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Odlaw was first seen in the cartoon, which was an american production and as theres no good backwards name for Wally i guess they just kept it the same because odlaw sounds fine for the waluigi version of wally anyway why rerecord stuff you don't need to. Edit oh poo poo i'm deep into a Wheres Wally lore wiki because i wanted to check the air date of the cartoon and I'm only now learning that Wally's original girlfriend Wilma appeared in like one book and in the rest of the series Wally's hooked up with her twin sister Wenda. What the gently caress happened between those books Wally? Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Jul 14, 2021 02:05
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Why was his name even changed? Wally is more of a normal-sounding name than Waldo, so I dunno if they were going for something, or if Wally was some obscure insult in the US back when the books first came over. Kinda like how Avatar dropped the whole Last Airbender subtitle in the UK.
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Jul 14, 2021 04:51
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I feel like back in those days there were way more arbitrary regional changes. Since things are a lot more global these days, they seem to avoid it most of the time since it would usually do more damage to the brand on balance. And also they probably focus test it for global appeal beforehand anyway. The exception being when there's a trademark or brand recognition issue in one specific region but not really anywhere else and it can be handled pretty easily (i.e. "Avengers Assemble")
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Jul 14, 2021 12:47
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The issue with Avatar: The Last Airbender was something about "bender" being some obscure British slang for gay people. Then the movie dropped the "Avatar" part because it was coming out right in the wake of the blue catpeople phenomenon, so no idea what they did there.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:19
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Pants Donkey posted:Why was his name even changed? Wally is more of a normal-sounding name than Waldo, so I dunno if they were going for something, or if Wally was some obscure insult in the US back when the books first came over. Kinda like how Avatar dropped the whole Last Airbender subtitle in the UK. Wally in the UK has connotations of someone who's a little scatterbrained or absentminded while in the states it just sounds like a regular name. The change is an attempt to preserve the original flavor. Plus it sounds better. 
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Jul 14, 2021 14:20
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Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles is the funniest one.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:20
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Groovelord Neato posted:Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles is the funniest one. I'm a big fan of Canada's insistence that Beast Wars be changed to Beasties.
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Jul 14, 2021 14:53
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ReBoot, a show made in canada, being told it can't mention 'hockey' again because it's rude slang in some parts of the world will always be funny.
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Jul 14, 2021 17:21
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Fil5000 posted:I'm a big fan of Canada's insistence that Beast Wars be changed to Beasties. Beasties was made in Canada, so it's ya'll that decided to call it Beast Wars instead
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Jul 14, 2021 17:49
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Fil5000 posted:I'm a big fan of Canada's insistence that Beast Wars be changed to Beasties. That said, the same studio needing to rename "War Planets" "Shadow Raiders" for the Canadian market was an overall improvement in name quality. Yardbomb posted:ReBoot, a show made in canada, being told it can't mention 'hockey' again because it's rude slang in some parts of the world will always be funny. I think that was a directive imposed on them by the ABC network when they were still associated with it. I remember the studio had a lot of difficulties dealing with the American Broadcast Standards and Practices when they were producing the show for ABC, to the point that they kept slipping not-so-subtle digs at the network into the first two seasons. There was one episode in season 1 that centred around Dot trying to schedule entertainment for Enzo's birthday and she had to work with a Binome introduced as a "censor" who rejects any of the acts Dot likes for increasingly inane reasons. The only act the censor wholeheartedly approves of is a performance by an obvious riff on The Village People singing a song about how awesome "BS&P" (Broadcast Standards and Practices) is. Also in the last episode of the second season (Which was the last season of the show produced for ABC) there's a sequence where Megabyte double-crosses the protagonists after forming an uneasy alliance with them and orders a bunch of his military vehicles, called "Armored Binome Carries", to attack the protagonists. There this shot of one of the her4o-aligned background characters reacting to this turn of events by shouting "It's the ABCs! They6've turned on us!", which the creators later admitted was a direct jab at their poor experience working with the network. After being dropped by ABC and being primarily produced for Canadian network YTV, the show got noticeably darker in tone and was able to get away with a lot more in terms of violence and suggestive content. The first episode of season 3 specifically had the characters dealing with a game cube that was a send-up of Evil Dead that involved a lot more violence than the show could previously get away with, and also had Dot wearing a very suggestive Elvira outfit. Basically what I'm getting at is that Canadian broadcast standards are generally more lax about the content of animated shows, but get really weird about what they do choose to crack down on. Beast Wars/Beasties had a ton of gratuitous robot-violence, with characters regularly being blown apart and shot to smithereens and the Canadian networks were like "Sweet, awesome, go ahead!" but when it came to the program's actual title they were all "Whoah whoah whoah, I think having the word 'war' in the title might be a little too violent for our intended audience..."
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Jul 14, 2021 19:29
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Canadian broadcast standards also looked at all those horrific workplace safety ads where people get blown up or have their faces melted with boiling grease and went "yes these are fine to air at 7 in the evenings".
