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John K. Stuff (formerly named All Kinds of Stuff) is a blog run by (as the title says) animator John Kricfalusi, in which he gave info on animation, expression, character design and many other animation subjects. It's home to John K’s opinions regarding animation, including his belief that good drawings are the back-bone of a cartoon's success (rather than it being the story, which is the common contemporary belief).While frequently updated on a daily basis in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the blog posts started slowing down around 2013, with John claiming he was simply losing interest in maintaining it due to many other blogs that he considers better than his own popping up (plus the blogger scene drying up in general), as well as getting tied up training new animators, working on newer projects and attempting to start a new cartoon studio (although that went south due to the scandals surrounding his sexually predatory behavior).After two years and six months of dormancy, John makes a new post on the blog to initiate commission rates supposedly upon request by fans of his work on Facebook. Starting on February 28, 2019, he's been making on and off posts in regards to art sales, and Ren & Stimpy rarities. However as a result of the allegation releases, comments from old and new posts are hidden and only members of the blog have access to comment on his posts.The blog can be found here. A companion version, John K Curriculum, exists alongside it and focuses more on the instructional posts. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: In "Rock N Rule - Mok, Robin Budd and dog noses on humans", the fact that Mok is an obvious Mick Jagger caricature does not go unnoticed by John, and he points out how weird it was to put a cat nose on him when he's such a specific looking person and not a cartoon animal like Pluto the dog. | |
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Furries Are Easier to Draw | |
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Furries Are Easier to Draw: In "Wally VS UPA 3: Walt Craves Respect", John remarks on films such as Bambi and Lady and the Tramp, saying its weird that they plop cartoon heads on top of realistic anatomically correct bodies as part of Walt's attempt to gain critical respect, and that it calls to mind the furry fandom. He then parodies it by putting Elmer Fudd's head on top of a photo of a real life bodybuilder, with the caption "May I Pwease have your wespect, Mr. Disney(?)" | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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Only Six Faces: The Character Design posts cover many stock animation designs from old and new cartoons, while also acknowledging specific designs that don't follow a standard template. Tom and Jerry is addressed as relying on this trope in "Animation School Lesson 9A - Tom and Jerry Again", but John acknowledges that their simple designs also make them ideal to study basic drawing principles from. In "Stock Disney Characters: The Bland Lead", he takes shots at Disney films using this, referring to characters like Penny and Jenny as "Pinocchio in Drag" and making a crack that Ariel is a trans Mowgli. In "The First Anime I Was Aware Of", he makes a caption of Jimmy Sparks saying "I will spawn a master race of cartoon characters who look exactly like me for the next 50 years and beyond, then we will take over the heathen American barbarians and their entire decadent entertainment empire!" In "Depressing Cartoon Studios 2: Hanna Barbera", he notices this about one of their Bible-themed cartoons. | |
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Twist Ending | |
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Twist Ending: In "How to End A Cartoon", John lauds the Fleischer brothers for their unpredictable and funny twist endings, using Bimbo's Initiation as an example. | |
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It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars | |
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It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars:invoked John defends early 1930's cartoons, which he considers generally disparaged and overlooked by critics in favor of Disney, as having their own virtues when put into context. | |
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Klingon Scientists Get No Respect | |
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Klingon Scientists Get No Respect: Invoked; John has made no mystery of his contempt for writers calling the creative shots in cartoons instead of the artists, especially since the artists basically did call the shots in the Golden Age cartoons, and since writers are held in higher favor in the contemporary animation industry than the animators, who usually have little to no creative input on the cartoons. He absolutely stresses that if you're going to work in animation, learn to draw well and use the medium visually. To drive the point home, in "Cartoonists, Lumberjacks and Middle Meddlers: Chainsaws 3", he drew an analogy of the situation, likening it to a lumberjack who has had experience in his craft for years being forced by someone who has never once picked up an axe to follow his instruction manual on how to do the job (the lumberjack in question, George Liquor, does try out the manual to be a good sport, but it ends up making the simple job of chopping down a tree turn into a needlessly convoluted mess). He is likewise critical of many animation history books, since he thinks that many of their writers don't practice the art form and only have a surface understanding of it at best, have never set foot inside of an animation studio, and tend to blatantly misrepresent animation history and what it's actually like to work in animation (which is a view also shared by older animators, such as the Disney and Looney Tunes artist Rob Givens). The books he praises tend to either be ones actually written by animators (I.e. John Canemaker's books), books that champion the merits of other classic cartoon studios and don't show favoritism to Disney's view of animation history (i.e. Leslie Cabarga's "The Fleischer Story"), or books that focus on the entertainment value of the films rather than editorializing about them (I.e. Leonard Maltin's "Of Mice and Magic"). | |
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Gratuitous Animal Sidekick | |
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Gratuitous Animal Sidekick: Briefly criticized as a cliche type of animation character in "Writing for Character" rather than plugging characters into a generic plot. | |
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Padding: invoked In his review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, he criticizes the film for (among other things) having what amounts to 10 minutes worth of plot stretched out to feature-length. In "Writing for Cartoons 1", he criticizes Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as being a movie with this same problem, and also setting a bad example for other animated movies to follow as a result. | |
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Broke the Rating Scale | |
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In his review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, he compliments elements of it, but felt it just didn't work as a film at all, giving it an even zero — which he adds is a much higher rating than he gives to most other animated features. | |
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Archetypal Character | |
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Archetypal Character: In "Stock Disney Characters - The bland lead", he discourages using characters whose role or personality is entirely defined by their archetype or a single defining trait, in favor of caricaturing real life people, who tend to have more shaded motives or odd quirks in their personalities. He does acknowledge some well defined characters can fit in a general archetype, but still have unique personalities in spite of that. In "When Cartoons Evolved 2- Bugs Bunny prototypes", he uses Bugs Bunny as an example of an archetypal heckler character given three-dimensional personality traits. "Specific Heads, Specific Expressions, Specific Gestures and Mannerisms": He talks in detail about how actor Kirk Douglas' appearance fits into the heroic archetype, almost like a cartoon design in real life, but still manages to be a specific variant of the look in spite of it due to his own unique appearance and movement as a result of both his physique and his distinct and inventive personal mannerisms, using his role in the film Detective Story as an example, and also compares and contrasts actors Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan as specific variations of the archetype. He also talks about how Burl Ives is an example of the "jolly fat guy" but also has specific traits that make him into a three dimensional personality and distinct looking person, using his role as Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country as an example. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: The cartoon character adorning the top of his blog page is a recurring character of his called Donald Bastard, an obvious parody of Donald Duck. "Wally Man 4 - Wally's Girlfriend" has a pig character named Petunia Man who is an obvious parody of Petunia Pig. | |
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Furry Confusion | |
