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#90s Cartoon Reboot
totallyhextra · 6 months
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People? In MY computer?? It's more likely than you think!
The following is a fanvertisment and is not connected to the show. ****Yet.*** *Also yes, this is the fourth time I'm posting this because TUMBLR WONT LET ME EDIT SPELLING MISTAKES!
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Once upon a time, back in 1987, Dire Straits put out this music video for “Money for Nothing”, which, as you know, was a song about wanting my MTV. 
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The video was made by two guys (Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson) on a very moody computer. After the video went out, these two guys went to a pub:
Ian: “Hey, we should make a whole show like this!”
Gavin: “Dude, making three minutes almost killed us.”
And so it was decided!🎉
The two guys were joined by two other guys (Phil Mitchell and John Grace) and created the Hub, which then became Mainframe Entertainment. They got even more people, and then they all holed up in this hotel.
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They were mad lads with a dream: a whole cgi animated show, and they made it happen a whole year before Toy Story!
Behold! ReBoot!
(Yes that fever dream was real)
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Now before I get any of this:
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Let me lay this down. If you can’t with the animation of the first season because it was CUTTING EDGE IN 1994, you can close your eyes and listen to it. ReBoot wasn’t just a CGI gimmick. The characters are fully developed, the voice actors are peerless, the plot is sharp, and there’s so many easter eggs that you’ll never find them all.
Never
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(And yes the episode "Bad Bob" was the actual catalyst for Fury Road. Look it up)
ReBoot is about what life is like in a computer (in the 90s, because it was the 90s) called Mainframe (because of course it is). People are sprites, the guys that look like 1s and 0s are binomes (which represent 1s and 0s). Bad guys are viruses, and the good guy is a Guardian named Bob, who is a certified cinnamon roll.
In the first season the eps are light and self-contained, mainly because there was constant friction between the Mainframe studios and the Board of Standards and Practices.
They still got away with some pretty dark stuff, like Megabyte (virus) making Enzo (the kid) watch his dog get sliced open (dog got away, obviously) , Dot (sprite) have a hallucinatory breakdown, and the fridge horror of realizing the thousands of worm things (nulls) that plunged off a bridge to their death were actually people.
And Hex's (virus
best girl) scary face single-handedly traumatized an entire generation. 🙂
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But busting through a window was a no go, because WhAt If tHe cHiLdReN dID iT tOo?
Anyway, halfway through the second season, ABC cut them loose, so they were like, fuck it, we’re going to start going hard. The story shifted from episodic to arcs and things start to get serious.
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Third season the show moved to YTV in Canada, which gave no fucks about shielding the innocent children.
So it got DARK
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How dark?
The UK refused to show the entire season, so the audience there had to wait until pirated copies made it across the pond to see how it ended.
Also by 1997, the animation was gorgeous. (Best example of third season animation I could think of that didn't have spoilers)
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The show was green-lit for a fourth season on Cartoon Network, but halfway through production Warner Bros took over and the same fucking thing happened.
Because Mainframe was halfway done, they decided not to scrap all of it, but knowing they wouldn't be able to finish it correctly, Mainframe stripped anything that would hint at Season Four's true ending, then left what remained on a cliff-hanger of angst.
FOR 22 YEARS
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(It's also why the last four eps of season four seem to make no sense)
And so it was.
Other crap happened, the soul left Mainframe, and its animated corpse spat out “The Guardian Code” in 2018. 
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But never say die! The year is (almost) 2024, 30 years later. ReBoot shall rise from the dead, because here come the documentary!!
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Do you dare see what you’ve been missing?
What the (UK) government doesn’t want you to know?? 
Then come on down to ReBoot!
We got:
Magnificent bastards with sexy voices!
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(Tony Jay at his best)
Kickass women who could probably crush your head with their thighs and you’d enjoy it!
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Innuendos in a kid's show!
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💗 This adorable cinnamon roll!! 💗
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Insane third season glow-ups!
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YOUR NEW GOD
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These guys!
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(Gay roller-skating binome is my boi. I named him Jerry)
Nonstop cultural refs (You'll never find them all. Never.)
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(There are literally videos dedicated to trying)
So many computer puns!
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Body Horror!
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Existential Crisis!
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HAVE I MENTIONED YOUR NEW GOD?
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This is it, folks! The real thing, the gem hidden in the moose-filled forests of Canadia!🌲🌲🌲
Take a trip inside a mid-90’s computer!
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See the World Wide Web! (omg):
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Witness the original purple Gamecubes that randomly fall from the sky when the owner of the computer (OUR GOOD LORD THE USER) wants to play a game. If it lands on people and they lose, they dissolve into mindless energy leeches, fated to tormented by their former bretheren for all of eternity.
