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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Bring back Aqua Teen Hunger Force!  Seriously, I still occasionally go back and watch old bits of ATHF. It's crazy how well most of it has held up.
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Macrame_God posted:
I recently did a Quarantine rewatch of the whole series, it's still a solidly hilarious show.
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Aug 19, 2020 21:23
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I'm still amazed they even cancelled it at all. As far as cartoons go, it had to have been absolutely dirt cheap to produce
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Aug 19, 2020 21:36
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They suffered the fate of a few other AS shows. They didn't get along with Lazzo.
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Aug 19, 2020 21:41
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What's the story behind how Space Ghost just sort of slowly petered out rather than being explicitly cancelled? Did they just like, get tired of doing it but nobody had bothered to actually set up any kind of contractual obligations for delivery of seasons so episodes were finished basically whenever enough people bothered to come to work at the same time or something?
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Aug 19, 2020 21:48
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Data Graham posted:What's the story behind how Space Ghost just sort of slowly petered out rather than being explicitly cancelled? Did they just like, get tired of doing it but nobody had bothered to actually set up any kind of contractual obligations for delivery of seasons so episodes were finished basically whenever enough people bothered to come to work at the same time or something? Adult Swim kind of just doesn't do strict season scheduling for stuff from the olden days. See also, Venture Brothers. On top of this, most of the people involved just moved on to other things over time, and with C. Martin Croker having passed away in 2016, they'd have to do any new stuff without Zorak or Moltar or recast those voices, which probably isn't an appealing thought (especially since Croker got hosed bad by Williams Street and died broke, iirc).
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Aug 19, 2020 22:23
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Oh yeah I don’t mean they should make more now or anything, it’s just that in like 2002 it sort of ... faded away with no explanation. Episodes got cheaper looking and farther between and more experimental and weird, and then it was gone like the signal to the satellite had finally dropped leaving us to guess at its fate.
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Aug 19, 2020 23:10
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Apparently it moved to the GameTap service which funded new episodes. The show only actually died with that service in 2008.
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Aug 19, 2020 23:18
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Data Graham posted:Oh yeah I don’t mean they should make more now or anything, it’s just that in like 2002 it sort of ... faded away with no explanation. Episodes got cheaper looking and farther between and more experimental and weird, and then it was gone like the signal to the satellite had finally dropped leaving us to guess at its fate. the impression i've gotten is that, if the people involved weren't busy and the money was there, they were 100% happy to make more and it wasn't cancelled, it just wasn't on any kind of schedule (plus the Gametap move, because they stepped in when Williams Street's funds were tied up in everything else). the problem is that, after 2002, basically everyone involved in the show was busy to varying extents, Williams Street had a lot more on their plate financially with AS becoming a full-on Thing, and... then Croker passed away and made it basically impossible to revive.
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Aug 19, 2020 23:35
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Bring back Aqua Teen Hunger Force! Probably will happen since Adult Swim will be losing all of the Fox animation shows besides American Dad soon
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drrockso20 posted:Probably will happen since Adult Swim will be losing all of the Fox animation shows besides American Dad soon Also, Lazzo is gone.
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Aug 20, 2020 00:34
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Man Stuart Baker being a total poo poo and imploding his own stable career is unfortunate and gently caress him for being Anti-Dolly and a dumb racist shithead. Just kill Early and bring in his slightly younger twin brother, Landfill, only just call him Early like nothing really changed. Voiced by Tom Waits. 
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Aug 20, 2020 18:35
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O don't know if that would work, Waits' voice is best used for long rambling monolgues that make everyone uncomfortable because you just know they all end with "...and thats why they had to die."
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Aug 22, 2020 04:23
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Milo and POTUS posted:The nerd? We have those here too Nah, the guy who needed a dart.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:O don't know if that would work, Waits' voice is best used for long rambling monolgues that make everyone uncomfortable because you just know they all end with "...and thats why they had to die." Yeah, Waits is a whole different kind of crazy. He's more "This dude might literally be Satan in the form of a man here to trick me into losing my soul" crazy. Space Cadet Omoly fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 22, 2020 |
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Aug 22, 2020 06:22
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Yeah, Waits is a whole different kind of crazy. He's more "This dude might literally be Satan in the form of the man here to trick me into losing my soul" crazy. Have you seen him in The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus?
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My dream movie would be a magical reality biopic of Tom Waits starring Ron Perlman as Waits and Tom Waits as the devil.
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Aug 22, 2020 13:27
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I think you mean buddy comedy.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:O don't know if that would work, Waits' voice is best used for long rambling monolgues that make everyone uncomfortable because you just know they all end with "...and thats why they had to die." And that's exactly why he should voice Early.  You could even have Nick Nolte do that same kind of rambling hobo monologue. Just the entire family is constantly asking why his voice is different. poo poo just have different country artists voice Early for like a season with no explanation and all the confusion. And then settle on Gary Busey.
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Up to season 7 of Futurama now. Man it gets REALLY weak at the end. It feels a lot like Zombie Simpsons where it's just an excuse to throw the random cast of characters into whatever bizarre situation. And there's a LOT more Bender centric episodes as well.
