About

Dan Vs. is an American flash animated television series that originally aired on "The Hub".^[1] The series has gained a large fan presense on the internet, in a similar manner to another show that airs on The Hub: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, starting a series of crossovers between the two series.

Premise

The story follows Dan, a jobless misanthrope with a soft spot for animals, who is constantly peeved at small things and feels as if the whole world is conspiring against him. Each episode starts off with Dan going through his daily routine only to find out that something misfortunate has happened to either him or his belongings. Most popularly his car. Dan has now got a vendetta and must get revenge to those that have caused the misfortune, along side his best friend Chris.

History

The series was created by Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson (who's names are also of the two main characters) originally for Adult Swim as a live action comedy. But the idea was scrapped and the two went for a more cartoon like show. The series creator Chris Pearson also described Dan's personality to be as "Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) grown up, if his life had gone wrong somewhere."

Reception

The show was very well praised, and Imdb^[2] gave the show a rating of 8.1/10. During it's run time, Dan Vs. was nominated by the Annie Awards^[3] and the Daytime Emmy Awards for categories including "Best Directing", "Best Design", "Editorial in Animated televison". But it wasn't until 2013 that "Dan Vs." had won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program" and it was nominated once again in 2014 for "Outstanding Special Class Animated Program"

Online Relevance

There are numerous tumblrs about Dan vs. But the most popular Tumblr is a crossover Tumblr with Fluffle Puff, and another Tumblr called Dan Vs FIM^[5]. There are also plenty of fan art of the characters and show if searched on DeviantArt^[6].

Dan Vs Ponies

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Search Interest

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External References

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