Geo's World

Geo's World is an American animated series created by Gabriel Garcia for The Walt Disney Company and ran from October 28, 1989 to May 25, 2013 on many Disney-owned networks.

Production
Geo's World was conceived in the lobby of Terry Ward's office by Gabriel Garcia in 1978. He was asked to do a series of comics, and decided to do his Geo Comic series, but since he realized that require the rescinding of publication rights for his life's work, and substituted Geo Guy for his own name; as it was an anagram of 'ego'.

Geo's World first appeared to the world in the comic on July 9, 1981 by Universal Press Syndicate. Geo submitted crudely drawn sketches of Geo Guy and his friends to the animators, assuming they would clean them up in production. However, the animators just re-traced over his drawings; that is why early Geo's World panels appeared crudely drawn in the comics.

In 1986, Gabriel Garcia was approached by the American Broadcasting Company about the possibility of adapting the comic strip into a television series. In 1988, a team of production companies adapted Geo's World into a half-hour primetime series, for the American Broadcasting Company. ABC was initially nervous to air Geo's World; as there wasn't a cartoon in primetime since The Flintstones, and that they were unsure if they could keep the audience's attention for the duration of the episode. They proposed doing three seven-minute shorts and four specials until the audience adjusted, but the producers gambled for thirteen half-hour episodes for the series. Geo's World was originally to premiere in the fall of 1988; with "Geo Guy VS. Greeny Phatom," but when the episode came back from animation in Korea, it had major, major problems with it. was extremely dissatisfied with the product and called for many parts of the episode to be redone. The producers then decided to just go ahead and air "Geo Guy's Midnight Sleep," on October 28, 1989.

Through the entire show's history, John Lasseter, Geo G., and Terry Ward have served as the show's executive producers. Robert Stainton, the creator of Greeny Phatom, was also in this position, although was not credited. When Stainton left in 1993 to pitch his own show to Fox Kids, he arranged a deal to be credited as executive producer as well as get profits even though he no longer works on the show.

The first team of writers for Geo's World were assembled by Robert Stainton. These were: John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Phil Roman, Tim Hill, John France, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh and Dan Povenmire. Newer Geo's World writing teams usually have 16 writers and episode ideas are thought of and proposed in early October. The main writer writes the first draft and the group changes it, adding in jokes and removing parts they don't like. This can sometimes change a script entirely. Up until 2001, the head of these groups was Jeff Pidgeon, who apparently wrote lots of the best lines from episodes. But the idea of all this came from the magic hand of Gabriel Garcia. who invented the pictures.

On September 16, 2012, Bob Iger (CEO of Disney) announced that Geo's World would end after it's 25th season, and that Geo's World would be replaced by Donald's World, however, Donald's World bombed in ratings and had very negative reviews, after the series ended, Bob Iger announced that Donald's World would not have any more episodes, instead, the series replaced by Geo's Universe.

Episodes
See: Geo's World/Episode Guide

Reception
Geo's World was at first, criticised for it's "Ridiculous Episodes", but when Season 4 rolled around, the series was getting more praise and when Season 5 aired, critics considered it "the best season of Geo's World as of now", and from then on, Geo's World was praised for it's clever episode ideas

Trivia

 * Geo's World debuted for streaming on Netflix and Hulu in 2008, the series was taken off Netflix in 2019 due to Disney moving it's series and films to Disney+, Geo's World is now available for streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
 * There were many different changes in every seasons of the show, The title card was first appeared in "Geo Guy's Midnight Sleep". The season 1 title card said: "Season [NUMBER] Episode [NUMBER] [EPISODE TITLE]" It ran from 1989 to 1993. The title card has changed the card. It shows the title of episode and the credits, that ran from 1994 to 2013. The original 1989 intro was ran to 1989 to 1990. The new intro was ran to 1991 to present.
 * Due to being popular among kids, it often aired on ABC's Saturday Morning blocks.