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Animated Tron Spoof Coming to UPN
Gudlyf writes "Sci Fi Wire is reporting that executive producers of 'That 70's Show,' Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach, are doing a CGI-animated midseason replacement show for UPN called 'Game Over,' which is best described as a sitcom spoofing 'Tron.' The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters. Patrick Warburton and Marisa Tomei will be voicing the husband Rip and wife Raquel respectively."
"The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters."
So nothing at all like Reboot, then. Totally different idea.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Marisa Tomei/Raquel
Patrick Warburton/Rip
D.L.Hughley/Turbo
Rachel Dratch/Alice
James Sie/Sam Chang
Marie Matiko/Vox
E.G.Dailey/Billy
WRITERS
David Sacks ("The Simpsons"), Ross Venokur,Jason Venokur and David Goetsch
And some pictures here (pdf)
"Hi honey, what's on TV tonight?"
*Rail Gun*
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Dark Horizons posted speculation about the rumor that Ashton Kutcher is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie. The '70s Show star is Warner Brothers' first choice, but not that of director Christopher Nolan, the site reported.
Now, back to EG Daily and Marisa... that's right babies... who's your daddy?
TV and movies promote too much violence they say. With a name like "Smashenburns"... I'd say I agree!! ;-)
ooooh! I like Marisa Tomei though!!
What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there. You either shake your head and dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than we think. Perhaps it really is a doorway to another place. If you choose to go inside you may find many unexpected things. - Shigeru Miyamoto
UPN All Over Game
UPN announced that it has picked up the computer-animated SF comedy pilot Game Over as a series. The network has given a six-episode midseason order to the Carsey-Werner-Mandabach show, which features the voices of Marisa Tomei and Patrick Warburton.
Written and executive produced by David Sacks, David Goestch, Jason Venokur and Ross Venokur, Game Over centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters. Also executive producing are CWM's Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach. In addition to Tomei and Warburton, who will voice Mrs. and Mr. Smashenburn, the voice cast also includes E.G. Daily and Rachel Dratch, who portray their teen kids, and Artie Lange as the family's 300-pound pet creature.
They better have good filters, if they get spam like me.
I can see it now.
"honey I going to get the mail"
**BOOM** mail box explods with 100's of messages
More seriously, perhaps the people in th US are finally realizing that animation isn't just for children. TNN (I think) has also just started airing three new animated shows Ren & Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon, Gerry the Rat (spelling?), and Stan Lee's Striperella (spelling?). While I'm not a huge Ren & Stimpy fan, all three seem pretty good. Kelsey Grammar's voice acting as a bitter and sarcastic giant rat is pretty good, and there seem to be quite a few running jokes (in just the first two episodes). Additionally, the show is able to deal with issues of race/class/ethanticity/whatever with species standing in for the politically untouchable subject (much as robots do in Futurama). Stripperella is obviously intended to be much more comical, and suceeds in at least two areas. First, the general atmosphere is a throwback to the 1960's batman series (campy villans, secret identities, etc., but no "Biff" or "Baff"). Second, the degree of normalcy that the public persona and the other exotic dancers enjoy is stressed to the point of being funny (or perhaps I'm not ready for porn to be mainstreamed).
Anyway, horay for more animation (that isn't aimed at kids).
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Raquel: "What sounds good for dinner?"
Rip, squinting: "Feels like a Virtual Arby's night..."
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
i liked this show when it was called reboot
(slowly counts to 20)
-=tonyt=-
http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
While we are on the subject of Tron, you should check out ARMAGETRON.
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*) The closer you get to a "Trail" of another bike the faster your lightcycle accelerates.
*) Bike trials have no thickness so you can get arbitrarily close to a trial without hitting it.
*) Splitscreen multiplayer (or lan)
plus other reasons
*) Computer AI bots are named after buggy computer applications!
*) Linux Friendly/open source
*) Interesting graphics
Homer: Uh...it's like...did anyone see the movie "Tron"?
Hibbert: No.
Lisa: No.
Marge: No.
Wiggum: No.
Bart: No.
Patty: No.
Wiggum: No.
Ned: No.
Selma: No.
Frink: No.
Lovejoy: No.
Wiggum: Yes. I mean -- um, I mean, no. No, heh.
Did anyone else read an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe and think "So that's what all those ordinary suburban families do nowadays. That's why I never see them about anymore" ?
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
we don't get UPN you insensitive clod!
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I don't see a computerized David Warner voice anywhere.
The coolest voice ever.
Amerikan TV shows see you!
