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Literally waiting until the time you start making a video that recovers episodes that is all related to the 2012 Mayan Calendar Doomsday phenomenon which sadly none of this hasn't lasted a while longer which lead to it's disconfirmation of being another example of mass hysteria. But shows such as Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, Gumball, etc. They isn't numerous of them right now but maybe he can save it around July at that time already
I unironically adore the art direction the show had, like hot damn these color pallets REALLY pop and with the usage of bold black outlines, they could get away with pumping in a lot of textural detail without too much being visually lost/cluttered
Imagine an alternate universe where this became a beloved action cartoon in the 2000s. Then, in the 2010s, fans would get a more comedy-based revival series called "Minoriteam: Report!" It was divisive to say the least.
15:58 One interesting thing about the name de la Peña, 'de la' means 'of the'. 'Pena' without the accent means 'shame'. So basically Godzilla Mendoza called him 'Adam of the Shame'
Ah, I didn't realize how much I missed those classic core rebel taxi type vids! I liked other topics that you were focusing more on lately, but obscure 2000s cartoons are still your bread and butter, you're still top dog when it comes to covering that type of stuff! Love you Pan
What I appreciate about this show, unlike other controversial adult animation, is that the show actually tries to look good despite its low budget. I don’t get why so much adult animation actually emphasizes looking bad because it only turns me away from shows like that. But I guess some actually find an ugly looking show to be appealing in some way
I will stand by this until I die: Squidbillies and 12 oz. Mouse were two of the funniest, most self-aware shows Adult Swim ever put out besides Aqua Teen. Sure, they looked like shit. But if you actually sat down and watched those shows, they were spouting off jokes and topics that were way ahead of their time. Squidbillies in particular had some really woke commentary on American Southerners, racism, and corporate greed. Sometimes, how a show looks isn't what matters. It's how the show is written and executed.
@@feshpince7181 I mean sure I guess, but i don’t see why shows can’t both be funny and self aware while also having good animation. I guess I could see that they might have such a tight budget that they might not be made otherwise without such low quality animation, but in general it seems like many just want it to look bad without any good reason
This show sounds like a one-off concept you'd see in an episode of South Park. Actually, the Super Best Friends are basically Minoriteam PLUS religious sacrilege.
People are still people but by comparison to today it was like being of a chosen class in the wild west. Normies weren't everywhere yet and the government and big tech corporations didn't squeeze it then either.
honestly, considering the much lazier, creatively bankrupted ideas that have been greenlighted by Adult Swim in the past, Minoriteam is far from the worst thing in the world when this is the kind of stuff Matt Stone and Trey Parker still openly mock in their works and challenge you if you tell them they've gone to far.
there was that terrible aqua team hunger force spinoff that had h john benjamin, kristen schaal, and (i shit you not) disgraced vice co-founder/current head of the proud boys gavin mcinnes playing sports balls. probably a contender for the worst show on the platform
@@princewellidk They aren't as consistently bad or consistently good as they used to be. They still are willing to do stuff that isn't quite as safe as a lot of channels have become but they're nowhere near what they once were. I mean it's been 20 plus years and you can definitely feel that.
y'know those reruns are actually a special exemption to the rule since theyre already cartoons in place, but newer cartoons have a LOT more restrictions on them; I watched a video on the making of smiling friends and it showed Zach and Michael talking about the difficulties they had producing it and the main point they brought up is how older shows that air today have stuff on them that Zach and Michael weren't allowed to have on their show like smoking. originally they planned for the satan scene to be a bit longer with more of an emphasis on him hitting the vape but then the execs said that they couldn't air that because they didnt want it to look like they were "promoting smoking" which I agree is bs when theyve literally got king of the hill reruns on there
Hell, I always laugh that adult swim has tons of anti-smoking commercials, but airs anime. Including bebop, which has smoking without any health side effect in almost every scene.
Smoking is weird. We collectively decided its bad, and its bad; but depicting it in art is not like depicting a murder. Like, if there is no such thing as a anti-war movie, same goes for smoking. It looks hella cool no matter what. Years of advertising fucked our heads.
@@friendlyypyp1997 - Gives me flashbacks to 4Kids One Piece on Toonami You know, the show that's infamous for a character being censored because he smokes in every frame he's in, and that's not an exaggeration.
It's more of a money issue these days unfortunately. Pretty sure Adult Swim gets some money from Anti-Vape PSA companies (hence why they also get PSAs on their channel) and they don't want to look bad because of it. This issue was prevalent but just in a different way back then.
@@kirbles2035 Except now its been blown in the completely opposite extreme these days, where you have to listen to every idea, even if it sucks. Instead of just... you know, treating EVERYONE equally like it should go. Extra super bonus points if it's a Black or Brown Woman, then you CAN'T NOT do whatever idea it is, even if it could potentially sink the company. (And they absolute super duper MUST have one on the Board/CEO gig, even if that person doesn't deserve it, because I guess equality means just handing it to them because they demand it.)
@@Maniacman2030 diversity in a workplace is important though, also you shouldn't have to do an idea someone suggests but you should always at least listen to what someone has to say.
@Kirbles “diversity is important in the workplace” No it isn’t. That’s your opinionated take on the subject and nothing else. It’s an irrelevant quality that has no actual bearing on the work itself.
I don't know if this ever could have worked, but it seems like a lot of their problems came from a lack of experience and ability to convey what they wanted more clearly and cleverly.
Imo I think they were chained by getting the comic motion aesthetic right moreso over formulating their writing. Even for 10 min episodes they really stretch out the plots and by the 2nd half of the show they seem to have no ideas left. I personally don't reckon its a bad show but similar (and ironically paradoxical?) to Superjail its style over substance
I mean, it was made by three white cisdudes in the early 2000s. Many of their limitations towards a project like this were built-in. Though considering they came off of something like Crank Yankers, which sported a helmet-wearing, neurodivergent character named "Special Ed," I'm not sure just how much they were really willing to learn regardless.
