Too many years later, and I still love this pilot. This one and Kitty Bobo were my favorites. I think neither of those won because they were too mature for kids (that's why KND won). It wouldn't be until Regular Show that we had a more mature show on CN.
It's been decades since I've seen this but the idea that the bear escaped getting in trouble was protesting that there was a monkey in his food has stuck with me for over half my life now. Thanks for the upload, and know this show had my vote back then.
I really love this pilot. I feel like the premise of a cartoon where characters living their daily lives while getting into all sorts of hyjinks is a common one, especially when this was made, but this pilot feels so much more lighthearted and fun compared to the shows I've seen. I could easily see myself getting attached to these characters and the world they live in the more I knew about them. Also I love this art style. It has the vibe of a newspaper comic and the color pallet is so nice to look at.
It seems I hit like on enough comments that said "Well I'm from Utica" and the algorithm sent me an unexpected gem. I really enjoyed this cartoon. It was clearly lovingly crafted! I love all the little details, like the quiet "boom" in the background after Dan and Micah left their apartment, and the color palette of the paint is very easy on the eyes.
I remember watching this on Cartoon Network as a kid and loved it immediately, made me laugh a lot. It definitely has potential and I can tell it must have inspired “The Regular Show”
I lived in Utica during college and this perfectly captures the look and feel of Genesee St. Makes me a little nostalgic. I wish we could see more of this, thank you for making it.
I literally can't even put into words how much I adore this cartoon. Everything from the style, humor, music and quirks is just so perfect and tasteful. I want to download this into my frontal lobe
Can’t believe I’m just now seeing this-I love how chill the whole thing is, from the muted colors to the humor and the audio/background music. I definitely would’ve binged the show as a kid if it’d been picked up.
You should definitely re-pitch this for a streaming service. I bet people would love it- there's a huge amount of support in this comment section alone!
I was hoping when they were talking about food, that they would go get some "steamed hams". That's what they call hamburgers in Upstate New York. It's a regional dialect.
This is proof tv executives don’t know what shows to green light. I hadn’t ever heard of this bc I was months old when it came out but I would have loved this growing up and even as an adult I love it. the style is awesome and the humor is just as charming. 10/10 should’ve been a show
I love that the sound track sounds like it could have been done by grand buffet but the humor is what gets me. Them running to Canada at the end lmfao 11/10
I remember voting for this! My sis and I taped this when it originally aired on big pick weekend...and I still have the vhs :) I was nine at the time and the tape is labeled "The Hot-Dog Eating Bear" hahah. I wonder if JG Quintel saw this pilot...
this is a really great cartoon. the sense of humor almost feels like weird gen z memes despite coming out in 2001. ahead of its time i'd say. the art reminds me a fair bit of J. Otto Seibold's lol. i thought it might have been a pilot made by him for a moment.
To me this was by far one of the best pilot cartoons to be featured on cartoon network, it definitely should've won! Had a series been made out of it, it'd surely be ace and a favourite of mine! After so many years from first having seen it, it still remains one of my favourite cartoon pieces! Thank you for sharing it! And bravo! :))
I voted for this neat cartoon and I was hoping it would become a series. Those 4 animals remind me of Seinfeld and his group, getting into crazy situations like that.
I remember watching this pilot once when it was on over 10 years ago. For some reason, the end credits song of this show has stuck with me all these years. After doing some google searching of pilots that competed against Kids Next Door, I've finally found it. Amazing feeling.
This is one of the pilot/shorts I missed out on (probably because I was 3 yrs old at the time lol), but I feel like I would have LOVED a whole show of this around my teen years. I know I for sure love this pilot as an adult, funny stuff.
