>>44674890
>A SPOOPY show about MERCHANDISE WHORING (This will make you popular with slightly older children and will create merchandising opportunities for tie-in toys)

>>44674932
>+SPOOPY
>+MERCH WHORING
>Now playing: "Spook Hunters"
>Episode 4: "Ghost of a Chance!"
>12-Year old Adam accidentally looks into his grandfather's enchanted mirror while helping clean out his attic during a boring summer vacation. The two of them were transported into The Spirit World, where Adam's grandfather was promptly kidnapped by The Nightmare King. Adam will have to battle all 77 Spooks to assemble the key to The Nightmare King's palace before it's too late.
>Adam is sitting by The River Lethe. Skeleton fish swim by lazily.
ADAM: "Jeez! It's such a nice day out, but I can't stop thinking about how Grandpa's doing!"
>Adam skips a flat stone across the waters of the river, upsetting the fish and causing them to scatter, clacking their jaws.
>Adam is approached by his companion in The Spirit World. Who is it?
>LISA, Adam's sister. (This will definitely increase your popularity with female viewers, but has a chance to hurt your popularity with male viewers)
>CALLIOPE, a dead girl Adam met in the second episode. She's a qt and will increase your popularity with male viewers, but has a chance to offend some overbearing parents)
>PLORK, an Ectoplasmoid. Brash and headstrong, he's following Adam around because Adam and his grandfather crushed his house when they entered the Spirit World. You can make money selling toys of him, but older kids and especially edgelords will find him obnoxious)

>>44675320
>>LISA, Adam's sister. (This will definitely increase your popularity with female viewers, but has a chance to hurt your popularity with male viewers)

>>44675450
>+FEMALE
>(Roll a d20 for male popularity chance)
Lisa tugs on Adam's sleeve.
"Don't worry big brother! You're gonna defeat all those nasty Spooks and get grandpa back before you know it!"
Adam smiles determinedly. "Sure thing, sis!"
"Ah, there you are children!" It's Old Man Virgil, the old man who shits out a quest for these kids every week. His mouth is perpetually obscured by a massive white beard.
"It's terrible! One of the Spooks is stealing from the good townspeople of Dis!"
>HARD ZOOM into Adam's determined face. DRAMATIC MUSIC plays.
>COMMERCIAL BREAK
>What sort of commercials are going to run this break?
>MILITARY ADS. This will get you some government dosh and it's never a bad thing to be on Uncle Sam's good side.
>SPOOK HUNTERS TOYS. You forgo ad revenue to earn some additional dollars for that sweet sweet MERCH
>GREAT GREATEST ROBOT TIGER TOYS. You'll get the most money, but you're essentially advertising for your competition. Maybe it's no big deal, but you might take a big hit.

>>44675785
>>SPOOK HUNTERS TOYS. You forgo ad revenue to earn some additional dollars for that sweet sweet MERCH

>>44675785
>SPOOK HUNTERS TOYS. You forgo ad revenue to earn some additional dollars for that sweet sweet MERCH

>>44675887
>>44675916
>Still awating d20 roll btw
>+MERCH
NEW FROM TOON PLANET!
The camera zooms in on two little bratty kids. They're flipping their shit over some ACTION FIGURES
BOY 1: Wow!
BOY 2: Oh boy!
SPOOK HUNTERS ACTION FIGURES!
Camera pans across actions figures of the main characters
Adam and Lisa! Old Man Virgil! Grandpa!
Boy 1 (pretending to be Adam): I'll save you Grandpa!
Boy 2 (pretending to be the Nightmare King): In your dreams kid!
The camera jumps in on the Nightmare King action figure's face.
Boy 2: OR SHOULD I SAY IN YOUR NIGHTMARES
PLUS COLLECT ALL 77 SPOOKS, INCLUDING SUPER RARE SPOOKS!
A third boy cracks open a Spook Ball, revealing a brain covered in weeping eyes.
Boy 3: Oh wow! Gargax the Unclean!
Boy 1, entering excitedly: I'll trade you my Drowned Cleric!
Boy 3: Not a chance, faggot!
All boys laugh and the camera zooms in and out rapidly.
AVAILABLE AT YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL TOY STORES!!!

