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* DisownedAdaptation: André Franquin was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (though ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is on Disney+).

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* DisownedAdaptation: André Franquin Creator/AndreFranquin was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (though ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is on Disney+).
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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (though ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is on Disney+).

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis André Franquin was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (though ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is on Disney+).



** For starters, when the company got the license from Andre Franquin, its future with original IP was far from certain despite the recent success of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', so it seemed like a beneficial deal for both parties.

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** For starters, when the company got the license from Andre André Franquin, its future with original IP was far from certain despite the recent success of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', so it seemed like a beneficial deal for both parties.
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** However, Disney committed numerous acts of LoopholeAbuse regarding the contract, such as convincing Franquin to accept a "roll-out strategy" that consisted of making shorts for ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' (which also included the aforementioned ''Bonkers''), then debuting a half-hour series the following year, itself made up of both old and new ''Marsupilami'' shorts, with a middle segment alternating between shorts starring ''The Little Mermaid'' character Sebastian and [[WesternAnimation/EekTheCat Bill Kopp's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow Shnookums and Meat]]''. Problem was, the contract demanded a series with full half-hour stories, a demand this series clearly didn't meet. To say nothing of the fact that Disney's version [[InNameOnly barely qualified as an adaptation, using only a heavily modified version of the title character and nothing else]].

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** However, Disney committed numerous acts of LoopholeAbuse regarding the contract, such as convincing Franquin to accept a "roll-out strategy" that consisted of making shorts for ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' (which also included the aforementioned ''Bonkers''), ''Bonkers'', which itself had a turbulent production), then debuting a half-hour series the following year, itself made up of both old and new ''Marsupilami'' shorts, with a middle segment alternating between shorts starring ''The Little Mermaid'' character Sebastian and [[WesternAnimation/EekTheCat Bill Kopp's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow Shnookums and Meat]]''. Problem was, the contract demanded a series with full half-hour stories, a demand this series clearly didn't meet. To say nothing of the fact that Disney's version [[InNameOnly barely qualified as an adaptation, using only a heavily modified version of the title character and nothing else]].

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* TroubledProduction: The series was a victim of internal politics at Creator/{{Disney}}.
** For starters, when the company got the license from Andre Franquin, its future with original IP was far from certain despite the recent success of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', so it seemed like a beneficial deal for both parties.
** However, Disney committed numerous acts of LoopholeAbuse regarding the contract, such as convincing Franquin to accept a "roll-out strategy" that consisted of making shorts for ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' (which also included the aforementioned ''Bonkers''), then debuting a half-hour series the following year, itself made up of both old and new ''Marsupilami'' shorts, with a middle segment alternating between shorts starring ''The Little Mermaid'' character Sebastian and [[WesternAnimation/EekTheCat Bill Kopp's]] ''[[WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow Shnookums and Meat]]''. Problem was, the contract demanded a series with full half-hour stories, a demand this series clearly didn't meet. To say nothing of the fact that Disney's version [[InNameOnly barely qualified as an adaptation, using only a heavily modified version of the title character and nothing else]].
** What's worse, by the time production started, the Disney Renaissance was in full swing, and lucrative homegrown properties like ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' made the idea of promoting an outside property seem redundant to Disney. Marketing responsibility was handed over to lower-rung executives, who screwed it up to the point that [[InvisibleAdvertising the only merchandise that came out for the property]] came out between the end of ''Raw Toonage'' and the beginning of the standalone ''Marsupilami'' series, a decision even one of Disney's own experts thought was insane. On top of that, the show had to air on a network (meaning that ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'', successful as it was at the time, wouldn't suffice) - and Disney never even so much as attempted to sell half-hour ''Marsupilami'' episodes to networks, only airing the shorts series on Creator/{{CBS}} as a replacement for ''Raw Toonage'', which Disney cancelled after 12 episodes.
** The series ended after 13 episodes, and Disney had the contract nullified - without the necessary 180-day notice. This was the final straw, and Franquin successfully sued Disney over their mishandling of the property. From there, the series faded into obscurity, with the only thing coming out of it post-cancellation being a spin-off of the ''Shnookums and Meat'' segments into its own, similarly short-lived series for ''The Disney Afternoon''.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (though ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' is on Disney+).

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (though ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' is on Disney+).
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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured in ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality and bestiality signs.

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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured in ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''), ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'') was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture allegations of homosexuality and bestiality signs.sexually-inappropriate humor.



* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (where it's successor show ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' exists).

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (where it's successor show ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' exists).(though ''WesternAnimation/Bonkers'' is on Disney+).
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Bad uploads of VHS to rips are the only way to watch this show now thanks to the lawsuit.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney likely led to the show are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (where it's successor show ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' exists).

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney likely led to the show are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (where it's successor show ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' exists).
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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''. The resulting judgement and loss of the rights by Disney likely led to the show are likely why both this show and ''Raw Toonage'' have disappeared into obscurity, not even appearing on Disney+ (where it's successor show ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' exists).
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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured in ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs.

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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured in ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''episode 6), ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & and bestiality signs.



* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupalami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup (WMG). The issue was the theme song was on the long out of print CD WMG created in 1999 called ''[=ToonTunes=]''.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupalami, Marsupilami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 lawsuit against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube Website/YouTube due to a copyright claim by Creator/WarnerMusicGroup (WMG). The issue was the theme song was on the long out of print CD WMG created in 1999 called ''[=ToonTunes=]''.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupalami, not only for being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''.

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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupalami, not only for it being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''.
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* DisownedAdaptation: Andre Franquis was ''not'' happy with Disney's take on Marsupalami, not only for being an InNameOnly adaptation of his comics but for the various behind the scenes issues and near lack of promotion they gave to their adaptation of the character, which prompted a $10,000,000 against Disney that he actually succeeded in ''winning''.
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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured on ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' Episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs.

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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured on ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' Episode in ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage''episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs.
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Some ToonDisney promos for the Disney series referred to him as a leopard or "jungle cat".
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (WMG). The issue was the theme song was on the long out of print CD WMG created in 1999 called ToonTunes.

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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Some ToonDisney Creator/ToonDisney promos for the Disney series referred to him as a leopard or "jungle cat".
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group Creator/WarnerMusicGroup (WMG). The issue was the theme song was on the long out of print CD WMG created in 1999 called ToonTunes.
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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured on ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' Episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs.



* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured on ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' Episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs. Gr
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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Some ToonDisney promos for the Disney series referred to him as a leopard or "jungle cat".
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* ScrewedbytheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (WMG). The issue was the theme song was on the long out of print CD WMG created in 1999 called ToonTunes.

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* ScrewedbytheLawyers: ScrewedByTheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (WMG). The issue was the theme song was on the long out of print CD WMG created in 1999 called ToonTunes.
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* ScrewedbytheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (WMG).

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* ScrewedbytheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (WMG).
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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured on ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' Episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs.

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* BannedEpisode: "Romancing the Clone", from the Disney cartoon (featured on ''WesternAnimation/RawToonage'' Episode 6), was banned due to insulting the title character's dignity, (possibly) some sexual-themes, and a mixture of homosexuality & bestiality signs.
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* ScrewedbytheLawyers: The opening theme song from the Disney animated series was blocked from Youtube due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group (WMG).
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