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Inescapable Duck posted:It's not like people that age (and also other ages) don't frequently do equally stupid things because ~I'm in love~. That's been a pretty common plot since at least Romeo and Juliet, and most definitely has been happening since Ogg first told his cavedad about how he's going to ditch his safe and prosperous cave to be with his ~soulmate~ out in the middle of buttfuck nowhere. Edit: goddamnit thats what i get for not refreshing before posting Don Gato has a new favorite as of 08:17 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Len posted:You guys got me trying to track down a show from the mid 90s now and I'm having no luck. The Megazord that I got as a gift was awesome though, as is the actual NERF equivalent of the lovely one I bought. So to any parents I say, don't let your kids spend their money on lovely knockoffs. Convince them to keep saving for the proper version to avoid disappointment.
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Oct 27, 2017 09:43
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Inescapable Duck posted:Those were literal teenagers (albeit that was pretty normal for the setting/time period), so. Yeah, but it's extremely self-aware in how hosed up that is, and also owns and is a musical and owns.
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Oct 27, 2017 12:46
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Inescapable Duck posted:Those were literal teenagers (albeit that was pretty normal for the setting/time period), so.
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Oct 27, 2017 12:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLNa-ocdryY Warms my cold Jewish heart every time.
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Oct 27, 2017 12:50
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Milo and POTUS posted:Does he burn a whole town or something because I don't remember anything about this weird rear end show. IIRC he's the one who killed Winry's parents when he was literally dispatched to firebomb a volunteer hospital
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Oct 27, 2017 12:57
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Tiggum posted:So to any parents I say, don't let your kids spend their money on lovely knockoffs. Convince them to keep saving for the proper version to avoid disappointment. Yeah, maybe. I bought this  Instead of saving an extra month for this  And while it did turn out disappointing, I certainly learned that lesson in a more visceral, lasting way than if I'd just been forced/convinced to wait. Awesome fying space lions? Nah. Dumptruck. It was still pretty good 
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Oct 27, 2017 13:27
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Didn’t Felicity introduce us to JJ Abrams love of time travel and alternate timelines ? I never watched the show but heard it got weird.
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Oct 27, 2017 13:41
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Not Night Court, because that's still good. Please donate to my "convince Netflix to pick up Night Court via a series of very polite letters" campaign. We need dosh for fancy stationary and one of those space pens.
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Oct 27, 2017 13:48
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Volcott posted:Not Night Court, because that's still good. Night Court when it's in "who gives a gently caress, let's put on a show" mode is hilarious. But, in true 80s sitcom fashion, it just had to occasionally include those Serious Moments and boy, they sure drag the whole thing down a bit.
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Oct 27, 2017 13:56
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Mu Zeta posted:My guess is that since Felicity is about a smart high school girl that gave up all her plans to be with a guy that she has a crush on, that today that wouldn't be an acceptable show in our society. But even the day Felicity started airing the critics were saying the premise was dumb as hell. I dunno, this just sounds like My Crazy Ex Girlfriend to me. edit: oh, so I'm not the first to notice that
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Oct 27, 2017 14:01
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The decision to start on the 2nd episode of Escaflowne isn't even in the top 10 stupid decisions they made in adapting it for SatAM children's television. (For the record, #1-#9 are all 'trying to adapt Escaflowne for SatAM children's television in the first place.' )RagnarokAngel posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLNa-ocdryY
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Oct 27, 2017 14:18
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Nobody wants to make television easily available down under, but Crazy Ex-Girlfriend does sound like my jam. I find crazy people to be identifiable protagonists. And hey, it's Yellow Diamond. I'm reminded of someone saying how the crazy woman in Fatal Attraction was harder to kill than some slasher movie antagonists. Any other particular standout depictions of crazy/vindictive/murderously violent ex-girlfriends that come off as kind of amazingly sexist in retrospect? (Not that you don't get that in real life all too often, but thinking more where they're depicted as a genre of horror movie monster)
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Inescapable Duck posted:Nobody wants to make television easily available down under, but Crazy Ex-Girlfriend does sound like my jam.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:As I said, I haven't watched enough Lucy to know if she does have her moments of genius or if 95% of the time she portrayed as flighty as all the clip shows show her. The latter approach never appealed to me at all - even as an ardent lover of the Three Stooges, the clips I saw of Lucy were too silly and no matter how accomplished Ball was that didn't age well. Lucy suffers the same fate as a lot of legendary comedy greats: her work was so groundbreaking and inspired so much in its footsteps that the original thing no longer seems impressive. Coming it after having already seen countless derivatives it feels stale and overdone in comparison because comedians have had decades to build upon and refine it. It's hard to recapture the context it existed in when it was completely fresh.
