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mind the walrus posted:I haven't been up on Adult Swim shows since I got a job and moved out of my parent's house, but the shows that the same people behind Archer were involved in--Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo--had very similar formatting and animation-styles but played to the burnout/nerd crowd explicitly. Sealab took an obscure weird-rear end cartoon about a sea base and made it into the setting for absurdist riffs that could go in any direction at any time. Frisky Dingo married a serial continuity and made the absurdism far more about verbal and character interplay but was still mired in nerd conventions like an explicit Iron Man/SHIELD riff and a weird-rear end demon dude. I don't enjoy Archer despite enjoying it's similar shows but I've never been able to articulate why. Thank you. Also it's hilarious that people see "classy rich attractive spies" and mistake this as smart television.
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If you were a halfway recovered former bro flipping channels maybe after a bad breakup and saw BOOBS on the screen and were like "wait did that guy just say loving haha what is this" it could quite possibly lead you down a dark path of adult cartoons and maybe even Internet posting
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archer spongebob regular show adventure time and american dad before it switched channel are top tier cartoons
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Every show mentioned in this thread is good except Archer wow
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Mar 31, 2015 20:54
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Archer is slowly going to poo poo after two or three good seasons, like every other cartoon that depends entirely on cynical/offensive humor.
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Mar 31, 2015 21:00
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Archer and parks and recreation and community are all overrated by internet enthusiast dorks
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Mar 31, 2015 21:01
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People who wish they were successful writers on a TV show ITT
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Mar 31, 2015 21:06
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i have a roommate who has had this one line from archer as her text ringtone: "oh my god you killer a hooker!" "call girl!" "no cyril when they're dead they're just hookers" for 5 loving years i hate this show and anyone who watches it tbh
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Mar 31, 2015 21:09
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ninotoreS posted:so Archer must have officially gotten too popular now, since all these goons here are pretending it's bad so they can feel special bingo
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Rand alPaul posted:Frisky Dingo was a way better show. I was disappointed they returned to the status quo after the crime season. Part of what made Frisky Dingo so awesome is it utterly trashed the original concept almost out of the gate and went off the reservation with the pedal to the floor.
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A Great Beard posted:i have a roommate who has had this one line from archer as her text ringtone: epic
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A Great Beard posted:i have a roommate who has had this one line from archer as her text ringtone: nobody likes you on this site or in real life, hth
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Mar 31, 2015 21:20
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There aren't many characters like Pam on TV
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Mar 31, 2015 21:23
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Arian_Samurai posted:There aren't many characters like Pam on TV Good
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Mar 31, 2015 21:32
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i actually like archer more than frisky dingo  'though i only caught FD occasionally when it was on and never got that into it
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Mar 31, 2015 21:34
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I hate media not directed at shut in nerds
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Mar 31, 2015 22:00
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its incredible that people are somehow too pretentious for archer but like frisky dingo when, in reality, they both own
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Professor Tomtom posted:I hate media not directed at shut in nerds
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im gonna go out on a limb and say that south park is much better than archer, on dry turf, in the cold endless vacuum of a void
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I think archer is better than frisky dingo
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Mar 31, 2015 22:18
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It's your karma for talking poo poo about everybody that doesn't like Arrested Development.
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I liked the Pelswick reference someone made earlier in that thread. More shows need badass grannies imho.
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Irrational Bees posted:People who wish they were successful writers on a TV show ITT Oh my christ no. You ever tried television writing? Absolutely miserable and joyless experience. Locker Room Zubaz posted:I think archer is better than frisky dingo It probably is, but I like Frisky Dingo better. Eustachy posted:Archer and parks and recreation and community are all overrated by internet enthusiast dorks And Rick and Morty. That's not going to win me friends, but it's true. None are bad, at least in a technical sense. The problem is that all four of those shows are very focused on being accessible to moderate dorks who like nerd culture but are too socially adept to go full-bore and risk being actually alienating to anyone; they're the kind-of schmucks who buy Tardis-themed gear on Thinkgeek or a Pixel Mario throw pillow off of Etsy to have around their cubicle and proudly say "yeah I'm nerd, but I also have a life" There's nothing wrong with that, but odds are good that if you post on SomethingAwful or even 4chan you find that attitude grating after a point.
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Mar 31, 2015 22:30
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archer thinks its funnier than it is, and even if its still kinda funny sometimes, that is a lovely quality to have. i freakin loved frisky dingo and i love everything else j benjamin did so maybe i just think it should be a lot better
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Mar 31, 2015 22:30
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*Characters have a long argument during a car chase or shootout, which never gets old even after 1,000 times.*
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Mar 31, 2015 22:32
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H Jon Benjamin is the only good thing about this lovely show archer is just a shitcom cartoon for boring people to binge watch when they run out of portlandia and south park episodes
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Mar 31, 2015 22:39
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A Great Beard posted:H Jon Benjamin is the only good thing about this lovely show Almost the entire cast deserves praise to be honest. Aisha Tyler and Chris Parnell in particular make a lot out of really thankless roles. The Arrested Development holdovers-- I forget their names the old lady and the secretary--are probably the worst though. The writers also seriously need to jump off the Pam boner. Yes we get it she's a bigger lady but she's tough and sexy and there are way more dimensions to her than her appearance would suggest, but she's not a goddess-made-flesh or anything.
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Mar 31, 2015 22:41
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Sealab and Frisky Dingo are two of my top 5 favorite cartoons ever but I don't like Archer at all
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Mar 31, 2015 22:43
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Space Ghost: Coast to Coast started this entire re-purposed Hanna Barbera poo poo and it's still the funniest of them all.
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Mar 31, 2015 22:57
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Bob's burgers is the best cartoon on television
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Mar 31, 2015 22:58
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:archer thinks its funnier than it is, and even if its still kinda funny sometimes, that is a lovely quality to have. yet here we are posting in gbs
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Mar 31, 2015 22:58
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Mans posted:yet here we are posting in gbs The only people who ever think GBS is actually funny get run out pretty quickly and are universally mocked. There's good reason we enshrine every marginally decent thread for posterity .
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Mar 31, 2015 23:06
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:Bob's burgers is the best cartoon on television Bob's burgers is pretty good, i feel they are more clever with their humor to keep to a PG rating
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RonMexicosPitbull posted:One of my friends got really mad at KOTH and stopped watching because it made fun of a liberal once. Its my favorite show and yea you need to live or be from the South to 100% appreciate the subtleties a lot of shows are like that. king of the hill making fun of liberals is an even worse "the truth is in the middle" that south park tries
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Mar 31, 2015 23:24
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king of the hill isn't really good. it's just good because of the super quality youtube poops
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:archer thinks its funnier than it is, and even if its still kinda funny sometimes, that is a lovely quality to have. i freakin loved frisky dingo and i love everything else j benjamin did so maybe i just think it should be a lot better One thing that I have noticed is they've toned all the characters way down, rather than ramping them up, from where they started. I watched the first season somewhat recently and it felt like a different show. ColoradoCleric posted:king of the hill making fun of liberals is an even worse "the truth is in the middle" that south park tries For what it's worth, South Park kind of said gently caress it to that a few seasons back. It's been pretty opinionated lately even if you don't always agree with it.
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Mar 31, 2015 23:28
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i like many of the cartoons discussed here.
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Blazing Ownager posted:One thing that I have noticed is they've toned all the characters way down, rather than ramping them up, from where they started. They're treating these over the top one dimensional characters like real people and making them interact now with pathos and subtlety, I'm kinda impressed
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