Charlie the Unicorn Adult Swim Pilot Script (Patreon)

Back in 2007 I was contacted by a producer at Adult Swim who was interested in potentially turning Charlie the Unicorn into a TV series. This was about a year after YouTube user gswanson17's upload of Charlie had gone viral on YouTube, and about a year before I joined the then-new "YouTube Partner Program" and started uploading videos to the site myself.

Attached is the script I wrote for the show's pilot. This script led to Adult Swim sending me a contract for a potential 10 episode series, which I ultimately decided not to sign in favor of pursuing an independent career on YouTube instead.

Much of what happens in the script is not "lore accurate" with the eventual YouTube series—when I decided to go the independent route I sat down and came up with a much different plan for how I wanted the series to go. I do not think the Adult Swim version of Charlie the Unicorn would have been very good, but there were some decent jokes here and many of the best of them ended up getting repurposed for Charlie's eventual YouTube series as well as various other FilmCow cartoons over the next few years.

Enjoy.