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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 13:03:38 2019 No.105628806 View Reply Original Report

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>That episode of Pinky & The Brain where it was just a parody of Frank Sinatra's life but with Brain

Is this the most boomer episode of a cartoon in history? I can't think of a part of the episode where I thought kids might enjoy it

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 13:07:44 No.105628844 Report

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>>105628806
frankie?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 14:25:40 No.105629653 Report

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>>105628806
Or the one where they quote Orson Welles' famous meltdown almost completely word-for-word.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 14:45:31 No.105629922 Report

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>>105629653
"The Third Mouse" was one of my favorite episodes as a kid, long before I knew what it was referencing.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:14:27 No.105630223 Report

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>and Larry

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:19:57 No.105630270 Report

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>>105629653
I like that they made that episode to cheer Maurice LaMarche up after he lost a friend, but it's too much of a pure in-joke for actual viewers to enjoy.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:26:28 No.105630346 Report

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>>105628806
>I can't think of a part of the episode where I thought kids might enjoy it

Nah, the most "in-jokey" episode would be Yes, Always. The whole gag is that Brain is reading Orson Welles' outtakes from a frozen peas commercial word-for-word (minus the expletives). But that's it. THAT'S THE WHOLE JOKE. It's funny if you were a Hollywood person aware of those outtakes in the early 90s, but no kid would get it and the episode was really boring and unfunny. Most people didn't even know about the Welles frozen peas outtakes until you tube in 2006.

It was self-indulgence at the expense of comedy, which unfortunately was a constant plague in those Tom Rueger/Spielberg/Amblin shows (remember all those PLEASE GIVE US AN EMMY episodes of Animaniacs that tried to be dramatic?).

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:28:53 No.105630374 Report

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>>105628806
That episode at least had good writing. There was a Ren &Stimpy with a similar premise ('Ole Blue Nose) that is just unbearable.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:31:08 No.105630401 Report

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>>105630223
Nah. The episode doesn't rely on you knowing jack about the Stooges but rather on putting forward how unnecessary a third character is to the core dynamic.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:33:24 No.105630429 Report

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>>105628806
who is frank sinatra?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:33:26 No.105630431 Report

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>Frank Sinatra
>boomer
Get your generations straight, zoomer.
>>105630346
That episode was hilarious to kid me because it was so random.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:34:06 No.105630447 Report

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>>105628806
>Is this the most boomer episode of a cartoon in history?

The Boomer oriented stuff from those early 90s WB cartoons could sometimes be funny if the jokes were in a context that kids would get and not just "DEAD CELEBRITY IMPRESSION" and nothing more.

Like in Taz-Mania, how Taz's dad was Bing Crosby and his uncle was Bob Hope. I didn't know they were supposed to be those dead celebrities because they had goofy personalities and running gags that made them feel like characters and not just references. Parents watching would get additional layers to the gag (like Taz's dad's obsession with orange juice having to do with Crosby having a brand of OJ in the 50s), but the characters were still funny on their own even if kids were clueless they were caricatures.

The Sinatra episode of Pinky & the Brain was a bad example of that because it relies 100% on the audience knowing Sinatra's life story in order to find any humor in it. Likewise, the Orson Welles pea commercial episode hinged entirely on knowing about the outtakes. And none of that is something the target audience of 7 year-olds would have any awareness of.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:34:06 No.105630448 Report

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>>105630374
Fuck you. Snot-encrusted Hankie and Come Fry With Me were brilliant.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 15:39:19 No.105630511 Report

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>>105630447
Orson Welles getting persnickety about the ad copy was funny in and of itself, you don't need to know it's a reference to find it funny.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 16:08:19 No.105630992 Report

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>>105630511
The only funny bit I recall from watching it in my youth was when Brain threatened to walk but changed his mind when he saw all the mice ready to replace him.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 16:17:20 No.105631142 Report

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>>105630346
>It was self-indulgence at the expense of comedy, which unfortunately was a constant plague in those Tom Rueger/Spielberg/Amblin shows (remember all those PLEASE GIVE US AN EMMY episodes of Animaniacs that tried to be dramatic?).

People seriously need to remember how awful that shit was, and Animaniacs especially. That show was relentless with its Emmy bait. And they always tried to do it with drama. In a fucking COMEDY. Why would you try to win an Emmy with a drama episode in a comedy series? How about you win your Emmy for being funny in your comedy series?

But yeah, shit like Thomas Jefferson's candle talking while he writes the Constitution, or Slappy getting Alzheimer's, or that World War II episode of Rita & Runt. Ruegger was fucking desperate and it sucked.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 16:25:10 No.105631284 Report

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>>105631142
All the Rita and Runt episodes were essentially Emmy bait and an excuse to plug Bernadette Peters.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 16:42:17 No.105631598 Report

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>>105631142
>>105631284
>liked Rita and Runt
>Episodes with Rita and Runt went overbudget for trying to achieve a very high standard of quality of music and animaton
>they drop the segments and years later people treat it as "emmy bait" for even considering to care about something.
Zoomers must repent.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 16:45:28 No.105631646 Report

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>>105631598
Oh, please. I watched when it was new and I hated them back then as well. It was just too annoyingly sappy for a kid who only wanted to see anvils land on heads.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 16:52:05 No.105631779 Report

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>>105630447
>Taz's dad was Bing Crosby and his uncle was Bob Hope

OMG, I watched Tazmania and I only just got this after you explained it to me! In my defense other then a guy who could make Chickens lay eggs I had no idea who Bing Crosby was.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 17:18:00 No.105632352 Report

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>>105630346
>>105631142
>all those PLEASE GIVE US AN EMMY episodes of Animaniacs that tried to be dramatic
>That show was relentless with its Emmy bait
Less than a dozen examples in a 99-episode show doesn't warrant this kind of vitriol.

>And they always tried to do it with drama. In a fucking COMEDY.
It was a variety show, you dunce. Go back and watch the Muppet Show and count how many times they had an artistic segment devoted to song and/or dance with little to no comedy involved.

>>105630447
>none of that is something the target audience of 7 year-olds would have any awareness of
The WB shows appealing to demographics outside their supposed "target audience" was a large part of why they were canned.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 17:55:46 No.105633095 Report

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>>105630447
do you think this is pain? Try to be from post-Iron curtain country.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 18:44:20 No.105633917 Report

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>>105630447
Bob Hope only died in like, 2003. How the hell do you not know who he is?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 18:49:15 No.105633996 Report

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>>105632352
>The WB shows appealing to demographics outside their supposed "target audience" was a large part of why they were canned.
With good reason.
Cartoons must only work in the designated preconceived genre and be viewed exclusively by the target demographic, everything else is wrong.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 19:20:38 No.105634542 Report

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>>105629653
I came into this thread to post this.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 19:24:55 No.105634606 Report

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>>105630447
most cartoon characters from the golden age are based on celebrities from that time too, you just don't know about them

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 19:29:23 No.105634689 Report

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>>105629653
I didn't get the reference as a child, but I still found Brain's utter frustration and the absurd premise hillarious

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 19:31:02 No.105634724 Report

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>>105628806
I guaruntee none of the kids who say alladin when it came out knew who fucking jack nicholson was or literally any of the other sattire that came from the genie. kids will watch anything but you gotta put something in the show so the parents wont be bored to tears watching it with their kids.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 19:32:40 No.105634749 Report

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>>105628806

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 20:18:17 No.105635501 Report

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There was a Beatles parody episode.
The simpsons Beatles parody episode and three out of four Beatles voices were on it. Now tho Marge might not even know who the Beatles were.
And the ppg Beatles parody...
Then the ppg actually got one of the Beatles on an episode. For the odd looking one episode special.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 20:20:03 No.105635536 Report

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>>105635501
All of them using the Yoko on = bad joke I might add....

