u/pokematic

Cartoon Network's CN Real was a terrible failure with all but 1 show being really bad. The exception in my own opinion and some others was Brainrush, a game show that took place at an amusement park where contestants had to answer questions while on a roller coaster. It was a pretty good concept if you ask me, mixing the challenge of trivia based game shows with the adrenalin rush of roller coasters, which is a pretty good concept for a children's game show. Where would this have fit in well? Nickelodeon, the channel that was partially known for children's game shows, that filmed television productions at an amusement park. I believe that if this aired on Nickelodeon produced in partnership with Universal Studios Florida, I think it would have been a pretty successful series instead of the 1 season failure that was on Cartoon Network.

Another series that aired on the wrong network was the Dana Carvey Show, a sketch comedy series centered around comedian Dana Carvey with some pretty big A-list talent. The problem it faced according to the hulu documentary was that ABC didn't like how edgy and crude it was, and as a generally family friendly network they didn't have a good place for it. When one thinks of edgy, which network comes to mind? For myself and many others, that would be FOX. I don't know if this was green lit by ABC in an attempt to compete with shows like Mad TV and In Living Color on FOX, but it probably would have been more successful had it aired on FOX.

These are just some that I can think of right now, what are some that you can point to?

This isn't "I like to travel, going to new places, doing activities in unique places" and the whole "love to travel" thing. I like packing, I like driving and flying, I even like airport terminals.

First, I love packing. I love having to think about what will I need, what may I need, what would make things better. It's like I have to think about who I am in this context and what this me needs. But the best part is figuring out how to get EVERYTHING in my bag. I get to (not have to) figure out how to best organize things to maximize space optimization. When I go on a week long trip with my family, I can fit a week's worth of clothes for my wife and I, a whole food drawer (because when we fly we normally don't have access to a car and groceries), and any other things that we may need. Then on the way back we normally have some additional souvenirs, so then I get to do the same thing all over again.

Next, I love the mode of transportation. Airplanes and trains are "get on and then just relax for hours." I spend so much of my day having to be in charge of everything I do, and it's refreshing being able to just not have to worry about that, just some time to read, play portable video games, or watch videos I downloaded. Then when it comes to driving, if I'm the passenger it's the same as air or rail travel, and if I'm driving then I'm able to power my 2 ton mech called a personal vehicle.

Lastly, I enjoy airports. The terminals are full of every kind of restaurant, both fast food and fast casual dining. Yeah, it's over priced, but there are a lot of places I can only find there despite being a regional chain. There's also normally some kind of display, like fountains or sculptures, and they aren't horrible. Sure, it's not like "high art" but it's still fun and unique. The monorail people movers are also great, it's like an amusement park ride. I don't have subway/metro systems where I live, so I get the same kind of novelty excitement you see in the social media posts of world cup travelers eating basic American food. And then there's the carry on bags. Back to my first point about my love of efficient packing, I have basically all my creature comforts in my backpack, and I feel like a cartoon character with hammer space when I just pull all sorts of things out of my bag (switch, chargers, video camera, can of almonds, candy bar, beef jerky, fiber brownies, etc.). Lastly, if I check a bag, there's the fun of watching and waiting for my bag to come out at baggage claim. "Is the next bag going to be mine, or am I going to bust," it's like gambling only instead of "eventually I'll lose" it's "eventually I'll win." If I'm traveling with family and they check a bag as well, then I get to play "who will come out first." There's no prizes or punishments, and I'm normally just playing by myself, but it's fun. I also like watching other people's luggage come out, people have such fun luggage these days (it's not all black boxes that all look the same).

Why live streaming is such a popular form of online content is beyond me. I would get it if most of the people who do live streams were good at being spontaneous and keeping the energy going, but almost none of them are. Whenever I come across a live stream what do I see, A LOT of dead air, people just sitting there and maybe going "uuuuhhhhh" and "woah!" It's not that these guys aren't talented, I'll watch one of their pre-recorded and edited videos and it's great, but that's the reason they're good, because they have "take 2" and "fix it in post."

Audience engagement is the reason? Yeah sometimes they do that, but unless it's a dedicated Q&A stream most of the time they aren't paying attention to the chat unless it's a pause. Unfiltered and raw? Call me old fashioned but if the "real guy" is boring because the character slips or needs to work through it, I'll take it "filtered and cooked."

Even if the creator is good, why would I want to "tune in at a specific time to watch" or "get lucky and catch you streaming?" I stopped watching live TV when I finally got a cable package with a DVR, after that it's always been on demand, and I always expected my online videos to be on demand. Then if I come in late, did I miss anything important, or like my point above was it just dead air?

