Whatever Happened to Zoog Disney?
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
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An exploration of the history and impact of Zoog Disney, Disney Channel's programming block that embraced the internet.
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0:00 Intro
0:53 History of The Disney Channel
2:25 Birth of Zoog Disney
6:07 Millenium Rebranding
9:01 End of Zoog Disney
10:17 Post-Zoog era/Conclusion - Розваги
People can say what they want but growing up with Zoog Disney, Fox Kids, Nickelodeon, and later Cartoon Network from 1997-2001 was an experience that can't and will never be duplicated. So many legendary shows, and movies going on at the time. Too many to name.
Don't forget USA Kids ^_^
99-04 was heaven on earth for a kid.
@Tony D : This. ^ Right here. Just..this. *wipes away tear* Amen, brotha.'
Lived it brotha! Very good times indeed
Don’t forget Discovery Kids
I was the target audience when Zoog Disney started to air. I remember digging it a lot, and asking my aunt if I could use her computer whenever we visited her so I could check out the website (especially So Weird's site) since we didn't have a computer at home. I was really into everything they were doing with it. Then later, in my teens, I distinctly remember thinking, "Hey wait what happened to Zoog Disney?" Their own self-promotion was so relentless that I never even noticed the transition was happening. That always stuck in my mind, how these corporations can just change overnight while still distracting you. Or maybe I was just not that observant a kid, ha!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane with this video!
Absolutely! That so weird website was awesome. I found it on the way back machine but obviously all the links were broken. Still cool though
Yep. That damn Hillary Duff and Lizzie McGuire. Great actress, wonderful person, but Disney had their first taste of child pop stardom. That's was the beginning of the end. I was 8 when the zoog ended and remember the transition. Then in 2006 the final nail in the coffin came with the cancellation of Phil of the Future and the premier of Hanna Montana.
You're right about that, they slowly stopped airing So Weird, and the movie Suzie Q I think In 2001-2002.
I loved the first couple seasons of "So Weird" so much. I was sad when all the changes happened and it was never the same. :(
Yeah, I actually liked both actresses for the main character in "So Weird". Alexz Johnson would go on to be the protagonist on the Teennick show, "Instant Star"..another show that I loved growing up and found as nostalgic...
Man, they don't make good shows like those anymore!
Yessssss I was born in 1990 so this was literally my childhood everyday after school and on weekends!
Mine too😁
I used to love Zoog Disney!! Here I am at 33 and I’m wondering what ever happened to Zoog?! lol This brings back so many beautiful childhood memories. Thanks for this video ♥️
Bro, this my childhood right here and I'll never forget it. Your channel is being slept on! This is great quality content, I was expecting that TTS voice but it's nice to see you actually narrated this. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
@@channelserfer thanks for producing this! Subbed and hit that notification bell. Can't wait for the next one
This is amazing! I see so much from Gen Z about Disney during the High School Musical days which I was too old for. This brought me back. We need more UA-camr commentators like you who bring to light the Zoog days.
I’ve only experienced this time slot when I visited the United States with my family. It became an experience to have access to these channels in the beach house. We also had networks that had quite a strong link with the internet at the end of the 90’s and beginning of the 00’s in Canada with Flash Games and interactive pages (Especially Teletoon and VRAK TV. What a time to be alive. This type of entertainment is so specific and we might never be that close to experience it again. Especially since most of these websites aren’t archived and old versions of Flash and Java obsolete. It’s incredibly important to keep on discussing about the sparks that made these times so special. Thanks for the video!
This is a quality video that deserves a lot more views. I've felt like noone remembered this. Even the first few minutes. I used to watch playhouse Disney & Vault Disney every morning & night. Vault Disney showed me show much classic Disney at a young age and Noone ever talks about it. I also felt like I was the only one that remembered Zoog Disney. I watched this block almost every day along with Snick & Toonami! I can't believe it was in the late 90's. This was my childhood. Thank You for a Quality Video✌✌✌✌
It was to me the best time to grow up watching TV, you never knew what crazy show you were going to watch, and how it was going to end. Always a cliffhanger done perfectly. We don't get that as much now because of spoilers from the internet.
For years Zoog Disney and bug juice have plagued my existence. It's been a anger inducing hellish fever dream. I would lust for more and more information on it and I feel maybe just maybe finally I will know Star Peace.