I don't know if it's watercolors (looks like it?) but the way this is drawn and colored, the lines not being perfectly straight, the way the walls might have lighter and darker tones, just brings so much personality to every frame. A degree of earnestness that I don't think comes through in other animations that go for a Perfect, Neat and Tidy style. From the other comments it seems like this never got picked up to be a full show, but I hope you have found a successful career, finding pieces of art like this makes me want to jump for joy, and I'm really glad that artists like this exist
Aw, thanks! It's nice to hear that the extra work is appreciated. If you want to see some of my more recent stuff, I've been making comics at deepdarkfears.com
I love this pilot sooo much. I wish it could have become something more. The character design is simple but fantastic, the backgrounds and colors are so nice to look at, and something about that intro just really hits you. I wasn’t alive when this came out but if I was it would have had my vote to become a full show!
you have no idea how in love with this universe i am. the dialogue, the characters and their flowy dynamics, the art style especially!!! one of a kind!
@@glittergelpenlyrics Thanks! We're so glad that you enjoyed this cartoon. We made this when hand-drawn commercial animation was going extinct, so it was nice to be able to make a cartoon in this style while we still could.
I love this so much! Another fragment of my memory has been restored. I wished all the cartoon pilots could have been turned into a series. That would have been the best childhood! Thanks for the memories!❤
Been too long since I've seen Utica Cartoon... and it's still the same level of silly off-beat semi-slice-o-life I recall... goes to show some cartoons CAN have a long shelf life. I'm glad I found this, again.
I saw this on TV at probably 2 or the 3 in the morning with a friend of mine like 6 years ago, and neither of us knew what it was, but we quoted it all the damn time. I am so glad I finally found it again. 2:20 was hilarious, by the way.
when I was younger I could never distinguish a good pilot from a bad pilot in terms of getting picked up but now that I'm older it seems to painfully obvious but I still struggle to put it into words
This is one heeeeck of a cartoon. It should be a case study for what to do in cartoons. Amazing sense of movement and timing. Such an innocent, sincere cartoon, an awesome kind of humor that's rare these days.
I'm so glad I found this! I still consider it the funniest cartoon episode I ever saw. The 'You'll have to down these' and 'the turtle head sticking out of the bear costume when it turns around' parts continue to live rent free in my head. I'm still upset that this didn't win The Big Pick. (For reference, the Las Pelotas! episode of "2 Stupid Dogs" is my other favorite cartoon.)
i’ve lived in upstate new york my whole life and this perfectly encapsulates the feeling off small town loneliness and having nothing to do but the same thing you’ve already done a thousand times
This perfectly sums up how addiction works. The first time you succeed you get that nice little dopamine release in your brain, but you won’t get that feeling again unless you do way more than you did the first time.
I love how at 0:55 you can hear the apartment explode in the distance once they leave 😭😭😭
But how when they come back it’s fine even though they exploded the apartment and died
I remember loving this pilot as a kid and it still makes me laugh 15 years later. I can't believe it wasn't picked up.
Thanks, Jared. I had a lot of fun making this one!
This one should’ve won
Voice actors couldve been better, defo wouldve won
Probably because the bomb joke around 911 sadly. And it was so ahead of its time!
It was the big pick. Kids got to vote for the next cartoon cartoon, billy and mandy won i think.@@sonicroachdoggjrraven3263
“Mechanically unseparated monkeys” would be a great band name.
Too many years later, and I still love this pilot. This one and Kitty Bobo were my favorites.
I think neither of those won because they were too mature for kids (that's why KND won).
It wouldn't be until Regular Show that we had a more mature show on CN.
Could have pitch it to Adult Swim at the time since they were just getting started
REGULAR SHOW is pretty much just REN & STIMPY but for stoners.
I could honestly see both working as Adult Swim cartoons without having to change that much.
@@JosephScarbroughYou mean to tell me Ren & Stimpy isn't for stoners?
@@SamuelSEdmeExactly! Ren & Stimpy is Ren and Stimpy for stoners
I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase STEAMED HAMS.
No, not in Utica. No, It's an Albany expression.
I see...
You know this hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty burger
Hohoho, no! Patented Skinner Burgers. Old family recipe!
Yes!