Just like in real life! 🙃
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So watch the eps! They on YouTube!
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I think they're on Pluto, Hulu, Sling, and Tubi too! Also DVDs for people who have the patience to wait for them!
WATCH! BELIEVE! SUFFER THE SOUL-CRUSHING RAGE OF THE SEASON 4 CLIFF-HANGER!* (come on, its fun!)*
HYPE THE DOC!
The more people hype, the better the chances of actually getting it finished.
NOW SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE!
And now I will leave you with this screenshot from the ep "Painted Windows", where dicks can clearly be seen drawn upon the wall behind the fleeing anthropomorphized television.
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(PS: If you heard the clown pic at the top of the page in your head, you're welcome)
IMPORTANT UPDATE
This message is now approved by Gavin Blair! He's an awesome guy. Show him some love on TWITTER (fuck you musk) at @TheRealMrSweary Also, if you want to share this with non-tumblr friends, here is my attempt at a webpage version:
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teawinx · 20 days
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So do any of you remember "Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders"?
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The unholy lovechild of Sailor Moon, Barbie and She Ra from the 90s
Well I do, and I've been brainstorming a potential reboot. Like hypothetically I was approached to direct a reboot, this is what my ideas would be. That kind of deal.
So to start we've got the girls and their magical horse companions that are defo all horses yep yep yep
More to come!
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peteneems · 3 months
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animatejournal · 25 days
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The Pink Panther Studio: MGM Animation | USA, 1993
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The Evolution of Violence and the Macabre in Animaniacs
Nah this isn't gonna be some essay or something, I just think it's kinda funny how Animaniacs goes from having to put a smiley face on a bat to get away with Wakko hitting someone with it, and having to change the name of a segment from "Death or Consequences" to "Meatballs or Consequences" in season 1...
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...to season 5, where Wakko can be shown burying a corpse, and Wakko's Wish, where the Warners kick Salazar out a closed window at a large height, shattered glass and everything (after which the movie implies he gets mauled to death by dogs)...
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...to the reboot where they just straight up have a character be covered in blood onscreen, and there's a series of segments literally called "Murder Pals".
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ineffectualdemon · 3 months
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Remembering the cartoon ReBoot from the 90s...
That show was kinda fucked up wasn't it?
For anyone who didn't watch it or is too young the summary:
The show is set in the Mainframe, a city that lives in a computer. The story follows Bob who is the guardian of the system , his friend Dot Matrix and her little brother Enzo.
There are two viruses trying to wreck havoc but kept in check by Bob and the ever present threat of Games
When a game occurs a violet box is dropped on part of the city and everyone within that are is now an NPC which must fight against the user. Because if the user wins the area is destroyed and the residents are turned into "nulls" which are slug like things
Now that's horrifying enough but at one point a portal to the web opens up and Bob is sucked inside
Enzo and his friend (a copy of a game sprite named AndrAla and that's a whole thing on its own) try to defend the city before, to avoid being killed by a game and turned into a null, they start "game hopping" travelling through systems and growing up from kids into adults warriors
Going from this:
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To this:
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From one season to the next
It just gets weirder from there and in some ways darker
I really enjoyed this show when it first aired but the animation is very...90s. Especially the first season which came out in 1995
But yeah in retrospect that is a fucking dark story for a kids show
Like the main cast literally always had to battle for their lives to not be turned into mindless slug creatures
I remember them talking about how cruel the user must be and stuff. It was really weird
Compelling and fun though at the time
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killyjae · 6 months
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artaith-21 · 15 days
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Them: Here’s an image with Charley in it
Me: Put Vinnie in it with her and then get back to me
Them: Here’s the image now of Vinnie and Charley
Me:
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jimforce · 27 days
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jurijurijurious · 1 year
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I could have drawn a really cool fight picture between them but instead I offer a shitpost because Lord Zedd was so like this, no one can tell me otherwise.
I hope they've given Zedd back some dignity in the recent comics. There was a lot of wasted potential in that character.
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rob-demers-art · 2 months
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"It's Bucket O' Nothing! Surprise your friends, amaze your family, and annoy perfect strangers! Free, for only ninety-nine ninety-nine ninety-nine!" - Mike the TV
A while back I made a couple of Bob from ReBoot drawings, I always meant to get around to the other main characters since people liked them so much. The animation studio that made ReBoot, Mainframe Studios, even shared it on their socials! I thought I'd get back to them now that I got the inspiration flowing, starting with Mike the TV. He was one of my favourite characters but I could never find a toy of him. I had so many back then.
