If you’re interested in hearing more about the reboot story, there happens to be an amazing documentary airing right now on UA-cam called REBOOT REWIND. Check it out!
This was an amazing series that aired on YTV in Canada, and for many people who don't know, it was actually a Canadian show. Mainframe Entertainment was actually a Canadian company!
The fact that they resubmitted their rejected script, unchanged, and got approved just shows that these guys went through hell trying to give us some quality work.
I think it also shows the incompetence of the network. Either they rejected the first attempt without really giving any valid reason... or they approved it in the 2nd attempt without noticing the reason why it was rejected in the first place. Not only that... they seriously didn't even notice it was the exact same script? Wow! That takes incompetence to a new level!
Or that censors need to justify their existence somehow so they clearly sometimes did just in case censoring. Or that different censors interpreted standards very differently. There are countless cases from comic books, movies, games etc. where censorship did not make sense and seemed to be totally arbitrary. Many others have done the exact same that they resubmitted exact same script again and it's been approved and then there has been those those cases where creators deliberately added outrageous bit to scripts or artwork which they knew censors will target and used those to sneak past bits they actually wanted to include. Literally used up the censoring capacity by creating dummy targets.
To anyone who doesn't know, there's an official documentary currently airing on youtube. 8 episodes, releasing 1 a every tuesday, with the original creators, animators, voice actors, etc. It's VERY good. ReBoot Rewind
That's cool. I watched this show, but had no idea about the drama. And when I read "ReBoot Rewind", all I hear in my head is "Robot Roll Call". And if you get that reference, I love you.
i mean, it really doesnt matter. nobody puts a quality show on public tv anymore. it's not worth it. better to release it on streaming where there is no censor ship and allows for full nudity like Twilight of the Gods. Public tv is the laughing stock these days. when i bought my new tv 12 years ago, i never bothered to setup the public tv stations. thats how bad they were and have gotten extremely worse.
@@BobRooney290 if youre worried about being able to see tits and cock on tv... Im starting to wonder why they tried to eliminate shows for children. Seems the goal is to suck them into TV so they cand exposenthe next. Since you said: ren and stimpy almost got banned if it wasnt for what you exactly said... now we have incest on tv and.......
@@BobRooney290 it's the same everywhere. I bought my current TV about 8 years ago. I only set up one public TV station late 2022, the station which broadcasted the FIFA world cup. The only other thing I've watched since then on public TV was the 2024 Copa America. I guess it's going to be another two years until the 2026 FIFA wc before I watch public TV again
Did you know that sex addiction is causing problems in your life? Before you wait for something to go wrong, your boss should know about secret sex games. first and tell everyone about it. Then your best friend finds your PornHub account and calls you! He knew there was a problem and told himself to stop. But he will be back in a week. Then he saw the car in the room and was shocked. I know I have to stop. But I can't wait a month! My grandfather posted on social media. Finally, his colleagues did not support him and fired him. Your boss fires you and tells everyone that you are a woman. Promote your reputation to everyone you know. This story is already fun. He ruined everything in his life because of porn!
This show was part of my "must watch" Saturday morning rotation when I was a kid. Sonic SatAM, Batman the Animated Series, Ninja Turtles, and Reboot were the priority.
Probably better for computer rendition, less curves. I didn't see a huge difference TBH, sounds like one of the producers had an infatuation for his own creation to get upset about it.
I barely noticed when I was a kid, but it later turned out I was gay and uninterested in such anatomy… The thing I noticed before and after censorship was the tone shift and art quality improvement.
when you consider how fabric works, the change in Dot's chest design is actually fairly benign. It took a lot of effort to get Jeri Ryan's infamous Seven of Nine catsuit to actually follow all the peaks and valleys shall we say
You just have to look at images from the fifties, say, to see that the technology certainly existed. But hey, Dot still looked pretty good for an early cgi character.
The creators of X-Men '97 did the same thing to Rogue. They got rid of the comic-accurate form fitting breasts, and gave her costume a "monoboob" redesign. More realistic, yes, but also less true to the comics than the kids' version from 1992.
The real insanity of the Censorship of the 90's was it was almost always just one person at a desk saying yes or no to everything. They didn't have to have a reason, just a feeling and an opinion. It's why you can submit the same episode and get two different answers, just let it get seen by some one else. Some the funniest stories about Censorship was around the Animaniacs show. The things they got passed the censors was insane, mostly because they were just too dumb to get the references lol.
It gave us both Gargoyles (on Disney of all things) casually killing people on the street while citing Shakespeare at 10 year olds and Samurai Jack where a drop of red blood would've gotten the entire series cancelled. They really had a needle to thread
@@dipperdandy That was a big one for sure. Have the semi running gag of the Doctors "Bust" aka the statue with just a head being messed with by the kids. I remember in one of the commentary tracks or something saying the writers put out tons of jokes they thought would get cut, that some how got through at times. The plan was basically make over the top jokes to make the others seem more tame, some times the extreme jokes got through.
speaking of Hex, her and big bad, forgot his name lol, were suppose to be brother and sister, in order for that one big virus incident to occure they had to mate😅😅😅
"Cliffhangers would create dramatic tension for young viewers"... Meanwhile, DBZ was literally nothing but cliffhangers. Often spanning several episodes.
This is a conversation I have had often. Look at the animation from 1998 in JPN - Cowboy Bebop. Same year in the USA - Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Compare stories, character development, themes, ect. No comparison on which is better.
"didnt quite capture the magic of the original" is the biggest understatement I have ever heard. as a long time reboot fan, the netflix show was a travesty. it was totally uninspiring. in fact, I dare say it wasnt even reboot, despite the name. I watched someone on youtube explaining how the creator of the netflix show was just rehashing one of his older shows that got canceled.
Hey mate! I'm a friend of one of the creators, Gavin Blair, and he'd like you to know there's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam called REBOOT REWIND But he's busy, so I'm in the trenches, doing what I can, one comment at a time 🤣 It's 8 episodes, a new one dropping every Tuesday. The doc team actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate! They're also the ones converting the master tapes! If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Also, this its super important that Reboot Rewind gets hyped, because current Mainframe people are paying attention, and the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can Stay Frosty!
@@Blodhelm I did too. It felt like the same old stuff. Like code lyoko or even like power rangers. Just dull and uninspired. You could feel the heart, soul and sweat that went into reboot. Honestly, if there is another attempt at a remake, I want it to come from Glitch. Murder drones was amazing.
I took one look at the trailer and "Noped" it out of there. ReBoot!, B5, and DS9 are my favorite 90's shows, and shows of all time. So many great shows from era. In spite of the studios they were produced by.
The best jab against the BSNP is the episode where a parody band sings "BSNP, it's fun to play in a non-violent way" it sounds like YMCA. Flew over my head as a kid, but knowing the background now makes it hilarious and awesome. (episode is Talent Night)
Apparently, in that episode, Dot's grumpy co-auditioner who rejected everything was straight up based on the series' BSnP rep. She was reportedly far from pleased at being parodied in the episode.
Bob uses a command called "BS&P" to teleport through a window (according to the producers, Standards had nixed the idea of Bob breaking the window with a rock). "In the Belly of the Beast" featured Enzo firing a gun with the words "BS&P approved" on it that shoots rubber life rafts. "Talent Night" featured a "prog censor" named Emma See who kept complaining about objectionable content in the acts Dot wanted; and a group called "Small Town Binomes" singing their smash hit song called "BS'n'P".
That was animated by Stephen Cooper and Phil Mitchell. They spent days on that, the two of them in a tiny room with a single workstation. It may have been Phil’s office, can’t remember now. Phil was quite fat at the time so it was a snug fit. I remeber my disappointment as I also played guitar, but so did Stephen yet he just sold himself better to the directors I guess.
That episode (Talent Night) is one of my all time favorites for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Mainframe made fun of their own intellectual content with "the Dire's Al and Harv!" (as Mike the TV puts it). The whole episode has a ton of moments that are funny, awesome, or a combination of both. Plus it helps that I like heavy-metal music and the guitar battle is epic.
I almost got to work on Reboot. :) I was a programmer and they interviewed me but they were looking for PhD level computer scientists... Instead they offered me a technical director position which is where you have to learn a specific piece of software (like Maya) and then help the animators or designers do their work. I refused the position because, to be honest, I wasn't qualified for that role. But it was still amazing to have even been offered a position with Mainframe. :)
I hope you still worked at other studios at the time (like HiT Entertainment (the studio that Mainframe worked with to create that Bob the Builder reboot)).
I've been grossly under qualified for nearly every job I've had, for 20 years now. I'm always surprised at how quickly I end up learning a new skill, and I'm an idiot. My point is, I bet you would have been able to learn the job, and do it well.
I was a technical director at Pixar. I bet you would have done a great job! Imposter syndrome is so devastating. I've come to realize that courage is a more important trait than skills or intelligence.
Lucky mf😂 I wish I was that old, u got to experience the best time period of life at the perfect age mane! Ain’t no way u not a millionaire with all the opportunities sitting right Infront of u!
Wouldn't surprise me. When people get to a certain level of power, you find their decisions 'unassailable' and often made for very personal and sometimes erroneous reasons.
Canadian animator: "Okay, so in this episode, the game Bob has to play is hockey, eh." S&P: "No hockey." Canadian animator: (Timbits falls out of hand.)
we don't talk about Guardian Code. The Director didn't even want to make a ReBoot show. he wanted to make some kind of Super Sentai or Zixx-style show instead, but couldn't. So he picked up the ReBoot brand and just used it as a medium to make the show he wanted, only applying the bare minimum required of the source material.
And got called out by the creator of Code Lyko for blatantly stealing his idea. Could probably also call it a Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad knockoff. God I feel old for remembering that one.
There certainly were no punches pulled when they wanted to redefine AndrAIa's sexuallity. The scene when she claims to be lost and can any of the guards help her 'find her dog' as she squats down and gives the room a good look at her butt would never have passed in Season 1. They probably wouldn't have even allowed Dot to have the Plasma Cannon in Word Web Wars when she asks Mouse if it looks 'too butch?'
the 90s and early 2000s was such an amazing time to be a kid. 3D animated shows like Reboot in particular and the rise of affordable home PCs, the internet, computer workshops at schools - it was all uncharted territory and felt like everyone was navigating it together. There were so many things that taught us to be computer literate and help foster an entire generation of IT and software engineers, developers, etc.
