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A Grander World: A Collaborative TL
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I thought just covering Animation was too short so I stretched a little with some other categories.
1991
February 6: Capcom releases Street Fighter II. The game is a hit and revitalizes the dying arcade game scene and sees the start of Tournaments for the game. Capcom planned to release many more versions of the game but nixed this idea. Instead they would release a handful of new characters and features into Street Fighter III.
February 14: Silence of the Lambs is released and will sweep the Oscars.
February 15: Dan Ackroyd's Nothing But Trouble is released. The name sums up the process of making the film. Ackroyd pitched the idea for what seemed like a disaster. the studio head saved the movie with one sentence "Ok, so long as you get John Landis to direct." Ackroyd had wanted to direct but reluctantly said yes. Landis had made many successful comedies such as the Blues Brothers, Coming to America and Animal House. If anyone could save this stinker it was him.
Ackroyd then begins to get to work on Ghostbusters III with plans to introduce the Filmation's Ghostbusters, played by John Candy and Steve Martin and special effects for Tracy the Gorilla. The current plan is the film will begin with a joke about how Bill Murray's character forgot to patent the name and the team didn't know there already was a team called the Ghostbusters, before the two team up to defeat a new enemy.
March: Neverwinter launches as the first MMORPG.
March 20: Eric Clapton's four year old son nearly falls out of their apartment window. After this event Clapton moves to a house in the suburbs(In real life this event inspired him to write the song "Tears in Heaven". The song therefore doesn't exist here).
March 22: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze is released. Jim Henson pulled a few stringers to get fan favorites from the cartoon Bebop and Rocksteady into the movie. The plan was to introduce two original creatures if this failed.
March 26: The 63rd Academy Awards are held. Creature Comforts, a claymation short by Aardman, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit, about zoo animals talking about their life in the Zoo wins best animated short film.
March 31: Quack Pack airs. The series features grown up versions of Huey, Dewey and Louie. All using new identities. One of which is a spy named Double O Duck, one an archeologist named Calisota Duck and one a superhero named Darkwing Duck. The latter of which had a daughter named Gosalyn from an unseen mother that he is "no longer together" with. Launchpad also sticks around. All three meet up to solve the mystery of Scrooge's disappearance.
April 17: Nirvana performs Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time live.
June: DC Comics released Armageddon 2001, an event about a Superhero turning evil and killing the world's heroes in the then future year of 2001. A time traveller becomes the superhero Waverider and uses his new power to travel back in time and look into the future of various Superheroes to find out who the traitor is. It is revealed that Captain Atom will become Monarch and the Captain seemingly sacrifices himself to destroy his future self, only for the two to be revealed to have only been teleported.
June 23: Sonic the Hedgehog debuts.
July 3: Terminator 2: Judgement Day is released and becomes a hit.
July 26: The American film studio Animal Logic is founded. You may know them from Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Lego Movie and Peter Rabbit. Time will tell how many of those films will still exist in this timeline.
August 2: Don Bluth's Rock-a-Doodle premiers. The film was originally to be made a Disney but they were unhappy with the script and Bluth took the idea with him when he left. The story is about a Rooster named Chanticlare who plays a song to make the Sun come up. He is challenged by a rival Rooster and because of their fight, Chanticlare fails to bring the sun up but it comes up anyway. Chanticlare leaves and the sun stops coming up. A plothole existed in the original script that Bluth caught and quickly added a line about how the sun missed Chanticlare singing and left. Before it wasn't explained how the sun came up that one time.
The same day Ralph Bakshi's Rover Dangerfield is released. Rodney Dangerfield conceived the idea of playing a cartoon dog version of himself in the 80's and wanted the movie to be Rated R and be made in the style of Ralph Bakshi. Warner Bros wanted a PG-13 movie but then Bakshi came to the studio looking to pitch his movie Cool's World, which he pitched as "An R-rated Roger Rabbit". Warner Bros agreed and promised to fund Cool's World if Bakshi did Rodney Dangerfield. The film is a lot better due to Bakshi writing it and the director even became friends with the star.
August 7: Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed after absorbing Columbia Pictures, leading to the creation of TriStar.
August 11: Nickelodeon debuts its first three nicktoons, now known as "The Holy Nickity". Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. Seeing their success, Ted Turner would buy Hannah Barbera from Universal and plan to release his own Cartoon Network. realizing he would need original shows, he sets out to find talent. He plans to play reruns of the Hannah Barbera shows until he can get new shows to replace them. After that the Hannah Barbera shows will likely be moved to their own channel.
August 12: Metallica releases their biggest hit album. Also called Metallica.
August 19-22: Mikhail Gorbachev decides to cancel his vacation. This is fortunate as he soon learns there was a plot to kidnap him based upon his planned location. Gorbachev learned that Boris Yeltsin was making an under the table deal that would have dissolved the USSR. He informs President George H.W. Bush that Yeltsin was "Quietly retired". President Bush, former leader of the CIA, was used to this being code by Soviets for "Disappear and will never be seen again." Gorbachev seemed to catch Bush's look of horror and reassured him that Yeltsin had been placed under house arrest and would get a proper trial, showing him security footage to assure him. Gorbachev proceeded with his plan for the "New Union Treaty". This allowed many states to gain independence in the new USSR, which now stood for United Socialist Sovereign Republics, to highlight the new amount of freedom the members had. Other states who wished to leave were allowed to do so.
ABC station WUHQ buys WZZM and turns it into a satellite.
September 3: The Legend of Prince Valiant is broadcast on the Family Channel, based on the comic series Prince Valiant.
Little Dracula, a British cartoon about a kid Vampire based on the book series of the same name, airs
September 7: Hammerman, a cartoon by rapper M.C. Hammer is released and is cancelled after one season.
A Cartoon series based on the British comics character Rupert Bear is released.
The first episode of Taz-Mania, a spinoff featuring the Tazmanian Devil, is released. Since the Taz-Manian devil rarely talks. The show focuses on a group of characters trying to study Taz in his natural habitat.
September 19: The Simpsons episode Star Raving Dad airs as the premiere of the first season and guest stars Michael Jackson, who is properly credited.
September 26: The Cartoon Spider! airs.
September 28: The French-Belgian claymation show Mr.Bogus airs.
October 2: The studio Nelvana released an adaptation of Hergé's comics series Tintin as The Adventures of Tintin.
October 11: Gertie the Dinosaur, one of the first animated films, is added to the National Film Registry.
October 24: The Simpsons Episode "Like Father, Like Clown" has Bart finally discover his father is Krusty the Clown and the two embrace in one of the most touching moments of the show.
October 28: The first episode of Once Upon a Time... The Americas. It is part of a French educational series each part focusing on different continents. In this case, you guessed it, America.
November 14: Michael Jackson released Black and White, which is a collaboration with Freddie Mercury and Queen, who Jackson learned was dying of AIDS.
November 22: Walt Disney released Beauty and the Beast. The film is a massive hit and is nominated for an Oscar, leading to the creation of the Best Animated Feature Film category.
Universal Pictures releases An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. The sequel had input from Don Bluth, though it was limited as he working on Rock a Doodle. It is also the last film role of Jimmy Stewart, who dies soon after. This makes his character's last seen poignant as he looks at the setting sun and comments "I don't know what's over that horizon, but I'm not scared to find out anymore, because I know that thanks to folks like you, things here will be ok."
November 24: Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS. Eric Carr of KISS also dies the same day but of Heart Cancer(both of these are long term conditions and so changing things in 1989 wouldn't have saved them).
November 30: MTV airs the first episode of the Avant Garde show Æon Flux.
Another MTV show Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Show airs. The name comes from Spike and Mike's Twisted Animation Festival. It consists of animated shorts by various creators, allowing up and coming animators to show their stuff. One of which is Mike Judge who uses the show to introduce his two characters of Beavis and Butthead. Dan Antonucci is another who gets his start, making most of the animation. Many will joke years later that working on the show was Dan's way of "cleansing himself so he could work on the more kid friendly Ed, Edd and Eddy. Antonucci made The Brothers Grunt for MTV, which became a long runner, running longer than he expected and he didn't want to just be "The gross out guy" so he moved on. Antonucci hated long running shows, ironic given what Ed, Edd and Eddy would become.
December 6: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is released. The film was pitched as "What if the Wall went down in Space?" but with the attempted Coup in August in the Soviet Union, the ending is slightly different as one of Worf's ancestors, who became chancellor after the previous chancellor was murdered during Federation peace talks, becomes the new Chancellor and begins to change the Klingon Empire for the Better. A clear parallel to the situation in the USSR.
1991
February 6: Capcom releases Street Fighter II. The game is a hit and revitalizes the dying arcade game scene and sees the start of Tournaments for the game. Capcom planned to release many more versions of the game but nixed this idea. Instead they would release a handful of new characters and features into Street Fighter III.
February 14: Silence of the Lambs is released and will sweep the Oscars.
February 15: Dan Ackroyd's Nothing But Trouble is released. The name sums up the process of making the film. Ackroyd pitched the idea for what seemed like a disaster. the studio head saved the movie with one sentence "Ok, so long as you get John Landis to direct." Ackroyd had wanted to direct but reluctantly said yes. Landis had made many successful comedies such as the Blues Brothers, Coming to America and Animal House. If anyone could save this stinker it was him.
Ackroyd then begins to get to work on Ghostbusters III with plans to introduce the Filmation's Ghostbusters, played by John Candy and Steve Martin and special effects for Tracy the Gorilla. The current plan is the film will begin with a joke about how Bill Murray's character forgot to patent the name and the team didn't know there already was a team called the Ghostbusters, before the two team up to defeat a new enemy.
March: Neverwinter launches as the first MMORPG.
March 20: Eric Clapton's four year old son nearly falls out of their apartment window. After this event Clapton moves to a house in the suburbs(In real life this event inspired him to write the song "Tears in Heaven". The song therefore doesn't exist here).
March 22: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze is released. Jim Henson pulled a few stringers to get fan favorites from the cartoon Bebop and Rocksteady into the movie. The plan was to introduce two original creatures if this failed.
March 26: The 63rd Academy Awards are held. Creature Comforts, a claymation short by Aardman, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit, about zoo animals talking about their life in the Zoo wins best animated short film.
March 31: Quack Pack airs. The series features grown up versions of Huey, Dewey and Louie. All using new identities. One of which is a spy named Double O Duck, one an archeologist named Calisota Duck and one a superhero named Darkwing Duck. The latter of which had a daughter named Gosalyn from an unseen mother that he is "no longer together" with. Launchpad also sticks around. All three meet up to solve the mystery of Scrooge's disappearance.
April 17: Nirvana performs Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time live.
June: DC Comics released Armageddon 2001, an event about a Superhero turning evil and killing the world's heroes in the then future year of 2001. A time traveller becomes the superhero Waverider and uses his new power to travel back in time and look into the future of various Superheroes to find out who the traitor is. It is revealed that Captain Atom will become Monarch and the Captain seemingly sacrifices himself to destroy his future self, only for the two to be revealed to have only been teleported.
June 23: Sonic the Hedgehog debuts.
July 3: Terminator 2: Judgement Day is released and becomes a hit.
July 26: The American film studio Animal Logic is founded. You may know them from Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Lego Movie and Peter Rabbit. Time will tell how many of those films will still exist in this timeline.
August 2: Don Bluth's Rock-a-Doodle premiers. The film was originally to be made a Disney but they were unhappy with the script and Bluth took the idea with him when he left. The story is about a Rooster named Chanticlare who plays a song to make the Sun come up. He is challenged by a rival Rooster and because of their fight, Chanticlare fails to bring the sun up but it comes up anyway. Chanticlare leaves and the sun stops coming up. A plothole existed in the original script that Bluth caught and quickly added a line about how the sun missed Chanticlare singing and left. Before it wasn't explained how the sun came up that one time.
The same day Ralph Bakshi's Rover Dangerfield is released. Rodney Dangerfield conceived the idea of playing a cartoon dog version of himself in the 80's and wanted the movie to be Rated R and be made in the style of Ralph Bakshi. Warner Bros wanted a PG-13 movie but then Bakshi came to the studio looking to pitch his movie Cool's World, which he pitched as "An R-rated Roger Rabbit". Warner Bros agreed and promised to fund Cool's World if Bakshi did Rodney Dangerfield. The film is a lot better due to Bakshi writing it and the director even became friends with the star.
August 7: Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed after absorbing Columbia Pictures, leading to the creation of TriStar.
August 11: Nickelodeon debuts its first three nicktoons, now known as "The Holy Nickity". Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. Seeing their success, Ted Turner would buy Hannah Barbera from Universal and plan to release his own Cartoon Network. realizing he would need original shows, he sets out to find talent. He plans to play reruns of the Hannah Barbera shows until he can get new shows to replace them. After that the Hannah Barbera shows will likely be moved to their own channel.
August 12: Metallica releases their biggest hit album. Also called Metallica.
August 19-22: Mikhail Gorbachev decides to cancel his vacation. This is fortunate as he soon learns there was a plot to kidnap him based upon his planned location. Gorbachev learned that Boris Yeltsin was making an under the table deal that would have dissolved the USSR. He informs President George H.W. Bush that Yeltsin was "Quietly retired". President Bush, former leader of the CIA, was used to this being code by Soviets for "Disappear and will never be seen again." Gorbachev seemed to catch Bush's look of horror and reassured him that Yeltsin had been placed under house arrest and would get a proper trial, showing him security footage to assure him. Gorbachev proceeded with his plan for the "New Union Treaty". This allowed many states to gain independence in the new USSR, which now stood for United Socialist Sovereign Republics, to highlight the new amount of freedom the members had. Other states who wished to leave were allowed to do so.
ABC station WUHQ buys WZZM and turns it into a satellite.
September 3: The Legend of Prince Valiant is broadcast on the Family Channel, based on the comic series Prince Valiant.
Little Dracula, a British cartoon about a kid Vampire based on the book series of the same name, airs
September 7: Hammerman, a cartoon by rapper M.C. Hammer is released and is cancelled after one season.
A Cartoon series based on the British comics character Rupert Bear is released.
