Butt-Ugly MartiansToonsylvaniaCatDogTeacher's PetFanboy and Chum ChumOK KOAlmost Naked AnimalsWow Wow WubbzyAny more examples of execs forcing a cartoon to be successful?
>>153919367>OKKO>at the same level as the rest of thatgr8 b8 m8
>>153919367>Butt Ugly Martians
>>153919506Cartoon network early on did tried to market it as next big thing with a app game and the availability to unlock said items on the app game via the episodes. But in the end it was a failure
>>153919516How has no one but us covered it’s insanely convoluted rabbit hole yet?
>>153919506they collaborated with fucking sonic. CN was absolutely trying to force it.
>>153919367>Wow Wow WubbzyI loved that show as a wee lad.
>>153919563I say this as a filthy Sonic fan:Sonic is a fucking brand whore, and will collaborate with absolutely fucking anybody who asks Sega. They traffic that motherfucker out to anybody who gives them even a dollar.Plus that crossover happened before the franchise got a second wind of mainstream popularity from the movies.
>>153919506>TIL Wow Wow Wubbzy was developed by fucking Film RomanWhy were they doing a pre-school show?
>>153919872Bullshit. They made a fucking video game for OK KO that got a physical release. The series got multiple crossover episodes featuring dozens of Cartoon Network's previous IPs. The series was given A LOT of push from the network and still failed because at the end of the day OK KO fucking sucked. It lacked any sort of strength of its own and was at its best when using pre-existing characters. There is no way that piece of shit would have ever been saved. The network pushed it and the only reason you ignore this is because you're a blind fanboy of a shitty shows.
>>153919872It's still crazy that you had fucking Aang, SpongeBob and the TMNT in a Sonic racing gamd
Nightmare Ned>Had a TV show and video game in 1997>both underperformed hard >Disney hasn't acknowledged it in decades, not even on Disney+ or Chibiverse. The show was lost media until 2019
>>153919506You don't remember the game and all the shilling going with it?It was obnoxious, the only show kids liked even less than it was Victor and Valentino.
>>153919367I saw Fanboy and Chum Chum figures rotting on Toys R Us shelves for YEARS. I was so pissed as a kid when it was the only Random! Cartoon they made into a show so seeing them collect dust was like a rush of euphoria
>>153919367OK KO seemed more like the creator's vanity project that cartoon network just went along with. I didn't really watch it while it was on but it didn't seem like it was getting pushed as much as there wasn't much else on cause CN became a 3 show network.
>>153919367Were any of those hyped up?
>>153919367Toonsylvania was NEVER trying to be the next big thing
>>153919900Because that's where the money is
>>153920382Spielberg produced it and he dropped out of Warner Bros to do it. Pretty obvious it was going to be something big. Not to mention it had plenty of toys and a Game Boy Color game. Today, the show is lost media.
>>153920464The GBC game was nice at least, the music in general was very catchy.The boss theme, the gardens, the cemetery and hell are great moat and roofs gets good on its final part where the second part of the songs came in.I still have the cartridge, for a licensed platformer it was good.
>>153919367All of GLITCH's shows a decade from now.
>>153920464no its not
>>153919367Tak and the power of Juju
>>153920464Speilberg producing things was just him slapping his name on shit.
>cool designs and premise>toys and cards to promote it>planned videogame gets cancelled>made by Rainbow so you can guess the actual quality>season 3 never ever because Viacom screwed it over alongside poor merchandising sales>the promotional ride is still going strong unlike the showMan, when will we Italians manage to make a semi-decent action show that people actually care about?
>>153919516I had one the books
I could be wrong, but wasn’t OK KO mostly fucked over by the AT&T buyout?
>>153919367I really liked CatDog as a kid, I was surprised to learn 20 years later that everyone else hated it
>>153919756It had a shit ton of promotion and merchandise and kids liked it, but it ultimately failed to reach the same level of success or popularity of it's contemporaries like Dora or Backyardigans
>>153920075It's not that crazy when you realize that Paramount owns the rights to all three of those and that's how they got them into Sonic Crossworlds; through their deals with SEGA for the movie.
>>153922164Me too. Rewatching some episodes, the lukewarm reception isn't too hard to understand, but it certaintly gets overhated.
>>153920133The fuck is Pepe doing spying on a young boy?
>>15392320652 episodes ain't bad but that's far less compared to what the other Nick Jr shows at the time had
>>153923206It also had a special with Beyonce guest starting it
>>153923362I never understood why many say its meanspirited and cruel to the main characters, yet give Rocko's Modern Life a pass. its the same premise, the main character is tortured by the world in absurd ways every episode.
>>153926373>meanspiritedWhat if I told you Bronies are the ones who use this term?
