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Also, Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel 3 came out of US release date limbo. November 18 and 21 through Fathom Events. No news of a virtual screening like for Made in Abyss. I have mixed feelings, because on the one hand, loving finally, but on the other hand...
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I was a big Animaniacs fan growing up but the quality definitely varies based on the skits. The Warners, Pinky and the Brain, and Slappy Squirrel were usually solid, Buttons and Mindy was okay but mostly the same joke over and over, and The Goodfeathers and Rita and Runt were... not so great. Those I tended to skip when rewatching the episodes on DVD. Goodfeathers especially is pretty bizarre on a conceptual level - I can see doing it as a one-off, but having a recurring part of your show be a parody of mob movies that 99% of children aren't going to get doesn't make a whole lot of sense!
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# ? Oct 13, 2020 20:07 |
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FilthyImp posted:I never knew they did a Power Rangers send up until I found it on YouTube randomly. I knew this because the same episode had a Barney the Dinosaur parody, which my father made a point of recording.
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# ? Oct 13, 2020 20:17 |
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:Also, Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel 3 came out of US release date limbo. November 18 and 21 through Fathom Events. No news of a virtual screening like for Made in Abyss. I saw the first two in theaters but i'm not risking covid for any movie.
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# ? Oct 13, 2020 20:20 |
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I know they had a short that was a pointed "For the love of god LEAVE TESS ALONE YOU OBSESSIVE FUCKS it's just a cartoon"
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# ? Oct 13, 2020 23:50 |
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When they put Animaniacs on Netflix a few years ago and I got to watch it as an adult, it made a lot more sense that a lot of the skits were basically made for grown-ups, or outright to amuse Speilberg himself. It was as if it was on a kid's programming block and unless you were The Simpsons, making a cartoon in the US, you have to make it for kids. I mean, what kid is going to appreciate a skit where the Warner Bros harass a Jerry Lewis movie director parody in the 1990s? Or a parody of the infamous Orson Welles Frozen Peas commercial? The rewatch made me realize Chicken Boo was the best character/bit.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 01:07 |
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Animaniacs is an odd mix of influences. That the Warners are meant to be Golden Age inkblot cartoons sealed away for being too wild for audiences of the time, and Slappy's deal, makes it pretty clear that they're using Golden Age and Looney Tunes styles as well, which in a half-hour block format pretty much means a set of skits, sometimes musical, and specific parodies of pop culture that the grown-ups will get. I think the times they do then-contemporary stuff shows why it's mostly spoofing stuff that adults (ie, the writers) are actually familiar with. Road Rovers I never saw much of, but the premise is also kinda weird- it's got the setup of a TMNT knockoff but a formula and sense of humour closer to Animaniacs.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 05:00 |
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I put Road Rovers in the same mental slot as The Mighty Ducks cartoon. Though RR did have that joke about Russian names and Dude Sonofobich
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 06:51 |
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I was a massive fan of the Mighty Ducks cartoon back in the day. Don't ask me why, besides that it was there and I lived in bumfuck nowhere with nothing to do but watch cartoons. It's also a weird one in retrospect... might be more along the lines of Street Sharks in being a mix of 90s influences but maybe closer to the 80s TMNT in themes. Also, apparently the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim still own the rights to the main character. Does have some interesting character takes; the team's hulking muscle is a gentle Zen type who uses his strength with precision, and the nerd is a butch gal and spluttering dork who switches from technobabble to layman's terms mid-sentence.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 13:09 |
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The ironic thing about Animaniacs and those other western Fox shows is their best episodes were animated in Japan, at TMS, and yet they eventually got supplanted by anime. One of the reasons Animaniacs was cancelled is it wasn't a big enough draw compared to shows like Pokemon which WB could import and not pay any animation costs for. There's some animator reels on youtube of guys who worked on Animaniacs and Batman who had previously been doing amazing shots on Akira.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 18:27 |
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Ccs posted:The ironic thing about Animaniacs and those other western Fox shows is their best episodes were animated in Japan
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Ccs posted:I saw the first two in theaters but i'm not risking covid for any movie. I know I shouldn't but god drat this is some devil's temptation, and I know I can't be the only person feeling like that. loving Aniplex.
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# ? Oct 14, 2020 20:24 |
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New trailer for Soul out Still not really feeling it but I know they’ll probably destroy my heart in this movie I mean from all the Inside Out trailers I thought the whole movie would be dumb comedy like that breakfast scene with the parents where we cut to endless reaction shots of the emotions as mundane stuff happens in the outside world I didn’t expect it would be a whole fuckin journey through the human psyche that would leave me bawling by the end
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 05:09 |
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Yeah like so many Pixar movies before release, it's squarely in that "could be the greatest movie ever or could be just ok" zone. I mean I guess that's a lot of movies but you know what I mean
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 12:56 |
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bakshiiiiiiiiii
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 13:41 |
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bakshi has definitely had weirdo fans before, but possibly never one who's imprinted on him as a surrogate grandfather i hope it's weirding him out, he deserves to be weirded out in his old age as a punishment for the various female characters he has unleashed on the world
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 13:48 |
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sorry animation thread i'm drunk and emotional again (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 13:52 |
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oh no
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 13:57 |
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Lindsay Ellis has am interesting take on Animaniacs in this series of tweets. I dont remember enough about the show to say with 100% certainty that she's right (the pop culture jokes and references didnt translate well to an Italian audience) but it seems to track with what I remember. https://mobile.twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1315471045067857921
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:00 |
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gently caress history! i am going to kill it. i am going to kill history, and free humanity from its vile clutches
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:08 |
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i'm coming for you, history! you can't hide from me!!
