Spazz wrote:Lake Titicaca was AWESOME.
Yes, but "The Ballad of Magellan" ruled them all.
Zeta wrote:Green Gibbon! wrote:
The first two seasons of Animaniacs were awesome. Beyond that, though, it ended up with the quick and merciless death it deserved. The last I remember seeing was some educational short about the Panama canal or some shit.
That wasn't Animaniac's fault. The trend of children's television at the time made it that way. Idiotic parental groups were pushing for more educational television - because if it's not educational - it's trash and your children shouldn't be watching it.
Funny how the parents didn't apply that to their own viewing habits.
Nonetheless, in the later years - Animaniacs tried to adapt to the changing trend and make itself more educational. Thus we got more educational and crappy shorts.
However, it wasn't enough - a regulation was passed stating that each network had to produce a certain amount of educational television for children - and Animanicas eventually got the axe in favor of Hysteria - an incredibly stupid educational "comedy" show that only had one or two notable funny moments (a sketch in which Telsa tried to conquer the earth with his death ray while being pestered by the neighborhood kids comes to mind).
Mostly it was just "funny" voiced characters showcasing historical moments amid poop and puke gags.
Heh, I remember on "Animaniacs" a Slappy Squirrell cartoon mocking that law, as well as school "conflict resolution" programs.
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Slappy: We're doomed.
Yakko: It's the end of civilization as we know it.
[after the passing of the "three hours of educational T.V." law]
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By the way, the "zero tolerance" part came in the form of Slappy's nephew Skippy being tormented by a muscule-bound bully, despite the questionable efforts of his school psychologists.
Okay, can we get back to the boobies now?
And yes, "Hysteria" blew like a wind tunnel, despite mentioning Nikola Tesla, one of my scientific heroes.
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