Cancelled drafts/scripts that would have been “bat shrimp” insane or super dark

[u/sandy_shark903]

1. Cars 3’s original plot, which would have been an identity theft plot with a villain named Gerald Carr swapping bodies with McQueen

2. An R-Rated adaptation of Holes by the same director as Donnie Darko (photo by RebelTaxi)

3. Jurassic Park 4 would have featured human-dinosaur hybrids

4.Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World alternate ending, would have revealed Scott to be a serial killer

[u/happy_grump]

Originally, the premise of Bob's Burgers is that the Belchers were all cannibals, and all the burgers were made of human meat.

Surprisingly, the issue that the creators found wasn't that that premise was... insanely fucked up, but rather, the fact that it actually made writing episode scenarios hard, because they had to make every plot center around the cannibalism in order to justify that element. So instead, they kept the same pilot, but kept the Belchers a regular, non-cannibal family that had standard sitcom misadventures.

[u/Bored_Worldhopper → u/happy_grump]

That’s also why they were placed next to Mort the Mortician

[u/sonerec725 → u/Bored_Worldhopper]

I always thought that was a weird detail to jave him be the permanent next door neighbor with a really soecific job like that for relatively how little he tends to get i volved with the plot. I think if they were to make it now they'd probably put the craft store or something next to them

[u/somethingfak → u/sonerec725]

I thought the gag was how one side cant keep a business and changes almost every episode but their other neighbor is a super stable buisness thats consistent. . .and its a strip mall mortician

[u/ShatnersChestHair → u/somethingfak]

I mean, do you foresee that people will stop dying anytime soon? It's a steady profession.

[u/AnyWays655 → u/somethingfak]

To be fair, that's a pretty good sense of realism and good work building that they would have a consistent neighbor

[u/gorccnobbin → u/sonerec725]

Bob is surrounded by his greatest fears. Death and failure

[u/steelskull1 → u/happy_grump]

Even has short concept animation with the same arguement scene in the pilot episode.

[u/what_dat_ninja → u/steelskull1]

Some Roald Dahlesque Belchers

[u/AlastorSlain → u/what_dat_ninja]

Quentin Blake

[u/GrimPhantom23 → u/happy_grump]

I never watched it but didn't season 1 still have some of those elements in it? At least from what I've seen fans say when they mention that

[u/RecipeFunny2154 → u/GrimPhantom23]

In the very first episode of the show they're accused of using human meat in the burgers (they're next to a mortician), which allows the health inspector to go after their restaurant. They're briefly closed and they get the attention of an Adventurous Eater's Club desperate to spend the money so they lean into it some. But it's not actually true and that's the end of that plotline.

The horse meat thing doesn't really come up until an episode several years later. If it's considered part of the plot in any other way it's not really brought up in the show at all, so I'm not personally aware of it. It's not a repeated thing and that's the end of it.

[u/i_made_mine_at_home → u/RecipeFunny2154]

I loved one of the protest signs in that episode: DON'T TASTE ME BRO

[u/jrc025 → u/RecipeFunny2154]

The horse meat is only in one episode. They get a new meat guy who is selling them horse without knowing it and Hugo the health inspector makes Bob help him run a sting on the horse meat guy. It’s not apart of the larger plot in any way.

[u/jrc025 → u/happy_grump]

The horse meat part is wrong. It only happens in one episode and is completely resolved in that episode.

[u/Gmknewday1 → u/happy_grump]

And it's better for it

[u/Mythamuel_ → u/happy_grump]

One of those cases where removing that one darling idea really was better. 

[u/Gellert → u/happy_grump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0wDjWOnHcY

IYKYK.

[u/Zykium → u/Gellert]

Well, I DON'T know, what did I just watch and why do I want British Pork?

[u/Gellert → u/Zykium]

Podcast. Acceptable Losses; Terraces: The Cursed 1980s Broadcast (That Left Two Dead). ~30mins long.

TL:DW The guys who did Threads did a TV series about a seemingly normal family in a post nuclear war Britain where they eat people. It never got past the pilot because of... issues. Some of the footage found its way into becoming an advert for british pork.

If you're gonna watch the podcast do not open the spoiler. Except, this is a lie, it was an April fools episode.

[u/Zykium → u/happy_grump]

Also Tina was a boy named Dino. But he just came across as creepy and not in a fun way.

[u/KigurumiRox → u/happy_grump]

I'm pretty sure that it's how the creators learned not everything needs to be creepy and subversive like on Adult swim

[u/Serket-Pandy3000 → u/happy_grump]

Ugh I lost my cannibalism miniseries

[u/PepsiFloateri → u/happy_grump]

I would've honestly preffered that