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Senerio posted:I think Bother Christmas was the best translation, but at the same time, your average american kid might not know that Santa Claus is Father Christmas. 4 syllables vs 3 syllables for a musical episode.
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I'd say watch 13 Ghosts just for context/reference. There's the occasional nod to it in later series.
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Does Zombie island and the similar movies count cuz those were great.
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DTV Movie Scooby Doo has its highs and its lows. They're generally okay, though.
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Hihohe posted:Does Zombie island and the similar movies count cuz those were great. Yeah,Zombie Island was pretty good. Cyber Chase is pretty meh,on the other hand. I mean, 
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Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, and the one with Aliens are the big ones I remember liking. Also both Scooby Doo and WWE movies are hilarious.
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Senerio posted:Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, and the one with Aliens are the big ones I remember liking. The one with Tim Curry was also quite entertaining. And now I've gotta track down those WWE ones-me and my friend wrote them off as lazy cash-ins.
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VolticSurge posted:The one with Tim Curry was also quite entertaining. That was Witch's Ghost. It also had The Hex Girls.
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Waffleman_ posted:That was Witch's Ghost. It also had The Hex Girls. Ah,I see. I believe he was in another one as well-Goblin King,I think?
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Ah yes! I had forgotten Goblin King! Mask of the Blue Falcon is almost ruined by how much of a party pooper Velma, the epitome of cartoon nerd, is during the whole convention. Like, girl. Seriously?
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I also appreciated the Live Action Cartoon Network films. They're not high art, but they're entertaining. They even had a good actor or two in there.
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Senerio posted:I also appreciated the Live Action Cartoon Network films. They're not high art, but they're entertaining. They even had a good actor or two in there. Better than the ones with Fred Willard and Freddie Prinze,Jr. at least.
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The best thing about the first live-action movie was the weed jokes they managed to sneak in, including naming Shaggy's love interest Mary Jane.
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The first live action cartoon network one had a fun tribute to the cartoons too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fex8z37IcGE
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I really like the latest series of Scooby movies, but I don't really know how to refer to the series aside from the fact that the main characters have no sclera. The direct to video/tv movies go through weird phases. There was another series that was mainly defined by the gang going globe-trotting and tying in with What's New Scooby Doo stylistically.
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Senerio posted:Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, and the one with Aliens are the big ones I remember liking. I really liked Camp Scare as well, it had some scary monsters, a relatively good plot, Mark Hammil and some nice secondary characters. VolticSurge posted:Better than the ones with Fred Willard and Freddie Prinze,Jr. at least.
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The latter.
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There are also a good amount of good songs throughout it all. It may just go to show that if you keep trying in bulk, you'll eventually come out with some hits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAYLeEuwh4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tws6R26H8WY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7IgDXmOw-E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkIMdoAdNtM There's something great sometimes about just enjoying some nice little songs that have no possibility of greater cultural importance because they're nested inside a kid's cartoon. Phineas and Ferb had a similar deal.
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Witch's Ghost had one of the stupidest Scooby-Doo lines ever written for any iteration of the show (and that is seriously going the distance): "You're one-quarter pagan!"
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Also Jesus Christ, Cyber Chase had no idea what a video game was, didn't it? It barely knew what a computer virus was.
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Waffleman_ posted:Also Jesus Christ, Cyber Chase had no idea what a video game was, didn't it? It barely knew what a computer virus was. Yep,really reeked of being written by old men who don't know what them newfangled "Computors" are, with maybe a little touch of 
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I love that it thought that video game characters were sentient and could just decide to not finish the game, as if the game is perpetually happening even if no one is playing.
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VolticSurge posted:Better than the ones with Fred Willard and Freddie Prinze,Jr. at least.
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Senerio posted:Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, and the one with Aliens are the big ones I remember liking. Frankencreepy is legit good too. I think that one was made around the same time as Mystery Inc. Waffleman_ posted:I love that it thought that video game characters were sentient and could just decide to not finish the game, as if the game is perpetually happening even if no one is playing. Isn't that like the central conceit of Wreck-It Ralph? SlothfulCobra posted:There's something great sometimes about just enjoying some nice little songs that have no possibility of greater cultural importance because they're nested inside a kid's cartoon. Phineas and Ferb had a similar deal. Well, Phineas and Ferb did have this thing which exists for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djt5oO8Ms3M raditts fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Dec 23, 2016 |
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You people better not be forgetting Scooby Doo meets Kiss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af4G0H3LY2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18635I-x9WY I mean, Kiss versus Galactus guest starring Scooby Doo doesn't seem like it should be the best thing ever, but it kinda is. Also this is a pretty sweet opening sequence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P5dAsqByqU
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I liked the first live-action Scooby Doo just because it didn't take itself seriously. It was like a kid friendly version of Jumpstreet. It's weird how almost every month there's a Scooby doo discussion.