5:29 - 5:51 was always my favorite part, I especially love that casual line, "I thought hot dog parasites had eaten you from the inside out."
That scream 😂
for a 15 year old cartoon, this is severely underrated. great video
It's actually twenty-two. So old!
...Ah, yes, the dark ages of the year... 2001.
@@colbyboucher6391i think they mean the fact that in 22 years noones really talked about it or picked it up
@@frankrause Dang thats a year older than I am! Everything except for the price of hot dogs aged very well
Just got it in my recommended videos so who knows maybe it'll take off.
This feels so comfy to watch, I wish there were more cartoons like this.
It's been decades since I've seen this but the idea that the bear escaped getting in trouble was protesting that there was a monkey in his food has stuck with me for over half my life now. Thanks for the upload, and know this show had my vote back then.
Aw, thanks! Glad you liked it!
my God I had vivid memories of watching this as kid just once, I'm so glad to be able to find it again
nice!
I know what you mean. I've been looking for this for over 20 years.
If this was made today it would be aaaall the rage
I really love this pilot. I feel like the premise of a cartoon where characters living their daily lives while getting into all sorts of hyjinks is a common one, especially when this was made, but this pilot feels so much more lighthearted and fun compared to the shows I've seen. I could easily see myself getting attached to these characters and the world they live in the more I knew about them.
Also I love this art style. It has the vibe of a newspaper comic and the color pallet is so nice to look at.
It seems I hit like on enough comments that said "Well I'm from Utica" and the algorithm sent me an unexpected gem. I really enjoyed this cartoon. It was clearly lovingly crafted! I love all the little details, like the quiet "boom" in the background after Dan and Micah left their apartment, and the color palette of the paint is very easy on the eyes.
;)
Voted for this back in the day. Glad to see it again after all the years.
Aw, thanks!
I couldn’t agree more!!!!
I believe we've found the missing link between 12oz Mouse and Regular Show. :P
jey what is 12oz Mouse
@@AlbertoMartinez-wm1vgadult swim show
THE MISSING LINK!!!! 🦧
Yet it's better than both
I remember watching this on Cartoon Network as a kid and loved it immediately, made me laugh a lot. It definitely has potential and I can tell it must have inspired “The Regular Show”
I've seen that one on the reruns of What A Cartoon Show, along with the newer pilots in the early 2000s.
I lived in Utica during college and this perfectly captures the look and feel of Genesee St. Makes me a little nostalgic. I wish we could see more of this, thank you for making it.
I literally can't even put into words how much I adore this cartoon. Everything from the style, humor, music and quirks is just so perfect and tasteful. I want to download this into my frontal lobe
I miss these type of cartoons
Can’t believe I’m just now seeing this-I love how chill the whole thing is, from the muted colors to the humor and the audio/background music. I definitely would’ve binged the show as a kid if it’d been picked up.
I just got this randomly recommended and I luv it lol
3:57 This part & quote always lived rent free for years. And I found it finally.
This pilot is like a prototype Regular Show and I love it!
You should definitely re-pitch this for a streaming service. I bet people would love it- there's a huge amount of support in this comment section alone!
The algorithm really loves pulling decades old videos up. This is such a cool little animation! I can imagine this being on cartoon network.
Every so often I’ll stumble across a video from 15+ years ago and just love it. I hope The Algorithm is finally giving this the attention it deserves.
Seeing how chill adult shows are popular now, they really should repitch this concept to a streaming service or as a webseries!! I'd love to see it.
I was hoping when they were talking about food, that they would go get some "steamed hams". That's what they call hamburgers in Upstate New York. It's a regional dialect.
No, it's an Albany expression.
Uhhh what region
If I had to choose one cartoon short to watch for the rest of my life, it would be this
This is proof tv executives don’t know what shows to green light. I hadn’t ever heard of this bc I was months old when it came out but I would have loved this growing up and even as an adult I love it. the style is awesome and the humor is just as charming. 10/10 should’ve been a show
I love that the sound track sounds like it could have been done by grand buffet but the humor is what gets me. Them running to Canada at the end lmfao 11/10
I lost it when I saw the gang start going to Canada to live "crime-free". Hilarious from start to finish!
