ROTTEN: Behind the Foodfight @okso...

Ok so... In 2012, the animated feature Foodfight! was unleashed on the world. It was given a theatrical release just a year before in the UK, Russia, and Dubai. The movie cost approximately 32 million dollars, starred Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hillary Duff, Eva Longoria, and Christopher Lloyd. Yet it only made back less than 1% of its budget and lives in infamy as the worst animated feature ever created. This is its story.

ROTTEN wouldn't have been possible without by incredible team and the patience of the many, many crew members that I contacted over the year I spent researching for this. To those I spoke to, thank you. Sorry if I brought back bad memories!

For anyone wondering about the accuracy of the fake interviews being performed by actors, their lines come directly from interviews I had with crew members that would like to remain anonymous, just rewritten a little to create a little more anonymity. Their facts, however, have remained entirely the same.

Everything in this documentary is being released separately when possible. This includes animation tests, character designs, assets, and many other things. You can view the archive at this link:
archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22foodfightarchive%22

New items, when they're uploaded, should pop up there. Sometimes current items also get updated when new things are discovered.

Sorry if the mixing is poor. Had a hard time with it. Never done anything this long and honestly by the end of it I was kinda pushing it out the door.

The computer bootup sound was taken from Dodgykebaab Stock Room.

If you're reading this and have any material from the production or related to it that you'd like to share, please send an email to ziggycashmere@gmail.com and I'd love to chat. Anonymous donations are certainly an option. We still don't have the full demo reel!

Watch SixtyFours talk about music videos on @ItsMusicVideoTime
Listen to JoeyVFX's incredible tunes on @joeyvfx_official
Watch LSuperSonicQ talk about lost media on @LSuperSonicQ
Watch blameitongeorge talk about the same thing on @blameitonjorge
Watch Pan-Pizza talk about similar things on @RebelTaxi
Listen to Ko Laluna's fantastic voice on @wormpyy
Watch Maxx's tape collection on @foundstuff9655
View TomTheyy's video archive on @thecollectiveanimationarch9912
Watch Animation Antic's reviews on @AnimatedAntic

updated 5 months ago

ROTTEN: Behind the Foodfight

Ok so... 2024-05-02 | In 2012, the animated feature Foodfight! was unleashed on the world. It was given a theatrical release just a year before in the UK, Russia, and Dubai. The movie cost approximately 32 million dollars, starred Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hillary Duff, Eva Longoria, and Christopher Lloyd. Yet it only made back less than 1% of its budget and lives in infamy as the worst animated feature ever created. This is its story.

ROTTEN wouldn't have been possible without by incredible team and the patience of the many, many crew members that I contacted over the year I spent researching for this. To those I spoke to, thank you. Sorry if I brought back bad memories!

For anyone wondering about the accuracy of the fake interviews being performed by actors, their lines come directly from interviews I had with crew members that would like to remain anonymous, just rewritten a little to create a little more anonymity. Their facts, however, have remained entirely the same.

Everything in this documentary is being released separately when possible. This includes animation tests, character designs, assets, and many other things. You can view the archive at this link:
archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22foodfightarchive%22

New items, when they're uploaded, should pop up there. Sometimes current items also get updated when new things are discovered.

Sorry if the mixing is poor. Had a hard time with it. Never done anything this long and honestly by the end of it I was kinda pushing it out the door.

The computer bootup sound was taken from Dodgykebaab Stock Room.

If you're reading this and have any material from the production or related to it that you'd like to share, please send an email to ziggycashmere@gmail.com and I'd love to chat. Anonymous donations are certainly an option. We still don't have the full demo reel!

Watch SixtyFours talk about music videos on @ItsMusicVideoTime
Listen to JoeyVFX's incredible tunes on @joeyvfx_official
Watch LSuperSonicQ talk about lost media on @LSuperSonicQ
Watch blameitongeorge talk about the same thing on @blameitonjorge
Watch Pan-Pizza talk about similar things on @RebelTaxi
Listen to Ko Laluna's fantastic voice on @wormpyy
Watch Maxx's tape collection on @foundstuff9655
View TomTheyy's video archive on @thecollectiveanimationarch9912
Watch Animation Antic's reviews on @AnimatedAntic

Where Did The Cymbal Monkey Come From?

Ok so... 2024-10-09 | You've probably seen him, the monkey that claps a pair of cymbals and has an unnerving grimace with piercing eyes. Ever wonder where he comes from? This is about as far as you can get.

