BassForever
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Wow the more I see of the new PPG the more I want to commit Sudoku what were they thinking?
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So that new PPG show is really, REALLY bad.
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Beyond the nostalgia of the previous incarnation, the show is just bad. You don't have to have seen the old show to know that the new show is a dumpster fire.
RecRoulette
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Nah breh
OmegaSmash
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EEnE's soundtrack is god tier stuff. And recently, Steven Universe background stuff is amazing stuff.
I'd also include the early seasons of MLP as having good background tracks, but there's no real way to listen to them clean.
Voysa Reezun
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The joke was that Ms. Bellum was smarter but was stuck in that position because she was a woman, but if that joke is deemed too obtuse, then fine: They should have reversed it and had Mayor Bellum with the old mayor as her dimwitted assistant, which would have been equally funny.
That new theme song makes my eardrums bleed.
That new theme song makes my eardrums bleed.
RecRoulette
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Has this show tackled Him yet? Interested to see how they handle it.
Yes, he was just like the original.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Dan Schneider and Spongebob basically ruined kids' television by turning the whole landscape into a competition of who can be the most random and surreal. Not that I was some kind of PPG fan, I think I caught an episode or two after school, but it at least had kind of an identity, what with episodes that were protracted Beatles references or episodes centered on the nature of time as it relates to relativity.
papertoonz
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no it wasn't, TTG isn't trying be like the old Teen Titans show, it's trying to be something different all together and sure it may not be that good at times, it's still trying to be something different
this PPG reboot is trying to be just like the old show and is failing at it
two different things
i think why people like Brave and the Bold is more because they were willing to go along with the change, Brave and the Bold was like the 4th animated batman TV show and people wanted something new and going for that whole sliver age style people it made sense
grated Brave and the Bold is actully good almost all the time unlike TTG where a good amount of episodes aren't all that good
RecRoulette
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Awesome.
Exterminieren
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Well, is it a comedy show? Therein lies the rub- I'm just flat not sure whether or not that's the intention. The original certainly wasn't comedy, and there have already been episodes of the new one that aren't even trying to be.
First off, that's a vile phrase that I would never use.
Secondly, it's not just the original it's worse than. It's bad in its own right, and it's REALLY bad compared to its Cartoon Network stablemates.
I'm not so sure I'm seeing the Schneider influence in kid's TV on the whole today.
If you want the touchstone of cartoons as they are today, you look at Adventure Time, not SpongeBob.
To be totally honest, I laughed at the "omg yaaasss" scene
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But the show is... it's a damn shame. It's just too generic. The whole revival seems unnecessary. Like, why would you bring back The Powerpuff Girls just to do memes and weak, minimal action?
and the following "I literally can't even" back and forth
But the show is... it's a damn shame. It's just too generic. The whole revival seems unnecessary. Like, why would you bring back The Powerpuff Girls just to do memes and weak, minimal action?
PPGZ is entirely mediocre.
I didn't hate it, but it wasn't special.
Better than this reboot though.
FleetingFlowAir
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Aside from the generic "Did you just call me a little girl" clip, the only glimpse that I had seen of the show was a clip given by an online friend that gave the group we were in a first impression of it.
It was Bubbles saying "I can't even".
My respect for TTG grew a bit once I realized they brought PPG into that direction.
It was Bubbles saying "I can't even".
My respect for TTG grew a bit once I realized they brought PPG into that direction.
papertoonz
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money, PPG was CN most profitable IP with the amount of toys it sold, heck they were already showing off the new toys before the show even started
WrenchNinja
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Ive seen some clips of TTG. Some of it is funny like them dressing up as the Justice League. Others are kind of terrible, like the one calling Young Justice super self serious and humourless.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Basically every "teen" show on Nick or Disney is a clone, basically, of various Schneider-produced shows.
The original was absolutely a comedy show.
It's not as good as the original but compared to the new pile of crap, it's okay. The designs for the girls are good too but the they did change the origin of them.
Watch if you really want to.
But remember, it's an anime adaptation.
KuwabaraTheMan
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Wow, every aspect of this sounds terrible.
What were they thinking?
What were they thinking?
Gentleman Jack
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Given the tenor of the animation and writing, they were thinking they needed to compete with YouTube entertainers. So yeah.
BaronMonstro
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The writers fucked up on the first step of writing humour for the Youtube generation.
YOU DON'T DIRECTLY REFERENCE SHIT. Especially when it'll take a year before the episode is made and aired on television, which from what I understand is about how long most CN shows take. These days shitty memes come and go in like a week. At the time Me Gusta was probably still relevant when the writers were planning out the episode.
For the moment the show is the definition of passable children's television. Kids will probably eat it up, but unless it takes a big upturn in quality it's doubtful to me that it will stick with them like the original PPG did for us. But considering most CN shows get quite a bit better as they go on, I'm hoping it will improve. I really didn't care for Clarence when it first started but the second season so far has been amazing. Though that might have something to do with them getting rid of that creepy dirtbag Skyler Page.
YOU DON'T DIRECTLY REFERENCE SHIT. Especially when it'll take a year before the episode is made and aired on television, which from what I understand is about how long most CN shows take. These days shitty memes come and go in like a week. At the time Me Gusta was probably still relevant when the writers were planning out the episode.
