This show would be so much better without all the weird sound effects. But this is the funniest episode i've ever seen.
I don't know why American television needs to be so over the top all the time. It destroys what could be fairly good programs.
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I can't fucking handle it. This is hilarious.
Dr Bryan Grieg Fry is super fabulous
Wait till these fuckers discover guns.
Now imagine people riding the ants and the wasps
Apparently, a fight between insects sounds like an Age of Empires 2 match.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;41570666]I don't know why American television needs to be so over the top all the time. It destroys what could be fairly good programs.[/QUOTE]
I think it's because for whatever reason, because it's educational it means it's for kids.
animal planet used to have a lot of interesting documentaries, but because they were on in the early mornings before school, they had a lot of silly sound effects.
I don't really know if that's the reason, though.
That ant that screamed when it fell off the branch
im dyin
Bugs Life sequel confirmed
"they breached the ants headquarters"
Ooaahhasdsdhad
it would be funny if during the fight it just zoomed out and the dramatic music and sound effects stopped and it just shows the tiny war and it looks like nothing
Such dramatic music for this, is it really necessary to also add in those sounds, especially for that branch falling at the start? I mean, it was just a branch, but the sound was like a fucking redwood smashed into the ground.
Jeez, they must have stated about 3 or 4 times that the ants can gang up on a wasp.
Why is it always like this with many american tv-documentaries I see? Will the american audience loose interest if it's not big and flashy with lots of sound effects? Or is that only what the makers of these things think that is the only way the american audience will keep their interest?
the american fauna clearly is more advanced than the one we yuropoors have, obviously. Considering how superior the americans are, I'm not surprised at all their fauna has swords and feelings and even insects have 'voices'.
in the name of all the yuropoors im sorry for my fellow yuropoor's ignorance, it's truly shameful they even doubt this is real. rock on 'murica
[QUOTE=!LORD M!;41575996]Why is it always like this with many american tv-documentaries I see? Will the american audience loose interest if it's not big and flashy with lots of sound effects? Or is that only what the makers of these things think that is the only way the american audience will keep their interest?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure the Americans think it's stupid too
[QUOTE=!LORD M!;41575996]Why is it always like this with many american tv-documentaries I see? Will the american audience loose interest if it's not big and flashy with lots of sound effects?[/QUOTE]
Correct.
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Americans aren't stupid and they make is flashy because of it, but they make it flashy to make Americans stupid (getting used to flashy, not wanting non-flashy in the future)
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;41570666]I don't know why American television needs to be so over the top all the time. It destroys what could be fairly good programs.[/QUOTE]
There's an episode of Hell's Kitchen where the "NEXT TIME ON HELL'S KITCHEN" segment is just ambulances, fire trucks, and Gordon Ramsey's face exploding into a fireball. It was ridiculous
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(3 minutes onwards)
Ant has been knocked unconscious by wasp
Ant has been knocked unconscious by wasp
Wasp has been killed by ant
I swear I heard tauntauns in there.
The ants should have made more castles and ranged units.
dammit I wrote a big ol' post for this and the page fritzed out when I posted.
as I was trying to say, this kind of science programming is clearly aimed towards children, likely played during afternoon prime time. It's still an awful problem where the entertainment industry goes overboard though, the programming is likely intended to be aimed at those around the preteen years, but was actually written towards 5-10 years who don't actually care about science and like goofy things that don't have to make sense.
I think the most well known 'bad aim' instance is 4kids, who tend to take shows that include or even center around certain topics that the average teen is plenty accustomed to in TV (not even serious shows), and making it politically correct for 'children' which are generally treated more as kindergartners until they graduate high school.
Even other translation services who deal with things without usually tampering have had their awkward moments, I remember in End of Evangelion's english version, they turned a headshot from a satisfying "gunshot + splatter" sound like you'd expect into a "pop + ketchup bottle BLRROOPBK"
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my virgin ears are saved
oh god, Evangelion's dub...ketchup bottle sound effects were the least of that dub's problems.
