Talk:Genndy Tartakovsky

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Contents 1 esurance.com 2 POV 3 Adult Swim show 4 The missing "a" 5 Moscow, Germany? 6 meiw 7 Gennady lived in Wheeling, IL???

[edit] esurance.com

Anyone know if Tartakovsky is the producer/director of the http://www.esurance.com/ television ads? Either he is involved, or someone's ripping off his style... Kaz 03:26, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[ Response from TEG: Look up "Frank Espinosa". He is an animator that worked on Samurai Jack, and then later helped with some of the Esurance commercials. Reference here: http://ghostbot.blogspot.com/ ] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.204.140.189 (talk • contribs) 08:47, 5 February 2006

[edit] POV

Article's obviously written by an admirer and needs npoving. Lee M 01:18, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I tried to edit out most of the POV. I guess you'll just have to see for yourself if I did well or not. Frankly, I don't know why the writer would be so highly praising of Tartakovsky. I'll admit that he's a good animator, but I'd hardly say that he has "mastered the art of timing." To each his own, I guess. Kakashi-sensei 01:12, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adult Swim show

From what I understand, Tartakovsky is working on a new show for Cartoon Network's adult swim block set to debut sometime in 2006... any information on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.79.44.48 (talk • contribs) 06:59, 11 May 2005

That show would be Kolgoth the Barbarian, which he's creating in collaboration with an artist from Spongebob (whose name escapes me...) It's set to debut in Spring 2006, though I'm not exactly clear on what role Genndy plays in its development. I heard he did the storyboarding, but he might also be involved in other facets. If someone could research this it would be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.105.51 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 29 November 2005

[edit] The missing "a"

Does anyone know why his name is missing an "a"? The original Russian name clearly translates to "Gennady" or something similar. Was it just a spelling mistake that stuck throughout his career? Esn 22:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

He wanted it to be Genndy. He lists himself as Genndy in credits, anyway.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.188.4.194 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 21 June 2006

Interesting. This is a most unusual pronunciation - and spelling - of "Gennady", but if that's his thing, he's entitled I guess. The trouble is, we give the Russian spelling Геннадий, which any Russian would pronounce "Gennady". Non-Russians might interpret "Genndy" to be a legitimate way of pronouncing it, which is not the case. "Genndy" is a name he's adopted for whatever reason, and it would be back-transliterated as "Генндий". I think we have to treat this the same as if he had adopted the name "Frank", for example. Just as we wouldn't connect Frank with Геннадий, we shouldn't connect Genndy with Геннадий. I'll have a think about a suitable solution. -- JackofOz (talk) 07:23, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

In the opening credits of Dexter's Laboratory, it is spelled Gennedy --Jordan042 (talk) 18:03, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

wow, it took me some time to understand that the 1st syllable is stressed :) In Russian, 'a' is stressed. --Yms (talk) 14:46, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moscow, Germany?

Who wrote this thing? --Lyght 06:40, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

This guy: [1]. I've reworded that part, although I have no idea if it's accurate in the first place... Esn 08:36, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] meiw

Hy wasnt it gwnndy that said: A bird in a hand is worthth two in a biush

[edit] Gennady lived in Wheeling, IL???

There is a Eugene Field Elementary School in the Chicagoland area i.e. Wheeling, IL. What I want to know is is there any proof if he did? Field's webpage doesn't have an alumni section (considering it's only an Elementary School). I find it very fascinating and I hope it's true, but I would like to see Source's if you can obtain them. Neo Samus 16:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, There are about 5 different Eugene Field Elementary School's in the Chicagoland area. Neo Samus 17:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)