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LifeLynx posted:Despite having a seven year old step-daughter, I've somehow not seen Frozen until last weekend.
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Captain Invictus posted:I still have not heard Let It Go and I'm seeing how long I can avoid accidentally hearing it It’s a good song, though. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Frozen, but I don’t remember much of anything about it outside of the fact that Idina Menzel has a hell of a set of pipes. I probably won’t see Frozen II until it’s been out on streaming for a year or two, but I already dig “Into the Unknown”.
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Nov 19, 2019 12:10
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If you've heard any given self-empowerment song you've heard Let It Go. I like the other songs though. It's a good movie.
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Nov 19, 2019 14:22
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Also they may have stolen Let It Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9GkukGMTh0 Relevant part starts at 0:56.
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Nov 19, 2019 16:25
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Animation fandom is so weird, where else is it a point of pride to go out of your way to not see one of the most popular and successful works of a medium for the decade it came out in if not for an entire generation.
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Nov 19, 2019 16:31
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Sleeveless posted:Animation fandom is so weird, where else is it a point of pride to go out of your way to not see one of the most popular and successful works of a medium for the decade it came out in if not for an entire generation. So what are you a fan of again?
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Nov 19, 2019 16:34
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Sleeveless posted:Animation fandom is so weird, where else is it a point of pride to go out of your way to not see one of the most popular and successful works of a medium for the decade it came out in if not for an entire generation. It's not a sense of pride and accomplishment, I'm just not the target audience for a Disney Princess movie and I don't have a daughter.
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Nov 19, 2019 16:37
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asecondduck posted:Also they may have stolen Let It Go: Man I know it's Disney but that sounds like reaching to me
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Nov 19, 2019 16:39
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Sleeveless posted:Animation fandom is so weird, where else is it a point of pride to go out of your way to not see one of the most popular and successful works of a medium for the decade it came out in if not for an entire generation. I... what? This is something that happens in every medium of entertainment. Film snobs aren't rushing out to see Avengers: Endgame. Video game nerds aren't obligated to play Minecraft. poo poo, I watch football and despise the New England Patriots. Not engaging with the most popular/successful thing in a medium is extremely common and your point is nonsensical.
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Nov 19, 2019 17:04
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Sleeveless posted:Animation fandom is so weird, where else is it a point of pride to go out of your way to not see one of the most popular and successful works of a medium for the decade it came out in if not for an entire generation. Not liking popular things and making it a part of your identity isn't exclusive to animation.
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Nov 19, 2019 17:14
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For me, not hearing Let It Go wasn't even an option - I worked at a Disney Store shortly after Frozen first came out, and you better believe that was in heavy rotation on the in-store video reel. I think the company was really caught off guard by how popular it was - for a while we had very little Frozen merch in stock and got plenty of complaints about that. Around Halloween I had to tell a lot of parents that no, we don't have any more Elsa dresses, and I have no idea when we'll be getting more.
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Nov 19, 2019 17:27
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Captain Invictus posted:I still have not heard Let It Go and I'm seeing how long I can avoid accidentally hearing it at this point I'd be willing to bet you've heard parts of it and not realized what you were hearing
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Nov 19, 2019 18:24
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Let It Go would be a welcome change where I hear Everything Is Awesome and This Song is Going to Gey Stuck Inside Your Head all the time.
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Nov 19, 2019 22:11
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TBH, I read the name of the second song (I mean technically it's officially "Catchy Song" but whatever), and all that came to mind was "The Song That Doesn't End" from Lamb Chop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6OGVCdov8
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Nov 20, 2019 00:25
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Macaluso posted:Man I know it's Disney but that sounds like reaching to me I could kind of hear Let It Go but at the same time it sounded similar to Erasure's Always to me so  .
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Nov 20, 2019 00:33
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Shadow Hog posted:TBH, I read the name of the second song (I mean technically it's officially "Catchy Song" but whatever), and all that came to mind was "The Song That Doesn't End" from Lamb Chop: same. Man it's weird Lamp Chop basically got reduced to a dog's toy - as a kid, the show always ran and I recall you can get get puppets.
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Nov 20, 2019 00:36
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Lamb Chop was born in 1957 and is thus the only good boomer
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Nov 20, 2019 00:41
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Roth posted:Let It Go would be a welcome change where I hear Everything Is Awesome and This Song is Going to Gey Stuck Inside Your Head all the time. I prefer Super Cool. Have they released the extended version yet?
