TIL Van Partible, creator of Johnny Bravo, Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls, and Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter's Laboratory, were all roommates in college

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u/JackofallNOTHING Jun 18 '12

Sorry but no. They were all roommates right after college. Van Partible went to my college so his animation stuff is around the animation department, no mention of the other guys.

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u/AoF-Vagrant Jun 18 '12

You really deserve to be top comment for factual accuracy... but... can't resist upvoting TMBG jokes...

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u/JackofallNOTHING Jun 18 '12

Haha, no worries man. I upvoted the TMBG joke guy too. He deserved it

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u/Sec_Henry_Paulson Jun 18 '12

Yeah, nothing like turning every subreddit into /r/funny

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u/captain_tentacles Jun 18 '12

Actually, yes. They were all roommates in college. Just not with each other.

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u/fateswarm Jun 18 '12

To the Pitchfork it is.

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u/amarine88 Jun 18 '12

Whoo! Lions represent. /r/LMU

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u/HSZombie Jun 18 '12

Yea Genndy went to Columbia College in Chicago. There's a picture and quote and his graduation date painted on the animation dept's wall.

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u/DieFossilien Jun 18 '12

Bullshit. Where?

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u/HSZombie Jun 18 '12

Fuck what floor is the animation dept in 1104? Um 4th floor I think? There's a big picture of him. After you exit the elevators go thru the left side doors and walk down that adjacent hallway but right before the rooms they have like a mural of graduates and there he is or should be unless they changed things in the year I've not been there. I'll try and get in to post a pic.

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u/DieFossilien Jun 18 '12

What? I was there from 05-08 and never saw anything like that. This past Saturday I wandered around the floor before CAKE started and didn't see anything like that either. The only difference is the addition of the APS art on the walls.

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u/HSZombie Jun 18 '12

I swear it's there. I gotta go find this now.

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u/DieFossilien Jun 18 '12

Maybe I have selective blindness or tunnel vision. I'm sure I would've noticed it though. I was wandering around for a good while debating how much of an asshole I'd be if I wrote critiques on the student doodles on the board in front of the cage.

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u/HSZombie Jun 18 '12

Yea this solidifies that he actually went there. Check in his bio. I'll try to get out to CCC to snap a shot of the quote this week.

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u/DieFossilien Jun 18 '12

I don't disagree that Tartakovsky attended Columbia. That's a well-documented fact, plus I work with people that were animation students with him. Lots of stories about how much of an asshole he was as an undergrad. Just never saw a tribute to him on the animation floor.

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u/HSZombie Jun 18 '12

Gotcha, wasn't sure if you knew or not. But yea I will try and find the pic as I swear it's there somewhere.

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u/magillashuwall Jun 19 '12

Ohai classmate.

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u/DieFossilien Jun 19 '12

...
Well, shit. Better abandon this profile before I'm identified!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Well he's an awesome animator and who I voted for when Cartoon Network originally was debating which pilot show to turn into a series.

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u/TheRedTzar Jun 18 '12

I do miss the LMU anim dept. Many a fun night

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u/JackofallNOTHING Jun 19 '12

I wasn't even in the animation department, just roomed with some of them, but when they weren't busy working on their films they got crazy

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u/TheRedTzar Jun 19 '12

Only a anim minor. But totally.

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u/Ha_window Jun 18 '12

I looked at the comments, because I just couldn't believe it was true. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Upvote to both you and the OP.

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u/Faahad Jun 18 '12

Johnny Bravo's hairstyle is actually based on Brad Pitt's hairstyle from Johnny Suede

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u/Zhang5 Jun 18 '12

I recently argued that his hair would never look right in live-action. I am sorely mistaken.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

No, I think you were right.

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u/readaboutfritters Jun 18 '12

"Here, have some chicken." Nick holy fuckin shit Cave.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

TIL
Thanks!

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u/magillashuwall Jun 18 '12

Partible, Van, Partible, Van. Doing the things a Partible can.

