At least in Survivor they actually have to do things.With BB you're literally just watching a dozen or so twats sitting downcanadamus_prime said:
What's the weirdest premise of a show you've watched?
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Does anime based on manga count? If so, Bobobo-bo-Bobobo would be my entry for this topic. A shounen anime that makes fun of shounen anime. The main character is as overpowered as Goku, but he fights primarily with his whip-like nose hairs. And when that doesn't work, he's always changing into something completely random or pulling something completely random out of his yellow afro. It's a universe in which not making sense actually physically harms the enemy as a lot of the super attacks could, in no way, hurt someone and yet it'll absolutely pulverize them. Great show, better manga. I recommend it if you'll looking for a good laugh. But to be fair, it only works if you're into the type of humor it conveys, otherwise you're likely to just think "This is fucking stupid."
As for original shows, I've gotta go with Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Two foul-mouthed angels - one's a total slut, the other is a gothic Lolita with a sweet-tooth - live in a city in Purgatory and constantly have to fight grotesque/vulgar/perverted spirit-monsters so they can earn coins that will buy their way back into heaven. One pulls her panties off and turns them into a gun, the other pulls her stockings off and turns them into katanas. The first monster they fight is a giant pile of shit.
Watched the first episode annnnnnnnd I didn't NOT like it, but I still haven't dared to watch the next episode.
As for original shows, I've gotta go with Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Two foul-mouthed angels - one's a total slut, the other is a gothic Lolita with a sweet-tooth - live in a city in Purgatory and constantly have to fight grotesque/vulgar/perverted spirit-monsters so they can earn coins that will buy their way back into heaven. One pulls her panties off and turns them into a gun, the other pulls her stockings off and turns them into katanas. The first monster they fight is a giant pile of shit.
Watched the first episode annnnnnnnd I didn't NOT like it, but I still haven't dared to watch the next episode.
Heil Honey, I'm Home.
A comedy show about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun moving next door to a Jewish couple.
Yes, someone actually filmed and aired a sitcom with that premise. It's real.
The show was written by British comedy writer Geoff Atkinson (one of the main writers of Spitting Image) in the 1990s, and is an almost perfect example of a Stealth Parody show. Possibly the most bizarre example of a "reimagining", the series set out to depict Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living in suburban bliss, with their lives interrupted only by Hitler's dislike for their next door neighbours, an incredibly stereotypical Jewish couple. It was presented to the viewer as a "long lost", "recently rediscovered" 1950s sitcom, parodying and distorting beyond recognition the worst features of such programs (with unnecessary canned applause for every character entrance, hideously vacuous plots and dialogue, and a truly awful title sequence).
The show's ultimate intent seemed to be to illustrate and parody the banal, cookie-cutter nature of most shows in this style. If one changed the names of the main characters, along with a couple of lines, the show would be indistinguishable from a genuine post-war sitcom, and the humour is largely derived from the jarring fact that the domestic fool main character just happens to be Hitler. That said, it's hard to see how the premise, originally envisioned as a comedy sketch, would've been maintained over a series of shows.
Needless to say, the show proved to be more than controversial. Many found it to be offensive for its trivial attitude towards Nazism, whilst others considered it to be a legitimate comedy along the lines of The Producers and other Third Reich parodies, with the undeniable crassness being an intentional part of the wider stealth parody. And others just thought it was a boring sitcom pastiche that wasn't made funny simply by the fact a guy dressed as Hitler was in it. Eight episodes were commissioned and planned by the now defunct Galaxy channel of the equally now defunct British Satellite Broadcasting network, but only the pilot was ever aired. The show's filming was immediately canceled upon Sky's acquisition of BSB.
I've watched it.
It was shit.
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A comedy show about Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun moving next door to a Jewish couple.
Yes, someone actually filmed and aired a sitcom with that premise. It's real.
The show was written by British comedy writer Geoff Atkinson (one of the main writers of Spitting Image) in the 1990s, and is an almost perfect example of a Stealth Parody show. Possibly the most bizarre example of a "reimagining", the series set out to depict Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living in suburban bliss, with their lives interrupted only by Hitler's dislike for their next door neighbours, an incredibly stereotypical Jewish couple. It was presented to the viewer as a "long lost", "recently rediscovered" 1950s sitcom, parodying and distorting beyond recognition the worst features of such programs (with unnecessary canned applause for every character entrance, hideously vacuous plots and dialogue, and a truly awful title sequence).
The show's ultimate intent seemed to be to illustrate and parody the banal, cookie-cutter nature of most shows in this style. If one changed the names of the main characters, along with a couple of lines, the show would be indistinguishable from a genuine post-war sitcom, and the humour is largely derived from the jarring fact that the domestic fool main character just happens to be Hitler. That said, it's hard to see how the premise, originally envisioned as a comedy sketch, would've been maintained over a series of shows.
Needless to say, the show proved to be more than controversial. Many found it to be offensive for its trivial attitude towards Nazism, whilst others considered it to be a legitimate comedy along the lines of The Producers and other Third Reich parodies, with the undeniable crassness being an intentional part of the wider stealth parody. And others just thought it was a boring sitcom pastiche that wasn't made funny simply by the fact a guy dressed as Hitler was in it. Eight episodes were commissioned and planned by the now defunct Galaxy channel of the equally now defunct British Satellite Broadcasting network, but only the pilot was ever aired. The show's filming was immediately canceled upon Sky's acquisition of BSB.