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Nov 20, 2019 04:22
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I prefer Super Cool. Have they released the extended version yet? I wish we could have that instead of songs that were designed to be annoying.
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Nov 20, 2019 06:06
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Robindaybird posted:same. Man it's weird Lamp Chop basically got reduced to a dog's toy - as a kid, the show always ran and I recall you can get get puppets. It does feel like a lot of the kids shows I was heavy into as a kid like that didn't leave much of a blip in the grand scheme of pop culture. I mean, sure, the biggest of the stuff did (the aforementioned two, plus, I dunno, Barney the Dinosaur or The Magic School Bus), but I don't think Under the Umbrella Tree, Eureka's Castle or Shining Time Station (other than the Thomas the Tank Engine parts, or that Ringo Starr/George Carlin were Mr. Conductor in Seasons 1 and 2-3, respectively) register as anything more than a curiosity anymore. Man now I'm sad  ...looking up Shining Time Station revealed to me that Jafar's VA had a role in it, what
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Nov 20, 2019 08:42
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On one hand, I don't want our slavish devotion to nostalgia to crush the potential of the future. On the other hand I do occasionally get the urge to grab strangers and go "you saw the Fraggles, right? I'm not the only person who remembers Popples, right? Did I hallucinate my childhood?"
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Nov 20, 2019 08:51
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YggiDee posted:On one hand, I don't want our slavish devotion to nostalgia to crush the potential of the future. On the other hand I do occasionally get the urge to grab strangers and go "you saw the Fraggles, right? I'm not the only person who remembers Popples, right? Did I hallucinate my childhood?"
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Nov 20, 2019 10:16
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I'm still not sure if Mighty Max wasn't a really hosed up childhood nightmare.
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Nov 20, 2019 13:03
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I mean, it probably gave hosed up childhood nightmares.
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Nov 20, 2019 13:33
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mycot posted:I'm still not sure if Mighty Max wasn't a really hosed up childhood nightmare. Haha kids remember all your friends will die before your eyes and you will, at the very end fail, and your only hope is to repeat your tortured existence over and over until you succeed or you die
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Nov 20, 2019 14:03
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IIRC Shari Lewis’ daughter has done some additional stuff with those characters. Shari Lewis died relatively young and it was a bummer for me as a kid/adolescent because we had a ton of her stuff in the house growing up. She made a lot of Jewish-specific things and her Jewish identity was a big deal to me because other than Rugrats (which was new and pretty bold), there wasn’t much Jewish representation in kids media back then.
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Nov 20, 2019 14:30
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Barudak posted:Haha kids remember all your friends will die before your eyes and you will, at the very end fail, and your only hope is to repeat your tortured existence over and over until you succeed or you die that show was a real trip. remember the one where he went to visit his mom and they wound up finding cthulhu(iirc)?
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Nov 20, 2019 14:37
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Yeah, the Mighty Max ending ruled and for a tie in to some of the most garbage toys to ever exist its basically high art.
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Nov 20, 2019 14:40
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For years, I thought I’d imagined Ludwig, a surreal cartoon about an alien robot egg, but no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ThMmLVWZo8
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Nov 20, 2019 14:53
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Captain Invictus posted:"Glow Worms were a thing weren't they?! Mighty Max and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors weren't a figment of my imagination, right?!?!?! ANSWER MEEEEEEE" Like I remember loving the loving Mini-Monsters thing from The Comic Strip (weird anthology cartoon with Tigersharks) and I was almost in my 20s before someone was like "oh yeah I used to watch that too, it existed!". Stuff like Eureeka's Castle disappearing (probably because of rights) sucks because you assume it was pretty successful... until you realize it only had a 3 year run and then was just syndicated for years so its impact was way less than you would think. Or how poo poo like Jayce or C.O.P.S./CyberCOPS were a one-and-done because the toymaker didn't get MotU-level piles of cash from the license. But someone decided to toss it into a slot at 3:30pm M-F for summer because why the gently caress not, so now you have this weird half-memory of something that just blipped in and disappeared. It's really crazy how ephemeral everything was before you could hop on a wiki or tubesite and just find this weird half-remembered poo poo. And that's knowing you were lucky enough to be around when home video was a thing!
