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readingatwork posted:LMAO apparently concerned christian soccer moms randomly discovered Adult Swim and are having a meltdown over it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTdOGsWq9oM Daikloktos fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Daikloktos posted:Before they jumped to Adult Swim to make Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart She Holler, and currently The Shivering Truth, PFFR did a kid's show parody Wonder Showzen for MTV2 airing alongside Beavis and Butthead reruns and FYAD reject Andy Milonakis' self titled vehicle. Here's a 4 page GBS thread from a few months back that starts out lamenting how underknown it is The audio in this made me think my headphones were broken in a new and exciting way.
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Daikloktos posted:Before they jumped to Adult Swim to make Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart She Holler, and currently The Shivering Truth, PFFR did a kid's show parody Wonder Showzen for MTV2 airing alongside Beavis and Butthead reruns and FYAD reject Andy Milonakis' self titled vehicle. Here's a 4 page GBS thread from a few months back that starts out lamenting how underknown it is Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but man do I not 'get' these shows. If they're supposed to be funny I guess I don't understand the humor, and if they're not supposed to be funny I have no idea what they're going for. I've seen episodes of all these shows and they may as well be tablets carved in Sanskrit for all I get out of them.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:56
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You're supposed to laugh and then feel bad that you laughed at a song about slavery or a character saying "A doctor's sacred mission is to do everything in his power to avoid losing his job."
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Jul 21, 2020 04:28
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The Wonder Showzen DVD sets are a delight, because you can fall asleep watching an episode, wake up and realize your tv has been playing the same three second sound byte for the last 5 hours. Nothing like broadcasting children scream 'rat feces, cow lips, POISON' to your apartment complex for hours.
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Jul 21, 2020 05:52
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I've been shown a lot of Tim and Eric clips and I think it's basically the same phenomenon where certain people percieve feet as sexy and I am not those people. The uncomfortable and hilarious receptors are so close in their brains and the neurons get confused I guess.
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SolarFire2 posted:Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but man do I not 'get' these shows. If they're supposed to be funny I guess I don't understand the humor, and if they're not supposed to be funny I have no idea what they're going for. I've seen episodes of all these shows and they may as well be tablets carved in Sanskrit for all I get out of them. It's more because you're unfunny
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Jul 21, 2020 14:49
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moths posted:I've been shown a lot of Tim and Eric clips and I think it's basically the same phenomenon where certain people percieve feet as sexy and I am not those people. Agreed, can't stand Tim & Eric the fact that they might have had a role in us not getting a third season of The Big O just amplifies it further
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drrockso20 posted:Agreed, can't stand Tim & Eric Wait, what? What the gently caress why did Tim ad Eric do that?!
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Jul 21, 2020 23:00
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Wait, what? What the gently caress why did Tim ad Eric do that?! Just ratings as far as I know. Tim and Eric stuff was far cheaper to make. I actually didn't mind Tom Goes to the Mayor, but I didn't care for anything else they've made. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Jul 21, 2020 23:10
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Wait, what? What the gently caress why did Tim ad Eric do that?! From what I heard they threw a hissy fit when they found out the proposed budget for Season 3 was going to be like several times what they were getting for their show and they threatened to walk if Adult Swim went forward with it
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Jul 21, 2020 23:55
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drrockso20 posted:From what I heard they threw a hissy fit when they found out the proposed budget for Season 3 was going to be like several times what they were getting for their show and they threatened to walk if Adult Swim went forward with it They were barely starting on Adult Swim around then so I'm not sure what weight they had to throw around.
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SolarFire2 posted:Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but man do I not 'get' these shows. If they're supposed to be funny I guess I don't understand the humor, and if they're not supposed to be funny I have no idea what they're going for. I've seen episodes of all these shows and they may as well be tablets carved in Sanskrit for all I get out of them. it's because these shows do things i don't expect them to
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But what if I expect increasingly tired non-sequitors? Will it be crowned the next Too Many Cooks?
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Jul 22, 2020 01:59
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it's not nonsequitors though, usually it's building on a simple unusual premise in increasingly bizarre ways, rather than just stringing along random stuff. like it's unexpected, but it usually relates to what was happening previously in some fashion, it just takes things in an unexpected direction. that's different from a nonsequitor.
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also even if it was a real nonsequitor sometimes it's just fun to see uncomfortable imagery and situations. it's different from other media and makes me feel differently from how other media does (or at least, unlike other media it invokes these emotions intentionally), and that in itself can be worth watching just for the novelty of it and examining how the uncomfortable imagery is constructed and why it's uncomfortable. "it's not funny, it's just uncomfortable" is still different from "it's bad," though obviously if you don't enjoy it, you just don't enjoy it, and that's ok. i think a lot of people would share your opinion, if that's important to you.
