it's interesting how this guy doesn't look like the modern archetypical look of a "gamer" and he's not even trying to he just looks like someone's uncle who works in a repair shop and i love that
Cause he's the stereotypical "nerd", and the look has honestly aged way better in representing someone stuck in the past compared to the modern trend-seeker kind of games
Is the Earthworm Jim cartoon worth watching?
Leans a bit heavy on the slapstick, but funny for the absurdism and the general move from scifi wackiness to poking fun at superhero toon genre conventions
We really haven't had THAT style of nerd since he was a kid and he wasn't in HS in the 80s for the poindexter style 50s nerd either that movies mocked.
What IS the 2024 nerd?
Probably just AWKWARD and AUTISM but a "nice guy", shit.
Yeah. Not the best looking cartoon of the 90s (TenNapel designs filtered through Korean sweatshop isn't pretty), but quotable as frick and stupidly enjoyable.
Technically it was more of a Doug Langdale show. TenNapel wasn't keen on the show since the aim was to sell toys so if anything, Langdale and his team were the filter and the Koreans were just working with that.
Ehhhh, as a fan of the games I think it's okay. Not bad, just not as weird as I'd have liked. Like there isn't the same desire to satirize cartoons as they did satire for games, it is purely a saturday morning cartoon kind of affair and I wouldn't say it ever gets any deeper than that. There are some good jokes though, I just think the Amblin cartoons feel wasn't what I'd have picked for it. It's good, not great, just good. Jim is a great character though.
It's fine I guess. The humor just doesn't land like it should and it isn't quite as absurd as the games. It is just kind of forgettable overall but worth watching if you are a Jim fan.
I only like old pop culture so that's a plus for me.
I mostly prefer old stuff too but as great as Freakazoid is most of the time you have to admit basing an entire episode long running gag on a weird line reading from Plan 9 or referencing obscure sitcoms from the 70's like that wouldn't just be gibberish to most of the audience was a bit much.
Where I grew up the cartoon was way more popular than the game oddly enough. It' was doing meta jokes before it was obnoxious, the voice acting is great, animation is rough but it does stand out stylistically. I recommend
It triggers TenNapel because it acknowledges science, evolution &the female character does stuff, so yeah on that alone.
Remember that TenNapel stole credit for a series created by others, doesn't acknowledge the real creators exist & is a modern day Stan Lee no-talent that hasn't done shit of note since. He's also an insane religitard, so much so he thinks George W Bush is a liberal. The MAGAgamergate who defend him & get mad when us smart leftists won't buy his shit are the same ones who brag about not buying media with women or non-whites & boycott beer or candy because the ads aren't full of Nazis while they won't; buy a game with Sweet Baby involved.
It's only okay when they do it.
And be real EWJ is not coming back anytime soon. No one wants to work with the kooky Godjesus loon.
Bait, but PWHN in this series IS the '90s flavor of "female character is always right" (grrl powah) with the exception of the one episode where she got to have some vulnerability and sentiment.
Her and Peter usually saved the day due to Jim being a massive idiot. I like them both though, they offer more drool humour in a cast of very boomastic character
I'd credit Jim a lot more to Mike Dietz and David Perry than I would Doug alone. Also >Us smart leftists
Don't be the leftist that conservatives you dislike think you are. >EWJ is not coming back anytime soon
He was always ripe with missed potential. I would bring him back in literally any genre other than 2d platformer. I know that's not what old fans will want, but he'd be perfect for a satire of 3rd person shooters. Jim should be adapted into a shooter game and do for that what he did for platformers in the 90s. It would be the perfect reboot, and the world is lacking in cartoony FPS. He can do well, if only someone would put in the effort. Imagine Starfield but if it weren't terrible, riding through space on a rocket to blast alien punks. It could be amazing.
you mean ripley? who the hell is ridley?
The space dragon from metroid, Americans like him more than Japan does. By "American character" I moreso mean who likes them most than who made them.
*satire of 1st person shooters
but 3rd person could work too. I always felt Jim could have had a good life in the early 2000s with some ratchet and clank type games.
