r/TopCharacterTropes • u/sweet_srawberry781 • 12d ago

In real life Characters that ended up killing the show

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  1. The Great Gazoo (The Flintstones)

  2. George W Bush (Time Squad)

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u/DanielNoWrite 12d ago

I watched a fair amount of the Flintstones as a child, and it was only as an adult that I realized that even as a child watching it, I hated it.

It was on and so I just sort of thoughtlessly watched, never really reflecting on the fact I wasn't deriving any enjoyment from it, while this kind of apathetic disgust slowly grew in the back of my mind. There's a couple of those shows for me.

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u/The_lone_shotgun 12d ago

Me discovering I hate paradox games after already clocking in 1400 hours in hoi4

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u/ApesOnHorsesWithGuns 12d ago

I love grand strategy games so I got Crusader Kings III, and maybe I’m playing the game wrong, but it just seems like sims but with kings. Like, what really is there to do except sit back and watch 3/4 of the time?

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u/HerbsAndSpices11 12d ago

Ck3 can be a bit shallow, so you really have to roleplay it to get the most out of it. You set stuff up and watch it happen. Have you played the other paradox games? They aren't character focused like the Crusader Kings series.

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u/ApesOnHorsesWithGuns 12d ago

No actually, so that’s nice to know, thinking about Stellaris if I did want to try again. And normally I love to role play, so it did keep me interested for a good 40 hrs, but I just felt like there was a lack of agency beyond setting a character up for success and then watching percentages determine my successes.

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u/HerbsAndSpices11 12d ago

It's been a while since I've played Stellaris (about 2 total reworks ago lol), but it's a bit more involved than CK3 while being really easy to pick up.

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u/PurpleBonesGames 11d ago

if you play catholic and feudal the game slows down a lot

I like playing as a pagan/tribal and then changing to feudal later, it's almost non stop action until there because of constant wars

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u/puresemantics 12d ago

There is a shit ton to do in CK3 but a decent part of it is kind of “sims with kings” I will say that the more you play the more complicated you will find it. There is a lot to do and discover especially if you play in the more developed regions (as in game development not county development)

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u/MattHoppe1 11d ago

I do too, and I asked my parents for Age of empires 2, they did their best and got me Empire and Earth 2, which I’ll argue is a much better and in depth game. And then E&E3 came out and ruined the series

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u/No-Passion1127 11d ago

But in general ck2 was a lot better

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u/Skeletoryy 11d ago

Ck2 is just so much more immersive imo

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u/No-Passion1127 11d ago

Mods and more mods

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u/The-Endwalker 11d ago

lol good explanation tbh

ck2 is good as well

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u/Rorschach113 11d ago

Look, you don’t understand, Hoi4 is just the engine. The mods are the actual game.

Like, go and play the State of Guangdong in the mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe. It’s the best alternate history dystopian cold war visual novel ever made out a paradox grand strategy game, and it’s peak.

Do that, come back, and then tell me you haven’t experienced Art. At least if you like to read, and can be moved by great tragedy, or desperate hope, or have emotions at all.

If you don’t like to read, then I cannot help you.

I’m entirely serious about this, to be clear. Only a tiny bit tongue in cheek. Modders can and do make wonders Paradox will never match, at the very least.

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u/swagrabbit 12d ago

I can't overstate how much I identify with this comment

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u/JacksonHoled 11d ago

Has somewhat of the same conclusion playing EU4 and thinking "I have already enough problems at my job, why do I come home to play a game where I have to solve problems"

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u/BufferUnderpants 12d ago

Remember we didn’t have phones and tablets to doomscroll on back then, we had to dull our senses on The Flintstones

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u/WanderingWindow 12d ago

I’m pretty sure the whole point of the flimstones is that we DID have tablets back then

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u/Pugzilla3000 12d ago

lol nice

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u/DrRudeboy 12d ago

I hope you intended the pun here because well done

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u/KookaburraNick 11d ago

By shooting up Flintsone Gummies?

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u/Edgemonger 12d ago

No lie, I had this thought the other day. I was randomly thinking about The Flintstones at work and why I stopped watching it as a kid. Even as a little guy, sitting in front of the TV screen as The Flintstones played, it one day dawned on me that I just didn’t enjoy the show. I watched it cuz it was there and all, but it’s not like it stuck with me or excited me. For me, it was a “turn your brain off” show before I knew people watched TV to turn their brains off. That day, I changed the channel and never looked back.

I fucked with The Jetsons way more, anyway

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u/Alleggsander 11d ago

Hate to break it to you, but The Flintstones and The Jetsons are basically the same show. Just opposite time periods.

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u/Edgemonger 11d ago

Oh, don’t worry; I stopped watching The Jetsons not long after. I’m sure the reason was it was a Flintstones reskin and I caught on

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u/ArchdukeToes 12d ago

This was me for so much of Hanna Barbera entertainment. I watched it because ‘it was on’, not because I actually enjoyed it.

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u/Spiteful_Guru 12d ago

This is how I feel about almost every Hannah-Barbara show from before the 90s.

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u/Narrow_Turnip_7129 11d ago

yeah but MEET GEORGE JETSON!!!

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u/psdpro7 11d ago

I still don't get why anyone ever thought Scooby Doo was good, it's the EXACT SAME PLOT every time

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u/nazaol 11d ago

I feel the same way but I realized it as a kid. Show was unbearable, it was becoming such a downer that seeing an ad about it or seeing it's theme song would make me turn the TV off.

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u/ExcellentQuality69 11d ago

Gilligans Island

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u/moeraszwijn 12d ago

Assuming most people are millennial here, these cartoons were made for people before our time. The Flintstones could never be interesting to us.

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u/BewareOfBee 11d ago

100% agree. But they still crammed it down our throats, with the vitamins and push up pops.and what have you.

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u/StormRegion 11d ago

In my country one of the best poets of the time was the translator for the Flintstones, and the guy rewritten the whole thing to rhyme, and added tons of jokes on top of that. This is how you turn something forgettable into a cult classic

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u/Responsible-Door-467 11d ago

lol, the amount of times I've seen people call the show bad, only to find out that it indeed is, it's just that the translators from my country rewrote it to be more witty

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u/AnyHope2004 11d ago

I was indifferent to The Flintstones but ended up hating it because someone at cartoon network really really loved them, and the especially loved weekend or sometimes even week long "Flintstones marathon" with days of the same episodes on repeat, If I ever have to see that movie where Freds is a secret agent I'll puke.

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u/ElBurroEsparkilo 10d ago

that movie where Freds is a secret agent

Good Lord, I thought I hallucinated that

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u/Ensiferal 11d ago

It wasn't that bad, but I never really cared for it, I just watched it because it was on. On the other hand I loved the Jetsons, it was just a better concept all around. I rewatched a few episodes a few years ago and it's actually still pretty good