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Discussion Boards => Media => Topic started by: Doom on May 27, 2008, 06:38:01 PM
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I finally caught Chowder the other day. It's amazing. So I was thinking, I love cartoons. Let's talk about them. This may degenerate into another circle jerk for Bruce Timm, but that's fine. I love his cartoons too.
I've got all the seasons of Futurama, Seasons 2-8 of the Simpsons, the first two seasons of King of the Hill and Superman the Animated Series(but I need three because FUCK YEAH SUPES VS DARKSEID) and some misc stuff like Flintsons and Dilbert.
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First topic of discussion is SpongeBob Squarepants. Love it or hate it, I feel that anyone can admit that whenever it is on a roll, it is quite a legendary roll.
But this is just a suggestion! Feel free to entertain me with nonsense about other bits of western animation...
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Or else.
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Chowder is sooooooooooo funny. I love the ridiculous jokes and scenarios for each episode. It's just hilarious every time I see it. I especially love the episode where Chowder has to go get more spice but then he gets mold instead.
Also, very yes for Spongebob. I'm glad new episodes continue to be good.
And anything by Genndy Tartakovsky or Craig McCracken is awesome as well.
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The thing about Spongebob Squarepants is that if you watch the old episodes now, they (for the most part) don't stand up at all to the new ones. The writing and visual gags have gotten much better as the show has aged.
Somehow, I think that Spongebob came off as far gayer in the beginning even with less direct evidence given to assert that he was. The "FUN song" was just so much more gay than the "IMAGINAAAAAAATION!" bit with the rainbow and all.
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Hahahahaha, I love the Imagination rainbow hand motion. I do have to agree that some older episodes pale in comparison to the new ones, mostly the first season and maybe the second season too. I think it's partially because of what you said, and also because I saw all those episodes so many dozens of times that they started to lose their appeal. Like, whenever I see the bubble stand episode, I wanna slap someone across the mouth just for it continuing to air.
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I'm upset.
Samurai Jack's gotta get back, back to the past, Sam-oo-rai Jack, jack, jack jack jack.
But I don't think he's going to.
LISTEN TO ME NOW: I'm going to watch that new show about the little sailor boy when it comes out. It's called, uhhhhh looks it up on wikipedia discreetly Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marvelous_Misadventures_of_Flapjack).
and LD is harping in my ear that it's going to be gay, but that's what she thought about Chowder and My Gym Partner is a Monkey and those are both fucking awesome and she loves them now so I just don't listen to her anymore.
moving on.
Fairly Oddparents is so overrated. timmy thinks magic will solve his problem, but then it makes things worse, so he fixes things himself and everything works out. repeat x2005420594304823947023
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On that same note, holy crap, that's one of the few shows that I feel like maybe they could've stopped making episodes of it after several seasons. I used to love Fairly Oddparents, and then I grew out of it after the same annoying formula for every episode.
That isn't true of PPG or Dexter's lab, which I really always wished they'd make more of. I remember when they started making new PPG for a little while, and I was so excited about it, and just as abruptly as they started new episodes, they stopped them again. It was so mean to dash our hopes like that.
And I don't care what anyone thinks about this comment, but I absolutely abhor the Simpsons. I'm allowed to hate it, it surely isn't as great as people make it out to be and I'll never see it that way. That's definitely a show they could've stopped making after, I dunno, season 4. I don't care what season they're on now, but it's ...ugh, I just don't like it at all.
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It is probably cooler to hate the Simpsons as a whole than to enjoy anything made after the 10th season.
Yes I'm aware that some of the episodes are great, usually one a season. Thank you for picking the corn out of the shit, friend!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQcgfteriQw
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I haven't really watched The Simpsons in years. I'm dimly aware that it's still around and that it's slowly getting stupider every year, but I don't really give it any mind.
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Pretty much the same for me. I haven't seen anything Simpsons-wise since... Season 6 or 7? Around the same time I joined the army and lost all contact with human civilization.
Chowder gives me new hope for modern cartoons, as it is glorious. Flapjack seems like it might be okay, also CANDY WIFE. The Mighty B! is shaping up rather excellently, as well.
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I've watched a grand total of three episodes, but points to them for The Ween all the same,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDmlGJU2dqA
What the hey ho hey is Chowder?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCASiT1ud4I
So... Yotsuba but with more whacky?
:proceed:
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is made entirely in Flash, and thus entirely Stateside. And that is why it wins.
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I don't care how terrible the Simpsons has gotten, nothing can overshadow the period of seasons three through eight where there were no bad episodes. Then again, it has already been established that LD is ignorant of good shows (:oh:) and would rather keep up with the tenth season of :derp:.
Not to single you out, but any knocking of the Simpsons causes me to :MENDOZAAAAA: with similar retaliation.
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CARTOON NETWORK MORE SERIOUS, ARC
People who are like "Modern cartoons suck" have not seen all the brilliant stuff on there right now. Or they are critical derps.
Anyway, the good parts of the old Simpsons went on to become the good parts of Futurama, while the actual Simpsons survived via witchcraft for like thirty seasons.
It severely creeps me out that that family has never aged.
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Det, just because I don't feel like getting into Avatar doesn't mean I have bad taste in shows. It means I'm severely lazy and don't want to take the time to watch a serial. And I'm sorry if you disagree about the simpsons, but I think they're god awful and saying that I like pokemon and the show (mostly out of childhood nostalgia) doesn't make my opinion any more wrong.
And to arc: OMG to Ween. <3<3<3<3 Ween
Also, from Kazz: Fuck yeah Home Movies.
I agree with him there, that show will keep me laughing all day. They have super hilarious jokes all the time and I love how they adlib most of their jokes :D
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Rather than watching modern cartoons, recently I've spent more time discovering 90's cartoons I missed on my first time through. Which has led to plenty of :penguinscantfly: and :SPOON:.
Wait. (http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9457/penguinscantflyaq4.gif) and (http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/4859/spoonnn8.gif). That's better.
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Recommending Earthworm Jim, which holds up today a lot better than most 90's comedy!
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Mainly because it's not-so-subtly inspired by Python.
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I realize now how easy it is to troll me through bashing the Simpsons. I'm genuinely curious as to why you consider it "god awful". Is it just not your type of show, or is there something genuinely revolting about it?
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Avatar's great but you can't FORCE someone to watch and enjoy it. You have to play with it in front of them until their curiosity ignites.
That's right, Avatar is a cat toy.
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Well, to continue with the Simpsons argument. I have no problem with it. And while I don't watch it every week, I have never seen an episode that I didn't like. Family guy is far more hit and miss with me. Southpark too, but it more has the problem of Comedy Central never playing certain awesome episodes and overplaying awful ones. ... now that I think about it, this happens with almost everything on TV that consistently airs reruns (Nickelodeon has this problem way more than other stations).
Then there are complete utter pieces of crap that give example to the "modern cartoons suck" argument: Ben Ten, Robot Boy, The new Transfomers cartoon, and other things Cartoon Network can only justify airing as an attempt to get kids off the couch/ruin their childhoods. Ben Ten is probably the worst cartoon I've actually seen on TV rather than online (due to hilarity of sucking). It's so bad it's quite literally not even funny. Every fucking element of the show sucks, the character design, the writing, the acting, EVERYTHING! Then, it gets tons and tons of comercials and merchandise, WHAT THE FUCK! Is some retarded kid actually watching it or is it being shoved forcefully down the viewer's throat?
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Every fucking element of the show sucks, the character design, the writing, the acting, EVERYTHING! Then, it gets tons and tons of comercials and merchandise, WHAT THE FUCK! Is some retarded kid actually watching it or is it being shoved forcefully down the viewer's throat?
And knowing is half of the battle!
G.I.JOEEEE!
Edited to add context. Fucking page breaks.
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If you thought Ben Ten was bad, Ben Ten: Alien Force is all the suck with none of the personality.
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There is only the weakest of correlations between quality and popularity.
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I don't like the characters at all, or that they're yellow, or the jokes they make.
I do, on the other hand, greatly enjoy Futurama, and I'm still sad it moved to Comedy Central where I never fucking see it anymore.
And I like Ben 10, even though the dialogue is so suuuper cheesy. The aliens are cute and I like that Gwen became a crazy little magician. I missed a bunch of episodes in the last bit of the show, which was a shame, because I guess he got a lot more aliens I never got to see and now they're airing that Ben 10: Alien Force and I don't love his new aliens. Fuck, they could've left him ONE of his old ones.
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Then there are complete utter pieces of crap that give example to the "modern cartoons suck" argument: Ben Ten, Robot Boy, The new Transfomers cartoon, and other things Cartoon Network can only justify airing as an attempt to get kids off the couch/ruin their childhoods. Ben Ten is probably the worst cartoon I've actually seen on TV rather than online (due to hilarity of sucking). It's so bad it's quite literally not even funny. Every fucking element of the show sucks, the character design, the writing, the acting, EVERYTHING! Then, it gets tons and tons of comercials and merchandise, WHAT THE FUCK! Is some retarded kid actually watching it or is it being shoved forcefully down the viewer's throat?
Let's play a game. You name a cartoon geared for children that ISN'T all of these things and I will point out all the ways that it is.
That or turn off your television.
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So, name a show that isn't awful and you'll say it is? Well, How about Spongebob, or Chowder?
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Simpsons is very political, especially lately. LD will never go for that.
I mean, it's just not that good a show. Every time I've seen it recently, which is rare, I've just been nauseated. There's, like, one joke an episode that makes me laugh. Like Watchmen Babies. Haha, Watchmen Babies.
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You know whats a good cartoon? Kim Possible. I always used to watch it and hated to admit I liked it, but now I can't deny how much I really love it. Ron is so friggin' hilarious and he's my favorite part of the show. And then I really enjoy all the characters, like stupid Drakken and SheGo and Kim and all the rest of the bad guys. But Ron's so the best part. And I loved the little TV movie that seems like it must be the last episode :(
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I really liked Dave the Barbarian... but that's possibly because I have a sickness that makes me ultra-susceptible to idiotic Conan pastiches.
Guys whatever happened to Korgoth?
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The only time Kim Possible was entertaining was when SheGo had Senior Junior as her apprentice or whatever.
"Oh, thank you! Now I must attack you."
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I really liked Dave the Barbarian... but that's possibly because I have a sickness that makes me ultra-susceptible to idiotic Conan pastiches.
Guys whatever happened to Korgoth?
Korgoth wasn't picked up by AS for presumably 2 reasons:
1. it would cost MONEY
2. it was actually FUNNY
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NEW VENTURE BROTHERS THIS SUNDAY FUCK YEAH!
I could've sworn we had a Brock Samson emote.
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NEW VENTURE BROTHERS THIS SUNDAY FUCK YEAH!
:enraged: :enraged
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EPISODES?
WHO CARES ABOUT EPISODES
WHEN THERE ARE SHIRTS (http://www.astrobasego.com/shirtoftheweek.html)!?!!?
(http://www.astrobasego.com/images/banner-shirt-club-1.jpg) (http://www.astrobasego.com)
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Gosh, I haven't paid attention to cartoons since Justice League was still on the air. That's regular League, not Unlimited. I remember in 2003, there was a run of cartoons on Saturday morning that was worth siting through. He-Man, Ninja Turtles (or sometimes X-Men Evolution), Justice League and Samurai Jack. It even started at ten, so I had time to sleep in.
After that, there was nothing worth setting aside time for. :sadpanda:
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(http://www.astrobasego.com/images/banner-shirt-club-1.jpg) (http://www.astrobasego.com)
:perfect:
That Misfits T-Shirt of mine wasn't going to keep fooling people for too much longer.
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I don't like the characters at all, or that they're yellow, or the jokes they make.
LD is the new Guildenstern.
Simpsons is very political, especially lately. LD will never go for that.
The "Ralph for President" ep was great.
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HAY
GUYS
:enraged: NEW VENTURE BROTHERS THIS SUNDAY FUCK YEAH! (http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921a33e870011a35104dc30003)
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:THATWAY: LET DEATHBALL BEGIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDHgRGtOY0
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That trailer is funnier than the first movie.
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I agree. And I didn't even think the trailer was that funny.
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:oic: :fuckoff:
I maintain that if the last movie had been episodes of the original series, no one would have been the wiser.
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Yes, if that movie had been episodes that aired in 2001 it probably would have been a lot funnier and then aged horribly.
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how do people dislike bender's big score?
i need to know this so i can kill them.
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The plot is awful. I mean, fuck's sake, at first they can't read the numbers on Fry's ass without a microscope, but then a short while later Fry can read them backwards with a mirror while sprinting bare-assed through Planet Express.
E-mail scam jokes, Florida recount jokes. 2002 is rofl.
(hanukkah zombie makes up for all of this)
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New Venture episode is up on Adult Swim's website. Shocking revelations!
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Except not THE shocking revelation.
what the hell, guys
(the episode was great, duh)
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... And I don't need to say it, but I'll say it: Stay after the credits.
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The plot is awful.
It's a pretty damn intricate, logically consistent time travel story.
I mean, fuck's sake, at first they can't read the numbers on Fry's ass without a microscope, but then a short while later Fry can read them backwards with a mirror while sprinting bare-assed through Planet Express. :sarcasm:
Is this going to lead to another lengthy debate about the rules of blernsball?
E-mail scam jokes, Florida recount jokes. 2002 is rofl.
(hanukkah zombie makes up for all of this)
I can agree on both counts. But I still think it made for a very satisfying whole. Favorite bits include the Jose Fry listing in the phone book, the panda truck, Zylex, "Bender? What's happening? Are you urinating?" and "Well, it had to be somewhere."
It's no Hell is Other Robots or Fry and the Slurm Factory, but it made me pretty happy.
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Awesome, new Venture Bros episode isn't available outside of the US from Adult Swim's website. I guess I'll have to wait a few hours for a torrent to show up! Blaaagh.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/118941173/Venture_Brothers_s3_premiere_Shadowman_9_In_the_Cradle_of_Destiny.zip.html
no seriously guys am i the only one who knows how to internet around here
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One of my roommates spends every single waking moment, and a lot of sleeping ones, watching children's programming. All day, every day. It has totally turned me off of animation in general, but I have to admit that I still love Spongebob. It reminds me of Ren & Stimpy in a lot of ways.
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Ben Ten is probably the worst cartoon I've actually seen on TV rather than online (due to hilarity of sucking). It's so bad it's quite literally not even funny. Every fucking element of the show sucks, the character design, the writing, the acting, EVERYTHING! Then, it gets tons and tons of commercials and merchandise, WHAT THE FUCK!
