C&C - Anything Else/Cards [12/11 - 12/16]

[The Landstander]

:v: :<: :>::^:

[Youko Recca]

Ha. Phillip J. Fry was a BBoy? Funny I didn't notice that before. Gotta love Futurama.


And what was with that ATHF thing?

[livingfruitvirus]

Hehe. (http://studentpages.scad.edu/%7Ecbarne20/athf-dancing.mov)

[Discloner]

It's hypnotizing...like watching a lava-lamp while high or a Hypnotoad.

[Don_East]

It's amazing, back to back good episodes. "Luck Of The Fryish" from Futurama & "Tag Sale, You're It" from The Venture Bros.

EDIT
Sorry had a posting problem.

[PaQ]

It's hypnotizing...like watching a lava-lamp while high or a Hypnotoad. I agree.. That was very hypnotizing.. Never has the ATHF theme been so easy on the eyes. @_@

[NickWhiz1]

That's it. Someone needs to transcribe that card, NOW.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

huh? no ratings old or new? trickery!

[Discloner]

That's it. Someone needs to transcribe that card, NOW. *Woman belly dances*; "Aqua Toon Jumbo France", "TV for Winners"; *Woman Belly dancing*; "We love you".

[Rabi~en~Rose]

.hack//ratings


Sunday, December 5th

Family Guy - 764,000
Birdman - 490,000
ATHF - 469,000


Poor poor Tom :(

[Demonic Raven]

'Bout Ratings:

Birdman in second! =O

[Rabi~en~Rose]

.hack//ratings


Sunday, December 5th

Family Guy - 764,000
Birdman - 490,000
ATHF - 469,000


Saturday, December 4th

Futurama - 643,000
Venture - 447,000
FMA - 425,000

bad!


Up & Downs

FG & Futurama = Up
ATHF/Birdman/VB/FMA = Down

[Duke]

Eh, it's not that bad. Just barely under the Sunday ratings.

[Arcturus]

whoa sweet, Mission Hill is back? What I'd pay for a box dvd set (not that much but still)

[Beat]

Dammit, FMA lost to Venture Brothers again?

Throw that in with the rumors going to anime clubs that the FMA TV broacast is a butcher, and we've got a problem.

I'm serious BTW. My college anime club advertised it's showing of FMA with an ad going "Sick of the crappy dub and tons of edits from the Cartoon Network version?"

[Pepperidge]

Up & Downs

FG & Futurama = Up
ATHF/Birdman/VB/FMA = Down
Shocking.

[William C. Maune]

I'm serious BTW. My college anime club advertised it's showing of FMA with an ad going "Sick of the crappy dub and tons of edits from the Cartoon Network version?"

What the heck? Has there even been an edit yet?

[NickWhiz1]

Someone who has seen the first 6 episodes: Excluding the whole OP/ED business, have there been ANY edits to FMA yet?

[livingfruitvirus]

I'm serious BTW. My college anime club advertised it's showing of FMA with an ad going "Sick of the crappy dub and tons of edits from the Cartoon Network version?" Write on their posters "Hey dawg, I happen to find the dub quite decent in my humble opinion!"

Someone who has seen the first 6 episodes: Excluding the whole OP/ED business, have there been ANY edits to FMA yet?
No. But I'm sure if you'd like some it can be arranged.

[Swordfish_II]

I don't believe I've seen this particular Mission Hill before. At least I don't remember it.

I'd like a DVD set, too.

[Chad Bonin]

Ah, yes... I forgot the days of when Adult Swim was bashed for... FUNimation's edit of their own show...

[Wounded_Dragon]

Dammit, FMA lost to Venture Brothers again?

Throw that in with the rumors going to anime clubs that the FMA TV broacast is a butcher, and we've got a problem.

I'm serious BTW. My college anime club advertised it's showing of FMA with an ad going "Sick of the crappy dub and tons of edits from the Cartoon Network version?"

