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Oh poo poo, it was a raccoon and not a bird! I feel like I just recovered a suppressed memory like Alan Alda in the last episode of MASH.
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The one where he locked his babysitter out of the house and his parents telling him why it was a dangerously stupid idea was sad/terrifying because you get the sense they were really worried.
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Sep 2, 2020 18:24
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Ambitious Spider posted:My aunt had a copy of a for better or worse book that was all the strips about the dog Farley from when he was a puppy til when he died saving the little kid from a river. I remember telling one of my parents that the dog died and they were all, "No way. The newspapers would never print that." and didn't just look for themselves because they were a big jerk. The dog should have said this: 
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Sep 2, 2020 19:36
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Oh poo poo, it was a raccoon and not a bird! I feel like I just recovered a suppressed memory like Alan Alda in the last episode of MASH. There was also a single Sunday comic in which they find a dead bird and think about life and death.
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Sep 2, 2020 19:59
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ilmucche posted:Sometimes you gotta jump the shark It's on Disney+. It holds up really well. They're missing a couple seasons though.
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Sep 2, 2020 20:20
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's on Disney+. It holds up really well. They're missing a couple seasons though. It was also one of those shows with tons of jokes just for the parents so they don't gouge out their eyes when their kids force them to watch. Like when the gang makes a Trojan horse to get inside a fort, one of the kids guarding says, "Hey, didn't someone say beware of gifts from geeks?"
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Sep 2, 2020 21:37
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Dreadwind posted:It was also one of those shows with tons of jokes just for the parents so they don't gouge out their eyes when their kids force them to watch. If that qualifies as an adult joke then Ducktales is graduate level comedy
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Sep 2, 2020 21:48
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I mean an adult joke is a joke an adult will understand, it doesn’t need to be high comedy
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Sep 2, 2020 21:53
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Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were both good for those, too.
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Sep 2, 2020 22:12
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Yeah I'm not talking about jokes having to be dirty or for galaxy brain adults. I just distinctly remember the difference between kids shows where some dude is talking at half speed playing "find the clearly visible object on the screen", and shows where the parents are laughing harder than the kids.
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Sep 2, 2020 22:42
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Finger Prince?
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Sep 2, 2020 22:43
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CPColin posted:I remember telling one of my parents that the dog died and they were all, "No way. The newspapers would never print that." and didn't just look for themselves because they were a big jerk. I believe FooB pussied out of killing off the dog, after Schulz said 'you kill off the dog and I will kill off Snoopy the same week just to upstage you'
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Sep 2, 2020 23:46
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Tunicate posted:I believe FooB pussied out of killing off the dog, after Schulz said 'you kill off the dog and I will kill off Snoopy the same week just to upstage you' Nope. Farley died permanently, and Schulz only said that as a somewhat derisive joke about all the attention Foob was getting over it.
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Sep 2, 2020 23:50
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:Nope. Farley died permanently, and Schulz only said that as a somewhat derisive joke about all the attention Foob was getting over it. And then foob famously tried to upstage funky winkerbean killing the main character’s wife by having the grandfather appear to die on the same day or a day before or something.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:03
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I'm confused who is Foob?
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Sep 3, 2020 00:24
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come to comic strip megathread we have so many sights to show you 
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:come to comic strip megathread we have so many sights to show you Google tells me it's the same as FBOFW so now I'm even more confused
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Sep 3, 2020 00:40
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Len posted:I'm confused who is Foob? Derisive nickname for the comic For Better or For Worse, which has a goon hateread "fandom" because the author is a genuinely horrible person.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:41
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I remember watching Rugrats with a bunch of my adult family in the room and the whole adult group cracking up at something I didn't understand. I wish I could remember what the joke was.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:48
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I remember watching Rugrats with a bunch of my adult family in the room and the whole adult group cracking up at something I didn't understand. I wish I could remember what the joke was. One of my favorite Rugrats references I appreciate as an adult and parent far more than as a kid is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvdBrF5qaww
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Sep 3, 2020 01:00
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Len posted:Google tells me it's the same as FBOFW so now I'm even more confused I think people call it Foob because of exactly why I brought it up in this thread: the author used 'foob' as fake Teen Slang.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:come to comic strip megathread we have so many sights to show you Yep, it's even being posted right now because it's in reruns. The completely fictional kid just got born, so it's a... time to jump in.
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IIRC, someone pointed out to the author that the dog in FOOB was of a breed that would be at the end of its lifespan at that point in the comic, so the author considered having him die of old age, but decided to have him die heroically instead.Antifa Turkeesian posted:And then foob famously tried to upstage funky winkerbean killing the main character’s wife by having the grandfather appear to die on the same day or a day before or something. That comic didn't run down under, so I only know it as being the one that devolved into being entirely about cancer and apparently occasionally incest.
