SpongeBob had no faith for Nick and they gave it a measely 6 half hours at first. Even Bill gayerbakke, Patrick's voice actor thought it would be shit and referred to it as "inane pulp for preschoolers" when he was first hired.
ITT: cartoons everybody thought would fail but were huge
I hear mixed stuff about how SpongeBob was first received, I’ve heard that executives were laughing really hard after seeing the story boards or pitch bible or something, but I’ve nerved heard of that comment from bill before
The Lion King was the B-project to... Pocahontas.
Same thing happened with Shrek and the Prince of Egypt.
>Lion King: june 1994
>Pocahontas: june 1995
>Prince of Egypt: december 1998
>Shrek: may 2001
Not the same
>original historical story about a princess vs furry hamlet
I can see why Lion King was considered a b-plot. Imagine if you were making aladdin and then treasure island but everyone was ducks or something. Of course you'd consider the animal story the bplot.
Something about it seems reallybafflingnowthatyou think about it
>no faith for Nick
>for
>"inane pulp for preschoolers"
Certainly is now!
Still has great animation though.
SpongeBob is still a great show though
I remember the first time I saw Spongebob. I'm a Boomer who was never even into that style of animation, but and HOLY FRICKING SHIT if you didn't instantly get it you've no business being involved in those kinds of decisions.
>if you didn't instantly get it
Get what?
That it's a hilarious kickass show with broad appeal, but more than that an obvious money printer that is obvious.
Its funny how Rugrats was the golden child back then, and then seeing everyone react to its decline.
>almost every single post here is completely right
this ->
They aren't even wrong, I was 8 years old at the time and even then I thought shows like Rocket Power, All Grown Up, and As Told By Ginger were shit. I also knew Rugrats was no good anymore by the time it was ending, and preferred the older episodes.
I never knew a single kid who liked All Grown Up or Ginger, they always changed the channel.
I was like 3 when those posts were sent. 20 years have passed, those guys who probably were in their 17-25 are now almost in their 40ths or already there, they still care about cartoons at 2023?
No idea but personally after getting a very good job I rediscover a lot of fun cartoons and other stuff for youth and start to like it even more.
Personally as a 2002 zoomer, around the age of 8 or 9 I remember all the 12+ year old kids in the neighborhood being obsessed with invader zim and the late 2000's early 2010's hot topic emo aesthetic as a whole
>order only 6 episodes of Spongebob
>ordered fricking 100 episodes of Catdog
Holy frick lol what an unfortunate bet.
Catdog ended up reaching 67 eps. So what happened to the remaining? Did they still need to pay for it? How does this work?
It was a pure anti attitude show at the peak of late 90s frick authority culture. No cool mascot and no quippy butthole either. Just a sincere and somewhat stupid main character who legit enjoys his fast food job and nature. It’s a shame most cartoon companies took the wrong message that all MCs should be annoying morons
executives have always been morons, we have a bunch of adult animated sitcoms because Simpsons and Family Guy were successful.
There was a problem with comics, cartoons, and superhero films for decades after this shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent
Oldgays grew up actually believing that 'comics am bad' and a low-brow form of literature only read by stupid people and kids, (who would grow up to be stupid people), unlike 'muh books' that were only words with no pictures. You Zooms have no idea the moronic level of reverence given to text-only books, especially after all the israelite whining about 'muh Nazis' burning books. They're not wrong about the censorship/burning of shit in principle, but they'd take it to a moronic extreme - like I said, the only word for it is 'reverence' like every 'muh book' was the Holy Bible or something and it was a crime to desecrate or disrespect them in any way.
So when it came to getting a comic book superhero movie adaption produced through the Hollywood system, you'd run into so many old homosexuals who believed this shit, you'd either never get it done, or it would be turned into non-serious kiddie dogshit by studio interference. The MCU could never have happened until literally every single one of those brainwashed motherfrickers dropped fricking dead, and I'm not even close to kidding.
Now to have a new form of puritanical moronation ruin a good thing that was long overdue for it's day in the sun is just annoying as frick.
> could never have happened until literally every single one of those brainwashed motherfrickers dropped fricking dead
This is unfortunately true and I fear we're entering a new puritanical wave with zoomers/gen alpha
>Patrick's voice actor thought it would be shit and referred to it as "inane pulp for preschoolers" when he was first hired.
Little did he know he would be able to pay for his kid's college with this yellow frick.
There is no actual source for that comment.
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