Shows You're Surprised Were Made

There actually was an earlier show. Somewhere in the early 90's, there was a syndicated series that integrated cartoons shorts with live action skits.

Another show I'm shocked got made:

Tales From the Cryptkeeper.

Who was smoking illegal substances when they decided to make a children's show based on a scary, gory anthology series?
 
The whole Adult Swim comedy line-up. Sometimes this surprise is daring and exciting (i.e. Space Ghost, Aqua Teen). Other times, it's just flat-out stupid (even after everything else they made, how did Assy McGee get greenlit?).
 
Ozzy and Drix......You know, from the Warner Bros. hybrid movie Osmosis Jones?

The movie wasn't successful at all. Yet they made a show out of it? Lasted two years on Kids' WB!, then having a good run on Cartoon Network. They could've made a new Looney Tunes series after Looney Tunes: BIA, and yet I baffled on why WB didn't. That would've been better. Sigh.
 
Yeah. Thank god they never made that toon based on Paris Hilton. :eek: :ack: Frankly I hate it when toon versions of some one-note flavor-of-the-week are produced. Cheapens the entire art of animation, which is supposed to create characters that couldn't exist in our world. Or in the case of Paris, shouldn't. :D
 
I was surprised to see a Mr Bean cartoon got made.

And I recently came across one heluva mess of a 80's cartoon; Inhumaniods. Ok, someone throught it was a good idea to make a cartoon about murderous, hideos zombie-like mutants?
 
Yeah it was good.

Mostly because it was only Jackie Chan in name and clumsiness XD It was basically the 'Chinese Indiana Jones show' :p
 
I think I've just found my new signature. XD

And here's one from the Obscure Cartoon Department: "Gilligan's Planet"... No, I am not making up that title. The Professor had somehow built a rocket with that good ol' coconut technology :p . Thanks to you-know-who's bumbling, the castaways were now stranded in space! I'm sure that, just like the island, everybody except for them could get on and off that planet. :p

And then there's "The Dukes" people. The Duke Boys and Daisy are competing against Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco in an around-the-world race. Worse yet, It's COY and VANCE Duke! :ack:

And finally, I thank the Good Lord that the real Larry, Moe, and Curly did not live to see "The Robonic Stooges". The Three Stooges as crime-fighting super robots??!! Say what??!!
 
The Batman.

I thought that the DCAU Batman was the definitive version and there would be no more.

I'm not only surprised that it was made. Surprisingly, I like this version as well.
 
I suppose that Justice League would be a surprise considering that Timm didn't even want to do it. As mentioned, he merely suggested a JL program to Cartoon Network and since they instantly accepted, he just went through with it from there.
 
I had to google that for confirmation.

What could have been going through the minds of the writers and artists who had to work on that show.
 
They took away the Maitlands (you know, the ghosts in the attic), turned Betelguise the great manipulator and ultimate perverted evil of the Neitherworld (he was buried for a reason, you know) into Beetlejuice, an antiheroic jokesterm, and created a world outside of the Maitlands' home for Lydia (now a somewhat happier, but still goth girl) and Beetlejuice.

They basically stripped Betelguise, Lydia, and the Deetzes (they didn't acknowledge that Mrs. Deetz is Lydia's stepmother) from a barely PG-rated film (color me crazy, but how did that film, which dropped TWO f-bombs [one scene in which Betelguise grabbed his crotch], end up with a family-friendly PG or at least a teen-friendly PG-13 [and I know PG-13 was around when the film was released]?), added wacky neighbors and characters, and created a kid-friendly series. It's magic.
 
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