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We Knew It Was Coming: Tomi Lahren Hired by Fox News

I knew this was coming from 69th Street on the 108 bus.

Everybody's favorite bleach-blonde-brained blowhard bitch (no not Taylor Swift; at least she has some dignity and respect), Tomi Lahren is joining America's television hub for bleach-blonde-brained blowhards: Fox News Channel.

It was announced that she will join the Fox News family as a contributor to it's worst most horrifyingly biased show (No, Tucker Carlson; I didn't say excessively annoying and embarrassingly stupid show. Sit down and be a good little human jockstrap)--Hannity.

This doesn't surprise me. I had the thought in my mind for a long time since she was a host on theBlaze. She was an annoying loudmouth doof then, and she'll be an annoying loudmouth doof when she makes her first official appearance...when they make it happen. (I dunno--I never read an article about this, and I never will.) Even before her ass got her well-deserved pink slip, I had a feeling she would get interested by Fox and even get picked up when she was at the other network. Now that she's at the place where idiots get their propagan--I mean...yeah, propaganda, she'll get her turn in the limelight and even get her own show. (Don't ask how I know; I know it'll happen sometime or another. They'll definitively make room for her somewhere on the schedule and idiots will eat her vocal defication like they do Hannity's.)

Tomi, good luck bud. But...I still hate you like you hate everything sane and logical.

Toony Throwback Thursday: Recess

I’ve watched many cartoons when I was a kid--both on broadcast (syndication and broadcast television), and on cable (both pay AND penetration). And yet one of my consistent favorites across all of these mediums is Recess.

Recess, created by Joe Ansolabehere and Paul Germain (the latter previously best known as co-creator of another iconic and beloved western animated series that starts with R, Rugrats) revolves around six fourth grade kids as they go about their young lives attending Third Street Elementary School, along with a wide, colorful range of other students whom interact with the main group, are the focus of their antics or are just there for a good joke.
These students are, in this particular order:
-T.J. Detweiler--the popular and clever leader
-Vince LaSalle--the cool and confident athlete
-Ashley Spinelli--the tough and headstrong tomboy
-Gretchen Grundler--the sharp and extroverted genius
-Mikey Blumberg--the gentle giant with the Pavarotti pipes
-and Gus Griswald, the shy (but occasionally brave) latecomer

Their attending Third Street Elementary garners mixed responses (depending on the activity), but the one period of the day they (and the other students) look forward to the most and enjoy as


It had a lot of things I loved:
-A large ensemble of kids with different personalities that resemble all kids at a normal real-life elementary school, with our main heroes standing out themselves
-A wide-ranging faculty of either wide rage or sweet cheerfulness
-How this series is modeled like -- of all things -- escape heist films (specifically when the kids want to escape the long-boring confines of the classroom for the fun, fresh air and -- of recess). Seriously, you’ll feel like you’re watching something else, despite it being a kids show. Even if you’re a kid, you feel like something was off about this one (well, at least I did)

There’s also many moments of characters (both kids and adults) realizing something about one another that changes our perspective of them.
-When Gus was introduced in the second half of the very first episode "The New Kid", and his new friends did his best to remove the titular title most new kids get at Third Street, leading to his awesome moment of confronting King Bob to get his name back. And he does.
-When Vince praises on about his big brother Chad and accepts him as a geek. (Before the Big Bang Theory, nerds were always seen as scum of the school campus. So watching this episode and watching Vince love his big bro no matter what makes me humbled.)
-When Principal Prickly was hypnotized to being 6-years-old and the kids see something new (and odd) in him and enjoy a new perspective of their grumpy-but-well-meaning principal
-And in “Weekend at Muriel's”, Spinelli goes to Ms. Finster’s house for a weekend while her parents are away. After a while when she (and us) expected Finster to be her loud, boring disciplinarian self, she realizes this and begins a self reflection, of which she loosens up and shows Spinelli how she has a good time. Spin enjoys it and leaves with more respect for Finster than ever, and we’re treated to a newer, more mellow and more fun Ms.  Finster (at least for that episode, because she’s back to being a cruel, soulless old meanie by the next episode [with some open shades of her having a good time in several later episodes.])
-and many more too hard to list

If you’ve ever wondered why this show lasted nearly a decade on television in reruns (on ABC Kids after 1SM ended, and on Disney Channel & Toon Disney)? Those reasons are why. Most kids watching could relate to at least one of these kids , remember the times of having fun at recess at their school, laugh at the jokes about them or the Third Street Elementary faculty, well up from the Tear Jerking moments, feel swelling after the Heartwarming moments, and cheer in astonishment from witnessing a character (and ANY character) perform an action that is too awesome for words (and there were many).

When I began watching this series for this review again, I was immediately transported back to my childhood, watching the title sequence and listening to the theme song--humming along to it of course, excitedly waiting for another episode to begin. And when it begins, I sit and stare at the TV as the action unfolds, laughing or feeling good from every other moment.

Ehh, sure, it wasn’t all the way perfect; there were some notable episode/moments that didn’t go well with everyone over the years. Take “Nobody Doesn’t Like T.J.” for instance, in which T.J., apparently the coolest kid on the playground, finds out that Gordy doesn’t like him. Teej tests his temperament to turn Gordy to his team, but failed. The problem here is that he’s forcing Gordy to like him, but this gives the latter even more reason (well one reasonable reason--since he has none at the start) to dislike the former. This half-episode did have a message that needed to be told in a kid’s show--”not everyone can like a certain person”. Or was supposed to, But the execution was not a figure 8, instead showing itself like this--”people can dislike you for no good reason, and it’s okay!”. It just didn't work the way the writers intended.

