Lady, your teenager SHOULD be watching Striperella

That lady is just mad she can’t use the TV as a baby sitter and has to actually watch what her children are doing. Poor little thing, actually having to be a parent to her kids, what a shame. But she’s weasling out of that as well spending too much time on the crusade to watch her kids anyhow. Southpark proves correct once again.

I’d say the Simpsons and South Park are geared towards adults, and seem to be doing pretty well in this country.

Yeah, I was gonna suggest “Cool Devices.” But I was also thinking that what might have inspired Stripperella might have been contact with some hentai on Stan Lee’s part.

Amen tdn. Stipperella for sexuality education…I don’t think so.

Not that I agree with it, but that lady’s logic cost Joe Camel his life.

I’m down for that movie series. IN fact, one of my adult stories involves Mech-like war machines – one of the characters has a nightmare that’s pretty close to what you describe – she dreams she’s running around naked on a Mech battlefield, trying not to get crushed or shot, and one of the Mechs starts chasing her. A short chase that ends when she wakes up, just prior to being curshed.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, WAIT a minute!

You mean … simply generating “animated content” causes children to tune in and watch the show, regardless of what it’s about, who it’s intended for, and whether or not they’ve ever heard of it?

Why are we wasting all this money on EDUCATION, then? Couldn’t we just have the Simpsons teach algebra and American history, then?

You know, I’m really enjoying the adult cartoon trend. We get more and more every year, just like video games and toys geared towards adults.

It’s great. Epsecially since I was a child of the late 70’s. I got to grow up through He Man, Transformers, Thundercats, all the bad-assed toys that went along with them (and some other great toys, such as My Pet Monster and Boglins) Not to mention the rise of console gaming! Started with my Atari 2600, now I’m playing PS2. It was so cool to get my first NES…damn, I’m hijacking the hell out of this…I’ll find something to tie it in…

I can’t. Oh well, since I’m on a roll. So anyways, I like the trends, because I see the things I grew up with growing up with me. My generation was/is a toy/cartoon/video game generation. It’s nice to see our favorite childhood things growing along with us.

Sorry for the hijack

Great, another chickenheaded rag who will ruin everything.

I think CA is refering to serious cartoons. Animated drama as opposed to funny shows. Besides, for every Simpsons, South Park, and the Flintstones there’s three Clerks, The Critic, and Dilbert, excellent shows cut down by bad scheduling and/or lack of general interest.

Erm… I understood “teetotalling” to mean people who don’t drink alcohol, like me.

I’m totally in favour of adult cartoons :wink:

Not too often you stumble across a proselytising Battletech fan, geekyness splatters from them like coolant from a heat sink hit by an LB-20X Autocannon

Ask and you shall recieve

Casting Call: Battletech trilogy

Ever read any of the battletech novels that revolve around Camacho’s Caballeros and Scout Cassie Suthorn

I’m just thrilled someone else out there watched “Up All Night” cheesy B movies on USA.

:smiley:

Does anybody think U.S. comics will ever develop a real adult branch equivalent to Japanese hentai?

NO, the novels never did it for me, playing the game was the whole deal. I’d still enjoy a movie, but my standards for written fiction are very high. I tried a couple but I just didn’t care enough about the characters. I’d still like to see a movie, but I’ll save further responses for your thread on the topic.

You know there was a Saturday morning cartoon show of Battletech, right? And that it followed the plots of some of the novels? Though sadly it only lasted one season.

The one thing I hope will happen in the future is that people will see that there is a market for animation geared toward adults. Private SNAFU certainly wasn’t geared toward children, but was entertaining and coveyed its message well. I enjoyed both Heavy Metal cartoons, and really hope to see more of this type of genre.

Stripperella was really funny. I mean, I expected to see a kinky cartoon but there are a lot of funny adult jokes, and I think the show has potential.

Let me start this off by admitting I don’t know exactly what Stripperella will be so I have to make a couple assumptions based on the advertising and the name.

Sounds like this is another one of those shows that objectify women - making their body and sexuality the focus, and minimalizing the importance of her intelligence. (Admittedly Aeon Flux was pretty badass, but let’s face it, it was still a nearly naked chick running around). It’s okay for adult men to see this shit, because ostensibly they’ve already learned better and are now just indulging in fantasies. But when you have virgin boys watching this dreck, trying to learn about their sexuality from it…it teaches them nothing about the relationship end of sexuality, turning it into raw physical pleasure carrying with it no responsibility and no emotion. Women become playthings to be touched and looked at, but not to be listened to. That’s the kind of crap we DON’T want boys hitting the dating world with - or we end up with bunch of pregnant teens and STDs.

That said, the woman still sounds like a crackpot, and I have no objection to the show’s existence, or for that matter, the programming on TNN. Sure it’s shit, I’m a girl and not expected to like it, but if that’s what guys want, enjoy! And I couldn’t give a rat’s ass WHEN it’s advertised. The ads show nothing objectionable themselves (that I’ve seen), and if I was a parent, my kids could see all the commercials they show, but they STILL aren’t going to get to see the show, end of story.

Oh, and Ren & Stimpy was better in the first season when the creators were still doing it, but apparently they were unreliable as workers and were eventually fired from their own show. The new writers were never really as good, but at least they clocked in on time, and HEY, that’s all that matters, right?..right?..hello?..

I’ve got a My Pet Monster and a Boglin in the same room as my computer.

But that’s what the guy end is all about. You’re doing the whining and the crying and the obsessing and we’re not giving a shit unless we don’t get hot food and warm pussy on schedule.

Well, Reed Waller, Larry Welz, Phil Foglio and others have been at it. But it’s a fringe/cult element. Because comic, itself, is “fringe” in the USA. For American comics/animation to develop a “mainstream porn” market segment comparable to hentai (or even comparable to European adult ero-comic, e.g. Milo Manara), you’d first need to have regular comics/toons to develop a “market penetration” for grownup audiences in the American Market comparable to manga/anime’s in Japan or bande desineé in Europe. The reason there is so much hentai is there is SO VERY MUCH manga in general, of a wide variety of genres, for a wide variety of publics. Something missing from US comics/toons, where apparently even the producers believe their audience is just geekboys and little kids.

BTW I watched Striperella. Its angle is cartoon-silly violence (but quite a bit of it) and juvenile T&A: think The Man Show staff revives the 1960s Batman TV show. Heaping amounts of obvious self-parody and lame inside-jokes (the main plot was centered on excessive plastic surgery enhancements – and this is Pam Anderson inthe lead role). The animated Pamela was nothing ultra-extraordinary stripper-wise, contrary to what the toon’s premise tries to establish, that she’s somehow the ultimate ecdysiast in town; in fact her title-sequence shots were leagues better than her in-show " stripper" sequence.

In any case, any “virgin boys” watching would get the “message” out of this ep that supermodels and movie stars destroy their bodies with unnecessary plastic surgery and that strip-club customers are drooling idiots who are having their wallets cleaned out. So it’s not THAT bad.