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It was a bad idea to begin with.
The creators originally didn't want it to be Jimmy Neutron-related but Nickelodeon forced them to make it a JN spinoff or not make it at all. They needed to eat, so they made it despite it being a dumb idea.
He's still out there in space you know.
Excecutive meddling
>The show was originally called Red Acres, and was going to be about a fast good worker stranded in space, but Nick forced them to change the main character to Sheen as they wanted a familiar face.
>Similarly, Carl was going to be in the show alongside Sheen, but Nick executives didn't allow it, which is why there is a an alien that looks and acts exactly like Carl in the show.
>The show was originally going to be more serious. The Emperor was evil, Aseefa was the leader of a resistance group, and Sheen was a double agent working for both sides. This was changed because it was too close to Avatar (the James Cameron film, not that other Nicktoon). Had they not scrapped it, it most likely would've been as successful as the original series.
>There was going to be a TV movie about Jimmy and the gang going to rescue Sheen, but due to low ratings, production costs and several writers moving on, it was cancelled.
And this was the original theme song
Before moronic Nick executives rejected it and went with this atrocity
John A. Davis, creator of Jimmy Neutron disowns this show and stated that Sheen is a character that only works in smal dosis. This show also killed the career of Steve Oedekerk and bankrupted O Entertainment.
Working for Nick sounds like an awful idea even when compared to WB, Nettflix and Disney.
The second of the original/unused intros will always be my favourite
>NO don't use an original character you have to use Sheen
>NO now that we forced you to use Sheen you can't use his partner character, you have to make up an original one
Nick executives are fricking insane. How the frick did ATLA get made?
luck. Also ATLA's creators used to work on Invader Zim.
anime was hot back then, ATLA was released around the same time as naruto
It was created due to nick thinking japanese anime were too violent for them to show so instead of importing a random anime they decided to greenlight anime inspired cartoons like avatar for example
was going to be a TV movie about Jimmy and the gang going to rescue Sheen, but due to low ratings, production costs and several writers moving on, it was cancelled.
He's still out there, bros. This is the final fate of our boy.
I mean he's getting space orc pussy so in the end he won
these Nick execs sound mentally ill
This was the late 2000’s when these morons began their decline in part by rejecting Adventure Time and greenlighting stupid shit like Fanboy and Chum Chum and Mighty B. Although those days for them seem almost preferable compared to now.
THEY DECLINED ADVENTURE TIME??
Nicktoons Network didn’t just decline Adventure Time, they declined it, declined it again, declined it again after that, declined it yet again, and then finally declined it once more. In other words they rejected it 5 times.
Let's be fair here, even if AT got picked up NIck would probably have found some excuse to shitcan it 2 seasons in anyway.
So it would have been remembered fondly as a boy and his dog adventuring through the plains, forests and mountains of a weird, weird world? Occasionally saving a princess along the way?
I can dig that.
There's so much out there proving that Nick executives are out-of-touch nutjobs. Even by usual executive standards.
Nick suits are some of the most moronic people. They red lit tons of things because they weren't projected to be SpongeBob popular. If Nick suits had some sense about them, we would have had 8 new great series' because they would have invested their SpongeBob and ATLA money into new ventures.
you wanna know why?
this and the fact it has ugly ass CGI every kid knew not to watch
>This show also killed the career of Steve Oedekerk and bankrupted O Entertainment.
Holy frick, I knew he was one of Jimmy's several daddies and was involved in producing the show, but I didn't know that they were involved in Planet Sheen or that it helped effectively kill his production company.
I can't believe fukken Planet Sheen killed the Kung Pow Trilogy
how tha hell Nicke seems to have this event horizon of dumb executives??
like its the most cursed place to work ever, everything tht could be fun is just destroyed
there are comic relief characters that are popular in a main show that should never, ever be put into a spinoff.
like imagine a gir spinoff.
>someone actually took the time to make this
What a waste
>Almost a decade later
>History repeats itself
Can't wait for the Cosmo one
They should have just made a kid friendly Eric Andre show.
>single bucktooth
dogshit.
We could have got any of these Aseefa designs instead of the boring shit we got in the show.
To be fair, I can see how the execs would look at that and thing they're an Avatar ripoff. Still, should've gone with the original pitch instead of "planet sheen" to begin with.
>tfw when no awful cgi abatap gf
That looks way way way way way too much like 2D avatar (the James Cameron one)
Everybody saying this looks like something from Avatar, and my first thought was that she looks like Krystal from Star Fox. She's even got a fox tail in some of these and a little fox nose in that bottom right one.
Everything.
Jimmy Neutron had shitty character designs to begin with. What made them think people wanted to see MORE of that crap?
>What made them think people wanted to see MORE of that crap?
Because it was funny, homosexual. This shit isn’t.
>shitty character designs
In comparison to what? ReBoot? Butt Ugly Martians?
Sheen can't carry a show on his own. Most side characters in any show can't pull that off period.
the only one who could MAYBE hold his own show is Hugh and even then there would have to be good side characters.
>Planet Bolbi
Imagine
Even with the idea of this show being more serious, I couldn't see sheen being that serious. They'd have to have him *grow up* and mature into basically a different character by the end of it. Also Red Acre's design looks like someone trying to ripoff jimmy neutron tbh. But it definitely looks like the same company.
