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Rarity posted:Netflix has their own version of Ninja Warrior and it's hosted by Terry Crews And it's total garbage.
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If I was going to revisit one or two of my favourite childhood cartoons (I was born in 1991) what could I expect to hold up well? My first instinct is either Gargoyles or Darkwing Duck. Thought those were great.
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Mar 2, 2017 22:33
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Profiling helps grandma not think about the terrifying reality that serial killers are almost never caught, and in many cases the police don't even connect their murders until decades later
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Mar 2, 2017 22:34
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Do we have a thread for animated programmes in general?
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Mar 2, 2017 22:43
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Wheat Loaf posted:If I was going to revisit one or two of my favourite childhood cartoons (I was born in 1991) what could I expect to hold up well? Those are both good. Really depends on what was running during your childhood. My favorite childhood cartoon was The Mysterious Cities of Gold and it's even better as an adult with a moderate understanding of the actual history that's used in the show.
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Mar 2, 2017 22:45
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Wheat Loaf posted:If I was going to revisit one or two of my favourite childhood cartoons (I was born in 1991) what could I expect to hold up well? Animaniacs and Rocko's Modern Life are way different as an adult. Tiny Toons to a smaller extent. Samurai Jack is beautiful and the upcoming season makes catching up worthwhile.
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Mar 2, 2017 22:52
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Well, originally, the cartoons my parents would put me down in front of the TV to watch when they wanted to keep me occupied were old Hanna Barbera shows, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes as well as stuff like Rugrats and Aah! Real Monsters. There was a lot my mum didn't approve of that I wasn't technically allowed to watch but saw anyway (off the top of my head, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken and, for some reason, the Powerpuff Girls). When I was a bit older, I most enjoyed the DCAU cartoons, the aforementioned Gargoyles, Samurai Jack, the endless Fox Kids reruns of the X-Men and Spider-Man animated series, Dragon Ball Z and this one show called Chris Colorado which was one of the action-adventure cartoons they had when they launched CNX.
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Mar 2, 2017 22:54
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Wheat Loaf posted:If I was going to revisit one or two of my favourite childhood cartoons (I was born in 1991) what could I expect to hold up well? Batman: TAS probably does. e: I don't know if Eek! the Cat holds up but I'd like to think it does. Pan Dulce posted:Animaniacs and Rocko's Modern Life are way different as an adult. Tiny Toons to a smaller extent. Samurai Jack is beautiful and the upcoming season makes catching up worthwhile. Rocco's Modern Life is suuuuuuper rapey, I actually just had that conversation today somewhere else. Also in Rugrats, the grandpa is always watching porn.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:13
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If Darkwing Duck doesn't hold up, nobody tell me, because I want to believe it was as good as I remember.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:17
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Pretty much all the WB cartoons from the '90s are actually just as good if not better as an adult because the comedy that worked as a kid still works for an adult and a lot of them have other levels of humor you'd never have gotten as a child. Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, and the underrated and often forgotten Histeria. The only one I never got into was Taz-Mania.precision posted:If Darkwing Duck doesn't hold up, nobody tell me, because I want to believe it was as good as I remember. The Disney stuff like Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, etc all have a timeless quality to them that pretty much preserve them for any era. They were really well made.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:23
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IRQ posted:Rocco's Modern Life is suuuuuuper rapey, I actually just had that conversation today somewhere else. Cow and Chicken and Jonny Bravo had some scenes that had a TON of dubious consent. I think that era just fed into poo poo like that. I was looking back at other tv shows to watch and came up with some more: Daria, Freakazoid, Hey Arnold!, Courage the Cowardly Dog, The Tick, and King of the Hill. Also, watching Batman: The Animated Series in conjunction with listening to the podcast the Arkham Session is gold.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:29
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X-O posted:The Disney stuff like Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, etc all have a timeless quality to them that pretty much preserve them for any era. They were really well made. Those shows were made during Disney's golden age smack between Beauty and the Beast and Lion King, they most definitely hold up. I know it's not the same people making them, but it's also no real surprise that the quality was there.