To me when this show came out, it was just insanely low budget and ugly looking. Someone like sealab is equally low budget but was much cleaner and easier to follow what was going on.
“It’s like they wanna tell offensive jokes based on what people know is offensive, rather than maybe instigate more hate for a specific group, at least that’s my logic when I say edgy stuff, you can make fun of everyone, but not everyone has the same amount of respect or rights to fall back on” WHAT A RAW QUOTE. See, the butt of the joke in this show IS racism. The joke is that this is how people see these minorities in real life. The butt of the joke Is YOU, not the heroes. Like micheal from the office. It may not be an amazing show but just this amount of social awareness honestly? I think it’s fine.
My only problem with that quote is everybody has a certain amount of rights until they don't and that goes for anyone. Commit a crime and suddenly you lose all rights, regardless of skin color, gender or ethnicity.
my responce to you is: th-cam.com/video/M-9TBaxFMy8/w-d-xo.html i like it when everyone is "offended" to the point no-one feels truly offended, because there is no hate, just some well-meaning ribbing about how rediculus stereotypes or misconceptions are. ultimately showing that despite our cosmetic differences, we are all one people...like literally, all our ansesstors came from the same source/person.
At first glance, it seems like the show was just blatant edgy sh!t. But, especially with the creator's interview, it seems the show was self aware and satirical with what they were doing. Honestly, the show fits the era of leftist George Bush era shows, like Wonder Showzen, Whitest Kids You Know or MXC.
You know an Adult Swim show is on another level when the rating blurb of the DVD release (only exclusive in Australia, go figure) specifically points out 'racism themes' on the box. Never seen that anywhere else for a DVD here let alone for an animated series.
It is cowardly. It's also scummy how they're claiming to support BLM while censoring the show of a black creator because people(mostly whites) get offended by the Boondocks...
Are you gonna say McDonalds ISN'T brave for not promoting hot dogs they don't make anymore because they didn't sell? imagine being so ridiculous you associate "cowardice" with a multi million dollar corporation not giving you access to problematic content from 15 years ago that makes them no money, and only serves to hurt their profit. People like you are nuts
Two things before I watch the video: 1. Literally, I was thinking about this show two days ago and I couldn't remember the name, so thank you for that; 2: You asked us to not skip the intro and I couldn't dream of doing that. There's so much effort put into bringing us back to a lost middle school Saturday night and I always appreciate it. Your intro exemplifies an illustrative quality that more intros/theme songs should have
shout-out to Diablos for phrasing his criticism of the show in the third-person, making it feel like he's talking down to you from a high throne softly swirling a glass of wine
Yeah the content here didn't light the world on fire, but the visuals are pretty ambitious. Even with weak animation they did a great job emulating Kirby's style. Someone's gotta take another crack at adapting Jack Kirby visuals to animation; The last act of Spiderverse proved how amazing animated Kirby Krackle looks.
Not Jack Kirby specifically, but Kid Cosmic has a similar “old comics” type art style. The backgrounds in this vid really reminded me of the space backgrounds in the show
Its so weird of all the things from that era of Adult Swim to age so well with some actual social commentary bite this and Moral Orel are the two I did not see coming.
I probably won't watch a single episode of this show outside of this video, but I'm glad it's not as horrible as I thought it would be. I'm shocked that the creators even put in satirical elements about systemic injustice that they did. A show called "Minoriteam" should not be as socially conscious as it is, but here we are! Also, the Jack Kirby aesthetic is baller af. They truly nailed his art style!
"I'm shocked that the creators even put in satirical elements about systemic injustice that they did. A show called 'Minoriteam' should not be as socially conscious as it is, but here we are!" Congratulations, you just discovered satire!
@RebelTaxi Todd James is the famous NY graffiti writer called REAS. You actually showed their production logo @ 6:20. he is also the reason why there is so much graffiti in the background of this show.
This unironically aged like a fine wine based on what you've shown here, and rather forward-thinking behind the scenes. Could've been one of those shows that's a gutbuster but then you stop think and go "Oh shit..." and it kinda is already. Happy ya got Chocovania on this, you're damn good at spotlighting cool things
@@souljastation5463 Yes. And that matters because...? If Adult Swim pleased the whims of everyone they wouldn't have made fun of the crackhead mom accusing them of satanism over a silly bumper of children being used as instruments
This fucking show.. So dumb but loved watching it. But Black Dynamite did this kind of humor better and with a nice art style as well. Again The Jack Kirby artstyle was good but the writing was bad. Hey, Godzilla Mendoza, He has worked with Comic Tropes.
Idea: Reboot the minoriteam as a series of shorts, but they all have stereotypical American white-guy voices like David Cross, Patten Oswalt, Conan O'Brien, etc (Think "Sorry to Bother You"); instead of those dumb impressions because these stereotypes were created specifically to mock and further deride racial-minorities. Their job is to help "people-of-color" but make things worse.
I was think more of a cartoon set in a world where white, cisgender people are the minority while other people of color and people in the LGBT crowd are all racist towards them and heterosexuality is considered controversial.
I think the show is a pretty self-aware attempt at recuperating stereotypes and making a pretty great statement with the villains representing systemic issues afflicting ppl of color. Only issue is that they should’ve made the stereotypes a little more subtle. South Park does a great job with Token retroactively being named “Tolkien”-this is coming from a Black male. I haven’t seen the show but if the racial stereotypes are the jokes in the satire, the satire might just commit the same missteps they’re trying to critique.
So I'm a huge Jack Kirby nerd/collector and I just wanna say this art style is absolute heaven! Especially when most marvel properties both live action and animated tend to go for kinda boring visual styles. The actual acknowledgement to Kirby's art is why I think Thor Ragnarok is one of the best MCU movies. Anyway just wanted to say this show looks cool as fuck
I would wait for every ep. of Minoriteam with anticipation. truly ahead of it's time and underrated. I am glad that pan reminded me of this funny show.
