Pilots that should've been picked up

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The infamous 1989 X-Men pilot. NBC passed on this, it would've been a good companion with 'Captain N,' I would've picked this up to series over the Karate Kid show that NBC did pick up. I suppose that if the '89 pilot was picked up then we would've never would've gotten the '92 series. I thought the animation in 'Pryde' looked really good, I also kind of like the team which reflected the comics at the time if I recall right.
 
Teen Titans. NBC was supposed to pick this show up in the early 80's (without Robin because he was on ABC's Superfriends), but they ultimately passed on it.

Why?

Because they wanted to extend the Smurfs to 90 minutes. HB execs liked Cyborg so much that when Teen Titans didn't happen, he was brought into the Superfriend's final season.
 
Constant Payne. It was Nick's anime-esque before TLA came along. Unfortunately, it was passed due to awesome fight scenes and buildings looking like the twin towers. Hey, a quick ? to the Mods...are vids for the pilots acceptable? Its slipped my mind.:sweat: perferably yt.
 
Korgath of Barbaria. It aired a few times on Adult Swim, and despite the extremely positive reception it had, plus the massive amount of talent behind it, it didn't receive a full pick-up. A real shame since if it had succeeded, maybe we'd have an Adult Swim block that wasn't just turning its wheels.
 
Word. Same with the Welcome to Eltingtville pilot. Oh, well, there's always Evan Dorkin's Dork comic books if want more of the Eltinglville Fanclub.
 
Tom Kenny's Plastic Man short on CN, in the style of Jack Cole and Kyle Baker's runs. Probably would need to work on the writing and replace the parole guy with Woozy Winks, but it would have been a fun visual blast.
 
The Amazing Screw On Head was amazing with it’s dark super bizarre everything and keeping its unique graphic novel art style.

Oozing with Steam Punk and arcane supernatural mojo woven into an alternate Civil War history.

Probably too "different" for "normal" viewers.
I've never seen it, sooooo, more said wouldn't hurt.

I’ll second Constant Payne.
Linking should be ok since it’s been linked to before and the creator is the one who put it on his web site.


I think I was overly optimistic about that one when it premiered.
Frankly, the vulgarity didn’t translate into funny very well.
It could have used some polishing, which I hate to say because you’re bound to loose it’s raw edge along with the grossness.
It was animated really well, especially for an Adult Swim show.
 
If NBC had picked the X-Men, maybe just maybe, NBC could had hold its Saturday cartoon line-up a couple of additionnal years. The Smurfs beginned to ran out of steam.

And I also agree with Douguineta and firefoxprime about the Modyfiers and Constant Panye, Real missed opportunities...
 
Dang, you beat me. I was gonna mention Welcome to Eltingville. I would have loved to have seen this become a series, but unfortunately this, like Korgoth, was very expensive and time-consuming to make, so a series would've led to massive production delays and put [adult swim] over budget. Pity, though. It was an entertaining pilot, written for and by geeks. It could've worked on [as] or maybe even SyFy.
 
Ultraman USA. Hanna-Barbera worked with Tsubyara productions on it, but all that came of it was a 3 episode miniseries. Instead...they ended up later working on Captain Planet. Not fair at all.
 
Wasn't there a Buffy The Vampire Slayer animated pilot? I saw it sold at the Chicago Comic-Con in 2010. I'm a huge Buffy fan. I think that it could have made a great animated series.
 
I'm a sucker for Andrew Dickman's work. So I'll have to say "Ivan the Unbearable" which was part of Random Cartoons.

Also "Carmen gets Expelled", from the people who made El Tigre.
 
The Malcom and Melvin pilot from What-a-Cartoon would have made a rather interesting show. We would have probably gotten Cn's very first PG rated show before we gotten TDI. Some of the What-a-cartoon pilots would have made good shows.

I think the Tom Kenny Plasticman and Modyfiers deserve a mention as well. I question on poor choices from studios sometimes.
 
Speaking of "Random! Cartoons" and extremely popular DeviantArt cartoonists, Kyle Carrozza's "MooBeard the Cow Pirate" definitely deserved its own series. Shame that never took off...
 
I can't believe I forgot that. That would've been so cool. Moobeard's extended crew looked so awesome. It's a shame that couldn't get made into a series.
Maybe he should develop it more for Kaboing TV.
 
I loved the pilot so much. And I remember it got a really positive reaction online. I think it must have been too expensive to make for the SciFi channel.
 
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