GoAnimate the Series

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GoAnimate the Series

Genre

figure it out yourself

Created by

Robert Buttstain

Alvin Hung
Gary Lipkowitz

Showrunner(s)

Alvin Hung & Gary Lipkowitz (s. 1)

Bobby Gambino (s. 2–4)
Jeremy Sheen (s. 5–10)
Devon Maestro (s. 11)

Country of origin

United States

Japan
Hong Kong
Taiwan

Original language(s)

English

No. of seasons

11

No. of episodes

probably more than 11

Production

Executive producer(s)

Robert Buttstain

Alvin Hung
Gary Lipkowitz
Hayao Miyazaki
Goro Miyazaki
Toshio Suzuki
Isao Takahata
James L. Brooks
Donald P. Bellisario
Brian Robbins
Mike Tollin
John Lasseter (s. 1–9)
Bobby Gambino (s. 1–4)
Joaquim Dos Santos (s. 4–9)
Jeremy Sheen (s. 5–11)
Michael Dante DiMartino (s. 10–11)
Christopher Storer (s. 10–11)
Josh Weinstein (s. 11)
Devon Maestro (s. 11)

Producer(s)

Bonita Pietila (s. 1–7)

Eric Emo (s. 8–12)

Running time

like 20-ish minutes

Production company(s)

RobbyBobby Productions

Belisarius Productions
Tollin/Robbins Productions
Gracie Films
Studio Ghibli
Blueetoons Studios
GoAnimate Studios
MTV Productions
ABC Studios
Taiwan Television
TVB
FX Productions
20th Century Fox Television

Release

Network

Fox

Release

September 22, 2007 – May 18, 2018

Chronology

Followed by

Vyond the Series

Related shows

Bluee Gost

GoAnimate the Series is an American-Japanese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese animated crossover surrealist epic action-adventure erotic horror science fiction dark fantasy space opera crime thriller isekai ensemble black comedy-drama soap opera sitcom television series created by Robert Buttstain, Alvin Hung and Gary Lipkowitz that aired on Fox from September 22, 2007 to May 18, 2018. Unlike his other show Bluee Gost, where the episodes are just about... whatever, this series is strung together with shittily developed storylines about essentially nothing, with the intention of filling up whatever channel's schedule. Nonetheless, the continuity remains shitty, making it a borderline anthology series.

The series' concept and characters were initially introduced in the Bluee Gost two-part super special limited edition episode "Bluee Gost vs. GoAnimate" (season 7 episodes 1–2), which was written by Buttstain and GoAnimate/Vyond co-founders/executives/whatever Hung and Lipkowitz. In 2005, the three worked together to type up a tongue-in-cheek one-page treatment in Word 2000 titled "SUCK MY BALLS.doc" and emailed it to the Fox Broadcasting Company's president, Peter Liguori, who took it way too seriously and contacted Buttstain to offer him a chance to pitch a new show. Donald P. Bellisario was brought on as executive producer because he made NCIS and a lot of people watch that show or something, as well as Hayao Miyazaki, Goro Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata, Brian Robbins, and Mike Tollin. Later into development, James L. Brooks was coerced into executive-producing. GoAnimate the Series was the first TV show to be entirely animated with GoAnimate/Vyond. The show was developed as a joint production of Bellisario's Belisarius Productions, Tollin and Robbins' (duh) Tollin/Robbins Productions, Brooks' Gracie Films, the Miyazakis and Suzuki's Studio Ghibli, Buttstain's RobbyBobby Productions and Blueetoons Studios, GoAnimate Studios, MTV Productions, ABC Studios, Taiwan Television, TVB, FX Productions, and 20th Century Fox Television. Due to a hectic production schedule and creative burnout, Hung and Lipkowitz stepped down as showrunners after the series' first season, and Bobby Gambino took over as showrunner for the next three seasons, followed by Jeremy Sheen in seasons 5 to 10 and Devon Maestro in season 11.

