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If there is, I really hope it mauls Gumdrops. Like, in the messiest, goriest way possible. That would be the one episode of Growing Around I'd actually like to watch.
Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)
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All I can think about is why this scene is shot from such a weird angle. I guess it's to show the D- on Linda's paper, but I've read the script to this episode and it's established in the very first scene that Linda has poor grades. Does Enter really think he'd need to remind the audience of this when it was just discussed at gratuitous length?
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"Betterer"... Can I just say how much I hate when kids in fiction talk like that? When Rugrats did it, it was cute, but every other time I've seen it, it's incredibly grating because it makes it obvious that the writer knows absolutely nothing about writing child characters, so they give them adult dialogue and pepper it with ridiculous baby-talk like that. I've never heard a real kid talk like that in my life. Just more evidence that Enter can't write.
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That's kinda the problem with animatics, they tend to do that. This is a good example of what I mean. The first and last bits of the animatic lack fewer in-between frames than the middle part.
No, the problem here is that there's not enough variety in the amount of frames being used here. I mean the angle's interesting (I'm not digging the fish eye lens look. Though I've seen this problem in even well-animated productions, so I can forgive Entard and co. for that one). But the rest of it looks like there's not enough life going on, and the characters move like malfunctioning robots.
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I think it would get worse if it was greenlit. Even if he stuck around if they changed writers and asked for holiday specials and writers did them, this industry is for one thing and one thing really: money. I'm not sure if he'd allow that, and since he's pitching to cartoon network, they'll expect it or the show would get cancelled.
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Well, the networks are businesses, after all, and animation is costly. Every new show is a gamble, which is why they usually get picked up for one season at first. Enter can't expect them to pick up his show if they know it's not going to make a tidy profit.
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@Ho Mo for Women: Also with Rugrats... they were babies. Doug and Hey Arnold and the like had their protagonists talk normally.
That was before the horse came along
http://nayolfa.deviantart.com/art/Scene-41-Growing-Around-Pilot-Animatic-523715262
This is nitpicking, but is the romance about kids?
and how could it be a good reading if a kid wrote it?
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No, I think adults would read and write books about icky adult stuff like romance, and kids would scorn them and think they were silly wastes of time. But since adults seem to live in a weird enforced celibacy (separate rooms with bunk beds), it's weird as hell. None of this makes any goddamned sense.
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They all reproduce by budding!
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Do...Do reverse-pedoforks exist in this world?
These are not good questions to ask.
These are not good questions to ask.
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I've been thinking about why adults go to school and the best answer I can come up with is that they go to school to learn how to have fun. As the kids grow up the stuff they enjoyed as kids, like playing with toys, starts to bore them. The younger kids don't understand why. It's also what causes the adults to stop working. They no longer enjoy their jobs and since they try to run their businesses "like adults" they end up alienating child customers. So the kids feel sorry for the grown-ups and send them to school to learn how to be kids again.
And what happens in families that have five kids? You can't force the children into a creepy little mom and dad dynamic this time, Enter!
And what happens in families that have five kids? You can't force the children into a creepy little mom and dad dynamic this time, Enter!
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Then again
how do the adults start liking "adult" stuff if they never need to get mature?
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I just had a crazy thought. Since the kids basically own the parents in this universe, can you get your parents spayed and neutered?
Think about it. You're the breadwinner of this household. You don't want your parents having more kids because any younger siblings will have defacto authority over you. Hell, maybe you're just one of those kids who doesn't want any siblings. This world is run by children. Children are ethically and morally underdeveloped.
Really, how much control do these kids have over their parents' sex lives? If the kid wants more siblings can they just order their parents to get to the baby making? How the hell does divorce work?
Think about it. You're the breadwinner of this household. You don't want your parents having more kids because any younger siblings will have defacto authority over you. Hell, maybe you're just one of those kids who doesn't want any siblings. This world is run by children. Children are ethically and morally underdeveloped.
Really, how much control do these kids have over their parents' sex lives? If the kid wants more siblings can they just order their parents to get to the baby making? How the hell does divorce work?
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I assume a lot considering Robert and Linda have separate beds and Sally can force Linda into eating shoes.
On another note, I'd like to see someone pitch this show's idea to kids to see their thoughts on it. Sort of like how companies do the demographics test to see if the show will be successful or not. I already know Growing Around wouldn't be popular, but I think I'd be fun to watch kids ask all sorts of questions about how this show is supposed to work.
Now I'm thinking the Neutering Adults Center must be one of the most crowded places of the city.
Of course after the Home for the childless, where, if by the age of 18 you don't have a kid to boss around you,you'll spent your days!
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Is 18 the stated deadline? If so, were Linda and Robert living in a home, and only managed to get out by having children? Because the pseudomoral that you can only attain happiness through children is contentious as it is, without that kind of madness.
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You know, I was thinking that reproduction kinda worked like Anthem, where qualified adults are herded into pens and forced to breed. The act is so thoroughly unpleasant for them that they don't even want to think about it in their normal lives.
(But then how the hell do they know about sex in the first place?)
(But then how the hell do they know about sex in the first place?)
It wasn't stated by Enter
but is when you reach adulthood, either that or 21
but still, pretty early on.