The first episode of Taz-Mania, a spinoff featuring the Tazmanian Devil, is released. Since the Taz-Manian devil rarely talks. The show focuses on a group of characters trying to study Taz in his natural habitat.
September 19: The Simpsons episode Star Raving Dad airs as the premiere of the first season and guest stars Michael Jackson, who is properly credited.
September 26: The Cartoon Spider! airs.
September 28: The French-Belgian claymation show Mr.Bogus airs.
October 2: The studio Nelvana released an adaptation of Hergé's comics series Tintin as The Adventures of Tintin.
October 11: Gertie the Dinosaur, one of the first animated films, is added to the National Film Registry.
October 24: The Simpsons Episode "Like Father, Like Clown" has Bart finally discover his father is Krusty the Clown and the two embrace in one of the most touching moments of the show.
October 28: The first episode of Once Upon a Time... The Americas. It is part of a French educational series each part focusing on different continents. In this case, you guessed it, America.
November 14: Michael Jackson released Black and White, which is a collaboration with Freddie Mercury and Queen, who Jackson learned was dying of AIDS.
November 22: Walt Disney released Beauty and the Beast. The film is a massive hit and is nominated for an Oscar, leading to the creation of the Best Animated Feature Film category.
Universal Pictures releases An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. The sequel had input from Don Bluth, though it was limited as he working on Rock a Doodle. It is also the last film role of Jimmy Stewart, who dies soon after. This makes his character's last seen poignant as he looks at the setting sun and comments "I don't know what's over that horizon, but I'm not scared to find out anymore, because I know that thanks to folks like you, things here will be ok."
November 24: Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS. Eric Carr of KISS also dies the same day but of Heart Cancer(both of these are long term conditions and so changing things in 1989 wouldn't have saved them).
November 30: MTV airs the first episode of the Avant Garde show Æon Flux.
Another MTV show Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Show airs. The name comes from Spike and Mike's Twisted Animation Festival. It consists of animated shorts by various creators, allowing up and coming animators to show their stuff. One of which is Mike Judge who uses the show to introduce his two characters of Beavis and Butthead. Dan Antonucci is another who gets his start, making most of the animation. Many will joke years later that working on the show was Dan's way of "cleansing himself so he could work on the more kid friendly Ed, Edd and Eddy. Antonucci made The Brothers Grunt for MTV, which became a long runner, running longer than he expected and he didn't want to just be "The gross out guy" so he moved on. Antonucci hated long running shows, ironic given what Ed, Edd and Eddy would become.
December 6: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is released. The film was pitched as "What if the Wall went down in Space?" but with the attempted Coup in August in the Soviet Union, the ending is slightly different as one of Worf's ancestors, who became chancellor after the previous chancellor was murdered during Federation peace talks, becomes the new Chancellor and begins to change the Klingon Empire for the Better. A clear parallel to the situation in the USSR.
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1992
January 11: Nirvana releases the album Nevermind which popularizes the Grunge Metal sound that will become a staple of the 90's.
January 27: During a rally of the Republican Party, President George H. W. Bush states that "the American Family (...) needs to be a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons." Doubling down on his dislike of the show first shown during Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue but more publicly. This leads to some backlash as many believe Bush doesn't commit to the message that "Drugs are bad" present in the special over his own petty grudge against a cartoon. Bill Clinton on the other hand comments that he loves the show with fellow sax player Lisa being his favorite character.
January 30: At the start of the very next The Simpsons episode, a short video is shown in which they watch Bush's speech on television, to which Bart Simpson snaps back: "Hey, we're just like The Waltons: we pray for an end to the recession too".
March 7: The first episode of Sailor Moon airs in Japan.
March 11: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation premiers.
March 30: The 64th Academy Awards are held. Beauty and the Beast is the first animated feature film to be nominated for Best Picture. While it loses to Silence of the Lambs. It is given the first Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. It also wins best original score and best original song.
The British Manipulation by Daniel Greaves wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Ray Harryhausen wins the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his entire career.
April 10: FernGully: The Last Rainforest airs. Robin Williams plays the character Batty Koda, having signed onto do it before being approached to do Disney's Aladdin. This caused behind the scenes controversy when Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded Williams leave production of Ferngully but he refused. Katzenberg then attempted to sabotage production for Ferngully. When this became public there was outrage that led to Katzenberg being let go by Disney President Michael Eisner. Katzenberg gets some animators to follow him out and tries to convince Stephen Spielberg. Spielberg, having recently worked on Hook with Williams, refuses due to Katzenberg's rivalry with him.
Robin William's role in the upcoming Aladdin was replaced by Jim Carrey.
April 20: The first episode of Goof Troop airs. Inspired by Quack Pack, the series is about Goofy and Max going on a cross country road trip and having adventures along the way, hoping to make it to a concert held by singer Power Line(Due to plot points being used in the series. The Goofy Movie and its sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie, are butterflied away. Storylines from those films being used in the show instead.
May 22: Alien Invasion is released. Alien 3 is a film that went through many rewrites. They finally settled on an alien infestation breaking out on a large Prison planet with Ellen Ripley returning along with survivors of the previous film Newt and Hicks.
June 5: Patriot Games is released. It stars Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. A role Harrison Ford will play multiple times as other books are adapted.
June 19: Batman Returns is released. The film was heavily altered behind the scenes. The plot follows the Penguin trying to get revenge on Harvey Dent(Billy Dee Williams) for putting him away while claiming to be reformed. Dent begins to struggle with a split personality when he nearly kills his secretary Selina Kyle. In the end, Selina Kyle seemingly blows herself up along with the now insane Harvey, but he is found to have only burned part of his face.
July 10: Ralph Bakshi's Cool World, which mixes live-action with animation, premieres. Warner Bros stuck to Bakshi's original vision. The film is about an animator who creates an animated woman named Debbie Dallas that he has sex with. They have a daughter who is part human and part toon. This child feels like they don't belong anywhere and becomes a vicious serial killer. The film does decent by Bakshi's standards. It also inspires the production of the similarly disturbing Dark Horse's The Mask comic book. There's no need to tone down the violence and make it kid friendly it seems given the film's success even as an underground hit. Jim Carrey was approached but turned it down due to the violence of the character in the comics.
July 18: Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso premieres and receives a US release by Disney with a star studded cast at the same time with Michael Keaton voicing the titular pig. It is released as "Pork Roast" in the US to tie in to the TaleSpin character, causing some confusion that the character first appeared in the show from those not aware of the earlier manga. Seeing the rise of environmentalism thanks to shows like Captain Planet, Disney will next dub Naussica of the Valley of the Wind with a star studded cast including Patrick Stewart, Mark Hamill and Michael J.Fox among others.
July 31: Production on Bébé's Kids, based on stand up bit by Bruce W.Smith, officially ends, leaving the film unmade due to Smith's 1990 passing(The film was made in real life and was a bomb, here it gets nixed since the main actor died before the movie really started being made.
Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer is released and is a hit. This will lead to sequels. Buffy will go onto become a feminist icon(This film in Real Life was changed by the studio, who made it more of a comedy and changed a lot from what Whedon wanted. In anger he went onto make the TV Show, which was how he wanted the story to go. Here the TV Show doesn't exist thanks to Whedon getting his wish, but at least it becomes a movie series instead).
August 15: In the Ren & Stimpy episode Powdered Toast Man rock musician Frank Zappa plays the role of the Pope
August 20: Friz Freleng receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
September 4: Bill Plympton's The Tune premiers.
September 5: Batman: The Animated Series ends. A Superman Animated Series enters planning. One of the last episodes is the critically praised Mad Love, which explores the backstory of Alicia Hunt AKA Harley Quinn in the main show(Since the show was made around the time of the movie, the Alicia Hunt character became Harley Quinn here).
September 11: The Little Mermaid TV Series begins airing. One of the show's earlier episodes has Ariel meet Hans Christian Anderson, implying the Disney version is the "True" Version. A Beauty and the Beast series is planned to follow.
September 12: The first episode of Eek! The Cat is broadcast.
September 17: The first episode of Noddy's Toyland Adventures airs.
September 22: Beavis and Butthead first appear in a short called Frog Baseball, where they torture a frog by using it as a baseball. They would
October 1: Cartoon Network goes on the air, launched by the Turner Broadcasting Company. One of the first things it premieres is Tom and Jerry: The Movie, which was held off until the channel's debut by Ted Turner to help promote it. The film went through several rewrites to focus more on Tom and Jerry and to keep them silent.
October 3: Sinead O'Connor tears up a picture of the Pope at the end of her guest appearance episode of Saturday Night Live. This one action effectively kills her career.
October 29: The German animated film The Little Punker premieres.
November 18: Superman dies fighting the monster Doomsday. The death receives massive media coverage(Comic book deaths weren't a thing yet, so as far as anyone knew Superman really was dead).
November 25: Aladdin by John Musker and Ron Clements and produced by the Disney Company is released. The film is a success, especially carried by Jim Carrey acting as the Genie. Musker and Clements have a dream project and the success of Aladdin has led to it being greenlit. The film is planned to be Treasure Island in Space(Musker and Clements wanted to make Treasure Planet since 1985 but were stopped by the Disney higher ups, namely Katzenberg. Since Katzenberg is gone. They can move ahead and make their dream film. However, because of how long it takes to make an animated film. The film can't be expected to be done next year. Most likely 1994 at the earliest).
December 7: What's Opera, Doc? is added to the National Film Registry.
December 8: On Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Show airs Jesus vs Frosty, a show made with construction about four kids who build a snowman that comes to life and tries to kill them. The jewish kid Kyle prays to Jesus and he appears to battle Frosty and defeat him. Because of the Show giving the short a bigger spotlight, the two students, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are given a TV Show deal. They bring the four boys from the cartoon along into the new show. While two of them, Stan and Kyle are already settled. There's a fat kid named Kenny and an unnamed kid in a big coat. They decide to name the kid in the coat Cartman and keep the fat kid named Kenny(So basically Cartman is named Kenny and Kenny is named Cartman. They've had their names reversed like in the original short since the short has been released publicly and it's too late to change it).
January 11: Nirvana releases the album Nevermind which popularizes the Grunge Metal sound that will become a staple of the 90's.
January 27: During a rally of the Republican Party, President George H. W. Bush states that "the American Family (...) needs to be a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons." Doubling down on his dislike of the show first shown during Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue but more publicly. This leads to some backlash as many believe Bush doesn't commit to the message that "Drugs are bad" present in the special over his own petty grudge against a cartoon. Bill Clinton on the other hand comments that he loves the show with fellow sax player Lisa being his favorite character.
January 30: At the start of the very next The Simpsons episode, a short video is shown in which they watch Bush's speech on television, to which Bart Simpson snaps back: "Hey, we're just like The Waltons: we pray for an end to the recession too".
March 7: The first episode of Sailor Moon airs in Japan.
March 11: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation premiers.
March 30: The 64th Academy Awards are held. Beauty and the Beast is the first animated feature film to be nominated for Best Picture. While it loses to Silence of the Lambs. It is given the first Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. It also wins best original score and best original song.
The British Manipulation by Daniel Greaves wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Ray Harryhausen wins the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his entire career.
April 10: FernGully: The Last Rainforest airs. Robin Williams plays the character Batty Koda, having signed onto do it before being approached to do Disney's Aladdin. This caused behind the scenes controversy when Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg demanded Williams leave production of Ferngully but he refused. Katzenberg then attempted to sabotage production for Ferngully. When this became public there was outrage that led to Katzenberg being let go by Disney President Michael Eisner. Katzenberg gets some animators to follow him out and tries to convince Stephen Spielberg. Spielberg, having recently worked on Hook with Williams, refuses due to Katzenberg's rivalry with him.
Robin William's role in the upcoming Aladdin was replaced by Jim Carrey.
April 20: The first episode of Goof Troop airs. Inspired by Quack Pack, the series is about Goofy and Max going on a cross country road trip and having adventures along the way, hoping to make it to a concert held by singer Power Line(Due to plot points being used in the series. The Goofy Movie and its sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie, are butterflied away. Storylines from those films being used in the show instead.
May 22: Alien Invasion is released. Alien 3 is a film that went through many rewrites. They finally settled on an alien infestation breaking out on a large Prison planet with Ellen Ripley returning along with survivors of the previous film Newt and Hicks.
June 5: Patriot Games is released. It stars Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. A role Harrison Ford will play multiple times as other books are adapted.
July 10: Ralph Bakshi's Cool World, which mixes live-action with animation, premieres. Warner Bros stuck to Bakshi's original vision. The film is about an animator who creates an animated woman named Debbie Dallas that he has sex with. They have a daughter who is part human and part toon. This child feels like they don't belong anywhere and becomes a vicious serial killer. The film does decent by Bakshi's standards. It also inspires the production of the similarly disturbing Dark Horse's The Mask comic book. There's no need to tone down the violence and make it kid friendly it seems given the film's success even as an underground hit. Jim Carrey was approached but turned it down due to the violence of the character in the comics.
July 18: Hayao Miyazaki's Porco Rosso premieres and receives a US release by Disney with a star studded cast at the same time with Michael Keaton voicing the titular pig. It is released as "Pork Roast" in the US to tie in to the TaleSpin character, causing some confusion that the character first appeared in the show from those not aware of the earlier manga. Seeing the rise of environmentalism thanks to shows like Captain Planet, Disney will next dub Naussica of the Valley of the Wind with a star studded cast including Patrick Stewart, Mark Hamill and Michael J.Fox among others.
July 31: Production on Bébé's Kids, based on stand up bit by Bruce W.Smith, officially ends, leaving the film unmade due to Smith's 1990 passing(The film was made in real life and was a bomb, here it gets nixed since the main actor died before the movie really started being made.
Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer is released and is a hit. This will lead to sequels. Buffy will go onto become a feminist icon(This film in Real Life was changed by the studio, who made it more of a comedy and changed a lot from what Whedon wanted. In anger he went onto make the TV Show, which was how he wanted the story to go. Here the TV Show doesn't exist thanks to Whedon getting his wish, but at least it becomes a movie series instead).
August 15: In the Ren & Stimpy episode Powdered Toast Man rock musician Frank Zappa plays the role of the Pope
August 20: Friz Freleng receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
September 4: Bill Plympton's The Tune premiers.
