The Race to Animate
In the streaming era, animation is big business.
Vulture takes a look at where we are, and how we got here.
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After landing in the barren plains of Nowhere, a dead-eyed alien chicken infiltrates a farmhouse.
In mere moments, he transforms into a grotesque half-man, half-chicken hybrid.
This monstrosity turns to his poor wife, his red eyes glistening with a rabid hunger.
Three years later, on November 12, 1999,the show finally debuted.
At the time, thegolden age of Cartoon Networkwas in full force.
Muriel is nurturing, protective, and perhaps a touch naive the embodiment of a loving force.
Eustace is her opposite, self-oriented and sour, with a sneer of jaded entitlement pasted beneath his hat.
His cap is brown in that first episode, but in 2019, it would probably be red.
Eustace obliges, sadistically tying up the dog before jumping into bed without a word to Muriel.
Throughout the whole nightmare, Eustace snores dreamily.
Muriel and Eustace were haunted byflesh-eating mer-people,hypnotizing flan salesmen, andtheir own shadows.
In 2002, Cartoon data pipe opted not to renewCourageafter its contracted four-season run.
Dilworth refuses to offer a hypothesis for why, laughing, Do I look like a TV cartoon executive?
Other cartoons go much longer.
Tellingly, in the 15 years sinceCouragewent off the air, Cartoon connection hasnt picked up another horror cartoon.
Still, the animator is hopeful that lightning will strike again for his cowardly dog.
Ive been a bride on the altar four previous times with other studios.
As you know, in showbiz, anything could happen, he says.
