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Spalec posted:Not to say that BBT doesn't sweeten/enhance/prompt the laughter but removing it and leaving the silences in there is a really terrible 'proof'. If you did that to the funniest stand up comedian in the world it'd make a lot of the jokes seem really flat and weird. People can hate things that are bad, what the gently caress do you think SA was founded on?
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John Murdoch posted:I feel like this was probably posted several pages ago, but gently caress it, here it is again anyway Wow, I had never heard of this so I looked up the wikipedia page for it, and it has this writing credit: quote:Written by I gotta think that Eleanor did most of the legwork on this one. Not sure how much input old ACD got in this instance.
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Ariong posted:I gotta think that Eleanor did most of the legwork on this one. Not sure how much input old ACD got in this instance. It's probably like all those Conan stories "co-written" with Robert E. Howard posthumously where they take some story fragments and "flesh them out" into an actual story. In this case, maybe stories Frankensteined from Sherlock Holmes and unpublished War of the World sequels.
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I always loved the 90's Johnny Quest intro. The show rocked too.
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I'm rewatching bits of Buffy and man. When I was a teenager I thought season 6 was really cool because it was less episodic and more serious than the early stuff. Seeing it again in context with the rest of the show is reminding me of how many of my least favorite stories happened in season 6 though, and how dumb and mean-spirited a lot of it was. - Dawn becomes a compulsive kleptomaniac - Xander and Anya's marriage acrimoniously falls apart - Spike becomes a lovely, abusive boyfriend - Willow gets hooked on magic and leaves Dawn alone at her creepy magic dealer's place while she gets magically high and then crashes her car and almost kills both of them and has to go through loving magic rehab - Giles fucks off for almost the whole thing - Tara is killed accidentally by a proto-gamergator with a handgun - Buffy lets terrible things happen to her because she's depressed and guilty that she was happier when she was dead Like the very beginning and ending of the season are cool, but most of it is DIRE.
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Randallteal posted:I'm rewatching bits of Buffy and man. When I was a teenager I thought season 6 was really cool because it was less episodic and more serious than the early stuff. Seeing it again in context with the rest of the show is reminding me of how many of my least favorite stories happened in season 6 though, and how dumb and mean-spirited a lot of it was. Being dire was the point, though. That being said, Marti Noxon seems to have a similar view.
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FreeMars posted:I always loved the 90's Johnny Quest intro. The show rocked too. I remember being disappointed that none of the earlier 3D games looked as cool or ran as smoothly as Questworld. Today the intro just looks... quaint. It's not particularly good and really doesn't even make sense in a world where 3D animation is no longer a novelty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFUijdwWdk
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Aug 25, 2018 07:04
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Grey's Anatomy is a terrible show that has aged terribly because it was never good or even remotely accurate in the first place.  It is, however, a soap opera wearing a stethoscope to the point I'm surprised Susan Lucci hasn't turned up, and as a soap opera it's...not bad. It's surprisingly addictive despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that Meredith is basically a bad decision elemental and watching her gently caress up makes everyone feel better about their own sad lives
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Aug 25, 2018 07:22
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FreeMars posted:I always loved the 90's Johnny Quest intro. The show rocked too. Sorry, just watched it and it can't hold a candle to the original. The music is just.... blah. It's like hearing an elevator music version of a favorite uptempo song.
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It's hard to go back to Johnny Quest after watching The Venture Bros. Perhaps not coincidentally, the new DuckTales (which is great) sometimes feels like Venture Bros with ducks and not so much obvious murder.
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Randallteal posted:I'm rewatching bits of Buffy and man. When I was a teenager I thought season 6 was really cool because it was less episodic and more serious than the early stuff. Seeing it again in context with the rest of the show is reminding me of how many of my least favorite stories happened in season 6 though, and how dumb and mean-spirited a lot of it was. There’s a commentary track on the Freaks and Geeks dvds where Rebecca Kirshner talks about an episode she wrote about Lindsey shoplifting, but mentions that she eventually dumped it because everyone was pressuring her to make it like an addiction or a sexual thrill when she thought it was a funny minor aspect of teen life to explore and nothing else. Then a few years later she’s writing for Buffy and all that dumb poo poo ends up in her story about shoplifting.
