Why Cartoons Make Great Satire

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My man!! I agree. South Park has lasted the longest (partly because it's been running so long) for me. I remember watching it in third grade with my friends and we'd all crack jokes with each other.
In the face of an absurd world, sometimes the best way to see clearly is by watching absurd shows.
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Yea, I had a whole paragraph on Futurama that got cut. With the holidays coming up I had to make some qualitative sacrifices to get it out on time. Totally agree with ya. Glad you enjoyed it nonetheless.

This is an excellent analysis. I think this, along with the video, is exactly what I try to put into words when I try to differentiate some of the different cartoon comedy satires. Thanks for posting!

Well said

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Totally agree

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Ethan Palm Did you watch the vid or are you writing a pre-vid hypothesis?! Because what you said is like half the video!

Will Schoder Typed it out while watching the vid, I was trying to predict were you were going with the video. Definitely a good subject to cover.

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Thanks my friend, that's one of the goals of the channel--to look at thing a little more broadly.

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Thanks, Chaser! The nuance thing is really bothering me. There's a lot more to finding truth than framing things as good and bad. I appreciate the comment.

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Thanks so much Will, somehow you managed to help in the exact way that I needed. I'll definitely send you an email some time for some advice next time I get stuck.
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Thanks, I'm working on it

Thanks Ralph, great comment. I think satire tends to reflect rather than inform, but if it's done really well, it can change, rather than reinforce, your mind.

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IMO (and hopefully at least a few other people's O's), BoJack is already on the verge of becoming the latter. It seems to have a three-dimensional and nuanced take on everything but politics, assuming that either anyone watching is either already more on the left than the right and will appreciate knowing that a show can advocate "the truth" in such a manner or, if not assuming that, that audience members can be "taught" by seeing characters they like in these kinds of situations. Maybe it's just a blind spot Bob-Waksberg and some of the rest of the writers have as a result of growing up a certain way, but given his desire to make the show even more political than before in Season 5 as a result of celebrity satire feeling tedious in the current political climate, they really should start showing people like Tom Jumbo-Grumbo (Keith Olbermann's Beluga whale news broadcaster), Hank Hippopopalus, and Ritchie "Goober" Osborne the same way they show BoJack- as people/whales/hippos with relatable desires that were also victims of certain circumstances, but make it clear that it still doesn't make the bad things they do OK. While there are people who will support BoJack Horseman (the show) no matter what it does (the television critics at IndieWire, Vulture, and The A.V. Club come to mind), if the BoJack crew doesn't start to follow their own advice and start to handle politics in a less absolutist manner, it could cause the show to be ungraciously cancelled as a result of very low ratings and not eventually end on Bob-Waksberg's terms with a beautiful series finale as I think that, in spite of my issues with the show, feel it deserves.
Depending on your perspective of the issues and discussions that have spun out of the so-called toxic fandom, McDonald's Szechuan Sauce debacle, and the crew's handling of such things, one or both of the issues you mentioned Simpsons and South Park sometimes having already applies to Rick and Morty. I think that one of the things that Dan Harmon and some of the rest of the cast and crew are going to try to do for Season 4 is to try and "detoxify" it, meaning make it the kind of show that the would-be "Junior Ricks" of the world wouldn't like and couldn't use to create justification for mean and antisocial antipathy. However, this might have the unintentional side effect of giving it the problems I mentioned with BoJack. While Rick and Morty usually cuts itself down with a snide comment from Rick or someone else when it seems to be on the verge of becoming preachy, BoJack very much wants you to hear the author tracts that seem like they should be on an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher rather than an episode of a serialized dramedy. Even though it might be easier to tell when R&M is being sincere if they had this approach, it could also allow for some more blind spots to come into the writing. Honestly, while I think that BoJack is better in terms of objective quality and overall production, R&M is a more rewarding show to watch because I know that it's made by humble people that are able to admit where their show might go wrong and are more equal-opportunity offenders (yes, I know that some politically left-wing websites use "equal-oppurtunity offender" as a synonym for "bigot", but that's an issue I'm about to come right back to), meaning that while Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland are willing to call out all forms of radicalism, on the right, left, and center, Dan by going on an "epic rant" in an episode of Harmontown and Justin by mocking them in a silly voice, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Lisa Hanawalt, Adam Conover, Joanna Calo, Kelly Galuska, and Nick Adams are only willing to call it out when it's a radical form of a belief they already disagree with, and might not recognize a radical left-wing belief as such. They may handle things more quietly than Dan and Justin, but their tendency to cater to one point of view so strongly becomes pretty glaring, especially when you always hear Bob-Waksberg talk about how proud he is of the show and wanting every episode to be someone's favorite. In this respect, being an equal-oppurtunity offender makes you less bigoted, not more. Hopefully, R&M can stay a show that no member of any one ideology or background can get TOO mad at for more than a little while, even when going through "detoxification" in order to cut loose as many toxic fans as possible, and that it can be better than ever when it returns in presumably late summer 2019.

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Henners Yea I agree. I think comedians (of the Carlin ilk) tend to be disillusioned idealists, so that may have slipped in there > distrust. I'm sure you have any number of people in either camp. I've even floated between them. Thanks for the comment and the kind words!

Will Schoder kind of like the idea that art just repeats itself, so eventually all this nihilist stuff will become the norm, so being edgy will involve being sincere. And so on, no problem man keep it up!

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Yea, that's part of the reason I made it. Too many people still write off cartoon as childish. Quite the opposite in fact!

Van-gut! Van-yup! Van-yoot! How would you pronounce it?!

Probably American Dad

I'll put it on the list

It may be a while tho

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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

There it is!!

One of satire's jobs is to look for that gap and point of the corruption right in front of us. I'd say it does a better job on some weeks than others.

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