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INTEREST: Goku Goes 'Super Sandwich' in Fox's Animation Domination Spoof

So, is Fox going to do EVERY single Cartoon Network Anime=DBZ joke from the mid-00's?

(I mean, we're starting to approach an audience who's never been alive to have seen DBZ in its original cable run...)

EricJ2 wrote:

So, is Fox going to do EVERY single Cartoon Network Anime=DBZ joke from the mid-00's? (I mean, we're starting to approach an audience who's never been alive to have seen DBZ in its original cable run...)

It seems like whenever anime is satirized in general, that it always seems to focus on anime shows from the 80s and 90s. It'd be nice to see some newer popular anime like Sword Art Online or Attack on Titan get a parody for a change.

Point is, most of the DBZ whining was around the same time as CN was school-bullying the old Hanna-Barbera reruns to try and bums-rush them off the network to make room for more of their original programming--Right around the same mid-00's time as Toonami was airing the Majin Buu saga, which just seemed to go on forever....and forever... -_- ;
A lot of collective hostility toward one or the other built up into one free-floating resentment, CN's goodwill toward non-AS anime was evaporating rapidly, and out of all their "Anime is Teh Geek" jokes, we kept getting a LOT of jokes about how DBZ was nothing but Goku and the enemy flexing and screaming at each other for thirty minutes without a plot, and using that to punish all anime ever created in general. (Check out Warner's "parody" of anime in the Speed Racer movie--It was down deep at the corporate level.)

And although CN's jokes were passed down father-and-son to Fox's CN-doppelganger, it helps to put such misplaced anger management in context, so we can take the first step in dealing with it more healthily.