a staple of nickelodeon in the late 90s leading into the start of the new
millennium was a show about two brother beavers who happen to be
angry sometimes most times okay the show's title checks out norbert and daggett the two
title beavers of the show were set against the world living on their own in the middle of a
forest which for some reason is the epicenter of so many weird things that now these two
brothers hijinks and shenanigans take them on some ridiculous adventures aside from the vibey theme
song the show focused on the surrealism of the everyday zany lives of these two bachelor beavers
showcasing the weird wilderness of the outskirts of a fictional town set in oregon and as fun
as the show was however the production side of things may take much less of an exciting turn
especially for how the show would end or at least try to end don't hurt yourself just get on with it
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our work here is done in 1997 the world was introduced to two angry little beavers
norbert the smarter and seemingly more educated slightly older brother by a few minutes and
daggett the more energy-filled not a smart brother their relationship has always boiled down to being
messy sure they still love each other at the end of the day but oh boy do they really get on each
other's nerves at almost every instance possible from norbert belittling daggett and tricking
him into so many schemes for his own selfish benefit to daggett well being daggett they were
no stranger to dealing with a handful of issues every episode whether between each other or the
inhabitants of the woodlands but also the angry beavers was no stranger to dealing with network
issues specifically with the way in which the show ended but it was evident looking back that
there were clear signs of heads butting against one another between the creators of the show
and nickelodeon going back to season two's episode ally oops where it faced some interesting pushback
in censorship in that episode centering around daggett having a magical bowling ball norbert at
one point would say to daggett shut up smosh would be so proud but that's not what happened when the
show would make it to air in fact it originally premiered with a censor beep covering up the words
you stink stop stupid a bit odd for a kid's cartoon to do rather than them making the
creators take a cue from rocko's modern life with the infamous hex sensor heck it's supposed to be
sensors i'll never get tired of using that clip they instead just actually censored in what to
most people seems less quote unquote offensive the words shut up later on they would go as far as to
just redub the line to shush up stupid officially removing the sensor bleep while this is weird in
general it didn't come from a preset list of things you can or cannot say but rather from
the at the time president of nickelodeon burbs canel as he didn't want this taught to kids
watching having a very particular way in which he saw the world working his philosophy being that
if the show didn't say shut up then kids wouldn't say shut up as if we weren't learning and hearing
worse from others at school but it is odd that there's other instances of the show saying shut
up before this moment like here in season one and also having a problem with telling someone to
shut up but then still keeping in the line stupid inferring that the person who they're telling to
shut up is stupid is completely okay on top of this the rules that were in place on the
cartoons were mostly found in the way characters would be allowed or not allowed to be dressed and
represented on screen a lot of feedback given from the network would usually boil down to the
creators and writers sarcastically poking fun in ways that would fly under the radar and be
more of inside jokes when notes would come back saying make sure this is kid friendly they made
sure to overdo that note given in fact turning that exact note into the episode the legend of
kid friendly an episode where the beavers have to face off against kid-friendly a cowboy-themed
robot anytime weapons of any sort were used in the show the notes given to them would be to make them
larger and more colorful where then they would make sure that they were drastically doing just
that now this experience and what we will further get into while seen by some as not so great
experiences working on the show the creator of the show mitch schauer recounts his time working with
nickelodeon mostly positive even if there were times of contention like in the episode go beavers
where a group of people are seemingly crushed by a car and met with no pushback from the network
but in that same episode where a blimp would be set to crash into a group of people and doing
pretty much the same thing even though moments later the same blimp crushes the football team
was met with pushback and ultimately rejected it's a weird mix of give and take and for the most part
certain things meant with pushback could make sense but others like this last example with
the same effect being the result of something running into a group of people and taking them out
there really isn't a good reason as to why one over the other being okay
you'd think the way in which these people are crashed into wouldn't be the problem but the
fact that they are crashed into to begin with would be but hey networks are weird now for
how the series was planning to end however with its final episode gets into a whole different
category of issues between nickelodeon and the show me time for a short angry break
the beavers are back to bite more boards after a four season run on nickelodeon the show was now
facing cancellation and less of a friendly goodbye the people behind the show were struggling with
network conditions citing being over budget behind schedule and an overall feeling of being worn out
this coming directly from the co-developer of the series keith kaxork to further voice these
grievances a plan for the final episode of the show was devised that would directly with no holds
barred lay on the line the issues with the network bye bye beavers was set to be the final segment
of the angry beavers where the episode finds our main characters receiving notice in the mail that
their show is being cancelled there was no sugar coating it this was going to be an open criticism
right to the face of the company the criticism however would go further than just sticking up
for their own show but for the network's treatment of all shows in general specifically with how they
would treat canceling and syndicating them in angry beavers fashion the beavers themselves in
the episode now struggle with the realization of them being cartoon characters and their life not
being well real starting to get the picture no we're pictures we're not even three-dimensional
wowsers this whole would-be episode just focuses on the back and forth conversation between norbert
