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Ghost Leviathan posted:Weirdly enough that seems like an excellent way to describe Disney in general for years at this point. Sora is not a very bright person! He's actually kind of dumb! But he has the biggest heart around and can and will befriend almost anyone in the multiverse upon first meeting them, and if you gently caress with any of his friends or anyone he cares about or even threaten to do such a thing he WILL cut through reality itself just to get his hands on you and beat the absolute poo poo out of your sorry darkness-filled rear end. Sora rules.
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Calaveron posted:This is one of the best episodes to showcase what a weirdo they let Mickey be in those shorts This is also another good one too, though not so much for how much of a weirdo they let Mickey be but how much they are totally okay with just completely loving him up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMVwRZGH58I
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:I would say they've moved him more to the Spongebob Squarepants model of "such a do-gooder it becomes a personality flaw and causes trouble" Kinda funny people still call that 'recent', from eight years ago. Still love that punchline, though. It reminds me of old-school shorts in presentation, but it's got modern-day cartoon sensibilities for snappy timing and structure.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 14:59 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Kinda funny people still call that 'recent', from eight years ago. Still love that punchline, though. It reminds me of old-school shorts in presentation, but it's got modern-day cartoon sensibilities for snappy timing and structure. the'yre still making more of them, they just changed the name to The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse because the voice of Minnie died. They also made a Singaporean version which is not very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWddaS3KWAQ
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Vandar posted:Sora is not a very bright person! He's actually kind of dumb! I think this is honestly the thing I like the best about Sora as a character. He spends maybe 40 seconds of the series brooding or angry at people he's supposed to be friends with, and the rest of the time being just the dumbest, happiest motherfucker.
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Neito posted:I think this is honestly the thing I like the best about Sora as a character. He spends maybe 40 seconds of the series brooding or angry at people he's supposed to be friends with, and the rest of the time being just the dumbest, happiest motherfucker. Most of the time he's pleading with his angst friend to stop being so angst, and that's in one game
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 17:23 |
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The best Mickey Mouse cartoon is the one where he goes on a roadtrip with a trailer along with Donald and Goofy and they eat corn on the cob like typewriters.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 17:49 |
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I have literally never been exposed to any Mickey Mouse/Goofy/Donald Duck/whatever cartoon in my life, not even in passing. I am 30 years old.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 17:52 |
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I'm not even trying to be like 'heh, you losers watch TV?' or whatever because it's not like I never did. It's not like I never watched cartoons. Just never Disney ones. I honestly don't understand how it happened. e: and even then I watched loads of Disney films
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 17:55 |
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Same, honestly. It probably depends a lot on where and when you grew up, and whether your parents had any nostalgia for the characters. Were there any Disney cartoons on CBBC in the 90's? For me Mickey Mouse was only ever a mascot for Disney as a company rather than an actual character that might have adventures or traits. Someone I learned about more through cultural osmosis than any actual exposure to any cartoons.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 18:01 |
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My only exposure to Mickey Mouse was the castle of illusion and world of illusion games for the sega and I loved those dearly
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Tenebrais posted:Were there any Disney cartoons on CBBC in the 90's? I don't remember any being on terrestrial TV. I think they just weren't really a thing in Britain. You wouldn't think that would necessarily matter though, because I do remember watching Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry. But those are actually funny.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 18:07 |
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John Murdoch posted:The best Mickey Mouse cartoon is the one where he goes on a roadtrip with a trailer along with Donald and Goofy and they eat corn on the cob like typewriters. This is true. And I can't help but do it myself, and now my daughter does it. She's seen like, one typewriter in her life. Talk about memes.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:I'm not even trying to be like 'heh, you losers watch TV?' or whatever because it's not like I never did. It's not like I never watched cartoons. Just never Disney ones. I honestly don't understand how it happened. I am in my late 30s in Disney Channel in its early carnations would play old Mickey cartoons so I did get SOME exposure that way but to be honest like other people said, they were boring. Disney Channel late 80s and early 90s bumpers were amazing too, as were MTVs.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I am in my late 30s in Disney Channel in its early carnations would play old Mickey cartoons so I did get SOME exposure that way but to be honest like other people said, they were boring. When I got bored and put together a Plex server, one of the first things I sought out was MTV, Toonami, and Adult Swim bumps and in-house commercials.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 18:37 |
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Did you never have a day when your math teacher was out sick and the sub played Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land on one of tv wheelie carts?
