>>150940311
Anon, I am sorry, but your comment gave me an excuse to go on an esoteric rant.
The number one thing I cannot fucking stand about modern “adult comedy” cartoons is that the fact they’re animated is treated like a complete afterthought. It’s already bad enough that the art is bland, but the moment I can follow 100% of the “story” just by listening without even looking at the screen? It makes me want to commit a hate crime against the first person I see. How the hell is it that I lose absolutelynothingby not watching a cartoon? Why are you even animated if there isnothingabout your show that requires drawings, exaggeration, movement, or creativity? I swear 90% of these “adult comedies” could be turned into live-action sitcoms tomorrow, and literally no one would notice a difference because they aren’t using the medium. This is an animation. Go wild. Use a unique art style. Push visuals. Do something surreal, something impossible. Give me visual jokes, timing gags, insane scenarios, something. But no. Instead, we get scenes in Family Guy where they describe a joke in excruciating detail and then cut to said joke. Why even draw anything at that point? It’s such a disgraceful waste of a medium that can literally do anything. What the hell happened? You can’t watch Harvey Birdman as background noise and get the same experience; even with limited animation, you still have to watch it. You definitely can’t do that with anything from the 1930s–1950s. Those cartoons were alive. Meanwhile, modern “adult animation”? I can just throw on the audio, walk away, and boom, I’ve basically seen the entire episode. Because nothing is happening on screen worth looking at. I remember someone saying that “adult cartoons are written by comedians, not animators.” If that’s true, it shows. Painfully.
I’m just tired of the slop.