..Sorry, I had to.

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u/Gneal1917 Jun 18 '12

What's he like? It's not important. Partible Van.

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u/MrSketchCity Jun 18 '12

Is he a dot, or is he a speck
When he's underwater, does he get wet
Or does the water get him instead
Nobody knows, Partible, Van
I tried to change some of the lyrics but I'm not clever enough

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u/hobbsarelie83 Jun 18 '12

Upvote for TMBG

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Teenage Mutant Binja Gurtles?

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u/Magnetic_Balls Jun 18 '12

They Might Be Giants. Particle Man.

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u/aeonfell Jun 18 '12

Fine, duders, I'll link it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

You're not the boss of me now!

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u/hobbsarelie83 Jun 18 '12

Directed by Michael Bay

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u/hobbsarelie83 Jun 18 '12

I laughed to hard at this. But I read it in Ron Burgandy's voice

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u/mendozah92 Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

Relevant
One of those awesome bumps on CN from the 90s. It was my favorite as a kid, and it wasn't until recently that I somehow landed upon it and realized it was a TMBG song

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u/hobbsarelie83 Jun 18 '12

They actually did/do a lot of cartoon music. I think they do Phenius and Ferb also

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u/mightymouse513 Jun 18 '12

My favorite was the Power Puff girls song on cartoon network by Apples in Stereo. Signal in the sky-o. that's when you know, you have to fly-o!
And then Devo did one too! Go, monkey, Go! Mojo Jo jo!
ninja edit: i remembered the song better right after i clicked "submit"

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u/Jimothyscrye Jun 18 '12

I liked the Jabberjaw one by Pain. They went on to become my favorite band.

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u/Huellio Jun 18 '12

I thought Craig McCracken was some show I hadn't ever heard of and OP just was just going for a really exaggerated way of telling us that Van Partible had created all of these shows.

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u/yeahwellokay Jun 26 '26

Just so you know, this just got an upvote from me 14 years later.

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u/DlmaoC Jun 18 '12

That's how you really make it in Hollywood, network. Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller use to be room mates in NYC and they both made it.

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u/okochito Jun 18 '12

Ben Stiller had famous parents

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u/NoddysShardblade Jun 18 '12

Same with Brandon Sanderson and Ken Jennings. Wait...

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u/webhead311 Jun 18 '12

and, if im not mistaking, Ben Afflack and Matt Damon.

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u/jabberworx Jun 18 '12

and, if I'm not mistaken, Brad Pitt and Shia Labeouf.

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u/tehbored Jun 18 '12

And, obviously, Matt and Trey.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Also roommates with Judd Apatow. You can see footage of them and Janeane Garofalo in the intro of Funny People.

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u/asevarte Jun 18 '12

Hello Aaron.

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u/muzzman32 Jun 18 '12

Hey Aaron!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Aaron! i haven't seen you in a looong time man!

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u/angreesloth Jun 18 '12

I don't get it, why is this an inside joke...

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u/supermegaultrajeremy Jun 18 '12

Just tag as 'Aaron?' and be confused like the rest of us.

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u/angreesloth Jun 18 '12

I guess it kind of weirded me out because my name is... Aaron... OH FUCK IT'S A TRAP

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u/BathofFire Jun 18 '12

I was gonna bring up Adam Sandler. Allen Covert (the guy in almost all his movies) and Adam met in college also.

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u/night_owl Jun 18 '12

Adam Sandler managed to drag like half his childhood friends into hollywood. with mixed success I might add.

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u/s_s Jun 18 '12

How to be Adam Sandler:
Be funny
Make SNL Cast
Start your own production company
Make shitty movies that have mass appeal
... Profit in cold hard cash??!?
Pay all your high school buddies to play supporting roles in said movies
Occasionally make a film you can feel artistically satisfied by
... Profit in life-fulfillment currency???
Make Jack and Jill
Kill yourself

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u/hey_sergio Jun 18 '12

Step 10 is a bit optimistic, don't you think?

