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#241726 storyyeller Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:21:12 PM from Appleloosa

I think I'll add teal to my rainbow colors, but the others don't seem to fit.

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#241727 Japanese Teeth Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:21:39 PM from Meinong's jungle

@Bluespade: Yeah, I completely agree with you on the humor thing. I've always liked character based humor way more than the lolrandom variety.

Also, I just broke in my Powerpuff Girls dvds. So much nostalgia.

@Fallen: Thanks. I'm really trying to stay true to the characterization.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:22:24 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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#241728 Chadaman 99 Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:22:50 PM

Still have the link to where you can buy the set?

Edit:Linked saved.

Edit:Dammit! My recording of the PPG movie got deleted of my DVR.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:27:48 PM by Chadaman99

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#241729 Japanese Teeth Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:25:22 PM from Meinong's jungle

I just got them off amazon.com

. It's a bit on the expensive side, but you get the whole series, the christmas special, and an impressive amount of extras. If they do something like this for MLP I will throw money at them so hard that their grandparents will be rich.

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#241730 marston Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:27:49 PM from America

The way I see it, the "lol random" humor can be funny, it's just that almost 98% of the time it fails miserbly.

BTW, this is why Twilight and Pinkie should never bake a cake together.

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edited 3rd Jul '12 9:41:05 PM by marston

#241731 Japanese Teeth Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:29:07 PM from Meinong's jungle

Yeah, sometimes the unexpected can be hilarious, it's just that a lot of shows use it as a crutch. It's best when it catches you off guard, and when you're spamming random stuff the surprise is lost.

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#241732 storyyeller Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:30:37 PM from Appleloosa

Which is exactly what happened to Monty Python.

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#241733 Japanese Teeth Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:31:28 PM from Meinong's jungle

Yeah, a lot of their stuff is hilarious the first time you watch it, (the GET ON WITH IT scene is a good example) but oversaturation makes it less funny.

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#241734 Fallen Legend Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:32:14 PM from Mexico City!

I like Random Humor pinkie pie style

ppf? that was a very cool show In mexico they initially were called the cute girls (las chicas coquetas) lol...

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#241735 Bluespade Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:34:22 PM from Texas

Random humor can be funny if done well (and that's partially what the character of Pinkie is based on, except that her randomness is a known factor remarked on in-universe, so she's got inter-character humor as well), but I don't really like works that rely entirely on it. It's fine if there's just a little but most of the humor is plot or character based.

#241736 Chadaman 99 Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:35:36 PM

With me and random humor depends on pacing. The joke needs to come right at ya, be funny, then over in flash. Leaving you dazed, but still moving the episode forward.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:36:23 PM by Chadaman99

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#241737 Ace Of Scarabs Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:35:40 PM from Singapore

Some kinds of humor ring better. I just have a strong distaste for unnecessary mean-spirited humor.

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#241738 Fallen Legend Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:35:40 PM from Mexico City!

Totally agreed

instead of beeing lol what just happened?! it becomes here it goes again..

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:35:58 PM by FallenLegend

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#241739 Japanese Teeth Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:38:44 PM from Meinong's jungle

Yeah, if Pinkie's entire humor relied purely on just spouting Non Sequiturs, she'd be incredibly annoying. The fact that there's kinda a method to her madness helps a lot; you can trace her thought process enough to tell that she isn't just grabbing stuff at random, but we don't get enough of it that it's mostly unexpected. Like the keeping eyepatches stashed around Ponyville, it's random, but Pinkie's the kind of pony who would do something like that. The fact that it's an in-universe quirk helps a lot as well.

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#241740 Bluespade Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:41:52 PM from Texas

Take a show like Family Guy, and there's a joke. The characters are being used as mouthpieces to tell the joke, mostly to set up a cut to a visual representation of said joke for a few brief seconds that has nothing to do with the rest of the episode. It doesn't matter which character is speaking. They don't have to have a reason to be talking. The characters are interchangeable. They have some characteristics, some traits of their own, sure, but when joke time comes around they are all just mouthpieces.

MLP avoids that almost entirely. The characters are almost always In Character, so the writers have to think of some way that makes sense for the characters to say something funny, which requires more clever thinking.

Again, I am much too tired to properly write out what I mean.

#241741 storyyeller Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:42:33 PM from Appleloosa

Another thing is when stuffis compeltely random but still makes sense in an absurd way. Like the Monty Python guy who can't catch a bus, so he streches his leg over the road to trip the bus.

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#241742 Bluespade Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:46:36 PM from Texas

I've been listening to Parov Stelar for like 3 hours now and I still haven't run out of awesome songs. @_@

#241743 marston Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:47:26 PM from America

@Blue: Actually, you brought up a good point yet again. I've been waiting a long time for someone to compare the humor of mlp fim vs Family Guy's humor.

Though I still stand by my stance that the first three seasons of Family Guy were pretty good, and actually sometimes used it's charectors for things besides jokes.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:47:48 PM by marston

#241744 Ace Of Scarabs Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:49:03 PM from Singapore

Yeah, jokes are funnier when there's some kind of semi-consistent logic at work. Seriously, Discord doesn't even realize how lame his randomness is.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:52:24 PM by AceOfScarabs

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#241745 Fallen Legend Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:51:46 PM from Mexico City!

indeed! Lesson zero was hilarious becuase we knew twilight for instance

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#241746 edvedd Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:52:11 PM from Over there. Maybe?

Yeah, for the most part there was at least an odd internal logic to Monty Python, and you could sort of see the (totally insane) progression from one sketch to another. The 4th season is very haphazard, but I did like the Mr. Neutron story for telling a cohesive story.

LOLRANDOM for the sake of it isn't all that interesting.

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#241747 Chadaman 99 Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:53:31 PM

-Watched Lesson Zero before knowing Twilight's character.

Still enjoyed it!

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#241748 Fallen Legend Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:55:05 PM from Mexico City!

I guess i was wrong on that one

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#241749 edvedd Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:57:56 PM from Over there. Maybe?

@Chad: I would suggest that it works without prior knowledge of the character because the episode does a good job of setting up Twilight's obsessive nature. Once the madness begins, you can already understand why she would freak out over something like that.

It works if you know something about her, and it also works in a self-contained way.

edited 3rd Jul '12 9:58:30 PM by edvedd

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#241750 storyyeller Tue, 3rd Jul '12 9:59:11 PM from Appleloosa

What is Mr. Neutron?

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