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  • Out of Jimmy's Head has gone down in history as one of Cartoon Network's most hated original programs, and is considered the start of the network's Network Decay. The series, based off a CN original movie entitled Re-Animated, revolves around a teen named Jimmy Roberts, who is an Extreme Doormat constantly exploited by his friends and others at school. One day, after he somehow gets hit by a train in a public location in a Walt Disney World Expy, he has to have a Brain Transplant and it just so happens he receives the brain of the park's founder Milt Appleday—which inexplicably gives him the power to see the cartoons Appleday created, who help him through his everyday junior high life. It's an Idiot Plot, but it wasn't completely without potential... but sadly, they didn't even see the good that could come out of it. The acting is wooden, most of the characters are unlikable, the animated characters are cheaply superimposed over the scenes, and the Laugh Track is especially overused and out-of-place since the series is mostly an attempt to emulate Kid Coms like Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide. The series was canned after only 20 episodes as the network used the 2007 TV Strike to end it without much fan anguish, and gained a
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    Periphery Hatedom the size of the Empire State Building, "earning" a 2.1 IMDb rating. Cartoon Network seem ashamed of it as well, as they never put it out on DVD outside of Re-Animated and never aired it again. Sadly, they didn't learn from their mistakes and this show is probably what paved the way for other later live-action CN shows like the aforementioned Dude, What Would Happen?. It doesn't help that it was directed by the same person who made Son of the Mask. Watch what The Mysterious Mr. Enter had to say about Re-Animated. PIEGUYRULZ also discusses both Re-Animated and Out of Jimmy's Head with fellow YouTubers Cosmodore and MonstersReview here. And here's The Rowdy Reviewer's take, who was also convinced that it was a way for CN to sabotage their animation business as well as animation in general.
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I always found it hilarious how spergs treat cartoon channels like evil abusive parents or spouses
 
The "Funny Aneurysm" Moment and Harsher in Hindsight pages are hilarious. Seems like whenever a fictional work made before 2001 has a scene of a skyscraper of anything tower-like getting destroyed, it makes them think of 9/11
 
The Blackest Cock said:
The "Funny Aneurysm" Moment and Harsher in Hindsight pages are hilarious. Seems like whenever a fictional work made before 2001 has a scene of a skyscraper of anything tower-like getting destroyed, it makes them think of 9/11
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really should only work for times the wtc is destroyed in a pre 9/11 setting
 
The Blackest Cock said:
The "Funny Aneurysm" Moment and Harsher in Hindsight pages are hilarious. Seems like whenever a fictional work made before 2001 has a scene of a skyscraper of anything tower-like getting destroyed, it makes them think of 9/11
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I think I’ve even seen cases where they consider jokes about celebrities to be this because said celebrity has died.
 
The Blackest Cock said:
The "Funny Aneurysm" Moment and Harsher in Hindsight pages are hilarious. Seems like whenever a fictional work made before 2001 has a scene of a skyscraper of anything tower-like getting destroyed, it makes them think of 9/11
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I once had a teacher in high school who showed this Looney Tunes clip that, according to him, "predicted 9/11". I think he probably had the same mindset as the tropers. In my opinion, he was just being paranoid about city life.
 
You know what predicted the 9/11 attacks? The attempted bombing of the towers in 1993.
 
To be at least somewhat fair 9/11 is probably the defining moment for present day America the same way 1945 was the defining moment for the US in the Cold War era and 1865 was the defining moment for America before WW1.Its the reference point.So trying to find references to the event since then would probably last days.Pop culture since 9/11 has attempted frequently to invoke the event as much as possible.Why are there so many superhero movies?Primarily because of 9/11.
That being said the only movies that are trully awkward to watch today made in the pre-9/11 era are Path to paradise the HBO original from 1997 dealing with the '93 plot.They end with the bombmaker arrested by the feds and watching the towers in a helicopter and saying that next time 'they'll bring them both down.'In real life he never said those exact words but the producers at HBO wanted to add that for a more ominous ending.And they were 100% unintentionally right since the uncle of the main bombmaker for the 93 plot was the mastermind for the 2001 plot so yeah 'they' really did bring down the towers.
The Siege from '98 dealing with a Middle Eastern terrorist group that organises attacks in NYC.Deals with things like torture and has a Osama stand in at the beginning of the movie.
And Executive decision '96 Middle Eastern terrorist group hijacks a plane and wants to use it as a delivery vehicle for a chemical weapon on DC.
These movies got the closest of all to what happened in real life.
 
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And Executive decision '96 Middle Eastern terrorist group hijacks a plane and wants to use it as a delivery vehicle for a chemical weapon on DC.
These movies got the closest of all to what happened in real life.
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The first episode of The Lone Gunmen, an X-Files spinoff by Vince Gilligan and Chris Carter, involved a plot by the U.S. government to hijack a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a war for profit, and aired in March 2001. Strangely, almost nobody seems to remember this.
 
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The first episode of The Lone Gunmen, an X-Files spinoff by Vince Gilligan and Chris Carter, involved a plot by the U.S. government to hijack a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a war for profit, and aired in March 2001. Strangely, almost nobody seems to remember this.
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I think that's because The Lone Gunman was one of those shows on FOX in the early 2000s that immediately got canned, despite garnering respectable ratings and critical acclaim. The first episode of Family Guy after it got revived lists them all (the ones I know off the top of my head are: Titus, Wanda at Large, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Costello, The Pitts [though this one was canned because it was terrible], Wonderfalls, That 80s Show, Freakylinks, and Greg the Bunny).
 
Asa_Spades60 said:
I think that's because The Lone Gunman was one of those shows on FOX in the early 2000s that immediately got canned, despite garnering respectable ratings and critical acclaim. The first episode of Family Guy after it got revived lists them all (the ones I know off the top of my head are: Titus, Wanda at Large, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Costello, The Pitts [though this one was canned because it was terrible], Wonderfalls, That 80s Show, Freakylinks, and Greg the Bunny).
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Doesn't it make things more suspicious that the show was immeadiately canned?
 
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