But for episodes that I'd find great. there are many across this one to list (so I'll get to that another time)

These kids find recess as escapism from life, and I find Recess as escapism from real life.
And that is why I love Recess.

Thanks for joining me here, everyone. And I'll be back next month with something special involving a certain weekly block full of summer (hint: this series aired as part of it). See you in September!

I'm Andrew, and may the good toons be yours!

America's Got Talent Review Live: Quarterfinals 2: Simon Cowell is All Piss and Wind

Welcome back, one and all, to America's Got Talent Review Live!
It's week two of the live shows, and the next group of acts have a lot of work cut out for them after last week's big live debut. This week's acts were...a bit mixed. I enjoyed most of them, but I wasn't totally wowed. Let's take a look at what I mean...

Performances:


Results.


Hope you enjoy this review and I'll see you  next week for more AGT Review Live.

Too-oo!ny Tuesday: Woo-oo! (DuckTales Reboot | Special One-Hour Premiere Episode!)

If there’s a reboot everyone needed (but wasn’t asking for)...it’s this. And if there was a new show everyone who hasn't watched the original for should watch, it's this.

Woo-oo! It's the 2017 reboot/remake/re-imaging(/re-whatever) of DuckTales.

This reboot on Disney XD features the same old characters we knew, loved and grew up with all these years--just with new voices, traits and personalities and even outfits. This hour-long episode aired on August 12 in a very surprising marathon stunt. This episode aired literally all day--as in 24 times for 24 hours

There are also changes between the two versions:
In the original, Donald Duck has left for the Army, and gave guardianship to Scrooge MCDuck.
In the reboot, Donald is having a hard time with the “Eweys” and has to go to a job interview, and asks Scrooge to watch them.

And back to the Characters changing in personalities:

-Scrooge was indifferent, pretty stingy and a little grumpy yet more upbeat; now, he’s just super stingy and grumpy--he’s no longer as excited about his adventures as he used to be, and is even super glum as well, as his company has to cut back on the works on such, and sell the artifact he’s found to keep it going. It’s really sad that this guy is really down after all these years of being one of the best and most jovial explorers in the world.
Although I definitely believe he’ll mellow more and become more upbeat as the series progresses.

-The Duck Trips have always had their own personalities, as it seems (even though most of the times I’ve seen them on TV they were pretty much, the same boy with three different shirts and rhyming names), but this version takes it another way:
-Huey is smart and sensible if not a
-Louie is more laidback and jerkish (or--as the other triplets even call him--“the evil one”)
-Dewey is more reckless, stubborn and headstrong
And to top it off, they get their own outfits too.
Also, in the original, they already knew that Scrooge was their great uncle, and were pretty unexcited about living with him (more than seemingly because of his grumpy attitude and skinflint behavior) while uncle Donald had set off for the Navy. Here, they never knew Scrooge was their great uncle and was a little off the wall when they learned of it, unfortunately under the consequence of of his and Scrooge's years-long beef. Fortunately, it can only get better (and worse?) from here.

I love this change, because while I don’t think too much about the triplets when I see them, I just feel they have too much of the same personality. So I’m glad they all have a different personality; it’ll be great to see them be foils to one another (and to Webby as well) instead of being the same boy three times over.

-Webby has become more excitable, observant, confident, strong and brave--unlike the original, which many viewers and critics claimed as “boring” and “uninteresting” (with the OG Duck Trips even not liking her from the start) from what I’ve heard. Also from what I’ve heard, the writers wanted to give her a more positive, likable and flesh-out personality--which is what they’ve succeeded with her here. (It's fair to say that she's become one of my favorite characters of the series because of that...and more.)

-Donald is still his ill-tempered, down-on-his-luck self; but here it takes a more painful turn: he and Uncle Scrooge had a falling out years ago and haven’t spoken or have been kind to each other since. Their strained relationship doesn’t get any better when the triplets inadvertently tag along on their first adventure with Grunkle--ahem, I mean Uncle Sta--I mean Scrooge. Then there’s his fears that his nephews would get hurt or even killed while on treks with Scrooge (which are understandable).
And there’s this I love about him: while he will get screwed over a lot, he’s still not giving up on what he wants to do, His determination is limitless and he won’t let his unlucky disposition get him down. While he’ll still get into unlucky predicaments (some of which I’m sure will annoy me), he’ll actually join the rest of the Duck/McDuck Family on their crazy, dangerous world treks this time around. I have a feeling he’ll be one of my top favorites in this series. (well, it makes sense, as he’s been one of my all-time favorite Disney characters)
Orginal-wise, he went off to the Navy...and was nothing more than a glorified cameo from then on out. He did make more appearances, but he wasn't really important to the series unlike his nephews. Here, he's just as important as the rest of the family, and will take

-Instead of servant Duckworth from the original, he's replaced by Betina Beakly, Scrooge's sweet, motherly and sensible yet brawny and badass maid

-And then there's Glomgold .
In the original, he was pretty much a mirror image of Scrooge (maybe funhouse mirror, because of his square glasses and kilt). But here, the producers decided to give him his own design and nationality change. making him heavyset and a South African feigning a Scottish accent and look. (You see, in the comic series, he was South African; but in the original, he was as much a Scot as Scrooge. Here, he's back as a South African, complete with a lie that he's a Scotsman to get a leg up on Scrooge's empire in the worldwide artifact scouting industry. *phew* Oh yeah, and he's so devious he'll resort to murdering people to get what he wants. Yep, he's/they're going there.)

