Do they really need to bring this back again?
It might be best to leave it buried in the 90s...
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I think we need this nowadays. All these celebs now are getting crazy and don't answer to anyone. Who do we have to look to for their embarrassment? SNL? I think seeing them get theirs on this show is perfect.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 6, 2018 at 5:25pmshare
It worked in the late-90s because the concept was absurd and unprecendented, the claymation style was rough but endearing, and the voice talent was largely unknowns making it feel like this real underground counter-culture thing.
Once the show petered out in 2000-2001 when they (the show and the network) started getting too-chummy with actual celebrities, tried to make it a storyline-arching narrative and created original mutants who nobody cared about.
The mid-aughts revival was unwatchable because they made it look waaay too clean and played it way too safe. Part of the charm of the original were the subtle verbal barbs about the talent and the satire of the increasingly-corporate sports world. the 2000s version was just "that celebrity is fat, and that celebrity ugly" etc. It tried way too hard to capture the original and yet somehow missed what made the novelty of the original stick for a (by then-MTV standards) considerable shelf-life.
It was VERY of its time. I swear that the winners were decided by who was more popular at that particular point in time-as in, that very week-and nothing else. Felt like it was written by a bunch of frat boy douche bags, at times, with some of those jokes.
Cynicism is easy.