The Manifest

A fun sciencey set up for an AU I've been kicking around for a while. It's basically just a Gravity Falls/Invader Zim crossover.

I'm calling it Camp Mystery, or Camp Mystery AU.

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Modern Cartoons + Campfire

Popular modern cartoons + Title screen

You can really tell when a cartoon is created by comedy people who don’t really care about cartoons.

I was actually talking about the art styles, and not the overall quality of the shows.

It’s not that these shows’ art styles are ugly, it’s that they’re bland. It feels like during the initial design phase the artists just did a cookie-cutter job because the creators were too busy with the writing to give them much direction. It could still be saved by good writing, storyboarding and animation (and this might be the case with Big Mouth, from what I heard) but it still looks underwhelming on a fundamental level, when it could have been better.

Also, there’s this sentiment going around recently that adult cartoons in general have bad art styles. While it’s true that having a niche audience makes it harder for more ambitious adult cartoons to flourish these days, I feel like some of these sentiments are misdirected towards shows that don’t deserve it. Sure, adult cartoons, especially sitcoms, usually have a more grounded approach, but that doesn’t mean they’re less inspired.

Like, when Mike Judge created King of the Hill, he had a very specific vision on what he wanted his cartoon to look like, right down to the characters’ body language. He wanted it to feel like a live-action show that just happens to be animated.

Or like when Raphael Bob-Waksberg made Bojack Horseman, he insisted that Lisa Hanawalt be the production designer because he wanted the show to look like her art. She even had her own consistent rules about how they would anthropomorphize the animal characters.

Or how Bob’s Burgers made their characters look endearing without making them conventionally cute or attractive, keeping in line with the show’s themes of loving yourself, imperfections and all.

Or how the Smith family in Rick and Morty intentionally looks normal so that the aliens around them look even weirder, while also allowing them to subvert standard sitcom family archetypes.

(also RnM has tons of fucking gorgeous art, let’s be honest)

Even if they don’t look like Disney, you can still tell when the creators care a lot about how their shows look. They chose the style that fits the tone they were going for. Don’t mistake grounded for bland.

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The “I can’t take you seriously” starter pack

S-S-Stanley, Watch this!

If Rick & Morty is an intellectual cartoon with humour geared toward people with 150+ IQ then what is the clever humour of Rick being drawn as a pickle - or just the words Pickle Rick

Do I just not get it because my IQ isn’t high enough

It’s a pun based on a popular thought experiment in energy-mass physics and this controversial paper that was released in ‘94 by a microbiologist who posited some controversial things about the validity of i cant think of anything more words my iq isn’t high enough I’m sorry

Julia you scared the fuck out of me with this because you are smart enough that I literally believe you would know exactly whatever it is your were typing and I thought I was about to get absolutely honkingly schooled

I just thought

I just thought it was a regular pun? Like Rick was all “I have to have a distraction. They can’t make me go to Family Therapy if I get myself in trouble, like real trouble. I’ve got like 10 minutes to get myself into a real pickle.”

and then he was like ...aha

requested by anonymous: cop rick in 3x07

blep

i took a pic of me watching the pickle rick episode to piss people off but like somehow i managed to take the pic so that the frame on the tv was…. a different frame to the reflection on the desk?

cursed image

Reblog of Pickle Rick will be at the foot of your bed and ki

Rick and Morty is the best Halloween costume because even if there are a dozen others at the party it still works

“everything’s a cob!”

Happy Halloween