>Duncan slated to be voiced by show producer Amy Poehler. Written by Mike and Julie Scully, DUNCANVILLE will feature the voices of Poehler, who will star as two characters, Emmy Award nominee Rashida Jones (“Parks and Recreation,” “Angie Tribeca”) and Golden Globe nominee Wiz Khalifa (“American Dad!,” “BoJack Horseman”). Thirteen episodes have been ordered, and the series is set to premiere during the 2019-2020 season.
>The series centers on the life of Duncan, a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. Poehler will provide the voice of Duncan and his high-strung mom, Annie, who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life.
>a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy I'll say this much, it's an exciting premise.
Christian Jackson
Because no one gives a hot shit about it.
Owen Baker
You clearly didn't watch mighty b! This will be kino
Jonathan Collins
REE FUCKING WIMMIN WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO GIVE THEM EQUAL RIGHTS HUMANITY HAS BEEN GOING DOWN THE TOILET EVER SINCE THE 19TH AMENDMENT WAS PASSED JOHN K. DID NOTHING WRONG
Mason Roberts
>Yea Forums not wanting a show about a mom/son pair This place really has changed.
Angel Campbell
So it's like Allen Gregory in that it is developed by household celebrities & it has a weak-ass premise.
Seriously, what is the appeal? Maybe I'm judging too quickly, but when you describe a character as "spectacularly average", it sounds like a creative wasteland.
Elijah James
Wow, another adult cartoon with a boring as shit family premise and unbelievably bland art style. Can’t wait to watch it and hear the inevitable same jokes that went stale 15 years ago when Family Guy ran them into the ground.
Julian Evans
This. I still have faith in Duncanville being all right.
Still, it’s a shame that unlike The Mighty B!, Poehler didn’t co-create this new series with an actual cartoonist/animator like she did the former with Erik Wiese (SpongeBob, Samurai Jack).
Duncan’s design also implies that the show will have that same limited art style that every American adult cartoon seems to lean towards. I’m sure it won’t be as visually unique as The Mighty B!, but I hope it at least tries to have appealing character designs FOR ONCE.
Yeah, i wish it had some of the same art crew mighty b! had but at least it doesn't look as ugly as say infinity train's style, this could be like milo murphy's law wich looks better in motion tho
Dominic Powell
>I hope it at least tries to have appealing character designs FOR ONCE Don't hold your breath
>who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life. As long as they don't go preachy with it (which is more likely than it looks), I could see this having an interesting twist.
>it’s called ‘Duncanville’ because the MC’s name is Duncan See, this title doesn’t sound that creative to me since there’s an actual city with that exact same name not even 30 minutes from where I live
Hunter Morgan
>Fox (Adult Animation)
Why does Fox still have an animation division? Isn't everybody gonna get laid off or reassigned to Disney projects now?
Ryan James
Meh. Maybe if the mom's hot, we can still get something out of this ho-hum cartoon
>'Infinity Train is ugly' End this meme already. That Comic-Con teaser (youtube.com/watch?v=atutlhoyc_Q) likely wasn't footage from the final show since it was animated by Owen Dennis himself. The crew probably hadn't even started getting finished animation back from overseas by the time the teaser was released. The show's gonna look just fine.
Yea Forums really has a hateboner for Infinity Train, huh?
Matthew Lee
The Middle was good.
Andrew Hernandez
>The series centers on the life of Duncan, a spectacularly average 15-year-old boy, his family and friends. Poehler will provide the voice of Duncan and his high-strung mom, Annie, who is constantly trying to prevent her son from ruining his life.
>"Duncanville is one of the freshest animated concepts we’ve seen... Fox Entertainment president Michael Thorn said Friday in a statement."
>“We’ve enjoyed a long, incredible run with Mike and Julie, and everything Amy does is pure genius,” Thorn continued. “Having the voice talents of Rashida and Wiz join her makes this show the complete package. I can’t wait to have them all together when we add ‘Duncanville’ to our growing animated slate.” >our growing animated slate What growing animated slate? You mean the one with these same three shows that have been airing for years, and the occasional new cartoon (Allen Gregory, Napoleon Dynamite, Bordertown, Son of Zorn) that lasts but one season? FOX’s animation block is on suicide watch.
It's targeting people who remind the teachers to pass out homework.
Nicholas Campbell
This. Allen Gregory was cancelled because FOX really hated it, but the rest of their one-season-only cartoons had low viewership and aren't that good, so I bet the same might go with Duncanville. It's pretty much no surprise here.
