The DOWNFALL of Drawn Together: The Most OFFENSIVE Cartoon Ever Made
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Drawn Together is the single most offensive cartoon to EVER air on television. It is the definition of 2000s edgy shock humor and Drawn Together pushed the envelope all the way to its cancellation. Despite being one of the most popular shows on Comedy Central, the network decided to cancel Drawn Together due to how shocking it had become. In response, Drawn Together declared their animosity towards South Park for being the golden child of Comedy Central. What ended up happening was one of the most bitter conclusions for a show in television history. How did they manage this? What lines did Drawn Together cross? Let's find out!
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00:00 - 3:26 Intro
3:27 - 5:28 Sponsor
5:29 - 12:04 2000s TV, Conceptualization and Pitch
12:05 - 12:52 NEW MERCH DROP
12:53 - 15:50 Discussing the Show
15:51 - 18:29 The Characters
18:30 - 20:02 The Animation
20:01 - 21:15 The Voice Actors
21:16 - 37:19 The Stories/Themes/Humor
37:20 - 52:16 Cancellation and the South Park Controversy
52:17 - 59:40 Conclusion
59:41 - 1:00:50 Saber Outro
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The Latin American dub has a huge reputation because they always translated the jokes very well, many of the editors were elderly and made everything very funny because they said some messed up stuff
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Toot being dub by a nice old lady who had to have a crucifix with her while recording lines is the funniest thing about it
@@p-__bot
in my opinion. any dub is bad. I prefer the original language and subs .. Its a american / german thing to dub everything into the local language.
In germany they dub movies from hollywood..
In sweden where i live they dub most movies that is anime for example and they lower the "dub age" to 10-12 years old viewers .. even if it is 15-17+ in the original movie.
Its the same as if you drive 50 km/h on the freeway to avoid getting into accidents... they aim very low below the roof..
@@lokelaufeyson9931your opinion is noted and discarded
my favorite plotline in this show was when Captain Hero found a way to communicate with his past self, but instead of understanding that's what he was doing, he kept pranking his younger self and ruining his own future as a result. it's just such a thing his stupid character would do and I've never seen it done elsewhere
I mean, Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force was shown a successful version of himself and he ended up influencing him into getting fired from his job and scaring his wife away
@@nathanmarshall745they did it after
That was hilarious. I will not forget that episode he literally gives his young 12-year-old self the worst advice ever. Telling him to screw a sandwich in front of the girl you’re asking out to the dance. to set the barn house dance on fire to try and make you a hero button instead you’re told to screw the sandwich while you’re a girl love interest burns up she sees you in a bit of hatred calls you a freak. But yeah, sure messed up his childhood not to mention the funniest well part was the ending. I don’t wanna throw this in there, but those cops waited 20 years for him to arrive at the scene to grab the photo of his past junk. I kind of referred the law-enforcement officers that waited 20 years as the Taliban yeah as soon as the US leaves and yeah, as soon as the Afghan government takes full power to themselves the Taliban immediately come out and say yeah, we’re taking back Afghanistan and there’s nothing you can do to stop us. So there may have been a prediction there with the fall of Afghanistan.
@@sugma148 unless ATHF did it after season 4, I find that hard to believe... not saying it isnt true, just that ATHF came out 4 years before Drawn Together. That said, shows tent to stale up a bit after 4+ years, so not at all too hard to see it.
man i miss this damn show lmao
My favorite joke from Drawn Together was the episode where some of the character hit a bum while drunk and take him home to treat him, only for Captain Hero to realize the bum is in fact one of his super villains. Torn between finishing off a villain and treating a helpless person, he calls out "Lord, give me a sign!"
And at the moment, a flaming goat smashes through a window, wrecks the room and runs out. After a moment Captain Hero simply says, "Well what the ☆●@! did that mean?"
That does sound great. XD
I remember that joke now and it was delivered so flawlessly. I laughed out loud at a more than decade old memory. I may watch this show again.
do you know if there's any clips online? i'd love to see this lol
@@RetawMelon-ot8nl Found a clip. It's a bit tamer than I recall, but the core of the joke is still there.
ruclips.net/video/95u2rd10c5A/видео.htmlsi=4UBnAl1nA76eMCWm
I liked the stairs joke.
Capt. Hero in a wheelchair and sees stairs: NOOOO
*cue the picture getting a little zoomed out to reveal more stairs*
Capt. Hero: NOOOO
The fact that Wooldoor Sockbat has the same voice actor as Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank will never fail to blow my mind.
Also Johnny Test, and TEEDUS from FFX
@@ThelronFjordAW HAW HAW HAW
Obi-Wan Kenobi from Clone Wars as well, dude has range
I mean, tbf, Dee Bradley Baker does LITERALLY everything lol
@@13Kr4zYAzN13 He voices every single clone in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
I always assumed the shoehorned moral messages were the joke, not a misguided way to balance out the crude🤷♂️
They always have been
Spanky being both a common instigator and solving the problem with a half-assed moral IS very internet.
it is also a demand in the USA I think for animated shows.
@@warllockmasterasd9142Facts. For example, early on FOX forced Family Guy to include morals at the end of some of its cruder episodes, like Deep Throats.
it was a joke Saber is unironically a brainlet
The longer the show ran, and especially with the movie, the more clear it became that they were never “breaking down barriers”, they were just shitting on walls.
😂😂😂
Nah, that’s Dusty from “Paradise PD”!
Nah. The movie came years later too.
Ooh that's so elegant lmao ❤
Don’t talk about the movie.
In retrospect, it's amazing how well they deconstructed Superman before it was trendy.
This was before comic book movies were big. Yeah Raimi Spider-Man was popular but keep in mind the MCU wasn’t even a thing yet.
