icebox.tv was an

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company founded in 1999 by

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, Scott Rupp, and Tal Vigderson. The founders stated that the company was created to capitalize on the inherent "freedom of the medium" which they felt stifled creativity of writers due to the confining restrictions of the studio system and traditional media. The most noteworthy online animation creations of the company are the controversial

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Mr. Wong and Queer Duck. Many of the founders such as Rob LaZebnik and Jonathan Collier have written and continue to contribute to write for shows as ''

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'' in traditional media. The company has paired with

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in a number of shows. The original Icebox.com shut down in February 2001 after the company failed to secure additional operating capital. It was reported Icebox.com had been spending upwards of $1.4 million a month prior to its demise. Later in 2001, the site was re-established as Icebox 2.0,

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after several company founders bought the assets of the failed original venture, including the icebox.com

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. The scope of the new company was greatly scaled down from its predecessor. Many of the animated shorts on the new site were viewable only on a pay-per-view basis. The

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feature has since been removed, although many episodes of '' Mr. Wong'' are not viewable on the site, instead only available for purchase on

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. Currently, most of the content from the website is now available via the official

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channel, called Icebox. On June 5, 2018, Icebox.com moved their website to Icebox.tv. The website is currently offline.

Animated series

* Queer Duck * Mr. Wong *

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Hard Drinkin' Lincoln Hard Drinkin' Lincoln is a Macromedia Flash Internet cartoon series produced in 2000 for the Internet animation company Icebox.com. The series was created by Mike Reiss and directed by Xeth Feinberg. Unlike Reiss and Feinberg's later series for Ic ...

*Poker Night *

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*The Adventures of Jesus and His Brothers *Garbage Island *Senior House *

Starship Regulars ''Starship Regulars'' was an animated Macromedia Flash cartoon series created for Icebox by Rob LaZebnik, the producer of ''The Simpsons'', in 1999. It parodied modern science fiction programs such as '' Star Trek''. The series is available at Ic ...

Navy Bear icebox.tv was an animation company founded in 1999 by Jonathan Collier, Howard Gordon, Rob LaZebnik, Scott Rupp, and Tal Vigderson. The founders stated that the company was created to capitalize on the inherent "freedom of the medium" which th ...

*Superhero Roommate *

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* Murry Wilson: Rock 'N' Roll Dad

Film

* Queer Duck: The Movie

References

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