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Jul 14, 2021 19:36
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FreezingInferno posted:Canadian broadcast standards also looked at all those horrific workplace safety ads where people get blown up or have their faces melted with boiling grease and went "yes these are fine to air at 7 in the evenings". Oh I think that's something you're obliged to do as part of the commonwealth. The PSAs that used to get aired over here in the UK in the 70s and 80s were frequently like short horror films and they'd get dumped wherever there was ten minutes in the schedule that the broadcaster didn't have anything for. Here's a supercut of Apaches, a PSA about not playing on farms in which a lot of kids die in horrible ways! https://youtu.be/_we-3Uqu5sw
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Jul 14, 2021 19:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KryOYburlFI Oh Jimmy...
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Jul 14, 2021 20:02
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I wish my (re)introduction to terrifying PSAs wasnt through Nostalgia CriticFil5000 posted:Oh I think that's something you're obliged to do as part of the commonwealth. The PSAs that used to get aired over here in the UK in the 70s and 80s were frequently like short horror films and they'd get dumped wherever there was ten minutes in the schedule that the broadcaster didn't have anything for. Here's a supercut of Apaches, a PSA about not playing on farms in which a lot of kids die in horrible ways! Jesus christ I forgot about the girl offscreen crying for her mother while she dies from weedkiller burning up her insides.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:27
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how were British kids in the 70's not absolutely terrified of going outside
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Jul 14, 2021 20:28
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Him and that sodding Frisbee. I was terrified of substations despite never even remotely getting the chance to go near one. DeafNote posted:I wish my (re)introduction to terrifying PSAs wasnt through Nostalgia Critic They're all horrible but I think the slurry drowning is the worst.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:40
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FreezingInferno posted:how were British kids in the 70's not absolutely terrified of going outside https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/
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Jul 14, 2021 20:45
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Astar the Robot from Planet Danger PSA was great. Also those workplace safety PSAs Canada did very quickly turned from the outright horror of a woman getting her face boiled off in a kitchen to black comedy where a man is impaled on rebar, gets back up and then starts lecturing his colleagues.
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Jul 14, 2021 21:21
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Arcsquad12 posted:Astar the Robot from Planet Danger PSA was great. I came to a realization recently that, in hindsight, I have no idea what kind of message Astar was trying to teach children. It was produced by The War Amps, a nonprofit that provides support and assistance to amputees but it wasn't really trying to raise awareness about the people it was trying to help or tackle any particular thing that tends to lead to amputation, it was basically just saying "Hey kids, don't get your arm chopped off by accident!" which is the sort of message you can only respond to with a confused "Uh...sure?". Also, what was up with all those Canadian PSAs from the late 80s/early 90s trying to get kids not to cram whatever poo poo they happen to find lying on the ground into their gaping maws? I can remember three distinct PSAs from my childhood that tackled that subject that all aired around the same time: There was the iconic "Don'tcha Put it in Your Mouth" PSA, another one about a mom reading a story about a family of raccoons to her kid and a third one where two mouse puppets stumble across a mouse trap and the one of them says they should go ask someone they trust before touching it. Was there some kind of epidemic in the late 80s of Canadian children eating anything and everything they stumbled across?
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Jul 14, 2021 21:30
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Don't.
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Jul 14, 2021 21:43
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KingKalamari posted:I came to a realization recently that, in hindsight, I have no idea what kind of message Astar was trying to teach children. It was produced by The War Amps, a nonprofit that provides support and assistance to amputees but it wasn't really trying to raise awareness about the people it was trying to help or tackle any particular thing that tends to lead to amputation, it was basically just saying "Hey kids, don't get your arm chopped off by accident!" which is the sort of message you can only respond to with a confused "Uh...sure?". I'm guessing they counted towards the percentage of Canadian content that each station was required to air and were much cheaper than full length content.
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Jul 14, 2021 22:07
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The batman who laughs is fine if you don't take it seriously and treat it as comic book camp and that's how the Death Metal events treated him and the "evil batmen" idea too imo. The problem is that a lot of other writers took the idea more seriously and it crossed the line from campy exaggeration to grimdark instead Also Snyders JL run was great and had the coolest Superman moment in recent memory
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Jul 14, 2021 22:46
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KingKalamari posted:After being dropped by ABC and being primarily produced for Canadian network YTV, the show got noticeably darker in tone and was able to get away with a lot more in terms of violence and suggestive content. The first episode of season 3 specifically had the characters dealing with a game cube that was a send-up of Evil Dead that involved a lot more violence than the show could previously get away with, and also had Dot wearing a very suggestive Elvira outfit. Indeed, Dot could finally be modeled to have an actual bosom instead of a weird solid shelf on her chest because you can't actually have breasts on a cartoon character. And she couldn't hug Enzo because that would be incestuous which... said a lot about whatever S&P decided that.
