Signs the World IS Coming to an End in 2012

If these aren't signs the world is coming to an end in 2012, I don't know what are...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/18/annoying-orange-cartoon-network_n_1101583.html
http://www.nick.com/shows/fred/

On the other hand, I guess it really does help to fork over your money to YouTube to make you famous.

I apologize in advance

For goodness sakes, what kind of world do we live in if the Annoying Orange can get its own television show and the Muppets can't! I know Cartoon Network has a very spotty track record of late, but I thought shows like Regular Show and Adventure Time (I'm not a huge fan, but I can get why people like it) had indicated they turned a corner. Guess not. And I know Nick gave Fred his own movie a few years ago, but I thought it got drilled critically. Again, guess not.

On a related note, anything you guys think I should put in my end-of-the-world 2012 doomsday kit, aside from non-annoying citrus fruit?

Somehow I knew the Fred series was inevitable, given that he has guest starred on ICarly and had two movies. But Annoying Orange? I find talking fruits with superimposed human faces rather frightening more than annoying

LOL! xD The Annoying Orange on CN? Wow...Didn't see that coming. (Or the Fred series. But I should have since they made those movies.) I kinda like The Annoying Orange, I haven't been keeping up with it as of late, but...I'm not sure how I feel about this... ._. Especially as a half-hour series.

It really feels like Nick is milking it with the Fred stuff...Ah well, I hope both shows will at least be alright instead of trying so hard that they fail miserably.

If there's ONE internet thing that deserves it's own cartoon, it's Homestar Runner... but that's pretty much dead now. I really REALLY miss seeing a new cartoon ever so often... now they haven't done anything since Christmas 2010, and they haven't done anything for almost a year before that.

Annoying Orange isn't funny. It's a cheap photo gimmick that just... it just sucks. Johnny Test isn't the best cartoon in the world, and the show really slid downhill in quality since the Cookie Jar take over of the license (Used to be Warner Bros.) and the flash animation revamp... but at least it's a show with a decent enough premise.

AO is just... sure, it works as a crappy internet thing....and barely then.

I don't see why Nick's bothering with Fred. No one CARES about Fred anymore. I see that "movie" he made just sit around and gather dust. Nick is in FAR worse shape than CN, IMO... They don't want to give any of their cartoons that aren't spinoffs of Dreamworks movies or Spongebob... The marketing for all of them has been atrocious. Even Catscratch and El Tigre got Happy Meal promotions just before they were canceled, never to be seen again... they only care about LOUSY Disney Channel-esque tween drama sitcoms with musical recording artist stars... I completely live in fear that TMNT will crash under them.

i never really liked AO but to be quite honest i'd choose it over yo gabba gabba any day!

Oh my gosh...what's wrong with me?! I completely forgot about Homestar Runner! >_< I stopped keeping track of that one too while I was waiting for more content to show up...It's a shame they stopped.

I still can't get over Catscratch's cancellation...They hardly gave the show a chance! As for El Tigre, I wasn't really into it from the start, but I was waiting for the show to progress to see if I'd like it better.

xD

They won't be satisfied until they get another Spongebob level hit, even though Spongebob wasn't exactly all that popular when it first premiered. But now they're just piling on crappy Disney Channel ripoffs ontop of each other, none of which is remarkable or even easily differentiated between. Yeah, Catscratch didn't even get a legitimate chance. It was a great show with a LOT of big talent behind it, and they just junked the thing because it wasn't Spongebob, or one of their insipid iCarly type shows.

I agree that Homestar Runner could be a great show. I like the stuff they do (or did/will hopefully do again) on the site. Whether it would change in a less than great way if it made it's way to TV, who knows.

And yes, Catscratch was great! That stinks it was taken off the air. I feel the same way about the cartoon Viva Piñata! I can share one story (only 10 minutes) I found on youtube, and man, it's hilarious! Here it is:

Viva Pinata was... well... it wasn't as successful as it should have been, not because of the cartoon or that "no business sense whatsoever" 4Kids was behind it... but rather Microsoft wanted their own big recognizable video game characters. Big enough for it to be their mascot, ala Sega's Sonic and Nintendo's Mario (and basically everything else they ever did). But X-Box was more of a teenage and older gamer system, so a kiddy looking game and kiddy looking characters like those of Viva Pinata just didn't fit in.

Which is a shame, since I heard the game was good, and the cartoon was, admittedly, pretty dang funny. It had some weird appeal to it.

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Uh...you guys know the profs who originally transcribed the date as Dec 21, 2012 realized they were about 25 years off, right? We have until 2035 or so...

