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It was soulless enough for Disney to acquire, which says a lot about their "vision."
I'm glad that horrid "first" "movie" bombed so hard that its physical media release was reduced to a tv edit.
Sounds like even Disney themselves thought it was fricking BOOOOORIIIIIING!
Considering Disney likes to downplay and play safe with their movies. It makes sense
I actually loved Doug so much as a child because he was an awkward kid that didn't understand things trying to go through with his life, just like me at the time, but I couldn't put myself in any other similar cartoon character's shoes because they'd overcome things by being lucky or over the top, like having super powers. Doug being boring was exactly what made it worth watching or squeezing a message from as a kid.
Kingdom Hearts when?
He's a guaranteed shoe-in, because people will forget he even got added in the first place.
I now want a deathmatch of doug vs. x-men forget-me-knot
>deathmatch
Right now, I just want to forget that ever existed.
why the frick did they even bother getting doug? is it because it was one of nick's original shows and ended so they thought it would bring some traffic away from nick?
All it took was an Asthma Hound Chihuahua and an Eediot cat to completely BTFO all the other nicktoons.
Rugrats held its own against it, basically it was the middle ground
I can easily see why that had the most staying power, since it was Nick's safest option at the time.
However, if you want my honest opinion, Duckman was KC's peak.
>All it took was an Asthma Hound Chihuahua and an Eediot Cat to completely BTFO all the other nicktoons.
they pretty much all came out at the same time in a block. You're a stupid kid that wasn't there. It was a package. They were not in competition
"The Ren & Stimpy Show is an animated series that premiered on Nickelodeon on August 11, 1991, directly following the premieres of Doug and Rugrats,".
My bad, thanks for actually being there when it came out.
Ren and Stimpy was the most popular show out of the gate, but didn't last as long because of John K's antics.
Doug ran for longer and Rugrats eventually attained the network's highest ratings up until Spongebob
And for good reason, too. It's the whole reason why animation started to reach a higher bar on television.
All three shows were responsible. I'd even argue Doug had more of an influence than Ren and Stimpy.
In terms of slice of life shows that have surprisingly good music? I guess Doug has that going for it, I suppose.
To put it simply, Doug walked so several great shows could run. As much as you might find Doug boring, we might not have had Hey Arnold, Recess, and several others that still hold up today.
Huh, now I actually appreciate it more for it sparking the whole slice-of-life genre in western toons.
>To put it simply, Doug walked so several great shows could run. As much as you might find Doug boring, we might not have had Hey Arnold, Recess, and several others that still hold up today.
that just makes me hate doug more. Recess and Hey Arnold are the cream of the genre. Most of those slice of life cartoons were a step down from what came before.
>In terms of slice of life shows
The thing is, before Doug there were almost no slice of life TV cartoons starring kids younger than high school. Peanuts being the last major one and those were TV specials. After Doug, you get that whole wave of SoL shows about elementary/middle school kids. Hell that was most of Disney's late 90's line up. Which is exactly why they bought it.
Doug basically started the trend.
No wonder why Pepper Ann feels like it could be a genderbent Doug.
>>In terms of slice of life shows
>The thing is, before Doug there were almost no slice of life TV cartoons starring kids younger than high school. Peanuts being the last major one and those were TV specials. After Doug, you get that whole wave of SoL shows about elementary/middle school kids. Hell that was most of Disney's late 90's line up. Which is exactly why they bought it.
>Doug basically started the trend.
everyone that worked on it should probably be executed then.
Doug seems like the kind of shit parents would make their kids watch because they're too afraid of Ren and Stimpy.
I guess the test is, do you remember THE PLOT of any episode? Not scenes. We all remember SCENES.
I can half remember like twoish plots?
The parody animations were ironically far more memorable than anything that has ever canonically happened within the show.
This. The first and only thing that comes to mind is this "rap" video where Connie was cheeked the frick up.
fuggg dat mog
The flesh rots, Douglath
The episode where they go to the Beats concert is probably the one I remember most clearly, mainly because the Beats songs were consistently the best part of the show.
