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Oh right, forgot about that. Muppet Babies: Origins.

Wow, '84 - '92 is a long run for a cartoon. No wonder I feel like I've watched so much of it.

jesus you guys didn't grow up wstching rugrats too did you? hate that fucking show. and i like most of the stuff my kids like. but i won't let them put rugrats on in my presence. feel like that show was around for decades.

rugrats was alright

animated versions of infantilized puppet versions of puppet versions of animals
^can we make this longer?

muppet babies kinda just as terrible as rugrats come to think of it.

rugrats was after my time. I caught a few episodes of it in passing. only thing I remember is one of them calling diapers "diapies" which infuriated me for some reason.

h8ted rugrats, watched the shit out of muppet babies

rugrats kinda hit every nerve for me cuz i hated the animation, hated their voices, and i thought it was totally unfunny. plus, the fact that it was sorta knowingly made for parents and kids to watch - parenting/child-rearing humor all the time with the horrible adult characters - made it even worse.

yeah every character on Rugrats looked like they barely survived fetal alcohol syndrome or something

Not to remove a layer from your theory but technically they are "cartoon/baby versions" of a puppet since there was never a non-cartoon baby version to play off of until later. This is only one layer

― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well yeah but it's a cartoon depiction of babies etc. a layer is a layer.

to clarify there really is someone else who came up w/ this observation about Muppet Babies before me and i genuinely can't remember who, although since nobody else has pointed it out itt i'm guessing it wasn't an ilxor or anyone famous

carrot top iirc

nooooooo

Not to remove a layer from your theory but technically they are "cartoon/baby versions" of a puppet since there was never a non-cartoon baby version to play off of until later. This is only one layer

― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how do you start that off with "not to remove a layer"?

through being disingenuous

it wasn't carrot top, that was forks's idea of "funny" (which, as we all know, needs scarequotes as much as carrot top's idea of "funny")

hey forks i think we might both think this is funny: kyle

Christ you guys are making me feel old. Muppet Babies? Rugrats!? I was already in my 20s when this shit was around.

haha, wikipedia is with you:

]The show portrays childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a large nursery in the care of a human woman called Nanny (the whereabouts of their parents are never addressed).

― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:21 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah the lack of adults thing is what's fucked up like they are in some existential void or something

fast times are ridgemont high had the same thing going on wrt parents

iCarly has the same vibe

this whole question was solved in the unfilmed Farmer Nanny takes her Muppet Livestock to Market final episode

Muppet Babies was some scary shit

casper the friendly ghost is rolling his dead kid eyes at all of you

I remember the muppet babies were always in these massive desolate landscapes like outer space or something. Their "playroom" was really massive and cavernous.

that was the power of imagination you dool

ZOMG MUPPET BABBIES MORE LIKE WAITING FOR GODOT

more like the power of a small animation budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkzTX0bltY

only thing worse than muppet babies was tiny toons

tiny toons were bad, but at least had a bit of ambition and wit. worst thing abt that show was its fan culture.

"fan cultures" didn't exist on an elementary school level iirc

Christ you guys are making me feel old. Muppet Babies? Rugrats!? I was already in my 20s when this shit was around.

lol Trayce, Muppet Babies premiered for us in 1984

is nanny = pippi longstocking the same way dr. greg house is actually sherlock holmes?

tiny toons were bad, but at least had a bit of ambition and wit. worst thing abt that show was its fan culture.

― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 8:37 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup. same w animaniacs

Oddly I couldn't really enjoy talking to other kids (in middle school) about Tiny Toons, but loved watching it with my mom. Same with Animaniacs.

what channel and what time was this on?

which?

wait Animaniacs was what i meant.

tonite we do the same thing we do every nite tke ver the world GET IT?

the only childrens tv shows i have nostalgia for are the racoons and arthur

http://images.wikia.com/cartoons/images/a/a5/Animaniacs1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDOrZy4dj4

what channel and what time was this on?

either, but i meant muppet babies

Lamp OTM, Arthur is the best.

Lamp is like fucking 16 or something it kills me every time

Matt wth is that Alfe Babies thing from? It's kind of awesome.

i was always terrified as a kid that one day, the camera would pan up to Nanny's face, and she would be this hideously deformed, grotesque creature....

go fuck yrself whiney

also the o.g. version of the raccoons theme song is a total jam in its own right

lol Trayce, Muppet Babies premiered for us in 1984

Hahah doh it may well have done here too, I dont really ever remember seeing it so I just made an assumption =) Perhaps im confusing it with animaiacs or something.

Challop time: I never liked the Muppet Show.