9 Unique Backdoor Pilots EXPLAINED
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Some pilots are executed as episodes of already existing shows, some of these come to fruition as full series and others never get it past the one episode. We're here to look at 9 unique backdoor pilots!
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Wasn’t the Simpsons in and of itself a backdoor pilot? First appearing as a few shorts on the Tracy Ullman Show?
Not really a backdoor pilot, as at the time, it was not intended to spin off. It spun off due to its popularity.
I was an intern for one of the handful of independent studios Atoms had to approach to complete the pilot for Underfist. The studio refused to give him the resources to complete the special inhouse.
It was a sad day when we found out it wasn't getting picked up, and that Atoms's contract had expired, but the writing was on the wall before he even approached us.
Man, i remember All Grown Up being a big thing growing up. Heck, i remember we were driving to my Granddad's house (may he rest in piece) but stopped by my Great Grandma's trailer (may she rest in piece as well) and saw the premiere that night. Aw~ memories 😊
crcoghill I remember it well. I went to a hockey game with my family, and I recorded the all grown up pilot.
steamed hams
Tony Gunk hope you're ready for an unforgettable luncheon
Tony Gunk But it's Seinfeld.
but its all reversed dialogues, and when any character says any "S" it goes 17% faster, and whenever Seymour says hams its get deeper into the darkness of hell
You aren't funny
memed hams
Does anybody remember "Secret Mountain Uncle Grandpa", the debut of Uncle Grandpa in an episode of Secret Mountain Fort Awesome?
ayy_lmao oh god i do😭
Actually there technically was a pilot for Uncle Grandpa even before that episode
YES
Yep
I'm a simple man. I see underfist in the thumbnail, I click.
Simon Anton Ehie very specific
You mean, HOSS, DELGADO?
Sucks that it didnt get a show
You may think his most famous role is Johnny.
But it is truly Obi-Wan Kenobi.
I figured it was Ratchet from Ratchet And Clank.
Captain Rex of the 501st Fred Flintstone?
Captain Rex of the 501st yes.
Captain Rex of the 501st True
Hello there
There's Postcards from Buster in Arthur. And that one episode of That's So Raven that got reworked into Hannah Montana
Someone elaborate on this. I thought they only did crossovers
ThiccFactory I think they might be talking about the that’s so raven episode where Alyson Stoner was a child star on a popular tv show and wanted to go to public school to live a normal life
I remember thinking that episode was so weird since it was only like 10% that’s so raven. As much as I liked Hannah Montana, I did like that episode (even though I was confused as to what it had to do with that’s so raven haha) and think it could have made a cute show.
@@pivotb5691 Yeah, that's it
@@vanillamarshmallow Yeah, I think it could've worked as it's own thing, I just wish that they had integrated the TSR characters into the plot better.
One episode of All Grownup scared me. It was about the kids going on a trip with the parents to a pioneer thing, stuff happens, and there’s this scary twist that kept me up at night.
I kind of wish we got more from the Crash Nebula series.
Man I wish they made that Popeye movie!!!
Waheed Abdullah yeah
They Had To Do the Emoji Movie First Ughhhhhh
It may be poorly rated but it did get 30 in the box office so it’s successful
No shit to bad sony is run by a bunch of mong
There is always the Robin Williams one from 1980
Spacecataz was a very interesting backdoor pilot in ATHF. Instead of being its own episode, the pilot was split up and included at the beginning of every episode of Season 3. Very creative way of doing it
As soon as I saw perry in the thumbnail I clicked straight away
Milo Murphy Fan 16 me too
Charle Brown cool
Milo Murphy Fan 16 same
Milo Murphy Fan 16 I clicked it about an hour late
Same
I think this explains why there was an extra episode that was only there to set up a single scene in Stranger Things season 2.
"ALL THAT WORK, AND NOTHIN' TO SHOW FO' IT!" -Billy, Underfist End Credits
I'm not sure, if the OWCA Files were supposed to be a backdoor pilot, but there was also another episode, that clearly was a backdoor pilot: Doof 101. This episode follows Doofenshmirtz as the science teacher of Vanessa's class. Of course things go wrong and Perry has to appear and save the day. The episode also had the flys from the OWCA Files in it's B-Plot, now that Perry and Doof are in the A-Plot replacing Phineas and Ferb. They even replaced Candace with a principal, who trys to bust Doofenshmirtz. Although i really like Milo Murphy's Law, Doof 101 would have been a great show.
Man I wish Underfist was a show.
