How DIC Entertainment Died.
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- Опубликовано: 20 дек 2023
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You Forgot Strawberry Shortcake 2003 (DIC Era)
by that time I was disinterested in DIC.
Yup, Now The Strawberry Girl Is Propety of Wildbrain Entertaiment
@@StagehandMotel6 0:45 dr eggman: snooping as usual I see
@@StagehandMotel6 Does the Sam and Max cartoon that had 26 episodes have anything to do with Dic?
Yeah, you definitely should have included that, that was a major part of my childhood, and was the second ever Dic Entertainment show I ever watched, after Madeline!😄
That little 2-3 second “DIC” outro where the camera flies through the kid’s cozy bedroom and out the window into the vast, unexplored night sky is a timeless thing of beauty
It IS. Especially based on when D.I.C. got an entire batch of reports that the original "kid in bed" version, where sometimes an ethereal choir SANG the name, frightened people or caused nightmares, or both. Ergo, the music was changed entirely and it wuz ALWAYS a kid's voice that said "DIC".
Honestly I only watched this video because of that.
@@shutterbug_713 Yeah, 1987 version seems to be a little creepy for me due to its unsettling dark nature through the background and disturbing synth. Glad 1990 and 1998 versions had much better than this.
Classic
One thing is for sure. DiC carried for us 90’s kids!
And 80s kids
CARRRRRRRIED!
Not me,cartoons did...
YES!!
Gen Z will never know
Amazing how Sega and Nintendo, two major rivals back in the day, both went to DIC to make cartoons of their games
Sega and Nintendo didn't make the cartoons, someone else did it for them in DIC entertainment.
Nintendo is partnering with Sony to make the Legend of Zelda movie.
French people sound hot soo
@@jul1440 sony? I thought universal pictures are gonna make Legend of Zelda live action movie.
@@VictorGonzalez-xs9oc That was just a rumor; Sony confirmed it a few days ago.
DIC was our customer for almost a decade. We cleared their animation through customs as their broker. I remember visiting their offices many times. A lot of their employees were super cool people. We also stored millions of animation cels for them. My sister still has an inspector gadget clock they gave us in the late 80s.
Man, every five seconds in this video is like “and then they merged with with five different companies and sued someone.”
DIC didn't have a great track record with finances or relationships most of its existence was basically suing people.
I mean in all honesty it shows just how shady EVERYTHING was. All these yuppie douchebags all high on cocaine making insane deals
“World Events Productions.,.” Lol they didn’t even know how to produce anything they just bought a TV show & renamed & hustled it
@@jayfink2199 Calico, aka The people behind Denver the last Dinosaur and the disastrous Busby Pilot.
All the while messing with our favorite childhood shows...
DIC really has been able to hold on to relevancy unlike many others. Stuff like Super Mario Bros Super Show and the Sonic shows single handily has cemented them in history
It got roasted by Robot Chicken with that Tiger Woods skit
That has most to do with the brands than the actual company itself.
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For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
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Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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@@blueblur2273 I think the point they were trying to make was that it grabbed onto brands and produced shows with those brands that came iconic within that franchise for many people. Either it is quintessential 90’s and childhood franchise nostalgia or an actually good product that is never replicated by the brand again
@@ma.2089 I understand what he means and I'm disagreeing. The only people who consider these shows iconic are the kids who grew up on it and are blinded by their nostalgia. Objectively these are not classic shows let alone very good ones. Those shows were cheaply produced failures when they came out which is why they only lasted 1 season. The reason they've been able to last as long as they have is due to the brands they are apart of. That's why a bad movie like the 1993 Super Mario Bros. is still remembered by the fanbase till this day.
I like how they had to have a little child pronounce their name out loud when it was on screen so that people wouldn't think it was supposed to sound like a male reproductive organ.
No hope in going to the past come to the loving savior today
Seek his Holy Spirit in prayer today he can give you peace confort and guidance today
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
I still pronounce it Dick. I even say that at the end of some non DIC shows, if I don't say "Grr Arg" instead.
Every child I knew including myself pronounced it as dick lol, it was a different time but not THAT different of a time, jeez.
The little girl saying, “DIC!” right at the very end always made me giggle as a kid 😂
Me at age 10: 😅👀
We can all agree the super Mario bros super show and inspector gadget and the adventures of sonic the hedgehog were DIC’s best shows.
