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http://unpromisedone.blogspot.com/2012/11/meet-dennis-quozl-falk-man-who-got-tiny.html?m=1 The last episode of Tiny Toons is literally a Halloween special where the town is stalked by a hideous monster and the end of the episode reveals its an overweight white guy in a Star Trek t-shirt with glasses. It was so severe that they developed Animaniacs in response thinking that the characters wouldn’t be sexualized if it wasnt immediately apparent what kind of animals they were. Tress McNeil remembers getting fan mail and opening it and being so freaked out by the weird sexual stuff that she canceled panel appearances and signings. It was real bad.
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Bust Rodd posted:It was so severe that they developed Animaniacs in response thinking that the characters wouldn’t be sexualized
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Apr 16, 2019 06:16
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That's a real 90s display of naivete
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Bust Rodd posted:It was so severe that they developed Animaniacs in response thinking that the characters wouldn’t be sexualized if it wasnt immediately apparent what kind of animals they were. Animaniacs gave the world Minerva Mink so they couldn't have been too worried about it.
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Apr 16, 2019 17:27
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J-Spot posted:Animaniacs gave the world Minerva Mink so they couldn't have been too worried about it. Honestly this is probably when the suits intervened and said “wait these creeps want more Sexy Animals? *big dollar signs replace pupils)”
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Apr 16, 2019 17:33
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I loving hated minerva mink. every time she showed up the show ground to a halt because she never did anything
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Cubone posted:I loving hated minerva mink. every time she showed up the show ground to a halt because she never did anything
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J-Spot posted:Let's face it, anything that wasn't the Warners, Pinky & the Brain, or Slappy Squirrel was usually poo poo. Even Slappy was kind of ruined after they did that very special episode where she goes senile or whatever it was. I liked the pigeons despite the fact that the Gooddellas reference went way over my head.
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J-Spot posted:Let's face it, anything that wasn't the Warners, Pinky & the Brain, or Slappy Squirrel was usually poo poo. Even Slappy was kind of ruined after they did that very special episode where she goes senile or whatever it was. Your opinions are usually poo poo!
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Milo and POTUS posted:Your opinions are usually poo poo! Looks like we've got a Katie Kaboom fan in the house.
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J-Spot posted:Let's face it, anything that wasn't the Warners, Pinky & the Brain, or Slappy Squirrel was usually poo poo. Even Slappy was kind of ruined after they did that very special episode where she goes senile or whatever it was. but the hip hippos I just thought weren't that funny, minerva mink made me want to change the channel but I couldn't because I didn't want to miss the rest of the show in case they did good idea/bad idea or rita & runt so I would just leave the tv on and be bored I liked buttons and mindy, I liked chicken boo, I even liked katie kaboom because she turned into monsters e: I completely forgot about goodfeathers but yeah I liked goodfeathers too. the bits where the joe pesci pigeon misinterprets a complement, and when the marlon brando pigeon shows up and just mutters gibberish were great Cubone fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Apr 16, 2019 18:35
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Official Animaniacs tier list: SS tier: Any musical numbers S tier: The Warners, Pinky & the Brain A tier: Slappy Squirrel, the Randy Beaman kid, Good Idea Bad Idea B tier: Goodfeathers, Chicken Boo, Mime Time C tier: Buttons & Mindy, Rita & Runt D tier: Minerva Mink, Hip Hippos pooch516 posted:I liked the pigeons despite the fact that the Gooddellas reference went way over my head. I appreciate Goodfeathers way more after growing up and finally watching all the films they reference.
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Apr 16, 2019 18:45
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Huh Richard Lewis was noah in a hippo episode of animaniacs
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I have dumb issues with a lot of those things, and I'm not sure why I feel so contrary on this of all subjects. The musical numbers were quite good, yes, but I always felt annoyed that they were cribbing a bit too brazenly from Monty Python and/or Tom Lehrer when they did their "sing a list of things to a possibly recognizable tune" bits Goodfeathers were literally one joke, repeated ad nauseam Rita & Runt was the same "step 1: make a reference to a scene/character interplay from a popular movie, step 2: goto step 1" formula that got old super fast Buttons & Mindy was just super depressing, that poor dog just got poo poo on for everything he went through. I was 100% rooting for that baby to get encased in concrete Chicken Boo was (if I recall) the result of one exec who was obsessed with the character and kept insisting on more Chicken Boo segments, even though the team hated them Katie Kaboom was similarly based on some writer's own daughter, like it was his own E/N dad joke that he and nobody else thought was funny Most of those upper-tier ones I agree with though. Tom Bodett was an inspired choice
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tell me about Chicken Boo why does he wear a disguise to look like human guys
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Data Graham posted:
Its a fuckin kids show, how many kids do you think in the 1990s were familiar with the monty python canon outside of Holy Grail? "This thing adults like, but a kids version" is a perfectly normal derivative. Did you also feel that All That cribbed too brazenly from SNL?
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That just makes it worse imo, "Those kids won't know what we're ripping off, they'll grow up thinking we were the original" Like people today who hear "walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm" and go "haha sweet Fatboy Slim reference"
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Or it's a loving kids show and nobody was writing jokes and bits from scratch to be wasted on a kids show. Monty Python didn't invent the concept either and was cribbing from lots of theater history. Do you think that every time a writer writes something it's meant to be perfectly original non-derivative material with absolutely no comedy influences? Nobody was thinking "ah ha, we fooled those kids, they think we are original comedy geniuses!!!!!" they were thinking "thank god, we filled 22 minutes between toy commercials, see you next week when we do it again"
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I remember kinda liking Rita & Runt at times v vShe had a nice singing voice. But I guess overall it was one of the weaker segments.