You're looking at the equation backwards. The show exists for the merchandise, which actually sell in healthy proportions.
The live-action movie was directed by Bill S. Preston. That must count for... Something.
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After three or so episodes of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, I can safely say that it is awesome. At the very least, the comedy is far more hits than misses. While the obvious parallel is Spongebob, I think the characterizations of K'nuckles and Flapjack are a lot stronger than those of Mr. Krabs and Spongebob, and the setting of a stark, foreboding, dangerous landscape is more appealing than a nonsense clown world.
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After three or so episodes of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, I can safely say that it is awesome. At the very least, the comedy is far more hits than misses. While the obvious parallel is Spongebob, I think the characterizations of K'nuckles and Flapjack are a lot stronger than those of Mr. Krabs and Spongebob, and the setting of a stark, foreboding, dangerous landscape is more appealing than a nonsense clown world.
Candy wife is FUCKING 2000 OCTANE NIGHTMARE FUEL
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I don't care how terrible the Simpsons has gotten, nothing can overshadow the period of seasons three through eight where there were no bad episodes.
Not only were there entire seasons where every episode was good, there were entire episodes where EVERY LINE was good.
I watched Treehouse of Horror VII (The Thing and I/The Genesis Tub/Citizen Kang) again last night, and literally every single line of dialogue is absolutely brilliant.
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Nrama (http://www.newsarama.com/tv/080703-animated-shorts.html) (scroll down a bit): new GI Joe Web series coming, written by Warren Ellis and starring Grey DeLisle as Baroness and Scarlet.
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new GI Joe Web series coming, written by Warren Ellis
CHOOSE ONE:
1) :victory:
2) :;-(:
3) :HUGE:
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Black Panther trailer. (http://www.newsarama.com/common/media/video_sdcc.php?videoRef=NA_080725_black_panther2)
I really can't think of anything to say but "WTF?"
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...Right! I can probably guess who's involved with this.
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EIGHT THOUSAND BEEEE SEEEEEEEE!
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ADVENTURE TIME SERIES YES YES YES (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/cartoon-network-acquires-adventure-time). Apparently Cartoon Network has picked this up as a full series.
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That's gonna be awesome :3
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:sadpanda: Somehow, I can't be amused by Adventure Time's mad whimsy and too-cool-for-keeping-up-with-slang attitude. I want to. I want to real bad. Why am I such a broken human being!?
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:victory:
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:sadpanda: Somehow, I can't be amused by Adventure Time's mad whimsy and too-cool-for-keeping-up-with-slang attitude. I want to. I want to real bad. Why am I such a broken human being!?
BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED IT ENOUGH TIMES IN A ROW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNVYWJOEy9A
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:sadpanda: Somehow, I can't be amused by Adventure Time's mad whimsy and too-cool-for-keeping-up-with-slang attitude. I want to. I want to real bad. Why am I such a broken human being!?
I love it to death, but I don't think it'd really translate into a full series.
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Same. If I have to stomach that level of exuberance for a half hour, I will choke it to death.
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So it occurred to me to wonder whatever happened to Spaceballs: TAS. It was announced about two years ago and I haven't heard anything about it since.
Well, apparently it's still happening (though the "this fall" referenced in the trailer below is actually last fall, so when is still anybody's guess).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3MhoPBqoo
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceballs:_The_Animated_Series) says it's already debuted in Canada, but I've been unable to find any eps torrented as yet.
Apparently Mel Brooks, Daphne Zuniga, and Joan Rivers reprise their roles from the movie, while Tino Insana will be playing Barf, Rino Romano will be Lone Star, and Dee Bradley Baker will be Dark Helmet.
EDIT: TV IV (http://tviv.org/Spaceballs:_The_Animated_Series) pegs the premier date as 9/21. If I had an account there, I would probably slap a "needs citation" on that. Suspiciously, 9/21 is the same date the series was first announced in 2006; best guess is somebody hit Google, saw a bunch of matches for "spaceballs animated" that had "September 21" next to them, and didn't read the fine print.
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Somebody please cancel Flash. All of it.
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I'd agree, except that YouTube embed is Flash.
So it's Flash showing a video of a video of a Flash. Er... a Flash showing showing an internal video, of an external video, of a video, that is Flash. I mean a Flash showing a video made from a video made from a video made from a Flash, based on a video. Of a video. From before Flash was invented, so the buck stops there.
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When will then be now?
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Who?
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:facepalm:
"Soon."
The line is "Soon."
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Who is on first.
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I fast-forwarded.
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Has anybody else heard of Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (http://www.sethcomedy.com/)? Or is that, just, like old news?
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Looks pretty much like outtakes of stuff they couldn't contextualize in Family Guy.
Seth MacFarlane
TV's most innovative mind
:facepalm: and :lol:
But mostly :facepalm:
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I'm not sure of the context you're quoting, but Seth usually describes himself in hyperbole as a joke.
(Just so you know, when I describe myself in hyperbole, I'm not joking.)
(My cock destroyed Tokyo.)
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That cannot be the case, because I'm comedy's foremost pioneer and I have only done such a thing for the past week.
In the meantime, Seth MF is pretty astoundingly hit-or-miss with a lot of misses. Many, many more misses usually present in American Dad.
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I remember watching a Family Guy clipshow with Seth McFarlane, and it cut back from some clip and he was all like, "HA HA HA! I forgot how funny I am!"
:facepalm: and :lol:
There is no :milknosespray: emoticon to accurately describe what happened to me.
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American Dad is actually a much better show than Family Guy.
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Yeah, Family Guy after Season 2 is fucking cancer of the eyes. American Dad seems to benefit, somehow.
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On the other hand, these web cartoons are also terrible, but benefit from being over very quickly.
And the salad line kinda made me chuckle.
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American Dad is actually a much better show than Family Guy.
It's definitely gotten better. Season 1 wasn't great, but it's turned into a pretty smart bit of satire since then. And the characters have all evolved; they're still cliches, but they're not the same cliches as the Griffins.
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I've probably written about this before, but one of the main appeals of Futurama is that the protagonists are not a family. Families always end up loving and caring about one another, and with one notable exception the members can not screw. Furthermore, you have a harder time aging your characters, because kids grow up and move out and then what happens to your show? And let's face it, kids aren't as fun to watch as adults. Adults can do anything. Kids can't do squat.
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with one notable exception the members can not screw.
it took me way too long to realize what the fuck you meant by this.
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Me too. :slow:
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I've probably written about this before, but one of the main appeals of Futurama is that the protagonists are not a family.
Disagree. The cast dynamic is clearly family-oriented.
Families always end up loving and caring about one another, and with one notable exception the members can not screw.
While there's not a whole lot of screwing going on between members of the Planet Express crew, there's a lot of screwing going on between them and extraneous characters. So I'll grant that in contrast with, say, The Simpsons, where the kids are preteens.
I don't think it holds water across the board for a family dynamic, though; it's a question of the characters' ages. One of the funnier eps of American Dad, IMO, was where Hayley was screwing Bullock. Hell, even Meg's gotten laid a couple of times.
Furthermore, you have a harder time aging your characters, because kids grow up and move out and then what happens to your show? And let's face it, kids aren't as fun to watch as adults. Adults can do anything. Kids can't do squat.
Characters with different levels of maturity are a classic dynamic in comedy. Age and maturity aren't the same thing, but they're related. Fry's as close to a kid as you get on Futurama (the occasional Cubert/Dwight episode notwithstanding, and they're STILL more mature than he is in a lot of ways -- the "kids who are more adult than the adults" angle is another comedy staple; see also Stewie and Lisa), and that's essential to his character.
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with one notable exception the members can not screw.
it took me way too long to realize what the fuck you meant by this.
I still don't get what he means by "one notable exception"
:derp:
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MOMMY AND DADDY MADE YOU
DO YOU KNOW HOW
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My parents carved me out of a larger child.
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My parents carved me out of a larger child.
:ohshi~:
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MOMMY AND DADDY MADE YOU
DO YOU KNOW HOW
Is there an expression other than :derp: that means "I feel like a gigantic :derp:"
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:nyoro~n:
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So, Spaceballs: The Animated Series is, in fact, airing this Saturday... and it looks even worse than I could have imagined. (http://www.bounceyourspaceballs.com/)
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what else would you expect from g4
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... So it's an even more grotesque Tripping the Rift?
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No robot tits? They didn't write a female C-3PO for nothing, you lazier than usual G4 hacks.
I wonder how heavily G4 would've tanked by now without the Japanese Ninjathon shows.
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I love Mel Brooks.
This?...
:MENDOZAAAAA: :facepalm: :sadpanda:
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I picked up the Freakazoid DVDs and oh man, childhood memories relived.
:wheeeee:: Oh oh! It's like just like Disneyland!
::(:: Not anymore. Eet's gone.
:wheeeee:: What?
::(:: Ze Sky Buckets. Zhey are gone. Kaput.
:wheeeee:: At least there's still the little boat ride!
::(:: *bites his lip*
:wheeeee:: :gasp: :omg: :MENDOZAAAAA: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOT THE BOATS!
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I love Mel Brooks.
This?...
:MENDOZAAAAA: :facepalm: :sadpanda:
Double bill at home tonight: Young Frankenstein (the wife's favourite) and Blazing Saddles (my favourite).
:perfect:
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So, Spaceballs: The Animated Series is, in fact, airing this Saturday... and it looks even worse than I could have imagined. (http://www.bounceyourspaceballs.com/)
I am holding out very little hope, but I'll still torrent the thing as soon as I see it and reserve judgement until then. The site was clearly put together by a G4 marketing team and, with a lot of luck, might not reflect the quality of the writing on the show. (Brooks himself wrote the pilot.)
No robot tits? They didn't write a female C-3PO for nothing, you lazier than usual G4 hacks.
You need to stop making me picture Joan Rivers's tits. Now.
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So apparently there's a Red Vs. Blue animation coming out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6xPAuO0b4
I think that's totally tits.
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And the animation is..... good?
What the fuck?
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Watching Spaceballs:TAS. It's the "trapped in a video game" episode.
Thaaaaaaat just about says it all.
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Oh hey check out this cartoon. It's a super-stylized show about a boy genius with improbable resources, oblivious parents, an annoying sister who keeps getting in the way, and an unlikely pet who is secretly some kind of superhero.
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Come on, guys. There's unoriginality, and then there's passionately humping the warted ass of plagiarism.
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Wh-which show are you talking about?
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Watching Spaceballs:TAS. It's the "trapped in a video game" episode.
Thaaaaaaat just about says it all.
I just watched "Revenge of the Sithee". It was pretty much awful.
I can't find credits for it anywhere; I find it hard to believe that's the one Mel Brooks wrote. If it is, he's REALLY phoning it in.
I'm interested in finding out which one he DID write and checking it out, since it would HAVE to be better than this one (unless, again, this WAS it), but aside from that I can't really see giving it another look ever.
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Oh hey check out this cartoon. It's a super-stylized show about a boy genius with improbable resources, oblivious parents, an annoying sister who keeps getting in the way, and an unlikely pet who is secretly some kind of superhero.
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Come on, guys. There's unoriginality, and then there's passionately humping the warted ass of plagiarism.
what show is this. Other than "Dexter's Lab"
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Phineas and Ferb. Which, granted, adds Ferb. Who's just Silent Bob, right down to the having a line in every episode.
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Oh! So he's a hack who wants to have not only Genndy Tartakovsky's babies, but Kevin Smiths too? I was going to forgive him for wanting to bone Genndy, I mean who doesn't? I don't think I can forgive him for being so greedy. Is he going to have the sister turn into Summer Glau too?
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It's not that I have a problem with silly shit, I just have a problem with shit where it looks like the writers aren't even trying. And I REALLY have a problem with acting like the audience is stupid just because it's made up of eight-year-olds.
You should really check out Avatar.
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So a conversation led me to the wikipedia page of the old Ruby Spears Megaman cartoon. You know, the one that spawned GUTSMAN'S ASS
So I read it
. It was created by Ruby-Spears Productions and both animated and written in Japan by Capcom themselves
HOLY SHI-wait, this is Wikipedia. Not exactly trustworthy. So I show a few friends and one of them has the DVDs of it.
<Kieran> I have your proof right here: The executive producer of the show was Kenzo Tsujimoto, the CEO of Capcom
:scanners:
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Capcom has a long history of screwing up like this when trying to figure out what an American audience wants.
(Hint: we want pretty much what you gave your own people.)
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but with angry eyebrows
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:wrong:
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It bears noting that an "executive producer" credit basically means fuck-all.
Reggie Hudlin has an Executive Producer credit on Boondocks, but the show spent an entire episode last season reaming him up the ass. And he didn't seem to take it as friendly ribbing inasmuch as he apparently PREVENTED IT FROM AIRING.
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It bears noting that an "executive producer" credit basically means fuck-all.
... he apparently PREVENTED IT FROM AIRING.
:wat:
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He didn't prevent it from airing by flexing his Executive Producer muscle, he did it by sending out Sony's lawyers.
At least, that's the rumor. I don't know if there was ever any confirmation that those two eps didn't air because BET complained, but they ARE the two episodes that make fun of BET and the people who run it, and they ran in Canada and were included on the DVD release, so I can't think of any other explanation.
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I haven't been paying any attention to Clone Wars, at all, but apparently tonight's was by Dini so I'll probably check it out on that alone.
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don't do it Thad it's a trap
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even your love for Dini can't repel crappiness of that magnitude
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You won't survive. Your body can't take the pressure.
The pressure in space.
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It was actually a perfectly decent episode. Not fantastic, but serviceable.
I don't care for the character models (I understand the "they have to be stylized to avoid the uncanny valley" angle, I just happen to think the Master Jedi looks like fucking Princess Fiona) but the droids and ships look pretty damn good. Voice acting's decent enough, and the writing was all right -- pretty much your classic Robin saves Batman plot, with a few good one-liners and some very pretty fight choreography.
I wouldn't watch the show on a regular basis (though I AM curious about the Sith assassin; I thought Anakin killed her in the last series), but I don't feel like I've wasted a half-hour, either.
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Wasn't it one of those toss-the-villain-over-a-cliff deaths, though?
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It's been a few years, but yeah, that sounds right.
Then there's the "How can she be Dooku's apprentice if Dooku is Sidious's apprentice and always two there are yadda yadda" angle.
