I still hear that. Clearly it's subliminal Illuminati mind programming.

you mean except, of course, Dog with a Blog which is the best sitcom in years.

I haven't seen that one. If it's any good they are probably weirded out by it, so it's never on when I'm there.

What's really disheartening is that the Disney channel used to be kind of good when I was a kid. Of course, back then, it was how you could see Disney movies and old cartoons, not kiddified sitcom schlock with music numbers.

Dog With a Blog is amazing. Boomer recommended it. My one complaint is that the dog does not spend enough time blogging. Admittedly, "Dog With a Life Outside the Internet" is not a very catchy title, but it'd be a damn sight more honest than it's current bait-and-switch premise.

I've never liked Disney stuff, not even the classics and not even as a kid. I guess I respect them for putting so much money behind an animated retelling of a guy's mescaline trip (that's what Fantasia is, the art director was part of one of the earliest clinical mescaline studies back around WWI and Fantasia was his attempt to recreate the experience) but even that is too twee and no real substance. Pretty much all the Disney I've seen since they started doing features (I like some of the really early stuff) is the animation equivalent of super technical shred guitar - it's impressive in small doses but never really goes anywhere.

This doesn't include live action Disney of course, that's a whole different beast altogether.

Disney has always been inferior to anime, and it has always baffled me that people weren't willing or able to admit this.

I wouldn't consider myself a fan of Disney's body of work, but I do have a lot of respect for it - because it's the animation equivalent of super technical shred guitar. Technique for technique's sake may not be the absolute end-all, but I say that technique is no less important than concept.

And this ties in to you, Caminante. You are doubtlessly already familiar with the ongoing culture wars between Disney and anime. Nearly everyone I know falls squarely in the hardline anime camp, but I'm afraid I just can't agree with them. While Disney is, admittedly, inferior to anime in most respects, they should still be given credit for their extreme work ethic and attention to detail.

I note that one can quote Disney films in a non-ironic way, unlike anime.

I think Caminante is just upset that his dream girls are more into Disney princesses than Vampire-Panty-Mecha-GO-Project-Cats or whatever he's into at the moment.

I liked The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh, and Dumbo as a kid, and Aladdin as a slightly older kid when it was released. As an adult, I really like Finding Nemo, WALL-E, and Ratatouille.

Also, Disney was the studio behind Who Frame Roger Rabbit? which, even if you hate all of Disney's fully animated films, justifies its entire existence.

As much as I respect anime, can't think of many other studios that can replicate Disney illustration style and produce them as their own. Anime on the other hand, has been faithfully reproduced in the here in the United States so that its novelty has sort of worn off.

Evilhomer just cracked my shit up

Someone needs to remix a Disney sitcom like they do for Fresh Prince, or do some laugh track replacements like in that Big Bang Theory clip. Someone with an iron stomach.

Agreed! I el oh el'd wholeheartedly!

I don't understand. And I'm always high. Are you 1-starring this because it's bad television?

Bad television's a bit of an oxymoron, I'd say.

And maybe it's because I'm not high that I can clearly hear her singing "Doing things the Ally Way". That's....that's not funny.

I just watched it again, to be sure. "Doing things the Ally Way".

One person mentioned that they heard something else. What the fuck are you gong on about here?

I'm not amused by this video, or outraged by it, or by the corporation that produced it. It's pretty standard mass-produced garbage television on a channel that I haven't had cause to watch in about 20-odd years. It took an effort of will to pay attention the whole way through, hoping that something interesting would happen and in my estimation, nothing did.

You obviously have a differing opinion.

Good for you, champ!