>>100596562>>100595042Plus one for defending Be Cool, Scooby Doo. Absolutely appalling art style, but you eventually get used to it because it was positively electrifying with its humor and writing. Like every other aspect besides its actual animation was very solid. Actual personalities for Fred and Daphne, great running gags with Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, and still played it safer to the original Scooby-Doo formula with plenty of homages.
Plus it had a few problems with actual production, and so I've been told they saved it from looking a lot worse.
> We needed the more cartoony look for the comedy, which people began to understand as they gave it a chance. The real problem was that WB and CN didn't give the show a chance, didn't trust Zac and I to just make the show we knew we should make, so they interfered way too much early on - which, when they saw it was a mistake, held up production and made me rewrite the first 8-10 episodes from scratch (1-3 days a piece instead of 4-5 weeks a piece, which is normal) and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars. They hired "Phieas & Ferb" guys and then didn't trust us to know what we were talking about when we said "THIS is how we made "Phineas," THIS is why it was a hit.">Then, they couldn't suddenly admit they had been wrong, so they blamed all the hold-ups on me and Zac and we never really caught up until near the end of first season - while we still actually to manage to make a bunch of really great, fun first season shows. By second season they stopped getting in our way as much (that was their version of admitting they were wrong - by leaving us alone more). We made a great second season, until they saw how great it was, then they gave someone else all the credit, fired Zac and stuck me, creatively, under a non-writer who thought they were a better writer than I was. 
