Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)

[Steamboat_Bill]

@trombonista: You never leave.

@Konstantinos: When your work invites comparisons to Baby Geniuses, you know something's wrong. (At least this doesn't have the wasted talents of Christopher Lloyd, Kathleen Turner and Dom DeLuise.)

 

[The Perplexing Ms. Escape]

Wait, so adults go to school? Why? If being an adult in Growing An Erection means you get to screw around and never work, why would they go to school? Its not like they're learning any important life skills considering that they have no responsibilities whatsoever.

Speaking of which, if children are in charge of everything, does that mean they just have an intrinsic knowledge of how the world works? Or do they also go to school? Who teaches kids if all the adults are retards? Other kids? If this is like in Baby Geniuses as I fear it is, do children's mental capacities simply degenerate as they get older? Are people born with a breadth of knowledge as well as early onset Alzheimer's or something?

God, the lore in this show is so bewildering and poorly-conceived. Its also a little creepy and depressing to be honest.

I think adults in this show are supposed to learn to have fun after their unnecessarily stressful childhood.

 

[Trombonista]

I think adults in this show are supposed to learn to have fun after their unnecessarily stressful childhood.

Then maybe the kids shouldn't be in charge in the first place?

 

[MrsFrizzle]

Hush, now. No more logic. Only the sugary nightmare world.

 

[ZepFloyd94]

I don't know if someone already posted this, but here's the short that 'inspired' Growing Around.

I'm actually kind of disappointed that there's only one Enter related comment.

And please tell me that Jeff Garlin didn't lend his voice to this crap.

 

[Orthodox Chrischanity]

I don't know if someone already posted this, but here's the short that 'inspired' Growing Around.

I'm actually kind of disappointed that there's only one Enter related comment.

And please tell me that Jeff Garlin didn't lend his voice to this crap.

The first "recommended video" at the end of this was Enter's review of the whole show. I'm trying to give everything a fair chance, but it was grating.

Some semi-memorable quotes from that...

 

[Shokew]

The first "recommended video" at the end of this was Enter's review of the whole show. I'm trying to give everything a fair chance, but it was grating.

Some semi-memorable quotes from that...

The only thing I can agree with on Entard's whole review of that shit - Nothing is sadder than wasted potential. Too bad Entard and what's on subject in general ARE. JUST. THAT.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

It made more sense than GA, but it's pretty obvious that there's no way it could have carried a series. And it's got its own set of unfortunate implications.

 

[Shokew]

It made more sense than GA, but it's pretty obvious that there's no way it could have carried a series. And it's got its own set of unfortunate implications.

Which brings us to here, exactly - why other recreating something that doesn't deserve nor need it, when it especially had no chance in Hell of achieving anything noteworthy, stuck in its same shitty concept? This has been asked before (and stated much better than I ever could, BTW....), I'm sure, but I can't stress how monumentally awful this shit is, deep down.

 

[Segue]

My guess as to why the adults have to go to school is that children have some innate sense of fun and wonder that they lose over time as they age, and school acts as some sort of rehabilitation for them until they graduate or whatever so they can be elderly manchildren.

 

[Optimus Prime]

My guess as to why the adults have to go to school is that children have some innate sense of fun and wonder that they lose over time as they age, and school acts as some sort of rehabilitation for them until they graduate or whatever so they can be elderly manchildren.

So...institutionalized thought control more or less?

 

[Orthodox Chrischanity]

My guess as to why the adults have to go to school is that children have some innate sense of fun and wonder that they lose over time as they age, and school acts as some sort of rehabilitation for them until they graduate or whatever so they can be elderly manchildren.

That thought is kind of horrific. As you grow older, the light of all that you knew and love fades away. You see all meaning in your life trickle out from between your fingers, blowing away as dust in the wind. Your only hope of clinging to that which you once were is going to a "school" where a child has to teach you about princesses and action figures that you've long since stopped caring about and...

I'm not sure fart humor will help me get out of the funk I'm in now.

