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Camp Cartoons.

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is growing on me, and I can't really say why. A lot of it has to do with the show's rather nihilistic approach to endings. The cartoons have a tendency to end after vindictiveness has crushed someone's dream or everyone has died because of irreversible stupidity. Or maybe I just like the Caribbean accent of Grim.

More importantly, I want everyone to watch Fillmore! [link changed 8/7/11, originally "http://psc.disney.go.com/abcnetworks/toondisney/abckids/fillmore/"], on Saturday mornings on ABC. I know you've all got Tivos and VCRs, so don't complain about the morningness. This is a show that I could go on forever about. I know this for a fact, I have gone on about it. But it doesn't do any good. You have to see to believe. It's an over-the-top '70s cop show translated into a suburban middle school. If you need more reasons, post in comments, and I'll give you one reason, specifically geared to you. That ought to cork me.
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I love that show

[identity profile] valancy17.livejournal.com 2004-06-16 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely the accent. Or maybe it's because Mandy is just so mean.
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[personal profile] saxikath 2004-06-16 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, why should I watch?
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[personal profile] tablesaw 2004-06-16 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, I screened this comment because it had personal information on a public post.
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[personal profile] tablesaw 2004-06-16 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. Although there have been some wonderful throwaway gags involving wordplay, I can't think of any right now. How about:

In "Cry, the Beloved Mascot," the main sport of X Middle School is Lawn Bowling.

Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

[identity profile] toonhead-npl.livejournal.com 2004-06-17 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Grim & Mandy: two kids basically defeat Death (who has a Jamaican accent, and it works) who has to then live with them and become their friend. Death hates them both. Mindy is a mean, power-hungry, intelligent little girl, while her friend Billy is an absolute moron. Their adventures involve a lot of supernatural goings on, with some occasional parodies of some current crazes like Pokemon and Dragonball Z thrown in.

It sounds odd, but try a few. The show is at its best when at its extremes: when Mindy is really mean, Billy superbly idiotic, and Death at his wit's end to get the heck away from them.
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Re: Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

[personal profile] tablesaw 2004-06-17 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Great. But what do you think about Fillmore!?

Re: Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

[identity profile] toonhead-npl.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Only watched it once, and it was the "origin" episode where Ingrid first comes to the school. I liked it, but just never got around to watching it again. :( I dunno why, but I really don't watch the big 3 networks much anymore. Just one of those things, like I forget they exist. But I did like what I saw. I laughed when I found out that the characters' last names are streets of San Francisco.

Unfortunately, the show wasn't picked up. :(

I'm really sick of these suits making boneheaded, logic-defying decisions. Seeing how desperately ABC needs good ratings (and it was doing well), you'd think they know better. Television really need someone like a Fred Silverman or a Brandon Tartikoff again, but with the radically different frontier we have now with cable, I don't even know if that's possible.
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