September 5: Batman: The Animated Series ends. A Superman Animated Series enters planning. One of the last episodes is the critically praised Mad Love, which explores the backstory of Alicia Hunt AKA Harley Quinn in the main show(Since the show was made around the time of the movie, the Alicia Hunt character became Harley Quinn here).
September 11: The Little Mermaid TV Series begins airing. One of the show's earlier episodes has Ariel meet Hans Christian Anderson, implying the Disney version is the "True" Version. A Beauty and the Beast series is planned to follow.
September 12: The first episode of Eek! The Cat is broadcast.
September 17: The first episode of Noddy's Toyland Adventures airs.
September 22: Beavis and Butthead first appear in a short called Frog Baseball, where they torture a frog by using it as a baseball. They would
October 1: Cartoon Network goes on the air, launched by the Turner Broadcasting Company. One of the first things it premieres is Tom and Jerry: The Movie, which was held off until the channel's debut by Ted Turner to help promote it. The film went through several rewrites to focus more on Tom and Jerry and to keep them silent.
October 3: Sinead O'Connor tears up a picture of the Pope at the end of her guest appearance episode of Saturday Night Live. This one action effectively kills her career.
October 29: The German animated film The Little Punker premieres.
November 18: Superman dies fighting the monster Doomsday. The death receives massive media coverage(Comic book deaths weren't a thing yet, so as far as anyone knew Superman really was dead).
November 25: Aladdin by John Musker and Ron Clements and produced by the Disney Company is released. The film is a success, especially carried by Jim Carrey acting as the Genie. Musker and Clements have a dream project and the success of Aladdin has led to it being greenlit. The film is planned to be Treasure Island in Space(Musker and Clements wanted to make Treasure Planet since 1985 but were stopped by the Disney higher ups, namely Katzenberg. Since Katzenberg is gone. They can move ahead and make their dream film. However, because of how long it takes to make an animated film. The film can't be expected to be done next year. Most likely 1994 at the earliest).
December 7: What's Opera, Doc? is added to the National Film Registry.
December 8: On Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Show airs Jesus vs Frosty, a show made with construction about four kids who build a snowman that comes to life and tries to kill them. The jewish kid Kyle prays to Jesus and he appears to battle Frosty and defeat him. Because of the Show giving the short a bigger spotlight, the two students, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are given a TV Show deal. They bring the four boys from the cartoon along into the new show. While two of them, Stan and Kyle are already settled. There's a fat kid named Kenny and an unnamed kid in a big coat. They decide to name the kid in the coat Cartman and keep the fat kid named Kenny(So basically Cartman is named Kenny and Kenny is named Cartman. They've had their names reversed like in the original short since the short has been released publicly and it's too late to change it).
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1993
January 1: The first episode of The Adventures of Blinky Bill is broadcast.
January 6: The first episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood is broadcast.
January 29: Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is released. The film is the first film made after Coppola decided to direct The Godfather Part III.
January 31: Michael Jackson performs at Super Bowl XXVII, the show is a big success and will lead to a trend of the Superbowl booking big name artists to perform at Half Time.
February 10: Michael Jackson is interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in one of the most watched TV interviews.
February 16: The Final Episode of Count Duckula airs.
February 28: The first episode of Roger Rabbit premieres(In Real Life, the show Bonkers premiered. This show was also about a Toon and a Cop. There was a rumor, most ikely false that Bonkers was supposed to be a Roger Rabbit spinoff but wasn't because of rights issues. Here thanks to Cool World having a similar Toons in real world element, the show became a Roger Rabbit show).
March 6: Whitney Huston performs "And I will always Love You" which spends 14 weeks at the top of the charts.
March 8: The first episode of Beavis and Butt-Head as a series is broadcast and quickly gain a cult following. It is followed on MTV by another new show South Park.
March 16: The french cartoon Albert the 5th Musketeer broadcasts.
March 29: The 65th Academy Awards: Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. A Whole New World from Aladdin by Tim Rice and Alan Menken wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song while the soundtrack from the same film wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
March 31: Brandon Lee is injured but survives an accent on the set of the film The Crow when a prop gun was accidentally loaded with a real bullet. Fortunately the shot missed.
April: Four beings claiming to be Superman reappear. A clone named Superboy, Cyborg Superman, a robot named the Eradicator, and a hero named Steel.
May 3: The Spider-Man event Maximum Carnage begins, concerning Spider-Man teaming up with Venom and other heroes to stop the new Supervillain Carnage.
May 27: Kim Bassinger files for bankruptcy after she dropped out of the film Boxing Helena.
May 28: Super Mario Bros, a film based on the video Game series is released. Harold Ramis decided to direct. The film will do better with Ramis onboard.
June 7: Prince changes his name to a symbol and becomes "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
June 11: Jurassic Park by Stephen Spielberg is released and becomes a hit, breaking box office records.
June 18: Hannah Barbera's The Endangered(known as Once Upon a Forest to us) flops at the Box Office due to being released at the same time as Jurassic Park was dominating. Spielberg felt bad about burying a film with a good message and so made a deal to include characters in the upcoming Animaniacs.
Last Action Hero starring Arnold Shwarzenagger is released. The film bombs, providing to be a dent in Shwarzenagger's career.
August 24: The news breaks about Michael Jackson being charged with Child molestation charges. This leads to a surge in similar charges as people gain the courage to step forward, one of the targets of this is John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy. The show is pulled from Nickelodeon as a result.
September 2: Snoop Dog and his bodyguard are gunned down in a drive by shooting.
September 5: The first episode of 2 Stupid Dogs is broadcast
September 6: The first episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is broadcast. Not to be confused with the much darker Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic SatAm.
September 13: The first episode of Animaniacs is broadcast. Spielberg and Ruegger. The cartoon stars a trio of animated Platypuses who were imprisoned in the Warner Bros water tower in the 30's(playtpuses is what they were initially conceived as). True to his word characters from Endangered appear in a Pinky and the Brain segment where they watch Jurassic Park, the film that destroyed theirs at the box office.
September 18: The first episode of Biker Mice from Mars is broadcast.
The first episode of My Dog Zero(basically Rocko's Modern Life) is broadcast. The creator was skeptical of making a cartoon but the edginess of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Show convinced him it could work.
September 23: The Thief and the Cobbler by Richard Williams is finally released after being in production for a record-breaking three decades, with even Vincent Prince, one of the voice actors, passing away before its release. The film is different due in large part to having to be cut down quite a bit, but looks something like below. Which is a fan restoration of the director's original vision.
October 10: A five-year-old boy, Austin Matthews, sets fire to his mother's mobile home in Moraine, Ohio, killing his two-year-old sister Jessica. The mother claims that her son got the idea from watching Beavis and Butthead and South Park. A trial reveals that the family didn't own cable television and was therefore unable to watch the shows with Matthews being unaware of the controversy. Mike Judge becomes close friends withTrey Parker and Matt Stone as a result and South Park even parodies the controversy with the boys starting a fire and it being blamed on Terrance and Phillip. The controversy actually helps both shows in the long run.
October 21: During a U.S. Senate hearing, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Ernest Fritz Hollings, argues that TV broadcasters have to be pressured to curb violent or otherwise offensive shows, making direct reference to Beavis and Butt-head. However, he is ridiculed by everybody for mispronouncing the characters' names as Buffcoat and Beaver and admitting that he never even watched the show.
October 29: Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas is released. An idea Tim Burton had for awhile at Disney. Burton could not commit to the film himself due to directing Batman Returns at the time.
October 31: River Phoenix nearly dies of an overdose while filming Dark Blood. He completes the film and then checks into rehab.
Tupac Shakur is charged with the murder of Snoop Dog due to touring in the cit at the time. He is later released.
November 24: Amblimation releases an animated adaptation of Cats by Stephen Spielberg and Don Bluth. This is due to the pushing back of their intended film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story as there are arguments over the script.
December 15: Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is release.
December 17: Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers is released
December 21: The first episode of VeggieTales is broadcast.
December 22: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro is added to the National Film Registry.
Turner Broadcasting acquires Castlerock Entertainment.
December 25: The film Batman: Scythe of the Reaper is first released. The Film is based on 1987's Batman: Year Two.
January 1: The first episode of The Adventures of Blinky Bill is broadcast.
January 6: The first episode of The Animals of Farthing Wood is broadcast.
January 29: Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula is released. The film is the first film made after Coppola decided to direct The Godfather Part III.
January 31: Michael Jackson performs at Super Bowl XXVII, the show is a big success and will lead to a trend of the Superbowl booking big name artists to perform at Half Time.
February 10: Michael Jackson is interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in one of the most watched TV interviews.
February 16: The Final Episode of Count Duckula airs.
February 28: The first episode of Roger Rabbit premieres(In Real Life, the show Bonkers premiered. This show was also about a Toon and a Cop. There was a rumor, most ikely false that Bonkers was supposed to be a Roger Rabbit spinoff but wasn't because of rights issues. Here thanks to Cool World having a similar Toons in real world element, the show became a Roger Rabbit show).
March 6: Whitney Huston performs "And I will always Love You" which spends 14 weeks at the top of the charts.
March 8: The first episode of Beavis and Butt-Head as a series is broadcast and quickly gain a cult following. It is followed on MTV by another new show South Park.
March 16: The french cartoon Albert the 5th Musketeer broadcasts.
March 29: The 65th Academy Awards: Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. A Whole New World from Aladdin by Tim Rice and Alan Menken wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song while the soundtrack from the same film wins the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
March 31: Brandon Lee is injured but survives an accent on the set of the film The Crow when a prop gun was accidentally loaded with a real bullet. Fortunately the shot missed.
April: Four beings claiming to be Superman reappear. A clone named Superboy, Cyborg Superman, a robot named the Eradicator, and a hero named Steel.
May 3: The Spider-Man event Maximum Carnage begins, concerning Spider-Man teaming up with Venom and other heroes to stop the new Supervillain Carnage.
May 27: Kim Bassinger files for bankruptcy after she dropped out of the film Boxing Helena.
May 28: Super Mario Bros, a film based on the video Game series is released. Harold Ramis decided to direct. The film will do better with Ramis onboard.
June 7: Prince changes his name to a symbol and becomes "The Artist formerly known as Prince".
June 11: Jurassic Park by Stephen Spielberg is released and becomes a hit, breaking box office records.
June 18: Hannah Barbera's The Endangered(known as Once Upon a Forest to us) flops at the Box Office due to being released at the same time as Jurassic Park was dominating. Spielberg felt bad about burying a film with a good message and so made a deal to include characters in the upcoming Animaniacs.
Last Action Hero starring Arnold Shwarzenagger is released. The film bombs, providing to be a dent in Shwarzenagger's career.
August 24: The news breaks about Michael Jackson being charged with Child molestation charges. This leads to a surge in similar charges as people gain the courage to step forward, one of the targets of this is John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy. The show is pulled from Nickelodeon as a result.
September 2: Snoop Dog and his bodyguard are gunned down in a drive by shooting.
September 5: The first episode of 2 Stupid Dogs is broadcast
September 6: The first episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is broadcast. Not to be confused with the much darker Sonic the Hedgehog or Sonic SatAm.
September 13: The first episode of Animaniacs is broadcast. Spielberg and Ruegger. The cartoon stars a trio of animated Platypuses who were imprisoned in the Warner Bros water tower in the 30's(playtpuses is what they were initially conceived as). True to his word characters from Endangered appear in a Pinky and the Brain segment where they watch Jurassic Park, the film that destroyed theirs at the box office.
September 18: The first episode of Biker Mice from Mars is broadcast.
The first episode of My Dog Zero(basically Rocko's Modern Life) is broadcast. The creator was skeptical of making a cartoon but the edginess of Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Show convinced him it could work.
September 23: The Thief and the Cobbler by Richard Williams is finally released after being in production for a record-breaking three decades, with even Vincent Prince, one of the voice actors, passing away before its release. The film is different due in large part to having to be cut down quite a bit, but looks something like below. Which is a fan restoration of the director's original vision.
October 10: A five-year-old boy, Austin Matthews, sets fire to his mother's mobile home in Moraine, Ohio, killing his two-year-old sister Jessica. The mother claims that her son got the idea from watching Beavis and Butthead and South Park. A trial reveals that the family didn't own cable television and was therefore unable to watch the shows with Matthews being unaware of the controversy. Mike Judge becomes close friends withTrey Parker and Matt Stone as a result and South Park even parodies the controversy with the boys starting a fire and it being blamed on Terrance and Phillip. The controversy actually helps both shows in the long run.
October 21: During a U.S. Senate hearing, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Ernest Fritz Hollings, argues that TV broadcasters have to be pressured to curb violent or otherwise offensive shows, making direct reference to Beavis and Butt-head. However, he is ridiculed by everybody for mispronouncing the characters' names as Buffcoat and Beaver and admitting that he never even watched the show.
October 29: Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas is released. An idea Tim Burton had for awhile at Disney. Burton could not commit to the film himself due to directing Batman Returns at the time.
October 31: River Phoenix nearly dies of an overdose while filming Dark Blood. He completes the film and then checks into rehab.
Tupac Shakur is charged with the murder of Snoop Dog due to touring in the cit at the time. He is later released.
November 24: Amblimation releases an animated adaptation of Cats by Stephen Spielberg and Don Bluth. This is due to the pushing back of their intended film We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story as there are arguments over the script.
December 15: Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is release.
December 17: Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers is released
December 21: The first episode of VeggieTales is broadcast.
December 22: Tex Avery's Magical Maestro is added to the National Film Registry.
Turner Broadcasting acquires Castlerock Entertainment.
December 25: The film Batman: Scythe of the Reaper is first released. The Film is based on 1987's Batman: Year Two.
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Interesting. I may have a few ideas in hand but some of them I gave to another user to use in his timeline. May I jump ahead in the timeline and cherry pick changed events like the OP did?
