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Checklist: House of Fun TV/Animation Work (Patreon)

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2022-07-31 23:49:51
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Is this of interest? This is a list of all of the tv/animation-related gigs we've done, together or separately. It's part of a longer list of just about everything I/we've done in various media, as well as t-shirt and merchandise art and things like that. We used to be pretty damned busy back in the day. 

I don't know how to format the comic book and magazine lists -- they're very extensive and very long lists -- but the other categories are pretty short, like this one, so I can drop those in with minimal editing. So let me know if you'd want to see more of my old OCD lists like this one in the future. I forgot all about these for a while, because, basically, I haven't had to add anything to it for a while until I remembered I could add the H&H Toys Milk & Cheese figures. 

And if there are any questions about any of the unproduced work on the list, feel free to ask. I'll answer if I can, or follow up more in-depth 9as much as possible) in a separate post. 

Here's the list. How many of these old things have you seen?

BATMAN BEYOND

WB 1999

"Splicers" Co-written with Sarah Dyer

BEN 10

Man of Action/Cartoon Network

Feb 2017-“Xingo” episode, co-written with Sarah Dyer

CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR

Curious Pictures, 2003

Sarah's story sale

COMEDY CENTRAL

Week-long writing stint as part of "Writer's Think Tank" program.

DC NATION

WB Animation – 2012-2013 Premiered August 10th, 2013 on Cartoon Network

Scripts and character designs for five Metal Men shorts co-written with Sarah Dyer.

HANNA-BARBERA

"Super Sam and Spot"

Rewrite script for unproduced Cartoon Cartoon short

KAMANDI: THE LAST BOY ON EARTH  

WB Animation, Sept 2011

Pitch bible for proposed series, co-written with Sarah Dyer. based on the DC comic series by Jack Kirby.

SPACE GHOST COAST-TO-COAST

Cartoon Network

Scripts co-written with Sarah Dyer

1995-1998

"Gum, Disease"

"Girlie Show"

"Jerk"

"$20.01" (A Space Ghost Episode)

"Switcheroo"

"Art Show"

(Unused rewrite of Matt Groening episode, called "Escape")

"Cookout"

"Anniversary"

"Pilot"

"Zorak"

"Hipster"

"Telethon"

("Unused script, "Contest")

"Lawsuit"

Also wrote SG segment of 1986 Cable Ace Awards and linking segments for the SGCTC Dark Side of the Ghost Planet video/laser show tour.

SUPERMAN -THE ANIMATED SERIES

WB 1996-1997

Scripts co-written with Sarah Dyer

"Livewire"

"Monkey Fun"

"Little Girl Lost" parts 1 and 2

SHIN CHAN

Funimation, 2006

Rewrite on episodes 1-8, 10 and 11 of Crayon Shin-Chan anime, co-written with Sarah Dyer. Rewrites for 10 and 11 were not used.

SKELETON KEY

Sunbow, 1999

Re-development and pitch bible, co-written with Sarah Dyer. Based on the comic book series by Andi Watson.

WELCOME TO ELTINGVILLE

Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, aired March, 2002

Series pilot creator/producer, writer, co-writer of bible (w/Sarah Dyer), character and background designs, voice actor.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Murakami, Wolf, Swensen 1989-?

Storyboard clean-up on three episodes

TYRONE’S INFERNO (original title: MENTAL WARD)

Cartoon Network /Adult Swim - unproduced

Mini-bible – Aug, 2003

Pilot script – Aug, 2005

Revised Bible – Dec 2006

Shelved – Feb 2007

VENUS CRUSH

WB Animation, Oct 2012

Pitch bible for proposed series, co-written with Sarah Dyer. Based on ideas and designs by Bruce Timm.

YO GABBA GABBA!

Wild Brain/Nick Jr

Season 1 2007

Character design w/Sarah Dyer – Super Martian Robot Girl

Production art, Storyboards, breakdowns, character designs, etc (w/Sarah Dyer) – SMRG animated segments (7)

Season 2 2008

Writer, “Big” episode (co-written w/Sarah Dyer and Christian Jacobs)

Writer, Sprinkle Story Time animated segment (co-written w/Sarah Dyer)

Segment character designs and production art, color design by Sarah Dyer

Writer, Robot Story Time animated segment

Sarah Dyer sole co-writer for “Family” episode with Christian Jacobs

Season 3 2009

Writer, “Superhero” episode (co-written w/Sarah Dyer and Christian Jacobs)

Writer, “Bugs” episode (co-written w/Sarah Dyer and Christian Jacobs)

Writer, art direction, Story Time “Super Martian Robot Girl” (co-written w/Sarah Dyer)

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Comments

Rezolution

When I found out that you and Sarah were the masterminds behind "To be a man you must have honor and a penis!" from shin chan that totally blew my mind! I wish you were still in the business of punching up scripts

Evan Dorkin

Hate to burst your bubble, but we didn't write that line. I couldn't single out anything that we wrote for them other than re-naming Action Kamen, "Action Bastard".

