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    1. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      while throwing it all in and going for getting cancelled once and for all -- ignoring the oversaturation of nostalgic media in an eternal cycle of remakes where nothing ever truly goes away, I think animaniacs, as a whole, is just not very good, nor is is suited for our time

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    2. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      I see a quote by a nameless former colleague of mine float around a lot as evidence of his cringe approach to comedy, namely that all comedy is rooted in the misery of at least one party, and the trick is to always be "punching down."

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    3. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      Animaniacs embodies this ethos in a way that I don't find particularly clever -- almost all of the jokes are about how the kids are smarter than the adults in their lives. Almost all of the humor is rooted in the unhappiness of whoever is getting pwned this week

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    4. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      And while that of course draws from its inspiration of the comedy of old Warner Brothers cartoons, it's also so quintessentially 90's in that this was a decade where the consequences of media were rarely challenged outside of Tipper Gore putting parental warning stickers on CDs

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    5. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      That sense of humor flew back then in the same way South Park would ten years later; it was a reflection of a smug sense of superiority, but I just don't think that's where most viewers are nowadays, except for the ones that want the same old shit from 30 years ago.

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    6. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      I've become fascinated with the "cringe culture" that's popped up around said nameless colleague's content, and it feels to me rooted in the fact that most viewers now view the the cruel internet humor of the early 2010's as, at best, unfunny, and at worst harmful

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    7. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      The bugs bunny "clever rapscallion gets one up on The Man" style humor just feels kind of primitive now, in the same way early 2010's YouTube humor now feels cringe. We've moved on, so I suspect people aren't going to enjoy new animaniacs as much as they remember enjoying the old

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      Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

      Lindsay Ellis Retweeted Captain Kirk's Jawline

      This is also part of what differentiates Animaniacs from Looney tunes and was very emblematic of kids' humor in the 90's - it's less "defending yourself against a bully" so much as "owning someone else who thinks they're so smart."https://twitter.com/kirks_jawline/status/1315474924300120065?s=20 …

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      With Animaniacs, almost all their shorts start with them deliberately *traveling* somewhere to harass someone, loosely justified by that person being "full of themselves" in some way. A very different dynamic to "rabbit outwits hunter trying to kill him"
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        2. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

          anyway, obviously not a big deal, but I'm not looking forward to it and since it'll probably end up being pretty toothless since most geopolitics will be off limits and I don't think the comedy has aged well. but maybe they'll surprise me and have a fresh approach who knows

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        3. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020

          But let me just put it this way -- I think there's a reason the Animaniacs clips that have endured are the songs and clever plays on words, but not the skits themselves. Hopefully they'll play to that strength. Pinky and the Brain was never funny tho *SMOKE BOMB*

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        2. The Divine Miss Darci‏ @saintwalker98 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @thelindsayellis

          Pinky & the Brain feels like an exception to this, like the joke is usually on them

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        3. Baptiste Lerak‏ @Baptiste_Lerak 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @saintwalker98 @thelindsayellis

          Fun fact: in France, Pinky & the Brain was *way* more popular than The Animaniacs.

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        1. Veronica Jane‏ @VeronicaAwakens 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @thelindsayellis

          It's the West Wing scene where Bartlet quotes the bible at that anti-abortion woman but for kids

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @thelindsayellis

          people remember bugs putting one over on elmer fudd, but it's worth noting that many of bugs' shorts (like many trickster stories!) involve him thoroughly hoisting himself on his own petard it's not about how he's always the best--he is, often enough, as much a sucker as anyone

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        3. Anderson‏ @TabbyKeats 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @thelindsayellis

          since I essentially wanted to grow up to be Bugs Bunny, I appreciate this distinction

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        2. Fat-TEA‏ @Fat_DTEA 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @thelindsayellis

          in fairness bugs did that a little too. the one where he ruins a dam builder's life because his waterfall shower was damned up.

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        3. Persephone‏ @Persephone_CJ 12 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Fat_DTEA @thelindsayellis

          But out west with the water rights wars, the "little guy" was inherently provoked by the damn builders and their water grab. (To the point of bombing dams.)

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        2. Wookiee Of The Year‏ @WookieeOTY 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @thelindsayellis

          I wouldn't share these worries if I wasn't also sure of how toothless the show will likely be. If they chose the right targets, the kind of comedy you're describing could be fun and even enriching. But so many corporate/political titans will be off limits.

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        3. Lindsay Ellis‏Verified account @thelindsayellis 11 Oct 2020
          Replying to @WookieeOTY

          oh yeah, like... what are they going to do, pull one over on trump, an actual fascist? is putin gonna get a wedgie?

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