Welcome To Eltingville Pilot - Part 1
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- čas přidán 18. 02. 2006
- This is part 1 of the pilot of a show that was to be aired on adult swim. Called "Welcome To Eltingville", the show pokes fun at the lifestyle of geeks and nerds. I hope you enjoy
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I've noticed this getting a lot more attention and comments recently. What's been leading people to this video?
It popped on my recommend feed and it meshed with my appreciation for 90s animation
@@davidstruck8109 interesting that the algorithm would promote, for all intents and purposes, piracy from over a decade ago.
@@TheStrix must be a thing, I've also been getting recommendations for 3 South and something called God The Devil and Bob
the youtube algorithm.
Also, Julian and Ding Dong brought it up in a recent stream and I know they have a decently-sized fanbase.
/co/ - The Animated Series
They still have at least new 100 threads a day
Co has fucking fallen in love with this show out of nowhere again
That would actually be amazing.
It starts off like /tg/
How this and Korgoth of Barbaria never got made into series is beyond me.
And for eltingville, Well lets face it most don't know what the hell they were talking about, You got to be an actual geek to really get it.
Anonymous well, it doesn't matter what they talk about, because i don't know either. but the humor is hilarious to me!!1
Anonymous I'm not one of those people but I kinda understood it :)
Indeed!
Learn2Gramrs
surly now they can afford this and Korgoth.
This pilot is one of the best representations of what it was like to be a huge nerd before it was trendy.
You've apparently have not seen twitter
That it was really angry and sad?
It’s not trendy now
@@redwaytoo Sad, yes. Nerd hobbies were still socially looked down upon, so you either had to hide it or risk getting made fun of. And the idea that anyone past 12 would spend ALL their time and money on it meant something was wrong with you.
Angry? No, that’s just them.
@@jasminelav.332 "And the idea that anyone past 12 would spend ALL their time and money on it meant something was wrong with you" - uh, is that not true? Lol
Fun Fact: The person who voiced Bill Dickey (The dude with the orange shirt) was also the host of Double Dare 2000.
Fredrich Fernando He was also Chad/ Numbuh 274 in Codename: Kids Next Door
And Pete is the voice of the custom skater form Tony Hawks underground.
My younger brother, my two cousins and I used to act like the Eltingville club when we were teenagers. We used to stay up all night playing video games, watch wrestling, eat pizza and drink Pepsi while arguing over who the best wrestler, tag team or faction is. Then we'd wrestle each other to see who would submit first. Of course my older cousin won against his younger brother (RIP) and my younger brother and I would always have our matches end in a draw. We had fun overall, but times have changed. My older cousin now has a family of his own after he lost his younger brother in 2015. As for my younger brother and I, we're doing just fine. I miss our youth.
Wow. From the black trench, glasses and ponytail combo to the lack of emotional stability, this is just too accurate.
Yes yes, they got “the redditor” perfectly portrayed
@@axeldude7051 Rofl
@@axeldude7051 In this day and age, I think it goes beyond just Redditors, but rather hardcore fandom culture as a whole.
I think he's just wearing a blazer
I mean, Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons was already over a decade old when this pilot came out.
I REMBEMBER WATCHING THIS ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT BACK IN 2008 SO HAPPY I FOUND THIS AGAIN
Same !
This show was indeed ahead of its time. People really weren't known to the nerd world as much as we know it today. Now, I'm sure it would be ready.
they should bring this back to adultswim that would be a hit
That would be brutally awesome!
Or HBO Max
welcome to eltingville deserves deserves a second chance the pilot was mad funny, only at the time they couldn't do it but the time after words and now they can do it, it's never too late
I freaking agree, it gets hilarious over time, I want more of it!
Many thanks are owed to RebelTaxi/Pan Pizza.
It's kinda refreshing to see a show about geeky stuff/geeks to that isn't all self-deprecation humor. These guys are pretty hostile and rough with eachother.
To quote Venture Brothers: "Failure is Beautiful".
Kinda like "It's always sunny".
I saw it back then when it aired.