I've watched it.
It was shit.
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Girls und Panzer... where teenaged girls blasting the crap out of each other in as genteel a fashion as they can contrive is considered the height of adolescent femininity...(!)
'twas awesome!
'twas awesome!
That's why I thoroughly enjoyed Charlie Brooker's Dead Set. It seemed the logical conclusion to make something like that entertaining.MetalDooley said:
I think the best part was how they somehow made it seem normal as well. Nobody seems to find it the slightest bit odd that tank tournaments is a normal part of school life.SckizoBoy said:
OT: Well unless I have mistaken the latest episode, Kill La Kill seems to be about nudists guerrillas fighting against a high school that creates super-powered uniforms, due to clothes being the enemy of humanity. It at least that explains why the male teacher keeps ripping his shirt off (and probably the in-world reason for why her outfit is the way it is), but also opens up a whole new host of questions.
The Mighty Boosh. Just The Mighty Boosh. I can't really think of any way to describe it, it's just so weird. Probably why I like it so much.
Twin Peaks. A quirky FBI agent played by Kyle MacLachlan is sent to the town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of the prom queen. During the course of the investigation he will have a dream where there is a dancing midget and the murder victim talking backwards and dancing:
Encounters a woman who is paranoid about owls and talks to a log:
Has David Duchovney playing as a cross dressing FBI agent:
and here's the best bit, it has David Lynch as his boss.
And that is just scratching the surface. In short, it is one of the best TV shows ever.
Encounters a woman who is paranoid about owls and talks to a log:
Has David Duchovney playing as a cross dressing FBI agent:
and here's the best bit, it has David Lynch as his boss.
And that is just scratching the surface. In short, it is one of the best TV shows ever.
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei.
A hilariously suicidal high school teacher has a class full of personified psychosis, a girl whose OCD causes her to go on extreme violence, the main character being an extremely optimistic, secretly murderous sadomasochist, a girl whose never left her house, a girl whose extreme normalcy shows several signs of autism, another girl who has about 4 spoken lines and then begins to stalk her teacher, and a nerd who is only noticed when his scalp is showing, along with extremely literal interpretations of Japanese culture and society, all while another character exists to gaunt her breasts and, at least twice every chapter, flips her skirt up, because why not, and does it every single chapter.
It gets weirder.
Also, Bobobobo-bobobo. All of it.
A hilariously suicidal high school teacher has a class full of personified psychosis, a girl whose OCD causes her to go on extreme violence, the main character being an extremely optimistic, secretly murderous sadomasochist, a girl whose never left her house, a girl whose extreme normalcy shows several signs of autism, another girl who has about 4 spoken lines and then begins to stalk her teacher, and a nerd who is only noticed when his scalp is showing, along with extremely literal interpretations of Japanese culture and society, all while another character exists to gaunt her breasts and, at least twice every chapter, flips her skirt up, because why not, and does it every single chapter.
It gets weirder.
Also, Bobobobo-bobobo. All of it.
A shake, bearded floating fries and a dim-witted wad of meat go on adventures together, and a melodramatic mad scientist without pants does stuff completely unrelated to that.
The bizarre citizens of Free Country USA go about their daily lives. Hilarity ensues.
A group of collectors visit abandoned storage lots and have bidding wars on the stuff inside, trying to turn a profit.
Pretty tame compared to others above, but I never believed the last of these could be a popular show until I saw it.
The bizarre citizens of Free Country USA go about their daily lives. Hilarity ensues.
A group of collectors visit abandoned storage lots and have bidding wars on the stuff inside, trying to turn a profit.
Pretty tame compared to others above, but I never believed the last of these could be a popular show until I saw it.
How about a show where the only thing standing between humanity and the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness trying to destroy us was a single teenage girl. And it's not even anime.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I can under stand that in the beginning they may have only needed one, but as humanity spread across the globe and the population increased they really need to create multiple slayer lines.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I can under stand that in the beginning they may have only needed one, but as humanity spread across the globe and the population increased they really need to create multiple slayer lines.
Yeah...and you get another Slayer if she "technically" dies, even if she recovers. A few minutes after the Watchers work out the implications of that, a Slayer is going to spend the rest of her life in a hospital until they can't bring her back that time.J.McMillen said:
Except it doesn't work that way. Buffy died twice, but only activated a new slayer the first time (Kendra). Here's an easy way to think of it. Every potential slayer has that power locked up inside them while the current slayer has the key. When she dies, the key is passed to the next slayer and unlocks her power. Then she carries the key until she dies and it's passed on again. What the Watchers needed to do was create multiple keys so that there would not only be multiple slayers, but their deaths would automatically activate a new slayer.thaluikhain said:
Dat Dr Who.Ranorak said:
There are very very very few animes not based on manga or a novel. Both Bobobobo and Panty And Stocking are based on mangas.RJ 17 said:
She stopped being the main slayer after she died the first time, the second time she died another was not called. They could however kill each slayer until they have like 20, but whatever. By the end of the show every possible slayer is a slayer, so it's all moot.thaluikhain said:
Bobobo is my all-time favorite manga, didn't know that Panty and Stocking was based off a manga though. I always thought it was a show specifically designed to parody/emulate American animation and comedy. Shoulda known better I suppose, since as you said: pretty much all anime is based off a manga.Moderated said:
