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Postby bogey » Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:12 pm

these new age 'flash' cartoons are a disgrace. I hate how theyre purposely animated badly under the guise of 'stoner comedies' so they can work with shoestring budgets while simultaneously getting hipster cred. i'm talking about stuff like stuff like highschool USA, archer, my little pony and adult swim stoner cartoons like squidbillies, aqua teen hunger force, metalocalypse, venture bros, etc. I was watching better animated stuff in 2003 on newgrounds

in anime the cheapest show I can think of is digimon adventures. the amount of re-used animation is staggering. the show is barley animated at all when compared to other anime. the fight scenes (if you can call them that) are a joke and are usually over the second one of the main digimon uses his/her signature attack which is the same animation they use over and over
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Postby Mr. Tines » Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:19 pm

If you weren't watching TV 50 years ago, you've not seen cheap. I remember the Zarbi in that early Doctor Who season. And the SFX all the way through the '70s.
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Wed Aug 14, 2013 6:07 pm

^ I'll second that. I wasn't around then, but I've seen some of those shows.

I've also seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwzcI6t_AQ

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Postby Catamari » Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:04 pm

You've not seen cheap until you've seen Ed Wood. Just watch Plan 9. It is delightfully cheap.
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Postby The Eva Monkey » Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:04 pm

Gundam Wing. Tons and tons or reused animation.

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Postby Rudy Redlin » Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:02 am

Ha. I love Space Ghost Coast to Coast and that's basically the granddaddy of all those uber-cheap stoner comedies you hate. To each his own I guess. ^_^

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Postby tomrule123 » Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:25 pm

View Original PostThe Eva Monkey wrote:Gundam Wing. Tons and tons or reused animation.

It's not that harmful; and it's only 49 episodes. DBZ, on the other hand...

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Postby moonwolf2024 » Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:05 pm

Gundam wing wasn't that bad and keep in mind that DBZ has been revised a millions times.

As for me, I can't stand the new teen titans. It's awful and so are those spoof shows on adult swim.
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Postby nervshatter » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:09 am

The USA Street Fighter cartoon was pretty bad, I would catch it on the USA network every once a while, however it wasn't until a few years later that I realized how truly awful it was.

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Postby C.A.P. » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:48 pm

Clutch Cargo.
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Postby FreakyFilmFan4ever » Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:55 am

View Original PostC.A.P. wrote:Clutch Cargo.

:lol: I love how the guy behind that series boats of producing more "animation" faster than Disney did. Shows like that inspire me in the same way the filmmaker behind Manos, Hands of Fate was inspired: If anyone can make this kind of cheap crap and pass it off as a product, then I should be able to as well.

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Postby NAveryW » Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:38 pm

Clutch Cargo's creator outright said he didn't consider it an animated cartoon.

The cheapest looking show I've ever seen is 12 Oz. Mouse. To make a show look any cheaper it'd probably have to be text based.
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Postby r1cepurin » Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:42 pm

One Word: Oobi

that show's budget is like $100 or something. It's funny. they got away with letting the hand puppets mess with glue and the glue totally looks like jizz
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Postby nervshatter » Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:59 pm

View Original PostNAveryW wrote:The cheapest looking show I've ever seen is 12 Oz. Mouse. To make a show look any cheaper it'd probably have to be text based.


12 Oz. Mouse and Squidbillies are two of the most unfunniest and ugly looking shows I have ever seen.


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