Hello, Spongey here.
So, 2011 is pretty much over. Sure, we still have plenty of stuff to do, but this is around when we talk how awesome/terrible 2011 was. Some really interesting events happened:
Steve jobs died. Osama died. SOPA reared its ugly head.
And other shit happened.
2011 was important. And of course, all I care about is the mindless entertainment that came out.
I’ll do two blogs about this subject.
You think I would talk about the best movies of the year…well I will.
But I’m more of a TV guy, and TV was great this year!
Tons of good shows aired, and already airing shows had good episodes.
So what I will do, is go through all the important (to me) networks and go through the most important (to me) shows and talk about the great stuff they put out.
This is all strictly my opinion and tons of stuff people talk about will be omitted…cuz I still haven’t seen all that breaking bad stuff and…other shows.
This will be mostly kids shows ….as I’m mentally 5 years old. So if you actually watch smart, well written adult shows….WHY ARE YOU READING MY BLOG TO BEGIN WITH?!
So anyway, here we go
This is 2011 in TV.
NBC;
I only watch one show on here religiously…(take that Parks and Rec fans…yeah, I’ve never seen it) and that is, of course.
COMMUNITY:
Yeah, you all saw this coming. I recently got into the series, just in time to see it go into it’s third season. I can’t point out why I love this show so much. Maybe it’s because it’s smartly written? Maybe because it takes TV conventions and twists them around? Maybe because it’s by geeks, for geeks?
Nah, we all know it’s cuz Annie is hot.
Anyway, two episodes this year stood out to me.
“Remedial
chaos theory” and “
Regional Holiday Music. The former
features a housewarming party for Troy and Abed panning out in seven alternate timelines. Each timeline explored the effect of the absence/presence of a character on other characters in similar situations. It was funny, very well written, and tons of fun. And of course it
started the “evil troy and evil abed” meme. Look it up.
The latter is a Christmas ep, which is hard to explain. After Greendale's
glee club members become incapacitated, the study group are asked to join. Despite their dislike of the club, each of them are lured into joining after their vulnerabilities are exploited. It’s basically “Gee” meets invasion of the body snatches.
It also makes fun off glee, and I dislike glee, so this ep is great.
Oh, and it’s a musical.
Yeah, that’s all I need to say. Great show with two really great episodes. Well there is one more..
FUCK YOU NBC FOR PUTTING THIS HIATU
I will be skipping most channels people want me to talk about like fox. Why? Well…..i said great and important shows. *RIMSHOT*. But really, I can’t say too much about shows like Family guy or the simpsons. They had some decent episodes, but none great, minus one ep of family guy which…well you can look it up.
Comedy Central:
I only watch three actual shows here. I won’t talk futurma…cuz I missed most of the season. What I saw was great though! And I don’t have much to say about workaholics, thought it is very good.
So here’s the obvious one..
SOUTH PARK:
South park had its 15th season this year. It was a pretty decent season. It could have been better, but it’s still really good. There were tons of good episodes, but no episodes stood out to me more then..
“You’re getting old”. If you are a south park fan you KNOW what I mean. The episode starts out as funny satire. Stan gets sad and shit, and south park makes of Adam Sandler’s jack and jill, which everyone thought was made up by south park. Oh I wish…
Anyway, the episode is full of funny jokes, and the normal stuff. But at the very end,…they hit you with a scene so….depressing.
If there’s one show that should not make you cry, it’s south park. But lo and behold, they fucking did it. They made people cry of depression.
And worst of all…THIS WAS THE FIRST EPISODE BEFORE THE MID SEASON BREAK. Yes, we spent months waiting for the show to come back, and the last episode was depressing as hell.
God bless you, South Park.
TEENICK
No, not TeenNick. Teenick. That’s what the logo says!
Okay, no great new shows aired on this channel….but something else aired on it.
I am speaking of course, of the block “90’s are all that”
You all know about this.
This new block showed 90’s nick shows for 2 hours. They’ve shown all the greats at least once…but they only showed a few episodes of Are you afraid of the dark around Halloween, and only this week are they airing more. Bah.
But still, 90s are all that is great. I like watching these shows again,. But that’s not the best part!
They recently brought back u pick with stick Stickly! You vote online for the shows you want. Stick hosted this every Friday. Of course, he was updated for modern day….but it was funny no one cared. He even made REALLY dirty jokes, and one time it was HEAVILY implied he said the F word…and the bit itself spoofed jersey shore.
It’s better than it sounds.
So yeah, 90’s are all that Is awesome, so thus, teenick is awesome.
The Hub:
Before we get to THAT show, we have to talk about the other shows.
Yes, believe it or not, the hub has OTHER shows!
Shocking, I know..
DAN VS:
This show premiered this year. It may be …my fave cartoon on TV right now….besides you know what. It’s about a angry man named dan, who thinks the world is out to get him. So…he gets the world back!
