>Last Adventure is the highest rated Ducktales episode
That's unironically the worst episode of the entire series, the fricking clone twist was so bad
Should have been Let's Get Dangerous
I don’t know if I’d rank it the worst episode in the series, because a lot of Season 3 episodes (and the bottom half of Season 2) are pretty bad. Personally, I think the show’s peak was “The Duck Knight Returns.” Everything fell apart after that.
It wasnt but this isnt a score decided by people with standards, its something given by people who like the show and dont put much critical thought into it.
>Last Adventure is the highest rated Ducktales episode
That's unironically the worst episode of the entire series, the fricking clone twist was so bad
Should have been Let's Get Dangerous
Ducktales got the spot for being the last episode. Same way people rate the Avatar finale super high despite the turtle and back tingle bullshit that are way worse than the kino found on mid S1 and S2 episodes
By the way when I say mid I don’t mean "mediocre" like the kids say these days, I mean the actual middle episodes between seasons. I have to clarify that.
True Colors gets by entirely on the shocker of a little girl getting stabbed, which has all the consequences of her being clubbed over the head and dragged away cartoonishly, the rest of the episode is hilariously bad but everyone seems to forget that
>whoops I dropped my monster evil mural that I use for my magnum betrayal plan
for amphibia its definetly the sasha and grimes episode were they fight a gigand monster to get the mguffin, there are plenty of others too
owl house is mostly lukewarm but the fight between eda and her sister was fricking amazing, also the introduction of the golden guard was great
i havent watched gravity falls in a long while but sure the reveal of stanford was up there, maybe its the best
there was nothing specially good about the ducktales finale
for amphibia its definetly the sasha and grimes episode were they fight a gigand monster to get the mguffin, there are plenty of others too
owl house is mostly lukewarm but the fight between eda and her sister was fricking amazing, also the introduction of the golden guard was great
i havent watched gravity falls in a long while but sure the reveal of stanford was up there, maybe its the best
there was nothing specially good about the ducktales finale
True Colors had a lot of high moments, but Reunion is still the most perfect episode. Absolute 10/10 kino.
Back when we were still ignorant on where the show would go. A better time
Star Vs is shit but I wouldn't consider this indicative of a good show, that just means it has more fanboys who'll go to IMDB and 10/10 something without critical thought
>If your highest rated episode out of four seasons is only 9.3, you're not a very good show.
Honestly, if your highest rated episode is anywhere below 9.7 you have failed and your show is complete garbage.
That episode of The Flinstones where Betty and Wilma hike up their skirts, press their bare asses into the camera, and just rip ass for 22 straight minutes. Really taught me a lot about cinematography.
Watching the finale of Monkie Kid live was one of the greatest moments I've had with a cartoon, the fight scenes, the fluid animation, the call backs. Quality flying bark kino.
>Amphibia
"Reunion." Everything climaxed the right way in this episode, thematically and emotionally. >Gravity Falls
"The Inconveniencing" and "Double Dipper." Both episodes strike me as very cinematic in ways I had not seen in modern cartoons until then. >Phineas and Ferb
"Summer Belongs To You." It's the most ambitious episode outside of the movie. >Ghost and Molly McGee
"Talent Show." No particular reason, it's a funny show overall and that was really funny. >Big City Greens
"Elevator Action." This episode was clearly very real for somebody on the show.
Not on the list, but worth mentioning: >Clarence
"Dream Boat," "Pretty Great Day With A Girl," "Mystery Girl." A show with too many memorable episodes to list, but those are my favorites. >Amazing World of Gumball
"The Party." A lot of wonderful and understated character moments.
>could you elaborate?
I'll try my best. It's not any particular thing, but the totality of it. In "The Inconveniencing," I have an unnatural love for the scene early on where Dipper and Mabel meet Wendy's friends and they all get in the car. The way it cuts between the characters during their conversation rather than showing them all on screen. The number of shots used and accompanying backgrounds. Camera angles that reflect Dipper's emotion or how he feels in relation to other characters like Robbie. The way the camera pans up and the music kicks in when Thompson starts to drive off, as if they're beginning this adventure into a bigger world. It's not that these things were special, but these are decisions that cartoons don't normally make. They don't even consider it. That sequence was very film-like to me.
If you can, go back and watch that scene and compare it to the average comedy cartoon that almost never strays from stage view, never points the camera up or down, or uses a few face closeups at best.
it would have been better if belos dodn't suddenly turned into a moron upon meeting luz
ruled a foregin to him wild world for 400 years but got confused and tricked by a mentally ill teen
King's Tide has the same narrative impact as True Colors without the fakeout death but with higher stakes (Day of Unity spell), a better immediate Earth follow-up, and a better solution that had actual setup (saiyan powerup vs betrayed Collector).