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totallyhextra · 6 months
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HEYYYY YOUUUU GUYYYYYSSSS!!!
ABSOLUTELY REAL MOVEMENT IN THE REBOOT WORLD:
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abbinurmel · 2 months
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I spent the past couple hours tailoring this aimless rant on YT, in response to a person merely saying how much they'd love for a reboot of 'Cow & Chicken' on adult swim, cos they could say whatever they like on there. I posted it here, cos YT doesn't wanna allow me to post anything right now, which is probably for the best.
This is gonna be a dumb rant. I got sucked down a rabbit hole, cos this is a favorite topic of mine to talk about and I'm procrastinating horribly on purpose on a lot of dull paperwork. So strap in before reading my garbage. You're warned now, don't hafta TLDR or whatever, thanks, I already know. …Anyways. For those who care about irrelevant, shitty opinions:…I love Cow & Chicken. A lot. On paper I know exactly why it seems like a great idea to reboot on 'adultswim', purely on the merit they do things more outrageously. I'm certain many would watch this. It's actually kinda weird there hasn't been one yet, when you think about it, given this age of rehashes. It already has the raunchy humor and gross art down, seems like a match made in heaven, right?- It'd be easy too, "Cow & Chicken" wasn't exactly lavishly drawn or had a big cast. Well… Much as I think there could be a slim possibility of it happening, for it to be good, and IF they do good, to be wildly entertaining…I don't think "Cow & Chicken" is going to ever get actually rebooted. And I don't think it benefits from being rebooted, either, which is really the only reason you should try to reboot things ever in the first place. The lore of an IP needs to benefit in being revisited, somehow, and ESPECIALLY, SPECIFICALLY, if brought back for adults. It is very unlikely gonna be executed right, ironically BECAUSE of this show's already semi-adult nature. And the reasons why, is endemic to why a whole lot of current modern shows, and movie/live action series remakes, are suffering too. -And no, it is NOT due to the reasons some of you're likely thinking of. It is NOT cos of any tired old: "things are just too safe and WOKE /PC culture now!" theories. (That sort of affair is highly subjective/means basically nothing or very different things to different people. Pretty impossible to gauge due to how all over the place/ludicrously out of touch with general fans censors and networks can be, no matter what their political leanings or personality is. Which can and do range all over the place. So I won't go into that topic as it's an entirely different problem to what I am talking about. Plus I was there for the 80s and 90s, its pretty silly to say we can not get away with any wild things these days, cos let me assure you, by comparison, there is a LOT technically more we CAN do and say now, in both kid's and adult shows, that would never get by in a million years 30 years ago. You couldn't even just say the word 'kill', 'poop' or 'die' then, most the time. Let that sink in.)
…See to me, if it ironically hadn't ever been restrained by censors/made for kids, C&C might've been NOWHERE as good. Like. At all. It might've actually been one of the worst CN shows aired. Just 100% annoying gross-out show laziness, like a lot of shows of its era. The main reason it didn't flop was cuz 1) duh, Charles Adler, the main voice, and 2) it did its 'thing' the way original 'Ren & Stimpy' did. It didn't beat for beat copy them. Their writing/visuals just simply knew how to cross the line JUST enough, keeping the raunchy humor tucked in JUST as far as they could push it, but knew also on the whole how to always stay utterly light hearted, simple and goofy. That's where its core identity is. It's the dumb blithe enthusiastic Innocence of pretty much the entire cast, and the goofy simplicity of the plots/gags, while they get to say out the side of the mouth much more 'mature' sinister things….It works purely b/c of that contrast; sometimes with innuendo being camoflauged extremely subtly, sometimes NOT subtly at all. -But it would always go ping-ponging gracefully between the two. Never too much Idiotically Innocent, or too Smugly Adult and Crass. It would do this, with actual wit. It didn't JUST have gross visuals or say dirty jokes. It did all this with a theatrical, self-known flair. Shows like C&C and its fellow Golden Age shows basically are very good at doing what franchises like Monty Python were known for, and what Regular Show and Gravity Falls and similar would do later on, just with more visual ugliness.