Happy 30th Anniversary to the best cgi animated series of my childhood. In that time, the 90s had cartoon innuendos especially episodes from body parts, suggestive scenes even talking about love in a different way. Censorship can be do anything possible to make children safe until newer ones don’t. But I don’t care like Rocko’s Modern Life because it has a lot of adult content and humor that doesn’t stop me from watching. Great upload and very informative.
Hexadecimal, man... She was one of my first childhood crushes. Not even joking. Yeah she got real scary at times but what can I say? Guess I had a type lmao. But yeah Reboot was my childhood. Absolutely loved that series and after watching this I'm not surprised I enjoyed the later seasons far more than the earlier ones. That's not to say I didn't enjoy the earlier ones either - the best word I can describe them from memory is "dorky but in a good way". Funny thing is, the censorship (which I 100% do not approve. Censorship ruins creativity) ended up making the show "grow up" with me. The less the censorship, the older I got to appreciate the less censorship.
The thing about Reboot which made its history of censorship so unique was how it was made by creatives who wanted to put more mature content than most would in a kids show being vetted by censors who were exceptionally puritanical. It led to this unique dynamic where the writers were clearly trying to test the limits of what they were allowed to show, actively provoking standards and practices at times just to see if it will get a reaction.
If I recall correctly, part way through season 1 the creators realised that most of their audience was actually people in their late teens and university, rather than kids, and adjusted accordingly... the censors probably didn't.
@@laurencefraser I suspect the trouble was the show was sold to TV networks in other countries as being very much a kid's show, so even if the Canadian broadcaster was ok with them re-pitching the show mid-season as being for a slightly older audience it would still have been a problem for international broadcasters who had signed up to broadcast a kid's show and weren't expecting to have to move its timeslot later on in the same season. Here in the UK it was broadcast during our ITV network's Children's ITV (CITV) strand somewhere between 3:30pm and 5:15pm, so I was quite surprised to hear the reference in this video to it being a primetime show.
@@MrDannyDetail Partially, the censors for the first 2 seasons were at ABC meaning Americans. The Canadian censors were in charge for the last 2 seasons so were more sane.
@@FakeSchrodingersCat As far as I can tell from the information online the UK dropped Reboot part way through the 3rd series, so that could bear out my theory, if the change of censor for series 3 allowed some changes to be made and then the UK broadcaster or viewers caught onto the changes and maybe weren't so keen.
Netflix's attempt to use the Reboot IP is a laughable culmination of absolutely terrible decisions. From what I could see, it had absolutely nothing to do with the original it is supposed to be based on besides the name and logo so the fans just walked away right off the bat. The audience who this show was aimed to were also too young to have grown up watching Reboot as well so the name meant nothing to them. They just wasted money buying an IP and then made such a poor use of it they would have been better off not using it at all. I'm sad because it now means the Reboot IP is stuck in limbo.
isn't that what all these reboots are a waste since the new people they want pass it over because its old and the old fans go what is this they changed everything but the name.
Rightfully so. Fans wanted a continuation of the show's finale. New adventures with Bob and Enzo. References to tech and games new and old. Above all else, we wanted to see the world of reboot displayed in better modern visuals What we got were some millenials cosplaying as the fighting alloy from super smash bros. Brawl
Hexadecimal was and is outright terrifying. Rewatched a few episodes as an adult, she still scared me. Mentioned it to my mom, and she remembered Hexadecimal from thirty years ago!
My first job out of film school. I remember a scene we did where Enzo ran through a wall and left a silhouette hole…nod to Looney Tunes. ABC wasn’t happy as they were worried kids might try to emulate this behaviour. So the character went through the ceiling instead. Try that kids. lol. The character Cecil was named after the creators favourite strip club in Vancouver. They would hire the strippers to come to the studio and give shoulder massages. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago. Your video forgot to mention these guys did the Let’s Get Rocked video for Def Leppard. During a studio clean up, they inadvertently tossed out the story boards to that video and Money for Nothing, which I grabbed from the trash to keep. I foolishly showed them what I saved and they wanted them back, saying they were tossed by mistake. Dammit.
@@oldbabyseasoningPornography was often used as reflection maps as another jab to ABC. Back then, reflections, shadows, etc were computationally taxing and thus increased render times. Reflection maps were used to fake reflections. On complex geometry, you can never tell what the actual image used in the map was. In Talent Night, there is a scene where Dot leans in to wish Enzo happy birthday and spins his cap. I was at pinewood studios with Marcell Duperreault who was the sound editor. Producer Chris Brough was coming in to review the episodes sound mix, not sure why I was there. As a joke Marcel replaced the SFX of the hat spinning with a squirting noise and a faint male groan. We both sat there trying to hold our laughter in as the scene approached. Enzo gets his hat spun and this jizz off SFX came through the speakers. Chris Brough lost his mind. What the fuck is that!! It didn’t go over well and we both got in shit. In my later years, I can see his point of view. Have an entire episode rejected for something so stupid.
In hindsight, maybe it was better you gave them back. If you had kept them and word got out years down the road, there might have been legal trouble. Maybe you dodged a bullet!
Fun fact: The infamous Ocean Dub team were the ones who lent their voices to this absolute gem of a show and funny enough they also lent their voices to Transformers Beast Wars and Beast Machines. Bob was voiced by Ian James Corlett who also voiced Cheetor in Transformers Beast Wars, Goku in DBZ and even Mega Man TAS. Cheers 🍻
Actually he only voiced him for season 3. Michael Benyaer was Bob's original voice actor and came back for season 4. I had noticed that when watching season 3 and it felt off for the character. Personally, I think Brian Drummond or Scott McNeil would have been a better replacement.
@@ryanbauer3680 I mean, "My Two Bobs" in S4 gives an in-universe explanation for why S3 Bob sounded different to S1/S2 Bob during the World Wide Web Arc in S3's back-half and for "Daemon Rising". (When Megabyte crushed Glitch before throwing Bob in to the Web Portal at the end of S2 in "Web World Wars", a portion of Bob's code was assimilated by Megabyte (which is why he was able to mimic S1/S2 Bob before his reveal) and corrupted Bob slightly, that was amplified by his time stuck surfing The Web, before Matrix and the Crimson Binome pirates found him and brought him home. It was Megabyte-Bob that Michael Benyaer was voicing prior to Web-Bob (still voiced by Ian James Corlette at this point) being repaired with the help of Glitch and all the other Key Tools).
@@Adreitz7 The amazingly well done Ocean dub of DBZ is what helped it explode in the west like it did, that's why infamous. If it wasn't as good as it was we might not have seen the end of the Frieza saga let alone everything else. I remember the first episode of the 4kidz transition, noting how much worse all the voices and music were all of a sudden. I begrudgingly accepted it since we all wanted to just see the show continue, but I wonder if I would have kept watching if that's how the show started out.
I watched it as a teen. It sparked my interest in computers, drafting, animation, gaming, and programming. Those have been part of my career choices since the 90's.
Reboot is one of those unknown historically significant gems.... I remember when it came out as a kid me and my dad would watch it, blown away by the graphics (for a Saturday morning cartoon)
Season 3 is when this show when into freaking hyperdrive. Insanely awesome, and a crime against humanity that the last episode of "My Two Bobs" ended on a cliffhanger. Even worse that they gave us the brain fart that is the live action "reboot".
Other weirdness includes Enzo taking a gun that fires a raft that says "BSn'P approved" on it, and Bob saying "Glitch, BSn'P" to warp through a window instead of crashing through it.
Enzo's birthday episode (with the cut chaste kiss) - "Glitch; BFG" *summons Big Friggen Guitar* At that point I as a kid had already played DOOM by id Software (now part of Zenimax Publishing under Microsoft), where "BFG" meant "Big F---ing Gun" (and *not* "Bio-Force Gun" unlike what the 2004 Doom movie with Karl Urban and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, would have you believe), so cue my surprise they let the acronym "BFG" slide as it summoned a guitar (and lead to Dueling Guitars). XD
And also in _Talent Night_ (the birthday party episode) there's a scene at the tryouts where a Village People style band sings "It's fun to play in the non-violent way" and the "letters" are BS&P. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be very sarcastic.
fast forward about 20 years, Alex Hirsch working on Gravity Falls replaces a reference to 'spin the bottle' on a flyer with 'not S&P approved!', which S&P objected to- so he asked what was objectionable about it, forcing the response "'Not S&P approved' has been approved by S&P"
From someone who worked in animated series for about 10 years: Clone Wars is AAA stuff with a budget 99% of all productions can only dream of. Most series cost way less than that. To produce a 3D series today that has a budget of 10 million per season is extremely rare, because the financing is very hard to pull off. So, 10 million per season, especially in the 90s, is absolutely crazy!
A LOT of censorship in shows (especially of the animated variety) ends up being incredibly weird when you look at it objectively. Example; I recently decided to rewatch Berserk in it's entirety....the 2016 (widely considered one of the worst adaptations of a manga/storyline) decided boobs don't need nipples, those are naughty. Meanwhile literally the first episode shows a small child being brutally cut in half.... So child dismemberment = ok, nipples = bad....
It's clear that Censorship executives didn't look at things half the time. I mean the Bad Bob episode was just proved it. I wonder if they only did this to give the Canadian producers a hard time.
I watched this show as an adult in college and I loved it. The computer and programming related puns in it were very funny. The concept was so creative... There would be a "warning incoming game" and then the Hero's had to win against the User or be destroyed. This formula could allow every new episode to explore any kind of fantasy genre I wonder if the old episodes could be exported into a modern format like Unreal? And they could make a modern update with better skins and smoother animation? Kinda like how the updated Final Fantasy 7
To be honest, the models could probably be recreated by a modern character modeler in a week with today's tools and a few decent screen captures, The PS1 game models might be obtainable from decompilation of the files on the disc. Even if they're a bit low res they could still be useful.
