Good Times 2024: How to (Not) Make a Satirical Comedy 

Uncle Ruckus I swear made the Good Times reboot as a scheme between him and BET, dammit.

This Good Times deboot looks more like the fever dream of someone who grew up watching The PJs and thought that Good Times was in the same universe.

They canceled Inside Job for this.

As someone who is black and watched the original Good Times with my parents at times, this "reboot" is nothing like the original. The original's message was "hey, we may be in a tough situation and struggling right now, but someday, we will overcome our current problems and thrive in the future." It painted a optimistic yet realistic look at how your typical black inner-city families would look like, hence why it was relatable at the time, and still relatable today. The "reboot" though, is like a writer who is not familiar with black culture watched the news and looked at social media to see how the black community would operate and then run with it. Very heavy with the stereotypes, surface-level pandering, and nothing like the original show (I saw that Seth MacFarlane was one of the main writers of this show and now it's all starting to make sense). In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this started out as an original project but only got greenlit after it was named after an established property (I feel this way about Velma as well). Studios are too scared to invest in original projects anymore and are just retrofitting those projects as "reboots" of older established shows, even though they are nothing alike. Animation-wise, it's very choppy and stiff. As an animator/creative assistant myself, I'm trained to have an eye on what "good" animation should look like. The art style is not animation-friendly, which would explain why it's so stiff. They had to cut corners to keep the art style consistent. When you have to do that, then the art style is too detailed for animation, the quality will suffer. 1:43 is a perfect example. The duo shot and the walk cycles. Zero in-betweens, just snapping into two of the same poses, obvious repeating frames, etc. That is just very amateurish "animation". The backgrounds and characters don't even look like they belong together. Choppy animation can be done correctly and used effectively (Into the Spiderverse, claymation, etc) but this looks lazy.

I played balckjack ONCE and now all my fucking ads are gambling

4:57 Tom didn't do that. It was his physical body, but he was possessed by Stinkmeiner (?). That's why his face contorted.

I'm a fan of three things. Fantasy, Mythology, and Dancehall. If you were to ask me to write a show about black people, it would involve some African mythologies and spiritualities. I'll have black mystics and shamans. It'd be set in the Carribean, and would involve Dancehall music. If anyone wants to steal my idea, go ahead. Even if it flops, it'd be a lot more respectable than this bullshit.

Looks like the same people who made that bored ape yacht club NFT cartoon in terms of the jerky movement :/

The Goodt Times Reboot produced by Uncle Ruckus

I'm 13 and love watching and listening to old stuff especially good times so sad the remade it.

NEVER disrespect the PJ's by comparing it to this hot garbage.

Netflix make some horryble shit like this, and then they are surprised when people don't like it. They should just make some good shit like Inside Job! NOT ANOTHER SEASON OF BIG MOUNTH

What makes the boondocks animation so well made is that they hired a Korean studio to animate it, giving it that classic 2000’s anime style

The Good Times reboot had one thing going for it: the art style. I honestly love the way it looks. Stylistically, in a still frame, I really, unironically like the art style. Everything else though? Like watching a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on crack

The original show ended a couple of years before I was born, but I did watch reruns of in the 80s and 90s. The first couple of seasons with John Amos was best. Esther and John were adamant of not perpetuating negative black stereotypes, hence why we had John in the first place. The show was just about a family and their struggles, while not falling into the bad parts like gangs for instance. There was an episode where Michael wanted to join a gang due to something that happened. Of course the issue resolved itself, but it was showing that not all black people act ghetto or are hustlers (or condone it) and all that stuff. Florida and James' characters were hardworking and provided the best for their children while trying to instill moral values. They even focused on the importance of education so that the kids would have a better chance and opportunities than they did. This reboot seems to be a slap in the face to everything the original series was trying to portray initially.

5:05 i feel like its important to note that in this scene tom was possesed by stinkmeaner, AKA a hater so diabolical that he rivals dio

To this day I still prefer boondocks

Boondocks was/is amazing. And all I could say about this new "cartoon" would be that Uncle Ruckus would happily set that studio down.

I said it before and I'll say it again: the Venn diagram between desperate pandering and horrible stereotypes is a fucking circle.

It's anything but good times

The only compliment I can give this show is that it's comedic timing is actually really good... It just sucks the "comedy" flat out sucks.

You say it's like a meatcanyon animated video. I find it to be like one of those crappy nft tv shows.