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Furry Confusion: In "Mutant Cartoon Creatures from the Netherworld", he points out how weird it is to have a world of normal funny animals, animals with humanlike bodies and faces, and normal, nontalking animals all in the same place. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: Many of the blog posts make long, elaborate, and detailed arguments about why one would and should want to do cartoony animation or vulgar humor. | |
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Suicide as Comedy | |
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Suicide as Comedy: In a post about "An Itch in Time", it is recommended for an artist to learn to draw suicide pistols, as they are in big demand in the cartoon business. | |
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SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVersusFate | |
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Sliding Scale Of Free Will Versus Fate: Encourages storytelling driven by free will and discourages using contrived circumstances to create conflict in "Tale 2 Kitties - Clampett Film Pacing Structure", a post about Bob Clampett's A Tale of Two Kitties. He states that characters should feel like they are driving the stories themselves, and not be driven by some outside conflict or coincidence. | |
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Japan Takes Over the World | |
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Japan Takes Over the World: Parodied in "The First Anime I Was Aware Of", where John makes a caption of Jimmy Sparks saying "I will spawn a master race of cartoon characters who look exactly like me for the next 50 years and beyond, then we will take over the heathen American barbarians and their entire decadent entertainment empire!" | |
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Caption Humor | |
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In another post, he uses Caption Humor to compare Mala to a flying sperm cell. | |
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"Take That!" Kiss | |
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In "Bugs Bunny Evolution - Egg Shaped Head", he takes Bugs' "Take That!" Kiss to Elmer from A Wild Hare out of context, saying "Bugs is a fag. Is everybody mad now???" | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: The blog leans heavily towards the cynicism side of the scale, as it has no tact when it comes to discussing offensive subject matter or the hardships of life and being a cartoonist. The blog's definition of a real cartoonist (using cartoonists like Virgil Partch and Dan Gordon as examples) is basically that it requires you to be a hard-edged, salty person who has a no-nonsense outlook on life, but plays its hardships and the faults and hypocrisy of humanity for laughs. This, more than any other reason, is why the blog is in favor of cartoon animation of the kind like Fleischer and Warner Bros. did as opposed to that of Disney, whose worldview and style of cartooning is as far as you can get from that kind of abrasive outlook. | |
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Monochrome Apparition | |
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Monochrome Apparition: In "Naked Dead Baby With Dangling Parts Cut Off Construction", John notes with humor that Casper the Friendly Ghost's Bedsheet Ghost character design is probably the cheapest cartoon character design ever conceived; its so simplistic, even by animation standards, that it's basically Preston Blair-style baby construction stripped down to its bare essence ("Even ears are too expensive to draw!"), noting that while many characters are variations of this kind of figure construction, Casper is the only one that is nothing but construction. | |
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Color Contrast | |
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Color Contrast: The Curriculum Color Theory Posts are dedicated to color theory and how color theory from other mediums like illustration, fine art and real life can be applied to cartooning. He also notes how raw primaries and secondaries are nowhere as effective as more subdued palettes of carefully balanced color. | |
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Flat Character | |
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Flat Character: "Stock Disney Characters - The Bland Lead" considers Disney type characters to almost always be stock archetype characters with little to no personality beyond their defining trait and consisting of a large cast drawing from a very narrow and limited pool of simplistic personality traits with minor variations to make them stand out from each other, even labeling their cast as "Disney's Lonely World of Six Characters". However, in "Disney Gets Almost Specific", he lauds the early scenes of Captain Hook as setting him up to be a more charismatic, shaded villain, but felt the rest of the film didn't build on it. He also acknowledges the villain Madame Medusa as a specific character in "Character Design 2 - Primer". | |
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Take That, Critics! | |
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Take That, Critics!: Posts like "By What Criteria Do We Judge Quality?" take hearty potshots at what animation critics consider to make up an animated movie critical of praise (although in the same post, John is quick to say he doesn't paint all critics like this and likes some of them, like Leonard Maltin). In "Wally VS UPA 3 - Walt Craves Respect", John gives a backhanded compliment to Fantasia because it actually got sour critical reception in its original release due to being considered a kitschy and pretentious film. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: He is very critical of this kind of mindset, and his blog dedicates many posts pointing out cartoon formulas and how to break them, not merely in stories but in the various techniques used to make the cartoons. While he frequently cites Disney and Tom & Jerry shorts as laudable for their excellent craftsmanship, in "An Age Of Extreme Conservatism pt 2 - Cartoons Today", he considers their content to be extremely formulaic and conservative. However, he really reserves his hatred of formula for the many Dark Age shows he worked on, pointing out how the system of that time was geared against any kind of creativity. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: He rips into animated movies for constantly having preachy and insincere morals that the creators themselves don't believe, such as in his Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs review. In "Is It A Cartoon? Chapter 1", he uses a scene from an episode of Franklin as an example of the Littlest Cancer Patient (a kid who needs crutches to walk, but is playing on his friends' soccer team) being a red flag that you are watching a "Fake Cartoon". He sees it as putting forth a message that is not only shrewdly manipulative and cynical, but also inapplicable to reality. | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You | |
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The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: Inverted in the "What Disney Did Best" posts and a couple others, where John makes it clear that there are many elements of the classic Disney films that he admires—the sheer skill of the animation (it says a lot that even a vocal critic of Disney like him lists Milt Kahl as one of his many influences), the more dramatic moments (the ones that aren't "watered down with comic relief"), the rich colors and all around beautiful art direction and craftsmanship, the grandiose feel of their best movies, and so on—it's just that the content of them (i.e. stories, characters and gags) are bland and formulaic to him and thus hold no appeal to him. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he talks about how Superman artist Wayne Boring was an influence on his cartoon The Ripping Friends, feeling that his stiff, emotionally stoic art style fit the series and just served to highlight how preposterous superhero stories were, by playing them straight. | |
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Motion Blur | |
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Motion Blur: "Smears and Poses" has John talk about how the smear and blur techniques in cartoons like The Dover Boys influenced his style. | |
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Early Installment Character-Design Difference | |
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Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Discussed in the posts about the evolution of Bugs Bunny's character design from the late 30's up to the 50's. "Betty Boop Story Ideas" pitches an idea for a Betty Boop story called "What Kind Of Animal Am I?", which is inspired by the fact that Betty Boop was a dog in her earliest appearances. | |
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The Twelve Principles of Animation | |
