I'm shocked that the reviewer compared the character's looks to vampires (?) and Duran Duran, when the visuals clearly scream, "Hey, this looks like the poster at the nail salon!"
I'm shocked that the reviewer compared the character's looks to vampires (?) and Duran Duran, when the visuals clearly scream, "Hey, this looks like the poster at the nail salon!"
The only thing that ever stuck out was the one episode where the Trolls do the classic, "Switch baby with Troll newborn" gag, because EVERYTHING ELSE was "tending to injured animal" and "Swift the Fox runs while rousing tune plays".
"Budnick, why don't you go jump in the lake?"
Oh, almost forgot the guidance counselor, Mr. Shellacky, which sounds like the star of a the Bang Bros website.
Who could possibly replace Danny Tamberelli in the department of "Spouting non sequiturs is funny!" and "Mugging more than a vaudevillian for the cheap seats means I'm a comedian!"
Kid: "Hey Boney, do you like my IPad?"
Oh, when Jonathan actually showed up (twice I believe), it ruined the mystique. Just keep him completely off camera, like Dr. Claw, and the gag works better.
Good point on the whole Patti thing. She had a perfectly friendly relationship with him (with tons of indications that she was attracted to him) yet in his fantasies, Doug basically portrays her as a fucking dreadnought. Witness THE AMAZING sequence where Doug, distraught over his summer weight gain (should have…
I've long wanted a spinoff of Rugrats just focusing on Charlotte and her assistant Jonathan. Just episode after episode of Charlotte barking orders into her cell phone.
"Sir, there's a sock in my shake!"
"Um, no."
(Audience dies laughing)
DINK is an acronym for Dual Income, No Kids, which explains why he's always able to spend so much money on worthless things.
His voice! Billy West brought so much to both Roger and Doug that the new version just felt off.
They should do reboots of old Nick Jr stuff, because the world is dying for the days when audiences had to choose between two Koala animes.
They revealed the never seen but often commented on Skunky Beaumont, which killed the show for me.
Doug is fascinating if you forget about all the attempts at making him a hero and/or good guy. He's just this neurotic mess of a character, one prone to outlandish flights of fantasy, often to the point where there seems to be something wrong with him. This is the kid that seriously believed that there was a ranch out…
It wasn't until adulthood that I realized the pun on Mr. Dink's name.
The off kilter names of everyone was what really made the show work for me. It was like a porn name generator: Bebe Bluff, Chaulky Studebaker, Skunky Beaumont, Boomer Bledsoe.
I remember a comic that gave the viruses different names and abilities-Fever was the red one that created heat, Chill was the blue one with ice powers, but the really weird one was the yellow virus, called (appropriately) Weird, which caused "weirdness" (?), apparently another name for mutations.
I loved how after you escape from the Frog's stomach, the poor bastard is lying on his back, clearly dead. No "explosion after defeat" for that guy.
The power I remember the most is the fly ability, where Mario would kind of climb/float in the sky.