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What style IS the PPG-humour? I've never seen it, the pictures on the homepage make it look very cheap and bad, without the lines. So? Darkwing-like? Ren&Stimpish? Duckman? Or, dareIsay, Simpsish?
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These cute girls fight evil. Inserted are small, subtle puns, visual effects, and character plays.
Probably one of my favourites is the Boogie Man episode.
Boogie Man is a 70's style pimp. Giant Disco ball blocking the sun (ala Simpsons) PPG go to blow up the disco ball (Star Wars IV-esque).
It both pokes fun at anime, as well as models itself after it (big eyes, action sequences. My wife originally thought it was going to be another Sailor Moon).
Craig McCracken did an excellent job with this cartoon. If you have a chance, check it out sometime.
"One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world and the number of Mojo Jojos shall be one. Two is too many and three is right out."
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It's not cheap and simple. It's stylised. Yeah, I know that sounds crap, but watch it. The style is mainly about the animation, in the same way as Batmas: The Animated Series.
It's not 100% like any of them. I wouldn't like to call it a kids show (like, say, the Rugrats), or an adult show (like the Simpsons, Duckman, or even Ren & Stimpy). The closest example of it's style of humour is Dexter's Lab, but with more action. Like Dexter's, it does a fairly wide range. Slapstick for the kids, references to anime, Star Trek, and other 70s and 80s cultural things for the teenagers and twenty year olds.
I'm not saying it's the greatest cartoon ever because that's obviously Count Duckula. What I will say is that, along with Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo, it is one of those 90s cartoons that shows a resurgence of the idea that cartoons can be for kids and adults. It's not like the Simpsons or King of the Hill, which both started off as animated sit-coms (although the Simpsons has veered away from that). They are cartoons. They are Loony Tunes for the present. And, often, they are pants-wettingly funny.
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"One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world and the number of Mojo Jojos shall be one. Two is too many and three is right out."
Which, for the humour impaired, is a Monty Python reference.
You ever think that all the voice actors have a clause in their contracts that they get to do an impression of Mojo at least once? We've seen Bubbles and Blossom's. When will we get Buttercup's? And does Ms Bellem seem scarily like a grown-up Blossom?
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If anyone didn't get that MP reference, they need to be thrown off the planet w/ the people who didn't get the Douglas Adams reference in the quote association thread.
Tests like these should be used for weeding out the population. It would make the world a better, safer, happier place.
Well, maybe not, but at least we'd get to eject a whole bunch of people into space, and that's always fun!
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A good way to understand the Powerpuff Girls is to understand Him. Him is one of their villians. Him is apparently Satan. He wears high heels and a tasteful feather boa, and speaks in what can only be described as a demonic falsetto.
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