Baby Blues vs the Network
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2022
- We’re going back to the beginning. Time to talk about the first review subject once again. This time, it’s in its defense.
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The late 90s/early 2000s were simultaneously the best of times for adult animation and the worst of times for adult animation. They were the best because basically every single adult cartoon (that wasn't on Fox) eventually gained a cult following...but they were the worst because every single adult cartoon (that wasn't on Fox, and even they weren't immune) was massively screwed over or cancelled less than their only season in, and often both at the same time. Only Adult Swim was a safe haven
I knew nothing about the comic and watched the show on a whim on Adult Swim. I ended up liking it - it had some clever stories. The Bittermans were similar to my own white trash family so there were some relatable laughs there. Overall I'd recommend a watch and give it a B+. What a bizarre back story tho. Thanks for sharing.
I used to love this show. I even read the comics in the newspaper as a kid too. I had no idea that the production was such a disaster.
I'd enjoy a new Baby Blues show. One that actually matches the tone of the comics.
The theme song is awesome and the show's not *terrible.*
Also, this thing is raunchy? It's kind of a shame that even Adult Swim tossed it to the wolves when it was the one to save Futurama.
The WB has almost as bad of a track record of mistreated shows as UPN. No wonder they met the same fate.
I honestly would love to see a "rise and fall" video of each The WB and UPN. The way they eventually rebranded to The CW And My Network TV respectfully.
If they wanted to change so much why didn't they just make a whole new show? It's like when Peter Griffin made the king and I.
You deserve more subscribers. You make great content.
What's ironic is that nowadays nobody talks about baby blues comics.
WB exects: let's take your property and butcher it. We see now issue with this.
This is what happens when executives think that using charts or following whats popular would make them become successful. But they always end up going very badly, it happened with Yo Yogi, Quack Pack, and Powerpuff Girls 2016. Where they thought that trying to be extremely cool would make them become liked, but it ended up making people roll their eyes. and they reek of executives using charts to determine what people like
and this also happens when the executives try to cash in on another show. Thinking that they'll be a success because the other network did something similar: like Shnookums and Meat, Teamo Supremo, Coconut Fred, Billy Dilley, Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty, and so much more. When they would end up backfiring tremendously
No the problem with PPG 2016 was they tried to force corny life lessons into every episode instead of focusing on being funny. Also the characters being out of character and stripping away the action.
Please don't bring up Billy Dilly it was horrible.
I actually liked Quack Pack
I remember being pretty excited when I first found out that there was a Baby Blues cartoon, but when I actually started to watch the episodes, well, this video did an excellent job of basically summing up my feelings than. I was pretty disappointed at how different the episodes of this cartoon that I was watching were from the Baby Blues comic strips themselves, and I remember my main issues being with just how cynical the show’s writing and direction seemed to be in. So many of the plots revolved around Darryl and Wanda being the sort of punching bags of the show, and that REALLY turned me off of watching any more episodes after a while. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt because I had enjoyed reading the strips so much, but it shortly became very clear that I hadn’t just unluckily picked the ‘dud’ episodes to watch first and that ALL of them were pretty terrible. And this video was a nice explanation for how exactly that these extreme differences both in tone and in story between the Baby Blues comic strips and their cartoon came to happen.
I'd love for you to cover OK KO for Vs The Network. There's so many scrapped episodes thanks to CN shortening season 3 after the cancelation, and all the silly things that happened involving Standards and Practices.
I forgot to tell anyone how many I love Baby Blues.
It's people like you that deserve to be noticed. You deserve more subs too. 😀👍
I liked both the show and the comic strip. I figured it was something like Dilbert, where you expand on what already exists and give it something to build to. The bittermans felt like the experienced parents, the ones you'd go to for advice. Yet you'd be annoyed at how they live since most people want others to live like they do. The other characters were good, expanding on what was there, and not really taking away from the existing idea. Yes I saw the series first, and then looked up the comic, but I still remain that it worked. It just wasn't given a good chance or was too early for it's audience.
I remember vaguely seeing this years ago on Adult Swim and it always lurked in the back of my mind. I recently rediscovered it by complete accident and I watched every episode. I actually thought it was good. It was like a more wholesome and less absurd Family Guy. That made me go and read some of the original comic strip and I can see why the strip fans didn't like it. But overall I think it was decent and I think they should try to make it a show again but this time making it truer to the source material. I think it would do well.
