Like their concept a lot, I remember a specific dialogue where the glasses one was trying to buy something on the tree using bitcoin, very funny. Craig of the creek was a great show but was overlooked because the state of CN on that time was lame (someone could argue it is still lame nowdays).
Yeah, the pop culture humor was on point with those characters. The episode where they are trapped under the cave has the best pop reference humor I´ve seen on nowdays media without going for the cheap says-the-name-of-something-popular.
Any nerd that actually ends up hanging out with alt girls becomes an immaculate example of that scene. It has always been the way of the world. You get some fat vidya nerd to accept a punk CD from a cute girl and he'll be wearing combat boots and own a dog in a bandana within the year.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Man, I would like to meet someone like that.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Depressing.
T. Alt(ish) girl who finds traditionally nerdy dudes insanely attractive but loses all interest the second he starts taking on feminine aesthetic
10 months ago
Anonymous
london?
10 months ago
Anonymous
Very depressive. They deserved to be nerdy freaks together
10 months ago
Anonymous
I think that's a running theme in this series: the idea of toxic relationships poisoning perfectly good friendships. We have the Elders, the Horse Girls, Xavier. I think it does a better job than 'Amphibia'.
10 months ago
Anonymous
We could've had this...
10 months ago
Smaugchad
Because it isn't a central theme, it just incidentally comes up as a secondary theme. That's a problem for me since the show has the potential to be timeless if they would just reset after a certain amount of time.
Yup. The Elders split up over Mark (glasses guy) being an butthole. David (helmet guy) moved on to get a job at a smoothie place and started hanging out with lesbian witches.
Is it normal to find make body odor so weirdly attractive? When I was a teenager I thought it was because I was so poorly socialized growing up as a homeschooled Christian kid that I was just weirdly attracted to anything that indicated I was in close proximity to other people my age but I’m well into my 20s now and I’m still really into it.
Not the actual disgusting homeless person/hasn’t showered in a month type of smell but the healthy musk of a sweaty dude. It’s like fricking crack and forces me into a weird honey headspace even when I was otherwise completely neutral
It's not, at all. For better or worse it's basically the standard by which 2020s E-rated animation can be measured. Some kind of massively collaborative milquetoast kitchen sink setting. Respect to see these characters pop up in HB media for decades to come because like
... and the elders... weren't?
says, they're ALL self-inserts and homages by the (enormous) crew.
Count your lucky stars that they're not out there talking directly down to the audience like the Crystal Gems started doing. I think there might be some kind of rule for Creek Kids that they are to only address real world issues allegorically or through the lens of child experience. If they basically just eliminate all adult characters with the Elders and Witches being the oldest, but never actually developing real adult relationships (Bernard has to go and the core cast diminished) you might have a show that could be dragged out indefinitely.
>Kids that they are to only address real world issues allegorically or through the lens of child experience
While I know you're probably more talking about 12 second comments video essayists would drone on about. But, I want to just say think everything about Kelsey's mom has been pretty well done. Like it isn't limited to a Chucky's Mom episode, but it also doesn't get brought up every day.
I agree but I think the show would be even better if it just went Peanuts and faded all adults offscreen entirely and cut back the core three somewhat. Kelsey can still have a dead mom and JP's dad can still live in another town and these can be important subtext to their characters but they should have already accepted and actualized it.
Linus matured from being a toddler into a kid and it was such a mistake Schultz had to create another toddler Linus character.
There are plenty of episodes where there are no adults, or they only appear momentarily to snap the make-beleive and heightened reality. Not sure how much I think would really be gained. I mean, I think you've already kind of illustrated why this wouldn't work as a series wide rule. Linus became a philosopher or minister or historian when the piece needed. I don't care for a lot of it, but that showed even Schultz thought Peanuts had need of an adult voice and perspective from time to time.
Linus was already the adult voice as a toddler, he didn't need to grow up. That's why The Creek doesn't need actual adults and it doesn't need for characters to "grow" especially exempla gratia
I don't know, my 10 year old stopped watching it (Casa Grandes was too much for him to tolerate) and my 5 year old hasn't started. I don't see how Loud House would gain much from it though, unlike Creek. If anything it would exacerbate Loud House's problems but that's an whole other thread.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Geez, what happened?
Actually that was the intent: they were hidden because it was to encourage the kids to work things out by themselves. The fact that Brian Stepanek and Jill Talley had such big presence in their acting led to the decision to show their faces from then on.
As much as i shit on COTC for being boring and unfunny i can at least understand why bara/fujos like some of the characters when you have examples like these. Its like a SFW kid friendly eltingville club
How the frick did this thread go so long without mentioning the shorts these guys are originally from? I have a strong nostalgic attachment to I'm In Your Manger and I watch it every Christmas.
Nah, a spinoff dedicated to them WOULD be worth it.
I mean, IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR and RDCCDX both clearly worked in terms of comedy and they were both the origin of the Elders.