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Oct 27, 2017 15:40
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Apropos of nothing else, I remembered that show Viper, which was about the coolest Dodge Viper full of gadgets ever. I'm sure it hasn't aged a day.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I think like in my head I accepted the world of FMA as an alternate reality to our own because there were a lot of themes similar to WW2 like the "totally not Jewish/Roma" analogue, similar to like Valkyria chronicles. So jumping over to our timeline I dunno...worked for me? Yea, it kinda worked at the time because it was treated as an actual alternate universe, complete with alt-Roy, Bradley, and Alphonse. The big revelation was that Alchemy was powered by deaths in "our" world. Shamballa is about the Thule Society trying to open the Gate from "our" side. Envy and Hohenheim had come through the Gate, too, and Hohenheim told Thule all about his homeworld, so they want in on that to reach "Shamballa" and gear up for Hitler's revolution. Because Hohenheim is full of good ideas. Thule opens a small version of the Gate, and sends soldiers through, but they get twisted and mutated by the things within the Gate. Al has since learned how to attach parts of his soul to armor to create puppets, and sends a suit through the portal and meets Ed again. Gate shuts off and Thule wants to try again, but by using all of Envy and Hohenhiem's life force next time. Hohenheim and Envy are sacrificed by Thule, and Wrath and Gluttony are sacrificed by Al, to open the Gate again. Thule's next invasion is successful and the invasion force's commander gains the use of Alchemy. Fighting happens. Thule gets stopped, Ed and Al decide to remain in "our" world (someone has to be on "our" side to close the Gate on that side), Ed and Roy seal the Gate, Hohenheim and the Homunculi are all dead, those left in the FMA world go on with their lives, and the film (and the first anime series) ends. Rangpur posted:The decision to start on the 2nd episode of Escaflowne isn't even in the top 10 stupid decisions they made in adapting it for SatAM children's television. (For the record, #1-#9 are all 'trying to adapt Escaflowne for SatAM children's television in the first place.' ) Reminds me of when Cardcaptor Sakura got edited and rewritten to try to make Lee the main character, instead of Sakura. I think they also cut out the really questionable romance subplots, which was a good idea, though.
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Oct 27, 2017 17:02
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John Murdoch posted:Apropos of nothing else, I remembered that show Viper, which was about the coolest Dodge Viper full of gadgets ever. I'm sure it hasn't aged a day. VIPER and it's contemporary MANTIS were the Agents of SHIELD of their day.
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Schubalts posted:Reminds me of when Cardcaptor Sakura got edited and rewritten to try to make Lee the main character, instead of Sakura. I think they also cut out the really questionable romance subplots, which was a good idea, though. When Dragon Ball Z got really huge on Cartoon Network in the late 90s, every other channel tried to get a piece of it. I remember Fox Kids had Sailor Moon and Nickelodeon had Cardcaptors, but I remember that they were both advertised as though they were action cartoons for boys like DBZ, when that's not really either of them.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:29
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They turned the lesbian couple in Sailor Moon season whatever into cousins, but kept a scene where they handfuck in.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:35
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A lot of 2003 FMA seems like it was depressing just to be depressing. Like if at the last second they revealed that everyone was in hell, it'd wouldn't be that much of a shocker.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:36
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Gaunab posted:A lot of 2003 FMA seems like it was depressing just to be depressing. Like if at the last second they revealed that everyone was in hell, it'd wouldn't be that much of a shocker. Man, Rose did not deserve what happened to her.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:41
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Wheat Loaf posted:When Dragon Ball Z got really huge on Cartoon Network in the late 90s, every other channel tried to get a piece of it. I remember Fox Kids had Sailor Moon and Nickelodeon had Cardcaptors, but I remember that they were both advertised as though they were action cartoons for boys like DBZ, when that's not really either of them. I could've sworn Cardcaptors was either also Fox Kids or was Kids WB. But yeah, they really tried to market that as a show for boys, and I think tried to air it after Digimon or Pokémon to try and capture that same audience. Not sure whether it worked.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:44
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When I saw it, it aired before Monster Rancher, which did not shy away from acknowledging that Monsters were completely sentient and were being killed constantly.
