Watching a 30 year old cartoon, what am I in for?
Watching a 30 year old cartoon, what am I in for?
Depends on the show, what are you watching?
30 years ago would have been the beginning of the decline, but there was still good stuff coming out in 1995.
racism and sexism and transphobia and homophobia and therefore fun.
Hope that's a Yakko song.
35 year old pop culture references
Lots of them
It's not very good.
Occasionally some pretty good animation, a good soundtrack, terrible writing to decent writing that's only occasionally funny. The slapstick it tries to do never lands in a funny way due to the animation style not having any good timing for it and being too smooth.
Overall a pretty all over the place experience with a few good moments sprinkled around, but the TMS episodes tend to hold a special place for me visually since I just enjoy that mix of high budget japan animation with western visuals which is very rare to see and probably won't ever happen again.
Animaniacs
LOTS of jokes that give the impression that the writers think they’re the funniest people working on television and that everybody else is stupid.
When it comes to the TMS episodes the slapstick always lands in a funny way as the timing, posing and settling are excellent and it's the smooth animation is just right.
We almost had this again, but then Wellesley Wild shown up and butchered and destroyed any chance of high budget Japanese animation with western designs in comedies being the norm again because to quote Wellesley Wild himself "Only action shows are allowed to have good animation.", this fucked TMS for life as this back stabbing caused their later projects like Sakamoto Days (which has other problems like having most of it's budget being used to bail out a Rick and Morty anime nobody asked for because Demarco and HBOMax refuse to pay for it) to suffer.
NOBODY WANTED A SHENMUE ANIME!!!!!
Because that was the case.
Just watch Pinky and the Brain, they are the best part of Animaniacs anyway.
finger prince
outdated jokes
Lots of meta humor.
A brief period of time when TV shows were legally mandated to have educational material for kids. So you got songs about Magellan and Caligula.
Heaven~
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An overall okay show that got astroturfed by marketing for the (shitty) reboot. I only cared for Slappy Squirrel and the Good Feathers bits.
capcha: ponkyy
Goodfeathers sucked.
No, that was Katie Kaboom, and she wasn't that bad, just the weakest segment.
Goodfeathers had a ongoing plot so theres that.
They weren't legally mandated, otherwise you'd have weird stuff like Batman TAS/Beyond suddenly having Batman sit down with you to tell you about the dangers of drugs. The government gave you big subsidies if you included that though so a lot more educational segments happened.
To be fair, a good number of them were outdated even when the show was new.
Quality varies heavily depending on what the segment is and who's doing the animation for a given episode/segment. Has some really high highs and some really low lows, but most stuff falls somewhere in-between.
General rule of thumb is that the Warner Brothers, Pinky and the Brain, and Slappy Squirrel segments are the most consistently good out of the major sketches, and Good Idea/Bad Idea is the most consistently good out of the minor ones. You will consistently wonder why Katie Kaboom and Hip Hippos are even segments. Buttons and Mindy can be pretty grating. Chicken Boo is consistently decent but never really great. Goodfeathers is divisive with some people considering it a top-tier sketch and other people hating it. Minerva Mink only got two episodes and they're kind of fun even if you're not a furry. Rita and Runt is ok but better if you enjoy musicals. The Flame literally only existed as Emmy bait.
watching post screenshots of the episodes you're "watching"
I always say, written well, Minerva could work better.
I think Minerva's episodes were both pretty good and she needed more time for they to really flesh her character out for it to be great, but yeah that never happened. The comics give a look into what those episodes might have been like and they're honestly a lot of fun, kind of makes it sting that S+P took her out.
the comics
I sure hope they were written by the show's writers.
took me a while to understand the OP's pic, looks like dot is wearing a diaper and missing a leg, I thought it was probably AI
Honestly, the cover art for the DVD set (that OP is) is a bit sloppy.
