Was the "bomb" format the worst mistake they've made in the modern era?

Was the "bomb" format the worst mistake they've made in the modern era?

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Besides Steven Universe, bomb format only goes to the multiparted special, yes?

As for SU, the latest bomb has finally revealed the show for what it really is; one massive woman power fantasy for Tumblrinas to get high off of. It needs the NuPPG treatment.

I think making shipping drama and dumb plot decisions for lore shows were worse, but bombs are the worst thing to ruin CN, the only thing worse is spamming of TTG. It completly ruined CN to the point the lazy fucks refuse to play it anymore

>newest bomb revealed this

>Literally a bomb of pubescent children being awkward

Nah mate, that's called secondary school.

its a good stratigy, but ultimatly promotes only watching tv once in awhile. having new episodes come digital a week or two later would improve ratings maybe

Power fantasies are bad?

I've seen this posted almost word for word in several threads relating to CN that only just barely have anything to do with SU. I'm starting to get worried about you user.

>13 year old girl is socially awkward
It's Tumblr Guys!

So can anyone here who has a degree or at least studying marketing and/or business explain to me what positives are there in syndicating shows in the "bomb" format?

>13 year old girl has a bitch fit and the show goes out of its' way to present her completely in the right
>13 year old girl has a bitch fit and the show drops everything so that the main character can grovel at her feet
>13 year old girl has a bitch fit and will never get called out for it
It's Tumblr alright.

>lets blame the bomb
>not the fact the episodes were garbage
/sug/ everyone

They're hard to do well, as I'm sure you already know.

So when they're done this badly, it's a particularly epic fail. This show is one big jar of female "Jizz Yoghurt" Zuke made to show the world women can totally "Create" a show shallowly constructed out of stolen ideas forced together like The Cluster it once teased.

Now please, raise the quality of your posts and stop trying to turn this into some asinine "I strongly believe you just hate X" shouting match, this isn't tumblr.

>that guy's criticizing the idea of bombs
>let's pretend this is some either/or bullshit where you can't hate both at once
>that'll fucking show him

Maybe if I illustrate the stupidity of the Sup Forumsmblrites here shitting this place up, they'll be shamed into silence.

After all, I'm clearly much better at shaming people than them and their usual "I worry about you/Stop posting this!/You just X" bullshit.

I just wanted you to elaborate, that’s it.

Marketingfag here, that isn't our doing. Blame execs who do whatever they fuck they want

The schedule all lies on Vishnu.

Pretty much yeah. You only get interest that week and then it falls off.

>Blame execs who do whatever they fuck they want.
And also wanting to compete with the likes of Netflix and Hulu.

Its only good point is that it's happening to one bad show that, otherwise, would tease us for several weeks with terrible "Non-Filler Episodes" that never go anywhere, are paced horribly, and never really matter or change the status quo by the end.

This. I lost interest in most cartoons, SU included, since episodes were played so far apart. Inconsistent schedule kills nearly all interest

Nick started it.

I'm pretty sure you can find a promotion for a Spongebob "bomb" somewhere in like, 2009. I think they even used the term bomb.

Okay see this is going somewhere.
How does the bomb format better compete with streaming services?

It's closer to the binge format Netflix uses than the old one-a-week method

>Be CN Asia
>hire this guy
>he's an ass that was ruining the schedule
>manage to get rid of him
>he somehow bullshits his way through the main branch and is now in charge of the US schedule
>Snyder leaves
>Miller is in charge of this guy
>she wants to kick him too the curve but can't
>he either has a contract that would make it hell for them
>or he has twitter and will cry "they fired me cause I poo in loo"
>either way this would be a hassle to get through
>you can't fire him and he makes your network hell
How do we take him out

make every room at CN headquarters a bathroom
he will leave and never look back

Accuse him of making sexual advances to the female ceo

The only girls not ugly enough for this to arouse suspicion are 1/4 of the tumblrinas watching Steven Universe and they won't do it because he's foreign.

I like how Sup Forums doesn't even have to think of a racist nickname for him, as his real name sort of qualifies already.

Yes, I'm not interested in the shows not airing and there's no news about them. I like consistency in a steady stream of information.