Also all the foreshadowing lessens the impact if you followed and theorized along.
>without the fakeout death
Belos's death was pretty much just that. Watch him come back next season and helping the kids fight the Collector because he's sorry for what he did to Hunter.
The difference is that Matt's intention was for the fakeout to not be revealed until S3 and Disney forced him to include the S3 intro, which shows Marcy is alive, in the credits of True Colors, whereas Belos' fakeout is incorporated into the episode and has a much better reveal
In season 2 yes (each season has 26 episodes), it goes through the entire alphabet in perfect order and every word used is highly relevant to the episode.
Funnily enough another show on the same network tried a similar approach but without the order or even including every episode, yet still ended up having to reuse letters.
I can't even think of them in terms of individual episodes anymore. I can definitely say which SEASONS were good, but I can't even remember which episodes were which.
>That's just how it is with serialized shows
No, that's how it is with serialized "shows" that are essentially movies with a lot of useless footage tacked on to fill runtime.
A high-quality serialized show has great writing for both the overall arcs AND the episodic stories, so both are well-remembered.
Maybe not the best episode I've ever seen but Down & Out in Duckburg stands out to me as the perfect episode of the original Ducktales.
To refresh, the plot of the episode is that Scrooge loses his entire fortune because an ancestor of his failed to deliver a barrel of marbles and refused to give up his golden watch as collateral, the same golden watch would later be used by Scrooge to buy his claim in the klondike, meaning his entire fortune rightfully belongs to the descendant of the original contract holder. Yes that would never hold up in court but it's a kid's cartoon for fricks sake
So how does Scrooge get his fortune back? He actually finishes the delivery, I feel like in another cartoon they'd get around something like this by finding a loophole or just outing the whole affair as a scam. It's ridiculous idea, diving for a barrel of marbles that was lost in treacherous waters over a hundred years ago, but it captures Scrooge's character perfectly, he's an honest businessman who beats cheaters by doing things the right way.
It's also just a really fun episode, it's got some great snappy dialogue, each character gets a chance to shine except webby, which is honestly preferrable and a satisfying conclusion with the villain being forced into an honest job after failing to scam scrooge out of his money.
It’s stupid shit copying elements from superior stories like the rest of the series. The Ducktales ep has the clone twist which is uber moronic, but used the overall cast way better than owl house did.
True Colors and NWHS are on a whole other ballpark to the other two it’s not even funny.
True Colors gets by entirely on the shocker of a little girl getting stabbed, which has all the consequences of her being clubbed over the head and dragged away cartoonishly, the rest of the episode is hilariously bad but everyone seems to forget that
>whoops I dropped my monster evil mural that I use for my magnum betrayal plan
and NWHS had the weakest and dumbest setup I ever saw in my life and every character ignores the fact Ford spent years in the multiverse or whatever and doesn't ask him shit about what he saw so that was an asspull too
This might not be objectively the best episode of any cartoon, but it came out about a year after my grandmother developed severe Alzheimer's disease, so it hit me really hard.
>Last Adventure is the highest rated Ducktales episode
That's unironically the worst episode of the entire series, the fricking clone twist was so bad
Should have been Let's Get Dangerous
I don’t know if I’d rank it the worst episode in the series, because a lot of Season 3 episodes (and the bottom half of Season 2) are pretty bad. Personally, I think the show’s peak was “The Duck Knight Returns.” Everything fell apart after that.
True Colors was not that good, holy frick.
t. seething yuritard
oh wait, I thought you typed The Hardest Thing, True Colors is still kino
It wasnt but this isnt a score decided by people with standards, its something given by people who like the show and dont put much critical thought into it.
Compared to Ducktales and Owl House, yes it was
Ducktales got the spot for being the last episode. Same way people rate the Avatar finale super high despite the turtle and back tingle bullshit that are way worse than the kino found on mid S1 and S2 episodes
By the way when I say mid I don’t mean "mediocre" like the kids say these days, I mean the actual middle episodes between seasons. I have to clarify that.