@@TheRealAlpha2 Who needs screen captures? You can purchase the entire series on DVD. Wouldn't that provide everything you need if you intend to reverse-engineer the images?
I'd like to point out that creating a non-"monobreast" look for clothes like Dot's is completely abnormal, please research the bizarre and painful lengths that the Star Trek costume department went to when outfitting the actor for the character 7 of 9 in order to pull her clothing in between her breasts.
That shift between seasons where it went from being all light into a dark setting and he was older with a scar blew my mind as a kid. It was amazing and refreshing to get this more complex story. It's always stuck with me and I'm 37 now. Well people behind the show, you made the right choice.
They are the worst. Thinking that an older sister kissing her brother on the cheek would promote “family relations” is something I never thought of especially as a child. Shows you exactly what they were watching late at night.
I remember the Halloween episode. Where Enzo got to be Michael Jackson from Thriller and Dot got to be Elvira slash Morticia. They definitely didn't spare the curves that time!
if memory serves thats episode 1 of season 3 and it was an evil dead reference... just the start of the much darker tone that season goes in and was much better for imho
And they broke the 4th wall with: "What kind of a freak would play a game where he's just standing and shooting?" And the piercing gaze into the screen... I felt so touched :D
The series really picked up after Andrea's introduction. Gave Enzo a reason for character developement, leading up to the season 2 finale and Bob's forced trip to the net.
Ehh, one cliff hanger isn't going to be an issue. Constant cliff hangers turning otherwise minor problems the kid might grow out of into actually major issue some small but meaningful percentage of the time seems a bit more plausable. Whether it's actually a thing or not is another matter, of course.
@@laurencefraser Which would be proven correct in adults when LOST started airing. Catharsis is important. And with how the show blue balls you, and then NEVER addresses the loose ends, not surprising if anyone developed some kind of issue. Cliff hangars are for special occasions, because of how much it heightens the audience and puts them in a frenzy. LOST abused that, and amplified things as other shows started copying it looking for success. Its like my Generation's COCO Melon. Engrossing in the moment, but ultimately develops mental issues due to the way it manipulates the brain.
It was on at odd times that kept changing where I lived but it was definitely intriguing because of its unique look. I had no idea about its behind the scenes struggles. Good video.
There was a cult classic video game in the early aughts that was essentially that, I'm guessing if you're a Tron fan then you know of Tron 2.0 already though
There’s an entire trope about this: “Getting crap past the radar”. Creators in all manner of media finding ways to sneak stuff past the overbearing censors and producers.
Hey mate! I'm a friend of one of the creators, Gavin Blair, and he'd like you to know there's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam called REBOOT REWIND But he's busy, so I'm in the trenches, doing what I can, one comment at a time 🤣 It's 8 episodes, a new one dropping every Tuesday. The doc team actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate! They're also the ones converting the master tapes! If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Also, this its super important that Reboot Rewind gets hyped, because current Mainframe people are paying attention, and the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can Stay Frosty!
@@popculturechronicles7412 Hey mate! I was wondering if you could post a quick short directing people to the Reboot doc. They just revealed how the rejection of Bad Bob really went, and it's hilarious ua-cam.com/video/o1Zvg6LKW-I/v-deo.htmlsi=CfO5xRz3rODFp79C&t=32m32s There's just so much stuff, you'd love it too! There's a really good chance that if this spreads, Mainframe will let the guys finish the fourth season. You've got far more reach than me. Cheers!
I remember missing the show, then the second season dropped and i was glad. Then i realized they were no longer fucking around and i so stoked. It was truly special to experience Rebot in its time.
@sintanan469 those moments where they made seemingly permanent changes where so stunning. I was thinking, no way they killed a character. The only other thing on that level back then was Dragoon Ball Z.
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate. This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
I'm willing to bet the weirdness was just some guy abusing his power because there technically wasn't precedent for 3d media, so Reboot became his punching bag.
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate. This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
It wasn't until recently that I found out that in the episode where Frisket eats a format/delete command that the farting sound from him pooping it out was replaced by complete silence, even though they allowed the animation of his grimacing face to play. I mean, kids know that dogs poop... I hardly think this was going to hurt ANY kids. Reboot was on at the same time as Ren and Stimpy for crying out loud. They really were trying everything they could to kill the show.
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate. This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
I have fond memories of this show as a kid. Enzo's birthday episode where Bob and Megabyte have that guitar solo battle with one another is literally the reason I picked up the guitar as a kid. Man, I love and miss Reboot.
8:40 They are 100% right. Kids will remember those traumatizing cliffhangars. You find one in *The Lion King* ... when Mufasa is hanging of a cliff - I certainly never forgot what happened in the prequel (which aired about 5seconds later) :I
Shits crazy considering the child character literally had his skull crushed by someone's hands off screen and you can literally hear the crunch. Shit fucked me up a little bit as a small child ngl.
I know, right? I almost couldn't believe it when I saw that scene at.... think it was...6 years old? That was WILD. Gotta say though - it was the appropriately-traumatic event to start the "Grown-Up-Enzo" arc; Perfect, if brutal, tone shift.
As a kid I had no idea this show was about science technology specifically about computers and coding. I just wanted fun, excitement and importantly action. This shows adults are the problem in society with restrictions upon children. Watching this about the background politics by adults seems strange to me because none of that was what I was thinking. We adults over think and complicate everything and I see that now in this era.
i found this show, Gargoyles and the Batman cartoon at the time dark yet somehow less depressing and even uplifting than all the care bears, captain planets and all the other rot we had to put up with at the time. It was good decade.
"Glitch, BSP!!" As Bob calls out to Glitch to 'break' a glass window, that then reanimates back to a solid pane, since breaking glass was considered taboo and also censored. 😆
And yet the replacement dialogue is actually even more genius because BSP stands for bitspace partition, i.e. he was partitioning the bitspace hehehehe a dad joke that went over 100% of the viewers' heads
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate. This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
What episode was this? I have it all on DVD & don't remember it. I do remember being confused on a few glitch commands. I was always expecting words, not letters.
If anyone thought they saw the best version of Dragon Ball Z on Toonami you are sadly mistaken because like Reboot it was censored to death by cartoon network. The best original version was aired in Latin America dubbed in Spanish since the 80's were it was actually concluded from start to finish. There were no annoying back to back rerruns like in Toonami.
I remember seeing spanish language episodes of DBZ on a UHF channel and finally seeing Piccolo blow a hole through Raditz and Goku. Some of the editing they did on those episodes for U.S. tv would be considered remarkable if it weren't for the fact they they were trying to hide the true nature of the show.
@@SDogo No, it was actually taken out of the original run, but it was just for budgetary reasons. Once Funimation took over they (if you can believe it) actually went back and cleaned up a lot of the more embarrassing stuff and their modern releases are actually pretty good.
The final episode of Beast Wars: Optimus boards the ship but gets sucker punched punched by Megatron Syndicated version: fist hits Optimus, Optimus falls to ground and spits out a tooth, Optimus slowly gets up Toonami version on Cartoon Network: Megatron's fist comes full steam but half way cuts to Optimus slowly getting back up
An American distributor didn't want any mention of the word hockey because they didn't want the audience to have any inkling that it was a Canadian show. Spite.
Actually it was apparently a vulgarity. The only thing I can think of is “poop” like the old expression “horse hockey” or “hocky” but even that is a stretch.
The internationally popular children's show, Bluey, is censored in the USA to remove all Australian slang, lest children develop any amount of cultural understanding of the wider world.
I loved Reboot as a kid. Being more mature than most kids, the darker themes never bothered me, if fact it enhanced the show. I remember that the show always came on right around dinner time, if my mom's schedule was on par, which meant I either ate quickly, or watched it right before food. It was a memorable show that bring up fond memories. I never knew about the censors, so this is quite interesting. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.
3:07 Clone Wars' per episode cost is similar to that of Thunderbirds' per episode in 1965, and they were using advanced supermarionation puppets and live action model sets.
"Children's media is so soft nowadays" 90's TV censorship: "noo, we can't have hockey, cliffhangers, or natural body proportions, it's traumatic to younger viewers"
The body proportion thing still happens, Miss Bellum was removed outright and Miss Kean looks like she had a double mastectomy compared to the OG, yet they still had kindergarteners twerking.
The difference is back then the creative people who worked on these shows fought against the censorship being imposed upon them. Today they demand and embrace it.
Oh no, cliffhangers, my poor, at the time 5 years old, brain was in such fear! However did I cope with such travesty, it's not like there weren't other shows I could watch.
It started before the 90's, watch the original Space Battleship Yamato. The series was made with a continual story line, one couldn't just pick it up in the middle without being lost in where they were in the story.
Boy, I should rewatch it, absolutely loved the show in the 90s, especially the extensive lore and character development. Also, the tone shift felt completely natural back then, like a part of the narrative and Enzo's character arc. the writers did pretty astonishing job to create and deliver a brilliant show despite all the censorship they had to deal with.
I somewhat disagree. Logical censorship works for obvious reasons. You don't show someone getting killed violently in kids cartoon. But you can show the reaction someone has to it happening or second before cutting away POV from the character or attacker if that's the situation, or a cutaway to what lead to the death. The demise of the Flying Grayson's from BTAS comes to mind. It takes creativity to follow those guidelines while still giving an equal or greater emotional effect. But censoring just for the sake of censoring(or more likely, a censor's delicate emotions) is hindrance to the creative process. The 2 that stand out to me here are the reason given against Dot kissing her little brother's cheek and the Mad Bob episode not giving any reason or input to changes. Also them resending the same script back reminds me how with Taxi Driver(1976) Scorsese managed to avoid getting an X rating by de-saturating the colors to tone down the bright red blood.
As a 90's kid I greatly appreciate how shows like Reboot allowed me to deal with themes like grief, loss, life and death. Things you would have to deal with but made you understand them and to face them. If your a 90's kid and you got kids yourself go put on some Rugrats, Doug, Recess, Hey! Arnold, Magic School Bus, your bound to find something they wil like.
