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This show is really, really fantastic. Like, I'm blown away by how good it is. Easily the best new cartoon of this year.
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I actually don't like Phineas and Ferb that much, mostly due to how repetitive and annoying the jokes get, and how everyone acts exactly the same as their limited character is defined as from episode to episode, and therefore I feel like the optimism and positivity is faked; it's a byproduct of nobody ever growing or changing as characters. There's no arcing or development and nobody learns anything. In comparison I feel like here, everyone's a real character. Dipper and Mabel might be jerks to each other from time, or to Stan, but they learn and change as the show progresses and even when they're at their worst to each other (which is quite frankly, not bad at all, really), they obviously still love and support each other. Plus the jokes aren't all meta or an ouroboros of references to itself like P and F has become, and the animation is a lot better. So basically, yes, it is a very positive show. It is obviously inspired by Twin Peaks so you do get that sense of "something is very, very wrong with this town" sort of uneasiness that I at least felt watching TP.
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Jun 29, 2012 17:16
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I refuse to believe this show is aimed at children. What the hell sort of 7-12 year old would even know who Coolio is, much less why it's funny that it's so unbelievable that a wax figure was made of him? Seriously this show would not be out of place in the FOX Sunday lineup (but behind years 2-9 of The Simpsons). "Wax John Wilkes Booth, was that you?!" was some golden age of The Simpsons level of intelligent humor. Holy goddamn this show is amazing.
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Jul 1, 2012 06:20
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Vaerai Archon posted:However the one thing that saddens me is the fact there is only so many legends and cryptoids to cover that we'll get less than the 54 episode maximum(unless it nolonger exists but I think it does). Have you seen Supernatural?
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Jul 3, 2012 17:03
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Ignimbrite posted:Episode 4 owned pretty hard. Gideon gives me the willies something fierce. Wait, how did you see the fourth episode already?
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Jul 4, 2012 17:34
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I have Xfinity and I can't find it anywhere.
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Jul 4, 2012 17:45
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Any indication of how you guys saw episode 4 would be greatly appreciated, since I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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Jul 4, 2012 18:40
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:On a slightly serious note, this show is adorable and way great, but I just have this horrible feeling that a really BAD fandom is going to develop. I can verify that that will indeed happen.
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Jul 7, 2012 07:55
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Winklebottom posted:That title better be Homework's wack and so are rules! Tuckin' in your shirt's for fools! That's disgusting. How could you post that.  that poo poo, man.
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Jul 10, 2012 03:04
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ProfessorProf posted:The best thing about episode 5 was Stan watching and getting insanely invested in The Duchess Agrees over the course of the episode. Stay tuned for the Friday Night Movie, The Duchess Approves; starring Sturly Stembleburgiss as "The Duchess", and Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble as irascible cock swain "Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire". I seriously had to pause and rewind that scene like five times because I couldn't breathe from all the laughing. Also, I hope someone buys an av gif of the two cast screens switching repeatedly with the above text as the av text, because that'd be a great av.
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Jul 13, 2012 19:48
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Hockles posted:I hate avoiding this thread for a week. Can't we make a thread that prevents spoilers because of how ahead people can be? This is a children's cartoon show, dude, not Game of Thrones.
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Jul 14, 2012 04:48
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I mean, how the hell can you possibly top Yes. This is the best gif ever. Besides any possible The Duchess Approves gif I guess.
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Jul 14, 2012 05:04
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Rarity posted:I just found out we have a thread for this awesome show. Good times. But...Mabel exists...
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Jul 16, 2012 16:19
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Farbtoner posted:Paul Robertson making an animation where he can't just cop out by throwing blood and vaginas everywhere and calling it a day? I was gonna say, Paul Robertson is great but I don't think I've ever seen him draw a fully-clothed female before. He's a really...odd choice for an animator, especially considering Disney's image. Do they not have Google at Disney HQ or something?
