Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)
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SpongeBob: Bad episodes, some disturbing implications if you think about it too much
Growing Around: Bad episodes, disturbing implications that are part of the canon and a 5 year old can come up with how weird it is
Growing Around: Bad episodes, disturbing implications that are part of the canon and a 5 year old can come up with how weird it is
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As impossible as it seems, I really want to see these awful scripts animated.
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Spongebob: Still has some good episodes come out.
Growing Around: Nothing but poorly written episodes.
Growing Around: Nothing but poorly written episodes.
You may get what you want
Enter said he wanted this to be, at least, an online series
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I get the feeling that Enter made Growing Around with the sense that "it's a cartoon, it doesn't have to make sense!" since a lot of GA's implications are actually rather horrifying in retrospect.
While normally I'd excuse something like this since I'm a fan of shows laden with insanity and some suspension of disbelief, like Nichijou, KND, Looney Tunes etc. and a lot of their stuff wouldn't make sense when put under "realistic" scrutiny, but there's just so much wrong about how GA is set up and there's just so little that's explained that this shit crops up. Not to mention that Enter has a history of not giving us a solid reason as to why the world exists.
While normally I'd excuse something like this since I'm a fan of shows laden with insanity and some suspension of disbelief, like Nichijou, KND, Looney Tunes etc. and a lot of their stuff wouldn't make sense when put under "realistic" scrutiny, but there's just so much wrong about how GA is set up and there's just so little that's explained that this shit crops up. Not to mention that Enter has a history of not giving us a solid reason as to why the world exists.
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@ThunderCavalier: He doesn't particularly like the "It's just a cartoon!" excuse when used for shows he hates. Hypocrisy much?
The problem with his show is that it breaks the suspension of disbelief, just by its very idea. Just by turning the entire basis of our society topsy-turvy, he introduces a host of questions that reminds you why it's that way.
The problem with his show is that it breaks the suspension of disbelief, just by its very idea. Just by turning the entire basis of our society topsy-turvy, he introduces a host of questions that reminds you why it's that way.
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Ironically, he could probably get away with GA's weird concept by "not" addressing it or playing up how absurd it is. Why do adults need kids? Because they need parental figures. Why is dessert a balanced meal? So kids can have energy to run the world. Where do all the kids come from then if everyone's maturity makes no sense? The fucking stork.
See, by trying to give "rational" answers (and I use rational as loosely as possible), you ground GA in some type of reality, which in turn leaves it open to these kind of questions that dismantle the very suspension of disbelief it needs to begin with. Like, for instance, I believe Nayolfa mentioned a long time ago that the whole reason GA's thing was how it was was because of some stupid war thing and because the adults decided having kids run the world would prevent more wars. Ignoring how that makes no goddamned sense, the fact that there's attempt to be "rational" in explaining GA grounds it in some kind of psuedo-rationalism, which in turn lets us criticize how other parts of GA make no sense.
Sometimes, you don't have to explain it and sometimes it's best not to explain it, because then it either becomes irrelevant or people can make up their own explanations. What is Acme and how come Wile E. Coyote can order a variety of (semi) lethal equipment from it to attempt to capture an annoying Roadrunner, and how come he doesn't order food instead? Never addressed, never explained, and thus it just kinda ends up fading to the background and no one ends up caring. What is Acme? Who cares they just gave him a fucking catapult!
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I still want to know what the point of adults going to school is. The characters act like being held back is a big deal but... why? What are the adults preparing for?
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Adding to that, when do people graduate in a world like this? From a few of the storyboards I've seen, there are a few elderly people still in school.
What about college?
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Only Enter's baked mind can answer that.
Wait, I can explain as well;
Enter thinks school in real life is as useless as the one in GA, that's the joke
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How to make mud pies and Water baloons
seriously
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Friendly reminder that you're not supposed to question a "kids show" unless you're the Mysterious Mr. Enter.
I want to see a legitimate reviewer talk about the problems with Growing Around.
I want to see a legitimate reviewer talk about the problems with Growing Around.
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[Mr.Enter]bbbuuttt watch spongebob all day is a big responsibility you don't understand I have Social Assity disorder and
Asperger [/mr.enter}
Doesn't Mr. Enter live in his Parent's basement and have a "Job" that ranting on Youtube about Children's cartoons...
add I just found out he makes as much as $69,000 a year which is only a bit less then I make as a Lawyer work 50-90+ hours a week with very high levels of stress and just like that I am enverous of him just a bit
That's hard if you mean Internet critics, because they have a "community" or some shit.
But other media critics, then I think it is too pathetic for them to care
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At least you have an actual job that actually helps people.