It was only days ago that we were discussing whether or not A Charlie Brown Christmas needed to be retired. Frankly, the best argument for that might be this Fox Animation Domination parody, which tries to do Peanuts by way of Louie, but pushes the envelope just a bit beyond what that combo would suggest. Louis C.K.'s humor is often shocking, but it's never just for shock value quite like this.
This video is most likely NSFW. Unless your job is to make profane cartoons.
What do you think? Is it funny, childish...or both?
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@kurly @kurly It's my new Mod's Second Day on the job, Give him a chance to find his Footing.
@kurly ahem that is suppose to read It's The New Mod's Second day NOT It's my new Mod's
Just re-read that and thought it needed correcting.
Worth it for the "go fuck yourself" line to Lucy... and seeing Patty and Marcie in a living room surrounded by cats...
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two things were kinda funny to me
-"adult stuff - wawawawa"
-the "fuck you"
imo, if they cut almost everything else out it would be worth it.
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Charlie Brown was a representation of adult life in a child-world setting. We all still feel like children. Having to go where we have to, job or school. Getting through situations with those concerns of, does everyone hate me, like me, or even notices me? The crushes we have on other people. The personalities we deal with around us. Just that feeling that you can't win. Stuff like this above doesn't really hit my radar. It literally just reminds me that people do this stuff to stand out and see if someone notices them. In a way, to become the director of their very own Christmas play.
Now if you excuse me, I'm going to prove my security in myself by watching to see if anyone hits the like button to validate my existence.
I didn't realize until just now how much Charlie Brown and Louie CK are the same. Even physically.
I think the cartoon should have concentrated more on that comparison, though. It did at first, then turned into something else.
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Well, it seems like you could make this exact same cartoon about any children's cartoons. There is nothing character specific about this in anyway, and I don't really know what the joke is really supposed to be: Everybody's life sucks?
@Anony-Mouse Yes. Actually there was some character specific. Linus became a hoarder recluse playing off his infatuation with physical objects for comfort and having trouble finding it in people and life in general. Patty and Marcie is obvious as hell. Pig-pen being yet another social outcast from society showing how his inability to stay clean goes even further to a general inability to handle responsibility leading to a life where he is living out of his car. Etc. etc.
Plus, Lucy is a bitch. That is a thing that is ever eternal.
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Gah. I clicked the mouse outside the comment box, and the comment system threw my entire post away?!
So, take 2, from memory:
Why? Do you really want to see a Scooby Doo video where Shaggy reunites with the gang in the following way:
Scooby, Scrappy, Dee, and the rest of the extended dog family are all buried together.
Daphne is 200lbs heavier, smoking a cigarette while using an electronic voicebox to speak, with four screaming kids around her.
Velma is shacked up with one of the female villains that they'd previously caught. They are both are HIV positive, due to Velma.
When Shaggy goes to buy some weed, he sees Fred in the backroom in the role of the Pulp Fiction gimp.
Shaggy mumbles about how they'd kicked him out of the group 20 years ago due to his drug use. He then lights up and drives off triumphantly into the sunset.
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@Baines Fred would be going through a mid life crisis hitting on younger girls in an over priced sports car. He is married to Daphne but doesn't wear the ring. He has a comb over.
Not gimp. Actually I could see Velma more in Gimp mode. Or maybe that is just what I want to see. *shrugs*
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Jabber Jabber you're gonna die!!!
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I am not one to complain but why are we on Charlie Brown when there is Tron 3 news?
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@Canadian.Scott this has nothing to do with 10gl's non-complaint, but I think I found your doppelganger on another blog, Scott.
He goes by Scott and also uses a grumpy cat avatar, though his has a Detroit Lions hat photoshopped on top.
So beware, I guess, of "Other Scott."
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@rabidronnie @Canadian.Scott "uses a grumpy cat avatar, though his has a Detroit Lions hat photoshopped on top."
No, it's not photoshopped, the Lions suck so badly that they decided to try cats in their lineup. That cat is the first draft pick. They might not be as embarrassing now.
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This is what happens when people who don't understand Louie or Peanuts try to parody them.
@dafydd.dick I dismissed it when they didn't put the flip-off in the intro. Any Louie intro parody that doesn't have a variant of that in it is a fail.
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@dafydd.dick Which is weird because isn't animation domination a FOX thing and doesn't Louie play on FX?
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"It was only days ago that we were discussing whether or not A Charlie Brown Christmas needed to be retired."
