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They advertised it like crazy so unless something happened literally a day or two ago I have to imagine it's just Adult Swim doing a little fun stunt. I hope so at least. I checked out after 3 episodes so that I wouldn't burn out on it. Good show and I love the variety in animation and art.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:But, like I said, it's not bad. It's just not good. If you want a show to put on in the background while you do chores then you might as well put on Crossing Swords. Their are better options, there are worse options, and somewhere in the middle is Crossing Swords just sort of existing. I kind of like the show okay, but I do wish Jameela Jamil's character would come back. I also kind of like Blossum.
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TwoPair posted:all the ads made me think this was gonna be a no-budget garbage show but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it so I hope this isn't some sign of them giving up on it instantly. It seems they want to put it on HBO Max early. https://twitter.com/adultswim/status/1480427190885961729?t=FUmK-Z6yrLq6B28mV1hp1w&s=19
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I love how Smiling Friends is a vehicle for Zach and Michael to utilize old ideas they had workshopped years prior into fully fleshed out animation. Of course the nursing baby from the pilot, but also the whole Halloween episode thing was clearly based off Zach's old idea of a mom feeding her kids a monkey like a pizza where they rip it to pieces really fast while eating it alive I love this show so much. Just unhinged in a great way
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Miserable Maid posted:I love how Smiling Friends is a vehicle for Zach and Michael to utilize old ideas they had workshopped years prior into fully fleshed out animation. yeah. it has lots and lots and lots of oneyplays jokes from the hammer jokes to homuculus and other weird poo poo. it also reminds me alot of Aqua teen too which is nice. as much as i like stuff that has a throughline and character development along with weird edgy humor mixed with heart and poo poo(the various vivzipop stuff and old simspsons and rick and morty and etc) i do like just weird hosed up shows with lots and lots of jokes hitting all at once. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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Wow, they got a couple of VA guest spots in there that surprised the hell out of me, but make total sense. Prime example: the tail end of the Christmas episode.
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Warbird posted:Wow, they got a couple of VA guest spots in there that surprised the hell out of me, but make total sense. Prime example: the tail end of the Christmas episode. so who were the mascots
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Warbird posted:Wow, they got a couple of VA guest spots in there that surprised the hell out of me, but make total sense. Prime example: the tail end of the Christmas episode. Also, they covered some topics in the show that made me laugh but also think "are they just goofing around or do they have some chuddy beliefs?" Like, it was veering into a little South Park anti-censorship stuff for a bit.
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JazzFlight posted:I liked it a lot but I saw the name Harry Partridge in the voice cast which I assume is the animator. I think I remember I tried to avoid his stuff recently for some reason, like he got cancelled for something? I can't remember what. I remember I just didn't really like his animations on YouTube in general. I dont think anything is chuddy per say or south park level dickhead poo poo. its more just weird mixed bag internet humor but slightly more mature then their past stuff. I did like them mocking the uber doomer types though.
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Harry had a dipshit anti-vax/anti-lockdown phase IIRC e: I can't find the tweets anymore so I could be mistaken, but I remember him tweeting something really stupid and then his replies full of chuds going "BASED!" ah right he is still buds with JonTron and supported his anti-vax skepticism https://twitter.com/HappyHarryToons/status/1452768393178845191 and oney is a transphobe honestly the harry thing is a couple of degrees of separation so whatever, but oney sucks The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I dont think anything is chuddy per say or south park level dickhead poo poo. its more just weird mixed bag internet humor but slightly more mature then their past stuff. I did like them mocking the uber doomer types though.
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I mean you can’t tell me The Simpsons isn’t a great example of a show over-correcting its subversive or underground comedy until it retains not a trace of what made the show funny in the first place, it’s not like that is something has literally never happened. Feels a bit reactionary to immediately leap to the CHUD conclusion, IMO.
