Long before Ted took center stage in two highly successful R-rated films, Seth MacFarlane pitched the concept as a family-focused animated series.MacFarlane, who voices the foul-mouthed bear, recently told The Wrap how he came up with the family-friendly version of Ted while working as an animator at Hanna-Barbera Productions (later known as Cartoon Network Studios) in the 1990s. “There was a period during the Time Warner-Turner merger during which the company had no idea what to do with its creative staff,” MacFarlane explained. “We were all just sitting around. The whole place was in chaos. They didn’t want to fire us all because they wouldn’t have any artists or writers when they did get underway again. So, all we had to do was pitch an animated show once a week to our bosses. Ted was originally one of these ideas.””I never did anything with it. And then when it came time for me to do my first movie, it seemed like an idea that had some legs,” MacFarlane continued. “And since it was a movie instead of a TV show and an ongoing group of characters, it seemed like telling a love story from start to finish and using that framework was maybe a better way to go. So the dad became a single guy trying to get his relationship back together.”
Long before Ted took center stage in two highly successful R-rated films, Seth MacFarlane pitched the concept as a family-focused animated series.
MacFarlane, who voices the foul-mouthed bear, recently told The Wrap how he came up with the family-friendly version of Ted while working as an animator at Hanna-Barbera Productions (later known as Cartoon Network Studios) in the 1990s. “There was a period during the Time Warner-Turner merger during which the company had no idea what to do with its creative staff,” MacFarlane explained. “We were all just sitting around. The whole place was in chaos. They didn’t want to fire us all because they wouldn’t have any artists or writers when they did get underway again. So, all we had to do was pitch an animated show once a week to our bosses. Ted was originally one of these ideas.”
“I never did anything with it. And then when it came time for me to do my first movie, it seemed like an idea that had some legs,” MacFarlane continued. “And since it was a movie instead of a TV show and an ongoing group of characters, it seemed like telling a love story from start to finish and using that framework was maybe a better way to go. So the dad became a single guy trying to get his relationship back together.”
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