The Rise and Fall of DIC Entertainment
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2017
- IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! Here's the story about an animation company that was a big risk-taker during the 80s and 90s, churning out licensed programming like hot cakes at IHOP. Produced some of your favorite programming such as Inspector Gadget, The Real Ghostbusters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Sonic the Hedgehog, among others. This is my most ambitious project to date since I practically did this one solo. So without further adieu, ENJOY!!!
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This was a good one, definitely tops over our past efforts, and in Scope aspect ratio, too. That ending though....
BTW this will be a tough act for me to follow
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183 seconds of logos.
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I swore to God if I would have seen just one more!?😡 I would have gave up and went to another video!😑 Now back to my regular program.😏
The Koopalings didn't have names yet, so DiC gave them names, before the localization team in Nintendo did so. Also, King Koopa is Bowser's Japanese name.
Thank you for clarifying that man.
Technically his name translates into demon or devil king koopa and princess toadstools name in Japan is peach I would be used in English until super Mario 64. Also when it comes to sonic satam sally wasn’t voiced by Christine she voiced bunny rabbit. Side note isn’t it bizarre that in captain n they show Metroid land in the very start of the intro but we never see the Metroids or samus and the butchering of characters did stop with the main cast alucard and Dracula were completely different from the games alucard not only hated his father Dracula but wanted to kill him so yeah that show was a great idea done extremely poorly they didn’t even attempt to get the game characters right. Fun fact Metroid was at one point going to get a animated series cels for this canceled series is online.
Oh by the way Madeline isn’t an orphan for some strange reason her and the other girls live in a boarding school. This show doesn’t make any sense since their parents are alive so yeah odd series.
@@SCMediaWorks i heard of DIC because i saw AOSTH, Sonic Underground, and the Super Mario Super Show years ago...
@@batman200 Funny you mention that regarding the Metroids and Samus because in the late 80s, when DiC got their hands on Video Game I.P.s other than Mario and Nintendo, there was going to be a Metroid cartoon which would have featured Samus as a dude. (I know, I know, "But they don't reveal Samus is a woman until the end of the first game." This would have been 1988 (Looooooooong after Metroid was out in North America) when the idea for a Metroid cartoon came to be. And knowing DiC, they didn't play the video game so yeah...)
Somewhere online, there's promotion pictures of DiC's (mostly cancelled while in development) Video Game Cartoon Line including a picture of the scrapped Castlevania Cartoon and an early photo of Double Dragon where BIlly and Jimmy Lee don't look as goofy
In my opinion, this is the best Rise and Fall episode yet.
Multiple factors of DiC's demise:
* Children's Television Act of 1990
* Cable networks like Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon having original ideas.
* Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon wanting nothing to do with DiC
* Disney acquisition
* Quantity over quality
* Very little in the way of original ideas
* Whenever DiC makes an original idea, they fail at every aspect. The only exception is Inspector Gadget.
And heathcliff. Heathcliff comics came out 1973 and Garfield comics came out 1978 so Garfield is the copycat
How about we compare the history of DIC's shows and other cartoons between its history. The hits will be highlighted
1983
DIC: *Inspector Gadget* The Littles.
Other Studios: *The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show*, *Alvin and the Chipmunks* *GI Joe*
1984
DIC: Get Along Gang, Wolf Rock TV, Kidd Video, Pole Position, *Heathcliff* Rainbow Brite
Other Studios: *Muppet Babies*, *Transformers*, *Voltron*
1985
DIC: Care Bears, Jason and the Wheel Warriors, Hulk Hogan's Rock n Wrestling, MASK.
Other Studios: *Gummi Bears*, *Wuzzles*, *Thundercats*
1986
DIC: *The Real Ghostbusters Dennis the Menace* Kissyfur, Popples, .
Other Studios: *Maison Ikkoku*
1987
DIC: Lady Lovelylocks, Beverly Hills Teens, Dinosaucers, Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater, Little Clowns of Happytown, The New Archies, Starcom, Teddy Ruxpin.
Other Studios: *DuckTales*, ALF, Mighty Mouse The New Adventures, *Ninja Turtles*
1988
DIC: COPS, The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil.
Other Studios: *Garfield and Friends*, *The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh*
1989
DIC: Ring Raiders, The Karate Kid, Camp Candy, Super Mario Bros Super Show, Captain N.
Other Studios: *Beetlejuice*, *Chip n Dale* *Rescue Rangers*, *Dragon Ball Z*, *Ranma 1/2*
1990
DIC: The Wizard of Oz, New Kids on the Block, The Power Team, Super Mario Bros 3, Captain Planet.
Other Studios: *The Simpsons* (Yes it premiered regularly on January 14 1990), *Tiny Toons*, *Bobby's World*, Tom and Jerry Kids, Peter Pan and the Pirates, *TaleSpin*, Bill and Ted *Urusei Yatrusa* (my imagination so it features a dub of this by Universal and Amy Heckerling with Julia Roberts as Lum)
1991
DIC: Chip and Pepper, Swamp Thing, Hammerman, Where's Waldo, Wish Kid, ProStars, Super Mario World.
Other Studios: *Taz-Mania, DarkWing Duck, Doug, Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy* Back to the Future, Pirates of Dark Water
1992
DIC: Stunt Dawgs, Super Dave.
Other Studios: *Batman*, *X-Men*, *Goof Troop*, *Eek the Cat*, *Little Mermaid*, *Addams Family*, *Maison Ikkoku* (this version is from FOX and has John Hughes attached to it and Martin Short as Godai and Meg Ryan as Kyoko), *Sailor Moon*
1993
DIC: Syndie Sonic, *Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM* Hurricanes, Double Dragon, *Madeline*
Other Studios: *Animaniacs*, *Beavis and Butt-Head*, *Ranma* *1/2* (MTV with Steven Spielberg), *2 Stupid Dogs*, *SWAT* *Kats*, Bonkers, Marsupilami, *Sonic SatAM* (this version would have been by Nelvana or Film Roman) *Rocko's Modern Life*
1994
DIC: Street Sharks *Carmen SanDeigo*
Other Studios: *Space Ghost Coast to Coast*, *Duckman*, *The Tick*, *Spider-Man*, *Gargoyles*, *Aladdin*, *AAAHH!! Real* *Monsters*, *The Critic*, *ReBoot*
1995
DIC: Action Man, Ultra Force, Gadget Boy, What a Mess, Sailor Moon (DIC dub).
