9 Nickelodeon Shows That Changed During Development | blameitonjorge

It is always incredibly rare for a show to remain un

changed

throughout

development

, from the moment the initial idea is conceived to the airing of its pilots, a show can undergo a huge number of changes, sometimes even turning it into a final product. completely unrecognizable, whether these changes are always for the best is hard to say, so we'll leave it up to you as we go over nine Nickelodeon

shows

that change during

development

. CatDog Before launching the series on Nickelodeon, show creator Peter Henan had assisted on a children's book project titled The Amazing. cat dog man Instead of featuring the actual cat dog, the book when I focused on a superhero with two heads, one a cat and one a dog, is unclear, this would have worked similarly to how I did in the final product with Chad as his own Bruce Summa Bleah, the cat-dog man, would have had a muscular human body with two heads growing out of his neck, who knows.

In the end, Hannon decided to read the project in what we now know as cat dog and present it to Nickelodeon, as it initially was. collected as a series of two-minute shorts that would probably have aired during commercial breaks, however, once the theme song was recorded, the higher-ups liked it so much that they decided to turn it into a full series, thus giving us the cat dog that everyone knows and loves the last house at the beginning of the development Lincoln and his family would have been rabbits and he would have had 25 sisters in total. This is playing into the joke/scientific fact that rabbits reproduce a lot, we could have ended up with this version of On the show, Jenna Boyd, a Nickelodeon executive, did not intervene and suggest that the show's creator, Chris Savino, opt by a human cast.

Instead, he made the switch and claimed that it would be the best advice he had ever received in his entire career, maybe having 25 sisters would have done it. he made developing them all much more difficult and the rabbits were simply used as identifiable. A remnant of those old designs can be seen with Lincoln's stuffed animal, bun-bun, who shares his original design with humans, being the new dominant species in the series. The time has come to design all of them. However, the characters, like most

shows

, the characters we ended up with went through a variety of changes, among all the little changes, the second oldest sister, Lennie, went through the most initially.

She was supposed to be eight years old, making her one of Lincoln's younger sisters by three. For years, she was also assumed to have super strength and be obese, mirroring the character she was named after Lennie from Of Mice and Men. It is unclear why these changes were made, but perhaps it was done so that she would finally look like the rest of her siblings. According to an episode of the Knick Animation Podcast, before the decision to turn Lincoln, the middle son's ideas were ex

changed

and he was between the older and younger brothers. Ultimately the decision was made to have it right in the middle as it made sense.

Thematically, Hi Arlen, Over the course of your run, we've learned a lot about the people who live at the Sunset Arms boarding house on Hey Arnold, long-time fans of the series may remember another person who disappears from the show almost as suddenly as appeared and appears occasionally during the first. In the season, a woman named Lana Vale appeared to have lived at the boarding house. She is said to have been a single lawyer originally from southeastern Europe due to her accident. She only had a speaking role during the episode Heat where she acts like Arnold if she gets some cold air.

There's a lot going for him other than he makes numerous background appearances throughout the first season until it's indicated that he moved away at some point during the second season even though he still appears occasionally in background shots throughout the rest. of the series, so what is the deal with this woman, why are we talking about her? Well, her initial role in the series might be what ended up causing her to say goodbye to it. A fan with the username criminy who knew series creator Craig Bartlett asked him personally about the character. In a now-deleted video, Bartlett claims that the initial plan for the character was for her to fall in love with Arnold and ask him to do her favors that would make him uncomfortable.

Her exact words about the character are no longer available, so it is unknown. Whether Lana was a predator or just friendly without any social cues, however, it's easy to see why such a concept for a character would be shut down for a good show, if this idea went away the writers couldn't find a new role for her. He liked her and eventually decided to remove her from the show completely. The Fairly OddParents. I'm sure many of you have heard the story of how Turner initially wanted to have a blue hat, but it turned pink when series creator Butch Harmon ran out of it. blue ink and only had pink aside from his original blue hats, Timmy was going to have red hair and be called Mikey Turner.

His hair was changed to brown to prevent him from looking too much like Vicky's, however, the name Mikey was inspired by the butcher's brother, Mikey Hartman. However, the two fell out and the character's name was changed to Timmy after his other brother, Timothy Harmon, Butch was finally able to name a character after Mikey in 2017 on the show Bunsen's a Beast cartoon shorts. animated initials, oh yes, Timmy was. voiced by the late Mary Kay Bergman, but after she committed suicide, the shorts were dubbed with Tara Strong, the current voice actress, moving away from Timmy in the original shorts, Cosmo was shown to be the smart one and Wanda was the dumb one and also hinted at being Cinderella's original fairy godmothers even further back, before their designs were finalized, Cosmo was going to be a fat, bald guy and Wanda would have been tall and skinny.