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1994:
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is released with Jim Carrey in the role to negative reviews but good box office. There is some controversy about the movie playing alcoholism for laughs as it's revealed that Sean Young's character, Lt. Lois Einhorn, concocted the entire plot as revenge for her father, ex-Miami Dolphin Ray Finkle. Finkle, it seems, drank himself to death after he was blamed for allowing the Miami Dolphins to lose a Super Bowl. (TBH the OTL film is still pretty unfunny even without the trans twist, but hey, at least it isn't as homophobic anymore).
1995:
In a shocking twist, The Lion King wins the Best Picture Oscar, upsetting Forrest Gump. It also wins Best Adapted Screenplay over Gump since it's credited as an adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Kimba The White Lion.
Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising is adapted with John McTiernan at the helm.
Die Hard 3 (also known as Die Hard With A Vengeance), the third and final Die Hard movie is released. Based on the novel Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh, John McTiernan does not return due to him being busy with Red Storm Rising, but he is replaced by Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner (ironically, the source novel was, at one point, pitched as a Lethal Weapon movie). Steven DeSouza returns to write the screenplay with Hensleigh. Bruce Willis would later return for the Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day To Die Hard video games.
Toy Story debuts, forever changing the animated film industry.
On May 27, Christopher Reeve is involved in a horse-riding accident. His leg takes most of the fall and he breaks it. It will take a while for him to recover, but he is thankful that he isn't paralyzed for life. He will, however, have a semi-noticeable limp for the rest of his life.
1997:
After the success of GoldenEye, Martin Campbell is brought back to direct Tomorrow Never Dies. Such is the film's success that Campbell later directs the other two films in Pierce Brosnan's tenure as James Bond, The World is Not Enough (in which Molly Warmflash replaces Christmas Jones as Bond's main love interest), and Die Another Day.
1998:
A remake of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, known simply as 20,000, and directed by Roland Emmerich, premieres. Originally planned as a Godzilla reboot, it receives tepid critical reception despite making back its budget. It does earn a bit of a cult following in later years.
Phil Hartman is admitted to the ICU after his wife shoots him. He will make a full recovery. Due to her unstable state brought about by drugs, she separates from Hartman and undergoes intense rehab.
The Mask of Zorro is released, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Anthony Hopkins.
1999:
Following the release of Toy Story 2, where she does Jessie's yodeling, Mary Kay Bergman takes a sabbatical from the voice acting business to address her mental health.
Stanley Kubrick is revived following a heart attack and decides to retire from the filmmaking business after he finishes AI: Artificial Intelligence. He passes away in 2001 after winning Best Director for the film.
Phil Hartman accepts a role in Matt Groening's Futurama as Phillip J. Fry and Zapp Brannigan.
2000:
Lethal Weapon 2000, the last film in the Lethal Weapon series, is released.
2002:
After the success of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Disney debuts The All-New Woody's Round-Up, an animated series in the same vein as the Buzz Lightyear show, only starring Woody instead. Tom Hanks voices Woody again, similar to how Tim Allen voiced Buzz for the entirety of BLSoC. (OTL, Allen only did the DTV movie that was re-edited from the show's first three episodes). Also making a very welcome return is Kelsey Grammer as Stinky Pete, who is now a gold and oil baron. He serves as the show's main antagonist, in a nod to his role in Toy Story 2. Jessie is recast with Mary Kay Bergman, fresh from her sabbatical. Anne Potts also has a recurring role as Bo Peep, and Tim Allen also has a recurring role as Buzz League, a bounty hunter and foe-turned-friend of Woody (and needless to say, analogue for Buzz Lightyear). Finally, Riders in the Sky sing a new version of Woody's Roundup as the show's opening theme; Woody Jackson and Bill Elm, who would later earn fame as the composers for Red Dead Redemption, score the show.
2003:
After Ronald Maxwell was fired in preproduction for turning in a very Neo-Confederate leaning script, Gods and Generals, the adaptation of Jeffrey Shaara's novel of the same name, is released as a two-part film. A sequel to 1993's The Killer Angels (OTL: Gettysburg), it is directed by Anthony Minghella (Edward Zwick directs Cold Mountain in this TL instead) with a revised script by Kevin Jarre, who wrote the screenplay for Glory. Maxwell is still given story credit. It is released on video with a length of 300 minutes.
2004:
Johnny Depp wins a Best Actor Oscar as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Galvanized by the success, Disney instantly starts production on the sequel, Dead Man's Chest, for a 2005 release.
Sean Astin wins a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. With this, the film becomes the most-awarded film in Oscars history, with a clean sweep: 12 wins out of 12 nominations.
2005:
SpongeBob Comics is released with most of the show's writing staff returning and Mr. Lawrence, AKA Plankton, as the main artist. It becomes extremely popular and is still in production as of 2022. Some issues would be turned into motion comics with the SpongeBob cast returning to reprise their roles. This jumpstarts a trend of reviving TV shows as comics instead of ordering new seasons. Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends and The Fairly OddParents later receive this treatment in 2008.
The Dark Knight (OTL: Batman Begins) is released to theatres. It kickstart a new trilogy of Batman movies starring Christian Bale and directed by Christopher Nolan.
Barely dodging competition with The Dark Knight, Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest premieres and becomes a smash hit, grossing 1 billion dollars at the box office. In doing so it becomes the first film to do so since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Due to the rushed production, Ted Eliott and Terry Rosso have not had time to write a script based on the sequel hook at the end of the film. Disney does however greenlight a sequel for 2007, giving the cast and crew some much-needed breathing space.
2007:
Following the severe backlash of the Star Wars special editions, George Lucas hands over restoration rights to the original trilogy to the Criterion Collection, who restore the films for the 30th anniversary of the original movie. The following set (which includes the prequels) released by the company becomes a massive success, becoming the company's most successful release, not at least because it has a proper widescreen restoration of the original trilogy. For posterity's sake, it also contains the 1997 and 2004 special editions. What is interesting is that it also has all-new editions by George Lucas . These cuts combines elements of both the original cuts and the better-received Special Edition changes (such as Aurbesh in the Death Star tractor beam, Biggs' deleted scene, the new Cloud City vistas, Ian McDirarmid's replacement with Clive Revil in Empire, Sebastian Shaw having his eyebrows digitally removed, and Yub Nub replaced with Victory Celebration).
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End debuts, having become the most expensive motion picture ever until Spider-Man 3 breaks that record a few months later. Its three-hour runtime (meaning yes, we do get Governor Swann's dilemma and "People aren't cargo, mate" and the rest of the deleted scenes) is criticized by some, but those critics are silenced when people point out that hardly anyone minded The Return of the King lasting 212 minutes and winning 12 Oscars (NOTE: Saruman was added back into the theatrical cut).
Spider-Man 3 debuts despite a tumultuous production. Despite being criticized for being much more horror-oriented than its predecessors and being inferior to Spider-Man 2, it still becomes a massive box-office success. (Note: this is indeed the editor's cut, minus the dance scene, and Raimi gets more creative freedom - for example, he gets to shoot Venom's demise his way).
2008:
Heath Ledger is admitted to a local ICU after a drug overdose. The incident convinces him to quit drugs. His last public appearance for the next four years is to accept his Best Supporting Actor as Joker in The Dark Knight Returns and to announce a sabbatical from acting. Eventually kicking the habit, he returns for a cameo in The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 and restarts a very active and successful career. He, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Hamil all voice Joker in a special commercial advertising DC's The Three Jokers in 2020.
2009:
Up wins Best Picture.
The Simpsons Movie is released to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary.
2010:
Toy Story 3 wins Best Picture.
Avatar: The Last Airbender gets an animated feature film by the original cast and crew that follows the plot of the show after it ended. This came after a proposed live-action movie with M. Night Shyamalan fell through and was canceled.
2011:
Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, a TV miniseries airs, chronicling the adventures of a young Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp returns to narrate the series.
2013:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, directed by Peter Jackson, is released in January after two years of preproduction. There and Back Again will be released in December of that year, followed by a 344-minute version having a limited release in 2014. (OTL The Hobbit was rushed in pre-production and that's why we got three movies.)
However, it seems that 2013 will see a brief resurgence of the epic film as the final installment of The Killer Angels trilogy is released. Edward Zwick directs The Last Full Measure, a 365-minute movie that is released in three parts from July 1-3 of that year. (OTL Gods and Generals bombed and thus, I doubt we'll ever see an adaptation of the book) The 365-minute edit wins Best Picture in 2014, but the film, along with O.J: Made in America's win for Best Documentary in 2016 eventually leads to a rule that bars any "multi-part or limited series" from being nominated at the Oscars.
The Dallas revival is canceled after one season out of respect for the recently-deceased Larry Hagman. A two-hour TV movie, Farewell to Dallas, is aired to wrap up any remaining plot threads the following year. (NOTE: in this TL, Seasons 1 and 2 of the reboot, both being 10 and 15 episodes long, respectively, were merged into one 25-episode season.) CBS officially lists this season as the original show's Season 15.
2016:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars ends after eight seasons and a network change from Cartoon Network to the Disney Channel. (OTL it was canceled after the ownership switch and most of the ideas for seasons seven and eight never made it)
2017:
A movie of Phineas and Ferb is released in theatres to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary. It serves as a prequel to the show, taking place on the last week of school. (OTL this was a plan, but never came to fruition. We don't know what it would have involved. Across the 2nd Dimension and Candace Against The Universe were not based on this idea.)
2019:
Adventure Time ends on Cartoon Network after ten seasons, a movie, and 300 episodes. (OTL the show was canceled rather abruptly and the crew had to rush Season 9.)
2020 :
Woody: The Lonesome Cowboy, a 40-minute special (in the style of the Toy Story short movies released after the third movie) picking up after Toy Story 3, premieres on Disney +. Made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toy Story, it reunites Woody with Bo Peep, who was noticeably absent from Toy Story 3. It is affectionately nicknamed "Toy Story 4" by fans. (Basically the OTL Toy Story 4 and Woody doesn't leave for Bo.)
2021:
The Amazing World of Gumball ends after eight seasons, ten years on Cartoon Network, and an epic two-season long arc following the cliffhanger in Season 6's finale, "The Inquisition". (OTL it ended at season 6 and so far, we haven't had a conclusion.)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is released with Jim Carrey in the role to negative reviews but good box office. There is some controversy about the movie playing alcoholism for laughs as it's revealed that Sean Young's character, Lt. Lois Einhorn, concocted the entire plot as revenge for her father, ex-Miami Dolphin Ray Finkle. Finkle, it seems, drank himself to death after he was blamed for allowing the Miami Dolphins to lose a Super Bowl. (TBH the OTL film is still pretty unfunny even without the trans twist, but hey, at least it isn't as homophobic anymore).
1995:
In a shocking twist, The Lion King wins the Best Picture Oscar, upsetting Forrest Gump. It also wins Best Adapted Screenplay over Gump since it's credited as an adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's Kimba The White Lion.
Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising is adapted with John McTiernan at the helm.
Die Hard 3 (also known as Die Hard With A Vengeance), the third and final Die Hard movie is released. Based on the novel Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh, John McTiernan does not return due to him being busy with Red Storm Rising, but he is replaced by Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner (ironically, the source novel was, at one point, pitched as a Lethal Weapon movie). Steven DeSouza returns to write the screenplay with Hensleigh. Bruce Willis would later return for the Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day To Die Hard video games.
Toy Story debuts, forever changing the animated film industry.
On May 27, Christopher Reeve is involved in a horse-riding accident. His leg takes most of the fall and he breaks it. It will take a while for him to recover, but he is thankful that he isn't paralyzed for life. He will, however, have a semi-noticeable limp for the rest of his life.
1997:
After the success of GoldenEye, Martin Campbell is brought back to direct Tomorrow Never Dies. Such is the film's success that Campbell later directs the other two films in Pierce Brosnan's tenure as James Bond, The World is Not Enough (in which Molly Warmflash replaces Christmas Jones as Bond's main love interest), and Die Another Day.
1998:
A remake of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, known simply as 20,000, and directed by Roland Emmerich, premieres. Originally planned as a Godzilla reboot, it receives tepid critical reception despite making back its budget. It does earn a bit of a cult following in later years.
Phil Hartman is admitted to the ICU after his wife shoots him. He will make a full recovery. Due to her unstable state brought about by drugs, she separates from Hartman and undergoes intense rehab.
The Mask of Zorro is released, directed by Robert Rodriguez, and starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, and Anthony Hopkins.
1999:
Following the release of Toy Story 2, where she does Jessie's yodeling, Mary Kay Bergman takes a sabbatical from the voice acting business to address her mental health.
Stanley Kubrick is revived following a heart attack and decides to retire from the filmmaking business after he finishes AI: Artificial Intelligence. He passes away in 2001 after winning Best Director for the film.
Phil Hartman accepts a role in Matt Groening's Futurama as Phillip J. Fry and Zapp Brannigan.
2000:
Lethal Weapon 2000, the last film in the Lethal Weapon series, is released.
2002:
After the success of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Disney debuts The All-New Woody's Round-Up, an animated series in the same vein as the Buzz Lightyear show, only starring Woody instead. Tom Hanks voices Woody again, similar to how Tim Allen voiced Buzz for the entirety of BLSoC. (OTL, Allen only did the DTV movie that was re-edited from the show's first three episodes). Also making a very welcome return is Kelsey Grammer as Stinky Pete, who is now a gold and oil baron. He serves as the show's main antagonist, in a nod to his role in Toy Story 2. Jessie is recast with Mary Kay Bergman, fresh from her sabbatical. Anne Potts also has a recurring role as Bo Peep, and Tim Allen also has a recurring role as Buzz League, a bounty hunter and foe-turned-friend of Woody (and needless to say, analogue for Buzz Lightyear). Finally, Riders in the Sky sing a new version of Woody's Roundup as the show's opening theme; Woody Jackson and Bill Elm, who would later earn fame as the composers for Red Dead Redemption, score the show.
2003:
After Ronald Maxwell was fired in preproduction for turning in a very Neo-Confederate leaning script, Gods and Generals, the adaptation of Jeffrey Shaara's novel of the same name, is released as a two-part film. A sequel to 1993's The Killer Angels (OTL: Gettysburg), it is directed by Anthony Minghella (Edward Zwick directs Cold Mountain in this TL instead) with a revised script by Kevin Jarre, who wrote the screenplay for Glory. Maxwell is still given story credit. It is released on video with a length of 300 minutes.