I honestly feel like you could do a really good version of this now with good enough writers. Though knowing Society it'll get taken up by the Wrong People.
Interestingly, Peter Girardi would then co-develop Saul Of The Molemen with Craig Lewis of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends fame, a parody of Land Of The Lost-esque shows with some pretty cool puppet effects and costumes, which also got 20 episodes out of nowhere and is considered a VERY underrated series. Oh, and it's also notable for having Trey Parker sing the theme song. So yeah, the only time one of the South Park creators worked on an Adult Swim show.
I still get that random line “The stones… the stones… the stones, of SAAAUULLL!” stuck in my head from time-to-time. Plus the weird 1776 flashback episode with Dana Snyder as Benjamin Franklin was popular enough to get its own spin-off Fourth of July special “A Young Person’s Guide to History”.
Trey Parker also did a voice for “The Shivering Truth” created by their writer, Vernon Chatman who also created Wondershowzen and Xavier the Renegade Angel
For every "you can't show this on tv anymore!" there's stuff like "queer people existing" that's gradually escaping censor hell. People try to act like restrictions are only getting tighter, but it's more of a general shift in sensibilities. Also, I wonder how Jack Kirby would have responded to this show. Would he be on board with the 'it's satire' rationale, or ready to throw giant hands?
@@souljastation5463 modern tv’s been good for a while, very little censorship, unless race jokes are what you want. If you need old school stuff, the 80s and 90s were WAY more censored. Lol even 80s ninja turtles couldn’t show nunchucks
"but it's more of a general shift in sensibilities" and thus many things have become Verboten in a mere decade or two, and very artificially so. Shows only can tell the status quo approved message like some old-timey PSA for kids. People on TV are so disconnected from the average Joe now and they closer represent something from a propaganda poster and constantly preach like one. What was once normal to say only in say, 2008, is now regarded as unspeakable and as though it was from ancient times. Things have been forced from the bottom down to change at such break neck speeds that people are just in disbelief. Like a people who just got taken over by the Soviets, every aspect of their culture has changed. Yet on the surface it is still advertised as being "normal" as though there wasn't some massive paradigm shift, but people can still feel it. And the internet has been pushed by big tech for years now to become cable TV 2.0, the internet is far more restricted than it was only 15 years ago.
Racist Checkers. That was also my introduction to the show as it didn't air in Australia until much later. I remember all those old flash games they had for their older shows. Shame that alot of those games are virtually lost to time and the obsolescence of Flash but that game from memory wasn't remarkable.
Eh. They recreated the Kirby style in episodes of Superman: The Animated Series in the late 1990s. The Kirby crackle is ALL OVER the place in the New Gods episodes of that series. Also, Jack Kirby worked in the US animation industry in the late 1970s and 1980s. He storyboarded on the awful DePatie-Freleng Fantastic Four (1978) animated series and was the main visual concept artist on Thundarr the Barbarian which was created by Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck! Thundarr IMHO is worth picking up on Blu ray.
@@FrostTheRedeemed Dude why you blaming me for!? IT ain't my fault I almost went blinded by the backgrounds and had to pull out my shades to protect me from going blinded again.
5:56 yes fun fact Jack Kirby was a huge fan of collages. So in his issues if he wanted to depict space far out things you can't understand they'd be made out of ripped up magazines he'd have.
I LOVE THAT SHOW! The fact that it's being hidden like an old shame is saddening. It's was in the vain of Undercover Brother, Boondocks, Unemployed Man, etc.
Dude I knew this show wasn't a figment of my imagination. Use to watch this around 2 a.m while eating a late night snack,avoiding waking up my parents as a kid 😂
Ayyy Dana Snyder is cool af and full of adult swim stories. I too meet him at a crumy con basically the new jersey version of Florida called Pensacola. He did not like me telling him anytime he talks I see a shake talking to me feels pretty trippy but I ment it as a compliment.
Adam de la Pena gave me and my buddies so much entertainment when we were younger. We used sit up in my friends upstairs room in the barn to smoke and watch Code Monkeys all the time. That was such a good show. Don't forget hanging with Busey.
I love the art style. It reminds me a lot of the silver age comics of Marvel and DC,especially Jack Kirby. It does shows how much love these guys have of the old school comics.
Between the over the top-ness, wanna be South Park style of edgy humor, the pop culture gags, and the specifically referenced show from the 60's and/or 70's, this is PEAK Gen-X produced adult cartoon series. And yeah, we can never have that again because today's cartoon makers are from the 80's-00's and referencing the stuff THEY grew up with. Plus, we have this weird ass thing now about character pieces and deeper meanings are more important than jokes Family Guy viciously beat to the ground and ruined, so we're getting stuff like Bojack Horseman and Smiling Friends, so...
I showed this series to a few friends and they actually pitched me a much better, funnier concept for Racist Frankenstein: having him built from parts of every race and STILL racist, even against himself.
I remember watching like the first four or five episodes on the AS website! Honestly I thought the show was hilarious in a good way. While I am from an ethnic background I was not offender but eyeah I can easily see why it got banned!
I didn't pay much attention to Minoriteam when it aired. That time in my (and to a lesser extent my husband's) life was full of episiotomy scars and dirty diapers, plus a toddler who was shaping up to be fairly odd. Hearing about it now makes me want to go back and watch it for real.
There was this 2002 rpg video game on the PC. That has this Jack kirby art style. Called Freedom Force and its 2005 sequel Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. Tactical RPG game that's basically a love letter to all things silver Age superheroes, made by Irrational Games ( the same creators that went on to create BioShock years after these 2 games) the game series is very obscure but it still has a niche following of fans and modders who create content for these games. While I'm sure the gameplay is not going to be everyone's cup of tea I still feel like it could be great for an obscure games video.
I remember this. It had at least two bits of self-aware self-criticism, the time with 8:07 's villain father and a love interest of the speedster, 8:15.