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Neito posted:When I got bored and put together a Plex server, one of the first things I sought out was MTV, Toonami, and Adult Swim bumps and in-house commercials. My brain gets me obssesed with the bumpers from when I was a child so if this is helpful here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJAAYijU_NA
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ishikabibble posted:The recent Disney shorts are basically going back to that 'Mickey is a lazy jackass who generally makes his own trouble'. Okay these are actually funny, I am extremely pleased, thank you
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 18:48 |
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The thing with the old Disney shorts is that they were kept in The Warner Brothers cartoons on the other hand were shown five days a week in the after school "we can show these old cartoons to kids for cheap" hours, and then for an hour on Saturday mornings. Both were originally meant to be shown before feature films for everyone, but the Disney ones were mostly tamed down by Walt's insistence on a tamer humor than the other toons. The Tex Avery toons were a direct reaction to go to the opposite extreme.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 19:15 |
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Mickey Mouse actually made the transition from genuine cartoon character who stars in shorts and drives the action to company mascot used for company mascot purposes pretty quickly because his do-gooder persona increased very steadily throughout the 30s and by the 40s writers had a really hard time writing a story he could actually be interesting in so if he did show up it was just to be the sane man while Donald and Goofy were actually funny.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Mickey Mouse actually made the transition from genuine cartoon character who stars in shorts and drives the action to company mascot used for company mascot purposes pretty quickly because his do-gooder persona increased very steadily throughout the 30s and by the 40s writers had a really hard time writing a story he could actually be interesting in so if he did show up it was just to be the sane man while Donald and Goofy were actually funny. Sometimes you need an Abbott to make your Costello shine
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 20:32 |
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christmas boots posted:Sometimes you need an Abbott to make your Costello shine Honestly, Donald is a better Abbott Mickey just kind of sucks
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 20:39 |
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My parents got me some of the old mickey mouse cartoons on VHS and when Disney came through on cable I could catch some of the old cartoons late at night. Having access to the old cartoons was one of the main reasons I got Disney+.
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Burkion posted:Mickey just kind of sucks
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 20:57 |
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No, European Mickey rules. https://twitter.com/Danny8bit/status/1254901931450855430?s=20&t=BWTgnJdoR04gnKnABxjL0A
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 21:01 |
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I really like the mickeys where his face is paper white and he looks like a cartoon mouse and do not like the mickeys where his face is white guy beige and he looks like a Jimmy buffet fan had a teleported accident with a mouse
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 21:09 |
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Israeli TV used to have Disney shorts and I vaguely remember at least two Donald Duck ones and zero Mickey ones. "Apple core!" "Furthermore!..." "Who is your friend?" "Me! AAAHHHGGGGH"
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 21:12 |
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Mickey is a relic of the kind of lovely cartoons they made in the early 20th century, where just the fact that things were animated was enough to make people split their sides. "Look Muriel, that cloud has a FACE on it! I think I've poo poo myself laughing again!"