…Meanwhile, a lot of other 1990's/current shows DO NOT have this memo. They do not have that balance, they lack the awareness of what is the difference between 'sneaking in occasional very dirty jokes with wit' and "throwing every and any kinda joke at a wall and not even bothering to look at what sticks." A LOT of 'gritty comedy parody reboot' things are doing this, and also doing this same idea just with the "dramatic tropes" instead of comedic tropes too. ….Including Ren & Stimpy itself. -Once 'The Ren & Stimpy Show' moved to SpikeTV, they went fully 'adult', and by direct result went 1000% downhill. I don't ascribe that to just poor writing(the original has flat stupid writing too), or ugly looking animation (so is the original). Not even John K.'s…ahem, history. If you fixed his behavior, and abusive attitude; made all his notoriously horrible bad jokes tamer, I still think 'Adult Party' would've tanked, because doing this concept in of itself is a fool's errand. It's not just rebooting nostalgic childhood IPs that's the problem, but specifically attempting to repackage something that was already a mild bit 'tawdry', so now that it is INTENTIONALLY for adults only. Whenever the entertainment industry does that 'gritty effect', be it games or movies or Netflix or comic books, it's 8/10 doomed, because you essentially neutered the core joke or appeal. You've taken away the cool 'taboo' point of saying hidden naughty/clever things, in a story you're not SUPPOSED to. You're able to state and do whatever you want, and so there's not only no leash to hold down any of the weaker ideas, there's almost no "rebellious challenge" to its bite whatsoever, even when those jokes/story ideas succeed. Noone is gonna be shocked or laugh nearly as much when a Red Guy says "KISS MY ASS!" unironically in an adultswim show, as they would if he says "KISS MY ASS!!!!!!….-Her name is GERTRUDE! :D" -and then happily pulls onstage a donkey wearing a big bowtie in on a rope, because this renders it now a pun and technically 'child safe' to flaunt now. (This isn't a real joke from the show btw, I'm only making this up for convenience. But you get the idea. It's the precise sort of silly thing you know he'll do. :P )
Neither the audience nor execs are 'prey' anymore for the writers to be creatively poking the boundaries with, when you remove that expectation. It's different if your IP started with an already adult geared story to begin with, but, when it's a full on polar opposite shift in tone and/or age demographics like that, it's almost always pulled off in a confused messy way, because even the original work's creators themselves, (IF they're even kept around, or are familiar with the source material if they are new), are trapped now in completely unfamiliar territory. Without a deeply wild reinventing of the show's lore or main tenets(a thing which nobody has ever been upset by on the internet!), it usually doesn't have anything else to stand on, especially with a purely episodic comedy show, like Cow and Chicken is. Once you take out this 'vulnerability' in our dynamic, between child/censor guardians, and writers, this main core joke of not knowing what the writers are and are NOT actually going to get away with is gone, and so much of the stakes now is irreversibly lost. Sometimes being hidden from the details is what makes a gag all the more funnier, or a scary scene all the scarier, or a cringe scene all the cringier. If we take away this, things lack a lot more of the colorful shock & ridiculousness. The main DNA in these classic "deranged shows", like Ed, Edd n Eddy, Ren&Stimpy, Rocko and C&C, that a lot of nostalgic fans, and current show-runners often alike forget; is the simple fact that such shows had to weigh the balance of: 'being a sincere kid show' and 'trying to get away with something they're not supposed to'. …With very deep emphasis on the words: "GET AWAY WITH". To me, a show is not getting "away" with something good, be it a message, a joke, a deeper sense of drama, if you constantly always spell it out for us, and we know you lose nothing and have to take no creative risk by displaying it for the audience. You're not really earning a prize, if someone just right at the start, hands you a medal. In other words….Every good memorable/subversive classic cartoon show, is not beloved just because they got to have crazy visuals, or say and do unhinged jokes. …You needed to be MEMORABLY STRANGER for having those qualities, in the first place. If you do something unhinged and bizarre, but coming in I expect to see it, is it really an unhinged show?
