Western Animation - Discuss American, Canadian, and European cartoons here (or just bitch about wokeshit, I guess)

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So I'm watching old spongebob. I finished all of season 1 recently, and I'm working on season 2.
I think it's a very engaging process for me, because I'm finally understanding all of those dank memes circulating on Facebook.
I really like it as a show. It's witty, dark and the art direction is fantastic. My favorite episode so far would probably be "Rock Bottom" although I also really like "Something Smells"
 
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Abethedemon said:
So I'm watching old spongebob. I finished all of season 1 recently, and I'm working on season 2.
I think it's a very engaging process for me, because I'm finally understanding all of those dank memes circulating on Facebook.
I really like it as a show. It's witty, dark and the art direction is fantastic. My favorite episode so far would probably be "Rock Bottom" although I also really like "Something Smells"
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Those first three seasons hold some great gems.
 
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I love Western animation! Although clearly I'm not an expert on it in comparison to some of you guys in this thread. My favorite cartoon shows are Batman: The Animated Series and Venture Bros. And my favorite animated movies are Up and Road to El Dorado.
Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is also one of my all time favorite cartoons.
It was on Cartoon Network from 2008 t0 2010. I guess it wasn't that popular because it only had two seasons but the creators of Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, and Regular Show worked on it beforehand. It was really surreal but also hilarious. Definitely an underrated gem.
I would also like to give a shout out to Superjail!
I marathoned it last year. I can't say it's in my top 5 but I find it that it sticks with you because it's so unique.
 
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TheMightyMonarch said:
Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is also one of my all time favorite cartoons.
It was on Cartoon Network from 2008 t0 2010. I guess it wasn't that popular because it only had two seasons but the creators of Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, and Regular Show worked on it beforehand. It was really surreal but also hilarious. Definitely an underrated gem.
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It came about right at the time CN was trying to give up on animation entirely. Thank God that bombed.

Still, what a show that was. Probably the last great thing CN ever did. Gave us moments like this:

 
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Abethedemon said:
So I'm watching old spongebob. I finished all of season 1 recently, and I'm working on season 2.
I think it's a very engaging process for me, because I'm finally understanding all of those dank memes circulating on Facebook.
I really like it as a show. It's witty, dark and the art direction is fantastic. My favorite episode so far would probably be "Rock Bottom" although I also really like "Something Smells"
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Spongebob was really funny in how weird it was at times. though probably the one I liked the most was that one that they go on strike.
 
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Abethedemon said:
So I'm watching old spongebob. I finished all of season 1 recently, and I'm working on season 2.
I think it's a very engaging process for me, because I'm finally understanding all of those dank memes circulating on Facebook.
I really like it as a show. It's witty, dark and the art direction is fantastic. My favorite episode so far would probably be "Rock Bottom" although I also really like "Something Smells"
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Seasons 1-3 of Spongebob are funny as hell. It's up their with old Simpsons in regards to how quotable it is.
 
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Spongebob Season 1 to 3 plus the movie are probably what defined my childhood the most. Fucking Band Geeks, man...

Tellingly, the newer seasons are so bad that even my youngest cousin doesn't understand why they still keep airing this shit, and he strikes me as the kind of guy they'd try to get with their current style of humour.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
So I wasn't sure where else to show this, but check out this awesome 80's style animation this guy made called "A Fox in Space", which is basically a StarFox animated series.

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Surprised the guy managed to get this done at all. Half a decade in the making.
 
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The creator of Billy & Mandy has given the world his student film, and we are forever greatful to see it (warts and all)!
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A lost piece of history, finally found.

EDIT: I got a question. Have Columbia's pre-UPA cartoons ever been released on DVD? Or even VHS?
 
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Steamboat_Bill said:
A lost piece of history, finally found.

EDIT: I got a question. Have Columbia's pre-UPA cartoons ever been released on DVD? Or even VHS?
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No, they haven't, except for at least one tape of Li'l Abner cartoons, and even then, they were not the originals, but color cartoons that were redrawn in Korea sometime during the 70's or 80's because the studio lost the original Technicolor prints and had to make due with B&W dupes they could colorize cheaply.

A number of cartoons in the Charles Mintz/Screen Gems library are gone because of carelessness of Columbia's part over the last century. Here's a Fox & Crow apparently lost to time in its Technicolor form..
 
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