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I remember Cubix being on WB next to Yu-Gi-Oh and Ultimate Muscle and that show about luchadores
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Henchman of Santa posted:I remember Cubix being on WB next to Yu-Gi-Oh and Ultimate Muscle and that show about luchadores Mucha Lucha
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Mar 6, 2018 03:58
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Also the worst CG show ever has to be Butt Ugly Martians.
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Mar 6, 2018 04:05
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Hattie Masters posted:Man that is a show I have not thought about in about 3 months. And a few years before that. Watching that on CBBC was great, although I never got to see the ending. Aw man, I loved Flint the Time Detective! Was able to track down the subtitled episodes in Japanese a couple of years ago. It's such a ridiculous, dumb show but I love it. Probably helped that I was super in to Pokemon and Digimon at the time so it was pretty much right up my ally. I would still be interested in reading a translation of the manga but have never been able to find anywhere that has it uploaded. Won't lie, still have a huge soft spot in my heart for Merlock, who was my first anime crush   12-year-old Me was super lonely. 28 year-old Me is still super lonely
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Mar 6, 2018 04:22
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Henchman of Santa posted:I remember Cubix being on WB next to Yu-Gi-Oh and Ultimate Muscle and that show about luchadores Ultimate Muscle was pretty great. That cartoon was loving insane and you could tell the translator's basically got free reign to do whatever they thought was funny. Plus one enemy was a butt.
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Mar 6, 2018 05:55
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BioEnchanted posted:I blame that loving Monkey's Paw. All I wished for was to only see good media. The fucker just made me like everything regardless of quality. Do me a solid and google for "Fighting Foodons." The show started stale and aged like milk.
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Mar 6, 2018 05:58
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Post poste posted:Do me a solid and google for "Fighting Foodons." The show started stale and aged like milk. Bitch, don’t be talking poo poo ‘bout my nigga Fried Ricer. Or his friend, Shrimp Fried Ricer. There were some other characters probably.
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Mar 6, 2018 06:09
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I somehow liked Megababies for one full minute when I was a kid. 
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Mar 6, 2018 06:47
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Something I liked with the Ultimate Muscle dub was that they deconstructed the whole Shonen "Win through dumb luck and gumption" idea - Kid spends the entire first series getting lucky and fighting like an idiot, but then the auditors/elders point out that he has been sustaining countless microinjuries that have totally failed to heal under the major ones that he got over, and if he keeps winning relying on luck he will die. The next arc is "Learn to loving fight properly, because we'll be putting you up against some nasty boys!"
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Mar 6, 2018 07:09
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They even made a new arc specifically for the dub.
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Mar 6, 2018 07:31
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Wheat Loaf posted:When I was little, I had this idea that Sailor Moon was some kind of weird Sabrina the Teenage Witch cartoon (there was an actual Sabrina cartoon by Disney, which was nominally connected to the live-action show) from Japan, because the main character was a blonde girl with magic powers called Serena (which I always misheard as "Sabrina") and her sidekick was a talking black cat. In the later 90 or early 00s when the anime boom was really starting in the US I believe Archie Comics actually tried doing Sabrina as a manga-styled comic for a while, and it MIGHT have actually had Sabrina doing a bit of a magical schoolgirl-warrior maiden thing.
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Mar 6, 2018 08:43
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Sabrina was huge for a while. They even renamed a Pokémon character after her.
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Mar 6, 2018 08:44
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Man, speaking of early '00s TV, one storyline that aged badly because it was hosed up to begin with was the whole fifteen-year-old dates his teacher thing from Dawson's Creek. The older woman is predatory as hell and shames him for "acting like a kid" after they break up; like, yeah, no poo poo lady, he can't even drive yet. Plus, if memory serves, I don't think anything even came of it. She transfers schools but otherwise gets off scot-free, unlike in Riverdale, where the pedo teacher gets straight-up murdered in season two. Also, along that vein, holy poo poo did the show Pretty Little Liars have a problem with adult dudes hitting on teenagers; it was like every other episode that some 28-year-old was trying to hook up with one of the extremely underage protagonists.
