The Incredible World of DiC, DIC Entertainment Corporation, DIC Audiovisuel, DIC Enterprises, DIC Animation City, DIC Entertainment L.P., DIC Productions, or simply DiC.Let's talk about DiC and the wonderful characters that DiC gave us. I don't know who you are and I don't have to know, I still can be sure that you grew up with DiC.Our childhoods would have been poorer without all the good DiC we got.
Hey wait a minute… “DiC”… kind of sounds like… the d-word. Like, d*ck. Why is no one talking about this?
>>146903238DICK
MUH DIC
I love dic
>>146903238I LOVE dic
To me, it seems like DiC peaked in the mid 1980s. Much of its 1990s and 2000s shows weren't as good.
Ha ha, very funny. DiC sounds like dick, yeah, amusing.Instead of joking about names that sound like naughty words, let's talk about the Best DiC characters, like Penny.
It's weird looking back how most of my favorite cartoons were made by dic.
>>146903238Someone described DiC as the Roger Corman of animation and I think that's 99% accurate save the one percent where he produced a (terrible) cartoon himself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BarXq2kvBQg
>>146903808>DiC as the Roger Corman of animationI'm not quite sure that's correct. Would need to see it argued.
>>146903238It's a dic, Luigi. You didn't make it
>>146903858They made a lot of stuff on the cheap and many people who would go on to work with bigger studios got their start with them.
>>146903873OK, that makes sense.
>>146903672>let's talk about Penny>Instead names that sound like naughty words
>>146903238Stop thinking about DICS, OP.
Who's your favorite DiC girl?
>>146904823One-off character but it has to be her. I guess if I had to pick a reoccurring character, Beth Lestrade was pretty decent as I recall.
>>146904823Penny-4-LIFE
>>146903430>>146903588
Best DIC girl.
>>146903238https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6KKIhhAx6s
>>146903238I always loved dic. Everything dic put out was just golden, they showered us all in love. Dic was a big part of my childhood and I’ll always have some dic in me no matter where I go in life.
>>146904823
>>146905816who?
>>146905848Jillian Thorndyke form beverly hills teens
>>146903873Growing up with 70s and early 80s Hanna Barbera, we were already used to cheap
>>146905979Sure, but then again all TV animation back then was fairly shoddy, DiC had decent quality in the '80s but dropped off towards the end of the '80s and slowly died throughout the '90s being buried by the '90s TV cartoon renaissance.
I prefer Sunbow Marvel because I'm not a fag who loves DiC
>>146903238Why was it called that
>>146903238thoughts on their successor?
>>146903238It went from DiC, to Cookie Jar, to dhx Media, and now Wild Brain Entertainment.
>>146906028It's good they make their content more readily available.
>>146906028How tf is wildbrain this huge of a company
the good DiC cartoons>Ulysses 31 >The Mysterious Cities of Gold >Inspector Gadget >Rainbow Brite >Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats >Dennis the Menace>The Real Ghostbusters >The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin >ALF: The Animated Series & ALF Tales >Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater there's a steeeep dropoff in the 90s:>Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible >Archie's Weird Mysteries then in their own special separate category>The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! >The Legend of Zelda >Captain N: The Game Master
Goodness, it's Hulk-o-clock!
Who's who?
>>146906567>>146906575I envy you, you cannot know how much.
>>146906661Don't, it's not mine:https://x.com/bfredmuggs/status/1872444106959692247
>>146903672Why did she become such a massive pedophile icon? She's bland as fuck.
>>146906690I'm not a pedo so I don't know.
>>146903419>>146905659DiC was so based to allow nude, hot anthro women.
>>146906743>DiC wants to see nude anthro womenI couldn't agree more.
>>146906053Because all their subsidiaries were worthless table scraps they bought for pennies
>>146906253>The Littles not even mentioned let alone on the good listSacrilege!
>>146903672DiC rhymes with peak.
I hope y'all had a great DiC-mas
>>146904900love those sexy ass hips>>146903653yeah, lot of use stopped watching as many cartoons in the 90's too but I cant help but feel like the political admin ushered in shit like 'educational' captain power and dic gi joe and others, which had a slight difference in tone and this ruined a lot of cartoons. we no longer had based toy cartoons aimed at boys, but we got more comedy and tamer family cartoons
>>146909039Penny is cute.She's cute!CUTE!
>>146906690She's well designed + nostalgia
>>146903873Makes sense considering it's owned by Canadians now and Canadians are known for making cheap animations.
>>146906119Black girl looks cute
>>146909039>>146903238Feels appropriate to post this
>>146906690>She's bland as fuckAre you bling and gay, or also a retard?
>>146903672more like PennyS haha
>>146909250I remember getting hyped when this was announced on Cartoon Network because i thought its about a vampire girl like Sabrina is about the witch.>it turns out its just a delusional girl larping as vampirewhat a letdown
>>146906028so the peanuts license is owned by a canadian company? thats crazy
The DIC universe is lowkey strong as Hell>Care Bears>80s WWF>Ghostbusters>Inspector Gadget>Alvin & the chipmunks briefly>Archie & Sabrina shared universe>Nintendo universe>Sonic, too>at one point, even fucking Sailor MoonThey were the biggest animation company of the 80s and early 90s!