I liked Heathcliff alot too.
@@beauwalker9820 never heard of it
Sonic satam was great too
I loved trollz and their sabrina cartoons
The dub for sailor moon was so good that I can’t watch any other dubs of the show and I’ll never complete the series
DIC was a big part of my childhood. I'm glad I got to watch a lot of their cartoons.
Man, I had no idea DIC was such a shady company. Great video my man!
Yeah it gets corrupt
Absolute BUMMER
@@StagehandMotel6that sucks
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Every company does this. DIC just failed and got caught.
I had no idea they were responsible for sparking my love for Sailor Moon. I got up earlier than I had to for school just so I could watch the dubbed episodes. That alone makes me grateful for DIC.
You just love DIC
I only caught their broadcast of the show maybe twice, but that's all it took to get me hooked. We had 2 vhs releases of the show from ToysR'Us with 2 episodes on each, the box was a sparkly hot pink with gold and silver text with blue borders if I recall, definitely not the type of thing an 11 year old boy would be caught dead with in the 90s.
I remember watching both tapes quite a bit too much, even brought them to a like-minded friends house during a sleepover where he introduced me to the wonders of the internet as it was in 1996.
We browsed fan made sites that had artwork and stills from the show, character bios, sound bites and show facts. Some of these sites consisted of humorous lists with titles like "You know you watch too much Sailor Moon when:" and would go on to give 100 bulleted answers with ridiculous typical fan behaviors.
I also remember how hard it was to get ahold of any merch, generally you had to go to the rare specialty store that focused only on anime related imports or wait till a convention came around to the city.
Now as a 38 year old man I couldn't call myself a fan as my interests have drastically shifted, but I have many find memories and still prefer the American English dub we got from back in that day, I think the voices and music are far more fitting to the show and can appreciate the effort that went into trying to adapt it to a 90s American audience.
Agreed. Their Sailor Moon's forever magical
Honestly I had no idea dic existed until the mid 2000s. I thought they died off in the late 90s. As being a 80s kid I can't help but to have a soft place in my heart for dic and the cartoons they did in the 80s and early 90s.
Man, this explains all these weird company logos I remember seeing in cartoons from that era that were completely absent afterwards. So many companies were involved in this mess.
Have you considered doing one of these about Saban? The Western cast of the initial Power Rangers run worked six days a week, 12-15 hours a day, saw no money for likeness rights on merchandise, royalties, or residuals. From non-union to borderline criminal.
Well stay tuned cause that's up next
And also kicked a guy off the show he was a main character in.. because he was gay
they also killed any chances of pretty cure becoming famous in the west with glitter force
I'd love to see a video like that
@@StagehandMotel6 I remember watching Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff, Care Bears, Sonic. Nice video btw. You Make very good points in your videos.
The captain planet AIDS episode was something i was not expecting to see
It's an actual episode
BVut by that episode's existence, DiC traded "Captain Planet" to Hanna Barbera / Cartoon Network, and receive "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures" in it's place. Immediately both shows lost their original cast (the actors who played Bill, Ted and Rufusr reprising their roles in the HB season; ST: The Next generation cast members voicing the DiC era "Captain Planet")
But it was a thing..
I didn't know that episode existed until a friend of mine told me.
@@StagehandMotel6 it’s true it was an actual episode. I remember of how Scum sold drugs called Bliss. Everyone got addicted to it and some got killed from it. And Linga’s cousin Boris was one of the people that died from the bliss sadly. Don’t do drugs people cause there’s a certain chance it will kill you
Honestly DIC’s shows being hard to find on streaming services did make me wonder how bad DIC was including the super obvious animation errors and the quality
Yeah, I remember watching certain DIC cartoons when I was real little. I never liked how poor their animation and sound quality was though. Even as a kid it was just ugly in comparison to other cartoons that you could watch. If anything, the quality of a product is typically representative of the person or company who designed it, and in this case it really wasn’t too surprising to see why DIC had been flushed down the toilet.
Yeah DIC was hard
Streaming services are flooded with DiC's shows.... You see lots of them on Paramount Plus, Pluto TV, Roku, Amazon prime and officially uploaded right here on RUclips by wildbrain.