I'm pretty sure this is scientifically proven that key songs are what help us remember things best. (Which is why most people remember a chunk of P&F episodes, despite it being EXTREMELY repetitive)
Not to sound like a Cinemaphilentrarian, but even as I kid, I've always thought P&F was also extremely boring. (The meep episodes were the highlights, but only because they went outside the show's typical formula.)
Perhaps the repetition was the point, but it certainly felt a lot more ham-fisted than most other toons that have an established formula within their episodes.
every song in phineas and ferb was objectively shit, i don't care what anyone else says
>>Not to sound like a Cinemaphilentrarian, but even as I kid, I've always thought P&F was also extremely boring.
I think it's a bad sign when your 11 minute cartoon shorts need a B story about a barely related platypus and mad scientist. And some episodes even had C stories.
The Star Wars shit was just AWFUL, not even going to sugarcoat it.
I couldn't get through it. It was just constant
>WOW REFERENCE!!
George Lucas should've retired.
It's not just that but they were actually good, like lyrics aside they sounded like something you could have heard on the radio at the time.
Makes me wish the P&F crew could take notes, because the songs on that series were some of the worst pop-tier shit ever.
>GICCHI GICCHI SHUT THE FRICK UP!
Meanwhile, Candace gets sent to an institution whilst Phineas and Ferb continue on their quest for world domination.
Candace did nothing wrong.
Don't you get it? Phineas and Ferb invented mind control in the form of song. That's why that moronic gicchi gicchi goo goo shit caught on.
Fish Hooks slander was a P&F psyop the whole time, I KNEW IT!
Only homosexuals slander Fish Hooks, it has the funny reddit man.
>Those fricking jangly REM-ass guitars
The thing I remember most about that episode is that Roger is harassing them on their porch. Then the scene changes to inside Skeeter's room and Roger is in there with them for no reason. They didn't even, like, make a truce or anything. Roger just spends the entire time standing around in Skeeter's room talking shit about them.
It was one of the most unintentionally hilarious things in the series.
I can remember a few, but the main one was Doug trying to get a birthday present for Patty and he wanted to get her a beetball, but couldn't so he made a towel rack. Eventually at the party, everyone ended up getting Patty a beetball and she thought Doug had constructed a rack for all the balls.
Also the one about kites.
I remember when Doug lost his journal and went around town asking everyone if they had seen it. There was a running joke throughout the episode of people calling his journal a diary, which annoyed him, and he kept correcting them. One scene I remember specifically is him walking up to the speaker of a fast door drive-thru and asking them if they had seen his journal, and the person on the other end said they hadn't seen his diary, and he screams back at the speaker, "Journal!"
>There was a running joke throughout the episode of people calling his journal a diary, which annoyed him, and he kept correcting them.
I see Jeff Kinney took from Doug's playbook, eh?
Weirdly enough the pilot calls it a diary. I wonder if that was a focus group thing that thought diary was too girly.
The one about the magazine contest that turned out to be a scam.
Some episodes I remember vividly.
I unironically cannot remember a single episode of Doug, even though I know I watched it as a kid. It was like filler I sat through to get to better shit so I didn't pay much attention to it.
>Viddi! Viddi! Vicci!
I remember when Doug got body image issues because he gained a few pounds after a trip to grandmas. He then gets invited to a class pool party, but panics about being seen at fat. So he starts a harsh diet and exercise regimen. But when the date came around he still felt chubby, and planed to make up an excuse to not swim
Doug gets to the party and all of his classmates are refusing to take their shirt off and get in the pool because they all feel insecure about their body image for various reasons. He thinks they're being foolish, which makes him realize that they're too focused on themselves to care about him having a gut.
So he takes off his shirt and jumps in the pool, and then so does everyone else
Overall I though it was a pretty good lesson. Jim Jenkins was a boomer that tried to have Doug lean something with each episode, only of which some applied to modern kids
The problem is that while most 6th graders could related to Doug- they didn't want to. He was lame and insecure like they were, and they only wanted fantastical cartoons with aspirational characters
>The problem is that while most 6th graders could related to Doug- they didn't want to. He was lame and insecure like they were, and they only wanted fantastical cartoons with aspirational characters
That's probably why there's so much animosity over Doug -he's painfully real and relatable.