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Fair enough, like I said I'm not sure why I even revived an opinion I last thought about c. 1997 We're talking about tiers and poo poo though, which is tongue-in-cheek; probably it's my fault for hoisting it to unnecessary critique level
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The problem with Rita & Runt is kids will think it's original and they won't fully appreciate Les Miz!
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The kid who runs out of his house to tell stories about Randy Beaman is super underrated.
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i have never seen any animaniacs, but this thread makes me very curiousBust Rodd posted:[url]It was so severe that they developed Animaniacs in response thinking that the characters wouldn't be sexualized if it wasnt immediately apparent what kind of animals they were. uh...huh. 
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The Animaniacs is the closest we’ve gotten to a modern Looney Tunes and the actual Warner Bros. sketches are the best part of the show.
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Goodfeathers worked because it would take different films like West Side Story or The Godfather to keep it from being too one-note. The Godpigeon especially was a gift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRW06RZ7aWw. The Pesto rants got old, but it's gotta have the best De Niro impersonation I've heard. Minerva and B+M were garbage-tier though since they were both really old, outplayed jokes (guys going nuts over hot lady character, and baby chase sequence respectively) that were stretched out. I don't even know what the point of Rita's segments were supposed to be. I guess being voiced by Bernadette Peters she was supposed to be like the stage diva character, but I feel like that had appeal for maybe half of the adults, while the other adults and all of the kids were bored to tears. I'm still surprised by how funny Slappy is, though. I know everyone talks about sneaking in jokes for the parents, but she flat out says poo poo like "Tell Skippy I'll be back after happy hour." Also lol yeah at the idea of not sexualizing anything in Animaniacs. Never mind the Warners chasing after people like the nurse, that show was even bigger furry bait than Tiny Toons.
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Rita & Runt was good yeah definally. definally good Runt was a big lovable doof who didn't realize Rita was a cat and talked like rain man, and Rita was there so I could watch Bernadette Peters sing show tunes and make my father worry
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The original Family Dog episode from Amazing Stories was great (probably, I haven't actually seen it in a zillion years), but man that series they made out of it later was so bad. I think there was a terrible snes game too just for good measure E: original short 1987, directed by Brad Bird music by Danny Elfman produced by Spielberg. Series premiere 1993, none of those people involved. a kitten fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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quote:The episode starts off with a Taco Tuesday in Springfield Elementary. Students rush out of everywhere to get to the tacos. After Lisa finds out that the vegetables in the cafeteria are Genetically Modified Organisms, she organizes a meeting with the town to alert them of this. However, after research she finds out that GMOs are actually good for the world. Meanwhile, Marge tries to talk to a teen-abstinence group with finger puppets and the teens aren't taking it seriously. When a representative of the Monsarno research campus meets Lisa at a fair, she asks her to come to the campus. There, they find that the company's chief scientist is none other than Sideshow Bob. The Simpson scream "Ahhh Sideshow Bob!" He the says Dr. Sideshow Bob. Homer then asks "Real doctor or PHD?" Sideshow Bob grunts "PHD" his arms crossed and an annoyed expression on his face this is one of the episodes where an incredibly cartoony thing is played completely straight with a bunch of mean spirited jokes. its really, truly bad
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You got me to realize I don't know who Bart's current teacher is so I looked it up and ended up on: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Carol_Berrera quote:When Bart started to drink a Milk filled with hormones he started to experience early puberty and he fell in love with Mrs. Berrera. I think we need to update the title to "It turns out the lowest point of the Simpsons was when Bart drank a Milk filled with hormones and started to experience early puberty and he fell in love with Mrs. Berrera." EDIT: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Caroline_Berrera quote:Caroline Berrera is a beautiful, muscular woman and everyone loves her. Plan Z fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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So they killed off Edna in the show? I thought they just retired the character like Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz.
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She properly died. Ned apparently was wearing a black armband for a while because they were married I guess.
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Frog Act posted:Monsarno Frog Act posted:He then walks off but not before standing on a underwater rake and hitting him in the face. UGH
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Cubone posted:I loving hated minerva mink. every time she showed up the show ground to a halt because she never did anything Despite watching a shitload of Animaniacs as a kid I didn't even know she existed until hearing her mentioned in a thread like this a decade+ later.
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Yea i had to google Minerva Mink and even then my memory is at best “kinda”
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SeANMcBAY posted:So they killed off Edna in the show? I thought they just retired the character like Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz. The last episode with her they ended with Ned sitting in a chair with a black armband and pictures of Maude and Edna behind him. So they kind of skip over the whole her actually dying part.
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muscles like this! posted:The last episode with her they ended with Ned sitting in a chair with a black armband and pictures of Maude and Edna behind him. So they kind of skip over the whole her actually dying part. I think it was also the season directly after the one that ended on America voting if they should date or not.
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There were only two Minerva Mink shorts, and I wouldn't be surprised if they purposefully tried avoiding airing those episodes on repeat.
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I would rather watch a new Simpsons than keep hearing nerd opinions detailing the intricacies of the animaniacs, christ Anyway the Simpsons was good through Bart the Mother and I can watch it all the way up until the episode with The Who and that's when I tap out and you should too
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