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
Also, are they trying to say someone would assume that adults would be doctors, when the entire universe seems to say otherwise?
 
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"We didn't bother thinking any of this through. Just do it yourself."
 
DrChristianTroy said:
I'd care so much more about Growing Around if it were about fucked up history or pop culture shit done by kids. Sure it's just as cliche but at least it'd have some bite to it.
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MrWarioWare said:
The Siege of Leningrad, bubble guns and NERFS flying everywhere
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MrWarioWare said:
I want to see Kid Hitler dammit! MrEnter will show WWII if it's the last thing I do!
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This sounds like it could be a fantastic adult swim show if it went in this direction
 
Guideline 7: In this world health is not an issue - kids eat what they like and do not have to deal with the real-world consequences. #CartoonLogic
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Fantastic message for the kids Enter assumes will watch his show. Eat all the cake and ice cream you want, there won't be any consequences at all!

Guideline 8: Although fun and creativity are valued in this world, maturity has practical applications in the workforce: the more mature you are the more likely you are to do a good job, and therefore these children tend to get more authorial roles (Timmy owning lemonade Land, Talula as mayor)
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This really bothers me. Like it or not maturity comes with age, so these kids are getting pulled out of the workforce when they're in their prime. Also shouldn't maturity be viewed as a bad thing in this world where kids rule?

Guideline 9: Elderly have the maturity of adults but, thanks to their schooling, have the creativity and fun to make the most of their retirement. And most of them explore inventive endeavors
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This also makes me wonder. If elders can have grown-up jobs like being inventors simply because they've learned how to be creative again, does that mean kids who aren't creative enough can be forced into early retirement? And what about adults who never lose their childlike imagination? If elders can have jobs at all why not go back to what they were doing before they became adults? Why aren't most businesses run by elders instead of children, since they would be the most qualified to do so?

Enter assumes his target audience won't be observant enough to ask these questions. When I was a kid I wasn't always capable of explaining why something didn't make sense, but I usually knew when a cartoon was bullshitting me.

Guideline 11: The show is this-kid run society from the ground up, not kids running OUR society.
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Our society is adult-run from the ground up, but adults don't run our society! :roll:
 
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Twilight Sparkle said:
So, like. In that universe was there a kid version of veitnam? Or like a kid jack the ripper? How do crimes work? I shouldn't try to think about how this world works. It just gets more confusing
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Maybe Vietnam was just a massive game of hide and seek


"Me and Jimmy were in the jungle...on duty...when all the sudden...he was tagged..I was surrounded, Charlie all over me....I got to base just in time and was safe"
 
MrWarioWare said:
Maybe Vietnam was just a massive game of hide and seek


"Me and Jimmy were in the jungle...on duty...when all the sudden...he was tagged..I was surrounded, Charlie all over me....I got to base just in time and was safe"
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Congrats. You just wrote an idea more interesting and entertaining than anything in Growing Around. Mazels.
 
MrWarioWare said:
Maybe Vietnam was just a massive game of hide and seek


"Me and Jimmy were in the jungle...on duty...when all the sudden...he was tagged..I was surrounded, Charlie all over me....I got to base just in time and was safe"
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But that would actually be funny.

EDIT: Nostalgia disagreed with me, so now I know I'm right.
 
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