True Colors gets by entirely on the shocker of a little girl getting stabbed, which has all the consequences of her being clubbed over the head and dragged away cartoonishly, the rest of the episode is hilariously bad but everyone seems to forget that
>whoops I dropped my monster evil mural that I use for my magnum betrayal plan
not even the best episode in each series
What are they?
for amphibia its definetly the sasha and grimes episode were they fight a gigand monster to get the mguffin, there are plenty of others too
owl house is mostly lukewarm but the fight between eda and her sister was fricking amazing, also the introduction of the golden guard was great
i havent watched gravity falls in a long while but sure the reveal of stanford was up there, maybe its the best
there was nothing specially good about the ducktales finale
True Colors had a lot of high moments, but Reunion is still the most perfect episode. Absolute 10/10 kino.
Back when we were still ignorant on where the show would go. A better time
Bojack Horseman s4e11
Bojack had some amazing episodes. But "the view from half way down" is sadly the best.
Here's part 2. If your highest rated episode out of four seasons is only 9.3, you're not a very good show.
Star Vs is shit but I wouldn't consider this indicative of a good show, that just means it has more fanboys who'll go to IMDB and 10/10 something without critical thought
>normie ratings
who the frick cares
I think Molly McGee is the only one of these that isn’t either a season or mid season finale.
Honestly that one might as well have been a mid-season finale. It was a two-parter and everything.
>If your highest rated episode out of four seasons is only 9.3, you're not a very good show.
Honestly, if your highest rated episode is anywhere below 9.7 you have failed and your show is complete garbage.
Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together or Night of the pharmacist are the best episodes
i don't even remember last day of summer
I hate how the "highest rated" are all emotional and shit. I don't really see that as the reason I watch a comedy show.
Why are they only from Disney?
>Disney Animation Programs
Ah alright. Guess I'm just moronic
NMM is the best episode of Gravity falls
Maybe when you first watch it and don't know that it doesn't lead anywhere.
It's good for itself, so I don't mind
Don't most episodes standalone or add little to the story?
Based and correct
For me, it's A Tale of Two Stans
This shit still makes me laugh and I'm 32
true colors is way too high, i personally would dock it down to 8.8 solely because of that corny super saiyan shit
True Colors is good initially but pretty bad retroactively
The fact that they have the powers just because was pretty lane.
the Duckman one where every time he makes a choice, a weird future version of him appears to tell him not to do it
That episode of The Flinstones where Betty and Wilma hike up their skirts, press their bare asses into the camera, and just rip ass for 22 straight minutes. Really taught me a lot about cinematography.
I remember that episode, that's what got me banned from watching Flintstones.
Perfect Hair Forever Episode Four, Happy Suck Day.
You don't understand.
Watching the finale of Monkie Kid live was one of the greatest moments I've had with a cartoon, the fight scenes, the fluid animation, the call backs. Quality flying bark kino.
>Amphibia
"Reunion." Everything climaxed the right way in this episode, thematically and emotionally.
>Gravity Falls
"The Inconveniencing" and "Double Dipper." Both episodes strike me as very cinematic in ways I had not seen in modern cartoons until then.
>Phineas and Ferb
"Summer Belongs To You." It's the most ambitious episode outside of the movie.
>Ghost and Molly McGee
"Talent Show." No particular reason, it's a funny show overall and that was really funny.
>Big City Greens
"Elevator Action." This episode was clearly very real for somebody on the show.
Not on the list, but worth mentioning:
>Clarence
"Dream Boat," "Pretty Great Day With A Girl," "Mystery Girl." A show with too many memorable episodes to list, but those are my favorites.
>Amazing World of Gumball
"The Party." A lot of wonderful and understated character moments.
>Both episodes strike me as very cinematic in ways I had not seen in modern cartoons until then.
That's an interesting approach, could you elaborate?
>could you elaborate?
I'll try my best. It's not any particular thing, but the totality of it. In "The Inconveniencing," I have an unnatural love for the scene early on where Dipper and Mabel meet Wendy's friends and they all get in the car. The way it cuts between the characters during their conversation rather than showing them all on screen. The number of shots used and accompanying backgrounds. Camera angles that reflect Dipper's emotion or how he feels in relation to other characters like Robbie. The way the camera pans up and the music kicks in when Thompson starts to drive off, as if they're beginning this adventure into a bigger world. It's not that these things were special, but these are decisions that cartoons don't normally make. They don't even consider it. That sequence was very film-like to me.
If you can, go back and watch that scene and compare it to the average comedy cartoon that almost never strays from stage view, never points the camera up or down, or uses a few face closeups at best.
Pretty neat observation, thanks for sharing anon.
Don't reply to Cinematic Anon
King's Tide felt flat imho.