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 20:58:10 No.105636318 Report

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>>105634749
Haha yeah I bet those faggots haven't even tried to molest underage girls

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:02:55 No.105636420 Report

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>>105631598
>trying to achieve a very high standard of quality of music and animaton
Are you kidding? Rita & Runt always got shoved off to the bottom-tier studios like Freelance.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:21:05 No.105636810 Report

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>>105636420
Most of the budget for Rita and Runt went to paying Peters' fees.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:22:38 No.105636841 Report

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>>105636810
Isn't that why Rita stopped singing after the first season? So the WB would only have to pay her voice acting fee and not her considerably larger singing fee?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:24:54 No.105636882 Report

Quoted By: >>105636912

>>105636420
Mostly, yes. Breakdown is as follows:
Freelance - 4
Akom - 3
TMS - 3
Wang - 1
Probably not coincidentally, the TMS episodes (Home on De-Nile, Phranken-Runt, Les Miseranimals) were their best ones.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:26:16 No.105636912 Report

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>>105636882
>Les Miseranimals
>one of their best

That was one of the Emmy Bait pieces of shit. The other two were at least pure comedy.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:26:33 No.105636919 Report

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>>105636841
To my knowledge, almost all her appearances had her singing, and the shorts were dropped completely specifically because Peters was too expensive, period.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:27:47 No.105636948 Report

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>>105636841
Rita and Runt didn't appear at all after the first season, which admittedly is the bulk of the series, except in nonspeaking cameos. Her salary was deemed too expensive, coupled with the difficulty of coming up with new songs for every episode she was in.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:29:25 No.105636979 Report

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>>105630223
If you're a early millennial or an X-er there's no excuse for you not to know about the three stooges.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:31:12 No.105637026 Report

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:32:48 No.105637061 Report

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>>105636979
Yeah, they played Stooges and Our Gang shorts in the early mornings regularly through the 80s and early 90s. It was impossible to miss them. Then there were Cartoon Network reruns of New Scooby Movies (which had the Stooges) and Robonic Stooges shorts. Every kid knew who the Stooges were, and were savvy enough to know that if Shemp was in the short, you changed the channel.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:32:54 No.105637063 Report

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>>105628806

98 percent of cartoons during the 90’s were jokes only baby boomers would understand. The Simpsons is a huge example of this.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:35:46 No.105637119 Report

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>>105637061
Shemp had his moments. It was Joe Besser that you avoided like the plague.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 21:40:31 No.105637225 Report

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Mr. Director, the recurring Jerry Lewis parody character, was introduced in an episode that was a full-on satire of Apocalypse Now, right down to the title, the deranged Dennis Hopper character, and the Jim Morrison-esque singing (complete with an appearance by Morrison himself).

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:01:55 No.105637621 Report

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>>105636979
3 stooges are not known outside of america

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:03:35 No.105637649 Report

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>Hey kids! wanna hear about politics? t. boomer writer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvi3ew2i34M

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:15:48 No.105637839 Report

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>>105630223
>Tfw this episode foreshadowed the future
Elmira was a mistake.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:20:51 No.105637908 Report

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>>105637225
This thread has me appreciating the adult fans taking to the internet 1.0 to talk about the show. All the stuff that flew right over my head was at least appreciated by someone.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:27:59 No.105638024 Report

Quoted By: >>105660109

https://youtu.be/DZsMMoYryTI

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:37:02 No.105638181 Report

Quoted By: >>105638406 >>105669366

>>105630346
>no kid would get it and the episode was really boring and unfunny.
I found it funny as a kid even though I didn't get the reference. His getting agitated more and more over absolutely nothing was in-character, and I liked it better than the Jeopardy episode.

>>105630447
If you were actually alive back then you would have seen references to popular actors and movies dating back to the 1950's in all sorts of media, not just cartoons. Odds are you pieced together what Rocky was about without ever watching it.

>>105634724
This. Literally bitching about references to old stuff. Might as well bitch about all the references to Shakespear since "kids aren't into old plays and opera shit!"

>>105637061
>Shemp = bad
Fuck you, Who Done It was fucking golden.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:42:38 No.105638295 Report

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>>105630431
Ol' Blue Eyes is hard to gauge since he's been consistently popular with people Of A Certain Age from his comeback in the late '50s until his death.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:44:23 No.105638342 Report

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>>105637225
That episode was fucking hilarious. I watched it on TV and even as a young kid I vaguely got the reference. I hadn't seen Apocalypse Now, but at the time I'd probably seen it parodied a few times to get the general gist of what was being made fun of. (So much shit parodied the napalm in the morning line it was really hard to miss)

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:47:55 No.105638406 Report

Quoted By: >>105638533 >>105638723

>>105638342
>>105638181
I mean, as a kid, I got the Goodfeathers joke. I hadn't seen Goodfellas, but I knew enough about it through pop culture osmosis to understand what they were referencing.

That didn't make it FUNNY though. Especially when EVERY episode of Goodfeathers was the exact same thing. "Hahahaha Pesto is doing the Joe Pesci bit again. And again. And again and again and again and again." There's a threshold for how many times the exact same shit can be funny.

I mean, I know autistic people have a tolerance for repetition and enjoy it, as a matter of fact, but the repetitive zero effort humor of Animaniacs had to be much even for some buried neckdeep in the spectrum.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:49:34 No.105638435 Report

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References and impressions are the lowest form of comedy, the 90s WB cartoons sucked, and Spielberg is a pedophile at the top of the Hollywood child tracficking rings.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:52:16 No.105638491 Report

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>>105634724
>guaruntee none of the kids who say alladin when it came out knew who fucking jack nicholson was
Nope. I'm afraid you are mistaken. I was seven years old and I knew what Batman and The Shining were, and who Jack Nicholson was. Shit that wasn't even the first Jack Nicholson impression I was exposed to. That'd be the Air Conditioner in Brave Little Toaster. And I didn't need to know who Jack Nicholson was to find a funny voice and weird mannerisms funny. Any kid is going to find such a weird and overly animated personality at LEAST amusing.

Nearly everyone in this thread is severely underestimating how much enjoyment a child can get out of weird nonsensical humor whether they're getting the reference or not.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:52:20 No.105638494 Report

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>>105630448
Brilliant? Really now?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:52:35 No.105638502 Report

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>>105630447
Bob Hope was still alive in the time Taz-Mania was running, you zoomer. He didn't retire until 1997.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:54:04 No.105638533 Report

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>>105638406
It will never cease to amaze me how bitter and angry someone can get that someone dared enjoy something they didn't.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:56:44 No.105638591 Report

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>>105634724
Nicholson was in Batman, which was like three years before Aladdin, which was out the same year as Batman Returns. If Nicholson was only known for The Shining and One Flew Over you'd have a point, but a kid would've seen Batman 89 unless they were really young.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:57:36 No.105638606 Report

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>>105637063
Hyperbole much? Millenials seeing the classic seasons for the first time nowadays are having a blast.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 22:58:34 No.105638620 Report

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>>105637621
Untrue

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:00:01 No.105638651 Report

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>>105638491
Seriously. The genie acting all loony out of a sudden was a treat as a kid and then got better as an adult once I realized the references.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:02:28 No.105638693 Report

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>>105638491
Honestly I question whether it was even the second Jack Nicholson impression. I can't remember whether I saw this first or not.

https://youtu.be/fg7ccykpIPQ?t=586

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:04:23 No.105638723 Report

Quoted By: >>105638936 >>105638946 >>105673179

>>105638406
>how can people enjoy tom and jerry, it's just the cat getting beat up over and over again
>how can people enjoy old WB cartoons, it's just characters doing physically impossible things over and over again
>how can people enjoy popeye, it's just him getting into trouble, eating spinach, and then getting out of it over and over again
Why you are expecting grade A quality writing out of childrens cartoons is beyond me. But you still haven't explained why references to Orson Welles or Goodfellas is any worse than references to Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan. Screaming autism because you don't like the joke sounds pretty autistic to me.

>>105638435
You know what else has references and impressions? Simpsons during the golden age, all old WB and Fleischer cartoons, Arthur, Codename Kids Next Door, The Magic School Bus, Recess, Rugrats, and Rocky and Bullwinkle. That's just off the top of my head.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:07:18 No.105638771 Report

Quoted By: >>105638935 >>105663676

Do any recent cartoons do these sort of Hollywood jokes?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:15:46 No.105638935 Report

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>>105638771
Spongebob, Avatar, Gravity Falls, Adventure Time, all have had references to either old stuff that would have been before the "target audience" was born, or adult jokes most kids wouldn't get.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:15:49 No.105638936 Report

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>>105638723
Speaking of, few cartoon references have bowled me over as much as KND parodying the slapping scene from Chinatown.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:16:24 No.105638946 Report

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>>105638723
Exactly. Remember all the old shit Dexter's Lab referenced? Or Johnny Bravo? I didn't need to know who Donny Osmond or Adam West were to find those episodes funny. Although I think I might have had some idea even then.

Come on folks do you honestly, really believe a kid who's never even heard of Speed Racer wouldn't be entertained by this? It's nothing but one big Speed Racer reference and it's gold.

