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Mar 7, 2008, 10:31 AM
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Should Yogi's Space Race Return?
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I thought this was one of the best cartoons ever! So should The WB create a new series like "Yogi's Space Race"? They could even have some of their original characters like the Looney Tunes or they could simply release the original series on DVD!
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 7, 2008, 3:07 PM
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Considering that Yogi's Space Race was just one of many Saturday morning cartoons created in the late 70's to cash in on the success of Star Wars, it's not like there's any real reason to revive the show now.
It's also worth pointing out that Hanna-Barbera Studios is no more; it's since become Cartoon Network Studios. In any event, I definitely wouldn't hold my breath waiting to see Looney Tunes characters featured as regulars in a Hanna-Barbera show.
Also, where would such a series air? Kids WB will cease to exist after September, so there'd be no point in pitching a show idea to a sinking ship; the broadcast networks aren't running shows like that anymore, 4Kids TV simply wouldn't care about a show like this, and Jetix doesnt own the rights to any H-B properties. The only place a Yogi's Space Race revival could possibly air would be Cartoon Network, but they're clearly no longer interested in old-school Hanna-Barbera characters, at least not enough to create a new series starring them. Boomerang would be a better fit, honestly, but they as yet don't air any original programming; it's all just 3rd party acquisitions and stuff from the Turner/Time-Warner vault.
You'd be better off just waiting for the series to come out on DVD. That's also iffy, but it's more likely to happen than a revival series.
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(This post was edited by Starburst on Mar 7, 2008, 3:23 PM)
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Mar 7, 2008, 11:06 PM
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Maybe for an Adult Swim new show. (I know, they discontinued the recycled character format after Harvey Birdman and Sealab 2021 went off the air, but It's not a problem to ask.)
Not only that, but maybe this time they can use other H-B characters as well. For example, Yogi and his Space friends can save the galaxy from the Top Cat Cat Aliens, even Space Ghost or the Mooninites can have a cameo.
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 8, 2008, 11:11 AM
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Maybe for an Adult Swim new show. (I know, they discontinued the recycled character format after Harvey Birdman and Sealab 2021 went off the air, but It's not a problem to ask.)
Not only that, but maybe this time they can use other H-B characters as well. For example, Yogi and his Space friends can save the galaxy from the Top Cat Cat Aliens, even Space Ghost or the Mooninites can have a cameo.
^By the above description, I'm guessing you've never seen Yogi's Space Race.  It wasn't that kind of show at all; YSR was basically Wacky Races in space. (You may be confusing the show with the special Yogi Bear and the Invasion of the Space Bears or something else entirely.)
As a fan fiction, that idea is possible, however, as an actual series, file it under 'Not Impossible, but Highly Improbable'.
Again, your best bet is to wait for a DVD release of Yogi's Space Race (provided the series ever comes to DVD, that is).
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(This post was edited by Starburst on Mar 8, 2008, 11:55 AM)
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 8, 2008, 11:41 AM
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The original "Yogi's Space Race" hour show lasted half a season because of bad ratings. The show ran on NBC in Fall 1978. The show split into two separate half hour shows "Buford and the Galloping Ghost" and "The Galaxy Goof-Ups" for Spring 1979 and only "Buford/Galloping Ghost" lasted until Fall 1979.
The Disco sequences in "Galaxy Goof-Ups" dated the episodes badly.
"Space Race" was something of a "Laff-a-Lympics"/"Wacky Races" clone...although bad guys Phantom Pfink and Sludge aka Captain Good and Clean Cat weren't as endearing as Dick Dastardly and Muttley and Yogi Bear (no Boo Boo Bear) and Huckleberry Hound looked out of place in space.
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(This post was edited by artytoons on Mar 8, 2008, 11:42 AM)
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Intern / Contributor
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Mar 8, 2008, 2:41 PM
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Starburst "Kids WB will cease to exist after September"
I did not know that thank you very much for informing me! I did know that 4Kids is owned by Fox and Jetix by Disney, so I was thinking about Kids WB or CN.
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We need a racing cartoon on TV!
