Why did many Hanna-Barbera characters have cameos in the earlier Cartoon Network shows like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, I am Weasel, Billy and Mandy etc..?
Fred Flintstone even had an episode dedicated to him in both Johnny Bravo and Billy & Mandy, that's how much CN filled these HB cameos for no reason
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Fred Flintstone is based. He was red pilled in prehistory
Those shows canonically take place in the Hanna-Barbera-verse along with Venture Brothers.
A lot of people who worked on those shows came from HB studios. In a way, the Cartoon cartoons era was like a successor to Hanna-Barbera. Those cameos were something of an inside joke.
Because Hanna Barbera studios made those.
The early CN shows were produced at Hanna-Barbera Productions, you could even say that the Cartoon Cartoons were a transitional period for CN from being the HB channel to its own thing.
Everyone who worked on those shows, worked for Hanna-Barbera until 2001. They even grew up with HB's classics.
Shit excuses, you don't see Bugs Bunny in DC Capeshit shows purely because it's under Warner Bros do you?
I guess you're just kinda stupid, then. Take a studio that has classic but now nonexistent IPs, then take bored animators making new shows, and you end up with cameo nods as inside jokes.
No, but we did get this.
>Bugs Bunny in DC capeshit
Where the fuck have you been, retard? Looney Tunes and DC have had crossovers for a while. Hell, Duck Dodgers and Green Lantern even had a crossover.
It's normal for studios to have fun cameos or crossovers with their IPs.
>bugs was batman and superman
Cartoon Network was owned by the same company that owned Hanna Barbera and they initially used the channel to play a shit ton of the old material, while getting the studio to produce a new range of cartoons.
Ok what about you explain first what YOUR beef with these cameos?...
>you don't see Bugs Bunny in DC Capeshit shows purely because it's under Warner Bros do you?
Yes. It happens quite often.
CN use to originally be wholly owned by Hanna-Barbera, so that's why. For the longest time CN was just a HB cartoon dumping ground until things like What a Cartoon! appeared which included pilots for famous shows like Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
>excuses
What does this even mean? You're acting like it's a bad thing.
Hanna-Barbera shows are the reason why animation was so shit in the 60's and 70's, with their limited animation, terrible voice acting and Scooby Doo rip-offs up the ass. These shitters are the reason why stuff like Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes and Classic Disney shorts were no more due to TV shows being cheaper to produce and no going to the movies.
By showing these characters appear in actual good cartoons shows that they aren't ashamed of what they have done and pretends they are the good guys all along
Let's remind you that Cartoon Network Studios became its own studio in 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, it was just a division of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, where the crew of Dexter, Johnny, C&C and PPG would work. And with the library that HB has, some cameos and crossovers were inevitable.
Also, Cartoon Network pre-WAC! was just the "Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros. Channel" or "Proto-Boomerang".
Ok, I’ll let them know
did someone say looney tunes-based superheroes?
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We don't talk about you.
miss martain turned into marvin the martian in young justice once
Yes, but HB did more good than bad. They created timeless and recognizable characters, proved with the Flintstones that cartoons can handle the primetime slot, Scooby-Doo has been proven to be a timeless and infinitely rebootable classic in the likes of Doctor Who and they influenced thousands of animators worldwide, including the ones who worked on the Cartoon Cartoons.
i watched as a kid roughly at the same time i watched the actual looney tunes and i didn't mind, it was cool and so 90's you can taste the Xtreme
It's the reason why Duck Dodgers got cancelled
I would be mad but that last season was a satisfying peak and I'm okay with it
Sadly for you, Loonatics is pretty 2000s as it ran from 2005-2007. It tried to be Batman Beyond, but it was Cringe Over The Edge
how come?
HB lowered standards of quality for decades and hurt animation as an art form. I don't care how much merch they sell with their shitty characters. We're still reeling from the ghetto they forced cartoons into.
You can only have one Looney Tunes incarnation on the air at the time so they don't overlap, same thing with Scooby Doo.
Same with Batman and Scooby-Doo - only one incarnation of the show, no overlap.