I ALWAYS quote Foxy “not for real-real, juss for play-play” lmaooo
Fun fact: Some of the voice actors in the Latin American dub did express how uncomfortable they were with the things they had to say. The woman who voiced Toot was an old lady who reportedly prayed anxiously after recording each episode asking God to forgive her for saying such dirty jokes, lol. She did a great job though.
This comment made watching this pointless video worth while.
OH MY GOD THE POOR OLD LADY
This warms this ole chunk of coal icy heart
@@philosophersmonkeys I know, they totally forced her to do it.
That's funny how they say at 20:13 how so many voice actors had fun recording it.
It surprises me that you didn't bring up "Xandir figures out he's gay" episode from the first season, because that was unexpectedly nuanced and even was nominated for a GLAAD award, if I remember correctly. Nevertheless, the show did lose me back then over the course of the second season, because, as you say, it just got too mean-spirited and all over the place in its execution.
Hey, the less said about GLAAD, the better.
@@Xbalanque84 Oh boy, has GLAAD done shady things too like PETA?
@@TheIrreverentUncleAl Not really from what Ive seen, not sure what issues they have with the organization. Its not even like they went full LGB alliance like some other situations, they literally dropped the meaning of the letters so they could include trans and bi people more effectively than just being about gay and lesbian people, so it seems like they are pretty respectable as a whole, but who knows, a quick wikipedia search isnt always the best for finding controversies
@@averylongley8584 I know what you mean, I (a bisexual) just have a bad relationship with LGBT-related charities and/or organisations.
@@TheIrreverentUncleAl It's largely a holdover from the initial Gay and Lesbian Alliance which ousted the trans women that kicked off the gay rights movement in the first place. I can't say exactly what the internal culture is like nowadays (I imagine it has probably improved substantially; hard to imagine it staying the same) but burned queers don't forget very quickly.
in mexico we still worship to this day "malcolm in the middle" and "drawn together" for their wonderful dubs, and pure gold comedy
I remember watching this show in high school I loved it but remember being uncomfortable at times. It was definitely a show I had to keep my finger hovering over the change button over incase my parents walked in.
Dude I was the same way! I would often watch it when my mom wasn't home, then when I heard the door unlock quickly turn it off. 😂
I never heard of it until a couple years ago I think but it sounds crazy
i woke up randomly to it playing cuz i was watching comedy central earlier. it was 3am and it was in the middle of the hot topic episode. idk why but i got so excited when i found it in college and that episode was number like 3 on netflix(back when netflix was good).
“How did such a successful show get cancelled?”
Saber. Drawn Together is the definition of “how _DIDN’T_ it get cancelled?” 😂
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Nah, people had a spine back then
Now however, you'd get lynched for even trying to make something like it
@@p-__ Dude, What's with you and your superior fart obsessions? We get it, You love farts, You love how superior your farts, But it's nasty.
@@commisaryarreck3974 I mean you can still make jokes like this, just don’t complain and whine about the consequences 🤷
@@p-__ i fart in your general direction *faaaaart*
Say what you will about this show, but the episode where the gang helps Xandir practice coming out to his parents was a masterpiece.
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"You like my thumb dontcha b----? Well let me show you something almost as big."
Coming out in the 2000s was something else I tell ya.
I still remember the scene where captain hero pretended to be his mother and broke down crying.
Only for his parents to know about it for years 😂
Just here to tell you I appreciated the 3-second joke of telling the audience to read a book while showing "My Immortal." Sublime!
I enjoyed this show back in the day. My biggest issue with it is I thought they gave Captain Hero too much screen time and too many plotlines.
He definitely feels like the main character
Captain Hero got a lot of great stuff. The Xander relationship, Scrotor and his balls… 😂
couldnt agree more, other characters are way too underused in comparison. specifically toot she was always just a 1 dimensional fat joke
Just a recent fact to address Drawn Together's popularity here in Latin America: I participated on an anime convention 3 months ago, the main event was the participation of voice actors. Between the cast there was Gerardo Reyero (Captain Hero) and Lalo Garza (Xander), they dub a lot of anime but they ALWAYS do Drawn Together acts and the public LOVES IT EVERYTIME. Heck, even Gerardo have appeared on stage cosplaying as Captain Hero!
1. I agree, the Latin American dub is hilarious.
2. "SOY CAP*TANAZO Y LO PUEDO SENTIR EN MI P*TA CARA" XD
I didn't know that! Would love to view/hear of them... Really missing out for not going to Cons I guess
I'm actually jealous of Latin America and their dubs, y'all got a debatablely better dub of Drawn together, and Saint Saya and other Anime wayyyy before the English dubs caught up
@@MysticMorigan1998 Right, USA never experienced Saint Seiya as it should be. Now it's too late for that now that it is aged. Btw I just remembered that Toot's voice on latam is way more funnier than the english one because it sounds like it would actually be her natural voice and not a mimic of a cartoon girl from the 20's.
Just to give you some context on why would OP find both Captain Hero and Xander's voice actors in an anime expo, they've also dubbed Freezer (you call him Frieza???) and Krilin, respectively. They're awesome.
You know a show is controversial when it takes more effort to get a video on the show approved than it does to make the video
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Drawn Together sure is controversial, especially when combined with the current age of "everything is offensive and should be cancelled" mentality on social media.😅
More like youtube's censorship algorithm is more broken than the American housing economy
@kfee975 how do I have less subs than that guy...
@@kfee975 did he delete a comment? I missed it what did it say?