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FreeMars posted:I always loved the 90's Johnny Quest intro. The show rocked too. I thought that cartoon was scary when I was very young. The one where they're being stalked by a Medusa in Questworld, for instance. Looking back on it, there was nothing scary about it, but at the time it was too creepy for me. A couple of other shows with dubious-looking computer animation I remember from various points in my childhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XskHytzMIrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27SS8Pnmrok
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Randallteal posted:Buffy...season 6...dumb...Dawn Let's take the most powerful magical object in the universe and turn it into your younger sister. This being will never do anything interesting with the concept and only be a whining child for the rest of the series. 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Let's take the most powerful magical object in the universe and turn it into your younger sister. That's season five.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Let's take the most powerful magical object in the universe and turn it into your younger sister. Tiggum posted:That's season five. I actually rewatched Season 5 a few years ago, and I don't know, I found Dawn way less grating. She's just being a melodramatic teenager in a really crazy world. Maybe it's just that I'm getting old.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I thought that cartoon was scary when I was very young. The one where they're being stalked by a Medusa in Questworld, for instance. Looking back on it, there was nothing scary about it, but at the time it was too creepy for me. Man, some of those could have really been improved by just understanding the limits of computer animation at the time (and hiring competent modelers and animators), like if the jus cut out all the humans out of CUBIX, the robots still look OK.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I actually rewatched Season 5 a few years ago, and I don't know, I found Dawn way less grating. She's just being a melodramatic teenager in a really crazy world. Maybe it's just that I'm getting old. I'd heard about most of what happened in season six before I actually saw it (because I didn't really watch Buffy until nearly 10 years after it was done) and expected it to be rubbish, but I found myself enjoying it better than, say, season four. I think it's because the sense of "Where are we going with our lives?" it had appealed to me given where I was in my own life at the time. I may well find it tiresome if I went back and watched it again. Not being able to zoom through it on dvd and having to wait a week between episodes must have been a bit of a chore.
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WaywardWoodwose posted:Man, some of those could have really been improved by just understanding the limits of computer animation at the time (and hiring competent modelers and animators), like if the jus cut out all the humans out of CUBIX, the robots still look OK. Probably no helping the other one, though.
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Iron Crowned posted:It was the 90's, and I was 16, so I was busy trying (and failing) to get laid, and I was pretty sure that waking up on Saturday mornings to watch Men in Black was not going to help same, and I had older siblings I had to share the tv with who did NOT want to watch cartoons and would mock me ruthlessly so I'd have to hide it in shame like a real dork Rollersnake posted:Today the intro just looks... quaint. It's not particularly good and really doesn't even make sense in a world where 3D animation is no longer a novelty. man whatever, I still get excited watching that. I always knew it was just clips from the episodes on a crappy 3D frame and it made no sense, but I like the pacing and the clips they chose. Combined with the music, what I see is incoming ADVENTURE! Breaking through windows, emerging from water tossing hair, helicopters! StrangersInTheNight has a new favorite as of 16:22 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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StrangersInTheNight posted:man whatever, I still get excited watching that. I always knew it was just clips from the episodes on a crappy 3D frame and it made no sense, but I like the pacing and the clips they chose. Combined with the music, what I see is incoming ADVENTURE! Breaking through windows, emerging from water tossing hair, helicopters! Me too. Its pure nostalgia, but Real Adventures of Johnny Quest was one of those "never seen anything like it before" things for me when I was little.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:There's another video, possibly from this thread, where someone removed the laughtrack. You think the shows a chore to watch now? Try it without the fake laughter, it actually gets WORSE. I've seen that clip, it's not unwatchable, but considering that most of the "jokes" in the clip were (I think) Sheldon and Raj, it came off more as everyone else was pausing to figure out the flow of logic. Considering Sheldon's actor was deliberately portraying him as autistic and half the time he has to explain the joke anyways...