Jaxson Bell
The Simpsons and Family Guy will clearly last forever, but it’s possible that Bob’s Burgers might end with the movie next summer. They'll have aired 10 seasons by then, and I've never thought of Bob's Burgers as the type of animated sitcom to wanna last forever (à la The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, etc.).
10 seasons would be a perfect run to end on. Plus, Loren's already making a new show for Apple TV+, and the Molyneux sisters are currently pitching a pilot for FOX. Multiple crew members moving off to their own projects seems like a major sign that a show may be coming to a close.
Well, different strokes and what have you. Aside from the glasses no longer being infinity-shaped, I'm pretty fond of the design. It's cute and Tulip looks a little more realistically constructed, which can give us some much-needed variety in modern CN protagonists.
Another thing to note is that we still don't actually know what Infinity Train's character designs will be like since we only have Tulip, a corgi, and a tiny spherical robot to base it off of. There will likely be a whole number of unique designs throughout the show.
>Regular Show ended in January 2017 >Close Enough was promptly announced later that year in May, with a fully animated, fully sound designed trailer premiering at SDCC 2017 >over a year later, there hasn't been a single official update from TBS or CN regarding the status of the series aside from five seconds of JG shilling the network that continues making 180-degree turns to bite him in the ass >the best hint we currently have for Close Enough's estimated release date comes from a crew member's Instagram bio JAY GEEEEE, GIVE US AN UPDATE
I'm convinced The Middle was created before Malcolm in the Middle and the latter was intended to be a parody/satire of the former, but they got switched around due to a time abnormality or something.
Gabriel Allen
gross
Dylan Phillips
So which kind of treatment do you think Duncanville will be getting? Hand-drawn Korean animation like The Simpsons and Splittin' Rent, or puppet-tweening like Rick and Morty and BoJack?
They could be referring to animated productions outside of just the ones airing on the main network. I know Solar Opposites is being produced by 20th Century FOX TV despite airing on Hulu. There's also , and if I'm not mistaken, the TBS American Dad! episodes are still being produced by FOX.
When and HOW did BoJack Horseman get Wiz Khalifa?!
Daniel Torres
It's not like he's doing anything with his music career nowadays. Nigga hasn't been relevant since the early 2010s.
Jackson Walker
It's possible that only the aliens will resemble Roiland's signature style. The human characters may actually look more human this time around, likely as a way to help emphasize the four main characters' alien nature and make them stand out.
It had based Norm (Pigeon from Mike Tyson Mysteries) as a regular guest star and the big titty nerd Jewess who voices Star Butterfly as a main cast member. I like it.
While it does suck that this was cancelled, I still consider 40 half-hours to be a pretty good run for a show with an unconventional protag like Bessie Higgenbottom.
Here's hoping that the YouTube series Nico Colaleo's currently making carries a similar energy.
Hey man, everyone needs some type of low, droning, vaguely human noise in the background of their lives, every once in a little while. It's why podcasts and Let's Players got popular.
Hudson Jackson
>when the main character needs an over-the-top haircut to make up for the show’s lame art style
Jack Gutierrez
Still better than what Comedy Central's been up to after Futurama ended, or TBS’s failed animation block
There’s also Bless the Harts, and Hoops (Netflix).
>In September, Fox made its first animated series order in a couple of years, giving a 13-episode straight-to-series pickup to Bless the Harts, a half-hour comedy from The Last Man on Earth co-executive producer Emily Spivey and executive producers Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Seth Cohen. The network describes the series as a look at a group of broke southerners always struggling for the American Dream of status and wealth, but already are rich in friends, family and laughter.
>Created and written by writer-comedian Ben Hoffman (The Late Late Show with James Corden, Archer), Hoops centers on a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach who thinks turning around his godawful team will take him to the “big leagues.” Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Seth Cohen and Jake Johnson executive produce with Hoffman. 20th Century Fox, where Lord and Miller are under a pod deal, is producing with Bento Box Animation. This may actually be the busiest they’ve been in years.
>The network describes the series as a look at a group of broke southerners always struggling for the American Dream of status and wealth, but already are rich in friends, family and laughter. Ten bucks says it looks like shit and has ugly character designs
Is Twin Peaks good? I originally planned on binging the entire series before that new season aired last year, but I never got around to it. Is it worth watching?
Jonathan Garcia
It's either gonna look like this or like Jeff & Some Aliens. Screencap this.