Why’s that?
it would have been better if belos dodn't suddenly turned into a moron upon meeting luz
ruled a foregin to him wild world for 400 years but got confused and tricked by a mentally ill teen
King's Tide has the same narrative impact as True Colors without the fakeout death but with higher stakes (Day of Unity spell), a better immediate Earth follow-up, and a better solution that had actual setup (saiyan powerup vs betrayed Collector).
Also all the foreshadowing lessens the impact if you followed and theorized along.
>Set up is bad, you guise.
>*epic finger swipe*
>without the fakeout death
Belos's death was pretty much just that. Watch him come back next season and helping the kids fight the Collector because he's sorry for what he did to Hunter.
he's more likely to somehow take the villain spot again after collector is down
The difference is that Matt's intention was for the fakeout to not be revealed until S3 and Disney forced him to include the S3 intro, which shows Marcy is alive, in the credits of True Colors, whereas Belos' fakeout is incorporated into the episode and has a much better reveal
If arcane counts as cartoon then it's "Monster you created"
From the greatest cartoon of all time - that Disney owns, yet hates so much that its existence is barely acknowledged.
are all the episodes named after the alphabet? A is for X and so on?
In season 2 yes (each season has 26 episodes), it goes through the entire alphabet in perfect order and every word used is highly relevant to the episode.
Funnily enough another show on the same network tried a similar approach but without the order or even including every episode, yet still ended up having to reuse letters.
Gravity Falls is an awful show and I'm tired of everyone thinking is good.
I can't even think of them in terms of individual episodes anymore. I can definitely say which SEASONS were good, but I can't even remember which episodes were which.
Same. That's just how it is with serialized shows
>That's just how it is with serialized shows
No, that's how it is with serialized "shows" that are essentially movies with a lot of useless footage tacked on to fill runtime.
A high-quality serialized show has great writing for both the overall arcs AND the episodic stories, so both are well-remembered.
Band Geeks
Maybe not the best episode I've ever seen but Down & Out in Duckburg stands out to me as the perfect episode of the original Ducktales.
To refresh, the plot of the episode is that Scrooge loses his entire fortune because an ancestor of his failed to deliver a barrel of marbles and refused to give up his golden watch as collateral, the same golden watch would later be used by Scrooge to buy his claim in the klondike, meaning his entire fortune rightfully belongs to the descendant of the original contract holder. Yes that would never hold up in court but it's a kid's cartoon for fricks sake
So how does Scrooge get his fortune back? He actually finishes the delivery, I feel like in another cartoon they'd get around something like this by finding a loophole or just outing the whole affair as a scam. It's ridiculous idea, diving for a barrel of marbles that was lost in treacherous waters over a hundred years ago, but it captures Scrooge's character perfectly, he's an honest businessman who beats cheaters by doing things the right way.
It's also just a really fun episode, it's got some great snappy dialogue, each character gets a chance to shine except webby, which is honestly preferrable and a satisfying conclusion with the villain being forced into an honest job after failing to scam scrooge out of his money.
Such a Barks premise too
Hell wasnt it an indirect adaptation of a Barks story?
It's The Horseradish Story but with the penalty of homelessness moved to the front and given the focus.
I hate zoomers so much
koden riser thread
>Amphibia and Gravity Falls are the best Disney cartoons of all time
based and truepilled
Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever is still one of the funniest, cutest, charming and most nostalgic episodes I've ever seen.
But what episodes are the worst ranked of their respective series? That says a lot more about a show’s quality than anything else.
Return of Harmony
XCIII
Plague of Madness
Wait How do they determine this anyways? cause my kids weren't exactly going crazy over these episodes.
20+ alternate accounts all giving 10/10s.
That's what happened with She-Ra on IMDB atleast
Imbd ratings are just a bunch of hype culture brigading bullshit.
>owl house the worst episode out of all of them
Fitting
It's not though?
It’s stupid shit copying elements from superior stories like the rest of the series. The Ducktales ep has the clone twist which is uber moronic, but used the overall cast way better than owl house did.
True Colors and NWHS are on a whole other ballpark to the other two it’s not even funny.
Nope, see
and NWHS had the weakest and dumbest setup I ever saw in my life and every character ignores the fact Ford spent years in the multiverse or whatever and doesn't ask him shit about what he saw so that was an asspull too
It's the third highest, you absolute moron.
I was talking about actual quality not the stats you absolute moron
>I was talking about actual quality
So True Colors sits at the bottom?
True colours was only kino because of Marcy getting fricking stabbed through the chest
Both True Colors and Not What He Seems used to have 9.9.
This might not be objectively the best episode of any cartoon, but it came out about a year after my grandmother developed severe Alzheimer's disease, so it hit me really hard.