Rezolution

Bubble burst, but no worries. I hate being confidently wrong about things I read in forums, so I appreciate the insight. If you don't mind could you tell me about how you got involved with writing for the shin chan dub and how you felt/feel about it?

Kate Grueneberg

Chad Ghostal was you?! Those are still my favorite episodes.

Evan Dorkin

We got the gig because Adult Swim was considering picking up the Funimation reworked version and wanted some writers on board that they trusted. They suggested us, and we were hired. We worked on 8 episodes, I have no idea how much of our stuff was used because I only watched two episodes, if that many. I didn't enjoy working on the show at all, and I didn't think the producers knew what the hell they were doing other thhan front-loading bathroom and sex jokes. We suggested giving the different characters actual personalities so they'd be, y'know, different, and they'd have different speech patterns and characteristics, but they had zero interest in doing anything like that. It was just relentless gags, and the series burned out about as quickly as we figured it would. There was nothing but the initial shock value of kids saying dirty/dumb shit. As it happens, we were actually fans of the original anime (Sarah brought the show to the attention of AS execs/SGCTC producers Keith Crawford & Mike Lazzo years earlier), and while we weren't losing sleep over the direction of the Funimation take, we wished it could have been closer to the real thing. The problem was that the original was arguably too controversial/weird for western kids and not controversial/weird enough for adults. There was definitely a way to punch it up and still keep the show fairly intact, but I thought the one-note approach was just doomed to wear people out. It wore me out, and I was already severely depressed about losing our AS Tyrone's Inferno pilot (bc of my depression/anxiety/imposter syndrome) and it was a haul trying to do something decent with the rewrites and I held up our rewrites and dragged my ass on the last episodes we were supposed to do and got us fired as soon as the Swim picked up the series (did we help sell it? I have no idea). Only time I ever got fired off something. It was my fault, but they didn't tell us for more than a month and we kept working on material they didn't need. My least-favorite TV project. I'm glad if folks enjoyed it, but I can't make any claims we added anything of value. If I remember correctly, there was a line in a later episode about how the show wasn't as good since Sarah and I left, but I can't actually find a mention of it online. So maybe I hallucinated that bit of trivia. I still like the original Shin Chan, though.

Evan Dorkin

Thank you! Honestly, we never hear much about Chad, I'm glad you liked those episodes. His mobile facial hair is one of my favorite gags from our shows. if no one elses.

Kate Grueneberg

My dad used to set the vhs to catch the episodes for me in highschool. We’d watch them on the weekend and Chad gags always killed us. And Birdman episodes, too. Thanks you (and Sarah!) for the laffs, man.

Rezolution

If anything it was a launchpad for my current love of the original series after rediscovering the funimation dub, and not being able to fall over laughing at poop/sex jokes like I could as a kid. Sorry it blew so hard for you guys, but thanks for going into detail for me, and whenever I rewatch the funi dub I'll clip that line for ya if I can find it

Ami

Pretty sure the only joke I figured was from you on Shin-Chan was the, "Are your parent's jewish?" line. But I didn't watch much of that.

David Forsythe

That Kamandi show could have been a lot of fun. I'd love to see more details on that if you have them and are legally able to share.

Red Fox Comix

I love a list! Is that Skeleton Key as in Andi Watson?

BuzzFeedAldrin

What exactly was that “Comedy Central writer’s workshop”?

Mike Todd

Can you share some details of “ladies and gentlemen; Pete Michael”? There’s something about every Pete Michael interaction in Telethon that has stuck with me through the years and rears up whenever anyone says “ladies and gentlemen.”

Evan Dorkin

Comedy Central was running a short program of bringing in standup comedians, writers and one confused cartoonist to work in-house on promos and "stunt" programming ideas. I was brought in by a producer who was inquiring about the rights to Milk & Cheese. It was a 9-5 for a week, I was paid $1000 and I swear I was the only person involved who took it seriously. The other workshop members went on interviews, took long breaks, worked on their own stuff and mostly jerked around. The staffers ignored everything turned in and barely listened to what we said when we brought in on meetings for ideas. It was an eye-opener on how show business can waste money and be as boring as any other business.

Evan Dorkin

I don't remember too much about it, but basically we asked for a comedian to appear on the Telethon, and kind of wanted someone who wasn't that good to go with the theme of SGCTC (not so good). And they sent us Pete Michael's reel -- I'm assuming he was a local guy? --and it was perfect. Which sounds awful, I guess, I don't know, we didn't make him tell those jokes or do those impressions, it was his act and we used it like an interview, only it didn't need to be manipulated like an interview. It was what it was. He wasn't very funny. We kind of felt bad for him but he really was kind of relentlessly not funny. I haven't seen the episode since it aired so I don't know how badly it comes off. I feel kind of bad, now.

Alex MacPhee

Is there anywhere online to view the eltingville pilot?