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Intern / Contributor
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Mar 8, 2008, 3:04 PM
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Artytoons: "The original "Yogi's Space Race" hour show lasted half a season because of bad ratings."
Thank you I did not know that either and for some reason I got some of my "Laff-a-Lympics" memories mixed up with "Yogi's Space Race!"
SO WHAT ABOUT A NEW "LAFF-A-LYMPICS' SERIES FOR CN, IT SEEMS LIKE THE NEW 'GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE' SERIES IS WORKING AND THESE 2 SHOWS WOULD BE A GOOD BREAK FROM THE EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE ON TV.
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 8, 2008, 5:01 PM
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As a tie-in to the Warner Brothers board here, Mel Blanc's voice as Quack-up in "Yogi's Space Race" and "The Galaxy Goof-Ups" was the same speeded up voice used for Daffy Duck...even more slobbering.
Some of the episodes showed Phantom Pfink and Sludge winning some races by cheating (usually using their Captain Good and Clean Cat disguises to distract the other racers from Pfink and Sludgey's dishonest activities)...they didn't exactly enjoy the grand prizes they won so there were some justice paid at the end of the story.
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(This post was edited by artytoons on Mar 8, 2008, 5:48 PM)
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Mar 8, 2008, 6:35 PM
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SO WHAT ABOUT A NEW "LAFF-A-LYMPICS' SERIES FOR CN, IT SEEMS LIKE THE NEW 'GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE' SERIES IS WORKING AND THESE 2 SHOWS WOULD BE A GOOD BREAK FROM THE EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE ON TV.
The idea of a new Laff-A-Lympics series for Cartoon Network with a new Cartoon-Cartoon team would be an interesting idea (in fact, someone wrote an amusing fan fic about that very thing), unfortunately, it seems that CN isn't interested in revisiting the classics anymore. A series like that seems better suited for Boomerang.
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 9, 2008, 7:48 AM
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SO WHAT ABOUT A NEW "LAFF-A-LYMPICS' SERIES FOR CN, IT SEEMS LIKE THE NEW 'GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE' SERIES IS WORKING AND THESE 2 SHOWS WOULD BE A GOOD BREAK FROM THE EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE ON TV.
Mmmm'kay. Maybe I'm a little slow on the uptake right now, but I don't really see how CN airing a new George of the Jungle update means that there should be a new Laff-A-Lympics for CN. Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to see the correlation you're trying to make here. It's not really the same thing, m'man.
For one thing, the new George (I believe) is more or less an acquisition from Canada's Teletoon. A LAL update, by contrast, would have to come entirely from Hanna-Barbera (or more accurately, from Turner/Time Warner, since H-B has since been absorbed into TWT as Cartoon Network Studios).
Why? Because of my second point, wherin lies the potential snag: George is an update of a single show with a single cast, whereas shows like Laff-A-Lympics and Yogi's Space Race (particularly the sort of thing that you and Mr. Cleveland are suggesting) would be a potpourri compilation featuring multiple characters from multiple shows, which these days is dang-near impossible to do, especially when it comes to bringing characters from separate studios, like H-B, Williams Street and Looney Tunes, together for one show. What with embargoes, merchandising tie-ins and ownership legalities being what they are, making such a project a reality would be legal/copyright hell, which is precisely where this idea would be destined to remain for all eternity.
Finally, there's the point that Space Demon brough up a few posts earlier: if such in idea were to happen (which is doubtful-see above), a show like that would stick out like a sore thumb on CN. Why would CN air a new Laff-A-Lympics when they've clearly washed their hands of all things classic cartoon? The CN execs would have no need or desire to do anything new with Yogi Bear and the like, since they don't pull in the teen/tween demographic that they're currently pursuing. All of the 'classics' have since been relegated to Boomerang, and presently, for various reasons, TWT doesn't care enough about Boomerang to make any exclusive original programming for it. The only way you could honestly hope or even expect to see such a project on CN would be for it to air on [adult swim], the chances of which are also slim to none, since [as] has already stated that they're done with H-B retro rehashes. It's just as well, too, since if this show did air on [as], it wouldn't be enough for them to just show Yogi, Scooby and the Mooninites comepeting in sports events; in order to live up to the 'adult' label, they would have to pepper the show with a bunch of TV-PG/TV-MA nastiness, ribaldry and crude humor, which IMHO, would be far worse than any excessive violence.
