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When it wasn't cigarettes, beer, vitamins or cereal, The Flintstones also dabbled in an educational TV special on energy conservation, narrated by Charlton Heston!
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When it wasn't cigarettes, beer, vitamins or cereal, The Flintstones also dabbled in an educational TV special on energy conservation, narrated by Charlton Heston!
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It’s always fascinated me that Flintstones was the simpsons/family guy of its time given how tame it is
When it wasn't cigarettes, beer, vitamins or cereal, The Flintstones also dabbled in an educational TV special on energy conservation, narrated by Charlton Heston!
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Guardians of the Lost Code is one of the most average Poke/Digimon clones I've ever seen. The time travel concept had potential, but the characters and plot were incredibly bland. I don't know why, but this one has slipped through the radar of most YouTube animation reviewers, strangely enough.
Also, I've seen the first two How To Train Your Dragon movies and they're nothing more than serviceable distractions. In contrast, I think the Madagascar series is relatively solid, and very underrated.
And finally, I wonder when the new Gormiti reboot (that was due for 2018, according to this page) will come out. I haven't seen the show myself, so the only reason why I know about it is because I rented an extremely mediocre DS game based on it.
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It was just how standards were then. U remember long before The Simpsons when The Flintstones had some kind of familiarity for multiple generations thanks to having been the first in the prime-time field and continued success in other avenues like the silly campground parks that sprang up in the US and Canada.
Big news that just happen is The Flintstones coming to MeTV. First time in a long while they've been on a channel outside one owned by Turner/Warner's in a long time....
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Finally! A retro TV show channel finally acknowledges the Flintstones for what it is.
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I remember seeing ads for Gormiti when I was younger but other than that the series seemed like a ghost
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A couple of big names in the animation industry (both also CalArts grads) started a podcast together....
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Whoa. I think my older siblings were taken to that SD park when they were kids because I've seen a lot of family photos that feature that stuff. I probably would have wanted to go to such a place as a kid, but seeing weirdly proportioned statues of my favorite characters just standing frozen probably would have creeped me out.
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I know. I think as kids we never quite notice that size differences or how these things were done as we were only interested in that surface element of getting to see our favorite characters face-to-face. As an adult, it's very cheesy and a waste of time, but you do it for your family anyway, it's always something to have memories to live with.
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Apparently, some Spanish company is trying to sell a kids' show about sex education, with THIS as the promotional image:
Yeah, good luck with that.
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Spanish like Spain, or Mexico? Because I believe either country would do something like that.Apparently, some Spanish company is trying to sell a kids' show about sex education, with THIS as the promotional image:
Yeah, good luck with that.
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One thing about the later parts of the summertime is that there's not a lot going on this time of year.
There's no real "season" if you will. It's a sort of lull between Fourth of July and the Halloween season in Autumn, with the only things in between being Labor Day and the back-to-school season for kids.
I've been thinking about this lately and I've noticed something.
We don't have holiday specials anymore aside from Christmas specials and most of the ones that air nowadays are old reruns like the old Grinch cartoon or the Rankin-Bass stop motion stuff from the 70's.
Occasionally, you'll see a Christmas themed episode or special that's new, but not as often as before. Part of it could be due to the rise of cable TV and the demise of cartoons on network TV.
But even in the 1990's and 2000's, you saw a lot more holiday programming and a lot more effort put into them than you do in 2010's.
I also miss the days when cartoons had holiday-themed specials for holidays other than Christmas.
Nowadays, the only ones who still do such a thing is The Simpsons with their Treehouse of Horror special that they have every season.
Even then, Treehouse of Horror exists in this weird grandfather clause scenario where The Simpsons keep making Halloween specials because that's what they've always done. Only the very first season didn't have a Treehouse of Horror special.
Freeform still does their 25 Days of Christmas and I think they still do the 13 Days of Halloween, but those are holdovers from back in the Fox Family era of the late 90's and very early 2000's.
Nowadays, Freeform just uses those events for movie marathons and it's mostly live-action stuff anyway.
The only animated Halloween specials I can think of in the 2010's that weren't Treehouse of Horror episodes would be Toy Story of Terror and IIRC, Cartoon Network did Over The Garden Wall as a Halloween miniseries event when it first premiered.
So, let's talk about holiday-themed episodes and specials we like.
For me, I've always been a fan of the classic Treehouse of Horror episodes and King of the Hill usually had at least one holiday-themed episode a season, usually related to Christmas or Thanksgiving, but they also did two for Halloween as well. The first one (Hilloween) is one of my favorite episodes of all time.
