A bit late with my Respond here (just saw it), but I thought the Animation for those two was so weak, intentional. The Artstyle they used for them felt much more like those 60s Hanna Barbara Cartoons, and some of them can be notorious for their rather limited Animation (although their Movement here was maybe a bit TOO stiff). But then again, possibly that’s a stretch and that Scene didn’t get enough Attention compared to the other Bits, just wanted to throw this in as how I see it. I do agree it doesn’t look very good and is pretty stiff, (potentially they said something about it on Unleased, but then again I haven’t really watched that, so I wouldn’t know).
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I’d missed the comments about the animation and couldn’t disagree more! The Belinda/Doctor animation was deliberately in the style it was - that slightly jerky 70s/80s Hanna Barbera stuff. I’m pretty sure they said in a preview somewhere that Varada and Ncuti had watched relevant cartoons to get the performance style (that was one of the best bits about that sequence - how they adapted their performance style).
And as for Mr Ring a Ding - as we know he was hand drawn (in as much as anything is hand drawn in animation nowadays) not sure what doesn’t look ‘right’ about him.
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Omg. I love this
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Apparently in the Spanish dub, Mr Ring-a-Ding is called Señore Ding Dong? I want to see that! 
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Brilliant! 
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I agree, I think criticizing the animation to be poor when they were channeling old timey cartoons is a bit odd. Of course it won’t look like today’s standards of animation. I thought they captured the old style well. As for Mr. RaD, I thought he looked great with the hand-drawn animation and the film grain effects.
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I wish we ended up getting more of the Hanna-Barbera style animation. I’m a huge sucker for it, so I would have liked to see them do more with it; though I understand it can be quite expensive.
I found the joke that in order to break out of the animation you have to have a sad backstory because it adds depth to be quite funny in an almost meta sort of way, character depth = dimensional depth yada yada yada. However, the cynic in me can’t help but feel like it’s almost aping the belief that 2d animation is “lesser” in terms of serious storytelling compared to 3d animation and live action.
Not sure if it’s been discussed here, but I’ve seen people on other platforms discuss the theory that Lux looks intentionally ugly when he turns 3d as a critique of studios who create souless 3d/live action remakes of classical 2d animations. Not sure if it’s intentional but I hope it’s real, Disney take notes 
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We now need a member calling themselves SrDingDong!
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Interesting. Since posting on social media (I only do Blusky, Threads, and Mastodon) the average score went down.
It was 4.11 with 393 votes, after posting its 4.08 with 408 votes.
Someone can do the maths because I didn’t check the number of ratings in each score first but must have been all pretty low scores to affect it so much.
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Someone saw your post and decided Lux had way too high a score, so decided to even it out a bit.
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Briefly had this thought too, but waved it away by telling myself it was only saying this about those 50s cartoons and not 2D cartoons as a whole
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My maths a bit rusty, but I don’t think the scores would have to be that low to change the average that much. If all those 15 people voted 3.5, that should be roughly enough to get it down, though I suspect there are probably a few people voting 1-2, and then the other 12 people would be closer to 4.
I refuse to show my working, don’t fact-check me 
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Well, looking at the rating distribution, there aren’t a lot of 0.5-2.5 ratings.
0.5: 1 rating
1: 2 ratings
1.5: 5 ratings
2: 4 ratings
2.5: 7 ratings
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I’d say this is definitely it. Early cartoons certainly lack the depth of more modern cartoons and animated films, similarly to how comic books in the 50s and 60s lacked the complexity and depth of modern comic books.
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You know, after all the nods to Scooby-Doo, it’s a shame that when the Doctor and Belinda were cartoonized they weren’t dropped into a spooky old castle. They could have done the very Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! thing of running past the same scenery over and over. Mind you, Scoob and those Meddling Kids didn’t arrive on the scene until 1969, so maybe not.
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And, of course, have whatever they needed to interact with be incredibly obvious, the way anything that was going to be animated was…
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I rewatched this and consider it a 10/10. I still have some minor niggles, but overall, it’s an immensley enjoybale and unique episode. It also barely edges out Dot & Bubble as my favourite Fifteen story.
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