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[Sergius]

Turns out they are adaptations of a book.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus

I saw the stopmotion version too. IIRC Claus' "mom" was a fairy or somesuch, and the one who kept begging for the Cloak of Immortality.

I also remember thinking even back then, sheesh, what dicks, you'd think they wouldn't have waited for him to become as decrepit as humanly possible before making him live forever...

That was it! Damn, it's been a while since I've seen that.

ETA: And it's not like he stayed decrepit forever. I distinctly remember him claiming that he felt strong enough to wrestle something (a bear?) after becoming immortal.

Nah, he doesn't say any such thing. Granted, they don't show him AGAIN limping around the tree, but he pretty much just stands there saying "thanks for the mantle dude".

You can watch the whole thing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NsPinx6OXo

Shitty 80's commercials and all

(I'd point you to the edited version in YouTube, but you'd miss all the glorious crappy commercials)

[Neonivek]

Ah yeah, I didn't much like that one either. I felt the monster was a bit TOO ridiculous for one thing, and they skewered modern art a bit more than they probably should've.

In my oppinion I think the issue wasn't that they kept jabbing at modern art, though they certainly wasted a lot of time, it was that... They didn't really do anything funny with it.

"Ohh my a foot... clearly this is the height of hillarity and my sides are splitting from all the laughter I am... doing"

It really felt like Filler. Like they just weren't trying on that episode they were just trying everything they could to get to the next one.

I will say though that Warsaw's hair was amazing!

[Sirus]

Turns out they are adaptations of a book.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus

I saw the stopmotion version too. IIRC Claus' "mom" was a fairy or somesuch, and the one who kept begging for the Cloak of Immortality.

I also remember thinking even back then, sheesh, what dicks, you'd think they wouldn't have waited for him to become as decrepit as humanly possible before making him live forever...

That was it! Damn, it's been a while since I've seen that.

ETA: And it's not like he stayed decrepit forever. I distinctly remember him claiming that he felt strong enough to wrestle something (a bear?) after becoming immortal.

Nah, he doesn't say any such thing. Granted, they don't show him AGAIN limping around the tree, but he pretty much just stands there saying "thanks for the mantle dude".

You can watch the whole thing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NsPinx6OXo

Shitty 80's commercials and all

(I'd point you to the edited version in YouTube, but you'd miss all the glorious crappy commercials)

I was talking about the animated version. Never seen the claymation version

Here it is, but I can't find an English version.

[Sergius]

Turns out they are adaptations of a book.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus

I saw the stopmotion version too. IIRC Claus' "mom" was a fairy or somesuch, and the one who kept begging for the Cloak of Immortality.

I also remember thinking even back then, sheesh, what dicks, you'd think they wouldn't have waited for him to become as decrepit as humanly possible before making him live forever...

That was it! Damn, it's been a while since I've seen that.

ETA: And it's not like he stayed decrepit forever. I distinctly remember him claiming that he felt strong enough to wrestle something (a bear?) after becoming immortal.

Nah, he doesn't say any such thing. Granted, they don't show him AGAIN limping around the tree, but he pretty much just stands there saying "thanks for the mantle dude".

You can watch the whole thing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NsPinx6OXo

Shitty 80's commercials and all

(I'd point you to the edited version in YouTube, but you'd miss all the glorious crappy commercials)

I was talking about the animated version. Never seen the claymation version

Here it is, but I can't find an English version.

Binding of Issac + Soundtrack, nice

It's also not claymation, there's no clay involved it's just stop-motion with puppets or sumthin'

[Neonivek]

I think I finally understand Adventure time

It is a story about Finn growing up and becoming an adult.

[Jimmy]

I doubt I'll ever understand Adventure Time. I watched the first two episodes, found it extremely annoying and swore never to watch more.

[Lich180]

Adventure Time is best described as a bunch of comic book legends (Stan Lee, etc), 20  something year old gamers and 12 year old kids on acid got together to make a show. Its about a boy and his magic dog in a post-nuclear apocalypse earth having adventures and meeting weird things. After the apocalypse, magic comes back to earth and causes other weird things to happen.

Its a show with very little continuity, and what episodes have continuity usually are backstory for the characters. Like the Ice King is a guy from pre-apocalypse earth who bought a crown from   a dock worker in Norway, because he was an antiquarian and was fascinated by the supernatural. The crown has the ability to give its wearer control of ice and snow, while also driving them insane and forgetting who they were (an Alzheimers expy)

It takes a while to get into it, but its really a good show. Lots of adult humor, and references to dark/black comedy.

[Neonivek]

Yes but I mean what it is deep down, So many episodes seem to be dirrectly or indirrectly refering to Finn's development in simply growing up.

With episodes getting darker it fits this image, even if he is the same age.

[Putnam]

He's getting older. He was 12 when the show started and he's 14 now.

[Neonivek]

He's getting older. He was 12 when the show started and he's 14 now.

It sounds silly but you never know (in this case we do know but I mean you cannot take aging for granted... As Pokemon has told me...)

For those who don't know the reference the ENTIRE Pokemon anime takes place within a year.

[Sirus]

Um...what?

I specifically remember the episode where the gang returns to Viridian City to get an Earth Badge. Misty states that it has been a year since they were there last. Presumably each season takes a year or so, but I stopped watching shortly into the Johto league.

_{Yeah, I know...this is Western Animation thread, not Anime thread...}

Here's an unrelated WTF: Firefox does not recognize the word viridian.

[Neonivek]

Just get to Black and White and in the first episode of that season they state Ash's current age. He started 10, and I don't remember what age they listed.

So basically just the ability to age is surprising in a cartoon. Heck even when characters DO get older they often look the same, just see Young Justice and the characters who don't look any older inspite the several year time leap.

[Jimmy]

Case in point: Bart Simpson would be in his 30s now.

[Neonivek]

Case in point: Bart Simpson would be in his 30s now.

Well shows with semi-continuity are one thing.

Shows it full out continuity however...

[penguinofhonor]

I need this shirt so badly.

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