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Arabiantacofarmer Mar 31, 2026 +131

I find it hilarious in that one screenshot where the AI upscaler has changed the name to "The Suple Mario Bros". How can you screw this up so badly

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +33

Well, Mario and Luigi are really flexible in this version, so they're now the Supple Mario Brothers.

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godver3 Mar 31, 2026 +18

The original title is essentially illegible and LOOKS like Suple to be fair.

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Bonked2death Apr 1, 2026 +1

Yeah, not sure why this is getting upvotes. It actually looks like the original- https://retromedialibrary.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._Super_Show

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FaultierSloth Apr 1, 2026 +2

Working as designed. The AI is just upscaling the racism to mock Japanese accents.

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XYcritic Mar 31, 2026 +4

lol this is literally the work of an intern and there was 0 time spent checking their work. The reason really bad people still have a job is that even worse people hired them.

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KyleCorgi Mar 31, 2026 +350

It takes ALL colours to make a rainbow ...

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Magnificant-Muggins Mar 31, 2026 +81

Except black. There’s no black in a rainbow.

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MsSobi Mar 31, 2026 +14

Oh it's Black? No joke i always thought he said Plaid.

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MyNameIs_Jordan Mar 31, 2026 +12

https://youtu.be/UxTMtJUh9Uk?si=1n2tVEuiyFC57Bkl

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randompersonE Mar 31, 2026 +9

What does any of that have to do with babies? Mario, I don’t understand!

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The-Bigger-Fish Apr 1, 2026 +5

“That’s because you’re a dog, Luigi…”

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VineSauceShamrock Apr 1, 2026 +1

I approve for obvious reasons.

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KassellTheArgonian Apr 1, 2026 +1

I fuckin love the internet, I clicked on this hoping thered be Vinny references lmao.

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Pro_Gamer_Queen21 Mar 31, 2026 +17

You think they’ll ever learn that in the real world?

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NewsCards Mar 31, 2026 +210

> The timing is obvious: There’s a new Mario movie coming out, so why not get people watching MeTV by spending money to license and rebroadcast the classic Mario cartoon-and-live-action hybrid show from the ’80s? Seems reasonable! However, MeTV seems to have decided to run the classic series through some AI upscaler, and the end results have been spread online via some awful-looking screenshots. If they decide to run the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie through an "AI upscaler" and end up yassifying Bob Hoskins, we riot.

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I_Buck_Fuffaloes Mar 31, 2026 +66

Speak for yourself. The prospect of a yassified Bob Hoskins sounds like we may have finally found a good use for AI.

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Aggressive-Delay-420 Mar 31, 2026 +17

Did someone say yassified Bob Hoskins?

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TheWorclown Mar 31, 2026 +22

Bob Yasskins if you’re nasty.

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SleepyMarijuanaut92 Apr 1, 2026 +2

He can tug on my yaa skin

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Duraken Apr 1, 2026 +1

[Yassified Bob Hoskins of the Windseeker]

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action_lawyer_comics Apr 1, 2026 +2

There’s literally nothing stopping you from doing this right now

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I_Buck_Fuffaloes Apr 1, 2026 +2

I'm not even going to front, about 3 minutes later I absolutely did it.

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CompactRisk Mar 31, 2026 +12

No need. It’s already been restored from the original negatives in 4K

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Hayterfan Mar 31, 2026 +3

Seriously?

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JardineByNature Apr 1, 2026 +3

I mean, why wouldn't you run literally every film print with a chance of making the transfer money back through... they look amazing

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The_Celtic_Chemist Apr 1, 2026 +4

Who would do such a thing? In other news, [here's YouTube Shorts AI "enhancement" of Tony Stank](https://imgur.com/gallery/awHCdz8) that I saw earlier today.

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +281

Yeah, that's the latest trend... taking old shows that were recorded on video or not worth the layout to properly restore and remaster, and running them through shitty AI to "enhance" them so they can be advertised as being "HD". All they really do is destroy any fine detail or text, so the shows look worse than if they'd just left them in good ol' 480i standard def.