And it'd be one thing if it was limited to just places like twitch that specialize in live streams, but it seems like all platforms want to focus on live streams. Youtube is always pushing the live streams; "look I'm live, here are live streams you may be interested in, you should go live." How about you just give me the pre-recorded videos that made you who you are. Instagram live; intagram, the photo sharing platform, is into live streaming? Why? Is it REALLY that popular to where it's "the big thing," or is the reality that it's like onlyfans and 80-90% of the revenue comes from a handful of successful people and the vast majority make nothing? I just don't get it.

Growing up my grandpa would always talk about "thongs." "Back in college we wore our thongs to the shower room. In the locker room make sure to wear your thongs. Do you have your thongs packed?" and similar. My brother, cousin, and I always gave him weird confused looks when he would say things like that. After a while my mom eventually interjected "boys he's talking about flip flop sandals, not skimpy women's underwear." That made things make a lot more sense, and far less perverted.

What's your story of something like that?

I've seen it happen in media where the truckers are angry at someone in a passenger car, and a group of 4 trucks box in the car before doing something bad. Outside of just being a dick move that is enough for good people to avoid doing, are there laws that make it illegal for trucks to do that?

I've been seeing clips of the series finale and such from the reboot, but as far as I can tell it's delisted from paramount plus and isn't on demand on hulu live TV. Did I just miss my opportunity to watch it (because I remember something about it being a write off after failing badly), or am I just not looking at the right distribution (because I know hulu live TV can be hit and miss with having everything that's available on other cable providers).

A common meme among our generation is "our special relationship with that one movie our family had on VHS that we watched all the time." In my experience, there's more to it than just "I watched it all the time," there's also a quote or 2 that you said all the time. For me it was "look, I fixed it" from >!Chicken Run!< (normally said in the context of fixing something incorrectly, since that was the context of the quote). What was yours? Make a game of it by saying the quote and then using the spoiler tag to hide the movie to see if others can recognize it.

I've been watching some episodes and I notice that some of the bars are not too far from where I live, and I'm considering checking them out. Has anyone else gone to a bar after rescue? Follow-up, was it a good experience, and do they lean into the "as seen on this TV show" like the Diners Drive ins and Dives restaurants (I've been to some of those, they always have pictures of Guy and "we were on Triple D," but I assume "we're so good a famous chef wanted to show us off" is probably more brag worthy than "we were incompetent until a reality TV show did consulting for us").

If the fruit can withstand temperatures 3/10 the temperature of the sun, it seems like there are major fireproofing opportunities for a substance that is basically fireproof for anything here on earth.

I remember in English lit class we read "the old classics of hundreds of years ago" like The Odyssey and Shakespear, but we also read "contemporary classics" like Catcher in the Rye and Brighton Beach Memoirs, books that were written and/or set in the 1940s-1960s, that we were "supposed to identify with for being so recent," but instead came off like "maybe for our parents/grandparents, but where's the myspace/facebook, where's the CD/mp3 player and the challenge of getting music off the internet, where's the texting, where's the pressure to get amazing grades because that's the only way to get into a good university and there's no hope for a future if you don't go to college, where's the adult who won't stop asking you to fix their TV/phone/computer, where're the videogames and emerging fandom connections of online relationships, where're all the things that are most relevant to young people of the new millennium?"

This isn't necessarily to say "these books were bad" (that's a debate for a different sub), but from what I remember the way they were "marketed" to us was "you as a teen should identify with the struggles of these characters because they understand the adolescent experience" and I'm just sitting there like "I don't know about you teacher who's 20-40 years older than me, but this doesn't sound anything like the adolescent experience I or anyone else I know is experiencing, maybe if you want us to see our own life experiences in the characters, you should assign us a book that was written in the last 20 years and knows what a computer is."

I'm the cook in my family, and it tends to involve a lot of raw meat and such. Whenever I think about what I'm doing with my preparation dishes and utensils, I always hear John yelling at me "DON'T GET RAW MEAT EVERYWHERE! YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY!" and that keeps me from reusing plates. Just today I marinated ribs in a casserole dish overnight and I wrapped them in plastic wrap so I didn't dirty the dish, and after taking the wrap off I saw that there were some rib juices in it. I was thinking about trying to quickly clean it but then I heard "YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE SOMEBODY SICK!" in my brain, so I just put it in the dish washer and got a clean serving plate.

In either the first or second episode of The Rookie on ABC one of the senior beat cops takes his trainee to a biker bar, points out how one of the biker gangs requires members to have a felony in order to be at a certain rank, he gets out of his squad car and announces "who needs a felony?" which prompts a biker to come up and they get in a fist fight with the officer, resulting in his arrest for assaulting a police officer, and all the while this is treated like something he just does every Tuesday.