People forget Ninja Turtles started the characters favourite food trend. Sonic: Chili Dogs, Ren & Stimpy: Cocktail sausages, Beavis and Butthead: Nachos. Now I know Garfield was the O.G. but he barely moved the needle.
Bruh, DIC ruled cartoons in the 80s and 90s
true but it doesn't make an excuse to the fact that DIC died out in the later years.
Also 2000s
@@notCinnamonroll disagree.
Imthought that was Toon somthing by dasmiey choonel
False.
I’ll never forget one of my parent’s asking what I was watching when they heard the dic sound effect when I watched the Mario bros super show as a kid 😂
Great video. I damn near forgot about a good amount of those studios mentioned.
Not only did Dic last WAY longer than I thought it did, but they made way more stuff than I ever gave them credit for.
it's not about how long you last, it's in the performance.
@@alexisjohnmendoza8968 Dic did it all. Frankly, I can't get enough Dic. Dic fills my hole... of nostalgia.
Crazy how a company behind so many of my childhood shows had such shady practices. I had no clue.
Most companies have bad histories and keep dark secrets, like the company that gave us Kool-Aid for example.
I swear, Dic Entertainment had a BIG part in our of all Childhoods
Yep I grew up on practically all of these shows, but looking back at all the shows DiC had their hand in, they really did produce the bottom of the barrel programs of the 90s. It's no wonder most of these shows were on free TV.
Heck yeah it did, it’s how i knew about the Mario and Sonic cartoons
True.
@@red-hn5iythis comment says more about where your mind is currently than OPs ngl
I remember The Littles as a kid
DiC Entertainment had the best stuff! Sailor Moon was the first ive seen from them and their dub to this day is a treasure!
I agree. Yea it may be cheesy and they changed and censored a lot of stuff but i still love the dic dub, it's so nostalgic 😊
DiC Entertainment certainly had some great or good shows. I wouldn't count their dub of Sailor Moon among them, though.
Yup! I like the Sailor Moon dub it's good and sily hmm I didn't forgot Madeline and Strawberry Shortcake 2003!
I never was a BIG fan of Sailor Moon that American dub was corny! lol
@@YakkoWarnerTower Have you not watched the Japanese original or Viz Media's dub?
Bit of clarification on Sonic SatAM, it was running along side the Archie comics, but aside from certain characters, they went down different paths for their stories. Hell, early Archie was had more in common with Adventures than SatAM due to how goofy those early years were.
Thanks
Yeah, the Archie Sonic comics didn't start getting more serious until issue 20, and by the #40 issues, almost every issue was more serious. Though, occasionally with some comical moments or short funny mini comics like "Sonic Spy VS Knuckles Spy." (A "Spy VS Spy" parody by the artist of the original SVS.)
all sonic licensed material from the time was sourced from a ''bible'' produced by sega of america, bit of a confusing story, but abc refused to pick up the sonic cartoon for syndication because of its comedic tone, but DiC still needed a network package so they split the show into the wacky slapstick syndicated show and the more serious,edgy story-driven network show. the Archie comic came about around the time they were producing the pilot but the show kept being pushed back and its canon redone, and because they had no frame of reference of how the story would be they just ran with the characters and setting and pushed foward with their own canon as well. the pilot would eventually air as the last episode of the first season.
Early Archie comics basically combined the setting of the video games, the plot of SatAM, and the tone of AoStH.
I always thought of Early Archie as a side-story to the original show, with the later stuff being more of the direct continuation to it.
Edit: Thinking about it, my interpretation is kinda like the IDW MLP or the Boom Studio Power Rangers comics, funnily enough.
I Kinda miss That Company. Mario Hasn't had a Show in Decades until he got his movie.
Just looking at all these old shows brings back great memories appreciate the info
The amount of mergers/acquisitions/bail-outs/outsourcing/divestment in 1 video is scary
You also forgot about their dub of saint seiya, it was SO BAD that to the point it killed it's popularity in the U.S. Remember this anime is SUPER popular in Japan and Hispanic countries.
Los Callaberos Del Zodiaco!!
Pegasus Fantasy
What was so bad about it?
