I sometimes watch crappy shows for the sake of laughing at their crappiness, or sometimes because I come up with great ideas that stem from their terrible, cliché ideas. I have probably seen far more episodes of Cory in the House than anyone else above the age of twelve has without becoming completely braindead.

The episode that came on tonight, "Presidential Seal", went beyond the show's usual unoriginal, unfunny slop into something utterly horrendous: IT STOLE ONE OF MY JOKES. Not just a simple one-liner that just anyone could have thought of, but... Well, just watch my video Raptor Lincoln at http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
278915 and then watch a clip I recorded from the episode at http://projectenthalpy.com/cory.avi for comparison.

This is completely inexcusable. I mean, yes, they may have indeed come up with the joke themselves completely independent from my Flash. And yes, Raptor Lincoln was rather derivative; it was intentionally quite similar to Aqua Teen Hunger Force (as an homage, mind you) and I unintentionally took a joke fromFuturama (the one about all the buttons doing the same thing; I was quite disappointed when I realized that joke had already been done in something I had already seen, as that was my favorite joke in the 'toon).

If we both came up with the same idea independently, that's a pretty big blow to me. That means that I came up with a joke WORTHY OF CORY IN THE HOUSE.

I HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE CORY IN THE MOTHERFRAKKING HOUSE.

I... want... to die.

There is, of course, also the small chance that whoever wrote that part into the script saw Raptor Lincoln and either put that in deliberately as a plagiarism/homage or forgot that someone else had already done it like I did with the Futurama joke. If so, I'm not really sure how to feel. I'd probably be glad, with the exception of the fact that I didn't get any credit for the joke (though I really don't want to see my name in the credits of Cory in the House), except for the fact that my idea was used in THE ABSOLUTE WORST DISNEY CHANNEL ORIGINAL SERIES EVER. That's So Raven is utterly masterful compared to this spin-off.

Also worth mentioning: Watch the beginning of this episode ("Presidential Seal"). Anyone familiar with Seinfeld will be able to tell that Cory's writers aren't above shameless ripoffs.