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Jul 19, 2012 00:44
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IRQ posted:Should I know who that dude is? Have you played the Scott Pilgrim video game? He animated that. Also,  his tumblr
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Jul 19, 2012 00:47
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Farbtoner posted:It's not so much that he does NSFW stuff as it is that he's dug himself into such a tiny niche that I don't even think he can function outside of it. Has he ever made a cartoon that wasn't in pixel graphics, full of anachronistic video game references, and had cute things that were bloody/rapey because it's just so goddam edgy? It's funny you bring up FreddieW, because he was actually able to let the webseries he co-created be more than "VIDEOGAMES VIDEOGAMES LOL" that the first couple of episodes of it implied it was going to be. The show is legit good now, and honestly the strongest episodes of the series had no, or very little, videogame influence in the sense of it being some pandering 2-minute highlight reel killstreak gunplay stuff that FreddieW built his empire on. All this is to basically say that people can change out of their niches (although it's hard) and that VGHS is a pretty good series that shows what the FreddieW brand "can" be.
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Jul 19, 2012 01:10
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Pick posted:I'd flip the image horizontally so it looks like she's talking to your post! In that vein... Teix posted:Bumfluff!
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Jul 22, 2012 01:21
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The Mystery Spot is horribly lame, terribly overpriced, and above all tiny. Also, it has terrible parking- like atrociously terrible parking situation. As a native Santa Cruzian give it a skip, there's about a million better things to do in SC.
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Jul 26, 2012 22:44
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I was really hoping for Paper Jam Dipper to go "Kill me", because it's almost a cliche for the disfigured clone/copy/creation to say that in the  -est way possible and it always makes me laugh.
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Aug 11, 2012 03:25
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DivisionPost posted:By the way, Occupation, next week's episode was co-written by David Slack, who wrote a few episodes of Person of Interest including "No Good Deed." Aw man that ep of PoI was loving GREAT. Sweet, now I'm super hyped for next week's ep. I was gonna say it didn't tonally fit but now that I think about it PoI and Gravity Falls are at the very, very macro level actually kinda similar shows in the sense of being genre procedurals with a strong sense of linearity that don't dominate the show and both being much, much better than either of them have any right being. (Watch Person of Interest.)
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Aug 12, 2012 01:50
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I really didn't like next week's episode as much as I should've, considering its pedigree. That's...disappointing.
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Aug 13, 2012 01:17
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Pakled posted:The Gravity Falls/Deadly Premonition connection just keeps getting stronger and stronger. Deadly Premonition? Really? 
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Aug 17, 2012 17:32
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Yeah next week's episode is loving transcendent. Totally washes the bad taste of this week's ep out.
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Aug 19, 2012 07:15
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Eldoop posted:What didn't you like about Irrational Treasure? I thought it was great. I didn't think it was very funny. At all. As opposed to Time Traveller's Pig, which is just a goddamn laugh riot.
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Aug 19, 2012 14:19
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Japanese people watching the ONWARDS, AOSHIMA! scene: "I don't get the humor here, we see this all the time  "
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Aug 28, 2012 06:37
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:That Wendy is far too sexy skinny instead of tall lazy thin girl skinny. Good job with the creepy post, brah!
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Sep 4, 2012 19:37
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404GoonNotFound posted:Forget Gravity Falls. No, Tom Sawyer Island must be rebranded as Butt Island.
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Sep 7, 2012 05:28
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Macaluso posted:It's just a section of Tom Sawyer's island, and I think Disneyland plays up the PotC angle more than Disney World's. Yeah I live in Cali and I'm fairly sure they actually changed the name over here. Not sure. Been a while since I've been to Anaheim.
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Sep 12, 2012 06:24
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Acebuckeye13 posted:How do you not know who Batboy is Was I the only one who saw Batboy: The Musical
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Sep 18, 2012 20:36
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SpacePig posted:This is so convoluted. Also, why is there breaks between episodes? Has it been this way all season, or just since Double Dipper? Disney Channel doesn't give a gently caress about logical scheduling, basically. (For real: They're basic cable and are in basically everyone's cable package, plus their scheduling is based around re-running loving everything at least several times a week that they don't care about putting in crazy breaks between their shows' air dates. Why would they? They make money hand over fist either way.)
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Mazerunner posted:According to the brother, Gravity Falls is not supposed to be funny because it's a serious paranormal show about ghosts and stuff. He's surprisingly mature for his age.
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