2004:
Johnny Depp wins a Best Actor Oscar as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Galvanized by the success, Disney instantly starts production on the sequel, Dead Man's Chest, for a 2005 release.
Sean Astin wins a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. With this, the film becomes the most-awarded film in Oscars history, with a clean sweep: 12 wins out of 12 nominations.
2005:
SpongeBob Comics is released with most of the show's writing staff returning and Mr. Lawrence, AKA Plankton, as the main artist. It becomes extremely popular and is still in production as of 2022. Some issues would be turned into motion comics with the SpongeBob cast returning to reprise their roles. This jumpstarts a trend of reviving TV shows as comics instead of ordering new seasons. Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends and The Fairly OddParents later receive this treatment in 2008.
The Dark Knight (OTL: Batman Begins) is released to theatres. It kickstart a new trilogy of Batman movies starring Christian Bale and directed by Christopher Nolan.
Barely dodging competition with The Dark Knight, Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest premieres and becomes a smash hit, grossing 1 billion dollars at the box office. In doing so it becomes the first film to do so since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Due to the rushed production, Ted Eliott and Terry Rosso have not had time to write a script based on the sequel hook at the end of the film. Disney does however greenlight a sequel for 2007, giving the cast and crew some much-needed breathing space.
2007:
Following the severe backlash of the Star Wars special editions, George Lucas hands over restoration rights to the original trilogy to the Criterion Collection, who restore the films for the 30th anniversary of the original movie. The following set (which includes the prequels) released by the company becomes a massive success, becoming the company's most successful release, not at least because it has a proper widescreen restoration of the original trilogy. For posterity's sake, it also contains the 1997 and 2004 special editions. What is interesting is that it also has all-new editions by George Lucas . These cuts combines elements of both the original cuts and the better-received Special Edition changes (such as Aurbesh in the Death Star tractor beam, Biggs' deleted scene, the new Cloud City vistas, Ian McDirarmid's replacement with Clive Revil in Empire, Sebastian Shaw having his eyebrows digitally removed, and Yub Nub replaced with Victory Celebration).
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End debuts, having become the most expensive motion picture ever until Spider-Man 3 breaks that record a few months later. Its three-hour runtime (meaning yes, we do get Governor Swann's dilemma and "People aren't cargo, mate" and the rest of the deleted scenes) is criticized by some, but those critics are silenced when people point out that hardly anyone minded The Return of the King lasting 212 minutes and winning 12 Oscars (NOTE: Saruman was added back into the theatrical cut).
Spider-Man 3 debuts despite a tumultuous production. Despite being criticized for being much more horror-oriented than its predecessors and being inferior to Spider-Man 2, it still becomes a massive box-office success. (Note: this is indeed the editor's cut, minus the dance scene, and Raimi gets more creative freedom - for example, he gets to shoot Venom's demise his way).
2008:
Heath Ledger is admitted to a local ICU after a drug overdose. The incident convinces him to quit drugs. His last public appearance for the next four years is to accept his Best Supporting Actor as Joker in The Dark Knight Returns and to announce a sabbatical from acting. Eventually kicking the habit, he returns for a cameo in The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 and restarts a very active and successful career. He, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Hamil all voice Joker in a special commercial advertising DC's The Three Jokers in 2020.
2009:
Up wins Best Picture.
The Simpsons Movie is released to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary.
2010:
Toy Story 3 wins Best Picture.
Avatar: The Last Airbender gets an animated feature film by the original cast and crew that follows the plot of the show after it ended. This came after a proposed live-action movie with M. Night Shyamalan fell through and was canceled.
2011:
Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, a TV miniseries airs, chronicling the adventures of a young Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp returns to narrate the series.
2013:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, directed by Peter Jackson, is released in January after two years of preproduction. There and Back Again will be released in December of that year, followed by a 344-minute version having a limited release in 2014. (OTL The Hobbit was rushed in pre-production and that's why we got three movies.)
However, it seems that 2013 will see a brief resurgence of the epic film as the final installment of The Killer Angels trilogy is released. Edward Zwick directs The Last Full Measure, a 365-minute movie that is released in three parts from July 1-3 of that year. (OTL Gods and Generals bombed and thus, I doubt we'll ever see an adaptation of the book) The 365-minute edit wins Best Picture in 2014, but the film, along with O.J: Made in America's win for Best Documentary in 2016 eventually leads to a rule that bars any "multi-part or limited series" from being nominated at the Oscars.
The Dallas revival is canceled after one season out of respect for the recently-deceased Larry Hagman. A two-hour TV movie, Farewell to Dallas, is aired to wrap up any remaining plot threads the following year. (NOTE: in this TL, Seasons 1 and 2 of the reboot, both being 10 and 15 episodes long, respectively, were merged into one 25-episode season.) CBS officially lists this season as the original show's Season 15.
2016:
Star Wars: The Clone Wars ends after eight seasons and a network change from Cartoon Network to the Disney Channel. (OTL it was canceled after the ownership switch and most of the ideas for seasons seven and eight never made it)
2017:
A movie of Phineas and Ferb is released in theatres to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary. It serves as a prequel to the show, taking place on the last week of school. (OTL this was a plan, but never came to fruition. We don't know what it would have involved. Across the 2nd Dimension and Candace Against The Universe were not based on this idea.)
2019:
Adventure Time ends on Cartoon Network after ten seasons, a movie, and 300 episodes. (OTL the show was canceled rather abruptly and the crew had to rush Season 9.)
2020 :
Woody: The Lonesome Cowboy, a 40-minute special (in the style of the Toy Story short movies released after the third movie) picking up after Toy Story 3, premieres on Disney +. Made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toy Story, it reunites Woody with Bo Peep, who was noticeably absent from Toy Story 3. It is affectionately nicknamed "Toy Story 4" by fans. (Basically the OTL Toy Story 4 and Woody doesn't leave for Bo.)
2021:
The Amazing World of Gumball ends after eight seasons, ten years on Cartoon Network, and an epic two-season long arc following the cliffhanger in Season 6's finale, "The Inquisition". (OTL it ended at season 6 and so far, we haven't had a conclusion.)
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Actually, IOTL Ed, Edd n Eddy is still running on TV today, while Foster's is 3 years away from ending its TV run in '08.
I can definitely include these in at least my upcoming 1995 post and again when I hit 2005 so long as they don’t contradict the original post. I’ve actually been going back to make sure.
1994
January 3: The first episode of Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers, produced by Albert Barillé, is broadcast.
January 26: The first episode of The Critic is broadcast. It will gain a cult following.
January 30: The Peanuts special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown first airs.
February 4: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is released with Jim Carrey in the role to negative reviews but good box office. There is some controversy about the movie playing alcoholism for laughs as it's revealed that Sean Young's character, Lt. Lois Einhorn, concocted the entire plot as revenge for her father, ex-Miami Dolphin Ray Finkle. Finkle, it seems, drank himself to death after he was blamed for allowing the Miami Dolphins to lose a Super Bowl(Addition by Kaijudirector).
February 5: The first episode of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego is broadcast.
February 25: Midnight Cowboy is rereleased. After a look over it was decided the X-Rating the film got was undeserved as it only got the rating due to the at the time fear it was promoting Homosexuality. The film is therefore knocked down to an R Rating instead.
March 1:At the 36 Grammy Awards, "And I will Always Love You" wins record of the year while "A Whole New World" wins Song of the Year.
March 5: The first episode of Duckman is broadcast. The show will gain a cult following.
March 9: The first episode of The Busy World of Richard Scarry is broadcast.
March 21: 66th Academy Awards. The Wallace and Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers by Nick Park wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
March 30: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Thumbelina premiers.
April 1: Clifford is released(OTL this film was about Martin Short playing a ten year old boy in a comedy. Here it's an adaptation of Clifford the big Red Dog, because why not and it was released on April Fool's Day).
April 8: Kurt Corbain is checked into a mental institute when he exhibits suicidal tendencies and has his access to guns taken away.
April 15: The first episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast is broadcast.
April 28: The 100th episode of The Simpsons airs. It is the beginning of a two parter "Who Shot Mr.Burns?"
May 8: Stephen King and George A Romero release The Stand, a film adaptation of Stephen King's book about a post apocalyptic world where the forces of good and evil do final battle against Stephen King's recurring antagonist Randall Flagg. This film will kick off a series of other films based on Stephen King works.
May 13: The Crow is released after a long production including Brandon Lee's near death onset. He is hesitant to return to the role for sequels. Since his character is dead anyway and is implied to return to the dead. A new actor and new character are chosen for sequels. In this case, Mark William Callaway, a Wrestler known as the Undertaker.
May 20: The Mask, a violent take faithful to the comic adaptation by Ralph Bakshi, appears in theatres. It mixes live action with 2D cartoons. In this case anyone who puts on the mask becomes a homicidal Toon.
May 27: A film adaptation of the Flintstones is released starring John Goodman by Universal with a script by Richard Donnor, making the film more sentimental than many expected, diving into social issues such as how the residents of Bedrock wiped out another tribe to settle there, leading to the infamous line "We participated in a Genocide Barn!" and showing Fred Flintstone having a hard time adjusting to "Modern society" after previously having been a simple Caveman who barely spoke and just smashed things with his club. The film will inspire other live action adaptations of Hannah Barbera properties.
June 10: The Three Stooges: The Legend of Curly's Gold is released as an animated film by the former Hannah Barbera, who still held the rights to make Three Stooges cartoons.
Speed is released in theatres.
June 13: A TV Series based on Little Shop of Horrors airs titled Pet Shop of Horrors is released.
June 15: The Lion King is released by Disney. Due to Disney's connection to Studio Ghibli, they reached out to Osamu Tezuka's estate and secured the rights to Kimba the White Lion due to the noted similarities between the two franchises and adapted the story instead, changing the names. The film has Kimba be born to King of the Jungle Mufasa. When Mufasa's brother Scar causes Mufasa's death, Simba is forced to run away and is kidnapped by hunters before escaping and returning home as an adult along with some animals he befriended at the Zoo he stayed at called Timon and Pumbaa, who were happy living in the Zoo in what they called "Akuna Matata" or know worries for the rest of your days. Kimba helps overthrow Scar and save the Pridelands. Disney pulled most of its team away from their planned project of Pocahontas. As a result "The A Team" worked on the Lion King.
This film pushes the release date of Treasure Planet to next year.
June 24: A miniseries called Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner is released(OTL. This became a film after Costner joined the cast. Here it stayed a miniseries).
July 1: Tim Burton announces he will return one more time to complete his Batman "Trilogy" wit Michael Keaton also returning as Batman and Billy Dee Williams as Two Face. Robin Williams is cast as the Riddler.
Sam Raimi's The Shadow is released and becomes popular for its blend of Superhero and Horror elements. The film stars Liam Neeson as the Shadow. Tim Burton was such a fan of the film he nominated Sam Raimi as his successor on the Batman films(OTL Raimi tried to get the rights to both Batman and the Shadow to make his own movie. When his script for The Shadow was ignored, Raimi turned it into the original Superhero Darkman).
July 6: Forrest Gump is released, becoming Paramount's Highest Grossing Film of All Time.
July 16: Isao Takahata's Pom Poko premiers. Disney absolutely refuses to dub it due to the Taduki's which in Japanese mythology are able to inflate their testicles, something they do in the film as a defense mechanism. Disney considered writing it so that the testicles are referred to as "pouches" but there was no way around it and so Pom Poko never receives an english dub, at least by Disney.
August 3: Harrison Ford returns as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger.
August 25: The teen drama tv series My So-Called Life premieres on ABC, starring Claire Danes and Jared Leto as front running cast members. The show becomes a popular hit.
August 26: Natural Born Killers, a film by Quentin Tarantino,about a couple who go on a killing spree, is released. The film ends with the couple getting gunned down by Police in a homage to Bonnie and Clyde(OTL the film script was written by Tarantino, who tried and failed to get the permission to direct it. It was directed by Oliver Stone instead). The work on this film pushes back Tarantino's own film Pulp Fiction by at least one year, maybe more.
Batholomew v Neff, a drama starring John Candy and Sylvester Stallone is released. John Candy suffered a heart attack on set and was rushed to the hospital(OTL, this film was scrapped and John Candy made the box office bomb Wagons East in Mexico. A film he didn't want to make but had to as he was in debt and he died of a heart attack while there. Because of different circumstances and a different shooting schedule he has his heart attack while surrounded by people and is saved. He will take a break from acting to get recover).
September 5: The first episode of Aladdin: The Series is broadcast. Most of the voice cast returned for the show except for Jim Carrey as the Genie, he was replaced by Rob Paulsen(he impersonated Jim Carrey's Mask for the Animated Series OTL so he could do something similar here). The first episode is a two parter "The Return of Jaffar", in which Jaffar is freed and crashes Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding before being defeated.
September 10:The first episode of ReBoot, one of the first entirely CGI shows is broadcast.
Jan Švankmajer's Faust premiers. It mixes live action with stop motion and puppetry to a terrifying extent in some scenes.
September 11: The first episode of The Magic School Bus is broadcast.
September 23: The Shawshank Redemption is released. It is another Stephen King film though it is not a supernatural story.
September 24: The first episode of Fantastic Four and Iron Man are broadcast. Both are made to capitalize on the rights of Movies being released at this time. The first is the theatrical release of Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, and the second is Universal's Iron Man by Stuart Gordon, a low budget film starring Nicholas Cage in the lead role. The film features billionaire and arms dealer Tony Stark being captured while visiting China by the Mandarin, a magically powered supervillain who he builds a suit to escape from and later fight. Cuba Gooding Jr appears as James Rhodes, who is expected to play his hero alter ego War Machine in the sequel(Marvel had a ton of film plans in the 90's. What killed most of them was the company filing for bankcruptcy which happened because editor Jim Shooter was kicked out, and fell show of the money needed to buy back the company. Here he actually does buy it back and since he'd run Marvel for almost a decade before this point he knows what he's doing rather than the OTL new owners who didn't).
September 29: Asterix Conquers America, the sixth Astérix film, premiers.