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(This post was edited by Starburst on Mar 9, 2008, 8:17 AM)
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Intern / Contributor
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Mar 10, 2008, 3:52 PM
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Very interesting SpaceDemon do you know if that fan fic is still online?
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Intern / Contributor
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Mar 10, 2008, 4:03 PM
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Starburst, I was just thinking that if a revival of an old show like "George of Jungle" is working then why wouldn't a revival of a show with an All-Star cast like Laff-A-Lympics work, especially with the popluarity of "Mario and Sonic At the Olympics?"
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Mar 10, 2008, 4:55 PM
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A LAL update, by contrast, would have to come entirely from Hanna-Barbera (or more accurately, from Turner/Time Warner, since H-B has since been absorbed into TWT as Cartoon Network Studios). Actually, Warner Bros. Animation absorbed Hanna-Barbera in 1998. That's why Termite Terrace took over production of Scooby-Doo cartoons starting with the Zombie Island film. The H-B staff that worked on the Cartoon Cartoons then went to form Cartoon Network Studios, and continued using the H-B name, just as the current Scooby movies still have a Hanna-Barbera logo at the end, though WB Animation did all the work on those films.
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(This post was edited by WileECoyote on Mar 10, 2008, 4:55 PM)
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Mar 11, 2008, 5:36 AM
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I was just thinking that if a revival of an old show like "George of Jungle" is working then why wouldn't a revival of a show with an All-Star cast like Laff-A-Lympics work, especially with the popluarity of "Mario and Sonic At the Olympics?"
Is Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games really that popular? I thought that the reception for that game was lukewarm at best. I'm not what you'd call a "gamer", but I haven't heard that many people squawking about M&S. Are you sure you're not thinking about Super Smash Brothers Brawl? That's the Wii game that seems to be on everyone's lips these days.
Anyways, no one's saying that a Laff-A-Lympics revival series wouldn't work (at least I'm not), but there are a couple of things that you need to consider:
1) If Cartoon Network Studios (which is what H-B more or less became after Warner Brothers absorbed it in 1998, as Wile E. pointed out) doesn't want to revive the show, it's not going to happen. I don't know what it would take to get the big brass at CN studios interested in reviving an H-B classic, but clearly (as evidenced by CN's current schedule), that's not the frame of mind that they're in right now.
2) George of the Jungle is an 3rd party acquisition. It's an import from Canada, not a Cartoon Network original. CN doesn't produce George, it only airs on the network. And while, the new George of the Jungle is indeed doing well, it's not THE highest rated show on the network, (I beleieve that C.H. Greenblatt's Chowder currently holds that title). If George were bringing in SpongeBob Squarepants sized ratings, then and only then would CN execs would be convinced that revival shows are a good thing and would stand up and take notice, but as it is, George is doing comfortably well, but not so well that it would change CN's current way of thinking.
In order for a new Laff-A-Lympics series to come into fruition, one would need to somehow convince the higher-ups at CN studios that a substantial profit could be made off of such a program, and CN is presently more interested in becoming Nickelodeon Too and is currently obsessed with the notion of having their own breakout phenomenon to rival the success of Disney's High School Musical. So a Laff-A-Lympics revival at this stage isn't impossible, but it is highly unlikely. It's Cartoon Network that you need to convince, not us.
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(This post was edited by SpaceDemon on Mar 11, 2008, 6:13 AM)
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 11, 2008, 7:58 AM
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Starburst, I was just thinking that if a revival of an old show like "George of Jungle" is working then why wouldn't a revival of a show with an All-Star cast like Laff-A-Lympics work, especially with the popluarity of "Mario and Sonic At the Olympics?"
OK. On that, here are some points to ponder:
1. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is selling well, but not extremely well. Certainly not well enough to convince anyone at Cartoon Network Studios to think, "We need a new Laff-A-Lympics!" The game would have to be making Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat II, Super Mario Bros. 3 or Super Mario 64-level sales in order to get TV networks to stand up and take notice of its' popularity.
