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Adult Swim Off Cuts

Started by Bored of Canada, May 01, 2016, 05:43:53 AM

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Small Man Big Horse

AS have put four new pilots online here: http://www.adultswim.com/misc/pilots/

Descriptions nicked from Splitsider:

Hot Streets – FBI Agent Mark Branski and his partner David French investigate supernatural phenomena, secretly aided by his niece and her cowardly dog, Chubbie Webbers. There will be alien invasions, government conspiracies, monster infestations, and more. This quarter-hour animated pilot is created by Brian Wysol, with Seth Green, Matt Senreich, John Harvatine IV, and Eric Towner (Robot Chicken), Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) and Wysol serving as executive producers. Produced by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.

Bad Guys – Taste. Design. Marketing. Looking fresh to death. These are things that are lost on modern-day terrorists, but one man is going to change the game forever. Bad Guys is a quarter-hour animated series about a bombastic, megalomaniac terrorist and his upstart terrorist organization; and their quest for global domination. World Governments and Fashionistas your days are numbered. Created by Paul Scheer (Fresh Off the Boat, The League) and Nick Giovannetti, produced by Bento Box.

Apollo Gauntlet – Trapped in another world, a cop from Earth can finally fight crime the way he wants after acquiring talking magical gauntlets. Based in the Rug Burn webseries, it's an animated quarter-hour pilot created by Myles Langlois and produced by Six Point Harness.

The Hindenburg Explodes! – The quarter-hour live-action pilot is created by Rob Corddry (Childrens Hospital, Ballers), Josh Perilo (Wedlock) and Jonathan Stern (Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp). On May 6, 1937, the infamous Hindenburg zeppelin made its final voyage from Nazi Germany to New Jersey, where it exploded over a landing field. The Hindenburg Explodes! follows that flight and its unusual crew and passengers. The pilot is executive produced by Corddry, Stern and Becca Kinskey (Adult Swim Late Night Infomercials) and produced by Abominable Pictures.

The Hindenburg Expllodes - I thought it was a funny and think it'd be great to have another Childrens Hospital humor-style show, since that ended, but where are they thinking of going from here?

Bad Guys - Alright enough, but felt a bit Frisky Dingo-ish in terms of superhero/supervillian having to deal with corporate politics, I feel a little burnt out on superhero parody cartoons to be honest. Also there's Venture Bros. which dabbles in the same sort of stuff really well.

Apollo Gauntlet & Hot Streets - Both kinda meh in my opinion, I don't know, Apollo feels like the same sort of area King Star King/Korgorth covered and I don't know both didn't do much for me.

Overall, I wouldn't mind if all of these became shows, especially since Adult Swim needs a bit more new animatio


https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/adult-swim-women?utm_term=.cbAxDzB66#.sij5vNAjj

yeh wuts going on adult swim? is it run by a bunch of MRA fuccbois or something???

Nah but seriously, what do you all think of this article?

Twed

#33
It's a company that was formed by men in the 90s. Of course it isn't your demographic. It's Adult Swim, not STEM education, you don't have to write hit pieces on it to change it. It'll die out as culture changes, and more balanced companies will form with more women as standards become more progressive.

You could have celebrated female-created animation like Steven Universe that are blowing anything Adult Swim has produced in the past ten years out of the water, instead of writing this. You create society's way out of patriarchy, not destroy its way out. I think this more about BuzzFeed trolling than genuinely wishing there were more female writers on Squidbillies.

Still tho, it seems a bit off that Adult Swim has never really had a female-fronted show. Is it that female comedians don't do Adult Swim's type of surreal, kinda nihilistic comedy or it's just hard to find them? I mean, that's kinda dumb right. Especially with Mike Lazzo's opinion on female comedy writers (that they bring conflict not comedy) it's all bit off.

Twed

As I said, it's a relic of a less progressive time. It'll eventually become irrelevant or change.

Blumf

On this day in history:
The Boston Mooninite panic occurred 10 years ago today.



Never forget

zomgmouse


http://www.adultswim.com/videos/streams/development-meeting/thursday-september-28th-2017

57 minutes in, there's a preview clip of Derrick Beckles' new show Mostly 4 Millennials and it looks hilarious - Hot Package wasn't my favourite thing. but there was a lot to like about it.

Blumf

Quote from: Master Cylinder on October 17, 2017, 11:54:44 PM
there's a preview clip of Derrick Beckles' new show Mostly 4 Millennials and it looks hilarious - Hot Package wasn't my favourite thing. but there was a lot to like about it.

Have you seen Beckles' earlier Totally 4 Teens, which this Mostly thing must be a follow up to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Z375WQ9xU

Small Man Big Horse

It's a shame if Hot Package doesn't return as I was a big fan of it, but this looks pretty damn great too so I can't wait to see it.