4:59 Bro was having a seizure💀

The boom docks is considered anime😂

The animation alone from the reboot is just mind boggling that it was allowed to look like that. It's not even minimal. It's just BAD. And the thing with Meat is his designs are purposely horrific but the animation is so fluid and detailed, you can decide if it's beautiful for embracing the craft or uncomfortable for.... embracing the craft. The designs in this are exaggerated but bro, the movements. Why are they so janky? It's not even 2000s era Flash toon janky. It's like it's actually lagging. And maybe this is me being an adult woman but....what the fuck is up with the period obsessions? And I don't get the commentary they were trying to give. It's like... I'm Black. You know what happened when it happened? My mom got me some pads and we moved on. The obsession is creepy as shit.

The artstyle isn’t bad. It reminds me of Les Lascars 🔥 the rest doesn’t seem good.

So good. Love your reviews!! 🔥

How was season 4 of the Boondocks better than the Good times shitboot? (Actually wait that's not a question)

The baby IS LAMAR

The boondocks started out as a syndicated comic strip in the 90s

The animation makes Beavis and But head look good

The animation looks like some very early computer games.

For the "hope" and "nope" on your Rick and Morty and invincible video all that I'm gonna say is that rick and Morty was okay at first but after awhile it just gets bigger than the marvel universe

Tbh First off Who made the decision to have Steph Curry in this like no offense to him but Seth Mcfarlane in this Look im not saying we can't have white producers on black shows but just why they but Seth I mean ge ruined Cleavland show Its just sterotypes after sterotypes and no Moral lessons

Nothing will ever beat the damn damn scene

I'll be honest the animation and artsyle are the best part of this show. + the voice acting of course. The show might look "ugly" but I'd say that's intentional. Kinda like how the teenage mutant ninga turtles recent movie has this "ugly" artstyle that still looks cool.

The Boondocks was a comic strip long before it was animated, and much like a strip such as Doonesbury, was drivin by it's writing

as someone who refuses to watch this show, i appreciate this video for confirming all my suspicions... #Subscribed 👊🏾🔥

Dope video 💯 Side note, Netflix be hatin, so the only way to record shows on there is the old school handheld way. I’m subbing for sure

I swear this show was trying to mimic Velma more than anything else for some reason

"Worst looking animation I've ever seen" you haven't watched Schadenfreude QuntCast

Ay thanks for this video. Really well made. Subbed. You could just listen to the OG good times theme song and get the gist of its message from that alone. No clue what this demake wanted to accomplish.

1:32 It feels like you are just trying to hate tbh, the show looks fine and the art style is very obviously intentional. It's a stylistic choice, I for one am at least glad we don't have yet another adult animated show in that family guy style, but of course we are going to get less of those if every time a show attempts to be unique it gets critised for it

I think the art style is derived from the french animated comedy 'Les Lascars' but they didn't understand how this style worked

Reminder someone at Netflix see what's the reboot is about and said "Approved"

I’m thinking the reboot is just a parody of its former self on purpose 😂

You get it more at the netflix logo...i mean they litereally cancelled the shows like final space inside job and gave a another season to paraside pd and big mouth

I never thought I'd see a modern day equivalent of the animation quality in Hammerman

I get the Indiana jones because the project is like a jungle when the building manager doesn’t take care of the apartment and with her getting rain water and heating it up for hot water in lower class families so it’s represent what lower class family go through in the projects

I agree on everything except the character designs.

Oh god it’s getting the Teen titans treatment

IN MY OPINION, the animators are trying to SOMEWHATE mimic the art of Ernie Barnes who painted all the artwork and opening/ending credits painting the SUGAR SHACK, the style became known as the Black Romantic..

The animation and style unironically looks like the Red Ape Family

5:00 stinkmeaner took possession over Tom’s body. That’s why he has that episode

The animation on this show makes ANY Studio Deen animes(looking at 7DS too) look good.

6:56 yeah even if he serves as the voice of reason in the show, Huey can let that get to his head sometimes like when he was making the public announcement that Jesus was black in the first episode

There were so many great characters and stories in the Boondocks. Ebony Brown is my favorite female character of all time, bar-none. Ruckus somehow made Jimmy Rebel a slightly better person. Even Season 4, whilst it wasn't as good as the other three seasons, is still better than a LOT of television that has come out at the same time or since.

Looks like it would be playing on the apartment TVs in gta 6

The Good Times is has nothing to do with the original. They didn’t deliver drugs and guns to their houses. Oh my gosh

7:27 Love how Elon gets the bite from BEHIND the plate

The Animation is the high point, but at least we get to see Good Times Animated

I watched one episode of the new good times show and couldn’t do it 😅

The boondocks warned us about this

Honestly, their first mistake was having Seth MacFarlane attached to this. If they wanted to do a show with good black commentary, Aaron McGruder or someone of that caliber would've been a better choice.