I think I remember seeing this on TV before and I didn't think it was that bad.
I also remember seeing afew clips of this show and I still didn't think it was that bad at all.
the tv show was produced from 1995-1999-2000-2001 I believe, it was produced by SPLIT THE DIFFRENCE PRODUCTIONS a company founded by Jeff Martin & Peter Ocko who developed the show changed everything from the comic strip and they are the only ones who have the 2nd season of the show, their current locations are undisclosed
WB or CW, it realy doesn't matter. After all this time, people still never learn. Some idiot actually thought a live action, more adult take on the Powerpuff Girls would be a good idea. Supposedly it's still in the works, despite it clearly missing tge entire point if the original. The classic show balanced action and comedy, and the main draw was the badass battles juxtapose against the 3 heroes being so small and adorable! It just goes to show how showbiz is the least intelligent business in the world sometimes.
At least there is another reboot with the creator of the 1998 series. I don't know why the live action one is still coming but at least there's a glimmer of hope for the PPG now.
@@WubbaizyShipper1 Eh, at this point I'd MUCH rather have Akazukin ChaCha make a comeback than the PPG. Even with the creator of the 1998 series it won't really get me to care. Plus ChaCha has MUCH more potential for a revival/reboot/sequel series. And I would LOVE that ChaCha reboot to air on Cartoon Network because I think we've had enough PPG right now & ever.
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Sorry, but I've never heard of ChaCha. But I have faith in the PPG revival considering the OG creator also recently created Kid Cosmic, which is one of my 2 favorite Netflix shows.
@@WubbaizyShipper1 Yeah Akazukin ChaCha is more obscure, but honestly I think that a revival of that anime would probably be more interesting & have more potential compared to Powerpuff Girls. Plus it'd likely won't cost as much for a revival to happen if one were to find Min Ayahana(ChaCha's creator) somehow. Sure, Cartoon Network owns the rights to Powerpuff Girls, but they'd likely have to pay more money to get Craig McCracken onto the PPG revival project than the amount of money to get the license & A-OK from Min Ayahana to make an Akazukin ChaCha revival.
Well, that is UNLESS if she doesn't own the rights to her creation either & it's actually with either Ribon, the magazine that ran the original 1991 Akazukin ChaCha manga, Studio Gallop, who did the classic anime adaptation, TV Tokyo, the broadcaster of the anime adaptation in Japan, or if you REALLY wanna go into conspiracy theory territory, ABS-CBN, who was the broadcaster of the anime in the Philippines, or if all 5 entities are fighting for the rights like crazy. If one of those 4 possibilities is the case, then we're kinda screwed.
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I honestly didn't know CN had anime. As for PPG, let's wait and see. But one thing I am comfortable predicting is that the Craig reboot is going to be WAY better and more well received than the CW reboot (which I don't know why they are still doing when Craig is also doing a reboot)
I loved this show on it's original run and it's repeats on Adult Swim. Bare Naked Ladies in the intro also was a bop
Subscribed! So glad I found these videos!
I remember watching the show as it aired back in the day. I didn't learn about the comics until years later but I always liked the show when it was on. Shame it didn't work out.
I never knew this was a comic strip; my first exposure to the property was the show. And y'know what? I liked it. I haven't watched it in forever, but I remember liking it.
Love that show didn't know of the comic strip and I'm glad that the show is the ahit
I liked this show. It just reminded me of Yes Dear which I loved
You can't really fake an edgy show. It is or it isn't. I would love to have seen the show done like the strip.
nah this show was fire.
The Steve Bob Show is the bestest show evar
You cannot expect EVERY TV Show to be perfect.
We don’t
@@mediamementosofficial Pretty much
I can’t tell which is better. The fact that you missed the point of the channel, or the fact that you just assumed that the two of them feel this way.
I sincerely doubt that that’s what either Trevor or Billy believe. I’ve never heard them say that once.
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 I don’t think they expect every show to be perfect. They just don’t like bad shows. Most people don’t.
if vs the network gets a round 3 here are some shows
The owl house
Tugs
That one doramon show on Disney XD
Thomas and friends
and gumball
Wait, how did Gumball get screwed over?
