Will TBC ever do anything serious?

Dactyl · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:13 pm

I was thinking yesterday that TBC never have really made anything that wasn't funny. Do you think they'll ever do anything really serious? TELL WHAT U THINK!

Edit so you won't keep using this topic to diss TBC - Jesty

minib198 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:27 pm

Um... They almost have. "Boring" was really, um, boring... So that wasn't that funny.

Dactyl · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:30 pm

No, not something that you don't think is funny, I mean like Strong Bad coming in and talking about Drugs, or National Security. Like that.

ramrod · **Posted:** Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:42 pm

Dactyl wrote:

No, not something that you don't think is funny, I mean like Strong Bad coming in and talking about Drugs, or National Security. Like that.

I don't think that will happen. It's just not TBC. It's more of a G.I Joe type thing.

FireBird · **Joined:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:58 am **Posts:** 1819

ramrod wrote:

It's more of a G.I Joe type thing.

Or a Cheat Commandos thing.

"Stay in school, and don't do drugs! He-he ha-ha!"
"Are you even trying anymore?"

cyco · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:09 am

Well....that one mushroom thing that matt did the voices for or something was boring....Does that count?

Skew · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:28 am

What about that thing...I think it's called "If I controlled the camera" or something. I don't think that was supposed to be funny. I forget. Search the wiki for it.

Capt. Ido Nos · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:47 am

I think he means that pizza place they did/helped make a site for a while ago. If that's the case, it really wasn't supposed to be funny, not that much at least, especially since it wasn't H*.

ramrod · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:06 am

Capt. Ido Nos wrote:

I think he means that pizza place they did/helped make a site for a while ago. If that's the case, it really wasn't supposed to be funny, not that much at least, especially since it wasn't H*.

Mellow Mushroom is what you guys are talking about. I'm not quite sure about everything about it, considering there's only one toon.

Joshua · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:19 am

Teh Astro Lite 2600 wasn't funny. >.>

...and I'm getting extremely tired of people dissing "boring (really)".

Seriously. · **Joined:** Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:24 am **Posts:** 78

Boring was great.

:bubs:

"Ouh... ...Strong Bad."

:sb:

"Really...REALLY...small steps..."

TBC are trying to be funny, regardless of how much you liked "x" animation. I don't suppose it will change.

ready for prime time · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:52 am

boring was okay. it was like, they are so great, they can't make something boring. i read the whole legal crap! and i'll do it again......

Saturn · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:43 pm

I don't get the hate for "Boring" either. I thought it was hilarious. The part with Strong Sad really makes the whole email work. "You guys! I struck gold on the alien spaceship and it gave me superpowers!"

I'd say Experimental Film (minus the commentary) is the closest thing to "serious" on the whole site right now... at the very least it seems more like something that's just supposed to be really weird and artsy and cool rather than funny. Of course, it still has some funny/amusing parts in there, mostly the bits with Homestar and Strong Bad...

Douglas · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:47 pm

I would find it very hard to make a "serious" cartoon. Serious writing, yah, no problem.
I just think that the style tht TBC has does not lend itself well to seriousness.

The_Other_White_Meat · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:18 pm

I think TBC may eventually do some from of serious animation, but will it be related to Homestar or even found homestarrunner.com? Most likely, no. Homestar Runner is widely known now as a comedy site and doing just one serious cartoon might not help their image too well.

Besides, as their spoof G.I. Joes, Cheat Commandos, show us, those type of things are always really phoney and fake. I don't think TBC would intentionally stoop that low...

Susan · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:36 pm

The Experimental Film was not funny. I enjoyed it because of the music video aspect. I find it to be a little to seriuos for TBC but I still love it.

putitinyourshoe · **Posted:** Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:03 pm

ramrod wrote:

Dactyl wrote:

No, not something that you don't think is funny, I mean like Strong Bad coming in and talking about Drugs, or National Security. Like that.

I don't think that will happen. It's just not TBC. It's more of a G.I Joe type thing.

i think seriousness will only be approached when it is being mocked. Appropriate innapropriate Peer to teen choice behaviors, anyone?

Rusty · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:34 am

putitinyourshoe wrote:

ramrod wrote:

Dactyl wrote:

No, not something that you don't think is funny, I mean like Strong Bad coming in and talking about Drugs, or National Security. Like that.

I don't think that will happen. It's just not TBC. It's more of a G.I Joe type thing.

i think seriousness will only be approached when it is being mocked. Appropriate innapropriate Peer to teen choice behaviors, anyone?

That's Appropriate/Innapropriate Peer-2-Teen Choice Awards, soilder.

ramrod · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 12:57 am

The_Other_White_Meat wrote:

I think TBC may eventually do some from of serious animation, but will it be related to Homestar or even found homestarrunner.com? Most likely, no. Homestar Runner is widely known now as a comedy site and doing just one serious cartoon might not help their image too well.

My thoughts exactly. If you ever see TBC make a serious type toon, it'll probably be on some other sort of site. I can;t see it being hosted on H*R.com.

It's dot com · **Posted:** Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:11 am

Susan wrote:

The Experimental Film was not funny.

Even though it wasn't supposed to be funny overall, there were intentional jokes in it (for example, when Homestar sticks his head in, disrupting the split-screen effect).

I highly doubt that there would ever be anything on the site that was 100-percent serious. (Even the Legal page has Homestar walking up and saying "Boring!") The only thing I could imagine would be if there was some kind of tragedy and TBC felt that they needed to publicly address it. If H*R.com were as popular in September of 2001 as it is now (and updated as often), then they might have made something serious.

Jish · **Joined:** Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:57 pm **Posts:** 45

Strong Sad's box of memories isn't funny. It's ... really sad. It seriously makes me want to be his friend, or give him a present or something, and then I realize none of it is real. But still.

You might argue that SB's card was funny, but I think it is probably the saddest thing there: one of Strong Sad's only "happy" memories is a hastily thrown together card that his brother was forced into writing him. Poor guy.

Evang · **Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:10 am

I would love to see something where Strong Sad shares the history of Homsar with Strong Bad and it ends up being saddening and emotional, to the point where it goes back to being hilarious when you remember it's Homsar it's all being addressed towards.

Homsar could be, uhh. An immigrant with hope for his future coming to Free Country USA, with a brain to boot. Then he met the heavy lourde and his world turned upside-down. (Literally. Characters page.) And the thing about him overdosing on painkillers after calling Marzipan ends up true and his hopeful future is CRUSHED. I don't know XD

bwave · **Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:22 pm

Back in the day.... and off the site now...

If I ran the camera

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