Adventure Time sucks!

[GameChild214]

I became a brony recently, and I have to say that My Little Pony is one of the best cartoons to watch.

They say Adventure Time is more or less better, and has the same tones. I have watched Adventure Time, and while I do find it somewhat enjoyable, I just can't get past the art and toilet humor. Other than that, it's good.

[exudaz]

Adventure time and MLP
Now we just need to get a homestuck post in here to complete the triangle of faggotry.

[VJF]

At 8/26/13 01:22 AM, anyapple wrote: who is your favorite pony?

The dead ones.

I agree with the OP. Adventure time does suck. Almost as bad as Regular Show or Bob's Burgers.

[GameChild214]

At 8/26/13 01:22 AM, anyapple wrote: who is your favorite pony?

Applejack! So kawaii

[Viper]

I like Adventure Time ._. It's one of my favorite cartoons.

At 8/26/13 01:20 AM, GameChild214 wrote: They say Adventure Time is more or less better, and has the same tones. I have watched Adventure Time, and while I do find it somewhat enjoyable, I just can't get past the art and toilet humor. Other than that, it's good.

Wait....you just said you think its good. But the title says "Adventure Time sucks!"
I'm so confused right now. Do you like it or do you not like it?

[GameChild214]

At 8/26/13 01:38 AM, Viper50 wrote: Wait....you just said you think its good. But the title says "Adventure Time sucks!"
I'm so confused right now. Do you like it or do you not like it?

I hate the art and the toilet humor, other than that it's okay.

[supergandhi64]

aren't you a little old to be watching cartoons? that should be your first cue when you figure out you don't like cartoons

--supergandhi64

[Boomstick]

OP confirmed for terrible trolling.

-1/edgy

[YellowisCOOL]

I like Adventure Time, but I think the Regular Show is better.

[Darthdenim]

I never watched either of them.

[GameChild214]

At 8/26/13 01:58 AM, supergandhi64 wrote: aren't you a little old to be watching cartoons? that should be your first cue when you figure out you don't like cartoons

--supergandhi64

Good point...

[HollowedPumkinz]

At 8/26/13 02:00 AM, Boomstick wrote: OP confirmed for terrible trolling.

-1/edgy

Yeah, got shut down first post. Maybe he should go and make a "Beatles/Guns N' Roses/Led Zepplin sucks!" thread just put: "I <3 1D"

Also, nice pic, imma steal that one.

[littlegonkyboy]

i watched it sometimes... not bad but it didn't interested me that much.

[Makakaov]

You're all so mature and manly watching cartoons.

[Dr-Worm]

Adventure Time is one of the best shows on television, cartoon or not, and along with Louie it's also the most ambitiously experimental show on television.

MLP is a mercenary commercial enterprise produced by a toy company to advertise their products, albeit one that's cute and has somewhat better writing and production values than these kinds of glorified toy commercials tend to have.

[HollowedPumkinz]

At 8/26/13 03:41 AM, Makakaov wrote: You're all so mature and manly watching cartoons.

I...I can't tell if you're being serious or not. I really like Cartoons, not many of Today's cartoons mind you (I'm not very fond of Adventure Time but it has its merits). And that doesn't reflect anything about my maturity, actually, the very fact you'd have to point that out would suggest feelings of inadequacy with your own manliness and insecurities about how others perceive your maturity level.

Most Cartoons are no more or no less formulated and dumbed down than any reality show, sports channel, game show or most day time dramas. Some make very smart inferences and include stories that can make one think, as well as provide cleverly written jokes wrapped up in a lighthearted atmosphere. I don't take my TV watching so seriously that I find myself compelled to only watch the most thought provoking and ground breaking TV out there (for what little there is to be watched).

Recently, I've been watching a lot of Hey Arnold! and I find myself very compelled by Craig Bartlett's more realistic views on children, through the eyes of children and their various moralistic and socioeconomic struggles as they compete to find a way to fit in in their inner city bloc. Their constant teasing and "bullying" of one another is a much more realistic view on children as opposed to what most recent cartoons such as Phineas and Ferb would have you believe about the mindsets of children and how they act towards one another (i.e. everyone is kind towards one another all the time), its not exactly "Kill the Pig, slit its throat, spill its blood" but it gets close, which is how I remember being that young, and I remember how having such social pressures and being constantly under the gun of my peers shaped many of my actions for fear of ridicule and possible hatred, I applaud that aspect of the show. More over, having lived in suburbs all my life, I find the setting of an inner city bloc to be a nice change of pace and am sometimes mystified by inner city workings and life styles. And all the characters themselves are fairly well crafted, can't think of a one I'd like to see gone, well, perhaps Lila and Olga, being both perfectionists with inflated Egos with a purist's aura the likes of which have not been seen since Lucie Manette.

