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Gaunab posted:I remember the dub completely taking the piss out of it which made it pretty funny. Was this an 'abridged' dub or an official one?
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Gaunab posted:Oh yeah I understand what you're going for; saying that from Samurai Jack to Gumball there was nothing to watch is a huge generalization. I just speak up about KND and Billy and Mandy because it seemed like they were carrying CN for a while while they experimented with live action programming. I feel the same way about Ben 10 too. Also I get Billy is supposed to be borderline retarded but it was just too much. The whole setup for Billy and Mandy seems like a genre parody. I mean it's the basic dumb but good natured boy and smart and stern girl form a friendship with a magical being thing but everything is just pushed really far where the boy is pretty much retarded, the girl is evil incarnate and the mythical creature is literally the Grim Reaper. The show did really well when it played up the dark and ridiculous nature of the whole thing but faltered when it just went through the motions of any such show.
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Mar 21, 2015 22:44
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Billy and Mandy felt like Invader Zim made more palatable to people who aren't 13 year old goths, and it ended up pretty good
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Mar 21, 2015 22:50
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Junior Jr. posted:Was this an 'abridged' dub or an official one? The official dub turned a played straight anime about card games into one where they said poo poo like "So why do you like card games so much -Main Character-?" then panned to him slowly and had him take an overdramatic voice "Because... I know one day... childrens card games will be the key to saving the world." It was an official dub that turned it into an abridged series, tone wise. Edit: I thought Billy and Mandy and KND were both too gross (too many fart/booger/poop jokes) for me, but they were hugely popular when I was a kid? I mean I'm one of the younger SA posters that I know, I was 7 when KND aired and 12 when it ended, and around the same for Billy and Mandy. So yeah, kids actually loved it. I was there when kids would talk about new episodes at school and stuff. And even some Billy and Mandy episodes were pretty funny to me, I'd watch them sometimes. Mostly ones where Billy wasn't around much. KittyEmpress fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Mar 21, 2015 |
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Mar 21, 2015 22:58
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I wish there were more attempts at joke dubs. I remember seeing a random episode of Beyblade and the bad guy summons a giant robot, then show did a lot of pan overs to make the robot more menacing and all it ends up doing is shooting a top to fight the good guy's top and no one really questions it. There's joke potential there.
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Mar 21, 2015 23:58
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Junior Jr. posted:everyone in my class were busy playing with Bakugan Wait, wait, wait. Bakugan had rules? I'd watch episodes at, like, 7 AM on Cartoon Network after getting home from taking my wife to work and I could not see a bit of consistency to that game. Although, I assume the actual game pieces don't transform into big monsters and talk.
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El Tortuga posted:Wait, wait, wait. Bakugan had rules? I'd watch episodes at, like, 7 AM on Cartoon Network after getting home from taking my wife to work and I could not see a bit of consistency to that game. Although, I assume the actual game pieces don't transform into big monsters and talk. There wasn't really much to Bakugan, it was pretty much just buying toys that shot balls through their chests. You'd have more fun playing with marbles instead of playing with Bakugan. But then again, I have a little fuzzy memory about them, although I couldn't care less.
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Mar 22, 2015 00:49
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I think Bakugan's rule book was mostly about how it was the only non ghibli "anime" allowed on UK TV for like five years.
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Mar 22, 2015 00:52
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There's not a lot of anime on UK TV, only Canadian, French, or Austrailian cartoons. I can think of a handful already.
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Mar 22, 2015 01:12
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Junior Jr. posted:Was this an 'abridged' dub or an official one? It was "official" so far as it was the one used to air on TV, but IIRC they just threw out the original script and made up their own based on what it looked like the characters could be saying. It was fantastic, at least until they started taking themselves seriously.
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Mar 22, 2015 06:14
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Gaunab posted:I remember the dub completely taking the piss out of it which made it pretty funny. I keep meaning to watch that to see if it's funny but keep forgetting to.
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Mar 22, 2015 06:47
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I distinctly remember one line from that series: Main Character: "Can't you see my Triangular Eyes of Determination?" Nerd: "Actually they're more Trapezoidal..."
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Junior Jr. posted:There wasn't really much to Bakugan, it was pretty much just buying toys that shot balls through their chests. You'd have more fun playing with marbles instead of playing with Bakugan. That was B-daman. Which was funny until the reboot.
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Rudoku posted:That was B-daman. Which was funny until the reboot. You're right, it was B-Daman. I know they had a cartoon around 2006 or 2008. But yeah all the toys did was make a mess in my school, I think we played them for about a couple of months before we got bored.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I wish there were more attempts at joke dubs. This show was loving insane to watch before going to work. I remember there was some Italian announcer that would yell different food names after something happened. "Jingas bey has just toppled his opponent. Lasagna!"
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Mar 22, 2015 17:47
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Anime made to sell toys can be pretty funny. The B-Daman anime is basically kids playing with robots that shoot marbles, instead of giant robots that shoot power orbs or something. Tenkai Knights do not hide the fact that the robots you see on screen are CGI versions of the actual toys; you can see the ball joints and everything. If you watch Transformers Cybertron, you can probably transform the actual toys without instructions since the various transformation sequences are very toy-accurate.
