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This Just In (2004)
A show that even radical liberals will like...
So many people on here have commented that "This Just In" was potentially offensive to liberals, while others have commented that the politics are good, but the jokes are not funny. I am here to tell you that the show was neither offensive OR unfunny. It's closing in now on a year since the show was canceled, but back when the show was on, me and all of my roommates watched and enjoyed the show greatly. I mention my roommates because I lived in a house full of punk rockers at the time. These were persons that were very liberal and did not mind "This Just In" savagely making fun of lame, watered down are mainstream liberals. Actually, as far as me and my friends go, most of us are "SO LIBERAL" that we refer to ourselves usually as some kind of "hypenated anarchist"(ya know, "post-anarchist", "realistic-anarchist", "eventual anarchist" etc.). Yes just like how "cool" republicans call themselves "libertarians" now, cool liberals call themselves anarchists.
Now sure, the main character of the show is decided conservative and he definitely said things that I didn't agree with politically, but he said them IN A FUNNY WAY, which is really all I'm looking for when I watch a funny cartoon. "This Just In" was an extremely good, very unique show with a lot of potential and it's just sad it got the ax so soon. The format of using Flash to do every show within the week it ran was brilliant and very ground breaking, in the future, we will definitely see more cartoons like this(FER EXAMPLE:Maybe if they put Homestar Runner on TV we'd see the same type of thing)
Furthermore, despite the Republicanism of the main character, you kinda got the feeling that one day he was gonna wise up, stop being an @$$hole and go liberal. I mean, my memories of the show might be fading at this point, but it seemed like in pretty much every episode his demi-crat friends were trying to show him the error of his ways.
POLITICALLY:don't agree with it COMEDICALLY:effing hilarious SHOULD THEY BRING IT BACK:definitely
I mean, come on, in one episode(SPOILER WARNING, heh heh) they had Scooby Do on Entertainment Tonight and he was being interviewed by that Kojo guy and Scooby says, "Ruck Roo, Raggot!" Now that's funny... That's like classic era Simpsons funny...
People need to stop taking offense so easily and open themself to a show that is extremely funny. This sucker is definitely gonna be a cult classic(speaking of such things, when are the Duckman DVD's coming out?)