"...and Artie Lange as the family's 300-pound pet creature."
Poor Artie.
Are they finally going to replace Enterprise with something scifi?
For the most part, the stations get it. Do NOT align your shows with other stations so that you're vying for the same demographic. This was dilbert's failure, and this is why it tanked.
If / when this Tron-clone show fails, I hope it's not because of their poor choice on where to have it.
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Mel Brooks must be kicking himself.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
This show is like Tron? How?
In Tron, a video game programmer gets sucked into a virtual world by something called the MCP (forget what that stands for, after all these years), and is forced into gladiatorial games...
And because they both involve video games, this show about the Smashenburns is like Tron?
Is Beevis and Butthead like the Flintstones because they are both cartoons?
Neopets - the best free game on the Int
... was an animated spoof.
Just before I got to slashdot, I finished reading an article on the way people are using Sims to create their own sitcoms. http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,59461,00.ht ml This is truly a way in which animation can be used by the masses for expression. I am sure other products using this concept will soon come in the market and make it a legitimate market.
What is interesting in the Sim's story is how many people are using the characters to deal with many deep issues. Right now it is being done using the Album feature, but for his part, "Wright hopes to incorporate the storytelling as a more prescribed feature in next year's The Sims 2, and would like to find a way to let players use motion in order to make movies. " The unintended use of the album feature as what Wright terms "a tool of self-expression" is an example of a phenomenon known as emergence. Eric Zimmerman, the CEO of gameLab and designer of the Web-based game Sissyfight, says emergent play is among the best parts of game designing.
Players "go to a lot of trouble to get the Sims to do things they don't want to do," Wright says, explaining that players must keep their would-be actors fed, clean, rested and happy before they will even consider playing their parts. "So in that sense, it's almost like they're a director.... It's almost like a real movie shoot." Initially, it was all superheroes all the time. But users quickly began making the albums richer, with multilayered characters and multiple episodes. "It went way beyond my expectations," Wright said. "They were sort of like small novels."
What no one imagined -- least of all The Sims' designers -- was that thousands of players would quickly bypass the album's intended use and instead use it to create dozens of staged snapshots, crafting what can be complex, scripted, multi-episode social commentaries, graphic novels or even movies, as it were, with the Sims starring in the lead roles.
Users' sophistication in the current version continues to impress him, [Wright] particularly given the difficulties of getting Sims to perform the roles required of them.
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
1) Star Blazers
2) Battle Of The Planets
What are you doing with your tax cut big boy?
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Sounds a little more like a spoof on "The Sims" and a few other games. Does it take these characters an hour to eat a bag of chips, and half an hour to go to the bathroom? (now that people on TV _have_ bathrooms)
Freedom: "I won't!"
What was wrong with the originals?
Freedom: "I won't!"
Poochie, meet Bender. Bender, Poochie.
- The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie ShowI know nothing about this, but I'm already planning to spend hundreds of dollars on merchandising! Oh my god! Animation! Computers! Horny Japanese pre-teens!
Ahem. Thanks for the thought, but how about we get excited about this after it appears, not before. Don't make me remind you about Phantom Menace and Lone Gunmen. Let's focus on reviews, not promotional material.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Check this out, the Pac-man couple as cameo. Finally we can see mr and ms pac-man together at last. It would be a hard world to live in though. The fear of wondering: I wonder if I'm copyrighted? Am I allowed to talk to characters not syndicated by my own company? It will start a sub-movement among the characters to start their own syndication service.
I saw a trailer for Spy Kids 3 recently, and it revolves around some evil virtual reality game called Game Over.
Get off my launchpad!
Farnsworth: Who else has a question for the What If? machine? Scruffy? Katrina? Xanfor?
Fry: Ooo I have one. I'm good at video games and bad at everything else. That's why I wish life were more like a video game.
Farnsworth: Can you put that in the form of a question?
Fry: Uh, What if that thing I said?
[Farnsworth lights a stick of incense.]
Farnsworth: Oh great machine we beseech thee. What if life were more like a video game?
[What If? Scene: A video game ship flies around shoots some asteroids like in the game Asteroids and lands in the Planet Express hangar.]
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
As other people have mentioned, Japan releases far more "adult oriented animated shows" than the US does. What about Neon Genesis Evangeleon, FLCL (Furi Kuri), Ghost in the Shell, The Wings of Honneamise, Akira, Witchhunter Robin, Ninja Scroll, Princess Mononoke, Cowboy Bebop, Battle Angel, Blood or *gasps for breath* Macross Zero?
