At that point I knew it was really funny and I was proud of it. "We were doing the final sound recordings, so I was in the sound studio when we found out. “Comedy Central and Republic are talking ‘amicably.’” The film was put on ice at the eleventh hour, as evidenced by newspaper previews for a could’ve-been-December 18 airing. "Papa Viacom may not want the kids suing each other,” a Comedy Central spokesperson told * The New York Daily News *at the time. First, the two sides discovered they were under the same umbrella-Viacom. While Republic disagreed with Comedy Central’s copyright interpretation, *Escape *was never taken to court. It didn’t take a Potter-slumlord to sabotage things-only corporate bureaucracy. Still, *Escape *remains an unaired experiment, and will likely never be part of the Christmas canon.
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