September 30: Tim Burton's Ed Wood is released under Disney's Touchstone Banner.
October: Peter Parker retires as Spider-Man and allows a clone of him named Ben Reilly to take over. The clone assumes his identity, becoming Peter Parker in name as well. This results in the Spider-Man comics being split, one line focusing on the Single Peter Parker and one focusing on the retired Spider-Man living in Oregon with his wife Mary Jane with the couple having a daughter named May after Peter's aunt, who dies around this time of old age, revealing she knew her nephew was Spider-Man.
October 7: The first episode of Muffy and Itsy is broadcast. It is a cartoon about a little girl named Muffet who befriends a Spider, who is constantly trying to be killed by an exterminator.
October 12: DreamWorks Animation is founded along with DreamWorks Pictures. Katzenberg shot himself in the foot. He wanted to release a movie similar to Disney's planned release(OTL he did this a few times starting with his release of Antz against A Bug's Life). However, he made his own version of Pocahontas, thinking Disney was doing the same. He called this film Sacagawea based on another Native American figure. The film was not received well and considered racist by many. Disney wiped their foreheads and felt like they dodged a bullet.
October 21: Cartoon Network Studios is founded.
October 24: The first episode of Gargoyles airs...On Fox.
October 14: Wes Craven's New Nightmare is released, reimagining Freddy Krueger as scary again as Craven felt the sequels made him too cartoonish. Johnny Depp cameos in the film(OTL Craven was too scared to ask him but Depp admits he would have said yes).
October 19: Clerks is released and given an NC-17 rating due to all the swearing. The film ends quite shockingly with Dante being shot dead by a shoplifter. A sudden downer ending to an otherwise straight forward comedy(OTL this was the original ending). Despite this the film is a surprise hit for Miramax and Kevin Smith, helping to distract away from the then recent backlash on Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault cases.
October 28: Stargate is released.
Early sketches for Sully, Mike and Boo. Take your pick. I personally would go bottom for Sully. Top for Mike and maybe use the three designs for Boo but make them different human characters, maybe three sisters with different personalities.
October 29: The first episode of Monsters Inc airs as part of the Disney Afternoon block(playing with time here. This is when Aaahh!! Real Monsters aired OTL which is similar to Monster's Inc in premise. Monster's Inc was conceived at Pixar around this time as well).
October 30: The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V is first broadcast which is by far the most gruesome of the Treehouse of Horror episodes made to that point and features the special guest voice of James Earl Jones.
November 3: The German animated feature Felidae is first released. It will gain cult status later, but does worse on release due to being considered a ripoff of Spielberg's Cats.
November 15: Pinocchio and the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon Snow White are added to the National Film Registry.
November 18: Star Trek: Generations is released.The film has a tweaked plot but involves Kirk's Enterprise from the past being pulled into the future at the moment they were to die in battle with a Romulan ambush. This event being orchestrated by the Borg, the film's main antagonists.
Don Bluth's The Swan Princess premieres(OTL this film was inspired by Don Bluth's success but made by Rich productions. Here they hired Bluth, which saves him from making one of his worst films' A Troll in Central Park).
November 19: The first episode of Spider-Man airs. It also coincides with the release of James Cameron's Spider-Man, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. The film features Spider-Man being bitten and then flirting as Spider-Man with Mary Jane. The main antagonist is Norman Osborn, but he only briefly appears as the Green Goblin in this film. Instead he has two superpowered henchman in Electro and Sandman(played by Cameron recurring actors Lance Henrickson and Michael Biehn). Osborn wants Spider-Man to join him and after learning his identity, kidnaps MJ. Spider-Man battles the two supervillains to save MJ at the World Trade Center, where he tricks them into taking each other out, Electro dying by accident when Spider-Man tries to save him but he slams against the side of a building.
As for the Animated Show itself, it is allowed to go full dark with implied death and even crosses over with Gargoyles.
November 23: The mix between live-action and animation, The Pagemaster, starring Macaulay Culkin is released. Capitalizing on the success of the Captain N, and its recent finale. The series is educational and about a child and a team of Literary characters having adventures in classic literature while trying to stop an evil villain called "Bookburner" that wants to destroy all stories. Culkin's character is joined by a team including the genius Sherlock Holmes, the strong but dumb Beowulf, the female warrior Mulan, the curious Alice and trickster Tom Sawyer. Other characters appear, usually from Public Domain books such as Gandalf, Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, Tom Sawyer
December 4: The film Sailor Moon S: The Movie premiers.
December 16: Dumb and Dumber is released starring Jim Carrey and Nicholas Cage.
December 23: Street Fighter is released. The film focuses on Ryu specifically. Ryu and Ken finish their training and set out in the world. Both joining the Street Fighter tournament. Ryu later finds that their master was murdered by the mysterious Akuma and enters the tournament. Ryu wins but scars Sagat when he loses control of his inner darkness and is tempted by Akuma, leading him to fight Ken while Guile and Chun Li try to avenge the deaths of their loved ones against Bison and seemingly succeed.
January 3: The first episode of Once Upon a Time... The Discoverers, produced by Albert Barillé, is broadcast.
January 26: The first episode of The Critic is broadcast. It will gain a cult following.
January 30: The Peanuts special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown first airs.
February 4: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is released with Jim Carrey in the role to negative reviews but good box office. There is some controversy about the movie playing alcoholism for laughs as it's revealed that Sean Young's character, Lt. Lois Einhorn, concocted the entire plot as revenge for her father, ex-Miami Dolphin Ray Finkle. Finkle, it seems, drank himself to death after he was blamed for allowing the Miami Dolphins to lose a Super Bowl(Addition by Kaijudirector).
February 5: The first episode of Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego is broadcast.
February 25: Midnight Cowboy is rereleased. After a look over it was decided the X-Rating the film got was undeserved as it only got the rating due to the at the time fear it was promoting Homosexuality. The film is therefore knocked down to an R Rating instead.
March 1:At the 36 Grammy Awards, "And I will Always Love You" wins record of the year while "A Whole New World" wins Song of the Year.
March 5: The first episode of Duckman is broadcast. The show will gain a cult following.
March 9: The first episode of The Busy World of Richard Scarry is broadcast.
March 21: 66th Academy Awards. The Wallace and Gromit short film The Wrong Trousers by Nick Park wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
March 30: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's Thumbelina premiers.
April 1: Clifford is released(OTL this film was about Martin Short playing a ten year old boy in a comedy. Here it's an adaptation of Clifford the big Red Dog, because why not and it was released on April Fool's Day).
April 8: Kurt Corbain is checked into a mental institute when he exhibits suicidal tendencies and has his access to guns taken away.
April 15: The first episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast is broadcast.
April 28: The 100th episode of The Simpsons airs. It is the beginning of a two parter "Who Shot Mr.Burns?"
May 8: Stephen King and George A Romero release The Stand, a film adaptation of Stephen King's book about a post apocalyptic world where the forces of good and evil do final battle against Stephen King's recurring antagonist Randall Flagg. This film will kick off a series of other films based on Stephen King works.
May 20: The Mask, a violent take faithful to the comic adaptation by Ralph Bakshi, appears in theatres. It mixes live action with 2D cartoons. In this case anyone who puts on the mask becomes a homicidal Toon.
May 27: A film adaptation of the Flintstones is released starring John Goodman by Universal with a script by Richard Donnor, making the film more sentimental than many expected, diving into social issues such as how the residents of Bedrock wiped out another tribe to settle there, leading to the infamous line "We participated in a Genocide Barn!" and showing Fred Flintstone having a hard time adjusting to "Modern society" after previously having been a simple Caveman who barely spoke and just smashed things with his club. The film will inspire other live action adaptations of Hannah Barbera properties.
June 10: The Three Stooges: The Legend of Curly's Gold is released as an animated film by the former Hannah Barbera, who still held the rights to make Three Stooges cartoons.
Speed is released in theatres.
June 13: A TV Series based on Little Shop of Horrors airs titled Pet Shop of Horrors is released.
June 15: The Lion King is released by Disney. Due to Disney's connection to Studio Ghibli, they reached out to Osamu Tezuka's estate and secured the rights to Kimba the White Lion due to the noted similarities between the two franchises and adapted the story instead, changing the names. The film has Kimba be born to King of the Jungle Mufasa. When Mufasa's brother Scar causes Mufasa's death, Simba is forced to run away and is kidnapped by hunters before escaping and returning home as an adult along with some animals he befriended at the Zoo he stayed at called Timon and Pumbaa, who were happy living in the Zoo in what they called "Akuna Matata" or know worries for the rest of your days. Kimba helps overthrow Scar and save the Pridelands. Disney pulled most of its team away from their planned project of Pocahontas. As a result "The A Team" worked on the Lion King.
This film pushes the release date of Treasure Planet to next year.
June 24: A miniseries called Wyatt Earp, starring Kevin Costner is released(OTL. This became a film after Costner joined the cast. Here it stayed a miniseries).
July 1: Tim Burton announces he will return one more time to complete his Batman "Trilogy" wit Michael Keaton also returning as Batman and Billy Dee Williams as Two Face. Robin Williams is cast as the Riddler.
July 6: Forrest Gump is released, becoming Paramount's Highest Grossing Film of All Time.
July 16: Isao Takahata's Pom Poko premiers. Disney absolutely refuses to dub it due to the Taduki's which in Japanese mythology are able to inflate their testicles, something they do in the film as a defense mechanism. Disney considered writing it so that the testicles are referred to as "pouches" but there was no way around it and so Pom Poko never receives an english dub, at least by Disney.
August 3: Harrison Ford returns as Jack Ryan in Clear and Present Danger.
August 25: The teen drama tv series My So-Called Life premieres on ABC, starring Claire Danes and Jared Leto as front running cast members. The show becomes a popular hit.
August 26: Natural Born Killers, a film by Quentin Tarantino,about a couple who go on a killing spree, is released. The film ends with the couple getting gunned down by Police in a homage to Bonnie and Clyde(OTL the film script was written by Tarantino, who tried and failed to get the permission to direct it. It was directed by Oliver Stone instead). The work on this film pushes back Tarantino's own film Pulp Fiction by at least one year, maybe more.
Batholomew v Neff, a drama starring John Candy and Sylvester Stallone is released. John Candy suffered a heart attack on set and was rushed to the hospital(OTL, this film was scrapped and John Candy made the box office bomb Wagons East in Mexico. A film he didn't want to make but had to as he was in debt and he died of a heart attack while there. Because of different circumstances and a different shooting schedule he has his heart attack while surrounded by people and is saved. He will take a break from acting to get recover).
September 5: The first episode of Aladdin: The Series is broadcast. Most of the voice cast returned for the show except for Jim Carrey as the Genie, he was replaced by Rob Paulsen(he impersonated Jim Carrey's Mask for the Animated Series OTL so he could do something similar here). The first episode is a two parter "The Return of Jaffar", in which Jaffar is freed and crashes Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding before being defeated.
September 10:The first episode of ReBoot, one of the first entirely CGI shows is broadcast.
Jan Švankmajer's Faust premiers. It mixes live action with stop motion and puppetry to a terrifying extent in some scenes.
September 11: The first episode of The Magic School Bus is broadcast.
September 23: The Shawshank Redemption is released. It is another Stephen King film though it is not a supernatural story.
September 24: The first episode of Fantastic Four and Iron Man are broadcast. Both are made to capitalize on the rights of Movies being released at this time. The first is the theatrical release of Roger Corman's Fantastic Four, and the second is Universal's Iron Man by Stuart Gordon, a low budget film starring Nicholas Cage in the lead role. The film features billionaire and arms dealer Tony Stark being captured while visiting China by the Mandarin, a magically powered supervillain who he builds a suit to escape from and later fight. Cuba Gooding Jr appears as James Rhodes, who is expected to play his hero alter ego War Machine in the sequel(Marvel had a ton of film plans in the 90's. What killed most of them was the company filing for bankcruptcy which happened because editor Jim Shooter was kicked out, and fell show of the money needed to buy back the company. Here he actually does buy it back and since he'd run Marvel for almost a decade before this point he knows what he's doing rather than the OTL new owners who didn't).
September 29: Asterix Conquers America, the sixth Astérix film, premiers.
September 30: Tim Burton's Ed Wood is released under Disney's Touchstone Banner.
October: Peter Parker retires as Spider-Man and allows a clone of him named Ben Reilly to take over. The clone assumes his identity, becoming Peter Parker in name as well. This results in the Spider-Man comics being split, one line focusing on the Single Peter Parker and one focusing on the retired Spider-Man living in Oregon with his wife Mary Jane with the couple having a daughter named May after Peter's aunt, who dies around this time of old age, revealing she knew her nephew was Spider-Man.
October 7: The first episode of Muffy and Itsy is broadcast. It is a cartoon about a little girl named Muffet who befriends a Spider, who is constantly trying to be killed by an exterminator.
October 12: DreamWorks Animation is founded along with DreamWorks Pictures. Katzenberg shot himself in the foot. He wanted to release a movie similar to Disney's planned release(OTL he did this a few times starting with his release of Antz against A Bug's Life). However, he made his own version of Pocahontas, thinking Disney was doing the same. He called this film Sacagawea based on another Native American figure. The film was not received well and considered racist by many. Disney wiped their foreheads and felt like they dodged a bullet.
October 21: Cartoon Network Studios is founded.
October 24: The first episode of Gargoyles airs...On Fox.
October 14: Wes Craven's New Nightmare is released, reimagining Freddy Krueger as scary again as Craven felt the sequels made him too cartoonish. Johnny Depp cameos in the film(OTL Craven was too scared to ask him but Depp admits he would have said yes).
October 19: Clerks is released and given an NC-17 rating due to all the swearing. The film ends quite shockingly with Dante being shot dead by a shoplifter. A sudden downer ending to an otherwise straight forward comedy(OTL this was the original ending). Despite this the film is a surprise hit for Miramax and Kevin Smith, helping to distract away from the then recent backlash on Harvey Weinstein's sexual assault cases.
October 28: Stargate is released.