"People are too sensitive these days" is a strange argument to me, because it seems like people were just as if not more sensitive in the past about controlling the portrayal of social norms and minorities. The fact that Star Trek was so controversial over a biracial kissing scene, that queer characters were censored out or relegated to negative roles in films, that the Hays Code was even a thing. These days, that history of bigotry is commonly condemned (and still being dealt with, especially with regard to gender norms). It is possible to go overboard and censor in the opposite extreme, with mere mention of the topic being too offensive for some, and it's also possible to lean into stereotypes and controversial opinions for contrarian's sake and, well, become a proponent of bigotry yourself. You're allowed to find whatever you like to be funny, but these days you can't expect most people to agree that it's funny and laugh with you because public opinion is becoming more varied over time.
All that said, I would like these kinds of shows to continue existing for the audiences that enjoy them.
People were definitely more sensitive back then. Don't forget about the infamous "Hot Coffee" incident in GTA SA where a bunch of pearl-clutchers canceled and filed multiple class action lawsuits against Rockstar for a poorly animated raunchy scene that could only be found by hacking into the game's files. That happened before this show even aired 🤣
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This is the real conversation we really need to have about this topic. We had arbitrary rules we upheld solely for the thought it was rude but really wasn't when those customs like not cussing and taking hats off at the table among other things we had to do regardless of whether or not these activities actually affected others let alone actually questioning the status quo and being aware of how we interact with others and treat individuals in marginalized communities. It's not about being more or less sensitive per say but being more deliberate in our sensitivities because of the fact there's reasons for holding certain values other than "because I told you so" or any other excuse leveraged by those in positions of authority.
Yeah saying "people are too sensitive these days" is just another overused point to excuse straight up offending or making fun of minority groups for the sake of it. Nothing funny about it, usually just insults covered as "jokes". Which is ironic because when a show makes fun of the same groups saying these things they get bashed for being political, it's just hypocrisy at its finest, the simple existence of alt-right political videos on RUclips calling for literal genocide on trans/gay/black people is proof to begin with
Let's also not forget Jack Thompson, who tried to ban GTA and a whole number of other video games due to how "violent" they were. People have always been "too sensitive", social media just amplifies it now.
@@djmax45238GTA SA, wouldnt even get made in current year.
To this day, Clara is my absolute favourite ... the sheer genius behind this character ... I was coughing ... and she is literally the character with the BEST surprises.
There was this episode, where she got off on car crashes.
Then this episode, where wooldoor is bullied by spanky ... and she sings him a song ...
simply the best.
"Fatty fatty 2 by 4 can't fit through the kitchen door"- Clara to Toot
Like Holly Hunter’s character in 1996’s Crash
The tentacle monster under her skirt is burned into my memory.
Lol what
Bullshit. Best character by far.... Hardest I ever laughed at a show....
Bleh.
"She's like.... Retarded hot!" So terribly offensive, yet terribly hilarious because of it...
I feel like this show is what parents in the 90's thought The Simpsons was like and that's why they wouldn't let us watch it.
"we need less families like the Simpsons and more like the Waltons" - President Bush.
just having a show that criticized the american nuclear family was enough to scare people back then.
@@alicewright4322”Hey, we’re just like the Waltons, we’re waiting for an end to the depression too!”
Surprisingly, the german dub actually also goes very hard. These people put 200% into their work to give the voices to the characters and they even used german specific curses and swears the original version didn’t provide
i think the german Dub even hits harder. They use far more specific words and slurs compared to the English Original :P
Absolutly right, this is one of the shows, where the german dub is un par if not better than the english dub and I love it!
"brecht zurück volle Leute ich fahr sie wucht Tür"
Everything is better in german 🤌🏿
The Roe v. Wade(bot) joke made in Captain Hero's origin story was translated into German as “because the law code only went to [one paragraph less than the German law on abortion].”
Commenting to say content like this is informative and interesting, please don't take it down RUclips
This show had so much potential to succeed. I loved the hell out of it when it first came out, and when I heard it was being canceled, I did get upset a little bit. I still occasionally watch clips and episodes time to time.
And what did you think of the movie?
I'm kinda wondering if I should check it out
I think the "lesson at the end" was kind of a parody itself of every cartoon needing to have a moral lesson...also it makes for a decent conclusion to the plot of an episode. Also there's a special irony to Spanky, one of the most blatant and rude characters, often giving the "lesson."
it's also making fun of how all the cartoons in the 80's that were made to sell toys were mandated to also teach kids some kind of "valuable" lesson or be taken off the air so shows like transformers and GI joe had those "the more you know" blurbs at the end of each episode.
I always thought this was like Jerry Springer 's Final Word. The hypocrisy of the moral lesson after watching an hour exploiting the lack of said morals.
I think the show did it best with the Veggietales parody where they actually deliver a pretty solid message about faith and forcing your beliefs on others. In a regular cartoon that would wrap up the episode & the Vegetables would learn the lesson. In drawn together the Christian fundamentalist Bob the Cucumber just starts shooting everyone until he's cured of his insanity & upon realising what he's done he shoots himself.
I still think that's a very funny way to subvert that trope & I don't think many shows go that far in lampooning Christian extremism that ruthlessly today.
I agree, and that's why Saberspark's take completely surprised me. Maybe because I wasn't aware of the rivalry, I just watched the show without researching background info. For me the message was like this: "Drawn Together gets cancelled for lacking a message and just messing around, while shows that do worse stuff (i.e. sexualizing a little girl) can continue because they have a 'message' the authors hide behind."
So not only did they a nice oxymoronic "Our message is you don't need a message.", but they also predicted Cuties!
i kept cracking up everytime the girl would say "dont ya see...." lmao
If I had a nickel for every time a duo named Matt and Dave created an adult animated series, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
If I had a nickel for every time I've read some version of this "if I had a nickel" sentence, I'd be fkin rich
@I_am_a_cat_ and if I had a nickle for every time I heard someone say what you said, I'd have 2 nickles... and you know the rest
Not weird at all. Those are very common names in the US.
