The idea for Golf Cart City started as far back as the pandemic times. As with all of that time off, I started to reconnect with my sister. And one of the ways in which we interacted were by playing with her little stuffed animals. While some side characters, the main 5 we would play and act with would be a pink dolphin, a toucan, a multi-colored goldfish, a penguin with a red and green cap, and a magenta snail. We would come up with names for all of these characters, backstories, as well as all sorts of crazy situations for these characters to be in. And this was all around the same time my sister and I started watching the Simpsons. And for the time, I had never seen anything like it. It was the type of perfect show that comes around
once in a generation. And even though I would later come across other adult cartoons that would influence me far more, the initial impression given by the Simpsons was what drove my early vision of Golf Cart City. While I initially thought it would work best as a comic strip, back in that era I was obsessed with strips like Garfield, Pearls Before Swine, and Calvin and Hobbes. But as time went on, I realized how sanitized and outdated the average morning
strip was. There was almost no difference in the comics of the 20s as the comics from the 70s. Not in humor, tone, content, anything.
The idea in my head didn’t fit under any of the unwritten rules of the comics section.Then I realized this needed to be a TV show, something that had absolutely no limits (sic) on it creatively. And it would need to be something more than just a simple elevator pitch, I would need to go out there and create my very own pilot. The actual production of the pilot itself took basically no time at all. Everything was shot in just one day. As video was sparsely used in the actual pilot, everything was
Sami is seen here lowering himself down in an attempt to steal the dough. The rope being visually represented by a strand of scotch tape. Seen in the pilot at 1:36.
Black Beauty in particular was chosen for the pilot because it was the book Leah was reading at the time. In addition to the book's namesake, despite only making up 6% of the livestock population, account for over half of all farm-related injuries.
frame by frame due to me and my sister not having the capabilities or foresight to get the stuffed animals to move in any other way. Everything was edited in WeVideo within the span of 7 days. There really ain’t that much to it. The video itself was never all that good. And even then, I knew this wouldn’t be the end. From the start, I knew I would absolutely put out a part 2 to conclude it, and make Golf Cart City the true proof of concept that I knew in my heart would impress television executives the world over. There was no point to looking back waste time on this premature first step, it was off to the second, final, concluding chapter of Golf Cart City.
A shot of Beeks and Penny arguing, located inside of Leah's room that can be seen from 0:58-1:04 in the Pilot.