I mean, probably one of the best Dexter's Lab episodes was when they made fun of the Champion. I had actually read that comic because my older brother collected Marvel books but even if I hadn't I'd have loved this. Granted I don't think you could have been alive with a TV during the 90s and not known who Randy Savage was.
https://youtu.be/x6wuXWS8N-o?t=86
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTa55521Cw

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:19:56 No.105639018 Report

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Does anyone even remember animaniacs for the humor?

seems like they just want to fuck minerva, dot or the nurse

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:21:13 No.105639043 Report

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>>105639018
I remember the songs and little else

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:25:07 No.105639113 Report

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>>105639018

I remember some episodes, but mostly the segments like Kathy Kaboom, the doves, and the chipmunk that I forgot her name. As a kid I was more of a Freakazoid and Pinky & The brain fan

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:25:39 No.105639122 Report

Quoted By: >>105639189

>>105639018
I remember some of the humor. Chicken Boo, Pinky and the Brain, and I did get some of the puns and references. But I did also want to see Dot (more) naked.

>>105638946
I just realized that the turtle gag was a reference to Mario Kart. How did I not realize that before?

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:27:22 No.105639162 Report

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>>105638606

You mean zoomers. Us millennials grew up with those old cartoons.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:28:47 No.105639189 Report

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>>105639122
>But I did also want to see Dot (more) naked
she's a cartoon, probably does't have genitals

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:34:04 No.105639300 Report

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>>105639189
Didn't stop my impure thoughts for a moment.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:39:37 No.105639406 Report

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>>105639300
Don't you dare start this stuff again. This was what got the last thread put on autosage.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:45:29 No.105639529 Report

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>>105639018
Sure.

>We're from the law firm of Warner, Warner, Warner, and Mime. He's our silent partner.

>You've got a good head on your shoulders. Too bad you don't have a neck.

>Yeah, but those were cartoons and this is real life!
>Don't tell him. He might crack.

>I haven't lost at checkers since time began.
>When was that?
>I think it was a Tuesday. Very few people know that.

>Hast thou any coffin drops?

>Ma, your voice has changed.
>I'M NOT YOUR MOTHER.
>Oh, my G-d.
>PRECISELY.

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Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:49:53 No.105639612 Report

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>>105631142
>>105631598
>>105631646
All I want to say is, I really really hated those skits with the dog and the retarded little girl who couldn't kill herself. God if I hated that little retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:51:25 No.105639644 Report

Quoted By:

>>105633917
Maybe he is not american?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:52:46 No.105639679 Report

Quoted By: >>105654388

>>105639300
were they aware they were sexualizing a child?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:53:44 No.105639702 Report

Quoted By: >>105639848 >>105641523

>>105639612
I'm a fan of the show, and I'll tell you right now Mindy and Buttons, and the Hip Hippos were the two lowest points of the show. You wanted Mindy to die, and the Hippos were annoyingly gay. Katie Kaboom sucked and so did Rita and Runt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 30 Jan 2019 23:55:31 No.105639747 Report

Quoted By:

>>105639406
I wasn't gonna say anything else, I was just responding to the other guy.

>>105631284
The only Rita and Runt episode I have a clear memory of was the Egypt one. But I do remember liking their whole George and Lenny routine before I really knew much about Of Mice and Men. At least I think they were supposed to be George and Lenny. Now that I think about it again, it might have just been the two characters from Rain Man, especially Runt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 00:00:09 No.105639848 Report

Quoted By:

>>105639702
To be honest, I liked the Hip Hippos just for the fact they were hippos. Katie Kaboom was annoyingly unfunny and I don't remember Rita and Runt.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 00:02:47 No.105639910 Report

Quoted By:

>>105629653
>And... I'll make cheese for you.

Even as a kid, something felt "off" about that line.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 00:24:45 No.105640333 Report

Quoted By: >>105640370

>>105637225
Even after all these years I can still hear it.

>FroynLAVEN. FroynLAVEN. FroynLAVEN.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 00:26:45 No.105640370 Report

Quoted By:

>>105637225
>>105640333
Now I remember, I only found funny the part with the anvils.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 00:27:20 No.105640380 Report

Quoted By: >>105640700

>>105637225
I think that was actually the second episode he featured in. The pic you posted is from his first.

And to think, Paul Rugg would pretty much make a career off his Jerry Lewis impression as Freakazoid and Histeria's Nostradamus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 00:44:24 No.105640700 Report

Quoted By:

>>105640380
You're right, my bad.

>When the whipoorwill whippers in the wind, the wind can whipper back
>OH NICE AND CHUBBY BABY

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:05:09 No.105641079 Report

Quoted By: >>105653930

>>105637839
Foreshadow, nothing. It was a deliberate response to the suits asking for precisely that type of scenario.
Don't forget their reaction when it eventually did come to pass:
>Now Pinky and the Brain
>Have a new domain
>It's what the network wants
>Why bother to complain?
Yep, right there in the theme song. They didn't give a solitary damn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:26:41 No.105641523 Report

Quoted By:

>>105639702
Rita and Runt were great, they were just in the wrong show.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:33:46 No.105641650 Report

Quoted By: >>105641986

>>105638946
Speed Racer was airing on Cartoon Network at the same time that episode aired. As well as had been in syndication and had a semi-recent attempt at a 90s revival a few years prior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAXleTwGcG8

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:37:57 No.105641736 Report

Quoted By:

>>105637621
No true, we know about them in Latinamerica

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:44:57 No.105641887 Report

Quoted By: >>105667536

>>105630401
Funny how the execs didn't pick up on that concept.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:49:28 No.105641986 Report

Quoted By: >>105650136 >>105650669

>>105641650
I'm suprised Tatsunoko hasn't done a Speed racer reboot, they did a brunch of reboot of their old shows some years ago

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:50:45 No.105642016 Report

Quoted By: >>105642628 >>105644535

>>105639018
I still love Pinky and the brain, but I never cared about the rest

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:50:58 No.105642022 Report

Quoted By: >>105642133

there's that one episode of powerpuff girls that's basically just 15 minutes of Beatles references.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 01:56:14 No.105642133 Report

Quoted By:

>>105642022
Ah yes, the Beat-Alls. My favorite was big rock.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 02:03:35 No.105642316 Report

Quoted By:

>That episode of Pinky and the Brain where Brain decides to take a break for a day and actually ends up taking over the world but he just loses it all and goes on to the next plan on the next day

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 02:16:37 No.105642628 Report

Quoted By:

>>105642016
I watched pinky and the brain for years without even knowing what animaniacs was

had no idea it was a spin-off

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 02:56:09 No.105643477 Report

Quoted By:

>>105635501
My school taught us about the Beatles because we weren't heathens - so I got these episodes

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 03:39:19 No.105644535 Report

Quoted By:

>>105642016
yeah, Pinky and the Brain is more adult friendly

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 03:41:32 No.105644594 Report

Quoted By:

>>105636948
They came back for Wakko's Wish, which was essentially the big finale for everybody involved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 03:44:38 No.105644656 Report

Quoted By: >>105671355

>>105639529
None of that is funny, and it's somehow still less funny out of context.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 04:49:14 No.105646022 Report

Quoted By: >>105646114

>>105634749
John K has only created garbage his whole life

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 04:51:10 No.105646065 Report

Quoted By:

>>105629653
>and I'll make cheese for you

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 04:53:37 No.105646114 Report

Quoted By: >>105646452 >>105650592

>>105646022
I'm a huge fan of 90's toons and he's unironically right.

Animaniacs being played around the same times as the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show made you see how second rate Animaniacs was in how it tried to copy old WB shows. Garfield and Friends holds up much better than Animaniacs because it did its own thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:08:43 No.105646352 Report

Quoted By:

>>105630401
Honestly yeah. Especially since I knew about the stooges at that age and didn't make the connection between the two.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:15:05 No.105646452 Report

Quoted By: >>105646504 >>105646542

>>105646114
>Garfield and Friends holds up much better than Animaniacs because it did its own thing
I've watched both. I can't even remember a single episode of Garfield and Friends since it was all so very very bland.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:17:25 No.105646504 Report

Quoted By:

>>105646452
Come on - that episode where everything was wrong with was amazing. Or the one where Monday was treated like a horror movie

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:20:14 No.105646542 Report

Quoted By: >>105675482

>>105646452
The only thing I remember from Garfield and Friends, other than thinking it was fine and not turning the channel, was thinking Nermal was a cute girl cat.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:21:56 No.105646575 Report

Quoted By: >>105646640 >>105667158

I get the idea of not liking an episode because it relies too much on references, but if the references themselves are funny without having to get them I don't see the problem.
Homer's Barbershop Quartet is one of the beloved episodes of the Simpson's golden age, and is a light parody of the career of the Beatles. You don't have to know shit about the Beatles to find the episode funny, it works completely on its own. Half or more of KND was fucking NOTHING but movie references, but people still adore that show. Billy and Mandy referenced the shit out of mythology and literature, but I've never seen a single person complain about any of that.
WB cartoons absolutely had episodes where they tilted too hard into references, don't get me wrong, but the idea of "it references something means it's bad, and kids won't like it because they won't get it" seems pretty fucking nonsensical, and directly contradicts opinions commonly held on this board. If you play your cards right, anything can be funny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:26:20 No.105646640 Report

