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I remember as a kid Roughnecks coming on Saturdays at like 6:00am on WB before kids WB actually started.
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The late 90s in particular was pretty wild for licensed cartoons getting surprising budgets but also screwed over in timeslots. Anyone else remember the Matrix cartoon? Which I'm pretty sure had less than nothing to do with the movies.
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Jan 16, 2022 15:53
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The late 90s in particular was pretty wild for licensed cartoons getting surprising budgets but also screwed over in timeslots. Anyone else remember the Matrix cartoon? Which I'm pretty sure had less than nothing to do with the movies. Do you mean The Animatrix? I think one of the shorts was aired on MTV.
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Jan 16, 2022 16:14
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I AM GRANDO posted:Do you mean The Animatrix? I think one of the shorts was aired on MTV. No. There was something about secret agents fighting evil cyborgs, at least one of which had a tragic backstory. Which as for late 90s/early 00s forgotten animated series probably doesn't narrow it down.
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Jan 16, 2022 17:11
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Ghost Leviathan posted:No. There was something about secret agents fighting evil cyborgs, at least one of which had a tragic backstory. Which as for late 90s/early 00s forgotten animated series probably doesn't narrow it down. Do you remember where it aired. That'd help narrow it down.
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Jan 16, 2022 17:37
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SirSamVimes posted:I've been rewatching Gravity Falls and god drat this show is good. It started the ball that got us Owl House and Amphibia. The fact that Hirsch is getting sidelined because he told Disney to suck his dick and went to Fox, only for Fox to be bought out by Disney one year later, is a crime.
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Jan 16, 2022 19:06
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SlothfulCobra posted:I finished revisiting an old show from when I was a kid, and it's really weird so I feel compelled to post. I remember this show. Funny enough, something brought it to mind earlier before I saw your post. I remember liking it as a kid. I never noticed all the military propaganda as a kid. I remember just liking it. I literally barely remember a single goddamn thing. The only thing coming to mind is a scene where Rusty is joking about how tough us robots are to Big Guy, and Big Guy pretends to be okay with it but his pilot is actually like got a broken arm and is playing along through his pain. Some vague memories of Rusty being confused when Big Guy's pilot got hurt or sick, causing Big Guy to malfunction when a Robot shouldn't be affected. I don't remember a single plot.
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Jan 16, 2022 19:10
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Covok posted:It started the ball that got us Owl House and Amphibia. The fact that Hirsch is getting sidelined because he told Disney to suck his dick and went to Fox, only for Fox to be bought out by Disney one year later, is a crime. I forget, is Hirsch involved with one or both of those shows (I assume so since the latter literally did a Gravity Falls reference at least once)?
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Jan 16, 2022 19:12
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Larryb posted:I forget, is Hirsch involved with one or both of those shows (I assume so since the latter literally did a Gravity Falls reference at least once)? He voices a major character in Owl House (King). He's voiced some one-off characters in Amphibia. The creators of both shows were storyboarders for Gravity Falls before getting the opportunity to create their own shows. The influence of GF at Disney Channel now is kind of like the influence of Adventure Time at Cartoon Network in the 10's where the network's used the staff behind a successful show to breed new successful shows. Pakled fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Jan 16, 2022 |
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Jan 16, 2022 19:49
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Pakled posted:He voices a major character in Owl House (King). He also voices the title character in Owl House, hoot.
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Jan 16, 2022 19:58
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Covok posted:It started the ball that got us Owl House and Amphibia. The fact that Hirsch is getting sidelined because he told Disney to suck his dick and went to Fox, only for Fox to be bought out by Disney one year later, is a crime. Also the Mitchells vs the Machines, I believe. He was apparently a story consultant and the director was also a director/writer on Gravity Falls.
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ConanThe3rd posted:You mean Roughnecks? I think that went to Sci-Fi as it's a BKN Joint. I've heard people praise this one too. Pretty much everything those people put out has its fans.
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I mean they managed to turn the turd that was Godzilla 98 into solid gold with Godzilla The Series, made what should have been a terrible idea with Extreme Ghostbusters into something great, and made what should have been a tire fire on par with other Celebrity vanity projects of the past way better than it had any right being with Jackie Chan Adventures About their only major flaws as a studio were either shows getting canned early and not getting proper finales and/or ending on cliffhangers(Spectacular Spider-Man probably being the most glaring example here), or in the case of their longer shows like MIB or JCA there being some seasonal rot towards the end
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Jan 18, 2022 17:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sel3fjl6uyo solid animation from Mercury Filmworks, about as good as modern western TV animation can get. I know people wish it looked like a 1940s cartoon, but this still looks real nice. the voices I'm having a hard time getting past though. I would have preferred cuter voices for cuphead and mughead rather than "why i outta, i'll moidalize him" adult voices
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Looks fun! Gonna give this a watch with the wife.