Other Studios: *Pinky and the Brain*, *Sylvester and* *Tweety*, *Freakazoid*, *Earthworm Jim*, *What a Cartoon*, *Timon and* *Pumbaa*, *Dr Katz*, *Sailor Moon* (Warner Bros Dub with Cathy Cavadini, EG Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Nancy Cartwright, Cheryl Chase, April Winchell, Candi Milo, Nika Futterman, Will Friedle, Pamela Adlon and more)
1996
DIC: Inspector Gadget's Field Trip.
Other Studios: *Dexter's Lab*, *Cartoon Planet*, *Real Adventures of Jonny Quest*, *Casper*, *Jumanji*, Mighty Ducks, *Disney's* *Doug*, *Superman*, *Hey Arnold*, *KaBlam*
1997
DIC: Mummies Alive, Tex Avery (or Braindead Useless Piece of Fuckery), Extreme Dinosaurs.
Other Studios: *Pokemon*, *Batman/Superman*, *Extreme Ghostbusters*, *Men in Black*, *King of the Hill*, *Johnny Bravo*, *Cow and Chicken*, *I Am Weasel*, *Daria*, *Recess*, *Pepper Ann*, *101 Dalmatians*, *Angry Beavers*, *South Park*
1998
DIC: Pocket Dragons.
Other Studios: *Hercules*, *Godzilla*, *Spy Dogs*, *Pokemon* (WB dub with Robert Zemeckis), *Histeria*, *PowerPuff Girls*, *Wild Thornberrys*, *Oh Yeah Cartoons*, *CatDog*, *Celebrity Deathmatch*, *Darkstalkers* (Universal dub with Sam Raimi)
1999
DIC: *Sabrina: The Animated Series*, Archie's Weird Mysteries, Sonic Underground, Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Other Studios: *Mickey Mouse Works*, *Family Guy*, *Futurama*, *Big Guy and Rusty Boy Robot*, *Dilbert*, *Digimon* (FOX dub with Chris Columbus), *Batman Beyond*, *Detention*, *Monster Rancher* (WB dub with Joe Dante), *Ed Edd n Eddy*, *Courage*, *SpongeBob*, *Rocket Power*
2000
DIC: NOTHING!
Other Studios: *The Weekenders*, *Teacher's Pet*, *Buzz Lightyear*, Cybersix, *Jackie Chan*, *Static Shock*, *CardCaptors* (WB dub with Barry Sonnenfeld and Joss Whedon), *Sheep in the Big City*, *As Told By Ginger*, *Pelswick*, *Inuyasha* (WB dub)
2001
DIC: Alienators, Mary Kate and Ashley in Action, Gadget and the Gadgetinis.
Other Studios: *House of Mouse*, *Lloyd in Space*, *Medabots* (Genndy Tartakovsky could have helped), *Mon Colle Knights* (Matt Groening could have helped), *YuGiOh* (Stephen Sommers could have helped), *Tama and Friends* (David Kirschner could have helped), *Justice League*, *The Brak Show*, *Sealab* *2021* *Harvey Birdman*, *Samurai Jack*, *Fairly OddParents*, *Invader Zim*, *The Proud Family*
2002
DIC: Speed Racer X, Stargate Infinity, Super Duper Sumos, *Liberty's Kids*.
Other Studios: Teamo Supremo, Filmore, Ozzy and Drix, *Hamtaro* (WB Dub), *Mucha Lucha*, *What's New Scooby Doo*, *BeyBlade* (Roland Emmerich would have helped), *Kids Next Door*, *ChalkZone*, *Jimmy Neutron*, *Kim Possible*, *Clone* *High*, *Tokyo Pig* (Saban dub)
2003
DIC: Sabrina's Secret Life, *Strawberry Shortcake*.
Other Studios: *Lilo and Stitch*, *Xaolin Showdown*, *Duck Dodgers*, *Teen Titans*, *MLAATR*, *All Grown Up*
2004
DIC: NOTHING!
Other Studios: *The Batman*, *Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends*, *Hi HI Puffy Ami Yumi*, *Danny Phantom*
2005
DIC: Trollz.
Other Studios: *American Dragon*, *American Dad*, *Johnny Test*, Loonatics Unleashed, *Juniper Lee*, *Camp Lazlo*, *Robot* *Chicken*, *Avatar*, *Catscratch*
2006
DIC: Horseland.
Other Studios: *The Emperor's New School*, *Tom and Jerry Tales*, *Ben 10*
2007
DIC: DinoSquad, Sushi Pack.
Other Studios: *Phineas and Ferb*, *Chowder*, *Total Drama*, *Wayside*
After DIC closed up shop, more cartoons came like *Flapjack, The Mighty B, Penguins of Madagascar, The Cleveland Show*, *AdventureTime, Regular Show, My Little Pony, Tuff Puppy, Fish Hooks, Amazing World of Gumball, The Looney Tunes Show, *Scooby Doo Mysteries* *Incorporated, Bob's Burgers, Kung Fu Panda, Gravity Falls, Legend of Korra, Wander Over Yonder,* *Mickey Mouse, Steven Universe, Rick* *and Morty, The 7D, Sonic Boom, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Harvey Beaks, We Bare Bears,* *The Loud House, Mighty Magisowrds, Milo* *Murphy's Law, OK KO, Stitch and Experiments, DuckTales, Big Hero 6, *Tangled*, *Captain Underpants, Harvey Street Kids, Craig of the* *Creek, Disenchantment, Victor and Valentino, Bless the Harts, Tokyo Pig* (my version has James L Brooks, Phil Lord and Chris Miller), *The Casagrandes* and more as the new decade comes in like a new Nickelodeon Star Trek series, a new Zootopia series, Monsters at Work and even my own series The Man Who Lived at Disney World!