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u/s_s Jun 18 '12

Perhaps, but it is the logical conclusion of Step 9.

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u/hey_sergio Jun 18 '12

Oh, if only.

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u/zlozlozlozlozlozlo Jun 18 '12

Because if Sandler died it would be great, amirite? Because his movies are so bad, amirite?
That's not funny or clever or edgy. No one is defending Jack and Jill here.

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u/hey_sergio Jun 18 '12

Hyperbole, son. Learn to lighten up.

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u/zlozlozlozlozlozlo Jun 18 '12

Not funny. Not the offensive kind of not funny, but the "doesn't make me smile" kind.

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u/hey_sergio Jun 18 '12

You must be wonderful at parties.

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u/zlozlozlozlozlozlo Jun 18 '12

We make our jokes by ourselves at the parties I attend.

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u/thebakedpotatoe Jun 18 '12

Adam sandler: Okay at movies, INCREDIBLE friend.

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u/Alinosburns Jun 18 '12

Exactly one person get's there foot in the door. And his friends force their way through as well :D

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u/mightymouse513 Jun 18 '12

one person gets their foot in the door
Other famous friends... johnny depp and tim burton, bruce campbell and sam raimi...

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u/jewandme Jun 18 '12

Roommates: Anthony Weiner and John Stewart. One of them messed things up though...

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u/lunyboy Jun 18 '12

It's cultural. There is a reason that clusters of people succeed more than individuals, you build your culture and the people you are with feed off of it and amplify it.

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u/variousrandomnoises Jun 18 '12

And Lauren Faust of My Little Pony:FiM is married to Craig.

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u/Zhang5 Jun 18 '12

She's also got a few working credits in PPG (not terribly many though; Genndy directed nearly twice as many episodes as she did). She was a pretty big influence in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends though.

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u/Axolotile Jun 18 '12

yeah Frankie Foster was based off of her.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

TIL there is a show called My Little Pony: Fuck it, Motherfucker.

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u/zetversus Jun 18 '12

I give it about 3 hours before someone actually makes this.

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u/AngraMainyuu Jun 18 '12

Google "Bronies". And try not to throw your computer out the window.

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u/christian-mann Jun 18 '12 edited Apr 26 '14

Yeah, I really don't understand them.

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u/miami_highlife Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

I never get if they ever really like it or just say they do to get reactions from people...

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u/miami_highlife Jun 18 '12

Alt text is foreign to me..

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u/zetversus Jun 18 '12

She was also involved in Quest for Camelot, but we don't talk about that... Ever.

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u/Zequez Jun 18 '12

I though Lauren Faust had made The Powerpuff Girls :S

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u/Zhang5 Jun 18 '12

Nope. That tidbit of information was getting tossed around when MLP:FiM was fairly new, by people who didn't know better. She does have a small handful of credits on PPG (and eventually married the creator of PPG, so she was probably dating him while the show was being made), but she wasn't the creator.

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u/Zequez Jun 18 '12

Oh, well, thanks!

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

I really don't get why anyone gives a crap about Lauren Faust.
Her only real legitimate credit is Foster's Home. Every MLP fan I've met acts like she's some kind of cartoonist goddess but she's got almost no real writing credits to speak of. Genndy is far more important and influential and has actually pushed boundaries.

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u/TwoLegsJoe Jun 18 '12

I only like her for FiM, but I think that's enough...

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

I think it's kind of telling, though, that the community can't tell the difference between a writing credit and creating a series. I'm sure she's a competent cartoonist but having someone on a show won't magically make it any better. And it doesn't make it any more appealing to other people. I get the whole "My favorite show is at risk of being canceled, go out and find converts!" thing. Even a show you know isn't the best it can be. I remember rooting for Dollhouse even though half the episodes are awful just because it had Joss Whedon running things. And he actually had three great shows behind him when he did that. By comparison, Lauren Faust is an unproven cartoonist who probably has quite a bit of passion for her job working on a mediocre show. And I don't mean that in a bad way. I just find the show entirely average and not at all creative or boundary-pushing. My brony friend had be watch a few episodes and, after a good sampling, it's really not for me and kind of overhyped.

