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Author Topic: Horrible Round Eye Animation  (Read 60432 times)

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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #80 on: September 10, 2008, 08:22:10 AM »

American Dad is actually a much better show than Family Guy.
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #81 on: September 10, 2008, 09:19:25 AM »

Yeah, Family Guy after Season 2 is fucking cancer of the eyes. American Dad seems to benefit, somehow.
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #82 on: September 10, 2008, 10:54:57 AM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #83 on: September 10, 2008, 03:07:16 PM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #84 on: September 10, 2008, 04:23:49 PM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #85 on: September 10, 2008, 04:49:39 PM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #86 on: September 10, 2008, 05:04:02 PM »

Me too.  :slow:
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #87 on: September 10, 2008, 05:15:37 PM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #88 on: September 10, 2008, 07:37:57 PM »

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"
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #89 on: September 10, 2008, 07:45:17 PM »

MOMMY AND DADDY MADE YOU

DO YOU KNOW HOW
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #90 on: September 10, 2008, 08:00:51 PM »

My parents carved me out of a larger child.
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #91 on: September 10, 2008, 08:07:11 PM »

My parents carved me out of a larger child.

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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #92 on: September 10, 2008, 08:25:03 PM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #93 on: September 10, 2008, 08:29:57 PM »

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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #94 on: September 18, 2008, 04:52:17 PM »

So, Spaceballs: The Animated Series is, in fact, airing this Saturday... and it looks even worse than I could have imagined.
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #95 on: September 18, 2008, 05:08:30 PM »

what else would you expect from g4
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #96 on: September 18, 2008, 05:56:46 PM »

... So it's an even more grotesque Tripping the Rift?
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #97 on: September 18, 2008, 06:06:16 PM »

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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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #98 on: September 18, 2008, 08:04:25 PM »

I love Mel Brooks.

This?...

 :MENDOZAAAAA: :facepalm: :sadpanda:
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Re: Horrible Round Eye Animation
« Reply #99 on: September 20, 2008, 06:34:27 PM »

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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