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The Twelve Principles of Animation: Several posts address them in detail, and he believes the first five (Solid Drawing, Appeal, Exaggeration, Staging, and Timing) are all the basic needs for a cartoon, with the rest being accessory principles. In "The Essential Principals VS The Extras - Will Finn", he uses Roger Ramjet as an example of using those five principles alone and still being skilled and fun, while arguing in other posts like "Dizzy Red Riding Hood" that Disney and their followers' insistence on following the principles to the letter handicapped creativity in animation by imposing "arbitrary rules" on how animated characters can or can't move. In the same post, he recommends adding "Funny", "Clever ideas", "Imagination" and "Interesting or entertaining characters" as principles. In a post discussing the merits of Bob Clampett's early cartoons, he compares and contrasts a gag shared between Clampett's Porky's Badtime Story and Frank Tashlin's Porky's Railroad — a building getting turned inside out by a vehicle moving really fast. He shows how in Clampett's debut film, he was already experimenting with these animation principles by having Porky's garage turn inside out (from Porky speeding right out of it) in a very rubbery, squishy way that gives the gag impact, while noting how Tashlin's take on the gag (a train zipping through an above-ground train tunnel) has the tunnel animated to turn inside out in the most mechanical, literal and unimaginative way possible. | |
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Beige Prose | |
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Beige Prose: Encouraged when writing a basic story outline in the Writing for Cartoons posts "Keep It Simple and Short" and "Don't Write Too Much". "Writing for Cartoons 6" also warns not to use fancy words or prose for its own sake. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Encouraged in his color theory and background painting posts, which cite an eclectic variety of beautiful color schemes from fine art and illustration (along with cartoons) for reference points. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: In "2 Types of Cartoonists: Origin of styles 2 -Rubber Hose animation part B", he contrasts Disney and Fleischer's approaches to cartooning, highlighting how Fleischer's humor was very raunchy compared to what Disney did, even using rape jokes in cartoons like "Boop-Oop-A-Doop" (1932). | |
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Throw It In! | |
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Throw It In:invoked Discussed in a post about the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Barbary Coast Bunny", pointing out how Chuck Jones rewrote the dialogue to accommodate the kind of characterization Daws Butler brought to Nasty Canasta. | |
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Rated M for Manly | |
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Rated M for Manly: The blog is very much in favor of a sardonic, masculine worldview. Of course, this is to be expected from a blog run by the same guy who made The Ripping Friends and is a huge Kirk Douglas fan. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: John often writes out long posts against all kinds of modern stuff that he dislikes, and not all of it is about cartoons. He also frequently talks about how advertising to children, toys, movies... have gone downhill since 1970. | |
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Unfortunate Character Design | |
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Unfortunate Character Design:invoked In "By What Criteria Do We Judge Quality?", John jokes that Grandmother Willow looks like a face in a vagina. In another post, he uses Caption Humor to compare Mala to a flying sperm cell. | |
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Shoddy Knockoff Product | |
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Shoddy Knockoff Product: In "Comics by the LB", John talks about how as a kid, he could instantly tell the difference between a real, 'professional' looking comic against an obvious wonky knockoff, even briefly believing as a kid that Marvel comics were poor knockoffs of DC due to their sloppier inking and more eccentric design sense. However, he says these knockoff comics and more wild, energetic comics like Marvel helped him grow to appreciate skilled drawing styles that favor individual quirks over more polished and carefully balanced, but risk free, artwork like in DC or a Harvey comic. | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing | |
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Do Not Do This Cool Thing:invoked In "Jim Tyer Terry Toons Comics", he claims that Tyer is one of his favorite animators, but he also discourages students from studying his work since they can pick up bad habits from his work. | |
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Disney School of Acting and Mime | |
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Disney School of Acting and Mime: Discussed and discouraged in several posts as formulaic and insincere acting, once making an analogy that if anyone acted like a Disney character in real life without a hint of irony, it would come off as extremely embarrassing and juvenile. He does agree with the point Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston made in their book "The Illusion of Life" that it is impossible for animation to reach the same subtle acting as live action. John argues that real-life acting should be caricatured to make its point, instead of using stagey mime like acting. There are several posts that reference The Honeymooners as a good reference point for getting anti-formulaic acting into animation. He also cites Bob Clampett and sometimes Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson cartoons, and occasionally even Fleischer Studios cartoons like Popeye the Sailor for examples of non-Disney style animation acting. He even praises a Flintstones episode, "The Flintstone Flyer", for Carlo Vinci's animation having natural, believable acting, without following the Disney template. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: State to be a virtue of the B&W Popeye cartoons in "Popeye Rules", pointing out that directly adapting the story lines from the comics (which ran for weeks to months at a time) would have impractical or flat out impossible to do in a six-minute short cartoon, so they built custom situations centered around the characters' personalities instead (which the animation team not only kept intact from the comics, but built on them by adding unique voices, mannerisms and touches that were never in the source material). | |
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Homoerotic Subtext | |
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Homoerotic Subtext: Played for Laughs in "Solid Drawing Preview", where he jokes about Jim Hawkins being in love with John Silver (and his mom as well). Also Played for Laughs in "Beany and Cecil - The Weirdest TV Cartoon", where he refers to Captain Huffenpuff as gay and Cecil the Seasick Serpent as a "not very subtle visual metaphor with a catch phrase to advertise it; "I'm comin' Beany boy, I'm COMIN'!" In "Bugs Bunny Evolution - Egg Shaped Head", he takes Bugs' "Take That!" Kiss to Elmer from A Wild Hare out of context, saying "Bugs is a fag. Is everybody mad now???" "Chuck Jones, Style, and the Future - Bugs Bonnets", he makes caption jokes about how Bugs and Elmer get married in the ending of "Bugs Bonnets". In "Pinch and Outrage - Bob Clampett gift of perversion", he talks about a scene from a Bob Clampett cartoon ("Porky's Snooze Reel"), referring to the Doberman Pincer (who likes to go around pinching other dogs) as a gay and carefree pervert. "Stock Disney Characters: The Gay Arabic Villain", referring to villains like Jafar, speaks for itself. | |
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Sinister Schnoz | |
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Sinister Schnoz: Acknowledged as an animated feature villain cliche (referring to it as the "Turd Sniffer") in "The Gay Arabic Villain", using villains such as Frollo, Lady Tremaine and Anton Ego for examples. | |
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Unintentional Uncanny Valley | |
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Unintentional Uncanny Valley: invoked Discussed: In "Daffy In Book Revue-Cartoony Believable Action", he contrasts the totally unrealistic, exaggerated cartoon actions of Daffy Duck to the ultra-realistic approach of a motion-capture movie like Beowulf. He considers Daffy's impossible actions to be believable, because they use caricature to represent a strong personality, while he considers Beowulf to be completely fake and unbelievable for superficially (and pointlessly) copycatting reality. The "Dreamworks Mickey Mouse" doodle◊ in "Fanboy Admission and Genetics", which parodies the style of CGI in Dreamworks movies by depicting Mickey Mouse as a hairy, pore-infested creature with realistic eyes and giant human ears. | |
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BadassNormal | |
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Badass Normal: In "Wayne Boring's Superman", John talks about how Batman—a costumed superhero with no powers at all—is almost as ridiculous as Superman (who he considers a very preposterous character as is) because we are expected to believe we can't kill someone like him, and pointing out how the character is beloved because of this preposterous element. | |
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Author Appeal | |
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Author Appeal: He frequently discusses certain animated scenes he likes in detail. | |
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Hard Work Fallacy | |