Well the finale did not the show
As someone who hasn't read the comic strip, I think it's alright. It reminds me of Close Enough.
I didn't care if show was for adults I watched it when I was 10
I was one of those people who was clickbaited into watching this show when it came out. I was not happy. Only years later have I decided to give it a chance, and it’s ok. Not great but ok. Like you said way back in review number one, it has it’s good moments, but I don’t think I liked it as much as you did…which isn’t saying much.
Duckman: *throws a brick at WB’s window* That’s for sucking!
I really can’t believe I’m asking this right now, but did the executives at Warner Bros. actually read the comic strips before coming up with the idea of wanting to make a TV show based off of them? I mean, I’ve never read the comics, let alone hear of the show until I decided to check out this channel back when it started, but still. If they actually wanted to make a TV show based off of them, read them first, don’t just do it because it’s a very popular name.
As someone who saw the show before reading the comic strip, I thought it was ok and that it got screwed by the network. But after reading the comic, I now see that the network actually screwed the creator and fans over for making so many changes to the source material.
I always had your same opinion on this show. Good show but horrible adaptation. Such a shame that everyone was a loser in production. What is this? UPN?
Wait, so this show was good and was a bad adaptation at the same time?
Odd combo.
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 Not really. It was a decent show, but a horrible adaptation. I basically agree with Trevor’s opinion.
@@albertrobinson4576 Now I'm confused
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 On its own, It’s an alright show. But in terms of being an adaptation it falls totally flat. Kind of like with Trevor said in the video.
@@albertrobinson4576 Okay, now its starting to be very clear to me
I watch this show before
I remember really liking the show, but I had no idea until years later it was "Based" on a newspaper comic.
It's kind of like a the Shining situation. It's enjoyable on it's own, but a terrible adaptation.
Idk I think baby blues was a good show. I really like the Carl and Rodney hijinks. I like the dynamic between Carl and Daryl or Wanda and Carl's wife who's name as escaped me 😅. It wasn't the best show but I like the voices and the characters. Maybe it's just me 🤷♂️
I still liked the show regardless. Introduced me to the comic strip to begin with. Also, I did hear that one of the creators liked the new characters and wanted to add them to the strip, but they were owned by Warner Brothers.
Wow, I had no idea that this show would get this kind of treatment. It’s one thing to adapt something that doesn’t entirely seem close to what the source material is, but it’s another when it gets screwed over. As much as I hate to use this comparison again, it’s like what happened to the Star Wars sequels. George Lucas had his own idea for them given that Star Wars was his creation, and Disney threw that all away by making their own version of it while not coming up with a plan. Corporate greed at its finest.
If George wanted to make it he should have made it himself.
@@icecreamhero2375 Well, he was planning to retire which is why he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, so there’s no way he would’ve been able to do another trilogy even if he really wanted to. I can’t really blame him though.
@@CJBStudios Yes you can. When you sell a property to someone they do what ever they want with it.
@@icecreamhero2375 Yeah, that’s true. I’d still love to meet George someday.
I like this show.
how retrospective
Sammy Vs. The Network
You should see what they did when The Legendaries and Lanfeust Quest got a cartoons. They didn't follow the source material and they became failures. The Legendaries cartoon has been called one of the worst French adaptation of comics.
0:29 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory is the best version other than the book.
To you maybe.
That’s what we call an opinion.
Roald Dahl wants to know your location
@@liladefarge9125 The Tim Burton version is alright but I like the original a bit more.
@@icecreamhero2375 You may think so, but not everyone agrees, especially not in the last year.
I liked it. Not the best but it was ok.... And I'm being nice
I feel like my name second vowel keeps changing everything Trevor says it
It kind of does actually haha.
I find the comic a lot more memorable and funny compared to the show.
Honestly, I don't hate this show at all.
So basically they could have just made another family guy clone but used a successful comic ip in an attempt to get more attention
That's funny n
WB was a crap network that nobody watched, anyway! Except for Kids WB on Saturday mornings, cartoons were the "bread and butter" of Warner Brothers studios going all the way back to the 1930s. You put a show like "Baby Blues" in prime time, against four other networks, and what do you expect? If the same show were on FOX or ABC, I think they may have done a better job with it. WB made bad creative decisions with their shows, and that's why they were always in last place