Adult Swim has recently released four new pilots, one of which is The Shivering Truth by Vernon Chatman/PFFR. Really good stuff and I heard it's gone to series so I'm looking forward to what a full series would bring.

I haven't really had a look at the other pilot.

Blumf

Quote from: Master Cylinder on May 23, 2018, 11:52:38 AM
Adult Swim has recently released four new pilots, one of which is The Shivering Truth by Vernon Chatman/PFFR.

Ooo, yeah, great stuff. Somewhat reminiscent of the monologue/tales you'd get on The Armando Iannucci Show (and Blue Jam), so if anyone likes them, definitely dig this new PFFR thing out.

QuoteReally good stuff and I heard it's gone to series so I'm looking forward to what a full series would bring.

Even better!

zomgmouse

http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/final-deployment-4-queen-battle-walkthrough

This just in: new Adult Swim video by the "Too Many Cooks" guy. The less said the better. This is amazing.

Ferris

I used to love Harvey Birdman. So silly. Would like to watch again if possible.

Semi-relatedly, I watched Daria again out of nowhere a few months ago and it's brilliant.

Shaky

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on June 27, 2018, 03:55:09 AM
I used to love Harvey Birdman. So silly. Would like to watch again if possible.

Indeed. Colbert's Phil Ken Sebben is an amazing character.

zomgmouse

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on June 27, 2018, 03:55:09 AM
I used to love Harvey Birdman. So silly. Would like to watch again if possible.

Semi-relatedly, I watched Daria again out of nowhere a few months ago and it's brilliant.

Both of these shows are returning I believe.

NoSleep

+1 for The Shivering Truth. Really good stuff.

Small Man Big Horse

Quote from: zomgmouse on June 27, 2018, 03:31:16 AM
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/final-deployment-4-queen-battle-walkthrough

This just in: new Adult Swim video by the "Too Many Cooks" guy. The less said the better. This is amazing.

Wow, that's just superb, absolutely loved it to pieces.

Quote from: zomgmouse on June 27, 2018, 04:31:10 AM
Both of these shows are returning I believe.

Yeah, so far Harvey Birdman's supposed to be a one off, but Daria's coming back for a full series.

Ferris

Quote from: zomgmouse on June 27, 2018, 04:31:10 AM
Both of these shows are returning I believe.

I am filled with dread. I wish they wouldn't.

Blumf


Ferris


zomgmouse

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on June 27, 2018, 12:38:17 PM
I am filled with dread. I wish they wouldn't.

Yeah I'm way past fed up with all the fucking nostalgia porn. Give us original content and stop milking people's fond memories. I think I heard The Nanny's coming back as well. Fuck's sake.

Small Man Big Horse

I largely agree but I'm quite excited that Harvey Birdman's coming back, especially as it's just a one off.

Ferris

Quote from: Small Man Big Horse on June 28, 2018, 12:26:45 PM
I largely agree but I'm quite excited that Harvey Birdman's coming back, especially as it's just a one off.

Yeah but... why? It was (and is) brilliant. It's also nearly 20 years old. What is there more to add?

Same for Daria - Gen-X teenage world-weariness, before cell phones and the internet. Funny, tightly-written and really well observed. Updating it is only going to detract from the original (which I very much enjoy). I bet they'll shoehorn politics in, and it'll be a weak critique of twitter or gamer-gate or something. Ugh.

Pseudopath

Quote from: Blumf on June 27, 2018, 01:05:29 PM
http://www.adultswim.com/videos/infomercials/cool-dad-official-trailer/

"It's called photosynthesis, Karen!"

Absolutely adored this. Although I was half-expecting Officer Dad to be an actual 90-minute movie knowing how much those infomercials fuck with the medium.

Bhazor


Small Man Big Horse

Derrick Beckles' Mostly 4 Millennials started last week, with two episodes airing every Sunday. I've watched two so far and do enjoy it, but it's very noticeable that Eric Andre is one of the main writers as it's a mix of studio based madness and hidden camera pranks. I preferred Hot Package and it's a shame there's no more of that to come, but this is worth checking out nonetheless.

ajsmith2

I'd be interested in new Daria if they've all aged in real time. And I guess if it was just more episodes set retrospectively in the late 90s it might be ok, if pointless. But the same characters at school age transposed to the current era would be awful.

Never saw it. but some people said the 2011 revival of Beavis and Butthead was good but I could never imagine how, as those characters (esp the way they consume media) were so of their time. Surely that was overwhelmingly jarring? It'd be even weirder if they did it today, as even between 2011 and 2018 young un's viewing habits of visual stuff has changed ever more exponentially.

Ferris

I mentioned it up-thread, but I watched Daria for no real reason a month or so ago.

It was fantastic: funny, dry, well-observed, but basically rooted in the '90s. I don't know how it would work in the 2010s