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generation81 Since: Aug, 2021
#4526: Sep 14th 2025 at 6:29:03 AM

It's a cute affair.


The Birth of a Nation (1915) but its communist propaganda meant to say "Look how dumb the capitalist southerners are!"

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#4527: Sep 14th 2025 at 7:16:12 AM

It's better received than the original due to portraying anti-black racism as a bad thing.


A modern remake of A Trip to the Moon with a $200 million budget.

generation81 Since: Aug, 2021
#4528: Sep 14th 2025 at 8:02:41 AM

Steampunk fans rejoice.


PAW Patrol but its a cyncical Robocoo-esque comic about the failures of capitalism.

AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#4529: Sep 14th 2025 at 8:36:58 AM

Edgy pre-teens who hate anything "childish" will enjoy it.

Scooby-Doo: the Broadway musical!

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#4530: Sep 14th 2025 at 8:41:33 AM

Is surprisingly well recieved, both from musical fans, and fans of Scooby Doo

A TAWOG style reboot of Spongebob

"The dream of tomorrow and the sky of today, expanding in unison"
Solaris2022 Guy Incognito Since: Nov, 2022
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#4531: Sep 14th 2025 at 2:40:05 PM

Not that much different from og Spongebob, tbh.


Metafitional adaptation of Gone with the Wind

SoaringEagle A figment of your imagination from A dream you had (Troper Youngling) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
A figment of your imagination
#4532: Sep 14th 2025 at 3:14:05 PM

frankly my dear, i don’t give a damn if you think this is a movie or not


an official animated adaptation of Calvin and Hobbes… done by sam singer

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Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#4533: Sep 14th 2025 at 4:16:32 PM

It is filled with various stereotypes and it's one season run is loved by fans of So Bad Its Good animation. _____________________________ Sailor Moon R dubbed by Pureflix.

generation81 Since: Aug, 2021
#4534: Sep 14th 2025 at 4:37:22 PM

It makes 4Kids look well researched. Anime fans hate it, Chistians refuse it on principle.


Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous but instd of focusing on humans its from the dinosaurs' POV, Madagascar style.

Edited by generation81 on Sep 14th 2025 at 7:38:02 AM

AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#4535: Sep 14th 2025 at 6:25:17 PM

That actually sounds pretty cool.

A Scooby-Doo movie done by Tim Burton.

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Guy Incognito
#4536: Sep 14th 2025 at 11:44:43 PM

The live action movies with the tone of Pee Wee Herman


South Park in Vietnam

Edited by Solaris2022 on Sep 14th 2025 at 6:45:00 PM

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#4537: Sep 15th 2025 at 4:41:47 AM

…really going to give people trauma by making fun of the war, isn't it? Of course, given that it's South Park, it's inevitably going to find a way to make that hilarious.


Peter Pan: The Musical, like the 1950 and 1954 ones, but it's specifically a Jukebox Musical, from 2024, thus featuring all sorts of random songs up to that year.

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#4538: Sep 15th 2025 at 4:19:50 PM

Some of the songs picked for the musical feel very out of place at times, but the cast members' performances are praised regardless.

Undertale as a Cartoon Network original series airing in the mid-to-late 2010’s.

This was inspired by a previous Horrible Adaptation idea of mine.

I want to go to Tonio's.
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#4539: Sep 15th 2025 at 4:24:39 PM

Surprisingly well received, becoming one of the best adaptations of a video game to cartoon.

now for its successor-

Deltarune if it were dubbed anime on 4Kids

So how do you think the story ends? No, how do you want it to end?
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#4540: Sep 15th 2025 at 4:29:43 PM

The story is vastly different, every mention of death and other topics are extremely bowdlerized, and Kris is always referred to as a man.


Bimo, but it came out in the 1960s (where any AI video software did not exist at the time) and was a puppet show.

Edited by FireArrowEightSeventy on Sep 15th 2025 at 6:29:58 AM

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#4541: Sep 15th 2025 at 6:14:23 PM

yanno i think it'd gain a much more genuine following because the sketchy, homemade fashion of human-made puppet shows is hard to beat


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SoaringEagle A figment of your imagination from A dream you had (Troper Youngling) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
A figment of your imagination
#4542: Sep 15th 2025 at 6:26:10 PM

the CGI necessary to render the abnormalities in a competent way would cost the entire budget of the show


Shrek 1 if it was written by vivziepop

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#4543: Sep 15th 2025 at 8:16:17 PM

It'd be poisoned by all the memes and adult jokes.


Transformers: Armada as a Gacha game.

"An elegant weapon for a more civilized time, eh? Well, guess what? Times have changed!"
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#4544: Sep 15th 2025 at 8:24:06 PM

TakaraTomy Milks the Mini-cons for all they're worth.


Chinese Caligula.

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#4545: Sep 16th 2025 at 1:11:07 AM

Considering Imperial Chinese history, do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?


A modern remake of The Jazz Singer, where the white main character dresses up not just any ordinary drag queen. He cosplays as RuPaul, complete with the dark makeup.

Edited by alnair20aug93 on Sep 16th 2025 at 4:11:40 PM

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A figment of your imagination
#4546: Sep 16th 2025 at 6:07:20 AM

considering modern views on racial stereotypes, i bet there wouldn’t be a blackface scene at all


a film adaptation of Ride to Hell: Retribution

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generation81 Since: Aug, 2021
#4547: Sep 16th 2025 at 6:13:21 AM

Since its gonna be an improbemet no matter what, it causes Adaptation Displacement.


Jurassic World but its a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#4548: Sep 16th 2025 at 6:16:43 AM

It could work.

Dora the Explorer as an adult RPG game in the style of something like Grand Theft Auto.

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#4549: Sep 16th 2025 at 5:52:16 PM

oh my god this must've been spawned because someone was inspired by the Robot Chicken Dora sketch isn't it


A Bug's Life but they're all portrayed in live action with Slurpasaurs

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#4550: Sep 18th 2025 at 6:16:52 PM

While not good, it maybe becomes So Bad, It's Good.


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A fighting spinoff was mentioned here, so why not this one?

Edited by cornyfield256 on Sep 18th 2025 at 9:18:43 AM

Hot take: I actually like Yoshi's New Island and it's soundtrack.

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