I think the elders are intentionally designed not only to appeal the nerd pop culture reference demographic but also the fujos, you have the three achetypes fujos love the most: the bara, the twink, the "I could fix him".
yeah i did, i am glad you like it. I was severely attached to Mark for a while and i drew him a lot, although that was the only time i drew him that detailed. I am taking elders requests if anyone wants, i miss drawing them.
Yep.
Nice. I never really see people talk about them and they're my favorite characters in COTC
I just love these college D&D nerds who are allergic to any sight of vitamin D so much.
Like their concept a lot, I remember a specific dialogue where the glasses one was trying to buy something on the tree using bitcoin, very funny. Craig of the creek was a great show but was overlooked because the state of CN on that time was lame (someone could argue it is still lame nowdays).
Yeah, the glasses one being Mark who's my personal favorite.
I believe COTC's still running and getting new episodes. Still, higher-ups at CN suck anyway.
The Elders have the best humor in the entire show IMO since they're the most pop culture oriented
Yeah, the pop culture humor was on point with those characters. The episode where they are trapped under the cave has the best pop reference humor I´ve seen on nowdays media without going for the cheap says-the-name-of-something-popular.
God I just know the whole place smelt like onions
Oh man
Which episode(s)?
It's supposed to be the final season, unfortunately. But one can hope.
I just like David.
They should have got the spin-off instead of the worst character.
I agree 1000000%!
This was disappointingly queer. I am disappointed in you, Craig if the Creek.
You should see how surprisngly queer David gets
Got that got glow-up.
MY GOD
The facial scrag is the only thing holding him back.
I like the witches grooming David into a goth, been meaning to draw them both having their way with him.
Nah real. They turned him from a nerd who literally can't take a hit of sunlight to a typical queer goth femboy.
I miss the old Elders.
We're losing the supply and demand for nerd boys!
Bring them back! God!
>typical queer goth femboy.
He didn't act anything like that, stop trying to push some Marco fantasy on him.
>typical queer goth femboy
How many of those are there in Cinemaphile media?
>They turned him from a nerd who literally can't take a hit of sunlight to a typical queer goth femboy
This happens a lot in real life too.
Any nerd that actually ends up hanging out with alt girls becomes an immaculate example of that scene. It has always been the way of the world. You get some fat vidya nerd to accept a punk CD from a cute girl and he'll be wearing combat boots and own a dog in a bandana within the year.
Man, I would like to meet someone like that.
Depressing.
T. Alt(ish) girl who finds traditionally nerdy dudes insanely attractive but loses all interest the second he starts taking on feminine aesthetic
london?
Very depressive. They deserved to be nerdy freaks together
I think that's a running theme in this series: the idea of toxic relationships poisoning perfectly good friendships. We have the Elders, the Horse Girls, Xavier. I think it does a better job than 'Amphibia'.
We could've had this...
Because it isn't a central theme, it just incidentally comes up as a secondary theme. That's a problem for me since the show has the potential to be timeless if they would just reset after a certain amount of time.
We need the Elders back together.
This the helmet guy from the elders?
Yup. The Elders split up over Mark (glasses guy) being an butthole. David (helmet guy) moved on to get a job at a smoothie place and started hanging out with lesbian witches.
I can fix him.
That's the problem; he doesn't want to change.
He joins up with the witches? Is it as fun as it sounds? He looks like he cleaned up well either way.
He reeks of onions. He's onions to the highest level. But that's okay. He's my favorite onions.
Is it normal to find make body odor so weirdly attractive? When I was a teenager I thought it was because I was so poorly socialized growing up as a homeschooled Christian kid that I was just weirdly attracted to anything that indicated I was in close proximity to other people my age but I’m well into my 20s now and I’m still really into it.
Not the actual disgusting homeless person/hasn’t showered in a month type of smell but the healthy musk of a sweaty dude. It’s like fricking crack and forces me into a weird honey headspace even when I was otherwise completely neutral
It's not weird. It just means you're gay. As a straight man I feel much the same about the odor of women.
I like how they made Bernard into an Elder in the recent episodes. Kind of fitting for his character but I never expected it.
Yeah.
Unfortunately it seems like the arc didn't last long.
Was expecting that since The Bring out your Beast Episode. I was 1000% sure this kid playing with Bernard was Mark.
No, it was a caricature of one of the creators.
... and the elders... weren't?
Less "self-insert" and more "pastiche of people they were hanging around with when they were young animators"
I mean, they did come from one of the creators' web series.
How will they defeat the homosexual allegations?
I NEED MORE FANART LIKE THIS
Me too.
More people need to get Elderpilled
Elder Mark superiority.
This show looks like fricking shit.
It suffers from being blatantly written by adults who have forgotten what actual kids are like.
It's like you've never met a mature kid.
I don't normally hang around kids. Do you?
It's not, at all. For better or worse it's basically the standard by which 2020s E-rated animation can be measured. Some kind of massively collaborative milquetoast kitchen sink setting. Respect to see these characters pop up in HB media for decades to come because like
says, they're ALL self-inserts and homages by the (enormous) crew.
