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PCC Fred
Space Pope
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Duck Dodgers: the series? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Forget whether of not it's ripping off Futurama; how can anyone take one of the best WB cartoons EVER and water it down like this?
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LesserRaven
Crustacean
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Uh, actually, they've only done ONE cartoon of it before now, and that was decades ago. What I'm saying is that I think that they decided to make this cartoon because of Futurama.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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And somewhere, Dr. Dave smashes his computer in a blind rage...
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Allen
Professor
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Another explanation might be that someone saw this cartoon and said "Hey great potential for a series." I also thought there was at least two cartoons done with that storyline.
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Damitol
Bending Unit
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I saw the commercial, but being familiar with the old Duck Doger cartoons, "Futurama rip-off!" never entered my mind. The biggest difference between Duck Dogers and Futurama as far as CN "not renewing" Futurama is that the duck has a little company called Warner Bros. behind it fronting the lion's share of production costs, and Futurama has no such benefactor. The average Futurama cost $1.3 million to make, and the most Cartoon Network could pony up (according to Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy, the *other* show CN would love to have new episodes of) is about $400,000, or less than 1/3 of the dollars needed. In a perfect world FOX would believe in the series enough to share the costs with CN, which is probably the deal CN has with Warner Bros. on Duck Dogers.
Did someone at CN or Warner Bros. look at Futurama's CN success and think "I wonder how another space/future based comedy cartoon would do?". Probably - but I look at that more as a complement than a rip-off, since Duck Dogers is an established character and no one is going to confuse him with Philip J. Fry.
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Kryten
Space Pope
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Originally posted by less than hero: How dare they rip it off!!!! Ghastly stuff. <h5>They....</h5> <h4>didn't...</h4> <h3>rip...</h3> <h2>off...</h2> <h1>Futurama.</h1>
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sk8ghost
Delivery Boy
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I saw the first episode it was pretty funny. Who doesn't love Daffy?
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Scythemantis
Crustacean
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There have been movies/cartoons about people being frozen in time since LOOOOOOOOOOOONG before futurama and there were actually three old duck dodgers cartoons if I remember.
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rikki_rakko
Crustacean
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Want another weird coincidence? Warner Bros is making new Loony Tunes cartoons to be shown in theaters and one of them is a Duck Dodgers cartoon. Where's the coincidence you say? Dude, it was made at Rough Draft studios, written by Eric Kaplan and directed by Rich Moore.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Kryten: <h5>They....</h5> <h4>didn't...</h4> <h3>rip...</h3> <h2>off...</h2> <h1>Futurama.</h1>
THta seems pretty final to me. I had been waiting for Dr. Dave to go 24th century on this threads ass, but now I'm bored, and I think Kryten's about to have an aneurysm. And I could figure out the correct spelling of that, but I'm lazy.
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