Nicktoon 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' Pilot Makes Its Public Debut On YouTube

After several days of teasing the first episode of a new Nicktoon with silhouetted figures, Saturday, August 19 at 11 AM on the newly-rebranded Nicktoons YouTube channel revealed it to be Rock, Paper Scissors. However, it turned out not to be the first proper episode months in advance like YOLO: Crystal Fantasy and JJ Villard's Fairy Tales got on Adult Swim April Fools Day, but instead the 7 minute pilot that came from the Intergalactic Shorts.

Yes your next multi-buddy comedy Nicktoon in the vein of Pig Goat Banana Cricket (which is currently not available on Paramount+) is starting up very soon. The show’s logline reads:

Rock, Paper, Scissors brings the iconic childhood game to life! This character-driven comedy follows the hilarious shenanigans of roommates Rock, Paper, and Scissors on their hijinks and ridiculous adventures. Rock, the moral compass of the group, is always struggling at his dream of becoming a model; Paper is an inventor and the brains of the group (if by “brains” you mean “making stuff that’s always blowing up”); and Scissors is the wannabe cool guy whose ego brings an endless fountain of chaos to these three friends. No matter how much they compete and mess with each other, at the end of the day, they will always bond over their shared love of one thing: wacky nonsense.

The pilot received plenty of positive reception on Twitter, but some of it had already been seen before. Back in June 2022, the first two minutes were posted to Nickelodeon’s YouTube channel so it means the final five minutes were new to the public. It makes you wonder why the secrecy. The voice cast features Ron Funches as Rock, Thomas Lennon as Paper, and Carlos Alazraqui as Scissors. Kevin Michael Richardson and Kimberly Brooks covered a lot of the supporting characters, with the former voicing the shark and the tentacle monster while both voiced female singers, and the latter also voiced a host and a nasally contestant.

Rock, Paper, Scissors was the first finalized short to be ordered to series from Nickelodeon's first Intergalactic Shorts Program. Its first season order was for 20 episodes. The show’s crew includes being created, written, and executive produced by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman. They previously created Bizaardvark together for Disney Channel and co-produced and wrote for Paradise PD and Robot Chicken. Conrad Vernon, co-director of Shrek 2, Monsters vs. Aliens, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and Sausage Party, and The Fairly OddParents’ Bob Boyle, who created Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and Ying Yang Yo!, serve as the series’s executive producers on the series. According to Lehrman the full Rock, Paper, Scissors series will premiere sometime next year. What that means for Paramount+ is unknown, because its path to the streamer could differ from others in this decade.

The Nicktoons YouTube channel was freshly rebranded from the Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe, adopting much of the linear Nicktoons channel’s graphics. The YouTube channel had been the Nickelodeon Cartoon Universe since March 2021, having been Nickelodeon Animation Studios prior. Maybe it was a COVID effect. That the in-studio content dried up too much. Anyway the full pilot can be watched below.

Sources: NickAlive (1, 2) Josh Lehrer