Spaceballs, The Animated Series on G4!

[Sky Warrior Bob]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117950443?categoryid=1050&cs=1&s=h&p=0

Neat.

SWB

[Random Ninja]

If you thought the world of entertainment television was running low on ideas, you cannot doubt that claim now.

[Corporate Evil]

Spaceballs was hilarious.

[Muffin Mage]

I don't see where they could possibly go with it.

Edit: Except in the "Spaceballs: The T-Shirt" direction.

[Flarecobra]

I can just see for the Premere, Yogert introducing the series,,

[Sky Warrior Bob]

The way I see it, if they keep the same attitude & maturity as the movie (maturity in the non-kiddy dumbed down sense), it could at least be decent. If however, they turn it into a kiddie mockery of the series, or something that leans a bit too much on parody, then yeah it could suck.

Just not any worse than anything else on TV.

SWB

[Random Ninja]

...I have a feeling it's going to end up like that Ewok series they had back in the 80's. Which was like a Sci-Fi smurf series.

[Major Blood]

I'd watch it. Unless it isn't Mel Brooks who plays Yogurt. Then i wouldn't watch it.

[Aerozord]

I was never huge on Spaceballs, I'm a Thumb Wars guy. But I have to agree with the statement, there really isn't anything to go off of. The movie was complete and self contained, I just think anything would feel tacted on. Probably one of those continuity busters we all hate.

The way I see it, if they keep the same attitude & maturity as the movie (maturity in the non-kiddy dumbed down sense), it could at least be decent. If however, they turn it into a kiddie mockery of the series, or something that leans a bit too much on parody, then yeah it could suck.

Just not any worse than anything else on TV.

SWB
leans abit too much on parody? We are talking about Spaceballs, its parody incarnet

[Squishy Cheeks]

Spaceballs the show: the pusuit of merchandising.

[RickZarber]

If they can get Bill Pullman and Rick Moranis involved, then I'll begin to be interested. Somehow, though, I can't see them ponying up the dough.

But... Barf without John Candy? ...No thank you.

I do like the animation style in that little picture though.

[Mirai Gen]

leans abit too much on parody? We are talking about Spaceballs, its parody incarnet
No, see, the whole point of Spaceballs was it's humor, where each joke had ties to Star Wars mockery.

There's a big difference between a joke that's funny and mirrors Star Wars, and a joke that's meant to mirror Star Wars. That was why Spaceballs was so awesome.

[Muffin Mage]

I think he meant that it would be great as long as it doesn't end up parodying Spaceballs itself.

Great, of course, being a relative term here.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Spaceball had parody, yes, but only in the vague sense. It took on elements of sci-fi stuff, but nothing entirely verbatium. What I'm worried about, is scene-for-scene parodies. Basically taking other movies, and just interchanging the Spaceballs cast for a re-do.

That's the kinda of parody I'm afraid of.

SWB

[ZERO.]

To be honest I don't really watch G4 these days.

It goes against my principles.

Any channel that becomes ashamed of their own fan base and tries to turn itself into a fucking MTV spin off dosen't deserve my time.

Also, I was never really a Space Balls type.

[Vaij]

What I'm worried about, is scene-for-scene parodies. Basically taking other movies, and just interchanging the Spaceballs cast for a re-do.

That's the kinda of parody I'm afraid of.


That could potentially plague the series, as well as the idea someone else mentioned about the original Spaceballs being complete enough that new content, or even updating the show would hurt the original. However, the computer age has brought along some good objects for lampooning. Hell, I could give you several that if they were choosing to integrate more modern aspects into it, they could easily drive home, like the Blue Screen of Death, L337 speak, etc.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

To be honest I don't really watch G4 these days.

It goes against my principles.

Any channel that becomes ashamed of their own fan base and tries to turn itself into a fucking MTV spin off dosen't deserve my time.

Also, I was never really a Space Balls type.

Uh, what are you talking about exactly? I mean, sure they've added a bit more to their schedule that might not exactly fit in with what you expect, and maybe cut a bit down in redundency (there was this other game review show that I no longer see, but between AOTS, X-Play, Cheat & Cinematech, it doesn't seem like a huge crime to cut down the videogames just a bit).

And Space Balls seems to be something specifically catered to the fan base, & its semi-original (not in concept, but at least in content). If you haven't noticed, most of G4's content has been host-based up to now, I think its a bit of an improvement to have something that isn't a re-run.

SWB

[Monstructor]

Spaceballs ruled. But now it sucks even more than Candy died, because he can't be around to do the voice of Barf the Mog.