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It's just weird that none of them do it. I get that part of the appeal of making a cartoon family show is that you don't have to deal with the kids aging, but like, why hasn't even one show let the kids grow up? Every year, new story possibilities for your writers.
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On the other hand, For Better or For Worse did age it's characters and it's terrible.
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King of the Hill tried but dropped it after the fourth season. When your animated show gets big you want everyone to stay cute consistent and marketable I guess
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Zero One posted:On the other hand, For Better or For Worse did age it's characters and it's terrible.
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LividLiquid posted:I've not seen it, but somebody doing something basically never done badly once isn't a great reason to never try again. 
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LividLiquid posted:It's just weird that none of them do it. I get that part of the appeal of making a cartoon family show is that you don't have to deal with the kids aging, but like, why hasn't even one show let the kids grow up? Every year, new story possibilities for your writers. The only animated show where the characters age and change over time in any real way (that I can think of) is Venture Bros.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:The only animated show where the characters age and change over time in any real way (that I can think of) is Venture Bros. If they were still gee whiz golly gosh Scooby Quest kids, I'd have likely gotten bored with it.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:The only animated show where the characters age and change over time in any real way (that I can think of) is Venture Bros. Pretty sure Finn from Adventure time has aged at least several years throughout the show.
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Yeah Finn went from 13 at the beginning of the show to 16 or 17 by the time it ended e: his 17th birthday was an episode for sure
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socialsecurity posted:I was the same age Bart was when the Simpsons launched(I'm an old) and I thought it was super cool how he would grow up at the same rate as me. Now I'm older then Homer and very mad about it. I'm in the same boat as you. Next up is Patty and Selma and then after that: 
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:The only animated show where the characters age and change over time in any real way (that I can think of) is Venture Bros. Big Mouth has its characters age albeit slowly.
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dovetaile posted:Big Mouth has its characters age albeit slowly. Oh that’s right. I haven’t seen Adventure Time but I definitely forgot about Big Mouth.
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Archer is also aging its child characters, but the wee baby Seamus only shows up in a photo and AJ seems to have grown ten+ years in half the time. I don't blame anyone for bailing, but I have to see how far they can take it with everything they've lost.
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Let's try this again:InsensitiveSeaBass posted:10: The Plight Before Christmas
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Christmas episode yay. Kids doing pageants booo. We already did this with the Belcher kids once.
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Dec 11, 2022 19:51
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They've gotta fit in at least two "each kid gets an episode act to tell their own story" episodes per season. This sounds like another one. These are, in my opinion, by far the worst episodes and I find myself skipping them at this point.
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There's nothing wrong with that framework, but the execution never seems to live up to the conceit.
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What a touching episode. Tina is a great big sister
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WOW that episode was loving lovely
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As the episode was wrapping up I couldn't help but think about the people posting "think I am going to skip this one!" Was probably the most touching
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swickles posted:As the episode was wrapping up I couldn't help but think about the people posting "think I am going to skip this one!" That was me, and I feel silly for saying it now, it just really sounded like yet another "each kid gets an act to do their wacky version of the premise" episode. But agreed, probably the most emotional episode they've done. They also had that moment with Teddy in the comet episode a few weeks ago in addition to the ones you mentioned. Glad to see they're taking some steps out of their usual zone. Just a few posts ago I was saying how one of my complaints has been that the show always has strayed away from the emotional moment.
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Not a super funny episode, but still really good. It's nice to see the kids be there for each other, and Tina's great. It was very nice to see Louise let her guard down a bit.
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Yeah, that was a wonderful surprise.
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That ruled.
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I touched on this earlier, but I've started watching from the beginning. Most of these episodes I haven't seen since they aired. It's crazy how much more like an Adult Swim show this was in the early days, but also man was it a lot funnier. The only jarring thing is that they scream... a LOT. To the point where it's hard to watch more than two episodes in a row. I do wish they had retained the slight edge the show used to have, though.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Because that’s kind of exactly what the kids’ stories always are. Like “what if there was a giant robot attacking the school… with robot farts!!!” It was beautiful. His farts set them free. He's a hero!
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11: Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang After a student accuses her of cheating on a test, Tina needs to get back to school to clear her name, but a snowstorm traps her and her family at home
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https://twitter.com/BobsBurgersFOX/status/1613898670318960641
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I've never played the original, but I'll play this.
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My name is Tina. Years ago the world changed forever. A fungus spread an infection that takes away peoples butts, turning them into mindless, buttless zombies. It's like I made a wish on a monkeys paw. My brother and sister left to join the Thunderflies. Little did any of us know that I have an immunity, and even though I've been infected I haven't lost my butt. I may hold the key to saving mankind, or at least what's left of mankind's butt.
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 I never played one second of those games, but since a bunch of Youtube channels I follow were reviewing it, I figured I'd give the pilot a shot and I was blown the gently caress away. That episode alone is probably the best live action anything based off of a videogame that's been made to date. But your version would've been better.
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Bob's got a two season renewal.
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WOOOOOOOOO! I know I'm in the minority with this, but I find it every bit as delightful today as it was in its first few seasons. Moreso, at times. I've really never seen anything like it. The Simpsons made it nine years before the wheels fell off and Family Guy was already kind of poo poo by its first revival season, often forgetting that the used to use shock humor as a way of making a good point in favor of just being shocking for shocking's sake, but failing even at that, because punching down isn't shocking. It's default. That we're thirteen seasons and a movie into this thing and it still makes me laugh out loud even when I'm by myself is a feat, but that its heart has only grown bigger in that time is one of herculean proportions.
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Yeah I agree this show is so incredibly consistent and it has episodes I don’t like as much but I don’t think it’s ever had a fully weak period
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LividLiquid posted:WOOOOOOOOO! I'd put American Dad up against it which has, in many ways, gotten better over its 19(!) seasons and, to my understanding, has at least another 2 seasons on the books* I do agree with others who say Bob's feels a bit like it lost its teeth in one of the earlier seasons and plays things a little too safe nowadays, but it's still a very solid and charming show on the whole. *Although with the clusterfuck of TBS under Warner Bros Discovery (run by maniac Zaslav) and Fox (under Disney), there's murmuring of what its future precisely entails.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I'd put American Dad up against it which has, in many ways, gotten better over its 19(!) seasons and, to my understanding, has at least another 2 seasons on the books*
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I'd put American Dad up against it which has, in many ways, gotten better over its 19(!) seasons and, to my understanding, has at least another 2 seasons on the books* Agreed with this I dunno how American Dad keeps it up/getting better vs all logic and reason but it does.
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This last season post-movie (and the movie itself) has been great, but there was definitely a chunk of time there during the movie’s production that the show’s writing really lost its way. Almost like you shouldn’t try to do both at once. Glad it’s sticking around but it for sure had some stinkers in recent years.
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I don't feel like you can put that on writers. Writing a movie doesn't take very long. It's everything else that does.
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They've remained consistent because the only thing they have changed is that the characters scream less and sing more. Well, that and it's gotten gradually more wholesome. By this point in The Simpsons run they had been under multiple different showrunners and cycled through several distinctly different "eras". This is simultaneously a pro and con with the show. It makes it the perfect comfort food show since you always know what you're gonna get, but it also makes most of the episodes kind of blend together. Very few stand out.
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