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Yeah, but The Birdcage was much earlier in the decade. ABC Family wasn't even Fox Family at that point. Plus, I like to think that sort of thing being on ABC Family/Freeform is in direct protest of the 700 Club and Pat Robertson still having a choke hold on the network. I give ABC all the...

This is the kind of episode the show is more in tune with. Dealing with themes that could have been in the original show, but weren't, showing that the characters are growing up, keeping the show its own thing but not going too far off from what the show is about. While the last episode was...

The PG ratings on Cartoon Network vex me. Clearly they want the cartoons to look like they appeal to the older fanbases, yet they still consider cartoons for kids and consider the network a children's network in competition with Nick and Disney. It's complicated. I tend to think that Steven...

I felt the same way about The Birdcage. They drop F bombs and Robin Williams, Nathan Lane (what a stretch), and Hank Azaria played gay characters in the 1990's. Maybe a statue wang is shown for comedic effect in one scene. There's a reference to a politician dying while doing a prostitute...

You do kinda need certain types of math, even algebra. Algebra is something that pop up in taxes. Anything more advanced is for those who are planning to go into scientific careers. That said, you can say that about everything they teach you in school and the fact they teach to standardized...

I'm actually a fan of He-Man, not so much because I grew up with it (it was there when I was a child, but on its way out when I would have been old enough to appreciate it, but because I watched it as an adult and enjoyed it on a camp value. Skeletor has become one of my favorite villains from...

There's a thread for this, by the way. I was to lazy to post it there myself. http://www.muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/sony-ditches-hybrid-smurf-movies-goes-to-straight-up-cgi.58111/ You may have forgot about This thread from 2008. Long story short, they totally were, a trilogy was...

That's an example that's strange to explain. The only reason Sesame was an hour in the first place was because it was given the freedom to do so on the up and coming public television option. A network would never allow a kid's show to go on that long continuously. A block of episodes that...

I'm seeing more digitally animated cartoons with frame rates so fluid that they actually blow traditional animation out of the water. I'm impressed by how Wander over Yonder Looked, and I love the movement of The Loud House. The new Danger Mouse actually has more movement in digital than it...

Once Upon a Townsville was a brilliant episode for mocking the hypocrisy of forcing something not girly on girls without realizing some of them actually like girly things. A great stab at clumsy attempts to make something that boys are supposed to like (which some girls naturally gravitate...

Problem with the half hour format is that they could totally get the show to work in that format, had the segments alternated. So, like Smart Cookies one episode, Super Grover 2.0 the next, then Elmo the Musical. They wouldn't even have needed to bring back Elmo's Filler after at least 2...

Which also reminds me. Remember back when the talking Barbie came out and the fact it said "Math is Tough" was such a huge controversy that an episode of the Simpsons was made to parody it, and now it's a huge example of the "Weird AL Effect?" Because somehow saying that "math is tough" made...

Okay. I've been a supporter of this show when the fanboys and fangirls of the original were nitpicking the show to death and overreacting to how "bad" it was. And I still swear they haven't seen a revival cartoon before. But this last episode I have to admit even I thought was awful. Not...

Hopefully, it's at least better, more fluid flash.

The sad thing is the one parody segment they had was quite clever, though I had to have an Orange is the New Black fan explain everything to me. Suffice to say, it was well researched a parody done by fans of the show. Heck, even the Birdy and the Beast story was pretty decent and had a few...

You know why I always give cartoons made in the 70's such a hard time? That. That reason exactly. I LOVE cartoons from the 60's. A huge HB and jay Ward fan would automatically have to, but there's just something magical and yet batcrap insane about cartoons from that era. Discounting the...

Also exactly what I said earlier. And you know what? Mom and Pop places have salads on their menu. These chains basically act like any other sort of food that goes with pizza is somehow the most mystical thing ever invented and it's astounding that they somehow have them. Though I do...

The tropics have been very active lately. That's usually a sign that winter (at least in the North East) is going to be a very active season. Which worries me. I can't stop thinking of that horrid pattern we had 2 years ago when we had a blizzard at least every two to three days for a couple...

I think this episode shows that the show is starting moreso to drop the flavor of the writers, and more of a genuine classic PPG feel updated in all the right places. Even did a "Once again, the day is saved" gag, something lacking in most episodes. Plus we actually got a little more backstory...

I could make a whole statement about how Public education keeps screwing itself and its students by falling back on the very same failures it keeps blundering through. Or I could put it this way. Remember that Pepper Ann episode where they had a career day or business class or something and...