Mingkeg-27
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Now in the interest of playing safe and going with the tried and true characters/storys, networks will sometimes reject a show because it goes outside of the familiar surroundings that viewers presumably tune in for.
It's frustrating to har about those rejections, but understandable that the network wants to take the show which guarantees profit and ratings.
But what about occasions where a show is reject for a reason which is truely unfounded. In other words, an element which has proven to be successful in past shows or at least didn't hamper their success.
Several which were brought to my attention in the Nicktoons forum:
1. http://www.rabroad.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228510: Originally Spongebob Squarepants was going to be rejected. Of all of the reasons, a vice president in animation feared that a yellow character wouldn't go over well with the audience.
Considering Tweety Bird, Winnie The Pooh, The Simpsons and Pokemon have had a great deal of success prior to 1999, one has to wonder how someone would think that a yellow colored character would turn off viewers. I mean every single citizen in Springfield other than the occasional african are yellow.
2. Now a more recent thread prompted this one, but apparently Nick and CN passed on a planned cartoon the Modifyer (http://www.rabroad.net/forums/showthread.php?t=263856) with the reasons apparently being that it's lead character is a female.
Now this is more understable than my first example. Sexism is still something prevalent in society and potentially could inhibit a show's success. But even then, at this point we had more than a couple of cartoons featuring a female character or more in the lead:
- The Powerpuff Girls: Along with Dexter's Laboratory was the highest rated show in the early years of CN. Heck Ed, Edd and Eddy were at this time the third wheel in terms of ratings. But overall the show got 79 episodes and a theatrical movie. And while the movie didn't go over that well, the fact that it went that far is still impressive.
- The Wild Thornberrys: Made it up to 91 episodes and got a theatrical movie unto itself (with the other being the Rugrats crossover).
- Kim Possible: Before Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible was one of the few longest running Disney cartoons. Even more so it was the first in this decade to get more than 65 episodes. And consider that most toons ended at 52 episode, that's saying a lot.
Any other cartoons you heard of being rejected or consider for rejection when the reasoning proved unfounded?
It's frustrating to har about those rejections, but understandable that the network wants to take the show which guarantees profit and ratings.
But what about occasions where a show is reject for a reason which is truely unfounded. In other words, an element which has proven to be successful in past shows or at least didn't hamper their success.
Several which were brought to my attention in the Nicktoons forum:
1. http://www.rabroad.net/forums/showthread.php?t=228510: Originally Spongebob Squarepants was going to be rejected. Of all of the reasons, a vice president in animation feared that a yellow character wouldn't go over well with the audience.
Considering Tweety Bird, Winnie The Pooh, The Simpsons and Pokemon have had a great deal of success prior to 1999, one has to wonder how someone would think that a yellow colored character would turn off viewers. I mean every single citizen in Springfield other than the occasional african are yellow.
2. Now a more recent thread prompted this one, but apparently Nick and CN passed on a planned cartoon the Modifyer (http://www.rabroad.net/forums/showthread.php?t=263856) with the reasons apparently being that it's lead character is a female.
Now this is more understable than my first example. Sexism is still something prevalent in society and potentially could inhibit a show's success. But even then, at this point we had more than a couple of cartoons featuring a female character or more in the lead:
- The Powerpuff Girls: Along with Dexter's Laboratory was the highest rated show in the early years of CN. Heck Ed, Edd and Eddy were at this time the third wheel in terms of ratings. But overall the show got 79 episodes and a theatrical movie. And while the movie didn't go over that well, the fact that it went that far is still impressive.
- The Wild Thornberrys: Made it up to 91 episodes and got a theatrical movie unto itself (with the other being the Rugrats crossover).
- Kim Possible: Before Phineas and Ferb, Kim Possible was one of the few longest running Disney cartoons. Even more so it was the first in this decade to get more than 65 episodes. And consider that most toons ended at 52 episode, that's saying a lot.
Any other cartoons you heard of being rejected or consider for rejection when the reasoning proved unfounded?