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Bust Rodd posted:I mean you can’t tell me The Simpsons isn’t a great example of a show over-correcting its subversive or underground comedy until it retains not a trace of what made the show funny in the first place, it’s not like that is something has literally never happened. Feels a bit reactionary to immediately leap to the CHUD conclusion, IMO. I still really enjoyed it, but it made me feel like I was laughing along with the wrong people for the wrong reasons at times.
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JazzFlight posted:The main one early on is the Mr. Frog one where he gets cancelled. At least the main storyline shows that Mr. Frog is actually a bad dude, so it wasn't really a mistake to take him off the air, but they also toss in the TV executive who wants to tone down all the content because it's too "toxic" and eventually results in something that isn't funny. The argument that you have to be edgy or intentionally piss people off to be funny is kind of a fallacy like the whole concept of "cancel culture" in general. i dont think its that chuddy. making fun of dumb over corrections in media at times following controversies(not even explicitly racist poo poo) and the dipshit execs in charge. Bust Rodd posted:I mean you can’t tell me The Simpsons isn’t a great example of a show over-correcting its subversive or underground comedy until it retains not a trace of what made the show funny in the first place, it’s not like that is something has literally never happened. Feels a bit reactionary to immediately leap to the CHUD conclusion, IMO. yeah that was my feel. it feels like a bit of a "this is what folks in show buensess deal with with some micro managing executive types who thinks he is a writer". JazzFlight posted:The blackface joke at the end of the Halloween episode kinda reinforced the idea, though. It seemed to reveal more of a mentality behind the show instead of just a couple jokes here and there. i kinda liked that joke simply because it was such a weird swerve at the very end and because it payed off on a joke earlier. its also a redone bit of some joke zack made about someone pulling a animal apart like a pizza. i get your point though. that being said. i dont think there is some secret chud malice behind it. its just because most of the writers are weird fucks from online and basicaly grew up on weird shithole sites and that rubs off on the humor for better or worse. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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I haven’t seen it, is the joke literally “our character is doing blackface” or is it an It’s Always Sunny/Community style joke where the joke is “it is wrong to do Blackface and the comedy comes from the white characters not understanding that” because I see a ton of that online and it’s very confusing. Getting mad at a show for making fun of racists is weird, but if it’s really just like a “ha ha black people” joke then yeah gently caress that show lol
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Bust Rodd posted:I haven’t seen it, is the joke literally “our character is doing blackface” or is it an It’s Always Sunny/Community style joke where the joke is “it is wrong to do Blackface and the comedy comes from the white characters not understanding that” because I see a ton of that online and it’s very confusing. Getting mad at a show for making fun of racists is weird, but if it’s really just like a “ha ha black people” joke then yeah gently caress that show lol here is the joke sorta in context. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2u2CiqWsuw basicaly the daemon monster chasing pim runs into the halloween party and a rotoscope man accuses him of wearing black face and then a bit from some old zach joke insues. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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e;fb It’s a callback to an earlier joke largely about how people who wear face paint at Halloween tend to get in trouble down the line; up and down a Trudeau gag. The implementation itself seems like a criticism of how cancel culture does lead to mob mentality, but also does have good results insofar as the killing of a literal demon. Idk, frankly it really seems like a “we have 30 seconds to wrap this up and I want to use that eaten alive thing” more so than a concentrated message. E - Didn’t realize that dude was rotoscoped the first time through, I love that they just sort of do whatever as far as styles Warbird fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 11, 2022 |
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Warbird posted:e;fb yeah. i think zach said they basicaly signed off one whatever ideas thrown at them art wise.
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Binged smiling friends and its 100mph gag/joke fest. No idea if they could have made this show when the oney videos came out first. Kinda funny seeing all this nostalgic old random internet hyper poo poo on tv. Hopefully the fanbase doesnt make this a rick and Morty. Though rick and Morty kinda wanted to be a pseudo intellectual trash on purpose from the get go
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Binged smiling friends and its 100mph gag/joke fest. No idea if they could have made this show when the oney videos came out first. Kinda funny seeing all this nostalgic old random internet hyper poo poo on tv. Hopefully the fanbase doesnt make this a rick and Morty. thats harmons whole thing. this isn't gonna be that. i could see it maybe having an some longer plots or recurring poo poo. but i think its more aqua teen type deal but with way more weird small jokes. i still think cusak made the funniest rick and Morty thing but thats just me. i think rick and morty is hit or miss, some of them are great a bunch are meh. i think the newer stuff is better and i weirdly like the evil morty stuff.
