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Jean H. MacCurdy is an American television executive, best known for her role as president of Warner Bros. Animation from 1989 to 2001. Career. MacCurdy began her career as a secretary in the Children's Programming Department at the NBC Television Network in Burbank, California in 1974.
- In The Beginning
- The Warner Brothers
- What's Mickey Doing Up there?
- Retract-Imaniacs
- A Cartoon For Adults
- The Supporting Cast
- Pinky and The Brain
- The Music
- Feature Film Follies
The history of Animaniacs actually begins with Tiny Toon Adventures, another animated show from Warner Bros. and executive producer Steven Spielberg. After Tiny Toonsbecame a huge success, Spielberg asked producer Tom Ruegger and his team to work on a follow-up cartoon. One idea Spielberg suggested was to make the popular Tiny Toonscharacter Plucky...
In episode #65, "The Warners 65th Anniversary Special," we learn that the Warners were created in 1929 to be the sidekicks for Buddy, a real character from the early days of Warner Bros. Animation. Their only role in the Buddy cartoons was to pop out of unexpected places and use giant mallets to make a pancake out of the star. The Warners were soon...
To promote Animaniacsbefore the show's premiere, a giant balloon in the shape of Yakko was placed on top of the water tower on the Warner Bros. lot. Unfortunately, no one told Bob Daley, who ran the studio. When he pulled into work that morning, he thought someone had put a bad Mickey Mouse balloon on the tower and ordered it removed. The inflatabl...
While Animaniacs was being developed, there were many potential supporting characters that didn't make it on the show. One idea was to bring over The Flea Family, who appeared in a few episodes of Tiny Toons, but they were cut out pretty quickly. There was also Bossy Beaver, a workaholic beaver that just wanted to build “the best damn dam ever,” bu...
Animaniacs premiered on Fox on September 13, 1993, and quickly became one of the highest-rated kids' shows on TV. Part of the appeal was that it was funny on two levels: Kids loved the slapstick, while their parents - and a very loyal following of college students - appreciated the wordplay and more “adult” humor peppered throughout the show. Whene...
Slappy Squirrel, the cynical, retired cartoon squirrel who has no problem airing the dirty laundry of old Hollywood, was created and voiced by Sherri Stoner. Stoner got into show business as an actress, with bit parts on Little House on the Prairie, Knots Landing, and T.J. Hooker, while studying comedy with the famous improv group, The Groundlings....
Ruegger modeled Pinky after Warner Bros. Animation director and artist Eddie Fitzgerald, who had the same sunny disposition, and often said two of Pinky’s catch phrases - “Narf!” and “Egad!” In fact, the character of Pinky was so similar to Fitzgerald that he auditioned for the voice of Pinky. Another notable name up for the part was John Astin, al...
One of the highlights of the show was the music. Almost every episode featured original songs, which kept a team of composers, led by Richard Stone, very busy. But their hard work paid off with five Daytime Emmys for various musical categories. One of the difficult tasks Stone faced on the show was coming up with music that matched the lyrics penne...
In 1999, Warner Bros. released Wakko's Wish, a 90-minute film starring the Warner siblings and most of the cast from the show. The original title for the film was It's a Wakko, Wakko, Wakko, Wakko Wish, an homage to the classic road movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. However, the studio’s marketing team insisted the title be shorter, so Ruegge...
When MacCurdy saw Timm’s initial Batman drawings, she loved them. She then introduced him to a Tiny Toon background artist named Eric Radomski, who had dreamt up a take on Gotham City that MacCurdy liked.
After the creative success of the ten minute Batman segment, Jean MacCurdy, Warner Bros. Animation president, announced the desire to bring other WB intellectual properties to the animated screen. MacCurdy reached out to Bruce Timm to began drawing early concept designs for a new, animated Batman.
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Jean MacCurdy is known for Batman Beyond (1999), Superman: The Animated Series (1996) and Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
Jean MacCurdy is an American programming director. After working for Hanna-Barbera, she joined Warner Brothers in the 1990s and was one of the key figures in its Golden Age. She programmed shows like Animaniacs, Taz-Mania and Tiny Toon Adventures.
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