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The vast majority of adult entertainment is nothing but scatological references. Trying to make anything serious out of adult entertainment usually ends up getting cancelled

Irony is, if Adult Swim were geared more towards kids, we would see more meaningful messaging.

>>680863
>put paid to that
Intiguining, don't really know this idiom. I can intuit its meaning but it doesn't really ring a bell. Maybe I've read it before.

>Moral Orel
I think they gave a lot of support to that show. I think it's just to focused on a parody of a culture that is not relevant to their audience. Moral Orel as you know is a parody of "Davie and Goliath" which is a show I'm sure none of the people watching Adult Swim grew up watching. My boomer mother was familiar with the show but I never saw it. If you weren't raised Christian in America in like the 60s and 70s the parody would be almost completely irrelevant to you.

Almost the same thing goes for the Venture Bros, but as a millenial who grew up on Cartoon Network before they made Boomerang, I also grew up on the original Johnny Quest.

Boondocks is a completely different and unrelated story. I can go into that too but just thought I'd reply to the Moral Orel part first.

>>680894
Lol this fucking liar:

>The series has been described as "Davey and Goliath meets South Park".[3] However, Stamatopoulos denies the comparison with Davey and Goliath, telling The New York Times that Moral Orel grew out of a concept for a send-up of a Leave It to Beaver-style 1950s sitcom that would star Iggy Pop.[4]

Don't know why he needs to deny the obvious.

>>680897
>a send-up of a Leave It to Beaver-style 1950s sitcom
Even if you want to believe his statement, Leave It to Beaver was also culturally irrelevant by the 90s when I grew up. It used to come on after my Saturday morning cartoons on WB but I never watched that shit. I just know the opening because that's when I turned the TV or switched the channels.

I love Tim and Eric Andre! 'What doth life' hahaha

>>680948
hahaha i like when they act like they are serious but the situations are actually funny.

but how dare you talk shit about xavier you chomsky honk

>>680866
You can say the same for children’s media anon. That said, we do often get treasures like primal every once in a while

>>680894
>>680900
I think making fun of that stuff came back in style in the 00's because
1) There were still people who grew up surrounded by it. Davie and Goliath got reruns for years. It got featured in a Mountain Dew(?) commercial in the 2000, got a special in 2004. It's increasingly less relevant but this era must have been the last time it would be for a large audience.
2) The 00's had a lot of backlash against Bush and republicans and part of that included a lot mocking of conservative Christian ideals. It's arguably why Flanders on the Simpsons became more and more of a caricature of himself by the new millennium
And hell, on that point, lots of these people still grew up in Reagan's US too.
Leave it to Beaver I think it's one of those things that's more known as a symbol of an era than the show itself, so knowing anything about it beyond what it symbolizes isn't required. Family Guy is low brow(term originating from phrenology pseudoscience btw) and yet most of the middle schoolers and frat boys that loved it still wouldn't get half the references. Another thing is, a lot of TV is made by people obsessed with TV, so over referential shit gets made

Now if you're talking about Mr Pickles, I would agree with you. That show came out in the mid 2010's in the Obama era, most people watching had even less of a connection with Leave it to Beaver styled media, it still tried to do the 50's wholesome americana but with a le twist, gratuitous violence and sex that was better in Metalocalypse and SuperJail, that's when it would be cringe to still want to make fun of the 50's.

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>>681043
I think that was a big problem with Family Guy and Robot Chicken where they were obsessed with not only making old references but references to 80s childrens shlock, that of course no one younger than the creators would know. They even did an episode of Family Guy where Peter has to come to grips with the fact the 80s are no longer relevant and it's time to let go.

>Mr Pickles,
Never even heard of it. From my casual knowledge of Adult Swim they've seemed to not really have any hits since I really stopped watching besides Rick and Morty.

I think all those shows they reaired off of broadcast TV like Family Guy, Mission Hill, and The Oblongs(another 50s spoof) didn't really fit in with the vibe or the audience of their programming as much as the original content of course. I think Moral Orel kinda seems closer to those kinda shows that might be on broadcast vs the Adult Swim stuff.

I think for me the Adult Swim classics from the most classic era are like: Sealab 2020, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, etc. I love Venture Brothers, but I think the 15 minute episode is really peak Adult Swim.

>>681050
>I think that was a big problem with Family Guy and Robot Chicken where they were obsessed with not only making old references but references to 80s childrens shlock, that of course no one younger than the creators would know. They even did an episode of Family Guy where Peter has to come to grips with the fact the 80s are no longer relevant and it's time to let go.
One thing I noticed is that these shows start off being obsessed with one decade, and then times does its magic and eventually you realize there's some new writers with 90's or 00's references, a reminder that I'm getting old.
Early Family Guy was way more obsessed with the 70's than any other decade, then it became the 80's during the 00's.
The millennials and gen x'ers who made Robot Chicken would make constant He-Man references while their Pokemon and Spongebob parodies were basically "lmao imagine watching this trash, this is braindead ANYWAYS REMEMBER GI JOE?", and slowly but surely the writers became old and the new writers updated the references.
I haven't watched these shows in years though, I don't even know the Family Guy episode you're referencing(do not tell me either)
>Never even heard of it. From my casual knowledge of Adult Swim they've seemed to not really have any hits since I really stopped watching besides Rick and Morty.
I think that's one reason why Rick and Morty became so huge, there wasn't really anything else on that block. Boondocks was dying in real time, Black Dynamite was kinda niche, Primal came years later but that's for the real animation autists and not for stoners who just wanted to see farts and beer.

>>681051
>I haven't watched these shows in years though, I don't even know the Family Guy episode you're referencing(do not tell me either)
"Your '80s nostalgia isn't funny anymore"
<From the Family Guy episode 80's Guy
<(Season 20 Episode 4)
I put it on sometimes when I want to binge a bunch of random dumb humor. It's better than scrolling Tik Tok probably.