Also forgot to credit the channel Groovy Movies for their upload of Commander USA presents Devil's Chimp. youtu.be/Ud3_siVb-WY

Introduction to Finding Lost Media

Ok so... 2024-09-30 | Over the past decade or so, the online lost media community has continued to grow exponentially. As I've been watching this, I, like others, soon noticed that many people didn't really know how to start. A lot of people went about things the wrong way, or didn't really know where to even begin. So, I decided to adapt The Lost Media and Research Handbook into a short video for beginners directing them in how to search for lost media down to the bare essentials.

You can read my handbook, which is more detailed and thorough, here.
sites.google.com/view/lostmediahandbook

I do not consider myself an "expert" in lost media, just someone who's pretty experienced with it and has been pretty lucky in the past. So, I thought I'd pitch in my two cents and hope this can be a good starting point for those who are interested. I've really enjoyed my time in the lost media community and hope it improves and grows in the future.

Vintage stock photo library:
archive.org/details/h-armstrong-roberts

ROTTEN Screening and Q&A

Ok so... 2024-07-13 | As I finally wind down on covering the Foodfight! story, I'm celebrating with a special screening of ROTTEN: Behind the Foodfight with better sound mixing and a few small fixes in editing with a Q&A at the end. Feel free to ask me anything! Though preferably about Foodfight, the channel, my projects, or other things I actually know about.

Sorry for the reschedule!! Things came up, had technical difficulties, not happy about it.

Ok so... Live Stream

Ok so... 2024-07-02 | ...

ROTTEN: Original Soundtrack

Ok so... 2024-05-04 | Here's the soundtrack to ROTTEN: Behind the Foodfight, mostly in order in how they play in the documentary.

Music by JoeyVFX was used with permission from his album Gnomes. Joey's a good friend and I'm so glad he let me use his tunes. Check it out!
youtube.com/watch?v=mIXFTo54Z7s

Music by John Taylor was specially created for this doc free of charge and I'm forever grateful to him for that. We had never met before this and he was more than happy to give music even with my vague notes because I had no idea what I wanted at the time.

If there's a song you heard in the doc but don't hear here, that's because it was music either pulled from Mortal Kombat, Hershey's Really Big! 3D Show, or Foodfight! itself.

0:00 - Our World / John Taylor
1:20 - Techno Syndrome / John Taylor
2:34 - Elf Party / JoeyVFX
6:36 - Copabanana / John Taylor
8:25 - Wow! / John Taylor
9:33 - Clockwork / JoeyVFX
12:47 - Gnome Circle / JoeyVFX
16:08 - Happy Beach / JoeyVFX
20:35 - Burn Tree / JoeyVFX
23:10 - You Despise Me / John Taylor
25:26 - Love on a Real Trolley / John Taylor

How Waldo was Banned

Ok so... 2023-07-05 | Where's Waldo (or Wally if you're in the UK) is a sensation that took the world by storm when it was released in 1987. But for the past twenty years, it's had the reputation of being one of the most unexpected books to be banned across the United States' public school libraries. This is that story.

Quite possibly my worst line delivery to date, so if it sounds a little lackluster, that's my bad. Still working on how to properly enunciate things without dying.

Also to anyone who points out there's a few cover-ups of fat jokes in the book, I know about them, I just forgot to add them and couldn't really figure out a way to cover them well enough.

If you'd like to compare and contrast Waldo for yourself, you can view the digitization of my own copy of the first edition here:
archive.org/details/whereswaldo87
And the 30th anniversary edition here:
archive.org/details/whereswaldo0000hand

Special thanks to this blog for pointing out almost every difference between editions.
dailythreadbit.blogspot.com/2020/10/waldo-search-i-wheres-waldo-1987.html

Music: Where's Waldo? (NES Soundtrack) by Juilian Lefay

Interphone: The Forgotten Ordering System

Ok so... 2023-05-20 | This is the Interphone system, a way of ordering food that was a somewhat common novelty during the 1960s-80s. Instead of giving your order to a waiter, you called it in directly to the kitchen.

Music is from the SeeBurg 16RPM background music record library

When Did Pete First Panic? A Popping Martians Journey

Ok so... 2022-12-13 | This is the short but somewhat strange story about Panic Pete, the toy you squeeze and his eyes pop out.

All of my sources are from here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Pete
I wrote that article so in this case referencing Wikipedia is okay lol.

Music is from the KPM music library.

Thank you to my friend Max for aiding in research!

This video is a little outdated! All of the info is still accurate but it's missing a few details. You can read a more in depth history of the toy at this website!
jobodatabase.weebly.com