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drrockso20 posted:I'll admit I find that more obnoxious than just not mentioning prior events occurring at all Then you hate fun. One of the best things about American Dad is the lampshading they do. Roger/Jeannie Gold: Stan, these are my sons, Alex and Ron. They're in Columbia Film School. Stan: How is that possible? Roger/Jeannie Gold: I know. I look too young to have kids in college. Stan: No, that you have children when your persona is completely fabricated... Roger/Jeannie Gold: We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams. Stan: That is an unsatisfying answer.
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I love when the show calls itself out. Like how Roger is also the 30 years married wife of a judge. "You make the time." 
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AD's Years-apart 4th wall callbacks are some of the most perfect moments in the show's arsenal and I can't even fathom an individual joyless enough to claim they're somehow "obnoxious". That doesn't even make sense, rofl
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Jun 10, 2016 18:04
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continuity is for shows that aren't as smart as they think like archer
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:TUNJI *MISTERANDLADYINAROBOTVOICE*
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drrockso20 posted:Yeah continuity is almost nonexistent in American Dad these days, which I'll admit is one of the things I really don't like about most "Adult" animation these days, less about callbacks to older episodes(although those are nice) and more cause it leads them to repeatedly reusing plots till they become unbearable to watch be used again Yeah, I agree it's the most annoying thing about this genre. I wouldn't want it to suddenly change for AD or anything, but I would love to see animated sitcoms in the future that actually age characters. You don't have to do it year by year, but like eventually for the sake of shaking up the stories.
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bull3964 posted:Then you hate fun. One of the best things about American Dad is the lampshading they do. Most of the other times they do it are fine, that specific time just came off as the writers being smartasses and not in a funny way FuriousxGeorge posted:Yeah, I agree it's the most annoying thing about this genre. I wouldn't want it to suddenly change for AD or anything, but I would love to see animated sitcoms in the future that actually age characters. You don't have to do it year by year, but like eventually for the sake of shaking up the stories. Glad to see someone else agrees, and honestly American Dad would be improved by a time skip, cause most of the plots they use Steve for these days would work better if he was 18 or older(same with Chris on Family Guy on the rare occasion they actually give him plot relevance anymore), and him being a High School student at all only has relevance still at this point cause the writers love Principal Louis Honestly it just shows that for most Adult Animation shows, characters under the age of 18 cause more problems for the writing than they solve(Bob's Burgers and South Park are exceptions to this)
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Steve going to college would be a great opportunity for comedy, I think
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drrockso20 posted:Most of the other times they do it are fine, that specific time just came off as the writers being smartasses and not in a funny way I think Bob's is going to run into the same problems eventually. It's just still too fresh for it to matter. South Park did advance the kids a grade once at least!
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Brawnfire posted:Steve going to college would be a great opportunity for comedy, I think Better than it was for Hayley at least
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Aging the characters would be an interesting change of pace, but I bet the higher ups are worried it would "scare" the viewers or something.
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TheFattestPat posted:Aging the characters would be an interesting change of pace, but I bet the higher ups are worried it would "scare" the viewers or something. Here's a good example of that: Klaus was originally supposed to be put into the body of a parrot at the end of Finances With Wolves not another fish. Presumably this would have been the start of Klaus having his brain transferred into lots of different animals as the series went on, but Fox said no so Klaus has stayed a goldfish forever.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Here's a good example of that: Klaus was originally supposed to be put into the body of a parrot at the end of Finances With Wolves not another fish. Presumably this would have been the start of Klaus having his brain transferred into lots of different animals as the series went on, but Fox said no so Klaus has stayed a goldfish forever. That would have been sort of fun, drat. So, the farm-style music that plays when Principal Lewis is feeding the janitors has been in my loving head all goddamn day.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Here's a good example of that: Klaus was originally supposed to be put into the body of a parrot at the end of Finances With Wolves not another fish. Presumably this would have been the start of Klaus having his brain transferred into lots of different animals as the series went on, but Fox said no so Klaus has stayed a goldfish forever. It's still a shame they couldn't do the parrot thing, cause it's obvious the whole "stuck as a goldfish" thing is something the writers ran out of things to do with a long time ago and struggle to write around(which is why there's on average maybe 2 episodes a season that give him any real plot focus or even more than 2-3 lines in any given episode), when him being a parrot would have opened new avenues for him and make him easier to write into plots since he'd be more self-sufficient and mobile
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Yeah, free Klaus. They essentially had to free Roger from the original idea too and he became (imo) the best part of the show.
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It's not like Klaus is that bound to water anymore, he's always as mobile as the plot needs. Remember when he killed all the birds and cats? Plus I love the gag where some one just chucks his bowl at the wall.
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Brawnfire posted:Steve going to college would be a great opportunity for comedy, I think Hayley is still just hanging around the house.
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twistedmentat posted:Hayley is still just hanging around the house. Well, she does go to Graff Community College
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twistedmentat posted:Hayley is still just hanging around the house. Yeah but besides the fact that her being in college long lost any relevance(indeed I'm actually pretty sure she no longer even goes), episodes revolving around her as a college student almost always sucked, while a lot of Steve's plots would work better with him as a college student instead of a high school student
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bull3964 posted:Then you hate fun. One of the best things about American Dad is the lampshading they do. I lost my virginity in this skirt! "Ok, how about these ugly jeans?" these ugly jeans took pink skirt's virginity!
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It IS be!
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The ICP funeral and Steve's vision of the robot apocalypse were both fantastic.
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This entire episode was fantastic. Was this a never aired Christmas episode or was that all just a joke?
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Mister Kingdom posted:It IS be! Hand me the anal tarring brush!
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I thought that was... Pretty bad? :/
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Hand me the anal tarring brush! It's just a barbecue set!
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The entire funeral/ICP shirt segment broke me the gently caress up.
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I'm catching up on these last 3 episodes. So if in the future we can like regrow people with their memories back from the dead, wouldn't that be that we created necromancy? "It feels like there is a possum dancing on my heart!" Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Hand me the anal tarring brush! But who needs two of anything, eh?
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FuriousxGeorge posted:This entire episode was fantastic. Was this a never aired Christmas episode or was that all just a joke?
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StalkofWheat posted:Plus I love the gag where some one just chucks his bowl at the wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfV2vvvIbIM&t=3s This one is good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biRRrpJU4A4
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Ahaha, re-watching "Season's Beatings" from Season 7 and in the scene where Father Donovan is telling Stan the three ways he can get back into the church, he mentions "Or you can donate ten million dollars to charity; that's how Jared from Subway got back in". This joke only becomes funnier given current events.
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TheRationalRedditor posted:It was an incredible 4th wall seed about how they never get to air their Xmas episodes on time so they didn't even try to this season. I came here to ask about the christmas episode those are always the best every season. Such a shame because of scheduling they didn't get to do one this season.
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How many times now has Stan been in charge of a investigation that he is the culprit of? you'd think he'd be better at it by now.
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Next of Pin (Season 13, Episode 21) In order to spend more quality time together, Stan and Steve begin bowling together, and Steve proves to be quite good; and Klaus tests to see whether Roger or Hayley has a worse attention span.
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Stan and Steve attempting to bond episodes are my favorite. The one where Stan tries to commit suicide after losing was pretty funny
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Passive agressive - under her breath insulting Francine rules
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A Ken Burns burn, nice.
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:How many times now has Stan been in charge of a investigation that he is the culprit of? you'd think he'd be better at it by now. And again this week
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Working girl the way he works those balls so nice and sweet! edit: Det Munch at the end haha CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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