Who was the sexist super-hero guy from the sexist Justice League parody from Powerpuff girls? The one that wouldn't let them join cuz they were cute little girls. An awful lot of thinly veiled dick/erection jokes for a cartoon aimed at general audiences...
Anyhow, interesting story about the great Don Messick. He retired after suffering a stroke during a recording session for Hanna-Barbera. By all reports, after his stroke, he could only speak in his Scooby-Doo voice.
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You mean Major Glory? :'p
Funnily enough both he and Val Hallen were originally from Dexter's Lab. It honestly caught me off-guard when I was watching that episode, although it does make sense because Genndy and Craig were friends and worked on each other's shows.
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Strangely enough, that PPG episode was from the Chris Savino era, which (correct me if I'm wrong) lacked input from either McCracken or Tartakovsky.
edited 12th Feb '16 12:07:53 PM by FawfulCrump
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Major Glory was voiced by Rob Paulsen.
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Well, I just watched the clip for the PPG reboot, and it seems... kind of the same? With less subtle feminism, I guess?
I didn't really have as much issue with the voice actor changes as most did, but it does seem like a counter-productive thing to do for a reboot clearly banking on nostalgia.
They did also have a feminist villain at one point. And it wasn't a strawman depiction either....
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Yeah, and then Lauren Faust got harassed by the crazy side of the feminism spectrum and regretted making the episode because "feminism is too heavy of a topic for kids".
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I recall KND also doing a episode on that.
Did she say she regretted writing it because of the harassment or because she felt the episode wasn't well-written? Googling it doesn't clarify it either way for me, and I can't find the original quote.
edited 12th Feb '16 12:40:58 PM by FawfulCrump
I would assume it was because of the harassment. From what I know the episode wasn't a example of one her duds like say Foster's Bendy episode.
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@number of cartoons: sorry, I haven't been on Hulu lately. So I lost track.
So in general people have at least some hopes for the PPG reboot?
Been a while since I've seen that episode (or PPG in general), but I tend to find sexism-based straw characters like Femme Fatale or the lumberjack in the reboot clip annoying. I guess that's kind of the point, and sure, people like that exist, but I still find myself screaming, "please PLEASE move on to something else," in my head.
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A guy on my Facebook actually posted a photo from Tumblr talking about the episode and showing how it depicted "real" feminism (and by "real" I mean "not batshit insane extremist crap") in a respectful manner and how people needed to listen to the message.
It's a well written episode. She regretted it because of the harassment she got, and I think that may have, more or less, steered Faust away from depicting feminist topics on her other programs. I don't recall an episode of Foster's that even discussed such a topic (this is ignoring MLP, which doesn't really need an episode on feminism because nearly every character is female anyways).
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Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
Bruce Campbell also voiced recurring villain Magnanimous in Megas XLR
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Apparently the creators of Megas XLR had a show on MTV. And one of the characters from said show appeared on Megas XLR...
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1027: Which show would that have been? The last thing he did was the Toby Danger episode of Freakazoid, and he didn't sound like Scooby in that...
1028: Genndy worked on PPG as well, and there's other characters who appear in both shows - Koosalagoopagoop is both Dee Dee and Bubbles' imaginary friend, for example.
Lauren Faust apparently regrets "Equal Fights" because it went a little too far for a kids' show, but frankly that was a good thing. The lesson it delivers on feminism is hard to disagree with, and one that more people who call themselves feminists these days ought to listen to.
edited 12th Feb '16 2:44:46 PM by Aldo930
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Toby Danger was released in 1995; Messick had his first stroke in September, 1996 while doing a recording session for HB (I don't know what voices he was recording). He officially retired the next month, and then had his second stroke and died in October of '97. The report of his only being able to speak in his Scooby Doo voice comes from his retirement party, which was in October of '96 (I think from Rob Paulsen, though I'm not sure, and don't have a link).
And actually, his last role was as Dr.Benton Quest in the first 12 episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, from '96.
edited 12th Feb '16 4:42:45 PM by Robbery
Nevermind,Andrea Romano told us how it really happened here.
http://www.awn.com/animationworld/nancy-cartwright-chats-andrea-romano-part-1
So how good is Generator Rex?
Still just awesome like that
Damn. That's some harrowing stufff.
So sad. He sounded like a good guy.
Still just awesome like that
On a lighter note, I just saw the pilot for Twelve Forever after seeing it as a related video for some reason...
[[w_KPcMUuIPc]] edit: embed doesn't seem to work, here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_KPcMUuIPc (bad quality audio I know, but it's on CN's official YT, and watching it there would lend it some really good support)
...and now, I really must wonder, why hasn't this already been picked up for a series (as far as we're aware)?
Imma just copy/paste what I wrote up about it on my Facebook (with maybe an addition or two): I seriously hope this pilot gets picked up for a full series. I love pretty much everything about it. It kinda reminds me of the more grounded, slice-of-life parts of Scott Pilgrim. Seems like it could be a really nice, earnest subtextual exploration of child psychology, especially since it feels like the writer(s) have a really good grasp on that. And it seems to have some of the most mature writing I've ever seen in a kids' show while still having a lot of jokes, visuals, and gags kids would probably enjoy. No, seriously, why isn't this already a show?
edited 13th Feb '16 9:30:18 PM by Odd1
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I'll help you with the embedding.
It's not just the video ID you put in brackets. You put in "youtube:" and then the video ID. Example: [[ youtube:video_id ]] (take out the spaces between the first brackets and "youtube" and last brackets and "id" and you got it.
Case in point:
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I at least feel that they were able to get away with a sexist villain like Himcules because he was voiced by BRUCE FUCKING CAMPBELL. Yeah, Bruce fucking Campbell did a voice for that show, and he played a sexist as hell villain, and it STILL worked! BRUCE FUCKING CAMPBELL.
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