That said the show did do well enough it seems.But following slice of life shows would go for less anxious protagonists.
I literally only remember the zit episode.
Damn. I think I remember Pelswick better.
I remember when Roger entrusted his cat to Doug for a week. The cat makes Doug's life a living hell, eats a bunch of food and then develops stomach pains. He gets the cat to a vet on his bike, Roger and his mom get the news and show up ready to strangle Doug until it's revealed that his cat was pregnant the whole time
It was memorable because it somewhat humanized Roger, and over the course of the series it's revealed that he's insecure trailer trash. He's less of a bully by the end of the Nick run, but then the Disney version resets his character by making him an overnight millionaire. So he goes back to being an unsympathetic bully
Roger was never a true bully. He was just some annoying butthole that nobody liked. Hell, no one was really afraid of him. Him and Doug were basically frenemies.
He was mostly bluster, Doug was constantly having terrifying fantasies about what Roger might do to him.
Right, and then Roger leaves a message at his house saying he found it. Doug panics because obviously Roger read his journal to everyone. They meet, Roger returns it and admits he didn't read it, Doug is stunned and thanks him in a dramatic speech, and Roger yells about how his handwriting is illegible
Honestly Doug always making Roger the villain in his comic books makes him look more like the butthole.
makes him look a lot like chris chan, considering how autistic doug was
His weird comics with a demonized Roger, he didn't put them online or spread them around. So it's not a Chrischan situation, he knew to keep his silly stuff private.
well doug started airing in like 1991 so the internet was barely a thing, and definitely not something kids would use
I think there was an episode where he was obsessed with getting the high score to an arcade game.
We had a couple of moments like that. Yours sounds like the one mentioned here
He gets so fixated on getting that high score, that he accidentally winds up spending the money he had saved for getting Patty's beetball.
There's also Doug's Lost Weekend, where he becomes so addicted to playing a space shoot-em-up home console game that he winds up spacing on a report he has to do for class.
A good chunk of them.
Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street
>All of Doug's friends are ranting and singing praises about a new terrifying sci-fi/horror movie called The Abnormal.
>Doug decides to go to see the movie, only to cover his eyes at the moment the titular monster appears on-screen for the first time.
>Doug then finds himself suffering from a variety of nightmares as a result
>One nightmare has him riding bikes with Skeeter, only for the bikes to change into the Abnormal, leaving Doug to watch helplessly as Skeeter swerves off a cliff to his death.
>Another nightmare has Doug attacked by the Abnormal, disguised as Porkchop (ex. "HERE'S PORKCHOP")
>All the while, he's too ashamed to admit the nightmares to anyone, especially his classmates.
>Eventually, time passes and The Abnormal is set to leave theaters.
>Realizing this might be his last chance, he goes to see the movie and, with Porkchop's help, is able to finally see the monster
>Turns out the monster is some guy in a suit so poorly made, you can even see the zipper on its back.
>The next day, Doug joins in with his thoughts on what he saw, only for his classmates to each admit that they all shielded their eyes during the big reveal
Yes. Although the shows ending with a diary entry felt like Doogie Houser MD and it was weird that Doug and Porkchop were first seen as the mascots of the USA Network (Where I thought Doug was an adult) but it wasn't the worst piece of shit ever. I'd rather watch Doug than Rocket Power or Chalkzone, for example.
I'm sure there was an afarid to dance ep.
One involved Patty and Doug being afarid to go out with each other on friendship date.
I think disney ep centered around the beats breaking up.
Remember Quail Man and Silver Skeet. But not a single thing they were involved in for the larger plot.
Think Disney ep centered around the green chick feeling fat.
O yea, the ep where they were trying to get that video game console and doug went slave driver on his friends. Ends up not buying it and instead taking everyone to an amusement park.
Damn only show I remember less of is Bobby's World.
I remember Bobby's World being based off an edgy comedian, but that's about it.
>Think Disney ep centered around the green chick feeling fat.
