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So is Grimsberg worth binging after the season is done next week? Keep in mind I can put up with a lot when it comes to Jon Hamm being funny.
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The Last Call posted:I got no problem if the show is about the characters, there can be some good stuff mined there. I was about to drop the thing near the end of the second episode, having predicted how things were going to turn out and not interested in what it seemed like it was offering (oh so the punchline is always going to be misery?), but then it had the funeral and that's what made me think there's more to what they're doing and where they're going with it.
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May 7, 2024 19:24
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Escobarbarian posted:So is Grimsberg worth binging after the season is done next week? Keep in mind I can put up with a lot when it comes to Jon Hamm being funny. Yes. It's a funny show and a good parody of weird crime dramas.
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May 7, 2024 19:47
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Repeat after me you goobers “ha ha funny toof man” No more, no less. It’s that simple.
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May 7, 2024 23:07
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Escobarbarian posted:So is Grimsberg worth binging after the season is done next week? Keep in mind I can put up with a lot when it comes to Jon Hamm being funny. Yeah it's pretty funny.
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May 7, 2024 23:16
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Escobarbarian posted:So is Grimsberg worth binging after the season is done next week? Keep in mind I can put up with a lot when it comes to Jon Hamm being funny. Jon Hamm needs to be studied. There's something just so uniquely funny about him that I find really hard to put my finger on. Something about his handsome leading man look really enhances any kind of comedy he does.
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May 7, 2024 23:19
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He was great in Curb, buddying up with Larry David as he shadowed him for a role and becoming more like him
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May 7, 2024 23:25
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I liked that “wonky collision physics” was a plot point in the new TADC, that made me chuckle.
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May 7, 2024 23:57
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GMOD ragdoll sounds are instant comedy.
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May 8, 2024 00:24
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Macaluso posted:Jon Hamm needs to be studied. There's something just so uniquely funny about him that I find really hard to put my finger on. Something about his handsome leading man look really enhances any kind of comedy he does. I literally must have some kind of voice blindness because I can't hear Jon Hamm... only Will Arnett.
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May 8, 2024 02:03
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Escobarbarian posted:So is Grimsberg worth binging after the season is done next week? Keep in mind I can put up with a lot when it comes to Jon Hamm being funny. It finds its groove quickly and is gleefully weird.
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May 8, 2024 02:10
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I loved the shorts it was bades on when he teamed up with helium.
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May 8, 2024 04:23
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How on Earth did we get a Dilbert cartoon? was it... any good?
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May 8, 2024 06:11
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Surprisingly much better than it had any right to be, almost entirely because of Larry Charles' involvement.
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Daniel Stern and Chris Elliott as the two leads was also excellent casting
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The Modern Leper posted:I literally must have some kind of voice blindness because I can't hear Jon Hamm... only Will Arnett. This is not just you. When I looked it up I swore I was hearing Bojack all the time. Hamm is almost doing a will arnett impression in grimsburg.
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May 8, 2024 06:43
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YggiDee posted:How on Earth did we get a Dilbert cartoon? was it... any good? UPN was loving desperate for content to fill time during its brief existence at the end of the 90s. And it was in fact very, VERY good for its time largely because Scott Adams 1) hadn't gone crazy yet in our pre-9/11 Before World, and 2) was actually kind of iced out of the whole process so the show was made in spite of him and flourished because of it.
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YggiDee posted:How on Earth did we get a Dilbert cartoon? was it... any good? Yes, it's honestly worth checking out if you haven't seen it already. Macaluso posted:Jon Hamm needs to be studied. There's something just so uniquely funny about him that I find really hard to put my finger on. Something about his handsome leading man look really enhances any kind of comedy he does. Dude is an amazing voice actor and has great comedic timing. Also, speaking of Grimsburg, in the newest episode was that Tommy Pickles voice actor playing young Flute? Because that voice sounded REALLY familiar.
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May 8, 2024 09:36
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A.o.D. posted:GMOD ragdoll sounds are instant comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktk7WEyfgxw&t=124s
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May 8, 2024 11:01
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Lmdabo the kid in Royal Crackers is Naruto
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Believe it!
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YggiDee posted:How on Earth did we get a Dilbert cartoon? was it... any good? As mentioned, yes it's actually good and there's not that much of it so you can watch it all in an afternoon. I think it helps if you remember that Scott Adams hadn't gone completely insane yet and that Dilbert was a genuinely beloved comic strip, especially by nerdy types who identified with Dilbert as the smart guy struggling against the odds. It's only later on that we all realized that maybe those fake sociopathic business books that Adams was writing weren't supposed to be satire.