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PaulFThumpkins Mar 31, 2026 +89

Simpsons on Disney Plus was unwatchable at times because they got rid of ALL of the grain and thickened up the lines to make it look digital. It looked like a c**** stained glass window.

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BenderBenRodriguez Mar 31, 2026 +23

Oh god, I thought it looked really weird too but I couldn't place it. My initial feeling was that it was making the matte lines around the characters (probably the wrong term in this case, but basically the shadows caused by the original cel animation overlays) were way too prominent, but that makes a little more sense. It looks way too smooth. I've just stuck to my DVDs, especially with how annoying it was to have to switch the aspect ratio on streaming.

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FX114 Mar 31, 2026 +22

That was at least an actual restoration that just went too far.

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scorpyo72 Mar 31, 2026 -6

Like- is upscaling that f****** hard?

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FX114 Mar 31, 2026 +18

I mean, yeah, it is. But still better to not half ass it.

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FX114 Mar 31, 2026 +7

If you want a good restoration/remaster, it takes a lot more than running it through some automations.

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DBeumont Mar 31, 2026 -1

It will produce much better result than running it through an AI upscaler.

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FX114 Mar 31, 2026 +6

But not better than an actual remaster.

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OlinKirkland Apr 1, 2026 +2

Wouldn’t blurring and downscaling defeat the purpose of upscaling? I guess I’m not well informed on this but I feel like no new data would’ve added, you would just have a blurry version of the original digital frame?

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JardineByNature Apr 1, 2026

maybe if you're a f****** idiot "Remastering" your p*** that's ok, but that is nowhere near acceptable for professionals

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travio Apr 1, 2026 +4

And that's after reformatting them to wide screen cutting off gags at the edges of the screen.

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ContinuumGuy Mar 31, 2026 +39

I saw some hobbyist do this with a Star Trek series (the post-TNG shows infamously have never been remastered outside of a few clips for documentaries) and it looked pretty good... but alas nobody actually in show business seems to have that passion.

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +61

No, I've seen a DS9 upscale myself, and it looked decent. But the people doing this, especially with Trek, are passionate fans who will oversee every damn frame to make it look spectacular. The professional stuff that gets released? They don't necessarily care about the content, they're doing a job. It becomes Garbage in, garbage out, looks good enough, and on to the next job. So it comes out looking like shit with no oversight.

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ContinuumGuy Mar 31, 2026 +13

True, I doubt anyone has the same passion for old Mario cartoons as DS9. So they just want to do the bare minimum and get paid.

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +6

I've even seen it directly from the company that owns a show. They did a drop of new episodes of late-80s episodes of The Price is Right late last year, touting "HD!". Well, the show was shot on videotape, so that ain't happening. Of course, it was AI-ed, skin was waxier than if they'd gotten a funeral home makeup job, and every price tag and piece of text was illegible unless it was an extreme closeup, and even then. And this is coming directly from Fremantle and the people who usually do a decent job of remastering their game show catalog to digital, just usually without the AI shit.

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a_tired_bisexual Mar 31, 2026 +3

That’s currently happening to the classic Doctor Who blu-ray sets unfortunately

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bros402 Mar 31, 2026 +2

Yeah, the AI remasters on Buzzr are horrible

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Enchelion Apr 1, 2026 +1

The customer definitely isn't paying the money for good work. Bare minimum effort for bare minimum dollars isn't a bad thing.

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DastardlyRidleylash Mar 31, 2026 +7

Dragon Ball fans know that pain all too well; a DVD release from the mid-2000's is *still* the ***best*** way to watch Dragon Ball as it was originally aired in its entirety without resorting to piracy...and even that release still has problems. Every other decent attempt at it has never managed to cover the whole series; the Level Sets only ever managed to do the first arc of Z, and AB Video's remasters didn't even make it to Z at all. They're constantly stuck with either having little to nothing done to the footage and audio (Toei) or doing the standard routine of running things through an AI that nukes the quality of the artwork (Crunchyroll/Funimation). Meanwhile, fan restoration efforts for the show like Seed of Might have blown all the finished official remasters so far out of the water that it's not even funny.

