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@MrGametv1994 I think they also tried to do that to Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends, where Cartoon Network was gonna do a preschool series, I was like how is this gonna work, Foster’s Home is a comedy show and they’re comedy characters, they can’t work to educate preschoolers

there's no way this one was going to work. You can't put crazy characters into a preschool show and turn them down.

@nuevo_1301 @clampettaliban And also a lot of the SpongeBob guys worked on Ren and Stimpy and also Rocko’s Modern Life

@clampettaliban Los close-ups se nota que salieron inspirados de Ren y Stimpy, porque en Rocko nunca llegaron a usar tomas de ese calibre

Hillenburg era fan de Ren y Stimpy y se nota en cosas como las pinturas hiperrealistas

@DownInkwell And Tex also loved the book, Chuck Jones gave it to him as a gift, and when he read, he thought it was funniest book he had ever read, and probably became Tex’s favorite book

Tex Avery saw the film adaptation of "Of Mice and Men" and was so enthralled by Lon Chaney Jr.'s portrayal of Lenny that he kept lampooning it.

@HoopsCrave I didn’t even know they were dating

Sabrina Carpenter has ended her relationship with Bad Bunny.

@HoopsCrave That’s preposterous

Patrick will reportedly make his last and final appearance in the next episode of ‘SpongeBob SquarePants.’

@spi3lzeug This is actually a fun fact that I never knew, that CG animation at least in the beginning, also used exposure sheets like in hand drawn animation. I wonder if they continued it or if they eventually stopped it, I imagine definitely now they no longer use exposure sheets

Thanks for reminding me that 3D animators used to have to use X sheets... 😟😟😟😟😟😟😟

@aakashgupta And Muppet Babies also in a way helped inspire Tiny Toons

The origin of this show is wild. In 1983, Jim Henson's art department sketched toddler versions of the Muppets for fun. When Henson saw Baby Piggy, he immediately turned it into a merchandise line. Infant clothing, nursery decor, and diapers hit shelves before a single frame of animation existed. Then he convinced Frank Oz to add a baby Muppets dream sequence into The Muppets Take Manhattan, which released July 1984. Muppet Babies the cartoon premiered two months later. Not two years. Two months. The timeline tells you everything about how fast Henson moved when he smelled a commercial opportunity. CBS hadn't even finished negotiating the deal when Henson was already in pre-production with Marvel. The show became the #1 Saturday morning cartoon on CBS. Four consecutive Daytime Emmys. More than four million viewers per week by 1986. It ran seven seasons. Then every studio in Hollywood copied the playbook. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. Flintstone Kids. Tom and Jerry Kids. Yo Yogi. Take an established IP that adults already have affection for, age the characters down, and you capture the next generation of consumers while reactivating the parents. Two audiences for the cost of one animation budget. Warner Bros. took it even further with Baby Looney Tunes. They ran the Henson playbook in reverse. The "Looney Tunes Lovables" merch line launched in the late 90s, years before the show existed. Plush toys, baby clothes, nursery items. When the products sold, Warner greenlit the series. The show was the commercial for a product line that was already profitable. They even cut costs by recording the entire voice cast in Vancouver instead of LA. June Foray, who had voiced Granny since the 1950s, was the only original actor they kept. She recorded her lines remotely from Los Angeles while the rest of the cast worked from a Canadian studio for a fraction of the price. Henson's original insight was that baby versions of beloved characters bypass the single hardest problem in children's entertainment: trust. Parents already loved these characters. They didn't need convincing. The purchase decision was already made before the child ever saw the show. That one sketch of Baby Piggy in 1983 created a template that generated billions in licensing revenue across dozens of franchises over four decades. And Baby Looney Tunes sitting at Granny's table is the purest expression of it: a show that existed because the lunch boxes were already selling.

@Gilition I love that series!!

KaiserBeamz's wonderful mini series, "The Merrie History of Looney Tunes" does a great job explaining why Chuck Jones is considered one of animation's greatest legends. youtube.com/watch?v=KKV13q…

I'll never understand where the idea that "Chuck Jones is overrated" came from. Like, if you actually watch his stuff, you'll find that most of his cartoons are some of the funniest films ever produced.

@NovaDestry @centristpeater And she also cried when illegals were being deported

@centristpeater shes promoting the people that are causing the problem, let them have the consequences. assuming they dont just move to another city and ruin that one too

🚨 Selena Gomez says LA is now “dirtier than Mexico” as she joins growing ranks of celebrities unhappy with city leadership.

@desert_starr_57 I do too Geeky!

I love Brendan Fraser. That is all.

@SeanHorace @BoardwalkTimes Yes! Like greenlight the new Muppet show already

@BoardwalkTimes Hope one of the existing IPs include The Muppets. I’d like to see more of them.

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro will invest in existing IP and new IP.

@PKalt01 TMobile bought it and absorbed it

wtf happened to sprint

@Kneon I was a fan of it! In my opinion, one of the best shows of the 2010s

Underrated show. I know it wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I really like it overall. I also like Seinfeld, sooo….

@desert_starr_57 It’s like you wouldn’t even be wearing a shoe, you would basically be barefoot 😂😂😭

If people are stupid enough to pay for this they deserve to get robbed blind. 10-1 they will cost like $1 K-2k or something stupid. Would you wear these in a city? Still doesn't beat the Balenciaga plastic bag for almost $2 k. Rich people who buy this stuff are absolute morons.

@DiscussingFilm No!! Stop, I’m gonna stop you right there Andrew

@minorinbuendia @inspectorholmez I wonder which movie did Friz not let John work on? Was it The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales or Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island?

@inspectorholmez John estaba ardido con Freeleng porque no lo dejo participar en la pelicula de los Looney Tunes que dirigio en parte por sus diseños tipo Clampett

John Krifaclusi era bastante critico con el estilo de Freeleng incluso recomendando no estudiarlo por considerarlo " poco natural" o el estilo de "un viejo amargado" y no solian poner cortos de el en Spumco Incluso le dedico estas cariñosas notas alla en 1987

@LosCacos95 @Gilition Yeah especially Art Babbitt, Walt never forgave him. He I think forgave some of the people who were involved in the strike like Bill Tytla

@Gilition Chuck Jones and Disney had this sort of mutual, if reluctant, respect. But it was one of Walt's flaws, he was unforgiving to people he thought screwed him over.

Back in the Golden Age, Walt Disney and his animator's would sometimes rent 16mm prints of Warner cartoons. While Walt respected Chuck Jones, he still carried his grudge against Friz Freleng and would shout "I.P FRELENG" if he saw Friz's name listed as director.

@mockinglyi34034 @Gilition Yeah the “whipping boy” act

@Gilition And then Freleng pulled the same stunt Walt did to him through Manny Perez, and to a lesser extent Virgil Ross and Ken Champin

@Gilition There’s also some stories that Bob Clampett said that Walt liked him and his cartoons too. And Bob said too that Walt’s nephews were huge fans of Beany and Cecil and Time For Beany. Bob also said that Walt invited him to his home and showed him the plans for Disneyland

@the_tidalzone Definitely gives Ren and Stimpy vibes

Robertryan Cory’s work on SpongeBob are some of the most impressive work for the show I’ve ever seen. So much unnecessary, grotesque and anatomically correct detail put into such simple character designs, it’s really oddly charming.