TheUndeadGamer Ditto
I remember that all grown up one. Then the show came out basically immediately after. Loved it.
billy and mandy was a spinoff in its own originality
OWCA Files would have been interesting to say the least. Heck even if kept as hour long specials xD Also, underfist could have been a decent parallel to steven universe. Heck, irwin could have spent time learning about his new powers and messing up sometimes.
There were plans for a spin-off for Phineas and Ferb about Isabella and the fireside girls. There were two episodes focusing on them and they felt more like pilots.
Okay, I'm older than most of your viewers, so I might know of a few backdoor pilots that go way back (not cartoons). The most famous one would be this:
Love American Style had an episode called "Love and the Happy Days". That was a pilot for Happy Days. That lead to backdoor pilots on Happy Days for Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Joanie Loves Chachi., Out of the Blue, and Blansky's Beauties.
Another one is difficult to tell, as I know they are spin offs based on characters rather than true backdoor pilots, but this group of show are tightly connected:
All in the Family lead to The Jeffersons, Archie Buncker's Place, and to Maude. Maude lead to Good Times. The Jeffersons lead to Checking In. Gloria and 704 Hauser were both straight up spin offs.
Sorry those were sitcoms and not cartoons. I'm 46 and long past most cartoons (unless you count the Batman Animated series, Superman, Justice League Unlimited, and Batman Beyond's couple of failed backdoor pilots).
Benjamin Abruzzo happy days, Laverne and Shirley, and Mork and Mindy, all had Saturday morning cartoon spinoffs too!
The "All Growed up" Piolet was the most memorable for me
The main reason why Crash Nebula wasn’t made into a cartoon was 1) the animation for the style it was going for would have been damn expensive and 2) in 2004 not only had DP been in development for years at that point (since 2001) but also he was still actively in the creative process. Giving him another show would have been three mainstream cartoons at the same time, and he was barely juggling two.
Honestly, the fact he was trying to get another cartoon at the time when Nick execs literally just gave him his second cartoon because he had an idea for one/was interested in making another cartoon is kind of tacky.
Hannah Montana had a back door pilot on “That’s So Raven”!
I never knew that "The OWCA Files" was supposed to be its own show...cool
The only line I remember from space ghost is “Yeah and you’re supposed to be fishing for food out of a dumpster you six-piece chicken McNobody” and that line has turned the tides in so many arguments for me
I don't know, I would like to have seen the OWCA files or Doofenshmirtz as teacher as their own shows. Milo Murphy is not bad, but it doesn't get to me as much as PnF did.
Also really? Underfist failer because some idiot of the network didn't understood what the cartoon in cartoon network stands for? Great, a reason more to hate the live action era... -_-
toongrowner1 you are right I grew up in such an amazing time I barely remember bits and pieces of these shows up in such an amazing time I barely remember bits and pieces of these shows
Man,I started not really liking retronemo,but man.... I relate so much
Thanks Patience
Cant belive you didnt mention adventure time incedium ha
K MaN
Unpopular opinion: i liked rugrats all grown up
i thought i was alone
So. Do. I.
I loved it too when I saw the pilot when I was 6, I wanted more
I thought it was ok. Not great but not terrible either
I thought i was the only
I like how he's like "We're both from michigan and work with frederator, please *I love you*" lmao, it was just hilarious in the whisper voice
The Superhero Teen Drama: Smallville, had 4 backdoor pilots. It tried to set up a Batman prequel called:Wayne, an Aquaman series, a Legion of Superheroes show and the popularity of Green Arrow in the series made the exects decide to give him his own spin off, thus making the entire series a backdoor pilot for Green Arrow. However during development they decided to go with a total reboot for Green Arrow and that is how Arrow exists, also the Arrowverse is notorious for Backdoor Pilots.
I mean the only time they've done anything close to a backdoor pilot was show Barry Allen and lead to him becoming the Flash but the spinoff was already announced and confirmed.
Also, I'm so glad that that Wayne thing didn't go through and Gotham was greenlit
Kenny and the Chimp would of been hilarious. Laughed my a** off as a kid when watching that skit. Though KND was still pretty awesome too. Wish they made both.
“They won’t all be cartoons” *immediately realizes the farm will be in this list*
A small bit of history The Space Ghost coast to coast Baffler Meal episode was written as a backdoor plot for the Aqua Teen but was made after Aqua Teen Hunger Force was already airing
A classic example of a backdoor pilot is the original Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth". The episode centred around the characters Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln, with the crew of the Enterprise being not much more than guest stars in their own show. The episode even ends with Captain Kirk telling Gary and Roberta that they looked up their history in the Enterprise computer, and discovered that the two would have a number of ineteresting adventures in their future.
