Re:‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend ...
by justsomehnguy on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:27AM
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I don't have a stake here, but one should definitely differentiate between a full featured adult animation which ran in the cinemas and sometimes on TV, just like a regular films (and in 03:00 AM block), and a syndicated, every week, for years, animation running when the kids are already in the bed but you still sit on couch with a half killed six-pack.
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Re:‘Excuuuuse me, Princess ’: An oral history of The Legend ...
by latexr on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:15AM
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The Flintstones were on television, in a prime-time slot, three decades before the Simpsons. Wikipedia lists more North American adult TV shows from before 1990.[1]
The Simpsons are important in the history of animation, but however you look at it they were definitely not the first to explore animation for adults. They weren’t the first in their own country, nor were they first on a regular non-kids schedule on TV, nor were they the first successful case.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adult_animated_televis...