What kind of elitist crap are they smoking?

[Meson]

What kind of elitist crap are they smoking?
Fansubbers loosing customers?

[Youko Recca]

Yay for Mission Hill. Haven't seen this episode in so long it seems new. Which leads me to have been laughing during the episode.

Ratings seem alright. Nothing to complain about. Those idiots over that poster thing need a good set of *****slaps though, talk about....dumb.

[Anime Guy]

I don't believe I've seen this particular Mission Hill before. At least I don't remember it.

I'd like a DVD set, too.I've seen this episode a few times and would also love a Mission Hill DVD set.;)

[dawnyoshi]

anime extremists can really piss me off...what is there that is...um...BAD, on the FMA dub?

seriously. Some people just complain for the sake of complaining. If I saw posters like that on the UCSD campus, you'd definetely see it torn down and replaced with something realistic. -.-

[Zyzzybalubah]

Hey, Fullmetal Alchemist is doing fine. It trades off with Venture Bros. every now and then, no big deal. As long as they both perform strong, I think it's safe to say they'll stay on. Now if Cowboy Bebop or InuYasha were taking their ratings at a later time, then you should be scared.

As for "butchered" Fullmetal Alchemist, I would have to say this is one of Funimation's best dubs ever! Seriously, they didn't even Americanize the theme music!!!! The voice actors/actresses match perfectly to the characters and so far everyone is saying the series has been untouched edit-wise. Saturday Night has gone from a very mediocre night to a pretty satisfying night (only problem is I'm never in Saturday and normally just watch Thursday premiere repeats.)

As for Sundays ratings, as much as I like Sealab, I think it might be time for WS to say goodbye. It's had premieres for weeks and not even 1 has made it into the top 3 while Tom Goes to the Mayor had one solid night of 600,000 viewers. I may be judging a little early, but Sealab hasn't been on top for a long time.

[herbkir]

It's one thing to complain when the TV version actually is a butcher job. But why can't people give credit when the TV folks try to do the TV version right, given the constraints they have to work against? This kind of inaccurate slap against a conscientious dubbing/editing job can invalidate critics when there are legitimate grounds for complaint.

Unfortunately, some of the anime elitists seem to get upset by the very idea of USA TV networks making anime available to the "unwashed masses" at all. (^_*)

[Master Moron]

It's one thing to complain when the TV version actually is a butcher job. But why can't people give credit when the TV folks try to do the TV version right, given the constraints they have to work against? This kind of inaccurate slap against a conscientious dubbing/editing job can invalidate critics when there are legitimate grounds for complaint.

Unfortunately, some of the anime elitists seem to get upset by the very idea of USA TV networks making anime available to the "unwashed masses" at all. (^_*)

Exactly, it makes them feel special because they're the only ones who know about it. They don't like it when the mainstream discovers their favorite show.

Anyway, good to see Tom get the ratings it deserves...well, actually we don't know it's ratings, but it's good to see it get beaten by Sealab and Birdman anyway.

[Chad Bonin]

Because, ya know, Tom Goes To The Mayor is a show that is so unfunny, nobody has every laughed.

Oh, wait... the show is funny as hell. Oh shirt...

[Youko Recca]

Because, ya know, Tom Goes To The Mayor is a show that is so unfunny, nobody has every laughed.

Oh, wait... the show is funny as hell. Oh shirt...
This wasn't a situation to use sarcasm to defend a show. Regardless you got your point across....


And Shou Tucker looks nothing like Tommy. Maes Hughes looks more like him than Shou.

[nothing]

My college anime club advertised it's showing of FMA with an ad going "Sick of the crappy dub and tons of edits from the Cartoon Network version?"

i tend to concur that the "club" mentality of many x-treme anime fans is disheartening to those that are now producing a quality dub. but what are 'ya gonna do? the popular thinking is that the show they find "underground-cool" will suddenly sprout non-anime fans who are interested and thus ruin their elite status.

anyway, with that said... to my knowledge there's only one or two very minor visual edits, and if you didn't see the original japanese version... you wouldn't even notice what was changed. i don't want to suggest what's been changed because of spoiler issues, so please don't contemplate.