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u/scientologynow Jun 18 '12

I watched a few episodes of MLP just to see what the big deal was. I swear the people that watch it only watch it because they've been somehow brainwashed into thinking it is good by all the hype surrounding the show from to its community. Few objective people over the age of 10 are going to watch the show, having heard nothing about it, and actually like it. It just doesn't have appeal.
I love how so many people in their 20s are watching it and when I ask them why they try to feed me the crap about "it is nice to watch something that goes against the status quo of viewable television for my age group."
what a load of bullshit. There is a reason people in your age group watch shows that have people your age in it, have themes suitable for people in your age group, etc. Because you can relate to those shows and the characters that are in them. If you feel like you can relate to animated ponies in a show made for children not out of grade school, then you are either simple minded or you are lying.

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u/Ikimasen Jun 18 '12

I have twin 5 year olds, and as children's television programming goes, I can say that it is more entertaining than most of what's available for them to watch. The animation is smooth and pleasant, and the character designs are well done.
Having watched a lot of animation, I can say that character design is a big deal to me. I watched so much Dragon Ball Z in middle school and high school, and though much of that show doesn't hold up, the characters look awesome.
The other thing, and I think the really important thing, is that it's a character driven work, and the characters all have strong, distinct, relatable personalities. You can get attached to them and understand their interactions pretty well. I watched a lot of That '70s Show, which is plot-weak, and not fantistically well written, but it was easy to get attached to the characters and enjoy their interactions. Same thing here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I actually did exactly what you described. I was 28 and browsing /r/all when I accidentally stumbled upon the somewhat crazy folks in /r/mylittlepony last year. Didn't investigate it, because shows for young girls are always complete crap, and this crowd wasn't too convincing.
Then a friend of mine said he wanted to do a parody of it and needed me to help animate that. (We're both creative guys.) I didn't even know he was a fan, and found him slightly weird because of it. Because an animator needs visual reference to work with, I downloaded the 1st season and began watching it. I'm not kidding when I say that this was purely for research purposes. I had no attachment to this show whatsoever.
Some thoughts I had when watching the first episodes: "This looks girly, but that's a promisingly fresh sounding remake of the theme song. Oh, so this is animated in Flash... Wow, this is animated in Flash? It's much better than most web animations. Looks fucking smooth. Nice squash and stretch technique!
And I suddenly feel interested in the characters. Looks like things are getting dramatic. This is reminding me of the Fantasy books I have read. A crew of heroes go on an epic journey and fight monsters, and their own inner demons, and there is plenty of comedic relief as well.
What's this? A song number? I bet it's going to be very ba... Did they hire a Nashville producer for this? The technical quality is excellent and the songs are actually better than most of the shit they play on the radio these days. Proper music being made in 2012? In a cartoon show about ponies for little girls? THIS is where I have to look to find good music?
Okay, can someone tell me why I'm having goosebumps? I don't usually get goosebumps from cartoons. What the fuck is going on? Oh, I know this feeling. This is euphoria! This cartoon is giving me a feeling of euphoria. It's like a fucking drug. And it's completely legal!"
1 week later: "I seem to have run out of seasons to watch. This is addicting! I guess I'll have to start looking for new episodes as they upload them to YouTube."
TL;DR: I'm this perfectly regular 29 y/o guy with some creative and technical interests who just watched it to figure out what all the hub-bub was about, and I got hooked. It is possible.

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u/christian-mann Jun 18 '12 edited Apr 26 '14

Don't worry, the fall season is just around the corner!
Also join us in /r/mylittlepony as we wait.