[QUOTE=kimchimafia;41577233]oh god, Evangelion's dub...ketchup bottle sound effects were the least of that dub's problems.[/QUOTE]
"EEAAAUUUUUGHHAHUHEHUUUUUUUUUHG"
Spike Spencer (shinji's english VA) is genuinely drunk 24/7 and hasn't watched a full episode of anything he's dubbed because he [i]actually hates cartoons[/i]. Biggest douche I've ever had the honor of meeting at a con, though I've got a good story about him screaming at a tornado to "bring it" standing in the open front doors of a hotel lobby in boxers and an open bath robe. Had a glass in one hand and a wine bottle in the other
(I should mention that his co-VA Tiffany Grant (Asuka) is a wonderful person to talk to and she loves poking at the tornado thing too)
Still, what I'm getting at is that the media treats anything for kids like the audience is nothing but innocent 8 year olds wearing peewee league baseball jerseys and selling girlscout cookies, but also makes sure it's profoundly attention grabbing because it's also a huge caricature that children are fat lazy spoiled brats who won't stop staring wall-eyed at angry birds on their iPad
[QUOTE=kimchimafia;41576621]The ants should have made more castles and ranged units.[/QUOTE]
Kinda hard if the enemy teleports your base into theirs.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;41577264]"EEAAAUUUUUGHHAHUHEHUUUUUUUUUHG"
Spike Spencer (shinji's english VA) is genuinely drunk 24/7 and hasn't watched a full episode of anything he's dubbed because he [i]actually hates cartoons[/i]. Biggest douche I've ever had the honor of meeting at a con, though I've got a good story about him screaming at a tornado to "bring it" standing in the open front doors of a hotel lobby in boxers and an open bath robe. Had a glass in one hand and a wine bottle in the other
Still, what I'm getting at is that the media treats anything for kids like the audience is nothing but innocent 8 year olds wearing peewee league baseball jerseys and selling girlscout cookies, but also makes sure it's profoundly attention grabbing because it's also a huge caricature that children are fat lazy spoiled brats who won't stop staring wall-eyed at angry birds on their iPad[/QUOTE]
Wow, I did not know that about Spike Spencer. Thanks for sharing. Also, I do agree that a lot of people seem to have a really skewed idea of how to make quality stuff that would actually be suitable and entertaining for kids because they think of children as things that are instinctively drawn to LOUD NOISES and innocence.
[QUOTE=Echidna666;41576337]There's an episode of Hell's Kitchen where the "NEXT TIME ON HELL'S KITCHEN" segment is just ambulances, fire trucks, and Gordon Ramsey's face exploding into a fireball. It was ridiculous
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(3 minutes onwards)[/QUOTE]
I remember that, I watched the next episode straight afterwards because I recorded it on my DVR and I was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS GONNA BE INTENSE and it turned out to be that white trash guy storming out saying "I AIN'T NOBODY'S BITCH" and then like twenty minutes after there was a fire drill or some shit I can't even remember but it was nothing like they made it look.
[QUOTE=Echidna666;41576337]There's an episode of Hell's Kitchen where the "NEXT TIME ON HELL'S KITCHEN" segment is just ambulances, fire trucks, and Gordon Ramsey's face exploding into a fireball. It was ridiculous
(3 minutes onwards)[/QUOTE]I can't stand the producers for this shit, they make it so unbelievably retarded and over-the-top it makes me [I]not[/I] want to watch it.
[QUOTE=Shark Cat;41580245]I remember that, I watched the next episode straight afterwards because I recorded it on my DVR and I was like HOLY SHIT THIS IS GONNA BE INTENSE and it turned out to be that white trash guy storming out saying "I AIN'T NOBODY'S BITCH" and then like twenty minutes after there was a fire drill or some shit I can't even remember but it was nothing like they made it look.[/QUOTE]That's the worst part about all of this, they purposely make it seem like something exciting and interesting is going to happen in the next episode, and then it turns out to be basically nothing. I understand that this is how they get their audience hooked into watching the next episode, but it all seems very wrong to me.
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