Chopper, Hops, and Bittercup pitch download

(I tried shift + return- didn't work) In the famous words of the late screenwriter William Goldman, "nobody knows anything" in Hollywood. The same people who'll tell you "this'll never work" will be the ones who explain - after the fact - why of course it was a smash hit. One last thought: maybe it's "these kids today" grumpiness on my part, but it seems like a lot of recent cartoon character design tends towards "deliberately ugly" to the point where I don't enjoy looking at them - maybe your characers are too attractive?

JoeStrike

(hate when I do that, gotta remember to shift+return) and the transgressive humor. I think the "Magical Land of Cute and Fuzzy etc" is titular overkill - the idea could probably be put across in fewer words. I realize this is a "meet the cast" episode, but if these characters are malcontents in a cute & fuzzy universe it might be interesting to let us see 1 of the truly c&f characters they're up against. (C&F on the surface, but devious characters underneath?)

JoeStrike

I could definitely see this on one of the streaming services. - obviously not a kid-targeted cartoon (even though kids would definitely watch it.) I'm wondering if Frederator's problem is they see a conflict between the "cuteness" of the character designs

JoeStrike

I thought the story itself was fine, kid friendly etc. I do think the intro, describing where they live and the characters themselves was too satyrical, and gives more information than needed. (Also, the title was kinda wordy.) It was written as if it was one of Norm's story pitches, which are always somewhat dark, which is OK for MC, but likely to put off someone looking to produce a kids show.

Jon Benson

I'd watch that. Just make sure the pace of the animation is quick; nothing kills a cartoon like draaaagggginnng out the action so the audience "has time to get the gag" - much funnier to catch on half a second into the next bit.

Yer pal Mikey

I want the emo Unicorn!

You have the normies rumbling about Chopper, you have wet supremacists, a stoner, and a lesbicorn. It really looks like you're setting things up for a lot of social commentary. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. But do you want to spell it out in your pitch, which sort of makes it the focus of your strip, or ease into it, like the way you introduced a flight supremacist and Norm's gay brother into MC?

Bob Alexander

Nice! Preachy how? Thanks! -Ed

My Cage

Better than some of the stuff airing now. I'd give it a go.

Patricia Jaderborg

Seems a little preachy.

Bob Alexander

Wow, edgy. I’d watch every episode of this. But I suspect “buy my dragonweed from” would push it close to TV-MA territory (with a ‘D’ under it). Silly, but that seems to be how it works right now. I vaguely remember your sharing Frederator’s judgement before. They didn’t think there was enough of a premise to carry a full season of episodes, if I remember right. I think they’re nuts. The character interactions are obvious and TV needs things like this. And I seem to recall that “Cheers” was almost canceled in its first season for being deemed uninteresting by executives. Just saying.

VGR