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Underrated Cartoons.... MTV's Undergrads and Downtown!!!FACT!!! 2017-06-04 10:08:19 Post No. 83566698
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Underrated Cartoons.... MTV's Undergrads and Downtown!!!FACT!!!
CreepyThinMan
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Back in the late 90's MTV produced a lot of animation and two shows that got undeservedly cancelled after one series were Undergrads and Downtown.
I love both shows because at the time they were made, between 1999-2001, I was the same age and watching them today feels comfy as fuck. The thing that makes them special is that, like Daria, despite all the comedy craziness there's some real moments of emotion and heart.
Pete Williams won a contest to produce a show through MTV and Undergrads was the result while Downtown was created by Chris Prynoski who did the Sick, Sad World segments on Daria and the peyote hallucination sequence of Bevis & Butt-head Do America.
I always wished that they did at least a second series of both shows but I also think that maybe it's best that they remain time capsules of a bygone era when the internet didn't rule our lives and before 9/11 made everyone lose their fucking minds.
I miss that time of my life......fact........
https://youtu.be/mX7OpIUJZDg
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>>83566698
DOWNTOWN BABY WHAT A FUCKING MASTERPIECE!
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>The show follows a diverse and multiracial cast who live in New York City
DROPPED
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>When diverse cast meant only one black person at most
I miss those dayshttp://archiveofourown.org/works/10190687http://archiveofourown.org/works/7838134
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>>83569330
literally 1 non white
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>>83566698
Undergrads was pretty funny.
Downtown was lame. Too concerned with being "authentic" to have good jokes. Just a boring show all around. Mission Hill did a similar thing in a far superior way because it remembered to include jokes.
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>>83569488
Phoebe is Asian
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>>83569488
isn't far left some kind of hispanic
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>>83569488
Phoebe was half-Asian
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>>83566698
the only good animation mtv ever made was daria
undergrad is complete fucking garbage
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>>83569747
>undergrad is complete fucking garbage
Nah. I thought it was pretty bad for the first two episodes but it grew on me very fast. Cal and Rocko are funny characters, and Nitz is pretty entertaining in how he gets shit on constantly.
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