[Groop]Cartoon show....

[Mark Evanier]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 00:41:47 -0500, jo567779 at pegasus.cc.ucf.edu wrote:

>I cannot envision any Groo television show without thinking of the Tom & Jerry 
>cartoons (made for television in the 60's) where they are friends and holding 
>hands. They mangled what had been a great relationship in movie shorts. I feel 
>the same would happen to Groo were you to turn it over to some conglomerate.
>
>The first thing to go would be the frays, the slaying. Groo would just walk 
>around and act stupid, and people would take advantage of him. Maybe Rufferto 
>would be allowed to bite people on the rump, but that'd be about it. I can't 
>see how this cartoon could survive the transition to an animated series. But if 
>there is a way, I know you and Sergio will find it. :)

ME: In fairness to the animation business, I doubt the kind of thing
that happened with Tom and Jerry would happen today.  That was a more
repressive time.  But it also happened because the characters'
creators -- in this case, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera -- decided to
take that deal and not say, "No, we'd rather not do that to the
characters."  Like anything else, if you aren't willing to say no,
they trample right over you.

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