@@MaxOakland google "Why Anime in Latin America was... Different (and Better)" by Get In The Robot channel. It will fill you in very nicely. Too bad those folks are defunct now :(
I like watching vids about companies for fun and this vid, hands down, has the most mentions of other companies than any other vid i've seen 😭 i had no idea dic's story would be so complex
The memories!!!
DIC Was Sorta a Mixed Bag For Me Back Then I was definitely more of a Saban Entertainment kid during the 1990's
It's not even a competition. Saban produced more high quality and popular shows than DiC
The day that Dic died, the laughter on the playground ended. Ina way, we all lost our Dics.
"D.I.C.K." is what we used to say as kids lol
Inspector gadget and heathcliff had the best theme songs, characters and plots. Dennis the menace went hard too. Inspector is my favorite cartoon. I still watch on saturdays.
0:44 i am glad people still remember this golden Moment
Pingas
Andy Heyward deserves to be ashamed for what he did to DiC Entertainment. As a kid, I didn't care about DiC Entertainment. Andy Heyward caring about money over quality was no wonder why DiC Entertainment bombed and suffered the Atari Inc. Syndrome. It's also a shame that no matter what version of Sailor Moon or Saint Seiya we got back then, it was going to end up westernized with too much normalization just because children were too juvenile to handle Japanese anime. I know that laws were very conservative back then, but all those fussy parents complaining about violence in cartoons and video games spoiled the fun and took away everything that made video games and anime special to begin with. As much as I'm glad DiC dubbed Sailor Moon, changing Zoisite to female was unforgivable.
DiC was the legal equivalent of some dude who's shoot up a whole entire block just for fun
I’ve watched plenty of DIC shows back in the day. One of them, Sushi Pack (their final show), actually had Tiny Toons and Animaniacs creator Tom Ruegger, along with a few other veterans from those series, heavily involved with Sushi Pack. Isn’t that cool?
I might have been mistaken, but I thought the last project of theirs was tied to the ipod toy "Iz and the Zizzles"...
@@edgardeitz5746 I just did my research and it said on letterboxd that the film was released in March of 2007. Both of DIC’s final shows, Dino Squad and Sushi Pack, were both released in November later that year on CBS.
Awesome!!
BRO SUSHI PACK WAS SO FIRE CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED!!
Great video, "Deek!" is the call of so many of my favorite 2nd and 3rd tier (and some 1st tier) cartoons in the 80s and 90s. Depressingly unsurprised it was a machine grinding the souls out of animators.
I guess calling them "Dic's" would be appropriate now 😂
Correction, different competitors existed in the ‘80s in that time you mentioned. Nickelodeon had yet to begin rolling out original shows, and Cartoon Network wasn’t even a thought yet
2:00 Heathcliff didn't air on ABC, it aired in Syndication just like with Inspector Gadget back in the early 80's.
Exactly! Heathcliff was animated first by Ruby-Spears Heathcliff/Maramaduke on ABC. DIC version of Heathcliff was Syndicated
I think I was one of those few kids that stuck around the credits and despite not being an English-speaker I noticed that some of the shows I watched a lot as a kid had the DiC logo. I could've never imagined how complicated were things behind the scenes. I was also surprised that DiC were the ones which dubbed Sailor Moon in English and made so many changes, here in Latin America the anime was aired with very few changes, they even kept the realtionship between Sailor Neptune and Uranus intact
Seeing how DiC tried to make an Lupin III spin-off for Western audiences and the fact that some unrelated Americanized versions of Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya were in development during the 90s, I wonder I companies like them were trying to adapt more Japanese shows from the ground up, instead of just dubbing them, albeit with a lot of content removed
It would be too expensive to outsource. DIC underbid because in reality they couldn't compete with companies who could do it with a better budget.
The fourth and final season of Sailor Moon (Sailor Stars) was dubbed into English for the first time a few years ago. If they went to the extent they did at changing Uranus and Neptune's relationship, I can see why they avoided that season for all this time. Namely, the Starlights.
Also, with anime dubs in the 90's, there was a general attitude that "American kids" wouldn't understand elements of Japanese culture. Probably the most famous example is Pokémon (4Kids) which called onigiri "jelly donuts". I think Sailor Moon did it too, and I wondered as a kid where I could find donuts that looked like that.