For the moment the show is the definition of passable children's television. Kids will probably eat it up, but unless it takes a big upturn in quality it's doubtful to me that it will stick with them like the original PPG did for us. But considering most CN shows get quite a bit better as they go on, I'm hoping it will improve. I really didn't care for Clarence when it first started but the second season so far has been amazing. Though that might have something to do with them getting rid of that creepy dirtbag Skyler Page.
RecRoulette
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This and the Men's Rights Activist villain in a later episode was what broke me, haha.
I agree. They are two different shows. Its like fans think Teen Titans Go is supposed to be a direct sequel to the 2003 series. It was always advertised as a comedy series based on the previous series.
I'd kinda like to see a sequel to the original series too, but I also can accept Teen Titans Go as it's own thing.
U.G. Krishnamurti once said "you won't be there when you die" referring to the finality of death and the ego.
I have now experienced it.
Black-Wind
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I actually don't think it's "trying to be just like the old show". I think it's like TTG in that it makes fun of it's original and magnifies the personalities of it's cast to do so AND puts them in a current setting dealing with todays culture. TTG IMO started off much more tame than it is now and I feel like PPG are in the same spot. They haven't gotten to the "lol, lets just go balls2daWALLZ" point yet.
Thats a shame. I wanted to give it a few episodes since I really liked the show when I was younger. I didn't know no me gusta was a meme but that does remind me that speaking Spanish was a unique power for Bubbles in the original.
From the commercials the show doesn't look great and the special they had didn't look wonderful either. Also reminds me that the new scooby doo likes like shit as well. Like a what you would expect of a parody in Family Guy.
From the commercials the show doesn't look great and the special they had didn't look wonderful either. Also reminds me that the new scooby doo likes like shit as well. Like a what you would expect of a parody in Family Guy.
CommandThrower
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I forgot that there was a new PPG show. I recently watched some of the show on Hulu, and seeing some of these clips just...OFFENDS me.
If kids enjoy it, then I suppose that's fine, but...jesus h. christ.
If kids enjoy it, then I suppose that's fine, but...jesus h. christ.
MisterGrey3000
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Eeeh, I'd say the reboot is decent overall. Some charming ideas here and there (I like the Bikini Sisters/Fashionista Gang. Bianca Bikini is an especially inspired design; she's basically all hips, and the mouth shapes for her lip sync have a ton of appeal), but nothing amazing or really interesting. I'm sure CN's key demographic likes it.
It definitively has a lot of problems (disjointed art direction, poorly drawn key poses with no appeal, action scenes with noticeably slow timing/close spacing, poorly constructed writing- Ex: villain lady dangles girls over molten polyester, villain lady later falls into said molten polyester only to complain that she's tacky rather than in immense burning pain-, etc.) but I honestly wouldn't call it "really bad" or anything like that.
Same here (it feels like something Bubbles from the classic series would say), but at the same time...I definitely think HIM should've been the first character to say "Yaasss!", it only makes sense and would be a little funny. At least give me that if all you're going to do is use one of the most threatening, powerful, and charming villains from the series for lazy "A-hyuck! That's not a lady! lololol" gender confusion jokes and meaningless menial mischief.
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It definitively has a lot of problems (disjointed art direction, poorly drawn key poses with no appeal, action scenes with noticeably slow timing/close spacing, poorly constructed writing- Ex: villain lady dangles girls over molten polyester, villain lady later falls into said molten polyester only to complain that she's tacky rather than in immense burning pain-, etc.) but I honestly wouldn't call it "really bad" or anything like that.
Same here (it feels like something Bubbles from the classic series would say), but at the same time...I definitely think HIM should've been the first character to say "Yaasss!", it only makes sense and would be a little funny. At least give me that if all you're going to do is use one of the most threatening, powerful, and charming villains from the series for lazy "A-hyuck! That's not a lady! lololol" gender confusion jokes and meaningless menial mischief.
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NipplesAndToes23
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I'm on Netflix right now and that episode is Insect Inside / Powerpuff Bluff. The official name of that episode is Mommy Dearest right? Did that episode get banned or something? I jumped around to seasons 4 - 6 and it's not there either.
ShinRPGamer
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Well Miss Bellum had blonde hair in PPGZ so... there was that.
I wouldn't recommend watching PPGZ TBH. It's pretty damn mediocre.
I mean, it was pretty clear it was a Hangover reference. The joke was there for the adults. I thought that episode was pretty good.
None of these make a sufficient excuse. If something's funny, it's funny.
This show just ain't funny.
Rhomega Beta
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Ok, sure, there was The Powerpuff Girls Best Rainy Day Adventure where Blossom stuffs toys down her shirt while pretending to be her, but I'm otherwise not seeing it.
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Wow, that's terrible.
This would've been the better option, as I hated the Mayor in the old show. There's being scatterbrained, and then there's thinking like a block of wood, but being almost completely stupid is rarely funny if that's the character's only defining personality trait.
Doctor Ironic
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I think Teen Titans Go is better than the original series and the PPG reboot is exactly as bad as everyone says it is, unless you missed the clip of the eight-year-old protagonists twerking or something.
Gordon Shumway
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Holy shit! My daughter came up to me so upset a little while ago telling me she was done with the show, having just seen this clip you're talking about..she's REALLY upset lol. I feel bad for laughing.
littlebigman
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