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Alertcircuit Mar 31, 2026 +4

There's some AI upscale projects of those Seed of Might editions that actually look brilliant and will probably be the definitive way to watch the show. The difference between that and this Mario thing is what they feed the AI. For DBZ they fed the AI all the DBZ movies which we have in HD and are the same artstyle as the show, drawn by the same people, so the show ended up looking HD like the movies with minimal loss of detail. This mario thing... Idk whats going on there...

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ThunderMite42 Mar 31, 2026 +1

Yeah, that's the thing with fan projects. They have no hard deadlines, so they can afford to be super a*** about details. SoM have been working on their various releases for well over half a decade at this point, and most of them are so burnt out they don't even like the show anymore (some have individually put in over a thousand hours of work, and keep in mind that this is all unpaid). While nothing will ever be perfect, the standard of what qualifies as "good enough" is *very* different between a fan project and an official product. Of course, none of this excuses the *complete* lack of effort on the rightsholders' parts, but even if Toei and/or FUNi really cared about quality and fully rescanned and cleaned their old masters, they still wouldn't include any of the bells and whistles of the SoM releases like stylized subtitles (due to technical limitations) or alternate dubs (due to copyright issues, storage space, and likely brand confusion).

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dempsy40 Mar 31, 2026 +5

Also helps that the quality fans want DS9 to achieve in this effort would be similar to the actual remaster that TNG got so they have a goal to work towards.

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Familiar-Banana-8116 Mar 31, 2026 +3

In a perfect universe Paramount would get in touch with the people running these fan projects and work out some sort of deal. We don't live in a perfect universe.

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Enchelion Apr 1, 2026 +1

I don't want Paramount skimping by relying on unpaid or underpaid labor of fans. Either pay to do it right, or don't.

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NachoNutritious Mar 31, 2026 +13

The "DS9 Redefined" fan remaster looks so good because the source is the laserdisc transfers which are 1 generation closer to the master tapes than the DVD transfers (the one the later blu-ray and streaming releases also uses) which has smearing in the black details and all kinds of terrible artifacts everywhere. I can't wait until they finish it, the quality level is a crazy upgrade.

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CaptRobau Mar 31, 2026 +4

I actually did some of the first DS9 machine learning upscales a few years back. Proof of Concepts I put on YouTube and got quite a few views on. I knew some people followed up on this but never knew much it grew from there. I am very happy to see these people using better source files and looking color correction and such. Because while my videos were fun, getting close to something like TNG remastered takes more than just running it through an AI upscaler. I'll definitely keep an eye on this project. Thanks for introducing me to it.

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Purona Mar 31, 2026 +3

its a tool you have to know what you want and which tool to use to get the correct results there's multiple upscalers out there . some work better for drawn images, some work better for faces, some work on the entire image etc etc And even then youre not upscaling beyond a factor of 2 without issues. We are a good decade away from AI being good enough to upscale media without issues.

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m2r9 Mar 31, 2026 +1

I saw the old X Men cartoons done with this effect too and thought they looked ok.

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SolomonBlack Mar 31, 2026 +1

Time. Looking at fan works is pretty meaningless unless you're going to talk about the time it took. They can take six months to produce mere minutes of content, or whatever time it takes to go over something until its perfect. There's no consequences unless you count being forgotten by never finishing as many fan projects fall into. (We got a real Oblivion remake before those Skyblivion folks produced anything) A professional well they need to get that shit done by... Tuesday.

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Needmyvape Apr 1, 2026 +1

Yeah there are some older anime ova's that previously were only available in some pretty rough looking vcd rips. They look really good upscaled and still look like the original art, just crisper. My guess is it's a mixture of companies taking the quickest and cheapest available option, as well as the models having been trained on a lot more anime than Western cartoons so they struggle to maintain the style of something like an 80s low quality cartoon

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brb1006 Mar 31, 2026 +4

Somebody needs to make a before and after comparison video for the original intro and MeTV Toons' airings of the show. Especially for those that don't have MeTV Toons yet. Looks like I'm back to watching reruns of Popeye/Betty Boop, Woody Woodypecker for the time being. Good thing Toon in With Me is still commited to making newer episodes.