@@TurquoiseStar17 here in LatIn America we got the Sailor Stars season dubbed almost inmediatly after Super S ended around 1998. The way they approached the Sarlights was kind of interested, when they were in ther civilian identities they were voiced by male VAs, but when they transformed they were voiced by women. Though I don't consider that as sort of censorship considering that, unlike the manga, the Starlights use magic to transform into men while they were in Earth posing as the Three Lights
Regarding Pokémon, 4Kids held the rights for its international distribution, so almost all international dubs were done using the edited 4Kids version as a base. The "jelly donuts" also happened in the Neutral Spanish dub, since the translators were using the English script they had to respect its changes, and that always confused me as a kids since I used to watch Ranma ½ around the same time and there they referred to onigiri as "bolas de arroz" (rice balls), I couldn't understand why they were "donuts" in Pokémon and "rice balls" in Ranma. The thing actually gets kind of funny when I discovered that both Pokémon and Ranma were dubbed in the same studio, Audiomaster 3000
@@StagehandMotel6you know of the lupin the 3rd spinoff aka Arsene and co, will you ever make a video on lupin the 3rd?
@@railfandepotproductions Its on the list with Beck MCS
Honestly dic is a very unique company. Inspector Gadget was the first show from them I've ever watched and it's one of my childhood favorites along with the 2003 Version of strawberry shortcake (better then that shitty 2010s version) and trollz (better then DreamWorks trolls)
I love when RUclips channels like this gets a video that explodes in popularity and validates the hard work the creator put it into their video
Well deserved recognition. This video is a treasure for sure
"HE'S GOT AAIIDDSSSSSS!"
who could ever forget THAT episode...
THANK YOU, FINALLY I know more about the behemoth of my childhood that was DIC in a nice digestible video essay...
Now do Teletoons... please.
Crazy to think that Sonic Prime is ultimately another DIC Sonic cartoon…mental.😅
Yup.
I can’t believe my childhood was so tragic.
Damn. As a kid growing up in the 80's DIC was a huge deal for me. I hate that, thanks to the internet, it seems like everything I've ever loved, found wholesome, enjoyable, etc, has/had all been destroyed by corporate greed and idiocy. Stop the world, I'm ready to get off now. 😭.
A:"the archie comics fallowed sat-am, Dude, I know this, after Slight, research! B:"at least some good came out of this story, dic's back catalog now owned by wildbrain/m.o.a. who made Prime!
The DiC(k) Vine will always live in my head rent free
I would chuckle when I saw this as a kid. As a man, I still chuckles when I see Dic.
ah so glad we have all these important, hard-working, undervalued middle-men between the artist and the audience. clearly this is where all the profit from the endeavor should be going, and it's a lot of effort well-spent.
I’ve been waiting a long for people to make a video about this studio.
I really enjoyed this educational video. I followed the network for a long time and I still learned something from this. Especially where they got their name.
It’s still canning that dic had so many hits and staple classics and they only knew how to choke the company. 07
I literally discovered this channel like 5min ago and it feels so great to find a channel covering TV and movie studios (especially animation) that played a big part in media (not just our childhoods) but many may not know the details of.
So I quickly subscribed. And then as I'm watching the video I find out bro is Black too! Icing on the cake 👌🏾
RUclipsrs algorithm has been so good. Getting recommended small channels with such great quality
I watch a lot of DIC’s show.
Same
Me too! Their Sailor Moon dub is my favorite!
Wow, I remember DIC!
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I will forever be the 11 yr old that giggles at this name.
This was a pretty neat, to the point video.
I would like to see one that goes more in-depth on DiC's relationships with videogame media. Some suggestions on what that video could cover include:
1) What was up with such things as Club Mario, King Koopa's Kool Kartoons, and media produced specifically for non-English markets like the live action Korean and Danish Mario segments.
2) How DiC managed to even get Captain N made in the furst place.
3) Why DiC shifted from Nintendo to Sega content at the height of their console war feud.
4) Why Sega kept making Sonic shows with different continuities and tones.
5) Any scrapped projects in relation to video game adaptations (including Super Show versions of Metroid and Double Dragon, that Sonic Sisters spinoff, and a full season of Battletoads instead of just one vhs)
I'll have to bookmark your idea and do some digging
The answer to your third question is likely that they had used up all of the major Nintendo IPs by then and did not want to be left out of profiting off the biggest one Sega had to offer.
