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helsabot posted:there was also that bit when he was filming kon-ducki (timely reference to every kids favorite book) and the name on his directors chair kept changing and i remember losing my poo poo at "Plunky Dunk" the episode itself is great but the bit with hamton trying to read the "mango juice" line made it god tier. it's been years since i seen it but i cackled like an idiot every time i came across it
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I've been watching Disenchantment. It's really good! I think they do a great job with all of the characters and I love the performances. I adore Abbi Jacobson and John DiMaggio is of course a tour de force. I'm down for the Shrek style "What if medieval fantasy but modern" humour, but also they don't rely on it too heavily. I think it's really nice to look at, it uses a very muted colour palette but the backgrounds are so detailed it's a visual delight. The stupid elf name jokes never fail to get a laugh out of me.
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Beartaco posted:I've been watching Disenchantment. It's really good! I think they do a great job with all of the characters and I love the performances. I adore Abbi Jacobson and John DiMaggio is of course a tour de force. I'm down for the Shrek style "What if medieval fantasy but modern" humour, but also they don't rely on it too heavily. I think it's really nice to look at, it uses a very muted colour palette but the backgrounds are so detailed it's a visual delight. Blink twice if you're being held hostage.
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Plucky Duck was eye rollingly, offensively bad and unfunny.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Blink twice if you're being held hostage. I'll blink as I please.
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Mr Interweb posted:eh i feel a good chunk of tiny toons holds up pretty well. moreso than animaniacs, imo Tiny Toons comes off like “Poochie” 90’s stuff now. That said, the “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” VHS tape I had saw heavy rotation when I was a kid and I watch it every few years for the nostalgia. Plucky’s whole ordeal with Happyworldland and only getting to ride the monorail when he finally gets there is gold.
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Big Beef City posted:Plucky Duck was eye rollingly, offensively bad and unfunny. Big Beef City goes down the hole
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Plucky’s whole ordeal with Happyworldland and only getting to ride the monorail when he finally gets there is gold. I'm going to go on every ride till I puke twice
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TBH, although it was my second favorite WB show, Animaniacs had some real stinker segments in it, too. The Hip Hippos? Boring as poo poo. Rita and Runt? A singing cat and Rain Man dog because…? Buttons and Mindy? Yawn. Now Freakazoid, that was the best WB show, and it wasn’t because of the main character; it was Cosgrove. “Hey, cut it out!” That show had a great universe of characters, like Candlejack who would show up whenever you wou
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That was one of the few moments in that ep that got a chuckle out of me. Watched the new Nelson-Moe episode and it just passed out of my brain immediately. Except Bart is good at hockey I guess?
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I thought Disenchantment was much less than the sum of its parts. Had a great cast who had good performances, the animation was good, the premise is good. All that comes together to make .... eh. Their determination to make it a serialized fantasy adventure instead of one-off fantasy trope comedy episodes hurt the show badly.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:That was one of the few moments in that ep that got a chuckle out of me. I thought that episode was kinda not bad as far as newsimp goes. A single plot line, some amusing hockey jabs, and it seemed like the animation was more loose/old-fashioned.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Except Bart is good at hockey I guess? To be fair, he was established as a star hockey player in Lisa On Ice, even if they haven't referenced it in like 25 years
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https://twitter.com/jeffcannata/status/1608672039308517378?s=20 This twitter man said the recent episodes are good? I assume it is some kind of elaborate troll or possible dementia. unless...
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bone emulator posted:https://twitter.com/jeffcannata/status/1608672039308517378?s=20 Guessing a mixture of trolling and some folk enjoying lights and sounds being made by their TVs. Would be fun to tell current Simpsons writers they have to write a season but can’t reference Disco Stu, the Sea Captain, or Sideshow Mel, and watch them go into a panic.
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bone emulator posted:https://twitter.com/jeffcannata/status/1608672039308517378?s=20 So, when was this guy in college?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:So, when was this guy in college? 2012-2016. (no. looks like probably mid 90s to early 00s?)
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Tiny Toons comes off like “Poochie” 90’s stuff now. That said, the “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” VHS tape I had saw heavy rotation when I was a kid and I watch it every few years for the nostalgia. Plucky’s whole ordeal with Happyworldland and only getting to ride the monorail when he finally gets there is gold. went back to watch some of it, and man, the first season is quite rough. but thankfully the show does get progressively better as time goes on
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I liked the Istanbul and Particle Man skits
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You Are A Elf posted:TBH, although it was my second favorite WB show, Animaniacs had some real stinker segments in it, too. The Hip Hippos? Boring as poo poo. Rita and Runt? A singing cat and Rain Man dog because…? Buttons and Mindy? Yawn. For the why for Rita, it's because they had Bernadette Peters to do the voice for her. So having a Broadway singer, they made her sing knockoffs of musicals. I assume that's like 90% of the reason those segments existed. Also someone mentioned the Plucky Duck show earlier, I am pretty sure that was indeed a full spinoff, not just a few episodes.