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raditts posted:Well, Phineas and Ferb did have this thing which exists for some reason. What the hell? The live footage was barely appropriate or synched to the music.
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VolticSurge posted:And now I've gotta track down those WWE ones-me and my friend wrote them off as lazy cash-ins. You'll find that they're very high quality cash-ins. It's hard to not enjoy a cartoon that doesn't break kayfabe.
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KISS is a terrible band and a horrible cash cow for Gene Simmons, but goddamn it, I want Scooby and Shaggy learning how to use demon flame as an actual thing that is referenced or joked about in the future. There is something magical about batshit 70s metal finally being able to be all mystical wizard nonsense. Also KISS learned alot from magical girl anime and their transformations show it. But I'd rate Be Cool as like 10th best Scooby Doo, slightly better than the originals. But I'd rather watch Scooby Dum nonsense, short and sweet 13 ghosts, the late 80s movies where shaggy becomes a werewolf/teaches a girls school for monsters, the 2000s show, some of the better modern movies, Pup and then Mystery Inc in that order. I won't shed a tear when Be Cool dies and the Scooby Cycle continues on until the most horrible thing happens and Frank Welker dies. Crabtree fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Dec 24, 2016 |
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DoctorWhat posted:It's... ambitious. Vincent Price is in it! 
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VolticSurge posted:Yep,really reeked of being written by old men who don't know what them newfangled "Computors" are, with maybe a little touch of I wonder whats the worst example of "kids like videogames right, make a thing about videogames" ever? Are You Afraid of the Dark had an episode that for some reason had pinball as the thing that sucked the protag in. and then there's "The Boom Crew". A cartoon about a Burger King diverse group of friends that got sucked into a game they made. Also hippity hoppity. Kids like that (black) newfangled talking music right? Add some of that. It got cancelled after the pilot.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Agreed on both accounts. Still cute. Zweihander01 posted:You'll find that they're very high quality cash-ins. It's hard to not enjoy a cartoon that doesn't break kayfabe. If anything it sort of goes as far as the opposite direction as you can. John Cena is one pair of red underwear away from being Superman. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Dec 25, 2016 |
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My memory of Scooby Doo and the 13 Ghosts as a kid was watching a marathon of it. About one ghost was being caught per episode, so I thought it was a miniseries. I'd heard of shows with five seasons that ended without the writers having an ending for the series, because they wanted to stretch it out another season, then the executive hammer came down suddenly. The 13 in the name and the one-per-episode really led me to believe there was a beginning, middle, and an end coming up. I had no idea what happened until today. I thought I had to have missed something. I was also a little confused as to where Fred and Velma were, because they didn't mention what they were off doing.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Is it Fre/Eng like Lolirock and wakfu? Just English I think. I can't check right now cause the Christmas Special isn't on UK Netflix
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ConanThe3rd posted:Of course it's region locked It's basically a substitute to Nickelodeon in the US, which may or may not be the party that started all this just by wanting to dump the rights away. Every other region has a decent distributor (Disney, mostly), so the numbers are good in those regions and don't need a desperate shake-up.
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If you want to count Disney Channel only as decent distro with a schedule only slightly more enviable than Yokai Watch's then sure. Why not?
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I think 13 Ghosts is weird in that it seems like an outgrowth of Red Shirt Shaggy movies. Like a bunch of execs decided shaggy and Scooby were the Stars and they could ditch the rest of Mystery Incorporated. I also like how much overlap there is between the first Live Action Scooby film and the first Modern DTV Scooby film (Zombie Island). Both show the team drifting a bit and doing their own thing, before finding an excuse to bundle them up again. I really miss the way we would randomly get DTV stuff during holidays. You'd be home all week and suddenly Yogi and the Spruce Goose/Flintstones meet the Jetsons/The WWF Cartoon where Hogan thinks he time travelled pop up and capture your attention.
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FilthyImp posted:I also like how much overlap there is between the first Live Action Scooby film and the first Modern DTV Scooby film (Zombie Island). Both show the team drifting a bit and doing their own thing, before finding an excuse to bundle them up again.
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X_Toad posted:after the team was disbanded due to the lack of genuine supernatural events. "Well guys, all these ghosts keep turning out to be crooks and criminals. We've stopped half a billion dollars in fraud and embezzlement, but we've found zero ghosts. Sooooo, time to hang it up."
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