The Meatcanyon Fan fiction

Part 1: A brick adjacent obstacle

A picturesque day is enjoyed by the a denizens of a miscellaneous Texan neighborhood. Kids play out on bicycles and tossing frisbees out at one another, or enjoy a nice ball game like football or catch. The average relaxed parent or two enjoys their day off lounging in the sun, enjoying the serenity of distant birds and cicadas chirping, or the smell of a nearby grill. Everyone is happy, except for one man.

Behind the door of an unsuspecting house that blends in with the rest of the suburbs, lies a resting place who's walls are packed to the brim with merchandise and miscellaneous goods accumulated over the course of several sponsored videos. It is a warehouse masquerading as a bedroom, and it's lone foreman is sitting in an office chair struggling to file their biweekly performance report after a significant delay. Hunter Hancock sits before his computer, illuminated by the monitor's blinding light which seemingly overpowers the nearby neon colored sources of illumination. In this light, Hunter's sweat drenched forehead, bloodshot eyes and unkempt beard are granted further exposure. He's been seated here for hours with an online type text program opened up, but his problems started way before this point. His production cycle briefly took a hiatus after he failed to reach a non-binding headline for what his next project would be, and obviously couldn't submit a blank sheet to his creative team. With this, he supplied an apology on his YouTube community tab for the lack of an upload and the expectation that a new project would be out in 3 weeks. It's half way through the first week and alot of important production time his disappeared, and all he had to show for it were a few bulletpoints written up without any solid ideas that could be stretched into a short animation.

-Barbenheimer Parody (Past shelf life.)

-Chalk-zone Police procedural (Can't get past the initial obvious joke.)

-X-Men porn parody titled C-Men (Again, too obvious of an initial joke, couldn't have the mileage stretched out, and may risk demonitization.)

-Yer another Cr1t1kal parody (Oversaturated.)

Hunter then got up from his computer and began to pace around the shag carpeting of his bedroom barefoot, hoping he'd eventually come up with something somewhere along the pacing. He would return to his computer unconfidently and wrote something up just so he could feel as though he's making some amount of progress.

-Batman condones White-Collar crime.

It was a bad idea, but before he could make the effort to even just backspace it from existence, he would suddenly strike the countertop of his computer table and quietly let out a profanity.

"Fuck."

Once again feeling defeated, Hunter laid back in his office chair and simply waited, hoping inspiration would eventually strike him.

He waited, a minute passed;
he waited, his computer screen would go into sleep mode;
he waited, a YouTuber he was subscribed to uploaded and subsequently sent his phone a notification;
he waited, an hour passed;
he waited, the neighborhood was getting ready to go inside for the day;
he waited, the sky had began to turn orange from it's blue;
And he just kept waiting.

Not realizing how much time had passed, he would soon look in the bottom right corner of his computer screen to see the time: 7:45 PM. What did he have to show for it?

Hunter soon buried his forehead between the palms of his hands and sighed, before succumbing to yet another defeat. He quickly opened his community tab and typed out yet another lengthy message for his viewers notice.

IMPORTANT
Many of you have been wondering, where's the next Meatcanyon animation? When's it coming out? Is Meat ok? What's up with the delays? Speaking candidly for a moment, as the leading the creative director on these videos, I feel a great deal of responsibility when it comes even just submitting an idea before my colleagues and telling them: "this is what we're going to be working on, here's what we're gonna do, and all that." I think back to something Loren Bouchard and H. Jon Benjamin were told when they were first pitching Bob's Burgers and the originally running premise was that their restaurant served burgers made with human flesh. One of the producers handed them a note saying something to the effect of: "Do you want to be making 300 episodes of cannibal jokes?" And then the two went back and retooled the premise with a new pilot episode more in line with what we'd come to know the show as today. To that end, while I'm not an executive, looking back on this story often makes me think of what I hand into my fellow creators with a particular mindset that's there every step of the way: "do I really want to be handing this in to them with the knowledge that they're about to devote the next 2 weeks to this project?" People often look at the crude animations we put out on our channel and forget there's a whole production pipeline behind a cartoon where I violate a beloved kids cartoon like I'm a grave defiler. I've come a long way from having to make these videos on my own, they're a collective effort of background artists, keyframers, inbetweeners, voice actors, musicians. A frequent collaborator of mine, Hoolopee, is an especially talented jack of all trades and I would like to be very careful about devoting their talents to a project worth their time, same as everyone else. So to that end, I apologize for being very verbose and would like to just get to the point. We will be taking another week to delay things production wise so that we can have something we're more satisfied with working on, and just as important: worth your viewing attention. Thank you and have a great day.