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Wheat Loaf posted:The Eco-Villains were never really given much motivation so they always seemed like they wanted to pollute for the sake of pollution. I guess a couple of them were motivated by money (either Hoggish Greedly or Verminous Skum or both) but I'm pretty sure the Planeteers managed to persuade whichever one it was to change sides by convincing them that there was money to be made in recycling and alternative energies. This seemed stupidly over-simplistic when I was a teenager, and unfortunately more and more realistic the longer I worked in the discipline as an adult.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The Eco-Villains were never really given much motivation so they always seemed like they wanted to pollute for the sake of pollution. I guess a couple of them were motivated by money (either Hoggish Greedly or Verminous Skum or both) but I'm pretty sure the Planeteers managed to persuade whichever one it was to change sides by convincing them that there was money to be made in recycling and alternative energies. I remember there was one episode where Greedly debuted a bacteria or whatever that ate garbage, selling it as a way for him to make money and be famous for doing something good for the environment. Unfortunately he totally didn't test it out and it turns out it wanted to eat out of control. It grew larger and larger, basically becoming The Blob. Cue Kwame and Wheeler combining their powers to make glass out of sand, as glass was one of the few things it wasn't eating.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The episode where one of the Planeteers goes to Belfast cracks me up. I believe it has a bit where one of the characters exclaims, "You Fenian Prod!" which is one of those things that's so stupid it loops back around and becomes amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw For those yet to experience the awe and majesty...
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Wheat Loaf posted:Ah, Fu Man-Hitler! You just reminded me that one time, Captain planet was weakened by "Noise pollution" because cities are too loud 
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May 8, 2016 12:29
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I remember one of the big selling points of the show was how important it was because they had all these celebrities doing voices! Like kids give a drat who voices their cartoons.
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Wanamingo posted:There was an episode where they went back in time to stop somebody from giving Hitler with a fu manchu nuclear weapons He was my favorite on My Name is Earl!
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May 8, 2016 15:17
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Captain Planet had good intentions, but instead it's a show about magically enchanted eco-terrorists backed by the goddess of the earth and their summoned superhero is somehow weak to the very things he's supposed to be fighting against.
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It's not even just his vulnerability to the things he has to fight (which is a bit like if every single Superman villain was powered by Kryptonite, come to think of it) - there's at least one episode where he's incapacitated by crude oil, even though it's a natural and unprocessed material, which you wouldn't think would hurt him. I suppose it was contemporaneous with the Gulf War, so oil gets to be like the token evil naturally-occurring substance.  (Also, I think that's the most quoted post I've ever done.  )
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So... did anyone actually like that show? I don't remember a single kid who was a fan back then, and anytime it's come up since it's in the context of people talking about how bad it was. Did we all watch it every week just because it was on?
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People liked it. There were always a few kids that dressed up as Captain Planet for Halloween when I was young. Also it's prevalent enough in society that there are dozens of parodies about the show.
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It was on in the middle of a bunch of other cartoons so I'm sure a lot of us just watched it because hey, cartoons.
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I would like them to remake Captain Planet, except instead of the 1990s, it would be set in the 1890s, and his enemies would be Gilded Age robber barons. And instead of earth, fire, air, water and heart, the rings would symbolise "Free Silver!", "Populism!", "Trust-Busting!", "Presbyterianism!" and "Heart!" ("By your powers combined, I am... WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN!")
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Davros1 posted:I remember one of the big selling points of the show was how important it was because they had all these celebrities doing voices! Like kids give a drat who voices their cartoons. I watched the first few episodes because it was hyped on WCW wrestling as Sting did the main voice and that was back when wrestling was silly fun entertainment that I enjoyed. I guess I was probably 11 or so at the time.
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May 8, 2016 18:37
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Didn't most/all the celebrities leave by the second season?
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I watched it regularly. I was a kid and it was a cartoon with color-coded rings that did cool poo poo, except for the heart ring, even as a dumb kid I realized how rarely they could find a use for it.
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It blew my mind when I watched Sgt. Slaughter on WWF and then saw him again on the GI Joe cartoon that played afterwards. I still wasn't sure at the time if wrestling was real or fake, so seeing him in a cartoon afterwards just messed me up.
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According to Wikipedia, Captain Planet was a pretty long-runner by the standards of its medium as well. It went for six seasons and 113 episodes, which puts it behind He-Man, Real Ghostbusters and TMNT but ahead of stuff like GI Joe, Robotech, Transformers and Batman TAS.
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Crow Jane posted:So... did anyone actually like that show? I don't remember a single kid who was a fan back then, and anytime it's come up since it's in the context of people talking about how bad it was. Did we all watch it every week just because it was on? I remember having Captain Planet action figures. Thanks to the miracle of '90s technology, Captain Planet could be splashed with hot water and show splotches of pollution damage. The only other one I remember is the woman with the disfigured face, her hair rotated from how she normally wore it on the show to off to the side, revealing the scars.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The Eco-Villains were never really given much motivation so they always seemed like they wanted to pollute for the sake of pollution. Yeah, they were too realistic in that regard.