That surely doesn't happen, right? What criminal organization would say "to achieve this rank, you need to go through the criminal justice system?" Also, what officer would seek out felony assault in "gang territory?"

2023's Wish gets a lot of hate, and I understand why, but one thing that I don't understand is why everyone says "Magnifico is a terrible villain, he had no motivation for why he was doing what he was doing and why he was the villain," and I'm sitting there like "are you not familiar with the rest of the Disney animated catalog?"

Here's the general criticism I hear. "Magnifico was all powerful, why didn't he just grant everyone's wish, what was his motivation for lording it over everyone like that, we never learned what happened to cause him to be so protective of his magic, he had no reason to go to the evil magic book that turned him evil, what a terrible villain" (maybe you think or have heard differently, but this was basically all I ever heard). OK, let's unpack this.

• Yes, Magnifico is capable of granting everyone's wish, but he chooses not to. You know, in much the same way Prince John could have given citizens of Nottingham enough to live off of (or just not taxed them into poverty, as is the moral of Robin Hood), but he chose to tax his citizens into poverty, not because he had legitimate reason to, he just wanted the money.
• "What's his motivation for lording the wish over everyone," because he's the bad guy. He wants power over his subjects, and this gives him power. Why does Cinderella's step mom treat her as a slave? Because it gives her power.
• "We never learned what happened to cause him to be so protective of his magic," and if we did would that legitimize his subjugation of his citizens? We never learn why Cruella is determined to have a fur coat made of puppies ("there was the Ema Stone-" I SAID THERE IS NO CANON EXPLANATION FOR HER MOTIVATION!), but she's held as a good villain.
• "He had no reason to go to the evil book." On the contrary, there came another magical being that posed the slightest risk to his power, and so he did everything he could think of to maintain his power, including doing something that would cause absolute corruption and destruction. Before anyone says "that's unbelievable," look up any authoritarian government and take notes of the lengths the leaders go to in order to maintain their power.

You might be saying "OK, so he had reasons, but it's too simple, where's the complexity of the motivation?" Right... because every Disney villain has had complex motivations for why they did the bad things they did. Let's go through some counter examples:

• The Evil Queen in Snow White wanted Snow White dead because she stopped being the prettiest in the land (instead of just aging gracefully)
• The Coachman in Pinocchio tempted boys to Pleasure Island in order to turn them into donkeys to sell as beasts of burden (instead of just raising donkeys).
• The elephants tormented Dumbo (a toddler) simply because he had big ears (instead of just, not doing that).
• The Cats in Lady and the Tramp ruined the house and framed Lady, because cats are naturally jerks?
• Maleficent cursed a baby because she wasn't invited to the party.
• Edgar tried to kill a cat and her 4 kittens because he didn't want to pour a can of cat food and clean a litter box (he effectively would have been master of the house, it's not like the cats had actual agency to boss him around).
• Bowler Hat Guy steals a time machine and tries to kill Lewis because he missed a catch at a little league game (sure, childhood trauma can be weird, but he's not the first boy in history to miss a fly ball in the big game).
• Turbo takes over a game that isn't his and gaslights an entire kingdom into thinking he's the rightful king while disabling their queen while also destroying another world after invading it (what happens when a game gets unplugged), because his game stopped being the most popular in the arcade.
• The Queen of Hearts executes anyone over the smallest of transgressions (like growing white roses instead of red roses), instead of matching the intensity of the transgression.
• Other villains previously mentioned.

Sure, some villains are complex in their motivations (Hans as the youngest of 12 won't have anything left to inhered so he tries to marry into it by any means necessary, Captain Hook has an ongoing feud with Peter Pan that is matched with Peter's antics, Amos Slade doesn't want a fox eating his chickens and doesn't like it when that fox almost kills his trusty dog, Dr. Facilier wants a big score after years of small time cons and Lawrence doesn't want to be a man-servant to a broke prince), but not all of them. Say what you will about Wish and the tired adorkable characters, bad animation, forced references, and such, but Magnifico is no worse than other Disney villains.

EDIT: Addressing "he had a point, like if someone wished to be insanely wealthy that could crash the economy, which would be a bad thing" point I missed. First, the examples he gave in the movie were "I'm taking it to the extreme to justify why I'm not granting it." The example I remember was "I want to make a great inspirational song," and he said "but what if that inspires people to do bad things, I can't have that" when that definitely wasn't the original intention of that wish (it was clearly "I just want to make a great song like American Pie" and he rationalized with the worst case scenario). But let's go with "maybe he had a point," he wouldn't be the first villain to "have a point."