Using stereotypes for comedy is great... it helps bring then to light and mocks them so ppl will realize they are ridiculous and wont use them... comedy is great for that
I can't believe you got a quote from Dana S. He has the 2nd best voice in all of animation, right behind the legendary Mel Blanc. Mastershake is the greatest cartoon character of all time.
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Literally waiting until the time you start making a video that recovers episodes that is all related to the 2012 Mayan Calendar Doomsday phenomenon which sadly none of this hasn't lasted a while longer which lead to it's disconfirmation of being another example of mass hysteria. But shows such as Family Guy, Futurama, Simpsons, Gumball, etc. They isn't numerous of them right now but maybe he can save it around July at that time already
Plz pan. Plz do code monkeys
I wanna see more reviews on pilots on shows featured on [AdultSwim] and MTV in future uploads!
Holidays?
This straight up feels like a cartoon you would see on TV in a Grand Theft Auto game.
Exactly. Its a shame they removed some of those cartoons from the game
But this one being good, unlike any GTA cartoon
@@lexecomplexe4083
Did they?!
Nailed it on the head right there.🔨🎯
@@eliel1815shadow all of them
I unironically adore the art direction the show had, like hot damn these color pallets REALLY pop and with the usage of bold black outlines, they could get away with pumping in a lot of textural detail without too much being visually lost/cluttered
It's fucked up how this of all things did such a great job of doing the Jack Kirby artstyle in motion.
It so weird how good the art looks
th-cam.com/video/oCzQGhqgUk0/w-d-xo.html Finally it's here,.
The opposite of ironic is genuine
It is amazing
“You know which minority I hate…..the vocal minority”
- Pan Pizza (2022)
"and also the [redacted]"
So Conservatives.
@@Clay3613 18:43 moment
@@Clay3613 and liberal
@@Clay3613 lol they claim to be silenced yet they never shut the f%ck up
Imagine an alternate universe where this became a beloved action cartoon in the 2000s.
Then, in the 2010s, fans would get a more comedy-based revival series called
"Minoriteam: Report!"
It was divisive to say the least.
@Yes , i agree No it's not
@Yes , i agree not your father
Based.
hilarious and original
Minoriteam: Affirmative Action-Packed!
2:41 oh my god that Failed animated pilots callback is so cute and a clever reuse of resources.
It's the perfect cop out
15:58
One interesting thing about the name de la Peña, 'de la' means 'of the'. 'Pena' without the accent means 'shame'.
So basically Godzilla Mendoza called him 'Adam of the Shame'
damn u_u
'Pena' is more sadness than it is shame.
@@ClubbingSealCub It's pity
@@jesterdays pity is 'lástima'
@@ClubbingSealCub Guess it depends in the context, but I guess lástima is the more acurate one
“True racial equality is when we can all come together to mock each other as brutally as possible.” - Sun Tzu, probably
14:02
Agreed
True words to live by.
SUN TZU SAID THAT
@@jaded151 And I think he knows a little bit more about racial equality than YOU DO, pal... BECAUSE HE INVENTED IT!
Ah, I didn't realize how much I missed those classic core rebel taxi type vids! I liked other topics that you were focusing more on lately, but obscure 2000s cartoons are still your bread and butter, you're still top dog when it comes to covering that type of stuff! Love you Pan
What I appreciate about this show, unlike other controversial adult animation, is that the show actually tries to look good despite its low budget. I don’t get why so much adult animation actually emphasizes looking bad because it only turns me away from shows like that. But I guess some actually find an ugly looking show to be appealing in some way
I think those bad-looking shows are designed to be watched under the influence of drugs.
It's easier to animate poorly-drawn images.
It can be done but it needs some work to actually achieve it rather than you just cutting corners
I will stand by this until I die: Squidbillies and 12 oz. Mouse were two of the funniest, most self-aware shows Adult Swim ever put out besides Aqua Teen.
Sure, they looked like shit. But if you actually sat down and watched those shows, they were spouting off jokes and topics that were way ahead of their time. Squidbillies in particular had some really woke commentary on American Southerners, racism, and corporate greed.
Sometimes, how a show looks isn't what matters. It's how the show is written and executed.
@@feshpince7181 I mean sure I guess, but i don’t see why shows can’t both be funny and self aware while also having good animation. I guess I could see that they might have such a tight budget that they might not be made otherwise without such low quality animation, but in general it seems like many just want it to look bad without any good reason
that lookback at that old forum cartoon discussion really hammers it in that the cartoon community is just an endless circle
16:03 - Oh my god, I love that instead of mentioning it to him and asking for him to re-record the line, you just called him out right in the video.
It was funnier this way
This show sounds like a one-off concept you'd see in an episode of South Park. Actually, the Super Best Friends are basically Minoriteam PLUS religious sacrilege.
Except that Super Best Friends actually makes a point. I don't know what kind of points they were trying to make with this show...
@@dork7546 Same with Le Bonheur, I have no idea what the point of the film was.
@@dork7546 pan literally explains it in the video
I miss those shit lords.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 the Varda film?
Glad to see that 2005 internet was no different from today's internet
People are still people but by comparison to today it was like being of a chosen class in the wild west. Normies weren't everywhere yet and the government and big tech corporations didn't squeeze it then either.
Ah my favorite South Park song...
"why are there so many minoriteams at water parks"
"Is this really suppose to be? I mean I've seen way worst stuff of this on the internet."
- Charlie of The Smiling Friends, 2022
Pretty sure Zach, and by extension Charlie, knows how to use the correct form of "suppose" and "bad".
honestly, considering the much lazier, creatively bankrupted ideas that have been greenlighted by Adult Swim in the past, Minoriteam is far from the worst thing in the world when this is the kind of stuff Matt Stone and Trey Parker still openly mock in their works and challenge you if you tell them they've gone to far.
there was that terrible aqua team hunger force spinoff that had h john benjamin, kristen schaal, and (i shit you not) disgraced vice co-founder/current head of the proud boys gavin mcinnes playing sports balls. probably a contender for the worst show on the platform
Adult Swim is still good
@@princewellidk of course, Soul Quest Overdrive was just an example of a bad/dull show theyve put out
@@m_crowley6674 still can't believe that shit got greenlit and picked up and not spacecataz
@@princewellidk
They aren't as consistently bad or consistently good as they used to be. They still are willing to do stuff that isn't quite as safe as a lot of channels have become but they're nowhere near what they once were.