As for Launchpad McQuack, he’s still his lovable yet dimwitted self. You can’t change that.
These characters are real likable, well-made at the start and perfect for development later on.


And don’t get me started with the voice acting. (Well, actually please don’t; I already mentioned that in an episode of Maroon Mondays Live back in May, and I was already pretty pleased/excited/overwhelmed by the actors chosen. )

(so )

The animation looks like a hybrid of both the original and a comic book; it’s crisp, smooth, and rich (like Scrooge’s bank account), yet wide-reaching and perfectly colorful. I’ve watched a lot of cartoons with a shockingly expansive palette yet this one still manages to surprise me with its ink and paint use.

And before you mock me about it (and I’m being very generous, because that would mean people are actually talking to me), look at the establishing shots and backgrounds instead of the characters’ clothes, and you’ve got great eye-candy of a series.

And that extends to the Title Sequence, with a new spin on that theme song everybody loves and wants implanted into their brains until the end of time.

Everything just shines here.
The animation is beautiful, and everything you need to know about the series is shown in full view here.
-Our heroes going on a typical adventure, and Our villains chasing them;
-Scrooge reaching for his iconic (I assume) #1 Dime.
-Launchpad getting distracted from piloting a plane by giving us (or the air? can't really tell) a saluted greeting (Maybe if you look from a certain angle).
-And (something I haven't known about before), some righteous recreations of the works of comic book genius (and creator of the comic series that these shows are based on) Carl Barks

Then there’s the change in story:

The original was cartoon deep in action and adventure. This series continues aspects of both, but also includes bits and pieces of mystery and takes a slightly more darker tone.
AND BEFORE YOU ALL HAWK UP GRAVITY FALLS, lemme tell you this: yes, it does involve a story grounded in mystery...AND THAT’S IT. Before you all make any more comparisons: How Louie wears a hat like Dipper, how Webby is sweet, hyper and waaaaay into something like Mabel (along with both wearing similar outfits--including to a sweater and s), how Scrooge is grumpy yet mischievous like Stan (along with both carrying canes and wearing fancy hats), or how Launchpad is a kind yet dimwitted adult like Soos--oop, oh wait, I’m doing it. Well, anyway, just because they both have mystery aspects embedded in that, it doesn’t mean they’re one and their same. In fact, it’s becoming a thing now that annoys me-- people comparing newer shows to Gravity Falls just because they all share a genre and barely similar characters. It’s happened before with Welcome to the Wayne, and now it’s happening with this series. While they’re all fair, it’s the fact that they JUST. KEEP. COMING. that irritates me. While I won’t tell you all to stop it, I will say this: GF IS a brilliant cartoon, but ISN’T something everyone should look at or refer to for one genre over others. It just muddies the waters for other potential viewers/fans.
But as a fan of both shows (and that a lot of people from the former are now working on the latter), it's true that I love this development and I can't wait to see how far (and how dark) the crew will take the story from here and where they'll go for a great memorable moment. I'm sure they'll do just fine.

As for the origin story itself, it’s a great, well-written and refreshing retake on the original’s origin story. It adds some (barely) more backstory for the characters (Donald getting a job interview; the “Eweys” living with him and being a nuisance--uhh, yeah; Launchpad being a chauffeur [and being predictably bad at it], ) and begins some more interesting, salacious and definitely entertaining adventures to come.
And then there’s the short cliffhanger at the end when Dewey looks at the painting again and see a surprise behind its ripped flap as a stowaway on Scrooge and Donald’s shipside adventure: [SPOILER ALERT] his, Huey and Louie’s mom Della Duck. With this reveal, it’s definitely setting a domino effect of storylines, new locations, and character interactions and developments that’ll leave you hanging and hungry for more. And honestly, I can’t wait for to rack my brain for it all.

This pilot was fantastic . Everything a fan or stan of the original ever wanted in a re-imagining, and everything a new fan or casual watcher would begin to love. Fantastic casting and performances, superb animation, amazing new development for the characters and a brilliant start to an equally-brilliant, fresh, new story to unravel (and for us to sit back and ).

Bannon is Bounced: Trump White House Chief Strategist Fired | Serious Post

Bye-Bye Bannon.

Steve Bannon, the chief strategist of President Orange aka 45 has heard the latter's somehow famous(ly rehashed) words--"YOU'RE FIRED!".

This actually did happen earlier today, and I am grinning ear-to-ear.

Look, I'll get straight to it: I don't like him at all. His work at Breitbart was the stuff of infamy, what with its blatant bias toward right-wing partisan politics and white supremacy. And this is from what I hear from the grapevine. And when he was hired as one member of Trump's version of shitty rap group Rich Gang (right down to the title), I was a bit furious, but not surprised for the implications I just mentioned.

But his work wasn't done as soon as Trump was given--I mean won-- nah, "was given" is more fitting, the presidency.
It more than seemed like Trump wasn't running the shots all this time; it was Bannon, who was the indirect commander-in-chief. Or he was the Senior Wences and Orange was his Topo Gigio. (look at this for more proof) Bannon seemingly gave Trump his ideals and cares, and Trump fed into them like KFC on his private jet. Since then, and from what we've all heard on the news, it's been more and more clear that Bannon was doing the hard work from beyond the shadows--I mean, behind the scenes. And before you know it, comments and jokes about this random indirect set-up were abound.

