Tj's World

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Tj's World  is an American animated television series created by TjsWorld2011 and Ntpockets. The show first premiered on Nickelodeon on June 12, 1999. It is TjsWorld2011's second series after PuffRuff School. The series focuses on the events of Tjdrum and Ccmater2 living in Tampa, Florida and occasionally those including their friends Agentpeddle and IronInforcer.

TjsWorld2011 conceived the show's concept in late 1993 while at serving his term the animation institute Collingtoons in Los Angeles, California after he created two characters named Tjdrum and Ccmater, the former based partly on himself, and had the idea of "building a whole world" around the two characters. After changes were made to the central character design in 1997 (partly inspired by the Comedy Central series South Park), he soon created more characters based on the design and began working on the show with his classmate Ntpockets. The show first appeared in its early form as a series of pilot episodes on the Oh Yeah! Cartoons show on Nickelodeon in August 1998. The show was able to be green lit by the network for a full length series on the network.

The success of the show's premiere and its subsequent seasons yielded the production of three feature films based on it, Tj's World: The Movie (2005), Tj's World: Across The 2nd Dimension (2007) and Tj's World: Modem Mayhem (2013). Since the show's premiere, various forms of merchandise based on the show have been released. The series is currently rated TV-PG in the United States.

Development


The show was first conceived by TjsWorld2011 while he was serving his term at the Los Angeles, California based animation institute Collingtoons in the office of Ntpockets in late 1993. After he showed Nt a paper drawing of two characters he had made named Tjdrum and Ccmater that he thought he could use for something, Nt suggested he could expand on the idea of using the characters, and Tj soon followed suit as he brought up the idea of making a world around the two characters to use as the basis of a series, and the two began work on the concept. They created many other characters in the series and finished work after they invented a new character style for the series partly influenced by the Comedy Central series South Park, therefore ditching the earlier style seen on Tj's original drawing.

On August 16, 1998, the show, now titled Tj's World's early pilot episode aired on the ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons showcase series on Nickelodeon, four years after the duo graduated from Collingtoons and started working on Tj's other series PuffRuff School''. The title of the series came from the pseudonym/username Tj was using as his pen name, which he created while in his computer club at the University of Miami in the summer of 1988. With this version, Ccmater's name was changed to Ccmater2 by Tj because he thought it "had a nice ring to it and would fit in more with the computer name styled concept for the main characters". After the pilot episode aired, two more episodes were later aired on the show later in the year and the next year.

Tj was later notified by the Nickelodeon staff that the episodes were already a huge success and the series, then still in its early form, had attracted a significantly large cult following by January of 1999. This meant that Nickelodeon could give the duo and Tj's production company TjsWorld2011 Entertainment permission to start working on a full length series based on the episodes to be added to Nickelodeon's programming lineup. With this announcement, Tj and Nt immediately got to work on the series, started casting roles of other characters (Tjdrum and Ccmater2 were already being played by Evan Sabara and Andy Milonakis, respectively) and heavily modified its appearance to be more "straight" in the process. The series was originally set to premiere in March of 1999 on Nickelodeon with the original series pilot episode titled "Tj Reveals A Secret". But even after Nickelodeon executives previewed the episode with Tj and Nt watching in the foreground of the office, the executives said they wanted a different episode showing "how and why they even got to Tampa in the first place" in order to make for better continuity. This meant that the original pilot episode had to be shelved from the network (until it was featured on the season 1 DVD in 2001). Nonetheless, Tj and Nt took Nickelodeon's advice and produced the new pilot episode, unsurprisingly titled "Pilot", which later premiered on Nickelodeon on Saturday, June 12, 1999.

