Anyone remember Osmosis Jones/ Ozzy & Drix?

[Fone Bone]

That is a terrible idea and would not be taking the pandemic seriously at all. What are people thinking? It's a kids franchise.

 

[hobbyfan]

I never saw "Osmosis Jones". I did indulge in Ozzy & Drix because it was a comedy-adventure series at its core. I think part of the reason it failed overall on TV was because, well, of course, they had to recast the leads, with Phil LaMarr replacing Chris Rock as Ozzy, for example. It was actually an entertaining series, but this is Kids' WB! we're dealing with here, shuffling shows in and out with no advance warning to keep things fresh, so no consistent schedule was what really did it in.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

That is a terrible idea and would not be taking the pandemic seriously at all. What are people thinking? It's a kids franchise.

I think part of why some folks thought about that is because the premise of Osmosis Jones has to do with a person becoming infected with a virus and given what's going on with Covid-19, I wouldn't be surprised if someone writes something about it because that's not uncommon in pop culture and Hollywood.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

I never saw "Osmosis Jones". I did indulge in Ozzy & Drix because it was a comedy-adventure series at its core. I think part of the reason it failed overall on TV was because, well, of course, they had to recast the leads, with Phil LaMarr replacing Chris Rock as Ozzy, for example. It was actually an entertaining series, but this is Kids' WB! we're dealing with here, shuffling shows in and out with no advance warning to keep things fresh, so no consistent schedule was what really did it in.

You have a point. Plus around the time the series was canceled, WB and UPN network merged about a year later in 2006 which is now called the CW and around 2008 and 2009, CW was one of several networks that discontinued their Saturday morning cartoon line ups.

Ozzy & Drix was listed as one of the series that will be in the animation library on the HBO Max app.

 

[mimitchi33]

We watched the movie in ninth grade biology and I loved it!

Not sure if this was brought up before but apparently, some people have brought up what if there was an Osmosis Jones sequel or reboot based on Covid-19. Honestly, on paper, the people who worked on the movie and spin off series could technically adapt that idea into a graphic novel or animated short but not much else.

I'd say no, considering that some animated shows have had previous episodes with characters getting ill pulled due to the pandemic. One of those reruns, an episode of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, got pulled not just due to the premise involving the characters getting sick, but also because it actually aired at the exact same time the state of emergency was announced for most states! Heck, there's even a SpongeBob episode that is being held back because it's about a quarantine for an illness.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

We watched the movie in ninth grade biology and I loved it!

I'd say no, considering that some animated shows have had previous episodes with characters getting ill pulled due to the pandemic. One of those reruns, an episode of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, got pulled not just due to the premise involving the characters getting sick, but also because it actually aired at the exact same time the state of emergency was announced for most states! Heck, there's even a SpongeBob episode that is being held back because it's about a quarantine for an illness.

You have a point. Funny, I've heard a lot of people watched Osmosis Jones in biology class at school or when it aired on Cartoon Network.

 

[VeiledHat]

My friend thought Hector Cruz looked like a white Virgil Hawkins when she was little

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

My friend thought Hector Cruz looked like a white Virgil Hawkins when she was little

Wow. According to a Wiki pageabout the show, Hector is listed as Cuban-American.

Osmosis Jones was also recently added to HBO Max as part of their movie library.

 

[VeiledHat]

Wow. According to a Wiki pageabout the show, Hector is listed as Cuban-American.

Osmosis Jones was also recently added to HBO Max as part of their movie library.

But he still has peach skin. It's like a peach-skinned Virgil.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

But he still has peach skin. It's like a peach-skinned Virgil.

Maybe so, but there's a lot of people of color with different complexions. Plus, not everyone who worked on the movie came back to do the animated series, that included the animation team. More than likely if they had, chances are the character designs would've been different.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

And as of recently, Osmosis Jones is on the HBO Max app and since then a bunch of people have started watching it, mainly because of the pandemic.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

As of this week, it's been 19 years since Osmosis Jones was in theaters. About a month earlier in July 2001, Cats and Dogs premiered in theaters.

Found out later on that both Warner Bros and Disney were having some problems in the animation department that worked on movies. The biggest issue was that in the early 2000s the animated films they put out were flops.

What helped save Disney was Pixar's Monster's Inc.

As for WB, their theatrical animation department was shut down. The same happened to Fox Animation about a year before that.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

As of last month it's been 18 years since the series Ozzy and Drix premiered on Kids WB. Ran for two seasons which later ended up on DVD and as of this year, HBO Max.

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

As of last month it's been 18 years since the series Ozzy and Drix premiered on Kids WB. Ran for two seasons which later ended up on DVD and as of this year, HBO Max.

Can't believe the movie's 20th anniversary is in August. Time flies!

 

[Parker-Shepherd]

In case anyone missed it, the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release Osmosis Jones was this past August and September marked the 19th anniversary of the premiere of Ozzy and Drix.

Wow...