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Ever see "Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue"?
The Worst Shows You Used to Watch When You Were a Kid - I.E. Childhood shows that make you cringe in retrospect.
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Yep, though I was absolutely wasted. As you should be.
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There were still some shows during the 2000s that had episodes like that. There was an episode of That's So Raven where the titular character gets turned down on her job application because the manager of the store is racist. The only problem is that this show aired on Disney Channel, so they had limited options of how to show racist behavior to kids. The racist manager actually says verbatim, "The truth is, I don't hire black people."
Mind explaining, unless the memory is too personal?
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A common problem with Western animation, which is one reason, although I am not a huge anime fan, that when I watch it I cannot do dubbed because I think they are all terrible.
Some hardcore anime fans seem to think it's just because it is 'western' and therefore, 'not good', but why doesn't Disney have this problem? DuckTales and other Disney Afternoon shows had entirely professional voice acting that didn't sound corny, so why couldn't others? In retrospect, us 80s kids now know its because many of those shows were little more than 65 episode toy commercials.
Another show I watched when it was airing in the late 80s that I want to check out again is COPS, which had a funny Edward G Robinson imitating bad guy which is still a meme between myself and one friend I still have from those days. But maybe it won't hold up like so many of the others.
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That and the production value of those shows were cheap. So cheap. I look at screencaps of most episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks (which aired reruns well into the 90's and was a big hit in my house) and the color palette has such limited variety well into the show's run. And it's far from the only show with that problem, nor was it exclusive to the first half of the decade. Dink the Little Dinosaur was made in 1989, but looks almost ten years older than that.
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I had the original red vs blue dvds. I get a really weird cognitive dissonance whenever I think about old RvB.
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Was it web only? Like homestar runner? And the one with the girls...RWDB or whatever. Bc my computer was shit Windows that sucked and couldn't always play videos correctly
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Dink the Little Dinosaur was the first time in my life I fully understood the concept of a ripoff. It didn't even try to be subtle about how it was ripping off The Land Before Time.
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I'd have Gundam Seed before Wing. People always talk about how Kira is shit, but let's be real, the guy obviously has the typical teenage issues, but unlike Amuro or hell, Shinji, he never refused to get in the fucking robot and fight and whatever angsty tantrum he was having, he sucked it up when it was time to go out and fight. He didn't want to fight Andy? Well, he still did it and defeated him because it was a war and left the whining for after the fight. Toxic relationship with the unstable spoiled rich girl who he simped for? He broke it off.
Unlike Amuro who was like WAAAAAH I'M NOT GETTING INTO THE GUNDAM, OR I'LL STEAL IT BECAUSE BRIGHT IS CONSIDERING A REPLACEMENT FOR ME. Hell, by the end Kira's like "hey I'm fighting this shit alone, you guys get in or get out". If anything, it's Athrun who kept letting his personal issues in the way of getting into the fucking robot.
Heero is too "psssh... nothin personnel... kid..." for my taste. Trowa is eh. Quatre is too faggy. Wufei is fucking Wufei. Relena is a cartoon. Only Duo and Zechs redeem it.
Unlike Amuro who was like WAAAAAH I'M NOT GETTING INTO THE GUNDAM, OR I'LL STEAL IT BECAUSE BRIGHT IS CONSIDERING A REPLACEMENT FOR ME. Hell, by the end Kira's like "hey I'm fighting this shit alone, you guys get in or get out". If anything, it's Athrun who kept letting his personal issues in the way of getting into the fucking robot.
Heero is too "psssh... nothin personnel... kid..." for my taste. Trowa is eh. Quatre is too faggy. Wufei is fucking Wufei. Relena is a cartoon. Only Duo and Zechs redeem it.
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The Land Before Time had an actual reason for using a more limited palette and it's still more colorful and less dingy than Dink. There was no reason for something to be that limited in color in 1989, unless you were cheap as fuck. And since Hanna Barbera pioneered the art of the character that talks but only the mouth is animated, yeah.
Edit: Just to make things clear, I picked Dink not because I liked it, but because it was made in 1989 and doesn't look any better than anything produced in 1983.