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CrestonSpiers Mar 31, 2026 +14

The notion that “ew, old stuff looks ugly” is poison. People seriously can’t tolerate grainy video? F*** off

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +9

Shit, actual filmmakers are like that. Look at what Peter Jackson did to The Beatles' Get Back footage when making the documentary for Disney. No grain, waxy skin, a true "AI Masterpiece".

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Kanegou Mar 31, 2026 +7

We can call ourselves lucky that the current AI boom happened after George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney. We probably would have the original and prequel trilogy as AI Enhanced Special Editions by now.

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PleasantThoughts Mar 31, 2026 +6

Wasn't that the issue with the GTA remastered collection too?

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +5

Looks to be the same issues. AI without oversight.

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MysteriousCap4910 Mar 31, 2026 +2

fun fact there is actually some cool interpolation you can do with 480i nowadays that looks pretty good

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hiro24 Apr 1, 2026 +1

As someone who’s been curating old tv shows for a private fs42 server, sometimes even 480i isn’t available. That’s probably not the case with super Mario bros super show, but I don’t fault ppl who are trying any way possible to preserve old media that the creators didn’t bother to preserve and don’t make easily available for public consumption.

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MissInkeNoir Apr 1, 2026 +1

Please don't remind me again of what they did to our precious Spider-Man 90s cartoon.. They can't keep getting away with it

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JohnnySeven88 Mar 31, 2026 +23

Really shows the fundamental contradiction with these “ai upscale remasters”. For any project that would actually improve with a remaster, y’know like old tv shows with tons of animation errors, the ai has no idea what to do to fix it so it just makes it worse. You can seemingly only use this tech to tweak things that don’t need fixing. Anything that does need real fixing like coloring errors or line art f*** ups can’t really be addressed by ai, least not on its own and not in the way execs want you to believe.

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GameMask Mar 31, 2026 +14

The current Dragon Ball Z fan remasters are good examples of this. They're meticulously done

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phillipfry876 Mar 31, 2026 +1

I don't know. The show wouldn't be the same without that error from "Two Plumbers and A Baby". You know the one.

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Needmyvape Apr 1, 2026 +1

Older cartoons can be "properly" upscaled. It can't correct animation errors but it can improve the fidelity of stuff like older ova vcd rips. I think it struggles with anything not done in anime style because the training data sets contain a lot more anime than they do western cartoons.

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RedditIs4ChanLite Mar 31, 2026 +22

The article blames MeTV for using AI, but it is actually not clear that MeTV was responsible for this. Usually they just use whatever prints of shows are given to them, so it’s also possible that Wildbrain (which distributes the show) may have created the AI upscaled prints. I think Weigel (MeTV’s owners) is a good company and one of the rare ones that actually cares about its customers so I really hope they weren’t the ones who did this.

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Bluebaronbbb Mar 31, 2026 +14

Wildbrains site lists AI options for the show so it's on them for ahow

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Larkson9999 Mar 31, 2026 +19

The VHS tapes are superior to the DVD since they have the licensed music that makes the show good fun.

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BJ22CS Apr 1, 2026 +2

Was that the same "treatment" they did with the Drew Carey Show on DVD/streaming last year where they removed a bunch of licensed music? I didn't know they did the same thing with this show.

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AshleyAshes1984 Mar 31, 2026 +13

This looks like every remaster some doofus has posted to Listnook and all they did was jam an XviD DVD rip through some AI upscaler, looked at three frames, and go 'Brilliant. Flawless HD. I must share this with the world'.

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Weird_donut Mar 31, 2026 +18

WildBrain evidently doesn't give a damn about their DiC library. Whenever Madeline aired on Qubo, it looked yellowed due to deterioration of the masters and overall piss poor preservation.