👏👏👏 beautifully done.
@@cradica If I had a nickel for every nickel I had, would I have the same amount of nickels or twice as many nickels as I already have?
i never thought of drawn together as a show with a plot. To me its more of a show of multiple small character stories just making fun of it all.
Honestly while its cool that most shows have plot consistency, drawn together isn't a show that needs it.
The interesting thing was that, like you also said somewhere down the line with spanky, the character stories were driven by their worst trait, without having it be a reveal but instead as a baseline.
Funny how in modern day; youtube is more strict on content then advertisers and networks in the early 2000's. We have officially come full circle
Advertisers are stupid
well they have to make money
@@bigjalapeno7061 they really are. ive had an ad blocker since the early 2010s. i only get ads on my phone and im not paying attention to them.
I’ll give Drawn Together credit. They the only show to call out South Park’s “both sides are dumb lol” centralist takes in the movie. The girl who looks like Cartmen saying stuff about how it’s “not politicians or corporations fault” remind me a lot of the SP tobacco corp episode. Show was ballsy for that
I *hated* the tobacco episode!!
@@annjepsen1621 I’m a fan of SP, but their Libertarian cringe side was on full force there
@@tweezersalad4075i love SP but yea. They legitimately were a huge influence on people. And their "both sides are dumb" angle I believe was seriously possibly THE deciding factor in 45 getting elected. I still feel like they have some important things to say underneath the humor. They always have. But sometimes how they go about it, and the libertarian cringe as you bring up, make me wonder if they are worth the good they bring with the harm they do.
you're right they were based for that
Has South Park ever steelmanned the really reasonable perspective on a cultural issue, for someone other than the episode's mouthpiece for its "lesson at the end" shtick?
For some reason, I thought the point of the show was to see how long it could go before it got cancelled. I guess they changed their minds after the success of season 1
I loved this show, was so funny😂😂
Interesting
7:15 Rush Limbaugh used to call his show "the fastest 3 hours in news" which I always laughed at because without ADs, it's only 90 minutes.
its why its the fastest 3 hrs. ya take out the ads ya only got half the time left.
I'll say this. Being a fan of the first season I thank you for this history recap. You saved me from not only wasting time watching the other seasons or the "disappointmenting" movie but more importantly you saved me from feeling uncomfortable about the un-redeeming content of the jokes without any moral remorse or compassion. The first season was funny cause it was mocking the outrageous double standards that were built into major networks. That apparently died in the first season so again thank you for saving me from ever waiting my time.
It’s really interesting to know the effect this show had in other places. For example Panty and Stockings creator was inspired by this show, which is why the anime is incredibly crude, crass, and is drawn in multiple different art styles
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He mentioned that in the video (although it was short)
They took the idea and made it actually work
This video was a nightmare to release. Thanks for keeping your ground, Saber.
Fortunately, he came out on top.
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I always thought Xandir's character as an animation archetype was based on the old He-Man and Thundercats - esc style of art design and that his effeminate nature was just a subversion of those types of characters. (Especially with the kinda sus, dominatrix looking, scantily clad, battle - ready "armor" worn at the time.) Those character types not only being primarily from the 80s which was heavy in popularizing that more dark, dystopian - epoch, type of fantasy genre but also being arguably, the era that started table top RPG's and video games which typically delve into those similar genres & themes as well. Being why Xandir himself acts so much like a video-game character due to the style & era he was based on...But maybe that's just my own head cannon, idk. Lol :p
I'm pretty sure that he was supposed to be Link.
@@AnitaMartini7 Especially since he was shown to be a respawning, levelling up video game character.
Interesting
Video-game cartoons wasn't really popular in the 80's? Even The Legend of Zelda had a cartoon
Xander was primarily Link, who had a once-a-week segment on the Super Mario Bros. TV show in the '90s that was not only more popular than the Mario Bros. cartoons, it spawned a line I still hear people say today: "Well, excuuuuse me, Princess!" That was Link's catchphrase.
I see some of the Thundercats style in his art, though, so you're right about that.
At first I was confused about the choice to make the parody of DCAU Superheroes sexist. Then I remembered that Bruce Timm wrote in a relationship between Batman and Batgirl, easily the most uncharacteristic thing that the Dark Knight did in that universe. Seriously, I get so sick of this ship. Ew!
This show is what people THINK South Park is.
Drawn Together is basically a test for anyone who can handle it's style and level of humor. For me its first to second season was really good. Third was kind of funny, but mostly questionable. Haven't seen the movie yet.
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I have, and I think it's a perfect movie.
The movie is garbage, don't bother. It's pure bitterness
@@Phantomphan613 Trust me. I won't.
@X_Blake The movie is like season 3, but this time, the dial is turned to 11
"tvs first animated reality show" ARE WE FORGETTING TOTAL DRAMA??? false advertising
Aparrently Matt and Dave got bullied by the studio into making the full length movie, which they didn't want tk dk in the first place.
So they deliverately went out of their way to make it as bad and un-funny as possible.
For a show that manages to be more offensive than South Park, really does show how f***ed up you can get with a show especially an adult animated one. Saber is right at the beginning, this show makes every other adult animated series look tame in comparison.
" adult animated show" says it all, it wont be any 10 year olds who will watch it.. and if they do its the parents fault and responsibility.
There are worse shows but they're much more mean spirited and have aged much worse than Drawn Together. They were also much less successful. Drawn Together for obvious reasons.
And now a day's the most mature and well written adult series get completely sided since no studio doesn't advertise and market them
@@agenerichuman yea, i remember family guy, american dad, season one of south park, teletubbies on tv and 56.6 Kb modems and the hype to sell dial up internet..
But i didnt have comedy central, it wasnt a thing in sweden and its still a unknown service here.
