8. Pop-Culture References Evvverywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNF_g9Uz3tA Seth MacFarlane has a positive pop culture addiction. Even A Million Ways to Die in the West, constrained from referencing present-day movies and TV shows, still featured Django of Django Unchained and Doc Brown of the Back To The Future series. Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad and the Ted movies can rarely go seven minutes without referencing a celebrity, motion picture, song, or TV series (or, very occasionally, a book) in the dialogue or one of those cutaway gags. Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy was largely pop culture jokes spiced with occasional observational humor, without any bothersome characters to get in the way. Ted 2 checks all the required boxes: Frozen, Lord Of The Rings, Fifty Shades Of Grey, and a TV theme - Law and Order, in this case.
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T Campbell has written quite a few online comics series and selected work for Marvel, Archie and Tokyopop. His longest-running works are Fans, Penny and Aggie-- and his current project with co-writer Phil Kahn, Guilded Age.
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