To be honest, the reason Bannon got his pink slip was because he cased white supremacists losers. These "losers" were Trump's voter-base. Even since the over-tanned idiot made it unwittingly clear last week that he supports and condones those cretins, he'll do anything to keep them (including outright switching his stance on them after the Charlottesville Klan massacre of last week to say both sides caused the disgusting incident, proving how desperate and stupid he is to do anything to keep hold of the top political power.) And when he learned of it, he gave Bannon redundancy.
And I'm absolutely overjoyed.

I hated him since the one time I actually went to Breitbart, and I'll still hate him until the end of time. He is the definition of a racist, sexist, scum of the earth, monster and "fugly". And I don't know why I wasted post space for him, but hey I need pageviews this week. (Okay, I'm joking but still...)

I can only wonder what Trump's White House will look like in the coming weeks, but as I've heard his Business and Economics groups have disbanded after his dangerously retarded turnaround statement after Charlottesville, and his staff are under siege and are looking to break away, but even through the unexpected, I can't wait to see so I can laugh my ass off and then fear for the worst from then...then laugh my ass off again to curb the pain.

Oh well...

Good riddence, and I can't wait to see how Saturday Night Live--and next week's Weekend Update Summer Edition--parody you to death. Fuck, I bet they're dress you up as Death, as they have last season. That'll be fun...

America's Got Talent Review Live: Live Shows Ep. 1--One Oscar & A Little Mel B

Tonight...

for the first time...

America's Got Talent Review...

IS GOING LIVE.




...Literally.

Hope you all enjoy.

Here's my review of the first performance show.




(I will say that it was a mess because of some weird overheating issues my PC suffered because the exhaust fan was dusted up, causing it to suddenly shut down. I had no idea at the time. But fortunately since all is good, I will continue the live reviews.)


Here's my thoughts on the first results show.

Charlottesville White Supremacy Massacre (Why?)

Shit. It's happened again. Another attack on American values and love...by Americans who have twisted and backwards values and no discernible love whatsoever.

This attack happened yesterday in Charlottesville, Virginia. A protest by white supremacists protesting the removal of a stature

This should have no place in any country, let alone this one. But it just happened and it just needs to stop.

I condemn it all. All the people I condemn, and their actions are a true blue showing of their true colors. They don't care about people who want and have an open mind about inclusiveness and love for all people. They care about hate and oppression for others while showing solidarity in hatred for others not like them (in race, creed or psyche) and they'll do anything to protect and preserve it. And what they did was and forevermore shall be a prime example of it. People shouldn't suffer major violent consequences for speaking their minds or fighting for what they believe in. So why should these people do it to the counter protesters? Because they don't know any better or have any semblance of common courtesy or sense.

This is why all minorities don't like or trust most white people, or--in more extreme cases--white people in general anymore. Because they fear or being swindled or one-uped or being treated worse than them; and in a lot of cases, especially in this decade so far, it has happened. And they always get away with it (degrees of which depend on what they do). I don't speak for all minorities, but what I and many others across the internet are saying has been made more clearer here today.

Fuck all of the white supremacists in this horrible attack on humanity.
This is why we don't like you.

As for the piece of shit who rammed his car against the crowd of peaceful counter-protesters, I'm glad he got caught (I honestly thought he wouldn't and would've killed himself). He deserves maximum sentencing and security. There's a special place in hell for him. Fuck him too.

 But all this is why the world looks at this country with hated, disillusion and laughter. We are still a laughingstock because of things like this. Because of scum like this. People rioting and abusing lives for shitty reasons like a fucking statue and flag. What does that statue have anything to do with this?? Because the guy is racist and disgusting.

I have no hated for most white people. But it's white people like the supporters of the damn statue I have no likeness or care for. They bring all of us and America back four hundred years to Amerikkka a time where their kind is the worst to all people. These scum want to bring it back to there, they can go ahead. They can eat each other out for all I care. They don't matter to me--never have been, definitely never will be.

When President 45 gave his press conference, I had no words. We all know he has no idea how to speak about serious events or incidents after they've unfolded and say them from the heart, because he's said hypocritical bullshit about otherwise many times before. He has no heart. No matter what he says in "sympathy" to the victims or their families, he actually really truly doesn't care about them or anyone that isn't on the same tax bracket, and what he's said in the past cements this.
Fuck him and his administration.

The speech from Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe was cathartic and heartwarming.



He simply called out the attack for what it is: senseless violence on peaceful people who don't want an America embedded in racism and one-race supremacy that rules in hatred and fear.
I'm fucking tired of it.


Thanks to these cave-dwelling neanderthals; these slavery-cummers; these slack-jaw, dimwitted, hate-releasing bastards, this country is truly not what it is or seems anymore. I have no solidarity for any of them. This is not my fight, or the fight for all black people and all people of color. When we have fought about things we find important to fight about, we don't fight with fist or riot. We walk and fight with our voices. Yet we are destroying our country. We do wrong, and what you're doing is all right and okay for our country. (Right...)
We have turned our backs on them.
And thanks to this incident, we turn our backs on them forever.

