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  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCaterpillars for mouths rule
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    6 days ago

    Both Gravity Falls and the Amazing World of Gumball have absolutely top tier writing. 100% both Dipper and Gumball are “off-model” in OPs image. For this seemingly being a “we’re so sick of the CalArts style” example people must not know that the creator of Gumball, Ben Bocquelet, is fucking French and the show is produced in Europe.

    I’m in my forties and Gumball is legitimately one of the funniest cartoons I have seen in two decades.

    Also, Gumball stands out on it’s own because the norm for cartoons for a long time has seemed to have been the Gravity Falls/Adventure Time/Steven Universe formula of comedy mixed with a bunch of serious undertones and long-form story. There is no long-form story with Gumball, with the voice actors literally resetting multiple times and making jokes about switching voices no less. There hasn’t really been an extremely funny cartoon of that variety (that I have seen personally) since the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, and Gumball positively outshines Flapjack.

    Finally, it also ignores how Gumball absolutely pulls faces like this. Here’s a couple screenshots I just pulled from episodes I remember.

    EDIT: In other news a new season of Gumball after a seven year haitus is dropping later this month.






  • Story time. One time I was working for a local monthly paper that was all-volunteer and I interviewed someone at one of our local colleges. The interview went fine but on my way out, I noticed through a window of an empty classroom a white board with nothing on it except the words:

    MOTHER FATHER CHINESE DENTIST

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    Trivia: According to the Mr. Show season 4 DVD commentary, years after the show ended, cast member Paul F. Tompkins had overheard someone talking on a cell phone in a bar utter the phrase “mother father chinese dentist!” When asked if she was a fan of the show, her reply was “What?”








  • Yeah as an American myself, let me tell you: These people are dipshits, but there’s enough of them to sway the discussion into both 1. It’s totally valid to try to kill a person over petty theft and 2. They will definitely will win that fight every time. They have the most upvotes, so they must be right, right?? It couldn’t be that they’re collectively jackasses and Donald Trump represents their unrestrained fucking Id.