Quoted By: >>105646665 >>105650574 >>105663779

>>105646575
Homer's Barbershop Quartet actually has jokes that aren't

Like the Yoko Ono Barney thing - you can just laugh at the idea of the strangeness of "number 8, *belch*, number 8, *belch*"

This episode was just flat out boring - and I have some idea of who Frank Sinatra was.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:27:43 No.105646665 Report

Quoted By: >>105646682

>>105646640
*that aren't references

A good example of Pinky & The Brain being overly reference reliant was that montage of albums and famous photos but with just a mouse in place of Sinatra.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:28:55 No.105646682 Report

Quoted By:

>>105646665
Like I said, I totally understand the sentiment of relying too much on references falls flat. The idea that reference = bad though is fucking stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:44:02 No.105646914 Report

Quoted By:

>>105628806
Why don't cartoons do this anymore? Making classic references that hold up on their own and can be revisited as an adult is better than the mind-numbing shit infesting our TV.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 05:58:26 No.105647107 Report

Quoted By: >>105647129 >>105647149 >>105648019 >>105650712

>>105633917

By being fucking 7 years old when you watched this shows? Jesus christ, man

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:00:07 No.105647129 Report

Quoted By: >>105647149 >>105647700 >>105650712

>>105647107
Nick at Nite. What, was your family poor?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:01:34 No.105647149 Report

Quoted By: >>105650712

>>105647107
>>105647129
There's a difference between being alive and being relevant to a target demo of a cartoon

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:11:10 No.105647257 Report

Quoted By: >>105647283

A lot of based posts ITT. I'm glad most of us agree that Spielberg stuff is superficial and boring.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:12:58 No.105647283 Report

Quoted By:

>>105647257
Freakazoid is still great though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:19:27 No.105647378 Report

Quoted By:

Is everyone in this thread like 45 years old? I was a kid when I watched this shows and of course the references flew over my head, but there's guys like >>105631142 complaining about shit like it was fucking Steven Universe today or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 06:49:18 No.105647700 Report

Quoted By:

>>105647129
Yes. I didn't have Nick, CN or Disney until the mid-late 2000's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 07:30:07 No.105648019 Report

Quoted By: >>105650520 >>105653168

>>105647107
>By being fucking 7 years old when you watched this shows?

If you watched it when it originally aired (1991-1995) you only have yourself to blame. Like >>105638502 said Bob Hope retired in 1997, he was still pretty active during the early 90's (his specials were on NBC, so you can't even use the cable TV excuse), so you'd have to be a pretty ignorant kid to not be even aware of him at age 7.

If you watched Taz-Mania reruns in the 00's or something it might be more forgivable but not that much.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 08:58:29 No.105648677 Report

Quoted By:

>>105634542
>>105629653
same

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 12:19:13 No.105649917 Report

Quoted By:

The best Goodfeathers episodes were the ones that were full parodies of West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof, mainly because of the songs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 12:37:49 No.105650033 Report

Quoted By: >>105661024

>>105637225
The Eek the Cat parody was better.

Now, if you want to get into references no kid would get, Eek the Cat had an episode based on Quadrophenia. Because so many children would have watched cult British rock musicals that weren't Rock Horror Picture Show.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 12:40:46 No.105650047 Report

Quoted By: >>105650242

Wasn't there an episode where Brain impersonated Jacques Cousteau? I remember asking my family about who was that and then learning about him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 12:56:27 No.105650136 Report

Quoted By: >>105650669

>>105641986
Tatsunoko also did a Mach Go Go redo back in the 90s, funny enough. It wasn't New Adventures, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAuTyWxRoxw

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:09:21 No.105650242 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650047
Very first episode of the PatB series. It's a brief gag. It also included a Jackie Collins joke and a quotation of Lord Byron.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:15:09 No.105650281 Report

Quoted By:

>>105628806
It's why Captain Simian holds up better. Same writers, and same love of throwing in celebrity impersonations, but never ruins the show because things are allowed to do their own thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:36:02 No.105650418 Report

Quoted By:

>>105629653
>not knowing that this has been Maurice Lamarche's warm up routine for years

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:49:38 No.105650520 Report

Quoted By: >>105653168 >>105660262

>>105648019
Family Guy regularly produced Road movie parodies after that. Veterans groups still idolize Hope too. The only way you don’t know Bob Hope is to be an ignoramus.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:49:41 No.105650521 Report

Quoted By:

>>105635501
My dad taught me all about the Beatles so that was one of my favorite episodes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:55:05 No.105650574 Report

Quoted By:

>>105646640
That’s a reference to a specific track on a Beatles album.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 13:56:38 No.105650592 Report

Quoted By: >>105653071 >>105660231

>>105646114
Garfield is utter shit and always has been. The only kind thing you can say about that is that it got June Foray an Emmy before she died.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 14:04:37 No.105650669 Report

Quoted By: >>105653819

>>105641986
>>105650136
Mach-Go-Go-Go is apparently too difficult to bother with for Tatsunoko because of the Speed Racer Company (what they're called) who own nearly all of the international distribution rights to the franchise and have the freedom to market and license the brand on their own and make all sorts of deals without Tatsunoko's input or approval. It's why Speed/Go couldn't appear in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, because the Speed Racer Company had made a bunch of contracts for Speed Racer video games with other companies and Tatsunoko couldn't do anything about it.

Also why Speed Racer X got unceremoniously cancelled mid-broadcast in the US and has never been seen again. Tatsunoko thought they could license their Mach Go-Go-Go reboot to Nickelodeon without going through the Speed Racer Company and got in legal trouble over it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 14:09:02 No.105650712 Report

Quoted By: >>105650831 >>105650955 >>105652915 >>105660281

>>105647107
>>105647149
>>105647129
Had Nick at Nite in the 90s, man. But as a 6 year-old, I assumed old black and white TV was much older than it really was and that anybody who was in one of those shows was already dead. I remember being astonished that Dick Van Dyke was still alive (I mean, then AND now). Lucy was already dead when I was watching Nick at Nite in 1991. So was Jackie Gleason. So were a lot of those people. It was even odds back then that old celebrities would be dead, so I just assumed death on everybody unless proven otherwise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 14:20:33 No.105650831 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650712
It had the opposite effect on me. I thought that, since black and white TV still aired on regular channels, that it was contemporary, and that they were just using cheaper cameras. I think I only realized how much older the black and white stuff was when I was 7.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 14:33:09 No.105650955 Report

Quoted By: >>105651073

>>105650712
Also worth adding is that this was 1989-1995 we're talking about? It's not like we had IMDB or Wikipedia back then. if you weren't sure What's His Face was alive or dead, what did you do? Ask your parents if they were alive? Most of the time you probably got an "I don't know". You could go to the library to research it if you really gave that much of a shit, but it's not like your local public library had a Celebrity Obituaries section (or any book newer than 1979 that wasn't written by Stephen King or Michael Crichton).

Finding answers to trivial questions was a lot more work back then and "alright, I dunno, I guess he's dead" was a better solution than going through all that shit just to see if Bob Hope was still kicking or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 14:42:47 No.105651073 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650955
>You could go to the library to research it if you really gave that much of a shit, but it's not like your local public library had a Celebrity Obituaries section (or any book newer than 1979 that wasn't written by Stephen King or Michael Crichton).

I remember I had to do an oral report on Jerry Garcia for Hispanic History Month in 1997 and none of the books in my school library could tell me if he was dead or not. He died in 1995, so of course our books wouldn't have any sort of info about that. I had to use the computer lab and what passed for our internet connection to eventually figure out he was dead, and using search engines like Lykos and Hotbot, it still wasn't easy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:10:38 No.105652915 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650712
>(I mean, then AND now)
lel

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:20:59 No.105653071 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650592
>Garfield is utter shit and always has been.

