First handful of seasons are really good, first movie is basically top tier for that kind of humor. Quotable line after quotable line after quotable line, and yet it flows really well. Like you, I had an uphill climb to see it for what it was, my knucklehead younger brother LOVED it. And I mean, for all the dumb stuff I’ve done, that guy ate his boogers, no chance I was taking his taste seriously at the time.
He was right 😌
Flapjack was my addition too :) great weird little show, hugely underrated.
Edit to add: even the theme song fuckin rips!! My head exploded after I’d watched all of Flapjack like twice, theme song over and over, and then I one day hear - the original. Way older and not even very different. My brain broke.
Was low-key halfway baiting to see if you’d go on a Don Bluth tear 😂 happy to have guessed correctly haha.
I can’t claim any deep knowledge, but one of my best homies ever helped me connect the dots that many many many of my favorite media as a youth came outta that studio / that approach to storytelling.
Looking back, yeeeeesh, dude made exclusively emotionally damaging movies lmao. I remember the heartbreak for each one. Still think they’re better.
[Edit: not familiar with Rock a Roodle, hoping I’ll remember to give it a whirl]
Nice! On a whim I took the time to find and watch a couple episodes some years back and it was fun to remember how David just talks to the audience about stuff sometimes.
I remember it being a very “warm”-feeling show, but of course it’s impossible to disentangle my earliest thoughts about it from that quick review. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug!
Sidenote, I feel like David the Gnome and Fern Gully are strong examples of something lovely we lost in storytelling for kids. A less polished but somehow both a warmer and a more honest look at things.
Thanks for the recs!
Ahhh Squidbillies, solid addition. Not all that kid friendly to be clear.
This has been on my list of ancient lovely things to revisit. Have you given it a spin lately? How’s it hold up after all this time?
I don’t see “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack” mentioned yet - it’s weird, has lovable characters, and excellent animation and voice acting. Actually I just can’t say enough good things about it, it’s delightfully odd and entertaining. The surgeon is also a barber, just like the good old days! Can I interest you in some surgery?
Group in power has ratcheted up political violence in multiple staggering ways, deliberately, they use it constantly to brutalize people.
What are you even talking about? There is no peaceful baseline that exists to be maintained. They have broken the social contract entirely. Where have you been?
Holy fuck, what a ride.
Wondering where he got that.
Left me deceased as well.
I’ve gotten to experience some bargain basement mortuary services myself - and sidenote, I swear, people say Americans have no sense of culture?! Please!
We got to enjoy a mortuarily-approved ($$$) small plastic bin for the remains in question in our case, as well as a quiet little moment of our own on the wee spot on the (public access 😅) coast she favored. Anyway, with ours ending up more Lebowski than Tucker and Dale lol.
We weren’t asked to help carry, at least. Yeesh homie.
[Edit to add - glad pops woulda found it just right, frankly, in my experience, the universe sometimes does work out in strangely lovely and hilarious ways like that, your story is rad]
DoorDash getting in the mortuary services game huh?! Those rascally innovators, wonder what they’ll innovate next!
All jokes aside, I should add, that fucking sucks, and is real gross, and I’m sorry you had to pay through the nose for the privilege of experiencing such a tasteless money-grab. Yuck.
Waiting to see if they’ve got any more fun contributions in the thread before doing exactly that lmao
This take sounds like the kinda guy who introduces “hot dogs are a sandwich” to a group, everyone enjoys the laughs and mock debate for a minute, then gets weirded out when the dude appears to really mean it and wants to defend the idea seriously 😂
You fucking suuuuuck dude, get better ideas
Adding to the chorus - you’re a real piece of shit for taking an artist’s work, REMOVING something the artist finds important, and then pretending like you’ve got some moral high ground here.
Go fuck yourself!
Big difference between a comic and a meme, you should go fuck yourself.
I came across this song via the opening theme for a deranged and fun little cartoon called “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack” (or similar, can’t be arsed to go look).
I shit myself when I somehow stumbled onto the much older source one day, having heard it in cartoon form a good hundred times or so prior.
This is about surveillance, not jobs.
Hell yeah, today is the day
Well that’s a fucking disaster. BIG hate for this sellout.
To certain kinds of kid (😅) it’s an unignorable urge, have to eventually find out, maybe more than once. Satisfying “ka-thunk”, brief pause, “k-thwit”, sudden weird dangerous magic.
Curiosity is one hell of a drug, lol. Available to all from the jump, so to speak, some folks can’t resist knuckleheadery.
Another I don’t think I saw mentioned - Pinky Malinky! If you’re looking for a slightly deranged but entirely sweet, over the top and extremely fast paced modern one, Pinky Malinky will not disappoint. This show was made with real love lol. And several other weird things I don’t think I have.
Just note, if you’re old, you’ll be laughing at jokes about 3-jokes-back, the entire time. It’s quick, and I usually hate that cuz it usually just hides poor craft. Not here.
Oh don’t think I saw Courage the Cowardly Dog on your list. Haven’t returned to it in a real long time but it was a classic of oddity in its era of course.