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Linde said
Thanks Parlance, didn't know about the budget and all.

However, I do feel the same about it as meanmistermustard. I've only watched about 2 of them and they were okay, but that was like a year ago and I still don't feel like watching another one.

And I hate it when they try to portray someone but the voice doesn't sound the same at all. That's also what I dislike about Yellow Submarine by the way.

I definitely recommend the "watch with a friend with a sense of humor" approach, as I wouldn't have bothered any other way myself. My friend and I were commenting on the strange edits they would do to the songs as, "oh, this is where they ran out of money on this episode, 'wrap it up, folks!'"

Also, the third season episodes were the best of the lot, and "the weird songs" as one animation director put it, were assigned to a better studio. If you can stomach watching it again, I recommend the intro for that season, done to "And Your Bird Can Sing" with cute cartoonizations of their Sgt Pepper likenesses, and the animation done for "Strawberry Fields." Cheesy by today's standards, but compared to the first two seasons, it was a marked improvement. And not entirely easy for a kid-friendly show to pull off.

I thought they did a much better job on Yellow Submarine at least capturing their personas in a fun way. They didn't even bother on the original cartoon. The actor playing John modeled him on Rex Reed, for heaven's sake. I kind of wish someone would just redub John's voice on just one episode with a decent impression, complete with liberal f-bombs.

parlance

A very sad day. Jack Stokes, the director of the Beatles cartoon and animation director of "Yellow Submarine," passed away at 92. From The Examiner:

Mitch Axelrod of Fab4Free4All, and the author of the book “Beatletoons,” which covered the making of both “Yellow Submarine” and “The Beatles” cartoon show, called Stokes “an incredible man.” and said in a statement to Beatles Examiner, “To Beatles fans, he will always be remembered as the director of The Beatles cartoon series and Yellow Submarine for TVC Studios in London, but he was much more than that. He was not only an animation director, but a brilliant animator as well, working well into his 80's before retiring.

“He was a fantastic storyteller. A real no-nonsense guy, whom I am proud to have known. He will definitely be missed."

parlance