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Hard Work Fallacy: "Do All Bland Movies Make Profits?" and "By What Criteria Do We Judge Quality?" criticizes the mindset behind making animated features as having them mindlessly follow Disney's example by being huge money sinks and having lots of hard animation to do for the sake of doing hard work (i.e. lots of realistic details, non-cartoony designs that are harder to animate, crowd shots, spectacle, millions of smooth inbetweens, the sheer amount of money and effort sunk into the projects in general, etc.) or trying to impress the audience, arguing that it is a complete waste of time because the audience really doesn't know about, care about or notice the effort or detail put into them, and that they should instead find intelligent, more creative ways of using their resources for far less time and money. "My Quality Criteria" acts as a counterpoint by listing John's own criteria for "quality".note Charistmatic fun characters, Cartoony, Humanity, Creativity, Skill, Fun, Funny, Did It Blow My Mind?, and "Does It Swing?" In general, one message the blog constantly hammers in is "Work smarter, not harder." | |
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Magic A Is Magic A | |
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As the above examples attest, John hammers home that if you want to make kitsch, then treat it like kitsch (unless your plan is to make fun of it) — don't treat kitsch as something to be taken seriously so you can crassly pretend it has genuine artistic merit behind it. | |
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Insult to Rocks | |
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Insult to Rocks: In "Depressing Studios 3: DiC", John describes DiC Entertainment as being such a terrible studio, that he claims their animation "makes Filmation look like 40s Disney", which is saying a lot considering just how much he hated working at Filmation. | |
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Deconstructive Parody | |
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Deconstructive Parody: Discussed in the post "Funny pathos vs cheap trick pathos- Ralph has remorse", and how he made Son of Stimpy as a Satire of shallow sad moments in movies and animated films, using every emotional tripwire in the book to make the audience cry over the most ridiculous plot element (namely Stimpy not being able to fart again). | |
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Crying Indian | |
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In "We Heard From My Indian Pal, Joe", John responds to comments about people considering an innocuous "Injun Orange" drink package racist by getting an actual Native American to look at it, who considers it totally innocent and abstract, and in the same breath decries Hollywood's stereotypical depiction of Indians as being either very stoic or of the Crying Indian variety. | |
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Excuse Plot | |
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Excuse Plot: A point brought up in his posts about writing for cartoons, such as "Writing for Cartoons 1", is that many cartoons very rarely have anything resembling a real story, and that most of the entertainment value comes from the emotional sensations and other ingredients of visual filmmaking. While his blog and Curriculum does have many posts dedicated to story and writing, he stresses that story is just one of the many creative ingredients that can be used to make a good cartoon, and that it isn't particularly necessary. He also says that a straightforward premise that can be described on one or two pages is more convenient for a cartoon, using such an approach for episodes like "Stimpy's Invention" and "A Yard Too Far". | |
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Clark Kenting | |
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Clark Kenting: In "Wayne Boring's Superman", the ridiculous nature of this trope is pointed out. | |
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InternalConsistency | |
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Internal Consistency: In "Tex Avery's Rational Story Structure", the cartoon Bad Luck Blackie is cited as an example of building on a basic premise with a well built gag structure (a kitten blows a whistle that summons a black cat to protect him from a bulldog, and every time the cat crosses the bulldog's path, something falls on it), while throwing in some twists here and there. He also acknowledges that the ending sensibly breaks the cartoon's own rules (namely, the bulldog gets things dropped on his head without having the black cat cross his path, all because he swallowed the whistle and keeps blowing it against his will) for the sake of pacing and humor. "Great Writing Can Be Found In Comic Books" cites a Donald Duck comic book as an example of good cartoon logic in action—a preposterous idea (a talking animal who lives in a world of talking animals finds it ridiculous that a dog can talk) that follows its own internal logic to make it funny. | |
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Invoked Trope | |
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"A Shameful Ignorant Stereotype" discusses how the Ren and Stimpy character Sven Hoek was intentionally written as an ignorant caricature of Nordic culture (which John notes encompasses hundreds of different kinds of sub-cultures), while in turn satirizing the idea of stereotyping cultures in the first place by playing a stereotype which people believe in completely straight, in order to mock viewers who would believe in it without tipping them off that they are being made fun of. | |
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Simple Country Lawyer | |
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Simple Country Lawyer: In "Color Theory 6 - Montealegre - Lion Hearted Huck", he quips "In my dumbass regular guy on the street who likes girls opinion..." | |
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Played for Laughs | |
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Also Played for Laughs in "Beany and Cecil - The Weirdest TV Cartoon", where he refers to Captain Huffenpuff as gay and Cecil the Seasick Serpent as a "not very subtle visual metaphor with a catch phrase to advertise it; "I'm comin' Beany boy, I'm COMIN'!" | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs: The subject of his four-part "Wally Walrus Vs. UPA" posts, where he unfavorably contrasts the more serious, artsy approach of UPA cartoons to those of standard funny cartoon shorts like those of Walter Lantz. | |
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Sweetness Aversion | |
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Sweetness Aversion:invoked A big factor in why he's so alienated by Disney and their followers. He finds their films so unmasculine, sentimental and sappy that he says there isn't any Disney film that doesn't make him want to reach for the fast forward button. | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character | |
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They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:invoked In "Disney Gets Almost Specific", he lauds the early scenes of Captain Hook as seeming like they are building him up to be this charismatic, shaded character, but expresses disappointment that the rest of the film did not build on it. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: In "Do All Bland Movies Make Profits?" and "By What Criteria Do We Judge Quality?", John is actually not in favor of doing this, or at least not in the way feature animation does it (i.e. lots of realistic details, non-cartoony designs that are harder to animate, crowd shots, spectacle, the sheer amount of money and effort sunk into the projects in general, etc.) seeing it as a huge waste of time and effort and lots of hard work for the sake of hard work that has nothing to do with entertaining people. However, in "Rock N Rule - Mok, Robin Budd and dog noses on humans", he does praise the scenes of Mok for how well animated they are, especially considering how distinctive and complex his design is by animation standards. Invoked this during his time on the 1985 season of The Jetsons, where he encouraged the animators working under him at Wang Film Productions to be expressive and break the guidelines given to them, something that they would adopt for most of their work going forward. | |
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Shallow Parody | |
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Shallow Parody: "A Shameful Ignorant Stereotype" discusses how the Ren and Stimpy character Sven Hoek was intentionally written as an ignorant caricature of Nordic culture (which John notes encompasses hundreds of different kinds of sub-cultures), while in turn satirizing the idea of stereotyping cultures in the first place by playing a stereotype which people believe in completely straight, in order to mock viewers who would believe in it without tipping them off that they are being made fun of. On the other hand, in "Writing for Cartoons 3", he heavily criticizes parody that only uses pop culture references where the joke just relies solely on the novelty of referencing something, as opposed to making a funny point about said reference, since he considers using caricature to make fun of something to be the entire point of cartooning. | |
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So Bad, It Was Better | |
