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gaysexenjoyer said:
goofy cosmic lore shit,
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as much as that got old, I will still tip my cap for the holiday special
Ice King sobbing pathetically as MERRY CHRISTMAS is on the screen was pretty funny, and the reveal about he used to wear glasses was pretty surprising
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Did you want an Americanised version of the Twits? Made by Netflix? Tough shit because you're getting one.

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Inspired by is doing some heavy lifting there. It's not utterly awful and it is nice seeing Johnny Vegas getting work but my word is it very current year. They had to stretch a lot to make this thing last an hour and a half and it absolutely was not worth it.
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And including the writer's barely disguised fetish nonetheless

 
Sometime around the year 2000 it became fashionable for cable TV channels to show endless reruns of one show for hours. Or at least Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon did. Nick with endless reruns of "Rocket Power", and CN with endless reruns of "Ed, Edd n Eddy". Gone were those days of channels having more variety like Nick with SNICK in the '90s.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Ever see Dexter's Lab around the year 2000? Show was alright, with pretty funny moments (like "omelette du fromage"). Then sometime around the early '00s, there was a sudden change in the background art to make it flat and ugly. Characters' voices changed a little. Also the plots became unfunny and a chore to get through. Like that very first of the new episodes was about some robots from the lab who went on a long journey to find freedom or something like that. Not long after the new changes, I stopped watching it.
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There was an episode where Dexter gets better vision, but not only does it make all of his surroundings super detailed, but it makes the human characters really fucking ugly... like "mom looks like a fucking alien and dad looks like a deformed muppet" ugly.

I didn't get it... like I was expecting the other characters to look maybe semi-realistic because that made more sense since thats what they were going for when you saw Dexter's room all super-detailed. The ugly joke even falls flat on it's face in the end when they don't do anything with Dexter except give him octopus feet.

The writing for those last seasons were bad, or at least not as good as the older episodes, that's for sure.
 
Kabobs said:
And including the writer's barely disguised fetish nonetheless

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I should not have watched that while eating.
Celebrate Nite said:
There was an episode where Dexter gets better vision, but not only does it make all of his surroundings super detailed, but it makes the human characters really fucking ugly... like "mom looks like a fucking alien and dad looks like a deformed muppet" ugly.

I didn't get it... like I was expecting the other characters to look maybe semi-realistic because that made more sense since thats what they were going for when you saw Dexter's room all super-detailed. The ugly joke even falls flat on it's face in the end when they don't do anything with Dexter except give him octopus feet.

The writing for those last seasons were bad, or at least not as good as the older episodes, that's for sure.
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Wasn’t there one episode that consisted solely of Mandark doing mundane things like brushing his teeth, but it all sounded like his weird laugh?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Sometime around the year 2000 it became fashionable for cable TV channels to show endless reruns of one show for hours. Or at least Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon did. Nick with endless reruns of "Rocket Power", and CN with endless reruns of "Ed, Edd n Eddy". Gone were those days of channels having more variety like Nick with SNICK in the '90s.
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Which also had the unintended side effect of making me think certain shows ran for way longer than they actually did.

I had no idea that Chowder only ran for 3 seasons until like 2 years ago.
 
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An article over at Vulture on the success of vintage Looney Tunes on the TubiTV platform.

In 1958, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig starred in “Robin Hood Daffy,” which imagines the duck as the worst outlaw ever — a “Yoiks!”-ing catastrophe who repeatedly fails to live up to or capitalize on his popular name. But Daffy’s buffoonery has nothing on Warner Bros. Discovery’s recent stewardship of Looney Tunes: Under CEO David Zaslav, new films like The Day the Earth Blew Up and Coyote vs. Acme were, respectively, offloaded or canceled (before being rescued), and the classic Looney Tunes library was cut from flagship streamer HBO Max entirely in March, swept up in a broader retreat from animation and kids’ programming. Looney Tunes content and merch never went away entirely, but aside from YouTube compilations and the niche upstart broadcaster MeTV Toons, gems from the so-called golden age of American animation had effectively been locked away in the vault again.

