Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
I do suppose it's mainly because said episodes just weren't written very well.
Although in the case of "The Boys of Bummer," they did make it clear that this was wrong, and they at least tried to make it up to Bart at the end, so that's something in its favor.
The fact that people would call "House Fancy" a bad episode for something that lasted only 15 seconds just shows how goddamn sensitive some people are these days.
As for "One Coarse Meal," we were apparently meant to think that Plankton's suicide attempt was Mr. Krabs going too far. (This was related by the episode's writer, Casey Alexander, on his Twitter account.) Although I don't think, unlike some people, that suicide is never funny. The many jokes in old 40s WB cartoons with "Now I've seen everything" say otherwise.
edited 19th Mar '14 5:27:41 PM by Aldo930
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Both "Ponyville Confidential" and "The Boys Of Bummer" I believe is mostly concerning little kids being shunned, bullied and disowned by the entire town for a fairly petty offense. It's worsened in PC due to the added hypocrisy around the matter (everyone was perfectly fine with their work until it concerned them) which is never really elaborated upon.
"Mare Do Well" is concerning the mane five inflicting Disproportionate Retribution on Rainbow Dash after she becomes conceited (admittedly one of the things I tend to like about the show is they usually avoid Rightly Self-Righteous outcomes where one pony is enabled to bully another into their place, in fact most of the time when one acts like that they're treated as stooping to their level, eg. Fall Weather Friends).
"One Coarse Meal" (and "Plankton's Regular" before it inevitably come up) is around the fact Mr Krabs gets off scot free for acting more vindictive than the 'villain' of the show. I thought "House Fancy" was considered hit and miss however, just as many like it because Squidward won at the end.
edited 19th Mar '14 5:37:25 PM by Psi001
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The "hypocrisy" reminds me of Sponge Bob's "Little Yellow Book" when everyone shunned Squid for going through SB's diary when they had laughed at what he wrote beforehand (though Squid did tell Patrick that he earlier laughed at what he read to him).
There is rarely anything more annoying than hypocrisy that isn't called out. It spawns all too many dreaded tropes here.
No mention of Not All Dogs Go to Heaven? That's probably one of the most infamous episodes of anything ever.
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Not All Dogs is hated because it's an Author Tract of the highest calibur and it makes the author mouthpiece more hateable than the thing he's trying to mock.
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I always hated Ponyville Confidential simply because it runs on the idea that a teacher won't notice that her kids are running a sweatshop and printing very unkind things about other ponies in a school newspaper. Maybe on something like The Simpsons it would be played as a joke, but here it's totally nonsensical.
"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
Ponyville Confidential is hated? I like that episode. Then again, I don't think there's ever been a bad episode of that show.
Also I think it had a pretty weak satire of evangelicalism, but that's Family Guy for you.
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
Also consider that early that season, Peter had met Jesus.
Well, I mainly only know the first three or four seasons; I only watched that one episode because people here were crying "WORST EPISODE EVER" on it, and eventually I had to find out what all the fuss was about. (Pretty sure much worse things have happened on the show due to being excused as "one-off gags")
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
Well, still, this is a world where God has been shown to exist... Even if only in one-off gags.
On the topic's title... I'm not sure what is meant by "infamous episodes." Seemingly he means episodes everyone hates. But you could also include banned episodes like "Man's Best Friend," "Leap Frogs," "Buffalo Gals"... those are pretty infamous too.
edited 21st Mar '14 1:02:02 PM by Aldo930
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Still just awesome like that
Y'know, that's a good point people make about Family Guy and its atheist characters—how the hell could that even make sense when God is explicitly shown to exist in the show's universe?
edited 21st Mar '14 1:09:02 PM by Odd1
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Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
A lot of this stuff seems like normal over-the-top gags to me; it's part of the joke.
Either it's done badly or these people don't get over-the-top gags.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Brain gets called out on his atheism in the 3rd Christmas episode, where he calls the nativity story fictional and Stewie snaps back saying that Jesus lived with them before.
For a second I thought this topic would be about cartoon episodes that were banned from airing.
Does that really happen much anymore? I know there was one episode of Batman The Brave And The Bold that never aired in the U.S. because the internet grabbed a hold of some dick jokes from it, but is that really common?
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
It doesn't happen as often as you'd think. I can think of maybe 5 examples from Nick and Cartoon Network alone.
Penguins of Madagascar got away with a blowjob joke and no one seemed to notice:
Julien: I do not intend to fail. I intend to do the opposite of fail!
Marlene: You mean...succeed?
Julien: No, I will not suck seed. No one will be sucking seed!
edited 21st Mar '14 6:56:57 PM by Twentington
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
Going through the entire plagues of Egypt in your house would turn even the hardest atheist into a believer.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
It's heavily implied half the crap Brian goes on a pedestal about are less earnest beliefs and just a desperate ploy for attention and dignity. He'd probably be a die hard Christian if they were the minority.
edited 22nd Mar '14 6:21:00 AM by Psi001
Professional Moldy Fig/Curmudgeon
Good point.
A more cynical person might see that as the writers trying to make up for their massive fuckup.
"They say I'm old fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast."
Emperor of Acheron
The most infamous episodes of The Fairly OddParents! are "Its a Wishful Life", and "Just the Two of Us". The former is when Timmy wished he was never born and everyones life was better without him, but continuity and common sense can point out that all of is not true. The latter has Timmy's crush going to full Yandere mode when there aren't any boys left to gawk at her.
edited 22nd Mar '14 7:30:08 AM by ued199
Not all dreams are meant to come true, otherwise there would be a lot of dead people.
Let's talk about what makes one of the "hated" and "infamous" episodes so infamous.
Does anybody have answers to why so many episodes are hated?
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