I learned about all the strange stuff all over the world when i grew up and i still learn new strange stuff.
I will watch drawn together to get a view of how good it is but at the moment i cant say much about the quality of the show.
I have a very picky taste when it comes to series and movies.
@@lokelaufeyson9931i mean...u got 12 y/o south park fans...so lol
It felt like the writers wanted Captain Hero to be the star of the series. Probably he was considered dumber, nastier, and more violent than the rest of the cast.
Ayup. They used him the most because they basically decided he would do anything, no matter how horrible.
He was the most popular (and likely the most fun to write) so it's kind of understandable why they'd focus on him. Though I will agree the last section of the show basically is the Captain Hero and Friends Show.
Yep, I feel like they unfortunately would have benefited had “the boys” come out before this show
I think I had a legitimately, spit-take “jeeeezus-that-was dark!!!!” huge laugh at the
“Activate hero shield!!”
And the aftermath of its disposal…..
Not at first, but you can definitely say that was the case for seasons 2 and 3.
I grew up on offensive childrens cartoons.I really advocate no lines. Everything goes
these were not childrens cartoons. they were just "offensive" animated shows
@@tonypringles2285 so? Not for children then
@@urielpolak9949 well it cant be an offensive childrens cartoon if its not for kids
Drawn Together kept me sane through all the crap going on in the 2000s. From the Iraq War via politics to taking a break from Halo 3 in gaming and to even relieving everyday stress in studying on overall general readings. I got the whole series, the promo poster, and its movie. Well worth getting as a collection, fellow comedy viewers. Thanks for making this video, Saberspark.
That and newgrounds early days helped me threw my 19-25 years
Here I thought this show was a drug aided nightmare from my childhood... No, turns out it's actually real, wow.
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Honestly was afraid to watch the show as a teen given I heard it was basically Nightmare fuel
When I first saw Drawn Together, I watched the episode "N.R.A. y ray" where Bambi was the main antagonist who sought revenge over his own kind getting hunted. Compared to other episodes, THAT one was tame.
help
About 2004: "...and social media was nonexistent."
Ever heard of LiveJournal?
YAHOO?
Answers.
And American MySpace.
It did exist, but it wasn’t popular yet.
Bebo?
Honestly, I never actually heard of this show.
Now that it got canceled, people aren't being offended anymore.
But... there is one problem: This show looks offensive to us all back then.
I mean, when you’re breaking down as many barriers as this show was, you’re bound to break down the wall of an executive eventually.
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@@p-__ well thats a new one, at least theyre getting interesting
@@masync183i seen it before unfortunately
@@masync183That one's been going around for years, now.
At least, it feels like years.
One episode that really... traumatized (for the lack of a better word) me was when the Betty Boop character either found or adopted a baby, in which said baby proceeds to have her own baby.
I remember that episode and same! That episode was horrifying.
She adopted foxxys 52nd baby if I remember correctly
@@gamewatch4489 It was a baby a baby from Nicaragua
The thing I remember the most in that episode is the conclusion where Toots says that she should've known that babies from Nicaragua can't solve problems on their own bc if they could Nicaragua wouldn't be the hole it is
But before that happens, the baby becomes a brat and runs away.
I feel like the dude that made this video is too sensitive to truly appreciate the show, despite his deep dive and enjoyment. Especially the racism section, thinking that missed the message is just something I don't get at all.
Saying it's immature, caring about character arcs and needing to make a point. No wonder you didn't get the movie too.
The subtle jab at ads for RUclips videos ignores that videos as short as 10 min can have anywhere from 2-3 adverts. Pushing it past the 15 min mark easy.
The nightmare you went through just to get this released was insane. I'm glad you were able to push through. Thank you so much for your effort and persistence. As for the show itself, There were plenty of genuinely funny parts. Like all the animation jokes, _The Real World_ style format, the VeggieTales parody and Live Action Cow. And Foxxy is still one of my favorite of Cree Summer's roles. It had potential from that stuff. But the sheer offensiveness of most of this show was and still is definitely hard to swallow and I can completely understand why it was canceled.
It's a wild ride, that's for sure.
It still amazes me how she is also Susie from Rugrats' voice. She's still got it since '92!
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The key difference is that it wasn't smart with its humor.
Thank you so much!
When people say "offense for offensiveness sake", THIS is what they mean.
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Fr, my humor is really screwed up, this is too far for me
So humorous?
Offense is never give, only taken. You actively choose to be offended
They went far but god damn if this isn't a litmus test
@commisaryarreck3974 "offense is never given, only taken"
Kiss your sister
What are you yapping about
All 3 seasons are available on Paramount Plus (US at least)
They weren't trying to do a moral thingy at the end, they were taking the piss out of all the shows that did it. So they did it badly on purpose.
19:39 I think Xandir was drawn in Winx club style to be more of what preteens were watching at the time. He does exemplify the video game style, but also the shows in-between adolescents were watching other than Josie and Disney Movies(aka badly animated fairy shows). Especially since the original Winx Club had come out earlier that year, and would give them another modern pull.
Agreed 100% I thought of Winx the moment I saw Xandir
No, he was based on Link from Legend Of Zelda. "As Xandir the show's all-purpose video-game toon, Xandir is modeled mostly after Link, from the Zelda series, down to the effeminate persona." The style he was drawn in was the style some of the Capcom versions of Zelda games at the time like Oracle Of Seasons.
@@Sylvershade oh, ok :)
17:35 -Xandir being treated as a cartoon character despite technically being a video game character makes quite a lot of sense when you remember that The Legend of Zelda was one of a few video games to receive a cartoon series of dubious quality (along with the Super Mario Brothers Super Show and Captain N: The Game Master).
