David Spade and TBS Team Up for Joe Dirt Animated Series
The three of you out there clamoring for a sequel to David Spade’s 2001 comedy The Adventures of Joe Dirt will be excited to hear that the mulleted janitor is making a comeback — in animated form. Variety reports that TBS has signed a deal with Spade to develop a cartoon series based on the movie, in the hopes of getting an original show that they can pair with Family Guy re-runs. The animated show will be produced through Sony Pictures TV and Happy Madison Productions, with Spade, the film’s co-writer Fred Wolf, and Donick Carey (The Simpsons, Just Shoot Me!, Bored to Death) penning the script.
With all the other animated possibilities out there, is this something we really need? The original movie never even made its money back at the box office. Heck, I’d rather see an animated version of Just Shoot Me! or Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star over this, but perhaps they’re trying to ride the popularity of My Name is Earl a little bit. Are you a fan of David Spade? Do you think there is any chance in hell that this will be a decent show?
Comments (7)
i guess now that King of the Hill is canceled there is a animated redneck comedy void that needs to filled.
Posted by Mike on January 28th, 2010Good point.
Posted by Sean on January 28th, 2010this world does not need an animated kid rock. fuck me
Posted by kinky wizard on January 28th, 2010For some reason I don’t see this working.
Posted by Matt on January 29th, 2010I’ll say this: Joe Dirt was funnier than it had any right to be.
I’m not sure I’d watch the animated series, but I liked the movie.
Posted by Deven Science on January 31st, 2010Joe Dirt more than made its money back at the box office, and then exploded on DVD for years thereafter. Sorry, dude, but that’s a serious fact. Look into it before you state stuff like you have in your synopsis. You might not like it, but it was selling 13,000 dvds a week two years after it came out. There were serious discussions to do a movie sequel, until the principals decided they wanted to leave a good thing (to some) alone. Almost ten years later, when approached for the zillionith time to expand on the title, they relented.
Posted by Flamethrower on February 11th, 2010JOE effin’ Dirt ROCKS!!!! I LUV that movie, hope they make a sequel. Looking forward to the cartoon and the writer of this article, (Sean) is a serious D-BAG!!!! who wouldnt know a good movie if it crawled up his Richard Gear like pooper. Dickie Roberts sucked donkey ballz like seans mom.
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