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Jul 14, 2021 22:56
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KingKalamari posted:Basically what I'm getting at is that Canadian broadcast standards are generally more lax about the content of animated shows, but get really weird about what they do choose to crack down on. Beast Wars/Beasties had a ton of gratuitous robot-violence, with characters regularly being blown apart and shot to smithereens and the Canadian networks were like "Sweet, awesome, go ahead!" but when it came to the program's actual title they were all "Whoah whoah whoah, I think having the word 'war' in the title might be a little too violent for our intended audience..." Yeah, the example I cite repeatedly is War Planets getting whacked for having "war" in its title and rebranded as Shadow Raiders, but the CRTC had no problem with it portraying straight up genocide, cultural diaspora, and unvarnished depictions and criticism of racial animus and nationalism.
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Jul 15, 2021 00:54
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I found another one! This guy explains technical details behind old games. This one is about the thing you may have seen speedrunners do, where they do a bunch of crazy stuff with Yoshi that makes the level end early. https://youtu.be/1SGfYkXoGjg Let me know if this guy is a eugenicist.
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Jul 15, 2021 00:58
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I completely missed this great breakdown from Sideways of a Stephen Soundheim classic, Into the Woods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b6OEjF4s1M
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Jul 15, 2021 01:33
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Nuns with Guns posted:I completely missed this great breakdown from Sideways of a Stephen Soundheim classic, Into the Woods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6uH1ruRx1M
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Jul 15, 2021 05:35
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My backyard is a giant backyard!! *sobs*
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Jul 15, 2021 06:41
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Jose's newest sitcom retrospective is out and its on The Cosby Show.
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Jul 15, 2021 08:41
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In the UK, Sgt. Slaughter (as the GI Joe character/toy, not the actual wrestler) was called Sgt. Slammer, while in some other parts of Europe he was called Sgt. Driller, since the word "Slaughter" was just deemed too violent I guess. In Belgium, the Steve Martin/Rick Moranis comedy "My Blue Heaven" was renamed "The Foolish Captive" because there was already a (bad) Belgian movie with that name.
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Jul 15, 2021 10:24
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Bad Wolf posted:In Belgium, the Steve Martin/Rick Moranis comedy "My Blue Heaven" was renamed "The Foolish Captive" because there was already a (bad) Belgian movie with that name. in Germany "Moana" was renamed into "Vaiana" because the original title shares a name with a documentary about a porn actress
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Jul 15, 2021 15:51
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I think thats the case for a lot of European countries like mine as well. We also used 'Le Mans 66' instead of Ford VS Ferrari, though I dont know which one is the original title.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:04
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See, I thought "Le Mans '66" was a more evocative/ interesting title than "Ford v Ferrari," which made me think more of a certain superhero-movie-turned-meme than anything else. Gotta dumb it down for the Yanks, I guess. Bad Wolf posted:In the UK, Sgt. Slaughter (as the GI Joe character/toy, not the actual wrestler) was called Sgt. Slammer, while in some other parts of Europe he was called Sgt. Driller, since the word "Slaughter" was just deemed too violent I guess. Even as a kid I thought this was just the weirdest cross-promotion.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:18
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If I'm remembering rightly, a lot of the UK censorship stuff was due to a larger hysteria going on at the time around the content of media, spearheaded in particular by one Mary Whitehouse. There's a lotta stories from around that era of the weird, weird directions creatives would have to take to get things past the reactionary fossils on regulation boards.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:40
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SteelMentor posted:If I'm remembering rightly, a lot of the UK censorship stuff was due to a larger hysteria going on at the time around the content of media, spearheaded in particular by one Mary Whitehouse. this aint CineD, but I highly recommend the movie Censor if anyone is interested in the video nasty era. RLM did a review but seriously, just go watch it.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:50
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That Batman cartoon is underrated. I kinda get it being between BTAS and The Brave and the Bold but man I liked it.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:17
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Also on PSAs this was the one that got me growing up https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3FwLlKpKjHU
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Jul 15, 2021 17:24
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PSAs are awesome. I tried making a PYF thread for them once but it fizzled out. Here’s a good complation from a channel with lots of good PSA compilations. https://youtu.be/AhY0orOFSmc
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Jul 15, 2021 17:26
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I feel like I asked before, dunno got deja Vu about the question, did anyone ever make a good video on why people hate Scrappy Doo so much? Even as a kid I eventually picked up on the formula that it's always someone in a costume so I was always on his side.
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Jul 15, 2021 20:42
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RareAcumen posted:I feel like I asked before, dunno got deja Vu about the question, did anyone ever make a good video on why people hate Scrappy Doo so much? Even as a kid I eventually picked up on the formula that it's always someone in a costume so I was always on his side. There’s definitely a video about this that also goes into how completely artificial and hindsight the hate actually is, but I cannot for the life of me remember who did it or what it was called
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