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Nowadays, Ralph Bakshi may be best remembered for his work on a film adaptation of [[Robert Crumb]]'s risqué underground comic strip ''[[Fritz the Cat (Comic Book)|Fritz The Cat]]'', which became [[Fritz the Cat (Animation)|the first American cartoon to be rated X by the MPAA]], much to Bakshi's chagrin. He worked for the [[The Eighties|1980s]] revival of the classic "[[Superman (Franchise)|Superman]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Mickey Mouse]]" cartoon, ''[[Mighty Mouse (Animation)|Mighty Mouse]]'', which was later canned for [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|getting too much crap past the radar]]. It was eventually pulled off due to a scene where Mighty Mouse sniffed a flower that was reminiscent of cocaine consumption, but it was extremely influential on pretty much every animated series that followed it over the next decade.
Bakshi's filmography certainly does not stop there; he is also the creative mind behind such underground cartoon milestones as the animated version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Animation)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', the [[Cult Classic]] ''[[Fire and Ice (Animation)|Fire and Ice]]'', ''Heavy Traffic'' (a gritty, [[Black Comedy|darkly humorous]] modern-day fable about urban violence), ''[[Coonskin]]'' (his highly controversial reimagining of the tales of Uncle Remus, considered racist by many due largely to its "blackface" character designs, although the film is supportive of the black community and approved by the NAACP) and ''[[Cool World]]'', a film he envisioned as the first animated horror film, but was [[Executive Meddling|radically changed by Paramount Pictures without Bakshi's consent]] and wound up as a subpar imitation of ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Film)|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''.
Also worth noting is that Bakshi also produced and directed ''[[Rocket Robin Hood]]'' and the second and third seasons of the 1960s ''[[Spider Man]]'' cartoon. The latter varied between in quality under Bakshi's tenure, although a lot of this was due to [[Executive Meddling]]. The suits continually cut both Bakshi's budget and his lead times, forcing him to continually reuse stock footage in the same way that [[Filmation]] later would. By the end, Bakshi was reduced to literally stitching together new episodes ''entirely'' out of stock footage.
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* [[George Jetson Job Security]]: Bakshi is known within the animation industry for this, especially on the ''[[Mighty Mouse (Animation)|Mighty Mouse]]: The New Adventures'' show. [[John Kricfalusi (Creator)|John Kricfalusi]] (who's also been fired several times) in particular has stated that he lost count on how many times Ralph fired him from the show.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Obviously, his two ''[[What a Cartoon Show (Animation)|What a Cartoon Show]]'' shorts weren't as adult as most of his theatrical films.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: ''[[Wizards]]'' has [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Mushroom Samba]]- Heavy traffic, Coonskin, and Hey good lookin have scenes that describe this perfectly.
* [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]: ''Heavy Traffic'', ''Coonskin'' and ''[[Cool World]]''
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Sometime during the 1980's when Ralph was working on ''Mighty Mouse'', he had recognized John K's talent. Ralph and John were planning on teaming up to do an animated film called "Bobby's girl". [[Teen Drama|Which was set to be a parody of the teen comedies during the time]]. However Tri-Star [[Executive Meddling|canceled the project]]. But artwork of this proposed project can be seen in the [http://www.amazon.com/Unfiltered-Complete-Bakshi-Behind-Mighty/dp/0789316846 Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi] book. One can wonder what would have happened if this film had been made.
** Ralph had an interest of doing a film of ''[[The Catcher in The Rye (Literature)|The Catcher in The Rye]]''. He intended to shoot the story's bracketing sequences in live action and to animate the core flashback scenes. J.D. Salinger rejected this offer (as well as the other offers that were made beforehand to adapt the book).
** Originally, Ralph Bakshi envisioned ''[[Cool World]]'' as an animated erotic horror film about a cartoonist who has sex with his hot female creation and spawns a half-human, half-cartoon daughter who sets out to kill her parents for being born a freak. Sadly, due to [[Executive Meddling]], the premise was changed into a wannabe ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Film)|Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'' with nothing (except for the taboo of humans and animated characters having sex) from his original vision.
** One of the ''[[Elf Quest (Comic Book)|Elf Quest]]'' supplement books contains a couple of character sketches done by Bakshi with commentary and pointers from artist Wendy Pini (since his elves and Pini's elves have a measure of similarity) as part of an (ultimately fruitless) project to create an ''ElfQuest'' animated series.
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