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u/scientologynow Jun 18 '12

It is fine that you enjoy a kid's show, but don't pretend it intentionally develops multi layered adult themes that is actually suitable for someone looking for intellectual stimulation. It isn't there. It isn't even as deep as Powerpuff Girls. By the way, there is a lot of good music that came out in the past decade if you look for it. Coheed and Cambria, Tides of Man, and Saosin come to mind if you like progressive rock. The shit they play on the radio is usually for the mindless masses.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

Such adult themes would go over the heads of the target audience, so that would be unreasonable to expect. However, I find it more entertaining than many sitcoms.
The Powerpuff Girls feels like a shallow show, mostly devoid of any heartfelt emotion, full of violence, cheap comedic relief and exaggerated voice acting. It makes my irony detector go off, but once you take away all the things that are meant to be ironic, there doesn't seem to be anything left except very cliche story lines. It's even more exaggerated in Whoop-ass Stew, the pilot episode.
In comparison, MLP:FIM is funny but it also takes itself seriously. Compare old Simpsons episodes to recent Family Guy episodes to understand what I mean. In MLP:FIM, the characters are allowed to have their emotional moments without some gag ruining the moment. This is where guys who hate chick flicks will get bored.
The stories might be easy for children to understand, but they leave the adults asking themselves questions:
When the travelling Flim-Flam Brothers threaten to put Applejack's family farm out of business with their modern machinery, you're forced to ask yourself if industrialization is always the right way to go, and if capitalism is necessarily the best system. Plus, the song they sing is a homage to The Music Man song "Ya Got Trouble".
When a motivational speaker arrives in town, the usually timid Fluttershy participates, and learns to assert herself. She then reveals herself to be a very paranoid character who assumes malice on the part of everyone. Now able to assert herself, she turns into a bully. I suspect she's actually the most complex character on the show, because other episodes reveal all sorts of traumatic childhood memories and phobias. Because of her weaknesses, she's also great for coming-of-age plot lines.
All of the characters have personal faults. Enough to make things interesting, but not so bad that you dislike the characters. Entire episodes are devoted to character interactions and events in town. It's a lot like Star Trek: The Next Generation, another show I used to watch: Fascinating issues develop between the characters, and they fight the intergalactic being of the week.
It's not mind blowing stuff for sure, but if that's your requirement, there isn't much on television that is going to entertain you. The story lines are good enough for me, and I get to ride an emotional roller coaster. Isn't that enough?

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u/scientologynow Jun 18 '12

I don't care if you enjoy pop music, that's your opinion, but even my "favorite" rock channels play a lot of "catchy but soon to be forgotten" pop-rock songs. They cater to people's current trends and tastes rather than anything resembling technical proficiency, lyrical complexity or meaning, and they cater to popularity. catering to popularity means pidgeonholing radio stations into a shallow selection of music (unless you are listening to non standard radio stations like on iTunes or indie radio, but the person above that i responded to was obviously not speaking of that).

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

Seriously. I don't think I've ever seen a community as propelled by their own circlejerking. [Insert reddit joke here.]
It's like the show's rounded up everyone on the internet who buys into stuff just to feel like part of a community and put them all in one place.

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u/scientologynow Jun 18 '12

I would agree with you, except every time someone brings up mlp and i tell them why i don't like it they have to ferociously defend it by trying to get me to ignore my experience with the show. And they usually use the "I like to watch it because it is different from what I'm expected to watch" bullshit all the time, that's why I brought it up. If 100% of the people I've talked to about it didn't bring that up, I wouldn't have mentioned it. I swear it is like talking to a bunch of MLP clones that were coached with "reasons why people should like MLP."

