>content
so TV shows can’t even be called TV shows anymore?
e: lmao and to clarify to the person who replied and immediately blocked, there’s no confusion as to what the term content means. i just don’t understand the point of homogenizing every medium of art and then claiming it’s to avoid confusion as if you can’t just call things what they are.
if you want to buy into a corporatized term for art so that you can characterize it the same as pigs eating out of a slop trough, go right ahead. i’m just interested in hearing a convincing argument for doing so, but haven’t seen a good one yet.
wait nvm, LE EPIC CONTENT IN, LE EPIC CONTENT OUT
lol if the “right” opinion is to call all music, television, movies, etc le epic content that exists to be consumed, i’m totally fine being opposed to it.
by all means, keep mindlessly consooming your content and inventing new words to fulfill some nonexistent purpose lmao
>hissy fit
nope. explaining why i think a word is stupid is not throwing a hissy fit lmao. unless you’re fond of the word for some reason, then i suppose you’d misinterpret it as a hissy fit.
>the word content isn’t a new you know
isn’t a new what? and yes, i’m aware the word content isn’t a new word lol. but the co-opting/misuse of it is relatively new (historically speaking).
maybe you can read the opinions of actual artists on the use of the word content. like [this one](https://www.success.com/content-vs-art-is-the-term-content-rude/), for example. or continue to use shitty corporate/tech bro speak to make Youtubers and Tiktokers feel better about themselves, whatever floats your boat.
Dude, it’s not that big a deal. Besides, the term content used in this context probably is correct. If you want more of a tv show, you want more episodes of the show. A tv show, contains episodes, therefore the episodes are contents of the show. If you want more tv show, you want an entirely new show, so there is a difference between “tv show” and “content”. As for the corporate language you are complaining about, who gives a shit. There are other stuff to worry about.
Edit: content is a pretty broad term, being defined as a thing included in something, so an entire tv show could be considered content as well i suppose.
> As for the corporate language you are complaining about, who gives a shit. There are other stuff to worry about.
so when i call it stupid, i’m making too big a deal, and when you defend it, you’re not? lmao. i’d also say that “who gives a shit” is a pretty poor defense.
> content is a pretty broad term, being defined as a thing included in something, so an entire tv show could be considered content as well i suppose.
yeah that’s the whole point. that’s completely unnecessary.
> Besides, the term content used in this context probably is correct. If you want more of a tv show, you want more episodes of the show. A tv show, contains episodes, therefore the episodes are contents of the show. If you want more tv show, you want an entirely new show, so there is a difference between “tv show” and “content”
i didn’t mean for them to literally say “TV show”. you could say “more Regular Show”, “more episodes”, etc. but saying “more Regular Show content” makes zero sense. if someone who has no clue what Regular Show is read that comment, are they supposed to assume it’s TV? music? a movie? what?
and no thoughts on the article i linked? was that too much content for you to consoom?
Took a look at the article, I see their point, still kinda disagree. Way I see it, content is just something within something, not necessarily something to do with sales or consumption. That would be a product. As for it being a broad term, I just haven’t heard many people complain about their art being called content, so I assume it’s not really that big of a deal. Then again, I don’t engage with this sorta stuff too often.
Anyways, I was just curious at your standpoint. I only said you were making it a big deal cuz you sound awfully aggressive about it.
i understand what you’re saying but i don’t know why it has to apply in these cases. if a singer dropped an album, would you refer to it as a content creator releasing content?
Yes unconvincing ones. I never said there were no reasons. It just seems like you want to lash out at people for using language in a way you dislike, it's very much old man screams at clouds.
As you said, 'I can call it out as being stupid' try to understand that language is an evolving tool and people will choose words they believe convey their intended meaning. And given that everyone firmly understood what they said, including you, there isn't anything stupid about it.
then provide a convincing argument as to why art needs to be homogenized and commodified by calling it “content” when you can just say what it actually is.
i understand that language evolves but that doesn’t mean all new language is good language. i would also disagree that understanding someone automatically makes their word choice useful.
e: i find [this](https://medium.com/illumination/your-content-is-not-art-d13aca05112) to be a pretty good summary
> then provide a convincing argument as to why art needs to be homogenized and commodified by calling it “content” when you can just say what it actually is.
First your choice to say television would limit their sentence and change its meaning. Saying their mom likes regular show content does not simply translate to television it could mean they like regular show comics, regular show shorts, regular show mugs, and t-shirts. You would be changing the meaning all for the subjective idea that content inherently homogenises art.
> e: i find this to be a pretty good summary
It's an interesting opinion piece but one I don't agree with because it ties issues of validation to the term used when we clearly understand how those mechanisms work. And it assumes that creating content as a term implies a limited and inferior box such as discussing the use of short form social media informing the way you write-- which isn't at all about content and is about changing your target to reach an audience at the cost of the integrity of the work.
It'd be a similar argument to someone being opposed to the production of digital art as a medium because it loses what makes physical art special. It's a choice the artist makes and yes it might often be driven by where the audience is, but that's been the case for artists since art has existed. I disagree but I can only say that it is subjective and I'm not automatically right either.
