It's weird how ridiculous cartoons make their real estate laws.

Excellent write-up, Phil. A lot of writers tend to drop the ball when it comes to exploring animation and animation history, but you really nailed the tone, history, style, and background of this show. It's remarkable how much shows like Animaniacs and Venture Brothers, in so many ways, owe to this show. "Tiger…

The 90s was such a genuinely great time to be an animation fan - if you knew where to look, you could indeed watch stuff from Ward, Fleischer, classic Disney or Looney Tunes. Hell, you could even get some old school black & white cartoons - Buddie and Boscoe stuff mostly.

Definitely mine, but I also use, "The man wore a sweater." and "That's it, I'm going fishing." more often, as they work surprisingly well out of context.

I don't know, Stan talked about people eating Waddles. THAT SEEMS SO VERY DARK FOR KIDS TV.

Man, I just dug this episode. It felt fun and adventurous, not just vaguely mysterious and weird.

Well, they aired Tron Uprising weekly for a good while, at least in my region. Then there was a lot of stuff happened - action cartoons died out and, I think, it switched to Disney XD (also, Tron was never really a thing, no matter how much Disney wanted it to be.)

The problem with that is production schedules for cartoons back then were markedly different then they are now. Back then, they were made, at most, 65 episode to maybe 26, and aired rather aggressively and randomly, for the most part daily. GF created 26 episodes, but they aren't airing randomly, but in order. This is…

I love that the New Yorker has stooped to the level of a tumblr gag. I'm more surprised tumblr didn't jpeg this before them.

It's not the ridiculous Jesus-allusions (much more obtrusive than in Man
in Steel, in my opinion, and a common misconception of Superman. He's
not here to sacrifice himself for our sins, he's here to lead us to
greater heights).

Ugh, that death scene was horrific. Like, that's the kind of thing that you read and rehearse, then theoretically say, "No, we're not doing that."

*Superman theme plays over the Superman theme*

What @avclub-146bc30c345d31f3468fec764a1970e1:disqus said is what agree with. It's not that Superman killing Zod was the problem per se, it's that he was conflicted about it, without necessarily setting up the fact that Jor-El had conflicts about killing people before.

The KFP Christmas special wasn't particularly memorable but it did have this awesome montage sequence where Po was cooking various types of food at different times but fucking up everything. Thing is, they portrayed his sense of confusion by keeping him and his cooking antics static but constantly changing the scene…

@avclub-85065180e34af1320f3aae7ab12fde60:disqus  Madagascar 3 isn't just kiddie fare. It's batshit insane kiddie fare. That movie was moving a mile a minute, didn't make a lick of sense, and it was stupid as hell, but it was clearly all done on purpose. It was an animated "fuck everything" and I loved the outlandish…

Pretty much this, and the 90s Superman cartoons too (in a different, modernized way). In fact, I'm kinda surprised Sava totally dismisses them.

In a round-about way, that's, to me, the main problem with Superman. Too much focus on Earth and his relationship to humans (well, to Lois, which in itself presents a bunch of problems).

"Captain Marvel's biggest weakness was his vulnerability to copyright law."

The very things you mention that you say makes up too "wacky" is exactly why I loved it. It's an animated film, so I'm glad they did stuff that made it feel animated. I love seeing how weird creative teams can get.

This is where I get crucified and admit that I kinda prefer the Dreamworks films to the Pixar films.