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AlternateNu posted:Or maybe replace them with Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson. I got good news for you my man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdiVIqrKrg
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Nov 21, 2020 06:46
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wow the feel of this show is spot-on from 24 years ago, amazing
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Nov 21, 2020 07:03
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Parrotine posted:I got good news for you my man Faaaaaaantastic.
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Nov 21, 2020 07:09
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"This is ze problem with being rich" "Your only other nick name is dick?"
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I think the most jarring thing for people going into this is how referential the series is, but then you go back to the 90s seasons and realize Animaniacs has always been that way, but outside of Clinton or some recent movies you likely didn’t pick up on it. Echoing that just going back and forth between the Warners and P&B gets a bit old after a while. There ARE a tiny number of new sketches added in, but I don’t see them as having legs especially Cindy & Starbox since it sounds like a literal child is voicing Cindy, but I love the art style it uses.
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Nov 22, 2020 01:56
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I was worried that everyone was going to suffer from Old Person Voice. If you're familiar with how James Earl Jones as Darth Vader are less menacing sounding than he used to be, you know what I mean. Instead everyone seems... better? Tress Macnielle seems to have actually improved as a singer since the old show. Pants Donkey posted:I think the most jarring thing for people going into this is how referential the series is, but then you go back to the 90s seasons and realize Animaniacs has always been that way, but outside of Clinton or some recent movies you likely didn’t pick up on it. They had an entire cartoon that was making fun of William Shatner's psychedelic cocaine-fueled Rocket Man concert back when the internet was still dial-up AOL so most normal people didn't know it was a thing. Really the thing about Animaniacs that has always been kind of iffy is that it's about three times better if you live in or grew up in California. "A Quake" came out shortly after the Northridge earthquake which was national news, but if you lived in the state it's easier to appreciate a whole song number about how the San Andreas faultline is a ticking time bomb that will be the doom of us all. Multiple jokes about Burbank being dreadful kind of miss wide swaths of America, and weird little chestnuts like the Shatner concert that were only really passed around between Trekkies and the "tinseltown" types. But since you also didn't know who Groucho Marx was as a kid, or watch reruns of I Love Lucy, the show was already overflowing with so many references to an olden age of entertainment that you just sort of accepted as 'whatever'. EDIT: Please bring back Mime Time. And if season two doesn't relaunch Katie Ka-Boom as middle aged Karen Ka-Boom then fire everyone. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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I've seen complaints about the voicework, and the only one who sounds very, very slightly different is Yakko. That said, people who criticize Rob Paulsen are terrible. Dude had throat cancer and fought back to keep acting.
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I’ve only watched the first two, but there were definitely parts where Wakko sounded off. And Tress MacNeill’s singing voice is fine, but it doesn’t sound like Dot singing somehow.
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Whole season was great. Happily surprised, especially by the Pinky and the Brain segments; I think the only one I'd call skippable is maybe the Halloween ep
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Craptacular! posted:And if season two doesn't relaunch Katie Ka-Boom as middle aged Karen Ka-Boom then fire everyone.  A blonde white woman just bitching about the world and her teenage children just rolling thier eyes at her until she explodes. I love it. And there's always a Tuck Buckerson clip playing in the background. AlternateNu fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Nov 22, 2020 |
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MichiganCubbie posted:I've seen complaints about the voicework, and the only one who sounds very, very slightly different is Yakko. That said, people who criticize Rob Paulsen are terrible. Dude had throat cancer and fought back to keep acting. I recently interviewed him and he's the sweetest dude. Like, there was nothing he wanted more to do with his time than talk with a fan for an hour. The best story from talking to him was about how Maurice LaMarche was good friends with Sam Kinison and was such a professional that after going to Kinison's funeral, LaMarche insisted on going into work that same day. LaMarche had his own weird obsession with the Orson Welles frozen peas commercial outtakes to the point that quoting it was his way of microphone testing. There was a Pinky and the Brain short based on the Welles outtakes and the producers decided to wait until the day of Kinison's funeral to record for it. So LaMarche comes in, everyone thanks him for coming when he didn't have to, they make small talk about the funeral and how great a guy Kinison was and then give him the script. And he completely loses his poo poo once he realizes what the episode actually is. Craptacular! posted:And if season two doesn't relaunch Katie Ka-Boom as middle aged Karen Ka-Boom then fire everyone. Katie Ka-Boomer is right there!
