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I don't think the plan was to end it on the opera. That just sort-of happened. If memory serves, there was some dispute between Captain Metalocalypse and Adult Swim. At first, we were told it could be resolved... then silence. So, who knows. (Metalocalypse was great. I'm a metalhead, and a musician, and even a bass player, so maybe I'm biased. But, as much as I loved the show, it, along with China, Illinois, didn't fare as well as hoped when it went from 15 minutes to 30.)
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Yeah, China Il was best as a 15 minute bloc, but god drat it's some good loving TV. Although maybe the one where the main guy has to pretend to be a cat is one of the best ones. I love it because that lady is a REAL PERSON and it's hilarious to me that he didn't understand how to game it.
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Pick posted:Yeah, China Il was best as a 15 minute bloc, but god drat it's some good loving TV. The episode where everyone on Earth but that girl dies was so kick rear end
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:I did not think ATHF was ever funny. It seemed to consist of nothing but monkeycheese "random" humor. Also, I could never understand a loving word that the meatball guy said. I mean it kind of is just random poo poo happening, but it's all a springboard for the characters to bounce dialogue and reactions back and forth, which is where the humour all lies. If a load of the dialogue just washes over you then yeah, I can understand not finding it remotely funny. I also stopped watching Aqua Teen for no particular reason, around when the movie came out. I think the latest episode I ever saw was when Carl spent the episode talking to his alternate self in a personalised hair growth advert and proceeded to destroy his life.
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ATHF was fine in small doses, but the episodes do not hold up to repeat viewings. I was always a big fan of Sealab, it actually had plots and characters, they were silly and nonsenstical, but it wasn't just random weirdness. Related, I liked season 1 of Frisky Dingo, but Season 2 was just horrible.
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A discussion of long running AS swim shows jumping the shark and no one has brought up Sealable basically dying with Murphy despite going on for two more seasons
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So much of Adult Swim is such a weird balance of looking like total poo poo and yet trying not to be total poo poo, or being poo poo, but managing to maintain some kind of goodness through that, and if you need to really get it to understand. It's basically a miracle that any executive ever signs off on most of Adult Swim's works.
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I found season 3 of Harvey Birdman at a secondhand market stall yesterday for $5, it was in brand new condition. Perfect, because I had season 1 and 2 on DVD for the past decade but never got around to buying season 3.
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twistedmentat posted:ATHF was fine in small doses, but the episodes do not hold up to repeat viewings. I was always a big fan of Sealab, it actually had plots and characters, they were silly and nonsenstical, but it wasn't just random weirdness. Sealab so quickly went all high-concept with whole episodes that were just one long goof on whatever stoner idea sounded good that week. UH OH UH OH UH OH (Which isn't to say it wasn't amazing anyway) Frisky Dingo I never clicked with though. But at least Archer found its groove quick enough. This has been My Very Relevant Opinions Oh yes, ^^ that reminds me I never watched Harvey Birdman S3/4 either. What the hell have I been doing for the past ten years
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tarlibone posted:(Metalocalypse was great. I'm a metalhead, and a musician, and even a bass player, so maybe I'm biased. But, as much as I loved the show, it, along with China, Illinois, didn't fare as well as hoped when it went from 15 minutes to 30.) I hate metal music and Metalocalypse is still probably my 3rd alltime favorite adult swim show behind Venture Bros and Sealab
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It's pretty off-course from Venture Bros but I feel like Xavier Renegade Angel didn't get nearly the attention it deserves if we're gonna talk "top Adult Swim shows"
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I’ve never seen an episode but I adore S1-5 of archer, superjail, drinky crow, the oblongs, ATHF, China, IL, Sealab, Metalacalypse, Home Movies, Mission Hill and obviously venture bros. Is it anywhere on that spectrum?
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Data Graham posted:Sealab so quickly went all high-concept with whole episodes that were just one long goof on whatever stoner idea sounded good that week. UH OH UH OH UH OH Man, you gotta try again on frisky dingo. It’s perfect from the first to last episodes and you can watch the whole thing in a day easy.
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Tatsuta Age posted:Man, you gotta try again on frisky dingo. It’s perfect from the first to last episodes and you can watch the whole thing in a day easy. Right after I finish Archer then.
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Mr. Lobe posted:It's pretty off-course from Venture Bros but I feel like Xavier Renegade Angel didn't get nearly the attention it deserves if we're gonna talk "top Adult Swim shows" Xavier is a wonderful, weird show, and if anyone here hasn't seen it yet they should fix that as soon as possible Bust Rodd posted:I’ve never seen an episode but I adore S1-5 of archer, superjail, drinky crow, the oblongs, ATHF, China, IL, Sealab, Metalacalypse, Home Movies, Mission Hill and obviously venture bros. Yes Tatsuta Age posted:Man, you gotta try again on frisky dingo. It’s perfect from the first to last episodes and you can watch the whole thing in a day easy. Honestly I felt that show fell apart in the second season once the presidential election arc got ditched, not to mention them killing off 99% of the cast over the course of the remainder of that season basically makes it impossible to revive
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I dunno, once Wendell is the main focus I still was lmbo as hard as early episodes, but maybe it’s just me.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Remember the awkward as hell Xtacle spin off? I loved those episodes! :p
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I was high watching a frisky dingo stream on AS and the episodes were edited weirdly and out of order, it was very disorienting because i thought I was going crazy until I realized they weren't running normally. That's my story. Frisky Dingo rules.