That's the brainlet hot take

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:22:49 No.105653092 Report

Quoted By: >>105653281

>>105629653

The reference flew over my head when I was a kid and I thought it was a weird and boring episode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:28:51 No.105653168 Report

Quoted By: >>105653462

>>105648019
>>105650520

Just because something existed on television at a certain time doesn't mean everyone (and especially young children) would be aware of it, you dipshits. Children watch cartoons, not black and white movies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:37:18 No.105653281 Report

Quoted By:

>>105653092
It is a weird and boring episode, and they fully admit to making it for themselves as one giant in-joke. It's only when you understand the context that it suddenly becomes hilarious.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:39:00 No.105653305 Report

Quoted By: >>105671355

>>105639529
God, Animaniacs was shit garbage

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:41:35 No.105653343 Report

Quoted By: >>105653984

>ask why references to Bob Hope and Orsen Welles is somehow that much worse than references to Shakespeare and Gilbert and Sullivan
>still haven't heard a reply, just people repeating "REFERENCES ARE BAD!"
Explain yourself brainlets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:42:48 No.105653358 Report

Quoted By:

>>105637621
Largely true. We really only know about them through references in other shows. Personally I prefer the Marx Bros.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 17:49:17 No.105653462 Report

Quoted By: >>105654021

>>105653168
Bob Hope was not doing black-and-white movies during the 90's, during the time Taz-Mania was running. And you didn't even need to know his movies to know that Taz's Uncle Drew was a Bob Hope parody, you could've watched that one Simpsons episode or that Tiny Toons Christmas Special and thought "hey, Drew acts like that guy who does dadjokes" or something. Or seen him on TV. It's different from Bing Crosby who was fucking dead decades before Taz-Mania. If you didn't know who Bing Crosby was at that time it'd be understandable.

>Just because something existed on television at a certain time doesn't mean everyone (and especially young children) would be aware of it,

I barely knew anything about celebrities back then, shit I barely knew much about 90's celebrities. But I knew who Bob Hope was, and I never saw his movies in the 90's. I also knew Genie did a Jack Nicholson impression. Unless your diet was solely cartoons you should've been able to pick up on some celebrities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:14:58 No.105653819 Report

Quoted By: >>105654386 >>105654556

>>105650669
Speed Racer Enterprises is dead now, anon. What happened is that SRE made "Speed Racer: The Next Generation" but apparently made a breach of contract doing so, and Tatsunoko was quick to punish them by taking back ALL the rights.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:17:15 No.105653852 Report

Quoted By: >>105653882 >>105653924 >>105654407

>>105631142
>>105630346
I wasn't aware that they were passing out Emmys to cartoons in the 90s, if it wasn't a movie

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:19:43 No.105653882 Report

Quoted By:

>>105653852
Emmys were for TV shows and TV movies

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:23:24 No.105653924 Report

Quoted By:

>>105653852
Daytime Emmys.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:23:42 No.105653930 Report

Quoted By: >>105653964 >>105654447 >>105674570

>>105641079
Between adding Elmyra to the series as as main character, Cobra-la actually ending up being the name, and whatever the fuck Those Guys did to The Real Ghostbusters, I'm fucking baffled on how much power executives have over the dynamic of a show as well as how little they understand the show that they're working on.

I can't think of one person who liked Elmyra as a kid, but here we are, throwing her in as a main character because...one of the network executives liked her, and fuck you, put her in the show?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:25:32 No.105653964 Report

Quoted By: >>105653985 >>105654447

>>105653930
They had been trying to push Elmyra into her own show since Tiny Toons. Remember those backdoor pilots that did away with everything in TT and plunked her into a suburbia sitcom with a family?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:27:21 No.105653984 Report

Quoted By: >>105654002 >>105654087 >>105654414 >>105654447

>>105653343
>culture vs. pop culture

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:27:28 No.105653985 Report

Quoted By: >>105674570

>>105653964
It's like the executives seem really out of touch with the audience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:28:32 No.105654002 Report

Quoted By:

>>105653984
By that point, Orson Welles was considered culture

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:29:55 No.105654021 Report

Quoted By: >>105671515

>>105653462
Hope still did regular TV specials for NBC almost up to the end, plus the USO tours. I can remember him doing guest spots on Roseanne and The Golden Girls too. His hundredth birthday was national news. A teenager today might not know Hope, but anyone alive in the 90s knew he was. That poster is a retarded piece of shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:34:38 No.105654087 Report

Quoted By:

>>105653984
And how does something become culture? People keep talking about it, right?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:39:10 No.105654150 Report

Quoted By: >>105661134 >>105661195 >>105666904 >>105675750

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu4fP4fOHE

This shit right here

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:54:46 No.105654386 Report

Quoted By: >>105654527 >>105654556

>>105653819
Well that's a huge fucking relief. (though I was surprised that the live-action Speed Racer movie was released in Japan as Speed Racer and didn't localize to the Mach Go Go Go branding; I guess Tatsunoko wanted Japanese audiences to know that the movie was NOT a reflection of the Japanese version of the series whatsoever).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:54:50 No.105654388 Report

Quoted By:

>>105639679
>a child

She was born in the 30s.

truteal !hlnuDLeBD2

truteal !hlnuDLeBD2 Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:55:38 No.105654402 Report

Quoted By:

>>105630223

hello

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:55:49 No.105654407 Report

Quoted By:

>>105653852
>I wasn't aware that they were passing out Emmys to cartoons in the 90s, if it wasn't a movie

I hope you aren't American because you should know that Emmys are for TV and Oscars are for movies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:56:01 No.105654414 Report

Quoted By: >>105654707 >>105671515 >>105673512

>>105653984
More like airheads shrieking memes vs. everyone else. Is the thread in any way about Animaniacs? Time to start screaming about references to 90s pop culture. Nevermind that it wasn’t just referential jokes on that show, or that the references tended to be predate the 90s, or that most modern franchises today date to the 80s or earlier. There’s a pretold joke to tell and we’re going to say it again! Wanna hear us quote John K.’s foaming hatred of Animaniacs?? We’ve only done that in every other thread about Animaniacs or John K.! Let’s do it again!

The whole damn board anymore is these idiots pretending to win an argument when they can’t even understand a conversation. Endless threads of “EXPLAIN THIS” or “APOLOGIZE” or “PROTIP: YOU CAN’T!” How many goddam threads do we need about CalArts? Or box office figures for Marvel movies vs. DC movies? Can there be any more threads where someone behaves like the asshole they are, and includes Pepe the frog to let you know they really are an asshole and not just pretending, but think they’re pretending because it’s such a great joke? Ha ha? Like this fucking ugly frog hasn’t been a shitposter’s charm for the last decade.

And now we have a moron who’s trying to prove that he was a kid in the 90s and didn’t know Bob Hope existed at the same time. He’s some fool kid born long after Hope died who probably has never watched Animaniacs, who bumbled out of memeposting and can’t figure out how to go back. All he knows is the meme of “Animaniacs = 90s references” and caught where that wasn’t the case. Fuck that moron kid, and fuck memeposting. Memes suck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 18:58:31 No.105654447 Report

Quoted By: >>105654609 >>105654818 >>105654825 >>105674570

>>105653930
>>105653964
>>105653984
Elmyra went from a supporting character in Tiny Toons, to a main character who appeared in every episode, to getting 2 backdoor pilots in the show to pitch her own spin-off. Then they started giving her cameos and guest appearances in Animaniacs. THEN they retooled Pinky & the Brain in its third season to star her as a main character.

It was one of the most tone deaf things I ever experienced watching on TV. Elmyra was tolerable in measured doses, but all the people at Amblin/WB liked her WAY more than audiences did and were hellbent on putting her in absolutely everything to the detriment of all else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:03:25 No.105654527 Report

Quoted By: >>105654556

>>105654386
I'm not. Tatsunoko had long since accepted that Speed Racer and Mach-GoGoGo were different things, kind of like Power Rangers and Super Sentai, and they were fine with it so long as America didn't overstep their bounds.

Except they did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:05:30 No.105654556 Report

Quoted By: >>105654737

>>105653819
>>105654386
>>105654527
So what did Speed Racer: The Next Generation do to null and void SPE's contracts with Tatsunoko, other than be a horrifically Flash-animated piece of zero effort dog shit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:08:49 No.105654609 Report

Quoted By:

>>105654447
>It was one of the most tone deaf things I ever experienced watching on TV. Elmyra was tolerable in measured doses, but all the people at Amblin/WB liked her WAY more than audiences did and were hellbent on putting her in absolutely everything to the detriment of all else.

Sounds as obnoxious as when Billy & Mandy went full FRED FREDBERGER FRED FREDBERGER FRED FREDBERGER and took him from a one-off gag character, to a character who appeared in almost every episode, to getting his own goddamn spin-off pilot (Underfist). No one on the Billy & Mandy team could read the audience and see that Fred Fredberger was funny ONCE and putting him in every episode was a show-killer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:16:12 No.105654707 Report

Quoted By: >>105660027 >>105662557

>>105654414
See the thing about the complainers is that I could understand not getting the Peas commerical because it would be extremely in-jokey. But a lot of times with these references they don't require you to know the subject to get a laugh.

There was that Tiny Toons cartoon where Babs is a jester who got sent to be eaten by the dragon, but it turns out the dragon was a Woody Allen. If you knew who Woody Allen was you could get something out of it, but if you didn't you'd think it the joke is that you were expecting a ferocious dragon and it turns out to be a nerdy dragon.