@@Attmay All of them? F-Zero and Kirby were both around at that time and they effectively gave them up to let 4kids grab them. StarFox came around when Sonic was getting it's stride, and Nintendo gave them access to Squaresoft IPs, meaning they could had in theory done Secret of Mana or Chrono Trigger. Then there is the OBVIOUS one, Donkey Kong Country, which DiC let get into a competitor's hands.
Meanwhile, they DID NOT EVEN USE ANY SEGA IP BESIDES Sonic. And I would had LOVED seeing Streets of Rage, Dynamite Headdy, Shining Force, Gunstar Heroes and Phantasy Star as animations.
I also would have liked to have seen more Inspector Gadget and how that IP single-handedly put DiC on the map and led to their considerable market share growth in the States.
I remember in 5th grade when we were watching Liberty’s Kids. There were some kids who were appalled because of how it could sound like “dick.” The biggest debate ever happened that day.
Awesome show! Disney and DiC should be a future category on Disney 100 Jeopardy as I referenced one of the show’s peer shows, Wizards of Waverly Place, a couple times. Unfortunately, the reboot of the show’s other peer show, iCarly, ended after 3 seasons on a cliffhanger.
Lol, it always made me giggle
@@davidshepherd265 As a category on Disney 100 Jeopardy.
Funny how they partnered with the ACLU to make that show but they never said a thing about their labor practices.
@@Attmay Imagine Disney and DiC working together, huh?
Great video! Honestly, I love super long video essays, but I never have the time for anything longer than 20 minutes (and that’s pushing it lmao), so I appreciate how much good info you packed into less than eleven minutes! Thanks for sharing your videos, very thankful to have stumbled upon your channel!
Growing up in the 90s being at my great grandparents house on the weekend. And dic cartoons would come on I used to be so happy to catch inspector gadget
I lived in burbank and didn't know dic was there 😂 but I knew cartoon network was...all those jingles bring back memories
I personally think DiC deserved to be absorbed into Cookie Jar and DHX Media (both now rebranded as Wildbrain).
As much as I enjoyed most of the shows they've made (especially Inspector Gadget, Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog and The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil), alot of their content was way too juvenile and safe as their humor weren't really funny. But I will admit, they did made a impact for animation as they brought in some iconic people like *Vincent Waller* (who later helped out for Ren and Stimpy and currently the SpongeBob franchise), *Arna Selznick* (who later was a storyboard artist for Eek! The Cat, Clone High and Maggie and the Ferocious Beast) and *Milton Knight* (who later did the character designs for The Pink Panter (1993) and The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, as well as recently being an animator for the Popeye: Barbecue for Two collab).
(Lol. I don't really DiC's cartoons as much anymore as I moved on to Xilam's stuff and indie cartoons recently.)
Ah yes, Milton Knight, Dr. Ivo Robotnik's designer, who is quoted to have made Robotnik as "Animation's Sexiest Fatman"
There was also Sushi Pack, which was developed for television by Tom Ruegger (creator of iconic WB series like Tiny Toons and Animaniacs) along with his fellow collaborator Nicholas Hollander. I like Sushi Pack, it’s cute and kinda underrated.
@@superstitch5618I LOVE SUSHI PACK OMG OTHER PEOPLE REMEMBER IT?!
DIC also bought in Don Adams (a star from Get Smart!) to be Inspector Gadget and Mel Blanc (a Looney Tunes and Flintstones regular by then) to voice Heathcliff.
That's two more iconic people in the list.
Thanks for this. This was such a huge part of the X/Xennial/Millennial childhood
DIC was part of our childhoods.
And it lacked top programs.
0:45 I’ve been watching too many old memes and cant hear this scene the same.
Man I actually do remember watching their mario cartoon on RUclips back in the day when I was young
I'm grateful for DiC creating Inspector Gadget! The slick animation of TMS combined with the comedic stylings of the late comedy icon Don Adams and the groovy soundtrack by Shuki Levy made Inspector Gadget a timeless classic!
That might explain how many of DiC's shows got The Program Exchange treatment. The cereal companies kept DiC afloat during its lifespan.
And it was never about the children. Just the money.
