Why did Histeria! fail to catch on while Tiny Toons and Animaniacs became huge hits?
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Why did Histeria! fail to catch on while Tiny Toons and Animaniacs became huge hits?
Why did Histeria! fail to catch on while Tiny Toons and Animaniacs became huge hits?
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That's just Ruegger's excuse. The real reasons are
It's a literal educational show but is such a shitpost that it teaches false shit lmao
Just look at it and compare it to the other shows
People were already sick by those Spielberg/Rueger cartoons by then. Toonsylvania failed for the same reason.
Toonsylvania was initially helped by Bill Kopp and you can tell. Stunning animation but pretty pitiful scripts. Ruegger takes over in S2 and the show becomes Animaniacs in Spooky Tropes drag, which is to say an infinitely better if perhaps too self aware show, but alas...
Meant to type "helmed". Also Histeria is too educational to be funny and too BS with its information to be educational.
Pretty much. Some of the gags were mildly clever, but hardly original (Karl Marx=Marx Brothers). Throw in a frickton of characters all competing for screentime without much balance, and it just became a chore to sit through.
There were definitely fans who wanted it to become a huge hit, probably because they wanted to document it from the beginning after failing to do the same with Animaniacs. Wikipedia used to be swamped with references to the show in the "In Popular culture" sections, often times larger than the main article.
>Wikipedia used to be swamped with references to the show in the "In Popular culture" sections, often times larger than the main article.
Because one moronic guy from DeviantArt is fricking obsessed with it and also shipping every conceivable character from it.
WB cartoons were tonned down unlike when they were on Fox.
>Toonsylvania
This is the first time I've seen anyone else acknowledge that show. My grandma's house had a toy from it and I always wondered what it was.
I wouldn't remember it either if it wasn't for the fact that it aired during Fox Kids Heads for the Hills.
Yeah, much to Tom's dismay once kids found anime, full of cool designs and high energy adventures with people having amazing abilities and technology, kids didn't want to hear references to some ancient Hollywood frickers passed as jokes anymore.
Had the perfect opportunities for horny, but never properly seized them
I didn't understand half the shit that was going on, the characters having obnoxious, fast and exaggerated voices didn't help with understanding either
It had a human cast.
I never found Spielberg cartoons funny, frick you animaniacs fricking sucks it's not funny and no adult jokes doesn't save a crappy show, grow up and watch stand up instead losers
Human characters being wacky just isn't as appealing as non human characters. Especially when you have a whole cast doing that bit.
Why did the History channel turn to schlock? Actual history is boring as hell to the mass market.
I want to FRICK Aka Pella.
There I said it.
I was created specifically for WB's morning E/I block.
the non stop screeching.
Animaniacs, The Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, regardless of your feelings on them, they all come across like flashes of inspiration from the artists within. They believed in this shit.
Histeria! reeks of corporate demands. A Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain with OCs. "Hey could you do a show that did its best to educate while keeping the brand of humor that's made the other shows popular?". It wasn't a playground, it was a job.
Only know about this show form watching some of the songs on YouTube. That fricking Shakespeare one has been stuck in my mind for years, to the point where I’ve started reading certain plays just cause I remember specific verses. First Timon of Athens, and now Troilus and Cressida. So I guess it serves its educational purpose well.
A few reasons:
1. While Tiny Toons and Animaniacs were near pure comedies adjacent to the Looney Tunes, Histeria! was trying to be both an educational show and a Looney Tunes-adjacent comedy, a mix which didn't always succeed.
2. Many of the Histeria! characters were incredibly one-note and/or didn't have any discernable personality traits. There were no breakout hits like Babs Bunny or Pinky and the Brain for viewers to latch on to.
3. Many of the segments suffered from being very formulaic, lacking enough variety in their execution.
4. Despite being intended to be a high budget show then going millions overbudget to the point that its episode count was cut by a fifth, the animation generally is quite the downgrade from Animaniacs and post-S1 Tiny Toons.
4. Even if it had caught on, the WB higher ups were very unhappy with Ruegger and his crew going massively overbudget. It would've had to be unprecedently successful to justify its continued existence the the continued production of animated comedies by the likes of Ruegger and his entourage.
Oddly I confuse it with Detention but the qt goth e-girl from it was the only good thing. And maybe the X'Files fan
Not enough cumbait.
kind of true; alot of people remember Tiny toons due to fifi.
Ruegger's a one-trick pony who got lucky his trick worked at least 4 times. But there's only so many times you can ride an entire show off of loud and annoying meta-humor before audiences get tired.
I would note that a lot of his best writers on Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid were either complete no shows on Histeria! (Stoner, Dini, Deane Oliver) or, in the case of Paul Rugg, relegated himself to a VA after only writing one or two segments.
I'm not sure if the writers that took their place were less talented overall (I mean one of the writers was FRICKING Alex Borstein) but their work under the educational cartoon constraints, settings, and characters given to them was weaker than what the writers of Tom Ruegger's previous cartoons were able to achieve.
Multiple reasons:
>>Kids WB killed Animaniacs in order to get the budget to make it
>>The show was dogshit and unfunny
, Hysteria's creative team and the producers who made the show were complete c**ts online when it came to people criticize it.
I know one of the executives who greenlit the show was a regular on the Warren Ellis Forum and he routinely threw temper tantrums attacking people on the forum if they criticized the show or brought up how Animaniacs died to make Hysteria.
Wish Animaniacs had staid at Fox
That sure is one smart pair of pants!