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Static Shock was a very cheesy show aimed at younger kids and subtle as a brick, but this bit holds up remarkably well in an impressionistic sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V7a2pxeNeE
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Other cartoons from my childhood (also sort of on the "gross out" spectrum, but not exactly) which I haven't really seen since then but which I'm pretty sure wouldn't hold up include Cow & Chicken, 2 Stupid Dogs and (when I was a little older) Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy. There was actually one really memorable episode of the last one, where they set out to learn everything about the world and end up playing around with cartoon physics (picking up holes off the ground, pulling peoples' mouths off, stealing one character's outline so he dissolved into a puddle etc.)
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 13:46 |
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EEE is definitely the odd one out of that list; it's generally considered to have aged pretty drat well. One of those shows where they kinda sidestep datedness/setting issues by having everything be randomly anachronistic with technology and culture all the time, though the lack of phones and internet are still a giveaway.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:00 |
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"Sister City", the Parks and Recreation episode with the visitors from Venezuela, is REALLY awkward now.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:04 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:EEE is definitely the odd one out of that list; it's generally considered to have aged pretty drat well. One of those shows where they kinda sidestep datedness/setting issues by having everything be randomly anachronistic with technology and culture all the time, though the lack of phones and internet are still a giveaway. By the time ed edd and eddie came out I was definitely on the internet a lot and I was probably around the age they were supposed to be depicted as
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:07 |
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EEE was still being made by people who didn't know how those things affected childhood yet. Also I don't care how much people hate it for being edgy, but I love the EEE theory that the whole show is some weird purgatory and every kid is someone on that cul de sac who died at a different time point during the 20th Century.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:15 |
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Tiggum posted:Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister is still really good. Police Squad. And if Scrubs is far enough back to be considered then also Farscape and Daria. I've only started watching Yes Minister recently and it's incredibly prescient, the databases episode could be from this year.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:35 |
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food court bailiff posted:"Sister City", the Parks and Recreation episode with the visitors from Venezuela, is REALLY awkward now.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:36 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:It was always one of the show's worst episodes, arguably the worst. You forgot season 1.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:50 |
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mind the walrus posted:EEE was still being made by people who didn't know how those things affected childhood yet. It is one of those shows where every character basically has their own aesthetic, with Ed's grungy horror-obsessed deal being something out of the early to mid 90s, while Eddy's room and preferred decor is very 70s. (And not even starting on Rolf) Kevin is very outdoorsy 90s as well. Though I like to think Eddy just has a bunch of his parents' old 70s stuff they were going to throw out and took a liking to it. Also notable given it's a show that very strictly sticks to its economy cast; the only animated characters on-screen are the cul-de-sac kids, the Kankers and Rolf's livestock. Even when they have episodes in school, only the cul-de-sac kids are ever seen. The only exception is the movie.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:51 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:It was always one of the show's worst episodes, arguably the worst. There is one where Leslie dresses like Clinton that is anti comedy
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:56 |
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EEE also has a really weirdly satisfying conclusion. Considering it was a dumb absurdist comedy series the movie that ended it actually finished on a shockingly note.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 14:57 |
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This fan-image gives context to the EEE Purgatory theory and makes a great deal of sense:
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:22 |
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mind the walrus posted:This fan-image gives context to the EEE Purgatory theory and makes a great deal of sense: ...does it? Does it really?