>The show returns just as Adam is approaching Dis, where there has been some commotion. What sort of Spook is he hunting in today's episode?
>A MIND CONTROLLING SUCCUBUS that is getting the citizens of Dis to steal from each other to give her presents (+SEXY, -OVERBEARING PARENTS)
>A SNEAKY BLACK SHADOWMAN that is breaking into people's homes and eating all their food (+PATRIOTISM, +TRADITIONALISM, -MINORITIES)
>A DEMON KNIGHT who is trying to assert his claim as liege lord over the townspeople. (+EDGY, -OVERBEARING PARENTS)

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>44675785

>>44676231
>A MIND CONTROLLING SUCCUBUS that is getting the citizens of Dis to steal from each other to give her presents (+SEXY, -OVERBEARING PARENTS)

>>44676365
>Avoided losing any traction with your male audience
>+SEXY
>-OVERBEARING PARENTS
Adam draws the SPIRIT SWORD, available for purchase at local toy stores, as they approach the town. Two people are fistfighting while a SEXY DEMON watches.
Succubus: Dohoho! This is the best. Now now, boys, don't be gentle!
Adam: Hey! Cut that out, you Spook!
Succubus: Well, if it isn't the little brat. Nightmare King says you've been making a lot of trouble for him recently.
The succubus walks over towards Adam and Lisa, swaying her hips as she goes. She leans down to Adam, who grimaces at her.
Succubus: There there. You know, you're actually kind of cute.
Lisa: You cut that out you nasty old cow!
Succubus: HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME THAT WAY!
She caresses Adam's cheek, grinning evilly.
Succubus: Brat, dear, you like me don't you!
Adam: O-of course I do!
Succubus: Then, you'll beat up your nasty sister for me, won't you Brat?
Adam: I...
He grins evilly
Adam: Of course I will

>How does Lisa stop the Succubus?
>She uses the power of her PURE HEART to force the Spirit Sword to obey her and break the spell on Adam. (This will surely break the mold for a Saturday morning cartoon, winning you points with PROGRESSIVE viewers, but losing traction with TRADITIONALIST views)
>She is helped by IFRIT, a half-ghost who has been helping Adam train with the Spirit Sword. (He's a little bishie for a western cartoon, which will win you some points with older female viewers, and more characters always means more action figures to sell)
>She is helped by THE SORCERER BROTHERS, three elemental themed wizards. (A shameless cash grab to sell three palette swapped actions figures separately, the Sorcerer Brothers are three bumbling idiots who appeared in the pilot. They've been trapped in the Spirit World because of a spell gone wrong. Making them a recurring character will mean significantly more merchbux, but will make the show objectively shittier)

>>44676681
>She is helped by IFRIT, a half-ghost who has been helping Adam train with the Spirit Sword. (He's a little bishie for a western cartoon, which will win you some points with older female viewers, and more characters always means more action figures to sell)

>>44676681
>She is helped by IFRIT, a half-ghost who has been helping Adam train with the Spirit Sword. (He's a little bishie for a western cartoon, which will win you some points with older female viewers, and more characters always means more action figures to sell)

>>44676681
>>She uses the power of her PURE HEART to force the Spirit Sword to obey her and break the spell on Adam. (This will surely break the mold for a Saturday morning cartoon, winning you points with PROGRESSIVE viewers, but losing traction with TRADITIONALIST views)

>>44676708
>>44676754
>+FEMALE (10-15)
>+FEMALE (15-20)
>+MERCH

Just as Adam is about to swing the Spirit Sword at Lisa, the half-ghost Ifrit dashes in, and their swords clash.
Ifrit: Adam! Just what the Hell do you think you're doing?!
Adam: Out of my way, Ifrit! The Lady...she...
Ifrit: This isn't you, Adam!
He looks at the Succubus
Ifrit: You...Bella Lasucre. I should have known you were behind this.
Bella: But you didn't, did you! Nyah! Get him for me Brat!
Ifrit: Adam....
Adam grits his teeth. They sword fight a bit. It's pretty sweet. There's a lot of re-used footage. Much is made of the Spirit Sword's ability to shoot projectiles.
Ifrit: Looks like I taught you too well, Adam. Looks like I'll have to use...my secret technique
He flashes through Adam, appearing behind him with his sword already sheathed. The Spirit Sword goes flying out of Adam's hands with a loud clang.
Adam: Augh, why you-!
Ifrit: That technique was not meant for your eyes. It was...taught to me by my master.
He looks away broodingly, setting up a mid-season drama episode.
Adam: Wait...what am I doing? Oooh, Bella, you nasty old witch! You'll pay for getting in my head!
Adam and Bella commence raging against one another comically. Lisa fetches The Spirit Sword, and she and Ifrit proceed to kick the shit out of Bella.

