Thread 148974201

Why did they dropped the Newspaper gag?

>>148974201 (OP)
No one reads newspapers anymore

Roger popping up in a random costume is more of the right energy level of this show, anyways.

Because the show stopped being about politics.

>>148974201 (OP)

The intro after the first 4 seasons does a better job with setting the tone of the show as opposed to the old one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwZqVjIQvE&pp=ygUXYW1lcmljYW4gZGFkIHRoZW1lIHNvbmc%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fKNf5dLA_M

>>148974201 (OP)
https://youtu.be/wdEcO8_2Kl8?si=6-SZuujOMqd7IuSp

>>148974201 (OP)
Because Rodger giving Stan road head is way funnier.

>>148974201 (OP)
When was the last time the show was political social satire?

You know that multiverse episode where Hayley goes to the "universe where satire works" and they have a crappy vhs filter over it? I only just now realized they were poking fun at the early seasons.

>>148974206
oh they still do, im sure the newspapers are alot thinner now though.

>>148974201 (OP)
>>148974206
It would be replaced with a smartphone and twitter page.

>why'd they drop it
Probably because it only have a half second of screen time and you couldn't read the joke.

>>148974201 (OP)
Gets old/tedious after 20 seasons

>>148975187
doesnt roger still dress up in the footwell ?

>>148975100
I hate that episode. Why? Because it goes
>What? All those episodes where something happened to the Smiths but everything was fine the next episode? Yeah, multiverse. Fuck you for caring. No steaks. Nothing matters! We'll repeat plot points like Franny wanting a garden even though it was established she had one in earlier seasons. Franny wants to grow veg for her gumbo? Well she did that in the Camp Refugee episode but who remembers! TUTEL IS HERE!
And trying to be snarky with the text overlay and insulting you for reading it isn't funny. Like don't put it up there if you don't want people to read it.

American Dad was fine until it moved off FOX and I can hear the board room going
>We need to be more like Rick and Morty, can we be more like Rick and Morty?
>Err, I guess we can make the CIA guys a deus ex machina for random tech shit?
>BRILLIANT!
>Okay we'll go do that...
>Oh and make sure not to write jokes and instead just make references like RICKY SPANISH or JENNY or RAIDER DAVE or REGINALD that'd be sweet, the pot smoking retards who should be doing their term papers will love that thing they remember from 15 years ago
>Okay boss, you got it
>Great. Oh and more Tutel and less Lewis. We overplayed our hand with Lewis....

>>148975286
Stakes, even.

>>148974328
Animation at top looks more sovlful

>>148975120
nobody reads twitter any more

>>148975107
>im sure the newspapers are alot thinner now though.
Why?

>>148975107
>alot
what is an old internet meme from the 2000's got to do with anything? do you mean A LOT?

>>148974201 (OP)
>Why did they dropped

>>148974201 (OP)
When American Dad first started, newspapers were still commonplace throughout the nation.

But as the years went by, it made sense for the Smiths to adapt with the times. Happens with lots of long-running animated programs.

>>148975216
Yeah but those are just characters they've already used in the show.

I think Mike Barker said something about how quickly a lot of the jokes became dated and how difficult it was to write them.

>>148976189
Man, I hate the new Simpsons TV. The old one was iconic. They should have kept the old one or come up with a better design. Like BurnBot. I want someone to edit every episode of The Simpsons now and replace the TV with Burnbot. Or at least do the intro.

>>148975286
Anon they already had done that. Like when stan got a dog and said him having a dog before was a dream Francine had

>>148976421
ok boomer

>>148976421
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>>148974201 (OP)
To save frames on the run. NewspaperSkip was a massive deal in the running community.

>>148977275
Oh come on, the old TV was iconic. Any Zoom Zooms want to weigh in on it? Old technology always has more personality. Newer stuff is just slicker and simpler. Which is a good thing, but from an aesthetic point of view, as an object, old tech usually looks better.

Old cars looked cooler, old TVs, heck even video game consoles used to have wood finishing.

I remember there being an interview with, I think a Clarence animator who said she likes drawing cartoon characters using old computers with the chunky screens. And I think either Max G or Zack said it's weird seeing cartoon characters using smartphones. I think it depends on the cartoon character. Like it's weird when Bugs Bunny does it.

>>148975083

I wanna say...when Stan met George W Bush?

>>148974328
>>148974231
Roger popping up in his random costumes is more interesting and funny than a newspaper article.

I prefer the new intro, because it gives Stan's family more personality, and Roger's costumes are just hilarious, and you never know what you are going to see next. I always thought it was strange in the original intro how Roger just stands there in the window. Roger is the most popular character in American Dad.

>>148975513

Imagine believing that

>>148974328

The second intro showcases more of it's worldbuilding

>>148974328

>Both intros have Klaus being happy with the family when in the actual show they are mean to him

>>148977564
>Roger's costumes are just hilarious

>>148977639
nazi cosplayers aren't people, anon

>>148974201 (OP)
Why did they though?