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X-O posted:Pretty much all the WB cartoons from the '90s are actually just as good if not better as an adult because the comedy that worked as a kid still works for an adult and a lot of them have other levels of humor you'd never have gotten as a child. Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, and the underrated and often forgotten Histeria. The only one I never got into was Taz-Mania. Gummi Bears was, is and always will be horrible though.
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I didn't ever watch Rocko's Modern Life until I was 19 or 20. Getting stoned and watching Nickelodeon all morning was my preferred hangover cure back then. That show is incredibly hosed up.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:31
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IRQ posted:Those shows were made during Disney's golden age smack between Beauty and the Beast and Lion King, they most definitely hold up. I know it's not the same people making them, but it's also no real surprise that the quality was there. Was that when Katzenberg was still in charge of the studio (i.e. before Frank Wells died and Michael Eisner went fully mad with power*) or would they not have been responsible for that? Was television animation a different division? I also remember really liking some of the Disney cartoons in the block that succeeded Disney Afternoon, like Recess and Lloyd In Space and The Weekenders. I think Recess still holds up but I'm less sure about the other two. Anyway, think I might give some of Gargoyles another watch at some stage. * Read Disney War, folks.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:42
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See I've never really liked Disney animated movies (besides Lion King and Mulan) but I loved their cartoons like the ones I mentioned above. I was always more of a WB cartoon fan both of the classic shorts and the '90s cartoon shows. I have basically no attachment to any of the main Disney characters.
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Mar 2, 2017 23:59
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I've never actually seen Mulan, and it's on Hulu. What makes it good? I'm on episode 2 of Legion, Aubrey Plaza is killing it
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Mar 3, 2017 00:01
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I watched Justice League Unlimited recently, it holds up perfectly.
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Mar 3, 2017 00:03
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Mulan ain't great. BatB is undeniably the best imo
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precision posted:I've never actually seen Mulan, and it's on Hulu. What makes it good? Mulan's awesome. It's end of the Disney Renaissance stuff that's good. The music bits are the best: I still can't go without singing along to "Make A Man Outta You" when the movie plays. The humor's there, the poignant bits do get sad, and it's one of the starting Disney films where the "princess" isn't a lovelorn woman.
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Mar 3, 2017 00:19
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Pan Dulce posted:The music bits are the best: I still can't go without singing along to "Make A Man Outta You" when the movie plays. I don't know, I think that's the only really memorable song it has, sort of like how Hunchback only really has "Hellfire".
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Rhyno posted:Gummi Bears was, is and always will be horrible though. I'll always have a special place in my heart for Gummi Bears because to this day I can still manage a pretty solid memory of watching it while I was packing to go to Disney World for the first time and then arriving in the drat treehouse villa and running off to the theme park and running into big Gummi Bear people and feeling like i had just entered some magical world through my TV.
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IRQ posted:Rocco's Modern Life is suuuuuuper rapey, I actually just had that conversation today somewhere else.
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It's a shame the 90s cartoons that I've tried to rewatch look so drat janky these days. My eyes can't handle watching old school XMen, spiderman, transformers cause of the framerate and super canned sound effects/music. I know Batman is still doing its thing and I should really check that out but has there been a recent animated series of Spiderman or XMen?
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Looten Plunder posted:It's a shame the 90s cartoons that I've tried to rewatch look so drat janky these days. My eyes can't handle watching old school XMen, spiderman, transformers cause of the framerate and super canned sound effects/music. All of those show are terrible though. The Disney/WB stuff was both good and animated very well.
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I'm not arguing that, but I haven't tried to rewatch those.
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Looten Plunder posted:I know Batman is still doing its thing and I should really check that out but has there been a recent animated series of Spiderman or XMen? I think there have been several Spider Man shows since then. Spectacular Spider-Man was probably the best but was replaced by the cartoonier Ultimate Spider-Man which may be on Netflix. There was a show called Wolverine and the X-Men that was pretty good but it only ran for one season. They were working on a second but I think it became a casualty of Marvel's recent X-Men hatred.