@@adamdenardis5438 Since Adult Swim has a bigger budget then they did back then they should do a reboot of the pilot and green light the show
@@KillerMoth3 I doubt Evan Dorkin wants anything to do with The Eltingville Club nowadays.
Though it had classic cartoon network qualities, I think this could've been MTVs flagship cartoon...we were robbed of a classic early 2000s era show, maybe an all-time top 10 adult animated series.
“Hey, I got an idea…what if *every* character was unlikable and didn’t even like each other?”
So penny proud and her friends on the reboot?
@@asfsd9980 I kind of think Penny proud and her friends were always pretty unlikable 😅 they sold each other out at the drop of a hat and no matter how many times they learned not to do that they did it again later
If y'all think this is too mean-spirited, read the comics it's based on. Bill and Josh are straight up psychopaths.
@Fred Sternberger Eric's the Psycho, Kyle is not.
What's the comic called?
To be fair the events in the pilot are all taken from the comic too and it reads so similarly it’s fair to assume that if the show actually lived on, they would probably be psychos as well
@@UriahElroy666The Eltingville Club
The star wars references are subtle and great!
"Laugh it up you goofballs" Is toned similarly to "Laugh it up fuzzball".
such a great art style, like kaiji characters drawn by an american
You've got, MC Chris as a voice, The Aquabats to do the intro and a story base that most young adult boys can relate to.....Why in the hell didn't this happen!? This was lightning in a bottle and they just twisted the cap and let'er RIP. I can appreciate this for what it is, a hidden gem.
Fever dream! This being uploaded 17 years ago is just wild. I still remember watching this Halloween 2008 as a kid
it's a shame this show didn't go past the pilot
I'm a bit perplexed by how the comics portray Bill to be very overbearing and unlikable, but here that seems to apply more to Josh. I mean for one thing, Josh should've taken his frustration out on the fact he was scammed with this VHS Tape rather than the petty humiliation he faced because of it.
yea, they had to dial back some parts, to pass standards &practices, although their toxicity from the comicbook series is still intact here,
The problem with this series isn't the lack of cirsing but the licenses. If you've read the comics there are layers of layers of fan jokes. Things that the show cant reference because of license issues.
Agreed, I feel like they went with the Castor Oil refence, because it basically means vegetable oil, as well as with the rule Pete was laying down(rewording it, comic book: &don't use something only you would know about, pilot: &don't use something we all know about,)
I was just surprised as hell to hear ECW chants
This show needs to be made, even if it comes to Netflix
In a hypothetical scenario (an extremely unlikely one at that) if this series ever gets picked up for say Netflix or is brought back at a later timeframe since we now live in a more "open minded" society where lovers of animation would get a kick out of a show like this I wonder if they were gonna do a 1:1 recreation of all the comic arcs they'd do that Chapter where the members of the Elltingville Club make an entire day out of watching a 24 hr Star Trek Marathon
It gets real bad real fast because even for their universal love for Syfy they start getting burnt out real fast and it gets to the point where they raid their mom's medicine cabinet and start consuming mass quantities of strange prescription pills namely Valium, Xanex, Fentenol, and Caffeine Medication
It was The Twilight Zone, not Star Trek. And it gets very Twilight Zone-ish around hour 30.
It was a 72hours twilight zone marathon
Welcome To Eltingville > The Big Bang Theory
It was what Theory wanted to be but better, and did not depend on the Lorre sitcom formula.
This pilot was ahead of its time. Or it’s like the Simpsons with comic book guy and only with the internet these types of nerds really started getting noticed
I read the comics. Josh the scifi nerd ends up working at Marvel or DC, not because he loves the series but so he can make his fanfics canon. Bill the comic book nerd is a total sociopath ends up unemployed and a social pariah. As a teenager he attempted to kill his friends by setting fire to the comic book shop, and spread rumors to ensure his friends were single, socially inept, and therefore members of his precious club. Pete the horror geek ends up working for a low budge horror-exploitation studio where he has lots of sex with prospective actresses looking to make it big. he's a complete sleeze. Jerry, the D&D nerd ends up being the most well adjusted. after the group splits up after Bill burns down the comic book shop he ends up playing magic the gathering competitively, gets a girlfriend, and is happy, healthy, and fairly well off.
