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   Jason Lee
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   What are your favorite animated TV shows?

   Lately it seems that all I watch are cartoons and anime. I watch a lot of Adult Swim. :p

   My favorites include (in no particular order):
   -Spongebob
   -Family Guy
   -Simpsons
   -King of the Hill
   -Southpark
   -Samurai Jack
   -Home Movies**** (current favorite)
   -Metalocalypse
   -Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
   -The Venture Bros
   -Shin Chan (American anime?)

   -Wallace and Gromit (claymation)

   If you're familiar with Brendon Small, you may recognize that his three current projects are all on my list (Home Movies, Metalocalypse, The Venture Bros). Brendon writes, composes, plays, produces, etc. most of the work for all of the shows.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   MoFoQ
   Member
   

   what about "American Dad"?

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   Jason Lee
   Member
   

   American Dad is not a favorite of mine. It's ok, just not as good as Simpsons. I watch it when it's on, but I don't go out of my way to watch new eps or anything.

   Oh I forgot Futurama and Animaniacs. Great shows.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   MoFoQ
   Member
   

   o yea...futurama

   hmmm...well...simpsons have gotten "stale" as of late and I do like American Dad in a different way over the Simpsons.

   Though, I'm not sure about the new Seth MacFarlane Project with Cleveland...

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Jason Lee
   Member
   

   I missed a lot of Simpsons after about season 10 through the current stuff although I'm starting to watch them again. I think I like the writing of Futurama better because it doesn't have to deal so much with what's going on in current events. FG and Simpsons use current events a lot. FG also uses a lot of references that I just don't get and they have a very obvious style of writing ("like that time I...") which Southpark points out in the FG eps.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   MoFoQ
   Member
   

   yea...the thing that FG has that Simpsons can't do...is the "WTF" irrelevant tangents sometimes the story goes....usually with Peter recalling some wackiness.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   Ann
   Key Master
   

   I watch almost everything online these days unless it's on DVD. South Park is probably at the top of my list for non-anime cartoons (still sad that Chef is gone), but Simpsons is still pretty funny sometimes (can't help laughing at Homer). I used to watch Samurai Jack a long time ago and thought it was pretty cool. FG is often too annoying for me (WTF is up with the constant breaking out into song?) and KITH I can't stand.

   A bunch of people I lived with in college used to watch W&G but I am sort of disturbed by claymation, maybe because it reminds me of Gumby and I always found Gumby really REALLY disturbing.

   Crayon Shin-chan is Japanese anime; I used to watch it sometimes when I lived in Hawaii since it was broadcast often on the Japanese channel.

   The other stuff I haven't seen.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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   MoFoQ
   Member
   

   I still watch Crayon Shinchan from time to time

   Posted 3 years ago #
9. 

   Jason Lee
   Member
   

   From what I read, the [AS] Shin Chan is not the same show as the original Japanese version. I've never seen the Japanese version. The [AS] adaptation is pretty funny though. Definitely not a Saturday morning cartoon.

   Posted 3 years ago #
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    Ann
    Key Master
    

    From Wikipedia:

    FUNimation's dubbing of "Shin Chan" takes many liberties with the source material. Since most episodes do not feature extensive continuity, FUNimation has chosen to take advantage of this by producing episodes of the series out of their original order.

    More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayon_Shin-chan#English_FUNimation_version

    So I guess they used the original animation footage, chopped everything up, and rewrote the story and all the dialogue.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    MoFoQ
    Member
    

    if they are going to do all that...why not make something from scratch? they've already did the hard part.

    but yea...never watch Funimation crap.
    I don't even like to watch american versions of anime DVD's.....R2 DVDs for me (or HK-DVD's).

    Posted 3 years ago #
12. 

    Ann
    Key Master
    

    Ah, Funimation! I remember laughing so hard at the glowing white underwear they (poorly) digitized onto kid Goku in the Dragon Ball Funimation dub on TV.

    Posted 3 years ago #
13. 

    MoFoQ
    Member
    

    lol...yea...japanese govt censorship rules regarding young male genitalia in a non-sexual way is lax to say the least.

    I remember watching this old japanese movie from I think the 60's...set in I think Hiroshima after the A-bomb....a kid loosing his hair....and naked...*sac in view...and a little girl comes up to him and tells him he's a cry baby...etc.
    mind you, this was on day time TV.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Jason Lee
    Member
    

    lol @ Japanese censorship. The version on [AS] is a completely new rewrite from Funimation I believe.

    Posted 3 years ago #
15. 

    MoFoQ
    Member
    

    hence I prefer the original japanese stuff.

    remind me to thank my parents for reinforcing my japanese as a kid.

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Bentoboxbobby
    Member
    

    I don't really think these are considered "Japanese Anime" but more "Diversified Anime".

    The Boondocks

    Highlander: Search for Vengeance

    Afro Samurai

    Crayon Shin-Chan is crude anime.

    Home Star Runner:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajo5O8Hvkag

    Ok?

    TBC,
    Bobby

    Posted 3 years ago #
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    Jason Lee
    Member
    

    lol HSR. I love the Strongbad emails.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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