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So I know that the first three episodes of that stuff sucked as a movie, but I'm curious whether it holds up as a show, given a high tolerance for the creators ignoring their own continuity.
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Or any continuity, anywhere whatsoever.
When an underaged half-naked twi'ilek can't save a show, it has fucking problems.
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Then there's the "How can she be Dooku's apprentice if Dooku is Sidious's apprentice and always two there are yadda yadda" angle.
Don't take that literally. They tore it to hell and back between the Prequels and Force Unleashed.
The closest you can actually equate it to is "There's always two, master and apprentice. And you know, the apprentice of the apprentice training to help the apprentice kill the master and take his place. Sith are fucking stupid."
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Sith rules are made to be broken.
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...and just think: The Jedi Council was afraid of these guys.
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I always figured it came out funny due to Yoda's general lack of communication skills (he's vague even without the obtuse sentence structure), but he was really just trying to say "If you see a Sith who looks like he's still learning, then obviously somebody's teaching him."
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...and just think: The Jedi Council was afraid of beaten by these guys.
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Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
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Or any continuity, anywhere whatsoever.
When an underaged half-naked Togruta can't save a show, it has fucking problems.
:justasplanned:
I find your lack of geekery disturbing.
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It turns out that El Tigre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Tigre_(TV_series)) is actually a pretty great show. I was actually shocked, as I previously had the show pegged as some lame Fairly Odd Parents coattail refuse, only with Mexicans. Then Frida made a funny face and I was pretty well hooked at that point.
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Months behind.
The amount of colorful detail and wit in humor they throw into that show is outstanding. The voice work is magnificent, the pacing is fantastic and the music makes me want to cheer.
So of course, it was canceled or limbo'd or something, capped off at one season and I can only see it at 11 PM on a Sunday. ::(:
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So I watched the Powerpuff Girls tenth year anniversary special. It was a thing of glory.
FREE PUPPIES FOR EVERYBODY!
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It was really well animated and I loved it. I watched the whole marathon today.
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Curtain rises. Brentai walks into a room in which there is a television, showing another fantastic episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Voice on Television: If you so much as breathe on one of these lasers, the whole room will explode!
Brentai stares dumbfoundedly at the television for a moment, then turns around and walks out. Curtain falls. Fin.
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:gasp: Suppose it's a really cold room, and the condensation from a warm exhaled breath of air has enough condensated moisture to partially impede or deflect the laser's path?
..Okay, I'll be quiet now..
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Well, they can breathe in space. Maybe they were in space.
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:serious: FACT: We are not allowed to use hyperbole in our entertainment. It is illegal!
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Maybe there was a lot of dust in the air.
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Maybe it was hyperbole! :whoops:
...I'm bad at this game. :;_;:
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We're talking about Star Wars, here. I don't think it was.
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I typically catch the end of Clone Wars while I'm waiting for a different show to come on, like Chowder or Batman, and I can't help notice that the clones are portrayed as really loyal and distinctive characters, and the Jedi are portrayed as giving a crap about them and even sending rescue missions out for them, and Anakin is really friendly and supportive of everyone.
And it kind of makes you wonder if George Lucas even knows what the fuck his own franchise is about.
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I believe he's proven, time and again, he has no clue.
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But but but Revenge of the Sith is only four years old. His memory can't be that short. It I fuck
god damn it.
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What did I get for my birthday? Season three. (http://www.amazon.com/Venture-Bros-Season-Three/dp/B001NOMO2Y/ref=ntt_tv_ep_dpt) (Also $500 for assorted bills and games.)
Looks like Season 4's going to come in two parts for increased quality.
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Too early to make a call on whether Sit Down, Shut Up is any good or not, but it at least COULD be good. First ep had a few laughs I thought. And it's a bunch of guys from Arrested Development. It also kind of reminds me of Clone High, though I suppose a cartoon about high school featuring Will Forte is bound to do that.
Anyway. Too early to call, but at this point I intend to keep watching.
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The second episode of Sit, Down, Shut Up is a vast improvement over the first one.
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Which is why I never watch pilot episodes until the show's gotten off the ground.
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This week's was the first that I really got a lot of laughs out of. Even though the plot was just a bunch of movie cliches and the jokes were all about how the plot was just a bunch of movie cliches.
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A new Heavy Metal movie?
With five fantastic directors on board?
It's more likely than you think. (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/the_new_heavy_metal_is_getting_too_awesome_to_actu.php)
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Huh. This will be more in the spirit of the original, I hope?
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That's the idea, yeah; it's a pulp anthology. It's still Kevin Eastman at the helm (he owns it now, after all), but it sounds like he's much much more interested in doing something like the original with this one than what he did with 2000 (though apparently he's planning a sequel to that as well).
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A new Heavy Metal movie?
With five fantastic directors on board?
It's more likely than you think. (http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/the_new_heavy_metal_is_getting_too_awesome_to_actu.php)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I was at work and bouncing in my chair and trying not to scream
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FUCK YOU CARTOON NETWORK, FUCK YOU (http://nerdarmada.blogspot.com/2009/06/watch-chowder-tonight.html)
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That's all /co/ has been saying for the last few months.
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Well you know why they're doing it, right? They're too popular with the wrong age bracket. They're getting too many twenty-year-old viewers again. Got to thin those numbers with more crap cartoons like Total Drama and [show about a chunky red-headed boy in zany situation].
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I don't think they exactly care which age bracket the viewers are coming from, it's just that the 20-something cartoon fanatic demographic is not as big as you think and sort of has a tendency to torrent and TiVo rather than actually sit through commercials*. The big question is: Is anybody else watching that stuff? Given the way of things the likely answer is "No, probably not."
* Well, okay, maybe they actually do care which age bracket the viewers are coming from, seeing as how CN's advertisers probably don't want to market to people mature enough to realize that cartoon animals don't make shit taste better.
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I don't think they exactly care which age bracket the viewers are coming from, it's just that the 20-something cartoon fanatic demographic is not as big as you think and sort of has a tendency to torrent and TiVo rather than actually sit through commercials*. The big question is: Is anybody else watching that stuff? Given the way of things the likely answer is "No, probably not."
* Well, okay, maybe they actually do care which age bracket the viewers are coming from, seeing as how CN's advertisers probably don't want to market to people mature enough to realize that cartoon animals don't make shit taste better.
And a lot of these same people would BUY DVDS IF THEY EXISTED.
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But only after the series is canceled.
OH HEY LOOK.
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What pisses me off about what CN is doing lately is that THEY ARE FALSELY ADVERTISING! You cannot be "Cartoon Network" if you keep showing more and more shows that are not works of animation in the slightest.
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'NIMH' adaptation in works (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i64d7e42a898297d743cce7f17982cc1f)
:pop: :ohmy: :shrug:
It's likely the new "NIMH" would combine live-action and animation in the manner of "Alvin & the Chipmunks" and other kiddie hybrids.
:oh: :khaaan: :over9000: :facepalm: :nosir: :ohgod: :scanners: :fukit:
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I finally got around to reading the CN AS BS. I thought that adult swim got its ratings separated from ordinary CN, specifically because they wanted to advertise it as a high interest block for that demo. But what the fuck do I know?
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You know, it can be highly disappointing and slightly embarrassing to re-watch cartoons from your childhood and find out that they actually kinda suck. (I still maintain there is some legitimately great shit in Thundercats, but the last two seasons are fuckawful. (Memo to every fucking TV site on the Internet and also the morons who apparently used them for reference in putting the series out on DVD: Thundercats ran for FOUR seasons, not two.))
It is, however, highly fulfilling to re-watch stuff from your childhood and find out that, no, it WAS that good.
I've given DuckTales a rent and it falls mostly into the latter category. (Though it is another one I do not plan on watching the last two seasons of.)
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I'm much more interested in the "terror that flaps in the night", if you get my drift.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has held up relatively okay. As did Tiny Toons and Freakazoid.
It might just be my nostalgia goggles, but after re-watching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, I still enjoyed it and fondly recalled being brought home from kindergarten JUST in time to see it or waking up early on Saturday and Sunday morning to catch it on the Family Channel (along with Wish Kid).
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Oh god, this is the best thing ever. (http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/comedy/watch/v18686058r2cjtNHJ)
It's Misadventures of Flapjack, for the not-so-adventurous.
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Well the dude who created Chowder is currently working on another new show and the rest of the Chowder crew is working over at Disney on some new show (I think it was called Fish Hook?--something weird like that), in case anyone cared to hear that they aren't dead forever or anything.
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I'm much more interested in the "terror that flaps in the night", if you get my drift.
Doesn't count for my "going back and re-watching cartoons from my childhood" theme as I didn't really get a chance to see much of it as a kid.
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You were an abused child.
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So Shinra is right?
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has held up relatively okay.
Relatively. Great animation and cast, and some really neat designs (the Technodrome is just a wonderfully goofy Kirby-style machine). The writing...well, the first season or two wasn't bad, though the pizza and cowabunga jokes got old in a hurry and weren't that damn clever to begin with. I liked the stuff where they broke the fourth wall ("Kids, don't try this at home, we're trained professionals"), but that got overused too, and was largely cribbed from the Ralph Bakshi/John K Mighty Mouse. (Speaking of which, anybody know where I can find any of that stuff?)
As did Tiny Toons and Freakazoid.
Tiny Toons and Animaniacs were hit-or-miss, but when they were on they were ON. Freakazoid was less extreme in both the brilliant stuff and the horrible stuff, but a good show all-around -- I was in my late teens before I watched much of it, so I'm not sure it counts for my "stuff I watched as a kid" theme either.
It might just be my nostalgia goggles, but after re-watching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, I still enjoyed it and fondly recalled being brought home from kindergarten JUST in time to see it or waking up early on Saturday and Sunday morning to catch it on the Family Channel (along with Wish Kid).
I love the premise of The Super Mario Bros Super Show, and have said before that it's exactly the formula I'd like to follow in making a cartoon: a different genre parody every episode, pretending to be a continuing story but actually being completely discrete and unrelated. (Excel Saga had a similar setup, but with slightly more continuity than Mario had.)
Last time I saw any Mario toons was at the '06 Kon; I was disappointed. It could be that we just watched the first ep or two and the show got better later on, or it could be that the whole thing WAS a fairly mediocre execution of a really brilliant premise; I'd have to watch more to make the call. (It's also possible that it loses a lot without the original music; the Birdo episode really felt like it was missing something without Surfin' Bird. I remember the nonsensical pop music segments being a huge part of the show's goofy charm. I am given to understand that the Milli Vanilli episode from the SMB3 toon has no Milli Vanilli music either.)
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Sad to say that the writing on the Mario 1/2 Super Show was just generally uninspired; they'd knock up a theme for the episode, take it to whatever natural conclusion, and cut back to Lou Albano acting like a moron. The SMB3 cartoon actually fared a lot better as they were willing to do some truly off-the-wall shit like Koopa Hosts a TV Show and Mario and Luigi Get Turned into Dogs. Then it got repurposed into the SMW cartoon and was crushed under the weight of the misconception that because the game had a dinosaur in it, everything had to be prehistoric caveman crap.
And everyone knows that for prehistoric caveman crap you can never beat CrooooOoooOoOOOoOOOoooOOO.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has held up relatively okay.
Relatively. Great animation and cast, and some really neat designs (the Technodrome is just a wonderfully goofy Kirby-style machine). The writing...well, the first season or two wasn't bad, though the pizza and cowabunga jokes got old in a hurry and weren't that damn clever to begin with. I liked the stuff where they broke the fourth wall ("Kids, don't try this at home, we're trained professionals"), but that got overused too, and was largely cribbed from the Ralph Bakshi/John K Mighty Mouse. (Speaking of which, anybody know where I can find any of that stuff?)
On top of the animation and casting, I noticed the music is actually pretty damn snazzy while I re-watching it recently. One song that I continue to hear in my head on the occasion plays in the first friggin' episode when pre-mutation Rocksteady and Bebop start chasing April.
I putzed around Youtube for a clip, but turned up empty-handed...except for clips of the cartoon with lines from The Big Lebowski dubbed over them. Quality.
As did Tiny Toons and Freakazoid.
Tiny Toons and Animaniacs were hit-or-miss, but when they were on they were ON. Freakazoid was less extreme in both the brilliant stuff and the horrible stuff, but a good show all-around -- I was in my late teens before I watched much of it, so I'm not sure it counts for my "stuff I watched as a kid" theme either.
I always felt Animaniacs was a lot more hit-or-miss than Tiny Toons since I always saw as the more 'wacky and bizarre for its own sake' show. But it might be because I was just getting into animu at that point.
Freakazoid was also pretty amazing for me since I can rewatch an episode now and then and find a joke that floors me that I missed the first time around either due to being too young or too ignorant of pop culture. The Nerdator episode where Spielberg gets abducted followed by a cut away to Freakazoid making a joke about DreamWorks was fantastic when I heard it a year ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZHichaemV4#t=2m36s
It might just be my nostalgia goggles, but after re-watching the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, I still enjoyed it and fondly recalled being brought home from kindergarten JUST in time to see it or waking up early on Saturday and Sunday morning to catch it on the Family Channel (along with Wish Kid).
I love the premise of The Super Mario Bros Super Show, and have said before that it's exactly the formula I'd like to follow in making a cartoon: a different genre parody every episode, pretending to be a continuing story but actually being completely discrete and unrelated. (Excel Saga had a similar setup, but with slightly more continuity than Mario had.)
Last time I saw any Mario toons was at the '06 Kon; I was disappointed. It could be that we just watched the first ep or two and the show got better later on, or it could be that the whole thing WAS a fairly mediocre execution of a really brilliant premise; I'd have to watch more to make the call. (It's also possible that it loses a lot without the original music; the Birdo episode really felt like it was missing something without Surfin' Bird. I remember the nonsensical pop music segments being a huge part of the show's goofy charm. I am given to understand that the Milli Vanilli episode from the SMB3 toon has no Milli Vanilli music either.)
I agree wholeheartedly. If I remember right, it was some kind of royalty or copyright issue that got the music edited down to instrumentals instead of the covers?
One of the things I really appreciated was how the casting was as good as TMNT, where every voice actor/actress fit their roles so well that it's hard, if not impossible to not hear there nowadays. As much of a nutcase Lou Albano was, I can't help but replace Charles Martinet with him. The same goes for Luigi much more so now since he's become a whipping boy.