😂😂
THIS NEEDS MORE VIEWS
it was uploaded late last year, hopefully it will blow up
Majority of UA-cam’s audience (kids) will never know about this. Hence why the views are so low. More views are well deserved.
So? Kids don’t care about the history of defunct retail chains, but channels like Bright Sun Films are still making a living.
@@The8976marcell I mean I know about it and watch video documentaries on old Disney channel, but don’t watch newer Disney episodes as much as I did a few years back.
This is pretty damn good, I was kinda worried when I saw the low view count but this definitely deserves praise and should have way more views
Born in 1987. SNICK and ZOOG were my childhood!
I vaguely remember the Zoog robots, and looked for information for a long time.
By the mid-‘80s, The Disney Channel would be 24 hours a day, all while adding some non-Disney shows to their schedule such as The New Leave It to Beaver and imports like the CBC’s The Raccoons; their nighttime/overnight block, tailored to older audiences, featured classic movies and concert specials.
Oh, and a young Christina Milian was host of Movie Surfers (one of Zoog Disney’s shows).
lol, then she'd come back to Disney Channel to sing the theme song for Kim Possible. 😂😁🙂
*Thank* you (👏😊)! I grew up with Zoog Disney as a kid in the late 90s-early 2000s; ah, _memories!_ "So Weird" was hands-down my favorite show on that block (👍👍).
I used to visit Zoog Disney online to play their games. So many competitors.
And long before UA-cam. I used to record some of these hit shows (namely So Weird and Jett Jackson) on my VCR. However, it became a gamble trying to record some of the music videos I was looking for that year. Sometimes when the in-betweener segments were going on, I stayed on standby to hit the record button if the video I wanted actually aired.
As for Radio Disney? Loved listening to it. 1998-2004 was how long I tuned in to it in my area, until it disappeared altogether from my city.
I feel like this was a documentary I keep getting nostalgia and deja vu
Hell yeah I'm subscribing!!! 1987 here!! Great job and I'm 30 seconds in!!!
I appreciate it!
6:10 Just to piggyback Disney Channel also had a small revamp around April/May 2000, since most of the 1997 bumpers and logo variations, got replaced by new bumpers and a new 3D logo which were introduced in Late 1999 exclusively for the Zoog Disney & Zoog Weekendz block to then become the channel main branding. This is with the exception of the Vault Disney block that kept the 1997 bumpers and branding up until 2002 when the blocked was axed.
I lived on the net as a teen so Zoog was my jam. Not many people speak about it so its almost an enigma. This and CN's flash cartoons/old web were phenomenal. Simpler times. I am just happy I got to experience it. Tysm for covering this. Great in depth video.
I was born in 1992 and Zoog Disney was definitely part of my childhood!
Same
So was I and yet I don't remember ever seeing zoog.
Lizzie Mcguire/Hillary Duff is basically when disney realized what japan already knew. The power of "Idols" voice actors/actresses in japan are typically also singers, performers, etc. The big ones at least.
Zoog Disney was my jam. Also gotta give love to....
Off The Wall & Mad Libs - those 2 back-to-back game shows
The "In Concert" series which introduced everyone to Britney, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Youngstown, Steps, M2M, and all those great artists
and
The Disney's Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra
I spent so much time trying to find this.. just amazing!
How do you only have 270 subs?! This was an extremely well done vid, you got my sub!
Great video it deserves more views ! It’s crazy how people forgot about Zoog Disney and the big help 😢
I never heard of Zoog. I'm shocked to hear that influential series like Famous Jett Jackson and Lizzie McGuire started here. I always thought of them as strictly Disney Channel.
Man I had forgotten all about this! Thanks for the video!
Good video! I loved this era.
I remember Zoog Disney so well. It was my favorite TV block as a kid. The shows were more creative back then. I always loved the Zoogs, though the 2D versions were better. These were the days! Back when they made the first DCOMs. I also like that they had Vault Disney. I wish they would bring it back. I even preferred The Disney Channel before Zoog Disney, definitely than anything they have now. Love this video! Do you think you may ever go more in depth through the channel's different transitions and talk more about the old shows?
I haven't forgotten it, because that age of millennial who was in the single-digits in the late 90s/early 2000s to catch Even Stevens and Lizzie MacGuire and whatever. And honestly I grew out if Disney and NICK shortly thereafter (2003 onward, pretty much) so for me, stuff like SUITE LIFE and HANNAH MONTANA starred people my same age (Dylan/Cole and Miley) but I was more into watching MADTV, SNL and Family Guy by that point. I fondly remember early 2000's DISNEY and NICK. They really had identities as stations. Unique entitites. That seems to be missing these days, where everything has become so homogenized and watered-down in pop culture.