In-Joke territory would be Brain talking about how he fucking hates that dragon physically because he thinks the dragon is like Charlie Chaplin and that "particular combination of arrogance and timidity" sets his teeth on edge. That would require you to know Orson Welles hated Woody Allen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:18:19 No.105654737 Report

Quoted By:

>>105654556
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-01-04/speed-racer-rights-revert-to-tatsunoko-with-lawsuit-settled
SRE's rights expired in 2011, but they continued to exploit the brand afterwards with SR:TNG and it got Tatsunoko angry enough to sue. They settled with Tatsunoko taking all the rights away.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:25:21 No.105654818 Report

Quoted By: >>105654875

>>105654447
>all the people at Amblin/WB liked her WAY more than audiences did and were hellbent on putting her in absolutely everything to the detriment of all else.
No, it was Spielberg pushing her, since he thought it was a character his daughter would like or it was based on her or some shit. The writers hated her. Remember the mash-up/cross-over episode where they have her brutalized in place of Buttons?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:25:27 No.105654825 Report

Quoted By: >>105654875

>>105654447
To be absolutely fair she got only one guest appearance on Animaniacs -- and the writers exacted their full revenge on her.
https://youtu.be/k7vgHP8_1Yk?t=1m10s

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:28:52 No.105654875 Report

Quoted By: >>105654893

>>105654818
>>105654825
>Elmyramind

Anyway, unless you know something I don't, I think you're confusing her with Mindy, who was literally saved from the scrap heap in preproduction by Spielberg's kids. One character I know for a fact Spielberg did personally push for more of was the Flame, of all things, as per Tom Ruegger in a recent podcast.
IIRC the executive(s) who wanted more Elmyra has not been identified.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:30:26 No.105654893 Report

Quoted By: >>105655030

>>105654875
>One character I know for a fact Spielberg did personally push for more of was the Flame,

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. That was the "change the channel before the title card is over" segment. Why devote a segment of a zany humor cartoon to an educational drama? Why do it AGAIN?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 19:42:27 No.105655030 Report

Quoted By:

>>105654893
As I previously mentioned, it was a variety show. That's why we have stuff like the educational (albeit humorous) songs and the more serious Rita and Runt episodes, or one-offs like A Gift of Gold.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 20:26:10 No.105655690 Report

Quoted By: >>105671220

>>105637649
Holy shit is Tress MacNeille usually that bad at singing?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 20:30:09 No.105655748 Report

Quoted By: >>105655799 >>105656181

Rita & Runt were fucking awful. They were in a comical show ditected at kids, surrounded by comical segments. Yet they weren't comical and had no enetertainment value. The cat sang and that was all. Kids doesn't care about songs. Especially that kind of singing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 20:33:03 No.105655799 Report

Quoted By:

>>105655748
>Shit we need a joke
>OK what if the dumb dog hates cats, but get this, he doesn't KNOW what a cat even looks like he's THAT dumb!
>THAT WON'T GET OLD AT ALL!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 20:54:00 No.105656105 Report

Quoted By: >>105656215

>>105630447
Can confirm that kids at the time loved Taz's dad probably the most out of all the characters, and the OJ thing worked as just a character quirk like Homer Simpson loving Donuts. "Blah blah yackety schmackety" was a great catchphrase too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 20:57:18 No.105656158 Report

Quoted By:

>>105634724
Kids would've recognized his face actually. They may not have known his name offhand or what movies he was from, but over 90% would've definitely gotten "Genie is impersonating that actor I've seen somewhere before".

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 20:58:25 No.105656181 Report

Quoted By:

>>105655748
The Les Miserables short with Rita and Runt wasn't bad. The Master of the House song parody was quite good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:00:27 No.105656215 Report

Quoted By: >>105656338 >>105672412

>>105656105
Yeah, I remember a lot of kids on the playground doing the "blah blah blah yakkity shmackity" quote. A lot of anons are getting mad at >>105630447 in this thread without realizing that they're agreeing with him. His point was that the Bing and Hope caricatures were distinct as characters, so you'd find them funny even if you didn't know who they were parodies of.

Niggas in this thread just seem to be butthurt at the time that 1 kid in the early 90s didn't know who Bob Hope was.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:07:05 No.105656338 Report

Quoted By: >>105656511 >>105656562 >>105656595

>>105656215
A great deal of classic cartoon characters were built off impressions of comedians or celebrities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:18:29 No.105656511 Report

Quoted By: >>105659391 >>105662927

>>105656338
Hanna-Barbera were extremely guilty of this.

Morocco Mole = Peter Lorre
Top Cat = Phil Silvers
Big Duke (Posse Impossible) = John "the Duke" Wayne
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble = Jackie Gleason and Art Carney
Yogi Bear = also Art Carney
Snagglepuss = Bert Lahr
Jabberjaw = Curly Howard
Peter Potamus and Lippy the Lion = Joe E. Brown
Wally Gator = Ed Wynn
Doggie Daddy = Jimmy Durante
Super Snooper = Ed Gardner's Archie on the 1940s radio show Duffy's Tavern
Yellow Pinkie = Gert Frobe and Sydney Greenstreet
Yakky Doodle = Donald Duck
Chopper = Wallace Beery
Fibber Fox = Shelley Berman
Alfy Gator = Alfred Hitchcock
Drooper = Michael Nesmith
Dynomutt = Red Skelton

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:21:37 No.105656562 Report

Quoted By: >>105656690 >>105661350

>>105656338
And it's still being done today.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:23:29 No.105656595 Report

Quoted By: >>105656799

>>105656338
Ren was based off of Peter Lorre and Stimpy had Larry Fine influences.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:23:45 No.105656599 Report

Quoted By:

>>105630429
Seth MacFarlane in a past life

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:28:41 No.105656690 Report

Quoted By: >>105661350

>>105656562
Roger is as classic as cartoon characters come.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 21:34:20 No.105656799 Report

Quoted By:

>>105656595
Stimpy and Fry are both basically Billy West doing his Larry voice. Speaking of which, >>105630223

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 22:33:59 No.105657891 Report

Quoted By:

>>105630429
The original Godfather.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 22:52:23 No.105658207 Report

Quoted By: >>105658287 >>105658463

>>105631142
>Slappy getting Alzheimer's

that was an episode? i dont remember it

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 22:56:43 No.105658287 Report

Quoted By: >>105658448 >>105658463

>>105658207
I actually can't tell if he's joking because the other two eps are real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 23:04:45 No.105658448 Report

Quoted By:

>>105658287

it might be but i doubt it would be put in anything but a comedic light. slappy shorts dont do drama. there was one where slappy tries to get surgery to look younger and sexier and the whole thing was supposed to be a joke

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 23:05:22 No.105658463 Report

Quoted By: >>105659246

>>105658207
>>105658287
Not quite -- she goes 'round the bend after watching one too many daytime talk shows and is put into a home while Skippy gets taken away by social services. It's all played for a weird mix of laughs and pathos.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5r9etp
It's one of the rare instances where the entire runtime was taken up by one "skit" and the only such example starring Slappy. The opening makes me suspect they were at least somewhat self-aware of the nature of the episode.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 31 Jan 2019 23:52:14 No.105659246 Report

Quoted By:

>>105658463
oh lord that very first talkshow joke

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:02:51 No.105659391 Report

Quoted By:

>>105656511
damn that's a lot

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:41:07 No.105660019 Report

Quoted By:

>>105635536
To be fair, what she did during this bit was inexcusable. But yeah, otherwise, leave the lady alone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:41:31 No.105660027 Report

Quoted By: >>105667173

>>105654707
Who doesn't hate Woody Allen anyway?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:45:06 No.105660088 Report

Quoted By: >>105671800

>>105630270
They did?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:46:21 No.105660109 Report

Quoted By:

>>105638024
The Lobe is a priceless character.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:51:44 No.105660188 Report

Quoted By:

It's very easy for a child to reverse-engineer the origin of a reference in their head with the right context clues or simply through cultural osmosis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:54:20 No.105660231 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650592
Hey now, hey now, don't be knocking the holiday specials with Lou Rawls, even if I generally agree with you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:56:02 No.105660262 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650520
>Family Guy regularly produced Road movie parodies after that.
I think those still hold up, despite everything. They're a real anomaly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 00:57:03 No.105660281 Report

Quoted By:

>>105650712
>I remember being astonished that Dick Van Dyke was still alive (I mean, then AND now).
That is something, isn't it. Ever see Fitzwilly? Very underrated Christmas classic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 01:32:18 No.105661024 Report

Quoted By: >>105663001

>>105650033
BRAVE ELMO

BRAVE ELMO

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 01:37:17 No.105661134 Report

Quoted By:

>>105654150
Imagine translating this joke.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 01:39:32 No.105661195 Report

