Butch Hartman

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Biography

Recent Role:
on The Fairly OddParents
Gender:
Male
Born:
1-10-1965
Birthplace:
Highland Park, Michigan
Birth Name:
Elmer Earl Hartman IV
Butch Hartman is an animator and director of the very successful series "The Fairly OddParents" and "Danny Phantom".

Hartman grew up in Roseville, Michigan,and moved to New Baltimore, Michigan, where he spend his teen years. When he was very young earned the nickname "Butch". He graduated from Anchor Bay High School in New Baltimore in 1983. Then he studied in the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Butch entered the animation industry in 1986, working at "My Little Pony" and "It's Punky Brewster". Some years



More later, in 1990, he started to work in D-i-C entertainment, in the series "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog", "Captain N" and "Gadget Boy". Then he became the writer, director and storyboard artist for several Cartoon Network programs.

Then, in 1997, he created "The Fairly Oddparents", originally for "Oh, Yeah cartoons". In 2001, he signed a contract with nickelodeon to "give the Fairly OddParents a show". It was a great hit. Then, in 2004, created the also very successful "Danny Phantom". This 2 programs may end in 2007.

Hartman also works "voicing" characters in "Family Guy".

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  • Would You Watch Modern Day Nickelodeon If Butch Worked For Disney?

    I Heard In This One Interview From Butch Hartman Saying "Instead Of Nickelodeon I would much rather have worked for Disney,but I work For Nickelodeon for the heck of it".So What If Butch Hartman Worked For Disney?Would You Still Watch Nickelodeon?

    2 comments, last one May 13, 2011
  • Ideas For Fake Butch Hartman Shows

    Make up your own show using historical fiction. The Spooftoon Show Note, this is made up dream fantasy what-if history. This is all never going to happen. Fictional background: When Butch Hartman formed his own media conglomerate bought from Viacom/CBS, he set up an in-house hand-drawnMore animation studio where animators and famous creators joined forces from Hartman, Fox, Disney, etc. and created such series of animated shorts and TV shows, such as a successful "Fairly Oddparents" spinoff. While experimenting with one-hit wonders, he made a theatrical pilot parodying the Disney version of "The Three Little Pigs" complete with retro style opening/closing titles and logos being shown before a feature film. Hartman's parody won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was very popular that CBS wanted a new prime-time animated/variety SNL-style sitcom based on the series on the series title card, "Spooftoon". Thus, the Spooftoon Show was born. The standard theme song, however, stayed the same even though there was lots of cold openings. Ok, here we go. This is partially a TV-PG, maybe TV-G rated show by the way. Season 1 Pilot: The Three Big Pigs- A Paramount/Hartman Spooftoon Color Classic TV Airing Sponsor: Ford Fusion Hybrid (Theatrical release had no sponsor) The two pigs' houses are foreclosed, where the smart pig buys a foreclosure-proof house. After disgused as an offensive brushpeddler, the wolf realtor tries and tries to foreclose the house but it's too foreclosure-proof. Pooh-Pooh Bear/Hartmanberry Hound /Scalpy and Scrapy Presented by: Crest Yogi Bear meets Winnie the Pooh in the first segment where the bear drives the ranger nuts by emitting what he calls "brown frosting" leaving a mess all over Hundred Acre Park. Then, a brown hound tries to outsmart a magician. Finally, a gut wretching clone of "Itchy and Scratchy" complete with Herman & Katnip/Tom & Jerry violence and sick animation. (Opening logo gag- the child audience screams at a roaring MGM lion-style bear at the beginning of the segment, plus the logo billing it A Hartman-Goodchild-Seibert Spooftoon in Paramolacolor ). Phony-eas and Herb Guest Writers/Directors of In-House Animation- Dan P. and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh Presented by: Coca-Cola Fictional background: A more abstract incarnation of Phineas and his stepbrother were used to protest against the "annoying" shows on Disney Channel when the Disney Company had a "creator's strike" against indepedently-created TV productions Disney owned. So the creators went back to the now-merged animation studios of Hartman/Nickelodeon to where they started and wrote a Spooftoon plus designed a more abstarct Phineas plus a Spongebob-shaped-headed version of Ferb, renamed it Phony-eas and Herb for fair use (and to also give it a Looney Tunes feel to it.) This is technically an episode of a certian "Fairly Oddparents" spinoff, but was billed as an episode of "The Spooftoon Show". Synopsis: In a "Fairly OddParents" in-house era world, two kids, who recently moved to Vicky's house, are tortured by Vicky. Joined by two of their friends, Chester and AJ, they get real estate from a beaten-up Dimmsdale road of strip malls with grafitti to build the Dimmadome II, and with permission from the International Olympic Committie, it is home to the 2009 Dimmolympics. Meanwhile, in all events and celebration, their pet cat is actually a spy! Agent C (for Chessie the Cat), is stopping his arch-nemisis, Mr. Crocker, from building a machine that disintergrates the entire dome that makes Crocker ruler of the world! Vicky knows what they're up, and you know the rest if you're a regular watcher of the real McCoy. A Spooftoon Christmas (Santa's Present, Christmas Comes But Twice A Year, Snow Frolics Sing-A-Long) Presented by: eBay and Comedy Central Holiday Movie Marathon All parodies of cartoon produced by the Fleischer/Famous output Paramount Pictures had. First up, Little Carmen (send-up of Little Audrey) and all kids around the world give Santa boxes of Ho-Ho's in different languages for not giving a boy's wish for world peace. Second, Pappy (Timmy's Pappy, not Popeye's) dresses up as Santa to steal an orphanage's gift and returns 'em a la "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" meets "Christmas Comes But Once A Year". Finally, we get a gag anthology of animals having winter frolics which leads to a Bouncing Ball sing-along to "Jingle Bells", but how many verses can you take? According to the animation director, it took a lot of research to find nearly every verse of "Jingle Bells". Season Finale: Spooftoon Movie Trailer Madness! Guest Producer: Paramount/Hartman/Dreamworks Advertising Dept. Presented by: Netflix A slew of near-trademark-infrigining movie trailers used for parody! These parody movie trailers and TV spots have been realistically produced, but even though they look like an edited glimpse, don't be looking for these in theaters. Not even legal and illegal downloads/streams can have these movies also in feature form. Season Two Presented by: Post The Redstones- Viacom's chairman is going back to the modern stone-age that a certian animated sitcom family lived in. Instead of Bedrock, it's New Rock (think New York). Fischer Color Classics: Wish Safe/Somewhere in Candyworld/Greedy Sumpty Dumpty Presented by: Campbell's Wish Safe- Little Timmy, has his fairies disguisied as dogs, living near freight railroad tracks. Impressed by trains, he falls into a dream sequences to "WISH SAFE!". We find out that it was just a dream, and the dogs leave the leashes, trying to rescue Timmy. Just as we think Timmy got hit by a train, Cosmo picks up the real Timmy and says "That wasn't Timmy Turner laying on the track! That was Timmy Kay Bergman!" (think of how the original "Oh Yeah! Cartoons" voice of Timmy passed away). Somewhere in Candyworld- The Paramount cartoons "Somewhere in Dreamland" meets "Butterscotch and Soda", presumably. Greedy Sumner Dumpty- In a satire of Viacom's "greed" that anti-capitalists and Youtubers complain about, the nursery rhyme about a giant egg is this time a king of media and builds his tower higher and higer until a natural disaster wipes it away, having a great fall. Just like the ending orginial cartoon "Greedy Humpty Dumpty", the end title has a chorus singing "And all the king's horses, and all the king's men, could not put him together again!", only this time the Paramount logo is "An Anti-Mostamount Picture in Techincolor" Special: Cartooncraziacs

