>Let me clarify one thing first: I’m not really serious about this. I do realize that an actual reboot could become a trainwreck in so, so many different mesmerising ways. BUT. In that very slim chance of it being good it could be GOOD and I can’t stop thinking about it. So these are just sweet naive theoretical dreams. Let me have it.
>Freakazoid is a terribly underrated show. It had its flaws, but it was funny and charming and oddly ahead of its time. It fell a victim to the target audience’s confusion and poor timeslot choices and stayed in the shadow of Animaniacs. I discovered it in highschool like 5-6 years ago, and I’ve never heard it being mentioned anywhere since then. I’m sure Freakazoid still has a loving fanbase, but he just slipped out of everyone’s minds.
>But I’ll repeat: it was oddly ahead of its time. A show about a superhero that’s inhaled too much internet and became a lolrandom loon, including pop-culture references and cuts to all sorts of stock footage and funny videos? This would fit the modern reality way too well.
>This premise is amazing, but the show just mostly waved it off and focused on the traditional superhero parodies that could be in any other show. I wanna see more stuff done with it, the sky’s a limit!
>WHAT COULD BE DONE >Warning: I’m throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. These are just my thoughts, if you don’t like them that’s fine.
>Freakazoid is meme-y, weird, and obnoxious, but not too much. All’a ya weenies saying “what, do you want him to quote Sup Forums or smth”, but who said we’d need to go to the extremes? You can take human flaws and still make a likeable character out of them. Hell, canon!Freakazoid is already a somewhat selfish, horny memelord, but he knew where to draw the line.
>Maybe he doesn’t know where that line is, at first. Maybe at first, he IS dangerously close to a villain, and the only thing that’s stopping him half of the time is his random and capricious nature (as opposed to Guitierrez). So not a malicious kind of villain, but rather a misguided one. We could have character development. Cosgrove could play a part in this.
>Freakazoid comments on teh internet culture. This a goldmine. So, so many things you could do with it, given the right writing for it. The original show already hilariously commented on the animation tropes and behind-the-scenes stuff (”let’s watch the lips sink” and Jack Valenti interrupting the episode to explain the rating system for no reason are still hysterical to me), so why not do something similar on the modern topics. This could be almost edutainment.
Benjamin Brooks
I`m fucking sick of all these reboots. Make something original or fuck off Hollywood/TV network executives/ Gavin Blair, Ian Pearson, Phil Mitchell, and John Grace
Sebastian Rodriguez
I think he over thought a simple concept that works just cause its simple
Carson Baker
>All you need is to focus on stuff that won’t get dated as quickly. Everyone’s always loved cute baby animal videos - poke fun at that. There will always be obssessive fans (like me rn) - so breathe new life into Fanboy. There will always be creeps online and IRL - so LAY OFF THE POOR BEAVERS, WILL YA? GEEEEZ.
>The villains are actually related to the premise. I LOVE Freakazoid’s villains, I really do, but like I said, they could be put in any other show and nothing would change. Out of all of them, Guitierrez fits the premise the best.
>Maybe Dexter accidentally gave them life when he first activated the chip. Like maybe they’re parts of the internet that gained a physical form and conscience. That’d be cartoonishly ridiculous in the spirit of the show.
>I dunno, maybe Cobra Queen is a virus (Worm Queen?). Maybe Cave Guy is a sophisticated troll that looks like a folklore troll. Maybe Lobe is actually Freakazoid’s own escaped brain, injected with too much Wikipedia or something. Candlej- you-know-who is right out of a creepypasta already.
Wyatt Long
Stop shilling your shit tumblr art this thread should be fucking pruned.
Isaiah Jones
>Maybe Dexter has a problem with himself, like he thinks that Freakazoid is better than him in every aspect, so if he just stopped changing back to his normal self, no one would miss him. And then he’s proven wrong by his friends.
>In this case, Steff would find out they’re the same person, but please do something with that revelation. The show just threw it out as a joke (albeit, a funny joke) and forgot about it.
>I’d love Dexter to get more focus in general, because honestly, the way everyone ignored or outright disliked him in the show was…depressing. He didn’t deserve that. And Steff could do more things aside from just being the trophy gf.
>Guitierrez is a middle-aged man who wants to be cool and hip but doesn’t know how. Think executive producers that put outdated memes in products in hope to appeal to kids, or your poor grandma who doesn’t know how to computer. It’s actually canon, he could barely type in the microchip sequence, fight me.
