Screaming Idiot posted:

I tried to watch Ren and Stimpy recently, and boy, it sucked.

Fabulousity posted:

Still wonder to this day how Rocko producers got the "Spank the Monkey" board game and Heifer having sex with a milking machine gags past censors. I think the latter got clipped out of reruns eventually but it definitely aired early on.

Fabulousity posted:

Still wonder to this day how Rocko producers got the "Spank the Monkey" board game and Heifer having sex with a milking machine gags past censors. I think the latter got clipped out of reruns eventually but it definitely aired early on.

As long as we're doing extended universe stuff: While Doug would go on to become a goon of one shade or another Roger went on to cause the 2008 economic collapse and got filthy rich doing it.

Pretty good posted:

Also the name of the fast food joint



Which evidently caught someone's attention because in later episodes it was reworked



They brought it back for the Netflix special though

Pretty good posted:

Fors Yard posted:

Of course the Nick logo even looks like cum

Fors Yard posted:

Of course the Nick logo even looks like cum

muscles like this! posted:

Roger was already rich, inbetween Nick and Disney versions of Doug his mom wins the lottery.


The best joke about the chicken place is the short bit where a chicken is interviewing for a job there and then they get killed, processed and their meat is packaged up.

Fabulousity posted:

Still wonder to this day how Rocko producers got the "Spank the Monkey" board game and Heifer having sex with a milking machine gags past censors. I think the latter got clipped out of reruns eventually but it definitely aired early on.

As long as we're doing extended universe stuff: While Doug would go on to become a goon of one shade or another Roger went on to cause the 2008 economic collapse and got filthy rich doing it.

Stingwing posted:

Batterypowered7 posted:

You don't have to watch Evangelion. You really don't.

Pretty good posted:

Man if my parents had ever sat down to watch tv with me when I was a kid and hadn't been pathologically averse to ever being in the same room as a cartoon they probably would have loled at a lot of stuff

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The way I heard it the censors were too busy losing their minds at Ren and Stimpy to pay much attention to anything else.


Been said elsewhere, but one of the fun things with Rocko is that most funny talking animal shows just ignore the whole predator/prey dynamic outside of jokes, Rocko embraces it and makes it an even more on the nose metaphor for predatory capitalism and atomisation. As some other poster put it; Virginia Wolf will invite you to dinner to serve as a guest or as the main course depending on her needs, and Heffer was literally brought home as food but they decided to adopt him. Not exactly a long stretch to have a fast food chain literally serving its employees as food to be devoured by customers, and a nuclear family considers anyone outside of it a threat or a target.

Heath posted:

I was going to say, it definitely felt like proto Billy and Mandy. Was it the same people?

Volcott posted:

Something they used to do Back Then is put an obviously unacceptable joke in to draw attention from the more subtle ones they actually wanted to sneak past the censors, but sometimes for reasons they'd veto the subtle one but not the enormous penis.

Sgt. Politeness posted:

When he gets a remake I'll update the drat list!

But for real though as much as I love a thread devoted to dragging Doug because he sucks it's still a better show than half(?) of the 80s action figure advertising cartoons. (As was mentioned earlier in the thread)
Probably just above TMNT, which is miles ahead of He-Man and She-Ra but still under Transformers and Ghostbusters.

AmbientParadox posted:

No one will ever buy a Doug battle car with Viking Porkchop or a Cowabunga Cowboy Skeeter action figure.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Is kinda funny how after the 80s, it's pretty much only the various Transformers series that keep up the 'half hour toy commercial' format, to the point where the My Little Pony reboot was almost novel for it, while most 90s cartoons didn't even bother. (And a few attempts at reviving the model failed, He-Man 2002 was apparently well liked but cancelled because the toys didn't sell, and Symbionic Titan was cancelled because the toy deal fell through. Ben 10 apparently moves tons of merch, though) Maybe they learned about oversaturation and stuck to one heavily marketed franchise at a time.

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The issue arose when Action for Children's Television complained to the Federal Communications Commission that eight network programs, all shown on Saturday mornings, were ''program-length advertisements.'' They were based on toys or games - Rubik's Cube, for example, or Dungeons and Dragons. Therefore, Action for Children's Television said, they are really commercials for the toys or games. The Massachusetts-based public-interest group further complained that at least six syndicated programs were based on toys or games, too. It said the programs were inimical to an earlier F.C.C. ruling that program-length commercials represented ''a serious dereliction of duty'' by broadcasters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_for_Children%27s_Television posted:

In 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan had appointed Mark S. Fowler as chairman of the FCC. As Fowler, a longtime proponent of deregulation, had determined that children's television should be dictated by the marketplace, that year saw the cancellation of many long-standing and Emmy-winning shows such as Captain Kangaroo, Schoolhouse Rock, Kids Are People Too!, Animals, Animals, Animals, and the CBS Children's Film Festival, all of which ACT had vigorously fought to keep on the air. It also saw the debut of many toy-inspired programs, which ACT contended were nothing more than half-hour commercials: G. I. Joe, My Little Pony, The Transformers, M.A.S.K., He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and the controversial Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.

Throughout the 1980s, ACT criticized television programs that featured popular toys such as G. I. Joe and He-Man, maintaining that they "blur(red) the distinction between program content and commercial speech," and successfully barred Garbage Pail Kids from the air. It also opposed the proposed introduction of Channel One News, a television news show featuring advertiser-based programming, into the schools, an effort which met with only limited success.

ACT brought many cases before the courts, including Action for Children's Television v. FCC, 821 F.2d 741 (D.C. Cir. 1987) often cited in media law.[12]

ACT's efforts culminated in the passage of the Children's Television Act of 1990, establishing formal guidelines for children's programming, including rules governing advertising, content and quantity.[13]

Das Boo posted:

I liked the joke about Mrs. Bighead calling up Rocko at the sex hotline gig.

Empty Sandwich posted:

because John K is a garbage piece of poo poo, R&S Adult Party Cartoon is one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen.

Volcott posted:

Something they used to do Back Then is put an obviously unacceptable joke in to draw attention from the more subtle ones they actually wanted to sneak past the censors, but sometimes for reasons they'd veto the subtle one but not the enormous penis.

Heath posted:

I remember reading about this as a teenager and thinking these must have been a bunch of overbearing nannies who wanted to stomp out cool stuff like He-Man, but with hindsight and going back to watch 80s cartoons as an adult, holy gently caress they were right. It was almost unilaterally garbage. Especially when you hold them up next to all the programming that they list here which got cancelled. I remember seeing Captain Kangaroo in reruns and loving it. Same with Mr. Rogers.

You Are A Elf posted:

Gary the Rat

bartok posted:

I think Ren and Stimpy got better when Bob Camp took over for the pedophile John K. Speaking of John K. how mad do you think that pedophile was at the Animaniacs reboot and the news that Tiny Toon Adventures is getting a reboot?