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Anonymous 10/19/12(Fri)19:49 No.11167619

    Hey, guys, I'm not really a frequent /x/ visitor but I thought you guys might be interested in a story. A true one, btw. A couple of years ago, I used to work at a big company on a pretty popular tv show. I'm not going to come right out and say it, but it was The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. I can't really tell you my job except that it is really fun, but the creator was this really sweet guy. He was kind of like a hipster pirate. Well, anyway's, to set the scene, I had come on after the show was already greenlight, and I made some small talk with him before I knew who he was. He recognized me from a local school we had both actually went to, and I had my portfolio and so on. He was telling me about how he worked on boats in harbors for a while, and how it was ghetto, and little antecdotes. But eventually I get around to actually asking him, 'what are you in for' in so many words. He looks at me like I ran over his dog backwards, and kind of does this really high pitched titter, and says "I'm here because of this dead guy I know". This, I actually just left alone. It was a pretty straightforward answer, considering some anecdotes I heard about how Hannah Barbara used to operate in the 80s with burnouts and artistic types. But we part, and lo and behold, later in the day, I come to find out it's none other than thurop van orman.

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Anonymous 10/19/12(Fri)19:52 No.11167645
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    So, he comes out after speaking to the...creative director? and he has this roundtable chat session. You would imagine him sitting on the table like the leader, but he wasn't that kind of guy, we all rolled our chairs in and introduced ourselves, etc. He got around to telling us what his ideas for the beggining of the series were, and how Cartoon Network would definitely not allow it, and what they wanted. He told us the origin of the idea for the story which was 'like a compulsion', his words. What ended up getting cut was a segment in the introductary credits and one of the first episodes entirely. Not cut, even, just rejected conceptually. The intro in the credits would have had flapjack, head just popping out of the water, seeing k'nuckles facedown as a corpse on a sandbar, reaching toward candy island. flapjack is visibly tired, and about to succumb to the waves when a monstrous whale appears behind him and opens its mouth to consume him, with captain k'nuckles reaching out with skeleton hands to hold him in place. in the next cut flapjack stares at candy island which receedes into the distance while swirls show up in flapjack eyes and transform the whale and revanant into bubby and captain k'nuckles.

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Anonymous 10/19/12(Fri)19:55 No.11167662
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    We all kind of light chuckled as if to say, 'soo zany!' but he was really upset they didn't include it. Not at us, not insanely so, but he told us his concept was inspired from some bizarre story in his own life. When he was working on some boat, apparently, there was a homeless man who would lurk the docks and beg or try and steal. OH this he did not say at the meeting, he invited a group of us out to a concert, (this was after months) which I didn't go to, I saw him afterwards carpooling. But I was like, ''yeah that concept sounded really interesting if not too much for a primetime cn show, etc' and he got into how there was a homeless man, and he would call his booze maple syrup, and he would like, flirt with MEN in a pretty disgusting way. He would say stuff like 'i have candy, and I'm not a pedophile.' and then say 'but you just got a nice butt boy!' or really bizarre shit like that.

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Anonymous 10/19/12(Fri)20:00 No.11167684
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    >>11167662
    >or really bizarre shit like that

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Anonymous 10/19/12(Fri)20:03 No.11167694
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    But after a while, he stopped showing up and one day Thurop fell into the water. When he touched down he actually fell into the guys corpse with a rainslicker with like rotten food and actual candy in his vest. But he fell face to face and his lips hit the crevasse where his nose was. The nose wasn't there, it was rat gnawed or frozen and bright orange because the skin was flecked off. After they pulled him out of the water his lips were smeared blue and he was dry heaving. But anyways, he says the experience really fucked him up; that he had dreams where he falls off of the boat onto the corpse and he keeps getting mangled with it while his feet keep touching the back of some monstrous whale, or he is a little kid and he's lost at the docks and the man tries to kiss him with blue raspberry candy in his mouth.
    There was worse but I would honestly not feel right myself posting it. It was sexual in nature.

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Anonymous 10/19/12(Fri)20:05 No.11167702
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    It was really...SURREAL. I felt like I was high, to be honest, it was really uncomfortable. He talked the way crazy homeless people do, when theyre convinced the psychobabble makes sense. But I think he realized this, because he explained to me that the show was his way of putting a spin on his fears and nightmares, and that he appropriated it into something creative in his life. But towards the end of the series, we stopped talking really, or he stopped talking so loosely with me, but he looked like shit, and I asked him why, and he said something that made a lot of sense in a really fucked up way. He said, since he's done the show, he couldn't STOP thinking about all of that stuff. There's no climactic ending or anything, but after this, he was really sad looking; he looked like he was listless, losing weight nowhere but his eyes. Eventually he moved on to adventure time and started doing more drugs with the creator of adventure time.