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JediTalentAgent posted:I think I tried to give Disenchantment a watch, but I think where it was failing for me was that despite it being a mythical setting, it didn't really feel like it had the spirit of such a thing, almost too modern, amongst other things. Disenchanment was really bad, like susan boyle futurama bad. I think I liked paradise pd more and that show is loving cancer. sad thing is there is so little content on netlflix that i will prob watch second season of both shows
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Disenchantment ranges from bad to thoroughly ok. I'd compare it to the forgettable episodes of reboot Futurama, rather than the awful or good ones. If you want to watch some Netflix animated shows and have already gotten through the good ones like Bojack Horseman or Neo Yokio you might as well give it a shot.
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Nov 28, 2018 10:11
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i liked disenchantment - I thought the animation was really cool and I was a big fan of both futurama and broad city. the "will they or won't they" romantic subplot did irritate me, and it's mostly not laugh-out-loud funny, but i definitely like it better than modern simpsons.
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Nov 28, 2018 10:59
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QwertySanchez posted:I really wouldn't recommend Disenchantment, and I watched the simpsons up to season 24 before deciding that was unwatchable. Colin Meloy as himself. I can't tell if I'm angry or tired.
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Nov 28, 2018 11:04
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:i definitely like it better than modern simpsons. extremely low bar there
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Miss posted:extremely low bar there Yeah, I take shits taht are more entertaining than a new episode
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Nov 28, 2018 14:25
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Disenchantment was OK at best, middling most of the time, and absolute garbage too often. It falls into so many of the bad comedy series traps, like not being confident enough to let a subtle joke be. For instance, in one of the first episodes Elfo and the princess escape into a magical forest, and there's a "Beware the racist unicorn" sign briefly shown at the forest entrance. That would've been a funny background joke, and I got a good chuckle out of imagining what a racist unicorn would be like. Then I spent the next 5 or so minutes going "please don't show the racist unicorn and ruin the joke, PLEASE". But of course they do: a unicorn turns up to see Elfo and the princess sleeping next to each other and goes 'an ELF and a HUMAN? That's just WRONG".
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Nov 28, 2018 14:45
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, I take shits taht are more entertaining than a new episode this sunday everyone gather around the toilet bowl for a new simpsons, homer becomes a successful twitch streamer but gets swatted by lisa for going on a racist tirade live e: special guest george zimmerman
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Tiberius Christ posted:this sunday everyone gather around the toilet bowl for a new simpsons, homer becomes a successful twitch streamer but gets swatted by lisa for going on a racist tirade live Probably still better than the episode with Elon Musk
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Nov 28, 2018 14:57
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I liked the amphibian stepmom character in Disenchanted I literally can't remember anything else about the show
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JediTalentAgent posted:I think I tried to give Disenchantment a watch, but I think where it was failing for me was that despite it being a mythical setting, it didn't really feel like it had the spirit of such a thing, almost too modern, amongst other things. [Adult Swim] originals are for marijuana addicts who will laugh at anything
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Nov 28, 2018 16:43
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Sagebrush posted:I liked the amphibian stepmom character in Disenchanted I think they have some good character ideas, but they haven't figured them all out. Like, the main character being drunk and high all the time to avoid her royal life is an OK joke, but not really enough to hang a character on. The elf guy has a decent premise of being from like, Candyland, so he's hilariously naive, but they never stick to that and he's often just as drunk and high and mean as everyone else.
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Nov 28, 2018 16:44
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I'm willing to give Disenchantment a chance because BoJack season 1 was just alright before it went on to become the award winning show it is today. Though chances are Disenchantment will just continue to be as it is.
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Disenchantment had plenty of problems, both with writing in general and in how it handled dumping out an entire season in one go. At worst it was never outright repellent like some of the other animated Netflix shows are. There were some decent gags, and overall I think the characters are likable enough that it has potential to get pretty good in the best case scenario. Futurama had to be refined a lot after the early episodes, but it had sharp enough humor to carry me through its flaws, and it felt like the traditional television model allowed it to improve faster than what we get now with prepackaged Netflix seasons.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:02
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I have a shameful confession to make: I actually kinda liked the Futurama movies! Not as much as the original run but more than the latter part of the final run.
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Nov 28, 2018 17:03
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The first movie had its moments. e: wait poo poo confused a scene with a regular episode
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brugroffil posted:I have a shameful confession to make: I actually kinda liked the Futurama movies! Not as much as the original run but more than the latter part of the final run. I thought the first was pretty decent, the second was horrible, and the third and fourth were ok
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Nov 28, 2018 17:45
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Just from the first few episodes of Disenchantment, it doesn't feel like the characters have any depth to them. Bean's story just doesn't do anything for me because from moment one that we're introduced to her, she's already confident, liberated, capable and adventurous. That's not a problem, but the teasers for the show made it seem like the journey of the character was supposed to be that to move them away from a sheltered life. I don't know if this would be an improvement: If you need to start the series with a wedding, anyway, just have it be to her father and new step-mother. The moment the 'I Do' is said, she finds her once comfortable royal life thrown into disarray by the new step-mom who does things to her that (un)intentionally leads her to become a different person and face different challenges. It feels like a more traditional fairy tale gimmick of the 'evil stepmother' and if that was a bit more of the focus, you could play it in different ways. Even an eventual reveal that while to Bean it all looks cruel, to the step-Mom it's more a, "No, I'm not being 'evil', I'm trying to be a responsible parent!"
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Nov 28, 2018 17:49
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The Celine Dion tickets gag from Amy's dad actually made me laugh pretty hard.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:03
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The only thing that made me laugh in disenchantment was the billy west-voiced jester's 'oh nooo' whenever he was tossed out of frame. idk why, but it's the truth. the luci thing got a couple hehs out of me but I think that's more because I like eric andre. also the simpsons/fg crossover was infinitely better than the futurama one. brian being banished to the kitchen to eat with santa's little helper was funny. 