In every episode, Dan gets revenge on whatever he think has wronged him. This ranges from his imposter, the wolfman…and Canada,.
Yes.
There’s tons of things I can talk about with this show. But I’ll just say it’s amazing and leave it at that,.
Since every episode aired this year, it’s hard to choose an important one for this year. I mean, I’d just be choosing MY fave instead of one that really wow’d fans. But hell, I’ll do it anyway.
My fave was “Dan Vs George Washington”. The entire concept is funny, and the execution is just as good as it sounds. Dan is at his best here. I can’t say anything without spoiling it. It must be seen to get the full experience.
Other great episodes include “Dan Vs the mall santa” and “Dan vs Dan”
Next!
RL STINE’S THE HAUNTING HOUR:
I plan on doing a entire blog about this show later, so I won’t say too much now. But I will say that this show is really….good! it can be creepy at times, it’s well acted, and the stories are very interesting. I love the camp of goosebumps, but this is actually good. . The Haunting Hour is a continuation of theanthology shows of the old days like the Twilight Zone Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and Tales from the Crypt. Though it’s more of the Tales from the crypt side, than the Are you afraid of the dark side. Mainly cuz it’s not cheesy or namry (most of the time). It’s quite a treat.
The one episode that really stood out to me, is “Flight”. I won’t go into too much detail, because you really have to see it for youself. This episode falls on the twilight zone side of things….and there is no gremlin on the plane….or motherfucking snakes. It’s also…deep.
Yes, really.
Anyway …that’s it for the haunting hour. Check it out!
Now for the hub show everyone talks about..
Pound puppies!
..just kidding.
MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC:
Okay, I held this over to piss you off. I do really like this show, as stated in the past.
I’ll just talk about the show. Can anyone bring up the show without talking the fans?!
Anyway….this show, is very good, and it started it’s 2nd season this year. It’s still good as always, and it’s been very funny, and epic. Though, for whatever reason …fans complain about two recent episodes, “may the best pet win” and the “mysterious mare do well” for some odd reason. But hey, we’re not talking about the fans. No, I’m too high class for that shit.
Anyway, the episode I think is most important is..
"The Cutie Mark Chronicles"
Yes, this is season 1, but it aired this year, so it counts!
This episode is just really good. It shows us the mane 6 got their cutie marks. Each story tells us a bit more about the characters, and that good stuff.
And it reveals something great….Young Rainbow dash made a big sonic rainboom…which all the young ponies saw when they got their cutie mark…and many of them got said mark with the help of said rainboom. And most all….rainbow dash made it in a race…which she did for fluttershy’s honor.
Yes, FLUTTERSHY Is the reason the show even happened
Fluttershy, truly is…the best pony.
Cartoon Network.
ADVENTURE TIME
Now….this show is in 3rd season, and…well I think it’s hit a rut. BUT, there have been great episodes this year, and I’ll talk about them,.
I can’t really choose one episode…because a lot of great, important episodes aired! So, I will talk about the ones I can say a lot about personally.
I will briefly mention the season 2 finale, which was really good…but something happened in it that greatly changed the status qou of the series….then that change isn’t seen again until a few episodes later…then that change is reversed.
…makes sense to me
Yea, let’s talk about a different episode…
“What Was Missing”
This episode was mentioned on AT’s wiki as a musical…and their source said “eh, It’s kind one, there’s a couple songs in it”.
Why does a great show bring me much confusion?
Anyways, finn, jake, bumlegum, and Marceline form a band in order to defeat the Door Lord and recover what was stolen from them….it makes sense in context.
It was very funny, and the like two songs are great and stuff.
Oh, and one of the songs about Marceline hatin’ on Bubblegum…sounded slighty sexual.
Cue 34!
However, there’s more..
You see, this…chick who works on the show, does these video recaps of episodes, showing cool behind the scenes stuff, such as storyboards. For this episode, she asked the viewer….if they like the pairing of Marceline/Bubblegum and showed slighty suggestive art….
Yes, that is all true. Someone who works on the show, likes, and teases a slash pairing.
At least it’s not like the guy who worked on Ed, Edd, N Eddy that did art of the eds kissing.
….look it up.
Oh, did I mentioned the show's producer, Fred Seibert, got pissed at that video and had it taken down?
…I was going to mention my personal fave….but this is so….crazy, that it’s honestly more worth talking about than Fiona and cake.
That episode was great though.
THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW:
…Yea, this one will be awkward
As soon as this show was announced, looney tunes fans bitches and moaned. Even when all that was out was a one picture. They hated just the fact that they tried to something DIFFERENT then something we’ve seen before
Than the show Came out…and it got WORSE.
People complained about the sitcom setting, the characters being OOC, and even minor things I won’t get into,.