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The cutesack rick n morthy adventure was for sure the best thing, but im biased. I already enjoyed YoLo and all the old Michael animations on YouTube
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:The cutesack rick n morthy adventure was for sure the best thing, but im biased. I already enjoyed YoLo and all the old Michael animations on YouTube
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The 7th Guest posted:Harry had a dipshit anti-vax/anti-lockdown phase IIRC Jontron's old stuff is still often hilarious, but the moment he became an open CHUD all his new stuff became terrible(how much correlation this has with it also being around the time he stopped doing video gaming based videos is probably something a smarter person than I could analyze), it's like being open about being a terrible person just kills any talent you have
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:The cutesack rick n morthy adventure was for sure the best thing, but im biased. I already enjoyed YoLo and all the old Michael animations on YouTube no your right. drrockso20 posted:Jontron's old stuff is still often hilarious, but the moment he became an open CHUD all his new stuff became terrible(how much correlation this has with it also being around the time he stopped doing video gaming based videos is probably something a smarter person than I could analyze), it's like being open about being a terrible person just kills any talent you have yeah, stamper ended up the same way. apparently he broke off with the newgrounds gang because everyone is successful and he is known for drawing porn and weird hosed up parodies from 10 years ago. yeah, jontron makes me sad because he is clearly a moron who just bought into chud stuff. sucks because i always found him funnier then arin.
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Warbird posted:e;fb I think it's also maybe based off their friend Jeff, when they made fun of him for an old Halloween photo of him as a child, dressed as a Smurf in blue paint. But the oddly dark paint + crappy 80's film made it look super unfortunate. They joked about putting it online to make him look like a bigot and get him cancelled JazzFlight posted:The blackface joke at the end of the Halloween episode kinda reinforced the idea, though. It seemed to reveal more of a mentality behind the show instead of just a couple jokes here and there. You need to be careful with this kind of thinking. It's a quick way to constantly be miserable and afraid... Always remember that it's not just evil chuds making fun, some are just criticizing their own parties or politics.
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The Simpsons started out as subversive and counter-culture way back in the 90s, and it's not so much that it changed and mellowed, but that the entire rest of the world moved on while it stayed in the same place, so now there's a lot of weird archaic things baked into its DNA, and a lot of modern audiences don't realize it was even supposed to be subversive because the things it was subverting died off long enough ago that many writers don't even remember what was subversive. So now it's just one of the oldest shows on television and the biggest adult cartoon, and often the writers just play safe perpetuating it as what they thought it always was, so when it has a dumb or bad idea, it's putting all that authority as a big show with a big place in pop culture behind it.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The Simpsons started out as subversive and counter-culture way back in the 90s, and it's not so much that it changed and mellowed, but that the entire rest of the world moved on while it stayed in the same place, so now there's a lot of weird archaic things baked into its DNA, and a lot of modern audiences don't realize it was even supposed to be subversive because the things it was subverting died off long enough ago that many writers don't even remember what was subversive. Nah, I don't think that is entirely the case. Characters used to have a little bit of depth, but now every character is incredibly one dimensional. Like Lisa used to be actually wrong some of the time, but now she is pretty much never wrong according to the showrunners. If you disagree with Lisa, you are supposed to be stupid. Also, it absolutely worships every guest star that comes onto the show, and that only really started in season 10. Like the show might lightly make fun of someone, but most of the episode is dedicated to show how amazing and awesome the guest star is.
