@Beau Skunky
TBF in the production of shows like this, it can be hard to judge the final product during production, because what works during scripting or storyboarding may not actually work when in production, and IIRC we didn’t see the writers or directors coming out and saying as much until season 5 where it was likely they had fully nailed down the production pipeline.
@Ebalosus
Yeah, I think they’re entitled to their opinions.
There are opposite cases, like some of the MLP staff liked the Season 2 episode “Mare Do-Well,” and that was probably the first widely fan-disliked episode.
In fact, alot of show creators hate episodes that fans love.
That’s the case more often than not in my experience. Things creators either regret or are ambivalent towards or consider them “a rough first attempt” are often the things [for better or worse] that have the biggest fandoms or fan appreciation. Look at Leon The Professional vs The Fifth Element for example. The former is far more ed and appreciated these days than the latter, even though the former was thrown together by Besson in order to kill time until Willis became available to film the latter.
@Background Pony #3562
Well, Lauren Faust regrets “Equal Fights,” (mostly because she thinks the subject of “bad feminism” VS “good feminism” is too complex a subject for kids) and that’s still a good and beloved episode regardless.
In fact, alot of show creators hate episodes that fans love.
@Background Pony #D725
I just took it as a bit of harmless dark humor. I don’t think people are actually going around beating up clowns and mimes over that cartoon.
Like in Animaniacs and “Shakes the Clown.” I think part of the joke is some find them annoying, or the joke is there’s no real reason to hate them.
1998 PPG episode “Mime For A Change” was an example of this, too. Rainbow the Clown wasn’t evil, the bleach from the truck turned him into Mr Mime…yet, at the end of the episode, even though that personality was vanquished, Rainbow was back and everyone was returned to normal…the girls still beat him up, anyway, and sent the poor guy off to jail…
Even Craig McCracken regretted going with this ending, knowing what the climate is like, these days.
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
That’s pretty cool. (They should make a movie if that heroic mime.)
But yeah, I think mimes, and clowns are overly-hated… It’s kinda sad that people who just want to entertain or make others laugh are seen as “uncool/creepy/ECT.”
I kinda cringe when I see people put down say Ronald McDonald, because honestly I kinda miss him, and ever since McDonald’s kinda got rid of him, (and play places) their restaurants look so cold, lifeless, and corporate…
@Beau Skunky
Its funny like clowns, mimes used to be beloved especially by kids in like the 1940s.
One French mime even saved a bunch of Jewish kids during WWII by helping crossing the border, using his tricks to keep the kids quiet. And tricked some Nazi guards into surrendering by pretending the French were there.
For me like clowns Ive always liked to think there is a coolness behind what seems uncool to us modern people.
@Dirty Bit
I love that movie.
It actually made a good “finale” for that series. Especially, because every character got a happy ending in it. Even the mime apparently survived like he always does.
Yeah, true, sometimes things don’t turn out as they wanted, or they had to remove or add some things they didn’t want.
Yeah that’s really sad tbh.
TBF in the production of shows like this, it can be hard to judge the final product during production, because what works during scripting or storyboarding may not actually work when in production, and IIRC we didn’t see the writers or directors coming out and saying as much until season 5 where it was likely they had fully nailed down the production pipeline.
Poor guy… (He has Dementia, doesn’t he?)
Yeah, I think they’re entitled to their opinions.
Sucks that Bruce Willis does not even who he was now a days.
Well, Lauren Faust regrets “Equal Fights,” (mostly because she thinks the subject of “bad feminism” VS “good feminism” is too complex a subject for kids) and that’s still a good and beloved episode regardless.
If Craig McCracken regretted doing it, that’s generally a bad sign…
I just took it as a bit of harmless dark humor. I don’t think people are actually going around beating up clowns and mimes over that cartoon.
That’s pretty cool. (They should make a movie if that heroic mime.)
Its funny like clowns, mimes used to be beloved especially by kids in like the 1940s.
I love that movie.
It actually made a good “finale” for that series.
Especially, because every character got a happy ending in it. Even the mime apparently survived like he always does.
I when it was popular in pop culture to mock mimes.
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