Agree! RPG games in the 90's were also really good for me in terms of encouraging introspection, self-awareness, confidence, critical thinking, and complex emotions like grief, death and loss.
I loved this show so much and always hated to see it end, we needed more of it so bad. The Netflix show was ok but was lacking so bad they can't make shows for kids that both kids and adults can enjoy like back in the 90s and 80s
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate. This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind. Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger. If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
Yup I watched ReBoot when it was new. Was in high school at the time and had an Amiga 500 with a 2400, 2.4KB opposed to 56.6KB, Baud modem. So I and my friends appreciated the animation so well because we understood the difficulty in how big of an undertaking the production of an animated tv show for that era was!
Reboot was my CHILDHOOD man. I remember when they went into the darker storyline, how COOL I thought it was~ At the time I had no idea what was going on in the background, I was little and the internet was BARELY a thing, but I distinctly remember just becoming SO much more enthralled in the series. Most of my clear memories of the show are, in fact, of the 'future' arc of the story, with grown up Enzo travelling with Andrea through the Net, trying to find their way home. It was very good, and honestly, watching this makes me wanna re-watch the series all over again~
Amazing show. I was an adult but as a programmer with an interest in CGI I started watching it. The CGI was amazing at the time, especially considering they were doing it fast but I was surprised when I also was getting interested in the story! And it got better in season 3 when they didn’t have the heavy censorship. The improved CGI was nice too. I wasn’t as happy with the story in season 4, though. I had heard about the monobreast and the chaste kiss but didn’t know the scene it was from. I hadn’t heard about hockey or the other items, but I do remember Mainframe Studios people complaining about censorship on some internet discussion (can’t recall details).
I don't think you guys know how insane of a contraption was required to create a non-"monobreast" look for 7 of 9 in Star Trek. It's worth looking that up, not much unrealistic about clothes following protrusions without caving in between them.
Yeah, I've had big ones for years and the material just stretches over them about 99% of the time, especially with a sport bra. Once in a great while a thin material might sag a little, or something like a swimsuit will have built-in padding. I actually kind of prefer the "monobreast" look for Dot because it looks more natural than the form-fitting "clothes" she had in later seasons. They looked so ... stiff.
To me, it seems to be a misconception that spreads through the arts so hearing that it was avoided in this case, even by less than ideal means, meant a little less damage to the way people see the world and that felt like a positive note in it all. But yeah, it doesn't last through the whole show and strangely form fitting clothing is eventually applied to a number of characters. As for jarring stiffness, since everything is quite apparently unsupported it would make sense to expect movement huh, I wonder if they tried to implement that. Even with the work of some of Earth's most motivated people it took something like two decades to get that kind of thing looking right but from what I hear I wouldn't discount them being ambitious enough to have at least tried. I do get your sentiment, that design subverting understanding of how it would actually act, if it didn't look like there should be movement then its absence would feel natural.
@@daffers2345The earlier design looks uncanny valley. The censored design looks a lot like you would see in a video game of the era, and I prefer that.
Reboot was the chit back in the day. Was so fortunate to have watched the series when it aired back in the 90s. A true gem of a series. Will never forget reboot.
I saw Reboot in the 90s and, as a software type person, I genuinely appreciated the humor in the series. I enjoyed the stories and absolutely loved the parody of the Major General's song from The Pirates of Penzance. The creators of this series had an amazing breadth of knowledge and wit.
If you’re interested in hearing more about the reboot story, there happens to be an amazing documentary airing right now on UA-cam called REBOOT REWIND. Check it out!
This was an amazing series that aired on YTV in Canada, and for many people who don't know, it was actually a Canadian show. Mainframe Entertainment was actually a Canadian company!
@@quadphonics
B q
AAoqlk
L)p
@@quadphonics YTV ruled my world back in jr. high! Reboot is LEGENDARY!
Thanks for letting us know! It was my _favourite_ show growing up!
Same goes for Beast Wars / Beasties @@quadphonics
The fact that they resubmitted their rejected script, unchanged, and got approved just shows that these guys went through hell trying to give us some quality work.
I think it also shows the incompetence of the network. Either they rejected the first attempt without really giving any valid reason... or they approved it in the 2nd attempt without noticing the reason why it was rejected in the first place. Not only that... they seriously didn't even notice it was the exact same script? Wow! That takes incompetence to a new level!
@@Syragar Incompetence and censorship go hand in hand.
Yeah, ABC sounds fun.
"It's the ABCs, they've turned on us! Traitorous dogs!"
Or that censors need to justify their existence somehow so they clearly sometimes did just in case censoring. Or that different censors interpreted standards very differently.
There are countless cases from comic books, movies, games etc. where censorship did not make sense and seemed to be totally arbitrary.
Many others have done the exact same that they resubmitted exact same script again and it's been approved and then there has been those those cases where creators deliberately added outrageous bit to scripts or artwork which they knew censors will target and used those to sneak past bits they actually wanted to include. Literally used up the censoring capacity by creating dummy targets.
The master tapes for all of reboot were found last year, and there's a small dedicated team working on digitizing all of them!
Got team
the full dvd set is at Walmart
Yo I really hope I can own this on BluRay at some point. I hope they do a great job
Really?! Let. Us. Watch! Let! Us! Watch!
Can you tell I enjoyed ReBoot original when it aired? When I finally found the last of the show online?
Shame they don't have the original files so they could recompile the whole thing on modern hardware
To anyone who doesn't know, there's an official documentary currently airing on youtube. 8 episodes, releasing 1 a every tuesday, with the original creators, animators, voice actors, etc. It's VERY good.
ReBoot Rewind
Very cool!
Nice
Thanks for the heads up!
That's cool. I watched this show, but had no idea about the drama. And when I read "ReBoot Rewind", all I hear in my head is "Robot Roll Call". And if you get that reference, I love you.
Thanks! On it now
They were concerned about censorship on a show like reboot while most of us were watching ren and stimpy or Rockos modem life right afterwards.
i mean, it really doesnt matter. nobody puts a quality show on public tv anymore. it's not worth it. better to release it on streaming where there is no censor ship and allows for full nudity like Twilight of the Gods. Public tv is the laughing stock these days. when i bought my new tv 12 years ago, i never bothered to setup the public tv stations. thats how bad they were and have gotten extremely worse.
@@BobRooney290 if youre worried about being able to see tits and cock on tv... Im starting to wonder why they tried to eliminate shows for children. Seems the goal is to suck them into TV so they cand exposenthe next. Since you said: ren and stimpy almost got banned if it wasnt for what you exactly said... now we have incest on tv and.......
@@BobRooney290 it's the same everywhere. I bought my current TV about 8 years ago. I only set up one public TV station late 2022, the station which broadcasted the FIFA world cup. The only other thing I've watched since then on public TV was the 2024 Copa America. I guess it's going to be another two years until the 2026 FIFA wc before I watch public TV again
@@BobRooney290 ok boomer
Did you know that sex addiction is causing problems in your life? Before you wait for something to go wrong, your boss should know about secret sex games. first and tell everyone about it. Then your best friend finds your PornHub account and calls you! He knew there was a problem and told himself to stop. But he will be back in a week. Then he saw the car in the room and was shocked. I know I have to stop. But I can't wait a month! My grandfather posted on social media. Finally, his colleagues did not support him and fired him. Your boss fires you and tells everyone that you are a woman. Promote your reputation to everyone you know. This story is already fun. He ruined everything in his life because of porn!
This show was part of my "must watch" Saturday morning rotation when I was a kid. Sonic SatAM, Batman the Animated Series, Ninja Turtles, and Reboot were the priority.
What an easier time 🥲
A Canadian show banned the word hockey? WHAT?
Now that you mention...yeah...weird.
Probably some weird broadcasting loophole regarding certain cartoons.
Probably for international broadcast purposes but yeah it’s weird
Canada hasnt been known for making good decisions.
@@ColinBFClarke Being neighbours with the USA was probably the worst.
Monoboob just made her chest larger than it was previously
Probably better for computer rendition, less curves.
I didn't see a huge difference TBH, sounds like one of the producers had an infatuation for his own creation to get upset about it.
I was about to comment the same thing
Ya it's pretty odd. Honestly I never minded it since it fit with the ascetic just fine
It looks like what an actual jumpsuit would look like. I never thought it was weird.
I barely noticed when I was a kid, but it later turned out I was gay and uninterested in such anatomy… The thing I noticed before and after censorship was the tone shift and art quality improvement.
They could literally continue the series right where it left ended with the Megabyte cliffhanger and no one would complain!
I wouldn’t complain. I would love that 😢
@@BowsettesFury Sadly Tony Jay isn't with us Anymore to be Megabyte =/
yes we need a REBOOT!
They were going to, last movie was made and ready to air, but is was destroyed in a fire.
Exactly. Same animation, everything. I wouldn't even complain.
Reboot was the bee's knees when I was a kid; I never knew that it took so much effort, money and pain to make. Thanks for this video!
when you consider how fabric works, the change in Dot's chest design is actually fairly benign. It took a lot of effort to get Jeri Ryan's infamous Seven of Nine catsuit to actually follow all the peaks and valleys shall we say
You just have to look at images from the fifties, say, to see that the technology certainly existed. But hey, Dot still looked pretty good for an early cgi character.
The creators of X-Men '97 did the same thing to Rogue. They got rid of the comic-accurate form fitting breasts, and gave her costume a "monoboob" redesign. More realistic, yes, but also less true to the comics than the kids' version from 1992.
@@Rocket1377 The 1992 version drew Rogue with boobs that looked like pecs 98% of the time lmao
The real insanity of the Censorship of the 90's was it was almost always just one person at a desk saying yes or no to everything. They didn't have to have a reason, just a feeling and an opinion. It's why you can submit the same episode and get two different answers, just let it get seen by some one else. Some the funniest stories about Censorship was around the Animaniacs show. The things they got passed the censors was insane, mostly because they were just too dumb to get the references lol.
It gave us both Gargoyles (on Disney of all things) casually killing people on the street while citing Shakespeare at 10 year olds and Samurai Jack where a drop of red blood would've gotten the entire series cancelled. They really had a needle to thread
What's hilarious and sad is that nothing has changed, it's the just the standards for censorship went even farther into the esoteric.
