Why do you continue to humor RatherDashing? What can come of it?? o_o

Our own vile amusement?

Has it? Where are the massive toy empires for Aeon Flux, The Maxx, Futurama, Venture Bros., Robot Chicken, Freakazoid, Liquid Television, King of the Hill, The Critic, Robot Chicken, The Tick, etc? And of course, it takes a special kind of cynicism to make the toy FIRST. The relationship between toys being inspired by a property is different than one in which the property is inspired by toy designs, in that the former allows for creativity that can THEN be marketed soullessly, as opposed to making the piece of plastic and then cynically applying it to something in watchable form, crafting a long-form commercial. Many other cartoons didn't even get toys until far later, such as Invader Zim, when it sold merchandise to an older audience years later.

Because they're aimed at an Adult/late teen audience, if they wouldn't you bet they would have capitalized on it, adults just aren't know to spend their money on plastic toys ( unless they are called collectors items, that's another story ;) )

I just don't know why you keep insisting that every cartoon based that is not completely orignal is a cancer that kills the industry, you should know plenty of examples of "toy ad" cartoons that were great and "original" cartoons that are turds.

I'd would like to point out that Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors is goddamn awesome.

Also Ulysees 31! :D

Because I'm only on episode 4 of MLP:FIM and I need something to do to pass the time until I get to the end. There's a reference to Apocalypse Now in this one.

Tangential learning for the little girls FTW.

No way, where? i totally missed that

You don't know shit about My Little Pony, time, or tangential learning. Congratulations on trying to be an animation cconnoisseur though, but you fail at that as well.

Listen i already sent you a PM, i don't know if you've read it. If you've got a beef with someone deal with it via PM or everyone else is going to take you for a retarded troll.

After the bunnies come rampaging through, and Twilight Sparkle comes walking in afterward, it cuts to three ponies laying down all trampled. The one pony says "the horror! the horror!"

Are you sure it's a reference to Apocalipse Now! though? yeah it fitswell, but i could swear i've heard the exact line "the horror, the horror" somewhere before.

In Rugrats, Chucky says "The Horrah(spelling?), the horrah!"...in reference to a word he hears one of the adults say around a jewish holiday.

Of course you have. It's a pretty damn common reference. His reference to "tangential learning" above was about this, how cultural memes(from films like Apocalypse Now!) get repeated and taught to new generations through repetition in newer media.

The horror...the horror...are the last words of the antagonist in the novel Apocalypse Now is based on, Heart of Darkness. That's where it originally comes from, and when it's used elsewhere it's usually a direct rip off of the film or book, especially when it's a comedy. Originally I remembered it wrong and thought it was the pony laying on her back who said it, which is why I thought it was off of the film.

But it's such a famous line that it's hard to imagine just being thought up by the writers without knowing where it came from.

I think now i remember it too, damn that day i lent my dvd to a friend some years ago.