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So Bad, It Was Better: invoked In "Canadian Animation — The Beginning", he talks about the show Rocket Robin Hood, saying he liked the first season better than the second because it was so cheesy and sloppy. In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he claims he prefers superhero comics before The '70s because he believed that their appeal came from just how ridiculous they were, and that they ruined this appeal when writers tried to rationalize and take the preposterous stories seriously. | |
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Superhero | |
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In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he claims he prefers superhero comics before The '70s because he believed that their appeal came from just how ridiculous they were, and that they ruined this appeal when writers tried to rationalize and take the preposterous stories seriously. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: In "What's Not To Love About Insanity?", John talks about how his cartoons are exaggerations of real-life events which he has experienced. He is surprised when his cartoons get called "unrealistic" as a result. In "We Heard From My Indian Pal, Joe", John responds to comments about people considering an innocuous "Injun Orange" drink package racist by getting an actual Native American to look at it, who considers it totally innocent and abstract, and in the same breath decries Hollywood's stereotypical depiction of Indians as being either very stoic or of the Crying Indian variety. | |
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Show, Don't Tell | |
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Show, Don't Tell: John adamantly stresses this in "Writing For Cartoons 9: Dialogue", that even if a cartoon is dialogue-heavy, that writing should only partly aid the storytelling in animation and not be the main storytelling tool. He also claims that blatant exposition, meta-humor that serves solely as a writer mouthpiece, and cliche dialogue are anti-character and actually undermine the humor. | |
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Story-Breaker Power | |
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Story-Breaker Power: In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he talks about how superhero comics were ruined in the 70's when writers tried taking the preposterous stories seriously, claiming the appeal of superheroes is in the fact that they are nonsensical in the first place, using the unstoppable nature of Silver Age Superman as an example. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: "Happy Father's Day" has John talking about how his relationship with his father inspired the Ren & Stimpy cartoon "A Visit to Anthony", and how John showed it to his dad and his friends. The next day, his dad told him he hated it. John initially assumed it was because he portrayed his dad as too rough in the cartoon, only for his dad to reveal that he hated it for the exact opposite reason—he made him look too soft. | |
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Propaganda Piece | |
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Propaganda Piece:invoked John dismisses The Illusion of Life as largely being Disney propaganda that claimed everything that was ever done with any quality or worth in animation only came from Disney, and said that the only good chapter in the book was the section on The Twelve Principles of Animation. | |
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Gravity Is Only a Theory | |
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Gravity Is Only a Theory: In "What's Not To Love About Insanity?", John takes a brief potshot at the kind of people who constantly preach the "Evolution is only a theory" mindset. | |
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Out-of-Character Moment | |
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Out-of-Character Moment: In-character writing is stressed by John. In "Writing for Cartoons 7", he points out that "In the Army" originally had a scene where Stimpy blows his top and chews out Ren for getting them in trouble. He thought it was funny, but realized it was completely out of character for Stimpy, since it's very difficult to actually get him mad. | |
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Designated Hero | |
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Designated Hero:invoked In "The Best Bugs — Pre 'Tude", he argues that Chuck Jones' later interpretation of Bugs Bunny turned Bugs into an unlikable and boring protagonist who, unlike in his 40s cartoons where he had to earn his victories by actively thwarting his foes, is basically handed his victories on a silver platter daily while doing little more than standing around and acting smug because his foes are so hopelessly incompetent and unlucky compared to him. | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled In Space: In "The Bygone Golden Age of Kids", he remarks in the comments that when he saw Star Wars in 1977, he unfavorably described it as feeling like he was watching Happy Days in space. | |
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Outside Joke | |
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Outside Joke: Some of the humor of the blog depends on readers either not having "geeky" knowledge or not caring about said knowledge. For example, "Pizzatime Doodle—The Phantom" talks about how ridiculous it is for superheroes to go around in their underwear and rhetorically asks where it came from, and a barrage of comments explained its origins (which John felt ruined the joke by missing the point of the whole post). | |
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Wild Take | |
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Wild Take: "Tex Avery Takes and a Sense of Design" discusses the use of wild takes in cartoons, discussing how Tex took a basic cartoon tool (a normal cartoon "take") and turned it into a funny and entertaining tool in itself, and how seeing them in cartoons like Northwest Hounded Police changed his life. He also points out that takes depend not on the story or even animation, but the design to work properly, comparing a strongly exaggerated Tex Avery take from Millionaire Droopy to a phoned-in, very mild wild take from the Popeye cartoon "Fright to the Finish", and also talking about how the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons used wild takes but missed the humor of it by the takes not being funny or well designed and being just plain ugly as a result. All three of the "What Causes Tit Eyes?" posts center on analyzing a milder form of this (the eyes getting really angular and pointy, but not big), using Chuck Jones' Mouse Wreckers as a source of reference. | |
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Vulgar Humor | |
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Vulgar Humor: John K is very much in favor of anti-politically correct comedy and considers vulgarity to be the most human form of humor, so the blog has many examples of it—but also adds that it's not being nasty for its own sake that makes it funny, but how the vulgarity is presented is what makes it funny. He cites an example from the Bob Clampett cartoon "The Wise Quacking Duck", where Daffy Duck tricks Mr. Meek into thinking his head was lopped off by his axe, hamming up his death throes by screaming like crazy and spraying ketchup in lieu of blood everywhere, and then walking out headless (his head is actually hidden inside of his neck), flailing around like a headless chicken and collapsing right in front of Mr. Meek, to the latter's horror. He points out that the scene is presented in such a ludicrous way, that it takes what could have been just a morbid or mean-spirited gag in the wrong hands and makes it outrageously funny to watch. | |
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Parodied Trope | |
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Parodied In "Betty Boop Story Ideas", he pitches an idea for a Betty short called "The Littlest Mermaid", which would star Betty in the role of the mermaid and have her fall in love with a rotoscoped prince living on land (whose parents are tiny cartoon characters who don't approve of the romance). They would elope in a cottage, and 2 seconds later (the gestation period of classic cartoons) would be followed by rotoscoped CG kids in fish bowls on wheels. | |
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Cliché | |
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Cliché: Many posts are dedicated to the process of learning creative skills and spotting cliches in animation so they can be broken and avoided. He considers an analytical mind to be very important for an artist in "Cartoon College Year 3". | |
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Rule 34 | |
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Another post takes a jab at the artwork of the openly gay Disney artist David Kanewa and his Rule 34 artwork of Disney characters. | |
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More Popular Spinoff | |
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More Popular Spin-Off: invoked Discussed in "Art Lozzi 3-HB Starts to Standardize", which discusses how Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera realized how popular the Yogi Bear segments of The Huckleberry Hound Show were and, in an astute move, decided to give him his own show two years later. | |
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Filler | |
