Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25360281-20150111053551/@comment-4849011-20150114005436

KattianaKitty wrote: Thank you everyone who's commented thus far! Raidra, I was actually just thinking about adding Aunt Grandma! If you don't mind me asking, what's so laughable about GRFT being Uncle Grandpa's sister, so maybe I could develop it more into something more believable?

And as for the feedback thing, the forum rules state that you put "reviewed" once you feel as if you've gotten enough critique. I feel like I could use a bit more so I'm leaving it as is. I get that. There's a difference between just getting feedback and getting something useful. For the record, I did like the idea that GRFT doesn't really roar; it just sounds like roaring to Uncle G (like how no one can understand the adults in the Peanuts comic strip and cartoons). I guess the reason I wanted to laugh was it was unexpected. I wasn't expecting you to start claiming that the other main cast members were his relatives. It just seems bizarre, but then again, Cow & Chicken had all sorts of human-animal couples and hybrids (like Cousin Snail-Boy), so I guess it's not so bizarre when you consider that. You could put the evidence first and then make your claim instead of the other way around. Alternatively (and this is me just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it forms a picture), you could say that the lot of them are abandoned inbreds who banded together to form a sort of family (with the others filling the roles you mentioned). The U.G.R.V. could represent some sort of home for what society would review as aberrations.

Just so you know, there might be a new problem. I don't know if it's a spin-off show (like Muppet Babies) or just a one-time thing, but I saw a commercial for something called Uncle Grandpa Babies. It has Uncle G, Mister Gus, and Pizza Steve as babies (Pizza Steve being just a ball of raw pizza dough), and it might cause critics to ask, "How can Mr. Gus be the father of Uncle Grandpa and Pizza Steve if they were babies at the same time?" However, I'm sure you can come up with an explanation, like claiming that Cartoon Network created U.B.G. just to throw people off so they wouldn't guess the sinister truth.

I thought about this draft earlier today and I thought, "It would be unsettling if they really had this on a children's cartoon." If it were treated seriously, it would be unsettling, but if it were being played for laughs it would be downright disturbing since it would give children the impression that it's acceptable to make fun of human affliction. I also thought about the first Smurf story. It had the Smurfs become infected with an illness which turned their skin black (or purple in the cartoon adaptation and some reprints), made them act aggressive and nearly mindless, and compelled them to spread the illness by biting other Smurfs. Here's a link explaining the storyline- http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/06/10/comic-book-legends-revealed-264/ (It's the third legend listed). Well, I don't know if this part is true, but I've read the claim that Grouchy Smurf is the way he is because he was the first infected Smurf, and since he was infected for so long, it warped his personality. I thought, "You mean he's the way he is because he's brain-damaged!?  That's warped!" Of course, if you look at the first illustration accompanying the Smurf story, it looks like Grouchy was irritable to begin with, so who knows? Unless Peyo said that was the reason, then it's just speculation. In any case, I hope some of this helps!