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MichiganCubbie posted:I've seen complaints about the voicework, and the only one who sounds very, very slightly different is Yakko. That said, people who criticize Rob Paulsen are terrible. Dude had throat cancer and fought back to keep acting. If anything I thought Yakko sounded the most consistent of the three but maybe I'm just used to hearing Rob's voice on his podcast that any variation from 20 years ago doesn't register. His Pinky is still spot on. Also the old show used to speed the Warners' voices up by like five or ten percent which I don't think they're doing anymore.
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first 4 episodes are good, I loved the hunter reveal being chicken boo. I do worry that having just the Warners and Pinky and the Brain for two whole seasons, part of the charm of the original show was the huge random cast of characters. Though I read they might come back if they get renewed. Also, I do love that the Warners/Animaniacs love referencing their linage from the old WB cartoons, to the Tiny Toons, shows that the new writers get the heart of the show. These are self-aware cartoons essentially.
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Enjoying this a lot. That said, is the suffrage song a parody of right wing slippery slope arguments, or does it just unintentionally wander into that territory in pursuit of jokes? (If we let women vote, we'll have to let animals vote! Blah blah blah. That kind of thing.)
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Mooseontheloose posted:first 4 episodes are good, I loved the hunter reveal being chicken boo. I didn't expect Bugs Bunny to show up in the Cartoon Suffrage skit. I've tricked myself into thinking it's like a Mickey Mouse cameo, which is apparently harder to get approved than using Nuclear weapons.
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Finally watching. The Pinky and the Brain intro animation is fuckin' great.
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Got around to watching this and it's really uncanny just how much they nailed this. And I agree, the Pinky and the Brain intro is great. Looks like it was done by Giant Ant https://www.giantant.ca/animaniacs-pinky-and-the-brain
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OldSenileGuy posted:I’ve only watched the first two, but there were definitely parts where Wakko sounded off. And Tress MacNeill’s singing voice is fine, but it doesn’t sound like Dot singing somehow. I'd say the best singer of the three is Jess Harnell. Dude did this gnome character for the Powerpuff Girls finale that was one big Jesus Christ Superstar parody and cracked it out of the loving park.Park. I'd post a clip of it but the only thing yt offers is one of those lovely lyrics videos done in what looks like Microsoft slideshow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7ULZS5aaY
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Jess Harnell actually is the lead vocalist in a band, Rock Sugar, which does mashups of 80s pop and metal songs. From their Wikipedia page:quote:The band's fictitious backstory claims the sound was achieved when the metal band was stranded on a desert island in 1989 with a CD player, plenty of batteries, and the CD collection of a 13-year-old girl. I listened to one of their songs, Shook Me Like a Prayer, and honestly, it's a fun combo that works better than I anticipated. However, it's Harnell's pipes that are the linchpin tying it all together.
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So this apparently happened: https://twitter.com/MalMarx88/status/1330405702095912961 Edit: Apparently they removed and updated the episode to get rid of this. Larryb fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Nov 24, 2020 |
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Nov 24, 2020 18:09
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Larryb posted:So this apparently happened: I'm pretty sure any inactive 1-800 number is a sex line nowadays, and this has been the case for a while. https://www.denverpost.com/2011/04/19/porn-firm-gathers-1-800-numbers/
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demostars posted:I'm pretty sure any inactive 1-800 number is a sex line nowadays, and this has been the case for a while. Yeah, I think somebody on the writing staff just wasn’t thinking. Like I said, they went back and edited the episode in question after this came out.
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This show kinda rules! I sort of doubt a lot of kids nowadays will watch it, but I don't care about those. This might be the most political cartoon I can think of. Also those jokes are actually landing with me and I enjoy the songs. All I remember from the original Animaniacs was that there was an episode where Dot freaked out because there was LA DOT written on the local busses. It actually stood for department of traffic. It's weird what sort of random nonsense can settle down into long term memory. EDIT: Okay my memory was almost exact. It was department of transportation, which makes a bit more sense, actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAPBLhmk65w I vastly prefer the new animation by the way. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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I wonder if they intentionally or unintentionally forgot about Flotus Truman at the end there...
