Dramacow "Daddy" Derek Savage - Creator of Cool Cat Saves the Kids

Derek is just out of it. I read him as an honest man with honest intentions, who maybe suffered a brain-damaging drug overdose in the 90's, luckily his more successful friends do their best to support his crazy nonsense, if only to make him happy. His eyes speak of hope, clouded by confusion and frustration at his limits. Seems he had a brighter future before "the incident" took away some cognitive ability.

Any apparent creepiness or deviancy from Derek is probably incidental and goes right over his sweaty little head. I think his world-view is frozen in the D.A.R.E. era, for whatever reason, stranding him in a strange fugue state of mascots and inspirational speeches.
 
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Glassbrain said:
I'd assume he's assuming everyone but him over the age of, say, 25, have kids. Maybe that's why he gets Cool Cat to call him Daddy? Some weird "I can't/don't have kids" thing?
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Hoagie4Hogan said:
Derek is just out of it. I read him as an honest man with honest intentions, who maybe suffered a brain-damaging drug overdose in the 90's, luckily his more successful friends do their best to support his crazy nonsense, if only to make him happy. His eyes speak of hope, clouded by confusion and frustration at his limits. Seems he had a brighter future before "the incident" took away some cognitive ability.

Any apparent creepiness or deviancy from Derek is probably incidental and goes right over his sweaty little head. I think his world-view is frozen in the D.A.R.E. era, for whatever reason, stranding him in a strange fugue state of mascots and inspirational speeches.
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God knows what his specific reason for calling himself "daddy" is - but it's more than enough to leave me utterly unsurprised by anything he says or does.

A man who unironically bestows upon himself the nickname "daddy" - such a man is clearly not all there.
 
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Piga Dgrifm said:
In the books, Cool Cat's dad is another cat. I guess Derek decided to play the dad in the film since they've only got the one suit, and trying to splice together three separate takes would be too time-consuming.
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That wouldn't surprise me, considering what (very little) budget he had to work with. Hell even doing two takes was clearly not in the budget.

Doesn't excuse the fact that it's still creepy.

Warden said:
He has that blank, black-irised autism face where the eyes are always idle. And people are saying he's merely "out of it"... What an understatement.
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That's why I'm wondering whether or not he has some form of mental disability going on. More so since he slurs and screw up the simplest of pronunciations too.
 
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Hmmpf! said:
Also, i like to object the quote from the official DVD cover:
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Its not the matter that i agreed or disagreed with it (Barney is also shit anyways), but its the fact that it breaches the Copyright Law by mentioning it on official material. Combine with the Derek's recent drama, and you get a hypocritical, self entitled asshole.
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I bet Cool Cat was what killed Bill Melendez soon enough. *sigh*
 
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Wasn't Mickey Mouse kind of portrayed as Walt's "son" for a while and then later he because like an avatar of himself? Except I don't think Mickey would ever call Walt "Daddy" so it wouldn't be nearly as creepy
Somehow this thought is in my mind and I can't confirm or deny it
 
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Ho Mo for Women said:
It's the same deal with Chris and Sonichu.
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It is the same situation here, truely. Both guys have this character they created to distil their self-absorbed ideals on. Of course they also stick themselves right in their work to play off this Mary Sue-ism.

Bugaboo said:
Wasn't Mickey Mouse kind of portrayed as Walt's "son" for a while and then later he because like an avatar of himself? Except I don't think Mickey would ever call Walt "Daddy" so it wouldn't be nearly as creepy
Somehow this thought is in my mind and I can't confirm or deny it
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Not sure where it started, but some cartoonists had this thing of having their cartoon creation refer to them as "uncles", like Max Fleischer having Betty Boop and Koko call him "Uncle Max".
 
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Bugaboo said:
Wasn't Mickey Mouse kind of portrayed as Walt's "son" for a while and then later he because like an avatar of himself? Except I don't think Mickey would ever call Walt "Daddy" so it wouldn't be nearly as creepy
Somehow this thought is in my mind and I can't confirm or deny it
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I think, to a degree it's okay to refer to your own made characters as your children, aka be the father/mother of said character... but only in a creator/creation relationship.
It stops being reasonable, as soon as you think they are your actual, living and breathing child, which is the case with Sonichu and Chris and well.. Cool Cat and "Daddy" Derek.
Even though I believe that Chris might even somewhat get the whole creator thing a bit more than Derek does, at this point.
 
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Trilby said:
It is the same situation here, truely. Both guys have this character they created to distil their self-absorbed ideals on. Of course they also stick themselves right in their work to play off this Mary Sue-ism.
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I wouldn't even credit them with that. It's pure egomania - one self-insert just isn't enough, you know?
 
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So his IMDB page under trivia claims he was at one point a Playgirl model, which if true (And he does sorta have that look about him tbh) leads me to beleive he probably had a career as a male model in his earlier years. This may help explain his B list hollywood connections and upper middleclass wealth, and more importantly how he flew under the radar as far as production stuff, as sites like IMDB don't track that sorta thing.
 
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