>>153919367Wow wow wubbzy failed?
>>153919367Fun fact, Glenn Martin DDS was Eisner's baby. The pilot was financed entirely by him.
>>153921350This blends together with Kaijudo and Redakai for me
>>153923362>overhatedI hate it for an extremely autistic reason. The dog annoyed me as a kid because he was too fucking stupid and I hated his voice. I was stupid with speech impediments so make of that what you will.
The girl from BUM was hot as hell.
>>153926889Not really.
>>153926899She was the only reason to watch that show.
>>153921350Never watched it but the op was a banger. Especially in my language
>>153921350what even italy does animation wide other than like fuckin' winx and gormotti?atleast my shithole has shit like Wakfu, Miraculous and some other show i'm probably missing and even then its undeniably dying off because gen alphas and zoomers are watching anime anyway lmao
>>153919367Does failed reboots of a previously successful series count?PPG 2016, TMNT mutant mayhem, Thundercats roar, MLP G5
>>153921310The show was awful to be fair
>>153919367Not cartoons but robotman from 1985 thru 2000
>>153919367I have 3 of these figures. I should of bought them all considering people are crazy over them now. They didn't last at my local Toys R Us long. Seems like they shifted them out quickly and replaced the space with Regular Show stuff.
>>153926934Don't forget Animaniacs 2020, what an embarrassment that was. The original had 99 episodes and a movie, that piece of shit only lasted 36 episodes and told the viewers to go fuck themselves for not watching it by killing off all the characters in the last minute.
>>153919367Why did Nick pick this over adventure time again
>>153927091Fanboy and Chum Chum ended up being the better series in the long run, so they were right
>>153927233Not really, in both cases.
>>153927041>killing off all the characters Is that true? I feel like there would be endless threads about that.I never watched it
>>153919367Mighty MagiswordsStupid premise with an ugly art style and Cartoon Network convinced themselves it'd be as big as Adventure Time. Cancelled after 2 seasons.
>>153927824Also, there's Kyle Carozza.
>>153927954Don't forget John K. George Liquor and Jimmy the Idiot Boy were going to be his "next big things."
>>153920133The preview for this single-handedly kept me from wanting to watch our Jungle Book VHS (I think it was Jungle Book? Something Disney for sure)
>>153927824That show is so tainted now, it'll be buried forever
>>153927091More impressive pitch bible probably. F&C had a bunch of dynamic and decently rendered example images while AT was more scribbles and even some stuff photoshopped in with a look of being made last minute
>>153927427We had threads about ithttps://desuarchive.org/co/thread/135576048/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjcLAFo_VE
>>153921350I was the kid who even bought the comics and realized like in issue 3 or 4 that it was like not paralel to the cartoon but his own story and I prefered more the comic than the cartoon. I had some of the creatures that were sold with cards and miniatures (to play with it like Gormiti) but like one day everything was gone.The comic was more "mature" and it went all over the world to narrate myth and legends of the world one of my favorite of the comics was one in the beggining "The Legend of Robin Hood" where robin hood was a huntik not a real person like for Dracula that in the world of huntik was a guy. The other one I enjoyed was "The headless knight" the story of Ichabod Crane was real and a old guy summoned the knight to scare guys from buying his tuff (like a scooby-do episode)
The 90s New Woody Woodpecker Show had a shit ton of promotion and newspaper articles hailing the return of Woody Woodpecker after 20+ years of dormancy, yet the actual show was very mediocre and quickly forgotten about. It was so bad, that it killed off Woody Woodpecker for 15 years until the 2017 movie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWjIsxDUBc
>>153929038There's something depressing about how out of touch with the zeitgeist of the age the people behind this comeback must have been to okay this.
>>153926509Speaking of Glenn Martin, didn’t that have a laugh track when it aired on Nick at Nite? I watched an episode on Tubi recently and could have sworn it had a laugh track when I saw back in 2010.
>>153930014Yes, it in fact DID have a laugh track. Not sure how Enter got a hold of his copy, but that particular version is hard to come by now.https://youtu.be/lWAb8oPJjQw?t=170
>>153929955The show suffered from production issues with the higher ups wanting to tone it down and cutting down vast majority of the characters. Even Oswald was going to be in it. Some of them made in into the video games released at the time.
>>153919516>the flamethrowerBUMs of Fire.>>153930040Enter must have a secret lost media stash, judging by the fact he also had a Little Clowns of Happytown episode that wasn’t found in English until years after his review.
>>153930040Weird. Was the version without the laugh track meant the home media edit?
>>153930183>Enter’s not only a hypocrite, but also a gatekeeperGood to know
>>153930210It’s more likely he found them from some obscure website/channel and didn’t realize how rare they were.
