I worked at Cartoon Network Studios when this happened. An unintended consequence of all this is Jim Samples’ sudden departure resulted in an unplanned replacement of CN’s management. The new management, as they are wont to do, wiped old management’s development slate clean and found themselves scrambling for new original content. One of the first things they did was order Adventure Time, an existing pilot developed at but passed on by Nickelodeon years prior. The rest is history, but it was the ATHF attacks of 1/31 that jarred us onto the weird alternate CN timeline we are on now. It probably would not have happened otherwise.
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