Yeah, the green chick (Connie) ended up slimming down considerable in the time gap between the Nick and Disney episodes
Classic Disney and their eating disorders.
The Patti fat episode is probably the most realistic episode they've done, and they didn't shy away from what eating disorders could do to you in the long term.
I wonder if they were fighting for more episodes like those, but only managed to do that one for whatever reason. Them going from elementary school to middle school in the Disney version is an excuse enough to dive into deeper topics.
Disney or not, I always appreciate when niche subjects are tackled in a meaningful manner.
>Damn only show I remember less of is Bobby's World.
the only thing I remember about bobby's world is wanting to frick the mom and sister.
There's some event about to take place where people fly kites. Doug's dad helps him make one but it's really plain and everyone else's are better. He attaches some extra fins to his and paints it and it doesn't work. His dad has a bunch of lame phrases like "a bright kite stays in sight" that all prove accurate. The reveal is the kite is actually a fighter kite and way better than everyone else's at doing kite things. Doug gains respect for his father and all the neighborhood kids want advice from his dad.
That's the only one I can really remember.
Doug Door to Door
>Doug is tasked with selling candy bars for his youth group's booster sale
>No one is buying because, and I quote: "They taste like cement!"
>Meanwhile, Roger is making record sales somehow
>Turns out he's tricking people by feeding them samples of a different chocolate bar he's trying to pass off as Bluffscout Booster Bars.
>Doug is encouraged to try out this trick on his next customer, confectionary magnate Mr. Swirly, but gives Swirly a real sample when his guilt gets the better of him.
>"This stuff tastes like cement. Who makes this junk? ...Oh my goodness! I MAKE this junk!"
>Together, they learn that cement from a nearby construction site is getting into the chocolate supply used to make the bars.
>Doug is credited for the save, and the scouts start making big bucks selling the new and improved booster bars, while Roger is left having to refund all the people he conned.
This one always stuck with me because of the candy bars that I and several others had to sell all the way back in elementary. Imagine my surprise when I learn those guys are still in business, and have improved the recipe and variety to an extent.
That's weird because that's the exact episode I remember the most clearly too. I swear the reran that one particularly often for some reason.
, they learn that cement from a nearby construction site is getting into the chocolate supply used to make the bars.
That seems like it would prove.... fatal.
The funny thing is that it isn't a nearby contrsution site...there is LTERALLY a cement truck on the factory floor dumping cement onto the assembly line for some reason. Also supposedly(from characters mentioning it in the episode) the bars have been known to taste terrible for awhile, yet Mr. Swirly wasn't aware of the bad taste in his candy bars OR the big cement truck in his factoy. e_e
The dance episode that was like the pilot and things were kind of off
Doug's new shoes episode with the basketball player that still wears his old shoes
Porkchop biting Bebe and almost getting euthanized
YOU BROKE MY GRILL
Doug wrecks Patti's childhood home
Silver Skeeter
The graduation episode where Doug is trying to find his principle Mr.Butt-savage(this became a meme for a while in Highschool in my class when )
The one post-graduation segment about a roadtrip which is kind of similar to a Pete and Pete episode with a similar premise.
Haven't seen an episode in like 20 years(age 31 now) but those stick out.
>Porchop biting Bebe and almost getting euthanized
That was some Christmas episode.
Yep.
It stuck with me so hard because my mom put down my dad's dog during the divorce; dog didn't deserve it, she just wanted my dad to go crazy or something.
I've only seen him cry like 5 times in my life, always from the death of a loved one.
>The one post-graduation segment about a roadtrip
The atmosphere in this one was really odd to me, don't know how to describe it. Like I remember something about the art being really surreal and Judy going to visit the grave of someone (or was it a mock grave for a concept?) and the whole thing feeling oddly not Doug-like.
They probably were trying to make it truly feel like a final episode.
>Captcha: PH0RN
Doug makes a pizza together with Patty after they're paired up for a cooking project. Doug tries to make the pizza better, spills banana pudding on the pizza by accident, thinks it's ruined. Turns out everybody loves banana pudding on pizza, it turns out well.
