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Neurion posted:So, I've been trying to recall a cartoon from my childhood that I can't for the life of me remember the title of, and I really want to rediscover it so to speak. I'm not sure if this would be the right thread for it, but the Identify a Film thread in Cinema Discusso probably isn't the right place as that's for films, so I'm asking here. This maybe?
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Neurion posted:So, I've been trying to recall a cartoon from my childhood that I can't for the life of me remember the title of, and I really want to rediscover it so to speak. I'm not sure if this would be the right thread for it, but the Identify a Film thread in Cinema Discusso probably isn't the right place as that's for films, so I'm asking here. Holy poo poo, why do I remember this so vividly? EDIT: Oscar's Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBTO2VaPQZI I always thought I made this cartoon up. I guess I needed your post to remember. Now to figure out what American channel this came on because I don't think my family had cable in 1998.
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Jan 24, 2014 06:17
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Neo Helbeast posted:This maybe? Dr. Chainsaws PhD posted:Holy poo poo, why do I remember this so vividly? YES. That was one! Thank you both so much!  Ah, the nostalgia~ It's all coming back now!
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Jan 24, 2014 06:44
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Oh boy did I not like that show. The BBC at the time had a massive to-do with European Cartoons (less Wakfu and Oban and more Totaly Spies level) that couldn't quite decide if they were deadly serious or frivolous nonsense which often lead to moments where you weren't sure if you were supposed to laugh for fear of something deadly serious slapping you in the face if you did. Which is a shame, because the bad guy's voice actor (Colin McFarlane) was great and the Reticence Punk thing could have worked better if it had a grip on if it wanted to be a serious show or it wanted to go full daft bastard. That said, if I ever see Albert the 5th Musketeer or Noah's Island again, I will separate the UK from the EU with the Gusto of a million UKIP members.
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Jan 27, 2014 22:43
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 Wakfu Kickstarter has reached it's 200k stretch goal. $40 Canadian ($35 /£22 / 27€) will now net you both seasons on BluRay with English Dub, original French audio with subtitles and both volumes of the post season "manga" comic on Comixology. (Shipping is free!) This is bonkers value! For comparison that's how much one half of Cowboy Bebop BR is going for in the UK! ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 1, 2014 09:23
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So, I just finished the first season of Scooby-Doo!: Mystery Incorporated and...wow! What a great show! And I say that as someone who normally hates Scooby-Doo and everything to do with him!
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Feb 2, 2014 14:48
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Phylodox posted:So, I just finished the first season of Scooby-Doo!: Mystery Incorporated and...wow! What a great show! And I say that as someone who normally hates Scooby-Doo and everything to do with him! I haven't watched enough of that show but watching it is a baffling experience because it's Scooby Doo, yet it's well written and I'm enjoying it. I really like it but watching it confuses my brain. Also, really late in saying this but I thought that Powerpuff special was pretty good, but ironically not that special. I liked the animation alot but plotwise it just felt like a normal episode of the Powerpuff Girls. While this isn't a bad thing it's also weird that they resurrected the franchise to tell this story that I'd probably would barely be able to remember if it were part of the original run of the show.
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Feb 2, 2014 15:39
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Phylodox posted:So, I just finished the first season of Scooby-Doo!: Mystery Incorporated and...wow! What a great show! And I say that as someone who normally hates Scooby-Doo and everything to do with him! You ain't seen nothin' yet. Season two is where it goes balls-to-the-wall crazy.
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Feb 2, 2014 16:42
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I'm having trouble imagining anything crazier than a talking parrot played by Udo Kier. Also, I really enjoyed Scrappy and Flim-Flam's "cameos". EDIT: Also, the sheer genius of casting Jeffrey "Herbert West" Combs as the H. P. Lovecraft parody. And Harlan Ellison! Phylodox fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Feb 2, 2014 |
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Feb 2, 2014 19:03
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Seriously, you haven't seen anything yet. That show gets loving nuts.
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Feb 2, 2014 19:05
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I can think of at least 5 crazier things than the parrot in season 2.
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Feb 2, 2014 19:09
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Mysteries Inc. is so great. It's like if The Venture Bros was an actual Johnny Quest reboot.
