action. the tape you re watching is just a taste of the cartoon network, an appetizer, a mere morsel of what you can expect from the first and only 24 hour cartoon network. cartoon network was owned by turner broadcasting who now owned the hannabarbera library. they owned the rights to all these characters. basically, you have a group 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 f
for grown ups. it would feature early mike judge cartoons. okay, but i m going to set the building on fire. lupo, the butcher, a gory cartoon. spike & mike had taboo things from cartoons, gore and sex. before the internet, they were critical, they were connecting people with an audience that they just otherwise wouldn t have had. all of us who are working in that business, we would try to slip something in that s funny or pitch a show that was funny. so when new opportunities came along to work on something that we thought could blossom into actually a funny animated show we were always eager to jump at that. there we are. it may be an channel, but the simpsons are on tv.
what is it? it s part of the dumbing down of television. so what they do is they celebrate underachievement. yeah, and he keeps saying he needs tp for his bung hole. what the hell is a bung hole? those same forces that had harassed john with the new adventures of mighty mouse were now harassing mtv and mike judge saying it s a bad influence on kids, not realizing it wasn t an influence on the generation, but a reflection of the generation. it was great for exactly what it was, two imbeciles that had nothing to do all day. you can write a lot about that. hey, butthead can i set this down, my hands are getting tired. no way, be avis. they re all succeeding. it s all happening at the same time that cable is taking off. and now the studios were wising up. well, if we get one great nut to run a show, and they really know what they re doing, it could
work out. we got out of school. no more school today. we got out of school. oh, you guys, my eyes. if you haven t yet heard about south park, you re about to. critics have praised the show as brilliantly funny, but many see only a lewd, offensive cartoon unsuitable for children. it was the next step in the evolution of animation. the simpsons opened the door, and south park kicked the door down. children, i m glad you re here. i call them chefs chocolate these are good. i love your salted chocolate they pushed the culture, challenged the culture. i think adults connected to it because of that reason. they appreciated the satire and how it attacked certain institutions. oh, yeah, because it was a cartoon. you put your defenses down. it s very disrespectful, and animation is a great way to really turn the disrespect into a whole world. don t bother with new ghost busters, not funny, chicks ruined it. can we get ice cream now?
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. it s sure fire. many people say did you copy the honeymooners.