Cosmos' initial design was reused for the male Wanda in the episode, the boy who would be queen. Additionally, Wanda was originally going to be called Venus to match the space-themed name of the cosmos, but the team couldn't pass up the opportunity to make the obvious wand pun: the name Venus was kept as Wanda's middle name, some other fun little facts though. are that originally Dinkleberg was only going to be in one episode, but he kept coming back due to her popularity and a theatrical film was planned around 2005-2006, eventually cancelled. Could it have been before the final product we got still caught attention, so let's take a look at what was happening beforehand before the concept of Invader Zim was even floating around series creator Jonah en Vasquez and Nickelodeon played with the idea of ​​launching Vásquez? comic squee, but the studio rejected it due to the incredibly dark nature of the comic.

Once Zim was introduced, it initially had a 1950s B-movie aesthetic with a comedy style similar to Animaniacs Ren Stimpy and Rocky and Bullwinkle, however this direction barely made any progress. before Vasquez realized that he hated working on something so predictable in the final show, Zim is voiced by Richard Horvitz, but almost Mark Hamill or Billy West voices him. Nickelodeon rejected Hamill because he made the character sound too old and Vasquez rejected Wes as he was worried that his voice would be too recognizable thanks to his participation in another sci-fi show airing at the time of the drama. .

Throughout the series there would be many jokes that hinged on characters dying on screen and attacking some of Nickelodeon's other shows like Rugrats, but of course the network stepped in to put an end to all of that. Invader Zim was eventually canceled in 2006 despite having 13 unfinished episodes left. Adult Swim was interested in continuing the series and even bid to buy it from Nickelodeon, but the studio refused to sell the rights, angering both fans and creators in 2010. Nicktoons Network aired many reruns of Invader Zim, including having a 24-hour marathon at one point to test the waters for a possible revival, while the ratings were good, the studio deemed it too expensive. to provide the show since it previously struggled to maintain its budget of $500,000 per episode, the standard on Nickelodeon, it was eventually decided that the series would continue in the form of a single film titled Floor Invaders, which will eventually be released in late 2018.

Rugrats Rugrats was one of Nickelodeon's first iconic animated series, so it makes sense that a lot of time and care went into developing the series. This, of course, includes many changes and many possible spin-offs. The initial title of the program. 1. Something was sold. In a simple logline with hardly any development behind it, the initial pilot episode that was never released to the public was titled Tommy Pickles and the Big White Thing was animated in the same style as the original intro scene before each episode of the entire series. . What was interesting about this pilot episode was that at one point it was intended to be a regular episode of the full series, but unknown circumstances halted its production.

A TV guide in August 1991 falsely advertised the episode, leading to it becoming a rather infamous lost episode. The original pilot was released on the 2001 10th Anniversary DVD and tells of lost episodes. A total of 15 known episodes were in development at one point, but were ultimately cancelled, some due to unnecessary fantasy sequences that the series creators simply disapproved of and were rejected by Nickelodeon due to costs or opposition. the threat of children imitating something dangerous, such as an episode where Chucky gets stuck between the railings, one of the main plot points for Chucky is that he deals with his deceased mother and is raised by an originally single father , although his mother was going to be alive. and instead divorced his father, this is supported by a prototype of his mother appearing in the background of the ebq story episode and Stu saying that Chucky's mother would pick him up in the morning in the actual episode o robots.

Nickelodeon thought the divorce and death were too heavy for the show's audience, but ultimately decided on her being dead as a plot point later, even being the focus of the second Rugrats in Paris movie, talking about Chucky, who he was originally meant to be the bully character before Angelica took him on. Instead, the show did a complete 180 and became the heart of the show. From the beginning, Angelica would almost never be punished to teach the children the lesson that life is not fair. The team working on the show quickly began to hate Angelica and how unpleasant she was. she was and she changed this quickly it was so much more satisfying to see her get in trouble for all the terrible things danny phantom did jackie phantom just doesn't roll her tongue like danny phantom does, well we could have had that at the same time.

The point is, Butch Hartman initially wanted to name Danny after Jackie Chan, this was back in 2001, only one series creator, Butch Hartman, found out that Nickelodeon was looking for an animated children's action show after dropping out the name Jackie, as well as other options like Billy Kinney and Davey. Pitchford created Danny Phantom and the Specter Detectors, which was the original title of the show. Many important aspects of this version of the show were completely different, the biggest being Danny's lack of powers. That's right, Danny would have been completely human, he and his friends. He would have used different devices to fight ghosts, in addition to riding a motorcycle in reference to Marvel's Ghost Rider.

