Nicktropolis: The Series

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Nicktropolis: The Series is an animated adult-comedy series created by Dan Schneider. Based on the online-video game of the same name and on several Nickelodeon properties. The show premiered on Nickelodeon on March 9, 2007 on the Nick-at-Nite block due to being an adult comedy. The show is rated TV-14.
== Plot ==
The shows focuses on the misadventures of SpongeBob SquarePants, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, Addis Singer, Avatar Aang, Gordon, Waffle, Mr. Blik, Danny Phantom, El Tigre, Jimmy Neutron, Timmy Turner, and Nat and Alex Wolff. They try to have fun in their titular city while also trying not to get in trouble with the short-tempered Mayor.
== Production ==
Nickelodeon wanted Dan Schneider to create an animated show to tie-in with the release of Nicktropolis in early 2006. When making the main characters, Dan decided to have the group consist of the protagonists from some of Nickelodeon's most well.known live-action shows and Nicktoons, even including two of his own characters, Drake and Josh. For the city, they watched many episodes of different Nickelodeon shows to see what their worlds look like and how they all look if they were all in one city, even getting inspirations from cities like San Francisco and Chicago. For the animation, it's notably more slapstick than the usual animated adult-comedy, the show even uses cartoon sound-effects, which is quite rare for adult cartoons. And for animating the live-action characters, they got help from Avatar creators Mike and Bryan to help design the live-action characters into the animated world, but made sure to make the live-action characters a more like their live action counterparts and not like Avatar characters. For the humor, they got inspired by shows like The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-Head, and even taking a page from their own Nicktoons like Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life.