As soon as the pilot aired in 2007, the series became one of the most-watched television series in the world and garnered a cult following on 4chan, DeviantArt, Fandom, and other websites. It has received widespread critical acclaim for its writing, voice cast, design, animation, editing, and sex scenes, and many critics have called it the sole, absolute greatest entertainment product ever made in the world's 4.543 billion-year history. Unfortunately for the show's crew, GoAnimate became Vyond, which resulted in the series being cancelled after 11 seasons and half of the crew members being murdered in their homes by masterful martial artists. When the series finale aired in 2018, it peaked at 9.38 billion viewers worldwide, making it the most-watched single television episode of all time ever forever. In February 2018, Fox announced that due to GoAnimate being rebranded as Vyond, the eleventh season of GoAnimate the Series would be its last and the show would be replaced during the 2018–2019 television season by an equally bizarre sequel series titled Vyond the Series. Vyond the Series premiered on January 4, 2019 and ended on May 10, 2025.

Production[]

Background[]

After Robert Buttstain's acclaimed animated series Bluee Gost was criticized for containing inappropriate jokes, in 1997, everyone in the Fox Broadcasting Company's Broadcast Standards and Practices department was executed and replaced with jaded, 80-year-old SOBs. Over time, Fox's obsession with censoring the show rapidly grew, with the network going as far as outright rejecting some episodes. This included the two-part Bluee Gost season 7 premiere "Bluee Gost vs. GoAnimate", written by Buttstain and his friends Alvin Hung and Gary Lipkowitz. The episode was originally written to be much gorier and more vulgar than its final product, but BS&P would show up and scream at them to "fix" the show to their liking. The episode was ultimately rewritten over 100 times before it could receive the greenlight from Fox.

In March 2004, after Hung and Lipkowitz's pitch for "a high-concept science fantasy crime drama film" was rejected by 20th Century Fox, they reunited with Buttstain and took a trip to Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa in Anaheim, California. During a meeting between the three, they began to discuss how "stupid" Fox's BS&P was for "shutting [them] the fuck up". At this point, Buttstain suggested that they "prank" Liguori by sending him a treatment for deliberately outrageous and offensive show that would offend him so much, he would die the second he read it. That way, "the world could be a better place, free from stupid Liguori bullshit." Hung and Lipkowitz were initially nervous, as they didn't want a man's death on their consciences, but Buttstain threatened to kill their families if they didn't agree. They ultimately decided to put the plan—nicknamed Operation Liguori—into full force.

On April 1, 2005, the three writers typed a 99-page document in Word 2000 titled "SUCK MY BALLS.doc". The document was a tounge-in-cheek treatment for a comedy show titled Suck My Balls revolving around "how much better the world has become since [network president] Peter Liguori committed Japanese ritual suicide". In January 2005, Buttstain sent "SUCK MY BALLS.doc" to the Fox Broadcasting Company. Upon reading it, Liguori was impressed by Buttstain's "rich", "charming" sense of humor, but responded saying that the series could not be picked up because BS&P would hit the goddamn ceiling. Later that month, though, Buttstain received a call from Liguori in which Liguori asked him to develop a new animated prime-time show for Fox. Liguori offered to give Buttstain "unconditional creative reign", meaning whatever crackpot show he pitched couldn't be turned down for any reason, including censorship. Buttstain hesitantly accepted, and teamed up with Hung and Lipkowitz to develop a new show.

Development[]

After Buttstain, Hung, and Lipkowitz struggled to come up with a better concept, they decided to base their new show on "Bluee Gost vs. GoAnimate". Buttstain originally conceived a full-blown spin-off of Bluee Gost, which was assigned the working title Untitled GoAnimate Series. The show would be set in the same poorly developed universe, take place concurrently with that show, and pick up where "Bluee Gost vs. GoAnimate" left off. However, this concept was ultimately thrown out because the floating timeline of Bluee Gost would make the show incredibly fucking boring. Hung and Lipkowitz suggested developing an entirely new show set outside the world of Bluee Gost. In May 2005, the three assembled to write a bible for the new show. While writing "Bluee Gost vs. GoAnimate", Hung and Lipkowitz came up with numerous character ideas and plot points such as his parents' murder that were ultimately thrown out to preserve the running time of both parts and avoid making Bluee Gost too "complex", . Another special focus was developing PC Guy, the "one-dimensional" antagonist of "Bluee Gost vs. GoAnimate", into a "fully developed, three-dimensional masterpiece of a character".

