Tom wrote:
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but my favorite TV show of all time is the cheapest animation of them all, "Beavis and Butthead". Sheer comic genius, if you ask me. Or maybe that's just the effect it had during its "insomniac" 3am time-slot available to us during college. You rock, man! I loved that show. I remember the staying up late to watch it, and I also remember my friend and I staying up until 4 AM just to see the final episode...memories. | |
Zilal wrote:
Junkyard Wars I remember when I had cable I used to watch that show, amazing what those people can make with a bunch of junk. | |
Oh, it was... that was a comic book about people who drew power from these entities that existed in the human collective subconscious... kind of like a cross between Jungian archetypes and Platonic ideals. They were modelled after gods and fantasy creatures. A big Cthulhu-looking archetype called the Nameless One ended up taking over the earth... Conan O'Brien was secretly the leader of a human resistance force, but Andy betrayed the human race in a bid for power. They only appeared at the end of the series, but their part was... entertaining.
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Yeah, I'm crazy about it now... I'd heard it was good before I watched it, but I thought that meant just "witty and different from other shows," which I think was the impression I got when I tuned in once in a while. But some of the recent lauded episodes like Hush and the one where Buffy's mom died just blew me away. Just plain excellent TV. Not as serious as, say, Law & Order, but to my cultured senses, just as good in all the departments of plot, character development, timing, dialogue, tension, emotion, etc.
Someone once mentioned here that he didn't like the dialogue, because people aren't really that witty or snarky in real life, or at any rate didn't talk like that. But I think it's a general writers' consensus (good writers, anyway) that dialogue just like people talk in real life tends to be too boring or dumb for good literature anyway. You have to do some editing and spicing. It's just a case of keeping your dialogue from being so witty it doesn't disturb the readers' (or watchers') suspension of disbelief, and hey, Buffy's works for me. Z | |
I looove Buffy's dialogue.
Oz: You guys steal weapons from the military a lot? Willow: Well, we don't have cable, so we have to make our own fun. I also love a show that isn't afraid to drop hints about upcoming stories two or three seasons in advance. Talk about having faith in the attention span of the American public. | |
Oooh... I don't know if I'd put this in the cancelled early category or not, but I think something needs to be said about The Adventures of Pete & Pete... the show that launched Michelle Trachtenburg (Dawn of Buffy TVS) cult TV career.
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I remember that show. Nick canceled alot of my favorite shows... It's been like 4 years, is "All that" still going?
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eventhough its not a mariomap thats animated and the pages are scenes from the levels and creatures are links right? no it says click to enter
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Lesbian Assassin wrote:
I looove Buffy's dialogue. I do just love how clever the dialoge is. And the hand signals when they couldn't speak, hehe. And the *fact* that they used hand signals. The characters aren't always smart, but they're smarter than many TV characters. (TV characters, especially sitcom characters, tend to be so much dumber and meaner than real people I can't bear to watch.) I like how Buffy's mom and Dawn were/are such important characters. Having to care for family AND fight vampires provides some great conflicts. If you know what I mean. I'm not being silly. I like Dawn's presence a lot (though I'm still waiting for the actress to grow into her skills, heh). I especially like how they're not afraid to change the status quo. Far too many shows on TV have every episode end with the relationships the same as at the beginning. When I was younger I liked that, and it's still hard when something you don't like happens to a character, but I appreciate character growth and change now. I demand it! Also, it's better than most fantasy/sci-fi shows about plots. There are still some stupidities and incongruencies, but usually the things they have demons and spells and things do aren't completely random and boring. Also, having someone to talk about it with is nice too! | |
Lesbian Assassin wrote:
Oooh... I don't know if I'd put this in the cancelled early category or not, but I think something needs to be said about The Adventures of Pete & Pete... the show that launched Michelle Trachtenburg (Dawn of Buffy TVS) cult TV career. ...also Pete's vaguely-entertaining Ameritrade commercial career... | |
And I can't believe that neither one of us has mentioned the musical episode yet...
(BUFFY) Every single night, the same arrangement... I go out and fight the fight. Still I always feel the strangest strangement... nothing here is real, nothing here is right. I've been making shows of trading blows, just hoping no one knows that I've been going through the motions, walking through the part... nothing seems to penetrate my heart. I was always brave and kind of righteous, now I find I'm wav-ering. Crall out of your grave, you'll find this fight just doesn't mean a thing (VAMPIRE) She ain't got that swing (BUFFY) Thanks for noticing (VAMPIRE AND DEMON CHORUS) She does well with fiends from hell, but lately we can tell that she's just going through the motions, faking it somehow... she's not even half the girl she... ow! (BUFFY) Will I stay this way forever, sleepwalk through my life's endeavor? (DEMON HOSTAGE) How can I repay...? (BUFFY) Whatever, I don't wanna beeeeeeeeeee.... Going through the motions, losing all my drive. I can't even see... if this really me... and I just wanna be... aliiiiiiive! You don't get fun lyrics like that watchin' Dawson's Creek. | |
Or what I thought was actually the most clever song there (but which took longer for me to remember the lyrics):
ANYA: This is the man that I plan to entangle, isn't he fine? My claim to fame was to maim and to mangle... vengeance was mine. But I'm out of the biz, the name I've made, I'll trade for his. The only trouble is... I'll never tell. XANDER: She is the one, she's such wonderful fun, such passion and grace. Warm in the night when I'm wrapped in her tight, um, embrace tight embrace! I'll never let her go, the love we've known can only grow. There's just one thing that... no. I'll never tell. ANYA AND XANDER: 'cause there's nothing to tell. ANYA: He snores. Xander: She wheezes. ANYA: Say "housework" and he freezes. XANDER: She eats these skeezy cheeses that I can't describe. ANYA: I talk, he breezes. XANDER: She doesn't know what "please" is. ANYA: His [anatomy] got diseases from the Chumash tribe! ANYA AND XANDER: The vibe... gets kind of scary XANDER: Like she thinks I'm ordinary... ANYA: Like it's all just temporary... XANDER: Like her toes are kind of hairy... ANYA AND XANDER: ...but it's all very well! 'cause God knows, I'll never tell. ANYA: When things get rough, he just hides behind his Buffy... Now look, he's getting huffy 'cause he knows that I know. XANDER: She clings, she's needy, she's also really greedy she-- ANYA: His eyes are beady! XANDER: This is my verse, hello? She... ANYA: Lookit, hey, I'm dancing crazy! (INTERLUDE WITH DANCING) ANYA AND XANDER: You know... XANDER: You're quite the charmer... ANYA: My knight in armor... XANDER: You're the cutest of the Scoobies with your lips as red as rubies and your firm yet supple... tight embrace! (MORE DANCING) ANYA: He's swell. XANDER: She's sweller. ANYA: He'll always be my feller. XANDER: That's why I'll never tell 'er that I'm petrified. ANYA: I've read this tale... there's wedding, then betrayal... I know there'll come the day I'll want to run and hide. ANYA AND XANDER: I lied, I said it's easy, I've tried, but there's these fears I can't quell. XANDER: Is she looking for a pot of gold? ANYA: Will I look good when I've gotten old? XANDER: Will our life become too stressful if I'm never that successful? ANYA: When I get so worn and wrinkly that I look like David Brinkley? XANDER: Am I crazy? ANYA: Am I dreamin'? XANDER: Am I marryin' a demon? ANYA AND XANDER: We could really raise the beam in making marriage a hell! So thank God that I'll never tell. I swear that I'll never tell. XANDER: My lips are sealed. ANYA: I take the 5th. XANDER: Move it along, nothing to see. ANYA AND XANDER: I'll never tell. | |
lol that was great.