>>153930244That, and some of his videos were edited by someone even worse than HE is. (As evident by the blatant kisscartoon watermarks.) Enter's likely the kind of person who deletes media without giving it a second thought.
>>153919506>Sonic collab>CN Universe special where KO LITERALLY save the Cartoon Network multiverseI see it.
>>153929038>>153929955This used to happen almost every time some old show from decades past was brought back. All the older guys who could not realize that 20-30 years had gone by were overjoyed some amazing hugely successful thing was going to be hugely successful all over again. Same shit happened when they tried remaking Flintstones, Richie Rich, Peabody & Sherman...
>>153929038Never really saw what the big deal was with Woody Woodpecker, or why there were such dedicated fans. Always seemed like Woody is just another wacky Looney Tunes style cartoon with another wacky character that fucks with antagonists with dynamite and hammers. Nothing that hasn't been done a thousand times over with waaaaaay more characters before. Never got why he stands out to people more than any other.
>>153919506>OKKOThat shit had no real life personal experience from the creator
>>153931590The Flintstones movie was moderately successful at least, and people seem to have some fondness for the Peabody and Sherman movie.Richie Rich is definitely the odd one out nowadays, I can’t imagine the concept of “rich kid does rich things” would be appealing unless he did some insane shit.
>>153930208>Was the version without the laugh track meant the home media edit?No, it was a personal decision from the creators themselves.>This was later removed at the request of the series' creators, with Eric Fogel citing the show having "too much internal thinking". Part of the criticism was leveled at the overuse of laugh tracks (which were permanently removed a month after the show's premiere).
>>153928425Pitch bible alone I too would choose F&C ovet AT.
>>153920133The whole concept of this show is fucking weird.
>>153926474After the Beyonce special it went on an inexplicably long hiatus which tanked ratings (see also: star vs), and merchandise didn't sell as well as they anticipated so that alone was enough to cancel it
>>153920133Scared the shit out if me when I was six.
>>153919563>>153919872In all fairness I'm pretty sure it was Ian JQ who wanted the Sonic crossover and he was just lucky that Sonic will crossover with just about anything
>>153927233True...
>>153930102Oswald keeps getting fucked over.
>>153936536Nope
>>153919516didn't this get more video games than actually popular cartoons?
There was a massive push to make The Super Duper Sumos into the next big thing.
>>153920133The intro of this show is anxiety inducing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwdHuZI-J8
>>153926951>awful Eeeeasy now...
>>153919367BKM
Little Ellen. Warner bros was trying to market this earl on hbomax as their next big thing, Until the controveries involving ellen happened.
>>153934140I'm gussing they blown their whole budget on getting Beyonce in their special
>>153919367Secret Saturdays and Generator Rex were both trying to recapture Ben 10's success but nobody bought the toys. I remember seeing Saturdays merch still shelfwarming on the dying day of my local ToysRUs
>>153942335Didn't know this aired. Thought the controversy came out before.
>>153942335This feels like such a relic, those celebrity cartoons died years ago
>>153942335What the fuck is up with this art style?
>>153942404Which is a shame because they were both way better than Ben 10.
>>153945049Nope.
>>153945050Ben 10 had some cool designs but was a pretty bad show. Ben himself was very annoying.
>>153945062Wrong, faggot.
>>153942404Is a Shame Secret Saturdays didn't get more popular, I recon it has to do with purposely trying to feel like an actiong HB show from the 70s, which is something I love but maybe kids though it was too old school. I could tell you two things I didn't like about that show at first glance, one was the name Secret Saturdays doesn't sound like a show about a family of adventures hunting or protecting monsters, and the fact that the main thingy (The staff Zak used to control the cryptid was a chicken leg with an eye in the middle, for a toy that is a terrible choice)
>>153919367That Freakzoid crap
>>153945131The Mask cartoon was so much better
>>153942308What does this stand for again I forgot
>>153942335Worse
>>153928839>Checked out Gormiti again >It's still ongoing. Toy line and cartoon.What the fuck. I thought it was dead.
>>153945812Too bad they are never cool monsters.
we can probably add to the thread the dozens of TMNT clones that all came with their toyline and only survived one or two season. Cowboys of Moo Mesa, street sharks, Biker Mice from Mars, etc.
>>153945773This looks like if MeatCanyon somehow got his own animated sitcom.
>>153945592Bully Kill MikeNo it’s Butt Kicking Mode
>>153921310That was a weird time. Nick put so much it to the game and franchise and then it just disappeared one day.
>>153926926>That spoilerWhat? Miraculous is actually seeing some drop off?
>>153926934I can't really say I'm surprised G5 failed. there was no way anything was going to live up to G4 but even with that in mind the movie they did to start the series was mediocre.