Not to mention that 3D video games was relatively recent back then, many of them had a cartoon-ified look, and there were plenty of 2D/sprite based games. Ling-Ling is literally Pikachu who is also a video game character, but Pokemon was also a viral phenomenon that was a gateway into Japanese culture so naturally they went for the low hanging fruit.
Man I loved that Zelda show and Captain N too
@@diplamatikjuan3595 Same. They both had their flaws (what cartoon doesn't, after all?), but they still hold a place in my heart!
@@submariNervous Yeah, I mean they weren't as good as Thundercats, Galaxy High or Mysterious Cities of Gold, but they were loads of fun and got me even more hyped to play some games (even though I was a sega kid at that point)
Anyone who uses the term "Modern sensibilities" without mockery is garbage
For me, the most I’ve seen is that show is what if family guy had literally zero limits at all. Family guy can be as edgy as it wants to be. But I don’t think they’ve even went that far and that’s what I loved about this show.
This dumpster fire of a show tackled pretty much every single offensive stereotype known to man, It's amazing how much crap it got away with.
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@@p-__nigga what 💀
But the thing was you couldn't look away as the fire burn in said dumpster a puff of toixc Gas came out the show getting 2 additional seasons and a movie
@@p-__ You're a loser, a you just a stupid kid want's an attention and Saberspark better than you! 💩
@@p-__ You deserve a bigger up yours for that joke.
The movie is proof that you can’t make something out of spite alone.
The creator of I have no mouth and I must scream would beg to differ
Basically The Boys comic book in a nutshell.
That's right, you need a bigger budget too!
@@poweroffriendship2.0 Garth Ennis sucks though. The Boys Comic is just edgy pointless BS by someone who hate the genre he has somehow insinuated himself within for some reason. Garth Ennis drawing comic books is sort of like someone who hates chocolate getting a job at Hershey's of their own free will.
Spite is motivation, not an expression of talent. If you're motivated to do something but you suck at it, you'll make that something, but it'll still suck without taking the effort to make it better.
LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN.
Invader Zim is still going strong. It started with Squee and JTHM for me, but it’s still got products in HT, FYE, and I think even Newbury.
He actually managed to have a messed up origin, make a kids comic WITH a little cameo of the homicidal dude he made originally, and he’s still chilling.
Homie even got a reboot on Netflix a few years back that bumped it up again.
Respect the HECK out of Johan Vasquez.
“Did it cross the line?”
Drawn Together House: “what line?”
Drawn Together is what I feel is the hugest embodiment of a hit or miss. Sometimes the jokes land *hard* and make you laugh. Other times you wonder if they hurt themselves from all that edge
One of the biggest issues with their writing is that they insist on announcing every punchline before it happens. Most jokes are structured like: "hey guys, I'm about to do a wacky thing!" ---> *character does the wacky thing*. Every punchline can be seen from a mile away
@@brendankendall41 I don’t think that’s necessarily an objectively bad thing. Shows like SpongeBob, Family Guy, and most of Robot Chicken have incredibly obvious punchlines, as well. It’s more of an issue of whether or not that’s your personal type of humor. For some people it isn’t, and that’s perfectly fine.
@@brendankendall41 That's not an issue, some people struggle to understand slapstick and making the joke for the joke's sake.
@@mantasa0000 Man, I don't know about that. I think most people are capable of enjoying comedy that's at least a little more advanced or varied than this. I don't think there's a good excuse for dumbing down writing and producing slop, especially when the creators can't handle criticism for the state of their slop.
I just don't like having the exact same predictable joke structure every time. It makes most jokes feel like the *same* joke, just lazily recycled over and over
i liked the show, but the clumbaby one was weird af didnt laugh much
Drawn together isn't just a show but a journey about all the friends we made along the way.
"we really were Drawn Together!"
One of my favorite jokes in Drawn Together was the one where Foxy wore the King of Hill hat and was like, “wow this is just like the show! I’m bored already!” 💀 I LOVE King of The Hill probably more than DT but still 😂
From the outside looking in, I think the show just relied way too much on being as offensive as possible without saying anything meaningful. Often, I just hear a horrid “joke” made to put down someone already down and that’s it. No subversion, nothing else said. It seems like this show did the very same thing.
In comparison, take “The Office.” That has very offensive humor but often it uses it to highlight office toxicity in a way that we can laugh at the perpetrators. And even then, the people who start off horrid grow and become fully dimensional people. I’m not saying EVERY show has to do that, but I think it helps in keeping people from just laughing at the groups stereotyped rather than the absurdity of the stereotype itself.
I stayed in a hotel recently with cable tv and I had forgotten how unbearable commercials were. Made me weep for the years of our lives we wasted waiting for our shows to come back on. 😳
2 unskippable 15 second ads is like torture today. Forget how good we truly have it nowadays
A lot of Drawn Together didn't age well, but there were a lot of funny or clever gags buried in there. More than anything, it was a chance for animators, writers, and voice actors to go nuts.
Eh, it hasn't aged well to those who haven't developed a spine to handle this kind of humor, but to those willing to stay by it, it has aged gracefully well (a lot of topics remain just as relevant today as they were back then). It's one of my favorite shows for a reason, turning off that thing in one's brain to needlessly flinch at offensive humor definitely made me enjoy the show plenty.
@@kirbyofthestarsfanthe movie probably aged even worse, like spoiled milk.
Especially with the robot’s name, which would be bad enough but years later after Drawn Together Tara Strong (Clara/Toot) would later tweet out an offensive tweet on Twitter about (ahem) the “controversy”
Needless to say I’m pretty sure her career is over (probably for good), I mean aside from Loki season 2 and TTG but then again we all have to pay the bills right?
@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94wait what happened?
@@wriggleby She supported Israel... Which is a farcry from the worst thing she's done, but it's the one she's getting canceled for.