Harvey Atkin as Bowser! :cake:
Sad to say that the writing on the Mario 1/2 Super Show was just generally uninspired; they'd knock up a theme for the episode, take it to whatever natural conclusion, and cut back to Lou Albano acting like a moron. The SMB3 cartoon actually fared a lot better as they were willing to do some truly off-the-wall shit like Koopa Hosts a TV Show and Mario and Luigi Get Turned into Dogs. Then it got repurposed into the SMW cartoon and was crushed under the weight of the misconception that because the game had a dinosaur in it, everything had to be prehistoric caveman crap.
And everyone knows that for prehistoric caveman crap you can never beat CrooooOoooOoOOOoOOOoooOOO.
Yes. I think that was around the point where I stopped tuning in frequently because I thought the cavemen were a needless addition to case. Hell, Yoshi kind of was too with that obnoxious Mama Luigi angle. ::(:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9iLLHgvYaE&NR=1
probably the first time i pissed myself laughing. back when i was ten or so.
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Having purchased the SMB Super Show Vol1 on DVD - and eyeing #2 and SMB3 - yeah, they lose a LOT of the charm without the music. "Rockin Robin" is forever ingrained in my head as "that song on the mario cartoon."
The cartoons do hold the charm of being completely batshit insane when you step back and examine them under scrutiny. Most old cartoons are like that, though. "Why are they suddenly in space? Why did he pull a hammer out of his pants? How does singing the zelda theme make a ship land?"
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Captain N was one of the few that made sense. Along with Mario Bros 3. Mario super show was based loosely around the world of mario 2 I think with parts heading back to 1 I believe. I never saw the donkey kong cartoon but I'm sure it was pretty terrible.
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ROCKET ROBIN HOOD FOREVER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfisiGqtEM
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I MEAN FOR GOD'S SAKE LOOK AT THIS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DCneMP6YRM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-tC81wANQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebsSyfHaIRY&feature=related
... I watched way too much of this as a kid. Of course, when a show is so bad that EVEN AS A CHILD you are knowingly watching it because it's pricelessly cheesy, does Lyrai's question even apply?
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If I remember right, it was some kind of royalty or copyright issue that got the music edited down to instrumentals instead of the covers?
It was a whole lot cheaper to get the rights to Bad 20 years ago than it is now. This is presumably the same reason that SMB3 and Captain N season 2 went with parodies instead of songs that cost money.
(Should I split this thread from my DuckTales post on?)
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I...
I started watching the first episode of Loonatics Unleashed.
I ... I made a mistake.
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:OoO:
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ROCKET ROBIN HOOD FOREVER.
Band of brothers marching together,
Heads held high in all kinds of weather!
With fiery blasts our roaring rockets rise,
Beyond the Eeeeeearth, beyond the skies!
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:hi5:
Decoder ring for you!
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http://vimeo.com/3985019
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That... is not what I expected "piano cat" to be. :nyoro~n:
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Huh. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_piano)
That's terrifying.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zscrv7OJ3TU
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So we could call this a ReBoot reboot?
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If they're releasing that around the same time frame as Tron Legacy, they'll have a hard time of it.
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I just hope that it'll mean that I can get the show on DVD for less than the terrifying arm & leg they're charging now (the 'bad old days' TV-on-video pricing model of like $25 for three episodes).
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That's the problem of having the DVDs be released by an anime company.
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Compounded by the fact that Reboot was a Canadian show.
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Haw haw imported animation.
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I have started watching X-Men: Evolution. That is all.
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I still don't get Rocko's Modern Life.
I have started watching X-Men: Evolution. That is all.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/rogue_kitty_cam.gif)
What stopped you before?
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I still don't get Rocko's Modern Life.
It's a high-quality cartoon, is all.
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I still don't get Rocko's Modern Life.
It's a high-context cartoon, is all.
NEVER FORGET
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His claws are still wet (http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/12/01/2010-shopping-list-the-maxx-the-complete-series/).
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His claws are still wet (http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/12/01/2010-shopping-list-the-maxx-the-complete-series/).
:victory:
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They artfully fail to mention that each of the 13 episodes is about 8 minutes long.
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Adventure Time is one of my favorite new shows. It's just incredible. I also watch Flapjack as often as possible.
In terms of older animation, I was raised on classic Bugs Bunny, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, and Animaniacs.
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Sam & Max on DVD (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/snmanimated-dvd)
WHY WASN'T I INFORMED
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*Adds DVD, Hardcover, and Shotglass to shopping cart*
Happy Birthday to me
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Yeah, I picked up that set during the EVERYTHING IN OUR STORE IS 50% SALE. I still haven't watched it yet though, so thanks for reminding me to do so!
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I actually just started the DVDs a few days ago, which I picked up in some crazyfuck sale X months ago.
I don't like The Geek, but in general, that shit holds up!
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...oh snap, Boondocks got picked up for a third season?
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Animation wasn't that good this time around. Not sure why.
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Well, the script didn't really call for it; lots of standing around talking in this one. About as action-packed as it got was Ruckus throwing bricks and "Don't taze me, bro."
All in all, a perfectly decent episode. It did what it had to, and that was slaughter a sacred cow.
It's interesting -- the bulk of the episode's set in '08, and it risks not feeling timely because of that, but it's actually got the 2010 view in a nutshell -- Obama isn't the messiah, he's a step in the right direction at best, and people got carried away in the assumptions they made about him.
A middling episode, with a few laugh-out-loud lines, mostly from Werner Herzog. Not on par with most of the first season, but off to a much better start than the second.
At any rate, good enough that I'm glad it's back. I assumed the pressure from Sony just meant the end of the series -- guess I should have given the guys at Williams Street more credit than that.
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Daria is on DVD! (http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/mtv/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/05/11/daria_dvd_series)
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About time they did that. I guess they were too busy counting their money from the royalties of it still airing. Oh. wait. :Daria:
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Bought it at target. The foreword thing in the DVD case is amazing.
DEAR BELOVED CONSUMER,
Finally, the complete DARIA in an offically sanction boxed set. It's the answer to every diehard fan's dreams. Which, given the makeup of diehard DARIA fandom, means it's an opportunity for them to kick off a raging, decades-long debate over the collection's merits and, by extension, each other's validity as human beings.
So let's answer the big question right away: 99 percent of the music has been changed, because the cost of licensing the many music bites we used would have made it impossible to release the collection (and for many years did). So no, these aren't the shows as aired, but more like one of those astronauts in a TWILIGHT ZONE episode who returns from space and his wife can't figure out what's changed about him, until it slowly dawns on her that instead of a cool song from 1997 playing when he walks into the room, it's some tune she's never heard. Yeah, it's just like that.
To put it bluntly, replacing the music had to be done. Does that mean this boxset is compromised? Season I Daria would have said, "Yes." Season V Daria would have said, "shut up and pass the remote." Let the raging begin.
What this collection does have is all the episodes, in the highest-quality, most complete versions that could be found; the two movies; extras like "Sealed with a Kick" animatic, the "Freakin' Friends" video and the Daria Day intros; interviews with some (but by no means all) of the people who contributed to making the show so much fun to create and watch; and a bunch of other things of interested to the uber-fan. Casual fans and DARIA first-timers can ignore the extras. There will be no quiz.
Finally, many thanks to the people at MTV home entertainment, who worked long and hard to dig up and assemble the elements necessary to make this package possible. I'm looking forward to watching these shows again, and I hope you are too.
GLENN EICHLER
Show creator
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Classy as hell. I'd take a music-changed release of something any day over no release at all.
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After watching up to season 3, I can't say I particularly notice. It's not like they exchanged 1990's early 2000's songs for modern songs, they just put in some generic music that still fits just fine.
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Unless all the Cake songs are still in it, this completely ruins my plans to watch through and see exactly how often Cake is actually in it.
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Classy as hell. I'd take a music-changed release of something any day over no release at all.
Depends. I think The Super Mario Bros Super Show lost something without the musical numbers, and there's one particular episode of Scrubs that originally ended with a bunch of horrible things happening while the theme from Cheers played that just lost all its effectiveness when it was replaced with generic sad music in the reruns.
As for Daria? Don't know; it's been enough years that I probably wouldn't know the difference, and I don't remember the music being an integral part of it.
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No, I completely agree with that too, I just prefer to be able to get something that's 80% complete over .. well, nothing at all.
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IIRC the difference is Daria's music was just random inlays and not the key to a joke or the focus of approximately half the episode.
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So! Joe Murray, inventor of Rocko's Modern Life, is trying to launch an Internet TV channel airing original independent animation, called Kaboing TV (http://kaboingtv.com/). At this point, he's raising money (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1589686906/launch-an-all-cartoon-web-channel-called-kaboingtv), although the donation drive has already surpassed the $16,800 he estimated he'd need.
I think this could turn out pretty swell.
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He got enough money, so I guess it's going to happen.
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Feels like he and Kricfalusi should team up on this.
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So lately I have started watching Wakfu, which is a French series made to promote an MMO.
Wakfu Episode One clip: Nox versus Grougaloragran (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2JrWJfdoqk#)
It's a little doofy at times, but I'm really digging it. It's basically giving me my fantasy cartoon fix since Avatar's done for the time being. These first few episodes do a good job of the whole "episodic but obviously building to something" thing that Avatar did so well.
It's also really really good-looking for Flash animation, which France seems to be great at. I'm still waiting for something to come of Baidir:
TEASER BAIDIR (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQmmdHifRZQ#ws)
Fucking France and their gorgeous TV animation! :rage:
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oh my god you guys this episode actually has a bread monster
and it's called the breadnaught
:omg:
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(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg263/Crabstuffed/breadnought.jpg)
EVEN IN TOAST, I STILL SERVE
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I've had Wakfu sitting on my hard drive for a little while now... haven't had time for it recently but holy bajesus that animation is gorgeous.
THE FUTURE RIGHT THERE FOLKS
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So uh... anyone got a link to where these things can be grabbed?
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Sometimes, 4chan is good to me:
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PQQD9EE3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PQQD9EE3)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8OB8D37V (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8OB8D37V)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UDWIN3Y6 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UDWIN3Y6)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XT0U3YUC (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XT0U3YUC)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EHBBMTSC (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EHBBMTSC)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y7ZXA54R (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y7ZXA54R)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HAU39GJG (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HAU39GJG)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WD5W9TC3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WD5W9TC3)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R09HIJE0 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R09HIJE0)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5J4AVTCD (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5J4AVTCD)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U2UIJZHM (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U2UIJZHM)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VHICYK9V (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VHICYK9V)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7S5NTA0C (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7S5NTA0C)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=267A662E (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=267A662E)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=77W30VCN (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=77W30VCN)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WPRAMHVQ (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WPRAMHVQ)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EHTFXK9F (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EHTFXK9F)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ORLO1AXI (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ORLO1AXI)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6A2W8EZD (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6A2W8EZD)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IP08RCBA (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IP08RCBA)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WLT5NV1A (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WLT5NV1A)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6RRLDCUQ (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6RRLDCUQ)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2I3PVDB4 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2I3PVDB4)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A342SJV7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A342SJV7)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZN1L99Y9 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZN1L99Y9)
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1MA429RW (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1MA429RW)
The Goultard special, hard subbed, in MP4 format
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C8UXM17W (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C8UXM17W)
And in AVI format
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NSI1DO7 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4NSI1DO7)
The Nox special, hard subbed, in AVI format
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8S93ZVQ8 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8S93ZVQ8)
Just as a warning, it's not all translated by one team, so it's sometimes a little incongruous.
In particular, Sir Tristepin Percedal = Sir Sadlygrove Percedal. French name; official English equivalent.
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Gurren Lagann?
In my Wakfu?
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/gurrenlagganwakfu.jpg)
It's more likely than you'd think.
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I just finished it.
That was pretty much the best series finale I've seen in a long time. Major props. Getting the DVD set ASAP.
Also, according to Wikipedia it got renewed for another season. :glee:
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I'm not sure whether to put this here or in What I learned.
Apparently the guys in Klasky-Csupo's storyboard division hated working on Rugrats so much that they made incredibly offensive fake storyboards to pass around to each other as an inside joke.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/1280880990626.jpg)
Klasky-Csupo just earned my respect.
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That reminds me of how most of the staff who worked on the original Batman: TAS were brothers in arms who had survived through the merciless hell of Tiny Toons. Apparently going from TT to Batman was like being fellated every single day.
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two thumbs up, guys.
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I don't know why I find Tommy twitching uncontrollably so funny, but damn it, I do.
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(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/trapsillustrated.png)
This really is just the best show.
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Genndy Tartakovsky has a new cartoon coming out. It is about a Giant Robot.
Sym-Bionic Titan Clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVoLFv1m0Uo#ws)
That is all you need to know.
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Hell, it's about time. I've been checking his wiki article and various things to try to get a hold on what he's been working on, but nothing ever seemed to pan out.
Not sure how I feel about the animation on the robot itself though. The CGI and standard animation mix bugs me for some reason.
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The Nostalgia Critic interviews a bunch of the creative talent behind Animaniacs. (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/27440-animaniacs-tribute)
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Here's the animatic pilot to the spiritual successor to El Tigre, Camen Got Expelled.
Carmen Got Expelled! PILOT (http://vimeo.com/9930528)
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Not sure how I feel about the animation on the robot itself though. The CGI and standard animation mix bugs me for some reason.
This for me, though I'm gonna' come right out and say that the fact that the robot was animated seperately from its environment is incredibly obvious. It's got an awesome logo and I loves me some Tartakovsky (especially when he's channeling his total Tezuka fanboyism), but that clip doesn't look so hot.
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I thought Tartakovsky was CN's wonderboy megachild. I kind of assumed that it was a choice made deliberately for the effect, instead of some half-assed attempt to save a buck animating.
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So, /co/ discovered some pretty sweet Wakfu action figure mockups from Bandai (http://www.wakfufan.fr/news/67/figurines-wakfu-bandai.html). They're just CG mockups, but they're confirmed to be official.
What's worth noting is this one:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/36828_10150247052720224_200357870223_14262253_7357202_n.jpg)
Tristepin's official English name, Sadlygrove, is included on the packaging. Amalia's figure has an alternate name too. So maybe, just maybe the English dub is still in production! These figures launch sometime this year, so hopefully it happens and happens soon.
...because you guys seriously need to watch this show seriously you guys
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Watched the Mad pilot. It looked and felt just like the magazine. The magazine, of course, has not been funny since the Clinton Administration and peaked 30 years before that, but still, at least the show is recognizably Mad, unlike the last show to bear the name.