2. I don't wish to appear stupid, but I'm still not seeing the connection between Teletoon's George of the Jungle remake and Laff-A-Lympics. Why would Canada's coming out with a new George convince CN to revive Laff-A-Lympics? The 2 shows have absolutely nothing in common other than they'd both be revivals of previously made shows. That's like saying that because the remake of Battlestar Galactica is doing well on Sci-Fi Channel, that Nick should in response make a new Wild & Crazy Kids and start airing it on Noggin. The comparison and channel choices don't make any sense.
3. Let's get right down to the nitty-gritty here. I'm not good at sugar-coating things, so I'm just going to say it: Laff-A-Lympics was never all that huge a show, not even back in 1977 when it first aired. Sure, it put butts in seats, but it was never what you'd call a phenomenon, even back then. Laff was just a cartoon answer to Battle of the Network Stars and like it's live-action equivalent, it did OK and was all right for it's time, but the overall concept didn't exactly age well, and it's doubtful it would carry the same weight now as it did then. As Space Demon mentioned in the above post, in order for CN (or anyone else, for that matter) to even consider doing a new Laff-A-Lympics, they'd first have to be convinced that there'd be a big enough demand for such a show, and more importantly, that a substantial profit could be made off of it.
As I mentioned already in my last post (which apparently you didn't bother to read all the way through), it's far easier to remake a show like George of the Jungle than a show like Laff-A-Lympics, because George is rethinking of a singular concept with a singular cast. Laff-A-Lympics, by contrast, was a potpourri show which brought together several characters from several different shows, making it a far more expensive and complicated show to assemble. In order to properly execute such an idea, especially if you're planning to bring in characters from studios outside H-B, like Looney Tunes as you mentioned, would require a great deal of money and untangling of legal red tape, and the naked truth is that CN would have no need or desire to go through all that trouble unless they thought they were going to get all of the money they sunk into producing such a show back. And presently there's no evidence to suggest that they would. Heck, the last time Cartoon Network even aired Laff-A-Lympics was around '95 or '96, and it didn't score monter sized ratings; it was mainly shown to coincide with the Summer Olympics. As I said earlier, such a stunt would be more characteristic of Boomerang than the current CN, but it still wouldn't be popular enough to warrant a new one.
Again, to reiterate Space Demon's post, if Cartoon Network Studios doesn't want to revive Laff-A-Lympics, then they won't. And presently the admen and accountants who run CN clearly have no desire to do any such thing at this moment.
It's really as simple as that.
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(This post was edited by Starburst on Mar 11, 2008, 9:02 AM)
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Mar 12, 2008, 12:46 PM
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Thank you very much for that out Wile E. Coyote!
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Intern / Contributor
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Mar 12, 2008, 2:48 PM
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Space Demon,
I know that we would eventually have to contact CN but this is how the media changes! When I was at Toon Zone we changed some things on CN. Not only that, TZ was actually mentioned on CN! Group petitions and discussions are more effective for change than an individual contacting CN Studioes!
Scott
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We need a racing cartoon on TV!
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Intern / Contributor
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Mar 12, 2008, 3:08 PM
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Starburst; I understand your points but it shouldn't just be about numbers. The fact is we need more shows like Looney Tunes and Laff-A-Lympics that are more about comedy than violence! It seems like 8 out of 10 current cartoons are about violence and if # of viewers is the only factor than we are truly lost as a society!
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We need a racing cartoon on TV!
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Lead Animator / Moderator
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Mar 12, 2008, 4:21 PM
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This society has been truly lost so many times that now all places look alike.
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Supervising Animator / Contributor
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Mar 13, 2008, 5:29 AM
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Space Demon,
I know that we would eventually have to contact CN but this is how the media changes! When I was at Toon Zone we changed some things on CN. Not only that, TZ was actually mentioned on CN! Group petitions and discussions are more effective for change than an individual contacting CN Studios!