I mean it's been 20 plus years and you can definitely feel that.
y'know those reruns are actually a special exemption to the rule since theyre already cartoons in place, but newer cartoons have a LOT more restrictions on them; I watched a video on the making of smiling friends and it showed Zach and Michael talking about the difficulties they had producing it and the main point they brought up is how older shows that air today have stuff on them that Zach and Michael weren't allowed to have on their show like smoking. originally they planned for the satan scene to be a bit longer with more of an emphasis on him hitting the vape but then the execs said that they couldn't air that because they didnt want it to look like they were "promoting smoking" which I agree is bs when theyve literally got king of the hill reruns on there
Hell, I always laugh that adult swim has tons of anti-smoking commercials, but airs anime. Including bebop, which has smoking without any health side effect in almost every scene.
Smoking is weird. We collectively decided its bad, and its bad; but depicting it in art is not like depicting a murder. Like, if there is no such thing as a anti-war movie, same goes for smoking. It looks hella cool no matter what. Years of advertising fucked our heads.
funny, considering that it's the devil smoking, you'd think that it's doing the opposite of promoting smoking
@@friendlyypyp1997 - Gives me flashbacks to 4Kids One Piece on Toonami
You know, the show that's infamous for a character being censored because he smokes in every frame he's in, and that's not an exaggeration.
It's more of a money issue these days unfortunately. Pretty sure Adult Swim gets some money from Anti-Vape PSA companies (hence why they also get PSAs on their channel) and they don't want to look bad because of it. This issue was prevalent but just in a different way back then.
The “Invisible Girl” joke is a hilarious joke and great satire on women being devalued in the workplace.
If only all the jokes were like that.
Or is it?
@@SirBlackReeds No it is. At the very least it's a satire of how people tend to not listen to women even when they have good ideas.
@@kirbles2035 Except now its been blown in the completely opposite extreme these days, where you have to listen to every idea, even if it sucks. Instead of just... you know, treating EVERYONE equally like it should go. Extra super bonus points if it's a Black or Brown Woman, then you CAN'T NOT do whatever idea it is, even if it could potentially sink the company. (And they absolute super duper MUST have one on the Board/CEO gig, even if that person doesn't deserve it, because I guess equality means just handing it to them because they demand it.)
@@Maniacman2030 diversity in a workplace is important though, also you shouldn't have to do an idea someone suggests but you should always at least listen to what someone has to say.
@Kirbles “diversity is important in the workplace” No it isn’t. That’s your opinionated take on the subject and nothing else. It’s an irrelevant quality that has no actual bearing on the work itself.
I don't know if this ever could have worked, but it seems like a lot of their problems came from a lack of experience and ability to convey what they wanted more clearly and cleverly.
yeah.
Key words is cleverly, everyone can point out issues with a mocking voice, not many can actually make it so funny you give a lesson across
Imo I think they were chained by getting the comic motion aesthetic right moreso over formulating their writing. Even for 10 min episodes they really stretch out the plots and by the 2nd half of the show they seem to have no ideas left. I personally don't reckon its a bad show but similar (and ironically paradoxical?) to Superjail its style over substance
I mean, it was made by three white cisdudes in the early 2000s. Many of their limitations towards a project like this were built-in. Though considering they came off of something like Crank Yankers, which sported a helmet-wearing, neurodivergent character named "Special Ed," I'm not sure just how much they were really willing to learn regardless.
To me when this show came out, it was just insanely low budget and ugly looking. Someone like sealab is equally low budget but was much cleaner and easier to follow what was going on.
“It’s like they wanna tell offensive jokes based on what people know is offensive, rather than maybe instigate more hate for a specific group, at least that’s my logic when I say edgy stuff, you can make fun of everyone, but not everyone has the same amount of respect or rights to fall back on”
WHAT A RAW QUOTE.
See, the butt of the joke in this show IS racism. The joke is that this is how people see these minorities in real life. The butt of the joke Is YOU, not the heroes. Like micheal from the office. It may not be an amazing show but just this amount of social awareness honestly? I think it’s fine.
@Yes , i agree What
Why Are Ya'll doing that
It's weird and I don't get it, so tell me 'bout it
@@harrietr.5073 They are bots spamming the comments
@@ZelphTheWebmancer Oh.
Great...
My only problem with that quote is everybody has a certain amount of rights until they don't and that goes for anyone. Commit a crime and suddenly you lose all rights, regardless of skin color, gender or ethnicity.
my responce to you is: th-cam.com/video/M-9TBaxFMy8/w-d-xo.html
i like it when everyone is "offended" to the point no-one feels truly offended, because there is no hate, just some well-meaning ribbing about how rediculus stereotypes or misconceptions are. ultimately showing that despite our cosmetic differences, we are all one people...like literally, all our ansesstors came from the same source/person.
Pan: “That is the 2nd worst pitch he sat through”
Me:”I couldn’t imagine what the 1st one could be “😁
th-cam.com/video/Q0i_ACubNXI/w-d-xo.html
what was the worst one?
@@holepunch1829 I think its Assy McGee
Pan "I Want To Bone Cartoon Characters" Pizza
@@holepunch1829 I’m not too sure, but Pan probably knows what it is.
At first glance, it seems like the show was just blatant edgy sh!t. But, especially with the creator's interview, it seems the show was self aware and satirical with what they were doing. Honestly, the show fits the era of leftist George Bush era shows, like Wonder Showzen, Whitest Kids You Know or MXC.