It had a couple of movie/TV parodies, a couple of chuckles, and entirely too many goddamn fart jokes. Presumably since it's prime time CN and not Adult Swim it can't quite get away with the type of content the magazine does, but still and all, there's a whole lot of shit you can do that doesn't involve, well, shit.
The best bits, as with the first season or two of Mad TV, were the animated bits of Prohias and Martin and Aragones cartoons. Spy vs. Spy is the one that translates the best to animation; the others didn't make the transition as smoothly -- I actually had to rewind the Martin one because the visual punchline went by too quick for me to catch it, and while it's absolutely beautiful to see an Aragones crowd scene on TV, you can't take it all in and examine all the little details like you can in print.
All in all, pretty thoroughly meh, but there's real potential there, and pilots are about potential, not about getting it right the first time.
And it's already surpassed Mad TV by sheer virtue of not peaking in its very first sketch.
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Symbiotic titan is pretty incredible.
The animation voices, and humor are absolutely top notch.
The king is voiced by B&TB Aquaman. The man antagonist alien is voiced by the General from Metal Gear Solid.. The robot servant/bodyguard for the princess is voiced by Brian Posehn. The human general is voiced by John Di Maggio.
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The first and last people you mentioned are the same person.
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Shit, really? I didn't know John Di Maggio voiced Aquaman too? I knew he was Gorilla Grod, but Aquaman? Damn.
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Black Dynamite, y'all. (http://warmingglow.uproxx.com/2010/09/first-look-black-dynamite-cartoon)
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I've been watching more and more of Cartoon Network's current line up on On Demand. They went from the "This is a fucking disaster" channel to having some decent shows. Regular show is solid. Sym-bionic titan is good, new Scooby doo is passable, and Adventure Time is (of course) really good. I'm so glad they picked their shit up after having shitty tween shows and live action horseshit.
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Oh, hey, by the way: that new Avengers cartoon is pretty great. Just in case, you know, you were on the fence about watching it.
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Oh, hey, by the way: that new Avengers cartoon is pretty great. Just in case, you know, you were on the fence about watching it.
Indeed it is! And I think I've finally found a gateway for getting my girlfriend into superheroes. I couldn't even get her to pay attention to Batman: TAS. (I will, of course, give it another shot later.)
It's not as good as Spectacular Spider-Man (but what is?), but has its same approach of taking the original story arc and tweaking it with the gift of hindsight -- the Avengers have a much better reason for assembling than they did in the original comic, Loki still hasn't revealed himself as the big bad 8 episodes in (or 4 or whatever we're calling it), and it's done a REALLY NICE JOB of introducing all the villains and tying the characters together before they even meet.
And of course there are still enough changes to keep me guessing. Even as simple a question as "Are Hank and Jan together?" -- well, I can tell her the answer in the comics, but the answer on TV is "I can't really tell; she sure seems to flirt with Tony a lot."
(Wasp is probably my least favorite character, but she's still a damn sight better than the actual original 1960's version.)
And all the little continuity nods are nice too. I don't know what the rights status is on everything, whether we'll ever be able to see the Fantastic Four or the X-Men or whoever, but it's nice that they've thrown out references to them.
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Enjoying the Avengers show. The first episode is really, really light on characterization, and more just kind of a kick you into action immediately. It's a lot of fun, but so far seems more informed by what I already know about these characters than anything going on in the show. But the animation is solid and voice work good. They even went and used the Iron Man movie for inspiration, right down to having Tony Stark's VA talk just like Robert Downey Jr. Also like that they found a middle ground for regular and Samuel L. Fury.
But, by Odin, that theme song.
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Hey guys Sym-Biotic Titan is pretty good.
Also
Wakfu - Season 2 Opening / Générique Saison 2 / Intro 2. Staffel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zuh0Xaw9xA#ws)
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
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I wish every cartoon had the character development of episode ten of Sym-Bionic Titan.
I think I get what the show's trying to do now. It's the American Evangelion. Not in the mopey, angsty, deconstructivist sense, but in the sense that both use a kids' science fiction story as a backdrop for what is essentially a very adult character-driven drama. In episode ten, they go so far as to literally put the giant robot fight in the background.
Also, way to get crap past the radar with Kimmy's dance.
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The Secret of Kells is pretty much amazing.
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There's a new G.I. Joe cartoon (http://thepiratebay.org/search/joe%20renegades/0/99/200). It's sort of like the A-Team, only with 20% more Ninja. It's pretty good, actually.
Ripcord is in it, the one based off of Marlon Wayans from the movie. He dies in the first episode.
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The rumored new Beavis and Butt-Head series has been confirmed for June.
It could work (and even if it doesn't, it'll still be the best thing on MTV in the past eight years). Lord knows people still make shitty music videos.
I'd like to see them aged -- in their late thirties and still working fast food and living with their moms. Esquire (http://www.esquire.com/the-side/feature/mtv-beavis-and-butthead-return-5178805) has the right idea.
Granted that it's been awhile since Mike Judge really made me laugh. But what the hell, let's see if he's still got it.
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That Esquire link crashed my browser three times. Any chance of jut getting the text, etc?
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November 1997: MTV discontinues its hit show Beavis and Butt-Head.
June 1998: Highland High administrators reach a breaking point, award GED degrees to the two worst students in its senior class.
October 1998: Highland Community College awards full scholarships to Highland High's two worst students, on the sole condition that they never attend.
October 1999: Beavis and Butt-Head attend the "Family Values" tour. They reportedly call Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst a "friggin' pussy." Before leaving, Method Man & Redman inform them that they are the two funniest people they've ever met.
November 1999: Butt-Head gains employment at a startup company specializing in developing "e-commerce" solutions for pet stores and — at his advising — porn production studios in the San Bernardino Valley. In his first evaluation, supervisors insist that "Mr. Head is a critical, forward-thinking individual critical to our evolution." Beavis remains unemployed.
December 1999: To celebrate New Year's Eve, the young men attempt to throw water on an electric transformer for "awesome fireworks."
January 2000: The much-feared Y2K virus does not, in fact, shut down Western Civilization, although the small Texas town of Highland does engage in some flash-rioting in lieu of a downed power supply. Sixty people are seriously injured, and one dies. Two anonymous sources quoted by the Dallas Observer characterize the episode as "awesome."
June 2000: When Butt-Head refuses to settle for a buyout of "anything less than a trillion dollars," his company folds — but not before handing him a severance of $150,000.
November 2000: Butt-Head votes for George W. Bush. Beavis's write-in hopeful, Prizdint Cornholio, finishes somewhere between Nader and Buchanan.
February 2001: Beavis and Butt-Head learn that they no longer need to "fish" for beer using the local homeless population, as they are now both easily 21, a local homeless man informs them.
February 2001: Beavis hospitalized for alcohol poisoning.
October 2001: Beavis and Butt-Head register for the Army, for which they are incredibly excited.
December 2001: Beavis and Butt-Head go to Afghanistan.
December 2001: PFC Butt-Head and Lt. Beavis go AWOL.
March 2005: PFC Butt-Head and Lt. Beavis are rescued by the American Red-Cross. When asked of their whereabouts, Lt. Beavis recall smoking "ASHEESH!" with a man Lt. Beavis refers to as "LLAMA BEEEEEEN LADEEEEEEEEN!" PFC Butt-Head notes: "Shut up, Beavis."
April 2005: Court-marshaled. Three-year lockdown in the brig. Dishonorable discharge.
July 2008: Butt-Head finds gainful employment as a loan officer.
October 2008: Butt-Head is called to testify at a congressional hearing on the housing crisis, then quickly dismissed for continuing to refer to one of the Ohio representatives as "Mr. Boner."
March 2009: Beavis finally loses his virginity. To Butt-Head's mom.
April 2009: A court order of separation remains open-ended, as Beavis discovers methamphetamine and can't be located.
May 2009: Bored, Butt-Head starts a music blog called "This Sucks."
October 2009: thissucks.pitchfork.com.
July 2010: Beavis and Butt-Head reunite. Mike Judge calls them to talk about working together again. They have nothing better to do. They agree.
February 2011: Daria is still nowhere to be found.
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So I just watched an NBC special on PIXAR. And maybe I had forgotten that those guys are kind of badasses.
Fuck man, fuck.
Presto short (http://vimeo.com/16583550)
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Man, now I'm trying to remember which Pixar movie that was the opening short for.
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[spoiler]Wall-E.[/spoiler]
EDI:
Ofuk, spoilers.
EDIT EDIT:
So i did a bottle of three philosophers (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/42/3457/). WHat!?
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I finally watched Wakfu.
Sadlygrove was the best character.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQX0DF6A19I&feature=player_embedded# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQX0DF6A19I&feature=player_embedded#)
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Okay, the payoff was worth the wait.
Man is it just me or is [spoiler]Simon Pegg[/spoiler] in just about every [spoiler]gag-involving-a-big-name-actor that makes it online[/spoiler] these days?
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Wakfu season 2 starts on Saturday! I had no idea it was so soon.
From the looks of the trailers it looks like they're really running with the aftermath of the first season. I have no idea how they're going to top Nox in terms of a Big Bad, though.
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So I picked up The Last Unicorn on Blu-Ray the other day.
The transfer is not particularly good, but it's still a decent movie, especially for the price (fifteen bucks!).
I think this film gets more respect for me for being one of the only kids' films I can think of that has an anti-happy ending than for actually being good.
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I've been enjoying the fuck out of Regular show, what do you guys think about it?
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I've only seen one episode. "Pops", I think it was, had to give a speech but was super nervous about it. The solution involved spinning around until dizzy and/or drawing on people's faces.
Seems pretty okay.
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Regular Show is secretly a great show in disguise as a bad show.
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New Wakfu is up and subbed!
It's pretty good!
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If you guys are allowed to make a four page thread about how you don't care about My Little Pony then I'm allowed to make one post pointing this out.
More to the point, you should be watching Sym-Bionic Titan. I mean...
"Space Age Love Song" by A Flock of Seagulls on Sym-Bionic Titan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plitqKiiqAU#ws)
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TEG approved torrent sources would be nice.
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I usually just grab new episodes off of /rs/. They're usually up Wednesday nights or Thursday mornings. Failing that I'll just search for them directly through Vuze.
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If you guys are allowed to make a four page thread about how you don't care about My Little Pony then I'm allowed to make one post pointing this out.
More to the point, you should be watching Sym-Bionic Titan. I mean...
"Space Age Love Song" by A Flock of Seagulls on Sym-Bionic Titan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plitqKiiqAU#ws)
I'm surprised you didn't use this clip:
Sym-BionicTitan 1-10 Lessons in Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF1HcGKu0Fg#ws)
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<@TA> http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=24AE1F816423DF1A (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=24AE1F816423DF1A) i have this bookmarked
<@TA> but it's all 360p
<zaratustra> HEY ASSHOLE, STOP WATCHING CARTOONS FOR GIRLS.
<strikeromega> I'd like to think that if a company making a cartoon for girls could get other people to watch it too, they would.
<zaratustra> oh if the company wants it then it's ok
<zaratustra> would you suck dick if it was sanctioned by corporate enterprise
<strikeromega> That is the slipperiest slope that ever slipped a slope
<zaratustra> if you think there's a huge difference between watching my little pony and sucking dick, you have another thing coming
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeup
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JK Simmons will be JJJ in Ultimate Spider-Man. (http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2011/03/18/j-k-simmons-confirms-hell-voice-jjj-in-ultimate-spider-man/)
I'm still bummed about Spectacular, but I remain cautiously optimistic about the new toon.
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I gotta admit
Officially announced last April, Ultimate Spider-Man boasts an impressive creative team that includes Brian Michael Bendis, Paul Dini, Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly and Steven T. Seagle.
That's a pretty legit creative team though. I think the thing that stings the most was that Spectacular was pretty much Ultimate Spider-man already. If they'd just renamed it, you might not have noticed a difference.
That said, I wavered between Amazing Spider-Man as a film for a while, with some things looking good, some things not as exciting, but man, when they talked about JJJ in the film...
The character apparently doesn’t appear in The Amazing Spider-Man
It's like they just intentionally shot themselves in the leg. It's like a Superman film without Jimmy Olsen for some reason.
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That's a pretty legit creative team though. I think the thing that stings the most was that Spectacular was pretty much Ultimate Spider-man already. If they'd just renamed it, you might not have noticed a difference.
It's just a name; this isn't going to be a straight-up adaptation of the USM comic, it sounds more like Spider-Man: The Brave and the Bold.
But your point stands: they could have rebranded it and continued the series with a new high concept, JLU-style.
More than anything it sounds like it was a rights SNAFU between Sony and Disney, most likely exacerbated by the cancellation of the 4kids Saturday morning block.
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Rango is pretty fantastic you guys.
Someone walked out of the theater during it. Who does that?
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Sym-bionic Titan cancelled, Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/cartoon-network-cancels-sym-bionic-titan.html).
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So they never produced any toys... and then cancelled the show because it wasn't selling toys.
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Truly a bleak day for us all.
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So they never produced any toys... and then cancelled the show because it wasn't selling toys.
Remember how JLU was cancelled after 5 years because that's the maximum period of time a cartoon can be expected to sell toys?
And how they're still making and selling new JLU toys 5 years later?
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Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation.
(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/Hahaha.gif)
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Soooo... it really IS still the 80's.
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Oh man the new Titan.
:sadpanda:
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Sym-bionic Titan cancelled, Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/cartoon-network-cancels-sym-bionic-titan.html).
Feature films
Open Season
Surf's Up
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Short films
The ChubbChubbs!
Early Bloomer
Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run
The ChubbChubbs Save Xmas
Direct-to-video
Open Season 2
Open Season 3
Upcoming films
The Smurfs
Arthur Christmas
Hotel Transylvania
Popeye
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Rollercoaster Tycoon
OKAY I think we're done here.
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oh fuck right off cloudy with a chance of meatballs is FANTASTIC
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Highest of fives, Niku.
The rest is utter shit, though.
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I mentioned earlier that the complete '02 He-Man was only about $8 at Amazon; I finally bought a copy for myself.
First of all, it's fairly clear where they passed the savings on to you: open up the clamshell case and there's just a stack of DVD's in sleeves in it. Nothing else. Looks like it was done at Kinko's.