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Nov 28, 2018 18:11
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Oof yeah the car washing scene was pretty brutal, but it had some decent jokes. Are you a cool mayor? I, er, uh, like to think so!
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Der Shovel posted:Disenchantment was OK at best, middling most of the time, and absolute garbage too often. yeah disenchantment has potential but it just falls short of it so often i'm hoping that the first season is just the show catching it's stride and it'll be funnier the second season
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Nov 28, 2018 18:18
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Der Shovel posted:Disenchantment was OK at best, middling most of the time, and absolute garbage too often. The problem I had with that joke was the opposite- the sign is subtle so I actually missed it the first time I watched the show, so when it beats you over the head with the (unnecessary) "punchline", it's just confusing. It's a really uneven show, but I thought it was pretty good when I played it in the background while cleaning or something.
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Nov 28, 2018 18:42
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In the last episode of the Simpsons Marge signs up for one of those HelloFresh/Blue Apron services thinking it will give her some much needed downtime. When it turns out that Homer starts saying it's the best tasting food he's ever had it causes a minor mental breakdown for her and she starts slowly adulterating the food, however Homer keeps on enjoying it even when her additions have grown to toxic proportions. Meanwhile Maggie has grown addicted to her Mapple pad and Lisa is trying (with hilarious results) to encourage her to play with more enriching toys like building blocks and Lisa's own old model trainset. Both plotlines come together when Homer is unconscious on the floor from food poisoning and Maggie throwing away an old stuffed toy in anger lands on his stomach and makes him vomit.
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Nov 28, 2018 19:10
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ulex minor posted:In the last episode of the Simpsons Marge signs up for one of those HelloFresh/Blue Apron services thinking it will give her some much needed downtime. When it turns out that Homer starts saying it's the best tasting food he's ever had it causes a minor mental breakdown for her and she starts slowly adulterating the food, however Homer keeps on enjoying it even when her additions have grown to toxic proportions. certainly seems like an episode written by Harvard alumni
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Der Shovel posted:Disenchantment was OK at best, middling most of the time, and absolute garbage too often. That’s what The Simpsons did so well early. A quick joke from even a minor character like Kent Brockman like “Authorities say the phony pope can be recognized by his high top sneakers, and incredibly foul mouth.”
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fatal oopsie-daisy posted:That’s what The Simpsons did so well early. A quick joke from even a minor character like Kent Brockman like “Authorities say the phony pope can be recognized by his high top sneakers, and incredibly foul mouth.” lol
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ulex minor posted:In the last episode of the Simpsons Marge signs up for one of those HelloFresh/Blue Apron services thinking it will give her some much needed downtime. When it turns out that Homer starts saying it's the best tasting food he's ever had it causes a minor mental breakdown for her and she starts slowly adulterating the food, however Homer keeps on enjoying it even when her additions have grown to toxic proportions. Guess Marge finally snapped after all those years
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Der Shovel posted:Disenchantment was OK at best, middling most of the time, and absolute garbage too often. That's also just such a lazy dumb line, like OH THAT'S NOT RIGHT, the one line that grates on me in Galaxy Quest. Like, that's just such a stock, grab-bag line, like it's just a thing you say because that's the thing you say in that situation. No imagination or invention to it. You couldn't have come up with something with a character-based twist or something surprising like the Pope thing above? "Hey we have a sportscaster making commentary, better have him say OHHH THAT'S GOTTA HURT"
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Data Graham posted:That's also just such a lazy dumb line, like OH THAT'S NOT RIGHT, the one line that grates on me in Galaxy Quest. Like, that's just such a stock, grab-bag line, like it's just a thing you say because that's the thing you say in that situation. No imagination or invention to it. You couldn't have come up with something with a character-based twist or something surprising like the Pope thing above? And that's a bad miss.
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Nov 28, 2018 23:40
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Watching that Futurama crossover episode. Putting Seymour in it outside the pizza shop was just loving cruel, I haven't watched that episode in a decade because I can't handle the devastation again. The rest of the episode is whatever, though seeing Springfieldians juxtaposed with people with more realistic skin tones is weird.
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Nov 28, 2018 23:46
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Too bad about Disenchantment, I guess I will just watch the new season of Simpsons instead
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I can't watch Futurama anymore because the professor reminds me of genesplicer and that sucka
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Iron Crowned posted:I thought the first was pretty decent, the second was horrible, and the third and fourth were ok This thread is the first time I've ever heard there were Futurama movies. There are FOUR? 
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TheMostFrench posted:This thread is the first time I've ever heard there were Futurama movies. There are FOUR? Yeah in the years between being cancelled on Fox and their revival on comedy central
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Nov 29, 2018 03:17
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Actually each movie was designed to be split into four episodes, so they collectively form the fifth season. I agree that the second movie was really really bad. It had exactly one good joke, the joke with Bender's son.
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I remember liking benders big score maybe because it was the first new Futurama in years
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Nov 29, 2018 03:39
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A full length episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad was a bonus on the first movie's dvd. I was working at a GameCrazy at the time and had full control over a TV with a PS3 hooked up to it so I'd play it on a loop. Kids would just come by and stare at it unironically.
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sweet geek swag posted:Actually each movie was designed to be split into four episodes, so they collectively form the fifth season. I agree that the second movie was really really bad. It had exactly one good joke, the joke with Bender's son. Yeah they'd frequently be shown that way on TV in later years
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Looking back I can't believe that there were only 140 episodes of Futurama At 138, Simpsons still had many good episodes to come
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