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Filler: "Writing for Cartoons 3: P.O.V., Ideas, Sincerity" brings this subject up, specifically referring to things like Character Arcs as a waste of the audience's time and having zilch to do with entertainment. | |
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Glurge | |
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Glurge:invoked Besides considering the content of their films bland and trite, John K. also feels that animated features by Disney and its followers use blatant Oscar Bait on a daily basis and are too emotionally manipulative and preachy to come off as sincere. | |
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Random Events Plot | |
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Random Events Plot: Discouraged in "Writing for Cartoons 5, saying that even funny cartoons need some kind of structure and pacing, even if the story is simple. He uses the Ren and Stimpy episode "Black Hole" as an example of how the cartoon had funny ideas, but the sloppy structure hurt it. | |
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Lazy Artist | |
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Lazy Artist: Strongly discouraged, as he teaches that poor artistry is a serious handicap to not only being a functional artist, but using animation to its full creative potential, and he has numerous posts dedicated to sharing foundation skills of drawing. | |
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Accentuate the Negative | |
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Accentuate the Negative: The blog has more screeds and posts about things John dislikes and doesn't want people to do than it does about things he does like or approve of. Even when discussing something he likes, it's undercut with an aside about how someone or something else is doing it wrong. | |
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Motive Misidentification | |
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Motive Misidentification: "Writing for Character" mentions how this trope was partially involved in refining the ideas behind Stimpy's Invention. The initial idea of the episode was simply that Stimpy's inventions constantly backfired on Ren, but John quickly realized that it needed to take more advantage of the characters' personalities, so he added the idea that the well meaning but simpleminded and naive Stimpy thinks Ren is just unhappy, and is oblivious to the fact that it's his inventions that are making the already neurotic chihuahua more angry, so he invents the happy helmet to "solve" the problem. Once that was established, the rest of the story wrote itself. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Frequently used and Played for Laughs by the blog to constantly spit in the face of modern political correctness. | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender | |
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Equal-Opportunity Offender: In "I'll Leave This to Mike to Answer—and Anyone Else", John states that comedians and cartoonists should do this and that everybody should be a comedic target, and that this is a big reason why political correctness is so toxic to comedy. | |
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Rotoscoping | |
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Rotoscoping: Discouraged in a comment to a student, saying it doesn't help animation at all and looks terrible. In "Daffy In Book Revue-Cartoony Believable Action", he also criticizes Beowulf for relying on motion-capture to heavily ape reality, even saying that they may as well have just shot the actors for real if they wanted it to be believable. Parodied In "Betty Boop Story Ideas", he pitches an idea for a Betty short called "The Littlest Mermaid", which would star Betty in the role of the mermaid and have her fall in love with a rotoscoped prince living on land (whose parents are tiny cartoon characters who don't approve of the romance). They would elope in a cottage, and 2 seconds later (the gestation period of classic cartoons) would be followed by rotoscoped CG kids in fish bowls on wheels. | |
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Oscar Bait | |
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Oscar Bait: In "By What Criteria Do We Judge Quality?", John accuses Disney and its followers of shrewdly exploiting this trope with pathos scenes in an attempt to get critical respect for animation. | |
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Caustic Critic | |
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Caustic Critic: John K pulls absolutely no punches when it comes to ripping into the flaws of other works or taking potshots at other studios for not living up to his extremely high standards—and what does live up to his standards usually consists of a very small and narrow pool of animation and comics, usually consisting of classic movies and TV shows. Ironically, he will also rip into something he likes just as hard—for example, he is a diehard fan of early Hanna-Barbera for elements such as their great design, colors and characters, but he feels the cartoons were too conservative to live up to their full potential, and he also rips into them for their terrible stories and incredibly slow pacing, and he tears apart their works made after the mid-60s for throwing out the good elements of their earlier cartoons. Not even his own productions are safe from this - he constantly advises people not to look at Mighty Mouse or Ren & Stimpy as inspiration, and he looks at The Ripping Friends and The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil with almost as much contempt as his stint at Filmation. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Writing for Cartoons 7" says not to use them, and that the ones that popped up in his cartoons came out entirely by accident. | |
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Mickey Mousing | |
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Mickey Mousing: "Timing Story To Melody" discusses how vintage cartoon directors structured their animation around music, sometimes in a straightforward way before the music was even composed (but planned to a tempo), planned directly around a specific piece of music, and sometimes in a more creative, intuitive way. He points out how cartoons like those directed by Bob Clampett play out more like visual music, rather than as a straight narrative. | |
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Digital Destruction | |
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Digital Destruction: Trope Namer; his blog has done several posts addressing issues with the restoration of classic cartoon dvds, with particular regards to DVNR line erasing and tampering with the original colors. | |
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Animation Age Ghetto | |
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Animation Age Ghetto:invoked In "Walt Craves Respect", John speculates that Walt Disney pushing so hard for his movies to have more serious content and realistic art in projects like Fantasia was a shrewd attempt to pander to critics and convince them that his studio was a real arthouse and not just a fun lowbrow cartoon studio. John is quick to point out how this backfired in Fantasia's initial release because Walt also tried to pander to general audiences at the same time with the film's cutesy elements and clear cut morality, keeping critics from taking the film seriously. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The blog takes a lot of potshots at different things, including major animation studios like Disney (particularly the post Walt Disney films), Don Bluth and Dreamworks, Saturday morning cartoons from the 70's and 80's and the studios that made them like Filmation, DiC Entertainment and Ruby-Spears, and filmmakers like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, along with their most famous films (i.e. Star Wars, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Spielberg's cartoons like Animaniacs, etc.) "Whats Not To Love About Insanity?" takes potshots at bible-thumping revisionists who believe that evolution isn't real, believing them to be a display of stupidity that is far more offensive than what people actually consider offensive today, namely a innocuous orange drink package with a cartoony "Injun" face on it. "Appeal 1-Starting With Cuteness", "No More 'Tude" (no longer on blog but available on Archive.org) and "Clampett- Porky's Snooze Reel- MAN animation" infamously took a potshot at the early works of Kyle Carrozza for being "unappealing" and "wonky", as well as accusing him of copying from his "Anthony's Dad" design, claiming his cartoon lineup was a furries-based sitcom, poking fun of his self-caricature for having a sneer look with half-closed eyelids and mentioning him as a cartoon man who would "probably wouldn't be much fun to hang around with". Another post takes a jab at the artwork of the openly gay Disney artist David Kanewa and his Rule 34 artwork of Disney characters. "Fanboy Admission and Genetics" has John take a potshot at journalist Thad Komorowski for painting him in a very bad light in the book Sick Little Monkeys, by drawing a grotesque caricature of him as a hateful, snot-nosed puppet with the pic caption "Puppet Aspergers". "Ripping Friends Vehicles and More" has a drawing of a tank about to fire at a Pikachu. "Its Been A Whole Year So Thanks", which explains the origins of the blog, starts off with what is basically a big snipe at animation historian Michael Barrier (unnamed in the post, but the description of who John is talking about clearly refers to him), who John once got into a heated email spate with. | |