Does "Sonic SatAM" get no credit?
@@MrMjike Well Sonic SatAM is from DIC but it's probably the best show DIC has made (at least for me) but DIC had made so many cartoons while other much better shows were being made!
@@hamursh Do you think "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century" was derivative of "Batman: The Animated Series" from 90's Fox Kids?
“The rise and fall of dic”
Usually videos about that are a lot shorter.
Bruh
He did it in a way that was actually pretty good my guy
This was a very informative video about the history of DIC, probably the most infamous animation studio around.
Despite the company's shortcomings, their dub of Sailor Moon did help get a lot of people into anime. Plus, I'll always consider their "Kid in Bed' logo to be a classic.
DiC
I find DiC just mediocre, in the not good, but not bad way. They did have some great cartoons in the past, but went downhill after 1994.
And yes. That DiC logo is one of my favorite logos, alongside H-B's Swirling Star and K-C's Splaat.
@@kootunesscrewy When I think about it now, one of the downsides to DIC is that they had very few original series, as a lot of their animated series seemed to have been based on video games and celebrities. I imagine that most animation studios would want to focus on original ideas, but for DIC, they instead wanted to focus on trends and things that were popular at the time.
Yeah. Just like Marvel Productions and Hanna Barbera (despite the latter have more original characters).
@@kootunesscrewy I remember hearing about Hanna Barbera making a lot of mystery shows and Scooby-Doo clones in the 70's.
DC and Warner Bros. are definitely better at making animation than Marvel. The 90's X-Men and Spider-Man animated series haven't aged nearly as well as the 90's Batman and Superman animated series.
The last Marvel animated series I remember enjoying is The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
DIC gave me my childhood Saturday morning cartoons like Super Mario Bros. super Show, Inspector Gadget, Sonic The Hedgehog and others. Andy Heyward was a genius, still is to this day.
Except sonic because they based on comics which have inappropriate.
@@maxkingjoe5460 SatAM and TAoSTH was by DIC and aired on tv, as was Sonic Underground.
@@BackroomsSlayer no I mean two shows based on abomination archie comics so they are not really are childhood shows.
Did you know that Super Duper Sumos is actually produced by the South Korean studio Amako Entertainment before it was acquired by Dic Entertainment.
@@maxkingjoe5460A childhood show is literally just a show from someone's childhood, and some people grew up with those shows. Also the Archie comics were based off of the show SatAM's pilot, not the other way around.
I would’ve never thought I would watch a whole 2 hr video on DiC.
Nice job sir
FYI: A single DiC-dubbed episode of Sailor Moon aired nationally on September 2, 1995 on all FOX stations nationwide as a sneak peek of the DiC-made Sailor Moon dub.
My go to sailor moon dub. Must be the nostalgia lol
I kinda wish we got the DiC-made Sailor Moon, it's reception would've probably go from being favorable to mixed much like the Ruby-Spears Mega Man.
“Sailor Moon” has the same voice dubs used in “Casper & Friends”, because they were redubs of post-1950 Paramount cartoons with bad music and horrendous voice acting, and they were made by the same voice actors who later did this and “Pokémon” by 4Kids.
And it's also worth noting that all of Dic's ( / DiC's / DIC's) shows from 1975-1985 are currently owned by The Walt Disney Company.
And speaking of DIC, by 2002, Lionsgate bought the home video rights to most of the DIC cartoons and released it on DVD. That was after Disney got out of DIC big time and ended the home video deal with Buena Vista Home Entertainment. These DVD's featured 5 episodes from DIC's animated series including the "Super Mario Bros." cartoons as featured on the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show", "Sonic the Hedgehog", "Madeline", "The Wizard of Oz", and many more. It also includes an "Easy Play" featuring Inspector Gadget where he helps you to navigated the main menu, and loads of other stuff. I love the part where he said "Button" and "Move the Glow" which is kinda funny. James & Mike from "James & Mike Mondays" did a "Super Mario Bros. Super Show" main menu review on Cinemassacre a few years ago.
Sadly, the "Easy Play" feature didn't last long until it went out of print by 2003 or 2004 when Lionsgate ended the home video deal with DIC. By 2008 when Cookie Jar bought DIC and the merger, NCircle had the home video distribution rights to the DIC cartoons under Cookie Jar, and then a few years later NCircle got out of the home video rights to the DIC cartoons after DHX took over and released it in digital form, and on Netflix. You can find all of the classic DIC shows on Netflix. And I forgot to mention, after NCircle got out its home video division after Cookie Jar folded into DHX Media, Mill Creek acquired the home video rights to the entire DIC library and it still remains to this day as part of DHX Media and Mill Creek.
And speaking of DHX Media, in addition to the DIC cartoons, they also acquired the Peanuts TV specials from 1965 through the 1980's. Both of these are now part of DHX Media.
And I forgot to mention one thing, after Lionsgate lost the DIC library, in 2003, a company called Sterling Entertainment Group also acquired the DIC library until 2005 or 2006 before Shout! Factory picked it up. Sterling Entertainment Group was part of UAV from 2003 right up until the home video company went bankrupt and went out of business in 2006 and lost the DIC library to Shout Factory.
Some of them are on Pluto TV and CBS All Access (rebranded as Paramount+) now.
@@danielsauers7783Yes indeed, and DHX Media who acquired the DIC library which was the same company that co-produced “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” are folded into WildBrain, and the rest of the 9 seasons of MLP FiM were produced by Hasbro Studios for seasons 1-7 and Allspark Animation for seasons 8-9 were folded into eOne which currently owns the entire Hasbro cartoon library.
Actually, DiC has another property completely missing, Vor-tech, basically the darker sequel to M.A.S.K.
I'm pretty sure that was Universal.
Sadly Sonic Underground also marked the very last time that not only would it be the last DiC produce d Sonic cartoon but it also marked the last Sonic cartoon voiced by Jaleel White.
megamanj2004X The guy who did Steve Urkel on "Family Matters".
Also the first AND last time they used Knuckles... whom they made a high-pitched, pot-bellied wimp.