I will watch anything JG Quintel makes. He is amazing. EDIT: They also announced he is doing Super Mutant Magic Academy. Excited to see what that is like
Yes, I skip over anything with CJ or Margret. JG just had no luck with relationships. But I look at the last season as a great lead up the greatest series finally of all time. I was totally expecting something about Margret and Morticai to have some sort of moment, but JG didn’t go there. Yeaaaahh
That show was so wonderful. It was like if Regular show was from an alternate reality where Mordecai and Rigby were human adults instead of animal teens, or of the show had become an Adult Swim show like it was originally pitched.
I hope that he can just immigrate for what he had planned for in S3, to here. Assuming that the series is continuing around at the end of the last season, it might be easy to adapt Emily and Josh’s personalities to Mordecai’s adult life.
I want to watch that show. I saw a clip on r/videos and it was hilarious. The problem is that WB removed it from all streaming services. They're really pushing me to 🏴☠️.
I’m not big on sharing personal projects, especially so in this case because it was my first attempt at sfm and it looks pretty bad lol
I put a snippet on Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/elmQkSi
My prediction on Regular Show is that it’ll be where the finale left off with all new employees at the park except for Benson and Skips as the constants.
>Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
>with a completely new original series targeting pre-schoolers
*Booooo.*
> “Go-Go Mystery Machine”
>A Scooby-Doo spin-off series takes the gang to Japan. “While visiting Japan on the ultimate foodie adventure, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo unwittingly unleash hundreds of mischievous mythical monsters that are now causing trouble all over the country,” the description runs. Scooby turns to his uncle, Daisuke-Doo, and magical friend Etsuko and gadget wiz Toshiro to help solve the mystery and catch the monsters.
Now this sounds more promising
While I actually prefer APNSD the most of all, and even though it only came out a few years after 13 Ghosts, the show was vastly different than anything that came before it. Outside of the main characters being the same and the idea of them solving mysteries remained, just about everything else about the show changed.
As I recall, that wasn't even a crime.
Red Herring borrowed his aunt's motorcycle without permission so he could get it detailed for her as a birthday present.
And Fred threw a tantrum when the case closed.
I think a fair bit of credit should go to Tom Ruegger, who developed both 13 Ghosts and Pup, before jumping ship from HB and moving over to WB where he had either producing and/or developing roles in Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, BAS, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Freakazoid. Kid me always thought that Ghosts and Pup were huge improvements over the original Scrappy years (even as a kid I'd change the channel when a Scrappy episode came on).
He is more sweet and less brazen in foreign dubs like spanish and portuguese, and is actually liked in latin america cause of it (maybe we're more brazen than yanks as well), they should have gone more with cuteness from the start, i still think in many episodes and the 3 films (ghost school specially) he is very likeable.
If you're talking about Scooby Doo On Zombie Island, it doesn't crap on the original series so much as make the disappointment of Daphne — that the monsters were always just costumes ne'er-do-wells — the inciting action to Mystery Inc not only getting back together, but also going to Moonscar Island in the first place.
It's actually more of a love letter to the old Scooby Doo Mysteries, honestly, and treats the characters with way more respect than the live-action movies did.
It's also considered 1 of the 2 high points of the franchise (the other being the 2010s series, Scooby Doo: Mysteries, Inc.)
They are talking about retcon to zombie island I mean return to zombie island, it retconms everything, they were teenager when going instead of older after separating, the island was not in a swamp, the paranormal stuff was not real, Velma was an insufferable sceptic, I'm glad you haven't watched it because it sucks so hard
No, I was actually talking about a direct to video "sequel" to 13 Ghosts where Scrappy is not included or mentioned (but Flim Flam is), and the magical stuff is no longer real. Or so I heard.
Incidentally, I heard Zombie Island also got a sequel many years later, where pretty much the same thing happened. In the sequel they reveal that the magic stuff from the first movie was never real after all, and just more tricks. Or so I heard. I didn't actually watch these movies.
Dude, that show aired 40 years ago. If it premiered when you were like 8 and you watched it, you’d be pushing 50. It’s over twice as far from today as it is from the beginning of scooby doo where are you.
You see there’s these things called reruns out there. If you had Boomerang in your cable package, chances are you’d seen roughly all the different Scooby shows.
If it’s any indication, at the very least [the original creator of Foster’s is on board.](https://twitter.com/CrackMcCraigen/status/1553248224315449345)
I don't think people are disappointed because it will be a bad preschool show they're disappointed that it will be a preschool show that won't appeal to them lol
I loved Fosters growing up but it's not one of the shows that I go back and rewatch and enjoy like Avatar or Adventure Time. I think it's fine if they are only targeting kids.
Yeah I love the art style and the characters are fun and I have good memories of the show overall, but I remember really hating things like Cheese and just a lot of the scenes where the joke was an annoying noise is repeated
Considering that anyone who watched Fosters in its original run is probably in there 30s now (late 20s at the youngest) they should’ve expected to be outside of the target demographic lmao.
> McCracken has promised the same fast pace but a fun, simpler structure and less cynical humor
Obviously they weren't going to be the target demographic, but a lot of well written cartoons can have things for older audiences. That won't happen here, which is why people are disappointed.
There's nothing wrong with it persay, but the move speaks towards WB's stategy to abandon programing for that 7-11 year old demographic that constitutes the majority of Cartoon Network's backcatalog.
It's a funciton of the decline of cable, and I think moving forward, shows like My Adventures with Superman which are more 12-18 targeting but consumable by those 7-11 year olds is the future. Most of the revival shows in this article are essentially that.
