There's a bit of speculation that the new Zootopia movie is just a repurposed Robin Hood.

Exactly. TV is what made the idea of "children programming" marketable, and even then, the early cartoons were also defined for appealing to adults and kids (Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Flintstones).

Yeah, the "feminist message" was more wishful thinking, but from a character perspective, this should've been Star's story, but wasted too much time on Marco.

I think Star Vs. is too busy setting up baddies and ideas for season 2, instead of focusing on making a tighter season 1. It started off strong but kind of feels like it's just running around with vague ideas. St. Olga's was supposed to be this nightmarish place, but it kind of came off as a lame prison.

I certainly didn't hate it, although I thought Sylvia's story in "The Day" was just stronger overall than Wander's in "The Night".

I'm assuming you're in the UK because The Crew didn't air yet (although the new episodes are on CN's new app). I love Gumball but it does have a tendency to get caught up in its ironic dialogue sometimes.

May have to disagree with ya there. I love Steven Universe/Gravity Falls/Gumball but you had the entire Disney Afternoon, Tiny Toons/Animaniacs, Eek the Cat, Batman: TAS, Justice League, Pinky and the Brain, Saturday morning, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons, The Critic and so on. Not to say were not in a great era of…

True enough, but then it was followed by a broad "boy the 90s overall sucked" comment. It's would be like if someone said "the 1920s sure did suck!" follow by a bunch of gags *solely* about jazz music.

Yeah, even the AVClub's recent write-up about it acknowledged its significance (while of course acknowledging its goofiness). It was shocking to see, particularly on black Twitter, so many people admitting their connection with it. What Anthony says is true, particularly among middle-class black youths.

Yeah, true, which I wasn't really "offended" by it, just a bit concerned. I think by conflating "90s suckage" with a very specific culture identifier (that happens to be an early black identifier) made me feel a bit uneasy. Prolonged jokes rarely work but if they played around with a few of the hacky ways 90s…

You know, as much as I love this joke, and as much as I'm all about ridiculing the 90s (even as a 90s kid myself), I'm kind of… I don't know, like, I was kind of someone concerned that the joke was built of a "type" of "cool" that defined the origins of hip hop culture - basically, that it was making fun of an early…

Weird Al stopped on on MLP and The Aquabats in the last few years. And I know I'm missing a few more.

A better and darker clip - a song animated John K-style about dying in space: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

They're making a Trolls movie so the 80s are still alive one way or another.

Charlie! Charlie's my favorite, even though he's so one-note.

It's funny you said that because I once described Wendie Malick as a "poor man's Jessica Walter" but I meant that in the best possible way. She was actually the best thing in that "Father of the Pride" flop.

I think there's a bit more personality than that, and it's sort of played through his silence. When he falls asleep listening to rants or when he struts a "Let's throw down!" expression when up against a boss. I especially love the warm gestures he gives Vivian when you help her find that bomb in the third or fourth…

The auto-takedowns are kind of a pain to get used to but I realized that they're good to use to make fights quicker, especially when you get used to the flow of them.

It's no "They are who we thought they were!" but it'll do in a pinch.

Damn, good call. Maybe it runs in the family?