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There's a lot of AS shows I cannot remember what they were, because they all had super minimalist animation and the dialog was little more than ; Character A : You know fish make the best valets Character B: Uh? Character A: Ya Character B: Buh? Clearly made in 5 minutes with some improved dialog, but why stick this on the air? Mission Hill is like my favorite thing that never got a fair shake, but it started on the WB, not AS, so there was no way AS was going to save it because it had already been canceled. According to Bill Oakley, if they had started on AS, they might have been able to go longer, but the WB was not the place for animated shows based on underground comics of the 90s.
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tarlibone posted:If memory serves, there was some dispute between Captain Metalocalypse and Adult Swim. At first, we were told it could be resolved... then silence. So, who knows. I remember reading an interview with Brendon Small around the time there was a big campaign to bring it back/save it. Even after someone with money came in and offered to help fund it, AS were still "Nope don't care it's not happening" so yeah someone at AS has a hate boner for Brendon.
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Mr. Lobe posted:It's pretty off-course from Venture Bros but I feel like Xavier Renegade Angel didn't get nearly the attention it deserves if we're gonna talk "top Adult Swim shows" Oh god you are one of those freaks who also watched like 'twelve oz mouse' and 'worker and parasite' arent you?
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Dragonstoned posted:I remember reading an interview with Brendon Small around the time there was a big campaign to bring it back/save it. Even after someone with money came in and offered to help fund it, AS were still "Nope don't care it's not happening" so yeah someone at AS has a hate boner for Brendon. It’s not a hate boner for Brendon. AS cannot air the doomstar requiem basically ever because it cannot be broke into episodic chunks. Small wanted to do another to finish the series. AS wasn’t interested in making another hour plus long show that they cannot actually broadcast and monetize.
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Small put out a metal album recently (under a different band name because AS owns Metalocalypse) and his fans are all but certain it's meant to be the final plot to Metalocalypse.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Remember the awkward as hell Xtacle spin off? It was hilarious. The "you're gonna get raped" bit along w "you did everything you could, from inside this car" had me in tears. Seriously if you haven't seen Xtacles download them and watch. I think it's only a couple of episodes. My fav cancelled Adult Swim show that never made it was Hard Nollin Slopio Peepio. I never hear people talking about it but I don't think there was a single episode that didn't make me laugh.
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Mr. Nice! posted:It’s not a hate boner for Brendon. AS cannot air the doomstar requiem basically ever because it cannot be broke into episodic chunks. Small wanted to do another to finish the series. AS wasn’t interested in making another hour plus long show that they cannot actually broadcast and monetize. Really? They do weird poo poo all the time. They could just spend a night saying "Here's the end of Metalocalypse, this is the only time it will be shown." That's a totally BS answer.
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Data Graham posted:Sealab so quickly went all high-concept with whole episodes that were just one long goof on whatever stoner idea sounded good that week. UH OH UH OH UH OH We have uh oh, over
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Mr. Nice! posted:It’s not a hate boner for Brendon. AS cannot air the doomstar requiem basically ever because it cannot be broke into episodic chunks. Small wanted to do another to finish the series. AS wasn’t interested in making another hour plus long show that they cannot actually broadcast and monetize. I never watched Metalocalypse, can you explain this a little? From wikipedia it looks like an 47-minute special (set to music?) so... give it an hour block once in a while? Chop it into two or four pieces and put in a quick intro and outro animation where the cast is gathering to watch it on TV or something? I don't understand how this is such a gamestopper. Like maybe someone's coming in every now and then having not seen the previous episode, but like the guy above me said, that's not even close to the oddest thing you'd see on Adult Swim. Phenotype fucked around with this message at 16:28 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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420 Gank Mid posted:Oh god you are one of those freaks who also watched like 'twelve oz mouse' and 'worker and parasite' arent you? Twelve Oz Mouse, that is the show I was thinking of.
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Frisky Dingo is proto-Archer and is the same kind of humor but with better writers and worse voice actors. It’s so drat good and somehow intelligently random. loving Ronnie.
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Does Frisky Dingo also throw out every single character motivation and plot hook then have to flail desperately for a new concept every season to justify its continued existence?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Does Frisky Dingo also throw out every single character motivation and plot hook then have to flail desperately for a new concept every season to justify its continued existence? no because the characters have no motivation outside of loving each other over and also its only 2 seasons long
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Imagine I'm slowly pushing a bowl of cereal off the counter.
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It’s me I am the guy who liked 12 oz Mouse
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Mr. Nice! posted:Imagine I'm slowly pushing a bowl of cereal off the counter. THATS OUR LAST BOWL!
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Raskolnikov38 posted:no because the characters have no motivation outside of loving each other over and also its only 2 seasons long That sounds right up my alley, I'll give it a watch!
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Ant Baby Machete Squad!
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Phenotype posted:I never watched Metalocalypse, can you explain this a little? From wikipedia it looks like an 47-minute special (set to music?) so... give it an hour block once in a while? Chop it into two or four pieces and put in a quick intro and outro animation where the cast is gathering to watch it on TV or something? I don't understand how this is such a gamestopper. Like maybe someone's coming in every now and then having not seen the previous episode, but like the guy above me said, that's not even close to the oddest thing you'd see on Adult Swim. it's a death metal rock opera and there are literally dozens of people who want to watch that the big problem with metalocalypse is that it is a show whose audience is limited mostly to metalheads who dont take themselves too seriously, which are two circles that rarely overlap the music is legit kick rear end, extremely good but people who are into this kind of music tend to be, uh, not very good at taking a joke about how metal is just theatrical clown music for alcoholics and chronic depressives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W35dyPTh6o Mr. Fall Down Terror fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Jul 15, 2018 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Ant Baby Machete Squad! well if you're so smart...
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