How Cinar Became Corrupted. (Rise And Fall) 

DiC: Most diabolical animation company of all time. Cinar: Hold my sugar cane rum from Barbados.

why do companies in charge of children's and teen's programming have such dark backrounds/histories? its nuts, but i guess that's corruption for you, anyway another great video as always

I remember Cinar being notorious for fraud besides producing Arthur and rebranding as Cookie Jar. They seemed like the Enron of children’s entertainment.

Fun fact: Contar once dubbed the original 1979 version of Doraemon called “The Adventures of Albert and Sidney”, but it only aired in Barbados.

I've heard of Cinar, but didn't know they were behind the Arthur because I though it was just a PBS show. Fun Fact: The OP for Arthur was done by Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers.

Hey everyone more behinds the scenes in my interview with Arthur director, Greg Bailey coming soon. We touch a little bit about his side of the CiNAR scandal.

Random fact about cinar: on the original dvd release of Cailou’s holiday movie, there was a creepy cinar bumper at the end with the only audio being a Woosh at the beginning and cailou laughing around a second in.

8:53 Arthur ended 2 years ago though

Bro i absolutely love the Ed Edd N Eddy sound effects sprinkled in. Ive been binging this channel,this is the exact deep cut stuff i look for

The sad part is that tons of the Cinar shows are basically impossible to find anywhere anymore. The trio of Robinson Sucroe, Albert the Fifth Musketeer and Patrol 03 were fantastic shows... and I'd LOVE to see C.L.Y.D.E. again. And Smoggies were cool too!

I mostly remember the Cinar legal problems when a dude claimed that they’ve stolen his idea for the Robison Crusoe cartoon series :/

1:05 not to be that guy, BUT... 1.Ultraseven is a Japanese Tokusatsu (live action) show, not an anime 2. The show originally ran from 1967 till 1968, so it wasn't entirely a co production since the show was made decades before this dub aired in the mid 80s 3. They didn't even air all 49 episodes since they lost the transfers for episodes 3, 5, 6, and 7 respectively

Arthur never outsourced its animation to North Korea if not South Korea, Seasons 1-11 were animated at AKOM

Thanks for the history lesson, Red. Corporate greed will eventually catch up and bite those who endorse it in the rear ends.

Me: haven’t seen a pbs related company in years. Them: posts My brain: WATCH THIS

Bruh this is worse than what Gainax went through. I don't feel bad for them in the slightest. Just the people who work under them

Ronan Warriors was also an anime originally named Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers.

2:43 they should have used North Korean kids

3:30 ok that’s just visually pleasing

Ronan Warriors and Adventures of the Little Koala are both anime. Ultraseven is a tokusatsu (live action show in the same genre as Power Rangers and Godzilla).

1:29 Underrated gem.

And just like that, Boom... Childhood ruined

I'm so conditioned that when you hit act 4 with the cookie jar logo I thought my programming was over 🤷🏽‍♀️

The Wiggles are Spotted in KidsCo

Perfect timing to watch after getting off work 👌🏾.

Cinar also produced the new Wombles series and the Adventures of Paddington Bear in 1997, both based on FilmFair’s popular British IPs from the 70’s.

I’m glad you have an entire channel dedicated to companies of there famous logos dying or going down I missed all of them, I’m just glad they are finally getting explained out keep up the good work

I learn something everytime I watch Red's videos. Scandals man, gotta love em.😂

Any show that came out of Cinar aired on pbs for its children’s programming, Nickelodeon, etc.

Man...... Such hard work. Love these videos. I'm also going to apologize to you for having to say "Cookie Jar, Dic, Kids Co, Strawberry Shortcake, Care Bears, Sushi pack" all in about 40 seconds lolol I appreciate your sacrifice

Jesus Saban Entertainment Didn't Have It this bad a they got boughtout by Disney tragic....

I vaguely remember that fiasco

0:52 Wizard of Oz and Little Koala had their dubs produced by Cinar, not the shows themselves. Ronin Warriors was dubbed by Graz Entertainment in 1995, Cinar was just the distributor. 2:04 The first Arthur book released in 1976, not 1994.

I notice you said North Korea instead of South. Otherwise, solid video as usual.

I love the usage of the sound effects you include, especially the Ed Edd and Eddy ones

This is very good and well researched.

And we all thought Mattel and other corporate mandate companies are bad, but Cinar is a whole different level isn't it?

Great video! I honestly do not think Sagwa was from Cinar, I believe they were from Cinegroupe and Sesame workshop, but aside from that this was a great video analyzing everything in the whole process plus great pictures, I honestly couldnt find pictures of the corporate office anywhere. It's such a shame that this great company had to die out to greed..

Lmao I literally wrote an essay about this in university 13 years ago, funny to see it as a video

CINAR got a WILD HISTORY 😭😭😭😭 Also, instantly seeing Arthur made me have flashbacks of childhood. TOP TIER show 🔥 Enjoyed the video 🤟🏾

Brown box productions would make a good video.

Correction about Arthur at the 2:09 mark. Arthur begun as a children's book series in 1976.

Big shoutout to your channel for all this content and information. Man I always wondered what happened to all these companies 😅😳 I never knew they were getting to so much trouble I thought these companies just faded away naturally 😂😂

It's weird how a company created so many good shows also create schemes that screw their employees and consumers over. Greed became their undoing and have paying prices instead of bills.