Early sketches for Sully, Mike and Boo. Take your pick. I personally would go bottom for Sully. Top for Mike and maybe use the three designs for Boo but make them different human characters, maybe three sisters with different personalities.
October 30: The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V is first broadcast which is by far the most gruesome of the Treehouse of Horror episodes made to that point and features the special guest voice of James Earl Jones.
November 3: The German animated feature Felidae is first released. It will gain cult status later, but does worse on release due to being considered a ripoff of Spielberg's Cats.
November 15: Pinocchio and the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon Snow White are added to the National Film Registry.
November 18: Star Trek: Generations is released.The film has a tweaked plot but involves Kirk's Enterprise from the past being pulled into the future at the moment they were to die in battle with a Romulan ambush. This event being orchestrated by the Borg, the film's main antagonists.
Don Bluth's The Swan Princess premieres(OTL this film was inspired by Don Bluth's success but made by Rich productions. Here they hired Bluth, which saves him from making one of his worst films' A Troll in Central Park).
As for the Animated Show itself, it is allowed to go full dark with implied death and even crosses over with Gargoyles.
November 23: The mix between live-action and animation, The Pagemaster, starring Macaulay Culkin is released. Capitalizing on the success of the Captain N, and its recent finale. The series is educational and about a child and a team of Literary characters having adventures in classic literature while trying to stop an evil villain called "Bookburner" that wants to destroy all stories. Culkin's character is joined by a team including the genius Sherlock Holmes, the strong but dumb Beowulf, the female warrior Mulan, the curious Alice and trickster Tom Sawyer. Other characters appear, usually from Public Domain books such as Gandalf, Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, Tom Sawyer
December 4: The film Sailor Moon S: The Movie premiers.
December 16: Dumb and Dumber is released starring Jim Carrey and Nicholas Cage.
December 23: Street Fighter is released. The film focuses on Ryu specifically. Ryu and Ken finish their training and set out in the world. Both joining the Street Fighter tournament. Ryu later finds that their master was murdered by the mysterious Akuma and enters the tournament. Ryu wins but scars Sagat when he loses control of his inner darkness and is tempted by Akuma, leading him to fight Ken while Guile and Chun Li try to avenge the deaths of their loved ones against Bison and seemingly succeed.
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Thanks for the shoutout! I also think the alternate Lion King ties in well with the Oscar win entry.
Admittedly my plan was for an earlier Treasure Planet since the guy preventing it left Disney earlier but I’m fine moving it to next year
Fair enough, I hope it leads to a TV show. TP's lore has more than enough material for one.
Also question for @shrekfan2020: do we have permission to jump backward in time? I was thinking about going back to the 60s-70s.
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1999:
Tarzan is released by Disney. It proves to be a massive hit, enough for Disney to commission an animated TV series.
2003:
Sinbad: Legends of The Seven Seas debuts, released by Paramount Animation. Hot on the heels of The Prince of Egypt, it becomes lauded for attempting - and succeeding - at adapting all seven voyages of Sinbad the Sailor as told in the Arabian Nights. It starred Ohed Fehr as Sinbad the Sailor. (OTL this was Legend of the Seven Seas).
As it was partially made in tribute to Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy and other past Sinbad movies, it even features cameos from Kerwin Baker, John Phillip Law, Patrick Wayne, (all three of whom played Sinbad in the Harryhausen trilogy), Lou Ferrigno (who himself played Sinbad in a 1980 movie), Tom Baker (who played the villain in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), and even one from Harryhausen himself.
2004:
As an answer to the success of Sinbad, Disney strikes back with Tarzan II, which tells of Tarzan's service in World War I. Notably, it features historical figures such as Pierce Brosnan as Captain Frederick Selous, John-Rhys Davies as the historical General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (the film's main antagonist), and Edward Fox as General Jan Smuts. However, there was controversy in Germany given its negative depiction of Germans (something that German fans were also quick to point out to much disgust in the post-WWI Tarzan books when they were published) and the romanticization of British colonial rule in Africa.
Tarzan is released by Disney. It proves to be a massive hit, enough for Disney to commission an animated TV series.
2003:
Sinbad: Legends of The Seven Seas debuts, released by Paramount Animation. Hot on the heels of The Prince of Egypt, it becomes lauded for attempting - and succeeding - at adapting all seven voyages of Sinbad the Sailor as told in the Arabian Nights. It starred Ohed Fehr as Sinbad the Sailor. (OTL this was Legend of the Seven Seas).
As it was partially made in tribute to Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad trilogy and other past Sinbad movies, it even features cameos from Kerwin Baker, John Phillip Law, Patrick Wayne, (all three of whom played Sinbad in the Harryhausen trilogy), Lou Ferrigno (who himself played Sinbad in a 1980 movie), Tom Baker (who played the villain in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), and even one from Harryhausen himself.
2004:
As an answer to the success of Sinbad, Disney strikes back with Tarzan II, which tells of Tarzan's service in World War I. Notably, it features historical figures such as Pierce Brosnan as Captain Frederick Selous, John-Rhys Davies as the historical General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (the film's main antagonist), and Edward Fox as General Jan Smuts. However, there was controversy in Germany given its negative depiction of Germans (something that German fans were also quick to point out to much disgust in the post-WWI Tarzan books when they were published) and the romanticization of British colonial rule in Africa.
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1995
January 2: The First Episode of Marsupilami airs(OTL this was when The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show aired. Since Ren and Stimpy's creator is facing accusations. The studio Carbunkle Cartoons who made this show, cannot afford to turn down the offer to make this cartoon. The original show is not made for the same reason as the controversy with John K).
January 26: My So-Called Life airs its season finale. Despite being popular with its TV audience, ABC cancels the show after one season, causing public outcry.
February 12: Iron Butterfly bassist Phillip Taylor Kramer is found alive by police after calling 911 (OTL he disappeared). He had been drinking and got lost on the way to the airport. He was ranting about OJ Simpson being innocent. OJ having been found guilty of his wife's murder(I wasn't sure what to do with the OJ Simpson murder trial. Some timelines have OJ commit suicide. Some have it be murder suicide. Ultimately I decided OJ is found guilty).
February 13: Chuck Jones receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
March 1: Lyle Lovett attends the 37th annual Grammy Awards(OTL he broke his collarbone in an accident and so couldn't attend. He won two Grammys, which here he accepts in person).
March 5: The Simpsons episode A Star is Burns is first broadcast as a crossover with The Critic and features the special guest voices of Jon Lovitz and Maurice LaMarche. Matt Groening heavily criticized this episode, feeling that it was just an advertisement for The Critic, and that people would incorrectly associate the show with him. Because of this, Matt Groening went uncredited in this episode.
March 19: The Simpsons episode Lisa's Wedding is first broadcast. It is the first episode to take place in the future.
March 27: The 67th Academy Awards. Bob's Birthday by Alison Snowden and David Fine wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Most shocking is the win of The Lion King, over Forest Gump, defeating it for Best Adapted Screenplay. This is seen as one of the biggest disappointments in Oscar history. A Forrest Gump sequel is greenlit soon after and a debate begins over whether or not an animated film should qualify for the best picture Oscar(credit to Kaijudirector)
March 31: Singer Selena Perez survives a murder attempt by Yolanda Saldivar, who was fired as her personal assistant for embezzling money.
During a performance, Jimmy Page, founder of Led Zeppelin, is shot and killed by a man in the crowd, who is promptly subdued by security(OTL the fate of the two performers was reversed. Selena was killed while Jimmy was not on this same day. I decided to reverse their fates here).
April 7: A New Series, Mouse House, is released. As with Quack Pack and Goof Troop. It follow a member of Disney's main trio, in this case Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse along with Mickey's nephews Mortie and Ferdie introduced in 1930's comics(OTL A Goofy Movie was released on this date. It doesn't exist here. Most of the plot beats of it and its sequel going into this timeline's version of Goof Troop).
Michael Bay's Bad Boys debuts with Martin Lawrence and Arsenio Hall in the lead roles(Arsenio Hall turned down Will Smith's role and considers it the worst mistake of his life. Here he doesn't).
April 12: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's The Penguins. The film follows a group of Penguins, who are a parody of the rockband, the Beatles, though they become a military style strike team during the course of the film when a villain played by Tim Curry is introduced( OTL this became The Pebble and the Penguin. A Don Bluth film that did not do well. Playing with some more introducing ideas early to save the film. Here Dreamworks is desperate and manage to nab Don Bluth, giving him creative control. The idea of Madagascar was conceived in 1998 but that was the main characters. Here due to pressure, the idea is brought up at a board meeting and listened to, getting folded in with Bluth's idea. The personalities of the Penguin's are different somewhat but most of the gang take to having to save the day well except for Private, who actually liked being a musician).
April 30: FOX announces that they have decided to pick up My So-Called Life from ABC and immediately start producing a second season of the show for FOX, with a currently unknown release date scheduled for FOX’s Fall 1995 tv season.
May 11-12: The First annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. It quickly becomes shortened to E3. At this historic event for the industry. Nintendo and Sony reveal the fruits of their negotiations since 1991. The Nintendo Playstation.
May 12: Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising is adapted with John McTiernan at the helm(by Kaijudirector). The film is seen as exploring an alternate universe where a coup against Gorbachev succeeded and the Soviet Union started World War III(Gorbachev was reportedly a fan of the film). Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan is inserted into the story to tie in the successful Jack Ryan series. While the short war with the Soviet Union ends. A terrorist attack on the White House leads to Jack Ryan ascending to the office of President of the United States.
May 14: Stephen King's 11/22/63 is released as a miniseries(OTL this is the release date of the Langoliers. King has the idea of what would become 11/22/63 for what seems to be some time as the OTL miniseries mentions the idea of trying to save Kennedy via time travel).
May 24: Braveheart, a film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Brad Pitt is released(Gibson wanted Brad Pitt to play the lead role and only reluctantly agreed to star as well).
May 26: Casper, a film produced by Steven Spielberg and written by JJ Abrams is released. The film's plot is a bit different due to Spielberg's influence, being more wholesome while including some dark elements including Casper's life as Casper McFadden, a young boy who died of pneumonia.
May 27: Christopher Reeve is involved in a horse-riding accident. His leg takes most of the fall and he breaks it. It will take a while for him to recover, but he is thankful that he isn't paralyzed for life. He will, however, have a semi-noticeable limp for the rest of his life(entry by Kaijudirector). This dashes any hopes of a Superman and Batman crossover, not that Reeve was interested anyway. DC begins to look for an actor to replace him. The choice of Nicholas Cage is out as he's already playing Iron Man.
Die Hard 3 (also known as Die Hard With A Vengeance), the third and final Die Hard movie is released. Based on the novel Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh, John McTiernan does not return due to him being busy with Red Storm Rising, but he is replaced by Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner (ironically, the source novel was, at one point, pitched as a Lethal Weapon movie). Steven DeSouza returns to write the screenplay with Hensleigh. Bruce Willis would later return for the Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day To Die Hard video games(Entry by Kaijudirector).
Dr.Katz is basically this guy but not a villain, just snarky.
May 28: The first episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is broadcast. With one difference. Dr.Katz is a tall red cat. A boost in popularity to Duckman and the release of Spielberg's Cats led to this.
June 5: Dragonball Z concludes with Goku's son Gohan destroying the villain Majin Buu using the Spirit Bomb that he learned from his father's spirit. In order to get humanity to lend Gohan their energy, Hercule Satan reveals Gohan as the true hero of earth who defeated Cell. As a result the world learns about the Z Fighters and all they did to protect earth from villains. An Epilogue shows Gohan and Videl having a daughter named Pan, who catches a glimpse of her grandfather Son Goku after she wins at a youth tournament.
June 10: Walt Disney's Treasure Planet is released. Riding the coattails of The Lion King win and lacking any CGI. The film does well. It's general reception is on par with something like Aladdin than any of the other mega hits. A TV Series is planned with the intent of having Wilhelm Defoe play the show's main villain.
Mike Alfred's Madman
June 16: Batman Forever is released. The film features Two Face, Riddler and Marlon Wayans being introduced as Robin(OTl Tim Burton had made a deal with Wayans to play Robin). Dick Grayson loses his parents when the Riddler attacks his circus and Bruce Wayne adopts him. Riddler is killed in the film when he blows himself up but Two Face is committed to an asylum. The movie is credited with making the Riddler terrifying(Below is a video by Channel Awesome that does a better job at imagining what such a film would look like.
June 30: Judge Dredd is released starring Arnold Shwarzenagger(OTL it was Sylvester Stallone).
July 28: Water World is released and becomes a huge box office bomb. However Universal Studios will make a Water Park section of their theme park based on it that will be a huge hit(OTL Water World bombed but has a stunt show based on it that it running to this day. Made it a water park just because I thought it would be funny).
August 9: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead is rushed to the hospital after a Heart Attack.
September 9: Kids' WB launches. Their flagship series is Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island. Other shows launched include a cartoon adaptation of Mike Alfred's Madman(OTL the creator saw Freakazoid as a ripoff of this character and Bruce Timm later said that the character was an inspiration. Here they just outright adapt Madman). Another show to air is Pinky and the Brain
September 15: Due to a wave of Allegations, Kevin Spacey does not appear in The Usual Suspects and so "Keyser Soze" is played by Tobin Bell.
September 22: Likewise due to Spacey's allegations, he doe snot play John Doe. Instead the Movie Se7en features two cops played by Al Pacino(Brad Pitt is busy with Braveheart) and Denzel Washington(turned down the role and later regretted it OTL) hunting down the serial killer John Doe, played by Val Kilmer(He's not playing Batman so he plays this role instead, which he was considered for).
September 25: The first episode of The Lion Guard. The TV Show continuation to The Lion King airs. The series gives Kimba and Nala children of their own, a young boy named Kion and a teenagd girl named Kiara. Kion is part of a group of animals training to become the Royal Guard while Kiara's main story is a forbidden romance with a lion named Kovu being trained to be Scar's successor.
October 4: The first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion airs. The Series will not go over budget, allowing for an ending that's actually far more hopeful rather than apocalyptic.
October 12: The second season of My So-Called Life premieres on FOX to rave reviews.