I love how bouncy the animation feels without anything being jarring, really cute art style too!
man i love this pilot, the laid back vibe from the artstyle and the hazy indie rock makes this truly unique
So much charm in only so many minutes. Bravo!
This is beyond ahead of it’s time. I really wish this was picked up…
Man I haven't thought about this in about twenty years and am shocked (and appalled) that I actually remember way more than just the name
We're gonna need that fancy belt of yours, we don't want any prison cell "accidents".
THAT BEAR KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE THEM GLIZZYS ‼️
Voice acting on this is so perfect along with everything else
I remember voting for this! My sis and I taped this when it originally aired on big pick weekend...and I still have the vhs :) I was nine at the time and the tape is labeled "The Hot-Dog Eating Bear" hahah. I wonder if JG Quintel saw this pilot...
Thank you recommendations, now new folks like me get to see it even 15 years later
I remember calling Cartoon Network during the Big Pick to vote for this...I really wanted this cartoon to win...loved the animation.
I see you alot in the oddest places
@@CosmicSponge2004 Heh you found me
the timeline where this show got approved for a full run is the one i would like to live in, please
this is a really great cartoon. the sense of humor almost feels like weird gen z memes despite coming out in 2001. ahead of its time i'd say. the art reminds me a fair bit of J. Otto Seibold's lol. i thought it might have been a pilot made by him for a moment.
To me this was by far one of the best pilot cartoons to be featured on cartoon network, it definitely should've won! Had a series been made out of it, it'd surely be ace and a favourite of mine! After so many years from first having seen it, it still remains one of my favourite cartoon pieces! Thank you for sharing it! And bravo! :))
I'm obsessed with this pilot, i watch it in full every time youtube recommends it to me
Utica Cartoon and Kitty Bobo are some of the most special Cartoon pilots.
I love this artstyle :)
I also said that. Great minds think alike!
this is joy itself condensed into a 7 minute video.
Almost forgot to watch this today
this is the coolest animation I have ever seen on youtube.
I voted for this neat cartoon and I was hoping it would become a series. Those 4 animals remind me of Seinfeld and his group, getting into crazy situations like that.
What a feelgood show, very comfy. I want more episode shoved down my gullet like hot dogs
Instead of redoing older shows, Cartoon Network should have taken these pilots and made them into shows.
I remember watching this pilot once when it was on over 10 years ago. For some reason, the end credits song of this show has stuck with me all these years. After doing some google searching of pilots that competed against Kids Next Door, I've finally found it. Amazing feeling.
There's something really fresh about the feel of this whole thing, excellent pilot
So fucking soulful. I love how understated and relaxed it is. I also like how nice everybody is to each other.
This is one of the pilot/shorts I missed out on (probably because I was 3 yrs old at the time lol), but I feel like I would have LOVED a whole show of this around my teen years. I know I for sure love this pilot as an adult, funny stuff.
I don't know if it's watercolors (looks like it?) but the way this is drawn and colored, the lines not being perfectly straight, the way the walls might have lighter and darker tones, just brings so much personality to every frame. A degree of earnestness that I don't think comes through in other animations that go for a Perfect, Neat and Tidy style. From the other comments it seems like this never got picked up to be a full show, but I hope you have found a successful career, finding pieces of art like this makes me want to jump for joy, and I'm really glad that artists like this exist
Aw, thanks! It's nice to hear that the extra work is appreciated. If you want to see some of my more recent stuff, I've been making comics at deepdarkfears.com
@@frankrause yay! New awesome stuff to enjoy! Thank you so much :)
100,000 views - that's 1.5 Uticas worth of people! So nice to see folks enjoying this old cartoon.
The music and voice acting is so perfect!