As you can see, I find a fair amount of entertainment from these shows. Cartoons are just a medium, and can offer a higher form of entertainment if you peel back even the first layer (at least good Cartoons will, things like MLP can just go fuck off a cliff).

[elitegamer11]

both adventure time and mlp suck AT is for little kids and mlp is for little girls but if i had to choose i would watch AT instead of mlp

[elitegamer11]

At 8/26/13 03:41 AM, Makakaov wrote: You're all so mature and manly watching cartoons.

yeah i know i wonder what age are those people arguing about what cartoon is better

[Makakaov]

At 8/26/13 04:14 AM, HollowedPumkinz wrote:

At 8/26/13 03:41 AM, Makakaov wrote: You're all so mature and manly watching cartoons.

the very fact you'd have to point that out would suggest feelings of inadequacy with your own manliness and insecurities about how others perceive your maturity level.

I'm doing 50% of the best I can to be percieved as the dickiest dick out here, mr. Freud.

The rest

You look for horse shit in a hotel room; it might smell like horse shit when you think about it from certain point of perception, but it's not there. The cartoons are mostly quick stories aimed for children and with occasional mature jokes for author's fun sake, or just to make parents not run away from the tv when they're supposed to watch a cartoon with their child. There are no shows where every episode is an important deep story that's designed to change your life. It's just a dumb story with moral at the end and you can even find messages from Jesus Christ himself there if you really want. If that's what entertains you I'm cool with that, but don't tell me you're mature.

You "sound" like cartoons played very important role in your childhood and now you see something more than you should in them.

[Wegra]

At 8/26/13 01:20 AM, GameChild214 wrote: I became a brony recently

I stopped reading around there

[Makakaov]

At 8/26/13 05:50 AM, Wegra wrote:

At 8/26/13 01:20 AM, GameChild214 wrote: I became a brony recently

I stopped reading around there

Congratulations, your avatar is 50% less gay now.

[Dr-Worm]

At 8/26/13 04:15 AM, elitegamer11 wrote: both adventure time and mlp suck AT is for little kids and mlp is for little girls but if i had to choose i would watch AT instead of mlp

Look, I remember being 12/13 (I'm assuming that's your age) and wanting to distance myself from "little kid stuff," too, but when I was that age the TV animation landscape was really shitty. Nowadays there's actually some really interesting, idiosyncratic, ambitious, mature stuff being done in TV cartoons, especially Adventure Time, even if it doesn't immediately seem that way on the surface, and you may be missing out.

Keeping an open mind about things is a lot more mature than immediately rejecting anything that doesn't seem "adult" or "manly" or whatever.

At 8/26/13 04:24 AM, Makakaov wrote: yada yada yada "cartoons are just mindless entertainment for kids" fffffppppt

I'm sorry but this is just silly. First of all, animation is a medium, not a genre. There's plenty of animation out there for adults (though I don't think you're trying to argue that there's not, so I won't harp on this). The problem is that Western animation has been ghettoized as children's entertainment by people who think the way you do, so any idiosyncratic animator who wants to make a show that isn't a Simpsons/Family Guy-style sitcom essentially has to work in children's television.

As a result, some of the best, most interesting and unique and even adult Western animation work of the past few decades has actually been in the realm of children's television: Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, Batman: The Animated Series, Animaniacs, Hey Arnold!, Spongebob Squarepants, Invader Zim, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Adventure Time and Regular Show, and more. All these shows do interesting things visually and narratively that make them more than worthwhile for adults to watch.

Second of all, you can't dismiss the artistic merit of something out of hand just because it's accessible for or appeals to children. These things are made by adult professionals just like any other kind of art, and they're more than capable of producing beautiful images and intelligent writing and expressing interesting themes, in ways that connect with adult audiences as well as child ones.

