show is an old guy talking about how he went to the future to get tomorrow's newspaper.
I have no idea why I remember that scene specifically. I'm not even sure if that's how it went, and I'm not even sure this is the show it came from.
What's that series where there were aliens living with a kid in a lighthouse
>>84366144
Sky High also had the same plot
>>84356446
>First was That's My Bush. Like any of you remember it.
There was something magical about giving the President a sitcom wacky neighbor who just barges in unannounced.
This one was pretty based. Contrary to the usual, the video game existed first, and the cartoon was made off it.
>>84368499
more like, contrary to the usual, the series based in the game was good
>>84368518
Well, yea, you're right. Both the game and the cartoon were based.
>>84368597
>>84365013
Oh yeah, "twenty-odd minutes of me screaming 'bat wings don't work that way' at the television" the series.
>>84365237
>>84365588
WE DON'T TALK ABOUT BABY LOONEY TUNES MOTHERFUCKER
>>84368597
I watched that every morning before high school. Pretty run of the mill shonen "buy our shit" anime. Liked that the villains following the kids around were voiced by Jessie and James.
I got two
>>84368878
>8878
Shit
>>84366580
HEY
HEY
LOOK
OUT IN THE STREETS
>>84362915
Was the series finale all of them floating into a fireplace?
>>84365588
NO
STOP
STOP IT
>>84349593
you say that like its a bad thing
>>84367390
I think I'm more scared of bugs now
>>84365520
the "superhero middle/high school" concept has been done almost more than OP's mom.
>>84367390
i think i watched a miss spider movie when i was a kid
>>84349651
Tenkai knights.
>>84362580
>insektors
Holy. Shit.
I had completely forgotten about this series. I was ALL about this series as a kid.
>>84347220
>>84347436
Why do you have to act like such a cunt? Just give him the name. Google doesn't work for shit.
>>84358139
>TV5
MY NIGGA
They had a very early segment when they put random short cartoons.
I wish I found the one with polutted earth :(
>>84359661
>Good version of foodfight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NyTHmy_m1o&list=PL7D718EB84BB8C862&index=62
Chceck out this playlits it has many forgoten cartoons!
>>84343849
I got you senpai. The claymation parts were weird.
>>84357760
>not the dingo milf
shit taste
Forgot the title of it. It was something to do with a princess who was also a secret agent? She was russian or something, total qt.
It aired on Cartoon Network, back when they had KND.
>>84369419
Another one I remember was made in CGI, and was called kung fu something.
One of them dressed like a disco dancer with an afro, another was a short asian thing, and there was a chick there too.
>>84369432
chop socky chooks
it's utter shit
>>84369442
Yea, it was.
>>84369419
Princess Natasha?
>>84369753
That's the one!
>>84368878
Oh fuck i remember that. That was that environmentalist show about forest animals fighting crimes against environment or something. I watched that at my grandparents house, it was either on telly or recorded on VHS.
That red panda guy had stick that turned into a dragon i think.
>>84345457
>Dick Cheney's annoying gimmick
yeah that's when I dropped it
>Hey guys I'm just a friendly wacky war criminal and profiteer!
>>84362580
All I remember about this show is how weird it was
>good hippie bugs shooting bad industrialist bugs with music and tye-dye
>>84369941
I can't remember any of it really. All I know is that someone posted the dragon from the show in some waifu thread a while ago.
>>84369999
>>84368621
I remember the lizard always sexually harassing the girl
Oh I got a load, mostly 80s eurotrash
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq5Y_ogiyi0
Sandokan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcwngf7tRt8
Dogtanian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xO72s5EBY
Botsmaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKYOSiW7U4
Stunt Dawgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e45g9wj6vw
Dog City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAoeUgXPQIc
>>84369999
They bad guys wanted to level rainforests to make parkinglots.
I've literally never seen this mentioned on /co/.
>>84370119
The Mysterious Cities of Gold and Dogtanian are Japanese co-productions also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP6-jZ6EVCY
>>84343837
It was on No Molestar block in Fox down in latin america.
