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A Grey Cat said:
I didn't know where else to bring this up but, Does any remember not just the show Mr. Meaty but how Nick tried to hype it up? I have very faint memories of Nick.com having a whole subsection. Maybe even another website basically a fake website not just for the show, but also for the actual Mr. Meaty restaurant as if it was a real place. It even had pages and for the mall the show took place in and the other restaurants in the food court. I honestly miss when networks Did that kind of viral marketing.

Back then, from around the start of the splat era to around the mid 2000s. The mindset that went into the company was, "what if it was a network actual kids made and ran? And yeah they sure as hell fooled my little boy brain into thinking that.
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You can find it if you go to the Wayback Machine, but it only works if you have Flash.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060721030014/http://www.nick.com/all_nick/specials/meaty/
 
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A Grey Cat said:
I didn't know where else to bring this up but, Does any remember not just the show Mr. Meaty but how Nick tried to hype it up? I have very faint memories of Nick.com having a whole subsection. Maybe even another website basically a fake website not just for the show, but also for the actual Mr. Meaty restaurant as if it was a real place. It even had pages and for the mall the show took place in and the other restaurants in the food court. I honestly miss when networks Did that kind of viral marketing.

Back then, from around the start of the splat era to around the mid 2000s. The mindset that went into the company was, "what if it was a network actual kids made and ran? And yeah they sure as hell fooled my little boy brain into thinking that.
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I remember watching the show when it was new. It had a lot of gross-out and weirdness, from what I can remember. Specifically, I remember an episode where - I kid you not - the main characters made a waifu out of burger meat.

I also remember the usual suspects reeing about how bad it was because of those things. But now, it seems like it's more or less forgotten. Even Breadwinners is remembered, even if it's for being shit.
 
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Fat Tub of Lard said:
I remember watching the show when it was new. It had a lot of gross-out and weirdness, from what I can remember. Specifically, I remember an episode where - I kid you not - the main characters made a waifu out of burger meat.

I also remember the usual suspects reeing about how bad it was because of those things. But now, it seems like it's more or less forgotten. Even Breadwinners is remembered, even if it's for being shit.
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the second episode was about I shit YOU not...a burger designed for ladies packed with female hormones...and, get this the two main male leads ate it turning THEM into girls....like...I wish to remind you all this was in 2006! Loooong before the impossible whopper/impossible soy meat thing. The only thing that Mr. meaty did different from reality was the burgers still had real meat in them, just with 1/8th the calories and again loaded with female/bovine growth hormones.
 
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Fat Tub of Lard said:
I remember watching the show when it was new. It had a lot of gross-out and weirdness, from what I can remember. Specifically, I remember an episode where - I kid you not - the main characters made a waifu out of burger meat.

I also remember the usual suspects reeing about how bad it was because of those things. But now, it seems like it's more or less forgotten. Even Breadwinners is remembered, even if it's for being shit.
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A Grey Cat said:
the second episode was about I shit YOU not...a burger designed for ladies packed with female hormones...and, get this the two main male leads ate it turning THEM into girls....like...I wish to remind you all this was in 2006! Loooong before the impossible whopper/impossible soy meat thing. The only thing that Mr. meaty did different from reality was the burgers still had real meat in them, just with 1/8th the calories and again loaded with female/bovine growth hormones.
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I actually found those episodes on Vimeo, and yeah... it's certainly something...

I also have a memory of seeing an old Halloween related promo for Mr. Meaty, where everyone was having a party, and some monster shows up and scares everyone. It's currently Lost Media, and the only thing that's currently available is the ending graphic from that promo.

Edit: Can anyone see the videos, because they don't seem to be showing up here.
 
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I feel like this show was somehow both too late and too early. It would have blended in perfectly with nicks early work in the 90s alongside ren and stimpy, rockos modern life and all the grungy gross out shows of that era...but aif it had just waited like a decade or so and been more mellowed and less gross out more stoner humor than gross humor. The. It would have been comfortable along side the likes of regular show or really any show made in the late 2000s early 2010s about two friends dealing with their lives at work and social lives. It really is a fascinating enigma.


also we're still a long way away but page 700 is coming up soon. I Wanna keep to the tradition of posting something relevant to animation milestones but what to say next?
 
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Amphibia: I'm from another dimension not the 90s!

