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Say it IG-NOH-RAY-MOOSES!
By 1997 Harry and I were knee deep in Cartoon Heaven making
cartoons and having the time of our lives. What A Cartoon
program still had a few empty slots available and Harry and
I pitched cartoons as quickly as I could storyboard them.
The next idea we sold was about two argumentative southern
gentlemen mooses named Sherwood, a wiry red moose and Pomeroy.the
laid back green moose.
They were polite enough but intent on getting their way. Most
arguing developed into one upping the other which always ended
in head-butting.
My favorite line from it is:
"Now ya'll KNOW mah darkness is darker than yours!"
The Ignoramooses seemed to be a great idea. We pitched it
to all the other directors at Hanna Barbera including Butch
Hartman, Van Partible, Seth McFarlane, Craig McCracken, Eddie
Fitzgerald and even the famous Genndy Tartakovsky. They all
laughed at us acting like idiots and doing the voices. Everyone
clapped us on the backs and told us we had a sure hit.
I
remember Eddie telling us that we needed to do the voices
ourselves or it wouldn't be funny. We didn't. I still think
it was funny though but I often wonder if it would have been
better with our voices instead of Dee Baker as Pomeroy and
Tom Kenny (of SpongeBob Squarepants fame) as Sherwood.
Ultimately, I think Ignoramooses had two great characters
that we just didn't execute a good enough story for. This being the second time
I had ever directed, I was getting better but still had a
bit of a way to go. I storyboarded, key-animated, slugged,
Timed, and designed and Harry did all of the backgrounds did props and color
design, did the animatic as well as co-wrote it. -Read the credits on Big Cartoon Database