But now that’s all in the past. The show has it’s fans, and the hatedom has died down a bit,
So I’ll just talk about the most important episode
“Casa de Calma”
Tons of people adore this episode. Why? It has tons of slapstick, looney tunes humor
Yep, it’s all because it resembles the classics.
The episode itself is pretty good, though I think it’s overrated.
If the writers wanted to something like trye shorts…then do that! If they want to do a new style. You know, something that hasn’t been done with this property before,. Then do that. Don’t go with one, then do another suddenly
But still, it’s a good episode, and important because this tells us about the fanbase/hatedom.
Yea, decent show to be honest
(I found bring up regular show, but there’s not too much to say about, but it’s been great)
‘THUDERCATS
When this show was announced…the reaction was mixed. Remaking thundercats seemed like a bad idea.
Then they saw the pilot. It was…amazing
(it’s also the episode I have chosen!)
The pilot showed what makes this show work. It takes the original show and makes something new and really cool. The animated is freaking amazing to look at, and the whole feel is just epic.
Plus, it has tear jerking moments, as well awesome ones.
Oh, and the original VA for Lion-o is lion-o’s DAD here. That’s a nice treat!
The rest of the show is also very good. I’ve heard complaints about some aspects, like lion-o getting a lot of focus…which is like complain that spongebob focuses on spoingebob.
The show works quite well on it’s own merits. And unlike the original, it can be appreciated for more than just 80’s cheese.
Plus, there’s a couple aspects better than the original show..
Cheetra is MUCH hotter
YOUNG JUSTICE.
This is one of those shows that I didn’t expect to like as much as I do. I’m not a big fan of shows like this, at least not enough follow it every week.
I don’t have much to say about it, but it’s got good action, good characters, and of course, really good animation.
And ,
Greg Weisman, of gargoyles fame works on it! That alone is amazing.
Makes up for thedore, doesn’t it?
There may be more important episodes then the one I choose, but this is the episode that got me into the show. It’s called “Targets” and it’s something you must see to get the full experience. It involves a previously seen villain…ess known as Cheshire. She’s very cool…and kinda hot.
She is voiced by my celberaty crush of choice, Kelly hu. Oh, Kelly hu
….shit, I was in Kelly land again.
To put it short, very decent show here!
BATMAN THE BRAVE AND THE BOL:
This is the best batman cartoon since the 90’s animated series. It’s action packed, really funny, strange, well written, and it combines the campy adam west show, with the good writing of the 90’s series.
It ended this year, and had a series finale.
That’s the episode I have chosen.
You see, there is a character known as batmite. He is a fanboy who hangs it with batman (Deidrich bader, who is also albert on Phineas and ferb.). he is from the 5th dimension, where this show is …well a show, just like with us. Only he has mutli dimensional powers
In this episode, he grows bored with the show and feels it has dropped the shark. So he must use his powers to make the show worse so CN Will cancel. However, another obscure hero, called ambush bug (voiced by the original shark jumped, henry winkler) tries to stop him.
The entire episode is filled with in jokes for long time fans, and several great moments, and take that’s to people who want dark batman shows that have been done too much,
At the end, the show is canceled, and batmite wins. However, he is told that a goofy person like him does not fit in a dark show. So he goes into nothing.
Downer ending? Not quite…,
Every character gathers in a room, to get ready to go away forever. What does batman say?
Batman: So, this really is the end?
Ambush Bug: 'Fraid so. At least you can say you had a good run.
Batman: A great run.
Batman also tells a great speech. But …it’s quite tear jerking. Also I can’t find a script for it.
Overall, great show with a good finale!
Disney channel
Okay, before we get to the show you all want, I need to talk about…the live action stuff. I know, but c’om, it’s MY opinion, after all!
Actually, only one. I know I like two others, but I can’t say too much besides what I already said.
THE SUITE LIFE ON DECK:
I’ll just cut to the chase with this one. This is still a decent spin off, and I think it’s good enough. It sadly ended this year. And with wizards ending …in a few weeks, good luck Charlie will be the only genuine good live action show on the channel.
Anyway, lets get to the episode I wish to talk about…
The series finale. Forget the title.
If you are like me, and have been with this show for a while, then this finale will /really/ get to you. The ending reminds you of all they’ve been through. And add that to the characters finally getting what they want AND mr mosbey getting an awesome moment by standing up to mr tiptop, and you get a good finale.
Oh…and it may, or may not, have come close to making me cry.
I didn’t, I swear!
…yeah, that’s all I can say.
PHINEAS AND FERB:
Yea, this show is still awesome. Phineas and ferb entered its 3rd season this year and it opened many chances to twist the formula with funny jokes, and great songs.
As for the episode…..i already talked about all 3 important paf event ins my AT2d review and top 20 episode list. But those episodes are…
Rollercoaster the musical, Candace disconnected, and across the 2nd dimension. All amazing episodes, and one great tv movie.
