This is one of the many pilots that never aired. “Gay Robot” was based on a comedy bit on an album by Adam Sandler and was made into a pilot in 2005. Nick Swardson (Writer of the pilot and the voice of Gay Robot) statet that a cartoon version is in the works, but nothing happened yet, so I guess this version is cancelled too.
Here’s the full pilot (borrowed from Gay Robot’s MySpace page...)
Tex Avery has any number of masterworks to his name, of course, but the one linked above holds a special place in my heart.
It’s not only Funny (yup, with a capital F) in its own right, it’s also, by now, testament to the speed at which language changes – watch it and count all the expressions that have fallen out of use since 1951, even when they were sparklin’ new and ‘edgy’ back then.
I think it’s high time to have an updated version of this for today’s idiom – in fact, I almost wonder that I couldn’t yet find anything of that sort on YouTube.
I started drawing cartoons again this weekend! Doodling and drawing caricatures of my teachers started my career more than twenty years ago. So I went from cartoonist to illustrator to graphic designer to media designer and now: Back! You can download a high-res version, if you like it.
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