Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

[thegooddoctor]

This is why I love Regular Show's finale as sad as it is. Pops stays dead. Which really makes the finale feel like a finale.

Regular show is genuinely one of the most under-appreciated and based cartoons of the 2010s, it didn’t need to sentimentalise its characters or give us lesson of the week or force drama or morality with us like Steven universe. It was just a fun and edgy surreal sitcom that always took simple premises and stretched them as far as they could go into hilarious surreal chaos. It was the perfect example of a kids show that clearly wanted to be an adult sitcom aimed at young slackers or teens and did an excellent job at it.

 

[starborn427614]

It's a shame that Close Enough didn't catch on like RS did. I guess adults doing adult things wasn't relatable enough.

 

[Oats12345]

Regular show is genuinely one of the most under-appreciated and based cartoons of the 2010s, it didn’t need to sentimentalise its characters or give us lesson of the week or force drama or morality with us like Steven universe. It was just a fun and edgy surreal sitcom that always took simple premises and stretched them as far as they could go into hilarious surreal chaos. It was the perfect example of a kids show that clearly wanted to be an adult sitcom aimed at young slackers or teens and did an excellent job at it.

Really the show did what all these recent cartoons fail to do. It really knew how to be fun for both adults and kids a like without trying too hard.

The show also made every character likeable even Rigby and Mordical's girlfriends.

Also the show didn't get into a storyline until it's final season where stuff like Owl House sets it up in the very beginning to the point where there's no room for it or the fun sole episodes

 

[Kabobs]

It's a shame that Close Enough didn't catch on like RS did. I guess adults doing adult things wasn't relatable enough.

And WB Discovery wiped it away completely after canning it so there will never be any chance.

 

[Slideshow Bill]

Here's a thought in my mind here. Why is every Disney product have to have the town name Halloweentown? The Nightmare Before Christmas has a Halloween-themed universe named as such, there's a series of Disney Channel TV movies that also bares the same name, the bullshit DTVA series The Owl House was taken place there, and none of them are even connected to each other. It's just too generic.

The Owl House town isn't called Halloweentown, it's Gravesfield. I was making a joke of the "spooky" name and how much said spooky stuff is worshipped there.
Edit: The human town is Gravesfield, the demon town is Bonesborough (yes really)

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Do you guys remember the time Shia LaBeouf voiced a penguin?

The amount of times I tried to use the term pepperface as an insult was fun, even though it did not work.

 

[Oats12345]

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Do you guys remember the time Shia LaBeouf voiced a penguin?

The amount of times I tried to use the term pepperface as an insult was fun, even though it did not work.

Oh yes fun memories indeed

 

[Shidoen]

Regular show is genuinely one of the most under-appreciated and based cartoons of the 2010s, it didn’t need to sentimentalise its characters or give us lesson of the week or force drama or morality with us like Steven universe. It was just a fun and edgy surreal sitcom that always took simple premises and stretched them as far as they could go into hilarious surreal chaos. It was the perfect example of a kids show that clearly wanted to be an adult sitcom aimed at young slackers or teens and did an excellent job at it.

Regular show is the only show I can find rewatchable after so long. Not to say there aren’t but it’s the only one I’m focusing on right now.

 

[S1mpletonFugg3r]

It's a shame that Close Enough didn't catch on like RS did. I guess adults doing adult things wasn't relatable enough.

It's weird because Regular Show is basically a surrealist take of what being a directionless 20 something in a dead end job is like and Close Enough is just the same thing but it's now about being in your 30's and your kid has just started going to school

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

It's weird because Regular Show is basically a surrealist take of what being a directionless 20 something in a dead end job is like and Close Enough is just the same thing but it's now about being in your 30's and your kid has just started going to school

I think the people who watched RS as kiddos are retarded enough in their 20's to only like Rick & Morty and nobody gave a shit about CE.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I was actually surprised to find out that Close Enough was made by the same people that did Regular Show. If anything, I might just put it on my future watch list.

