Logan, off-camera: Did you guys see the Lilo and Stitch remake?
Sandra: Yes, I did! It was great!
Effran: SERIOUSLY?! You like those soulless, artless films?!

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Seriously, on another site I'm on, there's been a LOT of arguing about the artistic value of these remakes. I'm not a fan either, but having to listen to the same thing over and over gets old fast.

Anyway, caption away, y'all!

Who's who, from left to right:
Benji, Hannah, Zaid, Anastasia, Isabel, and the one half off-camera is Natalia.

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D'oh, fine, you adorable fiends, you win! 🎵Hooooooooh, caught in a bad romance...🎵

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Caption away, y'all!

Forgive me if this thread already existed, couldn't quite find a thread similar to it. Oh well.

As an aficionado of animated TV shows, I've always liked discussing which ones are our favorites. And well...let's just say my top favorite cartoons have changed a lot in a few years. So I decided to make this thread to express mine, and allow you guys to express yours.

Ahem...

#10. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - Honestly this show has become a huge part of who I am. Frankly I don't think I'd be HotelValleyfornia without it. MLP:FIM is what helped me start paying more attention to animation in general and because of that, it's a big part of how I got into so many of my current favorite cartoons. Thank you Lauren Faust!

#9. Stoked - FreshTV's  shows are all soooooooo good dude. And Stoked has always been a show that has stuck with me. First, the soundtrack? Absolutely delightful. It introduced me to SO many songs I love. And also, the main cast is one of the most likable I've ever seen. There's something for everyone with this show, and the beautiful animation just adds even more to it. There's only one real problem...the finale stinks worse than the emissions of a Yellowbelly. Oh well. Still a wondefully fun show!

#8. Bluey - Bluey is one of those shows that is just self-evidently great. It's a delightfully uplifting show with a lot of good vibes all around. There's great lessons for both kids and parents here, and the animation style is charmingly unique. If you need some happy vibes, be sure to check this show out!

#7. Wild Kratts - Yeah, Bluey won't be the only preschool show on here. Though, don't let the young demographic fool you. This show can be surprisingly pretty dark - the showcase of the natural order of animals is pretty uncompromising, and oh MAN the villains. I hate those damn villains. The creators do a FANTASTIC job of making you want these jerks to pay for what they're doing. And just like Stoked, the main cast is wonderfully charming and likable. Though, who doesn't love the Kratt Brothers honestly?

#6. Disventure Camp - In general I'm very fond of all the shows that were inspired by Total Drama. But Disventure Camp was the first, and currently, still my favorite. This is a bit of an interesting one cuz boy oh boy did I HATE the All-Stars season...but honestly, everything else is so good I can't bring myself to care. This takes the animated reality show idea and pushes it into a more realistic lane than Total Drama, with a grittier tone and more serious subjects. Also, I'd probably call Gabby my favorite character in any cartoon...at least for now because someone from my #4 entry might have something to say about that. Definitely my favorite adult-aimed cartoon. At least for now...Exotic Escapade hype!

#5. 6teen - Uh...surprise? Yeah this one kinda fell off a bit. I realized my fixation with this show went to borderline obsession levels and that wasn't really healthy for me. But don't get me wrong at all, 6teen ABSOLUTELY still holds up. It's a very realistic, authentic look into the life of teenagers doing their best to get by in the madness we call life. The main group have an incredibly wholesome friendship and I love their dynamics with each other. And while she hasn't really been my favorite character ever for quite a while...I still treasure what Caitlin did for me in my darkest hours.

#4. Detentionaire - Do you ever find a cartoon that you think might just be perfect? Cuz if you asked me what cartoons I consider perfect, Detentionaire will almost invariably come to mind first. Everything about Detentionaire is amazingly put together. Nothing feels out of place, everything services the plot, and there are so many details you notice upon rewatches it's wild. Also...Tina Kwee might just be my favorite cartoon character ever right now, albeit tied with Gabby. No-one can make me smile like she can! When the only problem with a cartoon you can find is 'it leaves you wanting more when it's over' then you've got a pretty big contender for Perfection right there.

