so i wanted to compile a list of memes that it’s always sunny in philadelphia has given us and there turned out to be a lot more than i expected so here
True story; this officer (John Pike) got a settlement of $38,000 because he said he got depressed after pepper spraying these kids. Oh, the depression wasn’t for feeling remorseful for pepper spraying a bunch of college kids peacefully protesting. He got depressed because he said since the media kept playing the video of him pepper spraying peaceful kids without cause, he got threats and didn’t feel safe. He didn’t feel safe. I’m not making that up. This motherfucker collected nearly 40 grand on worker’s comp after assaulting a bunch of college kids.
today at camp one of my precious charges glanced up at me with an inquisitive gleam in their eyes and said ‘’why do you always make up lies online about witty and insightful children for attention on social media? isnt that behavior kind of pathetic for an adult in their 20′s?’’ i couldnt help but grin back. the future is in good hands.
oh absolutely fuck off
i know glumshoe personally and can confirm the validity of like 75% of their stories that you people like to piss all over (im there for a lot of them), and believe them on the rest cause actually theyre a good person who is honestly just Like That in real actual life
and you don’t have to make up stories to make kids be interesting, they’re weird and they say weird shit that sometimes is insightful and ship legitimately loves working with them and the things they do and they gain fulfillment in their life from shaping young minds which is more than i can say for you cold sad lonely people
You can really tell when a cartoon is created by comedy people who don’t really care about cartoons.
I was actually talking about the art styles, and not the overall quality of the shows.
It’s not that these shows’ art styles are ugly, it’s that they’re bland. It feels like during the initial design phase the artists just did a cookie-cutter job because the creators were too busy with the writing to give them much direction. It could still be saved by good writing, storyboarding and animation (and this might be the case with Big Mouth, from what I heard) but it still looks underwhelming on a fundamental level, when it could have been better.
Also, there’s this sentiment going around recently that adult cartoons in general have bad art styles. While it’s true that having a niche audience makes it harder for more ambitious adult cartoons to flourish these days, I feel like some of these sentiments are misdirected towards shows that don’t deserve it. Sure, adult cartoons, especially sitcoms, usually have a more grounded approach, but that doesn’t mean they’re less inspired.
Like, when Mike Judge created King of the Hill, he had a very specific vision on what he wanted his cartoon to look like, right down to the characters’ body language. He wanted it to feel like a live-action show that just happens to be animated.
Or like when Raphael Bob-Waksberg made Bojack Horseman, he insisted that Lisa Hanawalt be the production designer because he wanted the show to look like her art. She even had her own consistent rules about how they would anthropomorphize the animal characters.
Or how Bob’s Burgers made their characters look endearing without making them conventionally cute or attractive, keeping in line with the show’s themes of loving yourself, imperfections and all.
Or how the Smith family in Rick and Morty intentionally looks normal so that the aliens around them look even weirder, while also allowing them to subvert standard sitcom family archetypes.
(also RnM has tons of fucking gorgeous art, let’s be honest)
Even if they don’t look like Disney, you can still tell when the creators care a lot about how their shows look. They chose the style that fits the tone they were going for. Don’t mistake grounded for bland.
…did you just say Rick and Morty has a good artstyle
What the fuck
Are you actually calling the art of the show different from other unfunny ugly ass adult cartoons
i mean… yea?
regardless of how you feel about the show, you gotta admit; they use beautiful drawings even for the briefest scenes.
Rick and Morty has ugly humans, but I love their alien designs and particularly their alien worlds designs
Motherfucking Cowboy Meowchow 