This is like the best channel for my childhood nostalgia
Butch Hartman where you at
"Married With Children" had two. Both with the guy who played Joey from "Friends". One episode centered around him and his dad and another around him and five friends ironically that had just moved into loft just like the show "Friends". Check it out.
I definitely want to see more on backdoor pilots, this brought back many great memories. One thing I'm happy to see mentioned was Kenny & the Chimp, it seems like very few people can recall that. I remember seeing the short on Cartoon Network & at the time wasn't aware that Kids Next Door beat it out to get its own series but when that one guy appeared in KND, I was like, it's that guy! The scientist person with the diseases from the cartoon with the chimp! Man, I still can't believe how many years ago that was given when he was in KND, I thought it had been a long time since Kenny & the Chimp & was surprised to see any call backs at all to it but when you think about it, Cartoon Network always had a somewhat open door feeling to it like you wouldn't be surprised to see Major Glory in something that wasn't Dexter's Lab & so on because the shows just somewhat all felt like they could interact with one another. I don't know if it's the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays or something more recent like Fusion Fall that brings this on. Geez, I called Fusion Fall recent, it still feels that way to me even though it's been closed down for probably years. Even to this day, Cartoon Network keeps that divide open between its shows like Uncle Grandpa being in Steven Universe & having a list of other Cartoon Network stuff to go see. Cartoon Network is probably filled with backdoor pilots that many of us probably didn't even notice seeing how a lot of their shows sometimes blend.
As a huge Phineas & Ferb fan, I'm happy that the OWCA Files didn't create a spinoff, I was actually fine with letting the series end when it did. Years prior to it ending, I had been saying that Phineas & Ferb will do something special for its final episode, they will know it's the end somehow & it will be great so I was hoping that it would end when it's ready so that there wouldn't be any beating of a dead horse (sorry Agent H) & it sure enough did have a nice send off. Keep in mind, I love this series, I have a whole collection of Perry the Platypus plushies, about seven of them to be exact so obviously I would be fine having a Perry based spinoff series but it just wouldn't even be half as good as the original series, probably because it's missing half the series. The whole thing was said & done, the OWCA Files was a fun thing to watch but I see that more like a dessert, no need for seconds on that.
How do I feel on Milo Murphy's Law? Love it. I actually cosplayed as Milo & my friend as Diogee, we met Weird Al in our costumes & he took our picture to send to Dan & Swampy, yeah, I'm not kidding, Weird Al took my picture. Obviously, I adore this series & feel like it's so much better than a Phineas & Ferb spinoff could be. It was known to be set in the same universe as P&F of which I'm cool with, actually the whole thing centering around Professor Time is real awesome & I will not spoil that cliffhanger but oh my gosh, I can not wait for them to continue off of that. When I met Weird Al, the latest episode was the special, Missing Milo & I talked to him about that. He was actually pretty open & didn't try hiding much, he said that it will be resolved in 2018 when season 2 comes out so I guess that's why there hasn't been any new episodes since the Christmas one, we're waiting on the second season.
I feel so out of the loop really, when P&F was airing, I was apart of a forum for the show so I always knew what was going on & never missed a new episode but now for Milo Murphy's Law, it's weird how it's harder to stay updated with this sort of stuff. My guess being that 2008 is a totally different world than 2018 when it comes to internet culture, odd how things can change in ten years. It was easier finding this news since they didn't try hiding it as much, finding what you wanted to know was easy & of course they did become aware of this. Any P&F fans who were just watching casually might be confused about the oddity that is Tip of the Day, that my friends would be a troll episode. They knew about our activity, trying to find information online for every little thing on new episodes so they kept everything they possibly could about that episode hidden from us until it aired, all we got was a title drop which lead to so many speculations on what it would be about. Some of us even emailed Dan & Swampy, got a reply saying we'll just have to wait & see. Nobody, & I mean nobody guessed tip of a shoelace. Yeah, it felt like the first time you ever get Rick Rolled, although I have no idea if anyone's first time was as epic as my first time getting Rick Rolled but it's like that. They knew what they were dealing with at that point, they got smart, & they decided to toy with us.
News on Milo Murphy's Law isn't that hard to track down but I still feel more out of touch with it, probably because I'm not on a forum for the show & being apart of an online community helps to make you feel more involved with it in general. Weird Al was very open spewing details on the series so clearly it's not hidden, I'm just not informed like I use to be.
