{"id":482659,"date":"2019-02-25T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/gerard-way-the-umbrella-academy-breakfast-monkey-my-chemical-romance"},"modified":"2019-02-25T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T10:26:00","slug":"the-umbrella-academy-wasnt-gerard-ways-first-television-show-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/the-umbrella-academy-wasnt-gerard-ways-first-television-show-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Umbrella Academy Wasn\u2019t Gerard Way\u2019s First Television Show Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Introducing: The Breakfast Monkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/thebreakfastmonkey.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re already on your third or fourth run through of the Netfix adaptation of\u00a0<strong>Gerard Way<\/strong>&#8216;s comic book The Umbrella Academy, you&#8217;re not alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But The Umbrella Academy isn&#8217;t the former\u00a0<strong>My Chemical Romance<\/strong>\u00a0frontman&#8217;s first foray into the world of television.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2001, before My Chemical Romance even existed, Gerard co-created an animated story alongside Joe Boyle, and pitched it to Cartooon Network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show itself was pitched as The Breakfast Monkey- the story of a Scandinavian monkey chef, sharing the importance of breakfast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sadly Cartoon Network rejected the pitch, citing similarities to their existing show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Still, all&#8217;s well that ends well, as if it had been picked up we may have never got My Chemical Romance. True story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the pitch video for The Breakfast Monkey below:<\/strong><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fnt__lyGIQ4\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/gerard-way-the-umbrella-academy-breakfast-monkey-my-chemical-romance\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing: The Breakfast Monkey. If you&#8217;re already on your third or fourth run through of the Netfix adaptation of\u00a0Gerard Way&#8216;s comic book The Umbrella Academy, you&#8217;re not alone.\u00a0 But The Umbrella Academy isn&#8217;t the former\u00a0My Chemical Romance\u00a0frontman&#8217;s first foray into the world of television.\u00a0 Back in 2001, before My Chemical Romance even existed, Gerard co-created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:03:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}