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SlothfulCobra posted:Hey Arnold also did a Veterans' Day special where both of the veterans it celebrated were non-combatants. I guess the show was largely about the sides of things most people don't think about, including war. Very weird show. And Arnold's grandpa disabled an entire Wehrmact division on addition to giving Hitler a wedgie.
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because nothing is truly dead https://twitter.com/THR/status/1491509925763338251 e: john dimaggio isn't coming back (for now) Vertical Lime fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Feb 9, 2022 |
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Just let Billy West die, Jesus Christ
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Aiming to be the first show with double digit series finale episodes
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Once upon a time I would have been excited for this but Disenchantment has stripped me of the ability to hope for this. Maybe we'll get lucky and the Animaniacs magic hits twice, maybe Hulu is the spice.
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Pigbuster posted:Aiming to be the first show with double digit series finale episodes How many is this now? Between two different networks, the direct to DVD movies, and the weird way that they kept barely bringing on another series they're at 4 or 5 now right?
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Happy Landfill posted:Arnold's grandparents were the best Honestly what little info has leaked out about Craig Bartlett's ideas for The Patakis as a concept over the years has me glad it didn't get picked up cause yeah it probably would have just been a mediocre Daria knockoff if it had ended up on MTV like originally planned and if they toned it down to fit on Nickelodeon it probably would have just come off as a As Told By Ginger knockoff And of course doing it now just wouldn't work, since one of the core aspects of The Patakis concept is that Arnold and Helga would have broken up, which would be a no sell to a fandom that had to wait 14 years for them to get together in the first place, would make more sense just to continue Hey Arnold from where Jungle Movie left off instead
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secretly best girl posted:Once upon a time I would have been excited for this but Disenchantment has stripped me of the ability to hope for this. They're apparently bringing back a bunch of the writing team that was absent during the Comedy Central revival (and who aren't on Disenchantment) so I have SOME hope.
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Bust Rodd posted:Just let Billy West die, Jesus Christ They're going to actually stick him in one of those Futurama head jars
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muscles like this! posted:Smiling Friends and Birdgirl were renewed for new seasons. Happy for Smiling Friends and interested in a Birdgirl season 2. I don't think I liked the first season on the whole, but it felt like they finally had it kind of set up by the finale. Not sure why they hosed around so much when they just had 6 episodes but maybe season 2 will work out better.
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muscles like this! posted:Smiling Friends and Birdgirl were renewed for new seasons. Both shows I'm excited to see more of, alongside Futurama. They could pull it off! Bust Rodd posted:Just let Billy West die, Jesus Christ Geez, ya don't gotta kill him off. He can just move on to a new show and voice new characters if it's bad and gets cancelled. Again.
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Happy Landfill posted:https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1491511284344492037?s=20&t=vwTvuBXlku1TJc2fNJdGeg Well, feeling less optimistic about this reboot now.
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Happy Landfill posted:https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1491511284344492037?s=20&t=vwTvuBXlku1TJc2fNJdGeg Holding off final judgement until the actual show drops but him not being a part of things makes me feel... not optimistic about this one.
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readingatwork posted:Holding off final judgement until the actual show drops but him not being a part of things makes me feel... not optimistic about this one. At this point I'm pretty much assuming it'll be bad.
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Only acceptable way to move forward is to just ditch Bender and bring in a new character that is similar but distinct. Trying to get a new person is just going to sound like garbage.
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Man Futurama was great, too bad they only made four seasons.
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muscles like this! posted:They must have really lowballed him or something. DiMaggio is literally working for them right now on How badly did they gently caress this up that he isn't willing to walk five metres down the hall from his current voice booth to theirs?
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Between Rugrats and Lamb Chop I learned plenty of Hanukkah and Passover songs that deeply annoyed my grandmother who thought that they were corrupting her good Christian grandson  I imagine it was quite the surprise for Lamb Chop.
