When Kids Wrote Cartoons

[@DUKEHadToDoItToEm]

That Dexter's lab episode is actually so good, I'd love to see more shows let kids ramble and set the animators to making sense of it

[@MelonHere20]

Agreed

[@sakiamira]

The "you are stupid" from that Dexter still echoes in my head

[@FlyingDuckMan360]

"Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian" was extremely lucky not only to get approved by Steven Spielberg, but to have Tokyo Movie Shinsha, often considered Tiny Toons' best animation studio, animate it. However, the writers became wary about possibly opening the floodgates for bad fanfiction writers to swamp them with material, so they made it very clear that they would not be doing any more episodes based on fan-submitted scripts in the episode's gag credit; "Please mail your unsolicited manuscripts, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to - Some other show!"

[@mighty_king92]

Was gonna comment how TMS worked on this one. Extremely lucky of them that they got the best of the best to animate their episode

[@paul329869]

You know, following up on your comment on their comment of fanfictions, sometimes resentment and disdain can be an excellent vehicle for comedy.😊😊😊

[@Kemdizzle.]

Not a full episode but Stimpy’s breakdown at the end of Mad Dog Hoek was just a verbatim reading of a fan letter Spumco got from a kid

[@cuttsthecat6331]

I didn't know that. That information makes the scene a lot funnier

[@Collato]

It seems so obvious but I never realized it before, I could only imagine that even the writers were unsettled by it for some reason. I LIKE DARREN, HE'S MY FRIEND! I LIKE YOU AND HIM, HE LIKES ME, AND I LIKE HIM!...

[@TheMightyN]

Gen X were fathering the CPUs and Video Games consoles, the '90s kids were helping make cartoon episodes. That's nuts!

[@BeavoCartoons_Official]

I love the Dexter's Laboratory episode! It was a brilliant story with fitting animation and the narrator was a kid! The whole episode was voiced by the kid making this episode!

[@akganimationstudioproducti3779]

It was so funny!

[@Blossom44100]

Beetlejuice had an episode written by a teenager last I recall

[@kirby-from-kirby]

i genuinely love that dexter's lab episode sm, i say "and then dexter said..." like at least once a week

[@lennypayne4241]

They kind of did something similar to this in 2011, with the Adventure Time episode "Jake vs. Me-Mow", where they included a kid named Gunnar Gilmore's fan character in the show and made an episode about it. I'm not sure how much involvement he had with the show, beyond just making Me-Mow and establishing him as a rival of Jake's but it was still pretty nice to see that they still do this kind of thing in the new millennium.

[@icaroaraujo1507]

I think the character thing was part of a contest, in which "Me-Mow" won

[@supervector4757]

Kids can write cartoons?! I'm 15, and I've never been able to do animation, only drawings on a single piece of paper.

[@Dailydoseofdiscordmemes]

They don’t animate, they write the story

[@supervector4757]

@@Dailydoseofdiscordmemes Oh

[@209thecoolestepicblobman]

I animate

[@CottenVee]

Yeah...........kids can make cartoons.

[@eclat4641]

i just add drawings i made to a video editing app, and add voices then post!

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

I think another contributing reason for why we don’t see children writing for their favorite cartoons is due to child labor laws becoming more strict. Kids are easy to exploit since they aren’t allowed to have paying jobs till they’re older, so having creatives and producers accept work that is practically free might be seen as a loophole in the system. They don’t want to be responsible for that if word got out.

[@TheBird101]

Reminds me of when I was 7 I want to write an episode for littlest pet show, I would send Mail To The Hub Network for Episodes, But It just got sent to my Grandparents instead

[@torterratortellini6641]

I’m surprised no one made fun of the name of that company so far to my knowledge.

[@PipimiOden]

​@@torterratortellini6641 nah, I've seen a few people make jokes about the name tbh

[@daelen.cclark]

“Only Warner Bros would throw a luau inside a volcano.” Zaslav would absolutely do that.

[@CaptainBZarre]

and then Dexter said

[@DivineandIllustriousCheckers]

I think you missed one. Does "Jake vs. Me-Mow" from Adventure Time qualify as a kid-written and submitted episode?

[@lxsttxpe4025]

I'm a writer at 17... i was like 6 years old when i started writing my cartoon web series called Fireflame and its about a fluffy young dragon superhero who messes anything and everything up, i just started production on the show this year its gonna be out in around 1 month

[@walpoleandworcester]

I never knew that Cat Who Laid the Golden Hairball episode was inspired by a kid. I thought it was A Visit to Anthony. Interesting!

