This lovely animated short is, sadly, the pilot episode of an animated series that never happened. Created by Rutu Modan and Batia Kolton, two acclaimed illustrators and graphic novelists of the Israeli comic artist collective Actus Tragicus, Goody Two Shoes was supposed to be an animated series about the lives of five teenage girls in the swinging 1960s. You know, when girls just wanted to be girls, who date boys. The pilot has it all: raging teen hormones, ice cream parlors, pink-lace bedrooms, and endless phone calls.

So, what went wrong? Modan blames ignorant network representatives with a lack of vision, who couldn't figure out what demographic the show would appeal to.

We interviewed Rutu Modan in Amsterdam in 2008, around the time of the release of the Dutch edition of her acclaimed graphic novel Exit Wounds.

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Series creators: Batia Kolton, Rutu Modan
Animation: Laila Ink Studio
Script: Lael Levental
Editing: Alon Feuerstein