MTN Productions Oh yeah.
The rights to make Sonic shows in America, were handed over to 4Kids, a company that deserves its own episode of rise and fall.
Sonic underground is good
You didn't mention that Fred Ladd, the guy who helped bring Astro Boy and Kimba The White Lion to the western world in the 1960s, replaced Carl Macek as executive producer for DiC's Sailor Moon dub after Macek fell out with Andy Heyward.
I remember some of my childhood cartoons from DiC Entertainment back in the 90s and 2000 beyond that I used to watched when I was young like: Super Dave:Daredevil for Hire, Hammerman, The Mask, Ace Venture Pet Detective, Pro Stars, King Arthur abd the Knights of Justice and Mary Kate and Ashley in Action. I wished they're on the entire complete DVD collection so I can enjoy watching them again but at least I can watched them on UA-cam until then.
DHX is Dic? wow, it's good to see that Dic isn't completely dead, even if it isn't the original Dic it's good that the company is in good hands
DHX should if dubbed with viz on crystal or redo S Supers and do stars but hopefully 2021 March I hope edit NOPE WILDBRAIN makes me sad
@@BluenProductions DHX no longer wants anything to do with Sailor Moon anyways, so it made it easy for Viz to get the license.
It also means that they can now copyright claim every single meme on UA-cam which is a clip of one of their shows...
Great!
@@nicolyn1124 They don't seem to be doing that as far as I know.
@@ExtremeWreck DHX co-produced “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” with Hasbro Studios and Allspark Animation, and it’s the only show that I definitely enjoyed.
This edition of the 'Rise and Fall' series is by far my favorite. The editing is superb and the jokes are well placed. This actually took me three separate sittings to watch fully.
BTW, Madeline also happens to be my first DiC cartoon too (saw it on ABC at around 2006 & 2007). Someone also needs to count how many 'dick' jokes were made in the special.
I agree.
Madeline actually reran on KOL Super Secret Slumber on CBS around that time, not ABC.
50:34 The British Dennis is superior in every way. He's more similar to Bart Simpson then American Dennis is. British Dennis also got a cartoon in 1996 on the BBC, and it became one of the best cartoons ever made.
I've seen the 2009 UK Dennis the Menace. However I can 100% guarantee you that the 1996 series is better
Dennis the menace differs from Bart Simpsons in one major regard, though: Bart puts together facetious schemes for his own amusement, while Dennis is a walking calamity, getting calamitous results despite his best intentions. One is bad to the bones while the other is bad luck haha
@@Polemodrome Well it implies to American Dennis, but British Dennis is far more similar to Bart. He's probably even more troublesome than Bart.
1:32:44 - Kath Soucie voiced Princess Sally, not Christine Cavanaugh. Cavanaugh voiced Bunnie Rabbot.
Other than that, your retrospective is quite informative. It may have its shortcomings, but we will never forget all the nostalgia DIC has left behind. And I will tell you one thing, it is much better than all those lazy edutainment nonsense from Litton Entertainment, that's for certain.
Oh damn thanks bro!
Anime Jason Litton Entertainment yeah right more like ROTTEN Entertainment! Their shows are horrible even the blocks are uncreative.
I know, right! Especially that "game show", Save to Win. I recently voted on a site on which game show is the worst game show in history. Litton and especially Discovery Communications are the worst companies that not just spit in the face of nostalgia, but also nothing but Yes People to both the SJWs and Moral Guardians and to the freakin FCC itself. I may be for new technologies and streaming our favorite shows, but poor and middle class people deserve TV to be on the air, especially with cartoons. We need balance. And what these companies are doing are a direct result of taking advantage of our naivete and using real life events as an excuse to kill off animation forever. For SHAME!
Anytime, man. Just lending a hand to those who love and respect nostalgia. ;)
>I may be for new technologies and streaming our favorite shows, but poor and middle class people deserve TV to be on the air, especially with cartoons. We need balance.
OMG! SOMEBODY BESIDES ME GETS IT!
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is actually a good show.
Agreed
So is Sonic SatAm, Archie’s Weird Mysteries, Trollz, Sabrina, Madeline, Horseland, Sonic Underground, Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin, Kidd Video, Rainbow Brite, Lady Lovely Locks and Strawberry Shortcake and many others.
I also like Beverly Hills Teens.
That show is basically where the whole “Pingas” thing started from, isn’t it?
Toon Disney had from DiC.
the green vortex DIC looked more like the word "Die" DIE , I would only imagine a voiceover saying "DIE"
DiC was also involved with the HBO series, The Hitchhiker, it's only adult oriented show.
So in the show are there any DiCs? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And HBO.
So was Our Friend Martin and A Christmas Carol (1997).
@@nickel7327 I would love to know that.
Stephen, this was glorious, and here's hoping that, step by step, you will enter the HUGE game some day (I mean, making documentaries about UA, RKO, and so on before trying with a major producing company someday).
Oh, and keep your sense of humor (though you almost killed me with the Teddy Ruxpin joke).
Thanks brother! I'm very glad that you enjoyed it :D
can you please make The Nelvana History for The next anniversary that nelvana celebrates?
A great documentary with awesome stuff. Eat your heart out, AniMat!
Some of y'all never seen Scooby Doo. If you don't know what that show is, here's an excerpt from Scooby Doo: Return to Zombie Island.
Shaggy: We have a blog?
Velma: Ugh.🤦
Shaggy: What?
You know, I just wanna say I enjoyed this. I really did. You put a lot of effort into this, and it clearly shows. Amazing job dude. Keep on shining :)
Thanks. Stay out of trouble.
I am surprised he didn't mention the episode of Super Mario Bros 3 that featured of all people........Milli Vanilli! Ohhhhhh the pain!😭
Yeah... but it'd be the same issue as the Wolfman Jack cartoon: they initially used Milli's songs, but eventually cut them out with generic rock, for copyright reasons (along with any other copyrighted song, like "Baby Face", in that episode where Mario, Luigi, King Bowser Koopah, and Kookie got turned into babies).
