Unfinished/missing episodes?

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In another thread, someone mentioned that the voice track for "Bye Bye Beavers", the "missing" final ep of The Angry Beavers exists but the ep was never finished. Also, there're a couple Animaniacs episodes that somehow disappeared, although I don't exactly get how they became missing in the first place. Are there any other similar "missing" episodes like this? Episodes that were either only partly finished, or announced but didn't even get started (as compared to actually physically existing but never being aired)?
 
I know Invader Zim had several recorded episodes that never got animated. Hey Arnold! also had a second movie, and the script is done, but Nickelodeon refuses to give it back to Craig Bartlett for some reason
 
In Moral Orel's case, the final season was supposed to be 20 episodes long, but near the end, it got cut to 13 episodes. There are still 7 finished scripts floating around somewhere (one is online).
 
Wow. That show really got the short end of the stick didn't it? Eps that didn't air until 2006, un-animated episodes... Was someone at Nick afraid of it or something? I know I was. (Emphasis on was, I'm seriously going back to give this one a second chance. Wish me luck.)
 
The thing is... Jhonen Vasquez is kind of an insane genius, mad-scientist type person. He wrote a comic series about a homicidal maniac. And the transition from violent-comic-writer to the creator of a children's cartoon is a big step. And yes, I think he actually frightened Nick execs with some of the things Zim got away with (harvesting kids' organs for example).
 
Ack, don't remind me. Speaking of big steps, one of the things that frightens me most about Zim is in 12th grade english class (for those keeping score, yes I did say I'm 21; I graduated at 15), this super creepy, gaunt goth girl did a report on Jhonen and when she mentioned Zim my reaction was something along the lines of "eww, eww! I watched the intro of something the creepy goth girl likes!". I don't know why this worries me so much, given that I have the smallest "dark" side of anyone I know, but eh.
 
A lot of Jhonen's work appeals to goths, even though his comic Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is basically poking fun at them. One of the main reasons goths like Zim is because Hot Topic sells the show's merchandise. It's a really uncomfortable store for me to be in. as I am not goth. I frankly can't stand those people, or emos either.
 
There were several Mission Hill episodes that were written but never completed. Two were recorded and had animatics made, but otherwise they didn't go beyond the script phase.

Supposidly there were few episodes of Family Guy written before its cancellation that never went beyond. When the show returned some of those scripts were animated but others didn't.
 
Is the Animaniacs episode you're referring to "Broadcast Nuisance"? That episode was completed, but before it was aired in the US the censors forced the writers to cut out some things and drastically change some dialogue to make the main characters "less vicious". It was aired in its intended form in countries besides the US, however. It's a real shame that this episode got a hack-job, because the original was very funny.

The other censored Animaniacs episode I know of is one of those "Randy Beaman" clips, where the kid was holding his crotch as if he had to use the bathroom. This didn't fly with the censors, and the audio made for that clip was looped over another clip of the same character.
 
Neither can I. I would vaporize if you placed me in a Hot Topic.

Getting back on topic, no, that's not the ep I'm talking about. It was mentioned here: http://platypuscomix.net/onlyme/toonfax.html "A fifth second-season episode, reportedly to be comprised of "Amusement Park" where the Warners terrorize the owner of one and "Katie Ka-Boom: Bad Hair Day," was listed somewhere but didn't air because the cartoons it spoke of were never actually made!" How did this slip through the cracks?
 
Hot Topic is not Goth.

As for mssing episodes, I recall Seth Macfarlane talking about an old idea for a FG episode where Stewie was supposed to come out of the closet. But the show got cancelled in 2002, so they weren't able to do it. And by the time the show got revived, the writers decided to scrap that idea and make Stewie's orientation ambiguous.
 
Micah Wright had actually made a pilot for Nickelodeon called Constant Payne, which was to be Nick's first action cartoon. But then 9/11 happened, and it never got picked up because it was an action show and the main character's mother had been killed by terrorists.
 
I think Swat kats was cancelled before they could make the final 3 episodes of the second season, they were scripted but never animated. The series ended with a clip show.
 
Pokemon had an unfinished episode during AG. It was to involve Barboach against Whiscash, but it was at first delayed due to an earthquake in Japan at that time, and then it was canned. The preview can be found though.
 
There's also the infamous unfinished episode of TMNT 2K3, "Nightmares Recycled".

It was going to be a side-story during the Ninja Tribunal arc that was going to not only bring in Hun to the arc (which he still managed to, just a bit more abruptly), but also wrap up Garbageman's character arc by explaining his origin. Basically, his origin was that he and Hun were conjoined twins at birth, but when they were separated, the surgeon doused the baby Garbageman in acid, and literally tossed him into the trash.

4Kids apparently did approve of this, since the episode's audio was recorded and they started initial animation, but some management changes caused it to be canned due to how dark the story was (Insane in the Membrane was apparently also approved by the same person, but that managed to get through because it was made the previous season). On another forum, a 4Kids rep has recently dropped hints that this episode may still be released in some form, but no one knows if that means the audio, a fully animated episode, or just the script (I'm personally hoping it's the second, but I'd settle for the audio).
 
The original Gundam had various plot threads in the original ending which got removed when the episode count was lowered. These include Char teaming up with the White Base and Amuro actually fighting an MS-piloting Ghiren, who falls back on blowing up his asteroid fortress when he realises he can't win. This in contrast to what eventually had to happen, with Char continuing his personal feud and Ghiren's death coming from his vengeful sister after he kills their father who wants to arrange an official ceasefire to end the war.
 
There were several episodes of Ed Edd n Eddy that were scrapped including one where Sarah kicked Ed out of his room to make a play room for Jimmy and one where Eddy starts his own religion.

There was also going to be an episode of Kids Next Door, where it was a spoof of The Lorax about trees that grow pizza. They never made it due to copywrite infringements.
 
Ren & Stimpy had quite a bit that didn't make it past the storyboard stage. I recall one that focused entirely on George Liquor being an outdoorsman.

I also think the second season of Darkwing Duck was cancelled prematurely, grinding some planned episodes to a halt.

Also, this happened in a lot of Golden age cartoons too. The recent Donald DVD focuses on a cartoon featuring him as a telephone line repairman. I'm very sure thare were many more post-strink Disney animation that just never made it past certain stages of development. Storyboard critiquing usually seems to be the stage in which it is ultimately decided to be made into a cartoon or not back then.
 
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