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Mar 6, 2018 08:48
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I recall Daria had a few cases of adults hitting on teenagers and it was generally always portrayed as super skeezy.
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Henchman of Santa posted:Also the worst CG show ever has to be Butt Ugly Martians. You ain't seen nothin' yet.
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Mar 6, 2018 09:20
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I feel like the 90s are cheating.
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Mar 6, 2018 09:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFDRXD7QiqQ This ran for 5 seasons 
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Mar 6, 2018 09:39
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big cummers ONLY posted:UK Kitchen Nightmares owned and made the US version unwatchable for us. The marking is pretty bad but I assumed the two different waitresses showing up was that the waitress he actually asked out had rejected him.
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Mar 6, 2018 12:05
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:
My other half watched that show and it was weird how the characters were supposed to be high schoolers yet acted like college freshman for the most part. Plus the one did date her teacher
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Mar 6, 2018 12:38
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The Office joke was 100% about Michael’s casual (drunken) racism. It’s why at the end he talks to jim about it and can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it all. Jim laughs but is clearly shocked. Michael’s character is great because he’s always on the line of being a total piece of poo poo, but is too stupid to really understand what he’s doing. He’s like most people, and can really bring to light horrible things people end up doing day to day.
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edit: /\/\ Yeah, you said it much better than me /\/\EmmyOk posted:The marking is pretty bad but I assumed the two different waitresses showing up was that the waitress he actually asked out had rejected him. The marking was loving hilarious. That was still back when you weren't supposed to feel good about Michael Scott.
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Mar 6, 2018 12:52
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It did a really bad job of trying to make you sympathise with Michael and that happened a bunch of times before that scene
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Mar 6, 2018 12:59
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I'm saying that you're not supposed to sympathize with him. You're supposed to think he's a loving idiot. Early Office pretty much painted him in an unsympathetic light. His own bigotry and selfishness bite him in the rear end all the time.
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Mar 6, 2018 13:04
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I thought it was a hilarious scene, and yes you're not supposed to think Michael is some great guy. It's just so absurd but at least he's open to talking about it.
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Mar 6, 2018 13:09
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big cummers ONLY posted:Pretty impressive that Gordon still loved it. Just imagine how good that poo poo was fresh :o The barbecue restaurant one was a great one for this, where it turned out they had two top of the range, awesome smokers, were taking the time to long smoke all the meat...then putting it in the fridge for days and and microwaving it. It also had the line YOU loving DONUT OF COURSE YOU DON'T MICROWAVE A SALAD which is probably my favourite line in the entire show
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Mar 6, 2018 15:03
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Plus the running theme of that Office episode is that he's getting over a breakup and WAY too eager to declare that the first woman who shows him any sort of kindness is "the one". Which builds up to the absurdity of him saying "that waitress was the one" even though he only knew her for a few hours and conflated her with various other waitresses he flirted with on the same day.
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CPColin posted:They say on the commentary somewhere that the joke was supposed to be that they couldn't convince the cute waitresses to come back and had to settle for two uggos, but casting didn't get the message and didn't cast ugly actresses. I'm not sure the joke would've landed anyway, without a line like, "Our waitresses said they were busy, but these two were eager to come with us!" Feel like a couple people might have missed this The joke was not originally going to be tied into Michael's racism and that's why the connection to the other racist elements (marking Kulap) feels tenuous. Like someone else said, writing failed to cover for casting's gently caress up. I think I'm ok with how it turned out because "lol ugly people are so desperate they'll leave work for an office party with Michael" is bad too imo
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Mar 6, 2018 15:34
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big cummers ONLY posted:Feel like a couple people might have missed this Michael had a great arc but bringing back "Ping" in his last episode was too much.