On a side note, does anyone happen to have lost episodes of the CINAR-produced show “The Babaloos”? There were over 100 episodes, but few are on RU-vid. That show, along with Arthur and others, brought a smile to my face😊

Now that's a real life horror story compared to Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Learning about Cinar really upset me, given they made A LOT of my childhood shows [notably Arthur and Zoboomafoo]. I feel bad for all the people they scammed. And now the Cookie Jar name is tainted for me. I wonder if they scammed PBS? That would play a role in PBS Kids' downfall if true. On a different note, I really hope you'll cover Will Vinton Studios, a rising company that had a really unfair ending. They made The California Raisins, Domino's Pizza's The Noid, original characters like Rex, Herb, and the infamous Wilshire Pig, and adaptions of stories such as The Little Prince and the Adventures Of Mark Twain movie. Will and his team [including Craig Bartlett, who later left to create Hey Arnold] were on the road to sucess, but several mishaps [including the aforementioned Wilshire] caused the studio to struggle during the 90s. However, they also created the M&Ms spokescandies and provided the animation for The PJs by Eddie Murphy during this time. Phil Knight [founder of NIKE] bought stock in the company, had his son Travis Knight work there, and then eventually bought Will's entire studio out, FIRED WILL FROM HIS OWN COMPANY, and Travis took over. The result is Laika Studios. I used to like Laika, but after finding out what happened to Will Vinton, my opinion on the studio, and the Knights [albeit I already disliked Phil knowing some shady stuff NIKE did] soured. Will deserved better. The documentary Claydream goes into detail, and I highly recommend checking it out. Sadly, not many people talk about Will Vinton.

Damn I didn't realize the company that distributed/created so many of my favourite childhood shows was so shaddy!

CINAR was the good old folks for Arthur and the Busy World of Richard Scarry, lol.

Great video well, worth the wait. Finally, people will know the dark truth behind cinar since it wasn’t very well known. But when correction sorry to be that person but sagwa was made by cinegroup not cinar but that’s an easy mistake to make both our our Quebec base companies who make very similar shows and share a lot of voice actors

Wow, I never read this logo in my head before. The last time I saw it I was too young to know how to read and I just remember how the logo looked... That was a really weird feeling.

I know that one of the voice actors, Dean Hagopian, isn't a fan of Cinar.

Maybe next you could do Media DHX/WildBrain?

2:36 Hey, there's a book related to animation work done in North Korea. It's a graphic novel by Guy Delise called Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea.

Man, 2004 was just a *HORRIBLE* year for Montreal, what with Cinar being exposed for being fraudulent, and the Expos moving to Washington DC.

I am shocked although I live in Southeast Asia in the Philippines. I saw many of these shows Madeline, Arthur, Little Lulu, and World of Richard Scary. I would recommend those shows to friends who had kids and they loved it cause they were considered clean and many did encourage children to read. It is just sad and shocking on the corruption and credit taking behind the scenes.

5:35 "paid out in retribution" lol I think you meant restitution

So they were basically like the Gainax of Canada....

Lol you should see my kids bar, lol.

Ciluou was a plauge upon humanity.

lol pretty sure it was south korea and not north korea 2:37 Wonder how the government would even let them get voice actors from there

I dont think Cinar worked on Sagwa at all. I'm pretty sure it was CinéGroupe and Sesame Workshop.

Prefect video

Wait. Cinar was terrible? That makes me prefer Cookie Jar more.

Are you still going to make that video on Funimation and roast them for what they did to Vic Mignogna? What they did to that man is terrible.

you forgot it becoming its current form wildbrain

lol wow Cinar all those gems and you dirty

The Canadian companies CINAR and DIC were serene at times I think b/c of the start-up logos and icons. 캐나다 회사인 CINAR와 DIC는 스타트업 로고와 아이콘의 b/c 시점에서 평온했습니다.

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Cinar has nothing to do with Little Lulu.

This was crazier than that McDonald's Monopoly money laundering scheme.

Can you do a video on Spumco next?

Can You Do HiT Entertainment Next

can you do a history on Nelvana?

I know a bit of the history behind this, but I never knew what happened behind the scenes. Wow, that's a lot to process. To misquote the youtuber, Ya'all made arthur and Zagwa.

Love Arthur

That was from Arthur bossman? I didn't know the people who make Arthur are horrible and mala bossman. I remember DIC too lol.

your telling me theres a dub of ultraseven? i though only tiga got that zagorudan sould review it

CINAR (1985-2003)

It’s named after plane tree in Turkish xD

Love are you afraid of the dark

2:00 Arthur was published in 1976?

2:36 North Korea?? I think you meant South Korea 😅

2:37 come again?

Ultra Seven is a live-action, not anime.

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Nowadays, xbox are always taking more than they can handle! Why do you think they closed down FOUR GAMING STUDIOS AT THE SAME TIME? All because of one game they should've known it wasn't finished yet, but just released it anyway! And now they're trying to find a studio that makes award winning games like Tango. What is it with companies with double standards and their stupid decisions? I've expected this from EA, but Xbox? What is this world coming to?

So It Made That I Was Cookie Jar That In Made That Always From The Show

Anyway i got a veiwer pole for people and for u Pbs kids Hit entertainment Noggin Corus

Cinar? More like Sinar..

Wait..What do you mean NORTH Korea?! Don't you mean South Korea?

2:36 NORTH Korea? I think you meant South Korea.

Not yall show diddy lol n I remember those cats lol #DisneyDiva

Wait! Arthur was made in North Korea?! Whaaaaat?

Hold up, bro said North Korea. How tf was it made there?

Cinar is a true crime

Why are you trying to put these shows in a bad light? A lot of their shows are genuinely good.

2:36 Hold on, NORTH KOREA?

They got Sagwa on tax evasion?? 🫨