And Hanna Barbara made the first season of powerpuff girls wow
This video is one of the most entertaining that you've ever made! Not only was it informative, but I was laughing my butt off! The best 2 1/2 hours on UA-cam!
Thanks! Glad you've enjoyed it
In addition to all of that, there was one thing that you forgot to mentioned that when "Inspector Gadget" was a huge success, in 1985, rapper and beat boxer Doug E Fresh sampled parts of the theme song, and it was used for the hip-hop classic "The Show" featuring Slick Rick. That was kinda interesting. The song was released in 1985 due to the popularity of the cartoon series. If you have not heard this song, here it is.
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The title itself just makes you wanna unironically laugh
This is an incredible feature made on the history (and legacy) of a company that was behind many of the shows that played a huge role in my childhood. Good work!
You said it, my friend. Well done!
I’ve been a lifelong DiC fan and I still am to this day.
Real video starts here: 3:03
Actual video starts here: 0:00
Thanks pal
Unbelievable how DiC were overly ambitious in the 37 years of their existence, yet they had stumbled and fallen numerous times to be in competition with Disney and Warner Bros. And even when DiC were owned by Disney for four years, they still couldn't learn from their mistakes in any given regard. Either way, DiC will always be remembered as an influential kids company for those who grew up on shows ranging from classic to forgettable programs.
R.I.P. DiC 1971 - 2008
Except one satam the show based on abomination Archie comics who created toxic sonic fandom for all of this.
@@maxkingjoe5460 Well not every show from DiC were very good I have to say. Some of their shows are pure trash.
@@toymanreturns546 actually I don’t want people to know when searching in future it will be very bad so we to delete everything that based on dic.
@@maxkingjoe5460 I don't think they'd know at all. It's just a company name who played their part on releasing Saturday morning cartoons, based on what channel station would air such programs.
Sorry to add to the nitpicks on fact-checking, but... Mega Man is owned by Capcom, and Simon Belmont and other Castlevania-related characters are owned by Konami.
inb4 the reply is "Well, fuck you, Luigi."
Mario actually said "Well, THANK you, Luigi." in "Neatness Counts".
I've watched this video before, and here is what I think DiC should have done. They should have used Inspector Gadget in to inspect their shows to see if they were any good enough.
Haha funny comment!
The video looked like a lot of work to make. Good job and good work, I watched the whole thing. It was a stroll down memory lane.
Also a small handful of DiC shows were also reran on The former Family Channel (now Freeform) in Heathcliff, Inspector Gadget, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, The Wish Kid among them or 1st-run, like Madeline (until production switched hands 2 more times. Once with ABC for a new season of 13 eps. and again for the Disney Channel in 2000). Also around 1993-94 the Family Channel received a new package of Super Mario Cartoon reruns called Super Mario All-Stars, that was mostly reruns of both the 1st 2 Mario cartoon series and Super Mario World into one half hour. Also the instrumental theme from Super Mario World's closing was used as the main opening and closing themes for this newly made package of reruns.
Oh yeah I forgot about that. Thanks!
SCMediaWorks And you forgot "Club Mario", that show sucked, because they got rid of the live action segments and replaced with two nerdy dudes where they talked about fun and games. It was like an educational show. "Club Mario" was a summer replacement for the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show", and it was a disaster. It lasted for about one summer, and DIC decided that "Club Mario" will never saw the light of day again. A handful of segments from "Club Mario" exists on UA-cam, but the rest of the segments are completely lost. Too bad, DIC threw a towel at "Club Mario", because it sucked.
You even forgot about the horrible Saint Seiya dub known as Knights of The Zodiac. Oh God that dub is awful! It aired on Cartoon Network on Toonami in 2003 and it didn't last because when DBZ is wrapping up its run on Toonami and *shudders* Dragon Ball GT got picked up they dropped the show like a hot tamale and pulled the plug until ADV/Sentai scooped it up and gave it a much more better treatment. Guess Saint Seiya wasn't popular in the US.
No problem! Glad to be of service!
Don't remind me of that travesty! lol
36:04 RIP headphone users. Learned it the hard way. 🤕
EDIT: 55:43 Goddamn it Stephen! Not again! XD
Preparing myself for more than 2 hours of nostalgia. HELL YEA!
Right with you, my friend.
Has anyone here seen Sushi Pack? I have and I thought it's a pretty underrated show, sure it's nothing groundbreaking, but it's a show with decent action & humor and has charming characters, It's surprising how this show never got that much attention because it's creators Tom Ruegger & Nicholas Hollander, are the people behind some of the most successful cartoons of the 1990's with Tiny Toon Adventures & Animaniacs. I wish this series had more episodes if Cookie Jar decided to continue it past Season 2, it's a fun series that I wish to see more of, way more than Cookie Jar's other show Johnny Test anyway. Anyone agree?
"Gadget here! Welcome to the main menu of this disc."
- Inspector Gadget introducing a dvd menu.
R.I.P. DiC (1971-2008) DiC was acquired by Cookie Jar, and folded Which was defunct in 2012. and it is now own by WildBrain (Formerly DHX media.) On June 20, 2008, DiC Entertainment and Cookie Jar Group announced an agreement to merge. it was completed in the next 3 days.
and the company became a subsidiary of Cookie Jar Entertainment.[38] Shortly after the purchase, Cookie Jar would fold DIC into their own operations. Cookie Jar was in turn acquired by DHX Media on October 22, 2012. However, Cinar was solded in 2004 for $190 million to a group led by Michael Hirsh the founder of Nelvana, and was folded into Cookie Jar. In 2008 They agreed to acquire DiC Entertainment, expanding its library. On August 20, 2012, DHX Media announced its intent to acquire Cookie Jar Group, in a deal that would make DHX the largest independent owner of children's television programming. On November 28, 2013, DHX announced that it would acquire four children's specialty television channels from the former Astral Media for CA $170 million, consisting of Family Channel, Disney Junior (English), Disney Junior (French), and Disney XD. The networks were being sold as a condition of Bell Media's 2013 acquisition of the remainder of Astral Media's assets; its purchase of the networks marked DHX's first foray into television broadcasting.[18][19] The deal was approved by the CRTC on July 24, 2014, and closed on July 31, 2014.[20] The channels were incorporated into a new unit, DHX Television.
