Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20170821104040/@comment-12343352-20190127154329

NewandImprovedGizmo19 wrote: Your absolutely right, Sugar. When I think of a typical adult cartoon, I think of Family Guy-type stuff. Here is how HTF differs from most adult cartoons as far as I'm concerned:

-The character's don't cuss.

-There is no sexual content or jokes about male/female private parts.

-They occasionally make nods to pop culture but they don't go overboard with it like most adult cartoons do. The typical adult cartoon is unusually obsessed with pop culture parodying everything from the well known to the obscure.

-The references they do make on occasion aren't limited to just 70s and 80s pop culture. Most adult animated shows regularly feature nostalgic parodies that basically amount to, "Remember this thing? Remember that thing?" again and again.

-They don't portray or make fun of celebrities. Pretty much every other adult cartoon makes fun of celebrities so much that some of the offensive celebrity portrayals end up being practically main characters (James Woods on Family Guy, Lindsay Lohan on Robot Chicken, Sinbad on American Dad, etc.)

-They don't get political.

-They don't make fun of religion. Other adult cartoons on the other hand, I can't count how many of them use Jesus Christ as a recurring character (South Park, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Simpsons, etc.)

-There is no toilet jokes.

-They don't constantly break the fourth wall to an annoying extent. Other adult cartoons break the fourth wall more than both Deadpool movies combined.

-They don't show characters flipping the middle finger or making other crude hand gestures.

-They never use racist or sexist stereotypes (although I'm not sure whether or not Buddhist Monkey could be considered this or not. Just because he's Asian that automatically makes him a karate master and a Buddhist, lol :P).

-They don't do jokes about real life tragedies such as 9/11, Anne Frank, Columbine, etc.

-The humor is really just a violent version of your average older kid's show on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. Someone said that Final Space was the first adult cartoon to not be either sitcom based or rely on innuendos for comedy. What about HTF?

Also, isnt being a Karate master a Chinese stereotype? Buddhism originated in India, not Asia. Asian stereotypes are being very smart, eating cats and dogs, among other stuff. As for true stereotypes in adult series, we got Black Yoshi and Jackie Chu from SML.