And you know what's sad? I was watching a marathon of  The Jeffersons on TV yesterday, and two of the episodes that aired was about a meeting for the KKK, and another about the main characters opening their cleaning store right on the night of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
You know what happened in them and where it ended. I also had a discussion about it with my sister and it was really deep about this. But on that day, no one was convinced that the group was a group of racism, hatred and pure terrorism. They committed pure racism, hatred and terrorism (against members of their own race no less).
I love my country but it's times like this where I can say with no second thoughts: I hate it sometimes.

This wasn't America. This is AmeriKKKa.

Pat Robertson Believes Eric Bolling Isn't Sexually Harassing Because "He's a Good Catholic"

Oh really Pat?

Luna Loud Likes a Lady. Me Like Largely || Toony Tuesday: "L is for Love" (The Loud House)

Even though I've done this twice before, I'm saying this in a different fashion. But even with that, I can still admit...I did not (ever) see this coming.

But The Loud House has done it again. Another character has been revealed as a sexual orientation that isn't straight. This time it's a main character in the Loud family. And it's the least unexpected of them all.

Why I said unexpected is because Luna is a big rocker chick. And not only does she look perfectly like a rocker chick, but she definitely looks like the Loud sister to like boys and girls. And you don't have to look far. Half of the sisters are simply out of the question (won't tell which; figure it out yourself), Lori already has a boyfriend, Leni obviously likes boys (and fashion and probably nothing else), and Luan loves to joke around (it's practically her first...love! hehhehhehheh GEDDIT?!?!). And I leave Lynn out of it because she's the youngest of the five and closer to the younger sisters, so I leave her out of it (cause ew). In fact, outside of Lori, all of them have their main character traits out in the forefront so much, that there's no focus on crushes. (Which is great) So you gotta imagine my surprise when this bomb dropped on us.

The first time I learned about this, I was at a forum chat on this website you may have heard of, Toonzone. I was messing around on different threads when I came across one post about The Loud House. I read through the pages and reached that one post by another member that read this:

"Clyde has 2 dads, and Luna has been revealed to be bisexual."

From reading that, I was shocked. Not only because it happened, but also because I didn't watch the episode at first.
Where have I been all this time?!?
But let's get into it shall we?

So, Lincoln Log finds a love letter in the family mailbox. This leads the Loud-lings to have a meeting to figure out the guy (or girl) whom has a crush on one of them. So they embark to find the person whom the lust-mail belongs to, by finding their own crushes. All of the kids' crushes are pretty much parallel in personality to them (with the surprising exception being Leni, whom I expected to have a lust for the skinny, pretty-boy model type; but she actually likes this heavyset clothing store employee. This was kinda awesome that she was crushing on a polar opposite for more than just his looks. Makes me wish some of the others would too.) (I also like to say the short clips of Lily and her crush [her big teddy bear] were just uber-cute.)

So after a long, hard (and pretty clumsy) search to find the one crush--leading to this British-themed restaurant, it turns out the famous L. Loud in the love letters turned out to be their dad, Lynn Sr. (yes, that's his name, and he does share it with young female Lynn. Isn't that clever? I'm sure fans of Mr. Belvedere do.) He got the letters from their mom and his wife Rita in honor of the 20th anniversary of their first meeting and first date. (This was a very good resolution and execution. Even though I knew the ending beforehand, I still felt a little fooled by the reveal of the secret admirer, and happy for Mr. and Mrs. Loud to celebrate their major milestone. (Also, I'll never look at Lynn Sr. again without seeing him in short shorts and a crop top. Oh bollocks, what a bloody sight!) This wonderful story of a nervous crush turned a wonderful long-strong union gave their kids (especially Luna) the confidence to reveal their lust to their significant one-shot counterparts, ending it on a sweet note for what could be later on in its run...

Oh yeah, and why we're here: Yeah, Luna likes girls. (Specifically a blonde rocker named Sam.)
...That's cool.
Now, I'm not gonna a big fuss of it like I did the last time a character has a relative who's not straight (Thar being Lincoln Andrew's best pal Clyde's parents both being male). So...I'm very happy this show took another bold leap for a female character to reveal romantic feelings for another female. In fact, I'm sure this leap had to be bigger and heavier than the last because it's a female character. Which one would think would be less of a good idea to show on a kids cartoon than two males  having romantic feelings (let alone in a biracial marriage).

While this series isn't the first one to make subtle, not-so-subtle, and obviously-blatant connotations to lesbianism, this took the middle option and did in the "do it at the end so everyone will take a while to realize what happened and when they realize it it'll be over" way so good. I obviously approve of this and makes me happy that children's cartoons can continue to tackle more progressive taboo topics in a progressively less-taboo way, and I'll be here rooting on.

Oh, and to talk a bit about this half-episode's counterpart "Potty Mouth", it's also a well-made, funny, heartwarming episode about baby Lily cursing (it's the word "Dang", I swear!) and the other Loud-lings have to try to get her to forget the word before an interview with a worker of an exclusive daycare center. It was funny all the way, and also sweet that all of the kids tried their best to make sure their baby sister goes to a good preschool. That's why I love The Loud House--this family loves and will anything for each other (heck, it's practically in the theme songs). I'm not gonna spoil the ending for you, but I promise it's gonna render you...a different reaction.

Luna Loud likes ladies.
Ludicrous? Lackluster? Lackadaisical? Lowly likely.

Lovely? Largely.

Thank you for tuning in for this special one-episode edition of Toony Tuesday. I hope you've enjoyed it. If you want me to do more episodic reviews, lemme know in the comments section or on social media.

