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Mr. Fowl posted:Dunno. I mean, they sort of all left. If they don't come back, he can be king of Mars. If they do...who could stop him? I think all the Martians are just gonna go home since G4 diverted Martin's ship. Star Man told Evacuation Man that it was okay to come back, and Magic Man is next in line for the throne, so...
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Somberbrero posted:I'm going to an Adventure Time watch party tonight and I realized that we'll probably just end up watching whatever we can find, which is lame! Anyone have suggestions for a watch list? This was me trying my best to narrow it down to three episodes per season. I think most of the people there won't be into continuity so I tried to cut down on a lot of those episodes except the ones I couldn't help. Can't go wrong with We Fixed a Truck.
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Also, I was going through all of the Lich's speeches (because Ron Perlman rules) and I remembered that all the way back in the Enchiridion episode, there's some vaguely lich-like skeleton dude who has the same kind of power to take Finn into the darkness. Was being able to resist the Lich's words one of the things that made Finn deserving of the Enchiridion in the first place?
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Dolash posted:Like, if they were writing the last season then Betty doing something to save the Ice King (or give him a final sendoff) could happen, while if they're not then they'll have Betty do something that just keeps the ball rolling in some new direction. She's working on it. Jake The Brick. 
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What the what? Several days after the episode aired and there is no three pages long screed about evils of consumerism and capitalism? I guess the episode didn't have enough rape or penises to warrant the usual levels of overanalysation. Basically, a good episode.
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Paladinus posted:What the what? Several days after the episode aired and there is no three pages long screed about evils of consumerism and capitalism? I guess the episode didn't have enough rape or penises to warrant the usual levels of overanalysation. Basically, a good episode. Who are we to condemn their weird, ancient ways?
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Feb 22, 2015 23:56
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I'm confused. Sure, Susan Strong is a cyborg, but how did that confirm her human/Hyooman status?
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Mameluke posted:I'm confused. Sure, Susan Strong is a cyborg, but how did that confirm her human/Hyooman status? She dun have gills.
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Paladinus posted:What the what? Several days after the episode aired and there is no three pages long screed about evils of consumerism and capitalism? I guess the episode didn't have enough rape or penises to warrant the usual levels of overanalysation. Basically, a good episode. No need to debate the obvious.
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I initially dismissed this episode as a copy of the Futurama Slurm episode, but upon rewatch it holds up pretty well. Good animation and the character design on the Porp mutants was nice and creepy. It's certainly not in my top ten favorite episodes, but it was solid.
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Hey Somberbrero, I recommend "Play Date" because I think your list is lacking in Ice King representation. He's SO DREAMY. 
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The mute girl is apparently called Sally. Also, where did the porp come from?
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Say Nothing posted:The mute girl is apparently called Sally. From pure porp syrup, duh. 
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Say Nothing posted:Also, where did the porp come from? This is where I thought this episode was going to riff off of the Slurm episode and have it be grape flavored toxic ooze (which honestly it still could be), but the direction they went was much better.
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Yes, they implied that it was made from children ('when the child is processed' was something Cheryl said, IIRC), so it's cool they didn't actually go with it.
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Brand recognition!
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Tollymain posted:the child was going to be processed into another cheryl though That was the reveal. The red herring was a possible secret ingredient (children).
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Feb 23, 2015 18:09
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Weren' t they going to get special Red Porp after the baby was processed?
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Naw I think the employee said reg[ular]
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MariusLecter posted:Brand recognition! The commercials thread is currently talking about why Coke has to advertise, and someone brought up this story, which is relevant for this episode. Barudak posted:Ever heard of Moxie soda? It was a soda so popular and ad campaign so ubiquitous that its name is an English word for daring and had presidents declaring it their favored drink and was #1 in the US for decades. In the 1930s they decided to heavily reduce advertising assuming everyone would still buy it in order to use those savings to expand their sugar reserves. Sales declined so sharply during that period that they fell behind Coke and Pepsi, by the 1960s it appearing as a background joke in Mad Magazine caused a 10% sales spike and by today you'd be hard pressed to find a bottle of it almost anywhere in the country.