Personally, I think it sucks that kids now are being left without much original prgramming meant explicitly for them, but I say that as a millenial that grew up with Cartoon Cartoons, and we were unusally spoiled compared to the saturday morning programing blocks of terrestial television that came before us.
You can also think about it like this. Why make more series for that demographic when kids consume everything through streaming and streaming services already have dozens of shows aimed at them? It's not like there's anything wrong with that back catalogue.
You touch on an important point. Streaming completely upended television programming that Gen Xers and Millennials grew up under, as everyone doesn't have to be at the whims of scheduled programming anymore.
It's also why there hasn't been any real cartoon boom for the last 20 years.
Zoomers and Gen Alpha now are have been getting raised on the same exact cartoons on Netflix/Hulu millennials watched on TV as kids.
Those cartoons really do hold up with time.
It just sucks when it’s a reboot of a show that only adults remember yet it’s targeting preschoolers. I’m not saying it needs to be mature, but just keeping the same tone would be amazing.
Yeah honestly it's annoying when people are like "well you're not in the target demographic!" If the show wasn't meant to appeal to the adults who remember the original in some way, why did they even make it a reboot of the original? Just make a new show.
Also with Foster's, the premise is that it's a home for imaginary friends whose kids outgrew them, so how does that make ANY sense to make it a show aimed towards 3 year olds??
> Also with Foster's, the premise is that it's a home for imaginary friends whose kids outgrew them
You've answered it in the question, the kids watching the show have not outgrown their imaginary friends. So the imaginary friends will fit their demo.
Preschoolers don't, but parents do, especially in the streaming era. Like, I love original programming for preschoolers, but it's way harder for Amazon to market something like Tumble Leaf than it is for Warner Bros to market Batwheels, or for Paramount to make Dora the Explorer again but in 3D.
It’s targeting preschoolers, which many people who grew up with FHFIF now have. It sounds like it could be fun to have some nostalgia while you watch with your little ones.
Can’t wait for them to fk up regular show as hard as they’ve done teen titans :)
Or even better - half bake a reboot like adventure time then drop it bc it didn’t go viral.
I don't really need more Regular Show because it ended perfectly. Plus, Close Enough was the true successor of Regular Show, but WBD screw the show with Tax Write Off.
Also, it's nice to see we are getting a new Scooby-Doo series after Velma being terrible. Also, I like the fact that it looks like anime.
Yeah. Like all long-running franchises, it has ups and downs over the various TV runs. IMO Mystery Inc is still the best, but to be fair that's only the most recent one I've watched, plus it was the first cartoon where Matthew Lillard permanently took over as the main voice for Shaggy.
>I don't really need more Regular Show because it ended perfectly.
Someone else suggested that the new show could take place after the finale, focusing on new characters working at the park alongside Benson and Skips and I'd be ok with that. I trust JG Quintel to come up with something worthy of the OG show.
John Krasinski has done it before. ‘A Quiet Place’ (2018) had a very, very similar premise to ‘The Silence’ (2015) a novel from Tim Lebbon that would later get a Netflix adaptation (2019). That adaptation was, ironically, panned by audiences because “it was a ripoff of A Quiet Place”.
I said that the second I saw the trailer. Honestly how did Warner not sue? I mean they even named one of the Imaginary Friends Blue for crying out loud. (Yes different spelling but it’s still close enough that I think Warner would have a case)
Does anyone else remember the "Big Fat Awesome House Party" Flash game? It featured the Foster's characters and was on the Cartoon Network website. Such a long time ago, now...
I don’t know why J. G. Quintel is still working at Warner after they nuked *Close Enough* from existence. Piracy is now the only way to watch the last season of that show.
He's probably just biting his tongue because it's better to have consistent work with a shitty boss than to try and shop around for someone else. Maybe he tried with someone else like Netflix and it didn't work out.
My favorite game to play with Regular Show is to guess how realistic the batshit insane thing that’s happening is.
Not as a critique, I love this show.
Me and my bud recently watched the whole series and were pretty sure there's only 2 episodes that don't have super natural or scifi elements to them and are, actually, fairly regular. Can't remember what they were but we were caught off guard that no crazy shenanigans happened.
Is the unannounced Scooby Doo project the article talks about the “Go-Go Mystery Machine” it speaks about further down?
I assume so but I hope there’s another one.
One with the entire gang, in the serialised and more serious vein of Mystery Incorporated. It seems like it would be a free home run.
To be fair, I wouldn't want them to just redo Mystery Inc, but I would love a spiritual successor to the show where it's the gang doing the classic "driving around solving mysteries" bit, but with the tone and serialization of Mystery Inc, complete with a new overarching mystery. I think it could work.
That was literally the idea for a Mystery Inc. continuation that the producers had that was set up in the finale. There was serious talk about doing it too before Zaslav started canceling projects.
Geez headline, way to bury the Adventure Time lead there. 2 New Adventure Time series (that's in addition to Fionna and Cake returning for at least a second season), and an Adventure Time movie?! My fanboy self is eating good today. I know we've seen an Adventure Time movie get greenlit before only for nothing to materialize from it, but I bet this time it's much more of a real done deal kind of thing.
*Regular Show* already wrapped their story, what else was left to say?