I love this pilot sooo much. I wish it could have become something more. The character design is simple but fantastic, the backgrounds and colors are so nice to look at, and something about that intro just really hits you. I wasn’t alive when this came out but if I was it would have had my vote to become a full show!
I remeber watching this cartoon as a child and believing it was more of an Albany cartoon
I also remember voting for this, it's a shame it didn't win. :(
Thank you magical UA-cam algorithm for recommending me this. It’s been a delight! Wonderful animation as well, props!
this is the best animation i’ve ever seen and has officially changed the trajectory of my life. thank you for everything
you have no idea how in love with this universe i am. the dialogue, the characters and their flowy dynamics, the art style especially!!! one of a kind!
@@glittergelpenlyrics Thanks! We're so glad that you enjoyed this cartoon. We made this when hand-drawn commercial animation was going extinct, so it was nice to be able to make a cartoon in this style while we still could.
i really liked this art style. im sad that it never got turned into a show
7:00 I love this ending song
Glad to see you're still around and haven't forgotten this. Me and my friends used to quote the Guess Who scene constantly growing up.
I love this so much! Another fragment of my memory has been restored. I wished all the cartoon pilots could have been turned into a series. That would have been the best childhood! Thanks for the memories!❤
This is the best animation of all time. I love it.
Been too long since I've seen Utica Cartoon... and it's still the same level of silly off-beat semi-slice-o-life I recall... goes to show some cartoons CAN have a long shelf life. I'm glad I found this, again.
man I really wish this was a turned into a cartoon series
This reminds me of a wise old quote, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to become The Fucking Simpsons."
I saw this on TV at probably 2 or the 3 in the morning with a friend of mine like 6 years ago, and neither of us knew what it was, but we quoted it all the damn time. I am so glad I finally found it again. 2:20 was hilarious, by the way.
I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase steamed hams.
Whoops! Wrong cartoon.
This pilot is a really pleasant mix of cartoony and chill vibes.
this is amazing. so glad to have found this so many years later!
when I was younger I could never distinguish a good pilot from a bad pilot in terms of getting picked up but now that I'm older it seems to painfully obvious but I still struggle to put it into words
This is one heeeeck of a cartoon. It should be a case study for what to do in cartoons. Amazing sense of movement and timing. Such an innocent, sincere cartoon, an awesome kind of humor that's rare these days.
the monkeys walk animation is truly amazing
my brain is feeling good with this unlocked forgotten memory
I had no idea what this was when I clicked in, but upon seeing the Guess Who game I instantly remembered it! So nice to see it again
I'm so glad I found this! I still consider it the funniest cartoon episode I ever saw. The 'You'll have to down these' and 'the turtle head sticking out of the bear costume when it turns around' parts continue to live rent free in my head. I'm still upset that this didn't win The Big Pick. (For reference, the Las Pelotas! episode of "2 Stupid Dogs" is my other favorite cartoon.)
I really think this should be a real show because how fitting the plot line looks in many ways
My new favourite animated short. Much appreciated, very nostalgic
My family and I loved this pilot when it was in the running to become the next CN series! Even funnier 16 years later :D
i’ve lived in upstate new york my whole life and this perfectly encapsulates the feeling off small town loneliness and having nothing to do but the same thing you’ve already done a thousand times
I miss this cartoon so much. ❤😊😁
More people need to see this
I love this. I wish it was a real show. The music is so good
It's funny that the wrench apparently grosses him out the most.
This was quite good. Love finding these old pilots/tests that I’ve forgotten.
For people that likes these songs :)
0:01 = Intro
6:59 = Outro
"Oh no, not in Utica. That's an Albany expression."
This perfectly sums up how addiction works. The first time you succeed you get that nice little dopamine release in your brain, but you won’t get that feeling again unless you do way more than you did the first time.
Oh wow, I haven't seen this is twenty years, but it enstilled in me a lifelong feeling that 17 is the funniest number
This is awesome. Mad love from the future.