Let me get some Animaniacs DVDs!

[BigTinz]

I got all the box sets of Animaniacs at Big Lots for about $4 each.

Yeah, not really helpful, but I felt like gloating.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

I've got some cool shit at Big Lots before....but nothing so new at such a great price.

[Droid party]

I remember Freakazoid from when I was a lad. Can't say I really liked it. However everything else mentioned so far is solid gold.

[jfrost]

I didn't like Animaniacs, but Pinky and the Brain was excellent.

I still remember episodes such as the one in which Pinky becomes the new president of Microesponge and the other one in which they build a new planet made of papier mache and attract the old Earth's population to it offering free t-shirts.

[Jrecee]

Spielberg seriously needs to direct a live action Pinky and the Brain movie.

[aaron]

a live action pinky any the brain movie would probably end up something like this:






also, freakazoid was one of my favorite shows growing up, but i don't think it'd hold my interest now. maybe i should revisit it, i haven't watched an episode in probably 10+ years.

[Ack]

I watched Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid when I was growing up, though by the time Pinky and the Brain was released as a separate show, I had moved on. Still, I had lots of fun watching them as a kid. Freakazoid still holds up in my opinion, as do the other two, though unfortunately some of the political humor of the time falls flat, since it's been nearly two decades since the jokes in some cases.

[Pulsar_t]

I watched Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid when I was growing up, though by the time Pinky and the Brain was released as a separate show, I had moved on. Still, I had lots of fun watching them as a kid. Freakazoid still holds up in my opinion, as do the other two, though unfortunately some of the political humor of the time falls flat, since it's been nearly two decades since the jokes in some cases.

True that. Which reminds me of the jokes in CG kids films that fly over the target audience's heads (e.g. the reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Monters vs Aliens)



Avenger Penguins was lesser known than any of the cartoons mentioned here but I wonder how well it holds up. I wish I could sample an episode before ordering the DVD set. Can someone please recommend some obscure non-anime cartoons? I distinctly recall several dubbed French animation series being among the weirdest out there.

[Erik_Twice]

Well, I just looked and the second box is at a very similar price on Amazon (6 dollars) new. The third box is found at 13 dollars too.

Given that an used film around here is more expensive I may pick all three. Now I'm not so jealous of the7k.

There's not going to be any good western animation for a long time, no offense, so I need to get some provisions.

@jfrost

The papier mache episode is one of the few I still remember, it was great. I loled hard when everyone started running towards the other Earth because they were giving free shirts.

[dsheinem]

There's not going to be any good western animation for a long time, no offense, so I need to get some provisions.

Why not?

[Erik_Twice]

Why not?

Mainly because nobody wants to make it. Think about it a second, how many studies make animation nowadays? Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks only.

At most you get some movies, around one a year, but animated series are incredibly rare nowadays. Animated children shows are rare because making "sitcoms" is cheaper and let's you reuse the same plots over and over again and, more importantly, they are children-only they have no value for an adult. Something like Animaniacs is not going to happen again until some time, the industry is busy making Hannah Montana.

And adult animated shows are very few and very limited in scope. I mean, we have The Simpsons in comatose state and it's clones and South Park. It's kind of sad by it's true.

Now on animated movies, we have the same companies. We have the yearly Pixar movie, it's fine, better than nothing but I don't like them because they are too formulaic. For me they are not bad but they aren't good either. Sometimes they have a good movie but they balance it with a bad movie so you end up having a good movie every 2'5 years.

The age of Animaniacs and other similar shows ended because those who made commercials didn't like familiar shows, they wanted half an hour commercials like Power Rangers. Also Power Rangers showed that you didn't need Spielberg and amazing jokes to get cash, you could get japanese leftovers and smash them together.

It's a bit like shovelware. In the videogame industry we, hardcore gamers, still get games because they don't have to choose between the crap and us. In TV you need to cram as much shit as you can in the same slot because if you are airing MST3K you can't air anything else.

I don't watch anything on TV because it's so bad. Every single good series was changed to cheaper Spanish shows based on fart jokes and sex.

/rant