I dunno if you actually looked at the comments section of that article, but no one was discussing whether Charlie Brown Christmas needed to be retired. The article said that, and the commenters argued against it.
At the risk of sounding incredibly pompous and self-righteous (that is, a Gawker commenter), I prefer my cartoons without cynicism. That's fine if you do, and a couple of years ago I probably would have too. But especially after days like today in the US, I rather like having a security blanket.
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@Shemp I don't have a problem with cynicism, however cramming cynicism into something doesn't make it better.
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On another note...i'm now starting to read bad things about The Hobbit...
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2012/12/the-hobbit-review-filmdrunk-peter-jackson-plays-with-dolls
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@Canadian.Scott I speak a little critic so here's my translation - "I don't these kinds of movies, therefore they are bad movies"
If you enjoyed LotR you should enjoy this.
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@Gallen_Dugall @Canadian.Scott I'm surprised we haven't seen a review of THIS on TR today. . .
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@rabidronnie @Gallen_Dugall I guess i'll just have to do it myself...Sunday people!
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@Canadian.Scott Eh. The first complaint is about the pacing, which as Gallen mentioned has a distinct "needs more explosions" ring to it. The second complaint is that they keep telling us what the end goal is without getting us there. I don't see that really bothering me. The whole point is that the thing is a quest.
As much as scathing reviews usually give me pause, I'm not swayed by this one. I think it still deserves a shot.
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@rabidronnie If you read some of the comments in the article a few people said, "as a fan of the books i loved it but as a fan of movies this was brutal." Plus the writer of the article says he wasn't a big fan of the stories anyway.
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@Someguy @Gallen_Dugall @GeneralTekno I just want to see it in BluRay - I don't like IMAX - maybe in 3D as there certainly was a lot of stuff flying at the screen, but that won't be for years and years because I will wait for the box set
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@Gallen_Dugall @GeneralTekno Agreed. There are a few nickpicks here and there, no movie or story doesn't, but for the most part there is nothing that would prevent me from letting someone take me to see it again. Cough-hint! Cough-hint!
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@GeneralTekno @Gallen_Dugall good point - it was very much a story told in the same setting as LotR but from a slightly different perspective Frodo-Bilbo
There wasn't anything in the film that kept me from enjoying it
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@Gallen_Dugall And I didn't hate the pacing, either. Pacing seemed fine to me - the Bag End scenes actually went by way faster than I thought they would.
And there's a lot of little things I loved - for instance, the books portray Elrond as a fairly warm character, but he didn't come across that way in LOTR due to the subject matter. The Hobbit went a long way towards showing the merrier side of Elrond.
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@GeneralTekno @Shemp @Canadian.Scott @rabidronnie Even with all the flaws - and what doesn't have flaws? - even then it was just a joy to watch. It may have a slow plot but that's still more plot than most big budget movies.
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@Shemp @Canadian.Scott @rabidronnie Agreed; it's very much a movie that's set at the end of the more magic, fantastical parts of the Third Age. The LOTR appendices/ancillary material established the idea of a world into which darkness was returning; the movie does a VERY good job of showing this.
Have to agree there were a number of scenes I was surprised made it in, but as a fan of the books I enjoyed them. Eg, a bunch of the Bag-End stuff - it's GREAT for establishing setting/character but doesn't advance plot all that well.
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@Shemp @Canadian.Scott @rabidronnie Agreed. I was thinking the same thing about them staying too close to the source matter. I also thought that there were parts of the movie that were tonally different from the main thrust of the story. I also though there were too many shout outs to LotR - like someone had taken over for Jackson and wanted to pay little homages in events and dialog. Then I saw the screenplay credits and I lay the movies relatively minor problems completely at the feet of del Toro. Don't like him, never have.
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@Shemp @Canadian.Scott @rabidronnie In that case, I'll probably love it. LOTR is pretty gritty, I like my fantasy a bit more out there.
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@Canadian.Scott @rabidronnie Saw it last night. It's NOT the same tone or aesthetic as LOTR. It very much runs along the lines of the books; more fantastical monsters and magic (and CGI). There were times that I wished that they had edited parts out (parts that I liked) simply because they didn't actively help tell the story. I very much enjoyed it, as it was what The Hobbit should be made like, but it can be jarring if you are expecting the same realism of LOTR.
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@Canadian.Scott @rabidronnie I've heard several positive reviews from friends already, so I'd say it's probably one of those "you either love it or you hate it" things.