Quoted By: >>105666830

>>105654150
How many takes did they have to do?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 01:47:02 No.105661350 Report

Quoted By:

>>105656690
>>105656562
The idea of Roger even started with a character that they could have as a "guest character" every week with a different personality and then it exploded in scope in the second season when they realized Fox didn't give a shit. And it all came from that tradition as well. Also Peter and Brian were based on Sherman and Mr. Peabody to the surprise of absolutely no one (To the point where McFarlane was supposedly on the casting list for Mr. Peabody in the film).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 02:57:11 No.105662557 Report

Quoted By: >>105663145

>>105654707
Orson Welles hated Woody Allen?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:17:40 No.105662927 Report

Quoted By: >>105666830

>>105656511
I don't know half those people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:20:53 No.105663001 Report

Quoted By:

>>105661024
When I heard Bicycle Race for the first time my first thought was "Oh, now I get it!"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:27:56 No.105663145 Report

Quoted By: >>105663178 >>105667191

>>105662557
>I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge. He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:29:44 No.105663178 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663145
I loved his tangent about the Irish

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:43:22 No.105663428 Report

Quoted By: >>105663451 >>105663865 >>105666413 >>105667158 >>105671814

How are there so many Animaniacs defenders here? Outside of enthusiasts, endless references are one the things in old media that normal people don't really care about, so Animaniacs is essentially using the most tedious parts as the main idea. It's not a funny sitcom on its own - it's just one big annoying wank right in your face.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:44:43 No.105663451 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663428
I do not care much for Animaniacs, but there's some nice bits here and there, when they are not just spouting random references

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:51:26 No.105663572 Report

Quoted By:

>>105630429
some asshole who shooby-doo'd about being an asshole

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:56:45 No.105663676 Report

Quoted By: >>105666010

>>105638771
Not "old Hollywood," but take one look at any thread featuring modern cartoons and you'll see they're all full of references for games and movies that came out 20-30 years ago.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 03:58:54 No.105663725 Report

Quoted By: >>105664068

>>105639300
>>105639189
someone link to "it"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 04:01:13 No.105663779 Report

Quoted By:

>>105646640
That's literally a reference to Beatles' No. 9, though

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 04:05:45 No.105663865 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663428
Because it was fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 04:16:28 No.105664068 Report

Quoted By: >>105664104

>>105663725
what is "it?"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 04:17:58 No.105664104 Report

Quoted By: >>105664316

>>105664068
YOU WANT IT ALL BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE IT

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 04:28:37 No.105664316 Report

Quoted By:

>>105664104
I have no idea what you're talking about.
Dot does have a large amount of porn, there's one artist that's obsessed with her.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 06:26:20 No.105666010 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663676
Like Bubsy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 07:15:15 No.105666413 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663428
>normal people don't really care about
They don't care about reading comics or watching most childrens cartoons either. We get it already, you didn't like Animaniacs. No amount of screaming "REFERENCES!!!" is going to change anyone's opinion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 08:10:21 No.105666830 Report

Quoted By:

>>105661195
Don't know, but they definitely had to say it slower and then speed it up artificially.

>>105662927
Well, they would've been much more familiar to the adults watching fifty years ago.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 08:20:29 No.105666904 Report

Quoted By:

>>105654150
That must have been a nightmare of a read even in short bursts.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 08:59:13 No.105667158 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663428
Animaniacs was and still is a huge hit with normies so I don't see how your reasoning works.
Also >>105646575

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 09:01:34 No.105667173 Report

Quoted By: >>105667230

>>105660027
Most people back at the time didn't, Tiny Toons episode with the Woody Allen dragon was out in 1991, while the Soon-Yi stuff and Mia Farrow divorcing Woody was in 1992.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 09:03:54 No.105667191 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663145
You know, Maurice Lamarche voiced not just Brain but also that Woody Allen dragon from Tiny Toons, I wonder if someone will ask him to read out that line.

"I hate that dragon physically, I dislike that kind of animal. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease."

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 09:08:42 No.105667230 Report

Quoted By:

>>105667173
Weird how his playing a pedophile in one of his own projects now makes perfect sense in hindsight

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 09:52:23 No.105667479 Report

Quoted By: >>105669366

>>105637061
>and were savvy enough to know that if Shemp was in the short, you changed the channel.
But that's wrong, ya idiot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdjGXDoHpRI

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 10:04:24 No.105667520 Report

Quoted By: >>105667563

>>105630346
Was that before or after Pinky & The Brain got its own show with a prime time slot?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 10:07:01 No.105667536 Report

Quoted By: >>105668561

>>105641887
God why. Was one of the execs fucking her VA or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 10:13:06 No.105667563 Report

Quoted By: >>105667567

>>105667520
Before. 52nd episode of the first season.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 10:14:03 No.105667567 Report

Quoted By:

>>105667563
Wild. Still I guess that's why so many adults liked it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 10:34:54 No.105667667 Report

Quoted By:

How are there so many Animaniacs haters here? Outside of brainlet zoomers, pop culture parodies and meta humor are one of the things in all media that normal people enjoy, so Animaniacs is essentially using tried-and-true styles of humor intelligently to reach a broad audience. It's like a funny sitcom or a variety show - just a fun program all around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 12:46:22 No.105668561 Report

Quoted By:

>>105667536
Because Pinky and the Brain wasn't "hitting the right demographic". And because the head of the network, Jamie Kellner was a piece of shit that didn't care one lick about animation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 13:35:40 No.105668972 Report

Quoted By: >>105670940

>>105634724
The Finnish dub localized all the references and I still didn't get most of them. Referential humor is a damn mistake when it's all you got.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 13:40:18 No.105669018 Report

Quoted By:

>>105634724
I was 9 years old when I saw Aladdin for the first time and I sure as fuck knew who he was. I got most of the jokes on Animaniacs, too. I swear, most the /co/ntrarians complaining about referential humor are just mad at their younger selves for being such brainlets that couldn't fucking read a book or a magazine to save their lives.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 14:16:26 No.105669366 Report

Quoted By: >>105670940

>>105667479
>>105637119
>>105638181
>>105637061
All these Shemp defenders, it's sickening. Yeah, Shemp was better than Joe and Curly-Joe, but that still doesn't make him funny or good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 16:45:33 No.105670940 Report

Quoted By:

>>105668972
Maybe you should be watching Finn cartoons and not US cartoons and complaining you didn't get US references. You think US viewers get every reference to JP society in anime?

>>105669366
>Curly was WAY better than Shemp!
Curly was slapstick and LOLSORANDUM humor. Shemp was more into snarky remarks and quips. His humor was more subtle than Curly's in-your-face style. Not being able to appreciate Shemp while liking Curly marks you as a brainlet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 16:52:05 No.105671009 Report

Quoted By: >>105671116 >>105672263

>>105634724
>he looks like Jack Nicholson for 3 seconds lol
how the fuck is that funny? most referential pop culture humor is absolute trash

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:00:43 No.105671116 Report

Quoted By: >>105671427

>>105671009
Do you have any idea how pop culture references become cultural references? They keep getting referred to and thus become a part of the culture. You are literally complaining that it's TOO NEW.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:07:30 No.105671203 Report

Quoted By:

>>105630401
i thought it was a shemp thing, as in, a third character who doesn't WORK at all.

fuck i hated shemp

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:08:35 No.105671220 Report

Quoted By:

>>105655690
no she usually sings very well in character
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYP2qLsC3x4

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:20:03 No.105671355 Report

Quoted By:

>>105644656
>>105653305
samefags with no sense of humor

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:26:16 No.105671427 Report

Quoted By: >>105671486 >>105672263

>>105671116
they’re still shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:32:11 No.105671486 Report

Quoted By:

>>105671427
>I HATE THEM SO THEY ARE SHIT
Sounds like tism to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:34:46 No.105671515 Report

Quoted By: >>105671602

>>105654021
>>105654414

>Two more autists who think everyone has to consume the same things as them or they’re stupid

Haha what the fuck, calm down, retards. All I’m saying is at the time I didn’t know Bob Hope, you don’t have to lose your fucking minds over this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:41:31 No.105671602 Report

Quoted By: >>105671677

>>105671515
>gets BTFO
>hahah, CALM DOWN RETARDS, DONT LOSE YOUR FUCKING MINDS
I always get a laugh out of this passive-agressive way of saying "STOP MAKING FUN OF ME!"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:48:10 No.105671677 Report

Quoted By: >>105671758 >>105672195

>>105671602
It’s not about getting BTFO, it’s you guys not being able to wrap your brains over that being possible that weirds me out. Just admit you’re being autistic

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:54:03 No.105671758 Report

Quoted By:

>>105671677
>NO U!
Everyone already pointed out that most people either could get the references through osmosis, or by asking their parents. You've been screaming "BUT REFERENCES I DIDN'T GET SO IT SUCKED!!!!!" for days now. That is autism. Your average person who doesn't get a reference will think "Huh, I wonder what that is about?" and either ask a friend or their parents. You didn't get a reference and proceeded to sperg out to the point you hate the show because you didn't get a reference.