>Anyway, he wants Freakazoid’s powers for that very reason, he goes “Everyone says the internet is awesome and powerful, so imma harness this majesty for myself. I’ll finally become hip and relevant and no gnarly kids will make fun of me again”.
>And at first he’s probably stopped just by Freakazoid telling him about the dark side of the internet. He’s like “I grew up with this, my body was (almost) ready for this. Yours? I don’t think so. It’s cool, go home, read a book, watch some dramas, pet a cat, ‘s fine my dude, not everyone is a tech genuis”.
Levi Morgan
>WHAT SHOULDN’T BE DONE >Don’t actually chase the memes and fads. Nobody wants to see Freakazoid dabbing or Steff twerking. This would be so outdated, it would never actually be in-dated.
>Don’t be mean. I thought the original show was fairly good at making fun of things without coming off as too rude or judgemental. At least, Freakazoid himself didn’t seem to be like that, which is a part of his charm. So I’d hate to see him spew some Family Guy-tier comedy that offends everyone just for the sake of it. In fact, a nice positive internet superhero is something we all need.
>Don’t use lazy cheap puppet tweening. I don’t have anything against puppet animation, like anything it could be great when done right, but you know the kind I’m talking about. The kind that’s not done right.
>I actually don’t even mind it most of the time, but keep it far, FAR away from Freakazoid, because he was BORN for expressive fluid movement.
>Leave that sweet jazzy score. Seriously, it just adds to the atmosphere of the superhero parodies. This would never work with some pop songs.
Would you read a comic of Freakazoid, still doing pop culture refs from his time?
I'm an outsider to US culture of the time, but I still like this show, despite having zero context on just about everything.
David Garcia
no
just no
fucking freakizoid was a product of its time, it would be SHIT if they brought it back because the net of 2018 is NOTHING like the net of 1997.
also, recasting Cosgrove...fuck you
Logan Jenkins
I just don't think it can be done.
This art is great as far as fan art goes, but wanting Freakazoid to look like this? I don't now.
Christian Hernandez
>The artist could've spent all this time doing something original >Instead they did a proposal for a Freakazoid reboot
Holy fuck, even the reboot syndrome is affecting people who aren't even part of the industry yet.
Grayson Allen
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Matthew Ramirez
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Brandon Jackson
Freakazoid no longer works conceptually.
A man who's brain got blasted by the internet would end up so insane and sexually depraved now that it would be fit for no one.
Kayden Jackson
It feels like such a waste of talent. They could've spent the amount of time they thought about this into doing something original, or at least a spiritual successor. Even videogame autists have the decency to kickstart stuff in the same vein and not actively try to do someone else's project over again.
Thomas Gray
No. Just fucking NO.
The Animaniacs reboot will fail because it was made for the 90s by the 90s. It simply cannot and will not succeed in today's age. Don't drag Freakazoid down with it, as it will fail even worse thanks to what the Internet has since become.
James Brown
>A man who's brain got blasted by the internet would end up so insane and sexually depraved now that it would be fit for no one. I dunno you could do some great moments showing that Dexter's core goodness is strong enough to hold back the worst of what the Internet has, while Guitierrez due to being a corrupt corporate overlord with an atrophied moral center falls even deeper into depravity from it
Andrew Hill
this is actually pretty solid, I'd watch it
Lucas Richardson
It does sound like a solid concept, and the animatics are good. But I hope it never actually happens, because of the trainwreck it would be.
Joshua Torres
>It does sound like a solid concept, and the animatics are good. But I hope it never actually happens, because of the trainwreck it would be. that is a terrible attitude to have mate, you just have to take things as they happen, sure it could suck, but it's not like it sucking would make the original worse
seriously people on Sup Forums* are too damn cynical lately
*honestly could be said about the whole site
Joseph Campbell
That's assuming his brain got blasted into the internet of 2018 rather than the internet of 1995.
Jonathan Morris
I'm getting really tired of 90's nostalgia
Matthew Richardson
>Depraved due all the porn and shit on the Internet
Roddy Mcstew to Freakazoid: >Listen kid, you activated the chip's flaw and now all your brain is charged with all of the internet knowdlege!!!
>All of it?!?! *Freakazoid makes a "you know what that means" expression*
>Well... Almost all of it, it comes with parental controls on as default.