    3 comments, last one Aug 1, 2010
  • Did Hartman ruin FOP when he left?

    In my opinion, he did. After he left the production and direction of the show, the quality of the episodes greatly decreased. What do you think about this?

    15 comments, last one Nov 3, 2009
  • Help!

    Everyone needs to stop Danny Phantom from going out of production.  Butch, if you're reading this there is a message I'd like you to please give to Nick. You see Danny Phantom as a TV show, something that isn't meant to last for a long time.  Us the DP fans, we see it as twenty-twoMore minutes of happiness.  A way to forget about all of the pressures of life and relax.  We are trying to be nice, but our patience grows thin.  We have been begging for over a year and it seems like you do not hear our voices.  As one voice, we shout "Save Danny Phantom!"  If you check out the DP forums you will see the growing number of concerned fans.  For all of us teens and young adults, it is a cartoon that we love, that we look forward to seeing and will do almost anything to watch it.  It has a great plot and the characters are very interesting and developed.  A million voices scream out to you from around the world and at this moment, the voice screaming loudest is the one that is saying "Keep Danny going!"  We aren't ready to let it go.  It has so much potential to become a long running cartoon.  I have a question for you.  How many shows do you know that, when the announcement of production ending, caused an uproar and pleads to keep it going, petitions and rallies?  If it didn't have much of a future and we were willing to let it go, would we have gone to such great lengths? We plead to you Nick with our hearts, minds and souls.  We plead to you Nick with all of the childhood we have left.  We plead to you Nick with all that has been done to stop this, with all of our infinate emails, letters, and fan art.  We plead to you Nick with every emotion we have.  We plead to you Nick "Don't stop Danny Phantom!" If this message gets to Nick, then maybe they will unblock their ears long enough to hear our cries, to see our attempts and actions, to feel the sadness and greif and anger we feel, to taste the dissapointment that we must taste every day of our lives since it was announced that Nick would stop DP's production.  Lastly, we want them to realize that we won't give up and the fight will continue!

    1 comments, last one Apr 13, 2007
  • Hartman can't stick to a project.

    He cannot just work on one thing. Look at Fairly Odd Parents. He could'nt stay on there very long. And when he started Danny Phantom, he new that there were going to be other projects in the future and Danny Phantom was'nt going to last long. And now it is being cancled just like Odd Parents. So IMore don't know why he can't just stay on one project.