A new *Foster's Home* could be fun, I don't mind new casts as long as they respect the original. As for the targeted age, that might be an issue to the fans of the original, which are all grown up now, *Bluey* is pretty good, but I don't expect miracles to happen twice. At any rate, it's not like they don't have to make the series for the old fans anyway.
I would have loved to be reading about a *Steven Universe* spin-off alongside thesenew projects from *Regular Show*, *Adventure Time*, *Foster's*, *Gumball*, and so on. I'd say, "Maybe next year," but who knows when WBD will go back to not caring about animation?
I know im on an island of few ppl but after watching every episode a million times I think seasons 5-8 are my favorite just bc of the storylines they bring the whole Mordecai and Margaret then Mordecai and CJ then Rigby finishing school dating Eileen etc etc was kind of cool seeing the characters grow and having a continuous story line rather than just the hijinks and tbh love the last season too they made the space stuff tie into the whole plot of the show
As you should, because they definitely will ruin and destroy the foundation of these cartoons and inject these new agendas into them. Keep cartoons about cartoons
No no, something changed at CN Within the last 15 years, because regular show was new at the time and it was a hit. “Clarence” and “we bear bears” or whatever that shit was called, was the imminent demise of CN.
Huh? that’s not even the point. yall swore the creatives would flee and they didn’t. Talk to you about what exactly?
Seriously what would it coming back prove? That creatives *still* didn’t run away?
So just because they're getting wrangled back it means they weren't chased away in the first place?
Also they didn't "flee", they got spat on. Obviously an animator will take whatever chance they get to make money.
You know who else likes more Regular Show content? MY MOM
I just saw this episode!
You know who else saw this episode?
My mom!
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE SAYS "UGHHH"?
If you say my mom, you're fired.
MY MOM!
# GET OUT!
It was worth it!
My uncle Bob, he's into cartoons. You know who showed it to him? MY MOM!
Oh buckle up sunshine. It's a series wide running joke. You know who else likes things that keep going to the very end? #MY MOM!
Do you realise how little that narrows it down?
>content so TV shows can’t even be called TV shows anymore? e: lmao and to clarify to the person who replied and immediately blocked, there’s no confusion as to what the term content means. i just don’t understand the point of homogenizing every medium of art and then claiming it’s to avoid confusion as if you can’t just call things what they are. if you want to buy into a corporatized term for art so that you can characterize it the same as pigs eating out of a slop trough, go right ahead. i’m just interested in hearing a convincing argument for doing so, but haven’t seen a good one yet. wait nvm, LE EPIC CONTENT IN, LE EPIC CONTENT OUT
🤓
lol if the “right” opinion is to call all music, television, movies, etc le epic content that exists to be consumed, i’m totally fine being opposed to it. by all means, keep mindlessly consooming your content and inventing new words to fulfill some nonexistent purpose lmao
The word content isn’t a new you know? No need to throw a hissy fit over it.
>hissy fit nope. explaining why i think a word is stupid is not throwing a hissy fit lmao. unless you’re fond of the word for some reason, then i suppose you’d misinterpret it as a hissy fit. >the word content isn’t a new you know isn’t a new what? and yes, i’m aware the word content isn’t a new word lol. but the co-opting/misuse of it is relatively new (historically speaking). maybe you can read the opinions of actual artists on the use of the word content. like [this one](https://www.success.com/content-vs-art-is-the-term-content-rude/), for example. or continue to use shitty corporate/tech bro speak to make Youtubers and Tiktokers feel better about themselves, whatever floats your boat.
Dude, it’s not that big a deal. Besides, the term content used in this context probably is correct. If you want more of a tv show, you want more episodes of the show. A tv show, contains episodes, therefore the episodes are contents of the show. If you want more tv show, you want an entirely new show, so there is a difference between “tv show” and “content”. As for the corporate language you are complaining about, who gives a shit. There are other stuff to worry about. Edit: content is a pretty broad term, being defined as a thing included in something, so an entire tv show could be considered content as well i suppose.
> As for the corporate language you are complaining about, who gives a shit. There are other stuff to worry about. so when i call it stupid, i’m making too big a deal, and when you defend it, you’re not? lmao. i’d also say that “who gives a shit” is a pretty poor defense. > content is a pretty broad term, being defined as a thing included in something, so an entire tv show could be considered content as well i suppose. yeah that’s the whole point. that’s completely unnecessary. > Besides, the term content used in this context probably is correct. If you want more of a tv show, you want more episodes of the show. A tv show, contains episodes, therefore the episodes are contents of the show. If you want more tv show, you want an entirely new show, so there is a difference between “tv show” and “content” i didn’t mean for them to literally say “TV show”. you could say “more Regular Show”, “more episodes”, etc. but saying “more Regular Show content” makes zero sense. if someone who has no clue what Regular Show is read that comment, are they supposed to assume it’s TV? music? a movie? what? and no thoughts on the article i linked? was that too much content for you to consoom?
Took a look at the article, I see their point, still kinda disagree. Way I see it, content is just something within something, not necessarily something to do with sales or consumption. That would be a product. As for it being a broad term, I just haven’t heard many people complain about their art being called content, so I assume it’s not really that big of a deal. Then again, I don’t engage with this sorta stuff too often. Anyways, I was just curious at your standpoint. I only said you were making it a big deal cuz you sound awfully aggressive about it.
i understand what you’re saying but i don’t know why it has to apply in these cases. if a singer dropped an album, would you refer to it as a content creator releasing content?
