The animated reboot that wasn't

The Raccoons is been forever a Canadian staple. One animated series that was very ahead of its time in terms of protecting nature and forests against the evil schemes of Cyril Sneer and his dearest henchmans, such as the pig triplets. The show was over the decades been airing on every places since its departure on CBC in the late-90s. There was Teletoon first. Then, APTN. (The First Nations network that have also the nerve to ran things that don't actually reflect its mandatory to picture an authentical representation of the Aboriginal First Nations communities... like the Twilight movies!) There was the beloved Teletoon Retro that was sadly gone by years like 2010 and now, on Boomerang Canada with brand-new 4K masters to what was otherwise the only survival prints of the animated series, by be filmed all in 35mm and be the final animated show to be fully hand-drawn. No computers were utilized for such of a result and that shows!

However, by 2015, an interview with showrunner Kevin Gillis having made the promise of something we didn't expected for: A sequel series featuring the beloved characters, but at olders. It was a premise that he never will earn it. Probably the reception of the teaser on social medias was so dismal that the project of a Raccoons sequel series was never materialized. It's perhaps a good thing if Furries have for long stop to be original or unique for many decades now.

The internet is full of inconsistencies when it belong the many cases of Anthropomorphism that seems to only please such horny losers on their secret garden. Due to my experience with it, Furries became since a few years very overbearing and repetitive. The fact that for example, Walt Disney's former creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, was a rabbit instead of a human boy was muchly incidental. I don't think I have to learn how real bunnies have to act or be pet while watching his cartoons. And for a longtime, there was the urban legend that rabbits eats carrots because they saw it in many Bugs Bunny cartoons, except that carrots are toxic for rabbits in the real-life.

After the theatrical animated cartoon shorts goes to a demise, it's in the 1970s that the very first case of "Furries" was made. The likes of Fritz the Cat and eventually, the bankroll of Hanna-Barbera characters clones have made ponder some executives that animal-characters are more relatable to kids. But something strange start to enlight for the worse: They became no longer like their own natural animals-like anymore by be also tallest and wider than humans, but with less sense of anatomy than in the classic 'toons of old. True cartoonists sure pull lots of hatred to this and it still does the same today.

Back to Raccoons, it's obvious that Kevin Gillis have give up to create and drawn when the show was definitely cancelled. By looking of his name in the credits of such wrecks like Atomic Betty (Back when Canadian animation started its toxic trend to producing very low-budget and "flat" cartoons, but without the UPA's style or substance) or Jimmy Two-Shoes at a cheat from Maxwell Atoms' cartoon-gore style.

Canadian Animation been over the years the subject of hate and dimsay on all the Internet and social medias by its penchant for animation done in Flash. To seen a Raccoons sequel show by this pattern is not that highly appealing. Some rumors have says that Cyril Sneer was gone due to illness that was revealed in the final episode Go For Gold!. Or that there will have more apperance of the Poochie-like character Lisa Raccoon; whom existed only because hysteric Furries wanted it. Not because of giving the show such continuity. If your only interest about cartoons is the beautiful female characters featuring there, you know you're in trouble. And by the way, what about Bert Raccoon and this obsession of characters to have wonky noses as they were knocked too many times to doors?

The other factor of why Canadian Animation does with lots of criticism is the way they are funded. Any shows have to be funded by many programs like the ones from governments, SARTA and Telefilm among others. Some looked out pretty good, but others by be older, that remains a dealbreaker. In current times, Canadian cartoons seems to exists only for Pre-schoolers when there is no longer animated series from our Provinces that knows to appeal teenagers and grown-ups the right way like in the old UnderGrads and Braceface days.

This seems to be an American sport to bashing Canada for its cultural disabilities and absurd sense of patriotism. I couldn't agree more with them. To the way Justin Trudeau was never been able in eight years at lead to taxed the Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and all by not giving any respect, neither attention to the Canadian animation industry is simply baffling. I prefer better that our Televisions ran stupid cartoons, but that were made in our country instead to just be at the mercy of the giant streaming monopolies. Because they have real people who working there, whom all pull their heart and soul to what they achieved, but with murky payrolls. Now the english Teletoon's gone, Canadian children Television going to face with a slow burn to lose its proper identity.

And let's be strict with it: By close of the series' 40th anniversary launch in 2025, this is perhaps a good thing that a newer Raccoons TV series was never be made. We would says the same for the sub-series Tea Stilton when very rudimentary animation and one-note/jerky characters are parts why we love just a fraction of what the artform have made since the Pionneers days.