Lets not forget... his show was always overdue and over budget as well. So it was a mix of his more adult vision and his going over budget that made Nick do what it did. Personally, they should have just cancelled it, but they were still making money off of it. And while some of the episodes were good (Stimpy's Cartoon show) we got a lot of poorly animated, poorly concieved ideas like Farmhands.John K eventually left due to creative differences and many attribute that as R&S's decline, and while it certainly didn't help, John K was taking it in pretty poor directions before the departure as some of the second season stuff that eventually came to light that he worked on came out - season 1 was just a wild ride...season two with or without John K's charm just had none of the fun obscurity, just a continual gross-fest with no real good humor/jokes.
Well, we're on two different levels here. I'm sure that MTV if they made it a TV 14 type show, they have let him get away with mutilation and death. You can't even mention death in a kid's cartoon. Characters get injured and somehow never come back (look at various kid's anime dubs). Batman TAS got away with murder. Litterally. And gunplay, and even the odd moment of sexual tension between Harley and the Joker. And even then they had to tone stuff down.2. You may be right that MTV would've allowed for a more adult-themed Zim that fit JV's original version (full of gory dismemberment [usually due to the Irken race taking human parts to experiment on, regardless of whether it be Zim, Tak, Skooge, or the Tallest themselves doing the experimenting], graphic violence [due to Dib & Zim beating each other, until Dib was to be killed, leaving Zim victorious for a limited time], & intense sexual situations [left unsaid, due we'd have semi-evil aliens getting with--sans the Membrane children--stupidly ignorant humans...in this case, to conquer the planet]), but would it have lasted, considering Viacom owns both MTV and Nick?
I'm sure you can on MTV, since it's MTV. After all, they had Beavis and Butthead doing and saying all sorts of crazy things.Well, we're on two different levels here. I'm sure that MTV if they made it a TV 14 type show, they have let him get away with mutilation and death. You can't even mention death in a kid's cartoon. Characters get injured and somehow never come back (look at various kid's anime dubs). Batman TAS got away with murder. Litterally. And gunplay, and even the odd moment of sexual tension between Harley and the Joker. And even then they had to tone stuff down.