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The other day, Nicolaï Chauvet aka Méko, original creator of Bunny Maloney/Pinpin le Lapin emailed me! Our email exchange unearthed a lot of interesting behind-the-scenes information about the show and the original flash pilot. I'll post the whole exchange and the photos he sent under the cut, but here's a quick summary.

He's been away from the internet for a while due to a back injury and is currently making a living designing collector's edition DVD box sets.

Bunny Maloney in its final form was intended to be a show for teens and up; he thought that was made clear, but Moonscoop and Kabillion clearly had other plans. He had no idea that the show was ever distributed for younger kids overseas. He received no royalties for the overseas distribution, either.

Pinpin le Lapin was not originally intended as a TV pilot, but after winning an award for it, he decided to alter the tone and presentation into something more workable as a TV program, the initial conception of which is shown in the images below.

He would like to continue the show, but since Moonscoop was dissolved, he's not sure who currently owns the IP and what they plan to do with it, if anything.

"Pinpin le Lapin" became "Bunny Maloney" due to the meddling of, quote, an "army of 40 year old Parisian mothers" who represented Moonscoop's executive board at the time. The name "Bunny Maloney" was chosen because they believed it would be more marketable to an American/English speaking audience. This "Mother's Mafia" is the entire reason that Bunny Maloney was watered down for a younger audience in the first place (although it certainly kept some of its edge).

And then he sent a bunch of pictures from the show's original pitch bible, which I believe has never been made public before!

First email + new Charlotte illustration

Follow up email:

+ unexpected twist that Charlotte was meant to be a sheep all along!

They’re streaming Coachella on WeChat in China and I’m losing my mind at this poor censor who was trying to move this black box around to censor the dancers’ asses while Megan Thee Stallion was performing “WAP.” Someone please find the clip and post it on here, I can’t explain how funny it was to watch this black box frantically bounce around from ass to ass while being controlled by a man desperately trying not to lose his job

If anything this was my friends fault

it's so funny making a post about anything here. You'll be like 'as a tiger specialist I don't think we should beat them with rocks. it's bad for them if you do that.' and a dozen or so people will immediately say 'uh well i think it's kinda weird to tell people how they should interact with wild life. idk im not a tiger specialist though' like ok. mayhaps you should not share then. abstain from the conversation, even. consider it.

New year, same THEME! IBUKI TIME!! With a slight twist, a fanart of foxitude's Deadmau5 Ibuki on instagram!

You're counting all your sheep in disguise

Caught up in the world of lies

im extremely ill rn(in a way of. im hospitalized) so thats all you guys are having. its really bad m sorry

Jujutsu Kaisen × Irasutoya (Takashi Mifune) collaboration LINE stickers

Thanks for the hard work | *Gaaaaaze* | Thank you so much, best friend!

You'll go bald | Splendid | Salmon

*Squeeze* | Ahaha~ | Yeah!

Pleased to meet you | Yay | Work is shit!

I think I'll get offended~ | *Choke* | It's no good~

My brother, super best friend! | *Tense atmosphere* | Let's go all out

*Pop pop!* | Sorry | Domain Expansion

??? | *Guffaw guffaw* | The end!

Sprinkling circus !!!

How it feels to have friends and hang out with them