According to the packaging, though, the discs DO have extras, including a dozen commentaries, some artist interviews, and a comic book adaptation of the script that would have kicked off the next season if there had been one. (Haven't checked it out yet but I suspect it was already published by MV Creations when they did the comic adaptation of the show; I doubt they put together a comic just for this release, but it's possible they DID give it a budget and decided to skimp on the packaging at the last minute.)
The episodes look decent enough; there are some jaggies here and there but the picture's pretty good quality. They've cut the opening titles and scene-change graphics from season 2(? Whatever the episodes were that were after the original ones but before Rise of the Snake Men) into the earlier episodes, and there are also morals at the end of the episodes like in the original series, which I don't remember seeing on the CN run. (I also don't remember them being 16:9; were they, or did they cut the top and bottom off the picture?)
Also, they have chapter breaks, which Batman: TAS never fucking bothered to give us.
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What th
Skeletor has a full backstory now? Complete with ironic tragedy and a sanity-shattering Joker moment?
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I gathered that he was already insane (and actually "he used to be called Keldor" was addressed at some point in the original He-Man materials, possibly in the minicomics that came with the toys -- by the by, Bruce Timm did some of those), but yeah, the acid-in-the-face disfigurement was pure Batman.
Talking of comics and origins, the highlight of the modern MotU comic was a series of one-shots under the Icons of Evil banner, each of which told one of the villains' origin stories. I appreciated them as great comics at the time but it wasn't until years later that I recognized Robert Kirkman's name on the covers.
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Also although this is pretty late but I'd just like to say that Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is what happened the last time somebody creative got screwed by a network and left for Sony.
BUT ENOUGH OF THAT.
Wakfu is on a roll after the shaky start the season had.
I love that the current approach to monster design is "the MMO can go fuck itself".
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/monstre1.png)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/monstre2.png)
These two in particular are pretty much the best thing.
I also re-watched Cats Don't Dance for the first time in years. It's pretty much as good as I remember it! I did notice for the first time, however, the use of colour throughout the film. Every character literally gets brighter when they're happy (that is, when they're singing and dancing) and becomes more desaturated when they're not. It's pretty clever and subtle for a kids' movie. Also, it has this:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/invitthatcattotea.png)
As well as the implication that either animals never age or that Casablanca, Grumpy Old Men, and Batman and Robin were made within a few years of one another.
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I thought it was that stars never age? Simply being iconic imbues you with youth.
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Caught the first ep of the new Looney Tunes Show tonight. It was about what I expected: I really like the new character models, and the animation is good for being done on the cheap, but the writing leaves a lot to be desired. The pace was too slow, the plot was too sitcom-y, not one single person got shot in the face, and while I admire going into the archives and digging up some lesser-known characters rather than just hit us with all the A-listers out the gate, did anybody, anywhere want to see the obnoxious goddamn gophers ever again?
Could still be good -- I remember Tiny Toons and Animaniacs didn't exactly nail it right out the gate either. And it IS pretty.
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Haven't seen any of it but I imagine it still suffers from the same problem they've had since Tiny Toons: cartoon gags scripted by TV writers rather than by animators.
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So I just watched The Plague Dogs.
That is by far the bleakest, most depressing thing I have ever watched.
Highly recommended.
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guys guys you guys
The Legend Of Ogrest (Wakfu special) is finally up! It's 45 minutes long, it requires no knowledge of the series to enjoy, and it's absolutely stunning. It's very anime-influenced, but think of something along the lines of Studio Ghibli or Wind Waker. It comes highly recommended. You can find it right here:
SD softsubbed (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FZ57993P)
SD hardsubbed (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IDPJGZT)
HD softsub part 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=42ZIALHM) and HD softsub part 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AK5WX6Y5) (note: you need to download both and extract them to the same directory, where they make 1 .mkv file)
EDIT: I can't actually get the 2-archive thing for the HD version to work. If anyone does, please let me know.
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Amazing World Of Gumball is the best. The first two episodes have aired and they are nothing but solid gold. (First episode (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=lfk9lek0); Second episode (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=l18uzbct))
Compare with The Looney Tunes show, of which the most recent episode featured Yosemite Sam rapping and a joke stolen wholesale from The Simpsons with no understanding of how it works.
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Sym-bionic Titan cancelled, Tartakovsky leaves Cartoon Network for Sony Pictures Animation (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/cartoon-network-cancels-sym-bionic-titan.html).
Yes. The lack of toys. That was it.
Shake It Bake It Booty Quake It - Symbiotic Titan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW71JI6AZUA#ws)
Amazing World Of Gumball is the best. The first two episodes have aired and they are nothing but solid gold. (First episode (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=lfk9lek0); Second episode (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=l18uzbct))
Compare with The Looney Tunes show, of which the most recent episode featured Yosemite Sam rapping and a joke stolen wholesale from The Simpsons with no understanding of how it works.
I watched an episode of Gumball today and I think it has potential - the animation is interesting to watch, and the characters aren't completely insufferable. So it has that going for it I guess.
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Oh man; surprisingly topical World Of Gumball. This show continues to be great.
I really like that the Gumball/Penny dynamic is that they actually like each other. Not the usual "boy loves girl; girl hates/ignores boy" thing you usually get in cartoons.
Also, given Gumball's entourage in "The Dress", presumably everyone is bisexual in this show.
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I was about to say "nah they just dumb", but with the incredibly variety of species that interact like it ain't no thang, I could see gender not being an issue. Hell, Gumball's tryin' to get with a haniwa-tree hybrid, does she even have genitals? (I do not need an anwer to this!)
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She's supposedly an "antlered peanut".
The dinosaur is a girl too.
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The Demise of Western Civilization (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g64343VsAEI#)
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It occurs to me that I've never really given that webcomic a "fair" chance.
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It is pretty bad. I say this as someone who reads over one hundred webcomics. Not exactly a reader with high standards.
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So is 585 the number of people who donated? Because if so then each of those people pledged an average of $89.85.
It's not really "popular" so much as "well connected".
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That was good for more laughs than that comic ever has.
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From what I've heard, there have been people who have pledged over $1000.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Of all the things in the world, all the charities for starving children, the earthquake relief for Haiti and Japan, hell, relief for the tornado that just blitzed the Midwest, this is what people are throwing thousands of dollars at.
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I guess it was the least he could do.
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As someone who actually liked the comic through the first fifty or so artists, I can safely tell you that the current jokes will only make you laugh if a short skirt sounds like a legitimate excuse for date rape to you.
Also they were making animated shorts for years and those were never good.
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After seeing the video Buge posted, I went and found that webcomic, and the first strip I found was basically terrible in every aspect (http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20110529). I'm just going to assume the rest of the comic is of that level of quality.
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I REALLY don't get that.
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Oh, Japan... (http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20110526)
Wait, except that's not Japanese.
What the fuck is his fucking excuse?
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I clicked on that and Opera saved me from it by crashing. Thank god for Opera!
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Yay NoScript!
Unfortunately, that meant I could see the comic.
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I'm so, so sorry:
Ctrl+Alt+Del - S01E01 - Television Dominance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtsek8E0eNY#ws)
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Wow, 43 seconds before I had to close it lest I leave a permanent palm-sized dent in my forehead.
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You couldn't have posted this?
CAD The Annotated Series 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQFnK5FWZY#ws)
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It's like ponies! I can never watch it! Ever!
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I could only watch a few seconds, but it was very gratifying too see that the internets took it upon themselves to spam the video with so many comment tags that it literally becomes unwatchable.
Good job internets! Once in a while you get something right!
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oh, the internet didn't make it unwatchable
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I was going to say that, but then I realized "literally" was the key. If you'd been strapped to a chair and were having your brain slowly eaten away a person could conceivably have been forced to watch it.
Then again, the internet breeds idiocy and a tolerance for mediocrity. I know because I'm systematically going through all of the Hulu anime shows and reading the comments.
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Tim Buckley made all those annotations himself.
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Then again, the internet breeds idiocy and a tolerance for mediocrity. I know because I'm systematically going through all of the Hulu anime shows and reading the comments.
Man alive, why?
You might as well read YouTube comments.
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You know, quite a lot of the old Fleischer cartoons are up on YouTube, and man, some of them bear re-watching.
creepy, disturbing, yet awesome cartoon ("Bimbo's Initiation") (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4fXllxQa1Y#)
Swing You Sinners! (Fleischer Studios) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8isnhYMjg#)
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Here, have an NSFW pilot for Black Dynamite. (http://video.adultswim.com/black-dynamite/black-dynamite-the-pilot.html)
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Hooooooooooooooooly shit
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Nice animation, good writing, and my most favourite setting of all?
Yes. God yes.
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The new adventures of Beavis and Butthead...
Beavis and Butt-Head San Diego Comic-Con 2011 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DItnP2mcmc#)
... look a lot like the old adventures of Beavis and Butthead.
I'm actually a little disappointed. Wait no, I didn't finish watching it. They replaced the music videos with MTV programming.
It's brilliant.
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I could have sworn Thad put that somewhere around here already...
aha! (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=25.msg205077#msg205077)
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sorry i was too busy coughing from how hard I laughed when [spoiler]I heard Butthead talk about the origin of Herpes.[/spoiler]
Retroactively.
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So I was right about the benefits and drawbacks of putting it in the MST3K thread: it totally belongs there, but nobody's going to look for it there.
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Yeah, the regular episode is kind of blah, but the riffing is flat-out awesome.
You know what this means: Wait for the YouTube highlight reel.
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I laughed plenty at the main segment, but yes, the riffing was just fucking amazing from beginning to end.
That's been the vexing thing about Beavis and Butt-Head ever since they started putting them out on VHS: why the fuck would I want to watch Beavis and Butt-Head with the riffing cut out?
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This is apparently a pilot for a show pitched to Nickelodeon back in 2001... it would have been greenlighted if not for September 11th. See the part midway through with the two identical towers? Goddamn I hate PCness, it didn't even really focus upon the near crash in any way. And frankly, this looks like it would have been totally badass. Look at that awesome steampunk theme. LOOK AT IT.
Constant Payne *UNAIRED NICKELODEON CARTOON PILOT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7fR6gLQ2C8#)
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So what'd they greenlight instead? I'm assuming its direct competition was either Jimmy Neutron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Jimmy_Neutron:_Boy_Genius) or ChalkZone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChalkZone).
His wiki page mentions the show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Wright), but apparently he was stepping on toes by joining the WGA, among other things.
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That mouth block... uh, that was a new move.
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Beavis and Butt-Head: First half good, second half phoned in, best part was, as expected, the Jersey Shore mockery.
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Fridge Logic on Family Guy: I suppose you can handwave that Brian found a way to prevent the hijackers from getting on the other three planes.
But 1999 Brian claiming credit for writing Harry Potter would have been tricky, as the FIRST THREE BOOKS had already been published by then.
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Man, Allen Gregory sure is terrible.
I mean, the opening titles are pretty cool. And I generally think Jonah Hill's pretty all right. It's not even that I can't watch a show with unlikable protagonists -- if you look to your left you'll see a Charlie Kelly lyric -- but I just spend every minute of the show wanting someone to beat the smarmy little bastard relentlessly, and it never comes.
This is by the same people who did that Kid Notorious shit some years back, right? At any rate it's the same animation and the same smug, self-indulgent bullshit masquerading as comedy.
I guess my point is, where the fuck is Bob's Burgers?
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In a topical coincidence, (see the 2012 election thread) someone sent me this today:
an interesting perspective (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/11/25/ask-chris-81-scooby-doo-and-secular-humanism) on scooby-doo.
The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it's up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn't through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.
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Yeah, that was the premise of my uncle's piece, The End of Reason, which he painted as a critique of the Scooby-Doo movie.
EDIT: It's the last entry on his My Life in Comics (http://whitelead.com/jrh/lic/) page.
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Yeah, that was the premise of my uncle's piece, The End of Reason (http://whitelead.com/jrh/lic/scooby_800.jpg), which he painted as a critique of the Scooby-Doo movie.
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Fixed (I think); thanks.
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(EDIT: Splitmerged from a conversation about an upcoming South Park game (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=31.msg213008#msg213008).)
I am told South Park still has its moments.
Haven't actually watched it in about 5 years.
Am bemused that a show that took potshots at Atlas Shrugged as the worst piece of trash ever written then went on to become pretty much week after week of Atlas Shrugged with fart jokes.
I think the problem is that at some point, since Cartman was the only principal character with a shred of personality, both the audience and the creators started to think he should be the personal identification character.
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They act like cartman is the worst guy, but in one episode, he tries to get family guy cancelled, so he's obviously the most noble character on the show.
I've recently watched like, seasons 1-12 of south park, and i've really enjoyed it! I haven't seen any of the newer stuff, though.
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South Park certainly still has very good episodes, and besides that I don't Trey Parker has ever worked on a project that hasn't made me laugh out loud a few times.
but I guess hatters just gotta' hate
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They act like cartman is the worst guy, but in one episode, he tries to get family guy cancelled, so he's obviously the most noble character on the show.
Right, that's about the point I quit watching.
What, you mean that twenty-two minutes isn't enough time to point out that Family Guy is based entirely around random cutaway gags? Better make it a two-parter!
There was a Family Guy a couple weeks ago that did a much better job of mocking Family Guy. They traveled to the future and the cutaway gags had gotten so lazy that they were just Peter saying "Matthew McConaughey is terrible." It was one joke in an incredibly self-referential-even-by-Family-Guy's-standards episode of Family Guy, but it worked out quite nicely, and indeed that was the best episode Family Guy's had in ages.
Part of it is probably the simple issue of glass houses. It's generally more satisfying to see someone mock their own work than somebody else's. It's notable that one of the funniest bits in that two-parter was how people kept telling Cartman he'd gotten too political and wasn't funny anymore. It was a far-too-brief acknowledgement that yes, our shit stinks too.
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Hatters gotta hat
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The stuff they've been doing with Kenny for the past couple of seasons has actually been legitimately interesting, albeit attached to yet another three part episode at one point, and the mid-season finale this time around was a hair's breadth away from becoming incredibly ballsy even if they dropped most of the ball on it in the back half.
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Hatters gotta hat
FREE HAT
FREE HAT
FREE HAT
The stuff they've been doing with Kenny for the past couple of seasons has actually been legitimately interesting, albeit attached to yet another three part episode at one point, and the mid-season finale this time around was a hair's breadth away from becoming incredibly ballsy even if they dropped most of the ball on it in the back half.
Yeah, they seem to have trouble pulling the damn trigger. I'm sure that's mostly the network, seeing as in the recent past Parker and Stone have gotten them actual death threats, but I'm not gonna lie, those guys strike me as far less ballsy than they act, too.