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That's fair, and I hadn't really considered that the uncomfortable vibe is curated and deliberate. (Which it definitely is.) I more just get irritated with the lol random media and occasional lazy swipes at some kind of meta performance art depth. Uncomfortable doesn't generally make me laugh, but I'll take that over whatever the other thing is.
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moths posted:But what if I expect increasingly tired non-sequitors? Will it be crowned the next Too Many Cooks?
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Jul 22, 2020 03:00
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It's really not that far removed from Monty Python. Like the actual show, with all its experimental twists and turns and segues that didn't always work very well, not the fondly manicured compilations.
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Jul 22, 2020 03:00
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midnight gospel's pretty good to me imo but i don't have astrology conversation induced PTSD like half of you apparently do.
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Impermanent posted:midnight gospel's pretty good to me imo but i don't have astrology conversation induced PTSD like half of you apparently do. Woo bullshit bugs the poo poo out of me because it’s obviously nonsense but people take it surprisingly seriously (often times dangerously so). At best it’s sad people believing they can do magic so they can feel special but at worst it’s cynical conmen selling your grandmother space crystals as an alternative chemotherapy. Needless to say I have very little patience for any of it. That said I actually finished MG a while back and it managed to pull itself into “good” territory by the end. The woo is still dumb and annoying but as the show progresses it starts to be more clear that it has more to say than just idle shower thoughts about pop mysticism and if anything is critical of how it’s used as a way to avoid dealing with harsh realities.
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Jul 22, 2020 04:19
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Close Enough really hit that Regular Show itch. The best thing about it is we won't get any Moredcai failed love aspects with it. It was nice, solid. I haven't heard anything about extra seasons yet?
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Jul 24, 2020 22:36
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PicklePants posted:It was nice, solid. I haven't heard anything about extra seasons yet?
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Weird you don't see anybody ever troll like that in TV IV. Do they probe for it?
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Jul 24, 2020 23:17
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actually a 2nd season has been unofficially confirmed (shows up on some people's resumes)
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:actually a 2nd season has been unofficially confirmed (shows up on some people's resumes) I hope this is true, because I liked Close Enough and would enjoy seeing more of it.
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Jul 25, 2020 02:12
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I enjoyed the Weird Al episode a good bit. Hopefully they go back to the longer form stories for the next season.
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Jul 25, 2020 18:04
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Remember Bushworld Adventures? This is the same dude following up on another short. https://twitter.com/MichaelRCusack/status/1286161029215301637
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Jul 26, 2020 18:30
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Remember Bushworld Adventures? This is the same dude following up on another short. My only caveat is that I'm not sure I liked Smiling Friends as much as these other two.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:I hope this is true, because I liked Close Enough and would enjoy seeing more of it. I worry about Close Enough staying power cause it has a niche ( early to mid 30 year olds with kids) but drat does it absolutely nail that niche for all its worth.
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Jul 26, 2020 23:27
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My only caveat is they didn't go straight to network with him. Or is that prejudiced these day?
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Daikloktos posted:My only caveat is they didn't go straight to network with him. Or is that prejudiced these day? Louie CK can basically be blamed for why Close Enough didn’t go to cable, and why the entirety of TBS doing animation mostly failed, Final Space aside. They were clearly banking on his star power and when all his grossness came out I guess they just have up. Least compared to Tarantula, Close Enough has a decent chance of getting a 2nd season
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Here's something that has almost no chance of being good: https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1291007059048243201?s=20
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Not that the last revisit (under more of John K's control than the original was) was any good either
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Aug 5, 2020 20:02
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I like how pretty much every animation professional I follow on twitter basically went "no"
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Aug 5, 2020 23:39
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I can't wait for the first trailer so people can start blasting it's 'cal arts style' no matter what it looks like.
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I'm pretty surprised that everybody's already down on it even without John K's involvement. Like I personally hate it automatically because I hated the original show and don't think the IP has anything to offer the current era, but I always got the impression that a lot of people somehow remembered it fondly. I guess it's impressive that so many people have changed their minds about the cartoon after learning about the abuse.
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:I like how pretty much every animation professional I follow on twitter basically went Sexual abuse allegations aside, John K was a notorious elitist prick about animation (especially regarding writers in animation) that burned so many bridges it doesn’t surprise me professional animators have this reaction. The guy had a public feud with The Simpson’s in the 90s that was all his doing.
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