>WKYK
They killed the creator recently RIP
@@seronymus yea man, can’t believe they got to him, damn shame. Bush will pay for this
Remember when liberals actually believed in freedom of expression and freedom of speech? I miss those days
@@chiefkeef74 Same, they’re the most hateful people now
th-cam.com/video/oCzQGhqgUk0/w-d-xo.html Finally it's here,.
This show is why I call every racially diverse team of heroes a "minoriteam." I've never seen the show. I just like its name.
@Yes , i agree What is with all these spam channels linking to videos of someone making food or dessert???
So, X Men is one?
@@firepuppies4086 every team since at least the 80s
@@A2Z83 x Men is one of the Og teams, it was always a comic about representation.
@@firepuppies4086 Oh God, the new one is going to suck
You know an Adult Swim show is on another level when the rating blurb of the DVD release (only exclusive in Australia, go figure) specifically points out 'racism themes' on the box. Never seen that anywhere else for a DVD here let alone for an animated series.
I unironically love the main villain's design.
ILLUMINATI MEMES
Bill Cypher is a rip-off
I respect their right to do what they want with their intellectual property, but it seems a bit cowardly to take these things down.
It is cowardly. It's also scummy how they're claiming to support BLM while censoring the show of a black creator because people(mostly whites) get offended by the Boondocks...
It is cowardly
from a business standpoint it's better to take this mostly obscure show down than deal with the negative PR it'll bring
@@ThePhantom4516 But literally nobody cared about this show. Ironically they made people care about it once they started trying to hide it.
Are you gonna say McDonalds ISN'T brave for not promoting hot dogs they don't make anymore because they didn't sell?
imagine being so ridiculous you associate "cowardice" with a multi million dollar corporation not giving you access to problematic content from 15 years ago that makes them no money, and only serves to hurt their profit.
People like you are nuts
Two things before I watch the video:
1. Literally, I was thinking about this show two days ago and I couldn't remember the name, so thank you for that;
2: You asked us to not skip the intro and I couldn't dream of doing that. There's so much effort put into bringing us back to a lost middle school Saturday night and I always appreciate it. Your intro exemplifies an illustrative quality that more intros/theme songs should have
shout-out to Diablos for phrasing his criticism of the show in the third-person, making it feel like he's talking down to you from a high throne softly swirling a glass of wine
I actually like how close it looks like Jack Kirby’s art
Yeah the content here didn't light the world on fire, but the visuals are pretty ambitious. Even with weak animation they did a great job emulating Kirby's style. Someone's gotta take another crack at adapting Jack Kirby visuals to animation; The last act of Spiderverse proved how amazing animated Kirby Krackle looks.
It's unfortunate since everyone just wants to copy manga
Not Jack Kirby specifically, but Kid Cosmic has a similar “old comics” type art style. The backgrounds in this vid really reminded me of the space backgrounds in the show
There was a SILVER SURFER cartoon back in the day that did it in the Kirby style!!! Need more shows with his style!!!
Its so weird of all the things from that era of Adult Swim to age so well with some actual social commentary bite this and Moral Orel are the two I did not see coming.
Or do they?
@@SirBlackReeds okay racist
Man, that footage of G4 sure takes me back.
And yes, I would love to see an episode about Code Monkeys.
Same here
i just wanna say i've always loved the pacing and aesthetics of your videos and channel, as someone who grew up in the 2000s
I probably won't watch a single episode of this show outside of this video, but I'm glad it's not as horrible as I thought it would be. I'm shocked that the creators even put in satirical elements about systemic injustice that they did. A show called "Minoriteam" should not be as socially conscious as it is, but here we are!
Also, the Jack Kirby aesthetic is baller af. They truly nailed his art style!
Yeah honestly i love the concept about them being legit normal human beings that TURN into racist caricatures
@@ironmaster6496 I was absolutely rolling when I heard that - no wonder this thing got greenlit on the pitch alone
Definitely a million times less offensive than like #girlboss white liberal type morality plays like Crash or Driving Miss Daisy
"I'm shocked that the creators even put in satirical elements about systemic injustice that they did. A show called 'Minoriteam' should not be as socially conscious as it is, but here we are!"
Congratulations, you just discovered satire!
@RebelTaxi Todd James is the famous NY graffiti writer called REAS. You actually showed their production logo @ 6:20. he is also the reason why there is so much graffiti in the background of this show.
This unironically aged like a fine wine based on what you've shown here, and rather forward-thinking
behind the scenes. Could've been one of those shows that's a gutbuster but then you stop think and go
"Oh shit..." and it kinda is already. Happy ya got Chocovania on this, you're damn good at spotlighting cool things
Or did it?
90% of Twitter would think this is "problematic" and would petition to fire the writers.
@@SirBlackReeds To me it has
@@souljastation5463 Yes. And that matters because...? If Adult Swim pleased the whims of everyone
they wouldn't have made fun of the crackhead mom accusing them of satanism over a silly bumper of children being used as instruments
This feels like a show if handled by the XRA crew, it could've actually had a lot of social bite to it like that show
seems too overt and not psychedelic enough for that
definetly can see it as a Wonder Showzen skit as oppose to its own show
2:41 Never thought I would get nostalgic for classic Rebeltaxi callbacks but here we are
20:01 may also apply to that too (if you know, you know).
The premise of this show is insane but I do love the art style.
I love Jack Kirby's artstyle. This show recreated his style well.
This fucking show.. So dumb but loved watching it. But Black Dynamite did this kind of humor better and with a nice art style as well. Again The Jack Kirby artstyle was good but the writing was bad.
Hey, Godzilla Mendoza, He has worked with Comic Tropes.
Idea: Reboot the minoriteam as a series of shorts, but they all have stereotypical American white-guy voices like David Cross, Patten Oswalt, Conan O'Brien, etc (Think "Sorry to Bother You"); instead of those dumb impressions because these stereotypes were created specifically to mock and further deride racial-minorities. Their job is to help "people-of-color" but make things worse.
