So I told the guy there was no trivia in the Angry Beavers on the 12th and no airings of Beavers on the 13th but he insists he saw it.
So unless you want to check again Nodog I think this case is closed because he swears he saw it and we can't find it.
Are you sure? I check the TV guide often and Angry Beavers airs every night on The Splat. I wish I had recorded it though, I used to record every episode until December when I got the complete series on DVD.
Well, I can only go off of what Nodog told me and apparently that was no Angry Beavers. I can't look myself, so unless someone else on the site wants to double check, I just have to accept it as the YouTube comment was seeing something inaccurately.
And based on everything else I've gathered, I still find it very hard to believe. Even if Nick did say Cuffed Together exists, what's stopping them from Googling "Angry Beavers Trivia" and finding the article from this site talking about the two pilots, and plopping it in a trivia box on TV.
Remember Nintendo took the Metroid Database's box scan of Super Metroid for their strategy guide, and Capcom took a watermarked image from IGN for Okami's box art? Whose to say Nick didn't just get this "trivia" from online without any real proof behind it.
It also ticks me off that Mitch Schauer never replied to my message, and I still can't find any contact for the Toonzone fan fiction guy, which would almost immediately confirm or deny its existence.
After more than a year, some new info regarding Cuffed Together has surfaced.
There was a rumor a while ago that The Splat aired some trivia that claimed Cuffed Together existed. We've never seen that trivia....until now:
This was taken from an episode of Hey Arnold last night, and I can confirm its legitimacy.
So this is interesting because it "proves" that Nickelodeon acknowledges the episode existing. However, I'm still skeptical that this fact is actually factual.
First off I have no idea where these facts are taken from - they could be from the show's creators, or they could be from Google. It wouldn't surprise me if all they did was do a search, grab the "fact' literally from this site due to its pairing with Snowbound, and not actually research anything about it.
Second, I still believe that fan fiction from 2001 is the cause of all this. I don't believe that guy could have known about Snowbound 13 years before the majority of the public, but not know about Cuffed Together and instead coincidentally write a fan fiction of the same title. And I also don't believe he "watched Cuffed Together then wrote his own version of it" cause that doesn't make any sense.
And third, is the fact that there are so many episodes in the Angry Beavers that have a similar plot to Cuffed Together that anyone could be confusing it with another episode. While the "aired worldwide" part of the Fact lines up with what we know about airings in Latin America, I could argue Nick just took that info as a rumor and simply stated it as fact.
I also just thought of how strange it would be for there to be two "pilots".....I don't know why anyone would spend time on two of them in a pitch to a network. Unless Cuffed is like a secondary test more similar to that of the main show, but I don't think anyone has ever made a claim that specific before.
So yeah, some interesting things to think about. I'm really not sure at this point if anyone has contacted the creator Mitch Schauer, but maybe that would be the next logical step here.
After more than a year, some new info regarding Cuffed Together has surfaced.
There was a rumor a while ago that The Splat aired some trivia that claimed Cuffed Together existed. We've never seen that trivia....until now:
This was taken from an episode of Hey Arnold last night, and I can confirm its legitimacy.
So this is interesting because it "proves" that Nickelodeon acknowledges the episode existing. However, I'm still skeptical that this fact is actually factual.
First off I have no idea where these facts are taken from - they could be from the show's creators, or they could be from Google. It wouldn't surprise me if all they did was do a search, grab the "fact' literally from this site due to its pairing with Snowbound, and not actually research anything about it.
Second, I still believe that fan fiction from 2001 is the cause of all this. I don't believe that guy could have known about Snowbound 13 years before the majority of the public, but not know about Cuffed Together and instead coincidentally write a fan fiction of the same title. And I also don't believe he "watched Cuffed Together then wrote his own version of it" cause that doesn't make any sense.
And third, is the fact that there are so many episodes in the Angry Beavers that have a similar plot to Cuffed Together that anyone could be confusing it with another episode. While the "aired worldwide" part of the Fact lines up with what we know about airings in Latin America, I could argue Nick just took that info as a rumor and simply stated it as fact.
I also just thought of how strange it would be for there to be two "pilots".....I don't know why anyone would spend time on two of them in a pitch to a network. Unless Cuffed is like a secondary test more similar to that of the main show, but I don't think anyone has ever made a claim that specific before.
So yeah, some interesting things to think about. I'm really not sure at this point if anyone has contacted the creator Mitch Schauer, but maybe that would be the next logical step here.
How did you get that trivia? Does the same trivia on the splat usually reappear?
I'm not familiar with how The Splat airs their trivia, but I'm going to assume they recycle facts based on this instance (and also the fact that it just seems like it would make sense to resuse trivia sets).
The screenshot came to me from a viewer who posted it in the comments of my video, but I had a long conversation with them and provided more than enough visual proof (including a short video clip of the trivia on screen) to prove its legitimacy.
I tweeted the screenshot to The Splat but they unfortunately never replied or even acknowledged it.
I am very glad to be able to finally end this mystery after years without a conclusion but I can pretty much confirm Cuffed Together doesn't exist despite all the claims and speculation that it does.
My previous theory was that the fanficion titled Cuffed Together that was posted on a forum in 2001 was the origin of the rumor, especially considering the author of it was an Angry Beavers fan so I thought he had created it and people just took his fanfiction for a real episode. However that's not exactly the case and after years of trying to find him I ended up talking to him on Twitter the other day.
He confirmed to me that the rumor of Cuffed Together originated from a website called Voice Chasers and his fanfiction was only written because of that and not that Cuffed Together was his original idea. He also stated that two veteran writers of the series have never heard of the pilot befor eand most importantly the creator, which I still have never been able to find.
All this evidence leads to the conclusion that Cuffed Together doesn't exist and is likely a misremembering of another episode that aired with a similar plot. This is very similar to Kablam and its rumored Episode 29 series finale which ended up not existing and being misremembered by fans of the series for years so in a way I'm not surprised that it happened to The Angry Beavers either.
Looking back at all the evidence it makes a lot of sense why this would be the case but now that we have proof from the creator it lets us reach the conclusion that it doesn't exist.
I am very glad to be able to finally end this mystery after years without a conclusion but I can pretty much confirm Cuffed Together doesn't exist despite all the claims and speculation that it does.
My previous theory was that the fanficion titled Cuffed Together that was posted on a forum in 2001 was the origin of the rumor, especially considering the author of it was an Angry Beavers fan so I thought he had created it and people just took his fanfiction for a real episode. However that's not exactly the case and after years of trying to find him I ended up talking to him on Twitter the other day.
He confirmed to me that the rumor of Cuffed Together originated from a website called Voice Chasers and his fanfiction was only written because of that and not that Cuffed Together was his original idea. He also stated that two veteran writers of the series have never heard of the pilot befor eand most importantly the creator, which I still have never been able to find.
All this evidence leads to the conclusion that Cuffed Together doesn't exist and is likely a misremembering of another episode that aired with a similar plot. This is very similar to Kablam and its rumored Episode 29 series finale which ended up not existing and being misremembered by fans of the series for years so in a way I'm not surprised that it happened to The Angry Beavers either.
Looking back at all the evidence it makes a lot of sense why this would be the case but now that we have proof from the creator it lets us reach the conclusion that it doesn't exist.
Thank you for clearing this up.
What about the episode "A Tale of Two Rangers"? That episode was listed as being paired with the cancelled episode "Bye Bye Beavers" and i'm not sure if that episode really exists or not, even back on the original TV Tome page for the show there was debate on whether it was truly real or not. If it is real it probably never made it past the storyboard stage.