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Just finished first half and it's not terrible. Feels like we're starting on episode 2 though. Edit: Oh hey a thread for this: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3577512 readingatwork fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Scooby Doo Camp Scare ended with him driving the mystery machine through a building trying to kill the monster and tackling a fat kid. Neat.
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I forgot to talk about this when it happened because it's the Teen Nick '90s block and we've forgotten about it in the same way Nickelodeon has, but last week they showed the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers during their usual time slot. I almost forgot that they now have the rights to the Power Rangers franchise. Also Deadspin's Drew Magary has taken his long dormant "Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks" column out of retirement to review Jessie on the Disney Channel. Worth a read. I didn't know that they had an adopted kid from India take a komodo dragon to their ultra-rich New York apartment, which makes no sense because they're native to Indonesia.
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Nov 13, 2013 23:56
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Since you mentioned the 90s, I just noticed channel surfing yesterday that Disney XD shows Digimon reruns. They are not in block form and it's just one episode a day. I don't know how long they've been doing this, but I know it makes me mad, because now I want to watch loving Digimon of all things and I know, deep down, that I'm going to end up watching episodes on Youtube in marathon sessions because I have no self-control (or taste, apparently).
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Netflix has the first two seasons of Digimon Adventure both subbed and dubbed. Hulu has just the first season. Or maybe it's the other way around, but I think I'm right. I just finished a binge of seasons 1 and 2, and it wasn't bad. It's interesting to watch it because it came out at a time when anime was so cut for young audiences that things could really change. A character would "die", but the music and character's reactions would seem like they did. Also, watch the occasional episode of the Japanese subbed version after you watch the episode in English. It's cool to see the differences sometimes. And I will admit, there was the occasional line that got a laugh out of me. That show tackled some issues. It had adoption, divorce, sibling death. Digimon died, yo. Though, really they would be reborn later.
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Nov 14, 2013 08:08
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El Tortuga posted:Netflix has the first two seasons of Digimon Adventure both subbed and dubbed. Hulu has just the first season. Or maybe it's the other way around, but I think I'm right. Like this one, which is probably the most I have ever watched of that show. I remember at the time that it managed to be even more unwatchable than Pokemon and Monster Rancher. Of course I was like 18 when all those shows started polluting the airwaves, I might have remembered them more fondly if I was a kid at the time.
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El Tortuga posted:Netflix has the first two seasons of Digimon Adventure both subbed and dubbed. Hulu has just the first season. Or maybe it's the other way around, but I think I'm right. Season 3 is still my all time favorite. Chiaki J Konaka did an amazing job balancing between seriousness and light hearted kids show. Also, it's one of the few seasons where death was permanent. It should be up on Hulu!
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El Tortuga posted:It's interesting to watch it because it came out at a time when anime was so cut for young audiences that things could really change. A character would "die", but the music and character's reactions would seem like they did. Also, watch the occasional episode of the Japanese subbed version after you watch the episode in English. It's cool to see the differences sometimes. If you really want to experience cognitive dissonance, hunt down the episode where the littlest boy gets kidnapped by Pinocchio. The English version is a silly-hearted, incomprehensible mess. The Japanese version has Pinocchio pull a .44 Magnum out of a toy box and he spends the episode killing his henchmen with it, and only spares the kid because the kid talks him down while he reloads.
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Nov 19, 2013 16:44
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Pizza Steve has to be the best character on Uncle Grandpa. Edit: He knows the president. thelaughingman fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Nov 20, 2013 |
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Nov 20, 2013 05:38
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Phineas and Ferb did a steampunk episode. Wrap it up, folks.
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Y-Hat posted:Phineas and Ferb did a steampunk episode. Wrap it up, folks. It took them this long? I haven't watched that show in a while, but they've got a bunch of episodes now, and in every single one they're making fantastic inventions, right? Seems like it just would've already happened by now...
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I never thought Phineas and Ferb would have a cameo from Professor Elemental of all people.
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thelaughingman posted:Pizza Steve has to be the best character on Uncle Grandpa. Pizza Steve is the best character on any cartoon.
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Hahaha Wander Over Yonder did an episode where a troll is defeated by ignoring him. Wander straight up says "Don't feed the trolls" Wander Over Yonder is good stuff y'all edit: Also Lord Hater is hilarious Macaluso fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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Nov 28, 2013 05:29
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Yesterday's episode of Gumball was so god damned weird. Overall this season has been really good. There have been a few episodes where they seem to be trying to hard but overall this seaosn has jus been filled with crazy strange episodes.
