The Wrap is reporting that Amazon has ordered a pilot for a reboot of the live-action Tick TV show, starring Patrick Warburton!
The pilot is a test program for a full series of the revived show, which flared so bright, so briefly for 6 episodes in 2001. (There were actually 9 episodes, but Fox never even bothered to air the last three.) It’s somewhat understandable. We weren’t ready to make fun of superheroes in 2001.
We are the man of La Mancha… our dream is impossible.
Amazon will order a full series dependent on critical reception and online viewership numbers for the reboot pilot. No word yet on whether the rest of the cast will reprise their roles.
Did the show get cancelled before Warburton could utter The Tick’s iconic war cry? I think it did! Reason enough to bring it back.
Here, watch The Tick learn about death.
Only three episodes of the live-action Tick, the ones written by Edlund himself, were any good. Those were the only ones that actually engaged with the idea of superheroes and the humor that could be derived from the situations and dilemmas they encountered. The rest of the series was just a lame Seinfeld rehash, a bunch of losers sitting around in a diner talking endlessly about sex and just incidentally wearing superhero costumes while they did so.
I’m more optimistic about this reboot, though, because it reportedly has the involvement of Edlund but not the Seinfeld veterans who screwed up the last show. So hopefully it’ll be closer in tone to the animated series.
Spoon!
The article you are citing is from 15 months ago. There hasn’t been any news on The Tick moving forward since it was first announced. I want it to happen, but you think we’d hear new updates, see production shots. Anything for proof of life.
Very much preferred the animated version. Some members of Firesign Theater were involved.