Histeria! "Middle-Aged Mutant Renaissance Artists" (lost production material of sketch of animated comedy series; 1998)
The show's title card.
Status: Lost
Histeria! is an animated TV series produced by Warner Bros. Animation that aired on The WB as part of its Kids' WB block, in order to fulfill E/I requirements. The show is styled like a sketch comedy using a large cast of characters, including fictionalized versions of historical figures (who are caricatures of a certain celebrity). However, there is one segment that was only able to go through the storyboarding phase before being cut.
Details
The sketch, titled "Middle-Aged Mutant Renaissance Artists", was planned to be animated by the StarToons studio, with the name implying that it would've been a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series focusing on artists from the Renaissance period. The sketch may have been planned for the episode "The Renaissance", given the sketch's relation to the time period. Only the storyboard is known to have been completed, and it is unknown why further development was cancelled, though it is possible that it had something to do with the "Ren-Man" sketch, a related sketch that also featured a Renaissance artist in the form of a superhero parody (in this case, Batman).
The only mention of the sketch comes from StarToons' website, which gives the information of the storyboard being the only material that exists of the sketch; This storyboard has not surfaced online as of 2023, and whoever might be in possession of the board remains unknown.
See Also
- Animaniacs (unproduced "Minerva Mink" animated shorts; early 1990s)
- Animaniacs "I'm Mad" (partially found original theatrical version of animated short; 1994)
- Animaniacs "The New Year's Party Tonight" (partially lost alternate version of animated comedy series short; 1995)
- Animaniacs "Potty Emergency" (lost deleted scenes of episode of animated comedy series; 1993)
- Brainstem (lost preview version of "Pinky and the Brain" song; 1995)
- Channel Umptee-3 (partially found Kids' WB! educational animated series; 1997)
- Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (partially found pitch pilot of Kids' WB! animated comedy series; early-mid 2000s)
- Detention (found Kids' WB! animated series; 1999-2000)
- Earthworm Jim (partially found unaired pitch pilot of Kids' WB! animated series; 1995)
- Kids' WB! (partially found animated "Backlot" bumpers of children's programming block; 1997-2003)
- Kids' WB! (partially found "Crazy Takes" promos of children's program block; early 2000s)
- Kids' WB! "Top 20 Pokéthon Countdown" (partially found promos and bumpers of event from children's programming block; 1999)
- Lobo (lost production material of cancelled Kids' WB! animated series based on DC character; 1990s)
- Monster Allergy (partially found Kids' WB! English dub of animated series based on comics; 2006)
- Waynehead (found Kids' WB! animated series; 1996-1997)
- Welcome Home, Animaniacs! (partially found Kids' WB Saturday morning preview; 1995)