I do have a soft spot for "the gang" but I could see how the show would get super repetitive super quick. I've liked some of the later direct to VHS/DVD movies moreso than the original series. My younger sibling used to watch the HECK out of SD though, always getting the VHS/DVDs from Blockbuster, but I never had too much interest. I guess he was fine with the repetition, then again, little kids can sometimes handle that better than adults too.
I tried to get into Drawn Together on Comedy Central, but at its best, it was MEH. I absolutely ADORE the concept, but it just fell flat for me. I already have a bit of a sore spot for "adult oriented animated shows" and DT didn't help that perception.
Yeah same here, I vividly remember when Zombie Island first came out not long after I started watching the original show in reruns at my grandmothers house, that definitely grabbed me.
I liked Drawn Together well enough but it should've been better for sure.
I generally like adult animated shows but there are some I absolutely cannot stand such as 12 Oz Mouse, King Star King(how that thing won an Emmy I will never know) and The Life and Times of Tim(how HBO could go from a show as amazing as Spawn to this dreck is a true mystery). Also as I mentioned elsewhere Moral Orel is WAY too fucking dark and depressing for me. Also lost interest in South Park back in like the mid-2000s as i'd long stopped being entertained by the novelty of children saying bad words and never found the show's satire particularly clever or funny.
I never got much into Dan Vs myself.
Speaking of adult cartoons, I don't like most of them especially those on Adult Swim. Some of them seem to rely too much on shock humor and violence for their own sake like that King Star King, Mr. Pickles, and those of other networks like Brickleberry. Not that I think they are bad, but they are not my cup of tea. I did like Drawn Together for like the first season and a half, but then went downhill so fast.
I used to enjoy South Park and watched it semi-regularly until around 2016 when they began to focus more on story arcs and introduced PC Principal as a permanent character. The whole let's parody current cultural events got a bit tiresome to me.
A furry with eclectic tastes who loves the 80s and 90s. Mostly 1984-1992.
I remember watching a video on the production history of SDoZI that went into hecka detail, but the main thing I remember was that the commentator mentioned that according to studio heads at Hanna Barbera the SD had basically lost any luster it had by the late 80s, and the creators of SDoZI were basically told to do SOMETHING to revive the franchise. So lots of creative freedom, which is why the product feels more daring than other SD products. Definitely caught my attention!
TBH any show where someone tells you that you "just have" to be drunk/high/stoned to enjoy it" is usually a "I'm now not interested" in my opinion.
Yeah I would say that Drawn Together isn't necessarily a "terrible" show, I can still kinda enjoy it on some level, but dang it, it feels like a lot of missed potential. At least the voice talent IS there, and there are a few jokes that I do like, and I was morbidly curious to see where the characters ended.
King Star King looks repulsive, I'm sorry, there are some cases where I JUST can't enjoy a show that looks a certain way, no matter how much people praise it. As mentioned prior on this thread, that's why I can't get into Bob's Burgers-something about the art repulses me on some weird level to the point I can't even enjoy it (as least as of now).
Yeah i'm the same way with Bob's Burgers, the art style for me is kinda off-putting but i'm even more put off by Tina and Linda's godawful voices. Seriously whose bright idea was it for a middle-aged-not-remotely-feminine-sounding-man to voice a teenage girl? It's not remotely convincing so it's impossible for me to take Tina and Linda seriously as characters with those horrible voices. Like in animated shows female characters who don't sound remotely feminine only works as a gag in shows like Brickleberry, not when you actually expect the audience to take them seriously as characters IMO. If this show had come out in the last few years there's no way people would've let them off so lightly for having a man voice two prominent female characters.
Oh, dear!
I'm also on the same boat for those who don't care about Bob's Burgers. The are just so many dysfunctional family animated cartoons these days. I don't like the animation and how none of the characters have chins. I also find the masculine voices of those female characters off-putting.
A furry with eclectic tastes who loves the 80s and 90s. Mostly 1984-1992.
Etienne_LeLoupChien, yeah, same boat with a fair amount of "adult animated shows." Finally catching up on that animation I was banned from watching when I was younger BUT...how much of it is worth the time???
SO much lame comedy, cheap humor, shock jokes. Gore, profanity, bewbies, etc. don't "excite" me as someone in their 30s, compared to if I was still 12. And more dysfunctional families? YAWN.
Sausage Party is a prime example. YES I'm glad that it was a R rated ANIMATED comedy that got a wide release, that is very admirable. But the movie itself? Beyond some interesting themes about religion, there just isn't much there for me to like.