Me too. I grew out of Disney Channel in 2002/2003. The direction wasn't for me as a pubescent boy growing up. Shows like That's So Raven, Cheetah Girls, and Lizzie Maguire was definitely not my thing. Even one of the Disney Channel programming executives told Defunctland that they were marketing and changing the channel to tween girls at that time. I stayed at Cartoon Network, Toon Disney, Boomerang, and occasionally Nick from then on. 😂😁🙂
this is great and really well done! surprised it doesn't have more views! keep it up!
Thanks! I have some new stuff in the pipeline
Man they were waaay ahead of their time, all of that early zoog stuff is just standard now, but a lot more advanced of course.
I watch it with my cousins house back then man it went down hill in 2006. I miss this big time glad I'm not the only one who love this, I was 9 when it out.
So glad I found this channel!
I think appeared a little late in this era because I mostly watched Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon at the time. I do, however, remember watching Disney's One Saturday Morning back in the '90s. Nevertheless, I was fortunate to catch Zoog Disney on Disney Channel before the 2002 rebrand.
I’m just waiting for this channel to blow up
This, early Toonami, Kids WB, Fox Kids, Nickel-O-Zone and Snick, Fox Family, ABC One Saturday Morning, PBS, Sci-Fi, Comedy Central, TNT, G4/Tech TV, the 90s-2000s had the best TV!
Side ote. I worked at a post production studio named Media City Sound in 1997-2003 and we did a lot of the audio foe the post. Voice overs and spots. The non show stufd basically. Mark Jensen was the engineer. I guess I did the quality control stuff before it went out the door.but Mark did the hard work. I watched so many spots it was branded into my brain. Ii was in my 20s during this time so wasnt really away but I guess it was ahesd of the time for tv using rhe internet or zether. Dun memories
I definitely just texted my sister the Bug Juice theme song lyrics in all caps thanks to this video, so thank you.
I can't remember if it was a bumper or a show, but I had one of my first existential thoughts while watching a spot about astrology on Zoog Disney. Thanks for this amazing video.
Yup I was the target audience was raised I this. I loved it all. My brother called me a Disney freak cuz it was always on. This brings me back crazy thing is and scary is the word programming. They were programming us to engage. 😳
Great work, what a time period. Miss these days, would watch dcoms and skateboard around my neighborhood after school
God I spent hoursssssss watching these shows as a kid!! Disney had me glued until I found Degrassi on noggin/the-n lol but I def came back to watch raven and others. A time to be alive!!
Man this awakened some old memories
Definitely not forgotten. I watched the New Year's Eve countdown on there.
I remember zoog Disney. I was around 10-11 years old when Disney changed their format to Zoog Disney. I totally forgot about it.
Zoog Disney and bug juice is peak nostalgia. I don’t know why, but the two names remind me of the brand new smell you’d get from the prize inside a cereal box, or the distinct smell of the gloss finish bookmark you’d get from the book fair at school
20nyars ,after Zoog Disney is STILL the only Disney channel made where it’s TV you do
That AJ Johnston was also in Final Destination 3. And I loved her show Instant Star.
Zoog Disney was genuinely an ICONIC period of production for Disney. Ugh, I miss those days 🥲
As a kid I really liked Zoog's technological vibe. It's no wonder I became the nerd I am now!
Maybe you should do a video essay on Disney's One Saturday Morning this Summer to celebrate the lineup's 25th anniversary.
7:07 It's always funny to me when some of these actors in these shows "pursue other opportunities" and then almost always fall of the face of the earth afterwards.
I remember a game show at the Zoog Disney time slot. I just found out it was called Mad Libs. The So Weird forum was what got me into online fan forums and message boards with fan theories. I was around Fiona's age and liked having a female protagonist in a live action show marketed towards kids. Although looking back it's pretty dark for a kids show and thats why I loved it. That show is special to me. I really liked Flash Forward with a very young Jewel Staite and Ryan Gosling as a recurring character. I was sad it was only one season. Looking back I feel like Lizzie Maguire got the success they wanted Flash Forward to have. I remember wondering where all the robots and technology stuff went one day. It just seemed to have changed overnight.