>Have Bella escape and become a recurring villain? This will magnify the effects of increasing the show's overall Sexiness and decreasing its appeal to Overbearing Parents
>Have them vanquish Bella completely and take her Spook Shard.

>>44677034
>>Have Bella escape and become a recurring villain? This will magnify the effects of increasing the show's overall Sexiness and decreasing its appeal to Overbearing Parents

>>44677034
>Have them vanquish Bella completely and take her Spook Shard.

>>44677034
>Have them vanquish Bella completely and take her Spook Shard.
This way, the rest of the MOTWs can be as lewd as we want to make them too.
This is why I'm not a TV exec.

>>44677241
>>44677281
Bella mind controls some townspeople to fight Lisa and Ifrit. While they're occupied, Adam regains his composure and comes at her.
Adam: This is it for you, Bella, you withered old cow.
Bella: This is just hurtful.
She makes a big show of having her feelings hurt and comes up to Adam, shoving her chest in his face.
Bella: Come on, Adam. You still like me don't you?
Adam smirks. Lisa tosses him the Spirit Sword, which he catches.
Adam: You wish, old lady.
He stabs her with the Spirit Sword. She screams and wails as her body dissolves into a small gemstone shard.
Lisa: We did it you guys!
Ifrit: I knew you had it in you, Adam
Adam: Yeah! We're one step closer to saving Grandpa!

LOOKS LIKE ADAM LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON ABOUT FRIENDSHIP! BUT WHAT NEW CHALLENGES AWAIT ON THEIR QUEST TO SAVE GRANDPA?! TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR SPOOK HUNTERS!

>Continued in next post.

FINAL SCORE
+++SPOOPY
+++++MERCH
++FEMALE VIEWERS
+SEXY
-OVERBEARING PARENTS
0 ADVERTISING DOLLARYDOOS
>Roll 5d6 for Merch bux
>Currently ranked THIRD among cartoon blocks
>Current BUX: $40,000

>What's on at 8:30?
>The Department of State is offering a $25,000 subsidy for any network that airs at least one patriotic show.
>You are mandated to run at least one program that is educational. You could concede the 9:00 hour to CartoonTV's jap robot show, or find somewhere else to dump this.
>You have the rights to broadcast Boostcore Maximum, an anime about futuristic inline skating. You're reasonable certain this will be a popular show. You could run it at 9:00 to compete to Great Greatest Tiger Robot, or perhaps put it at the end of the block to force people to watch all your garbage shows to see it.

>So, what's on next?
>A FAMILY FRIENDLY, PATRIOTIC show. (+$25,000)
>An EDGY, PATRIOTIC show ($25,000, +EDGY)
>AN EDGY show about MERCHANDISE WHORING (-$20,000)
>A FAMILY FRIENDLY show about ROMANCE (-$15,000, +WEEBSHIT)
>BOOSTCORE MAXIMUM (-$30,000, +WEEBSHIT)

>>44677603
>>An EDGY, PATRIOTIC show ($25,000, +EDGY)

Rolled 5, 6, 2, 2, 1 = 16 (5d6)

>>44677603
>An EDGY, PATRIOTIC show ($25,000, +EDGY)

>>44677603
>A FAMILY FRIENDLY, PATRIOTIC show. (+$25,000)
It can't be all edge all the time

>>44677669
>>44677746
Hey kids! Hope you're ready for the next show. Cause h-here it is! The next show, it's starting now!