In early 2014, DHX Media acquired Epitome Pictures, the producers of Degrassi, but Epitome did not own international distribution rights. In November, DHX purchased 117 children's and family titles from US distributor Echo Bridge Home Entertainment. The acquisition comprised about 1,200 half-hours including the international distribution rights to Degrassi, as well as Instant Star and The L.A. Complex (two other Epitome productions), as well as distribution rights to an additional 34 series. Other shows in the purchase included Lunar Jim, Beast Wars: Transformers and Emily of New Moon.[22] Nerd Corps Entertainment, a Canadian animation studio founded by former Mainframe Entertainment producers Asaph Fipke and Chuck Johnson, also the makers of Slugterra, was acquired by DHX Media on December 24.
In April 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that it had acquired Canadian rights to the program library of Disney Channel and its associated brands as part of a deal with the Disney-ABC Television Group; DHX's existing deal with Disney, which covered programming across the four DHX Television services, ended in January 2016. DHX's Disney-branded channels were re-branded as Family Jr. and Télémagino.
In August 2015, DHX reached an output deal with AwesomenessTV; the deal includes rights to its programming for Family Channel, along with plans to co-develop new, original content for DHX to distribute and merchandise internationally.[24][27] In December 2015, DHX reached an output deal with DreamWorks Animation, which included Canadian rights to its original animated television series, and a pact to co-produce 130 episodes of animated programming for the Family networks, with DHX handling Canadian distribution and DreamWorks handling international distribution.[28] Also that month, DHX established a development deal with Mattel to co-develop and handle global sales for content in the Little People and Polly Pocket franchises, as well as HiT Entertainment properties owned by them such as the Bob the Builder and Fireman Sam franchises, including television and digital video programming.
In April 2016, DHX Media announced the formation of a new London-based multi-channel network under the WildBrain name.[30] On September 21, 2016, DHX cut a deal with Air Bud Entertainment (founded by Robert Vince) distribute the Air Bud library of 15 films, including the newest Air Bud production Pup Star.
On May 10, 2017, DHX announced that it had acquired the entertainment division of Iconix Brand Group for US $345 million. The purchase gave DHX full ownership to the Strawberry Shortcake franchise and, more prominently, an 80% majority stake in Peanuts Worldwide.
Interesting. DHX Media was the same company that co-produced “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” with Hasbro Studios, and then, Allspark Animation during the last few seasons. It’s still tops them all than all of the DIC cartoons that I’ve watched as a kid.
I always wondered what happened to DIC, I thought they only made pre school shows these days but they are actually gone. I mostly knew them for Inspector Gadget, Heathcliff,, the Mario cartoons and Sonic cartoons that me and my older brother found on DVD. It always bothered me how they made Bowser and Dr Robotnik/Eggman look different than how they were in the games and official concept art. Especially Eggman, he doesn't have a cone shaped head, a pencil mustache and black sclera with red pupils like he's a robot himself.
Robotnik's design is actually based on the american box art of the classic sonic games
I hate that hedgehog!
to skip the intro go to 3:03
The fall of them is when they got Sailor Moon.
I loved the Super Mario show but I agree that it did have a lot of flaws!
After all, it did bring us Mama Luigi, right?
@@madeleinemcgregor2855 no still bad after they milked alot.
Dude. I think 4Kids should be in for a future Rise and Fall.
4Kids was born in the early 1990s.
Stephen: Yeah this show was a class of craze and DIC never made another dub again. It was their first big craze-up since the fiasco in 1991.
Me: *flashbacks to Speed Racer X and Knights of the Zodiac*
STANDING OVATION
I love Inspector Gadget at 20:45, Heathcliff at 33:55, The Real Ghostbusters at 46:40, Dennis the Menace at 50:25, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show at 1:03:25, The Legend of Zelda at 1:08:15, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 at 1:12:30, Super Mario World at 1:21:37, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog at 1:30:39, Sonic the Hedgehog at 1:34:02 and Sonic Underground at 1:56:50 because they are my guilty pleasures and I completely agreed with everything that was mentioned about them.
I guess I’m not the only one who likes the Zelda cartoon.
I just love it for its medieval/fantasy aesthetic. My opinion. 🤷♀️
@@madeleinemcgregor2855 you are right because I also have a soft spot for it as well.
@@ShaneJackson1985 Aw, thx. 🥰
@@madeleinemcgregor2855 you’re welcome. 🥰
DiC died two months after Squirrel Boy ended
And yes Squirrel Boy and Sabrina are actually in the same universe
Dic died 1 month before I was born
When I finally get my first full-length project out sometime this year or next, I'll definitely go with Dropbox, and all my vocals will be recorded with a Blue Snowball Ice microphone and the footage edited with DaVinci Resolve.
Anyway, great job as usual, bro!
Thanks!
I love those little details, like that remake of some cinema trailer (I don't know which), the General Cinemas ident, and the fact that this whole thing is in scope, and the fact that it's 2 hours long just shows devotion.
Excellent work, Mr. MediaWorks!
That "some cinema trailer" thingy that you're refering to is United Artists Theatres. And yes, the logos you see here were all made using VEGAS Pro and After Effects by Tommy Jokiel, the Fun Fly Guy, of JetSet Entertainment, which is one of Anish Jois' contributors he needed for Miami Vice Nightmare: Version 10, which was released on July 10, 2022, by The UV Film Industry, a sub-division of UV Marketing Services, after the June 11 and 14, 2022 releases of the first installment of RadiUV and his 11th installment of Kris Starring's original creation "Home Video Surprise" respectively.
This film, with it's seamless editing, hilarious jokes (notable ones include the "Nicki, Ricki, Dicky, and Dawn" running gag and your hysterical reaction to "Indiana Joe"), and fantastic research and information, is the reason that I am current subscribed and
continue to view content produced by you and your friends. In fact, it gave me the motive to form a similar production company (Cy Group) with two brands (Blue Cat Productions for content related to animation, film, and television; Guys Will Soar for comics, music, and gaming) to produce videos for my secondary channel, Cy - TV. I have conceived several programs for both brands that, if they succeed, would lead to the Cy Group becoming a part of SCMediaNetworks and would allow me to provide support and funding for upcoming projects by SCMediaWorks and it's affiliated companies.