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As has already been said in the commercials thread, Moxie is a regional soda in New England that tastes extremely bitter compared to contemporary colas. It's an acquired taste mostly enjoyed by the same kind of people who would call it "a tonic." It has modernization problems beyond lack of brand awareness.
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Writh posted:Weren' t they going to get special Red Porp after the baby was processed? And so Mountain Dew Code Red's dark secrets come to light...
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Jack Gladney posted:As has already been said in the commercials thread, Moxie is a regional soda in New England that tastes extremely bitter compared to contemporary colas. It's an acquired taste mostly enjoyed by the same kind of people who would call it "a tonic." Also, the internet and social media didn't really exist back when they decided to pull advertising for it, so it's not like the power of word of mouth was remotely the same back then.
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is there a defined demographic for people who loathe advertising to the point of avoiding widely-advertised brands out of spite
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Tollymain posted:is there a defined demographic for people who loathe advertising to the point of avoiding widely-advertised brands out of spite Hipsters?
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ToastyPotato posted:Hipsters? That's the easy answer, but everyone who knows anything about marketing and advertising can see that 'hipsters' have their own brands they gravitate to. The real answer prolly lies in the way of goony anti-society types, not young trendy people.
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nutranurse posted:That's the easy answer, but everyone who knows anything about marketing and advertising can see that 'hipsters' have their own brands they gravitate to. I kind of feel like there are different kinds of hipsters though. Like many are definitely "trendy" types, who definitely gravitate toward their own brands, abandoning things when they get too big, but there is definitely a type that rejects even that much, and will only/mostly buy things from second hand shops or stuff that is some how hand made by someone else whenever possible. They are like, the older school hipsters, before it was "cool" to be a hipster. The hipsters of hipsterdom. I'd imagine they are a very small group though.
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ToastyPotato posted:I kind of feel like there are different kinds of hipsters though. Like many are definitely "trendy" types, who definitely gravitate toward their own brands, abandoning things when they get too big, but there is definitely a type that rejects even that much, and will only/mostly buy things from second hand shops or stuff that is some how hand made by someone else whenever possible. They are like, the older school hipsters, before it was "cool" to be a hipster. The hipsters of hipsterdom. I'd imagine they are a very small group though. If you took everyone's opinion on what a hipster is you'd just end up with "whatever the kids are doing these days". I'm pretty sure there have been people who've refused to buy a product out of spite long before hipsters were ever a thing.
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The word hipster has basically no meaning besides "kids these days!!  " I don't think anti-consumerism or hatred of commercials is confined to any particular subculture, it's a pretty widespread sentiment IMO. Edit ^ what he said
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So is the thread consensus that this season is working up to reveal that Susan Strong is Finn's mother and Martin put the metallic thing her head, inhibiting her memory and speech?
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Jack Gladney posted:As has already been said in the commercials thread, Moxie is a regional soda in New England that tastes extremely bitter compared to contemporary colas. It's an acquired taste mostly enjoyed by the same kind of people who would call it "a tonic." Moxie is boss. It's almost like a Tutti Frutti coke with craptons of Angostura Bitters.
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7seven7 posted:So is the thread consensus that this season is working up to reveal that Susan Strong is Finn's mother and Martin put the metallic thing her head, inhibiting her memory and speech? That's what they want you to think!
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Isn't Susan way too young to be Finn's mum? She doesn't seem that much older than Finn, just ridiculously buff as hell.
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Yeah, she certainly doesn't seem close to Martin's age.
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Why are you guys spoiling speculation? Clearly Susan Strong is a super solider test candidate.
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There are a million ways they can go with Susan. Maybe she's Finn's mom. Maybe she's not. Maybe she was originally intended to be Finn's mom but then they decided to change it. Maybe she wasn't and vice versa. Maybe she isn't and they just want us to think she is. If she's Finn's mom, why is she so young? Maybe it was some super soldier serum. Maybe it was a potion. Maybe she's a clone. Maybe it's magic. Maybe she isn't young but just seems like it because of whatever Planet of the Apes lobotomy she had. This show being what it is, they can come up with almost any explanation possible.
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