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MarkyDeSade Mar 31, 2026 +33

First you go to hell, and then you die

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Zoegrace1 Mar 31, 2026 +6

Who REALLY died that day

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Togder Mar 31, 2026 +5

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiBtgpj-J8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiBtgpj-J8) here is footage which I wish was linked

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violue Mar 31, 2026 +3

okay this really should be linked

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Shinjischneider Mar 31, 2026 +4

What The Sloppy seconds is That?!

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Sa7aSa7a Mar 31, 2026 +3

Holy shit, that looks horrible

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tfhermobwoayway Mar 31, 2026 +3

I miss the time when AI was bad in a funny way. The amount of YTP material we’d get out of that would be incredible. Now it’s just depressing.

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AvailableReporter484 Mar 31, 2026 +3

I love seeing all these companies getting fleeced for billions. Just absolutely air-balling it from half court on objectively stupid business decisions lmfao

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kf97mopa Mar 31, 2026 +3

MeTV: Well *excuse me*, princess!

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audiophile86 Apr 1, 2026 +3

It’s on Tubi in original format.

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MinecraftTroller28 Mar 31, 2026 +4

Amazing how MeTV refused to air the Terrytoons for the longest time until they were able to find better prints than the ones provided by Paramount, but yet they go and do this (or allow it to even air)

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HighDefStudios Mar 31, 2026 +6

WildBrain was the one for the prints, not MeTV

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MinecraftTroller28 Mar 31, 2026 +2

Yes, but when MeTV has boasted about using only the highest quality material (and screening it before it goes to air) that they would reject something that looks as terrible as this.

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RedditIs4ChanLite Mar 31, 2026 +1

Are you sure? I thought the problem was they had to get Paramount be willing to give them prints at all. The Terrytoons prints (at least the ones I’ve seen) are 480p digitizations of old TV copies.

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MinecraftTroller28 Mar 31, 2026 +1

It's been a hot minute since I saw the interview with the guy who runs it, but I want to say the quality of the material was one of the many problems with the Terrytoons.

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jethawkings Mar 31, 2026 +12

Shitty Upscaling that ruins detail has existed way before the current buzz-word of AI. The word *slopified* honestly just made me want to disengage and vent about the usage of such an incredibly stupid word.

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xavPa-64 Mar 31, 2026 +7

That’s still engagement

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NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 31, 2026 +3

This isn't an upscale, pixels aren't fuzzy, whole words are changed.

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theronin7 Mar 31, 2026 +1

Bro, wrote almost the same thing before I saw your post, and you said it better.

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theronin7 Mar 31, 2026 +13

This is a really shitty upscale But "Sloppified it with AI" is such a clickbait title, and a wild accusation for a cartoon that was basically shovelware when it was released.

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grimorg80 Mar 31, 2026 -1

Thank you for being someone with some common sense. People here have lost perspective and fall for the ragebait

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Ridiculousnessmess Apr 1, 2026

A lot of these freakouts about bad upscales immediately go to blaming AI, when upscaling SD video can be very easily botched without AI tools (or tools marketed as AI). People are so hair-trigger about AI that it’s become a lazy catch-all for bad remasters.

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APiousCultist Apr 1, 2026 +2

This is both. It's clearly AI video upscaling here, since it removes details like the whites of Luigi's eyes whereas other upscaling methods merely interpolate details in a way that can create unintended shapes. Simple upscaling would have been blurrier, but probably wouldn't create the same weirdness as seen.

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theronin7 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Well, so, its basically the same technology - AI image generation and this kind of upscaling are essentially the same thing. Its just a matter of degrees. Generally an upscale would use a very light touch to fill in and attempt to recreate missing pixels. But if you turn that up too much, or theres too little data it has to basically 'guess' whats there, And thats where the neural net's training is important. I watched a bit of this video and some scenes look quite good. Others look insane (especially on a freeze frame) and I think it comes from the fact that show includes animation of WILDLY varying quality AND live action segments. the worst shots seem to be the very low detail wide shots where the characters are shown far away, but also theres no real details. My guess is whoever did this just did kind of a poor job, cranked it up too high, or configured it for those decent looking scenes, without considering the worst parts.

