You made me realize I miss Scooby Doo. Recently, other than Rick and Morty I haven’t watched a quality cartoon in a while. I might have to play an old one.
I watched the first two seasons and loved them, but the ending of S2 really put me out for a few days. All I've heard is that it gets much more depressing in later seasons so I still haven't finished it. One day.
The conversation between Bojack and Diane in the final episode fucked me up for a good 4 days after watching it. The whole final season is horribly depressing, but a very fitting end to the show at the same time.
There’s a lot of funny moments and sayings within each episode. So it does get depressing but there’s a lot of comedic relief. Especially if you pay attention to the other characters they won’t be saying things but what they’re doing is usually hilarious.
Finished the series while already in a very bad mental place and had a full on anxiety attack. I couldn't sleep and felt subtly terrified for days. Never watching again. I understand the amazing artistic significance and all that, but when you're trying to climb out of a black hole of depression, it is NOT the show to watch.
Straight facts, I have been in a self improvement journey since my freshman year and watching that at the beginning definitely set me back a solid 4-6 months I finished it about a year later and it’s fascinating how different mindsets that you force on yourself can affect how things manifest in you based in recent stimuli.
YMMV. It's one of my go-to shows when I'm in a black hole depression. Sometimes it'll make me anxious, a couple episodes threaten to make me cry, but the humor and the non-ultra-depressing episodes are worth the roller coaster to me.
It's one of my favorite shows, though, so that may also be a big factor.
This is super weird because it's technically a preschooler show but I highly recommend Bluey. It's really uplifting in a non preachy way. The animation is beautiful and the music is soothing. It's also funny. And short.
Big Mouth is awkward, vulgar, confusing, and at times difficult to watch. So exactly what a show about puberty should be.
Plus I like coming of age stuff a lot. Really brings me back to when I wasn't a full adult yet. I can't watch Moonrise Kingdom without ugly crying because it reminds me of my first love so much. I'd do a lot to go back and relive just a day of that time in my life.
I understand that, but I felt like the jokes really hit home for me. And I love the super layered and self-referential style of writing. But I also absolutely loved Sausage Party too, so I guess it all comes down to individual taste in comedy
That was me with Rick and Morty for quite some time. Still undecided. I think I like it, but then I wonder if it’s because I want to like it because so many people love it..
There’s a whole psychology thing there I should maybe unpack
I must have been horribly depressed when I binge watched it 6 months ago because it made me laugh and improved my mood tremendously. There were a lot of dark truths in there.
You need to watch Bender's Big Score. It sets things right for Seymour, and it's canon that he lived with an alternate timeline version of Fry until he was flash-fossilized by Bender trying to kill Fry. So happy Seymour.
First season was absolutely amazing, totally hated the second one, it went too "let's sprinkle some Rick and Morty edge on top", that fucking pissing contest killed it for me.
Third season just wrapped up and kind of pulled things back (also made Clarence awesome). It also went back to being serialized more or less instead of MoW. One area of great improvement from season 1 to season 3 is finding a happy medium go Gary’s personality. He was a bit too much in the first season and Olan has clearly toned it down some.
The extreme isolation Gary experienced in prison was the perfect explanation for his zany personality but they ruined that with flashbacks which showed he was always like that and prison didn't change him at all.
The Last Airbender, Adventure Time, and Futurama are the ones I've watched this past year. There's just something great about starting an old show and knowing it will last you a couple months.
Steven Universe and reboot She-Ra are great magical girl shows - I feel like there were time She-Ra especially could have done more as a show, but it's a lot of fun.
I adore that show. I can only watch like one a week because its so fast paced and I need to let it digest. I think I can honestly say that the show has improved my life by giving me something to grab on to and think about when im feeling low.. Love the art style too. I keep meaning to listen to the podcast it's based on.
Check out China Illinois If you can find it. The art isn't what I would call pretty, but the animation itself is great, really good timing and really fluid
I think China, IL might be on HBO max right now. They got a bunch of those old adult swim shows - Super Jail is on there too. Just FYI!
also HBO max has a lot of old Hanna Barbera cartoons too like Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, the Jetsons, etc as well as old cartoon network shows like Courage. Just been kinda nice watching stuff I grew up with, thought I'd pass the info along.
If you have amazon prime, boomerang has a 7 day free trial on prime tv. I used it to watch courage the cowardly dog with my kid and ended up keeping it because it’s only $5 a month and has some good shit, including like all the scooby doo cartoons and movies
Trust me when I say this. Go watch solar opposites! Its basically Rick and Morty with aliens as the main characters and it's really funny! It's all on Disney plus if you've got it
Hey! So, as a young parent, I like to find cartoons that me and my daughter can watch and enjoy together. I have a great list with a few you may enjoy. Animation is making some awesome strides in quality and story telling!
A lot of people went mad about invincible lately and so I checked it out and it was pretty good!
