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Yesterday Gumball made a power rangers parody Except this is not a power rangers parody. This is far, far nerdier. The heads of these suits are from Bioman, the 1984 super sentai series, down to the earphone style details on the sides, plus the arms and legs match too. Also when they pretend to morph they use the exact same "henshin device" on their wrists and go through a similar sequence. But the bodies don't match, did they just make something up? No, these suits have a white scarf, a white v pattern, and a yellow emblem, and so they match Sun Vulcan, the 1981 sentai series, the fifth one ever aired. Power Rangers came from the 16th series, Zyuranger, from 1992. So basically, they made a reference to two series, at once, that no kid will ever recognize, no one with 80s or 90s nostalgia will pick up on, and no one else will either, probably not even anime club regulars. They've won the obscure reference game.
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# ? Sep 10, 2016 03:03 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:32 |
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The Ayshkerbundy posted:An animator union blog had revealed a few months back that both OK KO (which is what Lakewood Plaza Turbo is called now) and Long Live the Royals are getting full series Wait, wasn't that just a miniseries from last year?
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# ? Sep 10, 2016 03:51 |
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Yeah, and I guess it got greenlit for a full series.
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# ? Sep 10, 2016 03:54 |
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Speaking (indirectly) of OK KO I found that video I was talking about here:The Ayshkerbundy posted:I can't find the video now but apparently it was being used as a guinea pig for some weird marketing idea CN was going for by establishing a lot of the spin off stuff before the show itself (one CN exec was going on about "interactive worlds" or something) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ou6MyZ5lmE
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# ? Sep 10, 2016 04:01 |
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It looks like Cartoon Network's just gonna run out the entirety of Regular Show's final season Summer of Steven style.
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# ? Sep 12, 2016 22:43 |
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Waffleman_ posted:It looks like Cartoon Network's just gonna run out the entirety of Regular Show's final season Summer of Steven style.
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 00:34 |
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The first Stevenbomb being a success is the worst thing that's happened to Cartoon Network in the last like 6 years. It seemed like they had gotten over it and were trying to do weekly episodes again for a bit, but nope.
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 00:37 |
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Waffleman_ posted:The first Stevenbomb being a success is the worst thing that's happened to Cartoon Network in the last like 6 years. It seemed like they had gotten over it and were trying to do weekly episodes again for a bit, but nope. Actually it started with an Adventure Time bomb around thanksgiving the year prior after that show's first long hiatus (they even had a simultaneous clarence/UG bomb that december, still piror to the first steven bomb) Maybe it started with Over the Garden Wall, now that I think about it
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 01:06 |
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Arguably they have enough shows where semi-regular bombage is possible... But with them giving RS/Gumball the axe, well, I guess I hope Magiswords spawns some hits? I think the execs see this as the best viable path to keeping eyeballs away from streaming secondhand. Because the concept of a weekly schedule that makes sense hasn't been a thing since streaming started.
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 07:36 |
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Not sure if anyone's interested (I know I am) but Cartoon Networks has released the airing dates for the rest of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!'s first season episodes. Basically, it will begin again on October 1st and then continue on weekly.
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 12:17 |
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I never actually watched that one. Is it as bad as it looks?
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 13:55 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:I never actually watched that one. Is it as bad as it looks? No, but then again it looked like poo poo, so that's not saying much. It was actually ok. Better than any other non-Mysteries Inc series.
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 14:24 |
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Rudoku posted:No, but then again it looked like poo poo, so that's not saying much. It was actually ok. Better than any other non-Mysteries Inc series. Bring Back Mystery Inc. that was solid television in its own right and a work of art (Harlan Ellison's influence?).
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 16:34 |
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paradoxGentleman posted:I never actually watched that one. Is it as bad as it looks?
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 20:21 |
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Yeah, that last Scooby Doo wasn't great but it's still probably the second best Scooby Doo, way behind Mystery Inc and slightly better than Pup. As was mentioned, the designs were better in motion and it's one of the only versions of the show I can think of that did anything with Daphne. They also have Kate Micucci voicing Velma and it's hard to hate anything with her in it.
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# ? Sep 13, 2016 20:24 |
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I would have liked to see them solving mysteries at Miskatonic University and unmasking Cthulhu as Harlan Ellison (or some other famous real author).
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 01:35 |
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X_Toad posted:It's actually good. Probably the best series to use the strict scooby-doo formula to date. The designs aren't as bad in motion (except for Velma's, I can't stand her design) and the humor often works. Mystery Inc. is still the best Scooby-Doo series, but then again, it's closer to Gravity Falls than to Scooby-Doo. Did loving Harlan Ellison work on Mystery Inc???
