BobbyTheBased

BobbyTheBased is an American television series created by Bobby "BobbyTheBased" Gambino based on his account BobbyTheBased for. The series was originally broadcast from January 14, 2012 to September 12, 2015. The series follows the adventures some boi named Bobby and his boi and gurl friends as they go on fucking zany-ass adventures and there's like a ton of crossovers and shit. The show's humor focuses on constant pop culture references, especially to kiddie shows, along with a bunch of random metafictional cutaway gags. Just take  and somehow make it shittier.

Gambino envisioned the series after smoking crack while working on GoAnimate the Series in the late 2000s, and brought Bluey Gost and GoAnimate the Series creator Robbert Buttstain aboard to help develop storylines and characters to pitch the show to Fox. Fox was impressed with the stupid pitch and picked up BobbyTheBased for a 13-episode first season. Produced by, it premiered in 2012 as a and became an overnight success. The show almost immediately began airing in worldwide syndication, receiving global critical acclaim, especially from developing countries where people haven't had enough access to television or the Internet to know how fucking garbage this series is. After like two seasons, however, critics started hating BobbyTheBased and ratings tanked, as any attention payed to the series was stolen by Bluey Gost. Simultaneously, tensions and creative differences among several voice actors and crew members, including some random-ass murder allegations against Gambino. These tensions led to Buttstain and the entire main cast aside from Gambino leaving the show altogether. In 2015, the show was cancelled after three seasons; the season 3 finale aired as a series finale on May 10, 2014.

At the time of cancellation, a new season was already several episodes into production for some reason. Already-started productions and high ratings when began airing reruns in 2017 led to  picking up the eight-episode final season, adding up to 66 episodes. Said fourth and final season featured a new cast and mostly new crew, as previous many of the crew members were round up and murdered in. Season 4 premiered on July 25, 2015. Reruns aired on from 2018 to 2019,  in 2019, and  in 2022.

Development
In the late 2000s, the was severely impressed by Bobby Gambino's work on GoAnimate the Series and pressured him to make a new series on his own. Gambino ran a account called BobbyTheBased and decided to adapt that into a TV show. The problem was that adapting a whole-ass online account into anything is extremely hard. So he decided that he wanted to bring GoAnimate the Series and Bluey Gost creator Robbert Buttstain onboard to develop stories and characters. They spent several years researching crossover and pornography books, television shows, films, web series, and video games to "perfect" the show. When the show was pitched to Fox in November 2010, it had composed a lot of characters, a lot of storylines, and a lot of sexual content. It featured characters like and  from kiddie shows Gambino likes.

Fox completely ignored the fact that using those characters for unironic, non-parody purposes required permission from copyright owners and ordered 12 episodes. However, Fox wanted to make a lot of changes to the show. For example, they wanted Bobby to be a 40-year-old strip club owner instead of a teenager with no parental supervision and they wanted the show's main cast to have 2,200 characters instead of five. Gambino and Buttstain argued with Fox over whether the network should have any creative input at all. After boxing matches with several network executives, Gambino decided to just let Fox "screw around wit da show". This led to Bobby becoming a stereotypical "" and Tamera becoming a serial killer with who has a crush on. Bobby liked the Tamera idea but did not like the idea of his character being an Italian stereotype as he is an Italian American himself, and threatened to "shoot up da Fox HQ if dey didnt stop fuckin wit muh show". Fox reverted the show to its original state and punished Gambino by changing the order from 12 episodes to 13 to pressure him to come up with new material.