Welcome to Eltingville

I just saw "Welcome to Eltingville" last night on Cartoon Network's AdultSwim.com. It is the funniest stuff this side of Robot Chicken the network has ever offered! Why they never picked it up is beyond me. I was so able to identify with this show because I was the same way those kids were in junior high. Now I can not only laugh at myself,I can also laugh at the others who still do this well into their 20s and 30s, and not be considered mean! It's a great play on the nerd stereotypes, such as knowledge of completely useless(to the rest of us) trivia facts, bootleg just about everything, and using outrageously trivial possessions as status symbols. A great salute to the guys who keep the comic book industry and the internet running!

This cartoon is about four sociopathic nerds who seem to spend all their time consumed in stereotypical nerd interests like comic books, movies and role playing games. It intends to be a humorous look at fanboys but is poorly written, with all the jokes falling flat and having unrelatable social misfits. It's almost a cautionary tale as this show highlighted the lives of four nerds several years before Big Bang Theory. You see exactly where Big Bang Theory could have gone wrong with poor writing and obnoxious unlikeable people. The show even stops dead in the middle for a trivia contest, not a humorous one but literally reciting trivia toward each other for several minutes! Adult Swim is known for its mostly low quality shock humor shows and it still wouldn't touch this turd, shows you it was to infantile for even them.

One of the best pilots that never got picked up. Cartoon Network in the 2000s was one of the best in the animation industry. Even the projects that were canceled were incredibly good.

I've watched this pilot five or six times, and it still entertains me and makes me have a great time every single watch. The pilot has excellent pacing and a solid plot (thanks in large part to Dorkin's great comic book story).

In this version, unlike the comic, Pete and Jerry are more laid-back and seem calmer than their comic counterparts. Bill and Josh are still despicable, horrible human beings, but their behavior is toned down compared to the source material.

I can see why CN decided to shelve the project. Even though Dorkin's comic book was amazing, it was hard to adapt into a PG-13 TV show. If Adult Swim had been as big back then as it is now, this show might have actually been greenlit. It's also a challenging concept to adapt because there's only so much you can do with a group of nerds to keep an audience entertained. Some jokes and tropes can get old quickly, much like what happened with The Big Bang Theory.

P.s.: shoutout to Evan Dorkin, one of the greatest of independent comic books. I got a tattoo a few years ago of the Eltingville Club and showed it to him and he said I made his day. Great guy.

Director: Chuck Sheetz Written by: Evan Dorkin (written by, comic book, created by) Music by: Denis M. Hannigan Editing: Rob Desales Art Direction: Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer Storyboard: Stephen DeStefano.

It was a good show because it was funny.

The animation was great and the characters were funny.

This is what The Big Bang Theory should have been. Its too late for success now.

This has to be one of the best "animations for geeks" that I have ever witnessed. The trivia fight between club members in the comic book shop was one of the best written spots I have seen in an adult cartoon. MAJOR kudos go out to the writers for coming up with such a good trivia-laden episode. And I agree, "No Boba Fett body, then he's not dead."