History HostilityOnTheSet / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' : Bob Bergen hated the shorts made in the 2000s and stated that he had an awful time working on them before being fired and replaced with Billy West as the voices of Porky Pig and Tweety. He let director Larry Doyle know that he wasn't comfortable with the adult humor present in the shorts, but it didn't do any good (ironically, the higher-ups at Warner Bros. took out all the adult humor in the shorts after Larry was fired). As if that wasn't enough, Larry wanted Bob to change the way he played Porky - he slowed down a bunch of old Porky shorts to how Mel Blanc sounded before they sped him up, then told Bob to "do" Mel, then they would speed him up to the same percentage. Despite the fact that Bob does Porky fine naturally and has done it that way for years. In addition, as Bob pointed out his voice is much higher than Mel's was - and the microphones used in those days were much different than the ones they were using on these shorts... and on top of that, Larry slowed down those original Porky shorts too much. When Bob attempted to do Porky the way Larry wanted and was sped-up, the results were unsatisfactory. Bob finally decided to call up his agent and quit the project, with his agent telling him that he had just been fired.

* "WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes" : Bob Bergen hated the shorts made in the 2000s and stated that he had an awful time working on them before being fired and replaced with Billy West as the voices of Porky Pig and Tweety. He let director Larry Doyle know that he wasn't comfortable with the adult humor present in the shorts, but it didn't do any good (ironically, the higher-ups at Warner Bros. took out all the adult humor in the shorts after Larry was fired). As if that wasn't enough, Larry wanted Bob to change the way he played Porky - he slowed down a bunch of old Porky shorts to how Mel Blanc sounded before they sped him up, then told Bob to "do" Mel, then they would speed him up to the same percentage. Despite the fact that Bob does Porky fine naturally and has done it that way for years. In addition, as Bob pointed out his voice is much higher than Mel's was - and the microphones used in those days were much different than the ones they were using on these shorts... and on top of that, Larry slowed down those original Porky shorts too much. When Bob attempted to do Porky the way Larry wanted and was sped-up, the results were unsatisfactory. Bob finally decided to call up his agent and quit the project, with his agent telling him that he had just been fired.

** Season one's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E13SomeEnchantedEvening Some Enchanted Evening]]": In addition to this episode's infamously TroubledProduction, James L. Brooks (who wanted more realistic animations on the characters and objects) called the original animation "shit". This did ''not'' please [[Creator/KlaskyCsupo Gabor Csupo]], who got into a heated argument with Brooks; Csupo (who ''wanted'' the animation to be OffModel and over-the-top) denied that there was anything wrong with the animation and instead claimed that "maybe this shit isn't funny". When the show won its first Emmy (albeit for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E9LifeOnTheFastLane Life on the Fast Lane]]"), Brooks made it a point to [[IronicEcho mockingly repeat Csupo's own line back to him]] at the ceremony.

** Season three's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E17HomerAtTheBat Homer at the Bat]]": Jose Canseco didn't get along with the cast and crew. He disliked his original part, felt that his cartoon self looked nothing like him [[YouDontLookLikeYou (though he had a point in that respect)]] and insisted his character be rewritten, and the writers [[TeethClenchedTeamwork grudgingly made him as heroic as possible.]] He was originally slated to wake up in bed with Edna Krabappel and miss the game (in a parody of ''Film/BullDurham''), but Canseco's then-wife, Esther Haddad, objected. Al Jean admitted that he found him to be intimidating.
** Season six's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]":

** Season seven's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud Marge Be Not Proud]]": Josh Weinstein, co-showrunner at the time, called Creator/LawrenceTierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes" (for example, he refused to do the answering machine gag as written since he didn't understand why [[BaitAndSwitch Brodka would keep talking despite no one being on the line]], so Weinstein had to stand in the recording booth and adlib some responses from Marge and later edit them out).

** Season six's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns A Star is Burns]]": As described in John Ortved's book, there was an incident when showrunner David Mirkin and writer Bob Kushell got into an argument about the episode, saying it hurt the integrity of the series. Mirkin replied, "That's why you're an asshole." Stunned, Kushell proceeded to chew out Mirkin in front of the writers present and stormed out. He was convinced he was going to be fired for it, and although he wasn't, he wasn't given any writing assignments either. Kushell also mentioned that many writers came up to him privately and thanked him for standing up to Mirkin. (Mirkin, it should be noted, stepped down as showrunner after the sixth season.)

** "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksman" only credited Reccardi for directing it after Kricfalusi was fired from the show. Kricfalusi was so enraged that he threatened to sue {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} for millions if he wasn't properly credited on the film; Reccardi relented and put his name on the credits. The day that most of the crew moved into Games Animation, he personally followed them around and verbally abused them.

* ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964'': There wasn't much drama behind the scenes, except early on when Larry Roemer was supposed to direct. According to ''Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Making Of The Rankin/Bass Holiday Classic'', even though Roemer got screen credit for directing he did very little work on it due to causing problems early on, with sound engineer Bill Giles saying he thought everyone was doing everything wrong. In the end, Rankin became the de facto director. Roemer's relation with Rankin and co-producer Jules Bass continued to degrade and he would ultimately leave the company not long afterwards.

* It's no secret that Creator/JohnKricfalusi made working on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' both a blessing and a curse. When he wasn't holed up in his office to avoid confrontation and leaving others to do the heavy lifting on his cartoons for him, he was an outright terror of a director to work for.

** Creator/BillyWest suffered damage to his vocal cords from the grueling recording sessions, to which Johnny would respond, "You're 98% there." West was not swayed by bullying (he had grown up with an abusive father), which enraged Kricfalusi even further. He also fired storyboard artist Chris Reccardi for dating John's ex-girlfriend Lynne Naylor. (Reccardi and Naylor later married and remained together until Reccardi's fatal heart attack in May 2019). He rewarded Bob Jacques for his hard work on "Sven Höek" by chewing him out over the phone for hours over how "Disney like" it looked. Kricfalusi only began praising the cartoon when it became a fan favorite. Relations during the first two seasons became so bad that Bob Camp would invite staff members into his office to kick the wall (with a sign over it reading "''John's Knees''") to get aggression out. By the end of Kricfalusi's run, the wall had been reduced to a gaping hole.

* ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964'' : There wasn't much drama behind the scenes, except early on when Larry Roemer was supposed to direct. According to Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Making Of The Rankin/Bass Holiday Classic, even though Roemer got screen credit for directing he did very little work on it due to causing problems early on, with sound engineer Bill Giles saying he thought everyone was doing everything wrong. In the end, Rankin became the de facto director. Roemer's relation with Rankin and co-producer Jules Bass continued to degrade and he would ultimately leave the company not long afterwards.

* Following Creator/JustinRoiland's firing from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' due to domestic abuse charges in 2023, sources close to the show [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/justin-roiland-animation-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/ told]] ''The Hollywood Reporter'' that Roiland's relationships with co-creator Creator/DanHarmon and the writers had been fraught behind the scenes going back to Season 2. It reportedly got to the point that, by time of his firing, Roiland had not been on speaking terms with Harmon and members of the writing staff hadn't interacted with him, even over Zoom, in years.

* It's no secret that Creator/JohnKricfalusi made working on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' both a blessing and a curse. When he wasn't holed up in his office to avoid confrontation and leaving others to the heavy lifting on his cartoons for him, he was an outright terror of a director to work for.