While I was traveling for a conference last week, during some evening downtime I decided to channel surf on the hotel TV, cuz I don’t have cable at home. Cable is… not in a good place right now. Enough said about that.
The Disney Channel was showing Phineas and Ferb. I’d never seen that cartoon but knew it was a Gen Z touchstone, so I watched an episode. Pee-ew, what a stinker! It started with a very bland Star Trek parody, followed by an interminable story about a vaguely Slavic festival where some Girl Scouts needed to make pastries with some gross made up berry.
I deeply hate the look of this show. Look at this kid:
I’m starting to get a little nervous that there might be at least one person on this forum that LOVES this show so I’ll leave off. If you do love this show, I really would like to hear the case for it.
A month or so back I was randomly browsing through cable channels I never even look at and it turns out that the very last one listed Discovery Family (channel like seventeen hundred something) happens to show Steven Universe for an hour right when I am often doing stuff around the house, so I’ve had that in the background a decent amount over that stretch of time. Still pretty good, earlier episodes aren’t really that interesting, but what sticks out is that they only air the first three seasons which gives it a very different feeling ending, basically going “Steven nearly died alone after being lost in space, finds out his mom was a murderer, the end”. Probably the most nihilistic point one could end it at.
Show’s got jokes. I have only recently seen any full episodes because they’ve been doing a few revival seasons lately and the Disney channel has been ambiently on in my living room after my kid finished watching one of her shows. I think it’s pretty decent. There’s definitely better shows amongst its current contemporaries (and those from its original run) but I think it has earned its cultural touchstone status.
I’m definitely one person that does love this show or at least the batch that was cycling while I was watching cable tv. About the time I stopped was when they had a supposed final season and a movie and that was around the time I stopped having regular access to live tv. It’s a more writerly driven show built on quick gags and sharp wit. It’s also a show that builds up alot of running jokes to an absurd degree that I can imagine catching late batch eps might not hit unless you have some of them installed.
At some point the show runners made a Scooby Doo cartoon that had argueably worse visual designs but had some decent gags. They had an interview where working for WB was kinda aweful and wouldn’t accomadate their script development style and other stuff. I think after that Phineas and Ferb had to become another forever show because it was the only thing with consistent ratings but I have no comment on those eps. I def saw a lot of ads for crossover stuff with marvel and star wars beause disney.
I am not wholly opposed to using CG for Looney Tunes characters and stuff. And most of the animation looks good, great even, but there are moments that are somehow, like, uncanny valley even? Moments that make me genuinely feel weird in their apparent 3Dness and how it contrasts with the 2D pencil-animated style it’s imitating.
Which, like, “uncanny valley” is kinda weird to say about cartoon coyotes and shit
a kagurabachi adaptation had to come out sooner or later, it’s only natural
the manga is hilariously derivative most of the time but i can’t praise enough just how dynamic the action scenes are, the strong sense of style in the panelling. you really get the feeling that the author is someone who has spent thousands of hours watching and studying, like, storyboards for 1970s shaw brothers’ films.
the fact that the man who’s directing the anime adaption is also the mastermind behind the legandary rock lee vs gaara fight in the naruto anime makes me believe they know what the job is about
I’ve been reading it weekly and enjoying it largely on that merit but I do dig some of the plotting when its allowed to have some time to have characters set up stuff. The new arc is taking some time to set up for bigger things but I kinda wish it could go back to street level stuff just because its fun seeing how much magic stuff is accepted among the bystanders. It also makes for more interesting locations for fights and chases to happen in.
Has this been posted already? I looked it up posting the whole url in the search bar, and then searching for the video ID in the search bar. If it has already been linked, let me know, and I will edit this current post to reflect a different pilot. I know this is furbait, which as a furry, I was drawn to by the thumbnail, yet I love how much this relatable humour gets me in ways that other “relatable humour” comics and cartoons does not. The Mezzanine poster speaks to me in a spiritual level.
It was recorded nearly 2 years ago. Glad you liked it! I spent quite a bit of time editing takes on the transformation scene after the fact to get it to where it is. I really like how his line about “aliens from another planet” turned out it makes me chuckle every time.
Yeah! To your and his credit, his lines are fun and funny and genuine, and I could immediately tell it was Bruce. He just add this energy that nobody else quite carries.
I can’t believe I’m going to see the final episode of Digital Circus, a youtube show from the other side of the world that I didn’t even really know of until like episode 4, from a company born from Garry’s mod videos, 20 minutes from my home kinda in the middle of nowhere in the old continent. And the premiere here is almost sold out!
Apparently the Skibidi guy got tricked into signing away his rights or something by people who were then completely inept at capitalizing on it, from what I heard
There’s a big thing with that guy signing away the rights and michael bay got involved et al which is why he soft rebooted it but still, very 2024 moment.
Since they’re doing the Alliance Raid crossover in FFXIV, I decided to finally catch up on the parts of Evangelion that I hadn’t seen. @familyjules and I watched the original run over the weekend, followed by End of Eva last night. I knew of it by reputation, but actually seeing it is something else. I remember the Castle Super Beast podcast spending a lot of time talking about the Rebuild movies—are they worthwhile? It seems difficult to estimate what could end up being relevant. The NieR crossover was almost entirely concerned with Automata and didn’t need any original NieR info, though it also largely stood on its own.