In a world that struggles under blood red skies...
>the sound of guns firing. Shots of a futuristic village burning and russian soldiers and tanks
One man will do what is right, for the land of the free...
>A one-eyed man with a robot arm punches a Russian soldier's teeth out with his metal fist. He grits his teeth in fury and fires two huge machine guns towards the screen.
Brock: This one's for Lady Liberty, you commie piece of sh-
BROCK EAGLESON, THE RED DEAD-ER

>What is Brock up to this fine Saturday?
>Episode 4, "Better Dead Than Red" (+SPOOPY)
>Episode 4, "Bring Your Mother to Work Day (+FAMILY FRIENDLY)
>Episode 4, "Tri-Copter? I Hardly Know Her! (+MERCH)
>Episode 4, "The Tree of Liberty" (+EDGY)

>>44677919
>>Episode 4, "The Tree of Liberty" (+EDGY)

>>44677919
>>Episode 4, "Bring Your Mother to Work Day (+FAMILY FRIENDLY)

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>44677945
>>44678126
Rolling between these in the absence of a consensus

>>44678126 >>44678231

>>>Episode 4, "Bring Your Mother to Work Day (+FAMILY FRIENDLY)

>>44678126
>+FAMILY FRIENDLY

Zoom in on EAGLE MOUNTAIN. Brock is pacing nervously.
Agent Sunglasses: Sir, your mother has arrived for the tour of your office, Sir.
Brock: Send her in.
Mama Eagleson: Broccoli! Come here dearie.
Brock's mother engages him in a crushing embrace. He pats her gingerly with his robot arm to avoid destroying her spine.
Brock: G-good to see you, mama.
Mama Eagleson: Is this your uniform? A black tank top? You don't even wear a tie to work?
Brock, murmuring: I-I do important things here, mama. We're fighting for the freedom of the America peopl-
Mama Eagleson: I see they didn't even give you a company car, your father's old hunk of junk is in the parking lot.
Brock, even quieter than before: It's a classic car, mama...

>What is the focus of today's episode.
>Mama Eagleson has a comedic misunderstanding with some Mujahideen soldiers camping out at Eagle Mountain. Everyone learns a valuable lesson about making assumptions (+FAMILY FRIENDLY, +PROGRESSIVE)
>Mama Eagleson helps Brock assassinate the puppet president of Italy to avoid the state falling under red control. (+PATRIOTISM, +EDGY)
>Mama Eagleson have a bonding recap episode about the late Papa Eagleson's role in Brock's life...and the life of the American people (+FAMILY FRIENDLY, +PATRIOTISM)

>>44678390
>Mama Eagleson have a bonding recap episode about the late Papa Eagleson's role in Brock's life...and the life of the American people (+FAMILY FRIENDLY, +PATRIOTISM)

>>44678390
>Mama Eagleson have a bonding recap episode about the late Papa Eagleson's role in Brock's life...and the life of the American people (+FAMILY FRIENDLY, +PATRIOTISM)

>>44678439
>>44678441

Brock and Mama Eagleson are smoking cigarettes on the hood of PAPA EAGLESON'S CLASSIC CAR.
Brock: Do you miss him mama?
Mama Peterson: Oh, of course I do, sweetie.
Brock, sniffs stoically: Why did it have to be him, Mama?
Mama Peterson: Oh, Broccoli. Everyone owes his life to the State. We purchase the safety of our brothers and sisters with our blood. That your father died is an honor, not a tragedy.
Brock and his mother hug.
Brock: I know, mama. I know.
Red White and Blue fireworks go off outside EAGLE MOUNTAIN. A CLASSIC CAR bearing a hammer and sickle insignia revs its engine menacingly on the dirt roads leading to the enormous carved eagle.

>COMMERCIAL BREAK
>Play MILITARY ADS. Get that sweet military dosh, impress the Department of State with your loyalty.
>Play MOVIE AD. Get a reasonable amount of money, and this is a trailer for a new movie that everyone is dying to see (+$, +VIEWERS)
>Play MEDICAL LAWSUIT AD. Get a lot of money, but shit man, nobody really wants to see that shit. (++$)

>>44678659
>Play MOVIE AD. Get a reasonable amount of money, and this is a trailer for a new movie that everyone is dying to see (+$, +VIEWERS)