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The 7th Guest posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sel3fjl6uyo It looks... fine. The animation is decent but I'm not sold on the writing based on what's in the trailer. At the very least I don't anticipate it being a trainwreck.
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Jan 19, 2022 03:14
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I always imagined Mughead sounding like Curly Howard.
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Jan 19, 2022 06:05
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The 7th Guest posted:
 I always imagined Cuphead with a Mickey Mouse type voice with Mugman obviously having something a little deeper as the sidekick but still in a cutesy falsetto
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Xelkelvos posted:Do you remember where it aired. That'd help narrow it down. I'm not sure Cheez TV narrows it down too much. That block got all kinds of weirdass shows. Xelkelvos posted:
I think the novelty of that would wear off in about five seconds. Besides, Disney isn't where Cuphead gets most of its inspiration from. I dunno if the trailer would be representative, I've got the same 'cut to pieces by the marketing department' vibe that most movies get nowadays where they have to put all the worst jokes in the trailer even if they have to make them up.
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I feel like a proper Cuphead cartoon should have the roughness of some of the first talking cartoons where they didn't really know how most of the technology worked and also speak in hyper-regionalized archaic New York accents that they occasionally mutter and hide their mouths because lip-syncing is hard. And then it should be kinda blurred like it's a strip of film that only barely survived through the past 90 years.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like a proper Cuphead cartoon should have the roughness of some of the first talking cartoons where they didn't really know how most of the technology worked and also speak in hyper-regionalized archaic New York accents that they occasionally mutter and hide their mouths because lip-syncing is hard. And a scene where a cigar blows up in a character's face that has clearly been edited to no longer be a blackface joke.
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I still don't like how queer-coded the devil feels.
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In other news, if you guys still have a need for Jim Henson stuff after Netflix unceremonously dumped The Dark Crystal when it's biggest backer in Netflix quit, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock is now playing on AppleTV+, haven't watched it all yet but it seems pretty good. Here is the new opening to the show if anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/14HnkLM4kYU?t=26
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drrockso20 posted:I mean they managed to turn the turd that was Godzilla 98 into solid gold with Godzilla The Series, made what should have been a terrible idea with Extreme Ghostbusters into something great, and made what should have been a tire fire on par with other Celebrity vanity projects of the past way better than it had any right being with Jackie Chan Adventures yeah, those guys have a sterling track record. JCA in particular, was a show that probably surprised me the most given that it seemed like the most lazily produced/forgettable. i should check out extreme ghostbusters. back in the day i didn't give it a chance cause it seemed waaaay too different from RGB (and also the theme song left a lot to be desired)
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Jan 23, 2022 17:24
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XGB is solid. The teamup with the originals isn't the series finale for some reason, but whatever. Pretty sure the same studio also had a hand in the Jumanji cartoon that was better than it had any right to be. Doozers = Apple. Everything else is more or less the same. Checks out.
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Days since I've been sad about the cancellation of Dark Crystal: 0
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Mr Interweb posted:yeah, those guys have a sterling track record. JCA in particular, was a show that probably surprised me the most given that it seemed like the most lazily produced/forgettable. One thing that I think helped JCA be better than it could have been was that making it was fulfilling a life long dream of Jackie's of having a cartoon starring himself*, thus actual effort being put into it *well at least the main character being modeled after himself, he'd originally wanted to voice his cartoon counterpart too but quickly realized his English had too strong of an accent to to work in a cartoon context, which is why they instead had him do an occasional live action PSA at the end of episodes Inkspot posted:XGB is solid. The teamup with the originals isn't the series finale for some reason, but whatever. Yup, Jumanji was their second show
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Something happened today thats left me feeling a little murderous. Was sitting there with the kid at the computer and she wanted to look up Hilda (She adores the Hilda series on netflix, and actually so do I , that things got heart), so she does, on images, and up pops hosed up hilda themed hentai. Do these people who make that poo poo even stop for a second and think 1) The character they are porning is a small child. and 2) The people who will be googling this poo poo are also children. I was not ready to have THAT talk with her. But I had to. And now I want to murder neckbeards.
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duck monster posted:Something happened today thats left me feeling a little murderous. 1) That's the point for them 2) No. Why would they? Also, Safe Search.