There's no real "season" if you will. It's a sort of lull between Fourth of July and the Halloween season in Autumn, with the only things in between being Labor Day and the back-to-school season for kids.
I've been thinking about this lately and I've noticed something.
We don't have holiday specials anymore aside from Christmas specials and most of the ones that air nowadays are old reruns like the old Grinch cartoon or the Rankin-Bass stop motion stuff from the 70's.
Occasionally, you'll see a Christmas themed episode or special that's new, but not as often as before. Part of it could be due to the rise of cable TV and the demise of cartoons on network TV.
But even in the 1990's and 2000's, you saw a lot more holiday programming and a lot more effort put into them than you do in 2010's.
I also miss the days when cartoons had holiday-themed specials for holidays other than Christmas.
Nowadays, the only ones who still do such a thing is The Simpsons with their Treehouse of Horror special that they have every season.
Even then, Treehouse of Horror exists in this weird grandfather clause scenario where The Simpsons keep making Halloween specials because that's what they've always done. Only the very first season didn't have a Treehouse of Horror special.
Freeform still does their 25 Days of Christmas and I think they still do the 13 Days of Halloween, but those are holdovers from back in the Fox Family era of the late 90's and very early 2000's.
Nowadays, Freeform just uses those events for movie marathons and it's mostly live-action stuff anyway.
The only animated Halloween specials I can think of in the 2010's that weren't Treehouse of Horror episodes would be Toy Story of Terror and IIRC, Cartoon Network did Over The Garden Wall as a Halloween miniseries event when it first premiered.
So, let's talk about holiday-themed episodes and specials we like.
For me, I've always been a fan of the classic Treehouse of Horror episodes and King of the Hill usually had at least one holiday-themed episode a season, usually related to Christmas or Thanksgiving, but they also did two for Halloween as well. The first one (Hilloween) is one of my favorite episodes of all time.
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Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble did have a couple of Halloween themed episodes during their run.
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Speaking of holiday specials, I just just having a special outside the holidays, CBS used to score big with Peanuts specials outside the holidays too. Someone uploaded this classic from 1973 with original ads for example! (better get to it fast as it may change next month)
https://museum.tv/PP_ONLINE/TV_01599-2.mp4
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He'd been working on a new film for the past few years. I don't know how far along he was, but it definitely hadn't been finished - and now it never will be. Sad, ain't it?
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I felt like Infinity Train was pretty good but had a bit of missed potential. I felt like there needed to be a lot more real puzzle solving and maybe even some bit of coding. There felt like a lack of mystery despite it being a mystery show. Over the Garden Wall pulled off its mystery better as a miniseries, I think.
I watched the Invader Zim movie right after and had a great time (as someone who’s only seen a few episodes of the original). The colors were really nice and the animation was solid save for a few strange Flash-puppet-like shots here and there.
I watched the Invader Zim movie right after and had a great time (as someone who’s only seen a few episodes of the original). The colors were really nice and the animation was solid save for a few strange Flash-puppet-like shots here and there.
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1) To be fair, Over the Garden Wall was always a tough as fuck act to follow. Infinity Train wasn't bad at all, per se - it just felt rushed, unfortunately.
Wholeheartedly enough, I do truly understand the main point of IT was for our protagonist, Tulip, to get over and learn to accept her otherwise difficult situation outside the train, however - I just wished the show slowed down a little to have more fun/conflict on the train to really sell the setting that little bit better is all.
Still, both THIS and Over the Garden Wall especially are far superior times infinity to whatever the fuck Long Live the Royals was (Seriously, fuck that cheap-ass sitcom crap!).
2) Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus > Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling.
And this is coming from someone who isn't that big on Invader Zim and proudly believes that Rocko's Modern Life > Invader Zim, honestly. Invader Zim's special was just more fun and not on the nose about what it's about, unlike Rocko and it's obvious moral about learning to accept change and not being resistant to it so damn much (yeah, yeah, I get it.).
Regardless, if this ever lead to series revivals for BOTH shows, I wouldn't be completely against either show coming back, provided they can get a majority of the crew that worked on these specials back to make any of that possible, of course.
Although I hope deeply that Rocko can aim to be funnier than I felt they were with Static Cling - I wasn't laughing nearly as fucking much as I should have (and that was from the first trailer for it alone, besides eventually watching the film itself.), compared to Enter The Florpus (meaning an IZ revival would not be remotely hard to pull off with the crew they used for that (so much that I can see myself almost becoming a legit fan of said show as a result.), honestly - whereas Rocko... I'm quite worried about Rocko and my ability to stay a fan of that after how its special didn't wow me, sadly.).
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