Molly mcgee: doesn't know what a vhs is or how to use one.


OK that's really starting to grind my gears. Not only is it total hypocrisy given these shows while trying to appeal to zoomers and the younger millienals (a window that is ever shrinking) are made by people in some cases older than me. Their audience tends to be the same.

Secondly I know we tend to label the generations younger than us "those darn kids who don't know what a video tape or a cd is." And it's more or less an update on a joke made in our generation about us not knowing what a record is, but I've seen comments by litteral young folk saying they aren't THAT stupid. Even if they didn't have vhs or older tech they can still look up what it was, and I've seen some say they're fascinated by the tech older than them...why else is "vhs" and "filmgrain" a popular filter option on everything from video editing software to camera filters?
 
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You can always spot a failure from a mile away. Friend saw the new DreamWorks movie and said it was mediocre even by DW standards. 'Course when you look at the character designs, it's no wonder it's flopping so hard.
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He said Ruby herself is actually cute when given the chance, but I can't see kids having the attention span nor patience for it.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
You can always spot a failure from a mile away. Friend saw the new DreamWorks movie and said it was mediocre even by DW standards. 'Course when you look at the character designs, it's no wonder it's flopping so hard.
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He said Ruby herself is actually cute when given the chance, but I can't see kids having the attention span nor patience for it.
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It's weird that this was directed by Kirk DeMicco, and his work, while being a mixed bag, still manage to be visually appealing. Shit, Space Chimps and The Croods still look very beautiful. What happened here?
TheDataHorder said:
nope but looks interesting so its going on my to watch list
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It's pretty much something like Liquid Television, What a Cartoon or Oh Yeah but with Tomb Raider. It has Peter Chung who worked on four segments and has people like Ed Sukker that worked on the show prior to Stick Figures.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
You can always spot a failure from a mile away. Friend saw the new DreamWorks movie and said it was mediocre even by DW standards. 'Course when you look at the character designs, it's no wonder it's flopping so hard.
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He said Ruby herself is actually cute when given the chance, but I can't see kids having the attention span nor patience for it.
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this is the true huge bomb of the year, with less than $8 million opening, got has to be in relation to its budget one of the biggest flops of all time.
 
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TheDataHorder said:
i remember it being dogshit. the fucking mole dude always made my ears bleed whenever he talked.

nope but looks interesting so its going on my to watch list
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You're just jealous that you're not a master tracker and adventure extraordinaire like Pronto the Magnificent.
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....did we watch the same movie?
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I loved the movie as a kid because it reminded me a lot about Spore. The second one wasn't as good but the indian guy was funny.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
You can always spot a failure from a mile away. Friend saw the new DreamWorks movie and said it was mediocre even by DW standards. 'Course when you look at the character designs, it's no wonder it's flopping so hard.
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He said Ruby herself is actually cute when given the chance, but I can't see kids having the attention span nor patience for it.
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Do you suppose it could have looked better if it was animated in 2d? Because the best friend guy's design has "worked in concept art" written all over it.

I really hope this and elemental are the death knell for lazy 3d animation. People have seen what good studios can do with it and this crap isn't going to fly anymore.
 
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A Grey Cat said:
OK that's really starting to grind my gears. Not only is it total hypocrisy given these shows while trying to appeal to zoomers and the younger millienals (a window that is ever shrinking) are made by people in some cases older than me. Their audience tends to be the same.

Secondly I know we tend to label the generations younger than us "those darn kids who don't know what a video tape or a cd is." And it's more or less an update on a joke made in our generation about us not knowing what a record is, but I've seen comments by litteral young folk saying they aren't THAT stupid. Even if they didn't have vhs or older tech they can still look up what it was, and I've seen some say they're fascinated by the tech older than them...why else is "vhs" and "filmgrain" a popular filter option on everything from video editing software to camera filters?
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For many Zoomers, the joke isn't even that truthful. I think people tend to forget how wild the 2000s were in terms of technology. It was a decade where we went from VHS to streaming in 10 years. I am an early 00s baby, and I grew up with VHS, DVD, and CDS. It is funny talking to older people who act like CDs are this ancient thing, when the reality is many of these things were "discontinued" after I was born if not recently. Plus, you can find DVDs, CDs and even Vinyls at a Target today.
 
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