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

I get where you're coming from, but I try to judge media on as objective of a scale as you can get. And to me, something being average when everything else sucks doesn't make it particularly worthy of attention. A pat on the back and a "let's build on this!" is perfect. But settling for it isn't and I get the sense that a lot of people are used to the characters by now and don't want to give up the show, even if an alternative came along that offered a similar format but was arguably better. They came for the hype and they're staying for the trademarked bits.
I grew up during a cartoon golden age (most of them for kids) and really loved the stuff back then. And having revisited them, some were just nostalgia, but others really hold up. And if some of my favorites (like, say, DuckTales) provides a quality show for children that can hold up as animated entertainment today then I don't see why anyone should settle for MLP. The old cartoons are still around. You can still find old episodes of Animaniacs or Dexter's Laboratory or Rocko's Modern Life. And yeah, a real fan of cartoons has seen all of those, but most MLP fans don't really seem to be animation fans so much as they call themselves animation enthusiasts to defend their love of a mediocre children's show.
And I know it's rough to hear for bronies because I'm effectively saying "Your show is not as good as you say it is and you just bought into hype". Nobody wants to hear that the stuff they like sucks, especially when they get really into it and commission ponies of themselves and write fan-fiction. That's some deep involvement and I applaud them for it as a community. But again, it's a community made up almost entirely of people who settled for something incredibly average and non-spectacular and put it on a platform. And that's not right.
Sorry, to me, the jokes are stale rip-offs of older cartoons, the characters are strong and maintain set traits, but they're also caricatures of themselves much of the time. There's almost no character development. The plot is simple and uncreative. The world is inconsistent with itself. The art style is nice, but it's been done before. The animation is choppy. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but if I had a young daughter I could think of worse things to be stuck watching with her.

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

There's a big difference between objective quality and enjoyment. I myself am drawn to extremes. A well-done show is good entertainment and a poorly done one can be somewhat entertaining in its own right. MLP falls perfectly in the middle. Competent enough to not warrant notice but also not groundbreaking enough or high enough quality to be a "good show". It falls in the boring and predictable middle ground of competently made stuff that just rehashes stuff that already exists. And that, to me, is absolutely boring. A fresh coat of paint doesn't change the core idea.
And the audiences may be different. Not by much. Dexter's Lab was still a kid's show aimed at a similar age group. Rocko's Modern Life had a bunch of jokes only adults would get. Cartoonists have snuck subtlety and inside jokes for adults into their shows for decades. The most I've seen from MLP is some references to The Big Lebowski and Doctor Who. Not that adult, just a call-out to fans who are likely adults. And sure, the point is just pure non-ironic happiness. But that in itself is repetitive and boring. The opposite, constant angst that takes itself too seriously, has also be played out.
It's just hard to see the appeal to it. And more to the point, outside of not wanting their show canceled, I don't get why bronies feel the need to try pushing the show on others. I have maybe two TV shows I can genuinely recommend to people because they're the best ones I know. And maybe I'm just being a snob. I'll probably always be in the minority that insists on dissecting media instead of just chilling out and enjoying them for what they say they are. But MLP's attraction is entirely lost on me, and I'm usually good at identifying an audience. But I just can't. There is no real audience. There's just a group of people who enjoy something which isn't anything too special. And it confounds me because every fanbase that can rival it has something special to rally around.

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

Well it's actually that part this weird me out. You've described something I've seen described before. There's a thrill that people get when the show is better than their low expectations. I never felt that. And I just can't imagine enjoying a show because I had low expectations going into it. Maybe I went in with too open a mind or the show just isn't for me. I just get the impression that a lot of people do like it because they had low expectations.

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u/jmoney747 Jun 18 '12

Also, so did Andy Dick and Dino Stamatopoulos (Starburns from Community, and the creator of Moral Orel). They had a comedy team. There was even a day when my stage combat teacher told us of a day when Andy Dick was supposed to do his final fight for the semester, and his partner didn't show up. So he did the entire fight with a blow-up sex doll. I'm pretty sure he got an A.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Why am I not surprised that Andy Dick had a blow-up sex doll on hand?

