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06-05-2026, 02:12 AM
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We kick off the original Nicktoons trilogy with Doug (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125223/http://www.jumptheshark.com/d/doug.htm), a show about an eleven-year old boy growing up in the town of Bluffington. It might sound pretty tame on paper, but I'm here to make the case that it was a bigger genre-pushing gamble than you'd think. We'll look at the show (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Doug)'s creator, Jim Jinkins, its surprise international appeal, and how the franchise ended up in Disney's hands. Turns out Doug (https://web.archive.org/web/20140403180532/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3118295-doug/?view=getnewpost) was... very expensive... sorry, I had to...
We kick off the original Nicktoons trilogy with Doug (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125223/http://www.jumptheshark.com/d/doug.htm), a show about an eleven-year old boy growing up in the town of Bluffington. It might sound pretty tame on paper, but I'm here to make the case that it was a bigger genre-pushing gamble than you'd think. We'll look at the show (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Doug)'s creator, Jim Jinkins, its surprise international appeal, and how the franchise ended up in Disney's hands. Turns out Doug (https://web.archive.org/web/20140403180532/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3118295-doug/?view=getnewpost) was... very expensive... sorry, I had to...