#3. Miraculous Ladybug - Oh. My. GOD. Everything about this cartoon is BREATHTAKING. The animation? Fantastic, incredibly expressive and has amazing action setpieces and transformation sequences. The characters? Every single one of them is at least a LITTLE interesting and charming, and the best of them are some of my all-time favorites. The tone? Feels like it perfectly grows up with the audience, starting off fun and lighthearted and becoming increasingly dark and gripping. The VILLAINS??? BEST OF ALL TIME, NO CAP. It isn't perfect, some episodes could've used rewrites admittedly, but honestly, if you put this show on for me, I'll be sat on my butt watching every minute of it and having the time of my life. Amazing action, amazing animation, amazing characters...it's everything you want and more!

#2. Total Drama - It's been a long time coming but I finally gave this show the #2 spot it rightfully deserved, because honestly? Without Total Drama, there is no HotelValleyfornia. Total Drama is THE show that made me who I am, moreso than any other show on this list except maybe MLP. It was the first of its kind - taking reality TV game shows and turning them into an animated show - and it took full advantage, blurring the lines of fantasy and reality in a wonderful way. And from where I'm standing, it's the cartoon that helped create the modern era of animation. It set the standard that shows like Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and other classic 2010s cartoons would follow. This cartoon is immeasurably important, to both me and to televised animation of the past two decades in general...

But, to me, there is one cartoon that surpasses all of these, simply by being absolutely delightful, adorable and wonderfully funny in every way...


Phew...I sure typed a lot But honestly, it feels good to get my passion for these wonderful shows out there!

Anyway feel free to list your own favorites! And no need to write essays like I did, lol.

Right, so one thing I've always liked doing is using Powerpoint to make pictures - be they memes, or special fancy edits to make up for the fact I can barely draw.

I haven't made many Land Before Time edits, but I did just make one, and I decided to make a thread in case I decide to make more.

So like several LBT fans - like a certain softie for sidekicks we know - I've always been fond of the idea of Ducky and Petrie being a couple. I always found their friendship to be really sweet and I loved all their many, many moments of being affectionate. And I was listening to some Billie Eilish just now and it gave me an idea. I grabbed a couple of Caption This images - thank you to Dalekdino for taking these pictures! - and after a lot of fiddling, I got a pose I'm happy with. (Of course the Petrie pic I took had a rather different artstyle than the Ducky pic, so that took a lot of color correction. Curse you animation evolution! ) "Birds of a Feather" is a lovely song, if a rather dark and heavy one (surprisingly so for a pop hit! But that's just the Billie Eilish guarantee) and it felt like a great fit for an emotional, tender edit like this one. In the end I think this came out alright. Not one of my better edits (though that can be blamed on me still getting used to editing LBT) but could've definitely came out worse.

My urges to make edits usually depend on my mood, so who knows when I'll make another one...but if a good idea hits me, something could definitely come of it. I just gotta tear myself away from Detentionaire for long enough.

Anyway, hope my fellow Ducky/Petrie shippers enjoy this thing. And keep an eye out for more of these.

So the other night before I decided to return to this place, I was pondering on the characters who don't really have official names like the Gang 'o Seven or a few other characters (Redclaw, his Fast Biters, the egg stealers, the VII flyers, etc). We only know so many character names right now, and something I've always wondered is how these characters would be named in conversations with their friends rather than their family members.

So I made this thread for that kind of discussion. Here's where you can share your personal believed names for those characters. Like Grandpa and Grandma Longneck, Mama Flyer, Petrie's siblings, any number of Sharpteeth, etc...

I've only got so many, but there's one specifically I've always held onto.
For years now, I always personally believed that Littlefoot's mother's name was "Tori". Think about this; Cera's dad is named Topps, and his now-wife is named Tria. Tria-Cera-Topps. You get my drift? So in LBT10 we meet Bron - and Littlefoot is often associated to be a Bron-tosaurus. And when I thought about it in a similar way to Cera's family, 'Tori' just felt right for Littlefoot's mom. It's a very pretty name, suitable for a warm and compassionate character like her. Granted, it doesn't QUITE fit as well with the naming conventions of the threehorns - but, I'm still happy with the name, and for years, I've stuck to it.