>Phew... What a relief! Now put down that phone down lady!! *Frekazoid breaks the 4th wall pointing and talking to the camera and it cuts to a shot of a typical soccer mom just about to make a call to complain about the show*
There fixed in one joke
Parker Nelson
eugh
Kayden Bell
>Maybe Dexter accidentally gave them life when he first activated the chip. Like maybe they’re parts of the internet that gained a physical form and conscience. That’d be cartoonishly ridiculous in the spirit of the show.
>I dunno, maybe Cobra Queen is a virus (Worm Queen?). Maybe Cave Guy is a sophisticated troll that looks like a folklore troll. Maybe Lobe is actually Freakazoid’s own escaped brain, injected with too much Wikipedia or something. Candlej- you-know-who is right out of a creepypasta already.
This is not necesary some of the charm in the show was the ridicoules backstories, they don't need to be related to the internet
Henry Baker
And yeah, maybe trade chip for "last update of the internet browser" to make it more believable, heck the whole company could be a parody of google or something, even the villain's last name starts with the same letter
Luis Price
that's a pretty good gag, although since it'd probably end up on Hulu like the Animaniacs revival, we probably could get away with some innuendos
although now that has me imagine Freakazoid turning off the Parental Controls as a "limit break" kinda of thing
Anthony Cruz
it's not necessary, but it's not a bad idea either, tying together Freakazoid's villains with him
Jayden Sanchez
In the 90s, we were really tired of the 70s nostalgia.
Anthony Ortiz
>The internet of 1995 was so different from the one of today!
Google "Agony in Pink."
Thomas Ramirez
yeah it's mostly a matter of scale not content
Michael Hernandez
>Oh no! The villains are going to get away with it!! I have failed!! Is it the end of Freakazoid??!!!
>Mmmm that's odd it's pretty short for an episode
*Freakazoid pulls out a remote and suddenly the screen is filled with a YouTube like UI much to the surprise of everyone else*
>It says we have 12 more minutes this cant be over.... Wait a minute!! Here says that this episode is PG-13!!! But we always been PG!!! THAT MEANS I CAN DO THIS!!!
*After Freakazoid gets some realistic looking weapons and before going violent with them it cuts to the old gag of explaining what the various ratings mean*
Kevin Gonzalez
To be fair if someone tries to make a fan game of an existing game series they usually get assraped into next week by the company they're aping from, so they have to go for the spiritual successor meme. Hell, Nintendo is notorious for this and will shit down the throat of even non-profit fan games if they can catch them.
Carson Martin
Anyone wanting a Freakazoid reboot is an idiot. It was only charming because of the time period it was made in. It sure as FUCK wouldn't be charming today.
>>But I’ll repeat: it was oddly ahead of its time. A show about a superhero that’s inhaled too much internet and became a lolrandom loon, including pop-culture references and cuts to all sorts of stock footage and funny videos? This would fit the modern reality way too well.
Today Freakazoid would be a reddit memer. Let that sink in, digest it and now tell me you want this show revived. Rick and Morty creates memes and look how insufferable that got, now just imagine a show repeating them non stop. We don't need a third link in this chain of autism. Sorry, I don't ever want to see the new harambe or szechuan sauce episode of Freakazoid.
Freakazoid only worked when it did because the internet was still a new and mysterious thing. Now that we all get it everywhere, non stop, the charm would be completely lost and the humor would be cringey as all hell.
Camden Cooper
I don't think this person understands that Freakazoid only became largely entertaining in its second season when the writers stopped giving a shit about making an actual superhero show, and instead just decided to start doing whatever the hell they wanted with the characters they had already established at that point.
Freakazoid just needs to be a dumb, goofy superhero parody with an incredibly loose set of writing rules. Trying to focus on Freakazoid's origin or character development would just be missing the point, which is why a modern Freakazoid cartoon would just end up being a mistake. Make something new if you want to put that much thought into a reboot of something that really didn't harbor a whole lot of planning in the first place.
Julian Parker
eh you're underselling how good the first season was
Gavin Baker
>*Freakazoid pulls out a remote and suddenly the screen is filled with a YouTube like UI much to the surprise of everyone else* >It says we have 12 more minutes this cant be over.... Wait a minute!! Here says that this episode is PG-13!!! But we always been PG!!! THAT MEANS I CAN DO THIS!!! Please stop.
