Same reason music hasn't. It hasn't HAD to.

Suck it up, kiddies.

What better way to churn out cheap crap for the masses than by dumbing down each generation just a bit more than the last and shoveling shit into it's maw, and calling it candy?

"Hey, you know.. that's not a very good song / production / cartoon / mix / show / whatever..."

"YOU'RE just OLD! YOU wouldn't understand!"

"Yes, that must be it...."

Heheheheheheh

Suck it up, kiddies.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

But Samurai Jack is awe-inspiring.

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For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.

For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.

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Bunner and sub-genres sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...

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Who's this Subgenres bitch? I'ma hafta kill her.

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We're all forgetting the main point here.

Someone remind me.

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Actually, Kevin Eastman (who you may know as the Editor-in-chief of Heavy Metal magazine, and who is married to Julie Strain), and Peter Laird, the original creators of TMNT, started them in black & white. When they went color (in their comics, that they wrote), the turtles WERE actually different colors. At one point, Raphael became entirely purple-black.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

Yes, and the original b/w comic was a parody of the Frank Miller graphic novel Ronin and, to a lesser extent, Miller's work on Daredevil, of which few (if any) present-day TMNT fans are aware. I've always found it odd that a way-underground sendup wound up making bazillions of dollars, while the original never made it outside of comic book circles.

Ronin is still in print, and it's great. No relationship to the movie starring Robert Deniro.

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You know what was sweet, that car chase in Ronin.

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Poop.

Yeah but the Sin City movie should be awesome and maybe put a few bucks in Frank's pockets. I hope it's at least better than his Robocop script.

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

Sin City looks to be really cool. Rodriquez did a great job of keeping a very graphic novel look to the movie.

I'll need to pick up the book one of these days before the movie comes out.

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Poop.

I don't care, the original cartoon didn't have them different colors. The toys were based off the cartoon, dammit.

The original comic *was* far more mature and well-drawn, but that's what you get with comics as opposed to cartoons.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

[Click to view comic: 'Chuck Jones, Phone Home']

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Probably the best ever.

Back to TMNT: Offhand, I can't think of another parody whose fame and fortune so surpassed that of the original. Anyone else?

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Cher
Mick Jagger
Jim Morrison
Marion Berry
Scooby Doo
Frankenstien
Ronald Reagan

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

But they were parodies of themselves.

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Say, I haven't seen Cowboy Bebop on Cartoon Network in a while.

As for music, Bebop is not "free-form" Jazz. Even though Bebop was a reaction against the highly-structured "Big Band" and "Swing" styles of Jazz, Bebop (or Bop) usually follows the pattern of: stating an introductory melody and establishing rhythmic feel, soloing in turn by the lead (and occasionally rhythm) instruments (usually horns), and restating the melody before conclusion of the piece.

Scat singers use vocal sounds (such as "scibbety-bop, de-bop, de-doo-wah") to imitate, rival, and even accompany instrumental solos. Plus, the singers get to show off their chops.

Acapella singers use "doo-wop" and similar sounds in place of an instrumental rhythm section.

Also, some Bebop grew into Hard Bop which in turn helped serve as a basis for some of the "Modern" Jazz sound of the 60s (as opposed to the "Cool" sound that birthed the "Modal" movement also of the 60s). The Modern style still influences many of today's Jazz artists and groups. So, Bebop lives.

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