Sorry, kinda went off there but anything to pull me back into the days of P&F always causes this. Anyways, I definitely want to hear more about backdoor sequels, some might surprise me seeing as I might of not realized it was one before watching the video & I look forward to that possibility.
They shouldve made a Perry show.
Meep could become Agent A. for alien-- their air pilot, and Doof could be Agent H. For human-- their Evil Insight.
Uh
does the Backyardigans pilot count as backdoor
GENIUS!
Pinky and the brain had an episode of animainiacs that was a test to see if they could carry their own show.
Ghast Renave they had their own segments on the show, not just one
If you do the sequel list, can you add the animaniacs episode that was a pilot for Pinky and the Brain
would that be a true pilot or more of a lingering symbiosis a la Grim & Evil
I literally had a dream about the Crash Nebula episode, but I had no idea what the title of the show was, so I set on a quest to find it and ended up rewatching a lot of Lloyd in Space which totally as the wrong show. THANK YOU! Now I can rest knowing I finally found it :)
I didn't realize it until years later, but Married With Children had a backdoor pilot embedded in it.
There was one weird episode where none of the regular characters were really in it at all.
Since backdoor pilots of shows that aren’t cartoons are allowed, Married... With Children actually had three different episodes that were back door pilots that were supposed to start spin-offs. The episodes Radio Free Trumaine, Enemies, and Top of the Heap were all episodes used as back door pilots for spin offs. Top of the Heap starring Matt LeBlanc before he hit it big in friends, was the only show out of those pilots to get a show even though the series only lasted seven episodes.
Can't confirm this yet since it remains to be seen, but Dragonball Super might be teasing a spinoff already in several ways. Since Pan was born in between the first two arcs, and Bulla was born during the beginning of the ToP arc, with Dende mention Uub to Goku a few episodes later, one possible spin off might be a follow up to Super after it ends, one that's a side story where Goku and Vegeta are nearing the end of their lives and since Gohan became a scholar and Goten and Trunks are already established to fight because it's fun and be too carefree to take even universal threats seriously enough to properly deal with them, having Goku train both Uub AND Pan while Vegeta trains Bulla so someone can carry on the legacy of the Prince of all Saiyans after his death. Then we get a fun spin-off where Uub, Pan, and Bulla have completed their training and start off on their own journey, original Dragonball style. More likely however would probably be a spinoff set in Universe 11 (Home of the Pride Troopers) that is a bit like the Jaco Galactic Patroller manga but instead of being like a Dragonball Universe Green Lantern Corps. It's more about the Pride Troopers being the obvious Avengers/Justice League like group they are. Either that or Universe 6 during the events of DBZ. Getting to see Frost, Cabba, Caulifla, Kale, Hit, ect and what they were up to while the events of DBZ occurred in Universe 7 would be cool.
Biotear That "spinoff" was GT. Toei wants to pretend that GT is still canonical with Super.
Phineas and Ferb is one of the first shows where the main heroes and the main villain barely interact directly.
Not a cartoon, but I have to say the backdoor pilot they did for the Supernatural spin off was the worst b.d.p. I have ever seen. It was like a true blood/teen wolf mashup in hopes to jump on the bandwagon, which failed miserably.
I loved the Crash Nebula pilot, to me it was like the buzz lightyear animation but looked better, more likable characters, and way more plot potential but Danny Phantom was a good trade off.
deathbyinsomnia Oh I remember that. Was an extra on that epp. Shame it wasn't as expected, would've loved working for it.
Which one? The recent one or the monster mafia one
ShaztasticDib monster mafia probably
STEAMED HAMS
I started following this channel because of the SU theories, and I still really enjoy those, but these list videos are really interesting and refreshing, keep it up RetroNemo.
Space ghost was so cool they used, "wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen?" As an intro in one episode
Yooooo all grown up is great and i’m rewatching the series right nooow
Steamed Hams but is delightfully hidden in between a top 9 backdoor pilot episodes list.
I'm a simple woman. I see Perry in the thumbnail and I click
Awesome video, would love to see more like it
So crash nebula is basically my hero academia in america.
_Jared Sky High the american bnha to me
Hole in the Wall and Dude what would happen did not belong on Cartoon Network but they were fun shows they should have been on Nickelodeon since game shows are their thing
Ah, so that's the term for this little tactic. I recall "Bones" had an episode that later spawned the short-lived series "The Finder". And I think "Married...with Children" had two backdoor pilot episodes. One was about Al's friend and said friend's son (played by Matt LeBlanc of "Friends" fame), and another focused on three completely different characters, one of whom was friends with Kelly (I'm guessing on that second one...had a very "we're trying to launch a new show" feel to it).