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:26 |
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As much as anything else on that show.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:28 |
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I can't loving stand those stupid "HEY YOU KNOW THIS CARTOON? LEMMEE TELL YOU HOW IT'S REALLY ABOUT DEAD KIDS/KID IN A COMA/DEMONS/HELL." It's the laziest poo poo in the world.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:29 |
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Volcott posted:You forgot season 1.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:32 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:I can't loving stand those stupid "HEY YOU KNOW THIS CARTOON? LEMMEE TELL YOU HOW IT'S REALLY ABOUT DEAD KIDS/KID IN A COMA/DEMONS/HELL." It's the laziest poo poo in the world. I remember reading one 10+ years ago which said that Ash was put in a coma when Pikachu shocked him in the first episode of Pokémon and the entire series is him hallucinating. It was sort of funny, then it got to stuff like, "Brock obviously represents Ash's repressed homosexuality, which caused his abusive father, Giovanni, to reject him," which was a bit try-hard, then it got into this miserable fanfiction about how his mother has to switch off his life support. But the funniest thing about it was that someone - rather than rolling their eyes and closing the page like a sensible person would - took it seriously enough to write this rambling, asinine rebuttal that was even longer than the original thing.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:35 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:I can't loving stand those stupid "HEY YOU KNOW THIS CARTOON? LEMMEE TELL YOU HOW IT'S REALLY ABOUT DEAD KIDS/KID IN A COMA/DEMONS/HELL." It's the laziest poo poo in the world. It's true for Sesame Street by way of John Munch, so why can't it be true for other shows?
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:38 |
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EmmyOk posted:I've only started watching Yes Minister recently and it's incredibly prescient, the databases episode could be from this year. Only 2 months ago, I sent an email to someone and used the phrase "wasn't this the plot of 'Yes Minister' episode?" and I was referring to this one.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 15:58 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:I can't loving stand those stupid "HEY YOU KNOW THIS CARTOON? LEMMEE TELL YOU HOW IT'S REALLY ABOUT DEAD KIDS/KID IN A COMA/DEMONS/HELL." It's the laziest poo poo in the world. Arivia posted:It's true for Sesame Street by way of John Munch, so why can't it be true for other shows? Also Sesame Street is about the Ghetto y'all. Dave Chapelle's old bit about Oscar is kind-of lame, but the assessment that Sesame Street is a shithole city neighborhood is accurate. They deliberately chose that environment to appeal to inner-city kids, showing that such an environment could be wholesome and worthwhile.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:04 |
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The only thing that has aged in The Thick of It is when they had to write out a character who told Nonce jokes because his real-life actor went to prison for possession of CP. "I look like a disgraced Geography teacher." Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_FrQnQv0Vw
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:04 |
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It's autistic children with snowglobes all the way down.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:06 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The only thing that has aged in The Thick of It is when they had to write out a character who told Nonce jokes because his real-life actor went to prison for possession of CP. "I look like a disgraced Geography teacher." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwGZinTeodc Gandolfini sparring with Capaldi is one of my favorite scenes of anything.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:10 |
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If we see John Munch when we die, who does Richard Belzer see?
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:13 |
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Arivia posted:If we see John Munch when we die, who does Richard Belzer see? Fade to black, executive producer dick wolf.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:22 |
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Volcott posted:Fade to black, executive producer dick wolf. Incredible.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:24 |
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Not a TV show, but the "Long Duck Dong" poo poo from "Sixteen Candles" is really hard to watch these days, as well as the drunken rape of the prom queen. I don't like that movie.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:35 |
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mind the walrus posted:This fan-image gives context to the EEE Purgatory theory and makes a great deal of sense: Hahahaha, maybe to you, you loving nerd, Jesus Christ. Ah, sorry. I just find the 'oh poo poo, everyone was dead/ in a coma all along, theory to be the dumbest thing. Anyone recently watch Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy lately? I'd imagine that one probably falls somewhere between Flapjack and Codename KND.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:42 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:It is one of those shows where every character basically has their own aesthetic, with Ed's grungy horror-obsessed deal being something out of the early to mid 90s, while Eddy's room and preferred decor is very 70s. (And not even starting on Rolf) Kevin is very outdoorsy 90s as well. Though I like to think Eddy just has a bunch of his parents' old 70s stuff they were going to throw out and took a liking to it. Eddy is super in the 70s because he has a 20's something older brother he idolizes, and steals/get handed down a ton of junk the older brother doesn't want anymore. This comes up several times. Everyone else but Rolf (the weird Yakov Smirnoff take on the foreign kid is cringy as hell most of the time) is just a confused 90s kid. The purgatory thing is just dumb. I do think its a pretty good show for what it is though.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:43 |