Getting unnaturally angry that you don't get a joke is social retardation, better known as autism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:57:26 No.105671800 Report

Quoted By:

>>105660088
Yup, he told this story on one of his many Talkin' Toons appearances.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 17:58:33 No.105671814 Report

Quoted By:

>>105663428
because some of us have taste

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:25:21 No.105672195 Report

Quoted By:

>>105671677
You’re a fucking retard and have proven it multiple times in a single thread. Get off the Internet.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:30:42 No.105672263 Report

Quoted By: >>105672364

>>105671427
>>105671009
>REFERENCE BAD

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:37:48 No.105672364 Report

Quoted By: >>105672394 >>105672407

>>105672263
Don’t you just love how this has shifted from not recognizing Bob Hope, who’s been dead for almost twenty years, to not recognizing Jack Nicholson, who’s alive right now? What a moron.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:39:47 No.105672394 Report

Quoted By:

>>105672364
He's been reduced to calling people autistic and screaming SAMEFAG! in the Tiny Toons thread.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:41:03 No.105672407 Report

Quoted By:

>>105672364
The polar vortex got Jack Nicholson.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:41:39 No.105672412 Report

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>>105656215
>Niggas in this thread just seem to be butthurt at the time that 1 kid in the early 90s didn't know who Bob Hope was.

I would believe this if he wasn't spending so much time getting defensive about not knowing who Bob Hope was.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:52:02 No.105672554 Report

Quoted By: >>105672673

>>105637621
holy shit nigger what the fuck are you talking about, the three stooges are probably the one thing I can talk to anyone on my family above the age of 20 about and they'll know what I'm talking about

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 18:58:19 No.105672639 Report

Quoted By: >>105673136 >>105673365

>>105630447

Histeria! was pretty much the peak for "obscure character references in place of jokes" writing.

Animaniacs started that off with things like their Michelangelo being Charlton Heston because of The Agony & The Ecstasy and then Histeria carried it over from Genghis Khan being John Wayne because of The Conqueror to every single historical character being a random celebrity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:01:05 No.105672673 Report

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>>105672554
I live in central europe and no one knows them here

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:31:42 No.105673136 Report

Quoted By: >>105673496

>>105672639
>Lewis and Clark
>Gets made into Clark Kent and Jerry Lewis
>Julius Caesar
>Gets made into Frank Sinatra (because Caesar's Palace casino)
>Nostradamus
>Gets made into Freakazoid

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:34:31 No.105673179 Report

Quoted By: >>105673237 >>105673518

>>105638723
All those shows you named had references as a supplementary thing and didn't take up almost the entire show like Animaniacs did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:37:42 No.105673237 Report

Quoted By: >>105673245

>>105673179
Rugrats definitely had pop culture references that took up entire episodes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:38:15 No.105673245 Report

Quoted By: >>105673734

>>105673237
Which ones?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:45:10 No.105673365 Report

Quoted By: >>105674651

>>105672639
Wasn't the show only made because FCC regulations demanded that there be half an hour of educational programing? Typically when a show is mandated from above and not created by any of the creatives, everyone involved really half asses the whole thing.

I'm sure the people writing did not care, the people animating did not care, everyone together did the bare minimum to have their required educational show, and the kids watching at home also did not care.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:53:39 No.105673496 Report

Quoted By: >>105673872

>>105673136
>Nostradamus
>Gets made into Freakazoid
my sides

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:55:15 No.105673512 Report

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>>105654414
Quality post.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:55:24 No.105673518 Report

Quoted By: >>105673622 >>105673878

>>105673179
But not "almost the entire show" of Animaniacs was references. It was a lot of slapstick and one liners and songs. Not every joke was a reference either. Even reference heavy bits like Yes,Always are funny if you don't know the reference.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 19:59:59 No.105673587 Report

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>>105630270
I liked that episode and that specific scene long, long, long before I knew it was a reference to anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:01:57 No.105673622 Report

Quoted By: >>105673746

>>105673518
Wait... "Yes, always" is a reference?!

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:09:45 No.105673734 Report

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>>105673245
Mega Diaper Babies was a giant Fantastic 4 reference. Chuckie's Wonderful Life was It's A Wonderful Life without suicide or x-mas. Visitors From Outer Space was nothing but references to popular Sci Fi stuff. The Smell of Success was just Flowers for Algernon made kid-friendly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:10:48 No.105673746 Report

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>>105673622
Yep, it's a kid-friendly version of Orson Welles's infamous commercial outtake where he got butthurt about being asked to re-do a line for a commercial and just walked out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:17:51 No.105673872 Report

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>>105673496
Yeah, Paul Rugg recycled Freakazoid almost to-the-letter for the role.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:18:13 No.105673878 Report

Quoted By: >>105673909

>>105673518
Didn't gumball last year make an entire episode parodying a game that came out in 1997? And Teen Titans Go constantly reference Golden girls? Which also ended in the mid 90s. Kick Buttowski was entirely a 70s reference, why was Hasselhoff a lifeguard in Spongebob? Why all the early 80s video game references in Wreck it Ralph, Mad and Right Now Kapow being nothing but reference shows, this never stopped after Animaniacs ended.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:20:08 No.105673909 Report

Quoted By: >>105674016

>>105673878
We also had stuff that was reference heavy long before Animaniacs hit the airwaves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:27:11 No.105674016 Report

Quoted By: >>105674221

>>105673909
Almost all things Hanna Barbera, tons of early 40's Bob Clampett toons,

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:40:11 No.105674221 Report

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>>105674016
WB too. Pepe Le Pew is just Pepé le Moko from the movie Algiers. The shorts Book Review, Speaking of the Weather, Have You Got Any Castles??, The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos, and You're an Education were nothing but 5-10 minutes of rapid-fire pop culture references. "This means war!"? Groucho Marx in Duck Soup. Foghorn Leghorn was just Senator Claghorn in The Fred Allen Show.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 20:58:11 No.105674509 Report

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>>105628806
the one where they had to include a third character

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 21:02:10 No.105674570 Report

Quoted By: >>105674794

>>105653930
>>105653985
>>105654447
You have to understand the mindset of the middle management
they HAVE to be making suggestions and adjusting things to be seen to be busy and worthy of their jobs or else why did they replace the previous shmuck that got fired

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 21:07:28 No.105674651 Report

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>>105673365
It’s the same people from Animaniacs who spent that show bitching about how much they hated educational cartoons. Histeria was extremely half-assed. I’m surprised anyone remembers it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 21:16:51 No.105674794 Report

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>>105674570
>they HAVE to be making suggestions and adjusting things to be seen to be busy and worthy of their jobs or else why did they replace the previous shmuck that got fired
Or have any value at all for that matter. If they aren't constantly making their presence felt, upper management might realize they don't need so many middle management people around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 21:58:32 No.105675482 Report

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>>105646542
Holy shit those cats are telepathic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 22:14:40 No.105675750 Report

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>>105654150
>latex child perambulator fenders
okay that got me

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 23:05:56 No.105676636 Report

Quoted By: >>105676864

>born in 92
>only channels I had growing up were 4 local ones
>my exposure to American media was limited to whatever those stations happened to import

There's older eps of the Simpsons I'm only just getting around to finally understanding now that I've since been exposed to American history and pop culture as an adult

I had no idea Goodfeathers was a parody of anything until my late teens, I just thought they talked funny

I think kids now have a much more global understanding of history and culture with the onset of the internet, but you Burgerclaps shouldn't underestimate how much of a bubble some of us grew up in

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 23:19:26 No.105676864 Report

Quoted By: >>105676930

>>105676636
Fuck, I'm American and grew up with no cable at all. My TV reception was so poor that I couldn't even get Kids WB when that came out, so I missed it in its prime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 23:23:31 No.105676930 Report

Quoted By: >>105677030

>>105676864
Same here. Most people viewed cable TV to be a needless extra expense, so anyone below upper-mid class didn't bother. I never had cable TV until around 2000 when my parents got high speed internet and I tried splitting the cable to run to TV. I was kinda shocked to see TV Guide channel pop up, I was always under the impression you needed a special cable decoding box.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Feb 2019 23:29:17 No.105677030 Report

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>>105676930
Plus, my mom at the time was in a major Christian phase and believed that all use of electricity on Saturday was forbidden, so forget Saturday morning cartoons in my house.

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