• The hunter was probably just trying to feed his family when he shot Bambi's mom
• Shir Kahn was attacked by humans which explains his hatred for humans
• Stitch really was a danger to whatever environment he was in and the responsible thing was to subdue him
• Ralph didn't want Venelope to go turbo and lose his best friend, especially after he worked his butt off to get her game fixed
• Gaston wanted to save a young woman who he thought was being held hostage by a monster

Even if he had a point, that doesn't make him a bad villain by the standards of other villains.

Inspired by another post about "what if the rugrats did a spinoff if it wasn't the reboot," I think a concept with the most legs would have been a Grandpa Lou spin-off where each season takes place at a different stage in his life:

1. baby/toddler
2. young child
3. older child
4. teenager
5. new adult in the military
6. young man before marriage
7. new father
8. older father
9. empty nester
10. widower
11. son moves back in with his wife
12. expectant grandpa (last season)

From what we got from all his stories and occasional flash backs, he had a very colorful life (even if the flash backs were monochrome), and I think there would be a lot that could be done with this. Plus, I think it would be fun to see how the writers work 15 into every story since everything in his life happened in 15s. "How would baby and older child be different from 'rugrats and all grown up but with grandpa lou?'" 2 words, period piece. The original run took place around the 90s/00s based on the technology context clues. There were telephones, televisions, refrigeration, parenting books, relatively cheap camcorders and video editing software a child would own, and other things that weren't around 60-70 years ago when Lou was a baby/tween. Sure, Miriam hinted that she and Lou were basically Tommy and Angelica when they were young with friend parallels to Chuckie, Phil, and Lil, but that begs the question of "and what would those be like in the depression and war times" (did Lou go to 15 neighbors collecting tin foil for the war efforts, did 15 of Lou's friends get polio and never walk). Then there's all the other stories that don't have direct parallels to existing series (did Lou and his friends each spend 15 cents to buy a gallon of gas before hitting the town, did Lou take a girl on 15 dates before she broke his heart, was Lou only able to do 15 pull ups in basic training, did he have 15 near misses before learning how to properly repair a TV, and so on). Given the glimpses into his life and the time they would take place, I'd imagine this would be a more mature series due to the themes (like a strong PG). While it's also not exactly industry standard, I think it would be really fun if they made each season 15 episodes.

With the Weekenders finally being added to Disney Plus, I just want to share my story with it and other cartoons like it. Here's my story with The Weekenders, Disney's Doug, and Arthur; I'd watch these cartoons in the morning before school, and because my school started around 8AM I had to leave halfway through, and since the ONLY time I was able to watch them was before school (they'd either air while I was at school, at after school care, or after bed time) I never knew the B-episode of Arthur or The Weekenders, or how the episode of Disney's Doug finished. Sometimes I got lucky and would catch the whole episode when I was sick or in the summer (which is why on rewatch I do remember how some finished), but for the most part I had no idea how the second half of the episode went; I can basically recite the entire first half from memory, but can't tell you anything about the second half. While I'm at it, I might as well mention Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, a cartoon I DESPARATELY wanted to watch (big toy story fan and loved the pilot movie VHS I had) but again couldn't because it only aired at like 11AM on weekdays. A few years ago I watched Disney's Doug on Disney Plus in the morning before work, finally seeing the whole episode, and I'm doing the same thing with The Weekenders now.

I know this isn't a uniquely millennial experience (my xoomer mom told me how she hated 1st grade because she wasn't able to watch Kimba anymore), but we were the last generation to really have this kind of childhood struggle since after us it was all on demand, and probably had it worst since there was so much variety for children's entertainment since we had cable cartoon channels. Do you have the same kind of experiences with "I could only watch the episode part way through because it only aired before school" or "it never aired when I was home?"

I just kept thinking about Chaz's date and how I was glad I wasn't traveling with her since it would have added many hours to the trip.

Whenever I go to a high tourist area with a t-shirt store, there's always some R-rated shirt with strong profanity ("weather forecast throughout the united states, every state says 'sh**ty,'" "ancient Chinese saying, 'f*ck this shirt' written in the chop suey font sideways," etc.) or explicit nudity ("different breast types, here are 12 pairs of naked cartoon breasts," "a man is like a light switch, and it's a flaccid and erect penis," etc.). I'm all for novelty t-shirts (I have many myself), but those kind are not welcome in normal society and I've only ever seen someone wearing "the weather forecast" shirt once and it was in the context of "it's a shirt I don't mind ruining."