Yeah i'm the same way with Bob's Burgers, the art style for me is kinda off-putting but i'm even more put off by Tina and Linda's godawful voices. Seriously whose bright idea was it for a middle-aged-not-remotely-feminine-sounding-man to voice a teenage girl? It's not remotely convincing so it's impossible for me to take Tina and Linda seriously as characters with those horrible voices. Like in animated shows female characters who don't sound remotely feminine only works as a gag in shows like Brickleberry, not when you actually expect the audience to take them seriously as characters IMO. If this show had come out in the last few years there's no way people would've let them off so lightly for having a man voice two prominent female characters.
Oh, dear!
I'm also on the same boat for those who don't care about Bob's Burgers. The are just so many dysfunctional family animated cartoons these days. I don't like the animation and how none of the characters have chins. I also find the masculine voices of those female characters off-putting.
Glad i'm not the only one who has issues with those voices, every single time I voice my opinion on them on places like reddit I get shouted down by BB fanboys reminding me of all the times women voiced young boys on shows like The Simpsons and Fairly Oddparents(which i'm well aware of, the difference is female VAs are way more convincing as boys then male VAs are as girls, hell I honestly had no clue Timmy and Bart were voiced by girls until years later, whereas the only time I could say that about a boy voicing a girl was D.W. on Arthur who I was surprised to find out was voiced entirely by young boys)the fanbase for that show is kinda weird and cult like IMO. I'm still pissed that far better Napoleon Dynamite animated series got cancelled in favor of BB despite getting better ratings at the time.
Etienne_LeLoupChien, yeah, same boat with a fair amount of "adult animated shows." Finally catching up on that animation I was banned from watching when I was younger BUT...how much of it is worth the time???
SO much lame comedy, cheap humor, shock jokes. Gore, profanity, bewbies, etc. don't "excite" me as someone in their 30s, compared to if I was still 12. And more dysfunctional families? YAWN.
Sausage Party is a prime example. YES I'm glad that it was a R rated ANIMATED comedy that got a wide release, that is very admirable. But the movie itself? Beyond some interesting themes about religion, there just isn't much there for me to like.
I enjoyed Sausage Party well enough and am excited for the sequel but I don't think it was mindblowing or anything, I wish we'd get more adult-animated films that take more chances like the Heavy Metal films or Ralph Bakshi's filmography.
Yeah same here, I vividly remember when Zombie Island first came out not long after I started watching the original show in reruns at my grandmothers house, that definitely grabbed me.
I liked Drawn Together well enough but it should've been better for sure.
I generally like adult animated shows but there are some I absolutely cannot stand such as 12 Oz Mouse, King Star King(how that thing won an Emmy I will never know) and The Life and Times of Tim(how HBO could go from a show as amazing as Spawn to this dreck is a true mystery). Also as I mentioned elsewhere Moral Orel is WAY too fucking dark and depressing for me. Also lost interest in South Park back in like the mid-2000s as i'd long stopped being entertained by the novelty of children saying bad words and never found the show's satire particularly clever or funny.
I never got much into Dan Vs myself.
Speaking of adult cartoons, I don't like most of them especially those on Adult Swim. Some of them seem to rely too much on shock humor and violence for their own sake like that King Star King, Mr. Pickles, and those of other networks like Brickleberry. Not that I think they are bad, but they are not my cup of tea. I did like Drawn Together for like the first season and a half, but then went downhill so fast.
I used to enjoy South Park and watched it semi-regularly until around 2016 when they began to focus more on story arcs and introduced PC Principal as a permanent character. The whole let's parody current cultural events got a bit tiresome to me.
Brickleberry I think is pretty damn funny and I did enjoy the other cartoons by it's creators(Paradise PD and Farzar, still bummed that both got cancelled)and I did kinda like Mr Pickles and it's spin-off Momma Named Me Sheriff but I don't think the shorter 11 minute runtime does either show any real favors and the cheap animation is kinda off-putting at times and some characters do annoy the hell out of me so I get why people dislike the shows but i've seen worse personally.
I like some later episodes of DT like the two-part Lost in Parking Space but it did become more hit and miss admittedly and I felt like the ending of the movie wasn't very good, just felt kinda half-assed to me.
Etienne_LeLoupChien, yeah, same boat with a fair amount of "adult animated shows." Finally catching up on that animation I was banned from watching when I was younger BUT...how much of it is worth the time???
SO much lame comedy, cheap humor, shock jokes. Gore, profanity, bewbies, etc. don't "excite" me as someone in their 30s, compared to if I was still 12. And more dysfunctional families? YAWN.
Sausage Party is a prime example. YES I'm glad that it was a R rated ANIMATED comedy that got a wide release, that is very admirable. But the movie itself? Beyond some interesting themes about religion, there just isn't much there for me to like.