See, there's a reason why most of the frequent reboots of Scooby Doo like 'Velma' atrociously fail. And it's not because they changed someone that was formerly white, or made someone like Shaggy have a different name, or backstory. Or even because they overhauled an old wholesome character into a rude, toxically mean, judgemental unpleasant character. Yes this does affect some tastes, but on the whole, that wasn't the core problem for most watchers. LOADS of shows have a morally awful, pompous, or an incompetent, chaotic mess for a central protagonist, or reinvent them in some way if they come from an old property. Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, and Space Ghost Coast to Coast did more or less exactly what "Velma" does, where they took an old IP and completely transformed their roles/upgraded their style of humor for a more adult audience. Rick & Morty has a toxic main protagonist. South Park has four of them. Family Guy and American Dad has them, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, the list goes on. Even kid shows do this, and sometimes get away with it well too: Dan Versus did it well so did Ren and Stimpy, again, back when it understood how it worked. Having a mean protag or changed fundamentals, isn't why so many reboots don't work. …What happens with bad modern remakes of Scooby Doo, (and not just in shows like Velma), is often that they forget how to make things have that beautiful sense of contrast, that Cow and Chicken does, in its writing. They do not know how to both show this is a show rooted in something sincere, WHILE ALSO saying outrageously dirty/surreal/mean/pompous or dark things inside that vessel. The appreciation for the context of its background, is what makes shows like 'Mystery Inc.' and 'Zombie Island' work, while Velma and other SBs, do not. If we took Cow & Chicken, stripped it of it's irony, what else do we have except yet another dime a dozen weaker show, constantly going 'haha, me say the rude words!/do the gross bad thing again!' adult oriented show, with no fangs? Another exhausting reboot, which takes yet another unoriginal idea, robs its reputation, and wastes our time? …There's a way to do this kind of thing right. I just do not think most people, not even some of the most talented in the business, have the freedom or ability to do so. Not even Samurai Jack, a legend of an animated program, escaped this 'update it for adults!' treatment unscathed. If you're gonna update something for adults, you really have to think about WHY it was good in the first place. Not take just what you had, and stamp lots of expletetives or flashes of red to indicate actual blood on there. You need either to actually SAY something, completely useful and different, or, just stick to your guns with the old formula, and do it so well it exceeds the hype for the original. Which is also near being impossible to do. Hence, it begs the question, why do it at all?
…Sorry for this TEDTalk, I just love being an absurd mess at 2AM when I have better more boring adult things to do.
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peteneems · 11 months
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etaleah · 2 years
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“Pinky Is the Genius, Brain Is Insane!”
I’ve seen this idea floating around a lot in the Pinky and the Brain fandom, the notion that Brain is insane for wanting to take over the world and Pinky is actually a secret genius who is only pretending to be stupid for the sake of foiling Brain’s plans. And I have to say, I don’t really care for it.
I could point out the easy issue with it, the fact that Pinky always acts the same even when Brain isn’t around and there’d be no reason for him to pretend anymore. But more than that, I think Pinky being a secret genius would actually make them less compatible as friends and make the show as a whole much worse. And I can think of no clearer example of this than the Christmas special.
The Christmas special is widely considered to be one of the best episodes of all time and is cited by Maurice LaMarche and Rob Paulsen as their favorite Pinky and the Brain moment ever. They talk a lot about how the reason the show works is because it’s about love, and that’s exemplified by Pinky’s letter to Santa where he asks for his own Christmas presents to go to Brain instead, and Brain is so touched by this that he can’t go through with his plan. It’s a genuinely sweet, heartfelt moment full of love and warmth.
But if we look at it through the lens of “Pinky Is the Genius and Is Only Pretending,” then it turns into a ploy. The letter becomes a manipulation tactic to take advantage of Brain’s emotions and trick him into doing what Pinky wants. It becomes an act of underhanded sabotage rather than an act of friendship and kindness. And maybe I’m alone here, but I don’t think that’s a better setup. In fact, I think it’s significantly worse.
The reason Brain can be friends with Pinky in the first place is because Pinky isn’t as intelligent as him (or is intelligent in a very different way). Whenever there’s a character around who’s smarter than Brain, he doesn’t handle it well. He hates being told he’s wrong and has a constant need to be the smartest being in the room. It’s part of why he wants to rule the world in the first place: so that he can be the smartest, the best, the brightest, the most powerful. Brain is actually a super insecure character, and that insecurity is revealed quickly whenever there’s another genius around. There’s even an episode in the spin-off where he uses a machine to make Pinky smart, and it doesn’t end well. He gets angry that Pinky keeps correcting him and seeing the flaws in his equations because he always wants to be the smartest and won’t settle for anything less. That’s what makes Pinky the perfect companion for him. When it’s just the two of them, Brain will always be the smartest being in the room, and that’s what he wants more than anything in the world. If Pinky were a genius, there’s no way Brain could stay friends with him because he’d be way too insecure to hang out with anyone smarter than him.
Also I much prefer the idea that Brain’s plans fail because of his own arrogant missteps rather than because Pinky was purposely messing with them. Brain’s inability to see the flaws in his own plans or failure to pay attention to something is usually why his plans go wrong, and that’s an interesting tragic flaw. Having his failures all be the result of Pinky’s supposed sabotage is boring to me because it strips away that tragic flaw and replaces it with a pissing contest of two geniuses trying to one-up each other and only one of them ever actually winning.
Anyway Brain is the genius and Pinky is insane just like the song says thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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robotpussy · 9 months
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