Not going to discredit them cause mabye they did handle it pretty well but this isn't anything revolutionary. Like others said it was done before by different cartoons aimed at younger audiences. Didn't Sesame Street actually do an episode about a building burning down after 9/11 and it was supposed to be a kid-friendly allegory for dealing with tragedy
During the early-70s, The Magic Roundabout was the most popular with freshmen high school to senior college students other than the original demographic of toddlers or little kids, starting that type of trend, even way before Bluey or SpongeBob.
No the death isn't on screen. On screen the wild bird is alive but badly hurt, Bandit and Bluey take it to a vet where the bird passes off screen. Rest of the episode is basically Bluey, Chile and Bingo reacting the events, with all the limitations that comes with, because Bluey wants think trough what happened. It's actually quite funny and sweet episode.
Sure, Sesame Street had a shitload of celebrities for years, yet Mr. Rodgers met with the big guns such as Eddie Murphy, Steve Irwin, Koko the Gorilla and the Hulk.God bless Mr. Rogers...
There was also Officer Clemmons too, he may have not been a celebrity, but he was just as memorable.
It’s a genuinely sweet and touching show, I’m almost certain that most of the fanbase that elevated it to such a hailed status due to autism. It is also very popular maybe with traumatised people I think, a lot of these adult animation fans often use shows like these as an emotional crutch due to maybe a lack of successes in their own lives and the sense of warmth an idealised view of a family that’s presented here.
It is shocking how minuscule any representation of good family there is animation. I wonder why this is?
I honestly have known about the truth of McCracken. Yet, he still made quality content. Plus, Hazbin/Helluva fantards are always complete prime consoomers
I'm so glad Bill is doing good.
Not sure about Sesame Street but I know Arthur did an episode in response to 9/11 to show people deal with a traumatic event.
Bill Watterson is an incredible dude. It's nice he hasn't sold out, unlike Jim Davis, Scott Adams or either the late Johnny Hart or Charles Schultz.I'm so glad Bill is doing good.
I'll bet good money that a majority is for the sake of realism. Like they expect people wouldn't be interested in their show if it didn't have some kind of dysfunctional family dynamic in them that wouldn't be "relatable" enough to people.
Don't forget to add shows like Billy & Mandy, Cow & Chicken, Wild Thornberrys, Angry Beavers and Hey Arnold in terms of having respective families that are either goofy or wholesome, still a far cry from many dysfunctional families in animation (namely Family Guy, American Dad, etc.)
I mean yes, but lest we forget two animated series with one from UPN and the other being web animated, both are great by the way, and in 2006 there was an announcement of a proposed live-action movie in the works with Chris Columbus to direct and Stanley Tucci, Will Smith and Jim Parsons to star in it, but nothing came of it since 2012, and by 2017 Adams confirmed it was cancelled because it was impossible to translate his comic into feature-length, which this I understood because at least it worked better in a TV episode fashion than an 80 plus minute feature.
You probably should've kept this in the Vivzie thread. Spindlehorse is a hybrid of web animation and mainstream animation. It hires the professional people who are mid-stop in the revolving door of the employment/freelance cycle of the industry while also releasing the professional-level quality cartoons online free of charge (on jewtube soon to be pajeettube of all places that remove videos for no reason, the tits on this woman!) at any time they choose. No investors to service, just a global audience to keep coming and happy. She has stumbled but hasn't fucked it up yet.
Nobody could've predicted MLP:FIM's popularity which is why it's still intriguing to this day. Even after anime (thanks to Toonami, Fox Kids and DIC) and PPG took the toy world by storm briefly they still had no idea. The spergs of MLP:FIM's heyday were late teens to all sorts of 20s. They now have moved on, grown up (hah) or sadly cling to old days. Now there's a new generation who have said their dream is to be influencers/youtubers just in time for another kids show to be the new subject of their
Now disclaimer this is more speculation (as my prior opinion thank you yamma damma) but if you go back and look at eps of the power puff girls collect her and city of clips ville. (which despite airing in season 5 was still story driven by craig and co) It almost feels like he and to an extent the people who worked for him at the time have contempt for people like us or animation fans in general.