I'll see you guys later, when I'll take a look at the highly anticipated first episode of the highly-anticipated reboot of DuckTales. See you then.

I'm Andrew, and may the good toons be yours!

Toony Tuesday: OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes

In a world...where heroes come together...to save the day...and also eat, breathe and hang out...one boy, has the excitement, confidence and determination to one day be like them.
But first...he must get some planks for his mommy.

It's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.

Created by yet another CN classic underling turned graduate (specifically former Adventure Time and Steven Universe writer, co-EP and animator), Ian Jones-Quartey, this Cartoon Network Original centers on KO, a wide-eyed, enthusiastic, precocious and optimistic young boy with only one dream: to be a hero (to be specific, the world’s greatest hero). One day, while hanging with his mom Carol at her place of business at a strip mall that is the superhero merchandising mecca, Lakewood Plaza, he visits a bodega where heroes get their gear. And after meeting the store’s two workers (and new friends) Rad and Enid, and its owner Mr. Gar, K.O. begins his journey to become a high-level hero.

I LOVE THIS SHOW!

It’s so exuberant, enjoyable, and edge-of-your-seat exciting. But this being light and bright isn’t why I love this one (well, not the only). [I can enjoy a dark cartoon almost as much] It’s also perfectly action-packed and amazingly influenced in action-based anime. The action scenes aren’t too violent but are also a joy to watch. And from a production standpoint, it’s an absolute gem.
The original music (which, I think, is like contemporary jazz or disco) is, like on Steven Universe, an audible masterpiece from opening theme through a typical to closing theme. In fact, the closing theme is sung by Jones-Quartey
’s former boss, Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar. It’s sweet, fast, fun and super catchy. (How’s that for returning the favor?) And the opening theme is just as fast, fun and catchy. When you see it, you feel pumped-up for whatever epsiode is about to begin. Even if that episode starts slow, you can’t stop that pump-up. (?)

And then there’s the anime-based animation. Sure, all of it looks like it was drawn by a 12-year-old with a great big and surprisingly consistent imagination, but it’s fantastic nonetheless. The movements of the characters are so fluid, you’d think you’d see colorful water spilling out of your electronic device. The establishing shots and backgrounds look straight out of a manga (and I say this proudly as someone who’s never read from a manga before!), and the characters’ reactions are accurate for whatever scene they’re in. While fuzzy and adorbs along the edges, everyone definitely looks ready to kick butt at any moment. And when that happens, you forget the sweet-and-soft-serve ink and paint, and do nothing but go slackjaw and awe over the mindblowing drawings of the fight scenes. And it’s not hard to melt after seeing major characters in heartwarming moments. Or K.O. in any scene.


Also a joy to watch are the main characters.
In their own ways, they command the screen and my attention.
-Enid is deliciously sarcastic and uncaring, but her glimpses of care, worry and love for her friends is absolutely sweet. (Not to mention she’s super badass)
-Radicles (also known as Rad) is almost addictive as a character. His self-bragging and showing off is not only funny but also so well-acted-out, you’d also think it was actually true.
-Mr. Gar (the former two’s boss at his bodega) is a true-blue ice-cool hero. He
-Mr. Boxman is the series’ main antagonist. He makes robots sent direct to the heroes to fight our heroes (main and side), but he has his plans for domination set for creation. His also hates love and affection (Plus, he’s voiced by VA legend Jim Cummings. That is automatically an awesome plus) .
-Carol, K.O.’s mom, is one sweet, loving mother and definitely has her son as one of her major priorities (if not her top priority). Her talk with him in “Let’s Be Heroes” in which he wants to be like the major heroes he looks up to was not only sweet but pretty awesome too.
-And lastly (but not leastly; he’s literally at the top as our protagonist), K.O.
He has big dreams to be a high level hero. But he has a lot to learn first.
He’s bright, wide-eyed, optimistic, charming, funny and (even though he’d probably hate it) kind of adorable too. Just look at his face at any point of any episode, with any disposition.

These characters (and many more in this hero-home future-world) are voiced well by great actors, including creator Jones-Quartey (who voices Rad), Ashly Burch (Enid), David Herman (Gar), Jim Cummings (Lord Boxman), and Stephanie Nadolny and Courtenay Taylor (BOTH AS K.O.). It has happened a lot of times, where I'm mesmerized by the whole cast of a cartoon, and this is the latest of these. I just love the performances of everyone involved.

I have nothing much more to say here. PLEASE WATCH THIS SERIES!!
It's really good, it's really fun and it's really exciting too.
It's on YOUR Cartoon Network! (Don't know where the Your part comes in, it's just something they do now, so I'm mocking it.) Please give it the utmost attention and respect it deserves. And please watch it enough to get the network to cut off the incessant repeats of Teen Titans Go!... but not enough to get this to be the new schedule monster... but I can handle this one, because this is actually really good...

Seriously, give it a watch, you'll definitely enjoy and love this...

This has been my review of  OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes....
And this has been Toony Tuesday... 

Thanks for checking in. I'll be back net week with a recollection of the reboot of DuckTales.
Woo-oo! Indeed.

I'm Andrew, and may the good toons be yours...! ....

Tomi Lahren Bashes Obamacare During Politicon 2017 Panel...Then Admits to Benefiting from It.