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Oct 27, 2017 18:50
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Schubalts posted:When I saw it, it aired before Monster Rancher, which did not shy away from acknowledging that Monsters were completely sentient and were being killed constantly. Except the ones that were immoral.
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Schubalts posted:When I saw it, it aired before Monster Rancher, which did not shy away from acknowledging that Monsters were completely sentient and were being killed constantly. That show actually prompted me to buy one of the playstation games. 2 maybe? It was pretty fun trying every single CD in the house until I ran out and still hadn’t generated that many legitimately cool monsters. Plus my father was pissed every couple of days because he couldn’t find whatever stupid “contemporary christian” album he wanted to praise Jesus to at that particular moment. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the theme song, but I can’t imagine the show has held up. …has it?
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Oct 27, 2017 18:59
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lemon-lyme disease posted:That show actually prompted me to buy one of the playstation games. 2 maybe? It was pretty fun trying every single CD in the house until I ran out and still hadn’t generated that many legitimately cool monsters. Plus my father was pissed every couple of days because he couldn’t find whatever stupid “contemporary christian” album he wanted to praise Jesus to at that particular moment. Except for Terminator 2, nothing you saw during your childhood quite holds up.
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That can’t be true. Whether that’s because I saw a lot of cool stuff or, more likely, have really low standards? a lot of stuff still brings the sweet, sweet nostalgia.
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Oct 27, 2017 19:17
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Volcott posted:Except for Terminator 2, nothing you saw during your childhood quite holds up. Marx Brothers movies, Garfield and Friends, and Looney Tunes do.
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Oct 27, 2017 19:23
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Marx Brothers movies, Garfield and Friends, and Looney Tunes do. The only things I remember from Garfield and Friends are Garfield preventing and alien invasion by convincing the alien that earthlings are all fat and lazy, him turning the yard into a jungle to get free pizza, and that a group of friends can never agree on pizza toppings.
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Oct 27, 2017 19:36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Ujh79pkwg GARF
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SpacePig posted:I could've sworn Cardcaptors was either also Fox Kids or was Kids WB. But yeah, they really tried to market that as a show for boys, and I think tried to air it after Digimon or Pokémon to try and capture that same audience. Not sure whether it worked. Ah, I remember Cardcaptors being on Nickelodeon in the UK so it was probably somewhere different in America. The other one I remember being really big when I was younger alongside Dragon Ball Z was Gundam Wing.
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Oct 27, 2017 20:39
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Batman TAS has held up very well. Gargoyles almost as well. I wonder about ExoSquad because I haven't seen it since it aired but my memory of it, at least, is pretty badass.
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The Bloop posted:Batman TAS has held up very well. Gargoyles almost as well. ExoSquad holds up pretty decently except for that bullshit cliffhanger 'ending'.
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Oct 27, 2017 20:50
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Why didn't they just shoot Carmen Sandiego?
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Volcott posted:Why didn't they just shoot Carmen Sandiego? Because they’re ACME Detective Agency. Extrajudicial killing is SEA PATROL’s jurisdiction, and while Carmen Sandiego may be many things, a goddamn scoobydoo isn’t one of them.
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Blue Moonlight posted:Because they’re ACME Detective Agency. Extrajudicial killing is SEA PATROL’s jurisdiction, and while Carmen Sandiego may be many things, a goddamn scoobydoo isn’t one of them. P. sure she stole the great barrier reef one time.
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I just remembered the Mummies Alive cartoon. I remember it being kickass when I was a kid. I'm absolutely terrified to track it down now.
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Leavemywife posted:I just remembered the Mummies Alive cartoon. I remember it being kickass when I was a kid. I'm absolutely terrified to track it down now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7C0arR310g
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Leavemywife posted:I just remembered the Mummies Alive cartoon. I remember it being kickass when I was a kid. I'm absolutely terrified to track it down now. It's pretty bad
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