So. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The show Lauren Faust worked on before MLPFIM. Just watched the Pilot for it, and it was very awesome. The writing was great, the animation and cinematography was fantastic, and I really dig the art style as well.
I love that show. It's not as good as PPGs or MLP (probably because it doesn't have an acronym) but it was different, and I appreciate that. It was a show that dealt with leaving childhood and entering puberty in a very real way. It's an unsettling time, when you find yourself letting go of the innocence and playful nature of childhood, but don't get to replace it with the responsibilities and maturity of adulthood. Take the Christmas special for example, it is the only one I've seen that actually dealt with the realization of Santa Clause being a myth without making it seem stupid (see the subplot from that Ranken-Bass special with Heat Meiser and Cold Meiser.) The ending is a real cop-out, but Mac's struggles still feel meaningful. Also, "It's 15 blocks to Mac's house, I've got a full bladder and an empty stomach, it's 2:30 in the afternoon and I'm wearing sunglasses."
So. Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. The show Lauren Faust worked on before MLPFIM. Just watched the Pilot for it, and it was very awesome. The writing was great, the animation and cinematography was fantastic, and I really dig the art style as well.
I love that show. It's not as good as PPGs or MLP (probably because it doesn't have an acronym) but it was different, and I appreciate that. It was a show that dealt with leaving childhood and entering puberty in a very real way. It's an unsettling time, when you find yourself letting go of the innocence and playful nature of childhood, but don't get to replace it with the responsibilities and maturity of adulthood. Take the Christmas special for example, it is the only one I've seen that actually dealt with the realization of Santa Clause being a myth without making it seem stupid (see the subplot from that Ranken-Bass special with Heat Meiser and Cold Meiser Snow Miser.) The ending is a real cop-out, but Mac's struggles still feel meaningful. Also, "It's 15 blocks to Mac's house, I've got a full bladder and an empty stomach, it's 2:30 in the afternoon and I'm wearing sunglasses."
Just watched the episode "World Wide Wabbit" of Foster's. That episode resonates so much due to it capturing, pretty much perfectly, the internet meme machine and the schism between old people and the internet. It just becomes even funnier considering the huge success that MLP became.
Yeah, the only good things I heard about it are Kat Dennings and that it makes fun of hipsters. But both can be seen in much better ways, with much more payoff and at a fraction of the time.
Watched 10 episodes of 30 Rock season 5 yesterday. 6 Episodes into Archer. I have better things I could be doing, but those require things like an attention span.
If you know the conventions of crime dramas, it's pretty easy to guess the perp in Castle. Which is deliberate, considering it's a love letter to police procedural and mystery novel tropes.
How to be a Gentleman is AWFUL. Terrible acting, unoriginal writing, and a laugh track. CBS's sitcoms are stuck in the nineties, I swear.
Did you expect anything less from Matt Dillion trying to be funny?
That's Johnny Drama from Entourage. But the other surprise is David Hornsby...why are people from Always Sunny trying to be on these tired, squeaky-clean, cliched as fuck series? The money can't be worth that much.
Edit After Wikipedia: Rhys Darby is in this?! Oh Murray...D:
And who else from Always Sunny tried to be on a shity sitcom?
The Waitress. It's odd, she was in a show that wasn't a typical, dated, laughtrack sitcom, it actually tried to be very modern while being very Friends-like. However, it failed tremendously because the acting was beyond terrible with varying degrees of overacting/underacting, and probably some of the most hateful/conniving/vitriolic characters in history. And she was actually in the worst one couple, the one that thrives on stupid arguments and lust and people thinking that's love.
And who else from Always Sunny tried to be on a shity sitcom?
The Waitress. It's odd, she was in a show that wasn't a typical, dated, laughtrack sitcom, it actually tried to be very modern while being very Friends-like. However, it failed tremendously because the acting was beyond terrible with varying degrees of overacting/underacting, and probably some of the most hateful/conniving/vitriolic characters in history. And she was actually in the worst one couple, the one that thrives on stupid arguments and lust and people thinking that's love.
Traffic Light or that other show that was like it last season? Perfect Couples or something like that?
And who else from Always Sunny tried to be on a shity sitcom?
The Waitress. It's odd, she was in a show that wasn't a typical, dated, laughtrack sitcom, it actually tried to be very modern while being very Friends-like. However, it failed tremendously because the acting was beyond terrible with varying degrees of overacting/underacting, and probably some of the most hateful/conniving/vitriolic characters in history. And she was actually in the worst one couple, the one that thrives on stupid arguments and lust and people thinking that's love.
Traffic Light or that other show that was like it last season? Perfect Couples or something like that?
Perfect Couples. I think it's all on hulu, if you wish to experience the horror. Traffic Light wasn't good, but it wasn't hateful or that unfunny. The guy who played Comeau in the Scott Pilgrim movie was one of the stars, he was fun to watch.
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In its defense Kat Dennings. As well as Kat Dennings eyes, lips, hips, hair, skin, and boobs.
I think the episode titles alone would make me want to watch Foster's.
In other news, New Girl is a fantastic, really funny (no-laugh-track) sitcom. And it's on Fox, so that won't last long.
I've downloaded, haven't watched yet.
Oh wow, and Shawn from Boy Meets World in the same episode.
Edit After Wikipedia: Rhys Darby is in this?! Oh Murray...D: