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 this was in the early 90s, but same difference.--------------------- On the note of stuff that's aged... not well but definitely better than you'd think is this bizarre Human Torch rap from the early 90s Fantastic Four cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VBv0ZenZU Like you would swear that's an edit or new soundtrack, but that's how it ran. Apparently the Human Torch VA got everyone to sign off on his Soundcloud rap. ---------- That whole cartoon is wonky. The first intro is some primo cheese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggH5-vLlUQ Then they updated it to be a bit more conventional, with better animation but also... blander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaBTW9IHhLQ ------------------- The real sleeper is Bionic Six, which I've never seen an episode of but is so 80s and Reagancentric it's kind-of impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITiPmgSjGM
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Detective No. 27 posted:I remember Doug saying the word "sexy" in an episode of the Nick show. Don't remember the context though. At the episode where he worries about going bald (which I think was on the ABC show,) an old guy assures him he’ll still be the same person. Another one pipes up “Only sexier.” That moment surprised me.
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beats for junkies posted:Speaking of cartoons that are probably terrible, I had a soft spot for BraveStarr (cowboys in space or on a futuristic-but-old-West-themed planet or something) and SilverHawks (flying people in space, and one of the guys had a guitar that shot lasers when he played it). I don't remember much about the actual shows or characters other than the titular characters were obviously the heroes, and they had a cast of villains to fight. I do remember watching them a lot when I was a kid, though, alongside the usual He-Man, Thundercats, Voltron, and Transformers. Silverhawks was my favourite cartoon as a kid, but when I revisited it when the internets let me download old shows, I thought the intro was super cringey. Fast forwards fifteen years, and an older wiser Zarkov now realises that this theme song is kicking loving rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqsgLxuMhLE
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Dinosaucers was short lived but USA used to replay it a lot and its theme rocks.
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beats for junkies posted:I only vaguely remember Mighty Max, but I keep mistaking it for Fantastic Max, which was about a baby who went on adventures with a robot butler thing (maybe?). I don't know why that show stuck with me over any of the good ones (like apparently Mighty Max), and I'm just not getting why anyone would be reminiscing (fondly!) about a dumb actually-for-younger-children cartoon with the catchphrase "dirty diapers!" Apparently, nobody is doing that except me, now. I just want you to know you aren't alone with this thinking. It was a garbage show that I only watched because it was on Sunday mornings so my options were that or religion; now it ruins my thinking every so often.
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High watermark for cartoon themes is still X-Men Evolution.
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well why not posted:High watermark for cartoon themes is still X-Men  https://youtu.be/sAkL2-vh2Sk
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Agreed. https://twitter.com/MrTonyNacho/status/1319087297917259776
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rydiafan posted:Speaking of cop worship: https://youtu.be/tOlnmiayzGY this is literally how bluelivesmatter people think the world works
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Kanine posted:this is literally how bluelivesmatter people think the world works I think someone already pointed out Sundown but I’ll go to the wall on this: Miss Demeanor is an INCREDIBLE name for your attractive young woman social manipulator
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I absolutely would have watched Space Stallions as a child if it was actually real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Otaq2tmNMM
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well why not posted:High watermark for cartoon themes is still X-Men Evolution. I'm not sure how you spell The Trap Door that badly. Maybe you're American? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9dbAQJIu1o&t=35s
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'60s Iron Man had a pretty swinging theme too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTIVaSnRR0
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The first season of the 90s Iron Man had a lousy theme, but every episode made up for it with this awesome CGI sequence, regardless of if it made any sense for where Tony was supposed to be at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT5MIg6H7G8
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Things I only learned today: The character designer for C.O.P.S was Peter Chung - the creator of the deeply weird MTV animated series Aeon Flux. He also co-designed the Rugrats characters which.. yeah I can see it.
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Jedit posted:I'm not sure how you spell The Trap Door that badly. Maybe you're American? Goddamnit, now I miss Willie Rushton. I may need to spend the morning listening to some old ISIHAC.
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DigitalRaven posted:Goddamnit, now I miss Willie Rushton. I may need to spend the morning listening to some old ISIHAC. He was pretty drat good, weren't he.
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Samovar posted:He was pretty drat good, weren't he. He was, but he also did some hella racist cartoons for Private Eye in the 60s.
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Sunswipe posted:The first season of the 90s Iron Man had a lousy theme, but every episode made up for it with this awesome CGI sequence, regardless of if it made any sense for where Tony was supposed to be at the time: Just like that scene in the 90s Spiderman cartoon where he leaps out of the way of Dr Octopus’s arms as they smash some crates in a warehouse. I know they used it in every Dr. Octopus episode regardless of whether there was a warehouse. I swear they used it in episodes without Dr. Octopus as well.
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Spider-man wasn't allowed to throw a punch on his own goddamn show. He got a raw deal next to Batman who got to graphically kill androids that one time.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Things I only learned today: The character designer for C.O.P.S was Peter Chung - the creator of the deeply weird MTV animated series Aeon Flux. I believe he also did work on The Transformers
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Spider-man wasn't allowed to throw a punch on his own goddamn show. He got a raw deal next to Batman who got to graphically kill androids that one time. Spider-man had the most hilarious censor notes. quote:When he went to conventions he would read the censorship notes. His two favorites were "Caution that when Spider-Man lands on the roof, he doesn't harm any pigeons," and "You may have a villain sent to jail, but you may NOT give him a bus ticket and send him to Florida." And of course who could forget Morbius, the Living Vampire Who Was Forbidden By Censors From Biting Anyone (and thus would use suckers on his palms that looked 10 times creepier) and his "I need more PLASMA" catchphrase? I swear, if Jared Leto doesn't say that line in the Morbius film, I will be pissed. AceOfFlames has a new favorite as of 18:07 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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I mean to be fair, being sent to florida is a fate worse than death and Spidey wouldnt inflict that on his worst enemy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs The part where Cable flies by shooting guns will never not make me laugh.
