Cartoons that you think are overrated
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When Moviebob had the two-part Big Picture titled "The Simpsons is still funny", my immediate reaction was "Since when has The Simpsons EVER been funny?". When Futurama started transmission, I watched a few episodes, then gave up on it when it became clear it was just "The Simpsons: Recycled in Space".
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Is it trying to tell us something?
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Is it trying to tell us something?
"Stop liking what I don't like" thread?
"Stop liking what I don't like" thread.
If I liked everything that was popular, there'd be something severely wrong with the world. So I'm quite alright with cartoons being "overrated" that I don't like.
"Stop liking what I don't like" thread.
If I liked everything that was popular, there'd be something severely wrong with the world. So I'm quite alright with cartoons being "overrated" that I don't like.
Adventure Time, Regular Show, Family Guy.
Captcha: Go berserk. Yes. Yes, these shows do make me want to do so.
Captcha: Go berserk. Yes. Yes, these shows do make me want to do so.
For me it'd have to be (besides MLP) Adventure Time. Don't get me wrong, it's a good show and all, but really can't see the fandom it receives...
Tom and Jerry now there is a interesting choice I never expected anyone to drop any golden age titles I would love to hear your reasoning?ninjaRiv said:
Also I thought you made some great points for zim and titans. As one of the people who actually read Vasque's stuff before seeing Zim I never could understand why Nick would hire him. I like invader zim but I feels very restricted, mind you they were heavily restricted but you can really sense the restrictions in some episodes.
1963-1960's is generally considered the golden age of cartoonsShock and Awe said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_American_animation
While the 1960-1980's sometimes can be considered the dark ages
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation
1985-2005 is considered a renaissance of animation by people as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_animation_in_the_United_States
It is really interesting stuff actually though I am obsessed with cartoons
Even as a pony-lover I'm going to have to go with FiM. Anything that spawns an entire subculture dedicated to it is overrated almost by definition. It hits a lot of good points; it's upbeat, colorful, and fun without imbibing the all-too-popular snark and cynicism that infects so much of modern media and without being unpalatably saccharine. But it doesn't quite live up to it's own hype; the fanbase has had to create the things it most wants from the franchise. And that's okay; I don't expect to see Hasbro turn the show into the next Avatar or something.
I guess the show just annoys me. Maybe it's not overrated but it DOES do my head in.aba1 said:
Personally, I think they hired him simple because they wanted to be edgy and different. Unfortunately, they wanted "safe" edgy and different. All of Vasquez'a style but not very much of what makes his stuff as interesting as it is. It doesn't help that he kind of hated working on the proect because of the limitations set on him. Speaking of Vasquez, doesn't he have a new animation in the works? That's what I heard, anyway. It'd be nice to at least see a new comic!
I think the humor in Adventure Time is more about the surrealism, and the dialogue. Like, the way the characters speak. That's what I find funny about it, at least. I prefer Regular Show's brand of those same things, to be honest.SanAndreasSmoke said:
OT: Hey--FUCKING--Arnold!.
Why does anyone like this show? I used to watch it as a kid, because I was a TV kid and often times nothing else was on and something I actually wanted to watch was on the same channel later.
I've seen quite a lot of Football Head. And never, never ever ever, have I found it enjoyable to any degree. Whenever I watch it, all I see is a horrendously boring program filled with uninteresting characters, poor voice acting and hum-drum plots that only vaguely try to be interesting.
The worst part is it seems like everyone I know loves it. Also, Doug seems to have the same thing going on.
My list of overated seem to be:
MLP FIM-The major hype and following and the show losing it's spark turned me away by the end of S2 along with the purist brony's and the ones that can't admit it's not the best show in the world, that and plastering ponies over every other show to try and make them "improved/better".
Dragonball Z with it's poor long stetch pacing where one battle could take 5 episodes to span out and finish.
Most girl power anime types that are still cropping up in the anime world and as usual gathering way too much hype.
Seth Mcfarlane's crummy 7 min jokes found in almost every single episode of Family Guy that makes me believe Seth is suffering a mental illness due to the jokes being that long and copy+pasted.
MLP FIM-The major hype and following and the show losing it's spark turned me away by the end of S2 along with the purist brony's and the ones that can't admit it's not the best show in the world, that and plastering ponies over every other show to try and make them "improved/better".
Dragonball Z with it's poor long stetch pacing where one battle could take 5 episodes to span out and finish.
Most girl power anime types that are still cropping up in the anime world and as usual gathering way too much hype.
Seth Mcfarlane's crummy 7 min jokes found in almost every single episode of Family Guy that makes me believe Seth is suffering a mental illness due to the jokes being that long and copy+pasted.
I second that. I mean, he's usually right on the mark, but his "Everything Can Be Funny" policy sometimes leaves the way open for some pretty questionable material. I say that having utterly loved the shit out of Ted.M K Ultra said:
As for MLP saturating the Intertubes, I'd say the show could stand to be a little less emphatically supported by bronies. This is a pretty personal opinion, of course, but I'm happy enough approaching Friendship is Magic casually. I really don't need to have constant reminders that Pinkie Pie et al. exist - even if I loved the shit out of Discord and even if I'm looking forward to his rumoured return.
It's clever enough in that it makes each episode watchable for the new generation of parents, but the premise doesn't turn it into top notch entertainment as far as my adult mind and sensibilities are concerned.
Give me a Game of Thrones episode and an MLP episode premiere, GoT wins every time. No disrespect intended.
How can it be overrated? It won four Emmy awards and was nominated for nine others, it was on prime time television opposite 60 minutes for months. It is literally the third most accoladed American animated television show after the The Simpsons and South Park. If you can think of an American animated series that deserves more praise than The Simpsons, South Park and Batman: The Animated Series I'd love to hear it, because that's the only way any of these shows are over-rated.ShogunGino said:
The reason Batman:The Animated Series is so highly praised isn't because it did many things right, it's because it did more things right than almost every other animated series within the past 30 years or so. Nobody ever said that it didn't have flaws. What's important is that even the episodes that have flaws and are dubious are still better than most of the best episodes of other animated television shows. And what matters even more are that the best episodes of Batman: The Animated Series outpace most television shows in story-telling and ended up directing the future development of popular American animation.