Hartman eventually realized that it would be much better for the main character to have superpowers and changed the series to what we know today. Danny eventually had to ride a motorcycle in the episode Living Large as a possible reference to this original idea. Danny also originally had a pet owl named Spooky, but this was removed due to the first film in the Harry Potter series being released around the same time production began. featured Harry's pet owl, Hedwig Hartman feared it would be seen as too similar and removed the owl from the show. Danny and Sam were also going to share a psychic connection that would show how close they are and hint at their romantic interest in each other.

This was removed. very close to the initial release for a variety of reasons to begin with, so he already had the ghost powers of him and Sam had other defining attributes. This psychic connection would be too much criticism to juggle with everything else that immediately presented itself. Hartman also did not want the The relationship between the two must be overdeveloped at the beginning, as he wants them to grow throughout the series with all the will, no, the dynamic SpongeBob, while Rugrats was undoubtedly the older teenager of Nick for a time, he was no match for the giant. that is, SpongeBob, thecharacter has risen to the same level of recognized skill as Mickey Mouse and Mario, but we almost got a completely different version of the character, multiple different versions, in fact, SpongeBob SquarePants almost never happened in the first place, the place on Nicktoons.

The lineup that ultimately went to SpongeBob SquarePants was originally intended for a show there, a full version of KaBlam's sneeze-and-fondue series. After the series creator left Nickelodeon over office politics, the spot was given to SpongeBob SquarePants and production began. The character's original name was SpongeBoy. instead of SpongeBob, a name that was later dropped after series creator Stephen Hillenburg discovered it was already trademarked, plus SpongeBob was initially supposed to look like a real sea sponge instead of these sponges. square kitchen we have today, the idea was abandoned after Hillenburg found that designing a realistic sponge character was too difficult and seemed unappealing.

The design of the kitchen sponge was chosen to give it a squeaky clean nerdy look, as if it were a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. The plankton voice actor credited as mr. Lawrence initially auditioned for the role of SpongeBob SquarePants using the exact same voice he uses for Plankton. This version of the character was probably rejected because it sounded too old and menacing. The role of Plankton was also almost given another Bubble Bass character in the original version, although Bass would have been a kid who went around criticizing the Krusty Krab and generally causing trouble for Mr.

Krabs before the decision was made to give him that role: Plankton, some other small changes were that the Krabby Patty was called Barnacle Burger, Barnacle Boy was a salty old sailor named Barnacle Bill, and Sandy was naked in the dome of his tree instead of her usual bikini after the show's success, Spike TV approached Hillenburg and pitched an idea for an adult cartoon version of SpongeBob SquarePants similar to the panned Ren & Stimpy adult party cartoon. for criticism. This version of the show would have featured SpongeBob and Patrick as a gay couple and would most likely be filled with offensive and tasteless jokes, luckily Hillenburg refused and SpongeBob became a worldwide phenomenon.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Of all the shows on your list, none have gone through the huge amount of changes, at least, that we know as Avatar. The Last Airbender, the iconic fantasy series was initially conceived with a science fiction setting. This version of the series would have featured Eng as a child from a 1,000-year-old lost civilization instead of the 100-year-old air nomads. He had two companions following him. a robot named Momo Three and a polar bear-dog that seemed to fulfill the role of Chewbacca, the robot would eventually hatch into Lima Momo's eggs in the series finale, who at one point also purported to be the reincarnation of Aang's good friend, the monk Gyatsu the Polar.

The bear dog ended up unused in the original series and was later retold as Naga Cora's partner from the sequel series The Legend of Korra when the show moved on from its sci-fi setting and got the fantasy setting we all know and we love. come into focus Katara originally called kaya or Kia was always intended to be the heart of the group, but Sokka wasn't always going to be so lively and comedic, it was only after hearing the addition of actor Jack Desana for the character that the creators decided do. Sokka, a more comic relief character towards the beginning of development, Fire Lord Ozai was intended to be the only villain, team member Eric Coleman suggested they add a secondary villain, the banished Prince Zuko.

Zuko quickly became an integral part of the series being a foil. for Aang, at one point Zuko intended to have a pet falcon as a sort of mirror for Aang in Momo, the falcon was eventually scrapped and its design was reused in the episode, the runaway socks, the pet falcon, hockey, disappeared after one episode never to exist again. seen again, his fight with Momo was a reference to their rivalry in the original version, lastly, a big point of contention among the fanbase was whether Aang and Katara as a couple were the best choice or if Zuko should have been Katara , while according to an event titled avatar extras where the original episodes aired with fun facts about the series Zuko was Katara's original love interest now the creators have a long history of messing with fans about this couple, so it is It is unknown if they were just making fun of the fans.

Here anyway it is worth mentioning because I want to say that it is entirely possible that