Episodes
Further info: List of episodes

United States

 * Nickelodeon (1999-present)
 * Nicktoons (2002-present)
 * Tj's World Network (2003-present)

Canada

 * YTV (2004-2009)
 * Nickelodeon Canada (2012-present)

Latin America

 * Nickelodeon Latin America (1999-present)
 * Canal 5 (2001-present)
 * Nickelodeon Brazil (2000-present)
 * Rede Bandeirantes (2004-present)

Bahamas

 * ZNS-13 (2003-present)

United Kingdom & Ireland

 * Nickelodeon UK & Ireland (1999-present)
 * Nicktoons UK & Ireland (2003-present)
 * Sky 1 (2000-present)
 * TV3 (2000-present)

France

 * Nickelodeon France (2005-present)
 * Canal J (1999-present)

Germany

 * Nickelodeon Germany (2005-present)
 * Nicktoons Germany (2007-present)
 * ProSieben (1999-present)

Greece

 * Nickelodeon Greece (2000-present)
 * Star (2001-present)

Italy

 * Nickelodeon Italy (2004-present)
 * Canale 5 (1999-present)

Nordic and Scandinavia

 * Nickelodeon Scandinavia (1999-present)
 * Nickelodeon Sweden (2008-present)
 * TV2 (2001-present)
 * TV4 (1999-present)
 * TVNorge (2002-present)
 * Yle TV2 (2003-present)
 * Stoo 2 (2004-present)

Poland

 * Fantastic (2000-2001; aired as part of Nickelodeon block)
 * Minimax (2001-2004)
 * ZigZap (2004-2011)
 * Nickelodeon (2008-present)

India

 * Nickelodeon India (1999-present)

Japan

 * Nickelodeon Japan (1999-2009)

South Korea

 * Nickelodeon Korea (2008-present)
 * Tooniverse (2003-2007)

Films
Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies and TjsWorld2011 Entertainment produced Tj's World: The Movie, a feature film based on the series. In the film, the government of Florida passes a new law that its citizens must have security cameras installed inside their televisions to gain access to their channels. At first, Tjdrum, Ccmater2, Agentpeddle and IronInforcer seem skeptical about the law but decide to obey it, while the citizens of Tampa revolt and riot in response. Rumors start going around town that groups of activists have been going around several news stations in the town trying to broadcast messages saying that a lawyer who tried to prevent the law from being passed did nothing wrong, which if done will anger the government and awaken a dormant god called PoofyGumbo, who will destroy the world if awakened. When the boys find out about this, they attempt to stop one of the groups from hijacking a television station's broadcasting signal to broadcast their message, but fail to do so, and once PoofyGumbo is awakened, he vows to destroy the world, so the boys must find a way to set things right. The film was released on March 18, 2005 and received positive reception for its animation, humor and political commentary.

A sequel to the first film, Tj's World: Across The 2nd Dimension, was released on July 4, 2007. In the film, Tjdrum, Ccmater2 and Agentpeddle find refuge from an aftershock in a dimension different from theirs with the help of Santed Sailor, who later ditches them and meets his counterpart, Santed Sailor 2. His counterpart then goes on to take revenge on Tj and the Resistance (Tj and his friends' counterparts) who infiltrate his headquarters, later taking the battle to their dimension, staging a confrontation in Tampa. It was the first film to be produced by Tj's production company under the TjsWorld2011 Pictures name.

In October 2007, TjsWorld2011 confirmed that TjsWorld2011 Pictures was planning a reboot of the series, titled Tj's World, set for release in 2014, but it was cancelled in August 2012 because the film had a similar plot to Hey Arnold! The Movie, yet another Nickelodeon film. However, it was announced that they were planning a third Tj's World film, which was later titled ''Tj's World: Modem Mayhem. ''The film centers around how Tjdrum and Ccmater2 get sucked into the internet, therefore meeting MJ and Kirby, but one of the Internet's most recognized prisoners, Geek Guy, steals Tj's hat to complete a chip that can call an army, and he escapes into the real world to destroy Tampa, so Tj and Cc need to stop him. The film was originally scheduled to be released on May 17, 2013 but was changed to June 5, 2013 to avoid competition with Star Trek Into Darkness, another Paramount film, and finally released on June 21, 2013.

Ratings
TV-Y (1999-2005)

TV-Y7 (FV) (2005-2009)

TV-PG (V) (2009-present)

Video games
Main article: List of video games

A selection of video games based on the show have been released.