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57. We'd all be discussing how much we like watching our "House of Mouse" on DVD iseason sets.

Lazario wrote:

Timon/Pumba fan wrote:3. Lazario will learn his opinion is NOT always right.

1. Timon/Pumba fan gets an attitude-adjustment

666. There would be no personal bickering

667. Loomis would never have to wear pants again.

Escapay wrote:I've tried watching Spongebob before, it just was never my cup of tea. Most everything on Nickelodeon these daysis a cesspool of stupidity, so even if there were "non-stupid" episodes of Spongebob, I wouldn't have the willpower to watch the series waiting for them (or waiting for them to air so I can watch them).

You're definitely not gonna like the latest episodes that have come out, I can tell you that, because admittedly they are getting worse. I think the series "jumped the shark" after the movie, since then it has featured less of the truly clever gags and more of the stupid stuff like the joke you mentioned earlier. It's almost as if they can't get away with the smartest humor anymore, because now they have to appeal to a huge audience (consisting of the idiots who think that Drake and Josh are the pinnacle of wit ).

Of course, the humor that I like in its high points has to do with very quick-coming non sequiters (stuff that's there just to be there...like a tree wearing a SCUBA mask, because - duh - it's underwater, why wouldn't it?) and referential humor...not in the pop culture reference Shrek sense, but clearly gags that only adults would get. It reminds me at times of classic Warner Brothers cartoons, where some of the jokes, while not dirty, were clearly aimed at adults as opposed to children. In between the normal gags about sea life (and Stephen Hillenburg used to be an oceanographer, so some of those are quite nerdy), there are subtle homages to Toulouse-Lautrec, Zippy the Pinhead, legendary horror actor Max Schreck, Edgar Allen Poe, souless corporate training videos, the old Batman show, and other subjects that kids aren't necessarily gonna get. Even in some (not all, but some) moments that are played over-the-top and thus appear stupid and aimless, it's really a broad satirization of some other genre of entertainment, from soap operas to horror movies to insipid Nick Jr.-type preachy TV shows.

Okay. Sorry for the long deconstruction there, but I sincerely think that there are at least a few things in this show that everyone can enjoy, even if they don't like every episode (and hey, even I don't). Granted, the best humor is fast-flying and subtle instead of broad humor that might garner a laugh track on a live-action show, so if you're not into that sort of thing, then the show probably isn't for you. And Spongebob is not winning any new fans now with the more recent episodes, I fear. But I wouldn't give up on the show just yet, because there is some good stuff there...and don't let the other dolts on Nickelodeon get you down. I just mute those Slime Time morons anyway

Loomis wrote:666. There would be no personal bickering

Sage advice. Seriously, this Sicilian thing has got to stop. At least take it outside.

2. dvdjunkie would stop to think before he ever spoke/wrote/typed.

Escapay wrote:Most everything on Nickelodeon these days is a cesspool of stupidity

And it always has been. However, I'm guessing you feel this way because you're not much a kid anymore. Their programming is still very popular with kids. And if you're not a kid anymore, or aren't exactly in-touch with your inner child (or at least a part of your kid that likes Nickelodeon), or are a stickler (like me) for the good old days (even those had Ren & Stimpy in them and I never could stand that awful junk!), you're not supposed to be a fan of their programming. Every time I watch Drake & Josh, I feel like I'm getting a lobotomy just sitting there. But there will always be something that's not so bad, and Spongebob is pretty good, considering. I haven't seen any new episodes (beyond perhaps the 4th season), so I don't know if that's what you're taking about. But I'm very often surprised by how smartly written Fairly Odd Parents is.

Hey Lazario, what's with the personal attacks, besides you should be continuing the original counts

Loomis wrote:
667. Loomis would never have to wear pants again.

Just where a Kilt

memnv wrote:Hey Lazario ... you should be continuing the original counts

I didn't know they weren't personal counts. I just figured Loomis was the only one to accumlate 600...

Lazario wrote:2. dvdjunkie would stop to think before he ever spoke/wrote/typed.

Are you sure that tip is not ment for yourself?

JiminyCrick91 wrote:Are you sure that tip is not ment for yourself?

Jiminy, that was rude of you. But that's not what bothers me. What bothers me is that you are using this very glibly, like you don't care about anything you say. If you were serious about what you were saying, you wouldn't throw accusations like that around.

To answer your question, of course I didn't mean that for myself. I am the only one in this trilogy of members who is thinking about what I'm saying.

You think about what you say now that is funny

668.-there wouldn`t be fights between members, and they`ll just ignore the personal atacks showing some maturity and knowledge than this is an open forum and this senseless fights are just stupid.