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duck monster posted:Something happened today thats left me feeling a little murderous. Sorry you had to go through that. Human beings are immensely terrible.
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Geez, what'd she put in? I just googled "hilda" and "hilda netflix" and I didn't get anything, even made sure to double check and make sure safesearch was off. also, I know this is gonna sound super awkward and want to be super clear I'm not accusing you of anything because it's not your fault that other people are loving weirdos, Google tailors results based off of all sorts of SEO poo poo they collect while Big Brother watches us so like, if you and me search for the exact same thing on images, we are gonna get different results even if there's only a slight variation. So maybe consider getting the kid her own google account just to make sure it's not gonna spit out anything unusual because you maybe googled something for a shitpost and google took you seriously? TwoPair fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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TwoPair posted:Geez, what'd she put in? I just googled "hilda" and "hilda netflix" and I didn't get anything, even made sure to double check and make sure safesearch was off. She might have searched for a site to find Hilda images? It's the loving Internet, I don't imagine it's hard for a kid to run into it by accident and I doubt Google really goes "you like porn? You'll love cartoon child porn!". Anyway, that's really awful.
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Xelkelvos posted:1) That's the point for them 2) No. Why would they? Came up on search for "Hilda" on image search. And yeah, I've locked her browser settings down hard after that. But lets be honest, kids are clever little things, if theres something forbidden that dads put a lock on, they are gonna break that lock at the first opportunity. edit: Oh yeah good point on the SEO. I'll definately set her up her own account. edit2: I should also note it was not full on porn. Just. Someone gave her an adult body with all the lumps and put her in a cheesecake pose. Its not full on call-the-cops but still, its pretty easy to work out what the intent was here, and its really not ok. duck monster fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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drrockso20 posted:One thing that I think helped JCA be better than it could have been was that making it was fulfilling a life long dream of Jackie's of having a cartoon starring himself*, thus actual effort being put into it Helps that Jackie Chan is already kind of a cartoon character.
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I watched all those George Carlin edits on TikTok that spliced Thomas with his stand up routines and it gave me a kick to go back and watch the original model series. The Ringo Starr and George Carlin narrations are really nice and comforting and the neat crashes and damage scenes on the show made a lot more sense after I found out that David Mitton used to work with Gerry Anderson doing the pyrotechnics for Thunderbirds. Old-school Thomas the Tank Engine is a fun show from childhood.
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Arc Hammer posted:I watched all those George Carlin edits on TikTok that spliced Thomas with his stand up routines and it gave me a kick to go back and watch the original model series. Should look up a copy of The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways(not hard to find a PDF copy), as Reverend Wilbert Awdry(the author of the original Railway Series books the show is based on) came up with a ton of lore for the series and it's downright fascinating
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drrockso20 posted:Should look up a copy of The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways(not hard to find a PDF copy), as Reverend Wilbert Awdry(the author of the original Railway Series books the show is based on) came up with a ton of lore for the series and it's downright fascinating The insanely convoluted process for turning Henry from a Gresley knockoff into a Black 5 did give us Sir Topham Hatt swearing up a storm.
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mikemil828 posted:In other news, if you guys still have a need for Jim Henson stuff after Netflix unceremonously dumped The Dark Crystal when it's biggest backer in Netflix quit, Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock is now playing on AppleTV+, haven't watched it all yet but it seems pretty good. To other Muppet/Henson fans out there, definitely don't sleep on this - I binged it this week, and I found it to be an absolute delight. I saw a review that said that it's the Muppet series that Disney+ wishes it had, and yes, yes it very much hits the sweet spot of the old and the new.
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Though I find old-school Thomas creepy at times, it is endearing. All of our kids have gone through an insanely passionate phase about Thomas, and #2 still has a Thomas stuffie on his bed. Something about the series that sticks with me is absolutely dumb, but it's how at some point Henry needed special coal (in the original model series) and then decades later Gordon made a reference to it. "Don't tell me Henry needs special coal again!" Percy is annoyingly optimistic. James and Gordon are insufferably conceited. Thomas is adorably naive. I love Hiro and Stephen and (through King of the Railway) the new engines. I even love how that thing around the front of Emily's boiler looks like hair. No, I don't use my kids as an excuse to watch Thomas, why do you ask? 
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D34THROW posted:I love Hiro and Stephen and (through King of the Railway) the new engines. I even love how that thing around the front of Emily's boiler looks like hair. God, I’m so old a fan I have no idea who these characters are.
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