5:44 That's not Tasha Yar naked! That's the Hair Bear Bunch!
I think this was pitched too early, and was too accurate of a portrayal of shitnerds for the time. It would have gotten picked up in the 2010's I'm sure.
"Shitnerds"? Who made up that word?
@@rosaiglarsh9987 i dunno but im using for now on :33
I read the comics recently and they are kinda depressing, especially the ending
they were the coolest nerds ever evan dorkins this should be good for Friday nights
The animation is awesome to bad it never got a show
If the show was pitched nowadays it would have totally been accepted because of it's geek humor, plus Adult Swim could probably afford to produce episodes.
I was there when this first aired as well on Adult Swim 5 years ago. Watching it when I was 13 I couldn't stop laughing and now that I'm 18 and watching it, still can't stop laughing. Glad to see I haven't changed much lol
How are you now?
Comments like this make me feel old despite being 27. I was sneakily watching Tourettes Guy and YTPs on the home computer when this was posted.
This is amazing why isn't this real seriously I need this to be real someone start a Kickstarter or something goddammit
they really need to make this in to a series. i laughed so hard when i saw this that i almost peed my self
Man, I was laughing so hard that I had to stop the video to calm down. We gotta get together and demand this show gets back on the air.
This pilot aged like a fine wine.
Pete was right since 2002. Boba fett was alive.
2:26 as the years go by, I have to sympathize more and more with Mrs. Dorkin here
You know? If you look closely, they actually animate Josh having his pimple prior to Pete popping it. That's good attention to detail.
How is it that super jail & squidbillies had more than 1 season but this didn't even lasted past a pilot??????? Where's the justice...
I guess they thought 12oz mouse was better :(
Ted turner & that deuchy CN president that seth green rips on in robot chicken dont know what people want.
Nah we need more dogshit shows like Super Jail, Eric Andre and SquidBillies. Lets face it, Adult Swim only ever gave us a handful of good shows like Venture Bros and Metalocalypse, they only really made money off of airing Family Guy and Futurama reruns..
Bruh Superjail is one of the great modern explorations into violence in media today
@@AdamGomez87 it's funny because 12oz mouse is still going on
Adult Swim should bring this back as a full series. If not, maybe Netflix or any other streaming service might pick this up, but I doubt they will.
20 years of eltingville!
Boy I miss the old school Adult Swim 😂
rick and morty ruined adult swim
16 years ago that’s a new
The greatest parody of fandom EVER. It is amazing how many fans there are that are deeply hurt and insulted by this. You would think geeks would be the last people on the planet without a sense of humor.....
I love this, it should of had more shows. I been looking for for so long. I forgot what it was called. thank you for putting it up
Pan pizza brought me here wayyyyyy back
i saw this on TV years ago
This show’s art style is really nice. I can tell the artist worked on the comic Dork lol
People who actually watch the big bang theory and honestly think that's a good representation of what nerds are, need to watch this because this shit is accurate as fuck!
5:12 I can't help but wonder if the reason why Bill had trouble with the tape is because he was putting it in backwards
I wish this was on Adult Swim. It looks good
well big bang theory is just about these socially awkward people with hearts of gold that died after season 2, this looks much funnier.
Years later
Nothing has changed.
just watched it on adult swim on tv. couldn't believe they played it
it's adapted from "the eltingville comic book, science fiction, horror, fantasy and role-playing club" which was a recurring feature in dorkin's comic "dork!"
Actually, it appeared in Instant Piano, at Dark Horse. Dorkin reprinted it in Dork, in 1998
the discord mods were clearly inspired by josh
This show was perfect
I like that even in the intro Jerry is trying to break the fight, unlike the other three who just attack each other
Explains how the comic series ends with Jerry being the only one to move on from the club and have a successful life in nerd culture while the other three wallow in their own self-induced misery.