October 15: The Simpsons episode Lisa the Vegetarian is first broadcast which has one of the few permanent character changes where Lisa becomes a vegetarian and has the special guest voices of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney.
October 29: The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror VI is first broadcast and features a segment which has 3D animation.
Halloween IV: The Curse of Michael Myers is released. John Carpenter wanted to move away from focusing on Michael Myers and make the series an anthology. However, Halloween III bombed as it had no Michael Myers and was its own unrelated story. As a compromise, Carpenter wrote a storyline about Michael Myers possibly being reincarnated when a small child(this time a girl) becomes the killer. This allows a new iconic slasher villain to be introduced while telling a new story with unrelated characters.
November: Carolco Pictures is bought by Marvel(OTL they filed for bankruptcy. Here they stayed a float thanks to making Spider-Man. Ironically Marvle also would have filed for bankruptcy had Jim Shooter not stayed on like what happened OTL).
November 17: Goldeneye. Directed by Martin Campbell. Is released. It will have a delayed Video Game Adaptation that includes all Bond Actors as playable characters(a feature cut from the OTL version).
November 18: Ghost in the Shell is first released and will become a cult classic.
November 22: The first CGI animated feature film Toy Story is released by Pixar and the Walt Disney. It will forever change the film industry.
Beavis and Butthead in South Park style by a user on Reddit.
December 1: South Park has a crossover with Beavis and Butthead(Never happened. OTL on this date Jesus vs Santa. The second prototype South Park animation. As such this date should mean something important to the show. Thanks to Parker and Stone being friends with Mike Judge, this is made possible).
December 15: Jim Carrey stars in Jumanji(It's basically become a running gag to swap Jim Carrey and Robin Williams. This butterflies away Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Jim Carrey wouldn't want to do two Animal movies back to back.
December 22: The Animated Film Togo is released(OTL this film became Balto. About the heroic Dog that took part in a race to get the cure to a deadly disease to a village. Its based on real life but most of the race was actually done by a dog named Togo, which Balto has been accused as taking credit from. Togo's life is also closer to the film version of Balto, as such here the film is about Togo instead. Sometimes the name is read or pronounced as "To Go".
Crusade by Paul Verhoeven is released, starring Arnold Shwarzenagger(OTL this film was cancelled by Carolco, which was falling apart and cancelled all films to focus on one film: Cutthroat Island, which bombed and killed Pirate movies until Pirates of the Caribbean revived them. Here the choice swings the other way. They still put their eggs in one basket but its a different sturdier basket).
December 28: Gerald McBoing-Boing is added to the National Film Registry.
December 29: Terry Gilliam's A Tale of Two Cities is released. It becomes the definitive adaptation of the book(OTL was canceled and Gilliam made 12 Monkeys instead).
December 31: Bill Watterson concludes Calvin and Hobbes. It is immediately met with different studios wanting to pick it up for a series.
January 2: The First Episode of Marsupilami airs(OTL this was when The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show aired. Since Ren and Stimpy's creator is facing accusations. The studio Carbunkle Cartoons who made this show, cannot afford to turn down the offer to make this cartoon. The original show is not made for the same reason as the controversy with John K).
January 26: My So-Called Life airs its season finale. Despite being popular with its TV audience, ABC cancels the show after one season, causing public outcry.
February 12: Iron Butterfly bassist Phillip Taylor Kramer is found alive by police after calling 911 (OTL he disappeared). He had been drinking and got lost on the way to the airport. He was ranting about OJ Simpson being innocent. OJ having been found guilty of his wife's murder(I wasn't sure what to do with the OJ Simpson murder trial. Some timelines have OJ commit suicide. Some have it be murder suicide. Ultimately I decided OJ is found guilty).
February 13: Chuck Jones receives a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
March 1: Lyle Lovett attends the 37th annual Grammy Awards(OTL he broke his collarbone in an accident and so couldn't attend. He won two Grammys, which here he accepts in person).
March 5: The Simpsons episode A Star is Burns is first broadcast as a crossover with The Critic and features the special guest voices of Jon Lovitz and Maurice LaMarche. Matt Groening heavily criticized this episode, feeling that it was just an advertisement for The Critic, and that people would incorrectly associate the show with him. Because of this, Matt Groening went uncredited in this episode.
March 19: The Simpsons episode Lisa's Wedding is first broadcast. It is the first episode to take place in the future.
March 27: The 67th Academy Awards. Bob's Birthday by Alison Snowden and David Fine wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Most shocking is the win of The Lion King, over Forest Gump, defeating it for Best Adapted Screenplay. This is seen as one of the biggest disappointments in Oscar history. A Forrest Gump sequel is greenlit soon after and a debate begins over whether or not an animated film should qualify for the best picture Oscar(credit to Kaijudirector)
March 31: Singer Selena Perez survives a murder attempt by Yolanda Saldivar, who was fired as her personal assistant for embezzling money.
During a performance, Jimmy Page, founder of Led Zeppelin, is shot and killed by a man in the crowd, who is promptly subdued by security(OTL the fate of the two performers was reversed. Selena was killed while Jimmy was not on this same day. I decided to reverse their fates here).
April 7: A New Series, Mouse House, is released. As with Quack Pack and Goof Troop. It follow a member of Disney's main trio, in this case Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse along with Mickey's nephews Mortie and Ferdie introduced in 1930's comics(OTL A Goofy Movie was released on this date. It doesn't exist here. Most of the plot beats of it and its sequel going into this timeline's version of Goof Troop).
Michael Bay's Bad Boys debuts with Martin Lawrence and Arsenio Hall in the lead roles(Arsenio Hall turned down Will Smith's role and considers it the worst mistake of his life. Here he doesn't).
April 12: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's The Penguins. The film follows a group of Penguins, who are a parody of the rockband, the Beatles, though they become a military style strike team during the course of the film when a villain played by Tim Curry is introduced( OTL this became The Pebble and the Penguin. A Don Bluth film that did not do well. Playing with some more introducing ideas early to save the film. Here Dreamworks is desperate and manage to nab Don Bluth, giving him creative control. The idea of Madagascar was conceived in 1998 but that was the main characters. Here due to pressure, the idea is brought up at a board meeting and listened to, getting folded in with Bluth's idea. The personalities of the Penguin's are different somewhat but most of the gang take to having to save the day well except for Private, who actually liked being a musician).
April 30: FOX announces that they have decided to pick up My So-Called Life from ABC and immediately start producing a second season of the show for FOX, with a currently unknown release date scheduled for FOX’s Fall 1995 tv season.
May 11-12: The First annual Electronic Entertainment Expo is held. It quickly becomes shortened to E3. At this historic event for the industry. Nintendo and Sony reveal the fruits of their negotiations since 1991. The Nintendo Playstation.
May 12: Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising is adapted with John McTiernan at the helm(by Kaijudirector). The film is seen as exploring an alternate universe where a coup against Gorbachev succeeded and the Soviet Union started World War III(Gorbachev was reportedly a fan of the film). Harrison Ford's Jack Ryan is inserted into the story to tie in the successful Jack Ryan series. While the short war with the Soviet Union ends. A terrorist attack on the White House leads to Jack Ryan ascending to the office of President of the United States.
May 14: Stephen King's 11/22/63 is released as a miniseries(OTL this is the release date of the Langoliers. King has the idea of what would become 11/22/63 for what seems to be some time as the OTL miniseries mentions the idea of trying to save Kennedy via time travel).
May 24: Braveheart, a film directed by Mel Gibson and starring Brad Pitt is released(Gibson wanted Brad Pitt to play the lead role and only reluctantly agreed to star as well).
May 26: Casper, a film produced by Steven Spielberg and written by JJ Abrams is released. The film's plot is a bit different due to Spielberg's influence, being more wholesome while including some dark elements including Casper's life as Casper McFadden, a young boy who died of pneumonia.
May 27: Christopher Reeve is involved in a horse-riding accident. His leg takes most of the fall and he breaks it. It will take a while for him to recover, but he is thankful that he isn't paralyzed for life. He will, however, have a semi-noticeable limp for the rest of his life(entry by Kaijudirector). This dashes any hopes of a Superman and Batman crossover, not that Reeve was interested anyway. DC begins to look for an actor to replace him. The choice of Nicholas Cage is out as he's already playing Iron Man.
Die Hard 3 (also known as Die Hard With A Vengeance), the third and final Die Hard movie is released. Based on the novel Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh, John McTiernan does not return due to him being busy with Red Storm Rising, but he is replaced by Lethal Weapon director Richard Donner (ironically, the source novel was, at one point, pitched as a Lethal Weapon movie). Steven DeSouza returns to write the screenplay with Hensleigh. Bruce Willis would later return for the Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day To Die Hard video games(Entry by Kaijudirector).
Dr.Katz is basically this guy but not a villain, just snarky.
May 28: The first episode of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is broadcast. With one difference. Dr.Katz is a tall red cat. A boost in popularity to Duckman and the release of Spielberg's Cats led to this.
June 5: Dragonball Z concludes with Goku's son Gohan destroying the villain Majin Buu using the Spirit Bomb that he learned from his father's spirit. In order to get humanity to lend Gohan their energy, Hercule Satan reveals Gohan as the true hero of earth who defeated Cell. As a result the world learns about the Z Fighters and all they did to protect earth from villains. An Epilogue shows Gohan and Videl having a daughter named Pan, who catches a glimpse of her grandfather Son Goku after she wins at a youth tournament.
June 10: Walt Disney's Treasure Planet is released. Riding the coattails of The Lion King win and lacking any CGI. The film does well. It's general reception is on par with something like Aladdin than any of the other mega hits. A TV Series is planned with the intent of having Wilhelm Defoe play the show's main villain.
Mike Alfred's Madman
June 30: Judge Dredd is released starring Arnold Shwarzenagger(OTL it was Sylvester Stallone).
July 28: Water World is released and becomes a huge box office bomb. However Universal Studios will make a Water Park section of their theme park based on it that will be a huge hit(OTL Water World bombed but has a stunt show based on it that it running to this day. Made it a water park just because I thought it would be funny).
August 9: Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead is rushed to the hospital after a Heart Attack.
September 9: Kids' WB launches. Their flagship series is Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island. Other shows launched include a cartoon adaptation of Mike Alfred's Madman(OTL the creator saw Freakazoid as a ripoff of this character and Bruce Timm later said that the character was an inspiration. Here they just outright adapt Madman). Another show to air is Pinky and the Brain
September 15: Due to a wave of Allegations, Kevin Spacey does not appear in The Usual Suspects and so "Keyser Soze" is played by Tobin Bell.
September 22: Likewise due to Spacey's allegations, he doe snot play John Doe. Instead the Movie Se7en features two cops played by Al Pacino(Brad Pitt is busy with Braveheart) and Denzel Washington(turned down the role and later regretted it OTL) hunting down the serial killer John Doe, played by Val Kilmer(He's not playing Batman so he plays this role instead, which he was considered for).
September 25: The first episode of The Lion Guard. The TV Show continuation to The Lion King airs. The series gives Kimba and Nala children of their own, a young boy named Kion and a teenagd girl named Kiara. Kion is part of a group of animals training to become the Royal Guard while Kiara's main story is a forbidden romance with a lion named Kovu being trained to be Scar's successor.
October 4: The first episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion airs. The Series will not go over budget, allowing for an ending that's actually far more hopeful rather than apocalyptic.
October 12: The second season of My So-Called Life premieres on FOX to rave reviews.
October 15: The Simpsons episode Lisa the Vegetarian is first broadcast which has one of the few permanent character changes where Lisa becomes a vegetarian and has the special guest voices of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney.
October 29: The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror VI is first broadcast and features a segment which has 3D animation.
Halloween IV: The Curse of Michael Myers is released. John Carpenter wanted to move away from focusing on Michael Myers and make the series an anthology. However, Halloween III bombed as it had no Michael Myers and was its own unrelated story. As a compromise, Carpenter wrote a storyline about Michael Myers possibly being reincarnated when a small child(this time a girl) becomes the killer. This allows a new iconic slasher villain to be introduced while telling a new story with unrelated characters.
November: Carolco Pictures is bought by Marvel(OTL they filed for bankruptcy. Here they stayed a float thanks to making Spider-Man. Ironically Marvle also would have filed for bankruptcy had Jim Shooter not stayed on like what happened OTL).
November 17: Goldeneye. Directed by Martin Campbell. Is released. It will have a delayed Video Game Adaptation that includes all Bond Actors as playable characters(a feature cut from the OTL version).
November 18: Ghost in the Shell is first released and will become a cult classic.
November 22: The first CGI animated feature film Toy Story is released by Pixar and the Walt Disney. It will forever change the film industry.
Beavis and Butthead in South Park style by a user on Reddit.
December 1: South Park has a crossover with Beavis and Butthead(Never happened. OTL on this date Jesus vs Santa. The second prototype South Park animation. As such this date should mean something important to the show. Thanks to Parker and Stone being friends with Mike Judge, this is made possible).
December 15: Jim Carrey stars in Jumanji(It's basically become a running gag to swap Jim Carrey and Robin Williams. This butterflies away Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Jim Carrey wouldn't want to do two Animal movies back to back.
December 22: The Animated Film Togo is released(OTL this film became Balto. About the heroic Dog that took part in a race to get the cure to a deadly disease to a village. Its based on real life but most of the race was actually done by a dog named Togo, which Balto has been accused as taking credit from. Togo's life is also closer to the film version of Balto, as such here the film is about Togo instead. Sometimes the name is read or pronounced as "To Go".
Crusade by Paul Verhoeven is released, starring Arnold Shwarzenagger(OTL this film was cancelled by Carolco, which was falling apart and cancelled all films to focus on one film: Cutthroat Island, which bombed and killed Pirate movies until Pirates of the Caribbean revived them. Here the choice swings the other way. They still put their eggs in one basket but its a different sturdier basket).
December 28: Gerald McBoing-Boing is added to the National Film Registry.
December 29: Terry Gilliam's A Tale of Two Cities is released. It becomes the definitive adaptation of the book(OTL was canceled and Gilliam made 12 Monkeys instead).
December 31: Bill Watterson concludes Calvin and Hobbes. It is immediately met with different studios wanting to pick it up for a series.
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