Finger Prince?
@@dipperdandy That was a big one for sure. Have the semi running gag of the Doctors "Bust" aka the statue with just a head being messed with by the kids. I remember in one of the commentary tracks or something saying the writers put out tons of jokes they thought would get cut, that some how got through at times.
The plan was basically make over the top jokes to make the others seem more tame, some times the extreme jokes got through.
@@dipperdandy
I don't think so.
No mention of that unreal scene where Hexadecimal was screaming NO NO and the the camera frames Bob ass for like a second and she went YES
unreal... that's just funny writing
speaking of Hex, her and big bad, forgot his name lol, were suppose to be brother and sister, in order for that one big virus incident to occure they had to mate😅😅😅
Megabyte
Yea, she had an insane person's unrequited love for Bob.
"Oh, NOOO!" (zooms in) "Oh, YEESSSS ..."
I *know* there were more sneaks past the censor than that, but that's a good one and was always hilarious XD
"Cliffhangers would create dramatic tension for young viewers"...
Meanwhile, DBZ was literally nothing but cliffhangers. Often spanning several episodes.
This is a conversation I have had often. Look at the animation from 1998 in JPN - Cowboy Bebop. Same year in the USA - Ed, Edd, and Eddy. Compare stories, character development, themes, ect. No comparison on which is better.
Yeah I remember watching yugioh as a kid and I don't think they ever finished a duel in less than 3 episodes.
Some yelling for three episodes to power up for a 5 episode fight 😂
Normal shows have cliffhanger endings. DBZ had full cliffhanger arcs.
Forreal it took like a week for goku to summon the spirit bomb…
"didnt quite capture the magic of the original" is the biggest understatement I have ever heard. as a long time reboot fan, the netflix show was a travesty. it was totally uninspiring. in fact, I dare say it wasnt even reboot, despite the name. I watched someone on youtube explaining how the creator of the netflix show was just rehashing one of his older shows that got canceled.
Hey mate! I'm a friend of one of the creators, Gavin Blair, and he'd like you to know there's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam called
REBOOT REWIND
But he's busy, so I'm in the trenches, doing what I can, one comment at a time 🤣
It's 8 episodes, a new one dropping every Tuesday. The doc team actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate! They're also the ones converting the master tapes!
If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Also, this its super important that Reboot Rewind gets hyped, because current Mainframe people are paying attention, and the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can
Stay Frosty!
I gave it an episode, didn't feel anywhere close to the original.
@@Blodhelm I did too. It felt like the same old stuff. Like code lyoko or even like power rangers. Just dull and uninspired. You could feel the heart, soul and sweat that went into reboot. Honestly, if there is another attempt at a remake, I want it to come from Glitch. Murder drones was amazing.
I took one look at the trailer and "Noped" it out of there. ReBoot!, B5, and DS9 are my favorite 90's shows, and shows of all time. So many great shows from era.
In spite of the studios they were produced by.
@@ClockworkOuroborous exactly. I think Glitch could do a good remake or reboot of Reboot.
The best jab against the BSNP is the episode where a parody band sings "BSNP, it's fun to play in a non-violent way" it sounds like YMCA. Flew over my head as a kid, but knowing the background now makes it hilarious and awesome. (episode is Talent Night)
Apparently, in that episode, Dot's grumpy co-auditioner who rejected everything was straight up based on the series' BSnP rep. She was reportedly far from pleased at being parodied in the episode.
Bob uses a command called "BS&P" to teleport through a window (according to the producers, Standards had nixed the idea of Bob breaking the window with a rock). "In the Belly of the Beast" featured Enzo firing a gun with the words "BS&P approved" on it that shoots rubber life rafts. "Talent Night" featured a "prog censor" named Emma See who kept complaining about objectionable content in the acts Dot wanted; and a group called "Small Town Binomes" singing their smash hit song called "BS'n'P".
"Cause we're living with BS&P! Yeah, we're living with BS&P! It's fun to play in the non violent way-ay (In the non violent way!)"
The Megabyte Guitar solo will always live rent free in my head "I've always wanted to do that"
That was animated by Stephen Cooper and Phil Mitchell. They spent days on that, the two of them in a tiny room with a single workstation. It may have been Phil’s office, can’t remember now. Phil was quite fat at the time so it was a snug fit. I remeber my disappointment as I also played guitar, but so did Stephen yet he just sold himself better to the directors I guess.
That episode caused me to pick up a guitar and actually get pretty good at it. Thanks Reboot.
“Glitch … BFG.”
That episode (Talent Night) is one of my all time favorites for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Mainframe made fun of their own intellectual content with "the Dire's Al and Harv!" (as Mike the TV puts it).
The whole episode has a ton of moments that are funny, awesome, or a combination of both. Plus it helps that I like heavy-metal music and the guitar battle is epic.
@@daffers2345 It also had one of the YTV logos used as a character. For non-Canadians, it's a Canadian channel that originally aired Reboot.
I almost got to work on Reboot. :) I was a programmer and they interviewed me but they were looking for PhD level computer scientists... Instead they offered me a technical director position which is where you have to learn a specific piece of software (like Maya) and then help the animators or designers do their work. I refused the position because, to be honest, I wasn't qualified for that role. But it was still amazing to have even been offered a position with Mainframe. :)
I hope you still worked at other studios at the time (like HiT Entertainment (the studio that Mainframe worked with to create that Bob the Builder reboot)).
Wild lol
That is so cool!
I've been grossly under qualified for nearly every job I've had, for 20 years now. I'm always surprised at how quickly I end up learning a new skill, and I'm an idiot. My point is, I bet you would have been able to learn the job, and do it well.
I was a technical director at Pixar. I bet you would have done a great job!
Imposter syndrome is so devastating. I've come to realize that courage is a more important trait than skills or intelligence.
5:42 Reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield's joke from those days .... "I went to watch a fight and a hockey game broke out!"
I was in my early 20's when Reboot originally aired on Saturday mornings. It was my favorite show to wake and bake too
Lucky mf😂 I wish I was that old, u got to experience the best time period of life at the perfect age mane! Ain’t no way u not a millionaire with all the opportunities sitting right Infront of u!
I bet the censor was a fool who thought the word "honky" was actually "hockey."
Like when people think the word "specifically" is "pacifically".
Wouldn't surprise me. When people get to a certain level of power, you find their decisions 'unassailable' and often made for very personal and sometimes erroneous reasons.
Canadian animator: "Okay, so in this episode, the game Bob has to play is hockey, eh."
S&P: "No hockey."
Canadian animator: (Timbits falls out of hand.)
we don't talk about Guardian Code.
The Director didn't even want to make a ReBoot show. he wanted to make some kind of Super Sentai or Zixx-style show instead, but couldn't. So he picked up the ReBoot brand and just used it as a medium to make the show he wanted, only applying the bare minimum required of the source material.
Honestly I admire that.
@@jonothanthrace1530why?
And got called out by the creator of Code Lyko for blatantly stealing his idea.
Could probably also call it a Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad knockoff. God I feel old for remembering that one.
@@ryanbauer3680 Honestly it reminded me more of a bad Zixx then Code Lyoko.
Granted i never watched Code Lyoko, so 🤷♂
@@TamTroll Has a real banger of a theme song if you're into 2000s French techno translated into English.
I damn loved the Enzo Adult arc, damn that was peak TV.
has some resemblances to Berserk. Matrix = Guts, he's trying to find some lost land while riding on a ship with a crew of wacky characters...
I loved how he simply gave no fucks. I really wish we got to see Gun in full starburst mode though.
they turned him into cable
There certainly were no punches pulled when they wanted to redefine AndrAIa's sexuallity. The scene when she claims to be lost and can any of the guards help her 'find her dog' as she squats down and gives the room a good look at her butt would never have passed in Season 1. They probably wouldn't have even allowed Dot to have the Plasma Cannon in Word Web Wars when she asks Mouse if it looks 'too butch?'
the 90s and early 2000s was such an amazing time to be a kid. 3D animated shows like Reboot in particular and the rise of affordable home PCs, the internet, computer workshops at schools - it was all uncharted territory and felt like everyone was navigating it together. There were so many things that taught us to be computer literate and help foster an entire generation of IT and software engineers, developers, etc.
Happy 30th Anniversary to the best cgi animated series of my childhood. In that time, the 90s had cartoon innuendos especially episodes from body parts, suggestive scenes even talking about love in a different way. Censorship can be do anything possible to make children safe until newer ones don’t. But I don’t care like Rocko’s Modern Life because it has a lot of adult content and humor that doesn’t stop me from watching. Great upload and very informative.
Hexadecimal, man... She was one of my first childhood crushes. Not even joking. Yeah she got real scary at times but what can I say? Guess I had a type lmao.
But yeah Reboot was my childhood. Absolutely loved that series and after watching this I'm not surprised I enjoyed the later seasons far more than the earlier ones. That's not to say I didn't enjoy the earlier ones either - the best word I can describe them from memory is "dorky but in a good way". Funny thing is, the censorship (which I 100% do not approve. Censorship ruins creativity) ended up making the show "grow up" with me. The less the censorship, the older I got to appreciate the less censorship.
Hexadecimal was a perfect example of 'don't stick your usb drive in crazy' 😅
So your type would be scary clown demons.... 0_0
Hex made teenage me feel funny. She makes adult me still feel funny lol
@@DyslexicGamer Scary clown demons deserve love too
Hexadecimal was my fave as well...still is lol.
The thing about Reboot which made its history of censorship so unique was how it was made by creatives who wanted to put more mature content than most would in a kids show being vetted by censors who were exceptionally puritanical. It led to this unique dynamic where the writers were clearly trying to test the limits of what they were allowed to show, actively provoking standards and practices at times just to see if it will get a reaction.
If I recall correctly, part way through season 1 the creators realised that most of their audience was actually people in their late teens and university, rather than kids, and adjusted accordingly... the censors probably didn't.