>MOO
The creators grew up on those shows
Because Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, I am Weasel are all Hanna-Barbara cartoons?
How old are you? Do you remember each show ending with a bunch of goofy noises and a guitar clunk and showing Hanna-Barbara in an oval?
As for Billy and Mandy, Ted Turner and Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbara, and then promptly started Cartoon Network.
Cartoon network used to be NOTHING but old Hanna-Barbara, Looney Tunes, and Tom & Jerry cartoons 24/7.
Thus Cartoon Network owns Hanna-Barabara, they can put any Hanna-Barbara cartoon in any Cartoon Network show they want.
Thats why Scooby Doo was in Johnny Bravo, why Dynomutt and Blue Falcon were in Dexter's Lab, why Adult Swim could use Space Ghost for a talkshow, why they can make a crude cartoon out of Sealab, and why Fred was in Billy and Mandy.
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> you don't see Bugs Bunny in DC Capeshit shows purely because it's under Warner Bros do you?
Every DC animation made by Warner Bros opens with this youtube.com
And yet they were partially responsible for why Cartoon Cartoons were so great.
Or are you just willing to hate on HB for two decades of shit (70s and 80s) compared to three more decades of goodness. (50s/60s and 90s/very early 2000s)
Yet it was Hanna-Barbera that pioneered televised animation as we know of today. Yet it was Hanna-Barbera's library that kickstarted the Cartoon Network. Yet it was Hanna-Barbera's staff that shaped the late 90s to early 2000s.
Hanna-Barbera may had some bad times, but it was revolutionary when it was good. And when it was good, it was good.
HB is the reason why Don Bluth failed
>Hanna-Barbera
>Mostly TV animation
>Don Bluth
>Theatrical animation
You must be fucking retarded. Bluth didn't fail because of HB, Bluth failed because of executive meddling, Disney's Renaissance and just bad luck.
>HB is the reason why Don Bluth failed
Tell that to Jetsons meets the Flintstones
>The Jetsons meets The Flintstones
>A Made-for-TV Movie
You have only proven my point that HB had nothing to do with Bluth and that you're a retard.
>HB is the reason why Don Bluth failed
>HB is the reason why Don Bluth failed
> their limited animation, terrible voice acting
There is always someone willing to do it cheaper.
Duck Dodgers became a Green lantern and there are a lot of DC and Looney Tunes crossover comics from 2 years ago
The Green Loontern was a kino episode.
Bugs Bunny is Batman
Who cares?
Same reason new cartoons have sonic and Minecraft in them, you are just mad in a few year we'll have a fortnite cameo in family guy
Nah dude. Animation going to shit was the result of television exploding and budgets being cut left and right.
HB did their best to adapt by replacing fluid and expensive animation with limited animation and simple character designs. They would make up for it with god tier voice acting.
It is true that limited animation was and continues to be misused a lot (either because of greed or incompetence) but HB aren't to blame for that. They paved the road, whenever or not this road would lead to quality was up to those who followed them.
Those were the days.
Martian Manhunter once turned into Bugs Bunny in one of those DC DTV films
My only awnser to that is
>why not?
Also Hannah Barbers do what they want nowadays when it comes to any IP that isn't Scooby Doo. They wanna make up a mess of fun and make The Flintstones into an extisential politicial satire comparable to the Golden Age of the Simpsons then god dammit they're going to make up a mess of fun and make The Flintstones into an extisential politicial satire comparable to the Golden Age of the Simpsons.
What I wanna ask is why don't people do cameos anymore?
Immersion?
I swear to Christ I had this episode on tape when I was a kid but I know for a fact I had no Johnny Bravo home media, this was included in a tape for something else like a Scooby Doo movie right? Tell me I’m not crazy.
lmao fucking idiot btfo
This. Those shows even used many of the same sound effects.
Daffy was a Green Lantern once.
/m/ here, dumb question but is there any chance the folks at Warner Brothers will get off their asses and release the 70s Godzilla series in its entirety?
there are but cameos arent that interesting to watch anymore.
schizo trips of truth get!
Cringe
>"He's right, Boo-Boo! Us bears are terribly afraid of caves."