Count your lucky stars that they're not out there talking directly down to the audience like the Crystal Gems started doing. I think there might be some kind of rule for Creek Kids that they are to only address real world issues allegorically or through the lens of child experience. If they basically just eliminate all adult characters with the Elders and Witches being the oldest, but never actually developing real adult relationships (Bernard has to go and the core cast diminished) you might have a show that could be dragged out indefinitely.
Where Charles Schultz when we need him?
>Kids that they are to only address real world issues allegorically or through the lens of child experience
While I know you're probably more talking about 12 second comments video essayists would drone on about. But, I want to just say think everything about Kelsey's mom has been pretty well done. Like it isn't limited to a Chucky's Mom episode, but it also doesn't get brought up every day.
I agree but I think the show would be even better if it just went Peanuts and faded all adults offscreen entirely and cut back the core three somewhat. Kelsey can still have a dead mom and JP's dad can still live in another town and these can be important subtext to their characters but they should have already accepted and actualized it.
Linus matured from being a toddler into a kid and it was such a mistake Schultz had to create another toddler Linus character.
There are plenty of episodes where there are no adults, or they only appear momentarily to snap the make-beleive and heightened reality. Not sure how much I think would really be gained. I mean, I think you've already kind of illustrated why this wouldn't work as a series wide rule. Linus became a philosopher or minister or historian when the piece needed. I don't care for a lot of it, but that showed even Schultz thought Peanuts had need of an adult voice and perspective from time to time.
Linus was already the adult voice as a toddler, he didn't need to grow up. That's why The Creek doesn't need actual adults and it doesn't need for characters to "grow" especially exempla gratia
Didn't 'The Loud House' do that with the Louds' parents?
I don't know, my 10 year old stopped watching it (Casa Grandes was too much for him to tolerate) and my 5 year old hasn't started. I don't see how Loud House would gain much from it though, unlike Creek. If anything it would exacerbate Loud House's problems but that's an whole other thread.
Geez, what happened?
Actually that was the intent: they were hidden because it was to encourage the kids to work things out by themselves. The fact that Brian Stepanek and Jill Talley had such big presence in their acting led to the decision to show their faces from then on.
As much as i shit on COTC for being boring and unfunny i can at least understand why bara/fujos like some of the characters when you have examples like these. Its like a SFW kid friendly eltingville club
Apparently they do.
This thread is too obsessed with the twink. The fat dude is way hotter. I don't even know his name. But he's great
Hear me out. We can thirst for all three.
How the frick did this thread go so long without mentioning the shorts these guys are originally from? I have a strong nostalgic attachment to I'm In Your Manger and I watch it every Christmas.
>Calarts Eltingville Club
Frick. It's me on the left...
post pics?
they are like a comfy version of the eltingville club
Haven't kept up with the show for so many episodes. They're generally fun.
They're severely underrated in my opinion. People never talk about how funny they are Not to mention the huge fujo material for those types of people
It's a hidden gem in the world of cable.
Are they great characters?
Yes
Is the show about them?
No
Are they're episode few and far in-between?
Yes
You can like these characters. But watching a show just for them isn't worth it.
Nah, a spinoff dedicated to them WOULD be worth it.
I mean, IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR and RDCCDX both clearly worked in terms of comedy and they were both the origin of the Elders.
A spinoff would be ideal.
I like the Elders sexually.
Me too. Honestly not even ashamed about it.
I desperately yearn for more R34 of the three of them.
I think the elders are intentionally designed not only to appeal the nerd pop culture reference demographic but also the fujos, you have the three achetypes fujos love the most: the bara, the twink, the "I could fix him".
It's the perfect combination.
Perfect archetypes too.
i fricking love them, they are so cute. They also fill the void EC left.
Did you draw this? I fricking love the way he's drawn here
yeah i did, i am glad you like it. I was severely attached to Mark for a while and i drew him a lot, although that was the only time i drew him that detailed. I am taking elders requests if anyone wants, i miss drawing them.
My god. I love the way you draw him.
I'd be happy to make a request ... are you able to draw him in a maid outfit?
sorry for the turbo crappy sketch i always get anxious these niche threads are going to 404 and rush up the deliveries
This... is PERFECT
Thank you so much for drawing my request! He looks fricking adorable
>niche
Man, that does hurt.
Make out already GOD.
They're pretty funny. Them and the Sonic ripoff that triggers IRL Sonic fans.
Canonball is truly a good representation for an idealized "really black" kid
Well, he is cool.
I loved their Nativity Play bit, right up there with the "papercraft armor" bit
"Are you guys in a suicide cult?"
"Mark is my son gonna kill himself?"
I want them to be my nerd male wives so bad.
Based chad kino alpha taste, I too would kill for a harem of cute degenerate manchildren
Yes please!!!
Nerd harem!
So, what do you expect for the upcoming episodes?
Possible redemption for Mark. I hope.
Well, one can dream.
I just want an excuse to fantasize about all three of them again.