I've never had a reason to like Tomi Lahren.
Whether during her stint as host and talent at TheBlaze--or when she got fired from it and took her "talents" to Facebook in the most annoying videos ever shot on the vertical position, Lahren has always found a way to spew her bullshit talking points to her diminutive-minded fans and her long-suffering, long-annoyed detractors. And that now includes this moment at a panel hosted by comedienne and talk show host Chelsea Handler at Politicon 2017, where she was a guest of honor.

After being asked by Handler about the Affordable Care Act and President Orange (aka 45)'s many tries and failures to get it repealed and replaced with his death kneel of a potential replacement, the American Health Care Act (aka TrumpRyanBitchMcConnelSadTurtleGOPissPoorcare)--Lahren responded with this bullish statement bashing the ACA stating it “fails the very people that it’s intended to help”. And if that wasn't enough to rage you up, this will. A few seconds later--after being asked by Handler “Do you have a health care plan or no?”, she said this even-more bullish statement to the stunned audience and viewers of a video spread across the Internet, and I quote:

"Luckily I am 24 so I am still on my parents’ …"

I didn't think I could despise her any more than I already can gauge...
this shit comes up.

My God, she's a damn hypocrite. She bashes Obamacare, yet she has the nerve to benefit from it because of her age. (In case you didn't know, one of the main provisions of Obamacare is that if you are under 26, you can stay under your parents' insurance plan.) I never thought her parents would have insurance under Obamacare--but then again, I've never known or cared about her family, because knowing more about this stupid bitch would take away IQ points, so never mind that. But back to her, she's always bashed everything the Democrats do (although sometimes not for bad reasons), but to hear this from her, makes me think she could be doing some things Democrats like, but lies about it to keep her ReTHUGlican street cred.

It pisses me off so much that she uses up her Obamacare privileges and likes them, yet she wants everyone else to have it taken away from them. If she hated Obamacare, she would've just refrained from using it, despite her being under her parents' plan. Because she had to stand up for what she believes in, right? Wrong. She has no heart, no soul, no empathy for people like her. Then again, she's a CONMANservative, so that's not a surprise.

It didn't surprise me when the crowd booed her; as it was refreshing to quickly pick it all up and call her out on her hypocrisy. She doesn't care, it won't change a thing. She'll keep abusing that thing she wants destroyed for everyone who really needs it to live longer.

Tomi, I hope you enjoy that Obamacare that you hate so much.
I also hope you getting shit on by everyone for the hypocrisy like the lyin ass bitch that you are.



Cunt.

Toony to the Tuesday: Welcome to the Wayne

Hey, folks.
Welcome to Toony Tuesday, and to my first thoughts on another great series Nickelodeon has in its arsenal. ...if it plans to treat it right. It's Welcome to the Wayne.


This series, created by TV writer and talented composer Billy Lopez, originated as a weekly short-form series airing only on the network's website Nick.com. In my opinion, this version was a great first addition to Nick's digital clout. It was funny AND funny, was a breeze-through (almost literally too), had a great first story arc to begin a new series (and good thing it got picked up too, because will the web-short did wrap up nicely, it still felt open-ended, which thank goodness brings us here).

And just like I loved the original web-short, I love this series.

It continues the story, while also creating a new way to introduce itself, its characters and main star: the Wayne apartment building. Like in the web-short, the TV series features three kids on a mission to find the interesting, the odd, the surprising and the mysterious in Manhattan, New York's seemingly swanky pad. Who are these kids, you ask?

The Characters

Our heroic protagonists are a strongly likable bunch of kids who aren't about candy. crushes, video games or the things that annoying kids do that'll piss me off as a viewer. They're out and about solving mysteries and getting to the bottom of whatever is weird-ing them out.
-Ansi Molina is the new kid on the block; he and his parents have moved in to the Wayne, and just as he begins to enjoy his new home and new life, he runs into and meets...
-Olly Timbers, a long-time resident who is uber-curious about the deeper surroundings and goings on inside the Wayne and wants to explore the building to get to the bottom of the bigger picture mystery and . But before he ends up somewhere worse for wear is...
-Saraline Timbers, Olly's more rational and responsible (and repressed, possibly) younger sister, who also sees more than meets the eye inside the Wayne and wants to unlock the many interesting secrets it holds. And play with her toys in secret on occasion.
These three kids later come together as a team to solve the many
And if anything, this team is a great team. They

The Wayne Building itself is like...well...a certain other well-known incubator of weirdness and mystery. But unlike that other incubator, this series is more light and wacky than dark and brooding. And while I love...that show, I love that this series features a lighter and brighter take on the mystery genre on television. And the other inhabitants of the building do have serious business on their hands, but they're also a bit more silly than scary...and silly.  Characters like The Spy from Apartment 8I, Masterson, and...Flowershirt also make the series interesting, exciting and fun(ny).

--The Theme Song

I love a great theme song, and many animated series these past few years have managed to give us truly perfect, memorable and awesomely catchy theme songs and title sequences. And this series is NO exception.

This theme is a rock-able song about coming home to the hidden craziness in every nook and cranny of in the unusual complex. The lyrics, sung by , nicely reference it all. Their voices are simple but smooth and cool. The production is fast yet smooth and all the way awesome.

The races against each other and time is a joy to watch, and make this series yet another memorable gem in the encrusted...thing of 2017, AND another great original on Nick to help the pick up the network in success. And it darn well needs it. Considering a certain...well, you know.

Well, that's it for now.
This has been my review of Welcome to the Wayne.
This, of course, has been Toony Tuesday.

