Gree City

Gree City is an American-Chilean adult animated series created by Greg Garfield that ran on MTV from May 1, 1984 to December 7, 1995.

Plot
Gree City is based on Greg Garfield's childhood in Chile and the United States.



Production
Gree City was first pitched to MTV in 1982 with a pilot episode, Greg Garfield said once in an interview that they loved it and Gree City started production in late 1982, the series was pitched to the japanese animation studio GAINAX (then Daicon Film), they were intrested form the get-go and Gree City's first season was done by early 1984, Atari caught note of Gree City and decided to make a video game of the series for the Atari 2600 based on the game with permission from Warner Bros. to save the struggling company.

MTV aired Gree City on May 1, 1984, Gree City was pretty sucessful as it was one of the only non-music related series on the channel, though it did have segments where Gree Guy would talk about his opinions on music, Gree City was one of the most popular shows in the older teens and young adults demographic.

Mattel made merchandise of the series.

In 1986, MTV (along with Nickelodeon and VH1) were bought by Viacom and Gree City was brought along with it.

In 1994, it was announced that Gree City would end after it's twelfth season in 1995 in order to keep the series from growing stail and repetitive and the series ended production in mid 1995, the series was replaced by reruns of Beavis and Butt-Head after it's cancellation.

And it might also be the reason due to higher ratings from Geo's World and Greeny Phatom, and reviewers saying "It was started to become a huge rip-off of Greeny Phatom and Geo's World."

Legacy
Gree City went on to revolutionise an entire generation of cartoons, many of the people that worked on Gree City later had their own shows, Robert Stainton, the executive producer of the series, went on to create Greeny Phatom for Fox Kids, Gabriel Garcia, a writer on the series, also went on to create Geo's World for ABC, and many of the animators on the series went on to work on Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gunbuster.