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I've been kind of ignoring Scooby Doo Mystery Inc for the last little bit, feeling like it's kind of just not doing it for me. I turned in today, to be REALLY entertained by it. That's the first time I've actually been entertained and engaged by it since 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo. Also, picking up the new Ben 10 series. It seems to have gone back to a combination of it's first series and charm even though Ben's older. Having him not being quite so invincible/calm and collected and having him and the omnitrix be at odds again REALLY helps out. Also, I seem to be randomly getting The Hub again, so I can finally check out The Aquabat's show! Hooray! As well as watching all the Timm DCU.
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It warms the cockles of my heart as a long time Aquabats fan to see them finally get the TV show they've been working on forever. They had to do Yo Gabba Gabba first to get what they wanted to do in the first place off the ground, but that just meant that we got twice as much awesome on TV. There's so many little touches that make me smile. The Floating Eye of Death episode owned.
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Shabadu posted:It warms the cockles of my heart as a long time Aquabats fan to see them finally get the TV show they've been working on forever. They had to do Yo Gabba Gabba first to get what they wanted to do in the first place off the ground, but that just meant that we got twice as much awesome on TV. There's so many little touches that make me smile. The Floating Eye of Death episode owned. This exactly. I always knew a show about the Aquabats would be great, and I'm so glad to see it isn't only great, its pretty popular! I am 100% behind them becoming "mainstream", not only because they deserve it but because that means its easier for me to get merch. Also I really hope next season they have more older enemies, like Powdered Milk Man and The Sandfleas.
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Aug 2, 2012 11:06
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Matt Chapman, Homestar Runner co-creator and voice of just about every character, is a writer and director for Aquabats. He has a role in one episode as a carnival barker wearing a Strong Bad mask and doing the voice.
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Aug 2, 2012 11:50
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Dr Christmas posted:Matt Chapman, Homestar Runner co-creator and voice of just about every character, is a writer and director for Aquabats. He has a role in one episode as a carnival barker wearing a Strong Bad mask and doing the voice. Hahaha, I knew he wrote for the show, but somehow I didn't put two and two together with the luchadore mask. I didn't think he sounded like Strong Bad but I'll have to pay more attention next time I see that episode.
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Aquabats! Super Show! is a lot of fun, it's one of the few things out there that can be wacky and low-budget and campy without feeling like it's trying too hard.Dr Christmas posted:Matt Chapman, Homestar Runner co-creator and voice of just about every character, is a writer and director for Aquabats. He has a role in one episode as a carnival barker wearing a Strong Bad mask and doing the voice. Also the Mega64 guys make a bunch of fake commercials for the show.
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Aug 2, 2012 20:57
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Oh, I'm so happy I got to see it. It's exactly what it needed to be, and exactly what I thought it would be. I couldn't be happier!
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Aug 2, 2012 21:00
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Aquabats! do Trogdor at a lot of the shows they do, so it's not surprising to see them working with Gentleman Chap.
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Vaerai Archon posted:Information about "Pern" and the incredibly depressing "Dinotopia" series. I'm surprised they went with live-action on a "Pern" TV series for kids. And as for the "Dinotopia" series -which I had heard of- yikes. Just, yikes. I can see why James Gurney hardly acknowledges that this was even a thing on his website.
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Aug 2, 2012 22:21
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Perhaps in an attempt to regain their crown from Disney, Nickelodeon has a large set of pilots in production.Nickelodeon posted:LIVE-ACTION
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quote:You Gotta See This (Nickelodeon series) – Nickelodeon combines the best of the web, behind-the-scenes footage, celebrity interviews, pranks and bloopers in its new series You Gotta See This, premiering this fall. Hosted by Chris O’Neal and Noah Crawford (stars of How to Rock), the half-hour series rolls all the must-see clips of the week into one hilarious package. Nickelodeon is currently in production on this 20-episode series in Los Angeles. "So that Tosh.0 is getting killer ratings! How about we do the exact same thing only less offensive?" "GOLD. Start filming Monday." Also, dang, not one but two iCarly spinoffs? I knew the show was popular but daaaamn.
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Aug 3, 2012 17:11
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Did they cancel iCarly or are they just trying to milk it for all it's worth?
