If you’ve been following us, you know from A Very Special Special Segment that our two “special” miniseries segments, What The Funny and Pop Dream, were getting shelved/put on ice as we’re planning to consolidate them (or elements of them) into a single new miniseries segment that we’re developing. There we also mentioned that we want this new segment to be singularly focused on a specific thing, like one particular franchise, studio, genre or company.

For a brief moment, we considered that thing being Saturday Morning Cartoons…

But that’s too similar to our flagship series, the Razzle Dazzle Show; in fact, the basic premise of our entire channel/brand is Saturday Morning Fans Who Grew Up, aka a kids’ show for adults. After some back-and-forth searching and consideration, we may have landed on the connecting thread that this new segment will be built around:

It’s looking like this new segment will be built around…WARNER BROS. STUDIOS!

We’ve been giving this some thought, and WB seems to check all our boxes: it’s big and iconic, so the things we can cover on it are generally known (no super niche stuff like Animal Jam), it’s a single company but it houses many products and pop-culture things of interest such as cartoons, TV shows, movies, video games, toys, merchandise, ad campaigns, theme park attractions, etc.

Plus a lot of the characters and franchises under WB’s umbrella are among our favorite things: Looney Tunes, Cartoon Network, DC, Hanna-Barbera; this will enable us to make a wide range of videos without getting burned out or repeating ourselves.

Plus, it’s something different. There are already about 300 people out there who have blogs, internet shows, or channels devoted to Disney; we don’t want our channel to be the 301st. There are already dozens of DisneyTubers, but nobody’s really spotlighting Warner Bros like that (as far as we know).

Here’s how it’ll work: Our main series will of course be The Razzle Dazzle Show. This will cover the Saturday Morning/Animation and Assorted Stuff/things in general.

The other main recurring segments like TV Special Tonight, The Couch, Talkin’ Nerdy, Player Two Start, Nerdvana, Retroville, etc. will more or less be incorporated into Razzle Dazzle (generally speaking, we plan to have each installment of RDS to feature 2 or 3 segments per show).

2 Funny, Brain Candy, and other miscellaneous mini-segments will either appear between the main Razzle Dazzle segments and/or separately as shorts. These segments are basically the shows between the shows.

The new segment will run on it’s own schedule; separate from the Razzle Dazzle Show but still running concurrently alongside of it, in other words when a new installment of the miniseries pops up, we won’t be ceasing production on anything else we’re doing at that time. However, the miniseries segment won’t appear as often or as regularly as the Razzle Dazzle Show segments; the miniseries segments will only turn up from time to time, and only when we have one (obviously).

Now, on to what you can expect to see on this new special segment (and why we shelved Pop Dream and What The Funny):

As previously stated, this new segment will celebrate/deep dive into all things Warner Brothers (or all the things pertaining to WB cartoon and geek culture stuff, anyway).

This obviously includes Looney Tunes (no shock there)…

Cartoon Network…

DC…

Hanna-Barbera, etc. It will cover the shorts, the shows, the movies,

The toys,

Theme parks and stage shows, you get the idea.

There will occasionally be detailed character profiles and tributes, a la Pop Dream, but the overall approach and execution will be much different. I don’t want this new segment to just be Pop Dream with a different name. Yes, one reason I retired Pop Dream was because I felt the branding and approach to it was too sugary-sweet and tame compared to the other stuff we do and it didn’t really fit in with our general style (which leans more towards wild ‘n’ crazy) but that wasn’t the only problem I was having with it. While it was a little more focused on a singular subject than the average segment, it was still a different show each time, which was kind of grab baggy, like what we’re already doing on The Razzle Dazzle Show; one reason I launched my miniseries in the first place was to do something different. Also I was starting to find the Pop Dream formula a tad too rigid; it followed the same basic formula of “Pick a show or franchise, select 5 or 6 of my favorite characters from said franchise, profile them in the same categories, choose another show, pick 5 or 6 favorite characters from that show, wash, rinse, repeat”, plus it adhered to the same 5 bullet points every time in the exact same order; I began wanting a break from that; I admit I was getting bored with Pop Dream because it was the same thing every time. My awakening came from watching LS Mark’s Splash Dash or Walter Banasiak’s Juniversal: I liked how, despite them both focusing on one specific thing (Sonic the Hedgehog and Universal Studios, respectively), each video was something different every time: sometimes they’d focus on a show, sometimes a game, sometimes a movie, sometimes a theme park attraction, sometimes lore, sometimes graphics, whatever, as long as they pertain to the main subject. I love how fluid those segments are, and wanted to have that kind of freedom on my miniseries, so while there will be Pop Dream style character profiles here and there, those won’t be the only things we do on this segment nor are we going to adhere to that structure as rigidly.