They sound like a bunch of DiCs.
Man I GREW UP on DIC that didn't sound right LOL but seriously this was my childhood. AWESOME VID
DIC Entertainment was a wonderful company. May it never be forgotten.
Moral of the story? Dic should have stopped Dic -ing around with different partnerships and unionized
Ya they kinda got their cheese all over the place. You've heard of Weird Science, well this was Weird Business.
Heh, Dic(k) animation. lol
90s childhood memories!!!! Miss those days. All the classics in this video. Hahaha. Thanks for the memories!!
It's crazy to hear all of these companies named in this video. So many that i grew up with and now there are only a handful that remain. It makes me sad
SatAM was the biggest thing for me. Trying to get me to wake up as a kid on the weekdays was a struggle. Saturday morning though, I was up as early as 5AM
I watched Captain Planet on boomerang.
A DIC animation block lives on in the world of Tubi.
"to absorb DIC in the process"
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I had no idea DiC was so massive!
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (1994) was part of Dic's Entertinment before which was an adaptation the the 1993's Japanese Tokusatsu Show: Gridman The Hyper Agent (or Denko Choujin Gridman)
I mean like I have finished watcving Girdman on Blu-Ray
I got the DVD of superhuman samurai sober squad😊
Idk how this came on my feed but I like what I’m seeing! Subbed!
These videos you have been doing are pretty cool.
I never did learn about what happened to this company and how shady they are. They cemented themselves into my childhood with Sonic SATAM, Sonic Underground, Super Mario Super Show, Legend of Zelda, Captain Planet, and their dub version of Sailor Moon.
Heck, I just recently watched Archie's Weird Mysteries, it was really good, sadly it only got 1 season and I also remember watching Sabrina's Secret Life as a kid. DiC made some good quality content for it's time!
I loved Archie's weird mysteries so much that i bought the series on dvd 😅. I wasnt the biggest fan of Sabrina's secret life tho
Their Sailor Moon is an eternal treasure 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Thanks for putting all of this together. It is enlightening. It does just seem the way of business in these times. Us kids just wanted to watch fun shows and commercials.
They had an empire, a LEGION of children watching and continued to blow it all on cheap crap. They would never be able to compete with Disney, Nick and CN, the times had changed. Audiences demanded more than what they had done in the 80s and early 90s. They served their purpose in making TV animation a pipeline in the United States though, so I wouldn't say they weren't a good part of animation history. It's interesting to wonder where they would have been today if the FCC hadn't killed Saturday morning broadcast cartoons, cable TV had blew up just a bit later or they had stepped up like the newer channels. I guess we'll never know.
You seem to have a few things wrong, you say DiC had competition from Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network in the 80s/90s, but CN didn't exist in the 1980s. CN came out in 1992, and even in the early 90s they weren't in many households/states (my state didn't get it until the late 90s) or cable packages, and they didn't start making their own shows until around the mid or late 90s.
Nickelodeon even aired some of their shows like Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff helping popularize them with the 80s & 90s generations.
Also, the darker Sonic the hedgehog cartoon wasn't based on the Archie Inc. Sonic comics, as both were being made the same time, (therefore both sharing ideas and characters like Sally and the Freedom Fighters, though the comic would adapt stories and charscters/enemies from the games too) but comics are quicker to make so they came out first.
The Sonic SAT AM didn't follow the comics, the comics came after.
So many memories with DIC I always wondered what happened to them. At least they live on in meme great video youtube has been recommending some good stuff lately
0:45 classic
you forgot to detail one thing the last remaining cartoon of DIC which are terrible like the wacky world of tex avery, archies weird mysteries the DIC Movie Toons, and more
Those were so short lived but yeah After the 90s nobody was interested
I rather liked Archie's Weird Mysteries. I watched it on Qubo though, but it was a fun little show with nice monster movie parodies. Not to mention, Archie's voice actor would play James in the Pokemon on Broadway stage show back in the 90s XD
I rather liked _Alienators: Evolution Continues,_ though. It was far more in keeping with _The Real Ghostbusters_ than _Extreme Ghostbusters_ ever was.
Nah, Archie's Weird Mysteries was pretty good.
Or that American revolution cartoon, 2 Sabrina cartoons, Trollz or that Samurai Sumo cartoon