Anyhow, nice to hear it's still got some good shit in there. But if I'm going to pick the corn out of the shit of a cartoon that used to be mostly corn, well, I've already got Simpsons and Family Guy for that.
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Yeah, in most minor spoiler way possible for this season, [spoiler]the mid-season finale and return basically set up a drastic change to the status quo of the show and then killed it at the last minute and never mentioned it again for the rest of the season. It was disappointing mostly because the unexpectedness and the way Matt and Trey have been on record saying that their hearts and creativity have been on Broadway made it seem like they might actually try to make some changes in order to reinvigorate themselves. Alas.[/spoiler]
Of the last three seasons, I'd probably recommend (in order of airing) The Ring and The Coon from season 13, Medicinal Fried Chicken (if only for the goddamn music making me laugh like a lunatic at certain bits) the two-parter (200 and 201) and the three-parter (Coon 2 etc) from season 14, and You're Getting Old, Ass Burgers, and Broadway Bro-down from season 15 if anyone was going to cherry pick. Even the weakest episodes have generally had something amusing about them, though I honestly couldn't tell you why I've actually kept up with South Park after dropping both Simpsons and Family Guy, since they all seem to have about the same hit or miss ratio these days.
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South Park chat.
[spoiler]They just abandoned the Stan sees everything as Shit episode? Yeah, no more real confirmation needed that Parker and Stone are secret cowards.[/spoiler]
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I saw The Coon. Good cheap laughs. Wasn't sure when Mr. Garrison became a dude again.
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There was an episode about that where she/he paid some scientists to grow a penis on a mouse's back.
There was a moving duet between the mouse and the penis against a moonlit night.
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I thought he let the dick mouse go free into the night.
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He let it go, yeah, but it came back. He was truly meant to be... a sort of... man. Ish.
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Man, Allen Gregory sure is terrible.
I mean, the opening titles are pretty cool. And I generally think Jonah Hill's pretty all right. It's not even that I can't watch a show with unlikable protagonists -- if you look to your left you'll see a Charlie Kelly lyric -- but I just spend every minute of the show wanting someone to beat the smarmy little bastard relentlessly, and it never comes.
This is by the same people who did that Kid Notorious shit some years back, right? At any rate it's the same animation and the same smug, self-indulgent bullshit masquerading as comedy.
I guess my point is, where the fuck is Bob's Burgers?
So I guess Allen Gregory got canceled.
Well, good.
Now where the fuck is Bob's Burgers?
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Welp, Napoleon Dynamite: The Animated Series is about as good as you'd expect.
Which is still better than tonight's Simpsons, which, in a show of solidarity, was also written entirely around material from 2004.
I can't help questioning the wisdom of promoting all your mediocre network cartoons with your much better basic-cable cartoon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_%28TV_series%29).
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Thad why in god's name do you continue to watch Fox's animated lineup, week after week? It is time to come to terms with the fact that no new animated project they release will either (be good)/(last past one season).
I mean I love dumb humor as much as the next Joe, but Family Guy's long since made it clear that they hold both their network and audience in the highest contempt. It's not a funny enough farce these days to justify the time.
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American Dad is consistently funny, Simpsons still manages to put out the occasional Book Job-quality episode, Bob's Burgers is really quite good and does in fact have a second season coming, and hell, even The Cleveland Show managed to put out a decent episode for Christmas.
Would it help you to understand if I explained that most of this was background noise while I was playing Final Fantasy Tactics?
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In the new Looney Tunes show, Granny was an Allied spy in WWII who, with the help of Tweety Bird, stopped the nazis from stealing the Eiffel Tower with a zeppelin.
I fully approve of this.
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Was she hot?
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(http://i.imgur.com/t5d64.png)
Yes.
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I like how she goes from that this by the 60's
(http://wiseacre-gardens.com/toons/granny2.gif)
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Some people don't weather that hump from 40's to 50's gracefully.
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Apparently massive facial reconstruction factored into her spy career at some point.
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Still June Foray, right?
Apparently massive facial reconstruction factored into her spy career at some point.
Yeah, someone turned her from a Disney character into a Warner one.
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Thad why in god's name do you continue to watch Fox's animated lineup, week after week?
Tonight's a good enough reason. After a rocky first act Simpsons really hit it out of the park; it's interesting that the best episodes of the season are movie pastiches, and supports my theory that Simpsons is doing a lot better homaging different things than Family Guy is trying to homage fewer things. (Also whoever cuts the commercials had the good grace not to advertise [spoiler]Glenn Close's guest appearance even though they could have promoted the hell out of the fact that she just got an Oscar nom[/spoiler] but that would have been a pretty big spoiler.)
And Bob's Burgers has been worth the wait. Heh heh. Duderuses.
Pity Fox cares so little about it that they started the season in March. And referred to it as "Bob's Burger" in one of the commercials.
Seriously, this thing is going to get canceled well before The Cleveland Show and I'm going to be sad.
EDIT: Also American Dad is pretty good but it's pretty fucking jarring that it revolves around Roger being deployed to Iraq. Most distracting timing since that Simpsons episode whose climax revolved around Simon Cowell refusing to quit American Idol and which aired the same week as his final episode.
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Welp, so far I'm quite enjoying Ultimate Spider-Man.
No, it's not Spectacular, but, well, spilt milk. The premise is goofy as hell, but that's what I love about it.
Seriously, [spoiler]Principal[/spoiler] Phil Coulson. Swish that one around in your head a bit. And yes, he's voiced by the same guy who plays him in the movies. Also: JK Simmons is Jolly Jonah.
It's Dini at his very silliest. Which is a good thing. (Also his wife plays Aunt May.)
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And oh man Avengers was awesome too.
And now I want a Fantastic Four series SO BAD.
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Haven't there been, like, three of them?
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a good fantastic four
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Haven't there been, like, three of them?
At least four. The original '60's series, the '70's one with HERBIE the Robot, the '90's one with the theme song, and the one from a few years ago.
a good fantastic four
Yes, this. The original is pretty great, and I hear the others have their moments (I watched the first few of the one a few years ago and then it just kinda Went Away; it had potential), but THIS was awesome. I want to see this team doing a Fantastic Four cartoon.
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At least four. The original '60's series, the '70's one with HERBIE the Robot, the '90's one with the theme song, and the one from a few years ago.
Ah, okay. I remember the HERBIE cartoon, the cartoon with Ghost Rider Penance Staring Galactus, and the cartoon with Squirrel Girl's tryout.
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Yeah, here we go: 1967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four_%281967_TV_series%29), 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four_%281978_TV_series%29), 1994 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four_%281994_TV_series%29), 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Four:_World%27s_Greatest_Heroes).
We are, presumably, not counting Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_and_Barney_Meet_the_Thing). (Warning: Fred and Barney do not actually meet the Thing.)
EDIT: Good article at IGN (http://tv.ign.com/articles/797/797130p1.html), which in addition to F&BMTT mentions their guest appearances on the '90's Hulk and Spidey toons.
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Pretty sure that time-travel American Dad episode was fucking with the audience on purpose. That's more plausible than the idea that not one person in the writer's room said "Hey, wait a minute, if Hayley was conceived in 1996 that would make her 15." (Slightly more plausible that someone forgot the Elian Gonzalez thing wasn't until 2000 and nobody bothered to check Wikipedia, but still unlikely I think.)
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So the Avengers cartoon is implying the coming Civil War.
Somehow I think they'll do it a thousand times better than the comics did it.
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Also, Beta Ray Bill. (http://marvel.toonzone.net/news.php?action=fullnews&id=797)
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:victory:
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YES
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(http://i.imgur.com/tD0ns.jpg)
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
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Rumor has it that Jeph Loeb, the newly appointed head of Marvel Animation is cancelling the successful Avengers Earth Mightiest Heroes Tv series in favor of a new one (http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/marveltv/news/?a=58063)
wat
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I'd put more stock in that post if it (1) was literate and (2) had its facts straight on what happened with Spectacular.
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Axe Cop to become animated series...
on Fox. (http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/foxs-saturday-late-night-animated-block-greenlights-first-series/)
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Hey, every time Fox greenlights a new animated series that's not by Seth MacFarlane, it's good news.
...
...okay, except Allen Gregory.
Anyway. I also think it's great news that they're making shorts. I've been flogging the "Why does everything have to be 22 minutes?" horse for quite some time now, and it's nice that both CN and now Fox seem to be thinking along similar lines.
Axe Cop can and should be the next Adventure Time.
EDIT: Oh. Fox put a former Adult Swim exec (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2105137/) in charge of its animation block. Well that explains it.
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So hey apparently there's this cartoon on Disney XD called Motorcity.
It's rad as hell. The animation isn't just smooth, but detailed as all fuck out. The main character wields a chainsaw staff that magics itself out of a skull-shaped clutch handle.
What I'm saying is, you need to watch it. It's like a combination of the first few hours of Final Fantasy VII, Redline, and a Gorrilaz music video.
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Way More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Animaniacs (http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/126115)
via (http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/28ComQ0pGKs/history-of-the-animaniacs.html)
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...holy fuck, I don't care what anybody says about USM, it just had [spoiler] Doop [/spoiler] and that alone justifies its existence.
(Kinda hoping his creators get a check out of the deal. Which is possible, since he WAS created in the past 15 years and Marvel's generally pretty good about equity deals for current creators.)
(Speaking of which, I hope Priest gets a check for the Dora Milaje showing up on Avengers.)
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The debut episode of Tron Uprising, in its entirety:
Beck's Beginning - TRON: Uprising - Disney XD Official (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjbwVzJR8w4#ws)
That's official Disney XD, so it's (1) probably region-locked but (2) not likely to get yanked as a copyright violation.
It's...definitely Tron, in that the design is gorgeous and there's not a whole hell of a lot to the plot.
I'd say the cast is better than the movies, seeing as how the movies starred Jeff Bridges and who-the-hell-cares-else, whereas the show's got Elijah Wood, Lance Henriksen, and Paul Reubens, to name a few.
Anyhow, the writing didn't blow me away but the cast and the animation did. I'll be sticking around for this one.
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That's official Disney XD, so it's (1) probably region-locked
Welp, if it is, I saved a 720p MP4 of it and put it up here.
EDIT: Took it down. It's been around long enough that you can easily find alternative ways to see it online.
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...so did any of YOU guys ever expect that we would see Beta Ray Bill AND Frog Thor within the same hour?
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Upcoming Garfield TV special to be titled Long Lost Lyman (http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/31/another-frank-ferrante-item/).
God dammit, Evanier, you just got me interested in Garfield again.
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Profile of June Foray (http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/05/june_foray_nominated_for_emmy.html), who at the age of 94 has just gotten her first Emmy nomination -- not for lifetime achievement but for her work last year on The Garfield Show.
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http://io9.com/5916970/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-according-to-pixar (http://io9.com/5916970/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-according-to-pixar)
Very useful stuff if you're making a story.
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Foray wins. (http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/06/18/in-envelope/)
Not exactly surprising -- because (1) she is June Foray, (2) she is 94 years old, (3) she has somehow never been nominated prior to this, and (4) SHE IS JUNE FORAY -- but pleasing nonetheless.
EDIT: He's added lots more (http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/06/18/about-last-night/), and I think beautifully captures my own ambivalence about award shows (whole lotta bullshit but they make some people very happy, and once in a great while they honor someone who really, really deserves it, like say this woman who is quite possibly the greatest voice actor who has ever lived).
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Even greater than Mel Blanc?
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For a time, it was not uncommon for people to refer to her as "The female Mel Blanc." That prompted her friend (and frequent employer) Chuck Jones to correct folks...
"June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc was the male June Foray."
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Okay, fair enough.
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http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/21/see-racy-trailer-for-adult-swims-animated-adaptation-of-black-dynamite-exclusive-video/ (http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/06/21/see-racy-trailer-for-adult-swims-animated-adaptation-of-black-dynamite-exclusive-video/)
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Didn't this already happen with a totally different pilot?
Edit: nevermind I'm dumb and parts of the pilot are in the trailer. I thought this had already been a show for a year.
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http://www.adultswim.com/promos/valve/ (http://www.adultswim.com/promos/valve/)
is this what I think it is
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You'll have to define "this" and "what I think it is".
I see the words "Adult Swim" and "Valve" and can make certain assumptions, but the link's blocked by the work firewall.
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Coming Next Week
Adult Swim & Valve
are teaming up for something that you'll probably enjoy. To learn how their video game peanut butter will be getting in our network's chocolate, come back next week.
Also: you'll want to sign up for the newsletter. You've been warned.
And then a big link to subscribe to the aforementioned newsletter.
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You'll have to define "this" and "what I think it is".
A Team Fortress 2 cartoon.
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Given that TF2 updated with some weird ARG this week and there is a blog post by the pyro up on the official site, I'm not going to get my hopes up for anything more than Meet the Pyro debuting on Adult Swim.
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Meet the Pyro is the name of the 13 episode long cartoon.
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Mark Evanier spends way too much thought on the Oscar Mayer jingle (http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/06/28/todays-video-link-633/), ending up with this:
But as was too typical in cartoons of yesteryear, someone wanted to sell the message that the group is always right and that the one person who takes a different viewpoint is a troublemaker. This commercial may be selling frankfurters but it's also selling the idea that independent thinking is wrong.
Sentences I never expected I would say: Well, that totally explains the Buddy Bears.
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I know that damn jingle by heart because my dad used to sing it.
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But you guys remember the Buddy Bears, right?
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Upcoming Garfield TV special to be titled Long Lost Lyman (http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/31/another-frank-ferrante-item/).
God dammit, Evanier, you just got me interested in Garfield again.
Airing Friday. (http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/09/12/the-disappearing-dog-owner/)
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"Waterman has raised a development fund to acquire, option and develop well-recognized family properties and brands that adhere to specific elements that we deem suitable to create CGI/live action hybrid films with potential for licensing and merchandising," (http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-brave-little-toaster-to-get-cgi-remake-with-ta,84923/)
So Tucker Waterman, tell me: Do you ever feel worried when you look at the spot where your soul was? Even like, second-hand distress or something?
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Nothing like a homeward bound adventure with built-in GPS. Plus the ending gets a lot more sad when the phone learns it was replaced by the newest model.
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So Tucker Waterman, tell me: Do you ever feel worried when you look at the spot where your soul was? Even like, second-hand distress or something?