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 13:35 |
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He was a guest star.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 13:38 |
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Sockser posted:Did loving Harlan Ellison work on Mystery Inc??? He was in Mystery Inc.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 16:41 |
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Argue posted:I would have liked to see them solving mysteries at Miskatonic University and unmasking Cthulhu as Harlan Ellison (or some other famous real author). Of all the things that use and sometimes abuse Cthulhu mythos, Scooby Doo seems like one of the few to not abuse it. Too be fair, they already had a Lovecraft paatiche
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 17:23 |
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Harlan Ellison was God or something in the end. Lewis Black and Udo Kier are in it too. poo poo's dope.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 17:45 |
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Mystery Inc also tied together several Hanna Barbera properties in a pretty fun way. (for instance, in season 2 the Scoobies team up with Blue Falcon and Dynomutt to fight Dr Zinn, the nemesis of the Quest family. Dynomutt himself has his origin tied to the Quests.) And I don't care how that episode ended, the Mystery Team Finals episode is completely canon to me.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 17:56 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Harlan Ellison was God or something in the end. Whether this elevated him to a Galactus-level being, or a god... well that's up to you.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 18:33 |
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FilthyImp posted:Harlan was given able to perceive changes in the dimensional fabric of the Mystery Inc universe. Because he's a super awesome and creative writer. Doesn't he talk to them over their radio and tell them their destiny?
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 18:59 |
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No, that's Lewis Black.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 19:01 |
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Senerio posted:No, that's Lewis Black. In the final scene of the last episode, I mean.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 19:16 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Doesn't he talk to them over their radio and tell them their destiny? Which was a cool way of tying MI into the original Scooby Doo episodes.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 19:27 |
Mystery Inc. was simply baller and a great example that cartoons can be amazing and end in two seasons rather than eight or eleven or whatever.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 19:58 |
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Two seasons aired over like four years, like ugh.
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 20:02 |
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Just like Gravity Falls fake edit: Speaking of weird schedules, apparently Star Vs. the Forces of Evil has been back on Disney for a few months. Is that worth catching up on?
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# ? Sep 21, 2016 20:20 |
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FilthyImp posted:He kind of says "a dimensional apocalypse has remade your world, and only we are the survivors. Of course, I could intuit all of this happening because I am attuned to changes in reality due to my extensive works, so I also slipped into this brave unknown Who knows what eldritch horrors leaked through the dimensional collapse! Get your rear end to It is a bit paradoxical when you look at the first episode though since those same mysteries they're presumably solving already happened based on the dummies they have in the museum. Also Flim Flam and Scrappy were made canon in some way. Pup was the only one not to have any reference.
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# ? Sep 22, 2016 01:00 |
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nerdman42 posted:Just like Gravity Falls If only for the continuing adventures of Ludo and the Karate VHS episode, yes.
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# ? Sep 22, 2016 01:07 |
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Xelkelvos posted:It is a bit paradoxical when you look at the first episode though since those same mysteries they're presumably solving already happened based on the dummies they have in the museum. Also Flim Flam and Scrappy were made canon in some way. Pup was the only one not to have any reference. The Red Shirt Shaggy movies didn't really get referenced either, which is a shame
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# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:12 |
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Red Shirt Shaggy was kind of a weird point in Scooby Doo.
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# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:15 |
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Mystery Inc. was simply baller and a great example that cartoons can be amazing and end in two seasons rather than eight or eleven or whatever. Yeah, it ended at the perfect spot where it wrapped up the story it had set up while also loosely tying into the original 70s show by setting up why they were tooling across the country in a van solving mysteries to begin with. It didn't need another season.
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# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:21 |
Didn't Redd Herring show up in the background somewhere? I tried to keep an eye out for him but didn't see him anywhere.
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# ? Sep 22, 2016 04:27 |
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Xelkelvos posted:Also Flim Flam and Scrappy were made canon in some way. Pup was the only one not to have any reference. I'm not sure, but was the museum stuff that the kids had solved, or stuff that the previous Group Of Mystery Solvers experienced and debunked?
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# ? Sep 23, 2016 04:56 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Harlan Ellison was God or something in the end. Lewis Black and Udo Kier are in it too. poo poo's dope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yf2us_gN9Q Jeffry Combs as not HP Lovecraft was also genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbRJ8bGIUZ0
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# ? Sep 23, 2016 05:07 |
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They not only managed to make Harlan sound like a normal, not-the-hate-midget-from Inside Out kind of guy, but as far as I can tell he hasn't issued an overly complicated diss track about how MI was complicit in the lobotomization of American Speculative Fiction via the inbred mongoloid funguses that comprised their "Writing" staff. Which is about the highest loving praise I can imagine coming from the guy.
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# ? Sep 23, 2016 05:36 |
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FilthyImp posted:I could have sworn there was a flashback bit and the gang was Pupitized. Velma knew the identities and the details of each of the unmasked when telling the tour group (which featured an unnamed Don Knotts parody) about the "monsters"
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