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HJE-Cobra posted:Also someone mentioned the Plucky Duck show earlier, I am pretty sure that was indeed a full spinoff, not just a few episodes. There was a 13 episode run of The Plucky Duck Show, but apart from the first episode it was just made up of shorts pulled from various Tiny Toons episodes, and that first episode ended up in the TT rotation later.
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Freakazoid > Animaniacs, deal with it nerds
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The whole variety show formula is tricky to pull off at the best of times. A lot of the time you just end up with a lot of one-note characters built around about the same joke. There's also a ton of 'spinoff babies' things back in the 90s, which I suppose nowadays is everything getting a 'chibi' little lower-budget cartoon spinoff.
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It's like how you only remember the good SNL sketches. 80% of them were dire (and even the good ones, more often than not "the one joke" just happened to hit right)
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Freakazoid > Animaniacs, deal with it nerds this is the correct answer to be more precise: freakazoid > pinky and the brain >= tiny toons > animaniacs
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I remember liking Taz Mania as a kid. It probably wouldn’t hold up now, but neither does Tiny Toons. Same, and I thought both of their theme songs were catchy as hell. Speaking of catchy theme songs in cartoons that I liked but currently remember none of because I was single-digit-aged when they went off, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. BEETLEJUUUUICE!  The Moon Monster posted:Same, but that was probably just because I inherently liked every cartoon when I was 6. This guy gets it.
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I find any of those shows impossible to watch for the most part. The orchestra based sound effects make me depressed for some reason.
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Also funny that there's several sets of expanded Itchy and Scratchy casts mentioned across the show, both the original ones from the black and white era and some from a forgotten short-lived spinoff that come up in the Itchy and Scratchyland episode. It's the kinda thing every drat show seems to do every now and again, with no memory of the past. Though nowadays it's more the style to bring back the weird and obscure elements of a franchise with a retool that makes them actually work, or at least as fun jokes for a series that's clearly doing its own thing. The DuckTales reboot comes to mind.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:I find any of those shows impossible to watch for the most part. The orchestra based sound effects make me depressed for some reason. they don't make me depressed but i do find them really loving annoying
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Data Graham posted:It's like how you only remember the good SNL sketches. 80% of them were dire
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Yeah now that I concentrate hard I remember a lot of watching SNL as a kid was me just being like "oh. Well. They tried with that one." with most of the skits. It helps that it's easy to laugh when you're young and Phil Hartman does just about anything. I definitely liked it when I was little in the 90s but looking up a sketch I remember fondly often results in learning Mike Myers had been doing yellowface in the scene.
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Plant MONSTER. posted:I find any of those shows impossible to watch for the most part. The orchestra based sound effects make me depressed for some reason. Mr Interweb posted:they don't make me depressed but i do find them really loving annoying You people have no magic in your hearts.
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Sourdough Sam posted:You people have no magic in your hearts. Me, having the time of my life narrowly avoiding various anvils, saws, and suspiciously rubbery planks of wood: https://youtu.be/qaC0vNLdLvY Those posters, nodding thoughtfully while a bunch of characters with Rick and Morty asterisk pupils and Big Mouth gaping maws talk about the importance of talk therapy to overcome generational trauma: https://youtu.be/nj6YamxIv4o
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If I see a cartoon character sneaking around, carefully taking each step, I wanna hear some motherfucking cello strings getting plucked.
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Sourdough Sam posted:If I see a cartoon character sneaking around, carefully taking each step, I wanna hear some motherfucking cello strings getting plucked. I am carefully looking around a corner; the violin proves it
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Empty Sandwich posted:did you guys just not grow up watching Looney Tunes or what I grew up watching mostly Nicktoons -- Rugrats, Ah Real Monsters, and Ren & Stimpy are the ones I remember most clearly/fondly. When I got older, I got obsessed with Thundercats (I named my first cat Panthro, may he rest in peace), Voltron, and Scooby Doo Where Are You on Cartoon Network. (edit: and Cartoon Planet) So yeah, I guess I somehow managed to avoid Looney Tunes entirely, assuming we're not counting the spinoffs.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I grew up watching mostly Nicktoons -- Rugrats, Ah Real Monsters, and Ren & Stimpy are the ones I remember most clearly/fondly. Looney Tunes seems to have a sorta cap around the 80's, when it got replaced with the Disney Afternoon and Fox Kids. If you had a local UHF channel with a park ranger or a clown that was pared with a puppet, you saw so many Looney Tunes during the mornings/afternoons. I even remember blocks of Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings (where they edited out the violence, much to my dad's chagrin) I guess sometime around 1991, they figured out those time slots could be filled with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and James Bond Jr.
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