WEASELTHORPE HOUSE!

Well, I meant it in the way in how the new DM's character is different than the original DM. They've used the past thirty years of spy spoofs to update his character.

The solution to this trend is to play that mountain music, like grandma and grandpa used to play. But you can't play that mountain music in Texas without a fiddle in the band, so we have a conundrum.

At Otakon 2002 (man, that was ages ago) I was barely twenty years old attending my first big out-of-town convention. One day of the con, I was going up the escalator from the Pratt Street Lobby up to the second floor. It's a pretty long escalator, so it takes a while. Standing next to me is a bearded guy with a hat.…

That thumbnail on the last youtube video is unintentionally hilarious.

They got little voices goin' beep beep beep

It's earnest. There is a lot of homage but they're doing their own thing pretty well. The back half of season one is definitely better than the front half and they have a clear mythology set up. The test is if their second season will shake things up and how much it will do so.

This I gotta hear.

Another example of a show that was originally targeted to teenagers, then "toned down" for younger children, only to get an audience of teenagers and college-somethings anyway!

The chain of custody of that show is hilarious. Produced by the French, set in France, first going to be animated by Toei in 2D, then animated in Korea in CGI. Then again, that's probably not all that different from 2D animated cartoons. French Cartoons, American cartoons, Japanese cartoons—all animated in Korea!

I never liked Rent. Avenue Q took the same general idea and did it so much better. So we're in agreement on that one.

The newspaper comic aesthetic is what piqued my interest when I saw the commercials, and knowing Savino is behind it is a bonus. I think this is his first series of his own creation, having boarded/directed on so many shows over the past fifteen years. Guess I'll have to check it out.

After watching some of it this evening, I can say there's plenty of fourth wall breaking, bad puns, and silly gags in the new series. The new DM definitely has a bit of Archer in him, but he's not an asshole. I'd agree with Kevin that it pulls a lot from Darkwing Duck, but you can see influences from spy properties in…

I quote the great poet, Lynyrd Skynyrd, who once said… "Ooh, that smell. Can't you… smell that smell?"

Italian.

When the promo stuff was coming out for this last year, I recall them talking to Jason about this and that he either politely declined coming back or was OK with being recast.

No, they're puns of varying nature according to Wikipedia.

Been waiting for this to finally drop in the states, as it's been airing week-to-week in England since last year. I went through the original DM a few years ago (after watching it relentlessly in the 80s) and Cosgrove/Hall did about what they could with their budgets. The Thatcherian budget they were given meant the…

You had to remind me that Escape from Planet Earth exists! One of the cruelties of United Airlines was subjecting passengers to that terrible, awful movie in the summer of 2013. Even Shatner couldn't get anything out of that pile of absolute trash.

Bill Murray's good at a lot of things, but replacing Lorenzo Music isn't one of them.