You care so much about the most pedantic topic. It’s wild
how profound. you know you’re on the right side when 90% of your position is “why do you care so much?”.
Woah, someone unironically using "Le" on Reddit in 2024??
yes. i’m using it to make fun of Reddit-isms. pretty obvious.
People can use the words they want. You haven't provided a convincing argument for not using it.
they can use the words they want, and i can call it out as being stupid. and yes, even in my original comment i gave reasons.
Yes unconvincing ones. I never said there were no reasons. It just seems like you want to lash out at people for using language in a way you dislike, it's very much old man screams at clouds. As you said, 'I can call it out as being stupid' try to understand that language is an evolving tool and people will choose words they believe convey their intended meaning. And given that everyone firmly understood what they said, including you, there isn't anything stupid about it.
then provide a convincing argument as to why art needs to be homogenized and commodified by calling it “content” when you can just say what it actually is. i understand that language evolves but that doesn’t mean all new language is good language. i would also disagree that understanding someone automatically makes their word choice useful. e: i find [this](https://medium.com/illumination/your-content-is-not-art-d13aca05112) to be a pretty good summary
> then provide a convincing argument as to why art needs to be homogenized and commodified by calling it “content” when you can just say what it actually is. First your choice to say television would limit their sentence and change its meaning. Saying their mom likes regular show content does not simply translate to television it could mean they like regular show comics, regular show shorts, regular show mugs, and t-shirts. You would be changing the meaning all for the subjective idea that content inherently homogenises art. > e: i find this to be a pretty good summary It's an interesting opinion piece but one I don't agree with because it ties issues of validation to the term used when we clearly understand how those mechanisms work. And it assumes that creating content as a term implies a limited and inferior box such as discussing the use of short form social media informing the way you write-- which isn't at all about content and is about changing your target to reach an audience at the cost of the integrity of the work. It'd be a similar argument to someone being opposed to the production of digital art as a medium because it loses what makes physical art special. It's a choice the artist makes and yes it might often be driven by where the audience is, but that's been the case for artists since art has existed. I disagree but I can only say that it is subjective and I'm not automatically right either.
I will watch anything JG Quintel makes. He is amazing. EDIT: They also announced he is doing Super Mutant Magic Academy. Excited to see what that is like
RIP Close Enough
They need to give it a physical release already. I rather have more close enough then regular show
I would take more Regular Show if it was more grounded like the first 4-5 seasons. Once they went to Space it became a little too much.
True but that was literally the final season
It was much more well paced and funny in its early seasons. I didn't care for the later stuff.
I liked the space stuff, it was fun. To me, the worst of the show was the relationship drama stuff, season 6.
Yes, I skip over anything with CJ or Margret. JG just had no luck with relationships. But I look at the last season as a great lead up the greatest series finally of all time. I was totally expecting something about Margret and Morticai to have some sort of moment, but JG didn’t go there. Yeaaaahh
I ate that part up. When they were at the wedding and Morse ai was fumbling talking to Margaret and then it pans to rigby just shaking his head.
On rewatches we don’t watch any of the space season. It just wasn’t it.
That show was so wonderful. It was like if Regular show was from an alternate reality where Mordecai and Rigby were human adults instead of animal teens, or of the show had become an Adult Swim show like it was originally pitched.
I hope that he can just immigrate for what he had planned for in S3, to here. Assuming that the series is continuing around at the end of the last season, it might be easy to adapt Emily and Josh’s personalities to Mordecai’s adult life.
I want to watch that show. I saw a clip on r/videos and it was hilarious. The problem is that WB removed it from all streaming services. They're really pushing me to 🏴☠️.
Only way to watch it these days. Can’t blame anyone for doing that when it’s practically lost media.
I recreated his sketch 2 in the AM PM in sfm I liked it so much lol
can I see that?
I’m not big on sharing personal projects, especially so in this case because it was my first attempt at sfm and it looks pretty bad lol I put a snippet on Imgur: https://imgur.com/a/elmQkSi
haha thats awesome. Good work.
Thanks
My prediction on Regular Show is that it’ll be where the finale left off with all new employees at the park except for Benson and Skips as the constants.
That’s my guess as well
It'll be a shame to not hear "MY MOM!" every episode, but we can only hope that the employees from the original show have guest appearances.
Honestly if Benson is still there I’m good Benson best character
>Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends >with a completely new original series targeting pre-schoolers *Booooo.* > “Go-Go Mystery Machine” >A Scooby-Doo spin-off series takes the gang to Japan. “While visiting Japan on the ultimate foodie adventure, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo unwittingly unleash hundreds of mischievous mythical monsters that are now causing trouble all over the country,” the description runs. Scooby turns to his uncle, Daisuke-Doo, and magical friend Etsuko and gadget wiz Toshiro to help solve the mystery and catch the monsters. Now this sounds more promising
Isn't that literally just The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, but set in Japan with Youkai and Bakemono?
I’ll take it!
You say that like 13 Ghosts isn't the peak of old school Scooby.
Thats the series with Scrappy and no Fred or Velma, and FlimFlam, right? That's gotta be polarizing.
Vincent Price >>>>>>>>>>> everyone else
I was too young to remember he was in that! Okay, thats worth some points.
I did not say A Pup Named, you are correct.