@@laurencefraser I suspect the trouble was the show was sold to TV networks in other countries as being very much a kid's show, so even if the Canadian broadcaster was ok with them re-pitching the show mid-season as being for a slightly older audience it would still have been a problem for international broadcasters who had signed up to broadcast a kid's show and weren't expecting to have to move its timeslot later on in the same season. Here in the UK it was broadcast during our ITV network's Children's ITV (CITV) strand somewhere between 3:30pm and 5:15pm, so I was quite surprised to hear the reference in this video to it being a primetime show.
@@MrDannyDetail Partially, the censors for the first 2 seasons were at ABC meaning Americans. The Canadian censors were in charge for the last 2 seasons so were more sane.
@@FakeSchrodingersCat As far as I can tell from the information online the UK dropped Reboot part way through the 3rd series, so that could bear out my theory, if the change of censor for series 3 allowed some changes to be made and then the UK broadcaster or viewers caught onto the changes and maybe weren't so keen.
Ai written comment
Netflix's attempt to use the Reboot IP is a laughable culmination of absolutely terrible decisions. From what I could see, it had absolutely nothing to do with the original it is supposed to be based on besides the name and logo so the fans just walked away right off the bat. The audience who this show was aimed to were also too young to have grown up watching Reboot as well so the name meant nothing to them. They just wasted money buying an IP and then made such a poor use of it they would have been better off not using it at all. I'm sad because it now means the Reboot IP is stuck in limbo.
The only Netflix adaptation worse than Death Note
@@NeoTechni The only Netflix adaptation worse than Death Note *so far*.
isn't that what all these reboots are a waste since the new people they want pass it over because its old and the old fans go what is this they changed everything but the name.
I didn't even considered that it was a live action version of Reboot...I thought it was a name coincidence.
Rightfully so. Fans wanted a continuation of the show's finale. New adventures with Bob and Enzo. References to tech and games new and old. Above all else, we wanted to see the world of reboot displayed in better modern visuals
What we got were some millenials cosplaying as the fighting alloy from super smash bros. Brawl
Man, I’ve never forgotten about this show. Watched the series multiple times growing up. No wonder why the later episodes were my favorite. 🤯
4:20 for censorship stuff
Hexadecimal was and is outright terrifying. Rewatched a few episodes as an adult, she still scared me. Mentioned it to my mom, and she remembered Hexadecimal from thirty years ago!
Complete opposite here, when i was a little kid i thought she looked hot.
"Oh! I adore children! But I can never eat more than one."
- Hexadecimal -
Who? Guess it never left an impression on me.
Nope, she was gorgeous and broken. One the best villainesses ever created.
I agree
My first job out of film school. I remember a scene we did where Enzo ran through a wall and left a silhouette hole…nod to Looney Tunes. ABC wasn’t happy as they were worried kids might try to emulate this behaviour. So the character went through the ceiling instead. Try that kids. lol. The character Cecil was named after the creators favourite strip club in Vancouver. They would hire the strippers to come to the studio and give shoulder massages. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago. Your video forgot to mention these guys did the Let’s Get Rocked video for Def Leppard. During a studio clean up, they inadvertently tossed out the story boards to that video and Money for Nothing, which I grabbed from the trash to keep. I foolishly showed them what I saved and they wanted them back, saying they were tossed by mistake. Dammit.
Cool.
Got more stories?
@@oldbabyseasoningPornography was often used as reflection maps as another jab to ABC. Back then, reflections, shadows, etc were computationally taxing and thus increased render times. Reflection maps were used to fake reflections. On complex geometry, you can never tell what the actual image used in the map was.
In Talent Night, there is a scene where Dot leans in to wish Enzo happy birthday and spins his cap. I was at pinewood studios with Marcell Duperreault who was the sound editor. Producer Chris Brough was coming in to review the episodes sound mix, not sure why I was there. As a joke Marcel replaced the SFX of the hat spinning with a squirting noise and a faint male groan. We both sat there trying to hold our laughter in as the scene approached. Enzo gets his hat spun and this jizz off SFX came through the speakers. Chris Brough lost his mind. What the fuck is that!! It didn’t go over well and we both got in shit. In my later years, I can see his point of view. Have an entire episode rejected for something so stupid.
Ahh, so that's why Bob's shiny hair drew my attention so much.
In hindsight, maybe it was better you gave them back. If you had kept them and word got out years down the road, there might have been legal trouble. Maybe you dodged a bullet!
Fun fact: The infamous Ocean Dub team were the ones who lent their voices to this absolute gem of a show and funny enough they also lent their voices to Transformers Beast Wars and Beast Machines.
Bob was voiced by Ian James Corlett who also voiced Cheetor in Transformers Beast Wars, Goku in DBZ and even Mega Man TAS.
Cheers 🍻
Why "infamous"?
Actually he only voiced him for season 3. Michael Benyaer was Bob's original voice actor and came back for season 4.
I had noticed that when watching season 3 and it felt off for the character. Personally, I think Brian Drummond or Scott McNeil would have been a better replacement.
@@ryanbauer3680 I mean, "My Two Bobs" in S4 gives an in-universe explanation for why S3 Bob sounded different to S1/S2 Bob during the World Wide Web Arc in S3's back-half and for "Daemon Rising".
(When Megabyte crushed Glitch before throwing Bob in to the Web Portal at the end of S2 in "Web World Wars", a portion of Bob's code was assimilated by Megabyte (which is why he was able to mimic S1/S2 Bob before his reveal) and corrupted Bob slightly, that was amplified by his time stuck surfing The Web, before Matrix and the Crimson Binome pirates found him and brought him home.
It was Megabyte-Bob that Michael Benyaer was voicing prior to Web-Bob (still voiced by Ian James Corlette at this point) being repaired with the help of Glitch and all the other Key Tools).
@@Adreitz7 The amazingly well done Ocean dub of DBZ is what helped it explode in the west like it did, that's why infamous. If it wasn't as good as it was we might not have seen the end of the Frieza saga let alone everything else.
I remember the first episode of the 4kidz transition, noting how much worse all the voices and music were all of a sudden. I begrudgingly accepted it since we all wanted to just see the show continue, but I wonder if I would have kept watching if that's how the show started out.
@@jeeziss thats not how to use infamous.
I watched it as a teen. It sparked my interest in computers, drafting, animation, gaming, and programming. Those have been part of my career choices since the 90's.
Reboot is one of those unknown historically significant gems.... I remember when it came out as a kid me and my dad would watch it, blown away by the graphics (for a Saturday morning cartoon)
Multi-episodic story arc - *"I never asked for this..."*
Anatomically correct curvaceous Hexadecimal - *"I **_ALWAYS_** asked for this"*
Season 3 is when this show when into freaking hyperdrive. Insanely awesome, and a crime against humanity that the last episode of "My Two Bobs" ended on a cliffhanger. Even worse that they gave us the brain fart that is the live action "reboot".
The live action what!?
@@mf--Reboot: The Guardian Code
It was made by people that didn't understand the original show. Users were BAD, why invite users to fight for the mainframe?!
@@Michael.RedKnight Trust me, it has absolutely nothing to do with ReBoot.
@@mf-- why did you even come here if you weren't going to watch the video
Other weirdness includes Enzo taking a gun that fires a raft that says "BSn'P approved" on it, and Bob saying "Glitch, BSn'P" to warp through a window instead of crashing through it.
Enzo's birthday episode (with the cut chaste kiss) - "Glitch; BFG" *summons Big Friggen Guitar*
At that point I as a kid had already played DOOM by id Software (now part of Zenimax Publishing under Microsoft), where "BFG" meant "Big F---ing Gun" (and *not* "Bio-Force Gun" unlike what the 2004 Doom movie with Karl Urban and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, would have you believe), so cue my surprise they let the acronym "BFG" slide as it summoned a guitar (and lead to Dueling Guitars). XD
And also in _Talent Night_ (the birthday party episode) there's a scene at the tryouts where a Village People style band sings "It's fun to play in the non-violent way" and the "letters" are BS&P. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be very sarcastic.
fast forward about 20 years, Alex Hirsch working on Gravity Falls replaces a reference to 'spin the bottle' on a flyer with 'not S&P approved!', which S&P objected to- so he asked what was objectionable about it, forcing the response "'Not S&P approved' has been approved by S&P"
From someone who worked in animated series for about 10 years: Clone Wars is AAA stuff with a budget 99% of all productions can only dream of. Most series cost way less than that. To produce a 3D series today that has a budget of 10 million per season is extremely rare, because the financing is very hard to pull off. So, 10 million per season, especially in the 90s, is absolutely crazy!
A LOT of censorship in shows (especially of the animated variety) ends up being incredibly weird when you look at it objectively. Example; I recently decided to rewatch Berserk in it's entirety....the 2016 (widely considered one of the worst adaptations of a manga/storyline) decided boobs don't need nipples, those are naughty. Meanwhile literally the first episode shows a small child being brutally cut in half.... So child dismemberment = ok, nipples = bad....
It's clear that Censorship executives didn't look at things half the time. I mean the Bad Bob episode was just proved it. I wonder if they only did this to give the Canadian producers a hard time.
100% to give the Canadian producers a hard time. US networks are NOTORIOUS for screwing Canadian folks.
The fact hockey was mysteriously banned kinda leans into that theory
They know they have phony baloney jobs, so they'll just reject things to justify their positions.
Nearly all of American history is them keeping Canada down.
They only look at their DIGITS
I watched this show as an adult in college and I loved it. The computer and programming related puns in it were very funny. The concept was so creative... There would be a "warning incoming game" and then the Hero's had to win against the User or be destroyed. This formula could allow every new episode to explore any kind of fantasy genre I wonder if the old episodes could be exported into a modern format like Unreal? And they could make a modern update with better skins and smoother animation? Kinda like how the updated Final Fantasy 7
As much as I'd love to have a copy of the original models, I'm afraid they're lost media at this point. I think the assets were nuked a long time ago.
They finally found a machine to read the original tapes, but that’s just the renders, not the model data sadly
To be honest, the models could probably be recreated by a modern character modeler in a week with today's tools and a few decent screen captures, The PS1 game models might be obtainable from decompilation of the files on the disc. Even if they're a bit low res they could still be useful.