What did those people do?
@Yes , i agree Fuck you.
@@PeterGriffin11 exist
that'd be hilarious.
I was think more of a cartoon set in a world where white, cisgender people are the minority while other people of color and people in the LGBT crowd are all racist towards them and heterosexuality is considered controversial.
Amazing video as always, Pan. I think sometimes is good to see "in your face" social criticism in a show.
I think the show is a pretty self-aware attempt at recuperating stereotypes and making a pretty great statement with the villains representing systemic issues afflicting ppl of color. Only issue is that they should’ve made the stereotypes a little more subtle. South Park does a great job with Token retroactively being named “Tolkien”-this is coming from a Black male.
I haven’t seen the show but if the racial stereotypes are the jokes in the satire, the satire might just commit the same missteps they’re trying to critique.
I really doubt Trey and Matt were making fun of racism
Yeah, but racism is a good thing.
It’s been a while since I’ve been interested in a rebeltaxi video so now I’m excited for what’s to come
So I'm a huge Jack Kirby nerd/collector and I just wanna say this art style is absolute heaven! Especially when most marvel properties both live action and animated tend to go for kinda boring visual styles. The actual acknowledgement to Kirby's art is why I think Thor Ragnarok is one of the best MCU movies. Anyway just wanted to say this show looks cool as fuck
I would wait for every ep. of Minoriteam with anticipation. truly ahead of it's time and underrated. I am glad that pan reminded me of this funny show.
I honestly feel like you could do a really good version of this now with good enough writers. Though knowing Society it'll get taken up by the Wrong People.
THIS SHOW MOCKS IDENTITY POLITICS
@@ektran4205 No, it mocks racism
Yeah, leftists that jump to conclusions would hate it and right-wingers would love it for the wrong reasons.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964The wrong reasons IN YOUR OPINION
@@martyr_lightsilver1833 Nah, right-wingers can get pretty wrong a lot of the time.
"Dirty Cop, or just Cop for short" genius
lmao!
Eh, kinda low hanging, its no "pigs in a blanket are delicious!" from that SarahZ video (dont ask me which one, I dont remember) 🧐😴
@@alejandrocervantes3624 Oof.
Interestingly, Peter Girardi would then co-develop Saul Of The Molemen with Craig Lewis of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends fame, a parody of Land Of The Lost-esque shows with some pretty cool puppet effects and costumes, which also got 20 episodes out of nowhere and is considered a VERY underrated series. Oh, and it's also notable for having Trey Parker sing the theme song. So yeah, the only time one of the South Park creators worked on an Adult Swim show.
Saul of the Molemen was so good!!
I still get that random line “The stones… the stones… the stones, of SAAAUULLL!” stuck in my head from time-to-time. Plus the weird 1776 flashback episode with Dana Snyder as Benjamin Franklin was popular enough to get its own spin-off Fourth of July special “A Young Person’s Guide to History”.
@@Popcultureguy3000 SAUL MALONE HAS SEX WITH A ROCk
Trey Parker also did a voice for “The Shivering Truth” created by their writer, Vernon Chatman who also created Wondershowzen and Xavier the Renegade Angel
For every "you can't show this on tv anymore!" there's stuff like "queer people existing" that's gradually escaping censor hell. People try to act like restrictions are only getting tighter, but it's more of a general shift in sensibilities.
Also, I wonder how Jack Kirby would have responded to this show. Would he be on board with the 'it's satire' rationale, or ready to throw giant hands?
So it's just one side getting censored. Aight no issues then.
Well, I'm glad for them but I would also be able to watch TV without needing to search for decades old stuff. It's like we're in the 50s again.
@@souljastation5463 modern tv’s been good for a while, very little censorship, unless race jokes are what you want. If you need old school stuff, the 80s and 90s were WAY more censored. Lol even 80s ninja turtles couldn’t show nunchucks
"but it's more of a general shift in sensibilities" and thus many things have become Verboten in a mere decade or two, and very artificially so. Shows only can tell the status quo approved message like some old-timey PSA for kids. People on TV are so disconnected from the average Joe now and they closer represent something from a propaganda poster and constantly preach like one.
What was once normal to say only in say, 2008, is now regarded as unspeakable and as though it was from ancient times. Things have been forced from the bottom down to change at such break neck speeds that people are just in disbelief. Like a people who just got taken over by the Soviets, every aspect of their culture has changed. Yet on the surface it is still advertised as being "normal" as though there wasn't some massive paradigm shift, but people can still feel it.
And the internet has been pushed by big tech for years now to become cable TV 2.0, the internet is far more restricted than it was only 15 years ago.
I grew up without cable, so my only other introduction to the series was this flash game (maybe chess based) on AS's site that I tried for a while.
Racist Checkers. That was also my introduction to the show as it didn't air in Australia until much later. I remember all those old flash games they had for their older shows. Shame that alot of those games are virtually lost to time and the obsolescence of Flash but that game from memory wasn't remarkable.
I really want to know who was the art director or concept artist on this show, because they could teach a course in recreating Jack Kirby’s artstyle.
Eh.
They recreated the Kirby style in episodes of Superman: The Animated Series in the late 1990s. The Kirby crackle is ALL OVER the place in the New Gods episodes of that series.
Also, Jack Kirby worked in the US animation industry in the late 1970s and 1980s. He storyboarded on the awful DePatie-Freleng Fantastic Four (1978) animated series and was the main visual concept artist on Thundarr the Barbarian which was created by Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck!
Thundarr IMHO is worth picking up on Blu ray.
The backgrounds reminds me of The Prolbem Solvers.
Why did you have to remind me of that drug trip.
@@FrostTheRedeemed Dude why you blaming me for!? IT ain't my fault I almost went blinded by the backgrounds and had to pull out my shades to protect me from going blinded again.
*I never skip the intro if the song is a jam to hype to, Pan.* Always awesome.
