Seth McFarlane's "The Flintstones"
it's been announced that Seth McFarlane (creator of family guy) has gotten his grubby little hands on The Flintstones, what does everyone think of this?
Personally I think it's a complete travesty, I can just imagine Wilma pulling a sabretooth-mouse tampon out of her ho-hah, placing it down, and the mouse saying "It's a living" I'm also not sure I'm ready for Fred and Wilma to share the same bed... this clip is no doubt how it'll turn out =(
http://www.hulu.com/watch/242235/the-morning-after-seth-macfarlanes-flintstones#s-p1-sr-i1
Personally I think it's a complete travesty, I can just imagine Wilma pulling a sabretooth-mouse tampon out of her ho-hah, placing it down, and the mouse saying "It's a living" I'm also not sure I'm ready for Fred and Wilma to share the same bed... this clip is no doubt how it'll turn out =(
http://www.hulu.com/watch/242235/the-morning-after-seth-macfarlanes-flintstones#s-p1-sr-i1
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I pity the humanity who gave him time blocks for 3 cartoon shows, and my sorrow now only grows stronger.
I hate Family Guy's humor, so I have total confidence with the Flintstones. At least there he's confined to a different kind of humor.
Seconding that. He might as well change the overall tone of humor in Flintstones and get a fanbase. Which is actually what I'm scared of the most.
Oh hey, there's something else I'm excited about too.
oh sorry, it's a clip from "the morning after" a tv talk show on hulu, idk where else to find the clip...
It just basically talks about the situation, and then they end it with a clip of the flintstones with vocals from family guy where they're talking about abortion dubbed over the animation
on a side note, I love phineas and ferb, it's a great, creative, show which was created by ex-family guy writers... so this might not be a disaster, I still HATE the idea, but once I thought about that, it made me feel a WHOLE lot better...
The creator-driven era had it all. Animators in full control of network-backed projects that truly pushed the medium forward. Now, that medium is dying and the transitional phase leaves us with an uncertain, uncharted future. While the potential is there for something great, I can't help but wonder if it will end up structured and monetized like every other medium before it that came around with promises of bringing vast creativity to a wider audience with greater ease than ever before.
The same can be said for The Flintstones reboot. I'm curious as to what a FOX aired Flintstones series would be like. We can speculate all day, and look at McFarlane's track record, but what it might produce is unknown. I'm hoping for something with the same care, gravitas, and good writing given to it as The Venture Bros or Futurama, and I think that moving the show to a more adult medium as a more well-written comedy would make it easier to relate to the characters as characters and not just sit and watch them as just cartoons that make us laugh because they stubbed their toe on a rock then hit their head on a tree. Am I saying I fully expect McFarlane to deliver something like that? Yes, and no. It could go either way, and studio interference will probably taint that quite a bit. Yet I can hope, and when McFarlane isn't stooping to the lowest common denominator, the man does know how to write good comedy. Simply put, I'm happy it's being made because I want to be able to see what it's like.
Hey, it's only been 6 years since Monkey Dust, the best cartoon of all time.
Theoretically yes, he does use every written rule in his shows. Practically, it's a matter of choice and I choose not to be amused, so I have to decline that statement.
God I loved Monkey Dust, it was such a twisted yet brutally honest show. personal favourites include Essex vs London and the very NSFW Cottaging guy
Do you count machinima with animated sequences as animation, or would that be something completely different?
I like smart humor. I like stupid humor. I dislike vulgar humor. Seth combines all these in his shows and some of his jokes are actually very funny...
But for the Flintstones...something tells me he'll just add vulgar stuff to shock people and gather audience. ...it's a bit sad, really.
(raises hand) AND I wished it would be done specifically by Seth McFarlane so....yeah. GO ME. I got what I wanted. Eat me losers! (jumps out of the window)
Some of Monkey Dust was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Some of it I didn't enjoy quite as much.
I don't know how I feel about this Flintstones announcement. I like Seth McFarlane and I loved The Flintstones as a kid, but I don't know if I like the idea of them together.
This was not entirely a kid’s show at the time when it first aired. It had characters and a script that was accepted and relatable too adults, a story about a working-class Stone-Age man and his life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. Of course there was a lot of jokes and cartoon goofiness for kids also, but that was deliberate.
Perhaps Seth McFarland might be able to once again make The Flintstones a show that can be accepted and enjoyed by both adult and kids. As long as each joke don’t start with: Hey Barney! Remember the time we…
Also this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsOwEhJGYX8&feature=related
LOLOL That second clip is exactly what I thought of when I heard the news
What I do have a problem with is that he already has three shows, and they're already pretty much the same thing. Family Guy, Family Guy But Slightly Political, and Family Guy But Black. And now we're going to have Family Guy In The Stone Age. Can't TV get something new?
Survivor: Stone Age coming this fall!
I don't care what anyone else says, but I'm excited for this. The Simpsons aren't funny anymore, Family Guy was never funny and Bob's Burgers makes me violently angry.
There wasn't.
Oh good. I was afraid I was missing something important when I couldn't talk about a single humorous moment with my high school friends. I felt so left out.
Some people loved it, some hated it. I don't think there was any in-between.
I personally have a very dry sense of humor, I can generally pick up the humorous undercurrants in something as well as the laugh-out-loud parts... I literally laugh before the humor starts because I can almost always see it coming... believe me, napolean dynamite was NOT funny, it was just plain stupid, and it saddens me that stupidity is what america finds funny now...
I saw an interview clip from "community" where the cast was talking about sitting there and watching Senior' Chang doing his bit, and trying not to laugh... the senior chang bits are the same thing, pure stupidity, theres rarely anything funny that comes from that actor and I couldn't believe they were trying not to laugh at it...
This is what is wrong with our country, theres no decent writing in comedys nowadays, whatever happened to the shows like "I love lucy" or "three's company" There were moments in both those shows where i almost caughed up a lung laughing... the duck soup episode of I love lucy where she did the mirror thing with the clown marx brother guy, the episode where she was sitting in the brown derby staring at celebrities and one decided to stare back, the episode of three's company where they hung the shower curtain, or what about some of the physical comedy that jack was so good at... that kind of humor just seems to be dissapearring nowadays... they cancel all the decent comedies like "better off ted" (great show, you gotta watch it if you havn't, it's on netflix) and they keep shows like "two and a half men" on the air for 9 seasons...