I enjoyed Sausage Party well enough and am excited for the sequel but I don't think it was mindblowing or anything, I wish we'd get more adult-animated films that take more chances like the Heavy Metal films or Ralph Bakshi's filmography.
Amen to that. Not saying EVERY "mature animated film" needs to be high art or anything, but some variety would be nice. What about actual dramas, mysteries, science fiction, historical fantasy, etc. Bakshi had "shock humor" or "crude moments" in his stuff for sure, but it was often balanced with actual social commentary, decent character writing, and wasn't trying to "disturb" you every 5 minutes. (for the record, Heavy Traffic is my current fave) Rumor has it Laika is working on some "mature animated mystery with the backdrop of American Southern culture/folklore," so crossing my fingers that that lives up to its potential.
Since we've been talking about MeTv Toons in other chats, I decided to give "Rocky & Bullwinkle" another try after giving it a try many years ago.
I've tried giving it my attention and watch several episodes, but I don't like the animation and the humor in it still doesn't appeal to me.
I did not really care much for that show. The only part that I really love about it is Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
Reminds me a bit of when I went to a convention that promised "Saturday morning cartoons" for one of their early morning panels and they just played like 5-7 episodes of Darkwing Duck. I mean, I like Darkwing Duck but a little variety, please? I think I left by the 3rd or 4th episode.
Another panel on June Foray (voice for Rocky the squirrel) was entirely reliant on technology, and when the tech failed, the panelist just stared at us awkwardly, asked US to share our "June Foray memories" and then played like half a random episode of Tiny Toons when the tech kinda sorta worked again. Yeah.
Also on a similar note, while I DO feel warm nostalgia for the OG Flintstones and it WAS super influential and admirable for its status in both animation and television history...was it ever that good??? I remember trying to catch some episodes during the Pandemic, and it may have just been "seasonal rot," but it didn't particularly keep my interest.
I did not really care much for that show. The only part that I really love about it is Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
Reminds me a bit of when I went to a convention that promised "Saturday morning cartoons" for one of their early morning panels and they just played like 5-7 episodes of Darkwing Duck. I mean, I like Darkwing Duck but a little variety, please? I think I left by the 3rd or 4th episode.
Another panel on June Foray (voice for Rocky the squirrel) was entirely reliant on technology, and when the tech failed, the panelist just stared at us awkwardly, asked US to share our "June Foray memories" and then played like half a random episode of Tiny Toons when the tech kinda sorta worked again. Yeah.
That reminds me of two different panels that were also Saturday Morning cartoon-related at two different furry cons. Both were disappointments.
The first one I thought it would be held in a panel room playing cartoons with a panelist going providing commentary over the cartoons. I went there and it was basically someone just playing the theme songs to many cartoons and expected people to just "dance" to them. I didn't stay for too long.
The other one at another furry con was more like what I was expecting, though it was kind of boring. Some of the cartoons they were playing did not interest me. I left for a while and then came back later when they were playing cartoons that were more interesting to me.
A furry with eclectic tastes who loves the 80s and 90s. Mostly 1984-1992.
Also on a similar note, while I DO feel warm nostalgia for the OG Flintstones and it WAS super influential and admirable for its status in both animation and television history...was it ever that good??? I remember trying to catch some episodes during the Pandemic, and it may have just been "seasonal rot," but it didn't particularly keep my interest.
Maybe you got so burned out by it while you were young that you kinda moved on and never wanted to go back.
I feel this way about The Simpsons and Family Guy. I watched both so much as a kid that I got burned out by them quickly, and haven't really wanted to go back, despite some very nostalgic feelings for both.
Speaking of adult cartoons, I don't like most of them especially those on Adult Swim. Some of them seem to rely too much on shock humor and violence for their own sake like that King Star King, Mr. Pickles, and those of other networks like Brickleberry. Not that I think they are bad, but they are not my cup of tea. I did like Drawn Together for like the first season and a half, but then went downhill so fast.
I used to enjoy South Park and watched it semi-regularly until around 2016 when they began to focus more on story arcs and introduced PC Principal as a permanent character. The whole let's parody current cultural events got a bit tiresome to me.
Same with South Park, I used to really like it and I do enjoy rewatching older episodes. But most of the current stuff isn't that good IMO.
When they started doing continues plots for each season, I sort of found that annoying and just stopped watching. I didn't really like the COVID special. I thought the Ozempic one was OK.
I remember in the 6 Days to Air, they mentioned that episodes take about a week to make so they can stay topical. Not sure if they still use that process. But I can see how that quick of turn around could be a double edge sword.