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I've been thoroughly enjoying Wander Over Yonder. Huell Howser vs. Intergalactic Fascism would be an irresistible concept for a kids' show even without the Alien pastiches and the bad guy with a taste for mid-'70s pinball-machine style architecture in his spacehip.
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TwoPair posted:It took them this long? I haven't watched that show in a while, but they've got a bunch of episodes now, and in every single one they're making fantastic inventions, right? Seems like it just would've already happened by now...
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Macaluso posted:Hahaha Wander Over Yonder did an episode where a troll is defeated by ignoring him. Wander straight up says "Don't feed the trolls" My 2-year-old now says "Don't feed the troll!" thanks to Wander. I absolutely adore that show and wish it got more love here on the forums. Lord Hater number one superstar!
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Oh, the latest "Wander Over Yonder" said exactly what I wanted to say to all the "We've taught you an important cosmic lesson" crap you see all the time. Nothing like driving the nicest guy in the universe crazy just for shits and giggles. Now you've pissed off the znorlax. Have fun!
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I'm trying to remember this really bad CGI cartoon that I think aired in the early 2000s. It was about these obnoxious "surfer dude" aliens who lived on Earth with these two kids or something? Anybody know? Google has failed me.
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Farecoal posted:I'm trying to remember this really bad CGI cartoon that I think aired in the early 2000s. It was about these obnoxious "surfer dude" aliens who lived on Earth with these two kids or something? Anybody know? Google has failed me. I believe you're thinking of (the rather aptly named) Butt-Ugly Martians
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That Rayman Raving Rabbids show is pretty funny.Farecoal posted:I'm trying to remember this really bad CGI cartoon that I think aired in the early 2000s. It was about these obnoxious "surfer dude" aliens who lived on Earth with these two kids or something? Anybody know? Google has failed me. Butt Ugly Martians? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt-Ugly_Martians
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Macaluso posted:I believe you're thinking of (the rather aptly named) Butt-Ugly Martians I don't know if I should thank you or hate you forever (thanks) Oh god   Farecoal fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Dec 9, 2013 |
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At least Jimmy Neutron came around and actually looked pretty good for a CG tv show and quickly made everyone forget about Butt-Ugly Martians. That show wasn't amazing or anything but compared to all the other CG shows that had been on TV before I think it looked great.
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That's because it was created with a film budget and then they just reused the assets
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Even then, those character designs were absolutely hideous regardless of budget or medium.
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Macaluso posted:At least Jimmy Neutron came around and actually looked pretty good for a CG tv show and quickly made everyone forget about Butt-Ugly Martians. That show wasn't amazing or anything but compared to all the other CG shows that had been on TV before I think it looked great.  Plus it had Tim Curry as an evil mad scientist!
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BUM (Christ) used to annoy the poo poo out of me as a kid. I only watched it because it came on a half an hour before Zim. That was a very painful half hour. They were just a lovely version of the Ninja Turtles. And that theme song was just the loving worst.
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CelticPredator posted:And that theme song was just the loving worst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1z9I9WN_A
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The early 00s was a graveyard when it came to animation. It was all anime and poo poo like Butt Ugly Martians and Super Super Sumos and Mucha Lucha. Speaking of, I've been re-watching Justice League and it holds up a lot better than I remembered. I don't read comics so I'm not familiar with the characters and plots it used, but it went full batshit like Solomon Grundy punching his way through Cthulhu's brain even before the Unlimited days. My only real complaint is that I don't understand why they did a half-hour format when almost every episode was a two-parter. Unlimited was just a whole other level entirely, though. Considering that it was before serialized storytelling was commonplace on television, let alone in cartoons, the way that the entire season had self-contained episodes that built up to Lex confronting the Justice League was incredible. Even better, Amanda Waller's complaints were completely justified and they did a good job addressing that without making her into an actual villain. I've also been watching through Teen Titans and I kind of want to give Bruce Timm a high-five for managing to adapt to the peak of the anime craze without being too insufferable. The episode in season 4 where Raven finds out that she's doomed to be the end of the world was rapey as poo poo though, the last 5 minutes are just one giant  when Slade beats her into submission and tears her clothes off.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The early 00s was a graveyard when it came to animation. It was all anime and poo poo like Butt Ugly Martians and Super Super Sumos and Mucha Lucha. I don't think there's ever been a cartoon with the hour-long format.