@@Blackpapalink So she's not actually canceled, just the worst and most hated part of Twitter are dogpiling her.
Activists aren't very active and racist jokes aren't always race related.
Clara turning into a hyper religious bigot in season 3 does suck, but my god do I think it was worth it for the "mix up at the doll factory" Jesus toy joke alone 🤣
Foxxy Brown Vs the Board of Education is still one my all time favorite episode of any animated series. This series was brilliant
"And just when i thought that racism couldn't get anymore racismr."
It was brilliant but I didn't that realize until it was going off the air. I DID watch it pretty regularly once I realized their goal of offending everyone all of the time. There is a group of prudes who simply MUST ruin EVERYTHING. I think the creators offended the small hat tribe that has outsized influence in the entertainment space.
Honestly that episode was the closest it got to making fun of racism/whatever else.
It was probably one of the only mainstream properties straight up saying in the 2000's, "Yeah the SATs and the education system in general is white supremacist and uses stereotypes to enforce de facto segregation."
I quote that episode so often. "Mama didn't raise no fool! And daddy didn't raise me at all!"
@@ZachGatesHere 😅🤣😂
What did you all think of Drawn Together?
I have only seen clips from the show it self, but those clips have made me absolutely love it already. 😂
I also have a suggestion for a animated show that you could review some day and it's pretty obscure and interesting +it's a really nostalgic show for me.
It's called *Alfred J Kwak* + it has other qualities that make it a perfect show for you to review, it has:
-controversial episodes and topics
-some really weird stuff
-dark scenes
-interesting history behind it
-IT HAS A FURRY (CROW) character thats very directly based on the austrian kid you mentioned in the Wish video.
-episodes 22-25 + 29 of the show are absolutely insane because of they're subject matter
It was perfect
Latin america had a different version because of the VA and I would say it was better and more enjoyable
Really didn't like it
I liked first season, but their reliance on dead baby humor drove me away.
Huh, I thought Waldor was an early 1940s Bob Clampett fever dream.
As someone who speaks both English and Spanish I can say that this is one of the very few instances in which the dub is superior; the Latin American voice actors and the people in charge of the translation and localization didn't pull any punches, they went hard in the paint, they could make a Satanist blush.
Because of his 2D animation ,I’m sure Xandir is also meant to represent shows like Winx club, sabrina, W.I.T.C.H, and more. He has a very similar style to them.
Now that you mention it, I totally see it
Link from The Legend of Zelda has been depicted in cartoon form many times - the Legend of Zelda cartoon, and the CD-I game to name two. It's clear that Xandir's depiction was based off these and other fantasy cartoons of the time.
Well, excuse me, princess!
Avatar didn’t premiere until a year later.
This video simultaneously helped me with a nostalgia bomb and feel really old at the same time. I appreciate the work you put in for this.
I once caught it as a kid when I was supposed to be asleep. The princess had tentacles as a vag. My mom found out I watched it and took my tv privileges. I forgot about it until now.
I really did have a fondness for this show when it aired. Not only was it totally unapologetic and made heavy use of negative continuity, but they were totally aware of how the audiences would see them and leaned very heavily on that.
Such as when Clara bursts into Wooldor's show exclaiming "what in the name of one dimensional characters and predictable responses is going on here?". Or in terms of endearment when Foxxy changes to the 40s caricature and people cry "oh no! Foxxy's become a racist stereotype!" And Clara quips"... Wait. What was she before?"
For me two things killed the show. The first was splitting the third season in half with a ridiculously long hiatus, thus losing most of their audience who thought it wasn't coming back. And second was the writers focusing too much on Captain Hero in season 3 and the movie. He was not an audience favourite but the stories kept pushing him front and centre when there really wasn't enough depth of character to sustain them. So they just increased his levels of depravity. Seriously, he went from "kinky and sexually open" in the first series to an actual necrophiliac in the movie. Yikes.
yeah id rather see the hot lesbos makeout all episode.
whats the difference between the woman with the pms and a terrorist?
you can negotiate with the terrorist XD
whats the difference between the woman with the pms and a terrorist?
you can negotiate with the terrorist XD
the funniest thing about this show to me is having a Disney princess looking character voiced by Tara Strong doing/saying the most unhinged stuff.. I’m kinda surprised they got away with it since Disney is so protective 💀
So long as the character is legally distinct from any of their characters, it’s in the clear.
@@geoffreyrichards6079 but they had Mickey Mouse with its trademark ears so like...how did they NOT get shut down?
@@JeskidoYT Because they kept him in shadow, never showing his face. They even censored his name in the episode itself.
this cartoon and JAWS were the only pieces of mainstream media that my parents would NOT let me watch. SAW? On the table. Drawn Together and about 4 minutes of actual shark screentime? HELL NO.
Spanky Ham was a parody of Eric Cartman
What modern sensibilities always miss in these retrospectives is that these characters *were never supposed to be seen as good people.* Most fans didn't think it was funny because they hated minority groups it would be offensive to, it was funny because of how ridiculously terrible the characters were for doing it. It's similar to how the entire horror genre works; most horror fans don't watch it because they want to hurt other people, they're fascinated by the extremity of what's being depicted.
Annoying isn't it.
The *entire point* was "obnoxious". These things aren't supposed to be broken down... they break themselves down to intelligent audiences as they play out.
But dude needs to sell merch 🤦♂️
Well said.
I say this about Archer a LOT and you put it so well
Main problem is Drawn together is like sub Troma level writing wiht the most obvious jokes that would get rejected at a Family guy rewrite
More like they should understand that each character is a company, and the series is making jokes about the flaws of each of them. For example Clara is rcst and religious, a classic way to act by Disney at that time. Wooldoor was childish but also pervert at times, a big representation of Nickelodeon, don't forget the scandal that Jenny Mccurdy exposed years later. Each character is a company.
