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In 1992, ''[[
Someone must have thought so, because a ''Battletoads'' cartoon series, produced by [[DiC Entertainment]], was launched.
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The pilot was shown on Thanksgiving 1992. It is a prequel to the game, but does not provide the same backstory as the one published in ''Nintendo Power''. It appeared to be based on a very, ''very'' obscure comic adaptation printed in some other gaming magazines at the time, rather than the game itself. In this origin story, Morgan Ziegler, Dave Shar, and George Pie are, rather than computer technicians, three teenage losers from Oxnard, California who are squirted with [[Super Serum]] by Professor T. Bird and turned into the Battletoads. Tasked with defending the Princess from the Dark Queen, they receive the "ancient names of honor": Zitz, Rash and Pimple.
It was directed by Kent Butterworth and written by David Wise, who were both major figures in the development of the original ''[[
The pilot bombed spectacularly: the aborted series is a textbook example of a [[Stillborn Franchise]]: a niche work being rammed into another medium, adaption changes alienating the existing fans, critical panning and a failure to capture a new mainstream audience. No further episodes were broadast and it likely destroyed any chance of a good ''Battletoads'' series ever being made.
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For many years it was nearly forgotten (though it was released on VHS in 1994), buried in the wasteland alongside hundreds of other failed TV pilots, until rediscovered by the Internet. See it in its 30 minutes of glory [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5UEKxHQ3U here] (or the somewhat [[MST|MSTed]] version [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKkL-e5FfEA here]).
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* [[Alien Among Us]]: Subverted, T. Bird walks around openly and doesn't seem to be at all afraid of being seen. Played somewhat straight with Angelica, who tries to work like a normal human.
* [[Analogy Backfire]]: "Life is one big basketball game!" Um...what?
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* [[Diner Brawl]]: The first [[Fight Scene]].
* [[Epic Fail]]: Morgan/Zits making a computer monitor explode just by pressing a few keys and Princess Angelica making a jelly doughnut explode by gently pinching it. Though the latter might have been an animation error.
* [[
* [[Fictional Video Game]]: Any resemblance between "Galaxy Wars" and any [[Real Life]] arcade game is coincidental.
* [[Flying Car]]: Introduced with a ''[[Back to The Future]]'' [[Shout
* [[How Do I Shot Web?]]: The Battletoads have to find out how to use Smash Hits.
* [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet]]: According to T-Bird, Earth is "so backward and insignificant that the Dark Queen never dared to conquer it."
* [[Limited Animation]]: To the point where characters walk by moving their cels.
* [[MacGuffin]]: Princess Angelica's amulet.
* [[
* [[Stillborn Franchise]]: Never got past the pilot, no plans for additional animated adaptions despite the cult status of the original game. A good example of how attempts to leverage popularity in one genre to another can go awry.
* [[Super Serum]]: The genetic essence of the ancient Battletoads.
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* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The cashier at the Stop N' Scarf doesn't look up from his newspaper/magazine once during the [[Diner Brawl]].
* [[Villain Teleportation]]
* [[Yeah! Shot]]: At the end.
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