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theronin7 Apr 1, 2026 +1

To clarify for those unfamiliar, one use case of ai image generation is what's referred to IMG2IMG This takes an input image, and uses it as the base instead of just a random noise map. (though it does use random noise). Generally in these you can adjust the strength of the noise (how much the model biases the noise versus the original pixels) upscaling with this technology works this same way but with a very very light strength for the noise map. In an attempt to rebuild as close as possible the original image - but at a higher resolution. The more you crank that value up, the more 'definition' you can add, but at the cost of accuracy to the original image. So you can imagine how if you find that 'sweetspot' for one scene, it causing problems in the next scene which has a lot less detail or lower resolution, or maybe is done in a fundamentally different style.

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o_MrBombastic_o Mar 31, 2026 +2

AI saves time but come on is there no quality control? With the time you saved you should be able to sit through a 20 minute cartoon and go na try again before releasing

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MinecraftTroller28 Mar 31, 2026 +2

The worst part is the guy who runs MeTV Toons said that they preview everything before they broadcast it, so he (or one of his underlings) saw this and said "yep, that's good enough"

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vroart Mar 31, 2026 +2

That looks rough

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MyStationIsAbandoned Apr 1, 2026 +2

dang they're using that 2022 AI lol

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gregarioussparrow Mar 31, 2026 +4

I can't wait until 'slop' stops being the trendy buzzword. So tired of it.

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FixedFun1 Apr 1, 2026 +2

It's a slopword indeed.

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brb1006 Mar 31, 2026 +2

I had a feeling something looked off with character animation during the intro on MetTV Toons. When I noticed Princess Peach/Toadstool's eyes being beady I thought I was seeing things since I was just waking up.

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ElectricPeterTork Mar 31, 2026 +2

With the Classic Who releases, there's no 1080p transfer to be had. It was shot on video. For the British shows, that means it would be 576i at best. So 1080p would still involve upscaling. And someone would get AI involved, and we'd be right where we're at now. Still, it would look better than ever with a proper transfer, and definitely better than US audiences ever saw it at 480i or less on their TV screens or DVDs.

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NoExcuse4OceanRudnes Mar 31, 2026

Disney didn't do it, it was on the high def digital re-releases before disney+ existed or disney bought fox, so it certainly wasn't the AI c*** we have today. Also there's a toggle on disney+ lol

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iyqyqrmore Mar 31, 2026 +1

Swing your arms from side to side!

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not_a_moogle Apr 1, 2026 +1

The original 480p isnt exactly well animated in the first place. They would have been better off just trying to for a zoom/crop like they do for a normal live action show.

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Fickle_Competition33 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Looks like those cheaply upscaled 90s p*** videos!

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Oerwinde Apr 1, 2026 +1

Looks like they used AI tools from 2 years ago.

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Imaginary_Ad_9682 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Peacock did this with Roseanne. Say what you will but I grew up on that show. It looks terrible.

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ToonMasterRace Apr 1, 2026 +1

Welcome to all modern media.

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JustHereForMiatas Apr 1, 2026 +1

[Reminds me of Fresco Jesus](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/61/Attempted_restoration_of_Ecce_Homo.jpg)

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SplintPunchbeef Apr 1, 2026 +1

>Earlier this month, MeTV announced that it would start airing the classic Super Mario Bros. Super Show on its TV and streaming channels. And yesterday, the station began airing the **beloved** Mario series Nah

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Stoenk Mar 31, 2026 +1

LETS SLOP EM UUUUUP

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Sloth242 Mar 31, 2026 +1

AI is not always bad for stuff like this. For example, I love this campy scifi buddy cop type show called Space Precinct 2040. Basically it would have never gotten a blu ray release if it wasn't for AI. They actually did a really good job cleaning up the image. I believe the issue was the type of medium the show was recorded on plus having to redo CGI would have been impossible for it to get a blu ray releases. Especially for a niche show like Space Precinct. The dvd release had alot of artifacts and stuff so blu ray looks 1000x better.