Maybe I've just gotten cynical in my old age, but I have zero faith in online petitions. Petitions are like miracle diets; they don't work. Heck, I singed a petition to bring back the late CN series Megas XLR and another to bring Looney Tunes back to CN, and they didn't accomplish Jack Squat.
Love your optimism, AlphaFlight, but seriously, don't kid yourself into believing that a bunch of people talking up a new Laff-A-Lympics show on a message board is suddenly going to make CN studios interested in producing one. That just isn't realistic. The cold hard truth is that network executives rarely, if ever, visit internet message boards. Executives have dollar signs in their eyes and therefore can't see or understand fan appreciation. They only know ratings, profits and shares. If you want to communicate with them, you need to speak to them in their language. Hardcore fandom is great, but it's not the fans who have to finance their grandiose ideas. Like I said before, the ONLY way that you would be able to convince CN to spend millions of dollars to produce a new Laff-A-Lympics series with characters made at different times by different studios (which would be hella difficult and costly to do and would likely be buried under legal red tape for years) would be to convince them that they would make back the millions that they need to spend back in merchandising, DVD sales, and so forth. And the fact of the matter is that Laff-A-Lympics was never a monster hit, only a moderate hit, and Laff was never a big commercial success and never made a lot of merchandise, even in it's hey-day. Unless you've got a couple million dollars tucked under your couch cushions to produce the series yourself, then you're at the mercy of CN studios, and it's going to take a lot more than a few posts on 1 internet message board to turn your dream show into a reality. You need to hire an agent, a laywer, to write up a pilot script, a series bible, and get years of experience under your belt before a studio will even let you plant your foot in the door. I wish it were that easy to get a show idea to be produced and put on the air, but it just isn't.
I know that I've said this before, but here it is one mo' time: Petitions don't bring back canceled shows. MONEY and RATINGS do.
Also, there's something that I need to get off my chest: Quite frankly, I'm getting just a little tired of this "Everything old is good and everything new is bad" mentality that some fans seem to believe in as gospel. How many of these "new" shows have you actually seen? Not all of them are great, I have no delusions about that, but some of the current animated series are quite good, if you old schoolers would just give them a chance instead of simply writing them off as being "bad" because they weren't made more than 30 years ago. Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were no more violent than Looney Tunes shorts that they were written in the spirit of, and both shows were, IMHO, excellent. And I certainly do not consider Chowder, Kappa Mikey, Rocko's Modern Life or George of the Jungle to be unessessarily violent. Chowder is barely violent at all. Violence? The Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry shorts were several times more violent than anything that's on the air right now. Also, LT and T&J were NOT originally intended for children! They were written for adults who paid to go to the theaters and see the big budgeted movies. That's a very common myth that needs to be extinguished. And of course shows like Justice League or The Batman are going to have violence in them because they're ACTION shows. Lumping together a few shows that are intended for an adult audience or judging an action show by the same standards as a comedy kids' cartoon and saying that they're "bad for kids" is just dumb, excuse my bluntness.
Sure, Laff-A-Lympics was a nice safe show, but it was also somewhat boring. If you've seen one episode of Laff, you've seen them all (just my opinion, so please don't be offended). I'd rather see a good show with some cartoon violence in it than a nice tame boring show, but that's just me.
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(This post was edited by SpaceDemon on Mar 13, 2008, 6:55 AM)
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Directing Animator / Contributor
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Mar 13, 2008, 5:42 AM
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Starburst; I understand your points but it shouldn't just be about numbers. The fact is we need more shows like Looney Tunes and Laff-A-Lympics that are more about comedy than violence! It seems like 8 out of 10 current cartoons are about violence and if # of viewers is the only factor than we are truly lost as a society!
Hey, I'm not saying that the current regime is right or it's how things should be, but right now that's how things are. Like it or lump it, that's how the current business is run. You try to pitch an all-new Laff-A-Lympics idea to CN or anybody else, and in all probability, that's what they're going to tell you. As long as admen and accountants are running CN, it's going to be about the numbers before it's about the art. A new Yogi's Space Race or Laff-A-Lympics just aren't viable or profitable ventures right now. They are dead franchises based on dated concepts, and no one at CN or Turner/Time-Warner is interested in reviving either right now. Harsh, but fact.