[Master Moron]

Because, ya know, Tom Goes To The Mayor is a show that is so unfunny, nobody has every laughed.

Oh, wait... the show is funny as hell. Oh shirt...

this board /= reality

The majority of this board seems to love Home Movies, however, in real life, most people don't find it funny at all. And when did I say no one ever laughed? I'm sure someone laughed at Penguins Behind Bars, that doesn't mean anything.

[Zyzzybalubah]

this board /= reality

The majority of this board seems to love Home Movies, however, in real life, most people don't find it funny at all. And when did I say no one ever laughed? I'm sure someone laughed at Penguins Behind Bars, that doesn't mean anything.
The only thing I laughed at Penguins Behind Bars for was the week after when it was somehow, magically the number one show in ratings that night. :D :D

[jbanks97]

Wait people are supposed to laugh at Home movies?


I thought the only reason it developed such a following was because it was so passionately anti-humorous and this somehow was cool because of it's ironic status.

(I really don't get home movies-never have-I've even seen most of the "classic" first and second season episodes, and I can barely stay awake through 15 minutes of one. To me it just seems like a kind of sweet, kind of clever, terribly animated sitcom with nothing spectacular about it at all. At very least, it was a bad fit for the rest of the more "actively funny" shows on adult swim)

But then again I didn't post in every home movies thread to tell everyone just how much I hated the show. :D

[The Landstander]

I think its hard to define what people like in 'reality'. The only AS show I ever hear people consistantly talk about is Family Guy (on a side note, people need to realize that when they quote something from TV, it's never nearly as funny. This also goes for Chappelle's Show). Futurama and ATHF also seem mildly popular.

Really, the only people I know who watch anything else on AS are people who've watched pretty much everything (and on a final note, I can't think of anyone I know in real life who watches the anime portion of the block).

[UberMonkey]

this board /= reality
What? Try =/= or != please.

[SSJPabs]

Censored SSJPabs

*blah blah blah* Tom Goes to The Mayor is a steaming pile of trash *blah blah blah* GITS is getting robbed *blah blah blah* chick dancing is WAAAY too pale *blah blah blah* I only watch AS only on Thursdays now *blah blah blah*

[livingfruitvirus]

Really, the only people I know who watch anything else on AS are people who've watched pretty much everything (and on a final note, I can't think of anyone I know in real life who watches the anime portion of the block).
I've heard plenty of people who watch the anime portion. However I also went to an art college for a while, and I live in a rather artsy part of Buckhead.

[herbkir]

The hard part is finding "live" people who watch ANYTHING on AS other than Futurama and Family Guy, whether it be the anime or the comedies. The ratings demonstrate there are several hundred thousand people who watch AS shows other than FUT and FG, so eventually we are bound to run into some of them in real life. But "eventually" can be a long, long time. (^_*)

[SSJPabs]

The hard part is finding "live" people who watch ANYTHING on AS other than Futurama and Family Guy, whether it be the anime or the comedies. The ratings demonstrate there are several hundred thousand people who watch AS shows other than FUT and FG, so eventually we are bound to run into some of them in real life. But "eventually" can be a long, long time. (^_*)US Popluation: 294,994,868 (http://www.census.gov/)

Adult Swim Ratings (best night): 1,000,000

Percetange of US Population who watch Adult Swim: 0.35%

Any questions?

[Master Moron]

I think its hard to define what people like in 'reality'. The only AS show I ever hear people consistantly talk about is Family Guy (on a side note, people need to realize that when they quote something from TV, it's never nearly as funny. This also goes for Chappelle's Show). Futurama and ATHF also seem mildly popular.