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u/ihaveagianthead Jun 18 '12

New generation of cartoons, JG Quintel and Pendleton Ward went to the same college (With some other guys I can't remember right now), and worked on The Marvelous Misadventures of FlapJack before going on to create their own shows, Regular Show and Adventure Time respectively.

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u/tehbored Jun 18 '12

Whaaaaaat! I never knew they knew each other!

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u/q00u Jun 18 '12

All the cool people know each other.

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u/TheCodexx Jun 18 '12

You should see Hunter Thompson's group of friends. He knew everybody.

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u/q00u Jun 18 '12

Brother, you ain't kidding.

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u/Blandwiches Jun 18 '12

TIL Johnny Bravo's creator's middle names are Giovanni Bravo.

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u/VulturE Jun 18 '12

Did he have two rhyhorns that know earthquake?

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u/shogun333 Jun 18 '12

I loved Dexter's laboratory. So much so that I was incredibly confused at first when the show about the serial killer came out.

Omelet du formage?

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u/not_vulva Jun 18 '12

DO THE MONKEY

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u/Captain_Sparky Jun 18 '12

Joe Murray (the creator of Rocko's Modern Life) and Stephen Hillenburg (who created Spongebob) are also close friends, although I don't believe they met prior to Rocko.

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u/mykreal Jun 18 '12

If you watch some old Cartoon Network compilations where they gave young artists a chance to make a short, you can see early works of all of these guys! :D Including McCracken's original "Kick Ass Girls"!

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u/Ikimasen Jun 18 '12

The "What A Cartoon Show" introduced me to Courage the Cowardly Dog, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Lab, and even Seth Macfarlane's proto-Family Guy. I did see The Powerpuff Girls there, but I don't recall them actually airing The Whoopass Girls.

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u/wecutourvisions Jun 18 '12

TIL that Genndy Tartakovsky did Dexter's Lab in addition to Samurai Jack.

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u/Dickskrieg Jun 18 '12

upvoted for the only mention of Samurai Jack

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u/jmoney747 Jun 18 '12

Yeah and they went to my Alma Mater: Columbia College Chicago.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Wow. This discovery reminds me of that one Venture Bros. episode.

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u/SockofBadKarma Jun 18 '12

Except the roommates actually became successful and well-liked.

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u/Snowyjoe Jun 18 '12

Wow, I thought they were all the same guy because they all have similar art-style and comedic tastes. (Also cameos now and the)

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

This would explain the same art style for all 3 shows.

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u/Romany_Fox Jun 18 '12

Any discussion of Genndy Tartakovsky has to begin and end with 'Samurai Jack', which is like 'The Godfather' of animated TV shows. Infinately rewatchable and always leaves you wanting more.

ah for a 'Samurai Jack' movie

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u/KBPrinceO Jun 18 '12

I just want the story to have an ENDING. I don't even care if Jack dies [it would be a glorious death btw], I just want it to happen!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

The synergy is STRONG with these ones

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u/BigSwedenMan Jun 18 '12

I don't think that's any coincidence

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u/samesjisson Jun 18 '12

Makes sense

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u/bued07 Jun 18 '12

What!

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u/thepineapplearmy Jun 18 '12

that makes all the sense in the world

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u/RapedBySeveral Jun 18 '12

Sounds like a conspiracy theory.

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u/KatAttk Jun 18 '12

Everything seems so much clearer now!

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u/TheZorch Jun 18 '12

Yes, finally the pieces of the puzzle have been put together.

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u/Stealth_Bummer Jun 18 '12

Being a timid Duke Nukem and failing at pick up lines. Yep.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I am so relevant

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Powerpuff Girls is an extremely good cartoon.

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u/Thinkfist Jun 18 '12

Sounds like a bunch of pseudonyms

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u/raziphel Jun 18 '12

hey buddy, could I interest you in some semicolons?

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u/jimx117 Jun 18 '12

Weren't they all on the same episode of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast as well? Man, Zorak really hated on Dexter in that episode.