Please, tune in next week when I review Cartoon Network's newest original series, OK KO! Let's Be Heroes!, and as a bonus, I discuss my thoughts on another closet-busting episode of another popular Nickelodeon series. (Yep, that one). Hope you join me then.

I'm Andrew, and may the good toons be yours!

Controversy is Coming: "Game of Thrones" Creators Under Fire for New HBO Pickup "Confederate"

If you had told me that a TV show about Massas still owning people that hasn't even been developed yet in 2017 would piss people off...
I wouldn't have believed you.

I sarcastically joke because when I heard that HBO will air a new series from David Benioff and DB Weiss, the guys behind Game of Thrones, taking place in an alternate version of history where the South won the Confederate War and slavery is still running across the US, I kinda rolled my eyes. But I wasn't furious enough to go on social media or YouTube to condemn the producers about this.

It reached a fever pitch when activist April Reign decided to tweet a new hashtag during an (new at the time) episode of their previous show to get people to show their disdain and frustration towards it--#NoConfederate. While it was successful (in getting people to tweet something semi-clever in the time it takes to make Melba toast), it probably also failed (in getting more awareness towards the show and getting more people to think about what it could be about). And again, it didn't faze me. I have no problem about this.

Honestly, seriously...I don't have much of a problem about this.

I mean, it's fictional. Meaning it never happened. And to specify, this series (well, creation; production hasn't started yet) features an alternative timeline and history (so you KNOW it's not real). Plus, I haven't even seen a single second of it yet (not even pictures). So can you blame me for my nonchalant response? But since that's all we hear from it, it's enough to criticize and destroy the producers for it.

To be fair (and to show I'm not ignorant), I do want and am grateful series/stories like Roots, Underground and -- to be/are told, because these are stories of the histories and struggles of our ancestors to show where we came from and where we had to go as a race, and are truly important to be told. And as brutal and heartbreaking as these stories were, I'm proud to see them as open and honest as possible to teach younger generations about the beginnings and how far our ancestors went their hell and high water to see us do anything we put our minds to. With that in mind, I have no problem with Confederate.

That doesn't mean I'm gonna be pissed because Massa's getting his own series. I'm not...because I don't really care. Not only because I don't subscribe to HBO (and thus don't care much for almost all of its original series [you couldn't pay me to watch Silicon Valley]), but also because most semi-autobiographical series really don't pull me in just from hearing about it. And no shade to other black people offended and pissed about this because y'all can go ahead and do so--it's honestly cool. I just have an observation: you would laugh or be angry (or just brush it off) if white people be irritated if a show about slaves and slavery would be announced and aired (although I've rarely heard about it from them), and--to a larger extent, won't say shit if a show about the pain and plight of other people of color (Asian, Indian, Islanders, etc.) came up? but you all would cry foul and throw temper tantrums if a show made by white men about Confederacy still being alive and working today would just be announced? That shit makes me go Hmmm.

Back to the show, I'm not pissed or angry about it. Only mildly annoyed and amused. And only a little more amused, when many black YouTubers made videos about the show's announcement. Almost all of them were expectedly negative.

The problem with this is this: They're mad because the focus on the slave masters (I assumed) and not on the slaves. While if the focus is on the slaves, it's must-watch TV because this is our story that needs to be told. Basically, if it's not about slaves, it's like covering your ears and eyes and saying "Laa-laa-laa, can't hear you!". Not that there's anything wrong with that though. Slavery was a horrible part of our nation's history, but ignoring all of it is like...really sad.
And so was the backlash, which was so swift that the producers and HBO programming president Casey Bloys responded in defense of the show, saying briefly.

There's another series today that follows the alternative history route based on another infamous era of American history.

This is The Man in the High Castle, a series that takes a look at the world had Nazi Germany won World War II and began conquering all of Earth, taking place in 1962 America. The series is critically acclaimed and is very popular. But no, no one's up in arms about that, and therefore not talking about that. We're discussing this White man show by two Neanderthug devils working in Hollyweird to destroy the legacy of Black people working and fighting hard to be equal in America -- despitebeingwrittenandproducedbytwoblackpeople. (Wait, WHUT?)

Yep, that's right. This new series has two black people working on production: Malcolm Spellman and Nichelle Tramble Spellman. Had this been a selling point, we wouldn't be here and would give the series a more open mind. Because they're a part of the show, I would assume that the black characters in the story would later rebel and fight their masters to gain their freedom. That would be a great twist to the story and give the series more interest and acclaim. Who knows? Maybe the people who gave an open mind about it.

In conclusion, I don't care about this, nor do I have a problem with it. I'm slightly annoyed with it, but a little more when a lot of Black people (and I'm black too BTW) criticized it before it was even began to be made. (I respect your opinions, but still.) If anything, the backlash made it more noticeable and got more people interested. (That is the definition of the Streisand Effect.) I think HBO did a bad thing by not having its black producers get equal spotlight with Benioff and Weiss; that would've added both understanding and confusion. And we wouldn't be here. But for now, we wait with more baited breath for how this will turn out. Cause then it would be more understandable to shit-talk it down.

I don't wish the producers and HBO the best of luck too much on this...because I DON'T want to be labelled a coon or sambo or tap-dancer or some other shit black people like to call other black people sometimes for no good reason when we don't share the same opinion (you know, because we stick together and move on). But a word of warning: don't tread lightly. Even one fraction of a mistake will set off a Black Twitter bomb like you've ever seen one. Good Lord, I'd hate to be in your position.
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