Really, the only people I know who watch anything else on AS are people who've watched pretty much everything (and on a final note, I can't think of anyone I know in real life who watches the anime portion of the block).

Actually, the Oblongs, Sealab, and the Brak Show seemed pretty popular in the day as well. Though, you do have a point. Actually, now that I think about it, there were two people in my film production class who one time filmed their TV playing Home Movies. And I one time saw a guy with a Home Movies baseball hat on(those can't possibly be profitable). So, I guess there ARE Home Movies fans out there. I've only known one guy who watched the anime part though, and he watched Nickelodeon and other cartoons too.

[James Bester]

US Popluation: 294,994,868 (http://www.census.gov/)

Adult Swim Ratings (best night): 1,000,000

Percetange of US Population who watch Adult Swim: 0.35%

Any questions?
You forgot to remember that most households dont even get involved with nielson media research.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

US Popluation: 294,994,868 (http://www.census.gov/)

Adult Swim Ratings (best night): 1,000,000

Percetange of US Population who watch Adult Swim: 0.35%

Any questions?

how much of the population is adult since that million is counting only adult viewers :confused:

[herbkir]

Another thing that may make it hard to spot AS fans is that Adult Swim is kind of a "guilty pleasure" for a lot of the adult viewers. So they may be reluctant to admit they watch because of the old "cartoons are for kiddies" thing.

Or they may have a life and simply don't think to mention AS in everyday conversation. I'm more involved than most AS viewers simply because I'm a regular poster in online forums. (^_*)

[James Bester]

The hard part is finding "live" people who watch ANYTHING on AS other than Futurama and Family Guy, whether it be the anime or the comedies.You've got a point there.

Most of my friends who watch Adult Swim watch a lot of futurama and family guy and some ATHF once in a while. Adult Swim must be doing really well in Atlanta anyway. I've read two articles in the atlanta journal constitution about the block since august. They both focused on the comedy part of the block(not one mention of anime btw). There were also a bunch of quotes from students at UGA.

[SSJPabs]

You forgot to remember that most households dont even get involved with nielson media research.That doesn't matter. The Nielson process works based on I believe random sampling. Statistically it likely projects out to the proper numbers, the networks freaking out and calling Nielson a liar about losing 18-34 to cable and video games not-withstanding. (BTW, Forgot to Remember? Interesting way to put it.)

Rabi's point of
how much of the population is adult since that million is counting only adult viewers is good one. After looking around, let me revise my equation for Adults.

Approximate US Adult Population: 200,000,000
Adult Swim Ratings (approx. best night): 1,000,000
Percentage of Adult Swim Viewers (US 18+): 0.5%

The Adult Population is extrapolated from the Nov. 2 election results as reported by Michael McDonald of George Mason University (http://elections.gmu.edu/voter_turnout.htm).

Approx. 60% of eligeable voters (18+) voted, or about 120 million.
That leaves a good 90 million plus for children and unregistered voters but I'm not sure how much better I can get without making more effort than I want to. Also, in regards to people not having cable well they can watch it in dorms, or at other people's houses and in anycase there aren't THAT many registered voters out there.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

Approximate US Adult Population: 200,000,000
Adult Swim Ratings (approx. best night): 1,000,000
Percentage of Adult Swim Viewers (US 18+): 0.5%

oooo thats better then 0.35% anyway :sweat: thanks for the revised stuffs :)

[Swordfish_II]

Well, they only count ratings or 18-34 year olds, which, if I'm understanding this right (http://www.census.gov/popest/national/asrh/NC-EST2003-as.html), is about 42,000,000 (give or take a few million since I only counted the 20-34 groups).

So we'll say about 45,000,000.

So that would about 2-3% or so?

[Master Moron]

Oh, don't forget Nielson research only counts families. Single guys and gals aren't counted unless they live with their parents.

[livingfruitvirus]

Oh, don't forget Nielson research only counts families. Single guys and gals aren't counted unless they live with their parents.
They don't count colleges either.