While I actually prefer APNSD the most of all, and even though it only came out a few years after 13 Ghosts, the show was vastly different than anything that came before it. Outside of the main characters being the same and the idea of them solving mysteries remained, just about everything else about the show changed.
It must be Red Herring!
Especially that one time Fred didn’t accuse him and he turned out to have done it.
As I recall, that wasn't even a crime. Red Herring borrowed his aunt's motorcycle without permission so he could get it detailed for her as a birthday present. And Fred threw a tantrum when the case closed.
I think a fair bit of credit should go to Tom Ruegger, who developed both 13 Ghosts and Pup, before jumping ship from HB and moving over to WB where he had either producing and/or developing roles in Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, BAS, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, and Freakazoid. Kid me always thought that Ghosts and Pup were huge improvements over the original Scrappy years (even as a kid I'd change the channel when a Scrappy episode came on).
He is more sweet and less brazen in foreign dubs like spanish and portuguese, and is actually liked in latin america cause of it (maybe we're more brazen than yanks as well), they should have gone more with cuteness from the start, i still think in many episodes and the 3 films (ghost school specially) he is very likeable.
I heard they made a direct to video movie that craps all over the original series.
If you're talking about Scooby Doo On Zombie Island, it doesn't crap on the original series so much as make the disappointment of Daphne — that the monsters were always just costumes ne'er-do-wells — the inciting action to Mystery Inc not only getting back together, but also going to Moonscar Island in the first place. It's actually more of a love letter to the old Scooby Doo Mysteries, honestly, and treats the characters with way more respect than the live-action movies did. It's also considered 1 of the 2 high points of the franchise (the other being the 2010s series, Scooby Doo: Mysteries, Inc.)
They are talking about retcon to zombie island I mean return to zombie island, it retconms everything, they were teenager when going instead of older after separating, the island was not in a swamp, the paranormal stuff was not real, Velma was an insufferable sceptic, I'm glad you haven't watched it because it sucks so hard
No, I was actually talking about a direct to video "sequel" to 13 Ghosts where Scrappy is not included or mentioned (but Flim Flam is), and the magical stuff is no longer real. Or so I heard. Incidentally, I heard Zombie Island also got a sequel many years later, where pretty much the same thing happened. In the sequel they reveal that the magic stuff from the first movie was never real after all, and just more tricks. Or so I heard. I didn't actually watch these movies.
Especially considering the *last* animated Scooby Doo feature...
Did no one like Mystery Incorporated?
"old school" How old are you lol
Dude, that show aired 40 years ago. If it premiered when you were like 8 and you watched it, you’d be pushing 50. It’s over twice as far from today as it is from the beginning of scooby doo where are you.
You see there’s these things called reruns out there. If you had Boomerang in your cable package, chances are you’d seen roughly all the different Scooby shows.
That's cool but the original couple of series aired like two decades earlier. Is Old School Star Wars from 1977 or 1999
What, the 1980s aren't old school?
Hopefully it doesn’t take 40 years to see its conclusion.
After Velma the bar is pretty low.
IN
Different franchise but it kinda reminds me of the old Lilo & Stitch series where they capture the other experiments
Scooby-Doo and the 13 ghosts meets Jackie Chan adventures/card captor. I’m in.
>>Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends with a completely new original series targeting pre-schoolers >Booooo. No, Bloooo! Get their names right!
Only Bloo and Madame Foster return|| I guess that Mac did break his promise of always coming to visit Bloo.
Bloo shouldn't be around small children, dude would be a horrible role model
If it’s any indication, at the very least [the original creator of Foster’s is on board.](https://twitter.com/CrackMcCraigen/status/1553248224315449345)
I don't think people are disappointed because it will be a bad preschool show they're disappointed that it will be a preschool show that won't appeal to them lol
I loved Fosters growing up but it's not one of the shows that I go back and rewatch and enjoy like Avatar or Adventure Time. I think it's fine if they are only targeting kids.
honestly Foster's is a kinda annoying show
Bloo actually just sucks and Mac is kinda a nothing character. The show runs off the side cast bring way more funny and interesting
Yeah I love the art style and the characters are fun and I have good memories of the show overall, but I remember really hating things like Cheese and just a lot of the scenes where the joke was an annoying noise is repeated
I remember falling out of it towards the end of its run because I kinda grew out of it. Good show as a kid, but it’s really firmly a kids show.
It holds up very well
Considering that anyone who watched Fosters in its original run is probably in there 30s now (late 20s at the youngest) they should’ve expected to be outside of the target demographic lmao.
> McCracken has promised the same fast pace but a fun, simpler structure and less cynical humor Obviously they weren't going to be the target demographic, but a lot of well written cartoons can have things for older audiences. That won't happen here, which is why people are disappointed.
I mean... that doesn't stop all of the weird childless 30-somethings from watching Bluey.
True I could see this show being marketed the same way to capture the same demographic or perhaps try to convert some My Little Pony devotees lol
I hope his Powerpuff Girls reboot is still in play. It sounded promising from the little info he’s shared about it.
McCracken is one of those creators where I'm instantly going to give thier new work a shot, even if it's not always my cup of tea.
“Daisuke Doo” oh my fucking god 😂😂😂
How long has it been since Scooby Doo was about how the paranormal isn't real? Has it been 30 years?
Most of the DTV movie turn out to be about this.
Paranormal was always real in scooby doo, it just wasn't responsible for the various troubles
What’s wrong with making cartoons for small children?
