A New Animated Series for MTV: DJ and the Fro

Empty-V hasn't had much luck with toons in recent years. Since Beavis & Butt-Head ended in 1997, save for Daria & Celebrity Deathmatch, no Empty-V toon has gone past 1 season. The casualty list includes Downtown, Undergrads, 3 South, and Spider-Man, the latter delayed nearly a year for reasons known only to Empty-V, Sony, & Mainframe, which provided the animation.

DJ & the 'Fro (I added the ' because it means the character's name is short for Afro) is the 2nd attempt to duplicate the success of Beavis & Butt-Head. The first, Station Zero, was given a quick hook a few years back because of lack of material leading to lack of ratings. I doubt that DJ will do any better, especially since Empty-V rarely runs videos past the morning hours anymore.
 
I remember a one-episode show that had some annoying CGI girl who was commenting on the videos she was placed in. I remember her being in Meredith Brooks' "B*tch" and making up and singing her own dumb lyrics.
 
That last few toons MTV made were "Chico and Guappo" "Friday" and "Where's my Dog At?" All flopped. Wonder Shozen lasted two seasons. If the people behind Drawn Together are behind this new show, I like for them to do a DT spinoff whit Foxxy and Clara as roomates on wacky adventures.
 
Would that be Station Zero? The one with the urban teens (Karaz and Chino the hosts, Tech the DJ and Scooter the director) showing rap videos? That series was yanked off the air so quickly that I can't find anybody who's ever seen it.
 
"Where My Dogs At" actually attracted great ratings for MTV2, I believe over its 6 episode run it attracted 18 million viewers total. But there was some controversy brought on by the NAACP about an episode with Snoop Dogg running around with women on leashes. MTV chickened out and canned the show because of it, similar to what they did to Clone High.
 
MTV actually did 8 episodes of Where My Dogs at?, but refused to rerun two episodes "The Last Ashton Hero" and "Woofie Loves Snoop", so it just seemed like they only made six. The pilot episode ended with a cliffhanger that had Tom Cruise kidnapping one of the dogs to sacrifice at the church of Scientology, but MTV pulled the follow up episode "The Last Ashton Hero" that had Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher rescue the dog from Tom Cruise and take it to the church of Kabala before it even aired. They did show it once a few months later probably due to a contractual obligation. They then aired "Woofie Loves Snoop" that made fun of the time Snoop Dogg showed up at a MTV awards with women wearing leashes and dog collars (he had actually done this and got no negative feedback). This 3 second gag was called racist and misogynist by some hack writers and that episode was pulled. Why it was racist to make fun of an idiot who treats women like dogs isn't something I could ever figure out. You can still find many people online who were really outraged by this gag even though they admit they never actually saw it.
 
That's dumb. There was nothing racist about that. It's more sexist than anything. Btw he's not an idiot. The women who agreed to do that are.
 
It originally debuted as an afternoon series which was probably the best timeslot an MTV animated series has gotten in years. About a week or two into its run it was shuffled into a late night time slot. It aired at various different times ranging from 12am to 2 am each night. It is now canceled.
 
It sounds like MTV has these shows canceled before the premiere. The fact that they didn't even bother to show the 2nd part of the pilot episode of 'Where my Dogs at?" (until months later) is proof of that.
 
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