And then we'd spend hours trying to search for a deeper meaning in it's dumb content like how the cheese is desperately looking for meaning his life by trying to be the best in his show, how the baloney is nihilistic towards the value of baloney and thus is stuck in a desctructive cycle of cynicism and the phone never gets picked up thus the characters are eternally stuck in their egotistical purgatory.
How about Internet culture predicted in 1996? This episode told us that there is a huge audience for anything that is bizarrely bad. That could apply to RU-vid Poop or plenty of other sources of entertainment.
Heffer: Is that all he can say? All he's doing is bragging about how good he is! Where's the sense in that? Filburt: It's not supposed to make sense. We're trying to get Ralph kicked out of his contract, remember? Heffer: Oh, yeah.
This is an accurate depiction of the difference between a cartoon done on a deadline by a small number of people and a cartoon done on a deadline by a large number of people.
I love how after almost 30 years, this has left such a deep impact on my psyche that it I'll either spontaneously quote it or I'll have one of those 2am moments where it will hit me full force like a train.
I saw Staic Cling last night, my only disappointment is that there was no Wacky Delly reference. You could imagine that craziness could lead Ralph to end up....well, no spoilers if you haven't seen yet.
Didn't this episode end up with Ralph in the desert creating his masterpiece? And that's where they found, well... you know... in the special, so there was an indirect reference to this episode.
I think Ralph's, or, well, *(spoilers)* Rachel's deal was she was stuck in a job she hated, and stuck in a life she hated. She lost her spark that motivated her to animate in the first place, which is why her love for her family is what brought her back to animation one last time in Static Cling
I don't know what it is about it, but that cheerful 'H'llo?' just cracks me up every time. It's like the perfect repeated soundbite to emphasize the chaos; a more standard-sounding 'hello' just wouldn't be anywhere near as funny.
that's not exactly what happened. Breadwinners was a one-off RU-vid video made by some animators for their own entertainment. but then Nickelodeon found it and wanted to make it a full show.
I just feel so sorry for Ralph. He got stuck doing this, and tried to sabotage it, only making it more popular. When he actually put in effort, it fell apart. That's just tragic.
I still remember seeing this at my grandma's house. The buildup to this moment was incredibleand the final cartoon was probably the hardest I laughed as a child.
Actually, it was inspired by Rocko's Modern Life! Joe Murray made the pilot basically intending it to not get picked up, but that Nickelodeon would pay him for the pilot and he could move on. He was happy to work on it when they did pick it up months later, until his wife died and he was right back into playing for it to get cancelled so he could get back to his life. No matter how unwatchable he thought he made the show, it just kept succeeding.
Not exactly, the first episodes had better quality and structure. The issue was when Fox decided to revive it and let McFarlane turn his characters a******* and screw with their lives just for his own and sickly fun.
Ralph's reaction to them loving it was priceless. Thinking "Did they said what I thought they said? They loved it? Great, now I'm stuck with those three idiots"
I find it funny how Rocko had dedication to actually make his character sound like a girl while Heff and Filb just used their regular voices and called it a day.
Funny you say that because Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh worked on the Simpsons but moved onto Rocko instead because of the freedom it provided.
