Thread 149875266

why didn't anybody tell me mission hill was so kino? I feel like the creators really get me.

yeah...no one ever praise this show...

Was Kevin autistic?

I love the Y2K vibes of it.

>>149875388
He was a nerdy Robin, since both were voiced by Scott Menville

>>149875358
That's the tragedy of thread making during these ADHD days, a week, month or year off with your effort and people too busy with their usual routine of popular thing, clickbait or flavor of the month will barely glance at it on the catalog, but later on when their subconscious convinces them their sudden interest in looking into something is purely their own they'll accuse you along with everyone else of never mentioning it.
I don't feel gatekeeping has the benefits imagined, but I can see how not spoonfeeding can still be sensible if it goes unappreciated anyway.

>>149875266 (OP)
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/148137929/#q148140785
https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/148183983/#q148184046

>>149875388
bing bong

>>149875266 (OP)
What's worse, being a 25 year old in 1999, or being a 25 year old today?

>>149875958
It would’ve been cool to experience 9/11 as an adult.

>>149876008
How close?

>>149875266 (OP)
>>149875358
You clowns haven't been here long, have you?

>>149875958
Today by a mile, a 25 year old in 1999 at least had a fair shot at buying a house. You could get a 3 bedroom house in the 90s for 30-50k

>>149875266 (OP)
It honestly isn't that good. And we can never get new episodes without /co/ ready to hate it before it even comes out like with the King of the Hill reboot. Theme song was nice though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfVIkt0La50

>>149876008
>It would’ve been cool to experience 9/11 as an adult.
The show came out around 1999-2000, but it had an episode where everyone is freaking out about some sort of major crisis on the news. Anyone watching it today will probably think it's a reference to 9/11 even though it predates it.

>>149875388
He was perfectly in touch with his own emotions and those of others. He had a functional brain and could easily learn and accept new tasks. I'm getting pretty sick of people labeling anything over a B average 'autistic'
>oh but he focuses
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO FOCUS. yeah ADD is a real epidemic now, but you aren't "neurodivergent" if you don't have it. Or if you do have it, because it's merely a simple OCD kinda thing. An exaggerated version of a natural brain process. Not a severe defect caused by your 50 year old arthritic parents never hugging you as a baby.

>>149875423
The very last time we would ever get light-hearted mockery aimed at people paying too much attention to the news
>>149876008
meh, for us 90s kids, we were inundated with reports of terrorist attacks every day. 9/11 was nothing. It was just like 'put pokemon back on'

>>149876617
What?? nothing about that episode is even remotely compatible with 9/11, an actual disaster. that's the point. it was parodying mountains made out of molehills for the purpose of drumming up news bucks. not legitimate reasons to worry and go kill some bad guys.
a better comparison would be everything happening in the news starting in... '08 or so.

>>149876990
I feel you, Anon.
>Character is passionate about something
>omg autistic hyperfixation

>>149876617
>>149877001
When I saw this as a teenager, I didnt realize how old it was. Would have been early 00s. I 100% thought it was about 9/11 and they just weren't talking about it by name. But the way the media reacted and how celebrities talked about going to war in Iraq. They really did nail how the world would react to a major crisis. Total mindfuck years later when I found out it was made years before.

>>149877294
This guy isn't me >>149877294

But yes a lot of people watching that specific episode now a days will be thinking of 9/11. While it wasn't their intent "A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT HAPPENING NEAR 2001" will get people thinking of 9/11 even if it wasn't the original intent of the writers.

It's like if a show in 2018 was about a major disease epidemic. Most people looking back on it would assume it was about COVID even if it wasn't.

>>149875266 (OP)
>why didn't anybody tell me mission hill was so kino? I feel like the creators really get me.
https://youtu.be/2toRG6kl6NU?feature=shared&t=6

>>149877024
To be honest, I feel like this is less a symptom of everyone wanting to feel special and more a symptom of people no longer feeling passion for anything, so when we do see it, it feels alien. All part of living in a post-ironic culture—genuine passion scares people who just want to scoff at their social media screens all day.

>>149875266 (OP)
This show was pretty unremarkable, but one thing it got hilariously correct was Kevin and Andy's mom. It's a breed of mother that no longer exists, and the depiction only gets funnier the further we get away from it.

>>149875266 (OP)
Red flag.

>>149875958
>25 today
>GFC childhood
>Slammed with covid restrictions in the middle of college
>Hope you have your Masters degree :^)
>25 in 1999
>I guess seeing the Challenger explosion and The Day After in grade school might have sucked a bit?
What the fuck do you think?

>>149875266 (OP)
I watched the episode where Andy has existential dread over being a mid-20s NEET when I was 24 turning 25, and that freaked me out.

>>149876150
One of the anons, is just been sarcastic

>>149879221
>Slammed with covid restrictions in the middle of college
>a whole year of taking classes without having to leave home
I would have fucking loved this, desu. People who were hurt by "covid restrictions" are weak af.

>>149875266 (OP)
Oblongs was better, but Mission Hill was just so comfy

>>149879945
>Oblongs was better
This opinion only holds water until you actually sit down and watch it.

>>149879960
did you even read the rest of my sentence?

>>149875266 (OP)
the gay couple ruins it

>>149879971
Irrelevant. You said "Oblongs was better", which is factually incorrect, regardless of any supplemental statement. Hipsters only get away with praising Oblongs because nobody cares or remembers it well enough to argue otherwise.

>>149875266 (OP)
It's possibly my favourite show of all time, despite there being so little of it, and it's also one of the greatest missed opportunities due to cancellation - right there next to Police Squad.
Great art.
Great Humour.
Great style.
Fuck WB for fumbling this show.

>>149876617
>And we can never get new episodes without /co/ ready to hate it before it even comes out like with the King of the Hill reboot.
True. Even if it was as good as it was, it wouldn't be the same; the creators are so much older (and that would be reflected in their humour), and the show just oozed its 90's setting, could it work with the characters using smart phones and bitching about social media? Bleh.

Not that this is ever going to happen though. Every time the creators get strung along with the hope of reviving this series in any form (they obviously love their creation, given how long they've been batting for it), it's always ended in disappointment.
Kind of understandable though, I recall that each episode had a pretty damn high budget.

>>149875958
1999.
The internet wasn't as widespread or popular as it is now, there were hardly any memes, and 4chan didn't even exist back then, just like Youtube. There were also no smartphones or AI, so you couldn't go online outdoors or get a quick answer to a question like you can now with ChatGPT and Gemini.
I wish I were 25 now desu

>>149875266 (OP)
I like the busty cosplayer!

>>149879165
What red flag, senpai-kun?

>>149875266 (OP)
What's the Mission here, Hill?

>>149875958
Being alive today is completelt worse. 1999 was a paradise compared to the horrors of the late 2010s and the 2020s

>>149875958
Today. Could you imagine Kevin being able to afford that city apartment on a cartoonist budget today? Even with room mates?

>>149875958
Today, outside of technological advances basically every other measure of life is notably worse. Like it's so bad that one of the benefits of modern technology is that it grants you easy access to media from the past because even just the general media landscape of today is fucking dogshit.

[spoilers]penispenispenispenis[/spoilers]

Because it had competition back then.
Cartoons were good, once.

>>149883141
DESU Jim probably always paid the bulk of rent.

>>149875266 (OP)
The mistake was airing on WB instead of Adult Swim.