But this nation got packed in its own little handbasket quite a few years back. (I blame Reagan for getting that particular ball rolling. And the Puritans attemtping to run everyone else's lives.) Cartoons are only symptomatic of the greater malaise!
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It took the news media NOW to report the fact that gas prices are manipulated by stock traders. Something I've been saying for years. Wall Street is our greatest enemy, and we can't do anything about it. The Neo-Cons and the New World Order control both parties... nothing is new. That stuff doesn't upset me HALF as much as Annoying Orange getting a cartoon.

On the one hand, it does speak to the American Dream of having some stupid idea make you instantly famous... but on the other hand, it smacks down in the face of those who work hard to perfect a well thought out, carefully planned, deep meaning television cartoon. Something there's less and less room for since it isn't some live action thing about pop stars (and we're STILL milking this even though its 2012, and that novelty really did fade).

That said, I heard there's going to be an Angry Birds cartoon. Now, you think I'd tend to complain about that, but... I do like to give cartoons based on video games a chance. I wouldn't like games half as much, I admit, if it wasn't for the cartoons that they're based off of. I used to REALLY hate Sonic the Hedgehog and Sega for the mean things they said about Mario UNTIL the double threat of AOSTH and Sonic SatAm came out. Now he's one of my favorite characters... heck, Mario I did like, but the Super Mario Bros Super Show really made me love the characters... and frankly, Angry birds couldn't POSSIBLY make a cartoon any worse than Q*Bert



Why are they in the 50's? What's the point in that? The Donkey Kong cartoon made sense...



It's even enjoyable. The premise to Donkey Kong Jr. sounded good, but it felt like a bunch of unsold pilot scripts with Donkey Kong Jr. shoehorned in them... but even THAT wasn't as lame as Q*Bert. So yeah... I'd give Angry Birds the series a shot if it really happens. Heck no to Orange and Fred... but Birds... maybe... just maybe.

I've checked out AO at first, mostly out of curiosity... it was okay, it was pretty interesting, but after a while, it got pretty old: if you've seen one AO video, you've just about seen them all. Then they started becoming pretty random like they were already in a state of desperation, and then they starting bringing previously "killed" characters back to life for no reason and with no explanation, which kind of lost its credibility.

Fred on the other hand, I've always hated, and so have many others... and if you guys can believe, yes, there actually was once a crossover video where Orange and Fred had a battle to see who was more annoying.

AO has something too it, at least. Fred shouldn't have any appeal. I mean... it's just someone acting hyper and pitching up their voice. How can you base a stand up routine (basically what those videos are) on that let alone a Direct to video "movie" and at least 2 TV shows... that's right... they're supposedly planning an animated one.

Still sucks.

And like I said, there are just SOOOO many better things on the internet than those two things.



SEE? You can do THOUSANDS of things with Batman eating stuff.

I saw that, and I think I have permanent brain damage from it

Woah woah woah... Fred and the Annoying Orange have been promoted to a TV show?! On Nick and CN respectively?! Wow. I thought it can't get worse after iCarly, MAD, and other TV monsters. Those two channels are for kids, not teens. As I am typing this, I'm sure millions of kids' minds are being corrupted by all this stuff. They thought Looney Tunes and other cartoons like that were bad for kids because of guns, tobacco, and other adult-ish humor, but the way I see it, the people I know who are fans of things like Looney Tunes or Muppets are hundred times more decent than a kid who watches Fred. And Annoying Orange isn't any better. The TV networks should bring back Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, The Smurfs, and especially the Muppet Show.

Mad's a brilliant TV show. A million times funnier than Robot Chicken ever was, and far superior to Mad's other TV show that completely lost the appeal and soul of the magazine... though it was pretty good the first half of the series, that last bit was just freaking awful. Especially the "Rice and Beans" tour crap.

I understand the annoyance of bad internet videos on television 3+ years after people stopped caring. But if this devolves into another "why can't cartoons be exactly the same as they always were" discussion, I'll have no part of it. Remember, all the cartoons we've ever seen were new and offended someone at some point.

Personally I want to see more cartoons produced period. I understand the appeal of crappy tween coms and all (I hate to sound hypocritical, but Nick hasn't made a single thing that surpasses Kenan and Kel), but that shouldn't be the ONLY thing on kid's television. For frog's sake, Power Rangers didn't disrupt kid's programming as much as Hanna Montana did.

Yeah, I meant that horrible MAD show, not the good one, sorry for the ambiguosity... it did ruin the magazine, I've read it before, it was a good magazine. I've played Spy VS Spy, and it's a great game, but modern TV people are ruining the good stuff. Robot Chicken actually made fun of Muppets. Sad, isn't it?

But so does MAD