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Let's stop this here please. And in general if you see a thread going off topic report it, don't reply and drag the tangent on for longer.

I don't think so; I don't think the success of animated TV shows for adults has had much of an effect on the fate of animated films for kids, I think that has more to do with changes in the viewing habits of kids and the general population, and some of their recent concepts haven't necessarily...

Could it be something from the Hugo the Jungle Animal franchise? That's what it reminded me of at least.

I wouldn't say I love him, and I appreciate that people aren't valorising someone just because they died, but at the same time I'm not sure he merits such a negative thread right now. Unless there's more to it that's not being mentioned here, I'm not sure much of this matters all that much all...

Oh yeah, I forgot the first Police Academy, I do genuinely find that very funny. Never saw Role Models, but Detroit Rock City as a pretty funny KISS-themed comedy.

Some of my favourites; - The Blues Brothers, and I'm in the minority that likes the Belushi/Ackroyd Neighbours too (both on the lower end of the R-rating admittedly) - Beverly Hills Cop, if it counts, and Coming to America; honestly most of Eddie Murphy's original run of R-Rated vehicles are a...

- Bruce Timm and John K on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures - Seth McFarlane and Butch Hartman on Johnny Bravo

It was a little too late to cash in on VR hype, a little too early to become part of "internet culture". The scenes in VR looked kind of like Hammerman with all the stuttering; I get it, it's supposed to represent buffering, and it's cute, but it's also kind of a cheat and now feels dated.

I liked about half of Daffy in Wackyland. The animation was neat and some of the surreal imagery was great, but it was way too talky and it seemed to be second-guessing that a general audience would never accept something as surreal as the original Do-Do shorts in this day and age without...

I meant Obscure in the sense that it's a work 99.9% of all people have never heard of, hard for people to hate it when they don't know it exists. Although, yes, like most of Bakshi's work, it was never going to catch on with a post-70s mainstream audience.

It's too obscure to be "hated"

The Lawnmower Man Collection Not going to front; got a lot of love for these films, or at least I've got a lot of love for the first, especially The Directors' Cut, and I have a bit of a soft spot for the second. The first movie, while having obvious precedents, is ultimately a pretty singular...

In the late 80s Sylvester Stallone was attached to make a film version of the extremely prolific Mack Bolan The Executioner series of pulp novels and magazines, with William Friedkin attached as director. While it seems like something I certainly would have enjoyed, I don't know if I can...

I know that the 1991 Addams Family film couldn't be released on DVD in the UK until around 2013 due to some odd legal dispute, even though the sequel had been released some time earlier.

I recently saw some discussion that Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers was at least partly intended as a jab at Tiny Toons. I take it with a pinch of salt (it was one of those cases where someone was extrapolating a lot from a brief interview comment, acting as if it was several pages of sworn...

Impossible for anyone to accurately answer. I remember when Beast Wars looked amazing and I didn't even consider that N64 games would or could ever look dated, we simply didn't know what the next 20, 10 or even 5 years was going to bring. For what it's worth, I still think CGI humans, at least...

They were trying somewhat seriously to make a sequel to the Emmerich film, or it at least got to the treatment stage. The weird thing is it was going to start with Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitillo's characters getting married, but then Pitilo's character would disappear from the rest of the...

Most famously (outside of the Cameron treatment) Cannon films almost made Spider-Man in the 80s. There were two scripts written, general consensus is that the first was pretty good, the second not so much. Some other well known unmade films; - Turn Left or Die; Comedy about air traffic...

While I appreciate the sentiment, a Weigel thread was started recently/

Could we not give it to them (and others like them) then please.

I am surprised, but there are, even in the streaming age, more ways to make money than at the Ticket Booth. There was a quite a bit of merch for the second movie, and it seemed to trickle out over the year or so after the movie rather than being all released at once, so maybe those sales were...

So tomorrow (9th June) marks what is currently believed to be 90 years since the first appearance of Donald Duck, in a Silly Symphonies short called The Wise Little Hen He Fits the Bill: Donald Duck’s 90th Anniversary | Disney hasn't been as bombastic with this celebration as they have some of...