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:11 |
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Go to bed.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:11 |
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please do not gently caress history, it is very fragile
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:12 |
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What about HERstory
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:13 |
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Hedrigall posted:What about HERstory Some may argue that Her Story, this "game", is in fact not a game. In this essay I will
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:15 |
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The_Doctor posted:Go to bed. don't mind if i do! yoouuuuuu
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 14:19 |
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There's kind of a rough chuckle with the Animaniacs in that the cartoon characters they most strongly resemble are Bosko and Honey, which suggests a very different reason for why they were locked in the Warner vault. (Bosko and Honey earlier featured in a Tiny Toon's episode, which was their first appearance in some fifty years and had Bosko working as a "vault keeper.") I get the impression that somewhere along the line the Animaniacs were meant to be a part of a reexamination and reappraisal of the old Bosko shorts, but that aspect of them got (perhaps wisely) squashed before production. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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I do not remember ever liking the main skits of Animaniacs very much, and Im very concerned with the reboot coming back with a film parody of a film that would have been parody when the show came out. If you asked me what I liked it was the interstitial weird shorts like good idea and bad idea or the wheel of morality + Pinky and the Brain.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 17:02 |
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Honestly out of the three Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Tiny Toons - Tiny Toons holds up the best as it's the least topical-driven humor as it leans into the school setting and more classic loony toons nonsense into more modern setting, Animaniacs' man one is way more topical/pop-culture driven. Freakazoid feels the most topical, and also a surprising huge amount of gags are basically In-Jokes only people familiar with SoCal would get - and why it aged the worst out of the three imho.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 17:28 |
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There's something inherintely funny about someone deciding to make Jerry Lewis, Internet Superhero into a cartoon for children.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 17:53 |
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Kids love F Troop and Hello Dolly
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Detective No. 27 posted:There's something inherintely funny about someone deciding to make Jerry Lewis, Internet Superhero into a cartoon for children. Bootleg Trunks posted:Kids love F Troop and Hello Dolly honestly, I think you kind of have to ignore the references being made to get why it worked for children as a little kid I didn't know what the hell a Jerry Lewis was, but I loved Freakazoid, because the jokes worked totally fine without the context of "this guy's basically Jerry Lewis"
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Robindaybird posted:Honestly out of the three Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Tiny Toons - Tiny Toons holds up the best as it's the least topical-driven humor as it leans into the school setting and more classic loony toons nonsense into more modern setting, Animaniacs' man one is way more topical/pop-culture driven. How dare you ignore Histeria! ... Though granted, I haven't watched an episode since I was ten and from what little I remember it probably hasn't held up well either.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 18:12 |
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Oh absolutely. I just rewatched the series and the number of things I missed but get now was staggering.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 18:12 |
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also Freakazoid gave us Candle Jack, which is a meme that is still someh
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 18:16 |
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There's this song in Animaniacs that I saw on youtube where they just absolutely drag Disney. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJrud9uW_wI I like it because I like the idea of Disney not being God, and thus it being possible to take shots at it.
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:honestly, I think you kind of have to ignore the references being made to get why it worked for children honestly as a kid, I didn't get it was Jerry Lewis, but I get Mr. Director was an obnoxious self-absorbed twit, of course they also used him to make fun of Heart of Darkness' notoriously troubled production
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paradoxGentleman posted:There's this song in Animaniacs that I saw on youtube where they just absolutely drag Disney. That's an incredible video
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Goodfeathers especially is pretty bizarre on a conceptual level - I can see doing it as a one-off, but having a recurring part of your show be a parody of mob movies that 99% of children aren't going to get doesn't make a whole lot of sense! Well, so far, the animaniacs reboot has the sneak peek (which was 100% "this is the show you liked as a kid") and this note-for-note parody of Jurassic park, featuring celebrities that kids have zero connection to (I think I knew who Spielberg was as a kid, but he was responsible for a lot of family friendly, cultural touchstones when I was growing up, which just isn't the case now). So really, the humor is intact. Anyway, lets all remember Animaniacs for the Countries of the World skit, where Yakko slips in Tibet, Taiwan, and Palestine Ghost Leviathan posted:I was a massive fan of the Mighty Ducks cartoon back in the day. Don't ask me why, besides that it was there and I lived in bumfuck nowhere with nothing to do but watch cartoons. It's also a weird one in retrospect... might be more along the lines of Street Sharks in being a mix of 90s influences but maybe closer to the 80s TMNT in themes. Also, apparently the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim still own the rights to the main character. Wildwing isn't just a thing in their IP bin, he's still their mascot! Although the team dropped the "mighty" when they swapped their color scheme. They're just the Anaheim Ducks now.
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What were the SoCal reference in freakazoid?
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