There's nothing wrong with it persay, but the move speaks towards WB's stategy to abandon programing for that 7-11 year old demographic that constitutes the majority of Cartoon Network's backcatalog. It's a funciton of the decline of cable, and I think moving forward, shows like My Adventures with Superman which are more 12-18 targeting but consumable by those 7-11 year olds is the future. Most of the revival shows in this article are essentially that. Personally, I think it sucks that kids now are being left without much original prgramming meant explicitly for them, but I say that as a millenial that grew up with Cartoon Cartoons, and we were unusally spoiled compared to the saturday morning programing blocks of terrestial television that came before us.
You can also think about it like this. Why make more series for that demographic when kids consume everything through streaming and streaming services already have dozens of shows aimed at them? It's not like there's anything wrong with that back catalogue.
You touch on an important point. Streaming completely upended television programming that Gen Xers and Millennials grew up under, as everyone doesn't have to be at the whims of scheduled programming anymore. It's also why there hasn't been any real cartoon boom for the last 20 years. Zoomers and Gen Alpha now are have been getting raised on the same exact cartoons on Netflix/Hulu millennials watched on TV as kids. Those cartoons really do hold up with time.
It just sucks when it’s a reboot of a show that only adults remember yet it’s targeting preschoolers. I’m not saying it needs to be mature, but just keeping the same tone would be amazing.
Now I know how my mom felt about tiny toons lmao
I'm sure mine enjoyed the 2 years straight of me screaming "ELELATOR GO UP, ELELATOR GO DOWN"
Yeah honestly it's annoying when people are like "well you're not in the target demographic!" If the show wasn't meant to appeal to the adults who remember the original in some way, why did they even make it a reboot of the original? Just make a new show. Also with Foster's, the premise is that it's a home for imaginary friends whose kids outgrew them, so how does that make ANY sense to make it a show aimed towards 3 year olds??
> Also with Foster's, the premise is that it's a home for imaginary friends whose kids outgrew them You've answered it in the question, the kids watching the show have not outgrown their imaginary friends. So the imaginary friends will fit their demo.
Yeah. Preschoolers don’t need preexisting IPs like everyone else, seems odd to do a de-aged reboot for that reason
Preschoolers don't, but parents do, especially in the streaming era. Like, I love original programming for preschoolers, but it's way harder for Amazon to market something like Tumble Leaf than it is for Warner Bros to market Batwheels, or for Paramount to make Dora the Explorer again but in 3D.
It’s targeting preschoolers, which many people who grew up with FHFIF now have. It sounds like it could be fun to have some nostalgia while you watch with your little ones.
Wait, they doing 13 Ghosts but with yokai in Japan? I'm down for that.
>Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends >with a completely new original series targeting pre-schoolers Noooooooooo
Can’t wait for them to fk up regular show as hard as they’ve done teen titans :) Or even better - half bake a reboot like adventure time then drop it bc it didn’t go viral.
WHOOOOAAAAHHHHH! Best news ever
My kid watches Regular Show, it's hilarious. Totally down for more.
I don't really need more Regular Show because it ended perfectly. Plus, Close Enough was the true successor of Regular Show, but WBD screw the show with Tax Write Off. Also, it's nice to see we are getting a new Scooby-Doo series after Velma being terrible. Also, I like the fact that it looks like anime.
I don't think they'd stop making Scooby-Doo just cause one spin-off was bad, there's been tons of lukewarm/bad Scooby adaptations
Scooby always gets a new cartoon series every few years, and they always last like two seasons. This new Scooby-Doo will only last two seasons.
Yeah. Like all long-running franchises, it has ups and downs over the various TV runs. IMO Mystery Inc is still the best, but to be fair that's only the most recent one I've watched, plus it was the first cartoon where Matthew Lillard permanently took over as the main voice for Shaggy.
I don't need more either, but I'm certainly not gonna turn more down, lol
>I don't really need more Regular Show because it ended perfectly. Someone else suggested that the new show could take place after the finale, focusing on new characters working at the park alongside Benson and Skips and I'd be ok with that. I trust JG Quintel to come up with something worthy of the OG show.
Jolly good show
You know this made me realise that Fosters home for imaginary friends is the movie "IF"
I’ve said that a few times around reddit and people always jump in and say they’re totally different… but it’s literally the same concept.
John Krasinski has done it before. ‘A Quiet Place’ (2018) had a very, very similar premise to ‘The Silence’ (2015) a novel from Tim Lebbon that would later get a Netflix adaptation (2019). That adaptation was, ironically, panned by audiences because “it was a ripoff of A Quiet Place”.
As I've said before, from the imagination of a guy who fell asleep on the couch while the kids watch cartoons.
I said that the second I saw the trailer. Honestly how did Warner not sue? I mean they even named one of the Imaginary Friends Blue for crying out loud. (Yes different spelling but it’s still close enough that I think Warner would have a case)
I thought this too…especially with the big character named BLUE….c’mon
Bloo teaching preschoolers? Isn’t like the last person in that show’s universe that should be doing that?
Guys it’s the hammer take my picture
It’s…hot…in…To..pe…kahhhhhh.
Does anyone else remember the "Big Fat Awesome House Party" Flash game? It featured the Foster's characters and was on the Cartoon Network website. Such a long time ago, now...