The fight to get this video uploaded was insane. Well done Saberspark. Happy to finally see the finished product
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@@p-__ dont care about your existence
That's what distinguished Drawn Together from so many narratives at the time and now. No creator will ever be able to control how current and future audiences will interpret their work, no matter how much they try. What were once wholesome messages on shows from the 80s and 90s are now considered narrow-minded and vapid. It's not always good for a show to repeatedly beat a message into the skulls of its audience. There was 10 year stretch where South Park did that, and it sucked.
I feel like telling Drawn Together to have a point is kind of missing the point. That's why the morals were there. They might occasionally have had a point, but it was mostly to take the piss. Well before South Park started using the "I learned something today" shtick as an intentional joke.
If you think it got too lost in the weeds over being bitter or trying too hard to be over the top rather than legitimately funny then fine, but telling it to have a point is a bit like telling it to get out of its ass by getting up its own ass further. They knew what they were there for.
This show was one of the adult cartoons I often looked forward to watching after school. It was so unhinged and amusing despite being so unapologetically offensive. I still remember watching videos of it in RUclips back when RUclips was still chill about adult jokes.
Holy shit same! I remember watching this full series online forever ago.. oh the joys of unrestricted internet access
_Drawn Together_ is like a crass, twisted version of _Who Framed Roger Rabbit._ The ToonTown idea where every characters from different genres (from rubberhose cartoons to superheroes) sharing the same neighbourhood together sounds like it has potential on paper, but the crudeness and shock value that most adult cartoons always shoved leaves a bad taste on everyone's mouths.
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I mean it fine to have the occasional "the Aristocrats!" Joke or episode, but when keep doing, it just keeps getting boring.
I liked it for how chaotic it was, and had many different cartoon characters.
But even then, I knew it was not a very smart show.
Back in the 2000s we didn't watch ads either, it was the snack break/toilet break.
I think Spanky (the crassest, cruelest and most consistently malicious character in the main cast) delivering the moral lesson at the end of various episodes was a deliberate choice by the writers. I think it's meant to be another jab at South Park, but a slightly more subtle one. I think they're mocking the idea of these crude and mean-spirited children suddenly going "I learned something today" and then poignantly delivering the moral lesson of the episode with perfect understanding and insight.
Granted, that was the same exact joke Matt and Trey were going for by having the kids do that in the first place, but over time it started to morph into the characters being used to soapbox about Parker and Stone's real beliefs. I believe Spanky being simultaneously the instigator of an episode's conflict AND the resolution to the broader moral conflict of that particular episode is meant to mock South Park for being hypocritical about what it is. They eventually drop all subtlety in the movie, and straight up call South Park out on this via the "Suck My Taint Girl" and "Make-A-Point Land" bits, arguing that many adult animations with "deep" messages or serious sociopolitical observations are just using such things as a massive fig leaf to justify being as crass and offensive as possible for a laugh.
The lore drop of Drawn Together inspiring Gainax to make Panty and Stocking was wild.
I remember telling someone it was inspired by Drawn Together and he was like "I don't know sounds like a red flag"
@@cradicaOof.
So one of the reasons why Drawn Together in the later seasons wasn't so good is because they put quantity over quality. Makes sense to me.
I loved drawn together and crank-ya kers as a kid. Those were both definitely shows i had to watch alone in my room cause even as an 8 year old I knew my mom would bleach my brain to erase the things i heard and saw lol
What made season 1 work was that the show never treated its stereotypical characters as a bad thing. Stereotypes can be positive as well, and good qualities occasionally shined through like Hero and Clara having good hearts underneath their flaws and Foxxy and Toot being roundabout symbols of empowerment for their era. Shame all that thought and consideration was thrown out later on.
Oh yeah.
Hero went from being an mere idiot to an immoral sociopath (he even called himself a psychopath), Toot was often a one-note fat joke (even they admit it), and Clara went from being unintentionally racist thru a mix of nurture and naivety--there was even times she TRIED to be nicer, but was too indoctrinated to be good at it--to being a malicious, mean-spirited, bigot (her calling "Schindler's List" a joke book may be one the LESSER bad things she did...but still really bothers me😨 )
Not really. It never fear the stereotypes is positive they were always meant to be mocked. It was offensive, irreverent comedy.
@@seeleunit2000Can't really call it comedy when it wasn't funny
@@seeleunit2000 Also stereotypes are usually bad at least like... 80% of the time.
yup
I've never really understood controversy for the sake of controversy. It's a good way to catch attention, yes, and shock people, but a lot of times content like that just feels lazy to me. Crafting dark jokes takes a lot more effort and creativity than just saying something shocking or offensive and hoping people laugh out of sheer awkwardness. I think there's a balance that could (and has in many shows) be found between dark and shocking subject matter and actual comedic effort.
Different strokes for different folks, Idk, sometimes it’s just timing to insert said controversy.
Just say it’s not your thing
I never understood the idea of making faux controversial comments speaking common modern ideas seeking approval in a comments section. Just feels lazy to me.
@@Ralathar44 I know I'm not saying anything particularly bold or new! I just really enjoy sabersparks content and sharing our thoughts in the comments helps out with boosting the video!
@@mizuko6132 Do they have to? Personally, I like this insight since it gives people something to discuss
This one I'm embarrassed to admit I watched. While I feel for the show saying, "It's unfair we're in trouble for saying/doing controversial stuff while others get away for adding a moral to the end of the story," that is what separated them from everybody else. One can only put up with that for so long. The concept is there, but it would have worked just as well if they did a clean version as their clean version. It is truly depravity for the sake of depravity.