Disney/Pixar In General

I know Anger means the same as Wrath, but don't they usually use Wrath when they're talking about the sins?

Everyone always stops with The Inferno. No one ever goes on to Purgatorio or Paradiso. The thing is called The Divine Comedy after all; it actually has a happy ending.

edited 1st Sep '16 9:46:31 PM by Robbery

I suppose that nowadays the highest praise you can give to anyone is that something they did became a meme. I have no idea what that means for our culture.

Or you could look at it for what it is, an animator proud that his work is being recognized in some way, and gaining more recognition after pointing this out

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I think now's a good time to post this classic Silly Symphony:

Dick Huemer, who helped animate the cartoon, once said that had any other studio at the time done this it would have been seven minutes of gags about running (presumably followed with the traditional Aesopic conclusion).

As you can see, that's not the case.

Also note the way Max Hare races. Nobody had been able to do speed like that in animation before this one.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Memes have existed far longer than we tend to realize. 'Me Tarzan, you __________' and 'Holy (insert random word here), Batman!' were memetic phrases for decades before the advent of the Internet, for instance.

Look at all the memes that came from Seinfeld. Hell, they even knew about it and tried to make a meme on purpose with "anti-dentite", but that same episode ended up making "yada yada yada" into a meme.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Dick "Huemer?" This joke feels waaay too easy to make.

That really was his name, I swear to God. He had a genuine career in animation. He worked at Columbia on the Scrappy cartoons.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

There's also the dancing baby from Ally McBeal.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Memes have been around for years and were arguably insufferable then as well.

Did people view the use of then-current memes in theatrical cartoons of the time the same way we view people using modern memes in our own TV cartoons? Probably.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Early cartoons make use of the memes of the time. There's characters saying "mammy" in imitation of Al Jolson, and WB's use of various popular radio phrases ("I'm only three and a half years old," "If I dood it, I get a whippin...I dood it!" and Bugs Bunny's "Of course you know this means war" which was cribbed from Groucho Marx). WB gave us a number of cartoon memes, too, with "What's up, Doc," "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits," and "I tawt I taw a puddy tat." Popeye's use of spinach to become stronger might be considered a meme (accompanied by his theme song) as could Clark Kent's entering a phone booth to become Superman.

Apparently, Garry Marshall, after "sit on it" took off, instructed his writers on Happy Days to insert as many possible catchphrases as possible.

edited 3rd Sep '16 10:15:37 AM by Robbery

If any of the stuff that came from the cartoons ever became a meme it had to have been when the people who grew up on them took control of the world.

(By the by, the Bruce W. Smith of the Twitter post last page is the same guy who did The Proud Family, right?)

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

Looking him up, he appears to be the same person, yes.

@Spino: I think that was a thing online before it was used in Ally McBeal (as one of those "we're so relevant" moments).

Can you still consider something a meme after it's been officially recognized as a word by English dictionaries everywhere? I remember actually having a book all about the wacky and wonderful world of words in the English language as a kid that mentioned that phrase as a modern colloquialism that's made its way into official word status that didn't even mention its origins on Seinfeld.

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Yeah, "yadda yadda yadda" was in popular use long before Seinfeld. I don't even think it can be said that they popularized it to any extent, they just had a very visible use of a popular expression.

Indeed it was one of the very first Internet memes, and one of the first to break into real world culture.

So it is the same guy who gave the world Bebes Kids and Da Boom Crew... Well, they can't all be winners.

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."

...oh wow. I knew about Bebé's Kids but never realized that it was Smith on that. Looking at it again it seems so obvious.

He's got a pretty distinctive visual style when he's working on his own stuff.

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Didn't he do some work on The Princess and the Frog? That explains why Dr. Falicier looks like Oscar Proud.

I think he was the lead artist on Facilier.

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Ah shit. I remember when Mr. Enter talked about Da Boom Crew.

That show is so fucking horrible...

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?

Yeah it's embarassingly bad

I thought Proud Family had a few noticeable problems but the difference in quality between the shows was night and day.

I went poking about the guy's Twitter, and found...

lol that's great

Absolutely perfect.

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I just remembered this existed - an incredibly vitriolic press packet trying to sell the Disney Afternoon. You can tell that their biggest competitor, Tiny Toons, was making them shake in their boots...

"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."