@@TheRealAlpha2 Who needs screen captures? You can purchase the entire series on DVD. Wouldn't that provide everything you need if you intend to reverse-engineer the images?
Dot still made me feel ways and stuff.
Felt the same with AndraIA
Yep, the censors tried and failed
Dude especially that episode what she was in that Elvira dress during that one episode.
Maybe it was to make the show marketable to the global market so if they talk about hockey it make the audience think of Canada or something?
I'd like to point out that creating a non-"monobreast" look for clothes like Dot's is completely abnormal, please research the bizarre and painful lengths that the Star Trek costume department went to when outfitting the actor for the character 7 of 9 in order to pull her clothing in between her breasts.
That shift between seasons where it went from being all light into a dark setting and he was older with a scar blew my mind as a kid. It was amazing and refreshing to get this more complex story. It's always stuck with me and I'm 37 now. Well people behind the show, you made the right choice.
Censors have dirty minds
They are the worst. Thinking that an older sister kissing her brother on the cheek would promote “family relations” is something I never thought of especially as a child.
Shows you exactly what they were watching late at night.
@@BowsettesFury Bet the censors were an only child and got no love from their parents.
You need a dirty mind to do the job, otherwise you might miss innuendos and such
@BowsettesFury yet people are doing much worse things..censorship got us nowhere and now things have no censors especially on youtube
@@thend4427 how dare they censor a kid's show.
I remember the Halloween episode. Where Enzo got to be Michael Jackson from Thriller and Dot got to be Elvira slash Morticia. They definitely didn't spare the curves that time!
if memory serves thats episode 1 of season 3 and it was an evil dead reference... just the start of the much darker tone that season goes in and was much better for imho
@@supersonicjc Yes! It referenced Evil Dead and FPS shooters at the time and they went ham! I love it :D
And they had to fight Ash Williams. They kill him in the cellar and he pops out
I am dead before dawn referencing the title of Evil Dead 2
And they broke the 4th wall with: "What kind of a freak would play a game where he's just standing and shooting?" And the piercing gaze into the screen... I felt so touched :D
The series really picked up after Andrea's introduction. Gave Enzo a reason for character developement, leading up to the season 2 finale and Bob's forced trip to the net.
Ehhhm ackshually it's "AndrAIa"
but yes
loved that show as a kid, the graphics and animations were truly unique and distinctive compared to anything else at the time
I loved watching this show as a kid. I still remember how good the ep was that ended with "Game Over the User Wins" I was all in for that one.
Reboot is a show that parodies almost everything in pop culture, while at the same time still being totally original. Love love love it.
8:33 if you are getting Trauma from a Cliffhanger... even as a child, there are other problems...
Ehh, one cliff hanger isn't going to be an issue. Constant cliff hangers turning otherwise minor problems the kid might grow out of into actually major issue some small but meaningful percentage of the time seems a bit more plausable. Whether it's actually a thing or not is another matter, of course.
for real, I did a double-take when I heard that "traumatic tension"
@@laurencefraser Which would be proven correct in adults when LOST started airing. Catharsis is important. And with how the show blue balls you, and then NEVER addresses the loose ends, not surprising if anyone developed some kind of issue.
Cliff hangars are for special occasions, because of how much it heightens the audience and puts them in a frenzy. LOST abused that, and amplified things as other shows started copying it looking for success. Its like my Generation's COCO Melon. Engrossing in the moment, but ultimately develops mental issues due to the way it manipulates the brain.
@@freelancerthe2561 I'm watching One Piece and this is why I always finish watching halfway through an episode. Least tense moment
Its called being hyperbolic for comedic effect.
It's kind of amazing how great this show was despite the absurd censorship.
It was on at odd times that kept changing where I lived but it was definitely intriguing because of its unique look. I had no idea about its behind the scenes struggles. Good video.
5:30 that's not what Tipping Point means
Reboot was the best "Tron sequel" we never had storywise.
There was a cult classic video game in the early aughts that was essentially that, I'm guessing if you're a Tron fan then you know of Tron 2.0 already though
There’s an entire trope about this: “Getting crap past the radar”. Creators in all manner of media finding ways to sneak stuff past the overbearing censors and producers.
Hitchock's famous train into the tunnel
I want season 5 so bad, I still watch Reboot sometimes.
Where? I would love to watch it again!
@@ugib8377 At the only place where you can get stuff for free if the "people" don't sell their stuff anymore. Piratebay, I saved a copy on my PC
@@ugib8377
It has been on DVD for years
@@ugib8377 There's uploads here on youtube, one by theoneblackbart and another by (ZF) Heisenberg
@@ugib8377 I was able to find it on youtube recently. :P I spent a whole weekend rewatching almost the entire series.
Excellent piece. Thank you for your time and effort.
No problem thank you!!
Hey mate! I'm a friend of one of the creators, Gavin Blair, and he'd like you to know there's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam called
REBOOT REWIND
But he's busy, so I'm in the trenches, doing what I can, one comment at a time 🤣
It's 8 episodes, a new one dropping every Tuesday. The doc team actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate! They're also the ones converting the master tapes!
If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Also, this its super important that Reboot Rewind gets hyped, because current Mainframe people are paying attention, and the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can
Stay Frosty!
@@adelphus11 very cool. This show was a big part of my childhood. Thanks!
@@adelphus11I just pinned a comment about the documentary at the top. Thank you!
@@popculturechronicles7412 Hey mate! I was wondering if you could post a quick short directing people to the Reboot doc.
They just revealed how the rejection of Bad Bob really went, and it's hilarious
ua-cam.com/video/o1Zvg6LKW-I/v-deo.htmlsi=CfO5xRz3rODFp79C&t=32m32s
There's just so much stuff, you'd love it too! There's a really good chance that if this spreads, Mainframe will let the guys finish the fourth season. You've got far more reach than me.
Cheers!
I remember watching this when I was a kid. Loved it back then. I didn't even know that Netflix attempted a show. I will have to check it out.
I remember missing the show, then the second season dropped and i was glad. Then i realized they were no longer fucking around and i so stoked. It was truly special to experience Rebot in its time.
Right? That episode where Enzo and AndrAI are battling in the Mortal Kombat like game.
What a rollercoaster.
@sintanan469 those moments where they made seemingly permanent changes where so stunning. I was thinking, no way they killed a character. The only other thing on that level back then was Dragoon Ball Z.
@@sintanan469 That redneck boomer shooter episode was memorable to me.
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate.
This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
I'm willing to bet the weirdness was just some guy abusing his power because there technically wasn't precedent for 3d media, so Reboot became his punching bag.
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate.
This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
It wasn't until recently that I found out that in the episode where Frisket eats a format/delete command that the farting sound from him pooping it out was replaced by complete silence, even though they allowed the animation of his grimacing face to play. I mean, kids know that dogs poop... I hardly think this was going to hurt ANY kids. Reboot was on at the same time as Ren and Stimpy for crying out loud. They really were trying everything they could to kill the show.
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate.
This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
I have fond memories of this show as a kid. Enzo's birthday episode where Bob and Megabyte have that guitar solo battle with one another is literally the reason I picked up the guitar as a kid.
Man, I love and miss Reboot.
It got revived later on toonami. Megabits had taken over the principles office & we're just left hanging.
I'm surprised that you didn't talk more about the birthday episode. They had a Censorship woman as a character.
8:40 They are 100% right. Kids will remember those traumatizing cliffhangars.
You find one in *The Lion King* ... when Mufasa is hanging of a cliff - I certainly never forgot what happened in the prequel (which aired about 5seconds later) :I
I’m still pissed it ended on season four like that. Such a d-bag move.
At least it wasn't Kimba the White Lion where he carries around his dad's dead body for like a decade
@@ULTRAOutdoorsman Disney does just that.
Mufasa the movie....
Shits crazy considering the child character literally had his skull crushed by someone's hands off screen and you can literally hear the crunch. Shit fucked me up a little bit as a small child ngl.
natural gas liquids
I know, right? I almost couldn't believe it when I saw that scene at.... think it was...6 years old?
That was WILD.
Gotta say though - it was the appropriately-traumatic event to start the "Grown-Up-Enzo" arc; Perfect, if brutal, tone shift.
That happened in season 3, when they had moved stations and weren't nearly as hobbled by censorship.
@@technoman9000 nibbling green leaves
Wait, I don't remember that. How did that happen?
As a kid I had no idea this show was about science technology specifically about computers and coding. I just wanted fun, excitement and importantly action. This shows adults are the problem in society with restrictions upon children. Watching this about the background politics by adults seems strange to me because none of that was what I was thinking. We adults over think and complicate everything and I see that now in this era.
i found this show, Gargoyles and the Batman cartoon at the time dark yet somehow less depressing and even uplifting than all the care bears, captain planets and all the other rot we had to put up with at the time. It was good decade.
Thank you, Jenny Trias, for taking that risk.
lol, someone would have done it eventually.
"Glitch, BSP!!"
As Bob calls out to Glitch to 'break' a glass window, that then reanimates back to a solid pane, since breaking glass was considered taboo and also censored. 😆
And yet the replacement dialogue is actually even more genius because BSP stands for bitspace partition, i.e. he was partitioning the bitspace hehehehe a dad joke that went over 100% of the viewers' heads
@@ULTRAOutdoorsman I had to watch the scene again, he does put an & in there so the shot is a bit more obvious at them 😂
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate.
This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
What episode was this? I have it all on DVD & don't remember it. I do remember being confused on a few glitch commands. I was always expecting words, not letters.
7:37 What a gigachad move to include that binary code 😂
Sometimes it feels like network censors were just bunch of sadists.
This cartoon was part of my childhood and I absolutely loved it. Wish they had a proper ending to the series.
If anyone thought they saw the best version of Dragon Ball Z on Toonami you are sadly mistaken because like Reboot it was censored to death by cartoon network. The best original version was aired in Latin America dubbed in Spanish since the 80's were it was actually concluded from start to finish. There were no annoying back to back rerruns like in Toonami.
I remember seeing spanish language episodes of DBZ on a UHF channel and finally seeing Piccolo blow a hole through Raditz and Goku. Some of the editing they did on those episodes for U.S. tv would be considered remarkable if it weren't for the fact they they were trying to hide the true nature of the show.