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DogFace | |
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Dog Face: In "Mutant Cartoon Creatures From the Netherworld", he talks about how the use of his trope in funny animal comics (putting animal noses on humanoid looking animals) creeped him out as a kid, but he got used to it as an adult. In "Rock N Rule - Mok, Robin Budd and dog noses on humans", John praises parts of Rock and Rule for moments of really good animation and the unique design of Mok, but also points out some of the film's flaws, such as the weird and unappealing designs, that are basically realistic humans with dog noses slapped onto their faces. He especially points out how strange it looks on Mok, because he is specifically designed to look like Mick Jagger and not Pluto the dog. | |
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That Makes Me Feel Angry | |
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That Makes Me Feel Angry: Likewise, having characters merely describe their feelings is a big no-no. Of course, a rule can be broken with care, such as when Ren says "I'm so angry..." in Sven Hoek, when he's clearly having a lot more complex emotions than mere anger. | |
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Wingding Eyes | |
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Wingding Eyes: In "Wonderful Cartooniness", a post about the comics of animator Dan Gordon, he points out the combination of a character's angry expression with the cartoon symbolism of skulls in her eyes, which he says doubles the impact of said expression. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
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Dull Surprise: In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he talks about how the stiff, emotionally stoic art style of Superman artist Wayne Boring was an influence on his cartoon The Ripping Friends''. | |
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Rubber-Hose Limbs | |
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Rubberhose Limbs: The beginnings and evolution of them are talked about in "Evolution of Macaroni". | |
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Satan | |
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Satan: In "Wonderful Cartooniness", while analyzing a Superkatt comic where Satan appears, he quips that he is a real a child pleaser in cartoons - right up there with Adolf Hitler. | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better! | |
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Let's See YOU Do Better!: "Comment Rules" says he won't allow comments from amateurs (or people who can't draw) criticizing professional artists. | |
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Mum Looks Like a Sister | |
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Mum Looks Like a Sister: Played for Laughs In "Solid Drawing Preview", where he takes a potshot at Treasure Planet, joking about Jim being conflicted on whether he should marry John Silver or his mom (who he claims looks the same age as Jim). | |
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Non-Standard Character Design | |
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Non-Standard Character Design: For all the flak he gives Disney for their stock design templates, he acknowledges the wolf kids from "Three Little Wolves" and celebrity caricatures in shorts like "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" as standing out in their works. He also compliments Madame Medusa as being a unique (if heavily copied) design for Disney, but understands that because of how complex and specific her character construction is, only one man on Earth (Milt Kahl) could have animated her! In "Rock N Rule - Mok, Robin Budd and dog noses on humans", he praises the scenes of Mok for not only how well animated they are, but also because they were able to animate Mok's design at all, which (dog nose and Nelvana style eyes aside) is a very unorthodox and complex design by cartoon standards and would normally be impossible to animate. | |
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Writing by the Seat of Your Pants | |
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Writing by the Seat of Your Pants:invoked In "Artists Finally Win Some Respect and Credit", John mentions offhand that the Ren and Stimpy episode "Fire Dogs" was improvised in an afternoon to fill in for a rejected George Liquor-centered episode. | |
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GuiltyPleasure | |
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Guilty Pleasure: In "Pizzatime Doodle—The Phantom", John says he considers classic superhero comics to be this due to the inherently preposterous nature of their stories. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: In "Appeal 1-Starting With Cuteness", he says he likes to "add a pinch of retardation to my cute drawings sometimes to make fun of appeal." (In context, the caption refers to a dead-eyed drawing of Yogi Bear and Boo Boo which John created) | |
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Deus Exit Machina | |
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Deus Exit Machina: In "Wayne Boring's Superman", he points out how the writers of the Silver Age Superman comics had to constantly find ways to work around the fact that their starring character is a guy who could juggle planets with his pinky and time travel as effortlessly as going on a Sunday drive in order to give him something resembling a conflict, such as robbing him of or changing his powers or appearance on a daily basis. | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
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Damned by Faint Praise: In his review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, he compliments elements of it, but felt it just didn't work as a film at all, giving it an even zero — which he adds is a much higher rating than he gives to most other animated features. In "Stock Disney Characters: The Bland Lead", John describes Mickey Mouse as the ultimate bland character, because everything about him is completely generic, from his circle and oval design to his stock falsetto voice and complete lack of a distinguishable personality. He admits that he's a cute character and makes a good logo after the fact. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: In "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cartoons", he felt that Fleischer Studios suffered from going in this direction by abandoning their urban cartooning in favor of imitating Disney, although he admits they were still doing some nice animation. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: In "Writing for Cartoons 10", he parodies a thrilling scene from the 1951 film On Dangerous Ground, by having a cartoonist hunt down and beat up a scriptwriter, all just for writing the Filmation cartoon "Disco Droopy", only to be stopped and chewed out by his boss. The point, of course, is to contrast the kind of dialogue used in movies like that to the dialogue of a typical cartoon script posted below it. | |
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Just Here for Godzilla | |
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Just Here for Godzilla: invoked John claims the only part of The Illusion of Life that's worth reading is the chapter on The Twelve Principles of Animation and that the rest is just Disney propaganda. | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient | |
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Littlest Cancer Patient: In "Is It A Cartoon? Chapter 1", John points to this trope as a red flag that you're watching a "fake" cartoon, using a character from Franklin (who clearly needs crutches to walk, but is playing on his friends' soccer team) as an example of an insincere message being put in to make the cartoon to tripwire fake emotion. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: The blog prides itself on how abrasive, immature and vulgar its humor is. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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He rips into animated movies for constantly having preachy and insincere morals that the creators themselves don't believe, such as in his Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs review. | |
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Horrible Hollywood | |
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Horrible Hollywood: John does not paint the animation business as being a pleasant place to work in. Among his tales include "Ideas - Arenas - The Modern Way To Write Stories", where he describes taking a visit to DreamWorks Animation and coming back with an Executive Meddling horror story. | |
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DreamWorks Face | |
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Dreamworks Face: Criticized and mocked in "'Tude Treats", with examples like 90's artwork of the Looney Tunes, Sonic the Hedgehog and many feature animation studios like Dreamworks being present. At the end, he takes a shot at his own cartoon for Ren using the expression on one occasion. | |
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Romantic Plot Tumor | |
