"The Dolphin King" abandoned cartoon script (Patreon)

"Is this anything?"

That's the first question I ask myself after writing a script. Sometimes, the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is "maybe," and so I work a little bit more on the project to get my answer.

The Dolphin King is one of those projects where the answer was "no." I wrote the script on March 16th, 2010. That was right after I finished A Depressed Whale (I must have had aquatic creatures on the mind), and before I started work on President Taft's Secret Pony Brigade.

I like the visual concept of a dolphin sitting on a throne, and I like the king's "prayer" at the end, but outside of that it just wasn't a very interesting or funny script. I ended up using the prayer in a "Month Of" episode years later, and I'll probably put a dolphin on a throne at some point in the future. Good ideas can sometimes sprout from bad ones.