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

[Count groudon]

So heres what bugs me about GA. Most of the "humor" comes from the fact that the wise and mature adults are being ruled over by the immature chaotic children. But it really doesnt make sense why they still act like stereotypical responsible adults when they were born into this world to begin with. Like they were the wacky kids in charge at one point too, and since they knew that they would become subservient to the kids when they got older they had no real references or motivation to become mature and responsible as they are in the story. I mean in theory, theyd still act like the wacky immature kids they were when they were in charge. Which would most likely result in the current generation of kids having more difficulty controling them, but also likely putting them in danger since theyre dealing with fully grown adults with the mindset of children raised in a chaotic world, but the bodies and harmones of a developed adult.

 

[Ho Mo for Women]

I think I have a visual representation of this particular trainwreck:

At least that train got through the tunnel, though. "Growing Around" went barreling off the tracks and into a fiery explosion the second it started.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Reading their "final draft" for their pilot episode, am...Am I mistaken in taking the impression that trading cards are the world's currency?

Oh my sweet lawdy, and I thought thinking seriously about the CWCVille economy was painful.

CWCVille's currency was bullshit only because OPL wanted some way to force his dumb-ass name initials into it but also didn't understand how money worked and that trying to divide three letters into a currency based on values that are factors of 5 is not balanced. Amusingly, he actually could have pulled it off had he made "C" dimes and "W" nickels, but then a third of his name would be valued less than the two parts of the name he actually uses 99% of the time.

Trading cards, though...well, the U.S. Government does keep trying to actually to exactly this in order to encourage a transition to more coin-based economics over dollar printing. The past decade or so had each year introduce a portion of state-themed quarter backs for people to search and collect them all - I've got a full set of them all from both mints, admittedly. Then a few years ago, after the failure of the Sacagawea golden dollar to catch on, they did the same thing as the state quarters, except now it's golden dollar presidents. Still hasn't caught on as the only time I ever see those coins is when I check for ones I still need for my collector book at the bank.

For a kid-based currency, it's easy to see how the idea behind kids constantly bartering and trading them would prove a good foundation for actual money exchange, but what Enter fails to apparently grasp is that nobody sees the same card in the same value, or that kids lose interest in older "gotta have" cards over time in favor of new ones. For instance - does anybody even remember the original gimmick of Exodia, much less the part where he was actually a set of five stupid-rare cards, with a card for each limb and his torso? Exactly.

It would make some sense if there was a kind of "Flowers for Algernon"-esque effect going on where humans mentally mature at a rapid rate but then lose that as they age. In order for that to work, though, the kids in GA would have to think and behave like adults...but they don't. They act like kids, immaturity and all, and the adults don't get dumber as they age, so the idea of adults stepping down and giving kids control makes no goddamn sense.

It's just showing how little of the world these idiots actually know of.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

The idea demands that all people everywhere have an invested interest in the cards.

I didn't play or collect card games when I was young, nor did a lot of people I grew up with. I'm now more than old enough to be a childparent in the show, and I still don't have any real interest. I feel like practices like WWII price ceilings and fixed values assigned to the cards, because as you said, if personal interest dies off, the value of the cards as a currency collapse.

I honestly think CWC's idea of government owned housing somehow makes more sense. If all of the housing and manufacturing and commerce sectors were under Soviet-style government control, I think this world could get by in an inefficient-not quite so bad as Venezuela-kind of way.

*But that would seem to go against the idea of the current world order coming by as a result of global shifts from Authoritarian governing and economic practices to this wacky and innocent child run planet.

The card method has to either function completely based on rarer cards holding artificially high value due to scarcity, which makes me tremble when considering concepts like inflation, or on a wild ass method of a card's subjective popularity being the determinatornof it's value.

 

[Jumpin Jenkins]

I leave for a few days, and then this becomes "Growing Around Exchange Rates"
The point is, Enter collected cards when he was a kid. So did many other people. Cards being the currency is actually kinda funny.
You all just need to relax. Don't take it seriously. It's a cartoon. A cartoon that will never be aired anywhere.