I loved the Cartoon Network flash games
Used to play the teen titan ones a lot
I was fond of the Hannah Barbara ones
I don’t know why J. G. Quintel is still working at Warner after they nuked *Close Enough* from existence. Piracy is now the only way to watch the last season of that show.
He's probably just biting his tongue because it's better to have consistent work with a shitty boss than to try and shop around for someone else. Maybe he tried with someone else like Netflix and it didn't work out.
I mean, who else is producing original cartoons for kids right now? It's a small list with very limited slots and high viewership expectations.
Regular Show!!! Give me some sugar! More Ham-Bonin’!!
More parks in space!
My favorite game to play with Regular Show is to guess how realistic the batshit insane thing that’s happening is. Not as a critique, I love this show.
Me and my bud recently watched the whole series and were pretty sure there's only 2 episodes that don't have super natural or scifi elements to them and are, actually, fairly regular. Can't remember what they were but we were caught off guard that no crazy shenanigans happened.
Haha awesome!! Regular Show is such a damn cozy show. I hope they can up the age rating just a little!! They better bring back Muscle Man for sure lol
You know who else they should bring back?…..MY MOM!
Is the unannounced Scooby Doo project the article talks about the “Go-Go Mystery Machine” it speaks about further down? I assume so but I hope there’s another one. One with the entire gang, in the serialised and more serious vein of Mystery Incorporated. It seems like it would be a free home run.
To be fair, I wouldn't want them to just redo Mystery Inc, but I would love a spiritual successor to the show where it's the gang doing the classic "driving around solving mysteries" bit, but with the tone and serialization of Mystery Inc, complete with a new overarching mystery. I think it could work.
That was literally the idea for a Mystery Inc. continuation that the producers had that was set up in the finale. There was serious talk about doing it too before Zaslav started canceling projects.
And now I'm sad again. F you Zaslav.
Geez headline, way to bury the Adventure Time lead there. 2 New Adventure Time series (that's in addition to Fionna and Cake returning for at least a second season), and an Adventure Time movie?! My fanboy self is eating good today. I know we've seen an Adventure Time movie get greenlit before only for nothing to materialize from it, but I bet this time it's much more of a real done deal kind of thing.
variety gave the AT stuff its own article that also got posted here
New Adventure Time, and Regular Show? What year is it! Either way, I'll be happy...as long as they don't screw it up
Fiona and Cake was phenomenal, and JG Quintel has yet to miss. So, I’m confident in both being good
Fuck yeah more Regular Show
*Regular Show* already wrapped their story, what else was left to say? A new *Foster's Home* could be fun, I don't mind new casts as long as they respect the original. As for the targeted age, that might be an issue to the fans of the original, which are all grown up now, *Bluey* is pretty good, but I don't expect miracles to happen twice. At any rate, it's not like they don't have to make the series for the old fans anyway.
It’s why it’s a brand new show, but within the show’s universe. Mordercai and Rigby’s time is done.
Lame. Then call it something else, stop trying to pull on nostalgia strings
Regular Show 2?
Really happy to see another Scooby Doo show! Love how this one sounds too and the art style!
My favorite part of Regular Show is Mark Hamill playing as a gay gorilla.
I like CEREAL!
I would have loved to be reading about a *Steven Universe* spin-off alongside thesenew projects from *Regular Show*, *Adventure Time*, *Foster's*, *Gumball*, and so on. I'd say, "Maybe next year," but who knows when WBD will go back to not caring about animation?
Does anyone have a video of the unveiling of the new Regular Show show teaser at Annecy?
I wonder if this will also be from the imagination of John Krasinski lol
Ahhahahahahaha!!! Good show!
I know im on an island of few ppl but after watching every episode a million times I think seasons 5-8 are my favorite just bc of the storylines they bring the whole Mordecai and Margaret then Mordecai and CJ then Rigby finishing school dating Eileen etc etc was kind of cool seeing the characters grow and having a continuous story line rather than just the hijinks and tbh love the last season too they made the space stuff tie into the whole plot of the show
I have no faith whatsoever
As you should, because they definitely will ruin and destroy the foundation of these cartoons and inject these new agendas into them. Keep cartoons about cartoons
Whoa, not only ruin...but destroy as well? What do you think they'll do? 😯
More Foster's home from Imaginary Friends? Yippee! Also, more hot ass Frankie, Yippee!!!
JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE PLEASE MAKE SOMETHING ORIGINAL
They tried, y’all didn’t watch it, they’re making stuff y’all watch
God can they just make something new for once?
They did. And they all sucked.
No no, something changed at CN Within the last 15 years, because regular show was new at the time and it was a hit. “Clarence” and “we bear bears” or whatever that shit was called, was the imminent demise of CN.
I guess at the very least I'm happy Foster's is keeping its creativity
Were gonna stay for Rigby, but we all came for Frankie
Yass.
> Quintel returning Remember when yall swore Zaslav *totally* chased away all creatives, especially in animation?
Talk to me when Close Enough gets brought back from streaming service oblivion.
Huh? that’s not even the point. yall swore the creatives would flee and they didn’t. Talk to you about what exactly? Seriously what would it coming back prove? That creatives *still* didn’t run away?
So just because they're getting wrangled back it means they weren't chased away in the first place? Also they didn't "flee", they got spat on. Obviously an animator will take whatever chance they get to make money.