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Sep 3, 2020 02:04
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I remember watching Rugrats with a bunch of my adult family in the room and the whole adult group cracking up at something I didn't understand. I wish I could remember what the joke was. - What do you say we make it interesting? 5 bucks a hole? - Shame on you, Drew! Gambling is a bad, BAD thing! (away from the kids) Make it 10
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Winty posted:(Stu and his brother are at mini golf) After seeing the storyboard some of the animators passed around, I'm sure glad that was the punchline they went with
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Sep 3, 2020 04:00
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I think my favourite thing with made-up swears was Recess poking fun at the idea - in one episode the adults hear TJ using the word "Whomps" and get all offended at language, campaigning to get it banned. After a long drawn out mess, the judge finally hears the word himself because everyones been pussyfooting around it, and laughs his rear end off at how stupid the hearing is. Prickly: "I don't get it, what's so funny?" Judge: "Hahaha, It's a FUNNY WORD! And completely innocent, anyone who reads anything dirty into it probably has a dirty mind themselves. Motion denied. Good day." Prickly: "Sigh... this whomps..."
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Sep 3, 2020 04:43
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Recess also has an episode about some trading cards or something becoming a de facto currency on the playground, and it ends with CJ becoming a tycoon to the point of monopoly, where he owns everything on the playground and there's nowhere left for the kids to play while he has 90% of said currency and schemes to get the rest, until his old friends decide to forcibly redistribute his fortune. Pretty on the nose metaphor for capitalism.
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Pretty crazy how so many shows had an episode that involved: - Character becomes wealthy - Wealth goes to Character's head and they become a jackass - Character becomes increasingly alienated from all of their friends and progressively more miserable - Character loses wealth, friends return and happiness is restored. Guess it really isn't all that crazy now that I've typed it out, it's a reliable well to draw from.
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Sep 3, 2020 07:16
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the box was the best recess episode
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Dreadwind posted:It was also one of those shows with tons of jokes just for the parents so they don't gouge out their eyes when their kids force them to watch.
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the_steve posted:Pretty crazy how so many shows had an episode that involved: Apart from the last bit, that's exactly how it works in real life. Hell, Notch's story is pretty much ripped from a TV show, right down to the "silly" thing that made him a billionaire, the fancy mansion and the fact that he sits alone in it miserable. Only thing that wouldn't be shown on TV is the racism.
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Tiggum posted:I feel like I've heard this about literally every children's show that isn't strictly for preschoolers. I dunno, I definitely think today's children's shows are far more sofisticated than they ever were. At the very least you can apparently no longer get away with actively insulting the audience's intelligence like this: https://youtu.be/x5-JVvCrGC8
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Kim Possible has an episode based around the X game guest starring such celebrities as BMXer Ryan Nyquist and Skateboarder Bob Burnquist. They also ended an episode once with a smash mouth concert, had a villain whose entire conceit was based around a Beanie Babies parody and most egregiously an episode I just watched (Naked Genius Season 2 Episode 1 features Wade using the word: "Japanimation" Not as inspired as you think. I saw Akira referred to as Japanimation when it was basically 100% of all anime available in the West.
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AceOfFlames posted:I dunno, I definitely think today's children's shows are far more sofisticated than they ever were. At the very least you can apparently no longer get away with actively insulting the audience's intelligence like this: I'm nearly 30 and that's from before I was born
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Sep 3, 2020 10:27
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm nearly 30 and that's from before I was born That's my point. In the 60s the paradigm was "Cheap crap to entertain dumb kids". In the 80s it was "Dumb crap to sell toys". These days with stuff like Gumball, Steven Universe, even MLP and Teen Titans Go you have stuff with actual nuance and effort.
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Sep 3, 2020 10:38
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ....
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Sep 3, 2020 10:44
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AceOfFlames posted:That's my point. In the 60s the paradigm was "Cheap crap to entertain dumb kids". In the 80s it was "Dumb crap to sell toys". These days with stuff like Gumball, Steven Universe, even MLP and Teen Titans Go you have stuff with actual nuance and effort. Nowadays it's pretty obvious all the kids who got blown away by anime growing up and actually learned to draw and write got into animation and are doing their damndest to make these kiddy cartoons like they should have been. late 90s and 00s cartoons had clumsy and obvious anime references, 10s cartoons have them woven in.
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Sep 3, 2020 10:58
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Rugrats was an ugly-looking show but it definitely had some good jokes that went over my head that I didn't catch until I saw some reruns when I was a little older. The one that stuck in my head is all the adults stuck in a room watching someone's vacation slideshow and one of the grandpas makes a phone call and you can hear him say "Hello, Kevorkian."
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Didi's parents from the old country were also a pretty bold choice for a kids show. I learned much more about Judaism from those episodes than from any of my Jewish family members.
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Rugrat's greatest hero was the actor playing the lead in Reptar on ice. He kept kayfabe long after most actors would have broken character.
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