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Feb 2, 2014 21:36
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I just really like how they took the (as I remember them) pretty one-note, boring characters from the original Scooby-Doo cartoons and gave them little twists that actually mad them interesting. I mean, my favorite character in Mystery Incorporated was Fred. Fred. The most boringest, one-notiest character in the show and they made him interesting and compelling! I was pretty sure they were going to just stick with the "dumb, really likes traps" thing (which would still be more interesting than old-school Fred), but they slowly built him up to be (for me, at least) the most interesting guy in the show. Also, they made fan favorite Velma kind of a bitch and a horrible girlfriend. I really appreciated that.
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Feb 2, 2014 21:46
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Also I like how Matthew Lillard reprises his role as Shaggy, while his dad is Casey Kasem. I really love the voice cast, I mean you can't go wrong with Warburton, but Gary Cole? That's awesome, did they ever make a Harvey Birdman joke/reference? Phylodox posted:I'm having trouble imagining anything crazier than a talking parrot played by Udo Kier.
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Feb 2, 2014 22:04
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I think Birdman is the only character from the Hanna-Barbera canon that doesn't appear on Mystery Inc.Phylodox posted:Also, they made fan favorite Velma kind of a bitch and a horrible girlfriend. I really appreciated that. Let us know when you've finished season 2, I want to know what you think of Velma then. You'll understand when you get there.
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Feb 2, 2014 23:15
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Man, I don't even know when season 2 is coming out on Netflix. We just got season 1 so, y'know...it's gonna be a while.
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Feb 2, 2014 23:18
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If ever. Cartoon Network has a serious hard-on for NOT uploading the rest of their poo poo on Netflix for some reason.
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Feb 2, 2014 23:40
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Thompsons posted:If ever. Cartoon Network has a serious hard-on for NOT uploading the rest of their poo poo on Netflix for some reason. Yeah, most everything only has one season available, even the older shows. I think like Dexter's Lab and maybe PPG have more than one season but not the entire run (Which in dexter's case is fine since they only have the original run on there and not the two post-Ego Trip seasons.)
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Feb 2, 2014 23:51
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Thompsons posted:If ever. Cartoon Network has a serious hard-on for NOT uploading the rest of their poo poo on Netflix for some reason. What makes it even more weird is that Adult Swim seems to have embraced the digital model and has put the entire seasons of The Eric Andre Show and Eagleheart on YouTube as well as putting up episodes of Rick and Morty as soon as they air. It's just frustrating because Cartoon Network rarely if ever gives shows proper DVD releases, instead opting for grab-bag releases (like, say, a bunch of Halloween episodes or episodes about a specific character) because they sell better with kids. But when it comes to streaming they dump the first season online then tell you to buy the DVDs for the rest 
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Feb 3, 2014 00:23
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Trailer for Sonic Boom has been released, and it looks kinda terrible. Sonic's running animation is pretty bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm-AFKUmFw
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Feb 6, 2014 22:56
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Really? I thought it was okay. I mean, I'm not that amused, but I am not its target demographic and the sillier jokes will work better for younger kids. (I guess I could be the demographic of a Sonic cartoon theoretically since I like Sonic games, but if pandering to nerds is all it took to get a show made, we'd be awash in shows for every game franchise made from the last 20 years) I agree about the running animation though. Like, he's supposed to be going fast, but his feet don't really seem to be... moving fast. I guess they can't turn his feet into a wheel like the Genesis games with the CGI, but there's gotta be a better way to really convey GO FAST.
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Feb 7, 2014 00:52
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Look the show is gonna be great and here is why: http://www.polygon.com/2014/2/6/5387144/sonic-boom-animated-tv-series-toy-line-sega quote:Marchello Churchill, senior director of marketing Sega of America, says Sonic Boom will be "vastly different form any Sonic series we've done in the past." Executive producer Evan Bailey said the animated series will "put [Sonic the Hedgehog characters] in situations where their personalities and relationships will take center stage." For example, in one episode, Sonic will fire Tails as his assistant, with the hedgehog's longtime nemesis, Dr. Eggman, applying for the job. In another, Eggman fakes an injury and takes Sonic the Hedgehog to court.