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Straight-Ad6926 Mar 31, 2026 +10

There is a massive line between restoration (fixing what's there) and hallucination (letting the AI draw over the original). The Mario reboot clearly tripped over that line and fell down a warp pipe.

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Sloth242 Mar 31, 2026 +2

I agree 100%. Just wanted to give an example of it being done right. I just did a bad job at making that point.

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ThunderMite42 Mar 31, 2026 +1

SD-BD exists and is great for fitting more content on one disc while also having a higher bitrate than a DVD. No need for upscaling, just let your TV or video player do that in real time.

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Psaturn Mar 31, 2026 +1

I was more gobsmacked to see kotaku is still around.

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godver3 Mar 31, 2026

I think it’s pretty disingenuous to pull out the worst possible frames for comparisons. I watched some sample clips and it looks fine. The original is in such low low quality it is hardly watchable.

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GameMask Mar 31, 2026

It's only a matter of time before they do this with Dragon Ball Z

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Lssjgaming Mar 31, 2026 +3

Toei has shown some official upscales of early Dragon Ball that they use for footage on social media, and they look atrocious compared to the AB Groupe upscale which actually was done with care and effort. The AB Groupe uspcales while not as clean as an actual rescan (dedicated fans at Kineko video actually recovered about 13 episodes on film and were able to rescan them in HD which looks stunning) are actually pretty sharp for an upscale of a 480p source. Unfortunately AB's efforts were never completed as Toei basically pulled the plug on it after 68 episodes which was right at the start of the Fortuneteller Baba arc. I would highly reccomend checking out AB's upscale if you can since it was as close to perfect as an official release could've been with this cursed franchise

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GameMask Mar 31, 2026 +5

There's a new project that has remastered the entire series and it's extremely high quality now. A proper HD version is also being worked on. Look up the Tree of Might project

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Lssjgaming Mar 31, 2026 +3

Been following the Seed of Might team's work for a while now and its fantastic. Genuinely wish Toei themselves would put as much love and effort into it as fans do. The NEOs-Raws upscales of the SOM color corrections look about on par with AB Groupe's work as well (probably due to being programmed in a way that is meant for cleaning up 16mm film and using Kineko's true HD rescan as a reference for quality) so its crazy that we the fans have to work on creating a release this good ourselves

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ThunderMite42 Mar 31, 2026 +2

It's not quite that Toei pulled the plug, but rather that they refused to give AB Groupe the Dragon Box masters and insisted that they just upscale the DVDs instead (in fact, they'd originally wanted them to use SelectaVisión's atrocious 2020 masters). AB relented for the first box, but they stopped after that because they didn't want to release what they felt was a sub-par product.

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PowerPlaidPlays Mar 31, 2026

The show just already looked like this, all the filter did was sharpen it: https://imgur.com/a/SgXaRA6 The DIC cartoons did not need AI to be slop, they just already were and I enjoy them for that.

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superspicycurry37 Mar 31, 2026 -2

You know what they say: All sloppers slop SLOP

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ThePhonyOrchestra Apr 1, 2026

Yeah because the original show was so good It was already slop. Who gives a shit

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noheroesnomonsters Mar 31, 2026 -2

Who gives a shit? That cartoon was already slop.

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Jman1a Apr 1, 2026 +1

I was about to say the same. I was the target audience of that show and even as a 6 year old i knew it was c****. Way too Mario bros 2. Now the Nintendo power super Mario world comics, that was top tier.

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Ridiculousnessmess Apr 1, 2026 +1

Pretty much. Even for the era of cheapo toy commercials posing as kids shows, this was garbage.

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MillennialsAre40 Mar 31, 2026 -5

I'm usually pretty in favor of AI, but holy shit this is some lazy stupidity.

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TacoStuffingClub Mar 31, 2026 -1

I think a lot of ai remaster stuff like games looks amazing. But wtf is this? 🤣🤣🤣

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TheeJestersCurse Mar 31, 2026 -18

They're calling it The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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They Brought Back The Super Mario Bros. Cartoon And Sloppified It With AI

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