#he’s literally the most cartoonishly looney toons ass guy i know

[sallytwo]

i convinced my bffever to watch lwd with me i was like cmon man it’s literally our lives the main two characters are literally me and you. which means that when we actually watch it he’s gonna kill me with hammers but that’s not my fault. this is what you get for acting like boimler boy

[justaboot]

@yeyeducks I was in a commedia acting company for years and now I’m gonna make it your problem but -

Its the dying use of stock characters!!! Most cartoons draw from commedia dell’arte, an Italian Renaissance masked theater, where there’s a set number of cartoonishly exaggerated characters based on tropes (Dottore, the bumbling father/ Pantalone, the greedy and cruel master who’s the butt of every joke/Capitano, the swaggering soldier who’s a coward/Arlecchino, the conniving servant cleverer than the master/the innamorati, the young lovers etc). Like, they were ESTABLISHED characters, and they’d just get bopped around commedia plays (they were called scenarios, they literally just put their guys in scenarios), and in each play they’d be in different cities, different relationships, different wants, but as SOON as Arlecchino walked on, you were like GREAT he’s someone’s servant and he’s gonna fuck up everybody in the show, or you KNEW that Dottore was going to be SOMEONES dad, and he was gonna end the show ass-up stuck in a fish barrel with the lovers getting married, you know?

And all the characters had their own physical schtick (lazzis) which was just…the bits they always do. Oh, Arlecchino about to do the lazzi with the chair, oh Donald Duck’s face is turning red (you know EXACTLY what comes next. It was predictable.)

It was EXACTLY like what Mickey and Friends was! Disney had their stock characters, as did the Looney Toons, and the Muppets, and because the audience knew EXACTLY who the characters were, it was so much more exciting! Scroogerello was a great example of that, we all know glomgold, know how he makes his livin, and they put him in the role of stepdad! That’s ridiculous! It’s hilarious! AND, because you know him, of COURSE you’re waiting for him to ruin everything. The subversion of expectation of putting 🖕Goldie🖕 as the ✨princess✨ is awesome, because WE now know that at some point we’re gonna get 🖕princess🖕, because she’s a known character.

But now, that kind of massive, well know established ensemble is kind of fading from the zeitgeist, which is heartbreaking, but if you do some research, like 99.99999% of everything “cartoony” in western animation is just…straight up commedia. Thanks for coming to my tedtalk on Italian theatre sorry it will happen again

What’s the deal with these retellings of classic stories starring Scrooge McDuck and their questionable casting choices?

“You know who should be the woman who Scrooge falls in love with only to break her heart because work became far too important for him? Daisy Duck.”

“Scrooge is Cinderella so logically Glomgold is his wicked step-father”