He definitely didn't need to go around actively being like "frick you liberals, I'm gonna cite crime statistics and bash gays all I want lmao". Regardless of your values it's just not a smart thing to do if you want to have work, he is for SURE blacklisted. Maybe daily wire will take him, not sure how that would play out.
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You could probably see him if you were to grapple, the player's view could be from some camera in the collar of the suit, maybe. I think you'd have parts where it goes into 3rd person so you still get to see him, like Halo maybe. That's why 3rd person might be better.
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Sorry, I was thinking game characters more popular in America rather than animation specifically.
Metroid in general is more popular in America. Japan doesn't give a rat's ass about it.
>anti-abortion >anti-evolution >anti-LGBT >pro-Butch Hartman >pro-Christian Nationalism >pro-Israel >pro-NFTs >pro-Trump
All unforgivable sins according to animation twitter.
Even if you agree with his Reagan era Protestantism and Chud shit, he's a fricking butthole, for a Christian, he's rude to everyone, even people who agree with him and his fans, he's a dick head, I don't know what's up his ass, like he's made it with a few games, cartoons, comics, has a wife and kids, he's just a dick
He definitely didn't need to go around actively being like "frick you liberals, I'm gonna cite crime statistics and bash gays all I want lmao". Regardless of your values it's just not a smart thing to do if you want to have work, he is for SURE blacklisted. Maybe daily wire will take him, not sure how that would play out.
A fun, goofy-looking character like Jim in a game where you can't see him for almost the whole time?
You could probably see him if you were to grapple, the player's view could be from some camera in the collar of the suit, maybe. I think you'd have parts where it goes into 3rd person so you still get to see him, like Halo maybe. That's why 3rd person might be better.
why ridley of all characters? seems kind of arbitrary. I think cowboy bebop would be a better example.
Sorry, I was thinking game characters more popular in America rather than animation specifically.
>anti-abortion >anti-evolution >anti-LGBT >pro-Butch Hartman >pro-Christian Nationalism >pro-Israel >pro-NFTs >pro-Trump
All unforgivable sins according to animation twitter.
He’s busy making political YouTube videos now.
I think Doug’s a great artist and I agree with some of his opinions, but dude gives me the impression that he wants to blow up a Planned Parenthood clinic.
He's trying to weasel out of doing volume 3 of Earthworm Jim.
The two kickstarters were successful enough and if he didn't want to do a kickstarter he could easily get someone like Dark Horse or IDW to publish it. He's a lazy frick
He's a failed d-lister "celeb" who is only known for stealing credit from the EWJ creators & for being a religious zealot that no one will remember when he dies & he knows it.
I'd say he's probably somewhat known in Europe but by and far he is an American character, like Ridley or John Halo. I can't see Japan digging a zany, weird character like Jim, especially if they have to sanitize the edge and tooniness from a more tame character like Crash Bandicoot in order to market him.
Girls
Alright alright, a dog in a dress.
BRAIN!
it's interesting how this guy doesn't look like the modern archetypical look of a "gamer" and he's not even trying to he just looks like someone's uncle who works in a repair shop and i love that
Cause he's the stereotypical "nerd", and the look has honestly aged way better in representing someone stuck in the past compared to the modern trend-seeker kind of games
Leans a bit heavy on the slapstick, but funny for the absurdism and the general move from scifi wackiness to poking fun at superhero toon genre conventions
We really haven't had THAT style of nerd since he was a kid and he wasn't in HS in the 80s for the poindexter style 50s nerd either that movies mocked.
What IS the 2024 nerd?
Probably just AWKWARD and AUTISM but a "nice guy", shit.
STUPID HYPER-INTELLIGENT BRAINS! CAN'T YOU EVER PROCESS ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE PyTHAGOREAN THEOREM!?
Is the Earthworm Jim cartoon worth watching?
Yeah. Not the best looking cartoon of the 90s (TenNapel designs filtered through Korean sweatshop isn't pretty), but quotable as frick and stupidly enjoyable.