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I like the scene in the second Japanese x-men intro where Wolverine, Jean Grey, and Cyclops are all facing away from each other looking wistfully in the distance. It's such a stereotypical anime intro thing.
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There has never been a bigger quality gap between a shows intro and the actual show. I made a thread where I was going to rewatch it and compare the storylines to the comic versions and made it like one episode in. That said, I loved it as a kid because five year old me was all about Marvel comics.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:There has never been a bigger quality gap between a shows intro and the actual show. I made a thread where I was going to rewatch it and compare the storylines to the comic versions and made it like one episode in. I’m reading the whole Claremont run for the first time, and I’m surprised at how much they took from the comics, even if it was garbled up into 90s form. There’s an issue where Professor X’s evil thoughts escape as personified by a version of him in a yellow cape, and that made it into an episode of the show. And Peter Corbeau is all over the issues where Jean turns into the Phoenix but never really made it as a supporting character, and he’s in the episode where Phoenix appears, filling the same role he has in the books. A lot of dialogue is the same too, despite over half the cast being completely different characters.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rSw4Xl5qfs If we're doing autogenerated subs on these videos then I raise you  
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I re-read the comic version of Scott Pilgrim and was surprised by how well the overall arc aged, with Scott and Ramona working through the emotional baggage of previous relationships to try to be better partners and friends in the future. Even most of the secondary characters get decent arcs of their own. The book has some bizarre issues with homophobia though. I remember it being a little weird back when it was new and it is extremely weird now. It is mostly not outright negative but it approaches male homosexuality as "hey, get this, there are some guys, who, would you believe, they're into GUYS?!!!!!" Female homosexuality is all just a phase or a drunken moment. Bisexuality doesn't exist. I don't really want to go near the movie version again because it missed the point of the story at the time and it feels like it would only be worse now.
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Shiroc posted:I re-read the comic version of Scott Pilgrim and was surprised by how well the overall arc aged, with Scott and Ramona working through the emotional baggage of previous relationships to try to be better partners and friends in the future. Even most of the secondary characters get decent arcs of their own. The movie version has a lot going for it- Edgar Wright's mad genius directing/editing firing on all cylinders, perfect special effects, incredible cast. But, yeah, it sure ain't perfect. I know it's been harped on before, but Michael Cera is just so, so, so mis-cast as Scott Pilgrim. He's a funny guy, but he has this sort of natural air of awkwardness and intelligence that runs counter to what a pumped and oblivious doofus Scott is. In Michael Cera's hands, the times where Scott is supposed to come off as dumb I feel like he seems manipulative and whiny (or, rather, whinier than he already is). Donald Glover would have been a drat good Scott Pilgrim. His character on Community already embodied some of the best qualities of Scott Pilgrim, plus the dude is just overflowing with talent, plus plus casting him would have made racist nerds overflow with anger.
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I just accept they have two completely different Scotts and play out identically in all other regards. This is why their endgame swords and how Nega-Scott is handled vary so differently.
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I don't remember Airwolf looking so fake during so much of the opening credits (and probably during the show as well), but of course it was. That would have been way too expensive and cut into the cocaine budget. That theme is still kickin' rad, though.
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:The movie version has a lot going for it- Edgar Wright's mad genius directing/editing firing on all cylinders, perfect special effects, incredible cast. But, yeah, it sure ain't perfect. I know it's been harped on before, but Michael Cera is just so, so, so mis-cast as Scott Pilgrim. He's a funny guy, but he has this sort of natural air of awkwardness and intelligence that runs counter to what a pumped and oblivious doofus Scott is. In Michael Cera's hands, the times where Scott is supposed to come off as dumb I feel like he seems manipulative and whiny (or, rather, whinier than he already is). Donald Glover is good at everything, though, he's basically cheating when it comes to fantasy casting.
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Cleretic posted:Donald Glover is good at everything, though, he's basically cheating when it comes to fantasy casting. I'm still waiting for them to cast him as Geordi in a Next Generation reboot
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Eh! Frank posted:I'm still waiting for them to cast him as Geordi in a Next Generation reboot Firstly please do not make any more star treks except Below Decks. And secondly I just feel like he's completely wrong for that role. Geordi was kind of poo poo. Levar Burton extremely pro, takes a strong actor to play a role that sucks that much. Maybe I don't know what you're getting at. 
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And yes I guess I'm guilty too. I could watch Donald Glover in basically anything. Lion King, CGI, I'll take two. Writing a decent episode of 30 Rock, absolutely. Atlanta though. Atlanta was just amazing.
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rydiafan posted:Speaking of cop worship: https://youtu.be/tOlnmiayzGY Getting to the credits and listing off the names of the heroes and villians sounds like Phil Hartman doing a bit on SNL. a loving character named "Dr. Bad Vibes?"
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