Other great episodes aired, but I can’t say too much about them.
For such a good show, I sure can’t say too much.
Now on to our last big channel..
Nickeloden
Yes, I will talk about the two live actions on Nick I watch. But first…
FAIRLY ODD PARENTS
Let’s forget about that shitty movie, k?
The series had some decent episodes, but today…they aired the series finale!
YAAAAAAAAY
Yea, even I think it should of ended a while ago. Hell, even the movie was a okay way to end the series.
But I still do like, and I am not one THOSE people.
Okay, on to the finale.
Timmy’s parents find out about his fairies, and now he must make sure Jorgen does not know.
This leads to tons of really funny gags, including one with Dinkleberg, which is great.
If you think that timmy will have share his fairs with his parents who grant epic wishes, only for Jorgen to find out, and timmy wishes for the parents memories to be erased then..
You are right.
Yes, this is quite predictable. but it’s really heartwarming to me.
Seeing timmy have fun with parents is great of course. It’s really heartwarming, considering how timmy’s parents treat him at times. And as cliché as this is for FOP, it’s done in a such way I don’t really care.
It has the finale mark all over it. Timmy and his parents show why we loved so much, and they their pre-rot selves a lot here. The ending is a bit of a tear jerking, and it ends on a series finale note.
I won’t say too much, but this was a really good finale. I will miss fop a b it, but I’m glad it’s over, in the best way.
iCARLY
I’m, glad some adults tolerate this show, due to All that’s dan schnieder. It’s not as good as drake and josh. But I still like it.
The episode I chose, is also important as well as my fave ep of, not only the year, but the series as a whole.
You see, fans of this show like to pair the characters up. The two most popular shipping’s are Carly/Freddie and Sam/Freddie. They are also called Creddie and Seddie.
People fight over which shipping is better.
This got bad
I am not joking when I say the icarly fanbase will go down in history as one of the worst ever. seriously. The fights got so bad they forgot the show was a comedy.
What does this have to do with the episode?
It’s called “istart a fan war”
The icarly gang goes to a web convention, where they attend a Q&A. fans suddenly bombard them with questions….credde and seddie. The icarly gang accidentally pisses off the fans, making them think that they hate their fans.
Oh, and meanwhile, spencer has a fight over his fandom with a guy…PLAYED BY JACK BLACK. FUCK YES.
So back to the main plot. I’m not done yet.
At the very end Carly says a speech about how bassicly, while all that romance stuff can be fun, icarly is a comedy, not a romance.
You heard that right, Dan schidnder bassicly told the shippers to shut up
This episode was amazing.
Oh, and the fans hated the episode for “insulting the fans”
Thanks for proving Dan’s point, dipshits.
VICTORIOUS
This show is fairly decent for my tastes. So yeah, I really like.
So what episode did I choose?
Well,…this is about to get…personal.
I believe the episode is called Jade gets crushed.
In the episode, Andre writes a song for jade, and while is she sining it, he…thinks he is falling in love with her. Jade has a boyfriend btw.
Soon he starts thinking if he does love her. At the end, he really thinks, and realizes he was just caught up in the moment, and doesn’t quite love her. Blah blah, really great song, the end.
Why is this my fav e episode?
Well….listen.
On the Phineas and ferb wiki, I was good friends with a user who I will not say the name of. Fairly soon, people were making jokes about us being a couple.
Pretty soon I was really thinking about her, and decided to give in and become a fun couple.
Far into this internet realationship, after seeing a pic of her, I decided, late at night. That I loved her.
But later, she decided we should…well if you watch sitcoms, you know what she said. We should break up for now.
Normally I’d be really sad, and be depressed.
Then I saw the victroius episode.
I realize didn’t quite love her. I was caught up in the exciment. So I decided I was fine with it, and decided to be good friends.
…
…NEXT
SPONGEBOB
This year, Spongebob entered it’s 8th season.
Remember how I said SB was getting better?
Season 8 is to post movie, what 3 was to pre movie.
Season 8 got the show back on it’s feet, and made it great again. Fans felt this away as well, judging by tv tropes.
The episode I choose isn’t deep or anything, but still really good
Mermaid man begins
In this episode, the mermaid man and barnacleboy show is airing an episode about their origins. Sadly, a storm prevents spongebob and Patrick from watching it. So they ask the real men what their origins are.
I won’t spoil it, but it’s really cool. The episode is filled with some great moments, and insight on the two heroes.
Fun Fact: it’s reveled their real names are Ernie and tim.
Get it?
Oh, and we see the TV’s version of their origins. And…it’s one the funniest things I’ve seen in a cartoon this year.
So Spongebob has finally turned great again, and won fans over…
And nick’s ratings, including spongebob…are going down.
Irony’s a bitch
