Growing Around Growing Around: A slow moving trainwreck. (General Thread)

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The Worst Growing Around Character?

  • Sally

    Votes: 24 25.3%

  • Linda

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • Talula

    Votes: 2 2.1%

  • Timmy

    Votes: 11 11.6%

  • Robert

    Votes: 9 9.5%

  • Gumdrops

    Votes: 39 41.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 8 8.4%
  • Total voters
    95
[Quick flashback to the classroom. The adults are lined up behind a table with scattered buckets of ice cream. Linda is at the front with a spoon in her mouth.]

Kathy: Name?

Linda: R-r-rocky road...

Kathy: Topping?

Linda: N &N's.

Kathy: Aaaand?

[Linda is struggling with the spoon in her mouth.]

Linda: S-s-sprinkles??
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Why would they need to know this stuff again?
 
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Maruukat said:
Why would they need to know this stuff again?
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Because Enter believes that all kids love sweets and only sweets are all that matters to them.
Enter writes like one of those "kids like this, right?" people that go on to make shows like Rocket Power.
 
I don't understand why the adults don't remember this stuff from when they were kids.
 
MrsFrizzle said:
Mr Enter clearly just sees school as punishment.
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Punishment for growing up ? Freud would have had a lot of things to say about this show.
Also, do kids come to birth with absolute knowledge of everything and progressivly lose it as they grow older ?
 
You know. I kinda wonder if the whole world in this show is like this or only Summerway is like this. It also raises the question about adults who act like actual adults.
 
Cable 7 said:
You know. I kinda wonder if the whole world in this show is like this or only Summerway is like this. It also raises the question about adults who act like actual adults.
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Enter said the whole world
he also said that some kids are fucking plane pilots
and, yes, adults acting like adults make no sense in this world



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[We flashback cut to Robert and Linda in class, struggling to do their work. Linda and Robert each have a worksheet on their desks]

Robert:[Whispering to Linda] To you know what Mr. Marvin's super powers are?

Linda: [Whispers back] No, do you know what color Princess Aribella's dress is?

[We see that Linda's worksheet is actually a page from a children's coloring book]
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Is this the kind of non-standarized test Enter wants so much?
 
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I myself have complained at numerous points about how illogical and hard to swallow the idea is of ten year olds performing the roles of Doctors and engineers, positions that people these days generally take well into their twenties if not further to learn to practice competently.

And then, this hyper-efficiently gained knowledge is squandered after the second decade of life in favor of...Ice cream versions of the periodic table and farting.
 
This is the problem with writing kids as kids in this type of scenario. The kids have to act like adults or you won't believe for a second that they're capable of keeping a society going.
 
Just a random thought. Does anyone remember a Family Guy episode where Peter makes his own cartoon about ducks and a network picks it up? I believe there was a scene where the executives suggest a small change to one of the characters and Peter refuses to make any alterations. The executive relents and commends Peter for sticking to his guns, agreeing no changes will be made. Then Peter quits because how DARE they even consider questioning his ideas?

I kind of wonder if (and this is a big if) that is what might happen with Enter, should his show be picked up.
 
@YetAnotherLurker: I do. The cartoon was called "Handi-Quacks," about ducks who find themselves handicapped on a trip to buy some soda. (It still made more sense than Growing Around. Ha.)

Peter eventually started kicking himself when he realized how much of an ass he'd been, if I remember.
 
YetAnotherLurker said:
Just a random thought. Does anyone remember a Family Guy episode where Peter makes his own cartoon about ducks and a network picks it up? I believe there was a scene where the executives suggest a small change to one of the characters and Peter refuses to make any alterations. The executive relents and commends Peter for sticking to his guns, agreeing no changes will be made. Then Peter quits because how DARE they even consider questioning his ideas?

I kind of wonder if (and this is a big if) that is what might happen with Enter, should his show be picked up.
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If Enter somehow got a meeting with network executives, I think that's exactly how it would go down, except Enter would accuse them of being in league with Casey Alexander and Viacom, then tell them they're worse than Patrick Star and Mr. Krabs combined. Then he'd go home and make a video rallying his fantards to protest outside the network headquarters.
 
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