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90s stuff can still be pretty rough but at the very least it holds up a lot better than what came before it since by that point you at least had more creator-driven stuff instead of the irredeemably garbage toy commercials of the 80s or the endlessly derivative and incestuous Hanna-Barbera clones that came before that. The thing from that era that's held up the most in my eyes is The Adventures of Pete & Pete, mostly because of how hard it is to pull of that kind of magical realism/dream logic so effortlessly. Also because the cameos are so inexplicably outside of anything the target audience would recognize. You could release that show today more or less unchanged and it would still be great.
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Pete and Pete got the most insanely good cameos imaginable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1elBZ3ksSc The fact that the mailwoman was the woman who did The Power of Pussy is like, the least amazing cameo in there. And Martin Donovan is smoking in his cameo. Smoking! In a kids show on Nickelodeon?! e: uncredited, the guy playing Debbie Harry's husband is the dad from The Butthole Surfers' "Family BBQ" short film, oh my god precision fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Mar 3, 2017 |
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precision posted:Pete and Pete got the most insanely good cameos imaginable There was also the summer special with Michael Stipe as the cruddy ice cream man.
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Wheat Loaf posted:If I was going to revisit one or two of my favourite childhood cartoons (I was born in 1991) what could I expect to hold up well? Both of those are pretty solid. Darkwing Duck has a few dud episodes, but it's still pretty funny and way better than Duck Tales. Just don't start trying to watch the 90s Spider-man cartoon or Bots Master or some other poo poo like that. Stick to your Aladdins and your Batmans.
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Holy poo poo how did I miss them remaking Ducktales and David Tennant voicing Scrooge. Yessssssssssssssssssssssss.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't know, I think that's the only really memorable song it has, sort of like how Hunchback only really has "Hellfire". Heaven's Light, The Bells Of Notre Dame and God Help The Outcasts are all really good.  (Yes, I know the first is cheating slightly as it's basically the angelic counterpoint to Hellfire)Gargoyles and Batman are solid choices for gothic kids action shows. I'm always impressed by how tight the continuity was on Gargoyles, it was pretty serialised for a show that came before most US studios and networks accepted that ADULTS could follow a serial story outside of soaps, let alone kids.
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Blood is a really good example of an early X-files episode that should've been just "some weird poo poo happens" that gets dragged down by needing to tie it into the idea that THEY are behind it all.
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muscles like this! posted:There was also the summer special with Michael Stipe as the cruddy ice cream man. And Iggy Pop didn't even "cameo", he was a part time cast member as the girl's dad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-8-aIr00I
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Duane Barry is attempted murder on epileptics disguised as TV.
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Lurdiak posted:Millenium is on the watch list once I get to the lovely part of X-files. I don't remember that show being good that often, but it was so loving weird. I pretend Millennium was only the first two seasons but it's mostly just that second one being so good. Rarity posted:The first two seasons of Skins are great, the third season is half-ace, half-dreadful and from then on it goes completely off the rails. I watched season 4 right up until the penultimate cliffhanger where Freddie confronts Effy's therapist because he has been hypnotising her so he can kidnap her and gets murdered with a baseball bat what This sounds like British Ryan Murphy. If I go watching am I going to get that level of crazy?
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END ME SCOOB posted:
Nah, there's a shitload of teen sex and drug use and a fair amount of mental disorders but nothing on the Murphian scale.
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God those first 2 seasons of Skins are so good. Especially 1 with Tony as a Machiavellian schemer. Fascinating character.
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Escobarbarian posted:God those first 2 seasons of Skins are so good. Especially 1 with Tony as a Machiavellian schemer. Fascinating character. Sid's dad was a great side character. And that episode in series 2 is amazing. I don't think I've ever watched such a short series that gave so many characters so much depth.
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