Really feels like this show had about 15 mintues total of planning for the whole thing
5:56 yes fun fact Jack Kirby was a huge fan of collages. So in his issues if he wanted to depict space far out things you can't understand they'd be made out of ripped up magazines he'd have.
this show feels like something you would see on an in game tv in GTA 5
I remember seeing reruns of this on Adult Swim in Canada, usually a 2.30am double feature. I wonder if it was just forgotten on the schedule up here
This video feels like a return to form and I freakin love it
It’s easy to write off a show as lowbrow or immature. This one really surprised me and I love the comparisons to Jack Kirby’s work
Its ironic that a show that tried to point out how racism is emphasized by social issues gets cancelled for being too racist 😂
It be like that sometimes. In fact this talks about racism better than most stories today
This is the dumbest idea ever and I have mad respect for the crew for going all the way with it
Thanks!
I LOVE THAT SHOW! The fact that it's being hidden like an old shame is saddening. It's was in the vain of Undercover Brother, Boondocks, Unemployed Man, etc.
mike lazzo is a man of passion single handedly kept venture bros running
Been a while since you’ve used a Talkshow Boy track in a vid. Talk about a blast from the past.
I haven’t seen any recent Rebel Taxi videos but damn the quality has improved significantly the last time I saw. Good job!
8:26 Free *"I'm going to sleep wityawife!* button
Exposing "the message" got em canceled before we knew anything about being canceled
Dude I knew this show wasn't a figment of my imagination. Use to watch this around 2 a.m while eating a late night snack,avoiding waking up my parents as a kid 😂
Ayyy Dana Snyder is cool af and full of adult swim stories. I too meet him at a crumy con basically the new jersey version of Florida called Pensacola. He did not like me telling him anytime he talks I see a shake talking to me feels pretty trippy but I ment it as a compliment.
Adam de la Pena gave me and my buddies so much entertainment when we were younger. We used sit up in my friends upstairs room in the barn to smoke and watch Code Monkeys all the time. That was such a good show. Don't forget hanging with Busey.
"Please don't skip the intro!"
🎶How about i do, anyway~🎶
Fun fact, Adam de la Peña actually wrote for the Bratz live action movie, crazy huh
That movie was so obviously ment to be a season of tv but then changed last minute lol
“Evil Fellas” was probably the best episode given it’s “homage” to “good fellas” and it’s really good title.
I love the art style. It reminds me a lot of the silver age comics of Marvel and DC,especially Jack Kirby. It does shows how much love these guys have of the old school comics.
Between the over the top-ness, wanna be South Park style of edgy humor, the pop culture gags, and the specifically referenced show from the 60's and/or 70's, this is PEAK Gen-X produced adult cartoon series. And yeah, we can never have that again because today's cartoon makers are from the 80's-00's and referencing the stuff THEY grew up with. Plus, we have this weird ass thing now about character pieces and deeper meanings are more important than jokes Family Guy viciously beat to the ground and ruined, so we're getting stuff like Bojack Horseman and Smiling Friends, so...
This concept could be interesting if used to tackle the absurdity of race and racism
Exactly what I was thinking.
that isnt what it did?
@@TheYetixOUTx Yeah it is.
I found it quite fun!!!
I showed this series to a few friends and they actually pitched me a much better, funnier concept for Racist Frankenstein: having him built from parts of every race and STILL racist, even against himself.
"this is the original Hetalia"
I miss when he makes those stupid one liners/jokes XD
"This was the original Hetalia". Not even a minute in, and I choke 🤣
I am genuinely impressed by the artstyle, how the hell did they emulate Jack Kirby so well?
It’s weird how I just randomly remembered this cartoon like a week ago. It almost felt like a fever dream I imagined as a kid.
I remember watching like the first four or five episodes on the AS website!
Honestly I thought the show was hilarious in a good way. While I am from an ethnic background I was not offender but eyeah I can easily see why it got banned!
How they didn't make the Black Guy a Master Thief who was Bullet Proof, is Beyond me. that joke literally wrote itself lol 😂
I swear, this show and Aqua Teen Hunger Force deserves to come back. It is something the world needs
Dude, I could never skip the intro. Takes me back, man. Takes me back.
Mao Mao needs to be reviewed dang it!~
Dude getting hit with that brick made the video... And shout outs to Jack Kirby tho!!
I didn't pay much attention to Minoriteam when it aired. That time in my (and to a lesser extent my husband's) life was full of episiotomy scars and dirty diapers, plus a toddler who was shaping up to be fairly odd. Hearing about it now makes me want to go back and watch it for real.
pan acknowledging hetalia exists made me cough up my drink,,,
There was this 2002 rpg video game on the PC. That has this Jack kirby art style. Called Freedom Force and its 2005 sequel Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich. Tactical RPG game that's basically a love letter to all things silver Age superheroes, made by Irrational Games ( the same creators that went on to create BioShock years after these 2 games) the game series is very obscure but it still has a niche following of fans and modders who create content for these games. While I'm sure the gameplay is not going to be everyone's cup of tea I still feel like it could be great for an obscure games video.
Yeah randomly remembered it making this vid and used it's music. I would like to play it if I finally get a PC.
I remember this. It had at least two bits of self-aware self-criticism, the time with 8:07 's villain father and a love interest of the speedster, 8:15.
Using stereotypes for comedy is great... it helps bring then to light and mocks them so ppl will realize they are ridiculous and wont use them... comedy is great for that
First time on this channel, your intro gave me the biggest wave of nostalgia I think I've ever had
2:46 Well hearing that takes me back.
Also it could’ve been worse, this show could’ve been made today by a writer at Marvel.
"Consider THIS your trigger warning!"
Always a blessing to hear that intro. Great video as always pan.
I can't believe you got a quote from Dana S. He has the 2nd best voice in all of animation, right behind the legendary Mel Blanc. Mastershake is the greatest cartoon character of all time.