    7 comments, last one Mar 4, 2007
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    10 Perfect
    He Is A Horrible Writer............NOT! He is the best modern day Nickelodeon Writer!He's Better Than Stephen Hillenberg!(creator of Spongebob). hide show

    Butch Hartman Works For Nickelodeon and produced 3 hit show "The Fairly Odd Parents", "Danny Phantom", and "T.U.F.F Puppy". He has also worked with Hanna Barbera For a Couple Of Years!He is also friends with Seth Macfarlane who Made the Shows "Family Guy", "American Dad", and "The Cleveland Show". He Also Makes Catchy Theme Songs:
    Timmy is an average kid, That no one understands, Mom and Dad and Vicky always giving him commands. Vicky: Bed twirp! Doom and Gloom up in his room, Is broken instantly, By his magic little fish who grant his every wish, Cuz in reality they are his Odd Parents, Fairly Odd Parents, Wanda: Wands and wings, Comso: Floaty Crowny things, Odd Parents, Fairly Odd Parents, Really odd, pea pod, buff bod, hot rod, Timmy:Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guave juice, Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake, Odd Parents, Fairly Odd Parents, It flips your lid when you are the kid, With Fairly Odd Parents, Vicky: Yeah right, and...............

    *he's a phantom
    *danny Phan- Danny phan- danny phantom

    Yo Danny Fenton he was just 14 when his parents built a very
    strange machine

    It was designed to view a world unseen
    (he's gonna catch em all cuz he's danny phantom )

    When it didnt quite work his
    folks they just quit then Danny took a look inside of it
    there was a great big flash
    every thing just changed
    his molecules got all rearranged

    (phantom phantom)

    When he first woke up he had realized he had snow white hair
    and glowin green eyes
    he could walk through walls
    dissappear and fly
    he was much more unique then the other guys
    and it was then danny knew what he had to do
    he had to stop all the ghosts that were comin through
    he's here to fight for me and you

    (he's gonna catch em all cuz he's danny phantom gonna catch em all
    cuz he's danny phantom gonna catch em all cuz he's)

    * He's Danny Phantom

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    Great Director! he has awesome shows! hide show

    He's a great director! He's jokes on Danny Phantom and The Fairly Odd parents are not lame! their hilarious! I like how childish his mind is, I think his really one of the best Directors right now... I really like his animation style it's very cartoon-ish? yet very cool I mean The Fairly Odd Parents was the cartoon that really attracted me to Nick and when I watched Danny Phantom, I was like "WOW!" His shows are addicting, when you see him in behind the scenes he's really funny, he's jokes on his shows never gets old, unlike spongebob. I don't like the way Nick is treating his shows they cancelled both shows! they should be happy butch is working for them! I'd like to see his future projects...

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    He is so...WOW! hide show

    I would say that he is the BEST DIRECTOR EVER! i mean look at all the shows he has produced. It is so totally original and totally funny. i mean his jokes are hilarious, his animations are cool and the way he produces the show is just simply amazing. I mean he has to be like the only cartoon director that doesnt make crappy shows. I mean i would say that Steven Hillenburg( creator of spongebob) was the best director but because of the recent spongebob episodes i have to say otherwise. I think he is a great guy. Go Butch!

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    Butch Hartman is a wonderful writting and director, he has real talent to make all of his shows suspending yet funny and cool. Though, I wish that he would stick to a project instead of leaving it to start a new one. hide show

    The 'Butch Hartman touch' is what I call what all of his cartoons have that make them so awesome. Fairly Odd Parents and its characters are all very hilarious, the dialogue is always in character and all of his characters' feelings are so real(espeically in the Abra Catastrophe movie). In Danny Phantom, Butch's more suspending skill can in tact, Danny Phantom is definetly one suspending and action filled show, yet it still has the same great humor that all kids love. If Danny Phantom wasn't put out of production, I'm sure that Danny Phantom would soon rank on the top 5 of Nickelodeon's best cartoons along with Spongebob and his other show, The Fairly Odd Parents.

    Though, to me, not everyone is perfect. I was greatly disapointed that he left the writting staff of The Fairly Odd parents 3 or 4 seasons in just when his cartoon was reaching the peek of popularity. I don't mind in him wanting to start a new show, since I can understand that Fairly odd Parents had probably already reached his destined goal in becoming largely popular, but leaving the staff almost altogether and having the other writters attempt to continue it for him just didn't do any justice for Fairly Odd Parents as a show.

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    10 Perfect
    Butch Hartman is an animator and director of the very successful series "The Fairly OddParents" and "Danny Phantom" . hide show

    Butch Hartman is one of my animation heroes. Fairly Odd Parents influenced my art style. His cartoons have always made me laugh. I love his shows. He is a great animator and director and sometimes a great voice actor0. I like how his fairly Odd Parents characters wear stretchy pants. That's hilarious. Oh yeah did I mention he's a great writer? His writing is key to both of his series. Even though the last seasons of fairly Odd Parents have been bad (he was making Danny Phantom great) He's coming back to the writing staff. And i can't wait to see what gems he's put in Fairly Odd Parents. I wish he would make a Fairly odd parents Movie for theaters.

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