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Farecoal posted:I don't think there's ever been a cartoon with the hour-long format.
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Farecoal posted:I don't think there's ever been a cartoon with the hour-long format.
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CelticPredator posted:BUM (Christ) used to annoy the poo poo out of me as a kid. I only watched it because it came on a half an hour before Zim. That was a very painful half hour. Back then they were airing a lot of no-effort cartoons. They all aired in the afternoon on weekends and it felt like they were kind of dumped there. Like, I remembered when they started airing Spongebob, the Fairly Oddparents and so on, because they promoted those. These? They just...appeared. And then they'd disappear, thankfully. Because they were awful.
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Mr. Fowl posted:These? They just...appeared. And then they'd disappear, thankfully. Because they were awful. And then sometimes they came back!  I've always been curious about the super-poo poo-tier anime that Cartoon Network would air at 6am just to see what stuck. Bedamon and Bakugan and Beyblade and there were more that didn't succeed and it was just really loving weird to me. Obviously trying to catch the magic of Pokemon but without promoting it as far as I could tell. Just put these things on in the wee hours of the morning and uhhh it happened?
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Sockser posted:I've always been curious about the super-poo poo-tier anime that Cartoon Network would air at 6am just to see what stuck. Bedamon and Bakugan and Beyblade and there were more that didn't succeed and it was just really loving weird to me. Obviously trying to catch the magic of Pokemon but without promoting it as far as I could tell. Just put these things on in the wee hours of the morning and uhhh it happened? For a while my wife had work super-early and when I got back from taking her I would always check out those same lovely animes. None of them made any sense and the only real differences was whatever the show's signature collectable was. The one I remember most was Bakugan and, even after the surprising amount of episodes I saw, that I had no loving clue how that game was supposed to work.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Speaking of, I've been re-watching Justice League and it holds up a lot better than I remembered. I don't read comics so I'm not familiar with the characters and plots it used, but it went full batshit like Solomon Grundy punching his way through Cthulhu's brain even before the Unlimited days. My only real complaint is that I don't understand why they did a half-hour format when almost every episode was a two-parter. JL did the hour-long thing primarily because it wanted to be more cinematic, I believe. They probably would have shown the shows in full hours but the network wouldn't like it, because execs don't like one extra-long show breaking the format of half-hour shows in a night (Also makes it harder to schedule reruns). But it does give the producers more time to make a backlog of episodes. Additionally, the longer episodes are probably due in part to the fact that they were serving to lay the last bit of groundwork for Unlimited. JLU is the ultimate synthesis of the DCAU, bringing back characters from as far back as Clock King from B:TAS and plotlines like Superman being brainwashed by Darkseid at the end of S:TAS, and JL leaves the last little bits like Hawkgirl's betrayal and the Justice Lords story to serve the purposes of the Cadmus storyarc. JLU probably wouldn't have been able to do all the done-in-one serialized stories they did without Justice League Also, while Bruce Timm was a producer, most (if not all) of the credit for Teen Titans has to go to Glen Murakami. I really think his decision to not give the Titans any sort of civilian identity was pretty great: Glen Murakami posted:It was really important to me that little kids watching it could identify with characters. And I thought that the minute you start giving them secret identities then kids couldn’t project themselves onto the characters anymore. And that was important to me. I know it’s kind of important to have secret identities and stuff like that but we wanted everything to be really, really, iconic. Like, "Oh, there’s the robot guy. There’s the alien girl. There’s the witch girl. There’s the shape-changing boy." There's the we [sic] just wanted it really clean like that. We wanted it like old Star Trek. We just wanted it simple...
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The thing I find weird about this is that they're called "Butt Ugly" when frankly all the characters are hideous so how could you tell?
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Sockser posted:I've always been curious about the super-poo poo-tier anime that Cartoon Network would air at 6am just to see what stuck. Bedamon and Bakugan and Beyblade and there were more that didn't succeed and it was just really loving weird to me. Obviously trying to catch the magic of Pokemon but without promoting it as far as I could tell. Just put these things on in the wee hours of the morning and uhhh it happened? I actually liked Bedaman back then. It had a whole story arc where the main cast, dirty poor and roaming the streets, had to scam a rich girl for food. It got retooled as a boring as gently caress Beyblade wannabe. Hell, Beyblade got retooled too.
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