Cartoon Network in General

Maybe a combination of the Duck Tales parody not being actually offensive/Disney caring little about Duck Tales (really, even while doing a reboot, they seem to be putting as little effort on promoting it as possible. It's been months with a single image out!)/CN being so madly in love with GO! they'll take any risk for it.

I haven't watched the Spider-Man parody so I can't comment/wonder/guess on it.

Teen Titans Go was at one point the highest rated show ever bar none on CN. Despite being a better show, Dexter's Lab was hardly as successful.

But when it comes to the Justice Friends, werent all of the Justice Friends (not just the main 3 mind you) pretty blatant Marvel parodies (aside from Monkey and Tiki Torch)? You'd think Marvel would demand that they stop using the characters completely (if anything, they came off even worse in the PPG episode that they guest-starred in).

Again, gay content is a specially sensitive area. It's not the same doing the usual 'goofy superhero' jokes as putting a stereotypical homosexual gag on a previously established character.

edited 12th Jul '16 7:03:19 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

I think Tiki Torch was meant to be a parody to Human Torch. But yeah I agree; I was going to mention how the team was a parody to Marvel Heroes yet manage to not faced the same scrutiny as the Silver Spooner (must be due to them not being a gay joke like the very flamboyant and clearly sexually named villain).

Speaking of cartoons, gay contents and superhero comedies, didn't the show the Tick make homosexual allusions/jokes out of Tick and Arthur roles as partners? Or is that the live action series I am thinking of.

edited 12th Jul '16 7:11:11 PM by BigK1337

I don't recall any jokes like that in the cartoon. Although it's been awhile. The humor was usually more off the wall I'd say though.

Up from rewatcing experience, the way other superheroes talk about the Tick and Arthur (especially in the first season finale) it seems like they are treating their partnership as though they are a polar opposite couple trying to get along with each other.

Though I can't think of any other episodes which supports such gay allegories of the two heroes, which is why I asked. Though maybe it was the live action show I am thinking about as that version is made for mature audience compare to the cartoon.

. . . Quick somebody put this thread back on topic!

You could be right, but I swear I'd remember it if that did happen in the cartoon. Ah well, we should get on topic I guess. I got nothing to talk about though.

Damn! The only thing Cartoon Network related I want to talk about is the upcoming English Dub for One Punch Man. And that's only appropriate in the Adult Swim, Toonami and One Punch Man thread that is going around. Though, Adult Swim is a part of Cartoon Network sooooo: base on the promos, they totally nailed Saitama's voice.

When's that airing? I saw the subbed version a while back and loved it. Interested to see the dub.

This Saturday at Midnight is when it's debuting.

This week I think. At least that's what it sounds like on Toonami's Facebook page.

Disney caring little about Duck Tales (really, even while doing a reboot, they seem to be putting as little effort on promoting it as possible. It's been months with a single image out!

Oh come now, don't you think that's kinda unfair?

If you hadn't noticed, they've been kinda busy with some little projects, namely Captain America: Civil War, and Finding Dory.

I'm pretty sure they're just reeling from the aftermath of those two and are probably waiting for some big thing like San Diego Comic-Con (which btw, isn't that starting this Thursday?).

EDIT: There's also the fact that one of the most important cast members of the original show, Alan Young, passed on very recently. Like "a month or two"-recently. So it's widely possible that Disney hasn't spoken zilch about Duck Tales 2017, like cast and such, because they don't want Too Soon accusations thrown their way.

edited 13th Jul '16 6:10:58 AM by TargetmasterJoe

On the other hand, Disney's TV animation department hasn't been busy with any really big projects lately.

Surely they could have spared some promotion?

The controversy about the Silver Spooner was entirely about the gayness, given that everyone else was a thinly veiled knockoff of a Marvel hero and nobody said boo.

Honestly, nowadays, with the big push for LGBT stuff in cartoons, I don't know if the Silver Spooner would be allowed or not.

But the Cow and Chicken Buffalo Gals episode, oh boy, how the flying fuck did that ever get through the censors to begin with? They weren't even being subtle there.

edited 13th Jul '16 2:23:06 PM by MushroomMuncher

I had heard that David Feiss wanted to see if he could get away with seven minutes of lesbian innuendo.

He did to the extent that it got to air, but because of one letter - literally one sole letter - it got pulled.

If you hadn't noticed, they've been kinda busy with some little projects, namely Captain America: Civil War, and Finding Dory.

You're right, the ration of concern Disney has for upcoming projects (and past projects as well) ranks along the lines of 80% allowed to movies, 10% allowed to videogames (mostly phone games and KH now, I guess), 9% allowed to TV (and non-tweencom TV ranks like a 4% of that), 1% to comics (where the strategy seems to be 'dump the license on someone else, let them do their thing until we feel like yanking it away').

Duck Tales won't be on the air until some unspecified time in 2017, so it's still got a ways to go yet. How much promotion has Disney ever done for any animated TV show a year before it's premiere date?

As far as language in cartoons, I remember when the word "crap" showed up on Dexter's Laboratory. Going back further, I remember "hell" and "damnation's playmates" showing up on Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates. I remember boob jokes on Tiny Toon Adventures (one from the pilot, and then there was Julie Bruin, who was kind of a boob joke all by herself). I was as well always pretty surprised at what CN got away with on their interstitial ads.

I can recall hearing "crap" on several of the later, Games-era Ren And Stimpy episodes, and it never ended up censored, unlike when Hey Arnold or Dexters Laboratory did it.

(

• Wilbur Cobb: "It was a buncha... a buncha..."
• Stimpy: "Uh, crap?"
• Wilbur Cobb: "No! WALTER LANTZ! No-account son of a bus driver...")

Oddly enough, the episode of Dexters Laboratory where they said "crap" was released on video with the word intact.

edited 14th Jul '16 2:50:26 PM by Aldo930

From what I understand, Dexter's Lab had the line "What's this crap?" censored to "What's this? For a few years because of CN policy. But after a time CN's policy changed and cartoons can use the word "crap". So in re-runs the word is left intact now.

I'll admit that it's been awhile since I've watched Regular Show and I've rarely been watching it in recent times, but have they had any more cursing past the first season? Cause I only remember hearing the curse words in some of the earlier episodes.

They stopped using those minor swears...they did.

what the h dude

They weren't gonna get away with that more than twice.