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Gonna say a couple of writers are not fans of Late Nite with Seth Meyers!
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It's really good for the most part, but the one episode where they go to Russia feels weird as hell. It's like...the writers are trying to parody the USSR and Putin's Russia simultaneously? And they don't know that they're not the same thing? Like, there are digs at Soviet communism with people starving on breadlines and being sent to the gulag, and a bunch of people wearing ushankas with the red star on them, but then also it's about Russian hackers and Putin being pals with Trump. It's as if whoever they got to write the satire was cryonically frozen in 1988. Less charitably, and combined with the fact that there's a dig on Venezuela's collapsing economy at the start of the episode (plus the hokey, "we Russians are good people, we just have an evil man in charge!"), feels like it comes from a hopelessly neoliberal perspective. My favourite so far's the Julia Brain episode. It's funny and cute, but the climax of that episode is also genuinely upsetting in a way you don't expect the show to be.
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a few episodes in, i am thourhougly enjoying and its doing a good enough job holding my 5 year olds attention my biggest complaint though is the lack of supporting characters. i feel like there's alot content there for Slappy in 2020, and probably a Minerva Mink metoo joke in there somewhere. Goodfeathers are probably to outdated at this point
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Android Blues posted:My favourite so far's the Julia Brain episode. It's funny and cute, but the climax of that episode is also genuinely upsetting in a way you don't expect the show to be. Yeah, that one was dark. I think it's because after all these years, I've felt we're supposed to be rooting for Brain despite his constant failures. He's the protagonist and Pinky loves him, so we're just supposed to want him to rule the world. Then this episode just shows him as a disturbing sociopath, a pure-hearted character suffers and goes insane and we're left with a creepy cliffhanger.
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Parrotine posted:Gonna say a couple of writers are not fans of Late Nite with Seth Meyers! I like him fine, but he is super smug.
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Gavok posted:Yeah, that one was dark. I think it's because after all these years, I've felt we're supposed to be rooting for Brain despite his constant failures. He's the protagonist and Pinky loves him, so we're just supposed to want him to rule the world. Then this episode just shows him as a disturbing sociopath, a pure-hearted character suffers and goes insane and we're left with a creepy cliffhanger. Yeah, Julia is drawn like a character from the Rescuers, she's unusually sympathetic and doesn't feel like a parody of a squeaky-clean character but a genuinely good person, and the whole sequence feels like Brain is the villain in a Don Bluth movie. The tone flips and suddenly he's not a comical mad scientist but a disturbing egomaniac. It's really well done.
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the julia sketch was the only one I outright didn't like. obviously brain is downright evil but forcibly controlling someone screaming "get out of my head!" stops feeling like fun cartoon violence. but that's just my quirk, probably. anyway, it took me until today to get the full joke in the opening jurassic park sketch about how spielberg "re-animated" them, and I am filled with intense, burning shame
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Yeah, I think the Julia short was a step too far as in that scenario it’s impossible to read Brain as anything other than the bad guy.
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In the original show there was an understanding (that I think was made explicit at times) that Brain wanted to take over the world because he saw that it was in the hands of idiots and knew he could do better, but Reboot Brain is pretty much your typical megalomaniac world conquering villain from pulp.
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paradoxGentleman posted:In the original show there was an understanding (that I think was made explicit at times) that Brain wanted to take over the world because he saw that it was in the hands of idiots and knew he could do better, but Reboot Brain is pretty much your typical megalomaniac world conquering villain from pulp. That's what you turn into when you spend twenty years developing something as evil as internet social networking.
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Just started watching this and holy poo poo was that a Sideways Stories from Wayside School reference in episode 4?
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Who were the warners dressed as in the Halloween episode? I recognized yakko as groucho marx but who were wacko and dot dressed as? Edit: nvm I just realised they're harpo and chico Blackula Vs. Tarantula fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Android Blues posted:It's really good for the most part, but the one episode where they go to Russia feels weird as hell. It's like...the writers are trying to parody the USSR and Putin's Russia simultaneously? And they don't know that they're not the same thing? See also: the guns/buns parody where the elegant solution being proposed at the end is a freakin *buyback*.
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Electric Phantasm posted:I'm still not sure who the dingoes were supposed to represent. Australians. Because of their gun control after an outbreak of gun violence.
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