You want the truth regarding the hopes of getting either of these ideas on CN? Here's the truth: if you're over 14 years old, then CN doesn't care about you. That's the reality. Unless you're 13 or under, then CN doesn't give 2 squats about you or what you want to see on the channel. CN these days has no interest in nostalgia or compilation racing/sports shows starring H-B characters. CN these days is only interested in scoring Nick/Disney Channel sized ratings in order to snag the elusive 7-14 year-old demographic. Send CN a letter or a petition about a new racing cartoon or a new Laff-A-Lympics, and you'll get a nice friendly rejection letter which is just a thinly vieled way of them saying, "Come up with an idea that can be our equivalent to Hannah Montana or Zack and Cody and we'll talk. Otherwise, just watch Boomerang and leave us alone!"
As for the "8 out of 10 current cartoons are about violence" claim, I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers, but let me just say 3 things on that:
1. The level of violence in a cartoon really depends on the program itself and the genre it represents. If you're looking at an action show like, say, Legion of Superheroes or Justice League Unlimited or Blood+, then yes, there's going to be a fair amount of violence in it. That's only natural. It also depends on what audience the show is aimed at. I'm guessing (and please correct me if I'm mistaken) that maybe you're making this claim based on what you've seen on lineups like Toonami or [adult swim], in which the shows are actually aimed at an older audience who can supposedly take it, since I haven't seen a great deal of violence on the current crop of kids' cartoons. There are plenty of kids' shows like Johnny Test, Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Chowder, Kappa Mikey, The Secret Show and the like which don't contain any more violence than the average comic strip, and most of it is "cartoon violence", not actual graphic hurting and/or killing. Let's not confuse graphic violence with slapstick in the name of comedy. It's silly to try and judge a show like, say, Naruto by the same standards as say, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels; they are completely different shows aimed at completely different audiences with completely different sensibilities.
2. The so-called 'innocent' Looney Tunes got pretty violent themselves. Are we perhaps blocking out all of the falling anvils, exploding dynamite and guns going off in peoples' faces from our collective memories? Often when it comes to nostalgia, we tend to put on rose-colored glasses and remember things being better than they actually were. The Looney Tunes were and still are great, no denying that, but let's not kid ourselves, they weren't suitable entertainment for tea parties hosted by little old ladies, nor were they originally aimed at kids. The boys at Termite Terrace were among the pioneers and purveyors of cartoon violence, lest we forget. The Looney Tunes were actually 10 times more violent than any of the cartoons currently on the air.
3. The best way to counter what's on TV right now isn't with an oldie-but-goodie; a new idea can only be countered with another new idea. You really want to get something out there to counter what's on the air right now, don't expect nostalgia to do it for you; come up with an original concept and then get yourself some experience in the animation industry. No one is going to give you a show unless you have x number of years' experience under your belt. It's just not gonna happen. Network bigwigs are only interested in buying shows from people they know whose work they're familiar with. It's especially gutsy of Joe Fresh-Off-The Street to presume to tell some studio heads what he thinks they should be doing with their characters.
To quote Billy Joel, "The good old days weren't always good, and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems". Personally, I'd rather see a new decent cartoon show with an edge to it than a revival of some dated 1970's concept or a show that's so watered down in its' attempts to be 'non-violent' that it's as dull as dishwater and about as entertaining watching cheese age. But that's just my personal opinion, which doesn't carry the weight of oxygen.
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(This post was edited by Starburst on Mar 13, 2008, 7:40 AM)
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Mar 14, 2008, 11:44 AM
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I did see it, but it was 15 years ago so I forgot most of it anyhow.
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Mar 14, 2008, 1:46 PM
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Okay thank you for the advice guys!
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Mar 19, 2008, 3:40 PM
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Laff-A-Lympics was never a monster hit, only a moderate hit
Yogi's Space Race wasn't a moderate hit--it was a total flop.
I'd pay good money to see the Buford Files redone, but it just ain't gonna happen.
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