>>84370119
Dog City had a rad intro, sadly that's all i remember. Was it animated or puppets?
>>84370154
https://mega.nz/#F!GY9iGAYB!ZwR46bA5g0H8JbvLzvyEqA
All episodes.
>>84347041
That was actually pretty good.
![Hhhhhhhhh1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qYnTxmc.jpg "Hhhhhhhhh1[1].jpg")
Highlander: The Animated Series
Can't remember most of it, except that it was odd in that unique french animation way. Also that the spanish dub was so weird. Why would you translate "centuries" as "centurias" when "siglos" is used way more?
>>84370302
That looks australian.
>>84343976
Literally browsing on a phone named Godzookie right now.
>>84370302
Oh man, this shit.
>>84349593
I just remember Lil Bush as online shorts. There was one where they Guantanamo'd the lunch ladies for serving hummus instead of hot dogs.
>>84370318
Ooohhh yeah. I remember this dimly. I don't think it had anything in common with Highlander at all.
>>84370355
>serving hummus instead of hot dogs
They deserved it.
>>84370198
A mix of both, and iirc the cartoonist of the show was a muppet dog who would sometimes interact with the cartoon protagonist.
>>84352764
And was only given the appearance of life from the shuffling of rats underneath their cold flesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2iQ96em2w
Kickass intro, but the show was boring as all fuck and my local station only had like three episodes seemed like.
>>84356115
A cartoon by Druillet?
>>84366226
nope.
>>84370318
>Had a game based on it
>for the fucking Jaguar CD
>>84370318
On a scale from one to the actual movie, how much decapitation were in this?
>>84356081
Eeek
>Father of the pride
I only know of it because of this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOwnCsPl1wI
>>84357735
.....holy crap this has one long opening theme. I kept expecting it to end but nope just kept going.
>>84370635
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGEEJmXgQ_c
It's an aussie thing, cunt
>>84367163
I remember watching it on foxkids. It was pretty good actually but it had a waaay too much european vibes.
>>84367311
I only know about it from Valuable Lessons
>The early development of Pelswick was incredibly annoying: make the show more realistic but make sure that elderly characters like GramGram are always cool and hip: (p. 23 Gram-Gram: “acquire this land... for a song” – please change ‘for a song’ to something more kid-accessible. Perhaps, ‘reeeeeeeealll cheap.”) Pelswick’s father is a university professor but don’t have him say anything intellectual that wouldn’t be “kid-relatable.” Children in testing seem to love the stone-dumb friend Goon but please avoid making fun of the stupid. Please make the other best friend ethnic. No toilet jokes, even though kids love them. Please add some X Games because kids like those. Please build up the character of Pelswick’s antagonistic female classmate Julie. And please give Julie a funny black friend. Please enlarge Julie’s and Sandra’s roles in the series...
>Note that if you follow all of these notes to the letter, you get Jimmy Neutron, and his friends Carl, Sheen, Cindy and Libby.
>This was the series where we got the note, “Today, there are not too many kids walking around with a book. I think we could make this more hip and current to place a computer in his hands…”
>And: “[teacher] Mrs. Doorhammers [sic] language should be more kid-accessible -- replace ‘Explain to us why we have to be skeptical... ‘ / and ‘could we steer the discussion towards...’”
>And: “p. 2 – Pelswick – instead of “i don’t want to waste a precious second of it’ – how bout ‘I don’t want to waste a second of it” (don’t want P to sound like too much of an eggehad) [sic]”
>In one episode we had a character open a refrigerator containing some curdled milk. The “smell” of the milk formed into a fist and punched him in the nose. This was removed for fear of imitative milk-smell violence.
>>84371004
How the fuck have any of those morons made into the industry?
How did the industry end up like this?
How the fuck does the industry keep surviving like this?!
>>84369231
I think this is from some kind of Snow White animation film.
>>84368882
Oh shit, Papirus.
>>84359202
Yeah, thanks for making me find it again :D
>>84371004
That's fucking embarrassing.