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Wheat Loaf posted:Probably no helping the other one, though. Monster by mistake is one of the worst shows I have ever seen, it's so loving bad
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Here's an awful show with a terrible theme song, horrible cgi and very appropriately titled "Butt Ugly Martians." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYlc4T8dxqA Lasted for 1 whole season lol
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The Donkey Kong show managed to have worse graphics than most of the games.
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Joe the Strummer posted:Here's an awful show with a terrible theme song, horrible cgi and very appropriately titled "Butt Ugly Martians." I see you and raise https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=60AIUDhrjvs
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I see you and raise that was based off an andy griffiths book apparently. did poor andy just like have a day-long stroke and forget how to be funny and bang that out?
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burial posted:If you’re talking ‘90s Nick at Nite, wow. I was the only 10-15ish aged kid I knew that watched that stuff willingly. I loved it. I guess I assumed there were already plenty of nostalgia channels out there, but I don’t really seek them out.  Hell yeah! Early 90's, and my college campus actually provided free cable to the dorm rooms. I'd be up at 2am watching Dobie Gillis, Dick Van Dyke, F Troop and the like; stuff that, as someone born in the 70's, I didn't have any nostalgia for, but just really liked those old black & white sitcoms. Somewhat akin to you, I was probably the only 19 year old who knew that Bob Denver was Maynard G. Krebs before he was Gilligan.Now I'm nostalgic for the channel that played nostalgia for an era I wasn't even nostalgic about. That's... weird.
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Joe the Strummer posted:Here's an awful show with a terrible theme song, horrible cgi and very appropriately titled "Butt Ugly Martians." I remember that came on right before Invader Zim so I always caught the tail end of that show. Now there's another show that didn't really hold up. Partially because I found the shows humor to sometimes lean hard into LOLRANDOM territory, but mostly the decade plus of people copying it's LOLRANDOM humor but poorly in lieu of a personality. I think it was the first show that I stopped watching entirely because I didn't want to be associated with the people who liked it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Me too. Its pure nostalgia, but Real Adventures of Johnny Quest was one of those "never seen anything like it before" things for me when I was little. For Indian characters in media consumed by kids in the mid-late '90s you basically had Apu, Hadji, and Dhalsim. Hadji was the best of them, especially when you hadn't heard his name used as a racial slur yet.
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Joe the Strummer posted:Here's an awful show with a terrible theme song, horrible cgi and very appropriately titled "Butt Ugly Martians." This pops into my head depressingly often
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I dunno if its been mentioned, but holy poo poo has House of Cards aged badly. And I'm not even talking about Spacey being a sexmonster.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9B0-HFkpT4 The DK series apparently was one of the first shows to do full body CGI, but used it to make a new Kong like this.
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Leo Luster echo confirmed for smash. Wow, it’s so creepy to see DK stabding perfectly upright like a man. Did he walk around like that in the show?
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The only thing I know about house of cards is that Kevin spacey's character is a Democrat even though he should be a Republican.
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Nuclear War posted:I dunno if its been mentioned, but holy poo poo has House of Cards aged badly. And I'm not even talking about Spacey being a sexmonster. House of Cards, much like Downton Abbey and god forbid Sherlock, was always horrifically bad and it's just weird it took people so long to notice.
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Gaunab posted:The only thing I know about house of cards is that Kevin spacey's character is a Democrat even though he should be a Republican. He’s a blue dog democrat so it’s not that far off.
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Arivia posted:that was based off an andy griffiths book apparently. did poor andy just like have a day-long stroke and forget how to be funny and bang that out? There's a trilogy of them.
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