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Dilbert was founded on being much more self-aware and satirical of dumb men with power, and was fairly young when the show was made (and yeah I think the show had a fairly different voice from the comic even if it took a lot of the comic as a base). On top of the natural turn towards conservatism and obnoxiousness that comes with age and wealth and two divorces, I think Scott Adams has had fairly serious actual brain issues that I think played a part of him going crazy.
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A Dilbert cartoon isn't nearly as weird as them doing a Baby Blues cartoon. Like, why? Did Ziggy turn them down or something?
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Kay Kessler posted:A Dilbert cartoon isn't nearly as weird as them doing a Baby Blues cartoon. Like, why? Did Ziggy turn them down or something? Ziggy apparently got one of those too but it was only a special: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy%27s_Gift
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It is very on-brand for Ziggy to miss out on the whole comic-strip-to-beloved-animated-series pipeline of the 70s/80s.
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Bloom County/Outland oddly only ever got a single Christmas special as well on the animation end for that matter (starring Michael Bell as Opus)
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Megillah Gorilla posted:One of the creators of the Amazing Digital Circus tweeted that there's no overarching deep existentialist plot to the show. Just a bunch of silly episodes about the characters. I am honestly ok with that. that some live leak poo poo right there.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:A lot of people are desperately thirsty for building mystery stuff and just keep getting burned on it. i dont mind mystery but i prefer it when its character baser or your given all the information through out the show but not screamed it, what happened with westworld season 2 is someone figured out the original twist or something so they changed it and it never worked well.
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huh, turns out I did see the Dilbert cartoon, or at least part of it, and I forgot what with it being uhhhh 25 years ago. Theme song: pretty good.
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May 8, 2024 20:43
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TADC second episode has now crossed 52 million views. That's crazy.
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Data Graham posted:I mean I like stories about tortured souls sometimes better than shows about deep existential lore, cf. my preferring Helluva Boss to Hazbin Hotel. But I'm also just not real wild about the characters in TDAC. I don't give a crap whether Jax ever stops being a gratuitous rear end in a top hat or if we ever find out what Kinger's deal is or if Zooble falls in a hole and disappears. They're just kind of weird shapes in the background to have occasional dialogue come out of. yeah. i can see that. i like it kinda because it sorta reminds me of homestarunner in weird wasy but yeah while i like that its mostly gonna just be a character show, i do kinda not like that its just gonna possibly be the same overall joke over and over again with no real plot progression. helluva boss for its issues is building to stuff same as hazbin. idk
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I feel like sometimes even if you don't intend to create a complicated lore, you can end up with lore creeping up anyways just as the natural result of prodding your setting's limits and characters inevitably becoming more refined over the course of multiple stories. If you're playing around with more complicated emotions other than just simple gags, that leaves a lot of lore lying around like debris. It's also easily possible for creators to change their minds over time and assemble a narrative out of previous random jokes. I've seen a lot of webcomics go down that route over time, and I think something about long-running online indie projects really encourages that sort of lorecreep. Older creators get a hankering to go off and make some kind of magnum opus but don't want to take the risk of jumping into a new piece of media and don't have an editor to constrain them.
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YggiDee posted:huh, turns out I did see the Dilbert cartoon, or at least part of it, and I forgot what with it being uhhhh 25 years ago. Theme song: pretty good. The Dilbert theme song goes hard (written by Danny Elfman I think?): https://youtu.be/nJFXa-xLO8Y?si=Hp13ok4VP_YNSwu0
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like sometimes even if you don't intend to create a complicated lore, you can end up with lore creeping up anyways just as the natural result of prodding your setting's limits and characters inevitably becoming more refined over the course of multiple stories. If you're playing around with more complicated emotions other than just simple gags, that leaves a lot of lore lying around like debris. This has to be what happened with Adventure Time.
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Adventure Time's showrunning changed hands, so I wouldn't use that as an example of this phenomenon where an inexperienced or uncritical creator either abandons the original premise to chase flights of fancy or isn't responsible about establishing the boundaries of the world in favor of adding things until the lore creep becomes too much.
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Data Graham posted:This has to be what happened with Adventure Time. Maybe for the pilot, but the title sequence of AT always promised a deeper post apocalyptic lore from episode 1. The Last Call posted:TADC second episode has now crossed 52 million views. I'm sure the creators will be excited to receive their windfall of $75.32 (pre-tax) from Alphabet Corporation.
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I mean, it's enough of a thing that they could easily start getting investors or licensing agreements for larger distribution of their merch. Once you're making these Numbers, enough people in finance get impressed, even though Google and YouTube are extremely bad platforms for monetizing animation in particular.
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Data Graham posted:This has to be what happened with Adventure Time. Later writers were like, "What if we took this magic book from the first season and, I dunno, did something with it?"
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