No, actually. In my experience, these kind of people view us the way we view them. They sneer down at people who don't do whatever they can to make money at any cost.
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Good AV club interview with the showrunners of American Dad. (http://www.avclub.com/articles/comedy-showrunners-week-american-dads-cocreators-o,85507/)
And I learned that Seth MacFarlane is not one of the showrunners and has not been since very early. Which could explain why it got so damn much better than any of his other shows.
It really is funny to look back at the first season and how many of the core concepts just got thrown out the window to the betterment of the show: Stan and Hayley bickering about politics and Roger never leaving the house, for starters.
Also apparently the show's got mostly-new writers at this point, so...new blood could be a good thing, or it could be like it's been for Simpsons.
(The interview also mentions there's a 20-episode backlog; I can't tell from context whether that's the "season 8" that's starting tomorrow and whether it's where the writers are 70% new, or whether we're 20 episodes away from the new team.)
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MB: The first thing we did was, we stayed away from flashbacks. That was like the No. 1 mandate: no flashbacks. I mean, if you have to do a flashback, it’s got to be a really good one, and we can’t do it more than once in an episode. That was the main thing.
MW: And actually to your credit, Mike, you thought in the beginning when we were beating this out with Seth [MacFarlane] that we should do less of that, and Seth and even I were like, “Oh, but that’s kind of the thing that is Seth,” and so forth. At the time, though, Family Guy was not coming back, so we thought maybe that’s okay. But the moment that Family Guy came back, we were like “No, we can’t do that.” So we just focused on stories and characters.
That pretty much sums it up, since I think that's entirely the worst part of family guy.
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I think the flashbacks are just a symptom of laziness from the writers.
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It's not even necessarily that. They just break the flow of the show I think. Like, Robot Chicken is sort of based around the family guy flashback formula, but the fact that they can just do any random skit at any moment makes it work.
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The flashbacks are just kind of a part of Family Guy, basically. They don't belong and, for the most part, don't show up in any other shows (Robot Chicken is sketch comedy already, not sketch comedy injected into a sitcom).
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Yeah, I suppose sketch comedy is its own thing.
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Thing is, though, Arrested Development relies pretty heavily on cutaway flashback gags and always makes them feel organic. The thing about Family Guy's cutaway jokes is that they're non sequiturs. Arrested Development uses flashbacks to support what's going on in the present; Family Guy uses them to distract from it.
Course, AD also violates the fuck out of one of the cardinal rules of TV by having constant narration and somehow manages to make THAT an integral part of the show's comedy and charm. On the whole I'd say it's a show that gives great examples of stuff that's not supposed to work but totally can in the right hands.
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I'm not saying I particularly like Family Guy's conceit, just that it is what it is. Family Guy would be vastly improved without them... but then it wouldn't be Family Guy. It'd be like removing that dumbass talking dog from Scooby Doo.
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There's such a thing as relying too heavily on a core concept, though.
We have Scrappy Doo.
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And Scooby Doo's inbred hillbilly cousin.
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Oh shit yeah, they grey one with the straw hat (what was his name?).
Like "talking dog" was not good enough, they they upped the stakes with "talking dog who also smokes a corncob pipe".
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There's a whole Doo family, and if I recall, they're mostly hillbillies.
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Don't step in the...
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Though to be fair I adored the ever-loving shit out of Scooby Doo when I was a kid and watched every bit of it that ever came on TV. Even the ridiculous made-for-TV movies where it was basically nothing but Shaggy and Scooby chasing the "ghost" of a confederate general around a derelict riverboat in a bayou for an hour.
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The original Scooby Doo was also kind of goofy, and one mostly ever watched it for the zany 70's kitsch factor. Although Mystery Incorporated has taken the concept and really run with it, keeping the formula mostly intact while also fleshing out the characters of the teens (in that they actually have character, now) and giving them overarching storylines. It's pretty good!
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Scooby Dum.
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Wired: It’s safe to say you’re out of it now. But let’s go back to the massively underrated Titan. What the hell happened?
Tartakovsky: Cartoon Network bought into the show for one reason, and when they got it, their mind changed on what they wanted the show to be. I sold it as an action show combined with a John Hughes comedy. Teenage issues and characters with amazing action, and that’s what they bought. But as we started making it, they were making Ben 10 and Generator Rex, and they wanted it to be that. And there was no way I was going to make that type of show. So they didn’t really push or support the show, we didn’t get a toy license, and that was it. It didn’t get numbers because they didn’t promote it the right way, and we didn’t get the audience that we really needed.
:I
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ASK AXE COP | HALLOWEEN | ADHD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkh6IZdPp98#ws)
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Scooby Doo was also great for stuff like the Harlem Globetrotters where they did stuff like Shaggy and Scooby trolling the trotters by using their own stunts against them.
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Yeah, I dig old Scooby-Doo (pre-Scrappy) just fine. Yes, it's formulaic as fuck, and yes, putting a laugh track on a goddamn cartoon ranks in the top ten worst ideas in the history of Scooby-Doo, but it's a fun show that found its niche and captured its zeitgeist -- which isn't as easy to do as it looks (as pointed out in the episode of the current series where Scooby teams up with all the also-ran Hanna-Barbera Four Kids and a Mascot Mystery-Solver Teams).
Plus if you want to look for any philosophical underpinnings, it's a pleasingly subversive bit of humanist propaganda -- there's no such thing as ghosts, the villains are always adults who lie to children, and the skeptic solves the mystery while her friends are unable to overcome their fear and think rationally. (Sims (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/11/25/ask-chris-81-scooby-doo-and-secular-humanism/) expounded on this at some length.)
And yeah, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that Mystery Inc improves on the original in nearly every way, but it's also the apotheosis of forty years' worth of nostalgia, navel-gazing, and cultural analysis. Plus a shitload of great examples of What Not to Do.
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Tron: Uprising is like an amalgamation of all my favorite cartoons from the 1990's.
Like Batman Beyond, it's the story of a familiar character, a shadow of his former self but still formidable, training a brash young successor.
Like Sonic the Hedgehog, it's the story of a small group of rebels waging an asymmetric war against a ubiquitous technocratic dictatorship.
And like Beast Wars, it uses the fact that its characters aren't actually human as an end run around standards and practices in order to be the most violent children's cartoon on television.
And, er, the next line is a spoiler for a near-end-of-last-season episode of Game of Thrones, so if you haven't watched that yet you should probably get on it. But seriously, Tron is pretty great.
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The Fleischer Superman cartoons are now on YouTube (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/11/20/fleischer-superman-cartoons-youtube-video/)
If you've (somehow) never seen these before, they're 1940s cartoon productions that pretty much defined the visual look of Superman in motion for years to come. Plus, they're classic stories of Superman fighting gorillas, electric death rays, giant magnets and asteroids. They're great stories, and I can remember watching them on a VHS my dad bought for me when I was a kid. Always a blast to watch, in case you've never seen them before.
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Well, they're public domain, so they've doubtless been on there in some form or another for as long as there's been YouTube. And presumably the Internet Archive before that.
But these are WB's officially-restored versions. They look pretty sweet!
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Axe Cop and its accompanying shows will debut July 27 (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/08/axe-cop-animated-series-release-date-full-cast/), and the whole thing really does sound an awful lot like a network TV version of Adult Swim.
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ASK AXE COP | PRESIDENT | ADHD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsCdD5AUgNA#ws)
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:attn:
(http://i.imgur.com/yEyWm6x.png)
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Adventure Time Roundup Commercial for Cartoon Network Japan (Dubbed in Japanese) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcJYN6erbYk#)
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... They should have gotten the guy who plays Franky/Silver Fox Foxy to play Ice King.
Likewise, they should have found a way to get Tom Kenny to play Franky.
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Vaguely sure people have seen this before in one form or another, but since the web is all Tumblr now here it is again: Animation Notes From King of the Hill (http://imgur.com/a/PiJLk)
(http://i.imgur.com/AKBCq.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/J4ahw.png)
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Pretty nice! What's that "DX" term they keep using supposed to mean, though?
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Ghost Dad (http://m.mtv.com/blogs/rapfix_post.rbml?id=2013/03/13/who-will-voice-notorious-big-house-of-wallace-animated-series/&weburl=http%3a%2f%2frapfix.mtv.com%2f2013%2f03%2f13%2fwho-will-voice-notorious-big-house-of-wallace-animated-series%2f&alt=http%3a%2f%2fm.mtv.com%2fblogs%2frapfix.rbml&cid=300) starring Biggie Smalls.
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(http://i.imgur.com/BHAb4jp.jpg)
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Bruce Timm to work on 75th anniversary Superman cartoon...
:glee:
...produced by Zack Snyder (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/superman-zack-snyder-short-new-559978)
:nyoro~n:
Still sounds like it'll be good.
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AXE COP WONDERCON TRAILER | ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oojl_D3qEw#ws)
AXE COP UPFRONTS TRAILER | ANIMATION DOMINATION HIGH-DEF (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgKpcEQR0o#ws)
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Comics Alliance has the full break down of who is in the cast (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/06/21/axe-cop-animated-series-fox-voice-cast-nick-offerman-patton-oswalt-megan-mullally-vincent-kartheiser/), and Holy Shit.
Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) as Axe Cop
Ken Marino (The State, Party Down) as Flute Cop
Patton Oswalt (The Comedians of Comedy) as Sockarang
Rob Huebel (Children's Hospital) as Gary Diamond
Peter Serafinowicz (The Peter Serafinowicz Show) as Dr. Doo Doo and other characters
Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs) as Baby Man
Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad) as Book Cop
Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) as Army Chihuaua
Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men) as Bat Warthog Man
Jared Harris as the King of England.
Tyler the Creator as Liborg.
Has America finally found something to replace Shakespeare in all high-school level English courses? I think so.
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The first episode of Natasha Allegri's cartoon, Bee and Puppycat:
Bee and PuppyCat Part 1 on Cartoon Hangover (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoKGhce5-08#ws)
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Johnny Ryan's PRISON PIT - Comic Con Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dShqMmTaZ3Y#ws)
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Wander Over Yonder Title Sequence via Cartoon Brew (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwN5HLiZ7_o#ws)
You know, I never really managed to get into Powerpuff Girls or Foster's, but this looks pretty good.
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Finally got around to watching the last episode of Tron: Uprising. Great damn show; disappointed to see it go but they left the story far enough along to lead back into the movies, which apparently are still getting made because somebody somewhere thinks it makes more sense to make a sequel to a movie that barely broke even domestically than to continue a cartoon spinoff that nobody was watching because it didn't have a consistent timeslot or any promotion.
At any rate, I enjoyed the way they ended it, and the show as a whole -- pretty damn bleak, really, but with that undercurrent of hope.
(Though I have to gripe about one inconsistency: just a few episodes ago, when Dyson confirmed to Clu that Tron was still alive, Clu killed the third guy in the room so that no one else would know. And then in the final episode, he's got a whole fucking squadron after Tron, addressing him by name and seeing him unmasked so that they know it's really, really him. Now, kudos to Clu for just killing that guy for no reason except to end an episode dramatically, but yeah this is not exactly consistent behavior.)
I think it's interesting that children's entertainment about small groups of dissidents waging asymmetric warfare against oppressive governments is becoming vogue again -- didn't see much of it in the past decade, for obvious reasons. Even Star Wars has been telling stories where the future Imperial Army are the good guys.
Though now that the next Star Wars series is set between episodes 3 and 4, Disney's going to have another rebels-fight-an-evil-empire cartoon running. And hopefully this one will be more successful than Tron was.
Though give that it's Weisman, I still only give it two seasons.
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Thing is if you've seen the movie and were paying attention during that episode you know that Frodo actually fucked up completely and just doesn't know it yet.
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Drawing a blank. Don't remember anything directly pertinent from the movie (except that Tron shows up for about a minute at the climax).
Anything to do with the transfer process itself? Certainly seemed like a trap within a trap, and the light show with Tron's data being extracted seemed like a bit of an unfired Chekov's gun.
And possibly a rare moment of Tron actually depicting computer behavior in a sane and realistic fashion.
I had a brief moment of "Wait, how is Tron okay if they pulled his magic blinky-light self out and didn't put it back in?" before realizing that no, they're actually depicting a filecopy accurately for once. Of COURSE if Tron's data wasn't overwritten then it was still there; there's no such thing as actually moving data, only copying it or overwriting it.
Or possibly the glowy-light code stuff they extracted was just the virus and we're back to cartoon logic. But I like my interpretation better.
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In the movie [spoiler]Rinzler is Tron, so at some point he must have been successfully, but not completely repurposed[/spoiler].
In the show [spoiler]Frodo is a little too late blowing Tron out of the Roboticizer and a some of repurposing code gets into him. Tron is unknowingly carrying the first bits of the Rinzler personality already[/spoiler].
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Wow -- I saw the movie but have no memory of that major plot point at all.
:problems:
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It's possible to miss because nobody ever looks at the camera and says it out loud like Hollywood has trained us to expect, but they certainly didn't make it subtle.
Also a few random searches point out that [spoiler]Rinzler could just as easily be one of the Renegades using Tron's identity, although the movie really does seem to be aiming for "the Tron that Kevin Flynn would know".[/spoiler]
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Also, [spoiler]when he goes all kamikaze on CLU a voice clip of Tron saying "I serve the users" plays. Also, Bruce Boxlightner voiced Rinzler, though heavily altered.[/spoiler]
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Archer -- Danger Zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7HkG6OSo3E#)
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Oh man, Regular Show's Halloween special ruled ruled ruled ruled.
Highlights:
- nearly everything about Rigby's segment, from the nutty way it began to the extremely nutty ending ([spoiler]"Rigby, you're getting all the promotions!"[/spoiler])
- the 80's slasher atmosphere of Muscle Man's segment
- "Dude your costume is like the Thomas's story of costumes" (actually I found Muscle Man and Starla's combined costume to be way scarier than any segment)
- Benson dressed up as the Man with No Name! (I think?)
- Finally I really dug the pilgrim times B-Bopper (though they never actually called him a B-Bopper)
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I just remembered a show that i used to watch all the time when I was a kid, so I figured i'd look it up again.
Twins of Destiny - opening 天命神童 片头曲 （英文版） (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBgmQWiLJc#)
It was a french cartoon that was only shown in france, the phillipines and australia, and it was about these two kids who had some kind of powers, and they were trying to travel across the world to escape assassins who were trying to get them, and to rescue their fathers from the queen of china or something.
Have any of you guys seen this? Was it ever available in america at all?