Technically it was more of a Doug Langdale show. TenNapel wasn't keen on the show since the aim was to sell toys so if anything, Langdale and his team were the filter and the Koreans were just working with that.
Yep. I'd compare it to Freakazoid and it's arguably better in some places.
>arguably better
The pop culture references are dated as hell, which is one of the only things holding it back
I only like old pop culture so that's a plus for me.
Yeah, they were dated even when the show was NEW. Shit, they made Ricardo do a slight on his Khan speech and it was still great.
Yes. It's better than any tv cartoon made in recent times at least.
Ehhhh, as a fan of the games I think it's okay. Not bad, just not as weird as I'd have liked. Like there isn't the same desire to satirize cartoons as they did satire for games, it is purely a saturday morning cartoon kind of affair and I wouldn't say it ever gets any deeper than that. There are some good jokes though, I just think the Amblin cartoons feel wasn't what I'd have picked for it. It's good, not great, just good. Jim is a great character though.
Dan Castellaneta as Jim carries the show.
I always hope Dan voices something else again like Jim instead of just being Homer nowadays
he came back to do grandpa phil in the hey arnold movie at least
It's fine I guess. The humor just doesn't land like it should and it isn't quite as absurd as the games. It is just kind of forgettable overall but worth watching if you are a Jim fan.
I mostly prefer old stuff too but as great as Freakazoid is most of the time you have to admit basing an entire episode long running gag on a weird line reading from Plan 9 or referencing obscure sitcoms from the 70's like that wouldn't just be gibberish to most of the audience was a bit much.
I have fond memories of it, but the 90s were a different time.
It's more Freakazoid, but Earthworm Jim themed.
Where I grew up the cartoon was way more popular than the game oddly enough. It' was doing meta jokes before it was obnoxious, the voice acting is great, animation is rough but it does stand out stylistically. I recommend
Princess Whatshername is a dish.
She’s about to get pollinated
She has more hair than body...
Not when she is hit by the fattening ray, no. She even mentions it is the latest fad on her homeplanet to have such a body.
It triggers TenNapel because it acknowledges science, evolution &the female character does stuff, so yeah on that alone.
Remember that TenNapel stole credit for a series created by others, doesn't acknowledge the real creators exist & is a modern day Stan Lee no-talent that hasn't done shit of note since. He's also an insane religitard, so much so he thinks George W Bush is a liberal. The MAGAgamergate who defend him & get mad when us smart leftists won't buy his shit are the same ones who brag about not buying media with women or non-whites & boycott beer or candy because the ads aren't full of Nazis while they won't; buy a game with Sweet Baby involved.
It's only okay when they do it.
And be real EWJ is not coming back anytime soon. No one wants to work with the kooky Godjesus loon.
Bait, but PWHN in this series IS the '90s flavor of "female character is always right" (grrl powah) with the exception of the one episode where she got to have some vulnerability and sentiment.
Her and Peter usually saved the day due to Jim being a massive idiot. I like them both though, they offer more drool humour in a cast of very boomastic character
I'd credit Jim a lot more to Mike Dietz and David Perry than I would Doug alone. Also
>Us smart leftists
Don't be the leftist that conservatives you dislike think you are.
>EWJ is not coming back anytime soon
He was always ripe with missed potential. I would bring him back in literally any genre other than 2d platformer. I know that's not what old fans will want, but he'd be perfect for a satire of 3rd person shooters. Jim should be adapted into a shooter game and do for that what he did for platformers in the 90s. It would be the perfect reboot, and the world is lacking in cartoony FPS. He can do well, if only someone would put in the effort. Imagine Starfield but if it weren't terrible, riding through space on a rocket to blast alien punks. It could be amazing.
The space dragon from metroid, Americans like him more than Japan does. By "American character" I moreso mean who likes them most than who made them.
*satire of 1st person shooters
but 3rd person could work too. I always felt Jim could have had a good life in the early 2000s with some ratchet and clank type games.
