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Contents 1 Garfield? 2 Template Theory 2.1 Characters 2.1.1 Traits and Props 2.1.2 Offices in the dramatis personae 2.2 Plots 3 Re: Santo Bugito 4 Grammar Clean up 5 SpongeBob? 6 Tag 7 Exaggerated report of demise?

[edit] Garfield?

It's been quite a while since I've seen Garfield related animation, but a cursory check of imdb doesn't seem to support K-C invlolvement (unless Film Roman were spun off from K-C at some point). Is this documented elsewhere? knoodelhed 06:41, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

No, It was just a mistake. On the season four DVD of the Simpsons, Jim Reardon said on the commentary for Homer the Heritic that it was the first episode animated by Film Roman. "Up to that point, they were animating Garfield the Cat TV specials." Someone must of misheard and mistakened it for Klasky Csupo.

[edit] Template Theory

Theree's been some speculation on the part of myself and others (as I recognize writing styles from the K-C toon articles here, and commentary on Nickdisk as well as news:alt.tv.nickelodeon) as to whether K-C actively employs templates in character and plot design. While I think there's a good deal of empirical support for a template theory, I don't think I'd name it as such or post an article about it, but I will share my observations. Mind you, this applies to the "human" toons (RR, TWT, RP, ATBG, and AGU) and not necessarily to something like Duckman, Aah! Real Monsters!, etc.

[edit] Characters

Possession of a trait doesn't necessarily correspond to a character's personality type or location within power structure. For example, Otto (RP) and little Chuckie (RR) both have unique hairstyles and wear noticeable glasses, but Otto is clearly a Leader while Chuckie is a Sidekick.

[edit] Traits and Props

• Glasses
• Hairstyle
• Chronic medical condition (Sammy: asthma. Chuckie: allergies)
• Use of journals (Ginger) or videography (Twister, big Tommy)
• Eats just about anything (DeVilles, Sammy)
• Abnormal skill or interest (Eliza: talks to animals. Otto: coordination. Carl: alchemy. Noelle: psychotelekinesis)

[edit] Offices in the dramatis personae

• Meanie (Angelica, Debbie, Lars, Miranda, Samantha)
• Fearless Leader (Otto, Eliza, little Tommy, Carl)
• Sidekick (Twister, little Chuckie, Hoodsey)
• Fraidy-cat (Darwin, Sammy, little Chuckie)

[edit] Plots

Somebody noticed several key similarities between a RR special and the RP movie Reggie's Big (Beach) Break. They can't be so hard up for ideas that they recycle stories, can they?

Just an observation. - knoodelhed 07:01, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Ungvichian, 4:11am GMT 15 Dec 03: I'm the one who pointed the above thing out. That RR special was "All Growed Up" (the inspiration for All Grown Up!), and the similarities are as follows:

• Both feature 11-year-olds who want to go to a concert (in Otto's case it's part of a sportsfest).
• In both cases, their father grounds them (Tommy: for taking his dad's medallion, Otto: for "breaking a promise", and although I haven't been elaborated on what it was, one has suggested that it may be having to prepare for the expected rise in business at the Shore Shack due to the sportsfest).
• In both cases, the concert involves a pop star with weird hair (Rugrats: blue-haired Emica, RP: pink-haired Shaffika, voiced by Stacy Ferguson, and did you know she wasn't even credited for the role?).
• In both cases, the boys decide to go anyway, and get to share the stage not just with the pop star, but also a relative 2 years his senior (Otto has Reggie and Tommy has Angelica).

Just in case you want to know, I've created (so far) the articles on All Grown Up!, As Told By Ginger, and The Weekenders, and have signifcantly contributed to the articles on Rocket Power and The Wild Thornberrys.

Unfinished sentence: "All Grown Up! is still in production, however": located at the end of the "Brief Overview" section.--klazuka 19:38, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Santo Bugito

Santo Bugito is misquoted as being made in 1998, when the stub it links to claims it was made in 1995. That, and it hit syndication on teletoon in 97. It's fairly old

[edit] Grammar Clean up

hi, I just read the page and it has numerous grammar errors and double negatives which make it hard to understand. For example "By 2004, Klasky Csupo shut down production on most of its shows, including Rugrats. All Grown Up! is still in production, however." So did they still make All Grown Up?. Then after it says "In 2005, Klasky Cuspo's store called it quits on 1 December." Not only is this sentance informal and not fitting for an article it doesn't make it clear if Klasky Cuspo closed down or just it's store. I would make these changes myself but not having any information on the studio any changes i would make could potentially remove important information. There is alot of potentially interesting and helpful information on this page it just needs to be cleaned up so that readers can see it clearly and easily. TheEnlightened 15:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SpongeBob?

Some of the SpongeBob SquarePants episodes have the K-C logo after it however K-C does not have anything to do with the show. It is United Plankton Pictures that produces it. Does K-C have anything to do with it?

[edit] Tag

I removed the top tag. If someone finds anymore errors, they can bring them to my attention. Dark jedi requiem 02:42, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exaggerated report of demise?

Not sure if the entire company is about to go 10-7, but I do recall that the December 2005 date refertrd to the closure of K-C's giftshop (it actually ceased to function some time around Thanksgiving). True, cooltoons.com is off line and they haven't put out a newsletter in a while, but klaskycsupo.com and kachew.com are still up, and a late night phone call got their voice mail system (they are looking to hire some 3-D specialists). knoodelhed 14:13, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

The Simpson's mailing list just got a report of the same thing, with no source cited. Nothing on Google News, and the web site is still alive and well. --DarkAudit 20:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

I think Klasky Csupo is still around. See this article from animation magazine, published only a couple of weeks ago: [1] 青い(Aoi) 07:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Klasky Csupo is alive and well. Watch for their booth and lots of new shows at Kidscreen. [2]Rwf5 22:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)