Thread 150037536

Unironically what went wrong?
Only reboot to do worse than the Animaniacs one that I can think of was the Tiny Toons one

>>150037536 (OP)
You know exactly what went wrong, you fucker. Maybe you should try not lying.

>>150037536 (OP)
Katie Rice went wrong

>>150037536 (OP)
anime-niacs was the one good thing to come out of that
I wish there was an anime with designs like that

>>150037536 (OP)
Glorified fanfic writers with no understanding of the original show's humor happened.

Animaniacs was never good. The old show was a bunch of boomers pretending that sitcom characters doing funny voices is a follow up to actual Looney Tunes.

>>150037536 (OP)
>Only recurring segments were The Warner Brothers and Pinky & The Brain, they got rid of everyone else
>In the original show Pinky & The Brain only had 19 segments, Slappy had way more segments than them
You kinda fuck up the show real bad by removing the "variety show" aspect from it

>>150037536 (OP)
It insisted upon itself

>>150037536 (OP)
What went wrong is they tried to reboot something with the same worthless shits that make everything else that sucks.
They aren't firing this generation of bad writers. Just digging up old IPs for them to ruin.

>>150037787
This

its a product of its time

>>150037536 (OP)
Only one Slappy segment in the very last episode where the whole point is for her to say “Fuck off, I’m retired, get a life”. For writers who were so happy to suck their own dicks with how they had the more “feminist” version, them not using a well-liked female character until the very last minute was tone deaf. I’m starting to think they weren’t really feminists and just pretended to be to tear down the real work that came before them.

>>150037536 (OP)
No Tom Ruegger running it. That's literally it.
This is why revivals always need the original creator and team doing it.

>>150037536 (OP)
Very half assed copy by people who were not even fans of the original.

>>150037787
At the very least Goodfeathers and Slappy should have returned.

I don't think anyone missed Hip Hippos, while Buttons and Mindy got real old real fast.

>>150037536 (OP)
like with 99% of reboots. There was no actual passion, or spark of inspiration behind it.

>>150038405
“Then get a team who are fans of the original!” is what I would say if I didn’t know writers and animators in current year don’t get to choose what shows they’re assigned to 90% of the time.

>>150037536 (OP)
>Wild and Swarr developed the revival to be respectful of the original series as closely as possible. Wild stated "There's lightning in a bottle here and the first thing I'm going to do is keep that lightning in the bottle, vigilantly."

>>150038685
What did he mean by that? I understand he was talking out his ass like producers tend to do for the press, but this sounds like a freudian slip.

>>150037536 (OP)
i'm not sure what relevance the comparison to the original series has. that was a time when animation operated under a completely different business model.

>>150038685
It gets funnier with each passing year

>>150038941
I'd say it has plenty of relevance given that the reboot introduced 3 plotlines which were left unresolved due to it's cancellation so they clearly had plans for more episodes

>>150037536 (OP)
>>150038685
In a interview with The A.V. Club, Animaniacs 2020 showrunner Gabe Swarr and executive producer Wellesley Wild tried answering that question by commenting on their approach for bringing back the wacky Warner trio, the difficulties of planning two years ahead since production began in 2018 and some of the cultural differences that surfaced in that 20 year gap since the show ended.
>One of the victims of this cultural paradigm shift was nurse Heloise Nerz (yes, she has a name), Yakko and Wakko’s crush and the blonde target for the brothers signature “Hellooo nurse!” catchphrase. As Swarr puts it, “immediately hello nurse was goodbye nurse”, noting that running gags like these simply wouldn’t work in 2020.
https://gamerant.com/animaniacs-hello-nurse-removed/amp/

>>150039023
that's more of a question of whether plot was a good idea though. obviously it isn't necessary, as the earlier show didn't have one, and multiseason arcs are always a risk, but that doesn't have much to do with performance.

>>150037536 (OP)
>Tiny Toon Adventures (1990):
>98 episodes
>1 Movie
>2 TV Specials
Meanwhile:
>Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023)
>23 episodes (most of them didn't even air in The United States for some reason)

>>150039072
>.png
Is it ironic that a Soviet parody is telling you, the viewer, about wrongthink and that we must do away with the old order?

The snes game was fucking cash

>>150039193
The fact that the managed to fuck it up so bad is kinda impressive

>>150037787
There was one other segment in the reboot and it was actually pretty good. It was like "what if Mindy and Buttons didn't grate on your nerves after 37 seconds on screen?" meets "Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain."
The nuwriters missed the point of the original, which was political and satirical, yes, /but was also funny and entertaining/ and didn't have sappy bullshit. I couldn't give a halfpenny shit about the Latina bitch and her family drama and they spent several segments on that shit. It wasn't entertaining at all.
The best of the Animaniacs segments was the homage to Duck Amuck and Rabbit Rampage.
Nothing nuPinky and the nuBrain was good that I can recall.

>>150039384
Turning Buster and Babs into siblings is ths only time I WISH an executive stepped in and said “No. Your idea is stupid. Stick to what our bullshit research shows and change them back”

>>150039553
>"Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain."
That shit never made sense to me, then I heard it was some executives terrible idea because his kid loved Elmyra or something.

>>150037536 (OP)
There are two kinds of anons...

>>150038685
Little did he knew that inside that bottle of his there wasn't any light, but only a fart instead

>>150041288
Today I will remind them.

>>150039072
>noting that running gags like these simply wouldn’t work in 2020.

>>150037536 (OP)
The truth is, animaniacs was always political, it always poked fun at celebrities, and there was no attempt from the writers to be unbiased, they just wrote what they personally thought was funny.

But this wasn't the WHOLE show. The political and celebrity jokes were occasional, many of them were subtle, things meant to make the parents laugh. The main bulk of the show was just a regular kids show.
The reboot is so painfully aware that it's targetted towards adults, it doesn't even remotely appeal to kids, and this has the effect of making it not really feel like a real cartoon, it makes it feel like something from Adult Swim