The Big Picture: Ninetiestalgia Stinks
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Good episode. I was hoping for a Video Games are Weird episode on Sim City and Alien: Colonial Marines (I know its 90's month, but still). I hold Movie Bob's opinions and analyses in very high esteem. I also respect Jim and Shamus a lot and have already heard their opinions on the issues and was hoping for Movie Bob's opinion as well. You know what, Jim, Shamus, and Movie Bob should do a show together. I'd watch the heck out of that.
It's probably not really necessary to discuss Beavis and Butthead as it's still pretty well known (especially after its revival), but The Maxx, Aeon Flux and Daria could all use some love. Damn kids don't know that, once upon a time, MTV actually had good programming.Darth_Payn said:
Man this show was so awesome. I watched it at like 2 in the morning on Teletoon few years back. It was a real pick me up as animation was (As most of it is now, taking a few spins around the drain), so it felt as a fresh breath of air. It has all the right amounts of class, wit, charm, humor, and touching moments. And I've never seen another example I could compare it to side by side.
You can go Simpsons > Family Guy > American Dad > Cleveland Show > Bob's Burger's > and a myriad of other shows build around your dysfunctional yet functional families and their friends and regulars that support what evers going on.
The critic has same type elements, but it's just to independent I think to be compared.
It stinks! (In the good way)
You can go Simpsons > Family Guy > American Dad > Cleveland Show > Bob's Burger's > and a myriad of other shows build around your dysfunctional yet functional families and their friends and regulars that support what evers going on.
The critic has same type elements, but it's just to independent I think to be compared.
It stinks! (In the good way)
When I first saw 'A Star is Burns' I had no idea what The Critic was, but even then I thought it was a brilliant episode. At the time it was before we had a proper computer/internet connection in our house, plus the show was cancelled when I was like 3 and I don't think it ever aired outside of North America. But since then I'd discovered it a couple of years ago; watched all the episodes online and loved it, my personal favourite being the Siskel and Ebert episode:
I suppose it's kind of a shame that the series was so short lived and that it ended on a clip show, but at the same I think it's better to be left wanting more. I haven't seen the shorts, but seeing as they're only 3 minutes long I may as well give them a go and I might get a kick out of them if I adjust my expectations accordingly.
I suppose it's kind of a shame that the series was so short lived and that it ended on a clip show, but at the same I think it's better to be left wanting more. I haven't seen the shorts, but seeing as they're only 3 minutes long I may as well give them a go and I might get a kick out of them if I adjust my expectations accordingly.
Doesn't look like my kind of show. Seinfeld was and still is the only real Jewish humor show I "got" and even most of the references there go over my head.
I really liked this episode, being raised in Seattle in the 90's I am partial to it, and love the decade tremendously. I wish Bob would do a SNL episode, the 90's were a big time for it. From Sandler and Meyers up to Farrell and Fallon. Please do a SNL episode Bob, PLEASE.
My brother and I still occasionally reference The Critic to this day.
"You understand the silverware?! Cukoo, Cukoo!"
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Stef1987 and synobal get to wear the dunce caps of shame for complaining about Bob hating on the nineties.
The focus of this entire episode is Bob pointing out The Critic, which is a nineties comedy and also one of his favorites. The title of this episode isn't Bob complaining about the ninties; It is a reference to The Critic tv show, because Jay's catchphrase in the show is "It stinks!"
Granted, since you two weren't intelligent enough to watch the episode before complaining about it, I highly doubt the cliff notes version posted here will get your attention, but... all I can do is try, I guess.
"You understand the silverware?! Cukoo, Cukoo!"
P.S.
Stef1987 and synobal get to wear the dunce caps of shame for complaining about Bob hating on the nineties.
The focus of this entire episode is Bob pointing out The Critic, which is a nineties comedy and also one of his favorites. The title of this episode isn't Bob complaining about the ninties; It is a reference to The Critic tv show, because Jay's catchphrase in the show is "It stinks!"
Granted, since you two weren't intelligent enough to watch the episode before complaining about it, I highly doubt the cliff notes version posted here will get your attention, but... all I can do is try, I guess.
I really liked this show when I got older! I didn't catch it until it's syndication, but it was funny and Jay was very relatable. I think shows like this one, Duckman, and Rocko's Modern Life still hold up to me because they were about the every man and his daily struggles. It was a nice change of pace from other wacky cartoons.
Oh, and PLEASE do something on Duckman! Both the Critic and Duckman are in my movie collection and I need to finish them.
Oh, and PLEASE do something on Duckman! Both the Critic and Duckman are in my movie collection and I need to finish them.
Ah so the title is a reference to the show? I was just thinking it was trolling the wave of hate his previous episodes garnered. Ah the Critic, art style put me off, setting and main character annoyed me, and everything else put this square in the "don't watch" category". Knowing it gave birth to annoying catch phrases and inside jokes among new age film critics only builds my distaste for that show.
The Simpsons went on too long while The Critic, Aeon Flux, & Duckman died off too soon. I was 11 when I was watching them; my parents didn't give a shit what I watched. Not many little girls claimed to be a Freddy Kreuger fans.
