My first thought was Daniel Abbott, as some form of wish fulfillment against his parents.
Did Daniel Abbot also get into some controversy
Why does everyone keep thinking its Daniel Abbott? There actually was a Ren & Stimpy episode with a similar plot that was vetoed by Nickelodeon.
"After [Lou Scheimer] threw me off the
Fat Albert team, I was assigned to a programme called
The Katzenjammer Kids. I didn't know too much about it except for some tidbits that this was based off of a newspaper comic from the early 1900's, or maybe earlier than that. As Filmation were gearing up to produce the series, Friz Freleng visited our office on the spur of the moment. I later learned that Friz briefly left Warners to work with MGM on an earlier adaptation of the comic back in 1938. But when I personally asked Friz about that experience, he told me that the shorts he did at MGM were the biggest blemish on his resume."
"The most infamous episode of Filmation's version has got to be
Like Father, Like Sons. The story started out innocently with the Captain taking the boys on a fishing trip. But the turning point was obviously in the third act when the Captain decided he wanted to teach the boys how to fight back against bullies. The Captain donned a suit of padding while the boys severely bludgeoned him with the oar they used to paddle the canoe. John Kricfalusi and Eddie Fitzgerald received story credit on the opening title card. I did not work on that particular episode, as I was waiting for John to deliver his contribution to the magical girl project we were both assigned to."
"Needless to say, King Features Syndicate, who owned the copyright of the characters, got extremely pissy with both ABC and Filmation over that one episode. King Features' hopes of introducing the characters to the modern world rode heavily on the success of the programme and they felt those hopes were slipping away thanks to this single episode. King Features threatened to pull the licence of the characters if ABC aired the episode. But their threats were ignored and ABC aired the episode as scheduled, hence the backlash we received afterwards. The licence was revoked and ABC canceled the programme after just seven episodes were aired. We had six in the pipeline that never reached TV screens."
- Daniel Abbott; From his book Sex, Drugs and Disney Animation