My perception is that if you were in the target audience at the time, or a parent or sibling of someone who was, there's a good chance you're familiar with shows like Prime, Animated and the Unicron trilogy, but only the Original series and the live action movies are really recognisable to the...

You do see a lot of Sailor Moon merchandise in the UK, but over the last 10 years or so there's been an influx of 80s/90s retro merchandise for US properties that didn't really have a place in the UK culture at the time, in some cases they weren't even widely shown or distributed here (G.I. Joe...

I suspect we've had a thread along these lines in the past, but I couldn't find one. The closest I could find was this thread in Entertainment, which isn't really the same thing. If anyone does know one feel free to post it below and we can consider merging if merited. At any rate, I've been on...

Got some TMNT 87 on in the background. I now realise that A Real Snow Job is almost certainly the episode I was watching on UK Nickelodeon in 1997 when they put text at the bottom telling us to turn to BBC for an important news story. The story was the death of Princess Diana.

I guess the now somewhat forgotten era is the early internet usenet/newsgroups era, in which some animated shows developed quite a following for their time, especially Animaniacs and (unsurprisingly) The Simpsons. You can see a lot of old newsgroup Simpsons posts, especially episode reviews, at...

OK, I think I might be starting to see what you're getting at here. Stuff like Warner Bros and Hanna-Barbera cartoons were kind of an assumed part of the culture and childhood viewing for a long time, now they're not and stuff like Pokémon, Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon are becoming some of the...

Well it seems little of it was to do with what was on American TV at the time, there was some interest in some people working on the fringes of contemporary animation like Ralph Bakshi, Richard Williams and Bob Godfrey, and in productions like Watership Down, but it was mostly about exploring...

As far as I can tell Cartoon Fandom as a subculture has its roots in the 1970s, at least in the US/the English language. That's when a lot of the earliest notable books on the medium were published, most notably The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch, Tex Avery: King of Cartoons by Joe...

Where do you get the idea that Sailor Moon is some kind of evergreen classic that all "the kids" are out there watching? In Japan, maybe, and some other countries perhaps, but in English-speaking territories? I'm aware there have been some recent shows and movies, but not that they have been...

I also like Incredibles 2 a lot, and I'm kind of surprised how quickly the general verdict on it seems to have dissipated to a sideways-verging-on-downwards-thumb given how well received it was at the time (93% from critics, A+ Cinemascore, well over $1Billion gross). Maybe it helps that while I...

The big thing for me is how willing people are to spread rumours, myths and straight up misinformation as if they are facts, or to take 1 and 1, just assume the other 3 are somewhere and tell everyone it's 5. Not that this is limited to fandoms, or entertainment for that matter, but it's the big...

I can't seem to find anything about it, but the BBC seemed to have some financial involvement in these, or at least they were seemingly the only channel to actually air the second special and they released both specials on a single VHS tape through their label, so they were fairly high profile...

Even as someone who contributed to Inside Out's controversially high placing in our Disney 100 poll, I'm not feeling Inside Out 2 at all. It looks like a slog, and I feel I know exactly where it's going and what the moral will be and I'm just not interested. I'm sure I'll see it one day and I...

Superman has been a "challenging" character commercially for decades, as long as most of us have been alive. Like Mickey Mouse he's a character that's iconic and archetypal and merchandisable enough that everyone knows who he is, but that's not the same as people gravitating towards the...

One day perhaps, but at present there have been no such suggestions.

OK, but you said Regular Show was the last, I mentioned one that came along after, and for that matter took a while to get going in terms of popularity and lasted until 2019.

I'm not sure if that tracks because other than Thundercats Roar, Loud House and Big City Greens are the most recent shows you've mentioned (and the infamous Roar launch teaser actually predates the first airing of Greens). I would say Gumball to an extent; it skews more towards kids than...

It's not a household name but it's very well liked by a decently sized niche audience, teens and young adults especially. In other words, pretty much like Demon Slayer is in the west.