Animation Damnation - ReBoot: "The Tearing"
Added 2022-07-27 15:22:16 +0000 UTCOn this month's AD, the gang is trying (and mostly failing) to make heads or tails of this horrendous ReBoot cartoon!
The episode in question, the show's pilot, "The Tearing," first started warping children's minds back on September 10, 1994 and features incredibly crude computer animation, disgustingly designed characters, awful writing, an incomprehensible plot, and even with all this going for it, the show managed to be picked up and last more than two weeks! The 90s were a wild-ass time for cartoons, folks! PLUS: Sylvester Stallone vs. John McAfee for grossest uses of household furniture by a maniacal dude!
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
Specifically skip all the way tto Web World Wars wothout context
DRedd
2023-03-04 01:20:08 +0000 UTCthis is a good show
Gagortion
2022-12-14 03:36:25 +0000 UTCNot going to lie, that episode super bummed me out. I get that the podcast's name is "We Hate Movies" - but the level of vitriol aimed at a beloved cartoon from me and my fellow Canadians childhood stung a bit.
Jacob Kay
2022-08-05 13:09:44 +0000 UTCI remember liking this show but I also haven't seen it in at least 20 years so that doesn't count for much.
Timothy Cameron Robbins Miller
2022-08-02 18:41:00 +0000 UTCJust finished watching Gridman: The Hyper Agent---the show Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad got its fight footage from. Sounds like the main difference between that and this is that Gridman/SSSS is actually entertaining.
Harry Seven
2022-07-31 21:12:03 +0000 UTCFunny that you mentioned the "Money for Nothing" video, because the guys who did that founded the studio that did ReBoot.
Sam
2022-07-31 02:44:31 +0000 UTCSuperhuman Samurai Syber-Squad had it all. Kaiju fights, several awesome catchphrases, one of them there Lawrence brothers as the lead..and course Tim Curry voicing the main villian *chef's kiss*
Swan Benson
2022-07-30 11:01:03 +0000 UTCI even know what episode I'm requesting, the Power Rangers parody.
Justine Prudhomme
2022-07-29 21:56:41 +0000 UTCAlso beast wars was called beasties in Canada
Maurice Jones
2022-07-29 09:34:42 +0000 UTCAs a Canadian Reboot was really important and something to be proud of at the time, the episode when Bob comes back had a Matrix Esque storyline before the matrix were bob figured out how to control the game and looked pretty cool himself. You guys are harsh critics and that’s why we love you but I assure you Reboot had some really cool shit in it for a kids shows including as someone pointed out, my first reference to Evil dead and mad max.
Maurice Jones
2022-07-29 09:33:58 +0000 UTCCanadian here, we used to get ads for ReBoot in theatres back on the day, before the trailers played. Never convinced me to watch the show tho.
Kristian Binder
2022-07-29 03:49:12 +0000 UTCYou was 15 when Reboot hit. I was a HUGE computer nerd with a mile long hard-on for CG animation, but not matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get into this show. It was just too infantile compared to Batman and X-Men at the time.
Virtual Balboa
2022-07-29 01:01:00 +0000 UTCI'm Canadian and I definitely watched this as it aired, but I have no intention of ever watching it again. I remember even thinking it was goofy when I was 7 years old.
Carey Johnson
2022-07-28 20:17:34 +0000 UTCSo we’re all going to request they watch more ReBoot, right?
Ryan Doyle
2022-07-28 19:33:12 +0000 UTCThe new opening AD theme song is AWESOME!!
Vōclō
2022-07-28 19:06:10 +0000 UTCoh my god I would love a beastwars animation damnation. You guys would get so much mileage just out of Ratrap and the way he has a super stereotypical ny accent
jjmini
2022-07-28 18:26:34 +0000 UTCI feel like this was on before or after Video & Arcade Top 10 on YTV so that’s my excuse 😅
brynphd
2022-07-28 10:53:21 +0000 UTCWatch the "Reboot Strolling Players" for a recap on the show! It was at the end of season 3. I had a fun time with this show as a Canadian kid. Love how much you guys hated it.
heathen snow
2022-07-28 10:40:45 +0000 UTCYou're gonna make a bunch of Canadians sad lol
Jorge Guerrero
2022-07-28 03:51:02 +0000 UTCGreat song indeed
Tru$tn01
2022-07-28 02:33:46 +0000 UTCThis came out on my 14th birthday
Truck McGuffin
2022-07-28 01:15:01 +0000 UTCI remember watching this series from the pilot up until the point where I got sick of seeing the same 4 or 5 episodes rerun over and over again. Wikipedia bears this out; Canada got the first 13 episodes over a four month period, but it took more than a year for the US audience. 1994-Me thought the animation was good.
Erin Hardy
2022-07-27 22:32:13 +0000 UTCThat song was wonderful, holy shit.
Infinite Terror
2022-07-27 22:30:07 +0000 UTCWeird, this aired on my 10th birthday and I must have watched it.
Forrest Lillibridge
2022-07-27 22:24:44 +0000 UTCI too was a Saturday morning watcher of ReBoot. The only real memory that sticks with me is The Road Warrior game episode where they redo the end gas truck chase in polygon nightmare version.
David Chávez
2022-07-27 21:22:13 +0000 UTCI assumed “Bob” was named after the failed O.S. in the 90’s, “Microsoft Bob”. Unlike Windows 95, MS Bob was designed to look like rooms in a cartoon house with toon characters strewn about. It too was poorly received.
MikeyMiniMoto
2022-07-27 18:07:10 +0000 UTCI love the new chiptune take on the intro! It’s just so chill.
Brent Cowan
2022-07-27 18:06:17 +0000 UTCSince the pilot is called The Tearing, I hope the very last episode is called The Ripping
Felipe Sobreiro
2022-07-27 16:57:51 +0000 UTCWe are NOT proud of this STEVE
Matt
2022-07-27 16:40:36 +0000 UTCOne of my old mentors from school worked on this show. And he was showing a scene where Bob comes in through the window. And poking fun at the nonsense body mechanics. 3D rigs have come along way, as well as the lighting, rendering, texturing, everything.
Steven Avalos
2022-07-27 16:35:32 +0000 UTCYou're going to get people trying to tell you ReBoot was great. They are mistaken. It was at BEST a stop-gap between re-runs of Dragonball and Looney Tunes
Matt
2022-07-27 16:24:38 +0000 UTCWhich all sounds cool, but none of that is in this first episode--yowza!
We Hate Movies
2022-07-27 15:47:26 +0000 UTCCan't wait to listen. Might have my heart broke because reboot was great. Season 3 is some incredible story telling for kids and has a whole episode dedicated to evil dead 2
ediblegenius
2022-07-27 15:25:18 +0000 UTCYo! That opening song go!
Matzar
2022-07-27 15:24:39 +0000 UTC
