The Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations - Some Shockers

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Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
Archer - H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer
Disney's Prep & Landing - Dave Foley as Wayne
Robot Chicken - Seth Green as Robot Chicken Nerd, Cobra Commander, Movie Narrator
The Simpsons - Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson
The Simpsons - Hank Azaria as Moe Syzlak, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
The Simpsons - Anne Hathaway as Princess Penelope of "Once Upon A Time In Springfield"

Outstanding Animated Program
Alien Earths
Disney's Prep & Landing
The Ricky Gervais Show
The Simpsons
South Park

Outstanding Short-format Animated Program
Adventure Time
Chowder
Disney's Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack
Robot Chicken
Uncle Grandpa
 
How did Kick Buttowski get nominated for the Primetime Emmys? I'd think it would qualify for nomination under Daytime Emmys, like Phineas & Ferb, because it also showed the bulk of its premieres on Saturday mornings, not in primetime.

Also, I applaud H. Jon Benjamin getting a voice actor nomination. Archer got better and better as the season went along, and he's one of the big reasons why.
 
Well, I'm rooting for Adventure Time or Flapjack to take the short-form Emmy. BTW, the respective episodes they're nominated for are "My Two Favorite People" and "Tee Hee Tummy Tums".
 
Man, the Emmy people must just be nominating The Simpsons for "Outstanding animated program" out of sheer force of habit these days...
 
By the way, additional animation noms:

Outstanding Music Composition for an Original Series (Original Dramatic Score)

- Batman: The Brave and the Bold - "Mayhem of the Music Meister!"

Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics

- Family Guy - "Down's Syndrome Girl"

Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special

- Ben 10: Alien Swarm

And here are the episodes for consideration:

Outstanding Voice-Over Performance

Archer - "Mole Hunt"
Disney's Prep & Landing
Robot Chicken - "Can Not Be Erased, So Sorry"
The Simpsons - "Thursdays with Abie"
The Simpsons - "Moe Letter Blues"
The Simpsons - "Once Upon A Time In Springfield"

Outstanding Animated Program

Alien Earths
Disney's Prep & Landing
The Ricky Gervais Show - "Knob at Night"
The Simpsons - "Once Upon A Time In Springfield"
South Park - "200" and "201"

Outstanding Short-format Animated Program

Adventure Time - "My Two Favorite People"
Chowder - "The Toots"
Disney's Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil - "Racing the Schoolbus (short)"
The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack - "Tee Hee Tummy Tums"
Robot Chicken - "Season 4 Christmas Special"
Uncle Grandpa
 
My comments on the nominations:

-Odd that Family Guy would submit Down's Syndrome Girl for the song category instead of the pie song from Road to the Multiverse.

-I'm very disappointed with the series that got nominated in the animated program category. Long story short: Simpsons and South Park get nominated for "meh" milestone episodes (with big emphasis on The Simpsons, as the "Bart looks for a brother" and "curling" episodes would have been my choice to submit for the Emmys), while The Venture Brothers (the best animated series in the past year IMO) and the Boondocks (specifically, the Obama episode) get ignored.
 
It'd be hilarious if Uncle Grandpa won it since it's future is in question IIRC. Certainly a surprise to see it nominated, since I can't recall it ever running on TV. CN must have snuck it on at some odd point.

Personally, I'd like to see Flapjack get it just to ensure another round of episodes, though Chowder getting it would be a delicious serving of irony to the CN execs who canned it. Adventure Time can have it next year.

/Robot Chicken will probably win it :sad:
 
"Uncle Grandpa" never ran on television, it just got quietly shoved onto CN's website without promotion. At the upfront, they announced a show called "Secret Mountain Fort Awesome" which is essentially a retooled Uncle Grandpa.
 
The fact that "South Park" submitted "200"/"201" for Emmy consideration gives me hope. Even if the episodes don't win, at least this means Comedy Central isn't trying to bury them anymore.
 
Why are you surprised? The Simpsons is nominated for something every year, regardless of whether they're worthy of it or not.

Anyway, let's not place all the blame on the VAs. Part of the fault certainly rests with the voice directors as well. If they don't push the VAs to give their best performance, you're not going to get much on the screen. Case in point: Julie Kavner did a great job with Marge from "The Simpsons Movie", particularly in the "leaving Homer via videotape" scene. A good voice director is almost certainly to partially thank for that.
 
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