What does co think of Carl Squared? I think it was a fun early 2000s show with a cool premise. Although realistically if anyone could just go online and get a clone for pocket change, why wasn't the world littered with clones and why would he have to keep it a secret? Also Canadian cartoon thread I guess.
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>Although realistically if anyone could just go online and get a clone for pocket change, why wasn't the world littered with clones and why would he have to keep it a secret?
Did you even watch the show man? It was a one-time thing where they needed a random test subject, it's not like they made cloning.com.
But in all seriousness, season 1 is excellent - at least by Canadian standards. The later ones are hit and miss, but some episodes are gold.
When was it shown that it was only a one-time deal? I watched it on tv as a kid and most have missed that episode and I am watching it now on youtube and haven't found that episode yet. More information would be appreciated. Thank you!
I mean it's kind of implied by the intros (both of them) but the main flashback to where it all began is in the season 1 finale Clone Come Home.
That depends on whether you like What's with Andy?-style humour.
I just watched that episode and nothing seemed to imply it was a one-time deal except for maybe the end of the episode (spoiler warning) where the people at the lab said if the clone came back to the lab it could compromise the there work. I don't know it seems a little too cryptic to me but I could be a nitpicking nerd. I appreciate the answer though. I am so happy there are other Carl Squared fans out there.
It's a pretty decent show. It's not a laugh-out-loud funny show. but it has some chill vibes and I enjoy the characters and the premise. I say start watching an episode and see how you feel about it.
Oh and if you want to see some more Canadian cartoon recommendations check out this post.
You think C2 ever banged Sky?
That question okay kissing is actually a plot point in the finale. I'm not joking.
Yeah, it ended on a love triangle
Now C2 does have Dog DNA so good odds of him having a dog dick
Does anyone have a list of Canadian cartoons worth checking out? I was looking trough the company behind total drama to see if they ever made similar things and you can find some hidden gems but there must be more that I'm just not aware.
Total Drama destroyed Canadian animation (well along with Cancon pretty much dying out but that came later). Shows like this one stood no chance against animated "reality TV", just like what happened with live action years before then. And that company's other productions aren't much better.
Actual recs besides the OP:
What's with Andy? - the OG Canadian cartoon comedy which officially inspired that one
Fred's Head - similar but for an older teen demo
Detentionaire - deep-lore mystery series but with a lot of cliche cliques
Mysticons - the second-best magical girl cartoon ever created (even more obscure than the 1st)
The latter two must be watched in 1080p btw, totally different experience from random SD rips.
I think you are being incredible melodramatic for attributing the destruction of canadian animation to total drama, but that doesn't mean I don't want to hear more about it.
So please, go on, I really want to know exactly why you think that's the case.
And I think Fred's Head and Detentionaire were at some point in my watch list but I dropped when starting cripping up to dozen of series. But I will check out the rest, when I say "like total drama" I mean not afraid of appealing to an older audience, but is my fault for not specifying.
Most of the industry saw TD's success and tried to copy it. The originality of the 2000s was largely gone (even with all its faults like often mediocre writing), replaced by the same reality-TV stereotypes over and over again in show after show. Even when animation later switched from Flash to CalArts, the shift was still there (until Canadian cartoons basically stopped being made and what's left of the industry pretty much went to 100% US contract work and imports).
Anyways if you're looking for older audience appeal all of these shows have some seriously adult jokes (far more than the average toon), but Fred's Head stands out as something that seems to have accidentally aired in the daytime because it was so obscure even the censors missed it.
>Most of the industry saw TD's success and tried to copy it.
I have no idea what the frick you're talking about
I really liked Weird Years, shame it's basically lost media now.
Don't leave us hanging, what's the best magical girl cartoon?
Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Not Canadian. I don't care where the creator's from, the show was a core CN production (at a time when CN didn't even exist in Canada).
These are American series with Canadian contract work, it's like calling most cartoons Korean because that's where the actual animation is done. (Except the last one, but we don't talk about the last one.)
These are Cancon. The days of Nelvana shit over-representing the industry are over
>I don't care where the creator's from, the show was a core CN production
EEE was produced in Canada. That's why the voice actors and writers are Canadian.
Netflix has you covered
You should check out, 6teen and Jacob Two Two. Both are lesser-known Canadian classics. 6teen has a similar art style to Total Drama but it's more laid back and about a bunch of friends who hang out in the world's biggest mall. It's pretty funny and wacky. It's intended for teenagers and adults.
Jacob Two-Two is a really good show but is intended more towards a younger audience but it is for all ages. It's based off of a Canadian children's book. It's about this unassuming kid with his quirky family and his weirdo friend named Gay Lord and his snarky french Canadian friend as they go to a crazy grade school run by insane people, including a morbidly obese principal named "Greedy Gutt" an evil teacher with purple skin and a janitor that is gross and holds people captive in the bowler room.