>bombs are a only SU thing
Are you fucking stupid? CN burned most of the five season of Gumball in one month of non-stop episodes and after like 7 months of hiatus they did a double episode boom (10 episodes in one week).

Yes
Shows are SO MUCH MORE enjoyable on a consistent schedule

Which pretty much kills the casual audiences. You know, the audiences it should aim for when it wants to successfully compete with streaming

Why is it so hard for them to just fucking make cartoons, finish production on a whole season, and air the season with one episode a week (with exceptions for major holidays) all in one go? Constant hiatuses and schedule shifting just makes cord-cutting more viable.

I would've loved to watch Gravity Falls air its two seasons over two years, with a consistent release schedule. Instead, the thing took 4 Goddamn years to finish. I only managed to catch the last third of the series on Hulu after it was completed.

>TAWOGfag got buttmad someone didn't remember his show
>Still mad despite the fact that CN doesn't do it anymore

>Constant hiatuses and schedule shifting just makes cord-cutting more viable.
They probably do it WITH the intention of cutting the cord at any time. So they don't have a situation where the show is cancelled but there are episodes still in production and they don't know whether to finish & air them or toss them in the trash.

Feels to me like they're trying to copy the "binge watch" thing that streaming services are doing.

This is Sup Forums: where adults who act like children get mad that children don't act like adults.

Except with a streaming service you can control when you watch a show, and how much you watch. That's the entire point. With cable it's very easy to miss a few episodes, only to have to wait weeks for those eps to air again. It's not a good model.

The bomb format is good when dealing with heavy-continuity episodes back-to-back. The AT miniseries and the SU arc about Greg getting kidnapped by Blue Diamond would've been unbearable if they took 5-8 weeks to finish.
But networks shouldn't do bombs for standalone episodes, like the SU and Star vs episodes from November. And it's a monumentally stupid idea to do bombs for shows with next to no continuity like Loud House or Gumball. The only exception to this is perhaps what CN did with OK K.O. - release several episodes at the premiere to generate hype (but even then, don't overboard and burn 20 epidodes in a month)

Nah, most Sup Forumsmrades liked Clarence.

Yeah but a ton of people are livid over him and try to diagnose him as autistic or whatever.

Plus how so many anons treat Mabel and Connie like malicious demons instead of dumb kids.

And there's that one cartoonist who came out talking about how a dude sent her childporn and was hitting on her when she was 13 and a bunch of people were like "Why the fuck didn't this scared, sexually harassed child behave like a rational adult in this situation?"

Bomb format wouldn't be so bad if they just used it for special episodes, mini series, or even for season premieres/finales.

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No, they're easier to marathon, and because you've dedicated less time waiting between episodes (when they're good), they feel more satisfying, though, when they're bad it becomes a slogfest to sit through without the normal week long break in between.

So it makes good shows better, and bad shows worse.

And a bad show is bad anyway so the bomb format is 100% good

Not to mention bombs do better in ratings, especially later into seasons.

>kids aren't adults so this rationalizes them acting like morons

I don't care for Clarence but this is pretty much true.

I like connie I think your misunderstanding there mate..

power fantasies are gonna kill me and if you can come get it, well, I don't think they would have preferred thin bitches to work with Lucifer and those who distrust her boyfriend.

The bomb format could work if the shows they air specifically had episodes that were meant to be watched back to back, or in rapid succession. Because beyond that there is no real good reason to have them.

There are moments in Steven Universe that would have been better if they had say a week in between episodes. Theres n clear way to tell when a season begins and one ends because they air them back to back sometimes

Plus it fucking drains the show of new episodes that they can't branch out over weeks, which leads to a long ass time where nothing airs.

What if it gets to the point where the episodes just never come out and the ones that are already produced become lost media? I can only imagine the kind of legacy and rose tinted glasses that would leave in ten or fifteen years time.

Johnny Test is a clear example of when this is okay. He's a dumb kid that gets in trouble and gets his just desserts

People like Connie, Star, and Mabel are clearly the pets of Tumblr and the writers of the show and they'll all ignore their nonsense. Even when they should know better.

user stop no more please