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Jayhosh
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*pleasure them in your basement
FTFY |
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CatSword
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Thanks - I had no idea what that mosaic was supposed to be.  I got the Initial D reference though, despite having never seen Initial D. That series' main character has a very recognizable look just from the few times I've seen him on MAL and in arcades.
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Northlander
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Funny you should mention Garfield in your "not just feeling like a lot of disjointed gags" comment, seeing as the original Garfield animated series was a series of 25-30 minute animated specials with overarcing stories. (Even if they sometimes incorporated comedy gags from the strips themselves, particularly in "Here Comes Garfield".)
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invalidname
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FWIW, I’m enjoying the gratuitously two-part review format.
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meiam
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I didn't realize that the music video was parodying earth wind and fire, that's a pretty neat reference.
Did wacky race ever have a Japanese parallel or anything similar to it? |
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sourpatchthekid
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Wacky races itself was very popular. As were a lot of other western cartoons (Diana's friends in Little Witch Academia are named Hannah and Barbara in reference to the Hanna-Barbera animation studio to name a recent example.) According to Tv Tropes Speed Racer could have helped Wacky Racers popularity |
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Kendra Kirai
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There's was also Scramble Wars, which pit various anime characters from other series against each other in SD wacky races style. They were all from the same studio/company, I'm pretty sure. Here it was almost all AnimEigo-subbed things. Notables included the Knight Sabers from Bubblegum Crisis, the girls from Gall Force (no in fact Scramble Wars was a double feature with Ten Little Gall Force), the main characters from Genesis Survivor Gaiarth, and....some others I know I'm forgetting. I think maybe Bean Bandit from Riding Bean? |
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Nate148
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one of the old sdgundam vhs did the same sort of thing
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Engineering Nerd
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Ahahahahaha....Gaby, I love you sooooo much, favoriate review of the season, calling it now
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CatSword
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The "Marilyn Monroe" segment from episode 5 is probably the closest the show has come to true nonsensical Internet humor/shitposting such as a Turkish man yelling "meow" at an egg, and I absolutely loved it.
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Merida
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A+ for the review, B- for the episode.
I was one of those people who couldn't even make it halfway through the first episode, but i gave it another shot because bizarre (anti-)humour is usually my thing and i gotta say, it's growing on me. Kind of. Or maybe i'm just getting desensitised ( i still hate ep. 1, though...)?! |
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rizuchan
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I just came here to say, I would 100% watch that shoujo(??) anime. Twist and all. And enjoy it unironically.
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zrnzle500
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Honestly, I would too, not unlike their Hoshiiro Girl Drop. It is simultaneously amazing and frightening how much effort and skill they put into these sorts of segments only to use them as jumping off points for its unique brand of shitpostery. |
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Ryusui
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It's possible we may have a problem.
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Sahmbahdeh
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Marilyn Monroe got me good, holy shit.
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