Drawn Togother--How it should have been?

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BlackBus

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I know that Drawn Together gets alot of hate around here and personally... I understand, but for me the overall concept of different cartoon characters from different genres and time periods put into a reality TV show parody has great appeal to me (and I'd imagine everyone else here) and ALMOST overshadows what I and alot of people absolutely HATE about it.

My question is, How would you have executed such a great concept?
 
The only way it would have worked for me was as a recurring 5-minute filler in between sketches on Mad TV or something (like TV Funhouse on SNL). The concept doesn't carry enough weight for anywhere close to a 30 minute show, especially one that runs for 4 years or whatever.
 
I like it exactly the way it is. If the haters don't want to watch, there's always Noggin. But when I see some of the utter garbage that passes for adult cartoons, both on Adult Swim and Comedy Central (Freak Show, Li'l Bush), yet fans of that crap repeatedly slam Drawn Together, I'm reminded of the old adage regarding people's tastes: "It's easier to swap spit than to share taste." :p
 
Having recently got the Season 2 DVD for my birthday, I was watching and thinking about how I feel they NAILED the show.

I mean, I couldn't come up with HALF of the stuff they did. If it were up to me, I wouldn't have a clue on how to write for the characters.

I wouldn't have made the anime character Pokemon related, I would have gone with a DBZ style, and had him freak-out, power-up, and destroy the house countless times. That would have gotten old FAST.

I would have made the Comic-book character a lot like Captin Hero, but FAR more cynical and border-line evil... Which is pretty much what Captin Hero is NOW, but without all the comedy.

The video-game character would talk in RPG-style, and just be hogging the TV playing video games "We want to watch TV!" "Nah, I must level my character and defeat the zombie threat using Dragon Soul!". Maybe that would work, but it wouldn't be as memorable as Xander.

The only things I know about black and white cartoons is the way the character would sing. A lot. So I'd have the early cartoons character sing in that style at ALL times. Nowhere as memorable as Toot.

So, as you can see, I would have messed the show up royally. Nobody would have liked it, and it's not from lack of imagination on my part, it's simply all those diffrent genres coming together is a HUGE undertaking to write for. I agree with Dath Ignatz, the show is perfect as it is.

Maybe people don't like all the same-sex kissing, that goes on, but it's their loss. The show really is brillant. And there are some genius parodies of all KINDS of stuff.

Not to mention the characters get some decent growth over the course of the show. Simply put to all the haters: There's more to Drawn Together than gay jokes and toilet humor.
 
I agree with you fully on this, and I'm not as much of a hater as my opening post suggests, But it's really hard to ignore all the excessive toilet humor, violence and the relentless attacks on people with sexual preferences and different races, the only exception to this is of course Xander and the relationship between Clara and Foxie.

I do enjoy toilet/offensive humor to an extent, but when it overshadows everything else it becomes a problem for me.
 
I thought the overall concept behind Drawn Together-several cartoon characters from various eras and genres interacting with one another-was great. It was the "how low can we go", "how many people can we tick off in 30 minutes", "how much can we get away with" stance and the excessive reliance on toilet humor that I personally didn't agree with.

I've always believed something the late, great Groucho Marx once said, "If you have to be dirty to be funny, then you're not that funny." And Drawn Together was very funny at times, which is all the more reason why I felt that they should've kept the show's humor out of the locker room. They basically killed themselves with it, because with so much R-rated humor on it, the show never stood a chance of crossing over into achieving mainstream success, and it was far too adult to ever go into syndication (unless it would only air really late at night).

And before anyone accuses me of being one, I'm not a hater.
 
I've been watching the show a lot lately, and it's fast become one of my favourites. To me, it's sublime - the whole "watch what we can get away with" mentality is at times surreal bordering on the transcendent (See "Freaks and Greeks" child abduction song giving way to a Challenger disaster joke).

I feel that Drawn Together is the show I would have made if it hadn't been made already.

Hi, btw.
 
Personally, I find Harvey Birdman Attourney At Law to be a good example of how you should do an adult cartoon that spoofs the medium. The show while not lacking in adult humor did so in without relying on it as heavily.
 
Interestingly enough I watched both shows last night. I wouldn't call one superior to the other as they're both exemplary, but they're totally different shows, in both feel and content.
 
Alright, then why don't you stay on topic and present YOUR ideas of how Drawn Together should have been?

This thread is your blank canvas. Create something.
 
More in-jokes.

Ling Ling's rivalry with a Digimon-type creature explodes when he's discovered sneaking around battling alongside said Digimon's human.

Xandir's high school classmates, disturbing older variations on the Winx Club, come by.

New Year's Nightmare. Their New Year's party get hijacked by a Jack Skellington-type.

That kinda stuff.
 
I tells ya- I originally saw the show on Comedy Central, and just thought it was messed up. Then my friend bought the UNCENSORED show on DVD...and had me rolling on the floor, in tears, laughing.

The problem for the show is not its latrine humor...the problem is that the the latrine humor is all that's left to be seen once everything else gets censored by Comedy Central. After all of CC's censorships, the show is about as funny as Sarah Silverman, Billy Crystal, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, and Garry Shandling combined.

Yeah, they do overuse the latrine humor a bit, but again- when it's NOT censored, it's hilarious otherwise. When censored- yeah, it's crap.

HBO needs to carry this show, not Comedy Central.
 
Drawn Together was pretty amusing if taking the time to sit and watch it. I guess it was one of the shows that just flew under the radar, because maybe people just didn't 'get it'. Although I do agree that the show relied too heavily on gross out humor -but still the concept was really cool.
 
I agree with the 2 above statements. The concept of Drawn Together was great. The writers did not need to rely on blue humor for a laugh, and they did so far too often. Even without the X-rated stuff, DT had the potential to be an entertaining show. The blue humor was basically a crutch that the writers used to lean on. Too bad.
 
Season 1 was good.. after that.. I dunno.. the show wasn't the same. just din't appeal to me. as someone mentioned earlier, Harvey Birdman is a great example on how an Adult comedy can be handled without resorting to ultra toilet humor
 
When I saw the ads I thought the show had a lot potential but I didn't watch it and just saw all the hate it got on TZ. However when I finally decided to catch it I enjoyed it a lot. I think it delivers on the potential and it had very enjoyable three seasons.
 
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