@@TheRealAlpha2 Or that classic deleted scene in DB when Goku gets scared because Bulma lose his "balls".
Whole episodes were taken out. Gohan befriended a robot while in isolation training. We didn’t see that in the US.
@@aaronphillips402 Wait, what?. Here we had those episodes in tv.
@@SDogo No, it was actually taken out of the original run, but it was just for budgetary reasons. Once Funimation took over they (if you can believe it) actually went back and cleaned up a lot of the more embarrassing stuff and their modern releases are actually pretty good.
The final episode of Beast Wars: Optimus boards the ship but gets sucker punched punched by Megatron
Syndicated version: fist hits Optimus, Optimus falls to ground and spits out a tooth, Optimus slowly gets up
Toonami version on Cartoon Network: Megatron's fist comes full steam but half way cuts to Optimus slowly getting back up
Oh you mean in Nemesis part 2? Yea I didn't know they censored the tooth bit.
Speech this
An American distributor didn't want any mention of the word hockey because they didn't want the audience to have any inkling that it was a Canadian show. Spite.
All the best animated shows come from Canada.
Actually it was apparently a vulgarity. The only thing I can think of is “poop” like the old expression “horse hockey” or “hocky” but even that is a stretch.
get over yourself, nobody is spiteful about hockey. the fact you think so much of hockey the only thing you can think of is "spite" is hilarious.
Ok Mr horse.
Being led by your dumb thoughts is how you get old yeller'd.@@sinisterthoughts2896
The internationally popular children's show, Bluey, is censored in the USA to remove all Australian slang, lest children develop any amount of cultural understanding of the wider world.
Reboot was a huge part of my childhood. I was floored when Enzo grew up and the show took an amazing turn!
I loved Reboot as a kid. Being more mature than most kids, the darker themes never bothered me, if fact it enhanced the show. I remember that the show always came on right around dinner time, if my mom's schedule was on par, which meant I either ate quickly, or watched it right before food. It was a memorable show that bring up fond memories. I never knew about the censors, so this is quite interesting. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.
3:07 Clone Wars' per episode cost is similar to that of Thunderbirds' per episode in 1965, and they were using advanced supermarionation puppets and live action model sets.
"Children's media is so soft nowadays"
90's TV censorship: "noo, we can't have hockey, cliffhangers, or natural body proportions, it's traumatic to younger viewers"
What is the weirdest part about that is that a _Canadian_ show censored the word hockey. Make it make sense. :D
@@oz_jonesright wing bullshit, that's why. Gotta brainwash and program.
That would be Tipper Gore, so glad we dodged that bullet in 2000.
The body proportion thing still happens, Miss Bellum was removed outright and Miss Kean looks like she had a double mastectomy compared to the OG, yet they still had kindergarteners twerking.
The difference is back then the creative people who worked on these shows fought against the censorship being imposed upon them. Today they demand and embrace it.
cliffhangers are a traumatic experience? where is the class action lawsuit for basically all anime put out in the 90s and early 00s? lol
DBZ gave me PTSD
Oh no, cliffhangers, my poor, at the time 5 years old, brain was in such fear! However did I cope with such travesty, it's not like there weren't other shows I could watch.
It started before the 90's, watch the original Space Battleship Yamato. The series was made with a continual story line, one couldn't just pick it up in the middle without being lost in where they were in the story.
Anime back than was mostly "unrated" therefore not geared to any specific age group or "intended" audience.
It is traumatic and since the series ended on a cliffhanger, I am still beyond pissed off.
Reboot is one of those pop culture artifacts that could entertain me today, almost thirty years after it was released.
Boy, I should rewatch it, absolutely loved the show in the 90s, especially the extensive lore and character development. Also, the tone shift felt completely natural back then, like a part of the narrative and Enzo's character arc. the writers did pretty astonishing job to create and deliver a brilliant show despite all the censorship they had to deal with.
Censorship usually leads to worse quality.
But every now and again a very creative solution. Joker's laughing gas, for example.
@@altejoh wait... It wasn't always laughing gas?
@@Jacy-dx6dx No it was knockout gas, but the networks didn't like the implication of people being gassed and then passing out (looking dead).
@@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181 oh. I was thinking of mustard gas. Knockout gas isn't that bad.
I somewhat disagree. Logical censorship works for obvious reasons. You don't show someone getting killed violently in kids cartoon. But you can show the reaction someone has to it happening or second before cutting away POV from the character or attacker if that's the situation, or a cutaway to what lead to the death. The demise of the Flying Grayson's from BTAS comes to mind. It takes creativity to follow those guidelines while still giving an equal or greater emotional effect.
But censoring just for the sake of censoring(or more likely, a censor's delicate emotions) is hindrance to the creative process. The 2 that stand out to me here are the reason given against Dot kissing her little brother's cheek and the Mad Bob episode not giving any reason or input to changes.
Also them resending the same script back reminds me how with Taxi Driver(1976) Scorsese managed to avoid getting an X rating by de-saturating the colors to tone down the bright red blood.
"Lost Angles"
SHEESH!
As a 90's kid I greatly appreciate how shows like Reboot allowed me to deal with themes like grief, loss, life and death. Things you would have to deal with but made you understand them and to face them. If your a 90's kid and you got kids yourself go put on some Rugrats, Doug, Recess, Hey! Arnold, Magic School Bus, your bound to find something they wil like.
Agree! RPG games in the 90's were also really good for me in terms of encouraging introspection, self-awareness, confidence, critical thinking, and complex emotions like grief, death and loss.
I loved this series. We the users are the natural disaster that can destroy them, but is the user at the end who saves everyone.
@@adelphus11 Thanks. I'll check it out.
I loved this show so much and always hated to see it end, we needed more of it so bad. The Netflix show was ok but was lacking so bad they can't make shows for kids that both kids and adults can enjoy like back in the 90s and 80s
Sounds like Jenny Trias was a visionary. Glad she gave Reboot a chance!
There's an official documentary currently airing on UA-cam that actually interviewed the original creators, animators, voice actors, ect are in it, so info is all accurate.
This vid is not. If you want to know the real story, look up Reboot Rewind.
Because it's legit and current Mainframe people are watching, the hope is if there's enough interest, they'll let the original creators finish the cliffhanger.
If that cliffhanger pissed you off, spread the actual doc around as much as you can!
I can't believe they Rebooted Reboot into live action Netflix...
Wait...
Is that for real?
@@The-Gate-House-Grognard Yep. 'Guardian Code'. Think Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad (aka the US port of the Japanese Gridman) with Reboot trappings.
@@The-Gate-House-Grognard It is awful
We truly live in cursed times.
I refuse to acknowledge that happening.
Yup I watched ReBoot when it was new. Was in high school at the time and had an Amiga 500 with a 2400, 2.4KB opposed to 56.6KB, Baud modem. So I and my friends appreciated the animation so well because we understood the difficulty in how big of an undertaking the production of an animated tv show for that era was!
@@adelphus11 thank you for the response. I’ll check that video out. Thank you friend
Reboot was my CHILDHOOD man. I remember when they went into the darker storyline, how COOL I thought it was~ At the time I had no idea what was going on in the background, I was little and the internet was BARELY a thing, but I distinctly remember just becoming SO much more enthralled in the series. Most of my clear memories of the show are, in fact, of the 'future' arc of the story, with grown up Enzo travelling with Andrea through the Net, trying to find their way home. It was very good, and honestly, watching this makes me wanna re-watch the series all over again~
Amazing show. I was an adult but as a programmer with an interest in CGI I started watching it. The CGI was amazing at the time, especially considering they were doing it fast but I was surprised when I also was getting interested in the story! And it got better in season 3 when they didn’t have the heavy censorship. The improved CGI was nice too. I wasn’t as happy with the story in season 4, though.
I had heard about the monobreast and the chaste kiss but didn’t know the scene it was from. I hadn’t heard about hockey or the other items, but I do remember Mainframe Studios people complaining about censorship on some internet discussion (can’t recall details).
To be fair, it's a Canadian made show, so it wouldn't make sense not to pointlessly censor it.
I don't think you guys know how insane of a contraption was required to create a non-"monobreast" look for 7 of 9 in Star Trek. It's worth looking that up, not much unrealistic about clothes following protrusions without caving in between them.
Yeah, I've had big ones for years and the material just stretches over them about 99% of the time, especially with a sport bra. Once in a great while a thin material might sag a little, or something like a swimsuit will have built-in padding.
I actually kind of prefer the "monobreast" look for Dot because it looks more natural than the form-fitting "clothes" she had in later seasons. They looked so ... stiff.
To me, it seems to be a misconception that spreads through the arts so hearing that it was avoided in this case, even by less than ideal means, meant a little less damage to the way people see the world and that felt like a positive note in it all. But yeah, it doesn't last through the whole show and strangely form fitting clothing is eventually applied to a number of characters.
As for jarring stiffness, since everything is quite apparently unsupported it would make sense to expect movement huh, I wonder if they tried to implement that. Even with the work of some of Earth's most motivated people it took something like two decades to get that kind of thing looking right but from what I hear I wouldn't discount them being ambitious enough to have at least tried. I do get your sentiment, that design subverting understanding of how it would actually act, if it didn't look like there should be movement then its absence would feel natural.
Surely it was just like a plastic breastplate or wireframe thing
@@ULTRAOutdoorsman There were nurses on set with oxygen tanks ready to respond when it would cause her to pass out, it took minutes to remove.
@@daffers2345The earlier design looks uncanny valley. The censored design looks a lot like you would see in a video game of the era, and I prefer that.
Cliffhangers?! Would somebody think of the CHILDREN!
Reboot was the chit back in the day. Was so fortunate to have watched the series when it aired back in the 90s. A true gem of a series. Will never forget reboot.
I saw Reboot in the 90s and, as a software type person, I genuinely appreciated the humor in the series. I enjoyed the stories and absolutely loved the parody of the Major General's song from The Pirates of Penzance. The creators of this series had an amazing breadth of knowledge and wit.