and daggett i say would be as the final episode doesn't exist well not in full animation form at
least the whole episode however has the complete voice acting audio done and one fateful day in
2006 it was unveiled to the world to see just how dark and funny this episode was planned to be
along with some leaked storyboards to emphasize the legitness of this being real specifically
the dialogue that we hear clues us into the annoyance of rather than nickelodeon paying
for new episodes of shows to be made they instead would constantly just play reruns after reruns a
network issue we still see happening today on almost every network what happens when you're
over oh it's not so bad no the cartoon's good even if it isn't it's garnet does that hurt
no only when you get the later checks the cartoon being over guys we run it over and over and
they make lots of well-deserved money which they share with the people who made the cartoon right
right as the audio would continue it becomes more clear behind the usual wackiness in their voices
that it is also extremely existential a look into metaphorically and realistically reaching the end
of life meeting your maker ceasing to exist the end of the road through finished ended
sending this dog to montana going bye-bye the voice actors themselves would go further
into the madness breaking the fourth wall and mentioning each other by their actual names or
other characters they have voiced from different tv shows just in general bouncing off the wall
with dialogue as zany as the show was hold on richard okay nick now i mean literally oh nick
ignored it it also goes into how even when the awful torturous things would happen to them could
result in actual death that it doesn't kill them as we hear and also see thanks to the storyboards
the example of them electrocuting themselves with no fatal results remember all those times massive
amounts of electricity have coursed through our bodies large objects have fallen on our heads
and huge explosions have blown us to bits well here we go again that was nuts nuts that's what
really happens when that stuff happens to real people turn it off norby for the love of todd
turn it off ultimately ending the episode with two beavers facing the end together
with daggett saying shut up a call back to the original censorship issue that there were
some clear gripes never patched up about but right before the end the two beavers say april
leaving this whole mystery a little bit ambiguous is that for the sake of the network for doing
reruns of this episode if it were to come to fruition or was this just a way for them to
kind of relieve a bunch of stress and play it off as a big joke this audio like i mentioned
was released in 2006 thanks to richard horvitz the voice of daggett during a guest spot on avi
mel-min's voice-over podcast one of the show's writers micah wright takes credit for giving
this recorded audio to horvitz some time back and would further elaborate on how close this episode
came to actually being on the air which hearing that and based on what we have just seen and
heard is pretty wild to think it was close to air at all there would be no way the network
would ever let this episode pass for air on tv right i gotta take a look at that they're angry
they're beavers they'll be back soon they're back and they're still angry
we got approval to do this episode and every step of the way nickelodeon approved moving to the
next stage right detailed that this episode that heavily went after the practices of nickelodeon
was simultaneously being given the green light to continue on step by step but someone it seems
finally started to fully get the picture wright goes on to say then they saw it all put together
and said wait this makes us look bad so they killed it yeah it makes sense from the
perspective of a network to do something like that it's more shocking that they let so much
of this happen before they realize that they were the butt of the joke so the green light they were
on for this episode came to a screeching halt at a red it can go deeper for nickelodeon than just
this though it's not only that the episode would at the network's expense be a bad look for them
it can also ruin a whole different factor of the same thing bye bye beavers was criticizing
reruns having a firm ending to something puts out an illusion of the show no longer being there
a mind space viewers could have that nickelodeon would be worried about not just for this show
specifically but for all of their shows it would make more sense to just continue on with a regular
episode that would serve as a technical last new episode of the show but one that wouldn't slap
that label on it so that reruns could constantly air and it would seem business as usual being more
ambiguous with the show became the practice rather than finality when it comes to reruns and how they
operate to have an episode made that definitely marks it as the end means that the network
probably can't use it for reruns it wouldn't make sense to have random episodes playing and then
smack dab in the middle is this final episode that declares the show isn't coming back and then the
next episode is just them back and doing something else the network wouldn't be interested in only
getting one use out of an episode that they were paying for so that is why nickelodeon specifically
at the time had the golden rule in place that doesn't allow for any show's final episode to
acknowledge or elude that fact in any way on top of all of that adding on the shortcomings
of the network painting them in a bad light may also not be the best thing for them to broadcast
even in a tongue-in-cheek manner which this final episode of the angry beavers clearly was not as
subtle today it's almost commonplace for more meta jokes references and fourth wall breaks to be seen
and understood by the audience even ones that come at the expense of the network they're on or
the creators behind them the only difference being that everyone feels like they are in on the jokes
and hopefully all in better working conditions the actual final episode of the show being episode
62's two segments dagski and norb and sheller high water which are in terms of the series as a whole
your average run-of-the-mill silly episodes of the angry beavers it aired on may 26th
2001. bye bye beavers along with its counterpart segment a tale of two rangers never made it to air
leaving it as an official lost episode of the show and while we are lucky enough to have this audio
and some storyboards confirming its existence it still lingers in my head of what this episode
fully put together could have been is it likely we'd ever see that happen one day probably not
but with how nostalgia driven and meta-joke driven things are nowadays can you really say never would
you like to see bye-bye beavers become a fully realized episode at some point let me know in the
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