I don't know if you're just saying this cause of the memes or what. A Hugh neutron show would be like a weird PG version of Randy Marsh and Goofy I feel, like he could be the dim-witted normie shlub getting in over his head, but it's already like established cannon what his life is like and his son is the most exiting thing going on in his life.
MY SIDES
This one pitch is so good it almost makes me want to write a scifi novel with the Jimmy-Neutron serial numbers files off.
the show should have just been the ultraman show
The sad part about this is that there were only two likable characters in the show: Mr. Nesmith and Dorkus okay three if we're counting Aseefa (being voiced by Punky Brewster sorta helped)
Really wish they just made JN season 4.
Using the designated dumb comic relief as the main character. Sheen works perfectly in Jimmy Neutron because they know when and where to use him. If he is the main character, he has to be on screen for most episodes and he becomes too much for the audience. This is the same issue as the Patrick Star show.
It sounds like the Nick execs were too moronic to allow anything that would work, but I feel like you could make the basic pitch of the show work - isekai protagonist Sheen stranded on another planet - as long as you took it dead fricking seriously. Make it a survival adventure serial that feels like it has real stakes, Hatchet in space but with Sheen. You're going with the more goofball-ish protagonist, so you need to balance that out by making the show as a whole feel more emotionally real; make the audience cry for this poor helpless kid who's stuck an unimaginable distance away from anyone he's ever known, or even from anyone of his own species. Make them cheer as he grows, develops, and comes of age. Jimmy Neutron was a take on the boy genius, Thomas A. Swift type of character; mold Sheen into a take on a different pulp boy hero archetype, the John Carter Of Mars, the Tarzan, the lone blazing emblem of humanity in the wilderness of the cosmos. Samurai Jack but it's Sheen. You could have made it work, you just would have needed to put real work into considering what you were even trying to produce, and it sounds like the people responsible for making Planet Sheen weren't up for that.
If Sheen's personality was slightly shifted, then your idea would work. As it stands, they took Sheen directly out one good show and made him the star of another that was doomed to fail because of the apparent exec meddling to change an original idea into a recognizable IP. If Sheen developed as the show continued, it would have worked better but Nick probably would have still canned it because the 2010s was the era of cancellation. Any show that was not Spongebob or the exception of the Loud House was cancelled because it could not grab kids' attention as much as Spongebob could. I wondered if they ever considered that TV was becoming less relevant as more and more kids gained earlier access to the internet and had cheaper or free (sometimes even better) alternatives to cable.
Finale movie for a good version of Planet Sheen where, after a timeskip, a badass galactic hero adult version of Sheen finally finds his way back to Earth, only to discover that Jimmy simply shrugged, decided Sheen was probably dead, and cloned up a replacement for him, none of his family any the wiser. The adult Sheen struggles to accept this (and, uh, with good reason, huge dick move, Jimmy) but ultimately realizes that the Earth isn't his true home anymore anyway.
>Sheen finally finds his way back to Earth, only to discover that Jimmy simply shrugged, decided Sheen was probably dead, and cloned up a replacement for him
This would be horrible. It's character assassination of Jimmy at the very least. I would much prefer at least to find out that Jimmy's been trying to figure out where Sheen went for all this time, even if he failed.
>It's character assassination of Jimmy at the very least.
The trouble is that the show's premise is already almost inherently character assassination of Jimmy. It's not especially credible that if Jimmy had faith in his ability to find Sheen and tried his best to do so, it would have taken long for an entire series to take place. On the other hand, it's completely credible that Jimmy would give up and settle for some solution that doesn't actually recover Sheen. I think it's for the best to lean into this to mine a dramatic conclusion for the show. Making it not Jimmy's fault at all would feel like a copout, and hey, it's not like Jimmy being kind of lazy and doomerpilled and just leaving Sheen for dead and cloning him is like he actually murdered Sheen, right? He just (quite reasonably, albeit wrongly) didn't have faith in Sheen's ability to survive everything he went through and decided to go for loss mitigation. Still in the wrong of course, but understandably so, and it is in-character for him.
Sheen goes back to earth but finds that there's a Sheen already on earth. Jimmy explains that since he coulnd't find Sheen the only option was tiene travel, he went back in time and saved Sheen from going to space, but due, insert timey woobbly stuff here like "the ship went into a blackhole charged with Chrono gunk, so Space Past Sheen didn't get erased after changing the timeline" and you get both regular Sheen and Space Sheen without murdering Jimmy's character (space Sheen can get a goodbye gift from Jimmy and became ultra lord space hero for real)
>Hatchet in space but with Sheen
Nick would never okay this
Sheen was never main character material, he's too obnoxious in large doses even on Jimmy Neutron.
what did you expect to go right?
How come Patrick Star Show is still alive? It should also be burned.
didn't everyone cut off cable?
It was doomed from the start because you weren’t allowed to have Jimmy in the show when 99% of the audience is wondering “why the frick isn’t Jimmy looking for Sheen?!”
Charlie Sheen is uninteresting
Turns out Sheen cannot carry an entire show.
It sucked but I kinda felt comfy watching it despite the bad cgi.