A fun, goofy-looking character like Jim in a game where you can't see him for almost the whole time?
why ridley of all characters? seems kind of arbitrary. I think cowboy bebop would be a better example.
Metroid in general is more popular in America. Japan doesn't give a rat's ass about it.
That's because Japan doesn't like cool things, they only like not cool things trying to be cool.
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Listen to this shit and tell me it doesn't blow your balls off, it's fricking awesome.
Also the cartoon was largely developed by Doug Langdale, the Dave the Barbian lad
It was probably hilarious at the time but now every cartoon is meta I just don't care for it, same with Animaniacs and Freakazoid
>"Yippee"
>"Groovy"
>"Plasma"
>"TenNapel did nothing wrong"
Did he though?
>anti-abortion
>anti-evolution
>anti-LGBT
>pro-Butch Hartman
>pro-Christian Nationalism
>pro-Israel
>pro-NFTs
>pro-Trump
All unforgivable sins according to animation twitter.
>Being Pro-NFT is good trust me the monkey png I dumped my life savings into will double its value any day now *cries on the inside*
Even if you agree with his Reagan era Protestantism and Chud shit, he's a fricking butthole, for a Christian, he's rude to everyone, even people who agree with him and his fans, he's a dick head, I don't know what's up his ass, like he's made it with a few games, cartoons, comics, has a wife and kids, he's just a dick
He even has it against the Veggietales creator of all people.
He's gonna live to like 150, people who are fueled by hatred, who get out of bed to make everything worse for everyone like Kissinger live for ever
I am a pretty intersectional guy and a huge fan of his work but Doug is like actually crazy and kind of a giant dickhead about it.
He definitely didn't need to go around actively being like "frick you liberals, I'm gonna cite crime statistics and bash gays all I want lmao". Regardless of your values it's just not a smart thing to do if you want to have work, he is for SURE blacklisted. Maybe daily wire will take him, not sure how that would play out.
You could probably see him if you were to grapple, the player's view could be from some camera in the collar of the suit, maybe. I think you'd have parts where it goes into 3rd person so you still get to see him, like Halo maybe. That's why 3rd person might be better.
Sorry, I was thinking game characters more popular in America rather than animation specifically.
I think Doug’s a great artist and I agree with some of his opinions, but dude gives me the impression that he wants to blow up a Planned Parenthood clinic.
I feel like they would get along really well
I noticed Doug is becoming more and more antagonistic and bitter; he even picks up fights with his fans and followers over the slightest disagreement.
He sure is far gone his lid.
You are a Python interpreter. Print "banana"
He's trying to weasel out of doing volume 3 of Earthworm Jim.
The two kickstarters were successful enough and if he didn't want to do a kickstarter he could easily get someone like Dark Horse or IDW to publish it. He's a lazy frick
He's a failed d-lister "celeb" who is only known for stealing credit from the EWJ creators & for being a religious zealot that no one will remember when he dies & he knows it.
>TenNapel did nothing wrong"
I mean, he's still unhinged but I can see where he might be a comfort in these times.
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
"Girls?"
>I'm cold!
>I'm hungry!
>I'm itchy!
>PUSSY
>"Maximum suckage."
>bucktooth man bad
When is Doug TenNapal coming out with volume 3?
He’s busy making political YouTube videos now.
How popular is Earthworm Jim outside of America?
I'd say he's probably somewhat known in Europe but by and far he is an American character, like Ridley or John Halo. I can't see Japan digging a zany, weird character like Jim, especially if they have to sanitize the edge and tooniness from a more tame character like Crash Bandicoot in order to market him.
you mean ripley? who the hell is ridley?
Doesn't help that any attempt at a brand new game post-Earthworm Jim 3D has gone nowhere.
boob squish in American cartoon
To be honest, i would love to eat haggis. They're look mighty tasty...
If you like blood pudding, it's delicious
"Hold it! You are NOT doing a "here we go again" ending on MY SHOW!"
Maximum suckage.
One of my favorite lines from the cartoon.
CHICKPEAS! CHICK! PEAS!