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and they kind of sound like caricatures of what a Texan might think a Brooklyn accent sounds like.

Well seems most (all?) of the feedback on Baccano! and Claymore is very positive. Thats good to know because I'm very interested in each of these series. That said I'll be waiting for the DVD (or better yet BD) boxsets of each before I get to see them.

(with the exception of 40% of the Robot Chicken one), it is not funny

Teriyaki Terrier wrote:

Also, it's only really odd if people are saying "Stroke, stroke stroke" to other people. They might just be saying that to keep the movement going.

Wha..? In the case I mentioned, it is often the drunkard in the yacht yelling out to the kayakers or scullers, "Stroke! stroke! stroke!"

These are the same people who, if they see a sailboat with no man at the tiller, will yell, "Hey, where's the skipper?"

Mohawk52 wrote:

But you don't need to own a yacht to be an "a-hole". Hell you could even be one on welfare! Just sayin'

This is a valid point. However, Newport Beach might have a higher a-hole to non-a-hole ratio than many other cities. :)

Regarding the whole stupid people in Baccano debate... slurs aside, I'm not even that aware of blatantly stupid characters in the show. Isaac and Miria are unconventional, but I think they act the way they do out of naivete and a certain joie-de-vivre-- not because they're stupid. All the other characters are reasonably smart, too.

Am I missing the stupid people?

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and they kind of sound like caricatures of what a Texan might think a Brooklyn accent sounds like.

Haha, perhaps that has something to do with the fact that FUNimation is located in Texas!

When you said that guy asked where the Skipper is, I instantly though of Guligans [sic] Island. I really doubt anyone but a select few will even know what show is about. Without using Google.

SakechanBD wrote:

Also, if you have a yacht, you might be an a-hole. Just sayin'.

Thanks for that, really. Several of my family members have their own yachts and are some of the nicest, most giving people you could meet.

I agree with the Donger's (or can only close friends refer to you as that?)

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and they kind of sound like caricatures of what a Texan might think a Brooklyn accent sounds like.

Haha, perhaps that has something to do with the fact that FUNimation is located in Texas!

Is it just me, or doesn't it seem strange that FUNimation got its start in (North Richmond Hills) Texas? The more I think about it, the weirder it seems. Call me an uninformed outside observer, but places like Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth simply don't strike me as being well.....cosmopolitan. Put another way, the state just doesn't jump readily to mind as a place where people would be making a living dubbing/subbing/marketing Japanese cartoons. If it was in someplace like San Francisco or Vancouver, (or, hell, even Los Angeles) then I wouldn't have such a difficult time imagining how -- or why -- the company got formed there. But Texas? The land of oil, cattle, and migrant laborers? THAT TEXAS???!!!

I'm just unable to wrap my mind around it.....

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Once I've seen an episode of Case Closed, I can safely say that I'd never want to rewatch it ever again, so that's my argument against owning it. Once a mystery has been solved, why bother going over it again?

That's your opinion. There are people who will watch an episode again, especially if they have time to kill. Also, some movies are worth watching again and again, you'd be surprised how many people I know who have movies that they just can't get enough of. Just because you won't watch something again, doesn't mean everyone will follow suit.