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Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Fucking LOL.

But yeah, once I gave American Dad a chance it turned out to be one of my favorite animated shows.

Posted: May 17 2011 08:23 pm

username wrote:

they played the whole video. not a snippet of it, but the whole fucking video. total time filler.

i mean, the video was gay & funny, but not for 3 whole minutes. fuck that noise

That's been one of their things they are starting to do every season. I never saw the video and it was a hell of a lot better then Conway Twitty. While it did drag on there was no real place to break it up without being super abrupt about it.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

How about...not doing it at all? If you can't contain your "jokes" then you have no business wasting time with them, especially if all you're going to do is show a music video.

Posted: May 18 2011 07:44 am

Aaron Schwartz wrote:

...will it flop? Probably not. As stated about his take on Star Wars, Seth is funnier when something else is providing the framework for the show, and The Flintstones is about as established as you can get. The problem I had with the show, even as a kid, was that if you took away all the caveman gags, you just had a so-so version of "The Honeymooners," which is what it was designed to be. Children have since been treated to more re-imaginings of Fred and his stone-age world than one would have thought possible. So this is what it's come to: We get a repurposed version of an already worn-thin property to be re-imagined by a guy who produces animated fare that has roughly the same template to begin with. I think all that's actually up for debate will be whether or not Dino will talk.

Posted: May 18 2011 10:51 am

Seth's take on Star Wars wasn't great. The first one was great, the second one was so-so, the third one was awful. Seth has even said he only did the third one out of obligation, not because he wanted to.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Yeah, and if I see Fred Flintstone do some fruity song and dance number I'm gonna pull a Cartman and ride my tricycle out their to stop them myself..

Posted: May 18 2011 11:14 am

sidewaydriver wrote:

JRA wrote:

sidewaydriver wrote:

I've read that MacFarlane was supposed to be on one of the planes on 9/11. Could no good at all come of that day???

Dude, fuck you. Seth McFarlane might have fallen from grace in recent years, but in no way is he deserving of that fate.

I wish you were on the plane with him.

LOL

Posted: May 18 2011 12:28 pm

I felt the same way about American Dad. I thought it was "meh" at first but grew to love it. Me and the wife watch it all the time now.

I still think Cleveland Show is "meh"

and Family Guy's early stuff was great IMO, now it's really just hit or miss.

With that said, I don't have my breath held for this, but I'll at least check it out and see how I feel about it.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

The Star Wars parody was just a waste of time. Star Wars parodies have been done to death and his "take" on things wasn't interesting or nothing new from what I've seen before.

I will admit, this made me laugh:

But this is probably what the show will be like:

Worst Gazoo impression I've ever heard.

Posted: May 18 2011 03:28 pm

How far into the first show until we hear about Fred's woolly mammoth, or Wilma's pearl necklace?

Posted: May 18 2011 05:07 pm

I'm sure they'll blow that load in the first 5 minutes.

Posted: May 18 2011 06:44 pm

joshwoodzy wrote:

Yeah, and if I see Fred Flintstone do some fruity song and dance number I'm gonna pull a Cartman and ride my tricycle out their to stop them myself..

seconded.

Title: GHOST NAPPA Joined: Nov 26 2010 Posts: 14

sidewaydriver wrote:

JRA wrote:

sidewaydriver wrote:

I've read that MacFarlane was supposed to be on one of the planes on 9/11. Could no good at all come of that day???

Dude, fuck you. Seth McFarlane might have fallen from grace in recent years, but in no way is he deserving of that fate.

I wish you were on the plane with him.

I wish YOU were the plane.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

The Flinstones are sacred damn it. Next thing you know Macfarlane will make Fred and Barney cops and team them up with the thing and an amorphous blob.

Posted: May 24 2011 10:37 am

Smirky wrote:

sidewaydriver wrote:

JRA wrote:

sidewaydriver wrote:

I've read that MacFarlane was supposed to be on one of the planes on 9/11. Could no good at all come of that day???

Dude, fuck you. Seth McFarlane might have fallen from grace in recent years, but in no way is he deserving of that fate.

I wish you were on the plane with him.

I wish YOU were the plane.

I wish you and your mom were on the plane.

Posted: May 24 2011 11:04 am

Optimist With Doubts wrote:

The Flinstones are sacred damn it. Next thing you know Macfarlane will make Fred and Barney cops and team them up with the thing and an amorphous blob.

You just described the pilot!

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

Eh Hm

Joined: Aug 04 2009 Posts: 2515

Syd Lexia wrote:

Does anyone remember the Yogi Bear and Jetsons shorts that John K did? They were fucking shameful. Then again, pretty much everything John K did besides the first season or two of Ren & Stimpy was pretty awful.

With respect to Ren and Stimpy, John K didn't write past season 2 (i think it was 2).

He got fired as a writer and also as the voice of Ren which probably is why the show got really shit.

Though i'd be interested to see these shorts he made.

Posted: May 26 2011 09:57 pm

I recently saw the shorts John Kricfalusi did with the Jetsons and Yogi Bear. The animation in those things really bugged me.

As for the Flintstones thing that's going on, I'm not really looking forward to it.

Posted: May 30 2011 07:57 pm

My biggest concern is this: what will the animation style be like? Will Seth try and emulate the old HB style, or will he use his own established style? I like to see something somewhere in between those two options. It's important that show doesn't look like Family Guy.

Posted: Aug 29 2011 07:58 pm

Hopefully there won't be any black people on the show. There were no black people in Flintstones times.

This Is A Joke

Posted: Aug 29 2011 09:14 pm

Going way back to what Woodzy said before, I want in on this tricycle biker gang out to stop this show if it sucks donkey balls.

Posted: Aug 29 2011 09:21 pm

Alowishus wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Does anyone remember the Yogi Bear and Jetsons shorts that John K did? They were fucking shameful. Then again, pretty much everything John K did besides the first season or two of Ren & Stimpy was pretty awful.

With respect to Ren and Stimpy, John K didn't write past season 2 (i think it was 2).

He got fired as a writer and also as the voice of Ren which probably is why the show got really shit.

Though i'd be interested to see these shorts he made.

They're pretty over the top and disgusting, in one Ren knocks Stimpy up and they go the the hospital to give birth, and it turns out he's just constipated, Mr. Horse builds them a baby out of poop.

Posted: Sep 08 2011 04:25 am

Isn't Seth Macfarlane that guy that ruined Family Guy?

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Syd Lexia wrote:

Does anyone remember the Yogi Bear and Jetsons shorts that John K did? They were fucking shameful. Then again, pretty much everything John K did besides the first season or two of Ren & Stimpy was pretty awful.

I used to read Jon K's blog a lot, because he had some interesting things to say, but the fact that he thought he was some kind of tortured genius and that nobody appreciated those HB shorts he did just turned me off. He strikes me as possibly being a massive asshole in real life.