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Data Graham posted:This has always fascinated me. Just the whole concept of every show having a unique style, just there BEING as many unique styles as there are shows, or artists (and then when a show gets greenlit, you have to hire an army of artists to mimic the show's originator's style perfectly). China Illinois: I know Brad Neely was involved with the animation but they really ruined the charm of the shorts. The writing was good (Vernon Chatman of Wonder Showzen and Xavier contributed) but it didn't have the same feel at all. Adult Swim could have taken a gamble and produced something completely unique in the history of adult animation (or any professional animation maybe) by sticking with the slideshow format. Here's the wiki on it: quote:Animation is done at Titmouse, Inc. in Los Angeles.[30] When asked about the slideshow presentation of his animated shorts in an interview with The College Hill Independent, Neely felt that the approach was not "an aesthetic choice, it was sort of the only thing I was able to do. I'm not an animator."[31] He stated that, out of "ignorance and not having a whole lot of options", he hand-drew each frame on paper and scanned them into a computer; he felt the restrictions "really paid off and I enjoyed the form. ... But, it never was something I felt I was needing to defend or stick to, or that it represented me artistically."[31] Other changes to the art style from the shorts were dictated by animation director, Mike L. Mayfield.[20] Weidenfeld stated that Mayfield "was instrumental in turning Brad's original style into what we had the first season."[20] Among them were the addition of pupils which, according to Weidenfeld, some of Neely's fans were unhappy over.[11] Neely states that "I had a long run of drawing those Orphan Annie style of eyes. That worked well for print. But as soon as things move, the characters start to look like zombies."[11] Original style for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9GoWGnFzGA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc The static images allowed him to add tons of gags around visual transitions, sign gags changing between frames, weird facial expressions, etc. The "polished" result looked generic and cheap (though smoothly animated)
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I think China, IL is the single funniest show that’s ever been on Adult Swim except for maybe Sealab in its prime.
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It's quite good as a standalone project, I'm just hyping the precursor "motion comics" shorts. Like how can you pull off this joke in animation? It's a voiced comic strip     
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For the record, AS aired the pilot on real TV and it was a slideshow. Maybe there was backlash? Feels like the 32/64 bit console generation when Sony told sprite animation games to go gently caress themselves because Americans only want that sweet sweet low-count polygon animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzYnlHZeSjw
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Speaking of Brad Neely, if you're not already aware, Wizard People, Dear Reader is a product of when he got drunk, watched Harry Potter 1 for the first time, wrote down a new script to go with what he was watching, and now his recording can be played with the original audio off to make way for a new story, re-contextualizing everything that's on screen, complete with narration and sound effects. I never got into Harry Potter, but I watch this at least once every year and so should you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok5ibUzjkOo&list=PL78FDE0E5FBE5F270&index=1
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Come And See posted:Speaking of Brad Neely, if you're not already aware, Wizard People, Dear Reader is a product of when he got drunk, watched Harry Potter 1 for the first time, wrote down a new script to go with what he was watching, and now his recording can be played with the original audio off to make way for a new story, re-contextualizing everything that's on screen, complete with narration and sound effects. quote:"More of my gold?" thought harry quote:"What are you kids doing here" There were YT videos around 10 years ago with the original audio (minus voices) mixed in under Brad's narration, it ruled hard. Could only find three like that now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVht51JhVk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLZbBG0UNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA0mqYkowks FYI there are at least two versions of the narration, don't remember which is better or why
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Happy Landfill posted:https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1491511284344492037?s=20&t=vwTvuBXlku1TJc2fNJdGeg Professor: "Good news, everyone! I was able to mostly fix Bender's voice box after that terrible accident he had. You'll barely be able to notice the difference!" Bender (in Chris Pratt's voice): "Hey guys!"
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DiMaggio’s Twitter right now is him retweeting people saying they need him back as Bender. It’s 100% bargaining right now. Plus he’s a main on Disenchantment, so he’s still super friendly with Groening.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:DiMaggio is literally working for them right now on The_Doctor posted:DiMaggio’s Twitter right now is him retweeting people saying they need him back as Bender. It’s 100% bargaining right now. Plus he’s a main on Disenchantment, so he’s still super friendly with Groening. It's genuinely, painfully baffling that they're going through with this without having DiMaggio all set and firmly in their corner yet. It's like going through with another season of the Simpsons, and somehow they don't have Dan Castellaneta on board yet. Just how do you drop the ball this badly. Edit: Using the ultimate shambling zombie of a show is probably not the best example but I am too tired to come up with a better one right now. IBroughttheFunk fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Feb 10, 2022 |
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Happy Landfill posted:https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1491511284344492037?s=20&t=vwTvuBXlku1TJc2fNJdGeg I'm excited to see all the gang back together including my favourite robot, Bonder.
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He definitely has a point he should be getting paid big money for this. Fry may be the main character but Bender is the face of the show and that is entirely on his performance. Like the loving image they're using to announce the show being back is Bender.
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They'll just bring this guy back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mLSVsvGMiU
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Bender's actually Flexo right? They could run with that throwaway gag and build new story beats, like the stupid Millenium Falcon dice in Star Wars
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John DiMaggio is inarguably a Billy West/Tom Kenny/Tara Strong level talent that deserves whatever he’s asking for. Also isn’t there a Voice Actors Guild? Isn’t there, like, a certain amount of money he has to make just for being in the business for 30+ years?
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