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BiggerBoat posted:Not a TV show, but the "Long Duck Dong" poo poo from "Sixteen Candles" is really hard to watch these days, as well as the drunken rape of the prom queen. I don't like that movie. Hey now, we don't know if Farmer Ted got anywhere. They were still dressed and passed out in a convertible with the top down. But yeah, that whole movie is one terrible stereotype and there was so much drunk driving back then.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:44 |
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RareAcumen posted:Hahahaha, maybe to you, you loving nerd, Jesus Christ. mind the walrus posted:Yes we know. There ---------------------- BiggerBoat posted:Not a TV show, but the "Long Duck Dong" poo poo from "Sixteen Candles" is really hard to watch these days, as well as the drunken rape of the prom queen. I don't like that movie.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:47 |
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mind the walrus posted:Yes we know. There is always someone who posts this every time it comes up. EEE is the one show where I think that interpretation enhances things instead of being an adolescent attempt to add gravitas to an animated marketing enterprise. Nah it's just as monumentally lame as every other 'poo poo man this kids show is so loving dark maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan' intepretation. Yeah dude, the characters are all dead kids from various decades because they wear clothes that, if you sorta kinda squint and turn your head and bullshit a bit, look like clothes from that decade. Why can't it just be an artistic choice and not ~dead kids in a spoooooooooooky purgatory woooooooooo~ Did you ever see the lost episode where the Kanker Sisters reveal they're all demons and then kill the kids in bloody ways while backwards chanting plays? The only time that the whole~creepy lost children's show~ worked was Candle Cove/Channel Zero and that's because it was actually subtle.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:47 |
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The only thing the "they're all dead" theory works for is the comic strip Beatle Bailey.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:49 |
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Anyone else see that episode of Courage the Cowardly dog where hyper-realistic blood started shooting out of Courage's eyeballs and Muriel was a corpse and my television started leaking rivers of blood from the outlet and it killed my parents? Anyway, we're all trapped in the matrix. Being serious again, does Gargoyles still hold up? I never got into it, because by the time I got Disney XD-or whatever the second channel was called- to watch it, they were already on like, episode 87 or something.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:50 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:Nah it's just as monumentally lame as every other 'poo poo man this kids show is so loving dark maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan' intepretation. quote:The only time that the whole~creepy lost children's show~ worked was Candle Cove/Channel Zero and that's because it was actually subtle. And the show devolves into diet Stephen King--almost instantly after the first episode. Subtlety:
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:51 |
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RareAcumen posted:Anyone else see that episode of Courage the Cowardly dog where hyper-realistic blood started shooting out of Courage's eyeballs and Muriel was a corpse and my television started leaking rivers of blood from the outlet and it killed my parents? Uh, yeah. That was like every third episode.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:54 |
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RareAcumen posted:Anyone else see that episode of Courage the Cowardly dog where hyper-realistic blood started shooting out of Courage's eyeballs and Muriel was a corpse and my television started leaking rivers of blood from the outlet and it killed my parents? Give it 3 episodes. I'd say it's still good, but the world tour arc that's like 50 episodes deep does drag on a bit.
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# ? Aug 8, 2017 16:54 |
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mind the walrus posted:None of those outfits in the fanart are what the characters wear dude. Also y'know, analysis and reinterpretation can be fun. I hear humans have been doing it for a while to make new art. Ah yes truly not as artful as " ed edd and eddy are in hell " or the classic " ash from Pokemon is autistic and pikachu isn't real"
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mind the walrus posted:---------------------- That scene crossed my mind too but I didn't want to get into derailing by listing too many movies. But, yeah, the Animal House scene is awful.
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