>early 2000s Cartoon Network joke
>The punchline is that the characters awkwardly stand still for five minutes while making blinking sound effects
Why was this overused so much?
>early 2000s Cartoon Network joke
>early 2000s Cartoon Network joke
>The punchline is that the characters awkwardly stand still for five minutes while making blinking sound effects
Why was this overused so much?
I thought that was exclusive to Genndy Tarkovsky
Holy shit, now that I think about it that really was standard for a lot of 2000's cartoons
>MLAATR
>PPG
>Dexters lab
>Samurai jack (kind of)
>FOP (at least with the sound effects)
Yeah Genndy uses it a lot
Genndy uses it a lot and I notice John K does as well in Ren and Stimpy.
Foster also had a lot of awkward silences while 1 character waits for another's answer.
It got worse with PPG when CN forced the episodes to be 22mins rather than 11mins
Samurai Jack at least had the joke in its awkward silence's be Jack himself.
Drawn Together at the 1st season finale when "protesting"
The people who worked on those shows got their start on Dexter.
So no surprise there
Blame Chris Savino. It’s his frick you to Genndy and Craig when he was showrunner for both of their shows.
I saw that Twitter post too.
Is this real?
In this episode the joke is the PPGs don't have superpowers so everything is very slow.
Screwy aint it?
I mean the real reasons are because animating is expensive and they didn't have enough to fill all 11 minutes. So to pad time they recycle animation or really stretch out a "joke". Chowder is a show I went back to recently and boy do they PAD some episodes in the first season.
Yeah but you take the moon and you take the sun
You take everything that seems like fun
You stir it all up and when your done
You share a big piece with everyone
Radda radda radda radda radda
Honeslty, despite not really liking a lot of them, modern cartoons never really have this issue. There was never a scene in something like molly mgee, kick buttowski, DSCHG, Hilda, or other shows where it really felt like they were padding for the episode
See, puppet rigs are good because it's easier to move them than it is to make an entirely new drawing if you want a bit of incidental movement.
Random and gross cartoons were "out" and this was the result.
god I thought I was the only one to notice this shit as a kid and be bothered by it
You know what? The shittiest YouTube Poops I've watched use this trope. It's like an inside joke
And the mid/late 2000s evolution of this was
>something happens
>beat
>AWKWAAARD
I'm going to be honest, even as somebody in their mid 30s who should be extolling the amazing quality humor of 90s and early 2000s cartoons, I find that modern kid cartoons tend to be funnier than a lot of the ones that I grew up with.
I always thought it was poking fun at people who exaggerate while telling stories and say stuff like "and she stared at me for like 5 minutes!" when in real time that'd be an obscene amount of time to do that.
Here’s a good example that actually works
It's good, definitely helps that there's multiple visual gags. The dexter golf gag is like the complete opposite of this
Its funny because they are not standing awkwardly for a minute.
this show looks disgusting
I always got nauseous when watching this as a kid
same with cow and chicken, and ren and stimpy
Nobody cares
Because it was used to undercut the typical action an adventure a cartoon is known for. Something that was experimental at the time, but is now common place.
When does the magic begin?
How do humans find this hilarious?
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Name 10 times it happened.
Chris Savino has an interesting sense of humor
Used to.
Cause Family Guy was popular at the time and they did it now and then, so cartoons were kind of copying it.
That only happened after it got revived, pre-cancellation FG never did it.
The first three seasons didn't do it at all? I know it wasn't a staple, but I feel like they definitely did it a handful of times and there were stand-out comedy moments for animation that made people wanna copy it.
The closest is the Peter knee gag from season 2
Paul Tibbitt SpongeBob did it too
Actually, the series still does that.
>post s3 spongebob
READ you fricker
>Paul Tibbit SpongeBob
The 2000s equivalent of “well THAT was awkward”
Great way to save a ton of time and budget for another episode that might need it more.
Glad people are finally calling this out.
It was more egregious as filler than family guy cutaways ever were.
You ever stop to think about how much of your childhood might have been lost listening to eyeblink sound effects and awkward pauses instead of actually enjoying cartoons?