My old [as] Series Pitch

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*Pic taken by yours truly*

An obvious understatement would be that this idea could never work for an endless amount of reasons.

The concept would have a shot at a very specific frame of time, but mostly as a miscellaneous project to air. As opposed to being a full fledged TV show.

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Origin: Robot Chicken premiered its second season with a cold opening sketch involving Peter Griffin (Seth MacFarlane), Space Ghost (George Lowe), and Master Shake (Dana Snyder) as Adult Swim’s own council supported by Mike Lazzo.

The sketch itself happened to be riffing Superman, with the cameo/setup being an admirable tribute.

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Non-Official Title: [as] Council

Summary: Lead role characters from Adult Swim’s comedy block are in fact Williams Street suits working under Lazzo in Atlanta, circa 2006.

The series would follow Family Guy’s patriarch, ATHF’s drink cup, Ghost Planet’s hero-for-hire, and occasionally the rebellious bending unit with 1 expiring contract. 

Blending stop motion animation with real life environments (potentially thinking Robot Chicken meets IFC era Greg The Bunny), these characters will get to explore the inner city, as well as share a glimpse of everyday life under poorly managed corporate ladder.

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Series Goal: This would be a network dream come true in terms of cross promotion. It’d be something they wish they could plug at every Upfront.

As an ASMBer, it would’ve been a nice thing for our community. Probably have a big contest surrounding it. Episodes could write in one of the characters logging on to a staff computer and arguing with a couple of the users.

 

The network angle would be a touchy, unwanted subject now. Williams Street is no longer the lively place it once was thanks to WBD.

The series in any case would not have been bombarded with Dilbert level quips about corporate suck. For most part, it would all have been the general fan’s imagination of how Adult Swim runs, as we used to have fun ideas thanks to what staff used to share with us SwimPunks.

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Writing Chops: There would guaranteed be some setbacks to this.
 

The series would ideally be produced at a time when Family Guy wasn’t considered low IQ Meme City by younger internet tastes. And even then, there’s still an undeniable cheese factor with how these crossover products are presented.

”Ehehehehehe ayyy Mastah Shake, whaddaya doin’ here?!”

^ Basically, none of that shit would be allowed.

I’d have to be very selective with how the main characters interact with each other, as I can’t really have them on a name basis. For that group pairing especially, I think it’s more authentic.
 

I’m also not gonna get anything out of these popular cartoons “roasting each other” like every bad Deviantart and Facebook wet dream. 

I’d have Shake & Space Ghost occasionally punch up about how successful Griffin is doing, but I wouldn’t have Peter do any jabs against the in-house productions. I wouldn’t reduce him to the worst possible stereotype of casual Swim viewers just ‘cause he spoke to them the most. I’d want it to be something that all fans of the demographic could enjoy.

 

I made a little stop motion video years back titled “Peter & Shake.” It was nonsensical and less than 30 seconds long, but I had a good idea of how they’d bullshit each other as I was making it.

Wouldn’t have Shake talk to Peter the way he does to Carl. That’d be predictable as well as extremely lazy. I don’t think I’d even write for Shake to be as jerky as he is typically. Aside from wanting Dana to rant like hell.

It’d be the same thing with Space Ghost. All you’d have to do is get George on the mic and you’re set.

I’d have the hardest time writing for Bender on this show because the nature surrounding [as] Council would be difficult to add in his... tendencies.

With Peter, I’d just imagine him being written more shy, but also 100% prone to fucking everything up in the process. Basically the one who shouldn’t be the straight man, but just naturally is because no one else possibly can.





I’ve uh... I’ve never talked about this one idea extensively before ever. Nothing could ever come of it, but still seemed fun to do.