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Mar 6, 2018 15:36
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MikeCrotch posted:The barbecue restaurant one was a great one for this, where it turned out they had two top of the range, awesome smokers, were taking the time to long smoke all the meat...then putting it in the fridge for days and and microwaving it. The best part about this line is that it makes the whole staff of the restaurant laugh, and it breaks some of the tension in the room. It also made them realize that a salad being the only thing in the place not microwaved was completely ridiculous. People being [i[shocked[/i] that people don't like their microwaved food and that Gordon in particular hates it always makes me laugh, no matter how many times I see it.
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Mar 6, 2018 16:36
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Koalas March posted:Michael had a great arc but bringing back "Ping" in his last episode was too much. Did he ever do Ping before that? I know it was implied a few times. I get what they were trying for there, but Michael's character had sort of moved past that stuff by that point so it did feel kinda stupid. Should have brought back his southern guy or something to show he couldn't say goodbye himself because it was too hard.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Did he ever do Ping before that? I know it was implied a few times. I get what they were trying for there, but Michael's character had sort of moved past that stuff by that point so it did feel kinda stupid. Should have brought back his southern guy or something to show he couldn't say goodbye himself because it was too hard. Twice in season one. (I'm near the end of a rewatch right now, s8) I can't remember the first episode but the second is The Dundies and he has false teeth and everything iirc.
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M.U.S.C.L.E. has such a weird life in the West. When I was a kid in the mid 80s their figures were the height of quarter supermarket vending machines to the point my brother and I had a poster showing all 150+ figures, but none of the comics, cartoons, or video games came to the US. Then 20 years later, the Ultimate cartoon is a smash hit, but again, nothing else in the franchise hits the US.
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Choco1980 posted:M.U.S.C.L.E. has such a weird life in the West. When I was a kid in the mid 80s their figures were the height of quarter supermarket vending machines to the point my brother and I had a poster showing all 150+ figures, but none of the comics, cartoons, or video games came to the US. Then 20 years later, the Ultimate cartoon is a smash hit, but again, nothing else in the franchise hits the US. I had tons of them and I used to spend hours in the back yard having them fight each other on overturned stumps or woodpiles, so I'm kinda sad they got left behind when I moved out of Kansas 5 years back.
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Choco1980 posted:M.U.S.C.L.E. has such a weird life in the West. When I was a kid in the mid 80s their figures were the height of quarter supermarket vending machines to the point my brother and I had a poster showing all 150+ figures, but none of the comics, cartoons, or video games came to the US. Then 20 years later, the Ultimate cartoon is a smash hit, but again, nothing else in the franchise hits the US. I believe Ultimate Muscle wasn't actually all that popular in Japan (the anime, anyway - I know the manga's continued in one form or another to the present day) but it was so popular in America that they made an extra season, which strikes me as pretty unusual.
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Unusual but not unprecedented. Big O was popular enough here that Adult Swim financed a second season. It's apparently not that popular out in Japan. Cowboy Bebop has a similar US/Japan popularity. Nothing American made being more popular in Japan springs to mind, but I know Top Cat is oddly popular in Mexico to this day. And India got a Johnny Bravo movie from the original team like a decade after it ended.
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Japan has bad taste in anime.
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In ultimate muscle the main character fights a guy who can turn into a shoe. Then they reveal that a thing a shoe hates most is stepping in poo poo. So the main character shits on the mat.
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I loathed this so much and still do. But it ain't stronger than a golden banana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14-EJHaJIg
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Volcott posted:Japan has bad taste in anime. Confirmed. Pacific Rim only made $14 million in Japan.
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I always thought the Dundee's episode was supposed to be intentionally cringey, considering the only person who seemed to enjoy it was a super drunk Pam. The Office episode I think goes too far is the one where Michael does his best to ruin Phyllis's wedding. I think only Scott's Tots is harder to watch cringe wise.
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