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Romantic Plot Tumor:invoked "Writing for Cartoons 3" criticizes the MGM Marx Brothers movies for falling back on this element at the expense of their comedy. | |
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Quantity vs. Quality | |
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Quantity vs. Quality: Discussed in "By What Criteria Do We Judge Quality", specifically referring to the heavily detailed, super high-budgeted aesthetics of features like Shrek. John gives the analogy that a layman audience member or critic would believe that this excessive quantity of details gives the impression of a better product, as opposed to a more economical approach to animation. In contrast, John's own criteria (discussed in "Soupy Sales - Pookie sings "I'd like to know"") is that a film should rely on pure skill and entertainment, regardless of budget. In a humorous analogy, he contrasted the multi-million CGI Shrek to the approach of an incredibly low-budget vintage tv show (namely, a Soupy Sales puppet skit) which relied on pure talent and skill alone. | |
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Limited Animation | |
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Limited Animation: Many posts are dedicated to the virtues of low budget cartoons and that many techniques can be learned from them, and that low budgets are no excuse for lack of skill or cheating your audience out of entertainment, pointing to shows such as Roger Ramjet, Beany and Cecil, and The Flintstones as proof you can make a good cartoon with only the most paltry budgets. He points out that the problem with most Dark Age cartoons wasn't the lack of budget or the use of the trope, but that any kind of creativity was actively discouraged or impossible to put in the cartoons. | |
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Friend to All Living Things | |
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Friend to All Living Things: Parodied in a dark way in "Betty Boop Story Ideas", where John pitches a Betty Boop story called "Feeding the Animals", which involves Betty doing just that. One gag in it involves Betty feeding a ladybug, and then a cute praying mantis comes up to Betty and asks her for food—Betty complies by feeding the ladybug to the mantis. | |
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World of Jerkass | |
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World of Jerkass: In "Bob McKimson Tribute", he talks about what he loves about the cartoons of animator and director Robert McKimson, such as how almost all of his characters are grumpy, middle-aged curmudgeons, with the main contrasts in the different characters' personalities being how smart or how stupid the various curmudgeons were. He goes on to claim Bob's worldview showed the world to be "a hornet's nest of swindlers and wiseasses who go through life shouting, manhandling and pushing each other around - just like real life would be if we were unfettered by political correctness and insincere manners." John also notes the irony of how in real life, Rob was by all accounts a soft-spoken, conservative and pleasant fellow. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: The three "Rise and Fall of Construction in Cartoons" posts discuss Disney's evolution in art from the late 20s up to the 30s, 40s and 50s, (briefly dismissing their works from the 90s) covering how other studios adapted and evolved as well. "Evolution of Macaroni" gives a more general picture of how rubberhose animation from the old cartoon studios evolved over time. | |
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Gonk | |
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Gonk: Played for Laughs in "The Most Beautiful Girl in Cartoons", taking pictures of Olive Oyl from "For Better or Worser", where she is deliberately drawn unattractively to setup the cartoon's punchline, out of context. | |
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Hobbes Was Right | |
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Hobbes Was Right: In "Bob McKimson Tribute", he lauds the cynical worldview of Robert McKimson's cartoons, saying he shows the world to be a hornet's nest of swindlers and wiseasses who go through life shouting, manhandling and pushing each other around and that real life would be like that if it weren't for political correctness and insincere manners. | |
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Lost in Imitation | |
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Lost in Imitation: Criticized late in "Observation, Creativity, Influence, Stealing, Blind Absorption of Styles", claiming that just copying influences without analyzing can lead to unintentionally plagiarizing from said influences. | |
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Sissy Villain | |
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Sissy Villain: Criticized as an animated feature cliche in "Stock Disney Characters: The Gay Arabic Villain", a tongue-in-cheek post referring to villains like Jafar and how his roots derive from outdated villain archetypes like Simon Legree and other older Disney villains like Captain Hook, and how this kind of character would be considered hopelessly outdated to use in a live-action film, even if it was a comedy, but is still used without irony in animation. | |
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Political Correctness Is Evil | |
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Political Correctness Is Evil: The blog has a very libertarian slant to it, as John believes modern cartoons suffer badly from political correctness, also pointing out the double standard of this kind of people having a Holier Than Thou mindset towards the people they consider offensive. In "I'll Leave This to Mike to Answer—and Anyone Else", he wrote a lengthy response to someone accusing a vintage "Injun Orange" flavor of the defunct Funny Face drink mix brand of having racist intentions. | |
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Tom Hanks Syndrome | |
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Tom Hanks Syndrome:invoked Discussed in a few posts. John is not a fan of cartoons doing this in a non-comedic context and sees it as a shrewd, cheap way of pandering to critics and emotionally trip-wiring audiences in order to get artistic respect in animation. In "Walt Craves Respect". John believes that Walt Disney tried going in a more serious direction with features like Fantasia because he wasn't happy about the fact that making funny cartoons didn't get him the critical praise or respect which live-action filmmakers received, so he tried pandering to what he thought critics took seriously, like more naturalistic designs, lush art, classical music and darker thematic elements to get their favor. John also points out that it backfired horribly in its initial release, getting panned by critics and flopping at the box office. In "Wally Walrus VS UPA part 1", he criticizes UPA for doing this, seeing them as a group of snobbish elitist animators who thumbed their nose at the approach of other animation studios, singling out cartoons like The Unicorn in the Garden as going out of their way to be as dreary and anti-cartoon as possible in order to pander to critics. He isn't a fan of live-action movies doing this either. In "Funny Pathos vs Cheap Trick Pathos- Ralph Has Remorse", he singles out E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as an example of a film using trick pathos to elicit an audience response. In general, he loathes Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for similar reasons as he does Disney, mainly for what he sees as them having a cynical, insincere and manipulative "Take my cake and eat it too" attitude towards eliciting serious audience emotion with emotional trip-wiring and pandering in films with trite or lowbrow content. As the above examples attest, John hammers home that if you want to make kitsch, then treat it like kitsch (unless your plan is to make fun of it) — don't treat kitsch as something to be taken seriously so you can crassly pretend it has genuine artistic merit behind it. | |
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Cliché Storm | |
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Cliché Storm:invoked He often ripped into animated features old and new for having formulaic story-lines, most infamously in his review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and his (deleted) impressions of Tangled, which he claims consists of nothing but formula. | |
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The Fundamentalist | |
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"Whats Not To Love About Insanity?" takes potshots at bible-thumping revisionists who believe that evolution isn't real, believing them to be a display of stupidity that is far more offensive than what people actually consider offensive today, namely a innocuous orange drink package with a cartoony "Injun" face on it. | |
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Underwear of Power | |
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Underwear of Power: Discussed in "Pizzatime Doodle—The Phantom", where John points out about how ridiculous it is for superheroes to go around in their underwear and rhetorically asks where it came from. Cue the comment section flooding with serious answers and discussion about the trope and missing the entire point of the post. | |
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