 

[TVB]

Regular show is genuinely one of the most under-appreciated and based cartoons of the 2010s, it didn’t need to sentimentalise its characters or give us lesson of the week or force drama or morality with us like Steven universe. It was just a fun and edgy surreal sitcom that always took simple premises and stretched them as far as they could go into hilarious surreal chaos. It was the perfect example of a kids show that clearly wanted to be an adult sitcom aimed at young slackers or teens and did an excellent job at it.

Honestly, there will never be a cartoon like Regular Show. It's criminally underrated, yet I'm glad it's getting a cult following over the years.

It's a shame that Close Enough didn't catch on like RS did. I guess adults doing adult things wasn't relatable enough.

I'm still depressed that we live in a world where shit like Big Mouth and The Great North have to continue, yet shows like Close Enough get cancelled quickly. Fuck everything!

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Do you guys remember the time Shia LaBeouf voiced a penguin?

The amount of times I tried to use the term pepperface as an insult was fun, even though it did not work.

I loved that movie. It's weird that Sony Animation was really committed to doing a mockumentary-style surfing movie. Also, Chicken Joe was a true chad.

 

[A Grey Cat]

I've been getting back into Fairly odd parents recently (How convenient there are free eps on youtube of...questionable legitimacy as I said) and if i may be so bold, I didn't mind poof or Chole (sparky can rot in fat dog hell) as much as most people did. Even though I will admit they were heavily flawed and not in a good or likeable way..but you what they say about hindsight being a bitch right?

The little jungle bunny and the gender special in the coming reboot can make even the worst/dumbest moments of the Original show look just that teeny bit more bearable. Maybe not good or better but bearable.

anyways here watch this, or don't.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

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Do you guys remember the time Shia LaBeouf voiced a penguin?

This fucking kid, swear to God.

 

[Shidoen]

This fucking kid, swear to God.

I like chicken joe and tank the best. They're both what I aspire to be.

 

[TVB]

It's weird because Regular Show is basically a surrealist take of what being a directionless 20 something in a dead end job is like and Close Enough is just the same thing but it's now about being in your 30's and your kid has just started going to school

It does feel more like that, but with more like American Dad, Futurama and some elements of Mission Hill.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

I really liked Regular Show, but I missed the last few seasons.

I didn't care for the tv movie so much, but the finale was good. I liked that they had Mordecai end up with some random batgirl as opposed to Margaret or C.J., their creepy blue jay/bat hybrid kids notwithstanding.

 

[Odd Opossum]

Animation fans are the worst thing to happen to animation sadly. Some of them are genuinely talented and clearly have passion but they are more interested in preaching and imitating the worst and most surface elements of anime to western animation. That why so many people are moving over to anime now, because regardless about how you feel about the social stigma of it at the very least anime revels in some genuinely gruesome and based content and doesn’t give any craps about representation mainly. They still tell interesting stories and characters mainly and as a result more people are moving over to anime of other foreign animation to supply their cartoon needs.

I genuinely think we might see a second wave of weebism in the next few years, it’s not going to be pretty.

Both animation and anime fans are complete shit. I'd say western animation fans are terrible for not showing absolute faith in the medium, having to name the same basic bitch kids shows and movies and writing them off as examples as to why animation "is for everyone," and even if they're not naming kids shows or movies, they also name out the same animated sitcoms like Simpsons and Family Guy. This is why we no longer take animation seriously, and it's because of the community themselves.

Western animation fans will be mocked for being adultchildren who praise animated shows who's intended target audience are toddlers and anime fans will go back to being mocked as weirdos, on top of the more modern addition of being Neo-Nazi pedophiles.

 

[thegooddoctor]

Western animation fans will be mocked for being adultchildren who praise animated shows who's intended target audience are toddlers and anime fans will go back to being mocked as weirdos, on top of the more modern addition of being Neo-Nazi pedophiles.

Jesus is there any good way to be a fan of anything?

 

[starborn427614]

Jesus is there any good way to be a fan of anything?

Value your own opinion more highly than anything. That doesn't mean denigrating others, it just means staying in your lane. No meaningless and autistic arguments over something having "good" or "bad" writing, no twitter fights and definitely no culture wars shite. Tunnel vision isn't always a bad thing.