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https://twitter.com/Redicnomad/status/1196904306349428737
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Nov 20, 2019 18:28
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I thought I imagined this weird French cartoon from when I was a kid called MOT, about a time traveling purple monster, because nobody had ever heard of it and it was impossible to find info online about it. Finally some clips got uploaded to youtube a few years ago I loved that monster
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Nov 20, 2019 21:42
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FilthyImp posted:The real magic of the 80s formula of toyetic animation commercials comes in all the poo poo you half-watched or caught 3 episodes of and for some godforsaken reason etched themselves into your very core like Leonardo DaVinci's weird psychosexual bird fixation. When I was a kid, I loved this show Dinosaucers. I grew up and mostly forgot about it, but I'd have recurring dreams that I turned the TV on and there it was again. One day I Googled it and Michael Uslan was about put out a comic book, which turned out to be just godawful. A reboot lacking anything playful, and with art worse than 80's animation. It must have been some influential show if I remembered it after so long, right? No, it spit out all 65 of its episodes over a three month span in 1987 and then was syndicated for a little bit on ABC in 1993 because Jurassic Park was big and they wanted some dinosaur cartoons on the air and it happened to be in the vault. There's some guy who collects and reproduces the cancelled toy run that got shoveled out to Brazil or somewhere, because no matter what it is, someone's going to dedicate their life to it. Realizing a half-remembered cartoon from your childhood wasn't just some bizarre misremembered dream you had is just a hallmark of growing up. I don't know if that's going to happen to my seven year old though. Everything I've seen her watch seems to be much more focus-grouped than the 80's and early 90's, practically designed to wedge itself into the memory center of a kid's brain so they want to buy the toys. It's going to be interesting seeing what she remembers in ~20 years.
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Nov 20, 2019 22:22
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god, under the umbrella tree, eureka's castle, there's a lot poo poo mentioned that I recognized.
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Nov 20, 2019 23:21
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I super wouldn't argue that today's cartoons are more focused grouped than 80s cartoons that were literally walking toy advertisements. If anything, there'd probably be more of the 'vaguely remembered cartoon I saw once or twice' going on now between the shift in content distribution and the increase in small animation serials. Over the Garden Wall was really good but you really don't see people talking about it anymore. I imagine it'll be even worse in ten, fiftern years. Buddy Thunderstruck was charming as hell but that got a single season on Netflix like two years ago and some kind of CYOA interactive thing? But otherwise, it's pretty much dead. No real toys or merch either. Though, with how basically everything is catalogued and has a wikipedia article on it now, they probably won't be so difficult to find.
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Nov 20, 2019 23:23
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It’s always wild how many terrible cartoons stay with you. Pole Position (with amazing title song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_xGfrdbhY Super obscure UK show Telebugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aMAYcwJkgo
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Nov 20, 2019 23:24
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I also remember some of the cartoons I saw during my three year stint in England. There was one about a futuristic world dictator, dressed like a French aristocrat (because of course), who banned all music. In turn, these talking instruments fought back to free the world from his tyranny, notably the show's namesake character, a flying blue piano named Oscar. Unfortunately I forget the full name of the show, but Oscar's name was definitely in it.
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Nov 20, 2019 23:35
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LifeLynx posted:I don't know if that's going to happen to my seven year old though. Everything I've seen her watch seems to be much more focus-grouped than the 80's and early 90's, practically designed to wedge itself into the memory center of a kid's brain so they want to buy the toys. Same with the PinkFong Baby Shark stuff. It'd be like everyone going "Hey remember Pinwheel!?" except it never became Nickelodeon and just quietly shuttered off of basic cable.
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Nov 20, 2019 23:43
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Shadow Hog posted:I also remember some of the cartoons I saw during my three year stint in England. There was one about a futuristic world dictator, dressed like a French aristocrat (because of course), who banned all music. In turn, these talking instruments fought back to free the world from his tyranny, notably the show's namesake character, a flying blue piano named Oscar. Unfortunately I forget the full name of the show, but Oscar's name was definitely in it. Oscar’s Orchestra! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89yNmdwxSW0
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ishikabibble posted:I super wouldn't argue that today's cartoons are more focused grouped than 80s cartoons that were literally walking toy advertisements. Heavy agree, old cartoons were both way more mercenary in how they were marketed and also had way more restrictions on what they were allowed to portray. Also they were designed entirely based on what was supposed to appeal to kids while now every other "kids" show seems to be aimed as much at adults who watch childrens cartoons in the same way that contemporary YA is dominated by adult readers. The future is kids being nostalgic for weird YouTube videos in the same way that zoomers are for Vines that are lost forever in endless unsearchable mega-compilations or are twenty pages deep in a KnowYourMeme gallery.
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