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Feb 7, 2014 02:12
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I would watch a Teen Titans Go with Sonic in it.
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Feb 7, 2014 03:55
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horriblePencilist posted:Trailer for Sonic Boom has been released, and it looks kinda terrible. Sonic's running animation is pretty bad. That running animation is pretty bad yeah, but as far as CG cartoons go they could do much worse. Why do so many of these things take place in the desert though? Just as an excuse to not have to render backgrounds?
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Feb 7, 2014 04:43
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raditts posted:That running animation is pretty bad yeah, but as far as CG cartoons go they could do much worse. Probably. No trees or shadows to have to animate, just make some mesas and canyons and a pretty sky and you're good to go. I wouldn't worry too much about the series taking place entirely in the desert though. I mean, it's Sonic, gotta have some sort of Green Hill Zone.
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Feb 7, 2014 05:02
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raditts posted:That running animation is pretty bad yeah, but as far as CG cartoons go they could do much worse. It's gonna be Roadrunner shorts with Sonic 
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horriblePencilist posted:Trailer for Sonic Boom has been released, and it looks kinda terrible. Sonic's running animation is pretty bad. I chuckled to the Egghead bit and the Burnbot, it's gonna be nice to see Sonic and Eggman get into new dumb arguments every week.
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Feb 7, 2014 18:40
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I will never, never, never get used to calling him Eggman.
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Feb 7, 2014 20:26
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Am I wrong, or is Eggman's voice the same as the Soldier in Team Fortress 2?
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Feb 7, 2014 20:51
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Doodles posted:Am I wrong, or is Eggman's voice the same as the Soldier in Team Fortress 2? Nope. Eggman is Mike Pollock, Soldier is Rick May.
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Feb 7, 2014 21:36
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horriblePencilist posted:Trailer for Sonic Boom has been released, and it looks kinda terrible. Sonic's running animation is pretty bad. It looks... OKish. The visuals are decent by TV CG standards and the burnbot joke kind of worked. That said though there were little things all over that trailer that just screamed "I DON'T HAVE A GOOD GRASP OF WHAT'S FUNNY OR INTERESTING". It probably won't be Johnny Test bad, but I don't see it being worth my TIVO space either.
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Feb 8, 2014 05:57
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Those are some weird redesigns. I mean, it's not like the original Sonic character designs were all that great, but the new ones aren't that great either. Also Sonic sounds like he's graduated college and Tails sounds like he's graduated kindergarten. What's up with that?
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Feb 8, 2014 07:47
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Tails has always been a small child. Is that what you mean?
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Feb 8, 2014 09:11
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I don't know, it just seems like every time Tails appears he's younger, and it's starting to get weird now that Sonic sounds like an adult. I think he used to be just a couple years younger than Sonic.
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Feb 8, 2014 16:33
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In Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog, Tails was four and a half years old, and all of the other Sonic media didn't have Long John Baldry so they don't really matter.
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Feb 8, 2014 16:40
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he died
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Feb 8, 2014 16:54
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The pilot for new Powerpuff Girls show was pretty great. Sometimes the visuals get kinda confusing, but it's looks just so drat pretty. To see more, check out Kevin Dart's tumblr (The guy also worked on Steven Universe, Randy Cunningham and Sym-Bionic Titan)
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Feb 8, 2014 17:41
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horriblePencilist posted:The pilot for new Powerpuff Girls show was pretty great. Sometimes the visuals get kinda confusing, but it's looks just so drat pretty. Wait, that special was actually a pilot? Cool.
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Feb 8, 2014 18:59
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TwoPair posted:Wait, that special was actually a pilot? Cool. Oh wait, it was just a special. I really thought it was a new show, dang.
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Ah man, you gave my hopes up. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they didn't make the special to test the waters to see how viable it would be to resurrect the franchise, but I have no actual evidence that that's the case. It just seems odd to bring back a long dead show with a brand new animation style and redesigned characters to just do a half an hour episode that that doesn't really have a plot that sticks out from a normal episode of the show (other than having a former Beatle in it).
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