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 21:20 |
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Wasn’t Disney a pay cable channel in the early 80s in the states? I know my parents pirated it off our kiddie pool sized satellite dish out in the forest, and then made VHS tapes* out of a bunch of movies that became the fabric of my childhood, but when we moved into town and had to cut expenses, we stopped getting the Disney Channel. Maybe it was on a premium tier? I also remember going on road trips to cities west of here, and inevitably we’d get to the hotel right as Disney Afternoon started, which was an extra road trip treat for child me. *we moved into town after our house in the forest got burglarized. The thieves took the VCR containing our pirate copy of Robin Hood, possibly saving me from a life in the furry fandom, as well as the remote for the satellite dish. The night before, my dad had been showing one of my uncles how he could get unscrambled porn if he used the right coordinates, and then turned the TV off. That meant we were stuck with 24/7 porn on the TV the thieves failed to jack, as 3 year old DRJ got increasingly upset about not being able to watch Fraggle Rock. My parents eventually paid a guy to come out and physically move the dish to point at a family friendly channel, because it was cheaper than replacing the remote.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 23:04 |
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The disney channel was certainly on the premium tier cable package in the 80/90s because I remember being able to watch it (and I think cartoon network at first?) because my mom’s house had a higher cable package than my dad’s. It was also all on an east coast schedule which did not help my inability to understand tv scheduling in general in the west. Now that I think about it it was satellite tv because I seem to recall issues when it got stormy or something.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 23:15 |
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Where I grew up it was a huge flex to say you had the Disney channel
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 23:26 |
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Im glad I never got into Disney channel shows after all those behind the scenes stories of Dan Schneider being a weirdo perv freely. There is no way in hell that man isn't the father of Jamie Lynn's baby, but that fact won't be released until her next book I guess.
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That was Nickelodeon's skeleton in their closet.
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Tweak posted:Now that I think about it it was satellite tv because I seem to recall issues when it got stormy or something. They were at war with Dish for years and would only allow them to broadcast the SD signal.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Wasn’t Disney a pay cable channel in the early 80s in the states? I know my parents pirated it off our kiddie pool sized satellite dish out in the forest, and then made VHS tapes* out of a bunch of movies that became the fabric of my childhood, but when we moved into town and had to cut expenses, we stopped getting the Disney Channel. Maybe it was on a premium tier? . It's this. When I was younger Nickelodeon had the rights to Looney Tunes and played those like, all the drat time and Nick was a basic cable channel so it was easy to see those. The Disney Channel was the only place to see Disney's cartoons but they were a big fancy premium channel you had to pay extra for. I remember that like, every couple of months you'd get a free preview weekend for The Disney Channel and when that happened it was a really big deal so enjoy it while you can because after that weekend who knows when you'd get to see The Disney Channel ever again? Neito posted:I think this is honestly the thing I like the best about Sora as a character. He spends maybe 40 seconds of the series brooding or angry at people he's supposed to be friends with, and the rest of the time being just the dumbest, happiest motherfucker. I love how happy Sora seems during battle. Like, all of his callouts and voice lines seem so excited and whenever he does one of his big dumb super movies or summons or whatever he always has this great big look on his face. He's the absolutely best.
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# ? Feb 19, 2022 23:58 |
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In Israel they would buy shows piecemeal, both the main broadcast channel(s) and then cable. So the one public broadcast channel had Disney shorts and Looney Tunes, as well as Laurel and Hardy shorts and other unrelated media.
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Vandar posted:It's this. When I was younger Nickelodeon had the rights to Looney Tunes and played those like, all the drat time and Nick was a basic cable channel so it was easy to see those. Sora is a toku/mecha hero in a grimdark shonen world, in anime terms.
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Tenebrais posted:Same, honestly. It probably depends a lot on where and when you grew up, and whether your parents had any nostalgia for the characters. Were there any Disney cartoons on CBBC in the 90's? I'm in my late 30s and I recall Disney being a CITV thing, I remember they showed Tazmania in the 90s. I don't remember who showed OG Ducktails but I remember watching it. Funny was talking about this with my wife (early 30s) and we both remember a lot more Looney Tunes. And , of course, Animaniacs.
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How was the Animaniacs return by the way? We never got around to watching it on Hulu.
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Kwyndig posted:How was the Animaniacs return by the way? We never got around to watching it on Hulu.
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