Why don't cartoons devote 4+ minutes of runtime to a shot-for-shot sendup of Barbra Streisand musical theater anymore?

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Why don't cartoons devote 4+ minutes of runtime to a shot-for-shot sendup of Barbra Streisand musical theater anymore?
Siiigh~ Freakazoid was one of my favorites from back in the day. Really good, solid, quirky stuff <3
Same here. Freakazoid is a part of my DNA at this point, I think.
HUGBEES!!!!
!!!!!!!!! I had to search HUGBEES. I thought it was some reference to classic Freakazoid that had slipped my mind. TTGO did a crossover??? What??? I might have to track down the episode to watch just because >u<
I meant it as a reference to a classic Freakazoid episode!! This one in specific
But yeah, there was a crossover with TTGO a while back. I haven't seen it all, but from what I've seen on YouTube clips, it seemed... okay? I'm not entirely sure!
Apparently it's also the name of a YouTuber now???
Ahhh okay. I must've actually missed the beginning of that episode way back when.
...MOOSE. ;)
That era of WB TV animation was golden all around. A real sense of "we will just do whatever the heck we want."
Absolutely agreed. Honestly, the devil-may-care approach to animation was a supremely fantastic boon. Turns out when you let people do what they're passionate about, good things happen.