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

I leave for a few days, and then this becomes "Growing Around Exchange Rates"
The point is, Enter collected cards when he was a kid. So did many other people. Cards being the currency is actually kinda funny.
You all just need to relax. Don't take it seriously. It's a cartoon. A cartoon that will never be aired anywhere.

No shit is too goddamned minor.

 

[Shokew]

I leave for a few days, and then this becomes "Growing Around Exchange Rates"
The point is, Enter collected cards when he was a kid. So did many other people. Cards being the currency is actually kinda funny.
You all just need to relax. Don't take it seriously. It's a cartoon. A cartoon that will never be aired anywhere.

Too bad it's all too goddamned stupid not to ignore... Highlighting these failures at worldbuilding are essential to understanding why this shit cannot compete and must fail.

 

[Teddy]

The fact that it has last 4 seasons is already scary. Bronies will go awol if the show ended.

Found the GA theme song

Delightful

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

The fact that it has last 4 seasons is already scary. Bronies will go awol if the show ended.

Found the GA theme song

Delightful

That video gave me autism just from watching it.

 

[Omega Rhythm]

Words cannot describe that song...

 

[A Ghost]

Found the GA theme song

Delightful

well we can add singing to the list of thing enter can't do along with reviewing and making cartoons

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

well we can add singing to the list of thing enter can't do along with reviewing and making cartoons

That's not Enter, silly. Enter is a sperg, but not that much.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

That's not Enter baying at the moon like a diseased do- I mean, 'singing', but Enter did write the song.

Also, here's an Ask-Blog they tried to make, but promptly abandoned: http://ask-sallydunn.tumblr.com/

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Isn't the pony fad on it's way out already?

As long as the franchise still exists, no.

Also that song... I think i lost a few IQ points just by looking at its title. Then I played the video. Let's just say if there was no hope before, there's definitely a snowball's chance in hell this will even be considered by anyone.

 

[Firesharpie]

The fact that it has last 4 seasons is already scary. Bronies will go awol if the show ended.

Found the GA theme song

Delightful

He broke me and I need a hearing aid now.

Also, does he need glasses or something?

 

[Anchuent Dictata]

We can only hope.

Well now you've gone and jinxed it. I predict four more seasons to come.

Now then, holy shit that song is a puzzler. I keep saying to myself "maybe put to the right music and pace, it could be passable" but I just can't conceive of a style of music that is capable of uplifting it. Anybody here who has a better clue of musical shit might be able to put something forward, but in any case those lyrics aren't the strongest bit of theme'ing I've ever seen.

EDIT

Uh, found the (accepted) audition for Linda's VA. Fairly old, but since I found it I decided I'd go ahead and put it here. Will probably do the same for the other auditions if I come across them, unless that's a paddlin'.

 

[HexBawxUno]

The fact that it has last 4 seasons is already scary. Bronies will go awol if the show ended.

Found the GA theme song

Delightful

At this rate they should try to get Jay Geis or Monica Punk to do the theme song. Neither of those two made my ears bleed like this guy's voice.

EDIT: Well, well. Our resident possible-Enterbot-if-not-Enter-himself gave me a trash can. I feel so honored!

 

[Shokew]

The fact that it has last 4 seasons is already scary. Bronies will go awol if the show ended.

Found the GA theme song

Delightful

Yeah - Well, I feel like killing someone right now... Better now than never, I guess. But only to spare them, or better yet, SAVE THEM from hearing WTF this is ever again like I did.

 

[the McD Mighty Wings]

Ooh wow that theme...what an aural assault.

IMO one of the biggest things wrong about the show is its title. Growing Around? Like is it a pun on "Going Around"? If so what's the point?

A good title should at least explain the show a bit or the characters. From this title we can gather that...the characters will be growing in different places?

To be honest, this tired idea of a show doesn't offer up many creative ideas but a better title would at least make it hold your interest for more than 10 seconds.

Yeah I can't really think of any better alternative titles really. I'd suggest "Child's Play", but a certain red headed doll holds that title. I guess Chucky isn't really topical anymore but the copyright is still there.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Here are people's writing auditions :http://growing-around.deviantart.com/gallery/50684718/writing-applications

And the theme song lyrics: http://mrenter.deviantart.com/journal/Growing-Around-Try-outs-and-auditions-468875944