P.S. Like your version of the Super Mario ending dance.
Thanks dude :)
SCMediaWorks The ending music was "Do The Mario" which was a song to close out every single episode of the "Super Mario Bros. Super Show". I wanna "Do the Mario" all over again.
Nicky, Ricky, Ducky and Dawn What kind of movie or a show did they star in?
My favorite DiC animated shows are The Littles, Heathcliff, Sylvanian Families, Sushi Pack and America's favorite magical girl anime, Sailor Moon.
Naminski My mom told me about Heathcliff and i love that show!
@@Vxllain You'll notice a plushie of Sonja from Heathcliff in the Kid In Bed version of DiC's logo that ran from 1987 to 2001.
Naminski, my all-time favorite DIC ENTERTAINMENT show is Liberty's Kids.
Alyssa Neufarth Mine too! I think that DiC gives more credit for this show than PBS Kids. Don’t you think so?
@@akrzton1 Yeah. It's like...
People just don't give Liberty's Kids enough credit for being on PBS KIDS. Which I think put the show in the hard place. I can already feel Sarah's, James' and Henri's pain. I was serious when I said on the PBS KIDS trivia video, that I felt like me and the three main characters just got punched in the heart. Because their theme song wasn't in there. To me, that was kinda nutz. What did you think?
Ahhhh, DiC turned into Cookie Jar Entertainment! The others, after 2000, they got the boot!
No that was Cinar. Cookie jar bought and folded DiC in 2008
Wina Wina And then, DHX Media came in back in 2012 and it remained until 2019 where DHX Media is now WildBrain.
All official WildBrain UA-cam channels still retains the Cookie Jar and DHX logos on many of the DIC animated series from the 1980’s and 1990’s, and DHX’s only co-produced show was “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” with Hasbro Studios and then Allspark Animation.
And prior to WildBrain, DHX Media was the one that co-produced with formerly Hasbro Studios and Allspark Animation which is now Entertainment One (aka eOne) called “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic”.
Sailor Moon's saving grace was also General Mills. The Program Exchange gave the States the last 17 episodes of R.
DIC Entertainment Is Not Dead It Got Defunct
JESUS CHRIST THOSE LOGOS JUMOSCARING ME
Speed Racer??! Really DIC! No wonder they get sued by a Japanese company
Thank you for this!! Born in 85 and this is my childhood DIC
You're 36 years old?
Wow! That’s amazing. ❤️😱
2:06:33 Narrator: They premiered 4 of them this year. One was another dub that nobody asked for. Goodness, they even got sued for making a dub. It was pulled off the air after 13 episodes. The remaining 3 are quite interesting. One being a licensed property while two of them being atro-oringinal creations. *one person claps* Let's start with the licensed property. Stargate Infinity, a show that isn't liked well by Stargate fans as well as kids for that matter. Then we move on to Super Duper Sumos. A show about sumo wrestlers who fight intergalactic crime using their boducs. *sighs* Craze me. It ran for some number of episodes until it was cancelled by Nickelodeon of all people. Then Liberty's Kids. This show followed the adventures of two teens and a boy witnessing the American Revolution. It starred many celebrity voices like Walter Cronkite, Billy Crystal, Annette Beninng, Arnold Shrawzsenegger, Liam Neeson, Whoopi Goldberg, and Ricky, Nicky, Dicky, and Dawn.
Crowd: *boos*
Narrator: You'll never take me alive, you sons of crazees!!
Me: *laughs so much that my sides started hurting, ouch*
What’s all this about Nicky, Ricky, Dicky and Dawn?
P.S, I actually like Stargate Infinity.
Was the three minutes of logos really necessary? I mean, your editing is definitely solid, but none of the logos add anything to the main video. All they do is waste a significant portion of the runtime, and many people just don't have the patience or tolerance for that, and I imagine a few were turned off enough to leave the video. Lots of UA-camrs I know use logos at the beginning, but they generally make sure it's just one short logo (if they even use one at all), and that they don't go overboard. If you must use these logos, then I'd suggest putting them in separate videos. Cramming all of them into a single unrelated video just hurts that video.
Necroing here, but...
I think he was making fun of Dic's tendency to have a million different title cards.
Well if you loved DIC then you would appreciate there beginnings
i would have to agree
He once was part of the logo community, so it makes sense to have those.
@@ExtremeWreck Logo Fetish?
You know the only reason why The Wacky World Of Tex Avery even existed in the first place?
So Tex Avery's daughter could make a quick large sum of money off her father's legacy while not giving a shit about the show's content in order to pay for her son's college tuition.
Anyways, I'm almost finished watching. Excellent video Stephen, as always. :)
AnimeGames16 I have not seen the "Wacky World of Tex Avery", but I've heard about the show, and it was too lame. Too many corny jokes and gags like they in the old days of WB and MGM cartoons that Tex Avery did at that time until he ended up with Walter Lantz, the guy who did the Woody Woodpecker cartoons.
What's weird is that... I looked it up on UA-cam...
Only the INTROS popped up; no scenes or anything like that... strange.
Kyle Chambers Not for me. I found full episodes on UA-cam. Strange how you didn't.
Thank you and this show was named after Mr. Avery.
I think they used Tex’s work as a major inspiration for the show.
The notion that "The Get Along Gang" promoted "groupthink" and "conformity" has one small but crucial flaw, it's horseshit.
The main intended messages of "The Get Along Gang" are that it's possible to be very different from other people and still get along with them and that "Many hands make light work". There's a representative sample of episodes on YT that can easily be checked out and the entire DiC series has been available on region 1 DVD since late 2016.
