We kick off the original Nicktoons trilogy with Doug, a show about an eleven-year old boy growing up in the town of Bluffington. It might sound pretty tame on paper, but I'm here to make the case that it was a bigger genre-pushing gamble than you'd think. We'll look at the show's creator, Jim Jinkins, its surprise international appeal, and how the franchise ended up in Disney's hands. Turns out Doug was... very expensive... sorry, I had to...