Adrian Rivera
I'm really not. This is coming from someone who loves the original show.
Oliver Gomez
Freakazoid wasn't good because he's from the Internet. Hell, that only comes up a handful of times. Stop focusing on that part so much.
Ryder Moore
shut up Boco
Jonathan Williams
Season one was good, but it was really just Animaniacs-style shorts with a superhero. It became a lot more unique in season two.
Eli Gonzalez
No.
Tyler Davis
What if we took Freakazoid and mixed it with Serial Experiments Lain?
Asher Carter
The idea of villains representing internet sites/memes is extremely dating. Also, there's no reason why Lobe, Caveguy, or Cobra Queen should be related to Freakazoid. The beauty was in the randomness of his villains, like in comics.
Ryan Turner
He is correct in this case.
Lucas Gray
Boco can never be correct, it's part of his very essence
Easton Davis
Heh. That's pretty funny. He could also say "Ooh, the next episode is a two-parter!"
Henry Thompson
I don't know what it is but this picture has that same tumblr vibe I see in bad tumblr art threads, it's not hardcore like big noses and fucked up dimples but you can see it on the girls face, it might be the blush or linework in general but their faces have that shitty vibe to them
Benjamin Cox
>of tumblr fame
His ideas are confirmed trash then.
John Kelly
The only Freakazoid reboot I'd accept is if they'd have Doug TenNapel as the character designer.
Parker Wright
>Everyone’s always loved cute baby animal videos - poke fun at that
Noah Bell
The guy's writing style is quirky and horrendous, it masks what he's trying to say.
It's a fucking comedy show it doesn't need multiple posts long explanation. Just post your fanart and say "it'd be interesting if they did a good reboot of freakazoid" and leave it at that.
Gabriel Nguyen
Freakazoid would be hard to reboot because you'd need to nail that weird sweet spot for the kind of comedy it had. The internet thing was more of an explanation to why he was so fast, weird, and full of pop culture. I still think in an era with high internet usage and lots of superhero media it could be cool.
Bentley Morris
>a cartoon referencing the internet >after 2010, or even '07 I don't want to watch a cartoon that regurgitates memes and chooses sides on political spectrums. We have enough of those. Despite everything I do see a freakazoid reboot choosing sides on the politics thing because modern writers would likely be working on it and not an old geezer
Gabriel Collins
Yeah, nothing should ever be created again because it might turn out bad. Sup Forums really is doing a service.
Wyatt Barnes
You know you want this to happen
Joseph Martin
>Not knowing about the greatest cartoon creator in the history of mankind I weep for you.
Adrian Nelson
I almost replied with a troll comment about how they wouldn't hire him because of his beliefs, but I am legitimately curious how this would look and why you picked Doug TenNapel of all people to redesign this show.
Colton Torres
That's quite impressive. Got the comedic timing down. Would love to hear it voiced.
Evan Johnson
man you guys are being awfully salty about this, it's kinda nonsensical
Isaac Bennett
>"It sure is a waste of time and talent to do a fake reboot, especially since reboots are getting very annoying in today's TV". >WHY ARE YOU BEING SO SALTY???
I'm sorry, is this Sup Forums or a fucking safe space? Are we allowed to comment on it, or just give the artist praise?
Daniel Long
the thing is your "comment" is just you guys being salty about them spending time on something they wanted to do instead of any valid criticism
Christian Cruz
"It's a waste of time to devote a plan for a reboot series that is basically over glorified fanart" is criticism.
If someone had amazing musical abilities but all they did was sing about how much they want cock in their mouth, I would say they have real potential to write songs with substance. This is no different.
Jason Garcia
>Freakazoid only worked when it did because the internet was still a new and mysterious thing. Do you want to see something strange and mystical?
Ian Anderson
I just wonder how Candlejack would work in the Internet age. I mean, unless people are chatting over Skype or Discord, it's not like he can just sweep people awa
Christian Brooks
"You have talent and you're squandering it by chasing fan projects instead of trying to develop your own ideas" is perfectly valid criticism. I loved Freakazoid as a kid and I still love the show today, but it had its time. This kid on tumblr has real, genuine talent and he'd rather try to put that talent to use on someone else's ideas instead of working on his own, and that's actually fucking sad. Not everything needs to have a reboot, let the work stand on its own. Kid should use what he loves about Freakazoid and help it form something that's truly his.