Oh, and there is also Flying Rino Junior High. It's not as good as the other two but still pretty decent. It's about a Junior Highschool with a Rino as a principal who constantly denies his Rinoness and insists it's a skin condition. No one even thinks he is a Rino he just preemptively and defensively ensures people "it's a skin condition, really". And the janitor is a spy and a pig and no one knows why. Anyways the villain of the show is a mad genius who is bitter about how embracing his junior high experience is so he lives in the school's basement. And with the aid of his magic computer, he terrorizes the students of this school. Oh, and he also has a talking rat who is his pet and only friend.
Oh and this is the last one. What's With Andy? It's a show about this kid named Andy Larken who is the King Of Pranks. He pranks his town every episode in new and inventive ways. Every episode ends with his pants falling down. It's a running joke. It's hard to describe why this show is so good. It just is. I would suggest checking out the theme song of each of these shows and maybe watching one full episode of one of these shows. Which ever one sounds good to you.
You know whats with andy was adapted from a book series right?
That's really cool but I had no idea. Is it worth reading? I only knew Jacob Two Two was a book because I think one of my teachers read it to us because the government is always trying to force us to consume Canadian content. Well not to an extreme degree but book selections sometimes skew that way and there is always a Canada section which always bothered me.
The books i would say are better.
The series had some OC and some adapted content. The one where he pretends to be dead to get out of school is from thd books.
Book ones i remember are
>andy pisses off his dad so much he's abandoned on the side of the road and gets a biker to help him get back
>andy seals the shower shut with caulk to see it fill up, ends up climbing through the ceiling and landing naked in front of his sister and ger friends
The book series iirc is andy griffiths Just series
>just joking
>just disgusting
You get the picture
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just!
>School curriculum prioritizes literature of national origin
>OMG ITS A CANCON CONSPIRACY!!!!!
I wonder if brit kids are as whiny for being force to read Harry Potter
I wonder if amerimutts are whiny for being forced to read at all
Are Brit kids even forced to read Harry Potter? Even so, at least those are good books. Go ahead and list some classic Canadian literature. Go on! I dare you!
The government is always forcing Canadian stuff on radio and tv and making us watch/listen to a certain percentage of Canadian stuff before we can get the good stuff (They even tried to force the internet to do the same thing with Youtube and Netflix. Although I think those bills got killed). It's a top-down approach to trying to spread Canadian culture that is cringe and not effective. They should be focusing on more of a bottom-up approach. I guess at the very least having some art being subsidized by the government helps but I think the whole system is ass-backward.
>google classic canadian literature
>Trans wizard harriet porber and the bad boy parasaurolophus
Im done
Heading out inna woods. Some skinwalker can deal with this 'society' shit.
Honestly, I was talking mad shit but then I found this list and I haven't read them but I have heard of them and they are apparently classics so I have to eat some humble pie. https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/canada-150/top-ten/
Speaking as a Canadian, our cartoons all suck. We import the good ones from France and the US.
HQ title card from wallpaper
I just remember they had weird face markings in the first few episodes. (yup, there's other things to fear besides collared noses)
The show was weird how they had the shiny faces in season one and then each season the characters wear different outfits. I mean I am glad they mixed it up but you don't see that all too often.
The shiny faces were only in a couple of episodes (1 and 3, not episode 2 for some reason).
The outfits only changed once, between seasons 1 and 2. And seemed to change the tone of the show with them in a direction I didn't like though sometimes it worked.
I haven't seen this since I was a kid. Is it any good to revisit?
>why wasn't it
You have to feed the clone you know.
I loved Di-Gata Defenders as a kid
Oh man, all those mid-2000s Canadian action cartoons. Skyland, Delilah & Julius, Class of the Titans, Spider Riders... so much fun even if the writing quality tended to be on the mediocre side.
You're giving me a nostalgia trip here, anon.
Skyland was the only CGI show I was willing to watch at the time because I found most of them horrendously ugly.
Okay I take it back, maybe some of them were okay.
>tfw thread makes me remember the canada/japan 'spider riders'
Fug
I swear this was a cartoon based on a Fox Kids live action movie about a kid that also clones himself but apparently it wasnt
It's one of the best bad cartoons I've ever seen. Carl is a horrible person down to his core, Skye has unrealistic expectations of everyone and just wants to force his way of life onto others, Jamie would frequently record Carl's pain and punishments and do nothing to help his supposed friend in need. Every character is so thoroughly unlikable that it's impossible to feel any sympathy for them. And every shitty thing that happens to them is what they deserve. Except C2. God bless him, that clone just wants to make his mom and dad and sister happy. But Carl won't have any of that shit.
What's more, while there are plenty of bad cartoons that are boring. But this one is never boring. There's always some bullshit happening that keeps the show moving. Any single good thing that could happen, Carl is seemingly determined to ruin. Even if everything goes exactly like he wants, he'll still find a reason to destroy it. The man cannot help but look a gift-horse in the mouth, and he cannot simply let sleeping dogs lie.
Also, Carl's mom is a psychiatrist, and she never seems to think the drastic personality shifts he conveys could at all be indicative of some kind of mental condition or anything. What a shitty shrink.
It's terrible through and through, and it is great to make fun of if you ever watch this kind of crap with friends. A buddy and I thoroughly enjoyed riffing this and was one of the first shows we ever made as a regular part of our stream nights.
Boring Teletoon sludge
Nice Y2K logo tho