That's the #1 example I have. I'm gonna be giving this some thought so I can come up with names that might fit within the Land Before Time universe. It's harder than I thought Plus I don't wanna end up going the Topps route with EVERY family member.

But maybe some inspiration from you lovely folks here at the GoF will give me the spark I need to keep thinking of names beyond just Mama Longneck. So go wild, folks!

Do not look into this terrible hole...for you may see horrible sights like murder, war and people eating KitKat bars sideways.

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Caption away people!

Who's Who
Boy - Bowie
Girl - Emma

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Average Nintendo fan's reaction to the Super Mario RPG remake announcement.

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Caption away y'all!

Who's Who
Boy - Chase
Girl - Emma

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The end result of an average "Three Guys and a Girl in a Beachhouse" video. Needless to say Chase didn't try the "biking on a wall over someone's backyard with one finger up his girlfriend's nose" joke again.

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Caption away y'all!

This thread has been a long time coming. If you haven't been living underneath a Sharptooth's arse, I guarantee you that you've seen this show brought up at least once.

This show is an absolute SENSATION, on the level I haven't seen since Friendship is Magic first got big over a decade ago (GODDAMN I'M OLD ). And not gonna lie...for good reason, this show is great!

In case you don't know, Bluey is a preschool show about a family of technicolor Australian dogs. Along with the titular character, we have her younger sister Bingo, her mom Chili ("Whackadoo!"), and her dad Bandit, whom many would argue is the true star of the show but we don't have time to talk about that lol.

Episodes generally focus on the two imaginative daughters playing fun games together, often with their parents joining in. Sounds simple, and it is, but these games often lead to them or even their parents learning a life-lesson in some form, all with some great animation and AMAZING music. Seriously, one episode managed to make me cheer for a girl PUTTNG HER BACKPACK ON, partially thanks to playing Ode to Joy throughout.

Some episodes really go the extra mile, in fact. "Sleepytime" is a particularly famous episode, with some of the best animation and music in the show, and an incredibly powerful emotional climax that had me blubbering like a baby by the end. In fact, this show is renowned for its ability to elict tears out of even adult viewers. It's just downright impressive.

In general I've seen this show described as a show for both kids AND their parents, with lots of important lessons to share, hilarious adult jokes, and genuinely being able to move people of all ages. And after watching "Sleepytime", yeah I see why. In fact, on IMDB, Bluey was ranked higher than BREAKING BAD for a while. Yeah. Bluey is that good.

If you're curious, it should be available on Disney+...though not every episode is available oops. There's also plenty of content on YouTube about it, if you wanna learn more for yourself. There's NO WAY I can fully go into detail. But, this is a show I'd definitely recommend. Check it out!

(also GOD is that theme tune catchy...)

I'm a girl who enjoys strategy and planning out when it comes to the games I play. So it's only natural tower defense games will appeal to me! This is a thread I've created for discussion of the tower defense genre - share our experiences, make jokes, recommend certain games, and just talk. Stuff like that really.

Playing Plants vs Zombies' Survival Endless can be pretty tricky. A lot of my usual strats, even for the pool levels, don't really work out and I end up looking like a darned fool when a zombie waltzes through my defenses and chows on my grey matter. Lots of strategies I've seen usually involve abusing the hell out of Gloom-Shrooms and Cob Cannons, but ugh getting all that sun is HARD I JUST WANT MORE PLANTS FOR MY ZEN GARDEN, CONFOUND IT!

Meanwhile I've also gotten into Bloons TD6. My main goal is to fully level up all the monkeys I have and grind up Monkey Money to buy other heroes. Which is taking forever, lol. But no-one said it would be easy. And no, I ain't paying money to win this thing! As much of a sucker as I can be at times.

But I'll shush for now, and let others take it from here. Feel free to share your tower defense experiences!