Luis Hughes
Dude. What if...
Joseph Rodriguez
pathetic
Parker Harris
If it wasn't obvious that you were the artist shilling your own art from OP, it sure as hell is now.
Justin Reyes
actually I'm not, I just find those guys attitudes to be incredibly silly, even by Sup Forums standards
Jaxon Phillips
And you're incredibly thin-skinned, even for Tumblr standards.
Ryder Mitchell
>I am legitimately curious how this would look and why you picked Doug TenNapel of all people to redesign this show.
Because he's just about the only guy I know of with a weird and fucked up enough imagination that would make a Freakazoid reboot have genuinely new qualities, and not just a poor quality rehash of the original. Note that he only needs to design the characters, not write the show.
Also if he'd also design the sceneries, the show would be surreal as fuck.
Michael Morgan
Counterpoint, but Freakazoid is a popular, or at least a well-known, franchise with lots of long time fans. A pitch for a reboot of a beloved show is more likely to catch people's eyes than a pitch for a totally unknown commodity.
The chance of this getting made is zilch, but it gives the artist a better shot at exposure, which can lead to forming contacts and connections.
James Cameron got his start making Piranha 2. Everyone starts somewhere.
Colton Lewis
what the fuck why are we having a thread about some random retard's freakazoid fanfiction?
Adrian Barnes
because Xamag is a homestuck e celeb
Oliver Davis
The point is though that we have an oversaturation of reboots, sequels, prequels, reimaginings, or whatever. Even now, half the cartoons in production are reboots or using existing franchises.
Plus the: >Hey Arnold Movie >Rocko Movie >Invader ZIM Movie
And soon, Animaniacs. Plus we got the Lion King remake coming up. You could freeze someone in the year 2000, wake them up, tell them what movies and TV show are out and they'd still think it was the 90's. There is very little to gain from rebooting a series. Too many changes make people complain that it's different, too few changes make people complain what was the point, and it will always be compared to the original no matter the quality of it. There are so many people out there with ideas and pilots just waiting to be greenlit, the fact that we keep rebooting shit is just insulting to fresh ideas.
Christian Reed
And how did Freakazoid get those fans to begin with? By being an original show.
Chase Reyes
You're missing the point. It's not really about making a new reboot - it's about the artist hopping onto the zeitgeist of reboots as a means of getting exposure.
Don't take this at face value. Again, this is NOT getting made - at least, not with this person's pitch. How you and I feel about the glut of reboots doesn't really apply here.
Anthony Jenkins
Probably because Freakazoid and Earthworm Jim had a lot of overlap in their style of writing.
Brayden Moore
>Out of all of them, Guitierrez fits the premise the best. Guiterrez is my favorite villain.
William Lopez
Being voiced by Ricardo Montalban helps.
>"Laugh with me, Jocko!
Juan Lee
>Being voiced by Ricardo Montalban helps. that is a bit of a problem, since he's dead, who should replace him in a hypothetical reboot/revival?
Tyler Roberts
I fail to see how becoming a more conventional one-episode-a-slot show minus several supporting characters made it more unique instead of less. In fact I would argue it worked against the show since it forced them to pad out their already-slim plots to fill out the runtime.
Grayson Myers
They even joked about replacing their announcer with the one from EWJ in one episode.
Wyatt Adams
John O'Hurley putting on a Castelian accent.
Easton Reed
Earl Boen, obviously. He filled in as Senor Senior Sr. in Kim Possible when Montalban couldn't make it due to health problems.
Caleb Bennett
The stuffy twits in this thread that say Freakazoid shouldn't evolve are the same losers who still read Superman because he stays more or less the same. Pick a lane.
Jeremiah Williams
That works Freakazoids humour is better that way. Adding all the heavy adult themes would ruin the fun, freakazoid is a family show, like how Pixar makes their movies for an entire family.
Jack Bailey
Some of these franchises are now built around reboots though. TMNT Spider-Man batman any thing that has a comic book adaptation can still work with a reboot since there are multiple writers to the source material.
Parker Nelson
I... I'll admit, I was rolling my eyes at most of this thread, until I got to this post. So far I've only watched part 1 of the animatic, but I'm completely sold. She nailed the humor and everything, and modernized it without sounding too "how do you, fellow kids" about it.
