essbeejay | I'm not late, I swear!

Alright. I hate to admit it, but they're all animated. Again, I had to approach this first by figuring out what shows I repeatedly come back to, time and time again, and then by figuring out which ones have influenced me from a writing standpoint.

Top Five TV Shows (not including PpG)

Animaniacs. Taught me sarcasm and the value of a well-placed visual gag. The go-to animated show for Groucho Marx-styled jokes (besides the Marx Brothers, that is). Irl my jerkass humor as a kid was pretty much defined by Yakko. A heaping dose of meta made it all the better!
The Venture Bros. It's like... I'm not even sure where to begin. This show really surprised me with how smartly written it is! You not only get throwbacks to boy properties (and girl properties as well), but history, literature, and of course the more familiar pop culture references, all very smartly done. Proves that even the most tasteless jokes (and yes, there are many) can be done intelligently.
Gargoyles. World, I don't. I struggle with this one, because there's a lot of nostalgia associated with it and I'm not entirely sure it aged that well (some of the lines just... yeah, they don't play as well fifteen years later). But when I have my DVDs going and suddenly remember all the turns the story took and the character growth and how everything is set up, everything happens for a reason (!!!), I am overwhelmed with how fucking good this show was. Talk about a tightly, intricately plotted show. Not to mention it inspired a God damn series of tropes named after one of the greatest villains of all time.
Daria. Here to represent the collective adolescent voice of so many of us outsiders that suffered through high school (so, so many)! I picked up dialogue from this show; damn, it pretty much taught me (a painfully shy, introverted wallflower) how to talk (so I became a less shy, mostly-introverted-but-kind-of-extroverted-now snarky teen, able to befriend other adolescent outsiders with ease!). Daria actually taught me sarcasm. (No lie: I hit my teens and learned how to be funny (or a false approximation of funny) from these three cartoon characters: Daria Morgendorffer, Yakko Warner, and Bugs Bunny. The nerding don't ever stop around here, honey.)
Futurama. I don't know what I learned from Futurama about writing. It's just an awesome show. Wait, no. There is something Futurama excels at that none of these other shows manage quite as beautifully (Daria probably comes the closest, but doesn't pull it off as well). Futurama is hilarious 100% of the time, but it's at its absolute best when it is being melancholy and sweet on top of that. It manages to dovetail humor and sadness in a way that astounds me. It's the only show I can think of where I can laugh so much in a single episode only to feel utterly crushed or genuinely moved by its ending. (Futurama fans, I need only mention the Sadness Triumvirate, right?) So glad this series is back. (Now I just need to get around to watching it!)

On the live action front, I also am in total love with Modern Family and Malcolm in the Middle, and Firefly is good and should be watched by, like, everybody, also I got pretty crazy about Dollhouse when I watched the DVDs (it gets really awesome you guys, trust me), and my favorite reality shows are The Amazing Race and Project Runway. SYTYCD would still be on the list if they hadn't changed their stupid fucking stage. I admit to still watching Grey's Anatomy, but I still hate it (and have ever since Season 2 ended).

I haven't gone to sleep yet! THIS STILL COUNTS AS A MONDAY.

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Jurassic Bark, The Luck of the Fryish, and Time Keeps on Slippin, y/y?

Hi, um, that's kind of my favorite show ever forever of all time.

Hey you, come to this journal often?

Y/Y, God, this show ~~was~~ is awesome. One of the few shows that I can marathon and not get burnt out on, ever.

IT MAKES ME CRY LIKE A BITCH, EVERY GOD DAMN TIME.

Also Leela/Fry is like my favorite canon relationship ever, EVER I SAY.

I've decided these posts are something I'm going to look forward to when I get home from work/get up in the morning (depending on when you post).

So, ya know, no pressure to keep this up or anything... :)

Yay, good! I like making them (at least, so far I do) :D

Oh God, Gargoyles. I love(d) that show. My little brother got me into it. I used to watch that, Sailor Moon, The PpG, and Batman: The Animated Series as a kid. Good times, good times. Oh, and the Animaniacs! That one was funny! Pinky and the Brain, too. Damn, I need to stop before I overrun this journal with all the (awesome) cartoons that I used to watch. You know, even if the lines back then are corny now, the cartoons back then were better than they are now.

I like Futurama, too. :D

I wonder how much of my affection can be attributed to the nostalgia factor with those shows, but really, my only complaint with the more serious ones (like Gargoyles and Batman: TAS) is some of the dialogue just doesn't play as well now that I'm older. Considering how tight everything else is, in the grand scheme of things, that's a really piddly complaint.

I do know for a fact that I would not be able to sit through all 200 episodes of Sailor Moon if I were to start watching it now, but hey! That didn't happen; it's still awesome.

I actually sat down later on and watched both English and Japanese versions of Sailor Moon. Talk about having nothing better to do. I think a part of me just wanted to finish off a series I've loved since forever. But, believe me, after doing that, I didn't have anything to do with Sailor Moon for a long time. XD

I'm not late, I swear!

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