It's a damn shame Eltingville never got picked up for syndication. I love slice-of-life comedies about abrasive weirdos bickering with one another on the margins of American society. Aside from this pilot's source material and "The Anime Club," I can't think of much else that uses a similar approach.
Also, I'm surprised at how much more likable these versions of Jerry and Pete are. Pete in the comic is arguably the worst of the bunch next to Bill, but here he's just sort of gruff and sarcastic. Jerry is still the quiet, reserved member of the group so he's automatically the best.
Try out the anime Genshiken, it's pretty different in some ways (and set in Japan, with associated over-your-head references), but still great. AND was made into a whole series. Two, in fact, but it skipped a load of the books.
Man, watching this is like watching a portent of doom.
I finally found this!
This is needed now
Yeah. To be fair, I actually love Seth McFarlane's shows, even if they can get a bit on one's nerves. We do need more intelligent humor though, I agree completely. I love mission hill, really wish korgoth could be a show, and also adore home movies. I also really like this new season of the venture bros for its well-written and intricate plotlines. Though I have to say, the one show I look forward to most for new episodes is Xavier:Renegade Angel, it's a goldmine of interpretation.
Thank you, Rebel Taxi
I'm here for RebelTaxi too
16 years ago omg
I CANT WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT EPISODE!!!!
i loved this show when i saw it, that was sooo long ago
"LOL beede beede beede you got screw bud" LMAO
lol I saw this comment right when he said it
i miss when cartoon art styles had a bit of variety
I wish they really had their official show
I vaguely remember seeing this once but I didn't get to the begining. All I remembered was the nerd trivia fight and that it was freaking epic lols.
This should get a retry. seeing a Nerd is the new fad now. I think this is what "The Big Bang Theroy" wants to grow up to be.
Public opinion on nerds hasn't exactly changed, they just realized that various IP's nerds are into make a lot of money and are just trying to get a slice of that pie
2:07 The Toxic Loud House Fandom on DeviantArt be like:
BIDDI BIDDI BIDDI,
I'd love this show to be picked up on again
I remember back in the day, when the pilot was shown a couple times. And I remember quoting it quite often. Mission Hill came up around this time too, didn't it?
Im just realizing they're just like Stan, Kyle, and Cartman, and Kenny
@fredsternberger4862but this guys are more agresive
Also an AD reference...nice🦆
Me 2 & Steve Snot Barry & Toshi.
@@robertneagu1078
Thanks
Korgoth was pretty damn cool, too. (I liked how they had fun with Conan the Barbarian vibe and threw in some humor.) Personally I think that Adult Swim's directors are the juvenile frat boys.
lol I totally connect to this
Another one of my secret Teenage memories unlocked.
"Tell your freak friends to shut the hell up or get the hell out!!!"
Bill's mom is my mom. lol
This is new to me. I love it.
Is this in reference to Eltingville in Staten island NY?
Rip what off at 6:00 , because he sounded like he's saying ripping off beards judging on his angry tone
Everyone is Karkat
"Was to be aired?" I've definitely seen this show on adult swim...
Aired once in 2008
Its got the oldschool logo in the corner
they should make more episodes of this
"beedee beedee beedee, you got screwed, Buck", LOL!!
also live in eltingville. the comic book store from which this is based on was called 'Alternate Realm'. its gone now...
How my nerdy friends and I fight at 2:50
if only they could bring this back.
Shame that this, Mission Hill, or The Oblongs weren't enough to be picked up by Adult Swim after they got canceled from their networks..
Especially Mission Hill... There was a damned good plot there...
And Oblongs had great visuals and characters...
THIS show sadly didn't get any airtime to properly judge it... The pilot is amazing tho
I hate it when they don't get along, its just so sad 😔
Big Bang Theory but accurate
Y'know, when this first aired, I'm sure people thought this was an over-the-top satire. Turns out it was a spot-on documentary. Evan Dorkin knew.
I still want to see a Sulu series.
They should have made more of this.
I swear I am looking at the guys in my high school club xD
this is like that anime club webcomic
I think KC Green said he was inspired by this or something
Josh: You're VCR but I'm not eat my tape!
Bill: Why you saving it for dinner!?