Signs the World IS Coming to an End in 2012

[Drtooth]

And yes, Catscratch was great! That stinks it was taken off the air. I feel the same way about the cartoon Viva Piñata! I can share one story (only 10 minutes) I found on youtube, and man, it's hilarious!

Viva Pinata was... well... it wasn't as successful as it should have been, not because of the cartoon or that "no business sense whatsoever" 4Kids was behind it... but rather Microsoft wanted their own big recognizable video game characters. Big enough for it to be their mascot, ala Sega's Sonic and Nintendo's Mario (and basically everything else they ever did). But X-Box was more of a teenage and older gamer system, so a kiddy looking game and kiddy looking characters like those of Viva Pinata just didn't fit in.

Which is a shame, since I heard the game was good, and the cartoon was, admittedly, pretty dang funny. It had some weird appeal to it.

 

[newsmanfan]

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Uh...you guys know the profs who originally transcribed the date as Dec 21, 2012 realized they were about 25 years off, right? We have until 2035 or so...

But this nation got packed in its own little handbasket quite a few years back. (I blame Reagan for getting that particular ball rolling. And the Puritans attemtping to run everyone else's lives.) Cartoons are only symptomatic of the greater malaise!
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[Drtooth]

But this nation got packed in its own little handbasket quite a few years back. (I blame Reagan for getting that particular ball rolling. And the Puritans attemtping to run everyone else's lives.) Cartoons are only symptomatic of the greater malaise!

It took the news media NOW to report the fact that gas prices are manipulated by stock traders. Something I've been saying for years. Wall Street is our greatest enemy, and we can't do anything about it. The Neo-Cons and the New World Order control both parties... nothing is new. That stuff doesn't upset me HALF as much as Annoying Orange getting a cartoon.

On the one hand, it does speak to the American Dream of having some stupid idea make you instantly famous... but on the other hand, it smacks down in the face of those who work hard to perfect a well thought out, carefully planned, deep meaning television cartoon. Something there's less and less room for since it isn't some live action thing about pop stars (and we're STILL milking this even though its 2012, and that novelty really did fade).

That said, I heard there's going to be an Angry Birds cartoon. Now, you think I'd tend to complain about that, but... I do like to give cartoons based on video games a chance. I wouldn't like games half as much, I admit, if it wasn't for the cartoons that they're based off of. I used to REALLY hate Sonic the Hedgehog and Sega for the mean things they said about Mario UNTIL the double threat of AOSTH and Sonic SatAm came out. Now he's one of my favorite characters... heck, Mario I did like, but the Super Mario Bros Super Show really made me love the characters... and frankly, Angry birds couldn't POSSIBLY make a cartoon any worse than Q*Bert

Why are they in the 50's? What's the point in that? The Donkey Kong cartoon made sense...

It's even enjoyable. The premise to Donkey Kong Jr. sounded good, but it felt like a bunch of unsold pilot scripts with Donkey Kong Jr. shoehorned in them... but even THAT wasn't as lame as Q*Bert. So yeah... I'd give Angry Birds the series a shot if it really happens. Heck no to Orange and Fred... but Birds... maybe... just maybe.

 

[D'Snowth]

I've checked out AO at first, mostly out of curiosity... it was okay, it was pretty interesting, but after a while, it got pretty old: if you've seen one AO video, you've just about seen them all. Then they started becoming pretty random like they were already in a state of desperation, and then they starting bringing previously "killed" characters back to life for no reason and with no explanation, which kind of lost its credibility.

Fred on the other hand, I've always hated, and so have many others... and if you guys can believe, yes, there actually was once a crossover video where Orange and Fred had a battle to see who was more annoying.

 

[Drtooth]

Fred on the other hand, I've always hated, and so have many others... and if you guys can believe, yes, there actually was once a crossover video where Orange and Fred had a battle to see who was more annoying.

AO has something too it, at least. Fred shouldn't have any appeal. I mean... it's just someone acting hyper and pitching up their voice. How can you base a stand up routine (basically what those videos are) on that let alone a Direct to video "movie" and at least 2 TV shows... that's right... they're supposedly planning an animated one.

Still sucks.

And like I said, there are just SOOOO many better things on the internet than those two things.

SEE? You can do THOUSANDS of things with Batman eating stuff.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Fred on the other hand, I've always hated, and so have many others... and if you guys can believe, yes, there actually was once a crossover video where Orange and Fred had a battle to see who was more annoying.

I saw that, and I think I have permanent brain damage from it

 

[meepmuppaphones]

Woah woah woah... Fred and the Annoying Orange have been promoted to a TV show?! On Nick and CN respectively?! Wow. I thought it can't get worse after iCarly, MAD, and other TV monsters. Those two channels are for kids, not teens. As I am typing this, I'm sure millions of kids' minds are being corrupted by all this stuff. They thought Looney Tunes and other cartoons like that were bad for kids because of guns, tobacco, and other adult-ish humor, but the way I see it, the people I know who are fans of things like Looney Tunes or Muppets are hundred times more decent than a kid who watches Fred. And Annoying Orange isn't any better. The TV networks should bring back Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, The Smurfs, and especially the Muppet Show.

 

[Drtooth]

Mad's a brilliant TV show. A million times funnier than Robot Chicken ever was, and far superior to Mad's other TV show that completely lost the appeal and soul of the magazine... though it was pretty good the first half of the series, that last bit was just freaking awful. Especially the "Rice and Beans" tour crap.

I understand the annoyance of bad internet videos on television 3+ years after people stopped caring. But if this devolves into another "why can't cartoons be exactly the same as they always were" discussion, I'll have no part of it. Remember, all the cartoons we've ever seen were new and offended someone at some point.

Personally I want to see more cartoons produced period. I understand the appeal of crappy tween coms and all (I hate to sound hypocritical, but Nick hasn't made a single thing that surpasses Kenan and Kel), but that shouldn't be the ONLY thing on kid's television. For frog's sake, Power Rangers didn't disrupt kid's programming as much as Hanna Montana did.

 

[meepmuppaphones]

Mad's a brilliant TV show. A million times funnier than Robot Chicken ever was, and far superior to Mad's other TV show that completely lost the appeal and soul of the magazine... though it was pretty good the first half of the series, that last bit was just freaking awful. Especially the "Rice and Beans" tour crap.

I understand the annoyance of bad internet videos on television 3+ years after people stopped caring. But if this devolves into another "why can't cartoons be exactly the same as they always were" discussion, I'll have no part of it. Remember, all the cartoons we've ever seen were new and offended someone at some point.

Personally I want to see more cartoons produced period. I understand the appeal of crappy tween coms and all (I hate to sound hypocritical, but Nick hasn't made a single thing that surpasses Kenan and Kel), but that shouldn't be the ONLY thing on kid's television. For frog's sake, Power Rangers didn't disrupt kid's programming as much as Hanna Montana did.

Yeah, I meant that horrible MAD show, not the good one, sorry for the ambiguosity... it did ruin the magazine, I've read it before, it was a good magazine. I've played Spy VS Spy, and it's a great game, but modern TV people are ruining the good stuff. Robot Chicken actually made fun of Muppets. Sad, isn't it?

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Robot Chicken actually made fun of Muppets. Sad, isn't it?

But so does MAD