You can't really claim such shows are geared up for children, and that's just all I can think of off the top of my head. Japan's got a wide lead over the US, whose only "adult orientated animated shows" tend to be solely comedies (with the exception of Spawn, come to think of it).
The strange thing was that the terminator, the line separating light and shadow on the moon, was pointing down, ie at a light source below the horizon. The angle was about 20 degrees below horizontal.
There's a Heinlein story about an experience like that; the hero starts off in an insane asylum...
after that 80's show, i don't know whether to run screaming or stand next to the tv, shivering and waiting with a big stick with a nail in it. that 70's show is probably one of the best shows out there, but that's largely due to the incredible ensemble cast. i have my doubts here.
GAME OVER is UPN's new family comedy series featuring the adventures of the suburban Smashenburn family, who just happen to live in an alternate video-game universe. Comprised of offbeat characters who face everyday familial issues, the Smashenburns find unconventional ways to fight, survive and love within this 3-D CGI-animated world of action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters, inspired by the popular genre of video games.
As head of the Smashenburn household, Rip is a hotshot Grand Prix racecar driver who rides and wrecks daily. His feisty and attractive wife, Raquel, is a modern working woman, juggling family and her exhilarating job as gun-toting, monster-fighting Agent Smashenburn. Their son, Billy, is a 13-year-old shallow, but trendy, wannabe hip-hopster, who often argues with his 14-year-old sister, Alice, a cynical yet socially conscious teen. In the family's master plan to form a stronger bond, the Smashenburns attempt to find the perfect pet. Yet they end up with Turbo, a 300-pound talking creature [looks like a carnivorous purple rabbit], whose favorite past times are robbing pawn shops, smoking stogies and creating mayhem -- all with an attitude. The friendly next-door neighbors are the Changs, a family of Kung Fu fighting Shaolin monks, including the attractive Dark Princess, a.k.a. "Mom," and her husband, Sam.
CHARACTER VOICES
Marisa Tomei/Raquel
Patrick Warburton/Rip
D.L.Hughley/Turbo
Rachel Dratch/Alice
James Sie/Sam Chang
Marie Matiko/Vox
E.G.Dailey/Billy
WRITERS
David Sacks ("The Simpsons"), Ross Venokur, Jason Venokur and David Goetsch
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach ("That 70s Show," "Grounded for Life, "3rd Rock From the Sun"), David Sacks ("The Tick"), Jason Venokur ("3rd Rock From the Sun "), David Goetsch, Ross Venokur ("The Tick")
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions, LLC.
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As per ze subject.
'Informative' at least.
I'm sorry, but if you got excited over lone gunmen that is your own damn fault.
I liked the GameCube better when it was in reboot
Will I retire or break 10K?
So unless this hits mid prime time i'm too busy watching [adult swim] on CN
Tape it. Or, if you are rich, record it on your TiVo. If you live in the USA, time-shifting is a fair use.
Will I retire or break 10K?
They're gearing up for a new Pamela Anderson-based show called "Stripella". Stipper by night, stripping crime fighter by....later night.
Actually, in the 20s and 30s, animation was aimed towards all age groups and Walt knew that. While many of the "classic" fairy tales told by Disney were based on children's stories, Walt chose them because they lent themselves well to the animation process.
Ask any child what he or she thinks of Fantasia (and later, Fantasia 2000) and you'll undoubtedly hear that it's "boring" or "too long" or something to that effect. Walt may have been producing children's stories but he was also pushing forward the art of animation.
Your point about modern Disney is well taken, but it's public perception that has typecasted animated films, not Disney.
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Futurama's cut by Fox (another "to spite their face" move... too intelligent, errr, "liberal," for them, I guess?) and this - THIS - gets funded?
Arrrrrrrgh!!
All I can say is, "thank [insert favorite omnipotent here] for Cartoon Network!"
You realize 'Seinfield's Puddy' is, of course, Patrick Warburton, the guy who's starring in the TV show we are in fact discussing, right?
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
They don't mention anything about using visuals similar to Tron. I don't think it could be called a "Tron Spoof" otherwise. There have been a few series focused on the electronic world (there was "Reboot" and I think "Digimon" had something like that?). What makes Tron be Tron is the look&feel, not only the premise.
I mentioned this when the Tron 2.0 demo was released, but I made a series of Tron strips in my webcomic a while ago. If you want to see them, these are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4
Overcaffeinated. Angry geeks.
His name? Montgomery Crashenburns, of course.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
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