Doug is trying to make a monster movie. Ends up filming the mayor's truck advertising his campaign. The mayor is shooting papers and ads all over the place, polluting and fricking with the local wildlife. Doug shows his film, mayor realizes the errors of his ways and stops.
Doug is selling chocolate bars for beet scouts. Nobody wants to buy them because they taste like cement (Roger resorts to cheating, selling alternative chocolate bars). They go to the chocolate bar factory, turns out there is actually cement getting mixed in with the chocolate. They fix it and it's good.
Doug helps his sister Judy get over her fear of learning how to drive. She plays a driving video game to practice.
Doug kicks a football good by accident and is brought onto the football team. Turns out he really isn't that good and his shoe actually flew off. But despite being a fraud, he tricks the dumb star player of the opposing team and wins the game for his school.
Egged on by Roger and others, Doug shows off throwing bricks at a old house, trying to impress Patty. Patty is furious. Doug doesn't know why. Turns out that was Patty's old house. They make up eventually after Doug learns the truth.
Doug's art class work is ruined by Porkchop running all over it. The art teacher thinks he's brilliant. Tries to show it off when the big shot artist/critic comes to visit. The artist doesn't care about Doug's work, is impressed by Patty's painting. Everybody think's it's a mountain except it's actually her grandma.
Doug gets obsessed with a space shooter game. He plays it all day and keeps procrastinating on his essay. He panics when he thinks he missed the deadline, but he didn't.
>Doug gets obsessed with a space shooter game. He plays it all day and keeps procrastinating on his essay. He panics when he thinks he missed the deadline, but he didn't.
I remember a few episodes were like this. Doug wasn't a smart guy and had trouble with grades. Getting lost in video games made it even worse. I found this part of Doug to be relatable.
>Doug makes a pizza together with Patty after they're paired up for a cooking project. Doug tries to make the pizza better, spills banana pudding on the pizza by accident, thinks it's ruined. Turns out everybody loves banana pudding on pizza, it turns out well.
That was the one I remember as well. Roger made the pudding and bumped into Doug and Patti while they were carrying the pizza.
Doug is making his Quail-Man comic. He lets Skeeter work on it with him. Conflict comes when Skeeter insists on his character, The Silver Skeet, has many many powers.
It was Silver Skeeter apparently, not Skeet. I always remember that episode because my older brother made a comic as a 6th grader. A friend of his insisted on having a character based on himself in the comic, and wanted it to be basically Goro from Mortal Kombat but with a ton of extra powers. My brother hated it.
This becomes funnie-er in one of the Disney episodes when Doug does the same thing when introducing Patti into the Quailman setting.
>Doug and Patti sitting in a tree
Patti asks Doug out and everybody is giving him shit about it, also he cant figure out if Patti is into him or just wants to watch a movie.
I will always remember the ending, after lefting Patti at home (and almost kissing her) all the guys fricking with Doug before just jump him out of nowhere and start asking him how to get themselves some pussy. 12 years old me found it hilarious
Doug wants to get patti a birthday present, and instead blows his money on arcade games. determined to give her something, he attempts to make her a shelf, but fricks it up, luckily its just the right size ot hold her beetballs.
Why od i remember the frickign beetballs
This show was obsessed with beats for some reason.
I remember the sneech brothers episode. everyone thought their dad was a mad scientist and I believe they keep trying to sneak into their house to see if its true. I think they also thought the brothers were clones or something.
there was also the episode where they're throwing rocks and doug accidentally destroys patti's old house. then she got over it when she realized she was just holding on to old memories and forgave doug.
The plot was usually just Doug is anxious about [blank] and going around worrying or trying to fix it, then finding out at the end he was just being a huge homosexual.
listen
That tune is nostalgic.
i don't remember ANY doug from my childhood but i remember the pilots to spongebob and samurai jack kek
Doug gets the title of mayor for the day and the ice cream factory is having a meltdown so Doug has them release chocolate chips into the fan. I remember it because the mayor was hilarious to me as a kid.