Tom was possessed

Worst Animated show you’ve seen? Wait till you’ve seen Megamind Rules.

The baby’s hair looks like pan dulce 😭😂

where is my next season of big mouth at?☹️

Bruh this type of show is literally what the boondocks made fun of

The deboot's animation is a mix of Pickle and Peanut and Fishhooks animation combined with Family Guy unfortunately it dips into Uncanny Valley as they try to mix different animations including real life depictions of objects or animals and it just makes everything look weird but you could always deal with it for those shows(Not Pickle and Peanut) because of the comedy making up for it.

You all just listen to each other and say it’s bad

Even the Family Guy cutaway gag of Good Times was better written than the Netflix series.

I wonder if the voice cast actually read the script before signing on and how they could be okay with the material. was it all just a paycheck to them?

Boondocks is goated

I agree with you, but at first I just thought maybe people have bad taste and maybe it'll get better later except it didn't. 2:37 Also that's what I've been SAYING ever since episode one

I bet you money that this will get a second season, shows like inside job get cancelled then shows like this come to replace them every fucking time 💀

Idk about y’all but I love the backgrounds for this show, one of the only good things about it

They made the dad look at a gorilla.

Pillboy did a very good video on the Good Times reboot if people want more depth on why it doesn't work.

Good time is like rejected nft show

Great video! 10/10

this looks like a sequel to Velma

I can't tell if the people who did the Lascars animation worked on this or if they're actively mimicking the style completely. The art and animation is flat out a direct copy of that deep ghetto visual style that you see in French animation overall.

good times being criticized for the stop-motion style is kinda unfair, I mean it could be artstyle and had been, but yeah every other points is fair enough

first. mr dubwa was possessed by stikmeaner. when he called that dude who cut him off the nword

Finding out Seth MacFarlane had a hand in this show doesn’t shock me he loves black stereotypes it’s almost an obsession.

Our people wrote bookbdocks pjs and good times. Seth mcfarland wrote this

One reason I think we cant have shows that are so satirical is because we constantly go in deep with everything and attempt to deconstruct things to be in our own narratives. Think most writing rooms aren't bad or terrible but you can tell especially for streaming shows they only go for writers that have low pay because they no the normie will watch even if its bad. The way you can look at how it tries to do commentary but instead of finding roots and reasoning it uses the references beforehand to set their points, how family guy cut aways had too and shows did in the 2000s to make a game reference. Sometimes it's a crutch or be a way to be simple and digest the idea,. then you get show that sit you down and tell you to listen and shut up. it's like every other adult comedy from the last decade, the target is teens that want feel like adults because the age rating.

Funnily enough, Boondocks Season 4 had an episode that heavily references Good Times. Edit: Even funnier, said episode is about being a sell-out. 2:00 Sauce: the OG Robocop.

ok all your points are valid but please don't blame the animators ? as i was trying to be one myself i can tell you even the greatest character animator cannot fix an already approved bad design. for example even if you animated the dad character the smoothest way you could possibly can that doesn't stop him from looking automatically ugly. Boondocks for its run since 2005 had a very good budget and looking at the other produced shows during that time, boondocks most likley had the highest budget for an animated show on AD plus since it was being produced by adult swim (the program most well known for experimentation and giving powers to the creators) the creators had a bunch of stuff they wanted to put in there is a bigger chance it will get added. That is why boondocks could look so good because they let them. Netflix has been sadly spitting in our face regarding animation with the numerous lay offs and canceling of actually great animated shows so they could spit out this cheaper made production because if this doesn't do well they can just sweep it under the rug and pretend like it didn't do well because its just another adult themed animated show they made and not because it was horribly made

That vine of the black cop being mistaken for a robber has more humor and commentary than this show

I really gave this show a chance man I tried watching the first episode but tapped out with 19 minutes left, I ended up watching boyz n the Hood for the first time and actual good piece of black media

Worst animation show? Lemme introduce you to The Nutshack

Looks like they took the guys from lascars, force em to use calarts' style and give em bs writers...

Ah, yes. The Black Nutshack.

am i the only one who likes the artstyle...ALOT..

I think this debate is when does parodying something offensive become offensive.

Huey isn't the voice of reason. Uncle Ruckus is.

Good Times reboot funded by BET (Black Evil Television)

Who knew Lamar became a baby after the events of GTA V.