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Having angsty tantrums and refusing to get in the robot makes characters like Shinji and Amuro flawed though, and in a way realistic for teens. If you don't have flaws, you get Mary Sues and even as a kid I found them way more obnoxious than bratty but genuinely flawed characters.
Like I said I've never forced myself to watch Seed, and a good chunk of why is because everything I've heard is that I will not be able to stand Kira because of what a massive Gary Stu he is.
Speaking of Gary Stus and on the subject of Land Before Time, even as a kid I hated Littlefoot because he was such an obnoxious purity Sue. I don't remember him having any flaws, just a lot of emphasis on how cute and good and innocent and special he was. By the time I really started becoming an edgy little shit at 9 or so I wanted to see him get eaten by a predator just like his mom (I also hated the trope of predators being villains just for being predators from pretty young, which I think you can largely blame on Kratts Creatures and Zoobooks for making me aware of how important they are early on).
Raptor Red is basically the anti Land Before Time, and having re-read it as an adult a year or two ago I think it still holds up.
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That only comes into play in the sequel. They bring back the old cast in the "older and wiser" sense after they're getting you hyped for the new cast, but it comes off as "you noobs will never be as aWeSoMe and rIgHtEoUs as us, we are always right" since the new cast is on the colonies' side, and the old cast completely hijack the plot by the last stretch as the supposed new main character is turned into an Anakin Skywalker stand-in.
Hell, it's Lacus, the pink haired Relena/Minmei expy, who's the bigger problem. She's the pure and righteous Mary Sue and Kira is just her attack dog. Bonus points for Athrun who never makes up his mind about what side he is supposed to be in despite being supposed to be the mentor to the new main character. He ends up playing the part of the Obi Wan.
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The problem is Seed revolves around Kira and justifies everything he does. Whichever side Kira is fighting for are the good guys and the enemies are all saturday morning cartoon villains. Kira fucking over one of his friends for pussy is justified because "wah piloting the Strike is hard". Kira doesn't like killing? No problem he gets handed a super robot that lets him just "disable" his enemies and this never backfires ever. * and that's another problem I have with Seed tbh the cast particularly Kira and Cagalli are giant hypocrites and the show never addresses this, funny you mention Destiny though since Shinn gets a lot of hate from Seed fans for rubbing Cagalli's hypocrisy in her face. *
0079 doesn't treat Amuro like he's god and when he gets arrogant about piloting the Gundam the entire White Base crew brings him back to earth and tells him that he's replaceable as the Gundam's pilot.
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I never watched Gundam Seed because I'd already watched Code Geass.
The big exception to this is All Dogs go to Heaven, and that movie still has a helpless little angel as a vital character.
The other common theme in his movies is Dom DeLouise voicing a character.
This is a common theme (or problem) with most of Don Bluth's movies. Almost all of his main characters are pure beings trapped in cruel worlds, where they can't really do much more than cry most of the time.
The big exception to this is All Dogs go to Heaven, and that movie still has a helpless little angel as a vital character.
The other common theme in his movies is Dom DeLouise voicing a character.
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I know people love them, but all those random shows from the 90s like Animaniacs, Tiny Tunes, Freakazoid, The Mask, Beetlejuice, etc. all suck. They just aren't funny, and worse still they inspire the most cringe-worthy sense of humour in their fans. I don't think it's a coincidence that Doug Walker loves these shows.
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The WB cartoons have decent moments, but they're mired in a lot of topical humor. If you're not well versed in 20th century movies or American history, then you're not going to get the majority of the episodes. Hell, Animaniacs even had a reference to The Dover Boys, an obscure but influential cartoon that only the biggest of animation geeks would know about.
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I know I sound like a retard when saying this but I remember watching Nostalgia Critic's review of it and I wanted to die.
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In the show's defence, wanting to get the references lead me to look into all kinds of stuff. From having my dad explain cold war political jokes to me, to checking Gilbert and Sullivan recordings out of the library, I can't help but feel my life is richer in some small way for it.
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