in 1950, because of the film tv studios starting to slash their budgets. every major film studio had an animation division. suddenly by the late 50s almost none of them do. you ve got people like henna and joe barbara winning oscars for tom & jerry cartoons, they re out of work, what are they going to do? they pitched the idea of a primetime adult-oriented sitcom. the flintstones, looking for something different on tv? well, here it is. the flintstones, that s a kids cartoon, that s not family guy. but it was in 1960. look at the first two seasons of the flintstones, they re all adult situations. the show itself is a parody of sitcoms at the time. don t you get it? this place is a gold mine, if we could buy it, we could get rich and be our own bosses. this one is different.
endless. the technology is improving. we re getting quicker turnarounds. yeah. it can be incredible. you ready, keith? i m ready, kenny. i think the future of animation is bright. i m going to tell my dad you swore at me. he s a cop. then he can solve your murder you nosey no. there is more inventive talent and giving us a show and we look forward to that. what about this? i brought you flowers. i think i would do the homer simpson. sunset, thank god there is only one of these a day. we ve been looking to do a project together for a long
and i think it s because it s out of shape. doesn t a manatee look like a guest on the rickie lake show. what you ve got to do is get yourself an education and a job. i don t know what you re doing to talk about. you re fat, you got to go to weight watchers. i have a layer of blubber to he would interview comedians in squigle vision. i thought the manatee was such a weird animal, and so i came up with some jokes and i had this voice that went with it. it lent itself to this dr. cats bit. there was some bits that were visual, in fact, i thought the animation was competing with jokes. it took me a while to realize that we were a team. people asked, how do you get into voice acting? he says do 15 years of standup
of people that are working in programming on air making commercials, clearly very inspired by all of that warner brothers library. we re like, wouldn t it be fun if we made something like ourselves. wow, space ghost man, crack a window, will you? i would be violently sucked into space. how many people would tune in? space ghost is the turning point. it s a surreal, late night tv show that is unapologetically adult, using kids cartoons. now, a lot of the people that worked on that show today are the movers and shakers of adult swim. all kids out of the pool for adult swim. they branded a block of time on the network that would just be for programs aimed at adults. they satirized truly terrible cartoons and made it sea lab 2021, dubbed over the old animation, and had them saying ridiculous weird and
the lines on the simpsons are so sharp and i m so impressed the volume of good jokes and the quality of the jokes. it was a legendary writer s room, long before i got there. this subverted the family sitcom. in fact, it was the most realistic portrayal of the family, which is crazy because it was a cartoon. the simpsons is the hottest new series on television. if you haven t seen the animated series, it s about a family just like yours. we had kids back talking to their parents. maybe it was because in animated format you didn t expect to see that. here s bart simpson the most popular character on television right no and we talked to the school principal who is banning bart simpson t-shirts. there s always somebody lying in bed awake at night seething because kids find something really fun. it s a controversy of the week. all she needed was for that big slob to she her some respect. at least that s what i thought. i have a history of missing a point at stuff like this.