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IRQ posted:Did they cancel iCarly or are they just trying to milk it for all it's worth? iCarly is ending its run this season. Victorious is awaiting an order to renew, and it's unsure of what will happen with Ariana Grande's character if they do produce another season. I'm stoked as hell for Sam & Cat, btw. Show's gonna own bones. Gibby, however, I am not as optimistic.
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Ah, so it's time for Miranda Cosgrove to start her manufactured pop star phase then?
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IRQ posted:Ah, so it's time for Miranda Cosgrove to start her manufactured pop star phase then? No, she's been doing that. I think we're up to the "serious roles" attempted credibility development phase.
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quote:Bad Seeds (Nickelodeon pilot) – From SpongeBob SquarePants alumnus and Chowder creator Carl Greenblatt, Bad Seeds is about a good bird running with the bad crowd… and having a great time! Do we know anything else about this?
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Was there someone that was asking for a Monsters vs. Aliens TV show? I kinda liked the movie, but it was pretty forgettable and it came out three years ago. I guess Nickelodeon just has some kind of deal with Dreamworks to produce lousy, boring TV shows out of their CG movies.TwoPair posted:"So that Tosh.0 is getting killer ratings! How about we do the exact same thing only less offensive?" Funny thing is that this isn't even the first Tosh.0 knockoff on a Viacom channel - MTV has a show called Ridiculousness, which fills its requirement of "show with a name that pisses you off immediately upon seeing it". raditts fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Aug 4, 2012 |
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raditts posted:Funny thing is that this isn't even the first Tosh.0 knockoff on a Viacom channel - MTV has a show called Ridiculousness, which fills its requirement of "show with a name that pisses you off immediately upon seeing it". Once again, nothing Rob Dyrdek has done since Rob & Big has been even the slightest bit palatable or entertaining 
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One episode of Dan vs. had a joke referencing Necrophilia. There was a recent episode that made a joke about child labor.
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The Devil Tesla posted:Do we know anything else about this?
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PicklePants posted:Also, picking up the new Ben 10 series. It seems to have gone back to a combination of it's first series and charm even though Ben's older. Having him not being quite so invincible/calm and collected and having him and the omnitrix be at odds again REALLY helps out. The new animation style doesn't help. It's way too "cartoony" for my tastes. Plus the initial concept of Gwen and 90's grunge band member Kevin just moving away, to be immediately replaced with a dorky, tech-based alien just seems stupid. This series seems to completely forget the last one. And an alien made of lego blocks... enough said.
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Liar posted:The new animation style doesn't help. It's way too "cartoony" for my tastes. Plus the initial concept of Gwen and 90's grunge band member Kevin just moving away, to be immediately replaced with a dorky, tech-based alien just seems stupid. This series seems to completely forget the last one. And an alien made of lego blocks... enough said. To be honest, I like the cartoony feel of it more than I did the feel of the older Ben episodes. It was always just so bland, and darker and boring visually. I'd rather have something a bit brighter, with a bit more action, and doing that allows the aliens to have more fun as well. Like the Lego alien. I agree, I'm not a big fan of the replacement, but I've never been a big fan of Kevin or Gwen since the other series. Gwen became way too reserved, and everyone just dropped off emotionally. I've never known any teenagers that calm or rational as Ben and Gwen were presented to be. Of course, I had the same problem with the first season of Young Justice. Where everyone was just kind of.. there, and going through the motions of being heroes. Never really any concern for their well being or drama, where kid Ben would muck up or the Omnitrix would time out, or give him the wrong alien.
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Liar posted:And an alien made of lego blocks... enough said. I appreciate that they were willing to just cut out the middleman and make an alien that was already a toy.
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See, I enjoyed the original Ben 10 because he was literally a 10 year old. He acted like a 10 year old with powers would act. His rivalry with Kevin was believable to a degree, and he got along with his cousin about as well as could be expected for his age. That and the show just knew how to have fun. The sequel series all sucked the fun out of it. Ben became this unlikeable rear end in a top hat and Kevin just couldn't figure out a personality to stick to.
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thelaughingman posted:One episode of Dan vs. had a joke referencing Necrophilia. There was a recent episode that made a joke about child labor. Reiterating my refusal that this show is anything but a recurring hallucination.