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Mar 22, 2015 18:11
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Beyblade was amazing. The premise is the stupidest thing there ever was, and they run with it like it's totally normal, and it acts just like a normal kids adventure story. One kid who's really great at spinning his top forms a top rivalry with another kid, but eventually they put their differences aside to join a team together and win the world championship of top spinning. Also when you spin your top hard enough an ancient monster is summoned to wreck the other top.The MSJ posted:Anime made to sell toys can be pretty funny. Hell, back in the 80s, something like 60% of the popular cartoons were created wholely to sell toys. GI Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, My Little Pony, Transformers, He-Man, Dino Riders...
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Mar 22, 2015 23:01
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Like were they sentient? Could you just buy one? Surely someone here knows
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Mar 22, 2015 23:14
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Just curious, is there a discussion thread were goons talk about toys and action figures from the 80's, 90's and such?
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There's a transformers thread and an action figures thread in BSS, and so far as I know the Transformers thread is open to vintage stuff.
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I remember the original Beyblade being goofy as hell, but fun. The one that was running when Duel Masters was on I couldn't stand though, partially because some of the voices were just ludicrously bad. I couldn't even stand to listen to them long enough to marvel at how bad they were.
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So is Star vs. the Forces of Evil supposed to be Disney's answer to Steven Universe the way Wander over Yonder is Adventure Time's opposite number?
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Harvey Beaks seems like a pretty good woodland's Chowder, even though it maybe a pinch too serious with the ending to Spitting Tree. I mean, it's no where near as bad as Adventure Time or Regular Show can repetitively get, but right now it's charming and I hope that's where it stays. And yeah, Duel Masters was one of those shows where the dub team gave it the Samurai Pizza Cats treatment and it was glorious. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 18:15
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Cartoon Network's burning off the last episodes of Clarence right now, right? It's a good show, shame it had to end so early because Skyler Page is a nasty man.
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To be fair, they aired it for a lot longer than I'da given credit CN for given the circumstances. Edit: if burning the show off is what they're doing.
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Apr 14, 2015 20:59
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They're continuing it without Skyler last I heard.
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Clarence isn't being burned; they just did a Stevenbomb-esque weeklong of premieres and then it's business as usual.
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I have to say these new episodes are fantastic. The goldfish one is super entertaining.
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They gave it another season. They just named the new performer for Clarence. I think it's the head writer who first complained that Page was lazy, right before he went nuts.
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axleblaze posted:They're continuing it without Skyler last I heard.
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When they kill it, they air those episodes at 3:00 AM without advertising them beforehand.
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Clarence is very funny
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SlothfulCobra posted:Beyblade was amazing. The premise is the stupidest thing there ever was, and they run with it like it's totally normal, and it acts just like a normal kids adventure story. One kid who's really great at spinning his top forms a top rivalry with another kid, but eventually they put their differences aside to join a team together and win the world championship of top spinning. Also when you spin your top hard enough an ancient monster is summoned to wreck the other top. I watched like an episode or two of one of the newer seasons and the new secret tech for that season is to before the match is to take your top and put it onto the top part of someone else's top AND BAM THEY HAVE THE COMBINED POWERS OF BOTH TOPS. Also, I think like the dumb rival who invented this super secret tech dickishly says "you're not ready to handle this ADVANCED top" to his brother who wants to use the combinining Beyblade. Then like the next episode it turns out the beyblade villians are also capable of figuring out that if you combine two beyblades you get a cool top that has the combined powers of both beyblades. Beyblade is pretty dummmb.
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I'm glad to have learned that the englishdub guys played it as a joke
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I just watched (Clarencebomb?) and I was rolling in the aisles after "Turtle Hats"! This show has been the replacement dark horse for SU after Stevenbomb, but I think that Clarence can stand tall with the rest of the great cartoons these days. On a side note, I never really noticed Rothbell take over for Page. To me, however, Clarence is Clarence.
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What the gently caress are Clarencebomb and Stevenbomb?
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raditts posted:What the gently caress are Clarencebomb and Stevenbomb? Stevenbomb is when CN showed a new Steven Universe a day for a week. Clarencebomb is when they did the same thing for Clarence.
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Apr 21, 2015 04:58
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Think of it as a reverse Gravity Falls blue balling.
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Clarence is great, but the most recent episodes seem to be getting more surreal, which I don't care for as much. I thought maybe it was because of the guy who got replaced, but he has a credit on the one with the dog. The moments I like the best are when the show is being honest about how weird and insane children are and how mundane the events, environments, and concerns of childhood are in contrast to that. I hope they can keep things grounded in that weirdly timeless quasi-early-90s world they've built.
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Clarance is a very uneven show for me. Sometimes it really is great and it all works really well to capture something about childhood. At other times ot feels just a little too mean or gross for my tastes, which I guess is still accurate to the childhood experience but I still don't really enjoy it as much.
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