Then came Tubi. The free, ad-supported streamer was already hosting some recent Looney Tunes content, but in August it secured 789 old-school shorts — classics like “The Great Piggy Bank Robbery” and “Long-Haired Hare” all the way up to shorts from the early ’90s. Two months later, the streamer says the toons are a hit: “On its own, Looney Tunes is a huge win for us,” Samuel Harowitz, Tubi’s head of acquisitions, tells me. By total viewing time, Looney Tunes is in Tubi’s top-ten best-performing series, the company says, popular with viewers across generations.
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When Harowitz’s team saw that Warner had removed hundreds of shorts from HBO Max, Tubi picked up the phone and put in an offer, scooping up as many of the Looney Tunes shorts as Warner would release. “We are in active negotiations to ensure that Tubi can be the home of Looney Tunes for quite a while,” Harowitz says. “Likely years.”

All Warner Bros. has ever had to do to keep Looney Tunes relevant is just keep the classic catalogue in regular rotation. In the post-streaming era, that can be tricky, but they never really promoted it on HBO Max. The WB stewardship of Looney Tunes has been riddled with decisions like that, like how Looney Tunes: Back in Action bombed so they decided for a while that kids weren’t interested in Looney Tunes and put the classic shorts into hibernation.
 
Commander X said:
All Warner Bros. has ever had to do to keep Looney Tunes relevant is just keep the classic catalogue in regular rotation. In the post-streaming era, that can be tricky, but they never really promoted it on HBO Max. The WB stewardship of Looney Tunes has been riddled with decisions like that, like how Looney Tunes: Back in Action bombed so they decided for a while that kids weren’t interested in Looney Tunes and put the classic shorts into hibernation.
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So what they are saying is, kids hate the Looney Tunes and Warner needs to kill off its animation branch to fund projects that appeal more to Gen Z, like a new Suicide Squad.

[I'm a Warner/Discovery executive BTW]
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
So what they are saying is, kids hate the Looney Tunes and Warner needs to kill off its animation branch to fund projects that appeal more to Gen Z, like a new Suicide Squad.

[I'm a Warner/Discovery executive BTW]
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And we'll keep pushing girl boss Harley Quinn that don't need no joker some more, the kids are not tired of that version of her at all.
 
Whenever a Saturday morning cartoon introduces a new main character, is it always like Poochie in The Simpsons: too much focus on the new character and then ratings plummet?

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examples: Taffy the babysitter in Rugrats (who was voiced by some pop star), Poof in Fairly OddParents...
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Whenever a Saturday morning cartoon introduces a new main character, is it always like Poochie in The Simpsons: too much focus on the new character and then ratings plummet?
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What is your definition for this?

One could probably name a ton of action series that added characters later and had them become show defining, especially the capeshit ones. I doubt anyone here hated Batgirl showing up in season 3 or Robin in season 4 of The Batman. You also have Avatar which introduced Toph, Azula & friends, and reintroduced Suki in later.

You also have the 2010s series which were really good about bringing in new cast members. For all their faults, this was a strong point of Adventure Time and Steven Universe, they just kept pulling out fan favorites with Flame Princess, Betty, Fern, Peridot, Lapis (reintroduced).

Adult cartoon wise, American Dad did well. Jeff was a later addition they kept and now have Rogu who is also loved:

Old cartoon-wise, Johnny Bravo introduced Pops and Carl later, and they certainly have their fanbases.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Whenever a Saturday morning cartoon introduces a new main character, is it always like Poochie in The Simpsons: too much focus on the new character and then ratings plummet?

:thinking:

examples: Taffy the babysitter in Rugrats (who was voiced by some pop star), Poof in Fairly OddParents...
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terrahawks introduced a sort of Baby Baron Ashura who worked out pretty good
 
Commander X said:
An article over at Vulture on the success of vintage Looney Tunes on the TubiTV platform.
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Wow who could've seen this coming. It's not like it's a well established fact that kids still like old cartoons because old cartoons rock and their quality as entertainment stands the test of time or something.
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gaysexenjoyer said:
Wow who could've seen this coming. It's not like it's a well established fact that kids still like old cartoons because old cartoons rock and their quality as entertainment stands the test of time or something.
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it wasn't just the old cartoons that made Boomerang special, it was the atmosphere. This sort of retro-futuristic aesthetic that perfectly captured the sense of it "all coming back to you".

 
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