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To illustrate the two points above in one short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpa8fLQe7O0
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The United States posted:To illustrate the two points above in one short clip: That’s when the show ended. …dear god that Lisa line, ugh.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Nah, I don't think that is entirely the case. Characters used to have a little bit of depth, but now every character is incredibly one dimensional. Like Lisa used to be actually wrong some of the time, but now she is pretty much never wrong according to the showrunners. If you disagree with Lisa, you are supposed to be stupid. The Lisa thing more than anything has to do with the fact that her VA only voices Lisa(all the other main cast VA's voice at least a couple other characters besides their respective Simpson) but still gets paid the same as the others so to maximize the value they keep giving Lisa big A & B plots no matter how dumb they are* *Which probably in turn has to do with the fact that they're often really half assed, it's on record that they often have to rewrite episodes cause they'll finish a script and then realize they had completely forgotten to include Lisa or Marge in it at all
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Oh cool! Wasn't sure and didn't want to come in and gush just to find out no one here liked it, haha I'm actually kind of surprised at how much I'm enjoying it? I'm not sure how to describe it, but aesthetically it's not my thing at all. Like, if someone had just shown me a thumbnail of the characters I'd just bounce right off it. I was visiting a friend and he put that on while he made us dinner and now I'm hooked. I love the Broadway talent they brought in and I'm just genuinely impressed at the quality for what is basically an indie production Also I love Moxxie  Edit: basically it does the Bojack thing where you think it's going to all be stupid but then drops in a genuine bit of depth to it's characters...while also still being pretty considerably stupid. Happy Landfill fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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The United States posted:To illustrate the two points above in one short clip: Lisa NO! It's also worth mentioning that something about the art style of modern Simpsons bugs the poo poo out of me. It's clearly got a budget behind it but somehow it still looks like complete rear end.
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Happy Landfill posted:Oh cool! Wasn't sure and didn't want to come in and gush just to find out no one here liked it, haha Gotcha! Twas a trap all along! You shall now be shamed and ridiculed for your joy! Just kidding, I like it too. Moxxie is a delight, it's been great hearing Richard Steven Horvitz voice a new character. It feels like he was everywhere for a while, and then stopped showing up in things for a bit, and then BOOM here come Moxxie and I get to listen to him again.
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The animation and the aesthetic are like Nectar to me but TBQH I’m waiting for a really good couple hits of LSD to really watch the show and sink into it.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Gotcha! Twas a trap all along! You shall now be shamed and ridiculed for your joy! It's funny because I almost want to refer to this show as Invader Zim for Grown Ups, but not entirely because he's in it. Something about it just makes me feel like if you were super in to Zim when it was on HB might be up your ally. It might have partially to do with both shows having a really distinct art style and aesthetic? I don't know. Though, hearing Horvitz shout profanities is pretty amazing and something I don't think I've heard from him. I also love hearing him sing shmoopy love songs about his wife I just really can't wait to see where all of this goes, especially after episode 7. Just the back of forth of Blitz's and Stolas' faces at the club was really well done. I really want to know how Blitz came to adopt Luna. I just feel like there's a good story there Edit: Bust Rodd posted:The animation and the aesthetic are like Nectar to me but TBQH I’m waiting for a really good couple hits of LSD to really watch the show and sink into it. I'm imagining Stolas's You Will Be Okay sequence on LSD and holy poo poo man Also, Dad Stolas 
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The United States posted:To illustrate the two points above in one short clip: I guess what I was getting at was that the newer writers don't really remember what the Simpsons was subverting so they don't know the show was trying to be subversive with their references, so they end up just uncritically making references to be like the show they remembered when growing up and had no idea of what archaic things it was making fun of. Although I guess the nadir of the Simpsons to me was when they were trying to make fun of college SJWs, making a bunch of obscure references that only the writers themselves would get because they all went to Ivy League colleges, somehow made Mr. Burns the one sane man of a scene, and also didn't really get how The Simpsons has had an influence on the pop culture view of nuclear power. It was very weird and very bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1s3C__3YIA
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