>Doug and Rugrats got theatrical movies
>Pic related didn't
How?
Doug and Rugrats got theatrical movies
Jack Reed
Carson Lee
Nobody likes this trash, neither it's author.
Julian Ross
it was not very good
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Andrew Cook
It would never make its release date. John can't commit to a deadline for shit.
Jackson Phillips
>In 1993, Nickelodeon agreed to a two-year contract with 20th Century Fox to make feature films. The joint venture would mostly produce new material, though a Nickelodeon executive did not rule out the possibility of making films based on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats and Doug.
>None of the movies were produced due to the 1994 acquisition of Paramount Pictures by Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom.
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Sounds like one may have been briefly considered at some point then quickly scrapped.
Aiden Sullivan
It was a widely loved and popular show. Stop trying to rewrite history just because you don't like John K. He's not the only one who worked on the show.
Ayden Gonzalez
Doug and Rugrats had stability. R&S had controversy and production issues throughout it's lifespan on Nick. R&S also had no concrete narrative to build a film on.
Elijah Nelson
How the fuck would you stretch a Ren and Stimpy plot into a ninety minute film?
Jaxon Edwards
They were going to make a road trip comedy movie during that time when they made the new Rocko, Hey Arnold and Zim movies but it got canned
Tyler Long
Source?
Nathan Turner
Nickelodeon hated it and hated working with John K. By the time they got rid of him and left it to Bob Camp they were done pumping out movies.
Andrew Martinez
At it's time it was loved, now it's really just dumb kiddy shit.
Logan Flores
Rugrats was one of their most successful shows and it was Disney who put out the Doug movie, because the Rugrats movie did so well in theatres. This was 1998 and 1999; Ren and Stimpy had LONG since stopped production.
Jaxson Rodriguez
Movies take so long to get going that usually by the time they get past the year+ of development it takes (before even starting on the script/board in earnest) shows that are popular enough to warrant considering a movie have passed their peak popularity and starting to decline so execs get cold feet.
Would have to do some research and math but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that more TV cartoons have had movies announced than have actually been produced.
In R&S’s case though I doubt any progress was made with how full John’s hands were just trying to finish episodes and not get fired
Asher Edwards
Movies announced and then cancelled, I mean
Adrian Thomas
I think it holds up well, still funnier than most cartoons
Juan Harris
If anyone is confused Paramount now has completely different management and the head of series development is a late gen X/early millennial dude who has a boner for MTV stuff which is why we’re getting the R&S reboot show, more Beavis & Butt-head, Clone High, Daria etc.
Jaxon Richardson
the same way they did it for Spongebob, Rugrats twice, Wild Thornberries, god knows how many times for Fairly Oddparents, etc.
Give them something to do that takes 90 minutes.
Ethan Watson
It actually got greenlight, John's just still making it
Jeremiah Sullivan
>Spongebob
Series finale where Plankton finally wins and Spongebob ends up proving that he's mature enough to be manager of the Krusty Krab
>Rugrats
1st one is Tommy getting little brother, the 2nd one is the normal "babies doing wild stuff when the adults aren't paying attention" that would make up the B-parts of old Rugrats episodes, but now they're on a vacation
>Wild Thornberries
Eliza does the one thing that makes her lose her powers and the entire movie is her proving that she deserves them again
>FOP
Timmy makes a wilder than normal wish or the established series villains do something that takes more than 11 minutes to resolve
Unless is was a Space Cadets movies, the only way I could see them doing a Ren and Stimpy movie would have been modelling it after the Looney Tunes movies were its preexisting Ren and Stimpy cartoons with a newly animated framing device to tie them together.
Jackson Gray
What would a Ren and Stimpy movie be about?
Cooper Young
The point is that all of these shows save wild thornberries (I barely watched it) are episodic and wacky in nature like Ren and Stimpy is, don’t impact the ability of a movie to have a longer, grander storyline, and continue as normal after the movies are made. If fucking Beavis and Butthead can get one of the best animated films ever made then the cat and chihuahua can at least get something decent.