The original post: /r/television by /u/IDCJ1234 on 2025-05-29 14:49:32.
Knowing the movie but never seeing the short lived animated series nor I knew too much about it I was assuming it was some show that might’ve aired on Fox as an experiment or midseason filler giving they used to take chances on the more counterculture or quirkier tv shows. But no it was on ABC of all things because Miramax was owned by Disney which owned ABC in a time when they were in 3rd place and was throwing whatever at the wall and see what sticks.
And watching this is it felt like it felt like they took The Simpsons style humor but made it more surreal and over the top with a more metropolitan feel and look to it. And looking up the history of the show having a show like this on ABC and having it pulled after 2 episodes isn’t too surprising given this looked like a show that someone like ABC did not know how to market but it did feel like a show that was greenlit because everyone wanted to cash in on South Park and that period from 1999-2002 or so there were these one season wonder shows like, The God, The Devil and Bob, Baby Blues, The Oblongs, and Gary and Mike that came out of nowhere
I’m not sure if this was a victim of a network exec greenlighting this and then leaves and a new exec comes in and is like “what the fuck is this? just dump it somewhere.”
But it’s still a fascinating show to watch in a era where people threw whatever at the wall see what sticks.
Maybe today this will be an Adult Swim or streaming series and maybe lasting more than 6 episodes
EDIT: didn’t realize I made this post when it’s hitting its 25th anniversary