Not every show resorts to attention-grabbing cacophony or cheap moralizing. In fact, if anything we're in kind of a golden age right now where there are a lot of good shows that actively push back against that sort of thing in favor of more nuanced storytelling: the more realistically laid-back character growth of Regular Show, the adult cable drama-like heavy serialization of Legend of Korra, the breakneck comic pacing and careful world-building of Gravity Falls. And Adventure Time in particular has just been going nuts lately actively subverting kids' show cliches and tackling subject matter other kids' shows won't go anywhere near.

Come on, man. You're on a fucking animation website, it stands to reason people will be interested in cartoons.

At 8/26/13 04:14 AM, HollowedPumkinz wrote: Recently, I've been watching a lot of Hey Arnold!

Ah dude I love Hey Arnold!, can we just hijack this stupid thread and talk about this show instead?

and I find myself very compelled by Craig Bartlett's more realistic views on children, through the eyes of children and their various moralistic and socioeconomic struggles as they compete to find a way to fit in in their inner city bloc.

It's "realistic" in a similar way to Peanuts, in that the kids are way too articulate for their age, but the raw emotions and motivations feel real.

But yeah, the show is definitely a lot more socially conscious than any of its contemporaries, or really any shows now. Do the characters on Disney tween sitcoms ever have to worry about money the way the characters on Hey Arnold! do? Of course not, because then those shows wouldn't be the consumerist utopias their parent companies are looking for.

And not only is it more realistic about children, it's also more realistic about adults. Grownups on kids' shows tend to be either clueless buffoons, authoritarian villains, or all-knowing mentors. But the adults on Hey Arnold! are generally well-meaning but flawed human beings, who sometimes can help the kids out and sometimes can't, and oftentimes even need the kids to help them.

Their constant teasing and "bullying" of one another is a much more realistic view on children

Yeah, they don't pull punches, with the bullying or anything else, really. More than anything else, the show does an excellent job of getting into who Helga is and why she acts the way she does, where a lesser show would just make her a one-note foil/love interest. She has maybe the single most depressing (and most depressingly realistic) home life of any character I've ever seen on children's television. Overbearing, overly competitive, verbally abusive father, blatantly alcoholic mother, perfect older sister who they neglect Helga to dote on. It's pretty heavy stuff for a kids' show and they never shy away from it.

More over, having lived in suburbs all my life, I find the setting of an inner city bloc to be a nice change of pace and am sometimes mystified by inner city workings and life styles.

Same. I like how the city on the show is like a great big amalgamation of several major American cities, with a weird mix of '50s-'70s cultural influences. The show really is like an urban Peanuts in a lot of ways, albeit with a much more well-adjusted protagonist.

Oh yeah, one last thing: Arnold's last name is Shortman. Did I just blow your fucking mind?

[Grimdalus]

Adventure time is amazing with a good concept and theme. I despise MLP but I don't hate it's fans.

[ManDeep]

At 8/26/13 01:20 AM, GameChild214 wrote: Disingenuous bullshit

Wow, you're so bad at this. Stop.

[kanef]

but MLP and AT are both shit

when you stop being a sperg you'll realise gumball is the superior master race show

At 8/26/13 01:58 AM, supergandhi64 wrote: aren't you a little old to be watching cartoons? that should be your first cue when you figure out you don't like cartoons

--supergandhi64

but this is true. cartoons, like metal, are for children

[Viper]

At 8/26/13 01:58 AM, supergandhi64 wrote: aren't you a little old to be watching cartoons?

This is coming from someone who watches anime.....

[Grimdalus]

At 8/26/13 09:31 AM, kanef wrote: but MLP and AT are both shit

when you stop being a sperg you'll realise gumball is the superior master race show

At 8/26/13 01:58 AM, supergandhi64 wrote: aren't you a little old to be watching cartoons? that should be your first cue when you figure out you don't like cartoons

--supergandhi64

but this is true. cartoons, like metal, are for children

HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. No. If you grow out of metal, you were never into it in the first place.

[Haris]

troll iz nit fnny

[HibiscusMallow]

At first I thought "HOW DARE SOMEONE NOT LIKE ADVENTURE TIME", but then...

> I became a brony recently

[mechadude32]

Okayyy...
why should i exactly care?