>>146910304No its not a letdown
>>146910390unfortunately the mid-to-late '90s DiC reached several nadir points, particularly with abomination that passes itself as "Tex Avery", though Hammerman was bellwether that the fun times were coming to an end
>>146906014Cause they're french
>>146910325they don't *own* peanuts. peanuts is still controlled by the Schulz family/estate. but Wildbrain basically acts as their manager and directs their presence in the media. on that graph, peanuts worldwide is listed as a separate adjacent brand.wildbrain is apparently the reason Peanuts is exclusively on Apple. idk the all the backroom machinations but apparently ABC/Disney was already ready to drop the broadcasts of the holiday specials (D+ was on the horizon, they were tired of paying to license shit)long story short; the stuff i've read between the lines was that wildbrain was not prepared to be dropped by disney and they scrambled and if they were a better company they could have found a better deal that didn't lock peanuts behind an apple paywall
>>146906690Pedos don't usually need anything special to get them rolling.She's also a classic character that everyone remembers.
>>146911469I always gooned to this show and Archie girls.
>>146911028They were French, Dic became 100% American by 1987 and the French studio became C&D, C&D was absorbed into Saban Paris in 1996.
>>146910390>at one point, even fucking Sailor Moonmakes me wonder what other anime licenses would've gotten the dic treatment in an alternate universe
>>146912121They stopped doing anime because Toei saw how bad to was and told the rest of the anime industry not to trust them with their stuff.
>>146906028Surprised Nelvana isn't here.>look them upHuh, they're still around, nice.
>>146906253>>Hello Kitty's Furry Tale TheaterCatnip my beloved.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZveFj6bqIs
>>146912291This english dub sounds atrocious.
>>146912653What did you expect from an early 90's dub? Not the best for sure, but it's nostalgic to me.
>>146906014Do it Cheap!
>>146913423Not until the late 80s.
>>146912291damn i wish i knew about her earlier
>>146906031And home video releases are fucked.
>>146910275Why even wear the top? She's got the DFC, so there's nothing to see.
>>146913939By then France frowned apon topless women like the rest of the first world, plus there were the Americans and Canadians to deal with.
>>146914288Not in the 1980s because of the UN.
>>146912166>make Sailor Moon into the only successful bishojo series in America>bad jobThe only failing was how awful the US toys were. It's the only magical girl anime to actually be successful with American girls
>>146904823Madeline
>>146914505Until recently with how Ojamajo Doremi exploded in popularity as of late and the PreCures doing extremely well on Crunchyroll.
>>146914964Where are her parents?
>>146906025
>>146912291I like her, but she doesn't really fit tge hello kitty asthetic, especially for a westernized version
>>146903238Wish we got the french DiC art book in English
>>146917512Oh for sure, but I think that's the point. Even the adult Hello Kitty characters are short and "chibi", meanwhile Catnip and the rest of the original characters for this show (who usually play the villains in stories) are supposed to contrast them
>>146903238https://youtu.be/NHO84rOp8FQ?si=lDYYSYhjmzaxlpKL
>>146919303>my laptop of 17 years stopped functioning this summer>i had this audio bootlegged to put on CDs>i'll never be able to do that againI hate my life so goddamn much.
>>146919323>i had this audio bootlegged to put on CDsWhat do you mean by that exactly?
>>146920353>>i had this audio bootlegged to put on CDsIt meant he was going to burn a bunch of CDs that said nothing but >>146919303 (DIC!) and start handing them out to unsuspecting persons for free.https://youtu.be/NHO84rOp8FQIt would seem like a kind gesture at first but once they got home, put the CD in a CD player or computer and it was just audio of a guy yelling "DIC!" they'd get confused.
>>146903419>that flagging at the end
>>146903238Hope we get this in English some day
>>146906253Then we have the clusterfuck category that just contains Wacky World of Tex Avery and Super Duper Sumos.
>>146921888Also.
>>146921914you forgot Hammerman that was the warning sign that the company's dark age was approaching
>>146922785I FUCKING LOVE DIC!
DiC's nadir points:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QmfE9Tjau0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGqvjGXSjRQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPLXiHb4XMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5yzOYyXsYchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4pIEWn2DRw
>>146922931Fuck you, Kung Fu Dino posse is great!
>>146903430>>146903588>>146905777>>146922907what a bunch fucking homos
>>146921766People complain about AI art, and yet can't even reach this level of drawn art.Cities of Gold switched to cgi, but I can't blame them. It's less beautiful because it's unnaturally perfect.
>>146923992Pierrot became reserved on Shonen anime by that point and sold their stake in the IP for unknown reasons.Osamatsu-San came later.
>>146915726giggity
>>146912270They're on a sinking ship in their own right
>>146916393Fuck, they're cute.They're cute!CUTE!
How do we feel about this? One of their biggest shows that wasn't Gadget or Ghostbusters or Nintendo or Sonic.
>>146925996Cinar did the earlier TV projects and those were animated by Spectrum Animation in Japan, because the Dic show was animated in Korea no one gives a rats ass about it.
>>146925996Ah yes, romantized Paris where nuns were lawful good.
>>146925996Where are her parents?
>>146924697Hot.
How many people were turned into furries thanks to DiC?
>>146903672I want to stick my DiC in her.
>>146927410were you?