Twin Peaks has a nearly perfect first season, and a mostly shitty second one which is redeemed by the finale (the original creators stopped caring about the show but returned for the last few episodes). The Return has so many diverse reactions even among fans of Lynch's weirder work, so I can't say for sure if you're gonna like it. And don't forget about the movie, Fire Walk With Me, which is pretty important to the Twin Peaks extended cinematic universe.
Keep in mind that the show is kind of a parody of soap operas, so things might seem pretty silly or corny, but everyone knows what they're doing.
Bentley Green
Sweet. I'll have to check it out once I'm done with Russian Doll, which coincidentally is also co-created by Amy Poehler.
God, why is this art style so fucking GOOD? Why aren't there any modern cartoons that embrace this old-school look? The last to do so was Wander Over Yonder, and we all know how THAT ended
The way B's eyes look definitely reminds me of Ren and Stimpy. People seemed to hate the show back in the day which is probably why. Couldn't handle the gross out stuff.
Jacob Scott
>entire show based on regional stereotyping dead within a season, Bordertown 2.0
first 5 episodes will have NASCAR, hunting, sports, then nothing
Definitely agree with what said, but the second season isn't entirely shit. Season 2 has a great run of eight episodes and really only lags in the middle, but it's worth that drought for the finale.
Also Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (which is a prequel/sequel that should only be watched after the first two seasons) is a 10/10 movie and Lynch's best, so that alone makes it worthwhile, whatever you end up thinking of the third season.
The grossout is definitely an issue with The Mighty B!, but the goofiness of the visuals is really fun; something that a lot of modern cartoons don’t seem to care for. It really is a shame that WOY was a failure since it basically had that same energy but with more grounded, less over-the-top writing and no grossout.
A perfect show? No, but what the fuck has comedy central had since? Their standard talk show lineup hasn't been funny in forever and they can only coast off of Stone and Parker's bafflingly good writing for so long. Either they need new blood, or they need to throw in the towel and start licensing en mass
Leo Sullivan
>tfw CC has to depend on reruns of acquired programs (even reaching as far as Netflix) for views now youtube.com/watch?v=kAWeRJ31P04
Have they even played Bojack Horseman since they showed the first season alongside South Park?
Luis Cruz
"Animation for adults" is such a narrow genre, because normies have to be assured at a glance it's not actually for kids.
Lucas Sullivan
Well, what other animated TV shows have Lord & Miller been exec producers on?
>Clone High >Son of Zorn >Unikitty! Since these guys come from an animation background, it’s possible that they might’ve convinced Emily Spivey to put in the extra effort to hire a more competent art department. Lord & Miller actually respect the animation medium and always strive to push outside the norm (CwaCoM, Spider-Verse, The LEGO Movies). The mere fact that Clone High had a stylized look unique to adult animation gives me just a little hope that Bless the Harts might actually TRY to have appealing designs. or maybe Clone High was just lucky enough to be co-produced in Canada and aired during MTV’s more experimental era, meanwhile adult cartoons nowadays are limited in how they can look, what do I know
It ain't bad. Like a more down to earth, less cartoony version of Malcom In The Middle with the mother being the MC instead of the middle child.
Owen Thomas
>the mother being the MC That made it stand out for me. It was a family sitcom that wasn't starring the husband like most do; made for different story directions. Also, no matter how hard they tried to downplay it, Frankie was still kinda hot
Wow, this sounds pretty boring. What's with the sudden uptick in cartoons about suburban children made by adults?
I honestly think Japan is much better at this than the west because they know how to make their rural towns look pretty comfy in anime. The west can't do of how boring a lot of suburban small towns are.
Camden Rogers
>none of the RLM guys are in there Why even watch this?
Daniel Torres
>made by adults Are there any cartoons that are not made by adults? >What's with the sudden uptick in cartoons about suburban children Literally every year there's at least one cartoon about suburban children. It's the go-to topic of these nephews-of-rich-Hollywood-executives writers that only ever experienced the wealthy suburban life.
Bentley Nelson
Who the fuck is funding this thing?
Evan Morales
I feel like kids in most modern cartoons are just spouting catch phrases or being quirky for the sake of it.
In the 90s or 80s, kids in cartoons were just trying to kill time using their imagination and the neighborhood.
