Ted Key, creator of Mr. Peabody and Sherman, RIP

Aw man.

http://usera.imagecave.com/scottbakalar/Blogstuff4/mr_peabody_and_sherman.JPG <3

R.I.P. Very sad news.

aw. i loved peabody and sherman! by far my favorite part of that show -- even better than fractured fairy tales.

That's the first obit where I noticed Peabody & Sherman!!! All the others led w/ "Hazel" only.

J0n and I will play P&S in live-action film adap. (no need to specify who's who)

actually, ian probably a better Sherman.

that would be a cute halloween costume

He also wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Disney film "The Cat From Outer Space"

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Awwww RIP.

RIP

Only Two full eps on Youtube

Actually, only one. The other one is something else.

RIP.

I was going to ask Morbius to tell his story of Edward Everett Horton's raggedy sweater, but I guess EEH had nothing to do with Mr. Peabody.

I figured Jay Ward had created S & Mr P.

Wonder if any kids ever repeated their warped history lessons in school...

there's an imminent animated film, written by a former writer-producer of Six Feet Under and Lost.

leave my childhood alone.

They already fucked up with that horrible Rocky & Bullwinkle movie several years back, and yet this is almost certain to be a thousand times worse.

Dunno who in Hollywood gets the idea that kids wanna see 3-D versions of cartoons that are way before their time anyways. Why not Inspector Gadget or something?

did anyone ever see that weird 'boris and natasha' movie they made in the '80s? remember seeing it on shelves at the video store as a kid and being kind of freaked out that it existed.

the 2001 live action one was HORRIBLE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlseN1U5ajw

They already did Inspector Gadget dude

xp

yeah inspector gadget was a decent sized hit, the kind of midlevel hit that yields direct to video sequels w/ a downmarket recasting of the lead. this thing looks awful in a very dull way which means it's somehow worselooking than that deniro bullwinkle movie. surely the movie focuses more on time travel but all the jokes i've seen in ads have been watered down versions of the 'cuz brian is a dog, get it' jokes on family guy.

Well yeah I knew Inspector Gadget had already been attempted, but why couldn't they try it AGAIN (like "Hulk" or "Godzilla")?

(Plus I added "...or something", geez)

Holding out for Tennessee Tuxedo/Go-Go Gophers CGI double feature.

Dunno who in Hollywood gets the idea that kids wanna see 3-D versions of cartoons that are way before their time anyways. Why not Inspector Gadget or something?

I've always been confounded by this too, I mean Alvin and the Chipmunks was well before MY time so I don't get who in their target age range of 6-13 would actually want to see this over an original franchise. But now there's been 3 Alvin moves so maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about.

Go-Go Gophers CGI double feature.

Hoopy-doopy, you-um genius!

At this point I'm just waiting for a new Clutch Cargo reboot where it's all super expensive, state-of-the-art CGI, but with the real life lips dubbed in still.

Kids don't actually have any money, so ultimately you need to appeal to the parents to pay for whatever movie their kids are going to see or whatever toys they want. I guess this one is a bit weird since this is way older than stuff like Transformers and the Smurfs, but this stuff was still on TV when the parents of today's kids were kids.

And kids basically want to see everything that is animated.

xxp

My kid is currently into the live-action George of the Jungle with Brendan Fraser, which is not as bad as that Bullwinkle movie looks, but yeah good luck figuring out what kids are gonna like.

More than the shitty-looking CGI, more than the alleged "wackiness" of these characters' new adventures, more than the obligatory scene where Sherman and/or Mr. Peabody raps, the thing that pisses me off the most about these movies is the voices. If you can't get the voices right, don't fucking bother. If the ads for this are anything to go by, Ty Burrell's and Max Charles' auditions consisted solely of pissing on the graves of Bill Scott and Walter Tetley, respectively.