>>44678740
>+$10,000

A boy stands up in a wet parking lot next to a dog. He's wearing an orange vest.
MARTY LEADS AN ORDINARY LIFE
Marty is seen skateboarding through high school.
Principal: No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!
AND 1985...IS NOT HIS YEAR!
Marty strums a guitar loudly, causing an enormous amp to explode.
BUT DOC BROWN IS ABOUT TO CHANGE ALL THAT
Marty: Are you telling me that you built a time machine...?!
AND HE'S GOING TO SEND MARTY THIRTY YEARS BACK...TO THE PAST!
Marty wanders through a classic fifties setting. He is seen accidentally bumping into his father and mother.
NOW HE'S GOT TO MAKE SURE HIS PARENTS GET TOGETHER
Marty's Dad: If Lorraine won't have me...then I'm going to enlist and I'm going to help defeat Hitler once and for all.
Marty: Oh no...
Marty paces in Doc Brown's lab.
Marty: Doc, you don't understand! If my dad enlists, he could be sent to Germany in 1956. That's when the Soviets committed The Great Betrayal. My dad could be right in Berlin when the bomb goes o-
Doc Brown: Quiet, Marty! You can't tell me anything about the future that might influence my actions!
BUT ONLY DOC BROWN, CAN HELP MARTY GET...
Biff tries to punch Marty in the face. Cut to flames exploding from a speeding car.
BACK TO THE FUTURE

A little later, Brock Eagleson is racing Ivan Ivanov down the side of Eagle Mountain. Brock has bet the deed to Eagle Mountain on this race, but only Mama Eagleson knows that Brock's hyperfuel has been drained because she didn't want him driving recklessly. Brock won't have enough fuel to make the final jump over the eagle's beak! How does he get out of this one??
>Brock installed a GYROCOPTER in Dad's old car (+MERCH)
>JESUS lends Brock enough love for God and Country to make the jump
>PRESIDENT NIXON lends Brock enough love for the state to make the jump
>BROCK'S DEAD DAD'S DEAD GHOST lends Brock enough love for hearth and home to make the jump

>>44679148
>Brock installed a GYROCOPTER in Dad's old car (+MERCH)

>>44679148
>BROCK'S DEAD DAD'S DEAD GHOST lends Brock enough love for hearth and home to make the jump

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>44679240
>>44679471
Rolling for an option in the absence of a consensus

>>44679240
As they approach the final jump, Ivan runs into Brock's car with sickle-shaped spinning tire blades. Brock spins out of control, and all seems lost, but at the last second, he ejects from the car into a small gyrocopter. The car skids to a stop at the edge of the jump and the gyrocopter sails across the gap to the finish line. Mama Eagleson shoots Ivan's car out of the air with an RPG. Brock gives his Mama a thumbs up.

Mama Eagleson: Oh Broccoli, your father would be so proud of you.
Brock stares up at the setting sun. His father's face flashes in the sun and gives him a wink and a thumbs up. Brock sniffs again.
Brock: I know he would mama. I'm just glad I put a new Gyrocopter in the old car. It really has amazing flying action.

>Continued
>Roll 1d6 for +MERCH

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>44679666

>>44679666
FINAL SCORE
++++PATRIOTIC
+++++FAMILY FRIENDLY
+MERCH
+$25,000 DOD SUBSIDY
+$18,000 TOTAL MERCHBUX
+$10,000 ADBUX
>Currently ranked THIRD among cartoon blocks
>Current BUX: $93,000

DATE: Saturday, June 29th, 1985
TIME: 9:00 AM

>What's on at 9:00
>CartoonTV is now airing an hour-long block of Great Greatest Robot Tiger
>Toon Platoon is playing Uncle Sam's Corner, a relatively blasé children's variety show
>You have collected your reward for PATRIOTIC programming, but there's nothing stopping you from airing more.
>You still have to air some kind of educational programming at some point before 11.
>An EDGY show about ADVENTURE (-$20,000, +EDGY, -OVERBEARING PARENTS)
>An EDUCATIONAL show about SCIENCE (-$15,000, +EDUCATIONAL)
>An EDUCATIONAL show about HISTORY (-$15,000, +EDUCATIONAL)
>BOOSTCORE MAXIMUM (-$30,000, +WEEBSHIT)

>>44679865
>An EDUCATIONAL show about SCIENCE (-$15,000, +EDUCATIONAL)

>I've got to end it for the evening, but I'm going to try and run again on Tuesday. I'll track stats, hopefully we'll have more people, it's a super easy quest to just jump into.
>Any comments or criticisms? The idea is to explore this alternate history through the presentations of its media, possibly with the network attempting to influence things through the power of propaganda.

>>44680164
>The idea is to explore this alternate history through the presentations of its media, possibly with the network attempting to influence things through the power of propaganda

Finally, an original quest!