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Wheat Loaf posted:According to Wikipedia, Captain Planet was a pretty long-runner by the standards of its medium as well. It went for six seasons and 113 episodes, which puts it behind He-Man, Real Ghostbusters and TMNT but ahead of stuff like GI Joe, Robotech, Transformers and Batman TAS. Batman doesn't count due to the way that show evolved into other shows, first turning into "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" with its second Fox season, then getting picked back up on WB, piggybacking with the in-continuity Superman Adventures as "The New Batman Adventures", before both got folded into Justice League, and ultimately Justice League Unlimited, not to mention Batman Beyond kinda counting as a connected spin-off, and that version of Batman also crossing over with Static Shock a few times. (The Zeta Project, despite having a short life, also crossed over with Batman Beyond. The DCAU is vast)
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Captain planet was at least somewhat earnest in its 90's brand of eco friendlyness. Widget the world watcher was unmitigated pretentious garbage.
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Crow Jane posted:So... did anyone actually like that show? I don't remember a single kid who was a fan back then, and anytime it's come up since it's in the context of people talking about how bad it was. Did we all watch it every week just because it was on? I would watch pretty much any cartoons that came on and I thought it was alright. It wasn't any stupider than Turtles/He-man/whatever and I did like the environmentalist message, although I could tell it was fairly bungled even as an 8 year old. Nutsngum posted:Captain planet was at least somewhat earnest in its 90's brand of eco friendlyness. Widget the world watcher was unmitigated pretentious garbage. This, on the other hand, I saw when I was 4 and thought was the best thing ever.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's not even just his vulnerability to the things he has to fight (which is a bit like if every single Superman villain was powered by Kryptonite, come to think of it) - there's at least one episode where he's incapacitated by crude oil, even though it's a natural and unprocessed material, which you wouldn't think would hurt him. I suppose it was contemporaneous with the Gulf War, so oil gets to be like the token evil naturally-occurring substance. Oh good, I'm not the only one who stopped to think about that. GWBBQ posted:I loved it, but I was also a gullible kid who didn't question any of the bullshit they told us in the D.A.R.E. program so I wasn't the best judge of quality. The Wheeler figure shot sparks out an open hole in his chest. For Kids! I remember this because I was a huge killjoy as a child and pointed out "Hey, maybe my pal's 3 year old sister shouldn't be playing with a faulty lighter." I'm all for spring loader rocket launchers, and tiny toy catapults with plastic boulders, which all parents lived in absolute terror of. But some things are just very  in hindsight for what got a saftey pass for kid's products. Both for getting made in the first place, and parents not picking up on "Fire hazards are worse than sticky dinosaurs that might stain the wallpaper"
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PiratePing posted:This thread reminded me of how loving weird 90's Dutch children's programming was. They were full of nudity and absolutely-not-veiled jokes about sex and drugs. The VPRO had a blank check and no oversight on this poo poo. I mean how in the utter gently caress are you going to show a character called "Professor Horsecunt" to a bunch of seven year olds and think this is a good and sane idea.
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Oh yea, this is what Verminous Skumm looks like. Yep, doesn't look like anything more than a rat man.
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Wheat Loaf posted:because "Jaws" there is basically Vince from Recess. So all black people look a like?
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twistedmentat posted:Oh yea, this is what Verminous Skumm looks like. Yep, doesn't look like anything more than a rat man. Plus he was voiced by Jeff Goldblum
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ZDar Fan posted:Plus he was voiced by Jeff Goldblum I don't think he realized the character he was voicing was going to look like a /pol meme.
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Do you always think of Jews at the sight of anthropomorphic rats?
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Non Serviam posted:Do you always think of Jews at the sight of anthropomorphic rats? 
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Laserjet 4P posted:The VPRO had a blank check and no oversight on this poo poo. At home: Hm yes indeed professor Horsecunth's name is a bit embarrassing, now let's watch his hairy man-rear end jiggle while he talks about his erotic zones. This is a fine and normal sketch about brushing your teeth  At playground: HAHA YOU SAID BUTT  The very finest in 90's Eurotrash dance: Gabber hardstyle  
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At least in the 90's we only had to put up with Dougie the Pizza guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJtH3OxCbXI
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WebDog posted:At least in the 90's we only had to put up with Dougie the Pizza guy. loving hell this takes me back. I think there were a couple of others werent there?
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PiratePing posted:
Waaaay back in the Napster days, I would come across remixes of songs that had "gabber remix" or "gabber version", and now I know what the hell they were talking about.
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Nutsngum posted:loving hell this takes me back. I think there were a couple of others werent there? A whole bunch of them, I think. Dougie was their advertising mascot for a while.
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Someone found a training video for Sega of America game Testers. It's 90's as gently caress. https://vimeo.com/166472288
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Handsome Ralph posted:Someone found a training video for Sega of America game Testers. It's 90's as gently caress. So many people smoking. What do you do on your breaks? I smoke. Need to use a computer? Head on over to the designated computer area and use one of the shared computers.
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