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Aug 24, 2020 21:13
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You can find a lot of the later Futurama seasons on youtube. I think I mentioned before that I watched every one as they went to air, but I've seen a lot of episodes now on youtube which I have absolutely no memory of because they're just so forgettable.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:You can find a lot of the later Futurama seasons on youtube. I'm not having any issues finding them! I've finished the series altogether now and even the kinda emotional episodes in season 7 are a bit lovely. There's one where Fry sees his mum again and I get that they're going for the jurassic bark "feel" but the conceit of the episode made no sense and that loving ruined it. A big ship is heading for earth, making a strange "close encounters" kinda sound. Fry recognises this sound and the professor identifies it's from December 31st 1999. So they go into his memories to find out what it was. It turns out to be the car lock for Nibbler's car that he left on the roof of Applied Cryogenics. The gigantic ship comes down and is tiny, and a Niblonian gets out of it. It was just....stupid and ruined the episode for us. It could have been ANYTHING else.
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drrockso20 posted:I forget if I posted about this before, but a couple months ago it was revealed that The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers(one of the most iconic Underground Comix of the 60's and 70's) was getting a cartoon That's a deep cut. After Robert Crumb dies I wonder how long it will take for there to be a Mr.Natural show. side_burned fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Aug 28, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTmce1WpkOk
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I hadn't seen this show before. It looks like If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device. Which came first?
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Aug 30, 2020 18:48
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Tigtone's pilot episode was made in 2014.
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And honestly I think the pilot had more charm and wtf-ability than the actual show, but I haven’t seen much of the latter. Does it find its uh, tone?
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The most incredible thing about tigtone is still that helpie is my favorite character What a fantastic show, extremely excited for season 2
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Adult Swim has been on a kick recently (last 6 years?) of picking up youtube animations and shorts. I remember watching the Tigtone pilot years ago and remembering it was chok full of rando youtube personalities back then (Mike from Red Letter is a black smith I think). Awesome to see how eventually this weird animation ended up on t.v. Same thing goes for YOLO. Been a fan of Micheal Cusack since well...the first YOLO. I'm wishing the best for Smiling Friends ! I really did enjoy that pilot aswell. Need more Mike voice acting as literally himself. Or Emperor Palpatine
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Data Graham posted:And honestly I think the pilot had more charm and wtf-ability than the actual show, but I haven’t seen much of the latter. Does it find its uh, tone? Tigtone is my favorite of the newer adult swim series, its just raw creative sillyness with some great line delivery. Usually going for a weirder, esoteric solution for its comedy than a straightforward one, always keeps me guessing where its going.
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Adult Swim has been on a kick recently (last 6 years?) of picking up youtube animations and shorts. I remember watching the Tigtone pilot years ago and remembering it was chok full of rando youtube personalities back then (Mike from Red Letter is a black smith I think). Awesome to see how eventually this weird animation ended up on t.v. Same thing goes for YOLO. Been a fan of Micheal Cusack since well...the first YOLO. I'm wishing the best for Smiling Friends ! I really did enjoy that pilot aswell. Need more Mike voice acting as literally himself. Or Emperor Palpatine I remember finding it at random and wondering what the hell Bill Corbett was doing in a random YouTube video. Didn't know about Mike from RLM, though looking it up it seems like all three of the RLM guys were in it. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Sep 2, 2020 00:44
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I remember finding it at random and wondering what the hell Bill Corbett was doing in a random YouTube video. Didn't know about Mike from RLM, though looking it up it seems like all three of the RLM guys were in it. I didn't recognize Mike until at the very end when the character is being fed into a fire and he goes OH MY GOOOOD in the Plinkett voice 
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Data Graham posted:And honestly I think the pilot had more charm and wtf-ability than the actual show, but I haven’t seen much of the latter. Does it find its uh, tone? Yeah, especially if you come into the show realizing that Tigtone is just acting like a hyper active MMO RPG player. The escort quest episode was funny as hell as it was like doing any escort mission in a RPG.
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It's the goofball wordplay subversion stuff that I have a weakness for. "Give me a quest, ghost wizard! Or I shall TAKE ONE FROM YOU... BY FORCE!"
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YOLO has wrapped up and was quite good. I’m surprised they didn’t take things in a more fanatical direction but a slice of life animated documentary was a pleasant change of pace.
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Data Graham posted:It's the goofball wordplay subversion stuff that I have a weakness for. My favorite is definitely the wordplay of the sword that cuts nothing. Also head's up, Adult Swim has a free pdf Tigtone themed pen and paper module role playing module.
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BexGu posted:Yeah, especially if you come into the show realizing that Tigtone is just acting like a hyper active MMO RPG player. The escort quest episode was funny as hell as it was like doing any escort mission in a RPG. MMO? Nah, Tigtone is an old-fashioned tabletop murder hobo. At least with MMORPGs the developer can force the player to do the quest the right way and not murder NPCs in the hope that they'll drop better loot.
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Let's split the difference and say Tigtone acts like Ultima Online murder hobo.
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BexGu posted:Let's split the difference and say Tigtone acts like Ultima Online murder hobo. I'm pretty sure no MMO gives you the option to slice wings off a pegasus and jam them into your ever-regenerating companion to create a makeshift flying mount.
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