I probably can list these guys’ funnier moments, but we’d be here a while.

Hey, Jason (Goldstar) here. I just wanted to reiterate how this new segment will differ from What the Funny (and also why I wanted to make these changes in the first place). For one, the WTF segments quickly fell into a very predictable formula; I would pick a comedy show, breakdown 5 or 6 episodes of said show, then pick a different comedy show and start the process all over again. WTF was supposed to be a variety of fun stuff all focused on 1 specific show, franchise or studio, not just keep doing the exact same thing, but with a different show each time. I wanted to put a stop to that because that wasn’t far enough away from The Razzle Dazzle Show, our flagship show. In the time since I stared WTF, I became aware of Splash Dash and Tough Pigs.com. Both of which are focused on 1 specific subject: the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and Jim Henson’s Muppets, respectively. If WTF were to continue, it would’ve needed to have a more distinct connecting thread besides just being funny, since our entire website/channel is devoted to cartoons and comedy.

For another, I definitely wanted to put a stop the episode reviews because that’s too basic. That’s Nostalgia Critic and everybody and their mom does those. One reason why I (and Damon too, as I later discovered) embarked on this special segment in the first place was to do something different. I still like the idea of What the Funny, but now I see that it needed more time to cook.

In short, the new segment will be less this…

And more this.

There may be a ratings system (of sorts), but it’s mainly going to be joke ratings made strictly for laughs and not meant to be taken that seriously. Also, we won’t be numbering the individual entries in this segment since it’s not going to be the same thing every time.

Now, before anyone informs us that we already have a recurring segment devoted to Warner Brothers Studios called That’s Warner Brothers! my response is that TWB! used to be Cartoon Country, so the way I see it, this is taking the evolution of the concept a step further. Finally, as previously stated, this new segment will be replacing both What the Funny and Pop Dream because we feel that it’s more efficient to have just one miniseries as opposed to having two.

Two things we’re committed to doing with this segment:

1. It’ll be a variety. One thing I can’t overemphasize here is that we want this new segment to be fluid; we don’t wish to just do the same thing every time. If one installment is about Foghorn Leghorn’s Funniest Bits, then the next one will be something completely different, like “All Those -Alities”, where we spotlight our favorite Mortal Kombat Fatalities, Friendships and Animalities, then the video after that will be about something unrelated to that, like all the cameos, references, callbacks and Easter Eggs in the movie Scoob!. We’re really committed to the idea(l) that we never do the same type of video twice in a row.
2. It will absolutely, positively, definitely NOT be a review show! We can do celebrations, goofs, trivia, spotlights and highlights and assorted fun things, but it won’t be the standard issue review format. Once again, this isn’t Nostalgia Critic; one reason we’re launching this segment (nee, the entire channel) is to do something different from that.

Right now, one of the main thing this new segment needs is a name. We could just continue to call it That’s Warner Bros!, but that might be a bit basic and too obvious. We want to have some fun and play a little loose with this segment, so we may want a more abstract and less obvious title. Some names we’re currently considering are:

Untitled Cartoon Show

That Cartoon Show

Toontime

The Basement

Cartoon Madness

Cartoon Country

Club Whatever

And of course, What The Funny.

We’re still playing around with names, but this new segment is coming that much closer to becoming reality. We’ll keep you posted.

“S-s-s-s-stay tooned, folks!”

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: After some deliberation, we’ve finally decided on a name for this new segment. As a result of What The Funny, Pop Dream and That’s Warner Brothers doing the Fusion Dance…

This new special miniseries segment will be called (drum roll, please)…

WEIRD BOYS!!

The name Weird Boys fits so perfectly. One, it applies; we’re both weird, and two, its’ initials are WB; so it’s a perfect way to say what the segment is about without actually saying it. (Weird Boys = Warner Brothers, get it?)

So when Twin Images goes live on video, expect to see Weird Boys make its’ debut alongside The Razzle Dazzle Show and our other regular segments somewhere down the line. When? Who knows? It’ll be a surprise, something special, if you will. So look out for it, at any given moment, Twin Images will be getting weird!