Today the first two episodes of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder premiered on Disney+. Contrary to what the title may lead you to believe, it is not an inter-company crossover where the Loud family from The Loud House moves next door to the Prouds and they start a Hatfields vs McCoys battle. Besides, if Paramount were ever to remake The Loud House, it would definitely be in live-action instead.
We know this because the revivals the studio has been cooking up for Paramount+ lately are mostly real-people takes on cartoon concepts. They announced a live-action Dora The Explorer series not too long ago, and a weird, half-fleshy revival of The Fairly Oddparents has been targeted for a late March release.
Subtitled Fairly Odder, the series revolves around Timmy Turner’s cousin Viv, a real person, and her stepbrother Roy (as one might expect, their parents just got married last week and this is literally the first time they’re meeting each other). But if their lives weren’t messy enough, just wait until the cartoon Cosmo and Wanda pop out of Roy’s backpack and start granting all their wishes, no matter how destructive they are.
The series combines the typical overacting and garish color palette of a kidcom with the limited animation and sight gags of a Butch Hartman toon, and it…doesn’t really blend in our opinion. But decide for yourself:
This isn’t the first time Paramount has tried to make this concept a live-action thing: three TV movies were produced about a decade ago starring Drake Bell as Timmy Turner. They weren’t received very well, as live-action takes on cartoons done on the cheap don’t tend to be, but that evidently didn’t stop Nick from doing it again.
Now aren’t you glad The Proud Family is not a Paramount property so it could get revived the correct way? For those who want it, The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder premieres March 31 on Paramount+.