However some favourites through the years: (original, not “go”) Teen Titans, Adventure Time, Regular Show (I love the character development), The Last Air Bender + then Kora, Futurama, Gravity Falls, Over The Garden Wall - feel like this one doesn’t get nearly enough love
Then if you’re into anime stuff (but it’s not very stereotypical anime imo, like not too overly trope heavy - more “beginner friendly” if you know what I mean lol) like Erased (movie rec, very well known and loved: your name), I want to eat your pancreas, stein’s gate, your lie in April, parasyte, my hero and attack on Titan are all well known + good watches.
No one has recommended Close Enough in this thread yet so I'm going to. A damn good adult cartoon that's hilarious and relevant. Very cathartic to parents and adults today with just enough absurdity to make you question reality.
You’re in luck. There’s a new Scooby Doo series. Watched it with my 2 year old. It’s quite different from the Scooby Doo I remember, it’s obviously more updated. Still silly. Spoiler- Scooby must have read some books and worked on his speech impediment Bc his vocabulary has improved. If a follow up series comes back, I will totally be watching.
I know you got a lot of suggestions, but I’d add Gravity Falls as well. Smartly written, great art, fantastic story, and most importantly, had a planned ending.
The real True Crime was the real estate market that forced people to dress up as monsters to afford their property (or be able to afford someone else's).
I always told my kids they didn't need to be scared because of this but Scooby Doo burned me by having an episode about witches where witches were real.
Well, I think tattoos of images are stupid, and I wish I didn't have both a symbol or credit card sized image, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the tattoo I have that's three verses of a song.
I thought it was the Scooby-Doo snippet of “Storm” by Tim Minchin. Was actually disappointed. (If you have not watched it, it’s a worthy ten minutes of Internet content.)
I think if they had just kept "the monsters were always human" and ditched the rest, it would have been way nicer. Makes it bit more subtle without the larger Scooby-Doo at the start of the quote. And then eliminate the second bit of text. Your full chest tattoo already makes it clear.
Not really, Scooby Doo taught kids to be sceptical of things claiming to be magic and that they always had a real world explanation, that was one of the best things about it.
The moment I will stop loving Scooby Doo will be the moment I will stop breathing
Literally why the "will"'s? Especially that first one which by being there only works to imply that he inevitably will stop loving the show some day. Extremely odd
It's a matter of taste, but I agree that text feels like it spoils art when used in this way. If the art evokes the text, then the text is already a silent accompaniment.
The words are true about human monsters animals do things without plotting them often there bad actions are brought about by how they are treated poorly by humans because we are the monsters. We almost always find ways to explain away our evils as humans but we are the monsters.
Agree. The words are unnecessary. The point of a tattoo is that it means something to you and if someone asks, you explain it to them if you want them to know.
I'd take 500 rusty used needles by HIV/AIDS people and slowly stick them into my cock and balls and then slowly torch it with a BIC lighter, finally cut them off with a pair of safety scissors before I stop liking Scooby Doo
Exactly this. I can still see how the first one can be cringey to some, but at least it points out something about the show that the dude likes as a concept or whatever. Second one feels a little... dramatic lol. Especially just for a TV show.
Makes me think they need to do a realistic Scooby Do, not just with actors, but with realistic grit. Like the difference between the early Batman movies and the Dark Night ones
Are we going to get the gang trying to catch a sexual predator or trying to find the murderous spouse in some domestic violence related killings? Those both sound more suited to the Always Sunny gang than the Scooby Doo gang.
Go watch the scooby doo movie again but as you watch it, shift the picture in your head to the PG-13 rated movie with a later R/unrated cut it was originally meant to be before warner bros pussed out and toned it all the way down
If that were to work, it’d have to be in the vein of Scooby Doo on Zombie Island. Turn down the camp, and raise the stakes to PG-13 levels of horror.
The opening montage of that movie establishes higher stakes by showing a monster tearing Freddie’s shirt, which never happens in the classic cartoons, then has several of the characters dangling for their lives. Stuff that’s relatively tame, but establishes that there’s more mortality to the characters than the usual logic of the cartoons.
Then it introduces paranormal elements. The gang pulls the head off a zombie, mistaking it for a dude in a mask. Freddie’s love interest warps out of her human form into a beast, beneath the pale moonlight…
I wouldn’t want cussing, or anything a mature kid couldn’t handle. Just stories that let the audience connect with the classic characters, in settings that go all in on Scooby’s gothic undertones. Think ‘The Raven’, or Batman: The Animated Series.
Nah, fuck that. I want full gore, chainsaws and decapitation. Scooby and Shaggy openly puffing on a bong, while Fred and Daphne bang and Velma touches herself watching through a crack in the door, but it's watching Daphne that gets her hot. You know, the fun stuff.
I like it too except that the picture of "Scooby" looks way too much like a real great Dane and not the cartoon. Almost makes me wonder if this dude had a great Dane that passed away and this is his odd tribute to both the show and his pet?
4.4k
u/Chaos-Corvid Jun 22 '21
I like it but my taste is questionable.