Upon presenting the bible to Liguori, he commissioned a script for a pilot episode of the show. While developing the pilot, Buttstain, Hung, and Lipkowitz pre-planned numerous different storylines and characters to be introduced further into the series' run, all taken into consideration during the writing process, including storylines that ultimately unfolded well into season 2, such as the GoAnimafia's introduction and Caillou killing Victor. Hung and Lipkowitz wrote characters' "personality" traits on sticky notes to figure out how the characters' dialogue would be spoken.

By August 2006, Buttstain, Hung, and Lipkowitz had completed a 420-page script for the pilot episode. That July, the script was delivered to Fox. Despite the deal set in place by Liguori with Buttstain, the network's executives weren't happy at all with the pilot's story. Fox ultimately felt that the concept of the show was way too serialized and the pilot introduced too many characters and storylines too quickly. The executives also felt that the show's garbled storytelling and numerous concurrent plotlines were too reminiscent of The X-Files, "which was canceled for a fucking reason." However, the writers were given special treatment: rather than the show being turned down altogether, the network merely requested that the pilot be reworked to be more episodic in nature. After Hung and Lipkowitz declined, Fox threatened to pull the plug on the show. However, Buttstain was tight with Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, whom he called after Fox made its threat. Murdoch subsequently called the network and told the executives to "GET THAT SHIT ON THE AIR!!!" The pilot was subsequently passed by the network, and entered animation production in November 2006.

Executive producers and showrunners[]

Writing[]

Animation[]

Music[]

Voice cast and characters[]

Main article: List of GoAnimate the Series characters

Series overview[]

Main article: List of GoAnimate the Series episodes

someone put way too much effort into writing this show lmao

Season 1[]

Main article: GoAnimate the Series (season 1)

The first season of GoAnimate the Series premiered on Fox on September 22, 2007 and concluded on May 16, 2008, airing Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. The season was originally intended to consist of 25 episodes, but due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America, only 18 were produced.

Somewhere in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, young Caillou Anderson is grounded by his father Boris and mother Doris for running away to cook meth in an RV in the desert of Albuquerque. PC Guy, a friend of his parents Boris and Doris, then murders them in cold blood and posts an MS Paint drawing of Caillou getting legdropped by Hulk Hogan on deviantART. A distressed Caillou packs his bags and runs away from home, then steals a Xenomorph toy from Toys "R" Us. PC Guy tells Victor Comedy, Caillou's neighbor and his longtime friend, to pack his bags and follow him on a "business trip" to Los Santos, San Andreas in the United States. Victor is skeptical of his intentions, but PC Guy insists that he's simply presenting a personal computer developed by his company, VyondTech. After a long drive to Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, they board a plane to Los Santos. Eric, Victor's best friend, realizes that Victor has disappeared, and he comes to the conclusion that his friend "ditched" him. Eric then encourages Kimberly, Victor's girlfriend, to cheat on him. After the plane clocks in at Los Santos International Airport, PC Guy hurriedly books a hotel room for himself and Victor, where Victor is coerced into smoking weed. After Victor explicitly questions, PC Guy he refuses to respond. Eric encourages Kimberly to cheat on Victor with him. And in a groundbreaking turn of events... she actually does it. In Los Santos, Victor begins browsing the Internet on his laptop and finds the picture of Hulk Hogan legdropping Caillou on deviantART, and PC Guy turns on a gun him.

Season 2[]

Main article: GoAnimate the Series (season 2)

Victor beats PC Guy's head with a rock and PC Guy fakes his death. After Victor takes a plane back to Quebec, he reunites with his old friend, Celine "Mama C" Dion, who tells informs him of Eric and Kimberly's affair, causing Victor to attack Eric. Caillou begins hiding out on a crappy train in Vancouver, British Columbia. He receives a call from Eric, who says that he was attacked by Victor and that Victor is not worth trusting. Coughs and screams pour out from the other end as Eric downs a bottle of whiskey and dies from alcohol poisoning. Victor joins a gang known as the GoAnimafia and commits war crimes in Montréal, but is eventually kicked out for smoking crack cocaine because drugs are bad for you (ROFL LOL XD), and he decides to live on the same train as Caillou. Caillou kills Victor, steals his wallet, and sets off for nearby Burnaby, praying for a better life.

Season 3[]

Main article: GoAnimate the Series (season 3)

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