[Loki]

Next up!

Live Action:

Double Dare - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dare
vs.
Hilarious House of Frightenstein - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frightenstein


Cartoon:

Pinky and the Brain - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_and_the_brain
vs.
Rugrats - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugrats


Ren and Stimpy - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_stimpy
vs.
TaleSpin - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talespin


Ghostbusters - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters
vs.
Spider-Man - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_other_media#Television
(there is apparently a whole slew of Spidey cartoon shows. Pick your favorite!)



VOTING BEGINS TOMORROW!

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Double Dare in a landslide



Pinky and the Brain vs. Rugrats - I lumped P&B with Animanics during the nominations. It really is just a spin off. Still those two bastards are probably better then Rugrats anyway. I'm torn about where I'm voting right now.

Ren and Stimpy vs. TaleSpin - I never like Tale Spin all that much. This Duck Tales spinoff didn't live up to the original. I'm going with R&S.


Ghostbusters - vs. Spider-Man - Tough call. I might have liked Spiderman more but I watched Ghostbusters more. I'm still a little torn on this one too but leaning towards Ghostbusters since I can remember watching it more as a kid.

[Batman]

The only one I'm sure I'm voting for this round is P&B, and I've never even watched that show. But: I hate the rugrats; P&B was my favorite segment on Animaniacs; while I have my doubts that the premise of P&B would work as well stretched out to 20 minutes, see 1&2.

I couldn't care less about any of the other shows except the Spider-man shows, but, while there were a slew of them, they each had serious flaws.

Never saw the first one, but I'm sure that it sucked. (Other than the theme song, of course.)

Spider-man and his Amazing Friends is the one that came out at the right time to evoke nostalgia from someone my age, but, in retrospect, it was crap.

The one from the 90s was really pretty well written, but the art was still awful.

Then the MTV one was both pretty and had some intriguing storylines, but then they made the ridiculous mistake of introducing a new love interest, an Indian-with-a-dot, TV-reporter lois-lane type.



Wrecked the whole thing for me.

[docx]

Double Dare was awesome, and it is now even awesome...er? when you learn that Marc Summers, the host, suffers from OCD. He is a total neatfreak germaphobe, and every single second of that sloppy, slimy, messy show was absolute torture for him. But he needed the dough.

Pinky and the Brain blows those little Rugrat bitches away. Fuck baby talk. That shit drives me up the wall.

Ren and Stimpy is my all time favorite cartoon, bar none, so of course that wins.

Spiderman is also awesome. However, this debate needs clarification. Is it going heads-up with "Ghostbusters" with the crew in the funny car that included a big gorilla, or "The REAL Ghostbusters", based on the movie.

[williamssl]

Double Dare
Pinky
Ren & Stimpy
Spiderman

[Batman]

Yep. Loki, your wiki link is to "The ORIGINAL Ghostbusters" which is completely different from "the REAL Ghostbusters."

Those who nominated it should clarify which they meant....

[Loki]

EXALT~~~! to you. I did that on purpose, just to see if anyone would catch it.

The real wiki entry is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Ghostbusters

[Lucky]

loki said:

Hilarious House of Frightenstein - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frightenstein

The who of the what now?

Pinky and the Brain easy. I might toss TaleSpin a sympathy vote so it doesn't get shut out. Ghostbusters/Spiderman I'm torn. I actually think Ghostbusters was the better cartoon, even of all the 3 Spider-man ones. Spider-man had my geek appeal.

And I liked the Filmation Ghostbuster, damnnit. That was a fun ass show.

[Batman]

Loki, did you exalt me or Dr. X? 'Cause I never would have noticed it, if Dr. X hadn't.

[Loki]

That was me.

[Loki]

This is as good a place as any to post this.


Part The First:

You'll notice that this time around I sped things up.

Since most of you jump all over this as soon as I announce it I'll be cutting the time down for actual voting. Within the first 24-36 hours everyone has usually voted. There's between 15-18 people that are voting consistently, so if within that time frame all those votes are cast and it's pretty clear who will win (like when Dora got smoked), I'll close the poll. This way we can keep things moving right along. If the vote is close (like now, with HR Pufnstuf) I'll keep it open longer.


Part The Second:

How do you all feel about re-seeding? When I put these together I tried for some sort of order, but it was late at night and I'll freely admit my bracketing skills aren't the best. The end result is that the brackets are "flawed" - for example, in a perfect bracket world Flinstones should be going up against Danger Mouse, not Superfriends, due to the seeding number.

I am able to reseed the shows. I can change it so that the highest seed automatically goes against the lowest seed each round. I can also reseed the individual brackets so that the correct number face each other. Or I can leave it alone. Let me know what y'all think.

[williamssl]

I'm fine w/ keeping things how they are, and I'm saying that not looking at the brackets so know full well that I may be screwing one of my shows in the process.

But my feedback is more from the "administrator" perspective, knowing the challenge it can be to run these things and what not.

Appreciate you asking though.

[Batman]

sergeial said:

Loki, did you exalt me or Dr. X? 'Cause I never would have noticed it, if Dr. X hadn't.

Damn, that was some unclear writing. Sorry.

What I meant was:

Loki, did you exalt me for noticing the "Real Ghostbusters" vs. "Original Ghostbusters" thing, or did you exalt Dr. X? 'Cause Dr. X was the one who actually noticed it first. If you exalted me for it, then you really owe X one, he's the one who actually earned it.

[docx]

Well, I'll give you a bump for instant karma purposes, Serg.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

I'd say the short window is fine on the weekdays. Try to extend it a bit if we are talking about weekends. I'll be on tomorrow but might not get back until Monday morning.

[Deleted]

What m-kid said.

[Loki]

Don't worry - Unless they're utter blow outs the polls won't be closed on weekends.


Everyone give me feedback on the reseeding, though.

[National Champion Chris Cole]

Either way is cool with me on the reseeding.

[Deleted]

I'm in favor of NOT re-seeding. It leads to more blowouts that way. At least in theory. And the best of them all should win out, anyway.

[Krydor]

Frightenstien-Sucks now, but that was the only thing on at 6 AM back in the 70's. Igor would dance! There were hippy records and a MIDGET COUNT plus a REGULAR COUNT. Also, there was a scientist who learned us stuff about things.

P&B-Goddamn hilarious, and they did fine up until Elmira showed up. WTF was that all about?

R&S-The way John K had to get around the censors made it fantastic. I got your Cheese Fist RIGHT HERE

Spider-Man-Keep in mind this a vote for the 60's Bashki Spidey and not that new shit.

[Batman]

Ralph Bakshi did the first Spidey cartoon? I didn't know that. That's awesome. One of the cartoons I'm most sorry aren't in this thing because I didn't do a nomination ballot is his Mighty Mouse from the 80s. (Along with Rocky & Bullwinkle.) That trippy shit blew my little mind. OK, Spidey it is.