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{{quote|''"With the Casper series, you never knew what picture you were working on, because they were all exactly the same."''|Lee Mishkin, a [[Famous Studios]] animator summing up the [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]] shorts in a nutshell.}}▼
▲{{quote|''"With the Casper series, you never knew what picture you were working on, because they were all exactly the same."''|'''Lee Mishkin''', a [[Famous Studios]] animator summing up the ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost]]'' shorts in a nutshell.}}
{{quote|''"I think the problem lay in the attitude of the management. The bosses would go to screenings with a list of all the gags in a film on a clipboard. They'd put a check after each gag that got a laugh and use it in the next picture. If a gag got a laugh in three pictures in a row, it became a standard and they'd use it in every picture after that. They had a real nuts-and-bolts approach to making films."''|Lee Mishkin, stating why [[Famous Studios]] shorts were so formuliac.}}▼
▲{{quote|''"I think the problem lay in the attitude of the management. The bosses would go to screenings with a list of all the gags in a film on a clipboard. They'd put a check after each gag that got a laugh and use it in the next picture. If a gag got a laugh in three pictures in a row, it became a standard and they'd use it in every picture after that. They had a real nuts-and-bolts approach to making films."''|'''Lee Mishkin''', stating why [[Famous Studios]] shorts were so
{{quote|''"Formularisation is compulsory in commercial TV, and has struck [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|STTNG]] hard. The [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|NCC1701D]] now has less time than ever to explore strange new worlds - half the season is prebooked for return visits to the Klingons or Cardassians, and guest spots for Barclay, Ma Troi, Q, Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all. Not that I want to see any fewer Romulan Warbirds, Borg motherships etc; I just regret this inevitable loss of novelty in favour of the kind of ''petty'' continuity that [[Star Trek|STTOS]] tried so hard to avoid."''|'''Justin B. Rye'''. ''[http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/trek/3.html Star Trek: Mark Two]''}}
{{quote|''"This is not chaos," Martin insists. "I don't believe in chaos in songwriting. There is an order to it. It either makes sense or it doesn't. This chord goes into this chord for a chorus. It's two plus two."''
''Cloud defends a similar position. "We both to this day still feel there is really no 'art' in most music," he asserts. "'Art' isn't in everything. People like to think everything is art. Arranging flowers, writing poems, making a latte--these are just actions, not art. Plugging in an electric guitar, playing four chords, adding bass and drums, and singing words in key is no more 'art' than a guy opening his tool box, putting on a 9/16 socket, replacing a belt, and getting the lawn mower running again."''|'''Matt Johnson''' interviewing '''[[Starflyer 59]]''', ''Bandoppler'', [http://www.bandoppler.com/BD1_F_SF59.htm "The Cool War"]}}
{{quote|'''[[Parody Names|Ass]]''': OH NO! Look who it is!
'''Musty''': It's Team Rockhead, of course! They show up EVERY episode!
'''Ass''': Yes, but they usually show up six minutes into the show! This time, they didn't show up until six minutes and twenty seconds!
'''Messy''' (entering): Ha! Never underestimate the element of surprise!
|''[[Mad Magazine]]'', [[Pokémon|"Hokéycon"]]}}
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{{quote|"The first episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' that aired on network TV was episode #42, "The Problem with Paras." There are over 700 ''Pokemon episodes'' in existence now, so you might not remember this particular one. It's the one where they go somewhere and meet a Pokemon with a problem, and the gang tries to solve that problem, and Team Rocket tries to mess it up. It's that one."|'''[[Platypus Comix]]''', "First Kids WB airing of Pokemon"}}
{{quote|"I liked [[The Force Awakens|the new "Star Wars,"]] but it was basically [[A New Hope|the old "Star Wars."]] Good idea, [[George Lucas|George]] — it worked again."|'''[[Brian De Palma]]''', in a 2016 [http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/brian-de-palma-documetary-hollywood-tv-noah-baumbach-jake-paltrow-1201683547/#! interview] with IndieWire}}
{{quote|So [[Lowest Common Denominator|for a shonen to be mainstream]], the plot has to be very straightforward, very simple, let nothing to peoples understanding or guesses, explain everything [[Viewers are Morons|as if the spectator is a little child]] watching [[Sesame Street|Sesame street]], and [[Viewers Are Goldfish|repeat it several times to be sure]] (because [[Killing Bites|Killing bites]] is [[Memetic Mutation|about who has the sharper fangs]]), with no idea how it will end or even what will happen in it a year onward. In fact mainstream shonens usually have the same story told in different interpretations, with a main character that is a little dumb for everything except fighting, where he [[Time to Unlock More True Potential|keeps]] [[Shonen Upgrade|surpassing himself]] to beat enemies who keep appearing to destroy/conquer the world. If you watch one, you’ve more or less watched them all. They are so predictable you’ll be surprised by almost nothing in them. Unless you are [[Attack on Titan|the female titan]] guy.
|''[https://www.kukuruyo.com/2018/02/26/mainstream-shonens-bad-default/ Mainstream shonens are bad by default]'' by Kukuruyo}}
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