Wander Over Yonder

Makes sense. I was about to say it seems like they decided to give us an early preview of a later episode rather than the first episodes. The Greatest (and the Egg) has all the trappings of a first or pilot episode: character establishment, plot establishment (such as it is), a noticeable Animation Bump...

edited 10th Sep '13 11:01:53 PM by KnownUnknown

Is "Obviously the Pilot" a trope yet?

I think that falls under Early-Installment Weirdness

^^ There's a few tropes that note the qualities pilots tend to have. Animation Bump is one of them, and I think there's a "pilot plot" trope out there (if there is, there should be).

Well there are some pilot tropes along with ones like Non-Indicative First Episode and Early-Installment Weirdness, where the weirdness here is that suddenly everyone's taking the time to explain things that we already know, or that everyone's gone back in time to reestablish the familiar status quo. I guess I was hoping for a more on-the-nose trope title.

edited 11th Sep '13 3:44:39 PM by BagofMagicFood

The premire was fantastic. but I bet it's not suprising since most folks already saw the Itunes episodes.

So it's Power Puffs Power Couple does Bugs Bunny, right?

Nice first episode, wasn't that interested. Didn't laugh once or even smirk at any decent jokes or gags(though I was doing H.W. at the time)

Really??? I laughed the whole time!

YMMV then.

I was doing an essay for Homework at the time, I'm very focused whenever writing so I never change emotions/expressions during. I also just started actually laughing again in recent times too, so theres that as well.

I've watched it about five times by now and I still get the occasional laugh.

Mccracken said in an inteview that he's very much a pupil of the "Show Don't Tell" method. He wants the storyboards to still tell you entirely what happens even without the sound. So if you're just listening to the sound in this show, you'll only get like 20% of the experience.

Then i guess the blind are going to have to eat it, since they'll only understand the vocal parts.

The opening is an deliberate reference to the "Haters Gonna Hate" meme, right?

No, it was about exploring the world happily. :trollface:

But they even named a character "Hayter"!

Is there something wrong with a guy trying to walk down the road with no cares in that fashion and having a villain with a name that States the obvious fact he's a hater? Or does that confuse you?

Hayter is trying to cover up the shame of his childhood career as a combat butler.

Does anyone know where I can find the latest episode? Is it on Disney.com?

NVM. Didn't know there was a new one out.

edited 21st Sep '13 8:18:55 PM by KnownUnknown

It's the same old stuff they've shown all season. I.e. life is sweet if you're a wandering messiah.

Actually it seems to me that the lesson was 'doing the right thing can be hard and really out of your way but you should anyway'. I liked it; felt a bit more realistic than most plots revolving around 'be nice to others'.

I feel like if this were in the hands of Nick, they'd turn this into another male Dora with the whole "Do good onto others" role and downplay Hater as a New age Captain hook.

So given the timeslot that's been taken over, does Disney finally have a replacement for Hideous and Herb, er. Phineas?

Of course, given Wander's stoner outlook on life, calling him the "Herb" of this series doesn't seem that far off.

edited 27th Sep '13 9:13:23 PM by hcobb

The greatness that is Phineas and Ferb can never be replaced.

The problem is, Disney Channel has like 6 or 7 shows that they want to try to cram into 4 timeslots (8-10 PM) on Friday nights. One week it might be Ant Farm, Dog With a Blog, Wander/Fish Hooks, and Liv & Maddie; another might be AF, DWAB, Wander, P&F/FH and then Jessie, a different P&F for an hour on Saturday night; and then a third week could be Jessie, DWAB, Wander/P&F, and L&M.^note These are Disney Channel's actual Friday night schedules for tonight and the next two weeks.