Bug Juice theme song just kickstarted long dead serotonin receptors
Very few people remember Zoog Disney, who specially the theme song for a zoog movie.
The zoog Disney games on the website were fun af good times
Can you do a video on DTv the disney channel music videos of the early 80s that played current and old hits with a mash up of disney characters with MTV-like cuts?
7:13 so the Disney formula of using their shows as a vehice for a pop star existed before Lizzie Maguire. Interesting.
Tv was so good back in the day.
Disney Channel from like 1999 until the early 2000s was the best!
bug juice was my show back n the day
Hey hunnies! 1991 baby here and Disney Channel from '97-'04 was life!! I'm in the process of creating a Facebook fan group all about old DC and our wonderful memories. I hope I can get members to join. If I get enough likes and replies, I'll get the link on here.
Where did you find the Radio Disney 1310 commercial shown in the video?
Oh yeah, i forgot all about the Zoog Disney block! Speaking of Instant Star, you should do a video over the rise & fall of the former Noggin network's N block of programming, of which Instant Star was a part of, here in the U.S.
I remember this. I was three
that clip of Marc Summers promoting Disney stuff is kinda cursed to me who associates him with Nickelodeon solely
Yes 87 baby!!!!! This was it
I remember being a kid in the late 90s going to my next door neighbors house to use his blue iMac g3 computer and all I did was play games on the zoog Disney website.
Simpler times…
Don't forget "The Jersey" which was Disney Channel's version of Arli$$.
This was all i watched zoog disney
When I was 8 and 9 years old it was either Disney (zoog Disney) or Cartoon Network 😭😭😭🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I miss Vault Disney the classic stuff on disney channel.
I never forget the past
Watching this as I put on my Disney resort, sea salt, body lotion
2:08
That guy who is promoting the channel looks familiar...
I may be wrong in many levels, but is that Marc Summers from Double Dare???
I was just talkin about this
I did not like this particular era of Disney Channel. The shows, and the overall tone felt so far removed from what I normally expect from Disney. I blame 'Lizzie McGuire' for encouraging Disney to keep milking it's formula at the expense of Walt Disney's legacy. As if Disney Channel had abandoned it's core audience while chasing after a nonexistent audience. (cough*star*wars*cough*comic*books*cough) The idea of using the internet with television may have been innovative, but I think it could've been executed better in my opinion.
So its basically Lizzie McGuire's fault Zoog Disney gone
Excuse me! Its gone, but definitely not forgotten.
Aww memories😌
Ah late nineties and early 2000s good times
Zoog era was prime
10:18 Was Saberspark one of your sources, because Lizzie McGuire was closer to Even Stevens than That's so Raven or Hannah Montana.
All of Those Kids on bug juice actually were rich as hell
The Bug Juice song is just the SpongeBob ripped his pants song???
I really hope Disney goes under soon. I’m definitely going to have a good laugh when it happens.
I think someone at Disney Channel saw the success of Christina Aguilera and thought "hey we found this girl before she became a Pop Star, we didn't make a dollar off her Music Success, I'm sure we can find someone else who can sing..." Just from that idea turned Hillary Duff and Selena Gomez into celebrities but renewed an old reputation that Disney builds entertainers but wrecks human beings.
Did Zoog Disney Ever Air Movies Such As Alice In Wonderland, Oliver And Company, Honey I Blew Up a the Kid, Mighty Joe Young, An Extremely Goofy Movie, A Bug’s Life, The Lion King, And/Or Toy Story Between 1998 And 2002?
4:27 so weird was in widescreen? :O
I think the video I sourced it from was just cropped weird. Pretty sure on Disney Plus it's 4:3
Anytime I try to explain this version of Disney to people they don’t know what tf I’m talking about….
Fun Fact: According to Wikipedia, this was the first show made by mondo media!
Wait mondo Italia or the guys who made happy tree friends?
@@remixchild The people who made HTF
Vault Disney was MUCH better. Classic Disney shows and cartoons.
These Zoogs look like they belong in the KaBLAM!! universe
The golden age of Disney channel I’m so glad I grew up in this era
Zooooooog!!!!
I remember the Zoogs and hating them so much that I actually sent them a hate email just to see if they’d read it on the air. I just found them ugly looking and irritating to listen to.
Missed late 1980's and 1990's MMC aka micky mouse club around first celebs aka *nsync members JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake and other celebs