You should maybe watch the movie again.

Gibbons did some striking war comics in years previous that are worth checking out.

And a lot of older-pitched shows that would follow it would ape it without reservation. I'm looking at you, "Malcolm in the Middle".

"Push" got a lot of shit for supposedly promoting domestic violence but I never really felt like it was defending its narrator. "Real World" was also a bromide for me at one point in my (very young) life. I know the origins of this band are all sorts of record-exec-fucked but I never minded them much.

The fourth movie in a series is not a reboot.

I didn't watch any of those shows, really, but I remember Rugrats being weirdly grim.

Sandwiched between a local fishing show and the beginning of Fox Kids, we got the first season of Dragonball (not Z) rerun a couple times. The types of jokes in that show, even the dub, were scandalous compared to Fox Kids in the early 1990s: farts, boobs, you name it. I was shocked.

Fox's "X-Men" would do the same thing. Run all the way to the cliffhanger about the assassination attempt on the President, then re-run the whole series again from the pilot. Yeah, we get it, Chuck, "it's been magnetized!"

I remember when Kids' WB bumped Freakazoid! and Earthworm Jim up to early Saturday morning with the tag line "Big kids go first", like they could cover the flagging ratings of those shows by pretending they were tween TV breakout successes or something.

The candy ass is whoever buys this fake controversy used to promote the film.

Well, to be fair, they do have light-speed travel across an entire galaxy. There's gotta be a lot of worlds that look the same.

No, that's the normal stuff people post to Twitter about anything.

I did not do that.

If someone had time-traveled back ten years and shown me that movie it would have taken me less than a second to name the character after he removes his mask. Still the Joker.

This all seems like a really nice way to say that by 1996 the overall quality of Nickelodeon's programming had fallen off a cliff.

It's funny to think about how some people still watch this show.

You kids think the phrase "liberal media" postdates the start of Fox News… that's adorable.

The sort of thing that would interest someone with a lot of cats at home.

Not exactly the same since those characters will almost certainly return to their original identities in a few months' time - and they can be drawn in any number of ways over decades while still keeping true to their design (and without aging).

So it goes.