Topic: Seth MacFarlane's "Flintstones" reboot

The Looney Tunes Show is popular? I'm surprised. The humor in that show is totally different from the original and I personally don't think it lives up to them at all.

Agreed. Animaniacs and Tiny Toons had more in common with the classic Looney Tunes than this new show. I wasn't saying I liked it, I was just stating that the show is somehow popular enough to still be on Cartoon Network.

Heck, even Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back in Action were closer to the old cartoons. I absolutely HATE the new stylized designs of the Looney Tunes. They look like a terrible hybrid of Ren and Stimpy crossed with Fairly Oddparents.

The best designs for the Looney Tunes were in the 1940's Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng shorts. Chuck Jones made the characters look too humanoid, but I still love his humor.

Sounds interesting. MacFarlane is probably qualified to do it, as long as he can capture the typical humour of the Flinstones.

I like Family Guy. U Mad?

Nope. I love Family Guy and American Dad

@WaveBoy: they're just as good IMO, lol, they just focus on newer issues — one touched on the Twilight movies, another featured them at a call center messing around on the phones and computers and stuff. in case anyone else is interested, i know for a fact the new eps are up on Hulu Plus (idk about Hulu free though) :3

what i really came here to say, though (and idk how it relates to The Flintstones at all but whatev'), was that That 70's Show is amazing and I love it to bits, all up until the final couple of seasons where it all went to hell. Ashton Kutcher plays the 'complete moron' bit to a tee — he's too good at that for it not to be real on some level. I can honestly say idk who else i would've liked to see playing that role, either, especially because Kutcher's a douche IRL and I enjoy being able to laugh at him acting like an idiot on the show. >:3

@theblackdragon

He's a moron on the show and a douche/moron in real life. Perfect casting choice? I wonder if "Red Foreman" (Eric's dad) is a strict a-hole in real life?

@tendoboy1984: actually, some of my friends were in California for a while and had the opportunity to sit in the audience for a live taping of the show back when they were filming it. afterward they let the people who were in the audience get autographs and stuff or whatev'. apparently Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher blew everyone off afterward (Topher might've had to be someplace else, i forget what they said about him exactly, but i definitely remember they said Kutcher had been a d-bag royale), but the guys who played Red and Bob were incredibly nice.

@theblackdragon

I just remembered the guy who played Red was the main bad guy in the first Robocop movie. Forgot the actor's name though.

Anyways, what's the point of taping the show with a live audience if half the time they use a "laugh track" to mimic audience laughter?

the illusion of choice?

But seriously, no idea. Sitcoms are still mostly terrible so who cares?

The audience doesn't always laugh.

Then the joke fell flat and they need to rehearse more and/or hire better writers/actors.