Jaxon Wright
This would not shock me one fucking bit, but at least it would still be getting made in that scenario
John Reed
They're playing cats Also, here's voice demo, using an outtake youtube.com/watch?v=yhO2Zfx_Aug The fact that they put so much effort into the animation for something that's never going to be in the show is promising
>tfw no katie rice boarded/directed adult cartoon I hope the new Animaniacs is allowed to raunchy.. wait.. >it's being made for Hulu >Disney now has majority control over Hulu DAMMIT
So Fox is shitting out THREE new terrible cartoons? Guess they really think Simpsums and Bob's Burgers will be ending soon.
Brody Powell
I feel like she would legitimately want to make slapstick-y sexual jokes with appealing character designs (something we pretty much never get), and without it just being "lmao yaas we sluts girl! my pussy deadass stank lol!" like Tuca & Bertie is shaping up to be. I feel like if she did something high-concept (with magic or sci-fi or literally anything other than a family sitcom) and adult-targeted for Netflix with the same animation quality as the Weedonwantcha short (or better) it would be an instant hit
He's friends with her and I'm sure given the attention whoring she does she asked for a role and he gave it to her, he has a seriously weird habit of orbiting around specifically young female animators. He's been friends with some of them for many years (like Emily Brundige) and they all respond positively to his social media fawning over them so I don't think he's an actual abuser or anything but it's almost like he thinks if he props himself up as enough of a "good guy" and makes a point of having lots of female friends that eventually one of them will want to date him
Caleb Richardson
The grossout and the unfunny Patrick-wannabe are my only issues with this show.
it had like six episodes, featuring the original cast, ten years after the movie was relevant anymore. It wasn't awful, but it didn't have an audience.
I don't know about being an "actual abuser" but I've heard stories about him being creepy and obsessive with female artists who have been in his gallery shows
I mean it looks fine but just the concept of a clone character show feels like an untapped market.
Nathan Edwards
What happened with that new show he was doing with Disney?
Isaiah Cox
This shit never gets old
Austin Young
my testicles retracted into my abdomen in the realization you're right
Chase Baker
Many of us assumed that Craig took that serialized cartoon he was developing over to Netflix, but I don't think anybody's asked Craig directly yet. I'm kinda doubtful that those greedy Disney bastards would allow McCracken to keep the rights to his pitch
the absolute state of western animation jesus christ everything greenlit by networks is bland flat low-effort trash, and everything on the web is poorly constructed abstract abominations desperately trying to be original and special but lacking actual talent and innovation to pull it off
oh but, "celebrity" voices!
Andrew Thompson
>IT’S LITERALLY NOTHING wew
Joseph Baker
While we’re on the subject of mature animation, I’m actually kind of disappointed that the creator of Hey Arnold!—a relatively mature kids cartoon—ended up only making preschool shows afterward. Makes me sad that we’ll never get anything quite as real as Hey Arnold! ever again.
While Allen Gregory had weak writing and horrible characters, I can at least appreciate that they went for a fancier, more unique art style that also fit well with the setting and status of its rich main cast. That helped it stand out a bit more.
It's amazing how people keep giving them shows because of Parks and Rec despite the fact that pretty much everyone agrees Parks and Rec only got good after it made Andy a main character and became more an ensemble cast and focused much less and Leslie and Ann.
Angel Phillips
>She's a butterface. She isn't. Only real life 3D people can be butterface. 2D character never suffer from it.
Fuck you, Yea Forums. Quit letting this thread die. There’s so much to talk about!
Brody Watson
I said FUCK YOU, Yea Forums. QUIT LETTING THIS THREAD DIE. THERE’S SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT!
Easton Hernandez
>THERE’S SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT! Feel free to talk about it somewhere else then. Noone here gives a flying fuck about it, otherwise you wouldn't have had to page10 bump this shit for 3 days and counting.
I, too, was tricked into thinking it was pic related, but I'm guessing was actually referring to Season 1's "Halloween-themed" episode: "Name Shame"/"Something's Wrong with This Taffy." 's the money shot!
It is indeed a good shot. She's one of my topshelf obscure milfs.
Josiah Gonzalez
People just need to realize that this thread does so much more than just revolve around a boring, literal-who show that nobody’s heard of. Discussion includes: >FOX’s Animation Block (The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Futurama, King of the Hill, failed shows from the past, etc.) >adult animated series in general >Netflix Animation >Comedy Central’s failed efforts for original cartoons ever since Futurama ended >The Mighty B! >Phil Lord & Chris Miller >Close Enough >Infinity Train >Matt Burnett & Ben Levin And those who have contributed to this thread keep abandoning it as if we’re out of things to talk about. BE CREATIVE and EXPAND UPON THE CONVERSATION.