>"Why are so lame, Yogi?"
Still a better Yogi parody than Boo Boo runs wild
You're retarded, and no the creators and workers at Hanna Barbera are not 'ashamed' of Fred Flinstone just because you didn't like Jabberjaw
>Why did many Hanna-Barbera characters have cameos in the earlier Cartoon Network shows
Because Cartoon Network is the corporate continuation of Hanna-Barbera?
I mean it takes five seconds of Googling to get to this Wikipedia article
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So why is this guy so irrationally prejudiced against Hanna Barbera that he resents their cameos? Why the fuck do you think HB ruined Don Bluth?
Where the hell have you been, user?
Yea Forums has the tendency to get someone irrationally angry over things that don't actually exist or matter so they have an excuse to make threads and interact with people in the only way they know how; arguing.
What's wrong with it, bros? IT'S INFINITELY BETTER THAN ANYTHING THE 2010s GAVE US.
The generic 2000s cartoons could rank up as GOD-TIER compared to the 2010s cartoons.
Star an online fan club, and make a petition. It worked for a lot of 90’s shows.
Because Hanna-Barbera produced all the Cartoon Network shows between 1996 and 2001, before they spun off into Cartoon Network Studios.
Everyone from Tartakovsky and Feiss to McCracken and Atoms has worked for the company.
Why don't they make any new Flintstones shows and movies? The latest one was that WWE shit from 2015, and before that was the Flintstones on the Rocks special from 2001 which became lost for over a decade.
What gives?
They actually did make a new series recently, Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs, done by the guy who did the Henry and June parts of Kablam. Apparently it was cancelled before it was even all released, and should be getting dumped all on the Boomerang app sometime within the next few months.
They also announced another series last month, outside of it being a "a primetime animated adult comedy" no actual info about it has been released yet
Don't forget PowerPuff Girls
They really liked spamming these shitty characters all over early CN shows, thank god Ed Edd n Eddy was safe
>Why don't they make any new Flintstones shows and movies?
Because it's 2019 and The Honeymooners came out in 1955. We need cavemen Malcom in the Middle or something.
>Witness Bill Hanna’s responses during an interview with Eugene Slafer: “Are you accomplishing what you believe is good TV animation?” asked Slafer. “No, I do not,” came Hanna’s candid reply.
> To a further probe, “Have you ever been ashamed of your work, especially since parents have ranted about the general lack of quality on Saturday morning cartoon shows?” Hanna admitted, “Actually I feel like I should crawl under a seat sometimes.”
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Based or cringe?
I can FEEL the Trekkie off Seth in this.
Good filename, user.
>Flintstones
>Shitty
It's not good, especially the green alien
Hellfire, that is ugly as fuck
People have been trying to make a proper Flintstones revival for years. There was going to be a Seth Macfarlane Flintstones back in 2013, but it got scrapped when Seth decided to focus on his movies.
>he doesn't know
Tbh Billy and Mandy had a lot of GOOD crossovers and cameos who weren't forced like NUcartoon does,they even make edd,edd and Eddy come back for the invasion special
Did Antonucci approve of this? I thought he hated crossovers
I can only guess he was more or less fine with a quick gag, not a all out crossover.
I'd assume he did since the scene was done by his animation studio. Plus doesn't he own the rights to the show or something?
This was the ONLY good thing King ever wrote.
Because early on CN programmation consisted mostly of old HB and WB cartoons.
The Flintstones is better than at least half of what this place considers "Golden Age CN".
Yes. Antonucci had enough balls to demand from CN to keep the IP and have full creative control. I mean, CN was still a young and small network in 1997 with only having Moxy, Space Ghost, Dexter, C&C and Johnny as its original content, and they knew Nick also saw potential in it. So, why not give it to him?
Not that user, but the first 3 seasons before Pebbles and BamBam came along were alright, not H-Bs BEST work, but definitely up there. When those 2 were introduced the show started being written more for the kids and less for the parents. There's a reason why the On The Rocks movie tried to be more "mature" with it's writing and left out Pebbles and BB.
Also Great Gazoo was literally just a final season effort to boost ratings, he always sucked