[@cuttsthecat6331]

A visit to Anthony *was* inspired by a kid's letter too. Only in The Golden Hairball's case, a fan just sent the plot outline. While in the cast of a Visit to Anthony, they were inspired by a fan letter and just made an episode based on Ren and Stimpy visiting the kid who wrote the letter (and they even got the real Anthony to voice him)

[@ininja32]

Its still creepy IMO, given John K's history. ​@cuttsthecat6331

[@tom-]

i remember that Dexter one, was pretty funny

[@Peepimus]

3:43 - That ad timing. 💀

[@theotakux5959]

The Pac-man game could work if only one of those is a button and the other two are spinning paddles, one to move left and right, the other to move up and down, like an Etch-a-Sketch. Not that that would be an ideal way to play.

[@stewboy69]

Have y'all heard of Battle For Dream Island? The show was created in 2010 by two twelve year olds at the time and the full show atm has over 1 billion views in total

[@SapphireMakesEffects]

Pretty astounding. It’s one of the most popular webseries on KZbin and I love it. Now the twins are 26. 😢

[@user35678_tt]

OSC

[@tveye363]

Man, I love that Ren and Stimpy episode. It's so goddamn funny. When the Lummox goes inside Stimpy and is walking around, but you see on the outside that he's so large that he stretched Stimpy's body out, I'm rolling on the floor! XD

[@user-ce6ig1tv3k]

Cant forget bfdi from 2010 made by the 2 11 year olds who became known as legends for creating a entire community.

[@TheRainbowKey]

That’s not really an official cartoon, it’s a web series. Although, I still like watching BFDI.

[@user-ce6ig1tv3k]

@@TheRainbowKey some consider it a cartoon i think

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

The Dexter episode is peak fiction

[@johnylitalo4163]

When I do an animated series of my own, I want some kids to write down ideas for episodes.

[@Whatsupqyjd]

I Need More!!, I Searched "Kids Writing Cartoons" And It Showed Me Videos For Kids Instead

[@cooldollstuff]

I honestly loved the hair ball episode of Ren and Stimpy as a kid never knew a kid at the time wrote it. Lol 😂

[@SpellboundWolf]

And then Dexter said...

[@Thomperfan]

8:43 And Tyler's over here looking like Picasso! (Points for anyone who gets that reference.)

[@jamesmoss3424]

It's an brilliant idea 💡 to let kids wrote an episode. 😀👍

[@BlillCipher]

I feel like this video is made by Soos' Grandma because BFDI exists and she will not even count the 'web-shows'

[@SparklingWithNiGHTS-yv5fe]

I read your book Bill,it was awesome.⭐

[@chunkydawafflecat]

Steven legit said that 8th graders were hot bro.

[@gooeydude574]

Writing tip no 2 is so true

[@paul329869]

You know, pal, I think Terry and Chris is far underrated, but I feel that the Dexter and Computress episode is and was and always will easily be the best of the quartet, hands-down. (Actually, I haven’t gotten around to see it yet.)

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

"They weren't invited to the studio to fix it up or anything" Keeping kids away from John K is for the best

[@Pepe_Le_Pew-qv4pn]

Many say that children are the future of America,and it's good to see that they too can be the future of good animation.😊

[@angelagokool9514]

I'd say the best one was Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian. My sister and I laughed so hard, at that one! It was actually pretty cute! It was so much better when they were allowed to be boyfriend and girlfriend, instead of being rewritten as siblings, like they are now. I didn't care for the Ren and Stimpy hairball episode. I don't even know why my sister and I watched this show. Actually, there were other moments that were much better, like the "Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!" dance. But the hairball thing was trash! We didn't see that particular Dexter's Lab episode. And neither of us have heard of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, so I can't comment. And no, kids wouldn't have creative control now, like they did back then. It would be fascinating, though, to see what they would come up with, if they did.

[@Peepimus]

They really got kids writing cartoons, eh.!.!

[@ryanwilkins2233]

What if just kids made a cartoon

[@MiyukiNakira]

Stickin' Around?

[@OfficialTheDB]

BFDI is a perfect example

[@paul329869]

Yeah, that would be great at this day and age during or after we win the war for American animation and cartoons and art in the West.

[@axe-tq2wn]

The Japanese horror movie House came from a kid’s mind too, gotta watch it.

[@mintytherandommaster]

As the creator of both Webfreaks and Club Penguin Parody Series, I agree that this is just true

[@MizunoKetsuban]

Obviously the Planeman controls are for rotating 90 left, 90 right, and 180 degrees.