Exactly. Being different is good and valuable with the Gang kids having different backgrounds and varied skills and being able to work as a team and being able to work independently when the opportunity presents itself at times...being obnoxious and arrogant and chasing away any friends and co-workers one may have with a "look at me, I'm different" attitude isn't. That is the crux of the *Getting Along* cartoon mesage. How many egos in the animation or entertainment industry or the average workplace or school clicque run amuck these days?
That is a form of Fascism. Which many people associate with Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
@@NicklasZandeVGCP2001 And that's another reason why it failed. Nobody wanted to watch a show based on Fascism, ESPECIALLY A KIDS' SHOW.
Yeah, I never really liked the Get Along Gang.
Ah yes, the doucet tones of Christopher Plummer the original narrator for Madeline! What a voice! Madeline was the first show that taught me how to speak French and the French language. Sorry, Info tapes.
That’s wonderful my friend. I didn’t know that Madeline taught you French (even though Dora the Explorer taught me how to speak Spanish)
Madeline’s one of my personal favourites.
Every time I rewatch this I want to put this on a movie theatre screen so bad
Dic wanted to do something ballsy lol
But with that, this was a great history lesson.
wait did he talk about hello kitty's furry tale theater in this video? because that show was made by DIC too by the way
Skip to 3:03 past the plethoras of logos. It’s ridiculous!
I've watched much of DiC's original programming on both The Family Channel and Nickelodeon back in the 1990s.
Me too. I remember watching Madeline on Playhouse Disney all the time every morning.
That’s over two hours of DIC on screen.
Btw, In Japan he is called King Koopa. America called him Bowser, So Nintendo made his full name, King Bowser Koopa, Cannon.
I liked this video but that Teddy ruxpen part took me by surprise and made me swear at the video. (I don't know why I even did this)
Do you know that Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century started in a old show called Bravestarr! :D
Litton Entertainment...the main murderer of Saturday Morning Cartoons....THIS MAN GETS IT!!!! THANK GOD THIS MAN GETS IT!!!
To be fair with Disney DIC was just part of the package that was included when they bought ABC sane with ESPN and the A&E networks. That said, you would think that DIC could had approached Disney and ask if they could do an series based on something Disney already owned. To maybe help the tv division out or maybe have DIC be Disney's go to television animation division while they had them. But apparently Disney didn't want DIC but basically had to take them if they wanted ABC. At least that appears to be the case.
The audio is very inconsistent. It goes from a low volume to a very loud volume.
Stephen: GEE! Probably used to the fact that they couldn't hold a syndication partner.
Stephen again: Family matters and two cartoons. Sheesh.
Me: wowsers!!!
There were a couple of short-lived shows that you forgot to mention in the documentary of DIC and they were both live action. There was a game show called "I'm Telling" that was a clone of the Newlywed Game but it had brothers & sisters that tell how much they really know about each other. It ran from September 12, 1987 to March 5, 1988 on NBC.
The other show was Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad that was originally going to be PowerBoy. It starred Matthew Lawrence playing as Sam Collins who was the lead singer of a band called Team Samurai that suddenly is struck by a power surge during a recording session. Later on his friends used one of Sam's video games that was dubbed Servo and Sam is zapped again but this time it took him to the digital world where Sam has to fight the Mega-Virus monsters. His rival Malcolm Frink designed the monsters for Kilokhan that was voiced by Tim Curry after striking a deal that could not only destroy systems but could destroy the real world. It ran September 12, 1994 to April 11, 1995 in syndication & ABC.
Good documentary about DIC!
Thanks! Did you listen to the message at the end of the 1986 segment about me not covering the live action shows?
I did
AgentReid007 ÷*#&
Reminded there was also a live-action Dennis the Menace TV movie they did as well around '87.
Okay, this is basically my question. WHY DOESN'T LIBERTY'S KIDS AND SCOOBY DOO HAVE A CROSSOVER MOVIE YET!? I'm still waiting for that!
Not enough demand for the Liberty Kids (though with the fact that Hollywood is getting a head start on 2000s Nostalgia before that really catches on, we may get lucky)
Sailor Moon was one of the best cartoon shows made by DIC Entertainment and just like Miraculous, it sucks ass!
Only DiC didn't actually make Sailor Moon, they just dubbed it, censored it and distributed it to Western audiences.
Brown Bwicks Wit Moinecrap
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Wish you will do more documentaries like this. Absolutely love them!
Hey I just found out the kid in bed in the logo of the commercial his name was Jeffrey kozlowski
Thanks.
"And DIC never made another dub again."
**cough** Knights of the Zodiac **cough**
Should I mentioned the opening of Knights of the Zodiac?
DO THE MARIO!
Man that show was my childhood
swing your arms from side to side come on it's time to go to the Mario!
@@therealcushandchefmonkeyshow wtf
@@gangsnapp_yt5945 that’s how Do the Mario works
@@therealcushandchefmonkeyshow TAKE ONE STEP AND THEN AGAIN
"Robotnik rules with an iron fist." Literally.
This subject matter was researched very well and was explained well too!
PS I love your channel and i've been watching it since 2013 :)
Thanks man! Much appreciated!
@@SCMediaWorks You really outdid yourself here, I love it!! 👍
4:43
*cue the blaring synthed fanfare, and DiC's artificially computer-generated green logo*
Eyup... a bad day for me to have put on headphones.
Holy crap! I never heard of Gadget and the Gadgetinis! I guess I didn't miss much of anything LOL!
I honestly think the Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon was better than the first one. But good God, it isn't the Super Mario World cartoon.
I think they should bring back DiC and all of their cartoons in HD.
I agree.
"And DiC never made another dub again."
**flashbacks to Knights of the Zodiac.**
How soon we forget!
We the people of otakus and weeaboos shall forget the worst anime english dub ever again.
*flashbacks to the 90’s dub of sailor moon*
Medic, medic!! We need the anime subtitle pills for Sailor Moon trash!!!
@@injunweeb1973 Worst anime dub? 4Kid's One Piece? Where?!
Till' next time everybody, Do The Dic- wait.
My favorite logo of DiC will ALWAYS be the Vortex
Can you do one on Cinar/Cookie Jar, I tried looking it up but the only video I've got were in French