669.-what hapenend whit the 56,57,5 and all those otehr points?
670.-better than beef and deer...eat CHEESSE!!!

Isidour wrote:668. - there wouldn't be fights between members, and they'll just ignore the personal attacks showing some maturity and knowledge than this is an open forum and this senseless fights are just stupid.

Now... that is sage advice. However, I wouldn't call them fights. I'd call them... 'corrections'. For some reason, a lot of people here are threatened by my insight and what I wouldn't call wisdom but they'd assume I would. I'm forced into being regarded as a know-it-all without first saying "yeah, that's what I am," because everyone here has so much against these people (where are they?), they want to brand me as one too. Talk about immaturity! When really, they can't deal with the seriousness of many topics and I have a better handle on them. They want to start this childish crap with me because they think just because I'm gay, there'll be some infintile exception to the rules of truth, that lets them feel superior. They just have to get that superiority feeling or they can't deal with a topic. And they can't handle the fact that I am serious, when I say something - I mean it. They say what they say because of default, in essence. It just dawns on them, it doesn't resonate anywhere.

671. People will take the things others say towards them, regardless of wether it is an attack or not, and think about it from the other persons point of veiw.

I have never been in an argument with anyone on this site (with the exception of EvilGenieJafar, who was convinced that Jafar as a genie is orange, while I think he's red) and whenever I read the arguments, sometimes some people's comments seem rather harsh (particularly Lazario). However, if one is to look closer at the situation, and look at it from the other persons POV, they'll realize that everyone has different opinions, and respect them for that. And they will not give meaningless retorts to people who could possibly voice their opinions in a less harsh way. Whew. That was a lot to write.

lord-of-sith wrote:I have never been in an argument with anyone on this site (with the exception of EvilGenieJafar, who was convinced that Jafar as a genie is orange, while I think he's red)

Nah. He's too red to be orange and too orange to be red.

lord-of-sith wrote:whenever I read the arguments, sometimes some people's comments seem rather harsh (particularly Lazario). However, if one is to look closer at the situation, and look at it from the other persons POV, they'll realize that everyone has different opinions, and respect them for that. And they will not give meaningless retorts to people who could possibly voice their opinions in a less harsh way. Whew. That was a lot to write.

That's not the way things are going here. Especially not in the case of dvdjunkie. I never spurned him personally, but he has absolutely taken a crusade against me because I was right, to be a Republican/conservative as he is so adamently, is to forsake caring about the wellfare (not 'that' welfare) of millions of people, and to hate the minority. He doesn't see the fact that I haven't spurned him personally, I understand his political status is a mistake. One of privilage and not one of reality. He doesn't understand that his way doesn't work for most people, but he wants to be of-the-elite, so he fights dirty. He doesn't care about being fair, he just wants to win. So he tries to bury me in cliches and stereotypes. I'm a "bomb-thrower"? Hardly. That would be insisting that there is no truth in what I've claimed. When the reality I'm talking about is reality for millions of people, in the U.S. alone. That doesn't impress him, no matter how many times I say it. Why? Because to be what he is is not to care about all, but to care about those who resemble him.

672. The term ''Rosie O' Donnell thread'' would not start a ten page arguement.

673. People would recognize which is a Disney film, and which is a film which has only been distributed by Disney!!!

ichabod wrote:673. People would recognize which is a Disney film, and which is a film which has only been distributed by Disney!!!

Like all the online companies selling Buena Vista DVD's. Suddenly, When a Man Loves a Woman and Slam Dunk Ernest say under studio heading : Walt Disney Home Video. Um... where is the Disney-logo on the packaging, where? Nowhere. Because it ain't Disney. It's Buena Vista.

Lazario wrote:Like all the online companies selling Buena Vista DVD's. Suddenly, When a Man Loves a Woman and Slam Dunk Ernest say under studio heading : Walt Disney Home Video. Um... where is the Disney-logo on the packaging, where? Nowhere. Because it ain't Disney. It's Buena Vista.

I have no idea what that meant.

What I'm talking about (as I have ranted about on at leats 763 occasions) is when people think a film like 'Valiant' or 'Flight of the Navigator' are Disney films when they aren't, Disney simply purchased the distribution rights to them in the US.

Well, I sure thought those movies were Disney. So they're foreign movies, eh?

ichabod wrote:What I'm talking about (as I have ranted about on at leats 763 occasions) is when people think a film like 'Valiant' or 'Flight of the Navigator' are Disney films when they aren't, Disney simply purchased the distribution rights to them in the US.

That makes them Disney movies to me, or at least while I'm in the US.

-Aaron