They used pre-existing clip art instead of having someone like Toshihiko Masuda or Kenji Hachizaki do new art just for the DVD set while also remastering the 35MM film negatives and doing commentaries for every episode, in other words, Animaniacs should've got the same treatment The Simpsons got for it's DVD releases and then some.
remastering the 35MM film negatives
That sounds like caring a whole lot, which is too much to expect from them.
NOBODY WANTED A SHENMUE ANIME!!!!!
i did
remastering the 35MM film negatives
was it mastered on 35mm? the standard for tv animation at the time was 16mm or videotape
Even 16mm is good enough.
Badly aged humor that wasn't funny back then either, except maybe Slappy. Side characters whose bits are hard to sit through. But amazing songs.
They did that for old Looney Tunes and Popeye shorts and they're doing it right now for old Hanna Barbera shows for MeTV Toons.
No, you didn't, trust me on this.
Yes, Tatsunoko was the only studio to master on 16MM, everyone else shot on 35MM.
It was the editing that was done on tape, and thats the tricky part while remastering 80s and 90s TV animation, raw animation was shot on film but on screen text, after effects and the credits were done on tape through an Amiga 2000 or a PC-98/Fujitsu FMR if it was a Japanese production, later on the tape editing was done on Macs and IBM compatibles which by then even Japan switched over to.
It's only by the 2000s that shows switch to digital ink and paint and only Warner Bros and Disney produced their digitally painted shows in 1080p (future proofing for when HD became mainstream), everyone else like Nick and Fox stood at either 480p or 576p when it came to digital ink and paint and thats where it gets problematic.
With Fox's The Simpsons's seasons 13 though 17 is the most famous example, season 13 and season 14's holdovers were remastered through their 35MM negatives but with season 14 proper though season 17 those episodes were colored digitally so Fox had those episodes be sent back to South Korea to be reshot, recolored and sometimes reanimated incase the original drawings got lost through mocap so Fox went the extra mile with The Simpsons, other studios like Nick and Toei are not as lucky as all they do is upscale tape footage when it comes to dealing with 480p digitally produced content.
South Park after it's first 7 episodes were done in Maya so all they had to do is render the files to HD and they're set, the earlier season 1 episodes however have to be remastered from the 35MM negatives, problem is that they only redid season 2 through season 14 (as season 15 onward was already produced in 1080p) so season 1 wasn't touched (last I checked).
Not true, Looney Tunes was just as dated and Animaniacs was extremely funny.
It was the reboot that sucked ass.
I wonder where all that technical info is stored.
Kino
Hi Famicom
The simpsons show NEVER got remastered, the whole damn show was edited on tape.
You"re Famicom
Oh............
And also many references to things made before the writers were born.
Start with the three main characters being based on the Marx Brothers and go from there.
I remember at the time I told my dad about the skit with the old show business people reminiscing about working with the Warners in vaudeville, and how the main focus of the skit was that the Warners had a feud with Milton Berle, and also that it had jokes about Fanny Brice, George Burns, etc. Dad said something to the effect that the writers must have been trying to deliberately write a show that no one would understand so it would lose money.
Yes it did, any tape edits were redone for HD, just like what happed to The New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers, Goof Troop, Batman: The Animated Series, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Superman: The Animated Series and the earlier episodes of Batman Beyond.
This is the only Simpsons season where every episode was shot on 35MM film got a remastered from 35MM negatives on Blu-Ray release years back, season 14 also had 35MM shot episodes on Blu-Ray that were remastered from their 35MM negatives as well as they're season 13 holdovers (Large Marge was one of those episodes).
There are a lot more boring episodes than fun ones.
Not true.
I guess op will just have to watch them.
Rescue Rangers
You just reminded me they could not find masters for ONE episode, and so they vaseline upscaled it........... Could have done a GOOD upscale, or left it as 840x720, would look better.
Yes, Tatsunoko was the only studio to master on 16MM, everyone else shot on 35MM.
Source?
Those are from the 35MM film masters, that has already been proven.
Battle of the Planets and Macross were both mastered on 16MM film.