For animation...there was an episode of "Animaniacs" where Slappy Squirrel was sent to a nursing home for aging cartoon characters, which *I think* was supposed to spin-off into a Slappy series, much like Pinky and the Brain years before. But it didn't happen, if that was their intent.
Great list! Some of those reeeeally took me back! Lol
Parks and Rec ended up being better than the Office in my opinion. Glad we got it
Nobody knows about Kenny and the Chimp but you have no idea how much I loved that stupid short as a kid! I have it recorded on a VHS and I can quote almost the whole thing. It's nothing compared to KND(one of my favorite cartoons of all time)but it holds a special place in my heart.
You could do a whole episode on the backdoor pilots of Diff'rent Strokes and Facts of Life. They did a LOT. And a good handful of the ones for Facts of Life were pretty decent concepts but never got off the ground.
Crash Nebula... I saw it when I was little, and then never again, though I tried to find it... man, I’m gonna go watch that episode again
Oh my goodness, I remember most of these background pickets. Great list.
I knew Underfist was supposed to go somewhere.
If there was a show where Fred Fredburger was a main character I’d be able to die happy.
Underfist in my opionion is the finale of Billy and Mandy.
You deserve way more subs then you have. You’ve got good charisma
Is I why but it was so adorable when nemo said "boo thang"
A secret wish that created a time loop is actually a pretty good idea...for another show.
Backdoor Pilots was one of my favorite movies.
UNDERFIST GO! Seriously one of my favorite Halloween specials of all time! Good pick!
12:43 Did you get that nostalgia gasm from that thing you didn't know what it was from but made you laugh so hard as a kid?
They made a milo Murphy episode called "the phineas and ferb effect"
Well played Hartman. Well played.
Does Daria count? I'm pretty sure most of us know it was a spinoff, but I don't think she was originally intended to be her own thing, so I doubt it. But if it does count, that show is pretty awesome
I just wanted to say I totally agree on space ghost coast to coast, I watch it every time it airs, It's a good show.
I remember Spiderman the Animated series in the 90s had an episode that featured daredevil that could have worked as a backdoor pilot, also trial of the incredible hulk also seemed to act as more of a backdoor pilot for daredevil
wasn't Evil Con Carne one?
Man I remember everytime underfist came on me and my older brother would stop whatever we were doing and watch it
You sound more like a bus tour guide of a popular place more than a Buzzfeed article than anything.
Well, I have learned a lot. Thanks.
*> Looks closely at Underfist*
Is that where Toriyama got his design idea for The Pride Troopers?
I have an office addiction because it’s too good
"Whether you loved it or hated it, All Grown Up existed for 5 years AND NO ONE DID ANYTHING TO STOP IT." Cut, print, that's comedy folks. Seriously though, that's a great joke.
I had the book version of the All Grown Up and Rugrats pilot episode
14:12 the bug really sound like olaf from frozen when he said that whould have hurt
Fatima Bibi its the same voice actor
watching this today and seeing someone praise Butch Hartman is wild and kinda sad lol
I saw Underfist, I clicked
Steamed clams mmmmm
Yay for being from Michigan! Your sequel list should be Tv shows that got their start as backdoor pilots.
happy first day of hanukkah! 🕎
Its virgin marys birthday sooo
God so twice as many gifts!
why did you name yourself god if you're a christian (how i know you say virgin mary instead of jesus' mom)
skye w Jewish?
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I like it new sub
So, I'm not sure if this was acctually a back door pilot or not, but it cirtantly felt like one. The Doctor Who episode "Blink" was a great episode that featured the doctor for about all of 5 minutes and focused on the story of 2 characters who we hadent seen before and haven't seen since, had a new villain (which is the only thing to be carried over from this) and all around felt very different from the usual show, but was still one of the best episodes of the series.
Not so much a backdoor pilot as a "Doctor Light" episode as they were filming TWO episodes at once that week and they could only afford enough David Tennant for the DVD segments and the closing sequence of the episode where the closed time loop gets established. It's the kind of filming schedule bullshit that also gave us "Love and Monsters"
"HEY! Get out of my backdoor I'm a DOG lover."
Phineas and Ferb is the show The Amazing World of Gumball has succeeded to be.
That Steamed Hams short then became a meme about a month or so after this video...
I liked "Dude, What Would Happen" and "Hole in the Wall". Although, I'd prefer it if Underfist also shared the spotlight. There are 58 30 minute blocks in a day, after all, 20 of which are great airing times.
I watched the rugrats all growed up as a kid, and I kinda thought it was a dream.