"Vote for me!"
has futuristic video phone link to Mr. Swirly and probably numerous other people
else in town uses normal phones like plebs
the Penis Inspection Day episode
Is there a particular reason you're responding to yourself about Phineas and Ferb in a fricking Doug thread? You know we can see the thread isn't bumping.
A mix of Boredom and Loneliness. (Mostly boredom.)
Also because it's technically a boring cartoon thread, and I personally thought P&F was boring.
Well at least you admit it, carry on then.
Might I add Craig of Shit Creek to the boring list? I remember nothing of note from that series.
Come to think of it, are there any non-dicky related reasons as to why I should give a single frick about Craig or his stupid Creek?
He who uses the word "hype" should have the mouth carved with a knife until he looks like s0ijak.
Sadly "hype" is part of our vernacular, so it's something you'll sadly have to "get used to."
Doug wasn't the most exciting show obviously, but it was comfy and nice to have on as a kid. Entertaining enough, I remember it fondly.
As long as it's more memorable than Craig of Shit Creek, I'm sold.
Seriously, who thought that townie episodes should be their own show?
The same people who thought that SU should have townie episodes to begin with.
Everybody remember The Beets, Mr. Dink (very expensive), Skeeter and his noises, Roger Klotz, and so on. Maybe being one of the Nicktoons helped with the memorability, but I think Doug is the more memorable show by far. Granted I've never seen much of Craig.
I saw it getting relentless reruns alongside TTG and Gumball, and it felt like I was getting the injection.
I remember They Might Be Giants, but solely because of Mickey, Oblongs, and Tiny Toons.
Also don't forget that Doug was the focus of a series of surreal internet memes in the late 00s to early 10s, some of which even carry on to this day. Shit Mr. Dink's had a minor revival in recent years with shit like that Vinesauce rotten womb joke. Say what you want about the show but it's over 30 years later and people still clearly remember it.
Reminds me of the post-ironic parodies that Dilbert had. Classic stuff, indeed.
Thanks for bringing me back to why I went on the internet in the first place, to find weird shit.
for me it was dougvangelion
If anything I've found the obsessive Doug hate kinda weird. Been happening since the 2000's at this point. Calling him a cuck or autistic. He's , what 12? and the awkwardness is played up because it's a cartoon.
I'm just a biased r&s gay, so I happen to only like what I find "personally appealing."
You're probably getting pretty old, huh?
Nope, I'm 20. (To most people's shock.)
Doug is why there's an anti slice of life sentiment.
Arthur and Doug are the same exact fricking shows
in fact of course
I had no idea who Arthur was at the time this episode aired. Must had meant I was getting to old to watch cartoons.
Doug actually made fun of Arthur in an episode: there was some kind of flashback where Doug remembers "his old classmates Buster and Arthur" and how annoying they were. They looked like human versions of the Arthur characters
I'm sorry but it's comfy as frick. Might be my nostalgia but the majority of the series before Disney bought it had a lot of memorable and heart felt moments. Disney's Doug maybe be objectively funnier, but Nick Doug felt more like a teen drama than a comedy. It was a really nice slice of life show which was lacking on TV targeted for young viewers. It wasn't Peanuts, but it was still comfy.
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Still gives me a good kek.
>Billy West
I'm watching now.
Doug was pretty lame, but they had some memorable music
look what they took from us
Amazing figure for a sixth grader
Doug and Rugrats were the appetizer to whet your appetite while you waited for Ren & Stimpy to come on every Sunday morning.
Pretty much. I liked them a lot but R&S was on another level.
>this shit has 6 seasons
Why? Because it's a comfy cartoon for Tumblr users to watch while they get high?
Keep crying, homosexual.
Found the tumblr tard
VERY EXPENSIVE
HELLO DOUGLATH
HOO HUAH HAH HAH
WHEN I PULLED PORKCHOP OUT OF THAT ROTTEN WOMB
>getting hyped
Anyone care to explain this? Is a show hype because other morons are hype
"Hyped" means "excited". For example, when you're a young kid, you get excited because Rugrats or Spongebob is coming on. Doug was a "well, it's on so I guess I'll watch it" kind of show.