 

[Optimus Prime]

That thought is kind of horrific. As you grow older, the light of all that you knew and love fades away. You see all meaning in your life trickle out from between your fingers, blowing away as dust in the wind. Your only hope of clinging to that which you once were is going to a "school" where a child has to teach you about princesses and action figures that you've long since stopped caring about and...

I'm not sure fart humor will help me get out of the funk I'm in now.

Enter apparently seems to be the anti-thesis of that Lewis Carrol quote about "putting away childish things" - what Enter himself defines as being what he likes is what people his own age have long since started to regard as childish affairs. Because Autism, though, he is unable to see what he likes as being anything subject to viewpoints that look negatively on that stuff - even within the source material itself I.E. the depression over mean Fluttershy without some kind of external scapegoat to blame (like the first time that happened at the beginning of S2, she actually was just as much a bitch then but that was due to Discord's magic influencing her, but evidently Enter didn't lose his shit over that did he?).

Thus, it's entirely possible he thinks that making adults think like children (the irony, no?) the world over while kids run everything will mean everybody will be on his level of seeing the world, instead of him having to admit he just doesn't want to fucking grow up like reality demands he should. He thinks that becoming an adult, just as Lewis Carrol criticizes, means having to give up what he likes due to the very basic understanding of adulthood he comprehends.

TL;DR - Enter's equivalent of OPL's Blue Arms is civilization itself.

 

[Orthodox Chrischanity]

I'm spiraling out of control, here.

Okay, so science shows that as we grow older, our brains start to shunt off "unnecessary" experiences. As you grow older, days, minutes, seconds seem to fly by all that much faster. So, children have to endure years upon seemingly endless labor. Day in and out you're doing something like going to work at a "lemonade store". All during your formative years. You remember every minute. You remember every glass of lemonade poured. Free time is a luxury, especially when also raising parents...

Oh god, I really need to work on this bible some more.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I'm spiraling out of control, here.

Okay, so science shows that as we grow older, our brains start to shunt off "unnecessary" experiences. As you grow older, days, minutes, seconds seem to fly by all that much faster. So, children have to endure years upon seemingly endless labor. Day in and out you're doing something like going to work at a "lemonade store". All during your formative years. You remember every minute. You remember every glass of lemonade poured. Free time is a luxury, especially when also raising parents...

Oh god, I really need to work on this bible some more.

Y'know, that could actually be turned into what I can only guess to be some smart commentary on how education in the States as it currently is badly needs reform.

It's never going to come from Enter, though, because he's too focused on a world where a strong argument could be made that it's the prequel to Logan's Run.

 

[Headbanger General]

That thought is kind of horrific. As you grow older, the light of all that you knew and love fades away. You see all meaning in your life trickle out from between your fingers, blowing away as dust in the wind. Your only hope of clinging to that which you once were is going to a "school" where a child has to teach you about princesses and action figures that you've long since stopped caring about and...

I'm not sure fart humor will help me get out of the funk I'm in now.

I'm actually working on a story where Linda and Robert try to escape from the kid-run world and find a land where adults are in charge.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

I'm actually working on a story where Linda and Robert try to escape from the kid-run world and find a land where adults are in charge.

Spinoff time!

 

[Sanae Kochiya]

Speaking of stupid shit Enter would rather do than create a series bible, he has created an extended family tree for the Dunns:

I wonder if Enter realizes that most people don't exactly care if you have all of the plans available "in your head." If it isn't written down and in the pitch bible or at least on something concrete, no one really gives a fuck.

But I peeked on the DA comment section of the family tree and I noticed this.
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So, do you think he's actually written one up?

Ironically, he could fix most of his problems if Enter would just say "Yes, I've finished the Bible, and no, I'm not gonna post it up on the Internet."

But instead he's just dodging the question and, thus, leaving himself open to this kind of scrutiny to begin with.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

@Optimus Prime: Wasn't that C.S. Lewis who said that?

In any case, though, the Sonichu parallels are piling higher than ever. When he puts in a 4-cent garbage-esque parody of us, then we'll know it.

 

[AnOminous]

@Optimus Prime: Wasn't that C.S. Lewis who said that?

This is what C.S. Lewis said about childish things.

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.