How Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s Partnership Fell Apart

Also: Necessary Mythbusting Moments  Welcome to the Cracked newsletter! This issue is about movie studio scandals, 'Babylon,' mythbusting moments, Super Bowl commercials, and much more. [The Legend of ‘Black Bart,’ the Failed ‘Blazing Saddles’ TV Adaptation]( At the end of [Blazing Saddles]( after the massive brawl that tore down the film’s fourth wall, [Cleavon Little’s Sheriff Bart]( decides to depart the town of Rock Ridge. The Black sheriff had saved the place, and satisfied with his accomplishment, he rode off into the sunset with the Waco Kid ([Gene Wilder]( to “nowhere special.” But as it turns out, “nowhere special” would be Paris, Arizona, a small western town where Bart was appointed sheriff by the governor. Much like he did in Rock Ridge, Bart would encounter a bunch of racists who were rankled by the idea of a Black sheriff and who Bart delighted in antagonizing. At least, that would have been the case had CBS decided to go beyond the pilot stage for their TV adaptation of [Blazing Saddles]( (though instead of calling it Blazing Saddles, for unknown reasons the network called it Black Bart, which was an earlier title of the film). [READ MORE]( [5 Movie Studio Scandals That Everyone Tried to Cover Up]( Hollywood loves stories about Hollywood. They love stories that portray movies as a transcendental artform — if they had their way, every single picture would have a scene of a character staring at a movie screen, transfixed. There are some stories about the movie business, however, that Hollywood doesn’t enjoy telling. We mean the dirty ones, the true ones, the ones they cover up. Like the stories of how... [READ MORE]( More Scandalous Reads: - [15 Enormous Historical Scandals (That Went Ignored For Years)]( - [5 Dumb Ways Celebrity Scandals Were Uncovered]( - [14 Scandalous Paparazzi Photos of Historical Figures]( - [5 Sex Scandals From Hollywood's Golden Age]( - [7 People Who Unearthed Huge Scandals (And Got No Credit)]( [How Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s Partnership Fell Apart]( [Is ‘Babylon’ Twitter Just Snyderverse Twitter With Its Pinkie Extended?]( [‘South Park’ Teases New Kanye Jokes Ahead of Wednesday’s Premiere]( [Times ‘Seinfeld’ Crossed Over With Other Sitcoms, Ranked]( [11 Mythbusting Moments Necessary Because Of Corporations and Lobbyists]( [Five of the Last Six Grammys for Best Comedy Album Went to So-Called ‘Cancelled’ Comics]( [Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny Created the Modern Age of Wacky Super Bowl Commercials]( [Did a Comic Pretend to Fall Off-Stage for Clout?]( [Jerry Seinfeld Hates A.I. 'Seinfeld']( [10 Michelle Wolf Jokes for the Hall of Fame]( [4 Things Science Has Predicted That We Still Haven’t Discovered]( [Five Times Tim Meadows Showed Up for Two Minutes and Stole the Show]( [Wait, They Made A Mexican ‘Drunk History’?]( [The ‘Star Wars’ Show from ‘Robot Chicken’ We Never Got]( TWEET OF THE DAY [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px]( [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2022 Cracked is published by Literally Media Ltd. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Literally Media · 190 West St Ste 17B · Brooklyn, NY 11222-3855 · USA