"Animation Abomination" is the 54th episode of Season 2 and the 112th episode overall of Big City Greens.
Synopsis
When Cricket and Tilly visit the animation studio that produces their favorite cartoon, Tilly is furious when the creators approve of Cricket's nonsense ending.
Plot
Cricket and Tilly are watching their favorite animated show Kingdom of Lore. While Tilly has seen all five seasons of the show, Cricket has only seen the one episode, but still likes it. Tilly predicts that the show will end with Princess Tarina discovering that the ghost enemy is her father, thus bringing all the story elements together, while Cricket simply wants the show to end with Princess Tarina turning evil and blowing everything up, much to Tilly's annoyance. Gloria enters and reveals that she has gotten a job as an intern at Big Animation, the studio that makes Kingdom of Lore, and that she is heading over there now. Cricket and Tilly beg to come along and Gloria reluctantly concedes.
At Big Animation, which is depicted as a loony place, they meet the showrunners, brothers Topher and Blane who give a tour. They enter the writers' room where the writers are suffering a creative block on how the show should end. Tilly offers her idea which is well accepted by the group. However when Cricket offers his idea, the writers prefer his as it is easier and quicker. This forces Tilly to tell Cricket how she feels about his ending, claiming it as "hot garbage" and telling him that his ending would make the five seasons of development all pointless for the sake of cheap spectacle. However, Cricket just thinks that Tilly is jealous and boasts that he has great ideas. So, Tilly tries to distract him while she tries to get her better ending made.
They travel to the storyboarders' room where Tilly replaces the boards with those of her ending, but Cricket finds out and tears off all her panels. At the voice over sessions, Tilly made several changes to the script, but Cricket kept a copy of his cut. Afterwards, Tilly collects the art from the designers, the painters and the editor and timer in an attempt to steal their work, but Gloria takes them from her, thinking she's helping. Finally, they put it on a catapult prepare to send it to the overseas animators in South Korea; Tilly tries to stop them, but Cricket releases the catapult, causing a heated argument between the two.
The animation comes back and an executive, named Ed Xecutive, arrives to look at the final footage. Ed watches the episode with Cricket's admittedly terrible ending. Just as he is about to approve it, Tilly stops them and demands the better ending that she suggested. Ed agrees as she likes her passion for the series and demands that the ending be redone. Tilly overhears Topher and Blaine talking to each other about how they had fun working with each other, and takes that advice to heart when she sees Cricket upset that his ending was not used. Realizing that not everything in animation must make sense, Tilly compromises by suggesting to Ed that they keep her ending, but add a portion of the Cricket ending where the princess blows up the ghost. Ed approves of this and they go to talk over lunch, simultaneously revealing he's a robot.
The final version of the episode airs with the Tilly cut showing Princess Tarina discovering that the ghost is her father, but adds in a small portion of the Cricket cut where she blows him up. Cricket and Tilly are happy with the ending, but upon getting on the internet to see the reaction, they are horrified by the response.
Cast
| Main article: Ding Dongers and Animation Abomination/Credits |
- Chris Houghton as Cricket Green, Topher
- Marieve Herington as Tilly Green, Female Writer
- Anna Akana as Gloria Sato
- Shane Houghton as Blaine, Male Editor
- Chris Diamantopoulos as Ed Zecutive
Additional voices
- Bob Joles as Male Voice Actor, Ghost
- Artemis Pebdani as Female Voice Actor, Female Timer
- Grey Griffin as Princess Tarina, Female Storyboard Artist
- Zeno Robinson as Upload Voice
- Eric Bauza as Bat, TV Announcer, Male Storyboard Artist
- Kimberly Brooks as Painter, Countdown Voice
- Charlet Chung as Lead Korean Animator
- Roger Craig Smith as Lead Writer
Titles in other languages
| Language | Title | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 Spanish (Latin America)
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Abominación animada | Animation Abomination | |
 German
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Animierte Abscheulichkeiten | Animated abominations | |
 Spanish
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¿Animación o abominación? | Animation or abomination? | |
 French
|
Les dessins animés | The cartoons | |
 Japanese
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アニメができるまで | How Anime is Made | |
 Portuguese
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Animação Abominação | Abomination Animation | |
 Vietnamese
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hoạt hình ghê tởm | Animation Abomination |
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