Well, my childhood was ruined today

[Tony2077]

i read about this but it was after watching all dogs go to heaven

 

[Fox12]

In a less dark note (but still kinda dark) I rewatched Hey Arnold! recently. Turns out it's not about Arnold and his wacky pseudo-philosophical adventures at all. It's about a little girl being raised by a neglectful father and a drunk mom whose trapped in an unhappy marriage due to (presumably) getting knocked up. It almost made me cry a few times, which is no small feat. Also, Eugene and the class teacher are apparently gay. Funny what you pick up on when you watch things over.

I just re-watched the whole series a couple years ago, and holy cow does it hold up well. Helga was the true star of that show and one of my favorite characters of all time. MTV was going to do a spin-off series about her as a high schooler, but they thought it would clash with Daria too much.

The emotional kick that show could have still amazes me. I still cry at the christmas episode.

The characters were incredibly deep for what was supposed to be a children's cartoon. I'd say it's actually deeper than the majority of adult entertainment now. It's also a relief to see a show that can be incredibly sad and serious while still being FUNNY. I made my siblings watch it when they were old enough.

It's a shame the spin-off never got made, I would love to see the cast return. The show really deserved a spin-off, especially if it was aimed at the now older original audience.

 

[MiskWisk]

she was surprisingly a pretty good voice actress, and it pains me to see such talent go to waste. a similar incident happened to me when i found out that one of my favorite writer/directors had died before his latest film could be finished. they had said that the film would continue production under a new director but about a year afterwards (and 1/3 of the film complete) was canceled due to not wanting to fund the film because they knew it wouldn't make any money so diverted the funds to some mainstream shit anime about 15 year old little girls in a club acting all "moe", which went to sell gangbusters, while Satoshi Kon's films fall into obscurity. i hope MADHOUSE eventually revives the project, because Satoshi Kon was a visionary genius.

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and why the fuck can't i post any images like everyone else.

There we go, fixed the issues (as well as spoiler'd it to save space). Basically, the problems were caused by the spaces you put in the img tags since you need to type it with no spaces between a square bracket and the command. Also, do not put spaces between commands as well. Remember, if you need help on the commands, just select quote on someone who already has an image and it should give an example of what to put.

Hope that helps.

 

[Batou667]

Fake and not-gay. Say what you want about IMDB, but they are very thorough, and they'd never let something like that slip by.

Damn. I'm almost a bit disappointed, and I'm not even gay.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Yeah, I heard about this not too long ago myself. And beyond being shocked that it actually happened, I was shocked I never became aware of it sooner what with Land before Time being one of my favourite movies.

If only Petrie was there to save her.

 

[Gaijinko]

This didn't ruin my childhood but the only thing that comes to mind is something semi related. When I was younger I read all of David Gemmells work from front page to back. You can quote me on any of that. I recently went to re read one of my favorites Quest for lost heroes. To my surprise something that I did not pick up from the book as a youngster as an adult I now did, it involves Finn and Maggrig so I won't spoil it. it was a pleasant surprise and made me want to re-read most of the things i have read to see if my now semi mature brain could pick something up.

 

[RoonMian]

A few years ago I rewatched all the cartoons I so loved as a kid. Mask, Transformers, He-Man... And without 20 years of nostalgia in between I was actually furious at my TV over how shit they were to 26-year-old me.

The only one I still enjoyed was Captain Future but for all the wrong reasons. As a kid all that casual sexism flew right over my head.

Captcha: I know nothing!

Edit:

Spoiler: I forgot to mention the awesome intro!

 

[EHKOS]

I've ranted around these forums enough about it. Let's just say Activision and Twinsanity and call it at that.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I heard about that a long time ago, and it's really depressing. You wanna know what else is depressing? Finding out what happened to the young stars and singers from my childhood, especially the ones who have gone off the deep end...