Famous Studios' cartoons are not for all tastes, but my opinion is that their early stuff and some of the early 50s output are good. Onwards, the quality did diminish quite significantly though the overall cartoons varied, some decent, many mediocre. The editing style alone became pervasive.The late-40s to the early/mid-50s Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons had a higher budget and overall the overall quality was much better. It changed the tempo of comedy and influenced so many young comedians. And with “Awesome Show,” we knew when we were watching it that this was like no sketch comedy we’d ever seen. LAZZO After “Tom Goes to the Mayor,” Tim and Eric could pretty much come in and tell us what they wanted to do.
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Heidecker and Wareheim previously had created the similarly eccentric animated series “Tom Goes to the Mayor” (2004-2006) for Adult Swim. The shows got weirder and more experimental as they branched out from animation to live-action shows like the influential “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” (2007-10). The Adult Swim audience grew, and the block expanded. He said something to the effect of, “Wow, you really pulled that out of the fire!” I was like, “What do you mean?” And he said, “I saw that thing and I can’t believe I have to promote it as one of our new shows, but you guys really turned that around.” It was good to know we were thought of so highly. I distinctly remember bumping into the guy running ad sales in the bathroom. WILLIS We were beating all the networks in the most prized demographic: men with money to spend. The creative team I was running came up with four names: “Aviso,” which means “warning” in Spanish “Parental Block” - on cable boxes at the time, you could set the parental block to stop kids from watching stuff “Insert Quarter,” like a video game and Adult Swim. It was a very small group of us doing all of that in addition to our regular jobs at Cartoon Network. OUWELEEN We were given one year to name this thing, brand it and make the content - it was like a gauntlet thrown down.
As a kids’ network, how were we going to actively market to adults? Was it a violation of our contract with cable operators? I put my career on the line to say it was a good idea. But we were dealing with resistance from our ad sales team. All the money that was being spent on fairly high-end packaging for the network, he wanted to divert to original programming. JIM SAMPLES (general manager and executive vice president of Cartoon Network when Adult Swim launched) Mike came into my office with a deck he’d put together, describing how he was going to produce all the on-air packaging for Adult Swim on practically zero budget, basically on someone’s computer. Lazzo, who oversaw programming for the network, saw the potential of creating a late-night block of shows geared specifically toward adults.
LAZZO Our ad department could not sell late-night or overnight time periods on Cartoon Network - no one wanted to advertise to kids after 10 p.m.ĬOHEN The question was, how could we appeal to a young adult audience without destroying our relationship with parents? They reimagined the titular superhero as a cheesy talk show host who interviewed real celebrities in a new show, “Space Ghost Coast to Coast,” which became the network’s first original series when it premiered on April 15, 1994.
Then a group of executives and cartoonists, led by Lazzo, proposed the idea of recycling the animation from Hanna-Barbera’s 1960s “Space Ghost” cartoon. In the early 1990s, Cartoon Network found itself in an unusual situation: It controlled a sprawling animation library but didn’t have the budget to make animated shows of its own.
These are edited excerpts from the conversations. 2, 2001, premiere, its creators, leaders, writers, animators and others spoke about the lean early days, the anything-goes atmosphere and the enduring legacy of their ambitious experiment.
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“There’s no other place on TV that made sense for us, and maybe that’s still the case.”Īhead of the 20th anniversary of Adult Swim’s Sept. “We wouldn’t have fit in anywhere else,” said Tim Heidecker, who with Eric Wareheim created “Awesome Show” and has worked on several other Adult Swim series since.
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