[@stapletonmichaela]

6:40 Rare Footage of weegee in 2024

[@KidsWorldForeverOfficial]

I've always wished to write or even MAKE a show, or write an episode for a Cartoon since I was 6

[@KidsWorldForeverOfficial]

And I used to call 2D ("Paper") 3D ("Clay") and live action ("Real")

[@linnyshrum]

@@KidsWorldForeverOfficial That's a cute way to call those different forms of animation :) I wanna use those sometime

[@ininja32]

So, Butch Hartman was stealing from the beginning of his cartoon career.

[@ricardonb6375]

Didn't Rugrats had an episode where the babies did their own home movies when Stu couldn't get the projector to work?

[@moarmosspatoproductions1475]

6:31 This whole video reminds me of a Beatles song!

[@Poyostar]

The Tiny Toon Adventures and Dexter's Laboratory episodes are my favorite examples of this being in play. It's a shame we don't get these kinds of episodes as often anymore; the closest we've gotten to one o' these in the modern era are those little wraparound bits that bookended the Strong Bad Email released for April Fools' Day 2018!

[@SeanTheOriginal]

If you ever do a Part 2 to this would you consider looking into 'Shorts Films by Short People' from Nickelodeon? Assuming the shorts could actually be found, that is. Same basic premise as these cartoons except they're actually good.

[@ZeWabbitofHappyTreeLand]

Ralph before Animaniacs? Witchcraft!

[@magnetoonproductions9541]

For the record, you really shouldn’t let anyone write their fan fiction into your show.

[@beauwalker9820]

Some of this material is granted better than most modern professional writers honestly. In fact, many modern "professional" writers used to be fanfic writers as kids too.

[@magnetoonproductions9541]

Well you got me there. Anyone in particular?

[@Cinderpelt2036]

You talking about the tiny toons stalker???

[@paul329869]

Sounds terrible. You could, should and would give fan fiction a chance, every chance you get!🎉🎉🎉 Think about what fan-fiction was and is and can be!

[@magnetoonproductions9541]

Regardless of how good it is, using someone’s fan fiction would compromise the integrity of the show.

[@brendonoconnor1425]

Love this EAM!!

[@paul329869]

6:12 Man! This scene made me laugh so hard as it reminds me of how laughably bad that episode was.

[@SparklingWithNiGHTS-yv5fe]

Me too.⭐

[@TECH097]

Who else was thinking "You are STOOOOOO-PID!" in their head? XD

[@eclat4641]

5:42 i like that episode

[@evanrosman9226]

Nostalgia

[@bullmonty764]

1:32 Really, though, Julie Bruin was too good for this world, with or without her design. But mostly with, of course

[@paul329869]

6:46 DINOSAUR DROPEENGS!!😂😂😂

[@newroman]

Why does that intro feel like a jumpscare to me

[@montanajackson3713]

Don’t forget when adventure time had a fan-written episode too.

[@ryanwilkins2233]

Why does this thumbnail looks like one of phantom strider's thumbnail?

[@thomastheconjunctionfriend7908]

Can You do a Review on The Ghost and Molly McGee?

[@copfrown2397]

I remember that

[@tell-me-a-story-]

Wow! Good for them!

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

I think Tiny Toons in a loonier was made by kids for Warner Brothers kids, lol.

[@CadenSantos]

To be continued...

[@CoolMan1_SonicAndOtherStuff]

Some of the cartoons you mentioned on here aren't even "kids cartoons"! Some of them are cartoons for everyone of all ages, and others are literally adult cartoons! People need to stop stereotyping animation as just a thing made for kids. If kids wrote some of the cartoons on here, great! It's like when the spider verse team let a kid animate the entire lego scene in ATSV. But it doesn't mean they're all made specifically for kids. The ONLY cartoons that are made only for kids are preschool cartoons.

[@shahzadamiri1317]

❤

[@abanana]

woah

[@slimedoesstuff5]

Bruh bfdi was originally just 2 kids

[@jaelinsmith5207]

In the Future I want to bring cartoon shows and live action and comedy shows on the network that I come up with for Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon Called MeTV 3 (or a different Channel name) A second Retro Channel Gizmo And for the toddlers of the millinieal future will watch Educational and Informative television 📺 (E/I) I will call it Happy Face 🌞 I wish I can do that in the future.

[@daniellandaverde3148]

You forgot adventure time

[@PeterGriffin11]

I’m not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but that episode of Dexter’s Lab written by the kid is hands down the worst episode of pre movie Dexter’s Laboratory. I always hated when that episode would air on Boomerang.

[@Meena-x8j]

&

[@jjproduction297]

That's not Frank Welker voicing Steven Spielberg, that's Steven Spielberg voicing himself because I recognize his voice. 2:02