Well, if you're a fan of people like The Nostalgia Critic & The Cinema Snob, obviously you will have grown up on The Critic & MST3K.
Well, if you're a fan of people like The Nostalgia Critic & The Cinema Snob, obviously you will have grown up on The Critic & MST3K.
Jennifer is the epitome of a poorly developed love interest. She's just a piece of cheesecake with no personality, interests, hobbies, background, or character development. I'm guessing the creators either couldn't get the rights to their own characters, never wanted Alice in the first place & scrapped her, just couldn't see using a full cast in a bunch of 5 minute episodes, or couldn't get any of the voice actors to work for an internet show back in 2000.
Was good, never got to see all of the episodes. I always remember the one where he saves the billionaire guy just to make sure Casablanca doesn't get edited. Always makes me smile. Though it was a show that made me smile for the same reason The Drew Cerry show did.
I remember having a love/hate relationship with "The Critic." When it worked, it worked really well. But when it missed, something about the way it missed really kind of put it off for me.
The Critic would be my favorite animated television show if not for the brief existence of Clerks: The Animated Series. I remembering watching it back in my parents' room (the only other TV we had at the time outside the TV room) when I was a kid and laughing uproariously at it despite only getting a small fraction of the jokes at the time. I really need to track down the DVD release some day and buy it. It's a mix of humor that now seems incredibly dated (Jokes about current political figures and such) and humor that is almost timeless (Pretty much every movie parody.) Season one was funnier than season two, in my opinion, but Alice was a great character in spite of having the smell of shoe-horned love interest about her.
I only found out about the webisodes after they had been taken town. I tracked them down on YouTube, and was sorely disappointed. Stripping out all of the characters save for Jay and a brief appearance by the restaurant owner ripped out the heart of the show. Movie parodies are funny and all and Jay striking out or succeeding to woo the unmemorable blonde lady are good for a chuckle. But at it's heart, the thing that made The Critic work as a show was the cast of characters that interacted with Jay. His parents, his boss, his makeup artist, his best friend, his kid - they're what made the show great. Watching an over-weight, middle-aged, balding film critic strike out with a woman and explain how the latest Hollywood schlock is awful is nowhere near as amusing as watching him spar with his boss or deal with his family life or somewhat ineptly try to be a good father. Good on them for trying, but the project seemed doomed to fail by only concentrating on one small part of the show's magic.
The first two seasons are well worth watching. You may need to jump over to Wikipedia to figure out a joke here and there, but it's one of the smartest, funniest shows ever to be broadcast.
I only found out about the webisodes after they had been taken town. I tracked them down on YouTube, and was sorely disappointed. Stripping out all of the characters save for Jay and a brief appearance by the restaurant owner ripped out the heart of the show. Movie parodies are funny and all and Jay striking out or succeeding to woo the unmemorable blonde lady are good for a chuckle. But at it's heart, the thing that made The Critic work as a show was the cast of characters that interacted with Jay. His parents, his boss, his makeup artist, his best friend, his kid - they're what made the show great. Watching an over-weight, middle-aged, balding film critic strike out with a woman and explain how the latest Hollywood schlock is awful is nowhere near as amusing as watching him spar with his boss or deal with his family life or somewhat ineptly try to be a good father. Good on them for trying, but the project seemed doomed to fail by only concentrating on one small part of the show's magic.
The first two seasons are well worth watching. You may need to jump over to Wikipedia to figure out a joke here and there, but it's one of the smartest, funniest shows ever to be broadcast.
Gotta pause, but the zoom-out to the pie-eating contest reminded me hard of something.
I'll chock it up to Joe Loves Crappy Movies. Might be it, but I doubt, in the wee hours of the morning, I'd be able to figure just what it was.
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This is one of those shows I remember, but not coherently or robustly. Sharpest memory in my mind is the intelligent velociraptor.
EDIT2: Watched four minutes into OmniscientOstrich's (#71) link, and I did find myself smiling. I was kinda ambivalent, as I'd expect (maybe it's the dead air? or maybe it just seems a bit "trying to" when a joke doesn't rightly catch me? or seeing a joke coming? maybe it's played out a bit too long for my mileage?), but particularly the immediate aftermath of the Raul (sp?) insinuation. The execution was great.
I'll chock it up to Joe Loves Crappy Movies. Might be it, but I doubt, in the wee hours of the morning, I'd be able to figure just what it was.
EDIT (Facebook copy-paste):
This is one of those shows I remember, but not coherently or robustly. Sharpest memory in my mind is the intelligent velociraptor.
EDIT2: Watched four minutes into OmniscientOstrich's (#71) link, and I did find myself smiling. I was kinda ambivalent, as I'd expect (maybe it's the dead air? or maybe it just seems a bit "trying to" when a joke doesn't rightly catch me? or seeing a joke coming? maybe it's played out a bit too long for my mileage?), but particularly the immediate aftermath of the Raul (sp?) insinuation. The execution was great.