>>84371330
>As I type these words I’m involved in a series the target audience for which is children about ten. On this series we’ve been told that kids won’t understand:
>The Mona Lisa (“Can we have an image that is more recognizable to the audience? Remember, Irma ain’t the smart one.”)
>A passing reference in a joke to folic acid. Or a kazoo. Or Madagascar. Or Rasputin.
>A joke reference to the flooding of the Yangtze River. (“No kid will understand Taranee’s line about sandbagging the Yangtzee River. We want her to be smart, but we can't have lines that totally go over kids’ heads. Make it something they know, like the Mississippi.”)
>On Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (which should be called Jimmy Neutron: Boy Inventor) we had occasion to put a short mathematical formula into a joke. The showrunner asked that the (brief, real) formula be removed and replaced with “E = mc2,” regardless of the fact that it isn’t a math formula, it’s a physics formula. Children can’t be exposed to something that a genius would know, because they might not have heard of it.
>On W.I.T.C.H. we had the smartest girl, Taranee, coaching a friend for a Science test, explain the xylum and phloem inside a plant stem. The note: “Please replace this with something kids will know.” But if every kid knows it and it’s the best our character can do... isn’t she by definition not so bright? Besides which, we pleaded, we were explaining to kids what it was, right in the script.
>“Please make the substitution.”
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>We wrote a pilot for an animated series, The Dumb Bunnies, which was to be sold with an educational mandate. We used the theme of Water. So condensation, freezing, Oceans, the Water Cycle. We were told it was “too intellectual.” And, mind you, this is The Dumb Bunnies. A bunny is asked to get rid of a puddle on the driveway. He puts a metal handle in it... waits until Winter... then carries the frozen puddle away. I was told, “This is confusing – kids can’t think that far ahead.”
>We were urged, on a Disney Channel / CBC show, Danger Bay, to research the behavior of orang-utans so that the orang in our episode would do things real orang-utans do. One of the things they do is imitate human actions. We put some human-imitating in the script. A human put on a hat; the orang put on a hat. The CBC found this “insulting to the dignity of the animal,” and replaced it with several things that orang-utans in fact never do.
>I always figured that about ten percent of beginning writers, when first confronted with notes this idiotic, rebel and point out the obvious. Or say, “You’re kidding. Right? Because nobody I have met in the real world is that stupid.” These writers are fired, and it’s the remaining 90% of us who, as the line beyond which we cannot be pushed drifts further away with each TV season, soldier on like a cadre of dedicated doctors quixotically committed to saving human life while their every patient dies.
http://www.nichollsvickers.com/valuable_lessons_edit.pdf
I just found Nicholls' explanation of why TV executives are idiots, give me a minute
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>I mentioned one Monday night that we were soon to leave The Tonight Show and had been entertaining offers from studios for an overall writing deal. Did he favor one studio over the others? Glen shook his head, leaned forward and said, “It doesn’t matter which one you choose. They can’t tell you anything, and they can’t help you.”
>At the time I puzzled over this but now it feels like great wisdom. Quick example: a writer friend of mine knows someone who was on-set for a run-through when the young preppy studio suit questioned a line: what’s this in the kitchen scene about eating leftovers? The writers explained the joke to him, but that wasn’t the problem. He’d never heard of leftovers.
>Another friend pitched a pilot story in which a lower-middle-class family held a garage sale to make the extra $500 they needed to pay that month’s rent. The NBC development ladies didn’t buy it as a story: “Everyone has $500!”
>These jobs don’t pay well. Okay, in the upper bureaucratic echelons, when you’ve proved yourself by crippling many a series, there’s money. But the starting salary is low, and you can’t live on a low salary in L.A. and still wear a nice suit and drive everywhere in a BMW. So it attracts the kind of people who don’t need the money: the children of the rich, the dilettante kids of showbiz parents, the folks who don’t know there’s another bathroom at the back of the plane. In the Middle Ages the useless offspring of the wealthy became monks. Now they supervise Monk