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So finally caught the two episode premiere of Dragons: Riders of Berk. It was actually pretty decent. Not really action packed or anything, but a good feeling of continuity and consequences. A few too many gags than I'd like, and Astrid seems to have been relegated down to "simple love interest" a bit more than I'd like, but over all it was enjoyable.
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That's a pretty terrible name for a show though.
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muscles like this? posted:That's a pretty terrible name for a show though. To be precise, it's Dreamworks' Dragons: Riders of Berk. Presumably because Dreamworks couldn't think of a better way to franchise How to Train Your Dragon other than naming it Dreamworks' Dragons. Not that that's any less terrible a name or anything, of course.
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Did they lose the rights to just call it "How to Train Your Dragon," because why in the world wouldn't you?
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IRQ posted:Did they lose the rights to just call it "How to Train Your Dragon," because why in the world wouldn't you? I have no idea. They started doing it with the movie trailers right before the movie came out too. I guess How To Train Your Dragon was just too long for ad space? It's a lot easier/shorter to just say "Dreamworks: Dragons."
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muscles like this? posted:That's a pretty terrible name for a show though. Right. Clearly, whomever came up with that title wasn't English, and therefore didn't realize that they'd just created the most un-hardcore title possible for a show about Vikings riding dragons.
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This episode of Mystery Inc., "Night Terrors", is loving BATSHIT INSANE.
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DivisionPost posted:This episode of Mystery Inc., "Night Terrors", is loving BATSHIT INSANE.  IRQ posted:Did they lose the rights to just call it "How to Train Your Dragon," because why in the world wouldn't you? The CGI looks pretty nice. Kung Fu Panda's models were simplified a bit for TV (not that they look bad), but this looks pretty close to the movie. Not sure I understand the complaint about Astrid, since she played second fiddle for most of the movie, too.
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FronzelNeekburm posted:The opening credits note that it is "Based upon the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON book series by CRESSIDA COWELL," so I'm guessing there's some strange rights issue at work. It wouldn't make any sense to call it "How to Train Your Dragon," the dragon is already trained.
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Judging from the first episode, not well enough! 
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DivisionPost posted:This episode of Mystery Inc., "Night Terrors", is loving BATSHIT INSANE. I just watched the one after that, and I was surprised that not only were Tom and Tub from Hanna Barbara's Moby Dick involved in the story, but they were also retconned into being the kids of the guys from Sealab 2020. The plot involved them exploring _a_ Sealab (probably not the one the show takes place in) which had been taken over by Nazi robots. I'm kind of excited to see the upcoming crossovers with Dynomutt and Johnny Quest.
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Argue posted:I just watched the one after that, and I was surprised that not only were Tom and Tub from Hanna Barbara's Moby Dick involved in the story, but they were also retconned into being the kids of the guys from Sealab 2020. The plot involved them exploring _a_ Sealab (probably not the one the show takes place in) which had been taken over by Nazi robots. I'm kind of excited to see the upcoming crossovers with Dynomutt and Johnny Quest. Yeah, I saw that one yesterday too. I would never believe that there was a serial Scooby-Doo series that's funny and enjoyable to watch if I hadn't seen it myself. I have to admit I was a little disappointed that the pictures of the previous "4 humans and an animal" groups a couple episodes ago didn't include the Jabberjaw gang, though.
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Argue posted:I just watched the one after that, and I was surprised that not only were Tom and Tub from Hanna Barbara's Moby Dick involved in the story, but they were also retconned into being the kids of the guys from Sealab 2020. The plot involved them exploring _a_ Sealab (probably not the one the show takes place in) which had been taken over by Nazi robots. I'm kind of excited to see the upcoming crossovers with Dynomutt and Johnny Quest. Are you sure they were Nazi robots? Because Sealab has other robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFHUbwtieg
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raditts posted:I have to admit I was a little disappointed that the pictures of the previous "4 humans and an animal" groups a couple episodes ago didn't include the Jabberjaw gang, though. There was an ep where Scooby teamed up with all the old mystery teams that had actual Hanna Barbara shows; it included Jabberjaw. Annoyingly, it turned out to be a dream, but I'll pretend that it's canon. I like the idea that the Funky Phantom was just an actor/special effects artist loving around with some dumb kids
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