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Someone is going to have to explain Bagpuss to me.

I've heard of the last three

Aw Jeez, how is Bagpuss so low? I thought that would be the consensus Brit-pick. It's certainly better than bloody Dangermouse.

BUT EMILY LOVED HIM

*100000 tears*

My first cat was called Bagpuss. Why? Because I loved him. ;_; ;_; ;_;

I was the number one for Venture Bros. Probably not my all time favorite animated show, but it’s just so lovingly created and whip smart that I thought someone had to rep for it and it might as well be me.

Didn’t realize Homestar was eligible or I def would’ve given it a vote.

I also should have thrown Homestar a vote but when I was voting it felt like a different thing than everything else I voted for. The voices have been burned into my brain. I don't think I'd like it the same now but there was a year when I thought it was the funniest shit in the world

at its best, venture bros is animation at its best: great voices, great music, great writing, great world-building, great animation. also the best and often most obscure callbacks in the biz.

whenever i read the word "toons" i still get the homestar voice in my head saying "toons...games...downloads...characters" etc. the exact cadence is etched in my brain

yes

Bagpuss was my highest Postgate offering at #6 - prob should have put them all a bit higher, since they're all unimprovable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UfEc9J73BO4

Patrick Warburton is another voiceover hero

Would’ve voted Venture Bros if I liked enough animated shows to do a full ballot.

Major Proustian rush at being reminded again of the opening credits of the Lost Cities of Gold.

Unless or interested observers have strenuous objections, I'll resume the rollout on Monday, i.e TO BE CONTINUED.

BTW, I watched the first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, and is the rest as stringently unnarrative?

I'm at home with a hangover so it might've been fun to have some more results, but a lot of people will be out, and there's usually a general preference for rollouts on weekdays. So yeah, until Monday, then.

BTW, I watched the first episode of Serial Experiments Lain, and is the rest as stringently unnarrative?

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Saturday, September 14, 2019 11:44 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

if anything, moreso

Unless or interested observers have strenuous objections, I'll resume the rollout on Monday, i.e TO BE CONTINUED.

― Johnny Grottan from the Skeks Pistols (Leee), Saturday, September 14, 2019 12:27 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

more time to talk about venture bros!

https://i.imgur.com/RjJi6o9.jpg

20. South Park
110 points, 8 votes, 0 firsts

ugh

fuck South Park

Thirded.

very formative show for me just by virtue of it coming out when i was in third grade. i insist the show was very good before it got topical

i didn't vote for it though so i have no horse in this particular race

I hear you but somewhere in between "it was very good once" and the latest "it's good again!" sounds it should've dissolved.

my first experience with it was all the edgy kids being really into it and ICP at the same time in 6th grade so those two things are permanently associated in my mind

it was weird, vulgar, and stupid in a way that seemed to extend beyond even mtv's animated shows, i preferred when it lived in that universe to when it started talking at me. it is also probably responsible for me purchasing disintegration

some of the topical stuff holds up in memory (they took our jobs) but fuck if i'm going back

something i still regularly lol over: towley playing "funkytown" on the keypad

it was immensely important in its moment and i laughed myself sick seeing the movie in theaters when i was in college but i haven't watched an episode in probably a decade and that's okay and here's why

south park was excellent for about 5 seasons (5-10), good for 12 (2-13), and only went up its own ass when the '7 days to air' method became their m.o.

Doubters/haters, go watch this past season. Some of the most astute satire currently being produced.

watched the last season and while it was clever, it wasn't laugh-out-loud funny anymore

the "two princes" hat gag from last season killed me

lol true i forgot about that

'red hot catholic love,' 'awesom-o,' 'fun times with weapons,' 'make love, not warcraft,' 'chef goes nanners,' still some of the funniest eps in tv history.

oh god yeah "awesom-o" is so good

and that christian rock episode, omg

I voted for this. It's still great. Last season was amazing

placed in my top ten, screw the haters i'm going home.

also loved the recent (well, 2010 or so) lovecraftian origin story for kenny's numerous deaths

yeah it's dawning on me that i haven't watched a new episode of it since college 10+ years ago and it was already a legacy show at that point

actually i haven't watched this in nearly TWO decades holy shit i got old

You should go watch 'You're Getting Old'

Screw this, I've got to go watch some Postgate to wash this rancid taste out of my mouth.

when stone and parker put their all into an episode, it still kicks ass. but you can usually tell these days which episodes were mostly made at 2am the day before airing.

the show has def had it's moments ("Awesome-o" is a good example) but it's all buried under a bunch of hideous bullshit.

In a weird way the show is the logical extension of the Simpsons freed from the strictures of broadcast television and James L. Brooks' sacharrine instincts - it just ramped up that approach and then mashed it up with the 4chan-curdled politics of its creators

last episode i remember was the manatees that write family guy.
btw if family guy places, i am going to burn this website down.

Comedy Central eventually aired the episode with a black title card during the Muhammad sequence, censoring the depiction. While the episode's censorship did attract headlines, it received more attention for its lampooning of Family Guy.

if family guy places

come on

i chose a screen grab from the Fishsticks episode because i thought it was one of the goddamn funniest things i'd seen in a long time.