Production
The pilot episode, "Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett," was written by Evan Dorkin and directed by Chuck Sheetz, and written by Rachael MacFarlane. It was rated TV-14 in the United States. It originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim, on March 3, 2002.
The pilot, as well as the comic, are based on Dorkin's days as a comic store employee at Jim Hanley's Universe's Richmond Avenue store in Staten Island, New York (Eltingville is one of Staten Island's neighborhoods); this store is still in business today, at their New Dorp location. The exterior shots of the comic shop in the show reflect both the location of the actual store and the Island's most famous view, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Characters from Dorkin's comic Milk & Cheese can be seen in different backgrounds throughout the pilot as a hidden easter egg.
The opening and closing themes were written and performed by The Aquabats.
Welcome to Eltingville features mc chris, who had recently started working under the Adult Swim brand through Space Ghost Coast to Coast, in a small role as a short boy disliked by the rest of the cast.
Evan Dorkin has stated that he would like to have had the opportunity to produce further episodes or a miniseries for the failed pilot episode. Dorkin has also stated that if the series had been picked up, one of the potential plot lines would have been a "Klingon vs. Elf war" between a local Klingon camp and a Renaissance fair.
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