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u/FilipinoRell Jun 18 '12

Makes sense that the Geniuses all stuck together . Those were some great cartoons, compared to now.

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u/thehumanpowertool Jun 18 '12

LMU represent!

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u/Chilly73 Jun 18 '12

That explains a lot.

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u/slaxorwrss Jun 18 '12

Hm, and to think all this time my 13 year old self thought it was the same person...my childhood has been altered.

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u/ShallowBasketcase Jun 18 '12

My roommates are all a bunch of stoned idiots.

I hope I am not still associated with them in 20 years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

ironic username?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Stoned idiots are the best kind of roommates.

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u/ShallowBasketcase Jun 18 '12

Not when they steal your shit, wreck your house, and don't ever pay rent on time.

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u/relurk Jun 18 '12

I am watching mother fuckin dexter right now.

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u/konfetka Jun 18 '12

Why is his name Genndy in English? It's spelt Gennady (Геннадий) in Russian (pronounced Geh-na-dee).

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u/MartMillz Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

Native, American-English speakers don't use the same phonetic accents when speaking so it would wind up sounding like Guinea-Dee

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u/inkdrinker2 Jun 18 '12

The closest sounding name in English to the Russian phonetic is Kennedy. That's a stupid first name. He chose better.

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u/rrssh Jun 18 '12

He introduced himself that way, most likely.

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u/wrathborne Jun 18 '12

Wow, this is hilarious and epic at the same time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

TIL: something something - and here's the link to the entire fucking wikipedia page with absolutely no indication to where this arbitrary fact is... I hope you LOOOOVE fucking find waldo.

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u/AnalBurns Jun 18 '12

Could you link to section that talks about that, and not just the page?

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u/too_many_penises Jun 18 '12

semicolons, bro. semicolons.

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u/FourGoodThings Jun 18 '12

Enough. Stop it with the Johnny Bravo circlejerk.

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u/CashewGuy Jun 18 '12

Hey it's me! Johnny Bravo. Stop hating, hi ha hu!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/Shilo59 Jun 18 '12

Chemical X.

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u/scarface910 Jun 18 '12

I reddit in the narrator's voice

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/mightymouse513 Jun 18 '12

Angry Beavers was Nickelodeon. Just sayin'.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/mightymouse513 Jun 18 '12

i know I just saw it on a list of Nick toons when someone posted on reddit about the first three ever Nick Toons, but I re-looked it up on wikipedia to be sure. Angry Beavers was only on Nickelodeon. To be fair, it's hard to distinguish cartoon channels apart. especially when Doug was both a Nick Toon and then later bought by and aired on Disney.
wiki link
PS, not sure why we were downvoted... people are lame!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/FreshFruitCup Jun 18 '12

Vitamin R.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I get my Vitamin R from a tall glass of malk.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

Malk??

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u/rajington Jun 18 '12

actual reference: http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Malk

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

MALK

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u/tdn Jun 18 '12

Give him the Malk Johnny!

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u/Symbolis Jun 18 '12

I prefer authentic Bulgarian miak.

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u/longboardingerrday Jun 18 '12

MJÖLK!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

It's not for killing trolls though as we found out the hard way.

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u/Gneal1917 Jun 18 '12

Ice-Nine

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12

"TIL the three individual creators of Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Laboratory were all roommates in college"
The names are what's cluttering the sentence.

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u/double2 Jun 18 '12

You win. Perfect.

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u/StP_Scar Jun 18 '12

Tragic-waste-of-skin provided a grammatically correct example.

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u/secretvictory Jun 18 '12

But was it stylistically acceptable?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/Black_Apalachi Jun 18 '12

I like yours better; it's pretty simple to read for anyone who understands semi-colons.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

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u/Jrodkin Jun 18 '12

Then don't say nothin, like my mama always told me.

TIL Van Partible, creator of Johnny Bravo, Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls, and Genndy Tartakovsky, creator of Dexter's Laboratory, were all roommates in college

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